Sleipnir Useless in Heavensward?

[OmnipotentHaseo]

In lore and every other final fantasy Sleiphnir can fly. I dont see why people are calling it stupid for wanting this one to fly.

[OmnipotentHaseo]

Sry for a double post. Thats why sleiphnir is SUPPOSED to have 6 legs. He does in the other final fantasies and in lore. 2 for land 2 for sea and 2 for air.

[MagiusNecros]

Personally if the Adamantoise can fly and I guess all 3 tank mounts are going to then Sleipnir can too.

[Cherie]

I'm fairly sure that anything sold on the mogstation has the same kind of expiration date that any content has in this game as far as relevancy. Sure it's just a fancy frills thing but it is a land mount, it was sold as a land mount, etc.

By all rights they could just sell new flying mounts from now on. It's not like they made all of the ground mounts fly. Most ground mounts can't fly and there are no plans to upgrade all of them (it would be a bit silly for EVERYTHING to fly).

That said, slepnir is still for sale so who knows, you might get it flying someday. I really doubt its a top priority for them at the moment though. After all, as I'm writing this, I notice they added a new flying bird to mogstation for us to buy. It seems in better interest for them to just keep adding newer mounts. Cause well, why upgrade one someone already paid for when could release a new one that they would just buy to replace the old one? Capitalism! yay.... It makes sense though.

Existing items getting upgraded is more the exception than the norm. Getting new items is much more common.

[OwlBlackX]

Indeed. It could be flying.

But, I hoped it all store mounts (Magitek red/whites) and minions come account-wide.

[AnaviAnael]

I'm fairly sure that anything sold on the mogstation has the same kind of expiration date that any content has in this game as far as relevancy. Sure it's just a fancy frills thing but it is a land mount, it was sold as a land mount, etc.

By all rights they could just sell new flying mounts from now on. It's not like they made all of the ground mounts fly. Most ground mounts can't fly and there are no plans to upgrade all of them (it would be a bit silly for EVERYTHING to fly).

Edit for character limit.

That's very poor for business.What incentive do we have now to buy mounts off there? "Hey guys, next expansion goes underwater. The magiteks you purchased won't be able to swim, but please still buy them!" That makes zero sense. People aren't going to buy mounts that they cannot use everywhere.

[Krissey]

My Shiva and Ifrit Ponies can fly??

[Cherie]

That's very poor for business.What incentive do we have now to buy mounts off there? "Hey guys, next expansion goes underwater. The magiteks you purchased won't be able to swim, but please still buy them!" That makes zero sense. People aren't going to buy mounts that they cannot use everywhere.

Then are all mounts going to swim then? I really don't understand. Are ponies going to swim under water?

Maybe I just don't understand. I think it would be funny if next expansion was underwater and suddenly all the mounts could swim underwater. I'd imagine there would be new sea turtles (after all box turtles aren't aquatic), sea horses, fish and shark mounts instead however.

Maybe someone can explain to me how all mounts would suddenly swim and make it make sense to me. maybe I'm getting too old.

[AnaviAnael]

Then are all mounts going to swim then? I really don't understand. Are ponies going to swim under water?

Maybe I just don't understand. I think it would be funny if next expansion was underwater and suddenly all the mounts could swim underwater. I'd imagine there would be new sea turtles (after all box turtles aren't aquatic), sea horses, fish and shark mounts instead however.

Maybe someone can explain to me how all mounts would suddenly swim and make it make sense to me. maybe I'm getting too old.

It's the point of stuff being purchased off the mogstation suddenly being useless. If I buy an outfit off there, does it suddenly not become glamourable? The same goes with the mounts. It makes no sense that people should spend money on top of their sub for items that are only useful only in ARR areas. Had I (and a lot of people) known this, I would have saved my money. They made fat chocobo a priority for flying, so why not the $25 horse?

[Cherie]

It's the point of stuff being purchased off the mogstation suddenly being useless. If I buy an outfit off there, does it suddenly not become glamourable? The same goes with the mounts. It makes no sense that people should spend money on top of their sub for items that are only useful only in ARR areas. Had I (and a lot of people) known this, I would have saved my money. They made fat chocobo a priority for flying, so why not the $25 horse?

Hey, personally I think it would be a great thing if they upgraded slepnir. I won't stand in the way of it. They very may well do it.

I'm just saying it's not the norm. Even if like the overwhelming majority thought it was a top priority for it to fly, if you watched the live letters, the dev team says they are only upgrading land mounts to fly slowly and not everything is getting upgraded. For instance they giggled about giving the gobbue mount a jetpack (it was a suggestion from the forums I guess, I mean, you had to work hard to get that mount too, it takes weeks of farming, why not that too right?). But yea, they aren't giving the gobbue mount a jetpack, atleast not soon.

The slepnir mount probably has better odds of getting on the short list of being upgraded to fly. I just was saying the two things: 1) It's not the norm (not all mounts will get upgraded) and 2)It might be a while if they do.

If it means anything, since this is something you apparently have and care about. I hope for your sake it does get upgraded though?