Patch 5.3 will allow Flying Mounts in ARR areas!!!!

[Vivi_Bushido]

I does feel like another let's do this just because of wow thing. But it made more sense for wow. WoW had out of the way places to explore since vanilla that were mostly there for scenery during FP travel. When the did the revamp they added more such things. Based on this games design and what they said you will have even less to explore. You may be able to land on buildings but they said they made some places unreachable. Likely we'll just be able to hover over high distant places.

WoW has huge continuous continent maps. Flying across these tiny zones is will be silly, flying for a few seconds and then zoning. Now if they made like each region a continuous map it might be somewhat epic.

WoW doesn't have instantaneous teleportation to every zone. The redesign added several new zones that benefitted from flight. The redesign also changed the terrain of existing zones, kind of corralling lower level players into appropriate zones, like how they split the Barrens.

It's happening, but with the way they present it I don't expect much from it. Just flying in the same zones not designed with flight in mind.

I think part of the decision for flight in ARR was to make the travel to the Waking Sands less mundane. Since they can't put an Aethetye there for lore abiding reasons. Flight also breaks lore in a way, but not as much as the shard would.

[MsQi]

I think part of the decision for flight in ARR was to make the travel to the Waking Sands less mundane. Since they can't put an Aethetye there for lore abiding reasons. Flight also breaks lore in a way, but not as much as the shard would.

Flight won't be available till 50 after completing "The Ultimate Weapon". After that the scions soon move to the Rising Stones. This is happening in the same patch where they streamline the MSQ, possibly eliminating a few trips to the Waking Sands.

There is the boat from Limsa and you can also hire a chocobo and use that time to go to the bathroom.

They might have considered it but I can't see it being a main reason.