Will We Ever Be Able To Fly Without A Mount

[SigmaOZ]

I agree, angel wings are perfect for flying without the need of mounts, they would need some work though, flapping and anything necessary.


It could be seen as a new system of mounts, they could easily add other types of wings like demon wings, butterfly wings, light wings, etc., the same way parasols are being added every so often.


I don't care about lore, there are already ridiculous things in Eorzea and everyone just buy it. why not add wings flying which is both pretty and useful.


There's no telling why some players oppose to good ideas that are entirely optional and have no major effect in the game.

[BaconBits]

Yeah sure, give me a mount that just makes me dash all over the place like it's Dissidia lol.

[Moonfish]

There's no telling why some players oppose to good ideas that are entirely optional and have no major effect in the game.

Disagree. Wings are tacky. The Korean MMO with wings is that way.

[Asari5]

all mounts can fly, doesnt matter if they have wings, magic or nothing..... sooo.... whats keeping us from flying? i think we should already be able to fly
but we as the warrior of light have always to be ready, so we cant waste our power in flying around by ourself

[SigmaOZ]

That's ridiculous, we already have tacky stuff in-game: Mheg Deaca Attire


Do you hate Korean RPGs?. This game is Japanese and I don't see why we couldn't have wings just because other games have already done it.

[dezzmont]

We do have a few minimalistic mounts that are akin to a worn object, specifically the Nezha chariot, and to somewhat a lesser extent stuff like the clouds and chairs and the like. So wings, a jetpack, a Merry Poppins umbrella, ect. aren't impossible, though Yoshi tries to avoid things that might clip too much so maybe that is why they avoid them.

If we got em I suspect either A: They would be like the Nezha chariot where its clearly some sort of external energy or spell we are using and not us just randomly having wings (ex: Like translucent, glowing wings that aren't entirely connected to our back or even entirely within the 'wing') or they will be cash shop so as to be 'non-diegetic.'

Mounts being silly isn't a disqualifier in XIV, after all you can fly about on a magical bed, but it may be that they want to avoid wings because they hit an 'uncanny valley' where they juuuust aren't silly enough to be obviously non-canonical, or at least clearly not a serious part of the story.

[Daemon_Windborne]

From a system perspective, flying in ffxiv is tied to the mount system, so short of a complete system rework (there's better things for them to spend their time on) the best case scenario proponents of this could even remotely hope for would be the fashion accessories (wings/parasols) granting flight capabilities. These accessories are a branch of the mount system wich is why you can't have minions summoned with them and why they despawn when you interact with things.

[SigmaOZ]

That's an old argument now, everyone knows parasols (fashion accessories) are modified mounts.


The truth is the game is very old, runs on spaghetti code and that's why the dev team makes up all kinds of excuses to avoid working on something they haven't planned yet.


If we don't ask for things they'll never make them on their own, they are busy thinking what to sell us next on the MogStation, Endwalker looks really shabby already.


I would quit this game if that would hurt Square-Enix but a single player is meaningless so I won't deprive myself, I'm not glad with FFXIV's quality and I doubt they'll improve it eventually if they are not planning a remake.

[TaleraRistain]

Seems like it would feel out of place. That sort of thing matches more with a superhero setting.

[Gabadabs]

I mean, there's so many different amazing powers you can get - I don't see why some sort of non-mount flying couldn't be possible. It just might take a lot of work to make it functional, since flying seems to be tied to mounts.