The word "Flying" in 1st expansion

[EdwinLi]

really lame.. mmos ALWAYS do flying crap. should have done underwater, u hardly ever see that in mmos.

Because when you go deep into the sea all you can do is hit Rock Bottom. But when he go into the sky you can Pierce the Heavens!

On topic:

If we are getting Air-Ship in 1st expansion I hope they do have plenty of unique customization or design choices. I've been interested in how they will handle creating Air-Ships since they announce part of Personal and FC Housing function will be to crafts Air-ships.

Air-ship functions is a simple guess that Air-ships maybe required to access certain contents that can't be accessed through ground areas like floating Castles, locations, dungeons, and etc. There maybe a point in 1st expansion story where we will use our Personal Air-ship to access story instances and to progress the storyline.

[Caselia]

Flying mounts? Do not want.

I wouldn't either, unless it's like Skyward Sword.

[Gextiv]

If FF 14 had WORLD PVP, then absolutely flying mounts shouldn't be added to the game. In reality, we have a game that poses no threat to grounded mounted players, so adding flying mouts shouldn't be that big of a deal.

[EdwinLi]

You know think about it a bit now a Sky theme expansion would suit a lot more than just a method to fight the Dragons in Ishgard.

Don't forget the Garlean Empire still remains the most powerful Civilization in FF14ARR world because of their Air-ship armada that has allowed them to dominate countless Nations. However, if the War of Succession ends before 1st expansion storyline or during 1st expansion storyline we may see a Full Scale Garlean Air-ship Armada Invasion in 1st expansion storyline because of the new Garlean Emperor.

The only reason why Gaius didn't have a full scale Air-ship Armada on his side in 2.0 was because of the War of Succession happening in the Garlean Empire.

This would mean the City-State Alliance will need to develop their own Air-ship Armada to counter the Garlean Air-ship Armada or else we will lose the War in 1st Expansion if the story escolates this far.

We will most likely see a recreation this event for the Ishgard part of 1st expansion storyline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MqtmQ7EvUU

and then a FF14 version of this as we fight to retake Ala Mhigo or invade the Garlean Empire....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6tZH6XB9ow

[WizardShotTheFood]

The reference to flying OBVIOUSLY means that it's going to be a Bravely Default crossover expansion.

[DarkStar]

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Y'know, this actually makes an incredible amount of sense all things considered. Why would we finally be able to get our own Airships? The Grand Companies lack an airship fleet of their own, and so they commission the various free companies and independent adventurers to build and man Airships to attack the Garlean airfleet. In short? We'll all be Sky Pirates, furnished with our own Letters of Marque. Now I'm REALLY looking forward to when we get to build our own airships~.

[madolyn]

please, no flying mounts.

[Steffie]

really lame.. mmos ALWAYS do flying crap. should have done underwater, u hardly ever see that in mmos.

WoW tried that in cata. Let's just say it wasn't really successful

[DarkStar]

WoW tried that in cata. Let's just say it wasn't really successful

Eh, honestly, I actually thought it was pretty cool myself. It felt like one of the more interesting sets of zones they introduced in Cataclysm, though it was somewhat annoying that the special mount you got for that zone wasn't usable anywhere else. Regardless, I'm sure that if Yoshi-P ever gives us underwater zones, he'll find an interesting method to do it.

[Erana]

I remember reading somewhere from developers that Free Company houses could build workshops for creating airships.

I may be going crazy though, can anyone confirm this?