Bring on Personal Wings! [Beyond Heavensward Thread]

[Shurrikhan]

Wings belong in 2 places. Aion, and crappy pay-to-win Chinese games

My guess is people wanting these wings will want them for a lot more than Aion-level use. In Aion, wings essentially work as gliders and flight paths, dependent on windstreams for any real distance. In most cases, they're something you hit before colliding with the ground to not take fall damage. That's still a fair bit from a replacement for flying mounts. That much, especially just the glider part, I wouldn't mind if there was some lore given for it, since we likely won't be able to summon flying mounts while falling, and it'd just generally feel more responsive (a quality we don't get all that often). Having personal wings actually replace flying mounts would be more like a Alfheim Online, an altogether different level of... well, pick your own term. >.>

All of which have something tying them to the game. A reason. The holidays in which said items represent. Wings have no such thing.
Currently there is nothing tying personal wings into the game. Not a spell, not a tech., not anything. Thus introducing them into the game would just feel extremely contrived, something being added for the sake of it being added. If they were to have existed, then the mage city; who's name I'm currently blanking on, which no longer exists, would have been the place to birth said magic. And I don't think that would be a magic so easily forgotten, it would be vastly known and highly sought after as it would negate the need for airships, other tech., and even taming beasts for riding. Which is why wings don't belong.

This.

I'm sorry if this is coming off as rude, but I'm trying to get people to rationalize how wings will work within lore or assumed lore. Instead of "I want wings! Dev team figure it out!"

I can't really think of a better place than Ishgard for old Aegyl lore. And if it was something that was incredibly hard to get, I'd really enjoy it as, say, another, very, very rare flying mount variety. But I honestly do think that here, more than in relic weapons, uniqueness is important, almost to the point where if someone else were to get it, you should know of them through the quests involved (and maybe this time we'll finally have something that really requires 8 skilled players to accomplish something outside of raids). Of course, just not literally calling it unique in its quests would probably help a lot...