Sleipnir Useless in Heavensward?

[LordHadi]

So almost all mounts can fly now, Chocobos, Ahriman and Primal ponies.. except for the mount we payed 16.8 EUR for?
This is not a request for making it fly, but maybe add more to it like customising it or make it faster on land or a special feature maybe?

EDIT: I'm not complaining about the money paid, I'm just adding an info it also had a price and now it's just less useful in HW. This thread is open for suggestion whether there will be any extra features for Sleipnir (or any other land mount) but everyone here turned it into whether a Sleipnir can fly or not. It was mentioned in one of the threads that they will be adding an emote for Sleipnir and can't remember if they mentioned anything about dying it, but no news have been released.

[Pandan_1]

"we payed" woah woah man, don't throw everyone under the bus.

Not everyone paid cash for a mount. This thread reminds me of another MMOs player base...

[LordHadi]

"we payed" woah woah man, don't throw everyone under the bus.

Not everyone paid cash for a mount. This thread reminds me of another MMOs player base...

I'm not complaining about the money we payed. It's my favourite mount and I'm asking what is it useful for in Heavensward.

Go find a more suitable thread title to troll on.

[Cakekizy]

Where did they say this mount won't fly?

[Colorful]

Considering Sleipnir is a primal mount, it will fly whenever they add the ability for all of the other primal mounts to fly.

[Samburi]

You can run with it on the ground in the new zones

[Seyb]

Where did they say this mount won't fly?

This. Kirin seems to get priority for flight mode over the other ground mounts. I assume Sleipnir will follow soon after. So no need for any other extras.

[Cidel]

There will be a lot of ARR mounts that won't fly. That's just how it goes.

Most beast tribe reward mounts, the coeurl, Fenrir...

But don't forget, these mounts are still faster on-ground than flying mounts. And players can't fly in the new zones right off the bat. But yes, I have a feeling non-flying mounts will probably be useless after players access the flying ability in all new zones, but I do hope I'm wrong somehow and there ends up being a location or two where flying is impossible.


On a related note, if flying mounts are slower on-ground, does this mean things like the Ponies, Chocobos and ADS will have reduced ground speeds seeing as they're turning into flying mounts? Not sure if it's been clarified.

[LordHadi]

Considering Sleipnir is a primal mount, it will fly whenever they add the ability for all of the other primal mounts to fly.

Hope this should be the case, just wasn't considering it a primal mount since it doesn't drop by primals

[Sove92]

Nowhere, and it will probably fly at some point. Making the primal ponies fly was already giving me the "Are you serious"-face, though, wondering when they announce the flying goobbue mount. But my real question is, why would anyone pay 16.20€ for a mount?