Flying Mounts

Turokos_Vampires

With the new expansion coming out, it is probably time to start considering the flying mounts. Griffin, and possibly a young dragon. I am sure both would be a good selling crown item...

Vuldovahkriid

Personally it wouldn't really work. For WoW, they have a GIANT open world that can cater to flying. In ESO, we would be hitting a load screen every 30 secs(especially if speed would affect it). I could see maybe a flying mount that could glide from high heights, negating falling damage.

Ankaridan

Please no. Not ever. I'd rather this game not become a farcical cartoon.

BlueViolet

No thanks, I hope we never see anything like this in the game.

Anotherone773

Wayshrines = welcome to 2019 transportation system. Also the invisible ceiling in ESO is not near high enough to allow any kind of decent flying and i think it would take a lot of work to raise it retrospectively.

Alucardo

The sky darkens, I look up to see what I believe to be clouds blocking the sun, but NAY! It's 150 griffin's and reskinned flying guars.

Watchdog

Turokos_Vampires wrote: »

With the new expansion coming out, it is probably time to start considering the flying mounts. Griffin, and possibly a young dragon. I am sure both would be a good selling crown item...

*sighs*

Kulvar

No
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/461975/do-you-want-flying-mounts-in-the-game/p1

CMDR_Un1k0rn

No.

grannas211

I have so many mounts from crown crates and others, it would basically make them all obsolete. Plus how would that work in Cyrodil?

It would be cool though, not going to lie.

JKorr

Turokos_Vampires wrote: »

With the new expansion coming out, it is probably time to start considering the flying mounts. Griffin, and possibly a young dragon. I am sure both would be a good selling crown item...

No.

Thousands of flying griffins, thousands of dragons that aren't there in that time playing taxi for wanna-be dragonborns?

No.

Even in the upcoming dlc the dragons are locked away and only released by someone doing something stupid. And judging by the glare the last one gives the idiots that released it, I sincerely doubt those three will be offering to play taxi.... If there were thousands of dragons suddenly appearing in order to let players pretend they're in Skyrim, the game would be over for me. Between wayshrines and port to player with friends, guidies, random people you ask in zone chat adding flying mounts would be pointless overkill.

and then there is this: Anyone remember where in this ESO Live episode they explained why there won't be flying mounts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxigt8ipK1g

iAmLoki97

NO. This would be a terrible idea.

DragonHeart000

Absolutely not to a flying mount that can actually fly above things but if it's mechanically the same to all the other mounts just making one with an animation of it flying just slightly above the ground would 100% be something I would be interested in.

Lord_Umbranox

TheShadowScout

Turokos_Vampires wrote: »

With the new expansion coming out, it is probably time to start considering the flying mounts...

Kulvar wrote: »

No
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/461975/do-you-want-flying-mounts-in-the-game/p1

Indeed, as I said there already:

TheShadowScout wrote: »

Flying mounts?

Nope.

Floating mounts, sure, I'd love to see a witchy broomstick, oriental carpet or drow driftdisk floating over the ground... maybe even a mystic cloud or bat swarm to carry a character in a floating manner... since that would only be a special effect, nothing more. And as such, no different then any other mount save for the visuals...

But actual flying??? In ESO? That can has more worms then the whole friggin worm cult!
Between the issues of invisible walls and no-go zones to constrain people from wandering off the map (the more of those, the more lag, since they have to be calculated), point-of-view faux-pas when people suddenly can see "part the curtain" from up high in the sky and notice where the developers saved on objects where noone would notice from the ground, and the questions about how flying would mess up cyrodil sieges...
No.
Just no.

If anything... well, there is only -one- good suggestion about "flying mounts" I ever stumbled over at the forums:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/433317/suggestion-flying-mount-solution/p1
...and that is still the only way I ever would want to see them!

wishlist14

For the love of Tamriel, this is eso not wow. ,!!

Vermethys

Flying mounts? Maybe not. But gliding/hovering mounts might be interesting -- mounts that technically function like ordinary mounts, but hover a bit over the ground. And with the stick mounts we're getting soon, I'd love to see a broom mount tbh.

ghastley

How about this idea? You buy a flying mount for 6000 crowns. The first time you fly, it dumps you off from 20,000 feet up, and you die. The creature then flees from your wrath and you never see it again.

Repeat next time you have 6,000 crowns to waste.

I'm sure they'd go for that one. Guaranteed money-spinner.

VanLo83

Turokos_Vampires wrote: »

With the new expansion coming out, it is probably time to start considering the flying mounts. Griffin, and possibly a young dragon. I am sure both would be a good selling crown item...

I would 100% leave ESO if they added flying mounts. Flying mounts wouldn't bring anything to the table for ESO would more screw the zones up than anything else. IF the game would have been designed around flying mounts that would be a completely different point, then I wouldn't mind at all.

MissBizz

Prettttty sure one time Rich said if anything even remotely close to flying mounts would come out.. at best they would more-so be "levitating" rather than flying. And that was a big if.

Imperial_Voice

Adding flying mounts is observably one of the worst things an MMO can do.

IzzyStardust

there are flying mounts in archeage, and gliding (you can travel around on a hang glider and other things like it) and ship battles - you can own several types of boat and ship, I LOVE IT!

If I could handle the grind/keep up with the gear by farming, I'd still be there.

Reistr_the_Unbroken

No, but I am excited to see the imp-riding dragon pet

Alucardo

One day I will get my buoyant Turtle mount

YamiKuruku

pls no flying mounts XD

Katahdin

No

Panzanella

I'd be fine either way but ESO doesn't need them. I could go on a long explanation as to why I think WoW needs flying mounts but ESO does not, but I'll spare the wall of text.

idk

Zos has basically said never to flying mounts. The game is not setup for it and would take a lot of work just to make flying mounts possible.

Jayroo

A dungeon/raid that has a flying mechanic perhaps. Otherwise it would be hard-impossible to implement

Grentek

I'd say "YES", but just for us Altmer. Afterall we're the only ones having griffins.

Joke aside, no. It's fine in WoW because you load the (almost) whole continent but in ESO...(And, even in WoW, not everyone is enthusiastic with flying mounts anyway.)