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Flying 101
Tested Griffons today. There cool. 230% movment speed. Land and air. Tho with a distance of maybe 25 feet from the ground it seems your moving slower.
To fly you need to look slightly up and be moving forward. Either with the mouse look or page up or what ever you set it to in the options. Now you have to double jump to get your mount airborn. Default is space bar so you just tap it twice.
Turning/moving forward in the air is rather easy. Its same as ground movment. To climb and descend you look up or down. (pretty much like swimming)
They made summoning the griffons alot faster than normal mounts. This helps in case you lose mount while zonning. It's best to make a hotkey you can hit real quick if you find yourself falling. Also once you resomon your mount you must double tap the spacebar again or your mount will continue to fall. I didnt have a problem with this as I had a feather fall song up the whole time. Well I did try to land on top of a tower. But that emediatly despawned my mount and threw me into the ground. I have safe fall and I have jumped off the same tower with miminal damage before so this might be some sort of bug.
You can not summon a mount while in the water. You can summon a boat though.
Griffons can hover in one place.
While moving along the ground and then running off the edge of something you can hit Jump once to glide. You can not climb unless you hit jump again. Having feather fall on seems to make your glide much longer.
Flying onto the top of certain buildings that do not alow mounts will despawn your mount. ( I think thats what happend in the tower I mentioned above.)
Horeshoes and bridles did not seem to effect flying mount speed.
You can not give anyone else a ride.
Each chunk seems to have a 1k cieling as well. makes me wonder on future expansions. having to climb a beanstalk into the clouds or something.
The griffons were very agile as well.
Most players seemed really disapointed when they had to dismount and move at 100% movment rate again. It seemed realy slow after having the flying mount.
Didnt really bother me, cause as a bard my current speed is a little over 190%.
Can't wait to get a flying mount in beta tho.
Rao
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