ground mount v. aero

Ignore Icejazmin, don't be cheap take your credit card out and but a nice mount AND aero

vanquishfx wrote: »

What about those dragon quests, you get a MyLittlePony after doing those right? Is that important or mostly not necessary?

you get it after doing at least 40...or was it 50? dragon quests. b:shocked
(was it 20 copper and 30 silver?)
heck still you won't manage to do that for at least half a year if your a low level and it's so not worth the effort. >.<'

it be not important or necessary. personally me prefer flying mounts since you can go afk and stuff. but ground mounts can go faster and me got one for a pretty cheap price. (because WQ was taking forever on a basic aerosword) o.O
but then again you get stopped by mountains and large bodies of water.
b:surrender

It's just a matter of whether you want to pay or not. There is a reason why the quests take you around the whole world map all the time... and why teleports are prohibitively expensive.

On short distances the ground mounts can save a lot of time --- judging from the speed they race around with these things. Just walking from lets say Orchid Temple back to Archosaur takes forever, but at the same time it's not far enough to be AFK (besides, AFK really means AFK --- if you just take focus off the PW window it will stop, so most of the time I'll just get in the air and watch my char fly instead of holding down the key, possibly getting a coffee in the meantime but not really doing anything else). I would guess it's safer to fly on large distances, but at very high levels this might not be a problem anymore.

I just stop playing when the game get too annoying, and come back a few days later. Or maybe not at all; I just came back from a long break, and after just a few levels the old boredom seems to be back already.

As for the auto-pathing, they somehow forgot to add the actual "pathing". It just goes in a straight line... which tends to be a very bad idea on the ground if there are aggro monsters along the way (in the air, aggro stuff seems to not go "very" high). If you can even get anywhere near where you want to go, as there'll be a lot of obstacles in the way, and just one is enough to stop you.

Mounts:
Pros:
-Very fast on flat ground (upto 11m/s).
-Cheaper to get.
-Can use at lower levels if spurred. (Though now there are some aeros that can be used at lvl20 too).
-Easier to farm with.
Cons:
-You have a chance of being knocked off the mount if you are hit. Higher the chance if the mount's loyalty is low.
-You need to regularly feed the mount or get a tome to stop loyalty from dropping or get knocked off everytime you are attacked.
-You cant fight while on a ground mount.
-Ground mounts cannot go everywhere, e.g. they cant climb steep hills.
-You cant really afk on a ground mount, too many mobs and obstacles.

Aerocraft:
Pros:
-You cant be knocked off it.
-You can fight fight on it. (50% attack penalty unless you fighting air mobs).
-Can go almost anywhere (except in places where you cant fly).
-Can set it to climb up to 60m and go afk for long distance flights.
-You don't have to feed it (unless you accelerate often, in which case you can recharge with chi stones).
-You will always need one for fighting flying mobs.
Cons:
-More expensive to get. You get one for free at lvl30, but thats super slow (+0.5).
-Slower. Fastest aero is +3 (except for the super expensive ones, they are +3.2) which is about roughly 8m/s over flat ground.