| Gliding is a very powerful tool in Aion |
Another small and helpful trick is that if you find yourself pretty far from the ground with the knowledge that you're not going to be able to land before running out of flight time, it's advisable to just admit defeat and fold your wings so you can free fall for a few seconds to regenerate flight time so, if properly timed, you can engage glide inches from the ground and touch down unscathed. Gliding is a very powerful tool if utilized correctly. If not utilized correctly, you may just end up looking like a fool. A lot of the zones are built in such a way that, with enough investigation and ingenuity, a talented Daeva can learn to cut their travel time tenfold. Like in Sanctum, when you miss the transport and just leap off the dock to glide down to it, without the hassle of waiting for another boat. Also, just south of Pilgrims' Respite in Verteron there is a large rock (it's rather hard to miss) that can be used as a great jump point to easily glide the entire distance down into the holy ground. There is another spot just north of the Respite: a cliff (Altamia Ridge) overlooking the Frillneck Habitat. From there, you can glide almost the entire distance to Tolbas Village with the use of a flight time potion or two. This is also a good example of a flight that you need to be extra careful you don't plummet to your doom by running out of flight time a few hundred feet from the ground. Not that I'm speaking from personal experience or anything. As a slight side note, there are a lot of environments that look explorable that aren't mapped. I was never adventurous enough to dive into them, but I'm sure there might be a troll village dancing their little heads off down there somewhere. |