Flying Information

Wings become available at level 10, when you ascend and become a Daeva. Activating your wings has a small cool down, which I believe is under 10 seconds. You have a base flight time limit of approximately one minute, and as soon as you finish flying, it begins to recharge. Various items such as rings or amulets may have stat bonuses such as “Increases flying time by 3%.”, and there are upgraded wings you can purchase for your “Wing” equipment slot, which can double or more your flight time while also providing other bonuses.

Whenever your flight time is about to run out, and potentially drop you like a rock from the sky and kill you, a warning noise will sound. This alert is also heard by your group and/or raid, so that everyone is aware that they may need to stop so a member can rest their flight time. A tone also sounds when your flight activation cool down becomes available again.

Wings can be used in two fashions: Outright flying, and gliding.

Gliding

Gliding is always available, even in zones where flying is disabled. This can be easily activated by simply tabbing the space bar as a kind of double jump. Your wings will come out, and you can glide for a distance until you hit something that stops your forward momentum, like a rise in the ground. The double jump method activates gliding even in zones where you can truly fly.

The standard forward and backward keys (W and S) can be used to tilt forward or backward as you fly, as a way to either dive, or attempt to gain a little altitude. It’s possibly to glide for fairly long distances if you come across a hill or cliff. Gliding is a fair bit faster than walking, and can allow you to skip NPCs you don’t want to fight.

Flying

In early zones, there are many subzones where flying is disabled, but more and more areas become available as you level. In the PVP zones known as the Abyss, flying is always available. Flying can be activated either by a bound “Toggle” key, or clicking an icon on your UI.

Flying works more or less like your flying mount in Warcraft would work, with a few differences. You can control your direction with your mouse (I.e. mouse look), or you can use a bound key for “Fly Up” and another for “Fly Down”. These default to R and F, but as I use those for action bars, I unbound them and just used the mouse. Currently, the space bar will not cause you to fly upward, but NC Soft has reportedly acknowledged this and said they would add it.

While flying, you can use any action you normally could, including attacks and spells. This means flying becomes an important part of PVP, as both an escape mechanism and a way to attack.