Gliders

In Archeage Classic there are many different kind of gliders available. From early levels players get rewarded their first so called basic glider that doesn't have any skills yet. By upgrading it players can use various skills and stay airborne longer. In Archeage term gliding is basically player jumping from a high place or from their standing point with the assist of their glider skill and descending momentarily. Some gliders have skills to pump up the altitude while gliding but the way is always down eventually. Meaning there is no "flying" in the game as in staying in the air as long as the players wants. Taking damage while gliding will drop the player down.

There are certain stats on the glider that can be enhanced by upgrading the glider. Those stats consist of:

Gliders

• Flight Speed = Speed of forward movement
• Gliding Ability = How slowly it loses altitude
• Turning Speed = How fast and sharp it can turn
• Launch Height = How far up it launches you
• Special Skill

Magithopter

• Air Speed
• Cruising Ability
• Sheering Speed
• Ascension
• Special Skill
  
  

Glider or Magithopter?

The main term GLIDER is what all these items player equips in their trade pack slot and use to glide are. Under the main term are Gliders and Magithopter.

Magithopters differentiate from gliders in that Magithopters can hover in place and descend slower than gliders. They also have really close turning radius meaning player will turn while hovering in their place. They are also in general slower but boost player far more higher when standing still and using glider. Magithopters also have more, so called, customizations like wings, backbags or balloons.

How to make the basic glider

Every player gets a free basic glider from the quests while leveling early on (experimental glider). This basic glider can be upgraded to have more skills and faster gliding speed by buying blueprints from Mirage Island and crafting at the Machining bench.

Glider blueprints

When you enter Mirage you need to travel on the left side to find the blueprint place. Mirage Island does sell the first glider players get from the early quests too so it is easy to craft another glider. Below basic glider's list in order of upgrading. Basic glider doens't have any special skill.

Icon	Name	Blueprint price	Flight Speed	Gliding Ability	Turning Speed	Launch Height
	(Quest glider) Experimental Glider Desing	5 silver	Low	Low	Low	Low
	Improved Glider Desing	25 silver	High	High	Moderate	Moderate
	Enhanced Glider Desing	50 sillver
	Ultimate Glider Desing	1 gold	High	High	Moderate	Moderate

Obtainable gliders

The stats are based on the lowest level crafted glider. Stats improve from this once upgraded.

Icon	Name	Special skill	Way of obtaining	Flight Speed	Gliding Ability	Turning Speed	Launch Height
	Thunderbolt Glider	Bombard	Crafting	Low	Very High	High	Very High
	Red Dragon Glider	Divebomb	Crafting	High	High	Moderate	Moderate
	Moonshadow Glider	Shadow Flight	Crafting	Moderate	High	Very High	Very High
	Ezi's Glider	Invincible Flight	Crafting	Very High	High	High	High
	Glider Companion: Sloth	Backward Roll	Crafting	High	High	Moderate	Moderate
	Goblin Glider	Teleportation	Crafting	High	High	Moderate	Moderate
	Flamefeather Glider	Glider Charge, Instant Acceleration	Crafting	High	High	Moderate	Moderate
	Glider Companion: Squirrel	Focused Glide, Acorn Bomb	Activity Tokens	High	High	Moderate	Moderate
	Skywhisper Glider	Ascending Stunt, Descending Stunt	Activity Tokens	High	High	Moderate	Moderate
	Feathered Dragon Glider	None Immune to turbulence.		High	High	Moderate	Moderate
	Legendary Dragon Wings	Dragonfire Immune to turbulence.		High	High	Moderate	Moderate

Obtainable Magithopters

The stats are based on the lowest level crafted glider. Stats improve from this once upgraded.

Icon	Name	Special skill	Way of obtaining	Air Speed	Cruising Ability	Sheering Speed	Ascension
	Astra Wings	Takeoff, Teleport Right, Teleport Left	Crafting	Very High	High	High	High
	Crystal Wings	Crystal Trail	Activity Tokens	Very High	High	Very High	Very High

Glider Customization

Glider customizations are like image items for the gear. They don't add to any stats, just change the appearance of the glider. For using a customization for glider player needs to turn then customization item into image item by using one Fusion Alembic on it. After this use the Item fusion from inventory. Gliders and Magithopters need 15 fusion alembics.

Gliders

Icon	Name	Applied shape	Applied desing	Cost	Obtained from
	Flames	Red Dragon Glider	flames on a black background	800 credits	Marketplace
	Spring Breeze	Ezi's Glider	pink petal accents	800 credits	Marketplace
	Silver Shadow	Moonshadow Glider	silver scales	800 credits	Marketplace
	Blue Rainbow	Thunderbolt Glider	blue rainbows	800 credits	Marketplace
	Nightfire Glider	Nightfire	-	1500 credits	Marketplace
	Inky Feathered Dragon	Feathered Dragon Glider	Black Wings	600 Merit Badge	Marketplace

Magithopters

Icon	Name	Applied shape	Applied desing	Cost	Obtained from
	Sallium Garbs Wings	-	black feathery wings	800 credits	Marketplace
	Rose Wings	Astra Wings	Rose Wings	800 credits	Marketplace
	Backpack	-	Backpack	800 credits	Marketplace