Last update: 10/08/17 Added inactive-user clause to Dominance description, added other methods of obtaining vistas, updated list of genes in gene rarity section, added info about Joxar's Spare Inventory, changed name from "Dragons Wanted" to "Find a Dragon", updated Auction House sections, added screenshot to Notifications section, added PA to slang glossary
Still to update: add new crossroads description, dressing room
Tumblr permalinks (not updated): Part One, Part Two
Index
[*]0.5 - Signing up
[*]1 - Choosing your flight
[*]2 - Your first and second dragons
----POST 2----
[*]3 - Breeding dragons
----POST 3----
[*]4 - Feeding your dragons; your lair and hoard; gathering items
----POST 4----
[*]5 - Currencies, games, and ways to spend
----POST 5----
[*]6 - Other activities: Trading Post, Familiars, Coliseum, Achievements, Dominance
----POST 6----
[*]7 - Aren’t we the Socialite - mail, forums, events, clan profile, friends
----POST 7----
[*]Appendix - genes and breeding genes
[*]Appendix - commonly used forum slang and abbreviations
[*]Concluding remarks
----POST 8----
[*]FAQ
[0.5 Signing up]
On the front page, the option to sign up is located in the top right corner, embedded in the top banner. This is also where you will sign in once you are registered.
To sign up, you need a functional e-mail; once you input that with a username and password (as far as I remember), an e-mail will be sent that gives you a confirmation link. Click that.
Note that you have one free username change; after your free one further changes will cost 1500 gems.
Be sure to read the rules and terms of service. Note that only one account is allowed per person and multiple people may not share an account; sharing a computer with a person who has a separate Flight Rising account is allowed.
[1. Choosing your flight]
The first thing you will be prompted to do on sign-up is choose a flight. They say this is inconsequential, but it’s not. Your flight determines the eye colour of your first dragons and any offspring that is hatched in your nest. Eye colours are as follows:
Wind - light green
Water - deep blue
Ice - white
Nature - deep green
Light - light yellow
Earth - deep brown
Arcane - pink
Plague - red
Shadow - purple
Lightning - light blue
Fire - orange
(image credit to meandering-miasma)
Each flight has a sort of legacy that acts like a personality test - for example, Light flighters are studious, Arcane flighters are dreamers, Wind flighters are explorers - and another way to choose is to pick the one that matches you best. However, this is not by any means required. Each flight also has its own deity (the Windsinger, the Tidelord, the Icewarden, etc.) but there is relatively little interaction so far with said deity.
Each week there is an event called Dominance, which is calculated based on how many people are in your flight, and how many dragons per user are exalted (sent forever to your dragon deity and removed from the game). Some flights are larger than others and therefore have to exalt more dragons to match the per-user ratio of smaller flights. (Inactive users, however, are not counted in dominance calculations.) For more on Dominance, see part 2.
Flight also affects the appearance (but not the outcome or fertility) of your nests and your unhatched eggs, and the location of your lair, but these are inconsequential. An independent comparison of flight aesthetics can be found here.
Like username changes, you now have one free flight change, and any after that will cost 1500 gems and requires a “cooldown” of six months.
(screenshot credit to chaemeradragons)
[2. Your first and second dragons]
(credit to cutebookgirl for the screenshot)
Your first dragon, or your progenitor, will be the only dragon whose colours you get to customize, so pick wisely! You get to choose between four breeds:
Tundra
Mirror
Fae
and Guardian
Each has its own lore (located here), but other than that your first choice should be based on preference. However, keep in mind that at any time you may change the breed of your dragon to any other breed except Imperial, (but breed changes are expensive!) and there are more breeds than the first four.
The gender of your first dragon is inconsequential, as you will receive a randomly-generated dragon of the opposite gender later (more on that later).
Now, colours. Do whatever suits you: make a pretty dragon, make an ugly dragon, make whatever you want, but remember that this is the only time you will be able to easily guarantee specific colours, so choose wisely! Note that only the 67 old colours are available colours for your first and second dragons; you can acquire the others only through hatching Unhatched Eggs, breeding, or Scatterscrolls.
You are able to choose the primary (that is, the colour of the body) and the secondary (the wings); a tertiary will be randomly assigned. A tertiary colour is not visible on the body or wings unless you use genes - more on that below.
You are forced to name your dragon immediately, but names may be changed with an item called a Scroll of Renaming.
Now you have your first dragon and - what’s this - another dragon joins your clan! (This is the only time this will happen in the game.) This second dragon is guaranteed to be the opposite gender of your first, and the traditional method is to breed the two for your first clutch of eggs. Hold on! First, check the breeding results generator here by inputting the colours for each of your first dragons for a range of offspring colours, or here by inputting the ID numbers of your dragons, for offspring examples. If you like that range, feel free - head on over to the Nesting Grounds (see next section). If you don’t, visit the Dragons tab of the Auction House (located on left sidebar, under Shop) or the Dragon Sales forum and browse for a dragon of your liking to breed with your dragon(s).
Note: if you really, really dislike your first or second dragon, there are options to rectify that. You may use genes (see Appendix), change the breed of the dragon, equip a skin or accent (an overlay), exalt your dragon, or use a Tri-Color Scatterscroll.
A Scatterscroll is available in the specialty section of the Marketplace for 350 gems, or in the Auction House from other users, and will completely randomize the primary, secondary, and tertiary colours of any dragon. My random dragon started as this:
and went to this:
and then this, upon using a second Scatterscroll:
Exalting your first or second dragon will not bring in the usual exalting rewards - usually you will receive a small sum of treasure - and will not count towards your flight’s dominance; I would treat exalting your progenitors as a last resort.
Did you exalt your progenitor and now you regret it? As of August 2016, Flight Rising introduced progenitor restoration. You can submit a ticket through Contact Us with the subject line Progenitor Restoration, which includes the ID numbers of the exalted progenitors. See the linked thread for more information.
The updated colour wheel of FR:
Still to update: add new crossroads description, dressing room
Tumblr permalinks (not updated): Part One, Part Two
Index
[*]0.5 - Signing up
[*]1 - Choosing your flight
[*]2 - Your first and second dragons
----POST 2----
[*]3 - Breeding dragons
----POST 3----
[*]4 - Feeding your dragons; your lair and hoard; gathering items
----POST 4----
[*]5 - Currencies, games, and ways to spend
----POST 5----
[*]6 - Other activities: Trading Post, Familiars, Coliseum, Achievements, Dominance
----POST 6----
[*]7 - Aren’t we the Socialite - mail, forums, events, clan profile, friends
----POST 7----
[*]Appendix - genes and breeding genes
[*]Appendix - commonly used forum slang and abbreviations
[*]Concluding remarks
----POST 8----
[*]FAQ
[0.5 Signing up]
On the front page, the option to sign up is located in the top right corner, embedded in the top banner. This is also where you will sign in once you are registered.
To sign up, you need a functional e-mail; once you input that with a username and password (as far as I remember), an e-mail will be sent that gives you a confirmation link. Click that.
Note that you have one free username change; after your free one further changes will cost 1500 gems.
Be sure to read the rules and terms of service. Note that only one account is allowed per person and multiple people may not share an account; sharing a computer with a person who has a separate Flight Rising account is allowed.
[1. Choosing your flight]
The first thing you will be prompted to do on sign-up is choose a flight. They say this is inconsequential, but it’s not. Your flight determines the eye colour of your first dragons and any offspring that is hatched in your nest. Eye colours are as follows:
Wind - light green
Water - deep blue
Ice - white
Nature - deep green
Light - light yellow
Earth - deep brown
Arcane - pink
Plague - red
Shadow - purple
Lightning - light blue
Fire - orange
(image credit to meandering-miasma)
Each flight has a sort of legacy that acts like a personality test - for example, Light flighters are studious, Arcane flighters are dreamers, Wind flighters are explorers - and another way to choose is to pick the one that matches you best. However, this is not by any means required. Each flight also has its own deity (the Windsinger, the Tidelord, the Icewarden, etc.) but there is relatively little interaction so far with said deity.
Each week there is an event called Dominance, which is calculated based on how many people are in your flight, and how many dragons per user are exalted (sent forever to your dragon deity and removed from the game). Some flights are larger than others and therefore have to exalt more dragons to match the per-user ratio of smaller flights. (Inactive users, however, are not counted in dominance calculations.) For more on Dominance, see part 2.
Flight also affects the appearance (but not the outcome or fertility) of your nests and your unhatched eggs, and the location of your lair, but these are inconsequential. An independent comparison of flight aesthetics can be found here.
Like username changes, you now have one free flight change, and any after that will cost 1500 gems and requires a “cooldown” of six months.
(screenshot credit to chaemeradragons)
[2. Your first and second dragons]
(credit to cutebookgirl for the screenshot)
Your first dragon, or your progenitor, will be the only dragon whose colours you get to customize, so pick wisely! You get to choose between four breeds:
Tundra
Mirror
Fae
and Guardian
Each has its own lore (located here), but other than that your first choice should be based on preference. However, keep in mind that at any time you may change the breed of your dragon to any other breed except Imperial, (but breed changes are expensive!) and there are more breeds than the first four.
The gender of your first dragon is inconsequential, as you will receive a randomly-generated dragon of the opposite gender later (more on that later).
Now, colours. Do whatever suits you: make a pretty dragon, make an ugly dragon, make whatever you want, but remember that this is the only time you will be able to easily guarantee specific colours, so choose wisely! Note that only the 67 old colours are available colours for your first and second dragons; you can acquire the others only through hatching Unhatched Eggs, breeding, or Scatterscrolls.
You are able to choose the primary (that is, the colour of the body) and the secondary (the wings); a tertiary will be randomly assigned. A tertiary colour is not visible on the body or wings unless you use genes - more on that below.
You are forced to name your dragon immediately, but names may be changed with an item called a Scroll of Renaming.
Now you have your first dragon and - what’s this - another dragon joins your clan! (This is the only time this will happen in the game.) This second dragon is guaranteed to be the opposite gender of your first, and the traditional method is to breed the two for your first clutch of eggs. Hold on! First, check the breeding results generator here by inputting the colours for each of your first dragons for a range of offspring colours, or here by inputting the ID numbers of your dragons, for offspring examples. If you like that range, feel free - head on over to the Nesting Grounds (see next section). If you don’t, visit the Dragons tab of the Auction House (located on left sidebar, under Shop) or the Dragon Sales forum and browse for a dragon of your liking to breed with your dragon(s).
Note: if you really, really dislike your first or second dragon, there are options to rectify that. You may use genes (see Appendix), change the breed of the dragon, equip a skin or accent (an overlay), exalt your dragon, or use a Tri-Color Scatterscroll.
A Scatterscroll is available in the specialty section of the Marketplace for 350 gems, or in the Auction House from other users, and will completely randomize the primary, secondary, and tertiary colours of any dragon. My random dragon started as this:
and went to this:
and then this, upon using a second Scatterscroll:
Exalting your first or second dragon will not bring in the usual exalting rewards - usually you will receive a small sum of treasure - and will not count towards your flight’s dominance; I would treat exalting your progenitors as a last resort.
Did you exalt your progenitor and now you regret it? As of August 2016, Flight Rising introduced progenitor restoration. You can submit a ticket through Contact Us with the subject line Progenitor Restoration, which includes the ID numbers of the exalted progenitors. See the linked thread for more information.
The updated colour wheel of FR: