Talk:Flying mount

Hoss 17:56, 19 July 2006 (EDT) http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/burningcrusade/townhall/netherdrake.html

Phoenix
I do believe there are images around somewhere of a phoenix with a saddle on it. I'll have to find it - WoWguy


 * Do not upload it, however. -- Kirkburn  (talk) 11:01, 1 October 2006 (EDT)

Here are the link's to the Pheonix pics i found http://www.worldofraids.com/v2/img/news/BC/gallery/Mounts/mount5_2.jpg http://www.worldofraids.com/v2/img/news/BC/gallery/Mounts/mount5_1.jpg I'm not sure if they are real though.-- SuperShammy

Flying mount vendors
The new faction flying mounts(armored gryphon/wyvern) might be sold by flight masters. Seeing that they provide transportation via flight already,it seems most logical for them to sell the mounts.-Hammerdin

The Biplane
Oh, come on! If you watch the nether video, it's obvious that Blizz doesn't have a real biplane mount planned. That was just for entertainment purposes. --Kakwakas 22:31, 28 September 2006 (EDT)

If you're going to change the word, change it to Flying Machine. But it's not a gyrocopter. FURTHERMORE, I disagree with your appraisal that the airplane was grafted in. There are distinct differences between the flying machine mesh used in the movie and the mesh appearing in Gnomeregan. Specifically, the transparent windscreen. The Gnomeregan units have opaque windscreens. Now, I agree that the PERSPECTIVE on the flying machine view is suspect, because it is alongside the plane instead of directly behind, but my counterpoint to that perhaps the chase view is recorded from a third user flying alongside in first-person view mode where the mount would disappear. Piroko 10:12, 29 September 2006 (EDT)

Either way, this is not a speculation page. Unless we can actually prove that it is a flying mount, then it shouldn't appear here. :) --Vorbis 17:22, 29 September 2006 (GMT)


 * Fine fine. Though, if I am correct... well, I'm glad I have a gnome.  Piroko 13:01, 29 September 2006 (EDT)


 * I'd love to have a gyrocopter for my gnome, too. It just doesn't seem very likely right now. --Kakwakas 13:26, 29 September 2006 (EDT)


 * Were you born with a hardwired need to naysay everything or did it take some mastery and meditation to achieve? Seriously; I really am curious.  You haven't offered a single iota of empirical evidence AGAINST the theory that flying machines will be flying mounts, while I have provided a reasonabily convincing argument in favor.  I can understand Vorbis's thoughts that it shouldn't be on the mainpage since it isn't triple-stamped as official from Blizzard, but I haven't seen anything from you that makes me think you have anything to contribute to this discussion other then an arbitrary "no I think you're wrong but I can't back it up I'm just so used to Blizzard never doing things right."  Piroko 16:26, 29 September 2006 (EDT)


 * Calm it, Piroko. You can add a short speculation section, but we have no information beyond that video - which was showing off the Nether Drake and specifically not a flyable plane. -- Kirkburn  (talk) 16:31, 29 September 2006 (EDT)


 * Sorry, sorry, I had a bit of a meanstreak there. But really, watch the video again and look at the way the gyrocopter is in relation to the camera.  It looks like they just kinda pasted the gyrocopter on the footage.  That or they made a path for the gyrocopter to go along (like the dwarven pilot you can see take off out of Ironforge).  We DO know that there are going to be more flying mounts, and again I must say I'd love to have a gyrocopter for my gnome, but this seems like it was just a fun idea they used to introduce the nether drake and flying mounts in general.  I agree with Kirk on the speculation section, too.  It should at least be mentioned. --Kakwakas 23:48, 1 October 2006 (EDT)


 * I can understand why you'd think that but I can also see details you might miss. I'm a photoshop and video-overlay expert of sorts, and a 3d animator as a hobby (and a programmer by trade).  The plane has a left right rocking motion, which is in relation to the camera, which tells me the camera is not bound to the plane.  Since it changes perspective slightly, they would have to animate the plane rather then just stick it over the video footage.  Fine animation is a nitpicky detail that would come 'free' if the plane was created as a pilotable object, but would require attention to detail if the object's movement is being scripted for the scene.  Secondly, as I pointed out, there are differences between this plane's textures and the ones in Gnomeregan, specifically that the windscreen is transparent.  This is a fine detail but it means that this is a new mesh.  Now, as a programmer, I know from personal experience that it's easier to use the rules of a system already created then it is to modify the system.  Why create a scripted flight using a new mesh?  Isn't that thinking a bit too much?  If they already created a new mesh (windscreen point) then why did they create a new mesh?  Why add details to something that already exists, just for a demo?  Piroko 10:07, 2 October 2006 (EDT)


 * You both make fair points, - we can't say that it isn't possible at all, nor can we be sure it is - therefore a short speculation section seems appropriate on the basis of the video. I won't write it myself, but if you do, try and give both sides of the discussion :) -- Kirkburn  (talk) 14:30, 2 October 2006 (EDT)


 * Got a small speculation myself. Maybe is Blizzard planning a proffesion mount. Although this sounds kinda silly but can you think for 10 races ten different mounts? I can't. As the copter is an engineering object, it would make good sense. And with that comes that we Engineers (I'm an engineer in-game myself) haven't got a proffesion upgrade for months. I hope it will be an engineering only thing. -- Hefaistus


 * New mounts in WoTLK and in 2.3

Poster: Lord DarkHallow 27 Sep 2007 16:57 from http://www.deathknight.info

Source: Blizzard Official "We'll introduce a new flying mount in patch 2.3. This one will be bought with Exalted Reputation at Cenarion Expedition with a 2000g cost." http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=983739070&pageNo=1&sid=2#19

Source: Blizzard Official "And for your dedication, flying mounts for engineers only will be available in patch 2.3. There will be normal and epic versions of this mount for you to parade around and show how proud you are to have passed all the exams and call yourself an engineer." http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=1778046823&sid=1 This could mean that the biplane might be the engineer normal or epic flying mount. --Buraisu 17:57, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

prices??
Look at the epic flying prices... The horde ones cost half of the alliance?!?!?! the alliance one costs 11,000G while horde costs 6,000g......... very, very weird... you would think people would post prices as the same amount....


 * What is your source for this? Piroko 13:26, 23 October 2006 (EDT)


 * The article used to say that until I changed it :) -- Kirkburn  (talk) 14:14, 23 October 2006 (EDT)


 * Interesting. I know I've read on the forums that the skills would be 1000 and 5000 respectively (for 225 and 300 riding), and that a CM confirmed those numbers as the preliminary test values for the beta... Piroko 13:30, 24 October 2006 (EDT)


 * Then put that. I was just removing the inconsistency :) -- Kirkburn  (talk) 13:37, 24 October 2006 (EDT)

you know, 100g was considered alot of money at level 40 like 1000g is considered alot of money at level 60... naturally 5000g is considered less threatning than what it seems now to us as level 60s... farming it should not be that much harder than farming for your regular epic mount. Not that I'm personally going to buy a flying epic mount... I'll just get the rare flying mount to get in Tempest Keep and that's it. --Angellic 17:27, 12 November 2006 (EST)

Merge Candidate
It seems rather pointless to have flying mounts under both Mounts and this article. I think we should either move the whole article to the category in mounts or delete the information already there and use this page. Sam Weber 19:25, 16 November 2006 (EST)
 * I agree with moving the information in this article to the Mounts article. Jeoh 20:30, 29 December 2006 (EST)