Swimming in the Air

[blackfang500]

Dang, you have to be in outlands! I got all worked up for nothing!
*level 42*

[DeSTRoYeR661]

how can you swim in air ten :P?

[Shanaar]

Like you swim in water

If you mean how to start swimming read this topic

[piree]

This also works with fireball and fireblast
instead of Frostbolt and cone of cold

[beerie]

Works nicely
Success on second try, took us no longer than 30 seconds

oooo teh fun1

[Equ1N0X]

hey, i happen to want to know if theres a way to do this w/o flying mount? im 60 but im like 300 gold away from mount lol
if anyone has 900 gold for my mount+surplus eel free to pm me

[pilkan]

has to be a way of doing this inside a instance

[Hriky]

u wish
ummm is blizz close to fixing this? i will get very very mad if they fix it
cause i want to try it out myself my closes guy to 70 is 68 with 400g only

[Duldregirn]

u wish
ummm is blizz close to fixing this? i will get very very mad if they fix it
cause i want to try it out myself my closes guy to 70 is 68 with 400g only

I've tried doing this on a PTR and i could not get it going. Chances are they have fixed it. Hurry to 70 before 2.1 comes out and get your kills done.

[Equ1N0X]

me and some friends did this. then we all hearthed to goldshire on ground mounts with preserved holly and when newbs are like "OMG HAXXOR!" im like "no newbies, were santa's elves, cant you tell?"( i didnt exactly use the flying mount trick for this, but same results.)

[stormcrowsix]

@the poster above: LIES! doesnt work in Azeroth! :P
If you have found a way to do it tell me, but it doesnt, tried a lot

@ the people saying this is not working: maybe the mage is shit or your gear is too good: those spells can be resisted and then they dont work.

Just before you do this, take off all your gear, so you will resist less.

Second thing to pay attention too:

1. Mage frost novas

2. he sheeps you
---> at this point make sure the sheep is still trapped in the frost nova!

3. He will frostbolt you
---> at this point KEEP the mage TAGGED and keep SPAMMING the jump

4. mage does the cone

I know this method is already explained a lot but just pay attention you perform the trick as it should!

I solo'd the 72 (or was it 73 can't remember) elite in nagrand in the west (where you fly over on the netherdrake for the quest)
He dropped... 28 silver!!!

Why is doomwalker impossible to solo? I have no idea about his attacks...

Any other mobs that are elite or hard to farm that we can kill this way?

[Jimbo]

It's true, you cannot dot while doing it!

But it does work, it just takes a few tries sometimes.

[Tengu]

I've been playing around with this quite a bit the last few days, and yes I've been flying in azeroth, but ONLY in draenei's area. I've done some extensive testing on what breaks it and what doesn't.

It will break if you remount on your flying mount.

It will also break if you get knock-back on you. Found out that by Misdirecting a giant onto my friend that was on the ground looting ^^ Was so funny when he was jumping around wondering why he couldn't get up in the air after the knockback. He had a giant and 5 other mobs hitting him =D (we've been playing with MD against each other every now and then)

It will break if you use a portal to any alliance city except for exodar. I have two theories on this one, it's either because where you land in exodar you can actually mount, in difference to the other alliance cities. It could also be because Exodar is a TBC addition. When flying in the exodar area I went to the NE to see if I could fly across to Darnassus, when you're over the water you can't float upwards for some strange reason. You will also get killed by fatigue before even getting anywhere near Darnassus, and I doubt they are in the same instance-server so you probably couldn't get there anyhow.

It will also break if you take the boat from Exodar to Darkshore. But then again, whenever you're zoning with a boat you will get dismounted, this could be what broke the bug. It doesn't matter if you're standing on a place on the boat where you're able to mount up.

It will break if you're summoned to onyxia's lair. I haven't done any extensive testing to see if perhaps it's possible to keep the bug if you're on your ground mount when getting summoned. Note also that Onyxia's summoning stone is old content, it might work better with CoT and Kara summoning stones.

It will not break if you're using flightpaths.

It will not break on portaling or HS:ing to shattrah.

It might be possible to set your HS in azeroth to keep your bug by using HS. If this works, it will break both my theories from above =P

I have not tried getting warlock summoned yet.


The reason dots and other debuffs doesn't work is because the mob resets whenever you attack him, but he doesn't start healing until after 5 seconds, that's why you can keep on attacking them while they are patroling like normal. It will not be tagged at any time if you're just attacking from the air. This means that when the mob dies, you won't be able to loot it since you haven't tagged it. So when the mob is on 1% health or so, just go down on the ground and kill him with the last shot. This will tag him to you and you will be able to loot him.


If anyone finds out more extensive info on what breaks and doesn't break this bug, I'd be very happy. Outlands lacks worldbosses, Kazzak shoots people from ranged, so he's not really soloable, and doomwalker seems to be very hard to find (and has his earthquake). So if you can find a way to get to Azeroth, meh beh happy kitten!

[Jimbo]

I just tried on doomwalker...

He didn't hit me except with earthquake, which I could bandage...
But it seemed he just got his health back all the time.. and since he walks around constantly, it's hard to even keep him in range... But if you had a small party doing this, it might be possible...

Oh and Nordh.... The Flying Guards protecting villages, their shots removes it too ^^

[XnS-Ozh]

Anyone got a vid?