WoW Moviewatch: Engineering flying mount
by Eliah Hecht 
Oct 15th 2007 at 12:00PM
Here it is, the moment you've all been waiting for! (All of you engineers, anyway.) And I think it looks pretty awesome. It definitely looks more gnome than goblin, but I always liked the gnomish stuff better anyway. This video was linked recently, in a post about the mats list; however, it may have passed some people by, and I think it could use more exposure. Thoughts?
And if you're looking for a way to level up your (newly acquired?) engineering skill in order to make this fine piece of machinery, Lisa has a dynamite article (no pun intended) on that very topic, posted earlier this morning, so have at it.
Check out our screenshot gallery of the engineering mount!Filed under: Engineering, WoW Moviewatch, Mounts
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
raverach Oct 15th 2007 12:17PM
OMG IT'S TOTALLY AWESOME
locomoco Oct 15th 2007 12:24PM
I find it ironic, that the engineering mount somewhat resembles the real life Osprey VTOL craft and that the engineering mount is going to be more reliable.
Juneau Oct 15th 2007 1:10PM
Loving the exclamation mark above bounty posters in 2.3. I always bloody miss them.
Dotixi Oct 15th 2007 1:13PM
F*C*I*G SWEET!
Scylloga Oct 15th 2007 1:58PM
the music is the just awesome, great pick for hte video.
also me wants one!
tuscansalami Oct 15th 2007 4:36PM
Looks good and all, but pity it didn't have the epic version for comparison - for instance, do the engines go into overdrive and shoot out flame or something when flying the high speed version over the non-epic one?
twh Oct 15th 2007 3:42PM
The question remains; where does one learn the recipie for this wonderful toy?
sigh Oct 15th 2007 3:55PM
Anyone else think it sucks how easy it is to level engineering compared to other professions? I'm in a pretty large guild, and I've always been the only engineer and received a lot of crap for being one too. Often considered a pretty useless profession. But as soon as this mount was announced about six other people have already levelled 375 engineering in anticipation. Not a reward for being a loyal engineer but rather its an incentive to become an engineer. Oh well. QQ.
RogueJedi86 Oct 15th 2007 4:20PM
The video was..........eh. He just hovered and flew in tight circles in Shadowmoon Village.
Apparently you learn how to make it from an npc in Wildhammer Stronghold. Hordies can just fly in(guards might attack), train it, and fly out. From WoWHead "Niobe Whizzlespark is a green haired gnome female, standing just by the forge in the middle of Wildhammer Stronghold."
As a clash of lore against gameplay, it must've been hard to make the flying machines in WC2, since the Alliance had to go all the way to Outland to get the materials to make each one. And they didn't cost that much to make. That shows how pitifully low our materials to make convert to WC2 Gold.
Killah Oct 15th 2007 4:40PM
@8:
Well, I think the materials are going to be increased when it rolls out on the live servers, just like the Engineering goggles did.
Salty Oct 15th 2007 6:27PM
I can't describe my elation upon crafting this on the PTR. When I get bored in WoW, I just log on the PTR and take it out for a cruise (waiting on PTR for my guild to copy over so we can explore ZA).
I agree that they will increase the mats. But I don't care what they add, I'll have farmed it by the time anybody reports it. I'm very surprised there's no primal nether requirement, as it seems odd that the tank gun has more expensive mats than this.
Honestly, the mats are not that difficult to come by if you keep a healthy cache of bars and aren't selling them on the AH. Personally, I can't sell bars on the auction house, as I'd much rather make nifty engineering stuff with them, or horde them for just such an occasion. It takes 24 khorium, 32 eternium and 8 primal fires, as far as what most engineers will find difficult to acquire.
But if you're looking for primal fires and you're a miner, just start your netherwing quests. Those nethercite deposits are constantly available in high volume and drop motes of fire at an almost equal rate to motes of earth. You get gold for turning in the useless ore and you get to keep the huge quantities of earth/fire motes.
baudkarma Oct 15th 2007 6:36PM
I'm curious about one thing that I didn't see in the video... does this thing work as a land mount? My flying mount can also run along the ground if I'm so inclined, but I don't quite see how the engineering mount can do this. Maybe it just sorta sliiiiiiiiides.
Venkman90 Oct 16th 2007 4:18AM
@12: Yes, it hovers when you move forward
thegreatplayer Oct 16th 2007 5:55PM
makes me want to level up my eng. lol
oh and weird al ftw
Juliah Oct 22nd 2007 5:01PM
@7: You think Engineering is easy? *blinks* I've leveled all the professions over 225, several over 300, and I think Engineering is significantly harder than Tailoring and Leatherworking. All the little bits you have to make to make other bits ... very hard on the bank space.
I liked the song, but the video didn't quite keep pace with its energy. The mount does look neat, though.