wow The Fastest "Mount" on Azeroth: When an Oribos Ride Goes Wrong and a Heroic Landing Goes Extremely Right

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We've seen plenty of instances of Oribos-related flights getting interrupted, disconnected and even teleported to graveyards, but this one is one of the more fun ones, as the portals must have gotten mixed up and sent the Anima Worm to Azeroth... but at the same insane speeds they use to get across the vast Shadowlands distances! While this isn't the first time something like this happened, it does have a pretty great ending after the long journey.

Pm_me_fancy_otters was minding their own business try to leave Oribos, got stuck on the ride and used the unstuck feature. When they logged back in the ride continued... except it was now in the Eastern Kingdoms, extremely high above Dun Morogh, speeding across the skies due North. The map whizzing by, the Anima Worm got confused once again, as it hit the Hillsbrad shore and then decided to turn around - maybe the Shadowlands were in the South of EK? At that point, triple-bizarrely, the actual "warp"/portal hyperspeed animation kicked in over the Wetlands, sped on to the Twilight Highlands and... well, just decided it was lost and left, dropping its rider from an extremely high altitude to fend for themselves. Luckily pm_me_fancy_otters very much stuck the landing, as you can see in the (unfortunately un-embeddable) video below:

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While the actual reason for the taxi's appearance on Azeroth is unstuck option-related, its speed is due to the fact that the Anima Worm flight path mounts get an insane speed boost when they hit the big portals, because  the Shadowlands zones are actually all on one map - so it needs to be extremely fast to cover the VERY large distances between them. And then that speed was translated onto the regular old Azeroth zones and we got the above awesome video!

As mentioned above, this wasn't the first time this happened, although previous ones we've seen ended... more tragically.

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[aceaxe11 4]

If only they could apply those speeds to the rest of Azeroth, be worth an extra taxi fee 🙂

(maybe without the 10,000 mile drop :D)

Edited May 12, 2021 by aceaxe11
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4 hours ago, aceaxe11 said:

If only they could apply those speeds to the rest of Azeroth, be worth an extra taxi fee 🙂

(maybe without the 10,000 mile drop :D)

It could be fitted into the lore like we are bringing Shadowlands tech to Azeroth to use it in transportation, Warp Gates powered with Soul Magic 😜