wow Giant and Tiny Mounts Invade Azeroth (and How to Get Them)

[Starym 3,800]

 

The Hearthstone anniversary has brought a lot more than advertised, as GIANT mounts are also a (unintended) feature of the event!

While increasing character size isn't anything particularly new in WoW, these specific proportions go slightly above and beyond. Players have been having a lot of fun with some truly massive flying mounts, which can also be affected by the usual size increases from toys etc.

We're starting off "small", aka aspect sized, as Electrical_Detail875 decided to join Alextrasza and the others:

Source: So you can get pretty big at the HS event...

But that's just the start of the gigantic-ness achievable, and the (very appropriately named) GIGA-BEAR spotted the pinnacle of what can be achieved, as WoW gets its own Godzilla.

Source: How is this even possible?

Update: we got some additional info on how the above was created, and another image of the monster, straight from GIGABEAR himself! This one is looking very iconic and gives Deathwing a run for his money. Is this all just a Cataclysm Classic marketing campaign?

So, I went above and beyond for mine. I got enough +size to hit the 50% mount size cap, used a glyph of disguise npc form that is already pretty gigantic and can mount, and then used tuft of yak fur from Dread Wastes in pandaria. It's a temporary mount with major scaling for this

— GIGABEAR (@GigabearPanda) March 17, 2024

However, hugeness isn't the only thing that can be done with this particular weirdness.

Source: Is this legal?

Source: If only I could keep him this small forever lol

Apparently this is very much reproducible, as several players explain the method, and you can increase/decrease your size further by using the usual toys etc. before using the method.

So you can get pretty big using the mount bug at the HS event. In fact you can get as big as the aspects themselves on top of the tower. How to do it: walk in the no mount zone at the event and mount up on a dragonriding mount before the button greys out. Walk backwards and mount on a normal walking or flying mount and you will be bigger. Mount size depends on the dragonriding mount. (velociraptor is the biggest) and it depends on the normal mount you pick. I've found that the drone model mounts like the royal swarmer have the biggest result. but there can be even bigger combinations, let me know! - Electrical_Detail875 Press the mount button for a Dragonriding mount while walking into the middle of a Hearthstone event area. Then walk out and mount up on anything - lots of combos do different things I've managed to make them tiny, lose wings, etc. The biggest I've managed is Windborne Velocidrake + Maldraxxian Corpsefly - VolksDK

Plenty more players have shared their encounters with the massive flying mounts as well:

Source: Mount Big (circled myself for scale)

Source: I might have found a bug...

Source: The mount bug happening right now is genuinely the most fun I've had in the game for months

Source: Small indi company (this is a visual bug you can repeat on will)

So get on in there and terrify those that aren't aware of the bug, and have some fun until either a hotfix comes, or the end of the event on Friday!

[Gigabear 3]

I've actually been at this whole giant-sizing thing in WoW for over a decade. When I saw this latest round of fun on Twitter I knew I had to get in on it. As for making a Godzilla mount, I just borrowed from all the stuff I was already doing and applied it to this glitch.

It's works so well because the velocidrake is normally huge but scaled down in the code. This glitch forces the model on your next mount cast, but it does not set the model scale. That is set by whatever mount you actually use after glitching the dragonriding mount.

In other words, you can get this thing up to like 10x normal size with the right mount such as Red Flying Cloud, Maldraxxen Corpsefly or the Tuft of Yak Fur temporarily. But wait there's more! You can then increased that by another 50% with growth consumables. It caps at that amount, more will just shrink down after you mount up to get you under the cap. Finally, you apply a player transform like Mr. Smite's Brass Compass to further multiply the scaling until it's 100x or greater than the intended size.

All of this mad possible by a system designed to REDUCE mount congestion. Ironic.

[Mincksie 1]

If you mount the cliff drake or the hill drake and have fur chosen and then mount the heartbound lupine a bunch of pieces of your mount go missing and you can fly around on a glitch ride