Alas, Auberdine

[Ruvanal]

- The travel was annoying. You get used to a +280 or +310 flying mount in other zones, then you're stuck with a +100 mount in Vash'jir

Its a +280 speed mount, check your facts. Vash'jir is a very big area composed of several sub-zones. Most of those sub-zones are as large as any of the zones you would now find on land in Kalimdor or the Eastern Kingdoms, which would make for some long travel times to get around from point to point.

I had no issues with doing that Vash'jir on my warrior when I did the first time. Not so sure I would enjoy it so well on some of the other 'non-ranged' classes like rogues or enhanced shaman though. Ranged classes should fair well. The issue for most is going to be how well they can adapt to being in an almost constant 3D operating environment. Most players have a lot issues when asked to move out a 2D (feet on the ground) situation.

Edit: a quick check of speed in game using the character info panel shows the mount swim speed as 371 (or a boost of +271 over standard run speed).

Hmm. It sure felt slow. The 371 number is strange. A +280 will show as 380 speed on the character sheet, plus the guild bonus. If the Vash'jir mount is showing as less than 380, then it's not a +280 mount. I'll grant that it's faster than the +100 I recall.

We are talking about a +280 modifier, but I am unsure what the base swim speed is. A quick check showed me that using a DK with bonus movement from unholy presence(15%) is not the best meter to go by. Base swim speed is 67%. Checked another character that also showed base swim speed at 67% but only had the guild mounted modifier (10%). That character also ended up showing a 371 mounted speed, but they also showed a 148 swim speed in Vashj'ir with the Sea Legs buff. They seem to be doing some odd multipication effects with some of the buffs for moving there. None the less the sea horse mount there has an effective speed about the same as the next to top flying speed.