1. All I want to know is that will the engine nacelles rotate forward when you take off like a real VOTL plane?

Posted at 4:16PM on Oct 12th 2007 by Charlie Taylor

2. I think I will be returning to WoW just because of this.

Posted at 4:20PM on Oct 12th 2007 by jlb

3. @2 Same here!

Posted at 4:28PM on Oct 12th 2007 by ThorinII

4. Cant wait till it comes out. Gonna sell all my fel iron and khorium, at ridicolous prices. I'll make you engineers pay through the nose. And if someones post lower than me, i'll just buy you out. I'm gonna make me some money

Posted at 4:28PM on Oct 12th 2007 by Bart

5. didn't griftah get banned from Shattrah?

Posted at 4:29PM on Oct 12th 2007 by Ghen

6. oops, read the next post D'oh.

Posted at 4:30PM on Oct 12th 2007 by Ghen

7. I'm already maxed on my engineering too!

Posted at 4:30PM on Oct 12th 2007 by ThorinII

8. @1 As someone pointed out in an earlier blog...

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y164/hettbeans/gyrocoptoranim.gif

Now that's either a really good fake, or a reason to dust off my engineer. :D

Posted at 4:32PM on Oct 12th 2007 by Fizzle

9. My engy is a lowly level 35 and around 150 engineering skill. Time for some grindin' :D

I will have that 'copter

Posted at 4:37PM on Oct 12th 2007 by Arras

10. Holy hell that thing is ugly looking.

Posted at 4:38PM on Oct 12th 2007 by TonyMotorola

11. There's a video of it in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTp9uYnyGLA

Posted at 4:39PM on Oct 12th 2007 by RogueJedi86

12. And suddenly I'll be making no money as an engineer. Woo.

Posted at 4:40PM on Oct 12th 2007 by Erron Kelly

13. Now that is just too nice. It looks even better in motion that I ever thought it could.

Posted at 5:35PM on Oct 12th 2007 by ninjasuperspy

14. @5: They moved him just outside of the city. You can still buy all of his fabulous amulets and trinkets :)


I disagree with the idea that materials involved are "relativly simple". Kind of like the phrase "It's not the drop that kills you, it's the sudden stop", the price of riding 375 will kill your pocketbook much more than the price of the mount itself. Infact, given that a "standard" epic flying mount only costs 200g, I would say that the engineering mount will be expecially difficult to make. As if Khorium wasn't hard enought to come by before, now it will be even more so.

For someone straight-up buying all of the needed materials, I can see this thing costing quite a bit. Here is the raw mats list for the regular flying mount:

[Adamantium Ore]x16
[Primal Earth]x2
[Fel Iron Ore]x166
[Star Wood]x8
[Mote of Fire]x2
[Mote of Earth]x4

And for the epic flying mount (which includes a regular flying mount), the grand total is:

[Adamantium Ore]x16
[Primal Earth]x2
[Fel Iron Ore]x222
[Star Wood]x8
[Mote of Fire]x2
[Mote of Eatch]x4
[Khorium Ore]x48
[Primal Fire]x8
[Eternium Ore]x64
[Hula Girl Doll]x1

Now, granted, there is an unmatched cool factor with the engineering mount, and I think it is great. But don't call the materials "simple" :)

Posted at 5:41PM on Oct 12th 2007 by Greylen

15. I hate engineering's many levels of materials... ugh...

For those interested in hording the mats now, the non-epic's raw mats are:
152 Fel Iron Ore
16 Adamantite Ore
1 Mote of Fire
22 Mote of Earth (2 primals, 2 motes)

Posted at 5:52PM on Oct 12th 2007 by Tekkub

16. The screenshot shows 30 fel iron bars not 50 for the standard mount. Just so you know.

Posted at 6:10PM on Oct 12th 2007 by Mogwell

17. The mats are relatively simple. It is just a ton of them and none of them are hard to acquire. I think the hardest mat to get on that list is the Eternium ore.

Posted at 6:35PM on Oct 12th 2007 by Rich

18. I will continue to sell ore for low prices as always, because I dislike people using passions to gain money.

Posted at 7:03PM on Oct 12th 2007 by Michel

19. Dangit WoWinsider! I went out and spent 20g on a stack of Fel Iron so I would have 50 for my mats stock, and now I see you only need 30! You guys owe me 20g.

Posted at 7:06PM on Oct 12th 2007 by Charles

20. @ Bart,

I hope you're on my server. I'm going to keep selling ore at regular prices, and you can go ahead and buy mine to try and make a profit. Hope your supply will match the demand. Mine will. I'm going to be cruising around in a shiny flying machine (already have most of those mats), with your gold jingling in my pocket. Thanks.

Posted at 7:11PM on Oct 12th 2007 by Sindral