I built mine last night and a lot of time buzzing around the Outlands. Its a blast. The only thing that will take some getting used to is the amount of exhaust... Nice effect, but possibly a tad overdone.

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I love mine as well, although it definitely strains the suspension of disbelief when I land it to tap a mining node and there are enemies nearby. Surely they are going to take notice of the noise. It's not exactly a quiet mount.

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It says they're bind on equip, so is it possible to get an engineer to create one for me?

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Pros: It shows I've reached the pinnacle of engineering, and am wealthy enough to afford epic flying skill. Also, it's loud and obnoxious.

Cons: It's loud and obnoxious.

I briefly swapped back to my Aether Ray yesterday for some peace and quiet. But overall, it adds a new layer of immersion. *I* built this. Plus I can relate to flying around in a machine much more so than on the back of an animal.

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I love my new mount (see http://erbodie.wordpress.com/), it it really good fun to ride. But I agree that the exhaust effect is overdone, and in a world of pollution, it would have been nice for Blizzard to have a more environmentally friendly message.

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The best part is the dancing hula girl on the dash. Zoom in close enough and you can see her. Classic!

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There's sound in this game? I haven't played with sound turned on since like 2005 ;)

Aside from the aforementioned Hula Girl on the dash, I like the clattering toolbox, the shark paint job, and the inverted propeller autorotation when the engine dies. Indeed, it's the best mount model so far!

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@5 (Erbodie):
It's magic exhaust. It's actually good for the environment.

Now clean up those corpses you left lying around, polluter. You litterbugs make me sick.

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Yes a engie can make it but you already know you need engie to use it. I only have the non turbo and i am short about 5k so does anybody wanna give me a loan. Also does the riding crop work with it or do we get a nitrous can or something. It would be cool to use a fel iron casing, some goblin rocket fuel and a adamantite frame.

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@Erika: yes, crops and other speed mods work with the flying machine...it's just another mount. Though nitrous would be funny, though Blizz would probably put some auto-dismount backfire into it...nothing says speed like free-falling from so high that no parachute cloak would help you. ;)

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Now all we need is some type of land based eng mount.

I'm sure it would go somethin like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u15HmEMp2Qc

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Oh god, the hippies even invade wowinsider. It's a fucking video game, lay off your politics for five damn minutes.

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http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=2968231076&sid=1

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