Engineering Flying Mount Preview

YouTube user jmanko has uploaded this short but excellent video showcasing not just the looks, but also the sounds and animations for the engineering flying mount. I'd seen some Turbo-Charged Flying Machines on the test realm, but I hadn't realized they made such excellent noises starting up, or that they could sputter and stall. Nice touch!

New Mount Pictures at MMO Champion!

MMO Champion has pictures of the new mounts in patch 2.3 - the bear mount from Zul'Aman, the engineering airplane mount, and all five colors of Cenarion Expedition hippogriffs. I must have a rideable bear. Must.

Nalorakk, prepare to face my lazers!

More On Ram Racing

Now that WoW patch 2.2 is live, I've been getting a lot of traffic to my Brewfest Quest Guide, and fielding a number of questions about how the racing rams work for the quests This Is Ram Racing... Almost and There and Back Again. So for those of you looking for more info on the rams, here are some tips and tricks.

Using the Reins
The thing to remember about the reins is that if you stop using them, your ram will slow down. Click your reins at an even pace (ie, one click every couple seconds) to maintain a constant speed. At the higher speeds, the ram seems to take longer to slow down even if you're not clicking, but nonetheless, if you stop clicking the reins, he will shift into a lower gear. If you want to get him up to a gallop, just click at a faster pace.

Apple Barrels
Apples make rams forget about how tired they are. If you see an apple barrel, move your ram towards it to clear all your exhaustion debuffs. You have to be within about five yards of the barrel for your debuffs to clear (in the picture above, my wolpertinger is close enough to clear the debuffs, but any farther away would be too far). Finally, keep in mind that if your ram reaches 100 debuffs and slows to a crawl, the apple barrel will not cure his exhaustion, just the stacking debuffs, , so if your ram is getting close to 100 and you're still a ways away, slow down if you can.

Daily Keg Delivery Quest
Once you do There and Back Again, you can immediately do the daily quest after it, but there's no yellow exclamation point to tell you the quest exists. For Alliance, talk to Neill Ramstein to start it; he should have a prompt that says something like "Do you still need any help with the kegs?"

"Ram racing is easier than it seems, but it takes skill to master. Just use the reins, eat apples if you can, and avoid exhausting your ram."
- Pol Amberstill, Ram Riding Apprentice

In Search of the Headless Horseman

New readers: Looking for a guide to defeating the Headless Horseman? Click here.

Along with Brewfest, the other holiday event dropping in the 2.2 patch today involves the Headless Horseman, who has been spotting attacking low level towns like Brill and Goldshire. Apparently he's also camping the Scarlet Monastery graveyard taunting players with a small table of level 70 epic loot plus new temporary broom mounts (single use for lowbies, 14-day timer for Outlands with the appropriate flying skill). First off, I'm really excited to finally see some high end events sending us back to old instances; I've been wanting Blizzard to take better advantage of Azeroth for a while. Second, broom mounts! I'll be on the servers LFM SM as soon as they come up.

Wowhead links to the brooms:
Magic Broom
Swift Magic Broom
Flying Broom
Swift Flying Broom

Additional Update (Tues. afternoon): Blue post clarifies that the Horseman won't show up until the 18th.