tbc-classic Fly Without a Mount, Cast Spells, Even in Instances on BCC PTR!

[Starym 3,779]

 

There's a very interesting and potentially very fun bug on the Burning Crusade Classic PTR right now, as players can actually fly around without a mount - but also have full character functionality, as in casting spells, using abilities, everything - and it even works in instances! That's right, you can just permanently fly as if you were in the zero gravity Kael'thas phase of his Tempest Keep encounter, and it's really easy to pull off too!

While this is going to be fixed soon, it's a pretty cool thing to go and have some fun with, as that's exactly what the PTR is for! Here's how, as noted by Saurone over on the EU PTR forums:

Use a flying mount in Shattrath. Go near a portal in center of Shattrath. Fly in air near portal untill your cursor is yellow. Click a single time (right click) on portal. After loading screen, you can still fly.

There's so much to potentially see when this is taken into dungeons and raids, and it could be a really fun afternoon of exploration while it still works! And while this is a a lot of fun it's still a very serious bug and hopefully this will bring more attention to it as well. Here's the bug in action below, inside an instance, as you can't currently get to Lady Vashj because of the bridge not working, but players found a way around that (or in this case, over):

Source.

[Draketh 86]

[Vince 13]

There was a time, something similar was possible, I did back in Nagrand around the arena. It was something about duelling on a mount underwater. After that you could swim in the air, and cast.

[Jeverage 2]

Would've been nice to be warned that the clipped stream archive would hit me with an ableist slur like a minute in.