Emerald Dream Dragonriding Races (10.2)
The Emerald Dream zone contains 6 different race courses for you to experience with Dragonriding. Below, we will go over the basic and advanced variants of every single course, while offering some tips to reach every gold time as part of the Emerald Dream Racing Completionist: Gold achievement and "Dream Racer" title.
Emerald Dream Dragon Races
Emerald Dream has 6 races; below we will detail some tips and tricks for each race along with a video showing each race completed on Normal, Advanced, Reverse, Challenge and Reverse Challenge difficulties with a gold timer.
Emerald Dream Dragon Races Map
Ysera Invitational
This race is shown as 1 on the map at the top of this page. Alternatively you can use the script below to place an in-game map pin. Simply copy and paste the script below in-game to have a pin added to your world map:
- /script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("24cffffff0024Hworldmap:2200:5910:288024h[24A:Waypoint-MapPin-ChatIcon:13:13:0:024a Ysera Invitational Map Pin]24h24r");
Medal | Timer Normal | Timer Advanced | Timer Reverse | Timer Challenge | Timer Reverse Challenge |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gold | 98 seconds | 87 seconds | 87 seconds | 95 seconds | 97 seconds |
Tips/Tricks
- Flicking for more Speed: This trick can get you the same speed as Whirling Surge but only spend one point of Vigor. Once you have some momentum tilt your camera up, use Skyward Ascent (Spacebar), and tilt your camera back down. This will push all of your upwards momentum forwards and you can maintain this speed for most of the race with Surge Forward.
- Challenge Tips: Preserve your Vigor. For any downward areas of the races just glide down and focus on spending Vigor when you are ascending or you have more than 2 Vigor.
Normal Race Video with Gold Timer
Advanced Race Video with Gold Timer
Reverse Race Video with Gold Timer
Challenge Race Video with Gold Timer
Reverse Challenge Race Video with Gold Timer
Smoldering Sprint
This race is shown as 2 on the map at the top of this page. Alternatively you can use the script below to place an in-game map pin. Simply copy and paste the script below in-game to have a pin added to your world map:
- /script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("24cffffff0024Hworldmap:2200:3720.0000000000005:441024h[24A:Waypoint-MapPin-ChatIcon:13:13:0:024a Smoldering Sprint Map Pin]24h24r");
Medal | Timer Normal | Timer Advanced | Timer Reverse | Timer Challenge | Timer Reverse Challenge |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gold | 80 seconds | 73 seconds | 73 seconds | 79 seconds | 80 seconds |
Tips/Tricks
- Flicking for more Speed: This trick can get you the same speed as Whirling Surge but only spend one point of Vigor. Once you have some momentum tilt your camera up, use Skyward Ascent (Spacebar), and tilt your camera back down. This will push all of your upwards momentum forwards and you can maintain this speed for most of the race with Surge Forward.
- Reverse Only:There is a point near the end of the race where you are racing close to the floor, avoid following the line to the next ring too closely here as you may accidentally hit the ground.
- Challenge Tips: Preserve your Vigor. For any downward areas of the races just glide down and focus on spending Vigor when you are ascending or you have more than 2 Vigor.
Normal Race Video with Gold Timer
Advanced Race Video with Gold Timer
Reverse Race Video with Gold Timer
Challenge Race Video with Gold Timer
Reverse Challenge Race Video with Gold Timer
Emerald Amble
This race is shown as 3 on the map at the top of this page. Alternatively you can use the script below to place an in-game map pin. Simply copy and paste the script below in-game to have a pin added to your world map:
- /script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("24cffffff0024Hworldmap:2200:3229.9999999999995:482024h[24A:Waypoint-MapPin-ChatIcon:13:13:0:024a Emerald Amble Map Pin]24h24r");
Medal | Timer Normal | Timer Advanced | Timer Reverse | Timer Challenge | Timer Reverse Challenge |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gold | 84 seconds | 70 seconds | 70 seconds | 73 seconds | 73 seconds |
Tips/Tricks
- A large portion of this race is close to the ground. Take advantage of this with Swift Skimming (new talent in 10.2) as you will regenerate Vigor faster even if you are already in Thrill of the Skies (blue glow around your mount).
- Flicking for more Speed: This trick can get you the same speed as Whirling Surge but only spend one point of Vigor. Once you have some momentum tilt your camera up, use Skyward Ascent (Spacebar), and tilt your camera back down. This will push all of your upwards momentum forwards and you can maintain this speed for most of the race with Surge Forward.
- Advanced, Reverse and Challenge: You can Surge Forward through the Arcane Orbs and not be stunned.
- Reverse Only:There is a point near the end of the race where you are racing close to the floor, avoid following the line to the next ring too closely here as you may accidentally hit the ground.
- Challenge Tips: Preserve your Vigor. For any downward areas of the races just glide down and focus on spending Vigor when you are ascending or you have more than 2 Vigor.
Normal Race Video with Gold Timer
Advanced Race Video with Gold Timer
Reverse Race Video with Gold Timer
Challenge Race Video with Gold Timer
Reverse Challenge Race Video with Gold Timer
Viridescent Venture
This race is shown as 4 on the map at the top of this page. Alternatively you can use the script below to place an in-game map pin. Simply copy and paste the script below in-game to have a pin added to your world map:
- /script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("24cffffff0024Hworldmap:2200:3510:552024h[24A:Waypoint-MapPin-ChatIcon:13:13:0:024a Viridescent Venture Map Pin]24h24r");
Medal | Timer Normal | Timer Advanced | Timer Reverse | Timer Challenge | Timer Reverse Challenge |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gold | 78 seconds | 64 seconds | 64 seconds | 73 seconds | 73 seconds |
Tips/Tricks
- This race is through a dense forest. It can be very easy to accidentally hit a tree and lose all of your momentum. For the regular race this isn't that big of a deal (as shown in the video), but for other difficulties, you may want to restart if this happens.
- There are multiple moments in the race where you cannot clearly see where the next ring will be due to the foliage covering the indicator line. Be prepared to do some quick turns if this is your first time.
- Flicking for more Speed: This trick can get you the same speed as Whirling Surge but only spend one point of Vigor. Once you have some momentum tilt your camera up, use Skyward Ascent (Spacebar), and tilt your camera back down. This will push all of your upwards momentum forwards and you can maintain this speed for most of the race with Surge Forward.
- Challenge Tips: Preserve your Vigor. For any downward areas of the races just glide down and focus on spending Vigor when you are ascending or you have more than 2 Vigor.
Normal Race Video with Gold Timer
Advanced Race Video with Gold Timer
Reverse Race Video with Gold Timer
Challenge Race Video with Gold Timer
Reverse Challenge Race Video with Gold Timer
Canopy Concours
This race is shown as 5 on the map at the top of this page. Alternatively you can use the script below to place an in-game map pin. Simply copy and paste the script below in-game to have a pin added to your world map:
- /script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("24cffffff0024Hworldmap:2200:6280:881024h[24A:Waypoint-MapPin-ChatIcon:13:13:0:024a Canopy Concours Map Pin]24h24r");
Medal | Timer Normal | Timer Advanced | Timer Reverse | Timer Challenge | Timer Reverse Challenge |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gold | 105 seconds | 93 seconds | 96 seconds | 105 seconds | 105 seconds |
Tips/Tricks
- Flicking for more Speed: This trick can get you the same speed as Whirling Surge but only spend one point of Vigor. Once you have some momentum tilt your camera up, use Skyward Ascent (Spacebar), and tilt your camera back down. This will push all of your upwards momentum forwards and you can maintain this speed for most of the race with Surge Forward.
- Challenge Tips: Preserve your Vigor. For any downward areas of the races just glide down and focus on spending Vigor when you are ascending or you have more than 2 Vigor.
- Challenge Tips: When you are ascending the big tree, ensure you have at least 2 Vigor for this period. Any less than this and you may run out partway through the climb.
Normal Race Video with Gold Timer
Advanced Race Video with Gold Timer
Reverse Race Video with Gold Timer
Challenge Race Video with Gold Timer
Reverse Challenge Race Video with Gold Timer
Shoreline Switchback
This race is shown as 6 on the map at the top of this page. Alternatively you can use the script below to place an in-game map pin. Simply copy and paste the script below in-game to have a pin added to your world map:
- /script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("24cffffff0024Hworldmap:2200:6959.999999999999:526024h[24A:Waypoint-MapPin-ChatIcon:13:13:0:024a Shoreline Switchback Map Pin]24h24r");
Medal | Timer Normal | Timer Advanced | Timer Reverse | Timer Challenge | Timer Reverse Challenge |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gold | 73 seconds | 63 seconds | 62 seconds | 70 seconds | 70 seconds |
Tips/Tricks
- Flicking for more Speed: This trick can get you the same speed as Whirling Surge but only spend one point of Vigor. Once you have some momentum tilt your camera up, use Skyward Ascent (Spacebar), and tilt your camera back down. This will push all of your upwards momentum forwards and you can maintain this speed for most of the race with Surge Forward.
- Challenge Tips: Preserve your Vigor. For any downward areas of the races just glide down and focus on spending Vigor when you are ascending or you have more than 2 Vigor.
Normal Race Video with Gold Timer
Advanced Race Video with Gold Timer
Reverse Race Video with Gold Timer
Challenge Race Video with Gold Timer
Reverse Challenge Race Video with Gold Timer
Other Dragon Racing Guides
Emerald Dream only contains a fraction of the overall courses available as part of Dragon Racing. If you would like to learn more about the other zones' courses or about Dragon Racing's rewards, see our other guides below!
Changelog
- 14 Nov. 2023: Guide created.
This guide has been written by Panthea, who raids in Catalyst and is the author of TankNotes. He plays all tanks and is a Moderator for the Hammer of Wrath Paladin Discord. You can follow him on Twitter.
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