Plainsrunning
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Increases your running speed. The longer you run the faster you go up to a maximum speed. You cannot use plainsrunning in combat, underwater, or indoors. Increases movement speed.
Plainsrunning was an ability that was only available to Tauren players. Originally, the Tauren did not have a mount, so when a Tauren player reached level 40, they spoke to Saern Priderunner on the Hunter Rise of Thunder Bluff. The Plainsrunning ability itself was an aura with similar limitations to the mounts, but operated slightly differently. Plainsrunning was removed in patch 1.1 and Kodos became the Tauren racial mounts.
According to a post on Wowhead:
| “ | A skill that was never meant to be... It originally was a buff that Tauren got at 40. They would run for 10 seconds and it would kick in, it's maximum speed being as fast as a Mount. They got a new version of the skill that would make them go as quickly as an Epic Mount at 60. It existed only during the Beta version of the game.
Of course, it was removed due to problems, which included: The fact that Mounts were a 3 second cast time, and lasted until dazed. Players don't dismount due to standing still. However, it wasn't like this for Tauren. It took the full ten seconds to gain the speed every time, and it would go away whenever HIT (Or possibly just going into combat could remove it). Also, if the player stopped moving, the buff would go away and it would be ten seconds to reapply it. Those limitations were designed to make sure Tauren wouldn't run circles around others in PvP, but they clearly showed to be far inferior to a normal Mount, and more or less impossible to balance. And as a final slap, it would sometimes kick in at the worst possible moment, causing unwanted body pulls. | ” |
