Swift Flight Form

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Swift Flight Form
Swift Flight Form Instant cast 13% of Base Mana Shapeshift into swift flight form, increasing movement speed by 280% and allowing you to fly. Cannot use in combat. Can only use this form in Outland or Northrend. The act of shapeshifting frees the caster of Polymorph and Movement Impairing effects.
Usable by
Class	Druid
Properties
Type	Utility
School	Physical
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Talents
Improvement talents	Natural Shapeshifter
Other information
Ranks	1
Requirements	Riding 300, quest chain
Related buff
Swift Flight Form Immune to Polymorph effects. Movement speed increased by 280% and allows you to fly.

Swift Flight Form is a Druid shapeshifting ability that increases flight speed by 280%.

Patch 3.0.3 has made it trainable from druid trainers at level 71. Learning it through the quest chain only requires level 70.

Quest

The quest chain to get Swift Flight Form requires Riding 300 to begin, and starts with the quest Morthis Whisperwing from Loganaar, the druid trainer in Moonglade. honored reputation with the Lower City faction is required to enter (heroic) Sethekk Halls, a requirement for completing one of the last quests in the chain.

This full quest line for the Druid Swift Flight Form.

After you have defeated Anzu, you can talk to Morthis Whisperwing again to acquire the Essence-Infused Moonstone again, which will be placed in your key ring (not your bags) forever. This will allow you to summon Anzu in Heroic Sethekk Halls any time you like (for an extra badge or a chance to loot the raven mount).

A complete walkthrough is also available.

Completing Vanquish the Raven God is the objective for the Feat of Strength Achievement Swift Flight Form.

Notes

In Patch 3.2 the level requirement for this skill will be lowered to level 70.

When leaving flight form while moving horizontally you keep the speed in that direction (in addition to falling down of course). When dismounting from an epic flight mount one is slowed down. Care should be taken when doing a very fast caster -> epic flight -> caster shift as you pick up the speed instantly and can toss yourself into trouble easily.

If dismounted during the Netherwing revered races, a druid quick on the draw can reshift and get back into the race without losing, something normal mount users cannot do.

Even though the Swift Flight Form is unable to run along the ground, if you fly very close to the ground you will enter ground effect. Your speed will be reduced from 280% to 100% just like the flying mounts. When flying in ground effect you are considered to be on a ground mount, however you can loot, skin or collect herbs or do nearly anything that your character could do with his bare hands, all this without coming out of swift flight form. You can't mine because that involves use of a mining pick which your bird can't use.

This replaces your Flight Form like Dire Bear replaces Bear; if you are in flight form when you hand in the final quest, it is removed from you.

Neither Flight Form nor Swift Flight form are affected by a paladin's Crusader Aura. This is because your character is not actually mounted.

As with Flight Form, typing /mountspecial will cause Swift Flight Form to do a backflip. This can only be used when stationary.

As of Patch 3.0.3, certain items intended to be usable from a flying mount do not work in flight form, unexpectedly causing you to shift out of form and plummet towards the ground. If you are fast enough and high enough, you can recover by switching back to flight form. This has been reported as a bug, and will hopefully be fixed in later patches.