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==How to Race==
 
==How to Race==
*After you get the quest, you must dismount before running over the pad. Once you do, you will be on a temporary hoverpad for the duration of the race race.
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*After you get the quest, you must dismount before running over the pad. Once you do, you will be on a temporary hoverpad for the duration of the race.
 
*A timer will count down (sounds like a clock) and a bell will ring when you can start. "Driving" the hoverpad is the same as using a [[Mounts|flying mount]].
 
*A timer will count down (sounds like a clock) and a bell will ring when you can start. "Driving" the hoverpad is the same as using a [[Mounts|flying mount]].
 
*You'll need to turn, twist, and fly up and down to pass through each ring after they turn green (a glowing light effect).
 
*You'll need to turn, twist, and fly up and down to pass through each ring after they turn green (a glowing light effect).
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*All clouds override each other, so if you go through a storm cloud and directly afterwards through a green cloud it behaves as if you never encountered the storm cloud and vice versa.
 
*All clouds override each other, so if you go through a storm cloud and directly afterwards through a green cloud it behaves as if you never encountered the storm cloud and vice versa.
 
*To get the best times for the titles and to be ranked in the high-score lists you need to study the courses, use the good clouds, avoid the storm clouds and clip the rings.
 
*To get the best times for the titles and to be ranked in the high-score lists you need to study the courses, use the good clouds, avoid the storm clouds and clip the rings.
*You can check your time after the race by clicking on the big gizmo next to the quest giver.
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*You can check your time after the race by clicking on the big gizmo next to the quest giver.
   
 
==Race Introduction and Fan Faire==
 
==Race Introduction and Fan Faire==

Revision as of 05:44, 24 July 2019

How to Race

  • After you get the quest, you must dismount before running over the pad. Once you do, you will be on a temporary hoverpad for the duration of the race.
  • A timer will count down (sounds like a clock) and a bell will ring when you can start. "Driving" the hoverpad is the same as using a flying mount.
  • You'll need to turn, twist, and fly up and down to pass through each ring after they turn green (a glowing light effect).
  • You must pass through the rings in order. As you pass through one a sound will indicate a successful pass-through and it will lose its color and the next one should turn up green. Note that lag can make this tricky and sometimes the next ring updates and turns green slower than you fly.
  • If you miss a ring, slow down and look around for the glowing ring. It may hurt your time, but you can still complete the course. After a few runs, the order (pattern) will be easier to discern.

Tips

  • There are hazardous storm clouds and similar looking Bee Swarms which slow you down considerably.
  • There are also boons that make you go faster looking like green and blue clouds. The difference between green and blue is that the blue clouds disappear once you go through them and make the life of your competitors harder.
  • On a few tracks (Lavastorm and Butcherblock) there are also golden suns which makes you immune to the storm clouds for a short while.
  • All clouds override each other, so if you go through a storm cloud and directly afterwards through a green cloud it behaves as if you never encountered the storm cloud and vice versa.
  • To get the best times for the titles and to be ranked in the high-score lists you need to study the courses, use the good clouds, avoid the storm clouds and clip the rings.
  • You can check your time after the race by clicking on the big gizmo next to the quest giver.

Race Introduction and Fan Faire

  • Aether Racing was introduced as three World Event quests in game to celebrate the discovery of Velious.
  • The originals took place in Butcherblock, Lavastorm, and Teneborous Tangle.
  • At Fan Faire 2011 there was a new race track introduced for the Live quest.
  • Fan Faire added the Great Divide location.
  • All of the above were later combined to form the various tracks that appear during Tinkerfest.

Tinkerfest

During the Tinkerfest live event in mid-July each year, the three original courses plus the course added at Fan Faire in 2011 are available at the same time.

  • Each time a race is completed, it rewards 5 Shiny Tinkerfest Cogs (event currency), as well as the normal pads, and titles.
  • The Achievement Furiously Fast is awarded for completing the races in all four locations during the event.
  • Location-specific titles are awarded for the fast times as listed in the table below. The times vary because the size and difficulty of each track varies by their locations.
Race Location Qualifying Time for Title Title
Aether Racing: Butcherblock Mountains Butcherblock Mountains on the Butcherblock Docks Under 84 seconds Title: Sea Hawk
Aether Racing: Lavastorm Lavastorm on the docks Under 55 seconds Title: Smokin' Ace
Aether Racing: Tenebrous Tangle Tenebrous Tangle near the top of the Hidden Refuge waterfall Under 137 seconds Title: Cloud Buster
Aether Racing: Great Divide Great Divide on the Thurgadin Harbor docks Under 121 seconds Title: Frigid Flier

Races During City Festivals

Starting in April 2011, new tracks appeared.

These still return in the location appropriate to each month's City Festival.

  • The order of the city festivals has changed over the years, but each one runs from the 1st of each month at 12:01 PST through the 8th at 11:59 PST. The festivals alternate between "evil" and "good" aligned cities and happen twice per year as of 2019.
  • Titles are awarded for the fast times as listed in the table below. The times vary because the size and difficulty of each track varies by their locations.

To assure you are traveling to the correct location, consult the in-game Calendar to see which festival is occurring.

Race Location Qualifying Time for Title Title
Aether Racing: Gorowyn Timorous Deep on the Gorowyn docks Under 245 seconds Title: Wind Warden
Aether Racing: Greater Faydark Kelethin, next to the Near Residential Aerie Teleporter Under 95 seconds Title: Bixie Barnstormer
Aether Racing: Neriak Darklight Wood near the entrance to Neriak Under 90 seconds Title: Fearless Flyer
Aether Racing: Antonica Antonica at the Lighthouse Under 135 seconds Title: Bridge Buzzer
Aether Racing: Commonlands Commonlands halfway up the ramp from Fisherman's Dock Under 120 seconds Title: Portal Jumper
Aether Racing: Halas Frostfang Sea on the Erollis Dock Under 105 seconds Title: Snowflake Chaser

Race Rewards

Race rewards have changed somewhat over time, however, as of 2019 they generally reward the following:

  • If they are up for a regular event (not spawned), the event-appropriate currency; either City Tokens or five Shiny Tinkerfest Cogs
  • Title: Test Pilot for completion of one race track
  • Title: Crash Test Dummy Extraordinaire for ten races.
  • For 1-4 races, an Unstable version of the mount that looks like a tinkered hover pad. It blows up on dismount and zoning (e.g. Unstable Blue C.R.A.S.H. Pad). This is a temporary mount that appears in your inventory and that vanishes after a time (possibly 24 hours?). Of interest to anyone with low-level characters: this mount bypasses the typical level restrictions for flying mounts, but you can only also have only one of each color at a given time.
  • Race number 5 rewards a choice of a stable version of the mount that looks identical to the temporary mounts. The stable version will appear in the Mount tab of the Character Sheet and will only hover at the ground level unless you have the appropriate level for flight.

Spawned Event Aether Racing

A less common type of race can appear if the server has a visit from a (Player) Guide, someone from the official, Daybreak-employed Customer Service staff or Community Relations staff.

If such an event occurs it will appear as follows:
This type of event has different rewards from all other races:

The Disks are not like the tinkered-style pads. Instead they are similar in form and function to the Veteran's Elemental Mounts (without particle effects).

History

When the city-fest versions of the races were introduced, the following notes were offered by the developer known as Smokejumper:

So...it turns out that the gnomes are horribly, terribly jealous of the "meat solution" to flying mounts found in Velious and they're working furiously to come up with a tinkering substitution instead. Thus, the debut of "Aether Racing", Tuesday, March 1st 2011!
The tinkerers have cobbled together a rattling, wheezing deathtrap of a flying machine, and they want YOU to test it for them! (They're not stupid enough to test it themselves.) So they've disguised their guinea pig flying program as a set of air racing courses that they've sprinkled throughout Norrath. You can go to either Lavastorm, Butcherblock, or Tenebrous Tangle to join in on the racing action and prizes *are* awarded for good times as incentive for pushing their rattletraps as hard as they'll go.
Race course signup NPCs are close enough to globe or wizard spire zone-in positions that *any* level of character can participate in these races, despite the courses being set in zones that are normally too difficult for some folks.
Come check it out!