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Comment by Lazey

For Zalethgos's race you'll see these abilities in your vehicle interface:

Blink Boost
Arcane Acceleration
Accelerated Restoration

Up to PTR Build 10.1.5.50355, I got disconnected a lot when I was using Blink Boost. When I logged back in, I found my character stranded in Suramar (looks like this has been hotfixed, relogs from within races now end up in 1-2 loading screens and I find myself in Valdrakken or in the zone with vehicle interface). So I couldn't really try for good timings here and was just doing slow and save runs without it. At least we no longer temporarily lose the vehicle interface when passing specific WQ trigger zones in Suramar.

A note for Arcane Acceleration: As long as you have this buff active, it will constantly boost your speed up to 714% (that's what a Dragonriding Weakaura tells me). That seems to be some sort of cap for your whelp in this race even while descending (only Blink Boost and gale winds will make you faster for a short moment). This also means that you won''t see any speed boost when you're already at this pace, which may feel a bit weird.

Comment by Beace

Yeah this is awful with the disconnects.. Race is completeable without blinking, just as Sambu mentions you might have to time your 2nd ability a bit. You're not gonna get Gold without blink though (not that this seems to have any effect atm?).

Comment by grorge

To get gold (with disconnect bug), put the camera in first person, just use blink when you are as straight as possible (I used guidelines to guide me), and use it when the next goal is on top of you to get a speed bonus. I got gold with 99.2 seconds, just 0.8 seconds away from silver. Thanks Blizz.

Comment by TheiaDarkHeart

Okay, so good grief. I've tried everything from going to my class hall to dismiss my bodyguard to disabling all addons to trying it on a fresh install on a different computer with absolutely no change. I tried grorge's suggestion of putting the camera into first person. That worked the first two times I used Blink Boost, but disconnected on the third use. What I found works best, but by no means prevents all disconnects, is enable the motion sickness settings to:

Motion Sickness - Keep Character Centered and Reduce Camera Motion
Dragonriding Motion Sickness - Darkening and Circle
Dragon Riding Speed Effects - Uncheck
Camera Shake - None

Put the camera into first person and start the quest. If you are in a straight stretch and not gaining or losing altitude when you use Blink Boost, you're less likely to get disconnected. And as Sambu suggested, time Arcane Acceleration so you use it before you gain altitude for a higher ring. This helps a lot. It's not perfect, but it got me Silver (I was shy of getting gold by 0.4 seconds).

Comment by Basesqt

Another badly designed quest from blizzard. Just press 2 and 3, never use blink. Keep an eye to have momentum and you'll eventually finish this awful quest.

Comment by Gwez

How to avoid the disconnects

During this quest it's extremely probable that you will get disconnected, this happens because of a cheating protection which should have been disabled/patched for this event. While it is possible to complete the race just soaring without blinking, it's extremely difficult to obtain gold.

tl;dr
Blink moving horizontally and not when changing zone area.

The game client controls the movement of your character, and every several frames (not every one) syncs with the server. Based on the direction and speed of your character the server has a range of possible locations you can be in the next sync.
The blink ability executes horizontally, no matter if you're previously moving up or down. If you're moving up or down the server expects to be higher or lower in the next sync but actually you appear at a different height and way ahead. The distance where you are is too far away from what the server accepts as normal so assumes you are cheating and kicks you.
A similar situation happens when you zone in a different subzone. Suramar has several layers for phasing and although seamless for the players when moving normally, you're actually entering a new instance. When you enter this subzone but blink thought it, you'll appear quite far away from its border, the server expects you to enter near the border and again assumes you are cheating.
So, in summary, try to blink as horizonal as possible and avoid doing it in some key points you will notice when changing zone name and you would probably do it in a handful of tries.

Comment by sniperorc

This quest is something else.

I noticed another delightful effect: sometimes, if you blink too close to a surface below you, you don't blink in the direction you're looking or even directly horizontal. You blink down to the surface, landing you and wrecking the run (since the whelp can't take off like a dragonriding mount would).

It's absurd that there are so many unobvious and almost unavoidable ways to fail, and you have to study it harder than a mythic raid encounter to have any hope of scoring well.

Comment by AdenAndrews

GOLD is possible w/ disconnection issues (submitted screenshot for proof) When you start 5..4..3..2.. (hit the #2 button when the countdown hits 1 so your boost is already starting when you jump off the ledge) 1... You CAN'T fly upwards with blink. Only active #2 will help you climb. So , try to use blink only when traveling horizontal. I don't use BLINK until after the 4th or 5th ring (right before the 1st whirlwind). Once you hit the whirlwind boost, there is no point in hitting any buttons. Take advantage of the whirlwind boost. After, I hit the BLINK once, then wait 1 second and hit BLINK again bypassing the tornado. AVOID all tornados. You will need to hit #2 to make the uphill climb. If you have 1 vigor left and you are able to hit #3 reset DO IT. too many times I run out of vigor and can't reset. GAME OVER!. As long as you see a trail of stars, you will be able to do steep climbs. the long stretches of space i hit BLINK twice otherwise just activate #2 as often as possible. I think I had to reset all the vigor 3 times. after death a bunch of 109s, I hit 2 silvers, and then finally Gold 99.83. I think a lot was luck. I disconnected about 15 times. Good luck

Comment by Nnyco

I noticed that if you dont hold right click while blinking it doesnt dc you.

Hope that helps.

Comment by landohitman

It seems like this daily needed a little more time in the oven...

Comment by Madmartigan666

Oh, great. This quest was up the other day but I didn't end up completing it because I kept getting disconnected and eventually had to go.
Realizing now it's the last one I need for the achievement.
Just lovely...

Comment by Buclock

Trying to finish this quest made me want to unsub. Crazy that I'm paying a monthly fee to play an unfinished product...

Comment by Dontcarebear

garbage daily, fml man, disconnects, using teleport when slighty moving camera upwards blinks you way lower and slows you down. Absolute garbage daily.

Comment by Sarthorius

Anyone else getting DCed in the middle of the race? Twice in a row here right now. At least one of the achievements only requires that you start these.
As for the daily ones...

Comment by boogg

Dragonflight is the most buggy disconnection fest of all wow expansions ever. Press 2 then at the end of the buff press 3 and fill with 1 to go in a straight line, (dont right click or you will DC).

Comment by Pegasi195

Good news, haven't run into any DCs! Bad news, it's because the 'you've stopped moving' effect kicks on loading in and I don't even make past the race's countdown before being booted back to valdrakken!

Comment by DCCXVIII

There is no achieve for getting gold for any of these races.

Comment by jamesoliff

I managed a time of 1.06 without using blink. I was only ever disconnecting when I used that ability.

Comment by Paxford

Good news is that to get the Achievement Whelp! There it is - you just need to finish this race

So don't use BLINK - use Arcane Acceleration & Accelerated Restoration on cool downs.

Yes it's a slower race but you don't disconnect. Good luck!

Comment by Shivrael

Fun thing I learned is that if you glitch and crash, it will keep the quest in your log, but kick you to Valdrakken.

If you drop the quest anywhere in the known universe from there it ports you back to the daycare center.

Have fun with that knowledge.

Comment by marvel32x2

I don't disconnect in this race anymore, here's how:

The trick with blinking is to make sure your whelp is positioned forward on a straight, even plane with the ground (i.e. parallel with the X-axis). You'll notice that whenever you blink forward, the whelp re-aligns itself with the X-axis plane. Attempting to blink while nosing up or down causes disconnects, whether or not you are holding down right-click.

So this just means you should not blink whenever you are nosing up or down. Only blink when moving straight-forward and you won't disconnect. You can definitely blink while holding down right-click so long as you're keeping the whelp on the straight line. I was able to hit a 92 second gold time (not that it seems to mean anything at the moment).

Comment by SargerasWasRight

Who ever designed this quest doesn't just not deserve to work for Blizzard, they don't deserve to live in the real world with the rest of functioning society. Please, put the person responsible into a mental ward where they belong.

Comment by Frankyice

Imagine all the content that didn't get made because they were designing 5 different flying mechanics, all of which are terrible. RIP 10.3...

Comment by MouseD

Read here about not using Blink and got it done first try by not using blink...just keep steady pace using 2 and 3 and boom got it done.....

Comment by Medlir

We're up to 10.2.5 now, and you can still easily disconnect yourself on this quest. I seemed to trigger it NOT while using blink, but while using the second acceleration ability... though not sure if I was holding right button at the time or not... good times. Edit: Did finally complete it after 3 tries, using all 3 abilities, just making sure not to hold right-button while using ANY of them.

Comment by Silvansaria

Did this today...

Immediately used BLINK, then 2, then kept blinking until it basically ran out. Hit 3, did it all again... The only thing that stopped me from getting gold is because I ran into one of the upward funnels...

Never once had any problems, no disconnections.

Comment by Abyss198107

I've been waiting for this quest to pop to complete the achievement Whelp, There It Is and Daycare Derby for the Meta A World Awoken. As soon as i accept the quest there is a legion loading screen and then it goes back to the dragonflight loading screen and i appear in Valdrakken again. The achieve daycare derby achievement popped but not whelp, there it is! I've disabled addons, restarted, cleared cache, help!

I'll log a ticket and see if that helps.

P.S. A side note my character is a mage. I even tried turning on Arcane Momentum as someone suggested. Still nothing.

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Zaleth on the Go

Help Zalthgos glide through the rings.

	Start the Race at Celetiros and Complete It (1)

Provided item:

	Silver Timepiece (1)

Description

Blue whelps will try to skip ahead where they can, but be careful blinking through rings! [Blink Boost]: Blink forward and dash. [Arcane Acceleration]: Increases forward acceleration. [Accelerated Restoration]: Consumes Arcane Acceleration and restores Vigor.

Progress

Completion

Rewards

You will receive:

	Battle Pet Bandage		Beast Battle-Training Stone
	Humanoid Battle-Training Stone		Mechanical Battle-Training Stone
	Flightstones

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(74490))