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Aether Races (EQ2)

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Courses
Rewards
How to Race
Videos
12 Days of Velious

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. Visit the courses 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.

Smokejumper stated on March 31, 2011 that we can expect an Aether Race at each city festival, and possibly at Tinkerfest as well: ^[1]

	Yup. There will be a new track for each city until we start looping around again. Each city's track will only be available during the City Festival and you can earn festival coins and titles when you race. We might trot them all out at once at Tinkerfest or something, but they'll usually be linked individually to the City Festivals now.

Courses

Antonica Racetrack

Find the gnome next the huge scoreboard, and talk to him to start the quest. Then just step on the teleport pad and you'll be warped to the starting line!

For the City Festivals, the aerial race track will be found in festival zones.

Aether Racing: Antonica - begins next to the lighthouse in Antonica at 351, -9, 810
Aether Racing: Commonlands - begins just up the ramp from the dock in The Commonlands at -929, -108, -692
Aether Racing: Halas - begins on the Erollis Docks in Frostfang Sea at -380, 29, 229
Aether Racing: Gorowyn - begins on the Gorowyn docks of Faydedar Watch in Timorous Deep at 2321, 14, 1399
Aether Racing: Greater Faydark - begins near the Kelethin world bell in Greater Faydark at 430, 92, 175
Aether Racing: Neriak - begins near Neriak in Darklight Wood at -577, -55, -88

FAN FAIRE 2011 ONLY Aether Racing: Great Divide - begins on Thurgadin Harbor in Great Divide at 1333, -540, 399

This course was temporarily available prior to Fan Faire 2011 for practice from June 6 - 9.

Rewards

Each zone has an unique title for competing the course quickly.

Prefix Title: Bridge Buzzer - 134 seconds or less on the Antonica (Qeynos) race course
Prefix Title: Portal Jumper - 119 seconds or less on the Commonlands (Freeport) race course
Prefix Title: Snowflake Chaser - 104 seconds or less on the Frostfang Sea (New Halas) race course (originally set to 90 seconds, was changed in the 6/2/2011 update)
Prefix Title: Wind Warden - 244 seconds or less on the Timorous Deep (Gorowyn) race course
Prefix Title: Bixie Barnstormer - ~94 seconds or less on the Greater Faydark (Kelethin) race course
Prefix Title: Fearless Flyer - 89 seconds or less on the Darklight Wood (Neriak) race course

Repeat a course five times and you earn a permanent mount that has 25% ground speed and will work as an appearance flying mount if you have completed a flying mount quest series. Your choice of:

You can choose one per race course after the 5 repetitions!

If you happen to catch a volunteer guide near a racetrack on your server, talk to them, run the race and tell them all about your racing experience! You just might be lucky enough to be rewarded:

Purple C.R.A.S.H. Pad

How to Race

Begin by speaking to the Aether Racing Referee near the zone-in.
Step on the teleport pad to begin the race. You must dismount first.
Complete the course as quickly as possible! This may take several runs to master.

Hazards and Power-Ups

Steer like you would swimming: use your number pad, arrow keys, or mouse.
If you crash, press the spacebar to take off again.

NOTE: For some players this is the "home" key instead. Check your key bindings to see what the "Move Up" key is bound to.

If you land in water or lava you'll need to get to solid ground before you can take off again.
The "twisters" with red lightening sap your engine power.
The insect tornados will blur your vision, making you see four of everything. (Timorous Deep course)
The bixie clouds will splatter your screen with green bug guts and slow you down for a brief time. (Greater Faydark course)
The skull clouds will slow you down for a brief time. (Darklight Wood course)
The green gas clouds give you a turbo boost of power.
The blue gas clouds are the same as the green, except they are single-use and will disappear.
The golden cloud with the blue halo removes all the twisters.