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

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

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TINKERFEST ONLY

• Aether Racing: Butcherblock Mountains - begins on the Butcherblock docks
• Aether Racing: Great Divide - begins on Thurgadin Harbor in Great Divide at 1333, -540, 399 Copy
• Aether Racing: Lavastorm - begins on the Lavastorm docks
• Aether Racing: Tenebrous Tangle - begins just inside the zone when arriving by wizard spire

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SPECIAL RACES

• Aether Racing: Thundering Steppes - begins near the docks (only when activated by SOE GMs/CSRs or Volunteer Guides)

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

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TINKERFEST ONLY

• Prefix Title: Sea Hawk - ~87 seconds or less on the Butcherblock Mountains race course
• Prefix Title: Smokin' Ace - 54 seconds or less on the Lavastorm race course
• Prefix Title: Cloud Buster - 158 seconds or less on the Tenebrous Tangle race course
• Prefix Title: Frigid Flier - 119 seconds or less on the Great Divide race course

Butcherblock, Lavastorm or Tenebrous Tangle - NOT yet confirmed for Tinkerfest 2012 (original 12 Days of Velious titles)

• Prefix Title: "Test Pilot" - participation title
• Suffix Title: "Crash Test Dummy" - complete 10 races title. Displays as "Crash Test Dummy Extraordinaire".

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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:

• Gray C.R.A.S.H. Pad
• Blue C.R.A.S.H. Pad
• Green C.R.A.S.H. Pad
• Dark C.R.A.S.H. Pad
• Red C.R.A.S.H. Pad

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

1. Begin by speaking to the Aether Racing Referee near the zone-in.
2. Step on the teleport pad to begin the race. You must dismount first.
3. 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.

Videos

Neriak (Darklight Wood) Course

Players race on unstable gnomish C.R.A.S.H. pads as they compete against each other in Aether races!

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Kelethin (Greater Faydark) Course
Players race on unstable gnomish C.R.A.S.H. pads as they compete against each other in Aether races!

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Gorowyn (Timorous Deep) Course
Players race on unstable gnomish C.R.A.S.H. pads as they compete against each other in Aether races!

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New Halas (Frostfang Sea) Course
Players race on unstable gnomish C.R.A.S.H. pads as they compete against each other in Aether races!

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Commonlands Course
Players race on unstable gnomish C.R.A.S.H. pads as they compete against each other in Aether races!

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Antonica Course
Players race on unstable gnomish C.R.A.S.H. pads as they compete against each other in Aether races!

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Tenebrous Tangle Course
Players race on unstable gnomish C.R.A.S.H. pads as they compete against each other in Aether races!

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Butcherblock Mountains Course
Players race on unstable gnomish C.R.A.S.H. pads as they compete against each other in Aether races!

12 Days of Velious

Introduced as part of the 12 Days of Velious promotion (March 1, 2011), it's hoped that we will see more of the Aether Races with Tinkerfest! ^[2]

Courses
For the 12 Days of Velious promotion, aerial race tracks were erected near the entrances to Butcherblock, Lavastorm and Tenebrous Tangle.

• Aether Racing: Butcherblock Mountains (the most hazardous course)
• Aether Racing: Tenebrous Tangle (the longest course)
• Aether Racing: Lavastorm (the course that requires the most finesse)

Lavastorm Track	Butcherblock Mountains Track	Tenebrous Tangle Track

1. ^ Smokejumper about city festival races on the EQII forums.
2. ^ Smokejumper on the Official Forums

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February 22, 2011