Long story short, your alts can now fly in Northrend at Lv68 if you so desire. There’s a bind on account heirloom book that teaches the cold weather flying passive ability. Couple that with the mount training changes coming in 3.2 and you’re good to go. Enjoy.
Just to confirm, Tome of Cold Weather Flight is actually a new heirloom item planned to go into patch 3.2. At level 80 players can buy this heirloom item from the Cold Weather Flying Trainer in Dalaran for 1,000 gold and send it to an alt of the same realm, faction and account. The tome can be used to learn Cold Weather Flying at level 68, consuming the tome in the process.
Please note this feature is not yet in the newest version of the public test realm patch notes updated today. The item and its functionality are subject to change during the testing process.
hey, i like this change. too bad i can’t mail these tomes across servers, but a nice change anyway.
With all the changes to XP, mounts, and flying — hell, I might even level an alt!
Mark, i’m already doing so in prep.
I’ve always wanted to play a rogue.
Ironically — my bank alt is a rogue, and I was toying with leveling it. =)
Awesome. My Shammy has halted at level 71 … now that he can fly, I might ramp him up again.
wa wa wee wa, king of da castle, king of da castle