Want to Ride My Rocket?

The title is only halfway true. It isn't my rocket, but well, Booty Bay's own Landro Longshot's rocket. It's his big red rocket that can take you straight to cloud nine if you hold on tight.

With the upcoming WoW: Trading Card Game we will be able to get our hands on the very rare X-51 Nether-Rocket. It will be available next expansion come March called Servants of the Betrayer. With this set of WoW trading cards, there is in total three types of loot cards: The aforementioned (very rare) rocket, a personalized weather-making machine and biscuits for your novelty pets. Another big change is that ALL booster packs will now feature some loot card.

The X-51 Nether-Rocket will be the rarest of the three, and you will be able to purchase both a +60% speed flying rocket as well as an +280% speed one. It will (of course) only be usable in Outland and Northrend, but will naturally be quite a sight.

The less rare, but still not common, loot card will be the Personalized Weather-Making Machine. An in-inventory clickable item, the weather-maker will generate a personalized weather graphic that appears over the user’s head. The card game artwork will give a hint on it's uses.

"The weather-maker will generate a number of different weather graphics, from sunbeams to thunderstorms. Wherever you go in Azeroth, the weather will be yours to command."

The thrid loot card will be "super-common Loot™", and give you the possibility of having the cool loot from the trading card game to all your characters. The biscuit will transform your novelty pet to about the size of a hunter's pet. Finally my Panda Cub will look like a proper panda bear! The only crux is that the loot you claim from Landro Longshot is consumable, so you can only use them a limited amount of times. Cooldown or duration is unknown.

Thanks AnnaMaria for the information!

You can read more about the trading card game here, the super-common loot cards here, and the weathermaker as well as the big red rocket here.

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Comments

Kalos

223 days ago

I could think of only one thing from the moment I heard about this thread

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzrKl...eature=related

Rocket man

Proverbs

222 days ago

So are you saying there will be a flying rocket mount? that's awesome.

Valas Azuviir

222 days ago

For some reason I'm reminded of this little gem as well..

ZaxGreia

222 days ago

I've been a big fan of the WoW:TCG, but I'm getting a bit jaded. Many of the loot items are silly at best (completely pointless at worst - tabards?!!), the stuff you can get with your UD points cards is mostly pointless or way too expensive (real life grinding?), and with a new expansion every 6 months, my cards don't last long enough to get a couple games together before I have to buy more boosters and rebuild my decks.

By the way, I've collected several hundred cards, and have received 3 loot cards (Hippogryph hatchling, Bananas the gorilla, and Rest and relaxation - sold Bananas and kept the other two). I'm not new to game, as I got my first boosters when the game first launched. Playing it is still fun, but it's hard to keep up - much harder when I'm also playing the online game. Something has to give, and since I don't have any friends nearby with cards, my WoW:TCG decks almost always stay in their box.

Wintrow

222 days ago

If you don't have enough friends to play the game regularly, then why did you buy it? It's like buying wow and complaining it needs an internet connection and you're on a shoddy dial-up...

Leord

220 days ago

Well, I have decks with the original set, and some March of the Legion boosters. I agree that 2 expansions a year is a bit too much for the non-freak TCG player. I think the gameplay is really good, but just too many new cards to be worth it.

Still, with the new loot cards, one could just buy a box of boosters, sell the rare loot cards (or a host of the biscuits) and be left with a lot of cards :)

ZaxGreia

219 days ago

Wintrow - you have to put it in context, and I don't think comparing a TCG to a MMORPG is a very good analogy.

Here's why: I can't go out and pay a group of people $15 a month to play cards with me, or solve the problem with a single connection from my house to the outside world. I was under the (obviously mistaken) impression that I could find a group of people to play with after I practiced the game with my wife. She likes to play too, but I don't get the experience of playing with different people who have different cards. Plus, she's always taking my good cards for her decks... ;)

The Darkmoon Faire in Austin was a bad weekend for me, or I would've had a shot at playing there. The local supplier doesn't host games, and I don't have time or energy to host them myself. It's still a great game, I'm just inundated with new cards and stuff, with very little ability to really enjoy them.