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Grimoire of the Four Winds

Item Level 90
Binds to Battle.net account
Mount (Account-wide)

Use: Teaches you Wisdom of the Four Winds, allowing you to fly in Pandaria. This tome is consumed when read.
Requires Level 85
Requires Riding (225)

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Comment by Dracaan

Hmm...now this is a dissapintment to see :(

Comment by Alimente1

Blizzard taking a page from Wrath of the Lich King? I say good show Blizzard, and to quote Tychus Findlay, "Hell, it's about time!"

Edit: Wowhead has revealed this will be sold in the Black Market Auction House in Nagrand coming next expansion for 10k gold. I wonder if this will be the only way to obtain it... http://www.wowhead.com/news=242148/wowhead-weekly-ep3-twitter-beta-giveaway-bmah-location-found-garrison-buildings-

I'm a sad panda right now...

Comment by KittyGotWet

Step one: Point bag away from home
Step two: Plant feet firmly on ground
Step three: Remove string, from bag, releasing the winds

Seems simple enough.

Comment by RedEnigma

That's great but how about something that lets our other characters learn Cloud Serpent Riding.

Comment by ArtemisMedivh

Ah cool. Flying in panda lands at 85

Comment by Anevara

finally! >.< i never have enough gold for panda flying... hope that's not gonna be in the shop, but for boosted chars or a pretty rare drop. :)

Comment by Steelbloom

Ha ha Chrom laughs at your four winds!

http://youtu.be/Vf6mxdri-gQ

Comment by Eido

Same Model As the previous, now-unavailable, flight book: Tome of Cold Weather Flight, which was used in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion.

Comment by TutorialBlox

MY TAKE ON FLYING (Thustly pulled from my comments on the blue posts about no flying in WoD, I figured I would share em here at a attempt to see how people would vote on the idea.)

I tend to notice that certain parts of the game are completely non-existent ever since flying. You see, there is really no reason to play 60% of this game with over-prominent flying! So basically you raid, do bgs and there is no reason to risk your life for any sort of gain!

BELOW is just my opinion based on facts that are currently accepted by blizzard and many players who tend to agree. Don't blame the player, blame the game! (No pun intended :) )

PVP: World pvp is screwed badly since people shyly sit in the air... you want to be on a pvp server for a reason right? Well come on where is that risk factor? Why else did you choose to be on a pvp server... it's because you want the risk of be attacked AND the ability to defend! It's all in good fun... otherwise please do take kindly to a pve server? I mean to disrespect, but please understand that pvp servers are worthless when it is almost impossible to have any danger through the pvp mechanism!

PVE: Honestly, people have nothing to farm anymore because it is just not worth the time when you can fly to some other place, meaning you won't be given the chance to hunt for something. I think this is a good sign by Blizzard with the "No mounts until the next major patch" because getting items and objects will have some sort of value to make your player better, instead of the "quickly go here and get this easy to grab item" which makes for a pointless game. I mean, shouldn't we have to at the very least have SOME challenge? Oh my god I remember how bad the cataclysm quest experience was, I didn't even feel like I did anything to get those quests done.

SUMMARY: Flying is just a nice perk to have after the content is no longer main-stream, I can't wait to fly, but for now it would just take away the challenge. Trust me it may seem stupid now, but can it really hurt? It is just a game and it isn't like you wont fly at the expansions end, they did mention (you would know if you read the right article!) that we will fly eventually.

Comment by Kalidiar

this item will appear on BMAH Nagrand in 6.0. Initial price : 10 000 gold

Comment by monoroth

This item is obtainable from WoD BMAH located in Nagrand Ring of Blood arena.

The start biding price is set at 10k. As description says it allows lvl 85+ chars to fly in Pandaria which should help with lvling speed.

Comment by pmakaro

At the current price of 10,000g I find it a tad bit over priced, and a year or so too late.

Comment by Shaitan051

Would be worth it if it wasn't consumable.

Comment by PrestoK

That "Mount (Account-wide)" thing has me confused. If I were to buy it I'd still have to buy one for each alt, right? Or does one of it give all my alts the ability to fly in Pandaria once they reach 85? I never bought the WotLK version to see how it works, and now all my alts already know how to fly in Northrend...

Comment by ciaossu

This appeared on the BMAH on my server today (Black Dragonflight - US). It has a start price of 1k gold. Sold by San Redscale.

http://i.imgur.com/p3CMAhc.png

Comment by Kiingz

Currently bugged.

Despite the tooltip stating it requires level 85, as of 6.0.3 (Nov 19th) it will actually say you are not high enough level if you try to use it on a character between 85-89.
Will update this comment when it's fixed.

Comment by MrSeagull

The auction seems to start at 1000 gold. The item is currently bugged, however. The spell that the book teaches still requires level 90.

Comment by nirv

So it isn't clear how this works --

Can you consume this on your level 100 and then all your alts that are 90 will be able to fly in Pandaria? Or is it one tome per alt? It doesn't seem to say anywhere and nobody has explained how it worked exactly. If one tome works for every alt you have and/or create, I'd say it's definitely worth the gold. If one use per alt..... probably not.

Comment by AveryZan

still doesnt work, very frustrating. I have 3 of these. only blue response I have ever seen is this tiny note about how the q and a department has to look into it.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/15538645967

I seriously don't get why this is so complicated. the only point of this book is to give flying in MOP to characters under lvl 90. It is the exact same thing they did in wrath for alts.

I also don't know why blizzard hasn't commented at all on this with a solution or some kind of confirmation on how this is supposed to work. At this rate I am tempted to just request a refund through gms as I have bought 3 of these that do virtually nothing for me. I'll wait a month or two because I want these to work but this is a really poor job on Blizzards end and I am disapointed with them.

Comment by Tyndo

As of Jan 5th 2015

The Grimoire still does not work as intended however I received word from the GMs via a submitted ticket. The fix action for this particular item is almost ready for Live Servers. They mentioned to keep an eye out on future hotfix patch notes. On a side note: They did not perform a work around for the particular toon so hopefully that means it will be sooner than later. Keep faith people, soon your level 85s shall soar through the skies till eventually they hit 90 and are grounded again for the foreseeable future.

Comment by Shaitana

Conversation with GM about the status of this item:

: The Grimoire of the Four Winds, from the BMAH is supposed to give flying in Pandaria to a level 85 character but when trying to use it on my 85 warrior (name) I get the error message "character too low level" (might be paraphrasing)
: Oof, I'd heard of that before actually - I believe that item is still flagged for level 90 if I remember correctly.
: I've heard conflicting reports on whether that's intended or not. Is it just miscoded and should work for level 85s or is it mislabeled and is supposed to only work for 90s?
: I believe it is intended to work for 85 characters (since that would be the entire point of the item honestly >.>
: that was what I thought (and hoped, haha)
: Still looking to see if this is something that is already fixed or not though >.>
: Bah, looks like something that won't be fixed until a proper patch I'm afraid ;.; It sounds like it should work fine once 6.1 hits though
: welp that's unfortunate, good to know though
: It might be fixed before then though, so definitely watch the hotfixes when those pop up!

Comment by Crimelord78

As of today 1/22/215 still not fixed. so i would be guessing 6.1 would be the day they fix it

Comment by JDBABY

This is getting fixed in 6.1
https://twitter.com/nuggsftw/status/557692324642574338

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