Showing off your mount in Dalaran

Normally, you can't fly in Dalaran. At some point recently (I think in 3.2), the city was marked with the "noflyable" tag, which is nice - originally my macro that selected my ground mount using /cast [noflyable] Horsie didn't work in dalaran (it still doesn't work during a wintergrasp fight, which is annoying). If you fly into Dalaran and fly over the city, you'll get a "forbidden airspace" warning, which gives you 10 seconds before you get knocked off your dragon. Conveniently, you get a parachute. Why you don't get one of those when you're dismounted by a flying attacker, I dunno.

Anyway, there are a number of secret spots in Dalaran. One is right on top of the well in front of the horde bank. The other is just to the side of the stairs up to the Violet Citadel, as I'm showing in the above screenshot. These spots are (for the time being, at least) not marked as forbidden airspace. So you can float there, showing off your mount, for as long as you want. The well by the bank is a particularly good place to go with your Proto-Drakes or whatever. When I got a blue drake for Radish (the second day they were available in Oculus no less), I sat there for a while, to the delight and amusement of all.

Unfortunately, those spots are marked 'noflyable', so you can't *mount* there. But you can mount at the launchpad and fly over the city speedily and end up there. I'm pretty sure there are other spots as well, but I haven't found them all yet. It's also worth noting that the "ceiling" of the no-fly zone seems to be lower than it used to be. You can get pretty close to the ground without tripping the warning.

It's these little things that make WoW so interesting to me. I remember when the only place on a trans-continental boat you could mount was standing on the one deck crate; I would jump up there and mount all the time, for no good reason other than to do it. That and singing about riding a pony on a boat. Anyway, have fun showing off your cool mounts.