When a few days ago the Phase 2 content of WoW: Burning Crusade Classic landed on the public test server, I of course immediately went with my characters to the PTR version of Outland to run through the various merchants for you and check out some details.

The first surprise was not a feature, but a funny bug: When I stepped through the portal from Shattrath towards Orgrimmar, I could suddenly swim through the air – similar to the gravity loss phase in the fight against Kael’thas. So I swam towards the zeppelin because I wanted to stop by the merchants of Karazhan, parked myself on the wrong airship lost in thought, only to realize that at the last moment and swim onto the right zeppelin while still flying away. No gravity ftw!

As funny as this bug sounds, it would of course have a critical impact on the live servers. We notice that already now, because the numerous bots with their flying hacks Just bypass all the dangerous groups in dungeons. Skip all the bosses in the snake shrine and swim straight to Vashj? That would no longer be a problem.

On top of that, players on the PTR quickly figured out how to specifically trigger the bug: Simply approach a portal on a flight mount in Shattrath and then click that very portal in the air.