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Comment by Ormriss

With the various addons for switching out gear (such a Titan Panel's built-in Rider, or Wardrobe), there's no reason to not get this sweet trinket. Combined with Mithril Spurs on boots and a Mount Speed Increase enchant on gloves, you'll zoom around, even more so with an epic mount.

Comment by 8271

Dude I loved this trinket when i had all these mount enchants. I zoomed around in my lvl 40 mount! I loved it i went 80% faster i believe! I love WoW and I love using this.

Comment by 7901

Obtained by finishing the Gahz'rilla quest, which you find in the Shimmering Flats. at the Raceway.

You need the mallet of Zul'Farrak to summon Gahz'rilla. but other then that the fight is extremely easy. Watch out for the flinging into the air, as it can hurt alot coming down!.

Bring the Electrified Scale back to the gnome at the Raceway and congratulations at your carrot on the stick.

Helps people with 40 mounts close the gap a bit between the 60 epic mounts.
3% increase to mounted speed, and some mithril spurs and riding glove enchant and you'll move noticably faster. Enjoy!

Comment by 8004

This trinket is definitely worth getting. Although 3% may seem very small, it makes the difference in saving a lot of time =)

Comment by 8159

Just to add to the goody goodness of this little trinket. This counts for all mounts. Including Gryphons. You might not think that is so great but have you ever had to fly from Eastern Plauge lands to Booty Bay? It takes forever I think this thing took like 2 mins off the flight time for me.

Comment by 8474

This quest is pretty easy. Took me a little while to get it. The trinket can give you a bit of a advantage at times when you may be try to get away from someone else on a mount. It also helps speed up your flight path, but by very little.

Comment by 17627

Does it work on flying mount? ;)

Comment by 21239

Is there any way to repeat this quest to get the trinket if you accidentally got rid of it?

Comment by Thottbot

Yes, carrot on a stick does make you faster. I ahd somebody set on follow and after a short period of time I was outrunning them. 3% adds up a wee bit for long distance travels.

Comment by Thottbot

To clear everything up:

Mounted:
Mithril Spurs 8%
Minor Mount speed Increase 4%
Carrot on a stick 3%

The reason I can prove this is from an AddOn called Monkeyspeed downloadable http://www.curse-gaming.com/mod.php?addid=234. All it does is show your speed as a %.

Posted by: killswitch1968 <Penumbra>
Carrot: 5%
Riding Enchant: 3%
Spurs: 7%

They stack for 15% overall.(##RESPBREAK##)908##DELIM##Uchur##DELIM##

Comment by Thottbot

This quest is easy.

1. Go to Hinterlands and kill Qiaga the Keeper at Altar of Zul for the Sacred Mallet. She was 50 ish and pretty easy.

2. Go to Jintha'Alor (also in Hinterlands) and climb to the top. Follow the paved trail and take any stairs up that you find. Once you hit the top floor go to the left and follow the trail to the amphitheatre. There is an altar there with a quest guy flopped on it. You don't even have to kill the named priestess that is in the ampitheatre because she paths inside a cave there... So just wait for her to leave and run up to the alter and right click your Sacred Mallet, and you will receive the Mallet of Zul'Farrak.

3. Go to the Shimmering Flats and find Wizzle Brassbolts at 77,77. He will give you the quest for ZF instance and Gahz'rilla.

4. Go to ZF instance. Hang nothing but lefts until you reach a large open area with a big swimming pool in the middle and a gong at one end of it. You right click this gong and your hammer will smack it and summon Gahz'rilla. He was 46 ish for us and wasn't terribly hard. He does knockback, so clear as much of the room as you can for safety reasons. Loot Gahz'rilla's Electrified Scale off of him and return to Wizzle Brassbolts.

The hardest pull in ZF is a 5 pull (in the room with the pool), but most are 3 ish. Have a mage and a group that isn't retarded, and it's a breeze.

Once you get your carrot bank your completed hammer. Anytime somebody wants to do the quest in the future, it should be possible to have them just get the quest from Wizzle and go to ZF with them. Spawn the named, kill, and let them return to Wizzle. Only one person in each group needs the hammer and everybody can receive Gahz'rilla's Electrified Scale.

Vist http://www.calloffate.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=32423&PN;=1 for good maps of everything.

Comment by Thottbot

Well, I have the Mithril Spurs, and I just got the carrot last night, and this is what I observed:

Default speed on mount: 160%
Mount speed w/spurs: 166-167% (varied)
Mount speed w/spurs and Carrot: 171-172%

I haven't found someone to do the glove enchant yet.

I'll continue testing and see what I find.

Comment by Thottbot

I completed this quest yesterday.

The Hinterlands parts were an easy solo with my 60 rogue. Stealthed in to kill the first named priest, sapped her partner.

Second part of making the hammer was easy to, made the hammer while stealthed at the alter. Vanished when done.

Gahz'rilla in Zul'Furak though, this guy is tough.
I died 3 times, but was able to do it in the end.

It's easy to get to him stealthed, using Atlas.
First of all, kill all the roamers around the pool area where you summon Gahz or they will get in the way. I learned this the hard way.

He casts several spells, most of which I resisted, and every once in awhile he will throw you up in the air. I had no buffs, and I had to use a healing potion. I survived with 30hp.

I have mostly blue armor, with some greens. I am using a Mass of Mcgowan main hand and a Shadowblade off hand. With about 3500hp and 575 attack power. No resists.

Hope that helps.

Comment by Thottbot

Also the carrot on a stick, spurs and enchant are worth it for 40 mount (riding enchant cost about 5 1/2 gold wich was easily spared.

Get spurs, carrot and enchant if u plan on using ur mount lots.
And lolz, get like lvl 2 gloves and boots for ur +speed so u dont hav 2 spend g after g :D

Callex 41 rogue, Gorgannash, Again :D

Comment by Thottbot

i was just wondering if the carrot stacks with my increased movement speed from paladin talents when i am mounted? if not i may respec my talents and get the boot enchant

thanks

Comment by Thottbot

How much faster?

Gloves	Boots	Carrot	Regular Mount	Epic Mount
OFF	OFF	OFF	60.0%	100.0%
ON	OFF	OFF	63.2%	104.0%
OFF	OFF	ON	64.8%	106.0%
OFF	ON	OFF	66.4%	108.0%
ON	OFF	ON	68.1%	110.1%
ON	ON	OFF	69.7%	112.2%
OFF	ON	ON	71.4%	114.3%
ON	ON	ON	74.8%	118.5%

I hope this might be helpful.
I used TitanSpeed to find the values out.
-Necro

Comment by Thottbot

Never mind, i found the quest for the turtle --- its called Tooga's Quest, and you don't get a carrot :(.

Comment by Thottbot

You pick up the quest from Wizzle Brassbolts in Shimmering Flats to kill Gahz'rilla for the Carrot on a Stick.

Comment by Thottbot

You can, but the abilities don't stack. I think whichever one u equipped first gives the bonus.

Comment by Thottbot

Everybody, and I mean everybody is wrong about the speeds quoted.

The best description is on the Mithril Spurs page by Yoda_of_Borg.

Please do not post stuff if you don't know what you're talking about. Just because you're using monkeyspeed doesn't mean you're right either.

A brief summary taken from the linked page:
Riding Skill Enchant = 2%
Carrot on a Stick = 3%
Mithril Spurs = 4%
Riding Crop = 10%

About riding crop!
If you have the riding crop you need nothing else. Nothing else stacks with it. Riding crop is the fastest and best thing you can have.

Comment by Allakhazam

are you stupid ?

Comment by Allakhazam

I use Carrot on a Stick, mithril spurs, and riding skill enchant on gloves. I use the Monkey Speed addon to tell how fast I'm going, and it always reports a slower speed when I remove any one of the three items.

I can't wait to get a riding crop in a couple of levels. It does NOT stack with anything else, but it is a bit faster than the carrot, spurs, and glove enchant combined. I confirmed this by racing a friend who has the same speed mount as me, but he uses the riding crop. Slowly, but surely, he passed me.

Edited, Mar 28th 2007 4:32pm by WhitePhantom

Comment by Allakhazam

I have tested this also against others with spurs only. You go faster with the spurs + carrot, although it's not a big difference (3% is pretty negligable unless your traveling very far distance)

Comment by Allakhazam

Doesn't stack, not worth it...sits in bank

Comment by Allakhazam

Now, Using the CORRECT %'s from deathzstart's post (I swear, people have no common sense.), I will show you the increase in speed, as that is another argued topic...

Lessay, just for ease, that the running speed of a character is 100. Now, your mount increases your speed by 60%. 60% of 100, is 60. So now, adding together, you go 160. 60% more. 100% increase on an epic mount, meaning 100% of 100, added to 100. 200. You now go the speed 200.

Now you get that damn carrot.

Mount increase is 60%. Carrot makes it 63%. Simple. Epic mount is 100%. Carrot makes is 103%.

63% of 100 (still running speed), is 63. 63 added to 100 is 163. You now go 163. Epic increase is 103%. 103% of 100 is 103. 103 added to 100 is 203. You now go 203.

If you have all the increase gear (well, at least all the ones listed in deathzstart's post, lest there be more), you get a 15% increase. Mount increase is now 75%, as opposed to 60%, and the Epic mount is now a 115% increase. 75% of 100 is 75, and with is you will move at the speed, 175. 115% of 100 is 115. Ba-dum-chhh! You should get it by now.

Don't argue anymore. Everything has been cleared up. Yep, in the last few posts. So stuffit and argue on who needs it more.

Comment by Allakhazam

Anyone know who to talk to or where the quest starts for the HORDE version of this quest?

Comment by Allakhazam

Hate to inform you but it does stack. I have carrot and mithril spurs and did a test with mithril spurs against spurs its the same. With Carrot along it was the same. With both I am a ferrari next to a volkswagon.

Comment by Allakhazam

hehe btw you cant go faster than 100%, epic mount is the fastest and nothing can go over it, mount riding gloves + mithril spurs + carrot dont increase it

Comment by Allakhazam

http://www.curse-gaming.com/mod.php?addid=234
Heres Monkey speed ressurected, a speed-o-meter that WORKS :D

Edited, Thu Oct 13 22:21:51 2005

Comment by Allakhazam

You get the quest from Wizzle Brassbolts in the Shimmering Flats of Thousand Needles at about 78,77 coordinates. The quest is available to both factions and requires level 40 to attain.

Comment by Allakhazam

can u just go to ZF at 40 and get this?

Edited, Tue Feb 14 17:42:54 2006

Comment by Allakhazam

I have the carrot trinket, minor mount speed enchant to gloves, and spurs to boots, and they all stack for about a 15% increase. i have tested this with one person with nothing, one person with one, one person with two, and me with all three using auto follow and there is a noticable difference between all of them.

Comment by Allakhazam

This does not increase the speed of your mount -- this increases the speed of "air mounts" only. So, when you take that griff ride across the world, that 20 min flight from Darkshore to Theramore is now only 19 min 24 seconds!

Ummm... yeah... junk alright...

Comment by Allakhazam

Previous versions of the Cosmos run speed and Telo's Clock mods had a bug which did not calculate run speed correctly.

The correct speeds are:

Regular 160%
Carrot 165%
Spurs 166%
Carrot+Spurs 171%

You can find more info about the fix at the WoW interface forum.

Comment by Allakhazam

I was riding along the side of someone else, both of us were mounted, and I had this equipped but he didn't. Nor did he have spurs attached, but some how he was running the same speed as I was. So I'm wandering if this is bugged or broken as of the latest patch?

Edited, Tue May 3 07:17:29 2005

Comment by Allakhazam

Wow, everybody has their own idea on what % these things are. Like ViolenceJack Scholar, that's all totally wrong, giving people the wrong information! Carrot even says 3% and people say that it's 5, get a brain?

To clear everything up:

Mounted:
Mithril Spurs 8%
Minor Mount speed Increase 4%
Carrot on a stick 3%

Total 15% Increased mount speed.

Monkeyspeed: http://www.curse-gaming.com/mod.php?addid=234

Edited, Mon Oct 31 06:37:27 2005

Comment by Allakhazam

"hehe btw you cant go faster than 100%, epic mount is the fastest and nothing can go over it, mount riding gloves + mithril spurs + carrot dont increase it"

Then how in the hell do you explain me on my epic mount (with carrot on a stick, mith spurs and gloves enchant), easily passing people in AV who are also on epic mounts? LOL doesn't increase it my ass.

Comment by Allakhazam

Get this, enchant a pair of gloves with mount speed increase, and have a blacksmith fit a pair of boots with mithril spurs. Then get yourself a mod that auto-swaps riding skill items as soon as you mount (Titan bar has one). Won't insanely increase your riding speed, but has a definate edge over a rider without these.

Comment by Allakhazam

Does anyone have any idea if the carrot and the boots and the glove enchant do ANYTHING at all to the flying mounts?

Comment by Allakhazam

I just did extensive testing of this item on the same terrain (road in STV). I don't believe that the spurs and the carrot stack. I measured my speed using the gauge listed in the Clock addon (available in Cosmos or as a standalone addon from Telo).

Nothing equipped: 157.14% of run speed
Carrot only equipped: 171.43% of run speed
Boots with spurs only equipped: 171.43% of run speed
Boots with spurs and carrot equipped: 171.43% of run speed

So as you can see, it appears that while the carrot DOES increase mounted speed, it does not appear to stack with mithril spurs, which increase mount speed the same amount. Perhaps this is by design, and there is simply a cap on mounted (non-epic) speed. That is my conclusion, unless the speed increase is just not regisering with the addon.

Comment by Allakhazam

can anyone tell me how and where i start the quest for the epec mount

Comment by Allakhazam

Edited, Sun Apr 9 15:00:01 2006

Comment by Allakhazam

It makes you faster...that's all you need to know!

Comment by Allakhazam

It increased the speed of my mount. I always catch up to people when I auto follow when they don't have this equipped.

Comment by Allakhazam

I finally hit level 69 and started using the Riding Crop. I use MonkeySpeed to tell how fast I am going.

With my previous setup (carrot, riding skill gloves, and spurs) I was going 219% of normal running speed.

With the Riding Crop I now go 220%, so it only makes about 0.5% difference in speed.

Although it doesn't stack with the old riding gear and it's pretty expensive, I really like two advantages of switching to the riding crop.

1: If I get knocked off my mount by a mob, I'm only missing one trinket for the fight instead of having to also use junk riding gloves & boots as well (since my good ones are always equipped now).

2: I save a couple bag slots because I was able to get rid of my old riding gear.

Comment by Allakhazam

Question: Has anyone done any testing to see if this increases for epic mounts?

Regular Mount
(+60% Run Speed) x 3% = (160%) x 3% = 164.8%

Epic Mount
(+100% Run speed) x 3% = (200%) x 3% = 206%

So for an epic mount, it adds 6% increase versus a 4.8% increase. Insignificant, but mathematically, it should add in more for the epic mounts, since it's "+% to MOUNT speed", and not "+% to speed while mounted".

Comment by Allakhazam

I prefer a much better explanation than number-crunching:

It makes you go faster.

Much like a nice go-faster stripe, or decal of a cheeta running.

Edited, Wed Dec 21 19:55:15 2005

Comment by Allakhazam

I have a lvl 46 Troll mage...where can the horde get this quest?

Comment by Allakhazam

on land mounts and it DOES stack with mithril spurs.

Comment by Jaquesante

To actually clear everything up:
The game engine does not round up or down, at all.
Mithril Spurs 4%
Minor Mount speed Increase 2%
Carrot on a Stick 3%

The stack multiplicatively for a total of 174.81984% speed for 60% mount, or 218.5248% for 100% mount.

Comment by Bjornara

Mithril Spurs: 4% mounted speed increase, obtained from blacksmithing.
Carrot on a Stick: 3% mounted speed increase, obtained from Gahz'rilla in Zul'Farrak.
Enchant Gloves - Riding Skill: 2% mounted speed increase, obtained from enchanting.

A factor that seems to confuse many is that these effects stacks multiplicatively and not additively, meaning that the total benefit from having all effects active is 9.26% ((1.04*1.03*1.02-1)*100) as opposed to 9% (2%+3%+4%).
Also, this increases your mounted speed and not only the speed of the mount. This speed will either be 160% or 200% depending on what mount you got.

Regular mount: Carrot on a Stick gives 4.80% speed increase, all bonuses combined gives 14.82% speed increase.
Epic mount: Carrot on a Stick gives 6.00% speed increase, all bonuses combined gives 18.52% speed increase.

Use /run print(GetUnitSpeed("player") / 7 * 100) ingame if you want to check/verify this, it shows the current speed percent you're moving in in the chat frame.

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