UPDATE: The hog has been changed/nerfed/buffed. I’ll update below.

Yes, I finally made it a few days ago. It was neither easy nor cheap, but worth every bit of time spent getting it.

My hog at Cantrips & Crows - the official biker bar on The Venture Co server.

Sadly, I didn’t notice until after taking this shot that my front wheel had managed to dip into the “solid” dock in front of the bar.

Before long I’ll post the remaining parts of my guide for getting this spectacle of modern engineering, but for now I’ll just answer a lot of the questions folks seem to still have about the vehicle.

Is it a siege vehicle?
Well, yes and no. It is summoned just as any other mount would be, except for the fact that after the standard mount casting bar, you also have a very short animation to actually mount the bike. Once you’re on the bike, it technically counts as your minion just as any other siege vehicle would. It has its own health bar and it does take fall damage for you (even if you fall far enough for it to “die”). Enemy players and mobs are able to target the bike and attack it directly. If they kill it, you are automatically dismounted.
It is now a normal mount, except for the fact that players can hop in the sidecar. It doesn’t have it’s own healthbar, and it does cause you to take normal fall damage. The upside, however, is that it now is affected by crusader and path of frost - and dismounting is instant.

So it is just as convenient as a normal mount?
Not quite. While mounting up may be about the same, dismounting is much slower. You can’t use an ability to instantly dismount yourself like you can with a regular mount (even if you have the option set in your WoW preferences), you are still forced to wait half a second as you hop off of your bike.  Also, because the bike only has 5,000 health or so, you may not be able to run from burst DPS classes you otherwise would get away from. Say, for instance, a Mage tried to kill me as I rode by on my regular mount. I may lose several thousand health, but I have 17,000 even in my un-enchanted gear. I’ll probably be fine. If I’m on my hog, the mage could easily kill my ride and then start laying into me.
Yes. It is now a normal mount.

I heard you could park it and it would stick around for a few minutes, and you could hop back on at any time. Is this true?
Sadly, no. I think this would be an awesome feature to offset the inconvenience of the slow dismount time, and a huge huge bonus for those intending to roleplay with their bikes, but I guess Blizzard decided against it after all. 

Why does it have an attack function on its vehicle bar?
I have no clue. It seems to toggle like auto-attack, and it can’t be used unless you have something targeted, but it doesn’t appear to do anything at all. If anyone knows, please tell me! 
It no longer has this. 

Can you use this in Azeroth? I heard it was only usable in Outland/Northrend.
Thankfully, yes. You can use this anywhere you could use a land mount.

Does that mean you can give rides to lowbies?
You sure can! I drove a level 1 all the way from the Eversong Woods to the Valley of Trials to level with a friend. Sure, a mage could have made that easier, but it was a fun ride. The level 1 (though he dinged 2 just from exploring) still drew monsters with his huge aggro radius, but as long as you stay away from casters and don’t drive straight through any melee, you should be fine.

What else is different from a normal mount?
Well, as of right now, the hog doesn’t gain any speed advantage from crusader aura, and you cannot drive it on water with waterwalking. I have yet to test the death knight aura, but I suspect it will be the same. Climbing onto your hog also sometimes faces you in odd directions for no apparent reason, so make sure you’re facing the way you want to before you go zooming off. 
Again, it is now a normal mount. 

That’s all I’ve got for now! If you have any questions about it, ask them in a comment and I’ll go test it until I’ve got an answer!

Tags: Chopper, Hog, Motorcycle