X-53 Touring Rocket

• X-53 Touring Rocket
• Binds when picked up
• Unique
• Mount
• Use: Teaches you how to summon this mount.  This mount changes depending on your Riding skill and location.
• Requires Level 10
• Requires Expert Riding

X-53 Touring Rocket.

X-53 Touring Rocket is available in the Trading Post for the low price of 100 [Trader's Tender], as part of the Trading Post's first anniversary.

Mount Journal

Riding a giant cylinder filled with highly explosive goblin rocket fuel all by yourself is just crazy...so bring a friend.

Mail

The mount was originally mailed in-game to the character from Master Handler Sylvester. With the item is a unique letter written up as a shipping manifest:

X-53 Nether Rocket

TO: <name>

FROM: B.O.O.M. Rocket Works

CONTENTS OF CRATE:

- One (1) X-53 Nether Rocket, Touring Model

- One (1) Rocket Ignition Key

- One (1) Rear-Mounted Ejector Seats

- Zero (0) Parachutes

Despite what the letter says, a passenger who ejects in mid-air will get a parachute, like for all other two-person flying mounts.

Notes

• The X-53 was originally the second special mount that players could earn only through the Recruit-A-Friend program. It was first shared as the next upcoming mount on 6 April 2010. The X-53 was available to players who claimed their RAF reward between 27 April 2010 and 15 July 2012. It returned once again on 12 November 2013 along with other rewards and was available until 11 June 2019.
  • Obtaining this mount through the RAF program rewarded the  [Friends In Even Higher Places] achievement.
• The X-53 is one of the only few flying mounts available in the game that allow for multiple passengers. It originally scaled to match the speed of your fastest owned mount, up to 310% flight speed.
• The X-53 is likely based off the X-52 rocket located in Area 52, Netherstorm.
• Using this mount, players who don't have cold weather flying can get the explorer achievement with some help from a friend.
• Summoning this mount triggers the global cooldown, unlike most other mounts.

Patch changes

• Patch 10.2.5 (2024-01-16): Now a Trading Post item.
  
• Hotfix (2019-06-11): Removed with the retirement of the Mists of Pandaria RAF system.
  
• Hotfix (2013-11-12): Re-added in the new iteration of the RAF system.
  
• Hotfix (2012-07-15): The X-53 Touring Rocket has now been retired from the Recruit-A-Friend program (but those who already earned the vintage rocket in the past will keep it going forward).
  

Replaced by the  [Heart of the Nightwing] mount.

• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Can now be used as a ground mount in addition to being a flying mount.
  
• Hotfix (2010-04-27): Replaced the  [Swift Zhevra] mount as the new RAF mount.
  
• Patch 3.3.3 (2010-03-23): Added.
  

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB