https://www.wowhead.com/item=216874/loot-filled-basket (blue bag)
https://www.wowhead.com/item=213428/loot-stuffed-basket (now outdated and irrelevant green bag)
https://www.wowhead.com/item=212599/noble-flying-carpet (mount)
Previous year non level capped characters used to receive an inferior GREEN BAG which did not contain the mount and since today the main daily quest has been adjusted to reward characters of all levels with a BLUE BAG which includes all prestige drops.
This is a welcome change however if you do get lucky with the flying carpet on a low level character or an xp-locked twink you unfortunately will not be able to learn the mount before level 45. You could be presented with a difficult choice between forfeiting a rare mount at which you realistically have only 7 attempts per year or surrender countless hours that you have spent gearing up your character only to end up deleting the twink after two more hours of leveling up because the mount drop forced you to overshoot your intended level bracket.
Here’s some very negative first hand experience from fresh wowhead comments.
I’ll awnser myself ,Yes u can i just got it today after 28 attemps on my lvl 15 dk it’s also farmable but u can’t learn the mount untill u get to lvl 45
Yep I got it on a lvl 16 alt but it indeed requires level 45 to learn : (
https://i.postimg.cc/0yLVgdwR/Noble-Flying-Carpet.jpg
I’ll just add another confirmation to the list, it just dropped on one of my level 11 twinks
https://tinypic.host/images/2025/04/21/carpet.jpg
Please reduce or remove character level requirement to learn completely because such restrictions make no sense anymore. Even the rarest of holiday drops such as Arfus or Love Rocket have already been adjusted during their last cycles to become both obtainable and clickable by characters as low as level 10 which is the entry floor for their respective content.
Thanks and bye.
Hey Ultimutt,
Thanks for the detailed report – appreciate the extra effort to add context and screenshots!
The team is aware and taking a look at options. As usual we can’t make any promises, but hopefully this can be adjusted and enable characters that already got it to to learn it as well.
So for now I’d recommend holding off on decisions to level any characters just for this.
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Wouldn’t it be just as simple to make mount drops like this warbound? It’s the same issue for example if Deathcharger’s Reins (or a similar dungeon mount) drops on a Twink/Exp-Locked toon during Timewalking. Either that or make it so that all mounts can be learned at level 10 (I don’t really understand why they can’t be given that you can ride them all at that level).
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I’m delighted and surprised that my feedback has been received so well.
I’ve made similar complaints in the past regarding expansion specific Timewalking vendors, each of whom should generally be accessible to players regardless of their active character’s level (since Timewalking is available from level 10), but yet some of them still choose to restrict view of their wares completely for sub 35 or 45 characters or simply sell level restricted gear, which is an overlooked consequence of older game design, long before proper world scaling and warband system, when you could not have been able to queue for Legion TW dungeons before level 50.
The argument for Noble Flying Carpet can also be used for Rivendare’s Deathcharger, Infinite Timereaver and some of the expansion specific Timewalking vendor mounts which all have different level requirements up to 27 including the recently added Sandy Shalewing which won’t even be sold to you before reaching 45.
https://www.wowhead.com/item=205208/sandy-shalewing#sold-by
Here’s a list of the vendors in need of a scaling review. Only three or four of them will sell all of their wares (armor, weapons, pets, tabards and mounts) to a level 10 player, while some of them still obey arbitrary restrictions because in the past each expansion’s Timewalking event used to require a different minimum character level.
Good news, everyone!
https://i.imgur.com/S7euDsr.png
Obviously I didn’t get it because the game hates me. The hidden requirement in the previous tooltip must have been reduced or removed completely overnight.
A level 20 character should be able to learn it but I have no room for fresh alts to confirm if it really extends all the way down to level 10 or lower.