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Comment by Obsidian

Is this run speed?

Comment by 13098

Does this buff stack with other's? Like Boar's Speed, or boost from Meta gems?

Comment by kylemech

Shares a cooldown with all of the other Drums created by leatherworking. Upon right-clicking, you get a 1sec cast time at the end of which all drums gain a 2min cooldown.

The other drums can be viewed here:
https://www.wowhead.com/cata/search=-Pattern%3A+%22Drums+of+%22

Comment by 11481

These, like all the other drums except Drums of Panic, are getting buffed with an increased radius of effect and an instant cast time in patch 2.3.

Comment by 93538

Any ideas how many skillup's this pattern will get you before it grays out?

Comment by 30102

Since patch 2.3, this pattern can now be purchased from Trader Narasu
Requires Kurenai - Honored reputation.

Comment by 87957

Through tireless testing and random speculation, I have come to the conclusion that it stacks with effects such as Aspect of the Cheetah. Though I technically have no idea if this is true, I think I noticed a speed difference when using it in that aspect on my hunter.

Comment by 85059

does it work on swimming? i tried it, and i couldn't quite tell one way or the other. i wasn't using anything to judge beyond looking closely. meaning no mods to measure my speed or anything.

Comment by 123088

I would say this is very useful for WSG pvp. https://www.wowhead.com/cata/spell=13891
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the drums. Thats pretty nice if you are carrying a flag in WSG and you are a warrior or like a mage. saved my ass a few times.

Comment by 87957

Also, if you have this handy little toy and you are a hunter, you can easily overtake a druid in travel form or a shaman in ghost wolf form while they have the flag.

Because Aspect of the Cheetah/Pack increases movement speed by 30% (making your speed 1.3 times normal), a further increase of 15% of that would increase your regular speed by 49.5% of normal (1.3 x 1.15 = 1.495, or increase of 49.5%), where Travel Form/Ghost Wolf has an increase of 40% (1.4)

If you have the Pathfinding talent (increases movement speed bonus from 30% to 38%, making it 1.38) and you used the drums, your speed would be increased by 58.7% (1.38 x 1.15 = 1.587)

This is VERY fast for an effect that can affect all nearby party members, especially when these party members are in combat and cannot get out of combat to use their mounts. A 58.7% increase of normal speed, without using a mount, gives the user the ability to quickly run down anyone who is attempting to flee from them and smash them with instant cast spells and melee attacks. What makes this even more devestating is the AoE of Aspect of the Pack combined with Drums of Speed.

Though the simple 15% increase may seem a small, useless amount at first, the point is to consider the combination aspects of it and the potential that it has.
For example, since this item can be used while shapeshifted, the bonus becomes even more useful for a druid or a shaman that is being run down. The initial speed increase of these abilities (40%, or 1.4) modified by the increase of the drums (1.15) gives a wopping 61% speed increase (1.4 x 1.15 = 1.61 or 61% increase)! This is obviously faster than a non-epic mount, meaning that a single druid/shaman can overtake a mounted runaway ON FOOT.
Though this speed increase is, in truth, less than the bonus from Sprint (rogue) and Dash (druid), which, at the highest rank, give a 70% increase, the drums last twice as long. While Sprint and Dash last 15 seconds, these drums last a full 30 seconds.
Furthurmore, the high-level PVP sets that druids can earn also give a speed bonus to travel form with enough pieces of the set. Though I am not sure if the same rules apply to this increase as the others, which says that it increases the speed of the forms by 15%, the new druid speed (without the drums) would be a 55% increase. Once you factor in the Drums of Speed, the NEW new speed is an increase of 78.25%! (1.55 x 1.15 = 1.7825)
If the bonus from the set increases the speed by a percent of the modified speed, then this will be different. In that case the speed will be an increase of 61% without the drums (1.4 x 1.15 = 1.61) and an increase of 85.15% with the drums! (1.4 x 1.15 x 1.15 = 1.8515)

Truly a devestating speed.

If anyone has any disagreements on these effects or the usefulness of this combination, please feel free to share them.

*note* My above information will be incorrect soon; once patch 2.4 is live, the high level PVP druid sets no longer increase the movement speed of Travel Form.

Comment by 130498

I've done some races against another druid, and the drums of speed don't seem to affect flight form, which makes sense if you think of flight form more as a mount than a shape change.

Comment by 142749

It breakes stealthed also, atleast for druid.

Comment by 71496

Why can it be placed in engineering bags such as https://www.wowhead.com/cata/item=23775 according to wowhead? :S

Comment by 133764

These and Drums of Panic seem to be the only drums still working at level 80.

Comment by 239112

These could be handy in ToC heroic mode vs Icehowl since you dont get the speed boost when he tramples.

Comment by JGPenfield

This stacks with the rogues' Sprint and glyph of sprint. I don't know if the total speed is 215% (100 base, 70 for Sprint, 30 for the glyph and 15% for the drums) or 230% (an extra 15% of 200). But I do know that I outrun mounted players in Warsong and Arathi Basin. This is useful in Arathi Basin if you are trying to get the achievement "Me and the Cappin Making it Happen." You can outrun the other players on their mounts to the first base (farm or stables).

Comment by gaudaloht

That drums can be chained if you have 2 lw on group (with that i mean there is no debuff or something) and yeah like the down poster say you can have the buff 100%uptime with 4 lws

Making some fights like togc beast, putricide achiev (without slow the slimes) ez
And i guess many more usefull stuff on raids

Comment by Octayvius

it is very useful for melee groups, having a leather worker in your 10man with this for cata would be very ideal and helpful. Multiple situational usage to pull through can possibly snag you a server first depending on your situations.

Comment by Paulosio

Couple of Firelands bosses where they could be useful. Ragnaros when running across the room when seeds spawn. Majordomo to quickly group up at the boss to force him into scorpion form.... There are probably loads of others.

Comment by Chaosprime

Just tested and seems to be still functional at 85.

Comment by Orgyl

anyone know what the range is on these?

Comment by Allakhazam

omg?^^

Comment by Allakhazam

should be able to attach it to your mount (kodo lol)

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Drums of Speed

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Requires Leatherworking (340)
Use: Increases movement speed of nearby party members by 15%. Lasts 30 sec. (2 Min Cooldown)
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