Northrend Racing Completionist: Gold

To give you an idea of the difficulty of the races, instead of giving a subjective feeling, I recorded the first-completion time (with the caveat that I restart if I miss a ring or get stuck in a tree) vs required time. I also noted the time it took me from the very first attempt to complete all three in gold. The first-completion-time vs required-time-for-gold gives you a rough idea on how lenient the timer is, while the total time can give a rough idea of how hard it is to complete at all, regardless of the timer.

Race

Normal Time

Advanced Time

Reverse Time

First N. Time

First A. Time

First R. Time

Total Time

Dragonblight Dragon Flight

115

110

110

105 (-9%)

101 (-8%)

106 (-4%)

Forgot to note

Crystalsong Crisis

97

94

96

89.171 (-8%)

93.411 (-1%)

91.665 (-5%)

11:30

Zul'Drak Zephyr

65

62

67

59.312 (-9%)

59.482 (-4%)

61.927 (-8%)

3:40

Gundrak Fast Track

60

57

57

54.221 (-10%)

54.129 (-5%)

55.491 (-3%)

6:00

Blackriver Burble

75

67

71

63.920 (-15%)

67.949 (+1%)

65.983 (-7%)

15:00

Daggercap Dart

77

76

76

73.785 (-4%)

72.744 (-4%)

71.088 (-6%)

7:00

Scalawag Slither

73

68

70

66.233 (-9%)

66.243 (-3%)

68.021 (-3%)

4:30

Coldarra Climb

57

55

55

48.646 (-15%)

49.373 (-10%)

54.018 (-2%)

3:30

Geothermal Jaunt

45

37

37

37.524 (-17%)

36.769 (-1%)

36.347 (-2%)

6:40

Sholazar Spree

88

85

85

79.290 (-10%)

77.732 (-9%)

78.804 (-7%)

4:40

Citadel Sortie

110

103

104

100.202 (-9%)

106.196 (+3%)

100.486 (-3%)

8:50

Maker's Marathon

100

93

98

91.745 (-8%)

89.894 (-3%)

90.205 (-8%)

5:20

IMO, the easiest, by a fair margin, is Sholazar. Zero trap, plenty of time.

Just done it. Most of races can be done from first fly. But i'm pretty sure u'll waste some time in Borean Tundra & probably Coldarra, especially if using dragons with big model. I always thought they have same hitboxes but for some strange reason I get stacked too often in tunnels with my Razageth skin. And I never have this problem with parrot.

Blizz, you should really fire the designer who made Coldarra (did they Grizzlemaw also? Geothermal Jaunt? Gundrak?). The designer really thinks it's too interesting to manage environment obstacles and not be able to see the next point of a race in advance. Difficulty can be different and this difficulty is not interesting at all! We can't really manage our flight with these environment collisions because we can't really see the collision of our dragon (especially it's hard with that speed). You also make us remember the full race to be able to complete it. So please just don't let the designer make any of dragon races again and create your inner rule for environment collisions. (You can call me an incompetent player but I'm sure I'm not the only one who doesn't have its fun with this race. I completed all gold-races before so I'm not a newbie in races. And you do it again and again. Just stop doing this kind of races. Environment obstacles are not interesting.)