Algarian Stormrider

This mount replaces Whirling Surge with Lightning Rush.
The ability is explained during the Storm Races that are exclusive to this mount. This ability clearly was just added to bring a new twist/skill thing to the races, not to make open world flying more interesting.

Hugging walls generates stacks of Static Charge.
At 10 stacks you can use Lightning Rush to get a speed boost with "limited handling".. which just feels like a worse and more tedious Whirling Surge tbh.

Update: I noticed sometimes I gain a charge when lifting off with Skyward Ascent, or when turning in mid-air. Sometimes skimming over a flat surface also works. Seems very inconsistent, not sure what the rules are but I know that flying next to walls always generates them.

Purchasing at least the Heroic Edition of the The War Within expansion also unlocks the Storm Rider's challenge! Heroic Edition: Algarian Stormrider This challenge revamps a few Dragonriding races in the Dragon Isles, making the race tracks slightly different and more fitting for the Algarian Stormrider new mechanic and ability.

To start the questline that leads to the Storm Rider challenge, mount on your Algarian Stormrider and fly around with it a bit, until you notice [npc=197478] approaching you. [npc=197478] will give you the quest Lightning Strikes, which requires you to go to the Skytop Observatory in the Waking Shores.

Upon arriving there and turning the quest into [npc=193359], he will give you a new quest, The Storm Race Tour - This quest has you complete 6 Dragon Isles races on the newest Storm Rider difficulty! These races involve slightly altered courses, including many portions close to walls or mountains and big strips of straight ring objectives, perfect to use [spell=418592] on.

You can complete All 6 Storm Rider Gold Dragon Races following this video guide.

Rewards:
💪 Title (the Storm Rider) [title=789]
👔 Cosmetic [item=209417]

🥇 3 Achievements:
🌟Storm Rider: Bronze 🌟Storm Rider: Silver 🌟Storm Rider: Gold

ID

🌟 Name 🌟

🚩 Gold Races 🚩

1

🌟 Ruby Lifeshrine Loop Storm Gryphon: Gold

🚩 https://youtu.be/X1gbSAmJS_0?t=1

2

🌟 Fen Flythrough Storm Gryphon: Gold

🚩 https://youtu.be/X1gbSAmJS_0?t=71

3

🌟 Tyrhold Trial Storm Gryphon: Gold

🚩 https://youtu.be/X1gbSAmJS_0?t=155

4

🌟 Vakthros Ascent Storm Gryphon: Gold

🚩 https://youtu.be/X1gbSAmJS_0?t=239

5

🌟 Stormsunder Crater Circuit Storm Gryphon: Gold

🚩 https://youtu.be/X1gbSAmJS_0?t=360

6

🌟 Crystal Circuit Storm Gryphon: Gold

🚩 https://youtu.be/X1gbSAmJS_0?t=453

7

🌟 Rewards

🚩 https://youtu.be/X1gbSAmJS_0?t=552

🛸 Coordinates:

/way #2022 63.30 70.90 Ruby Lifeshrine Loop
/way #2023 86.26 35.82 Fen Flythrough
/way #2025 57.25 66.90 Tyrhold Trial
/way #2024 71.29 24.66 Vakthros Ascent
/way #2151 76.01 65.71 Stormsunder Crater Circuit
/way #2133 38.75 60.62 Crystal Circuit

My 2 cents on the new "Lightning Rush".....10 stacks is way too much. Yeah yeah, it might be easy to get in the new expansion / new zones there. But right now in the open spaces we have its ALMOST useless or way too much of a hassle to search for a wall to hug for a long time in order to get the 10 stacks.

TLDR: I think only 5 stacks should be needed as at the moment it feels like way too much to need 10. Thats all.