I’m cross-posting this from GD in case it has a better chance of getting attention with someone at Blizzard so I’ll just paste what I wrote there:
I just got this mount and it’s working the same as the sea turtle mounts while you are in Shadowlands/Zereth Mortis (really slow ground speed and the icon says increased swim speed).
But when you are not in Shadowlands, it functions just like the Hivemind/Ny’alotha Allseer and has normal ground and flying speeds.
I’m really hoping this is just some kind of unintended bug that can get fixed easily because I’d really like to use this shiny new mount in the Shadowlands, where I would probably spend most of my time in game these days.
I will also post this to the bug report section but please help spread the word. It would be a real shame if the Aurelid mounts were just another type of sea turtle mount that nobody really uses in game because they are so slow and impractical.
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Having the same issue, please tell me its a bug blizz!
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I am also having the same issue. Any zone that is restricted from flying the Deepstar Polyp moves at walking speed, whereas any zone where flying is unlocked it functions as a regular flying mount.
Would hope it is fixed to be a normal speed ground mount in flying restricted zones.
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Yes, after a discussion with another player on GD I noticed it doesn’t work correctly in zones you cannot fly in. Anywhere else, the tooltip shows that it increases movement speed in land, air, and water.
Also says it doesn’t benefit from mount equipment, which in my opinion is a fine trade off for it being all terrain. When it works!
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Same problem here. Tooltip says “Increases swim speed by 100%” in no-fly zones and runs very slow compared to a normal ground mount. However it does fly and run at full speed in zones where flying is enabled. It’s a very cool mount and I’d love to use it all the time, so I’m hoping this is just a bug.
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Bumping this. Having the same issue. It makes no sense to have ground speed hamstrung in no-fly zones but be able to run on the ground at 100% ground mount speed and be able to fly in flying-zones.
This is a really cool mount that lots of people are sinking time into acquiring. Fix the ground move speed in no fly zones!
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Just checked the feature in-game and Blizz says the mount speed is not working as intended and they are looking for a fix, but there is not an immediate one. Hope it gets fixed soon. Wanted to flex it while going around Zereth Mortis
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Same issue reported as a bug surely it has to be
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The mount also doesn’t give 100% ground speed movement if the character has not learned flying yet.
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For the love of all that is good, please acknowledge this and just let us all move forward blizz. I have seen them acknowledge lesser bugs in less than 24 hours so I assume they know about this but they are not comfortable acknowledging it.
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Got this today and can confirm all the above reports. Sucks not being able to use it in Zereth Mortis to show it off!
Confirmed. Either ONLY an air and sea mount, or it is bugged.
Bump. I came here to report same issue however looks like we’re all already very vocal. Please fix! I want to use my awesome new mount IN zereth mortis
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Yeah just found the same thing, very sad after spending so long fishing for the strange goop to find its slower than any other mount and you cant use it like everyone would haave though in the zone it was acquired in
Sad that they willingly chose to ignore this and respond to much less important bugs instead. Very sad day. for multiple reasons I won’t list here. Just overall sad.
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Having the same issue with mine, I hope this isn’t intended and gets fixed
Same issue here 
But hey, grats everyone on getting the mount!