If mice could swim they would float with the tide and play with the kittens downstream
(Ok, so I suck at titles. :-p)
According to Fubar's plugin Speedfu, I'm actually moving at 101% speed in swim form. This plugin is accurate with other forms and mounts, showing me running in caster form at 100%, in cat form outside at 130% with 
[Feral Swiftness], 200% with an epic ground mount, etc. --Azaram (talk) 01:22, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
- When you get into water, your move speed is decreased by 50%. When shifted into Aquatic Form, your movement speed is increased by 50%, bringing it back up to 100%. The extra 1 percent is coming from an inaccuracy from either Blizzard or Fubar's Plugin (likely the latter), but is negligible anyway. --Mesethusela (talk) 17:26, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
Using items while shapeshifted
With patch... 2.3 I believe, possibly 2.4.something, it was changed so that druids may use items while shapeshifted. So now we can eat, drink, use health, mana, and rage potions, quest items, and talk to NPCs, while in cat, bear, and bird forms. I have however not actually tested if it applies to aquatic form as well, and the patch notes were never specific about that. I know that you can pick flowers without going out of the swim form, though I don't remember if that was always the case or not. I am not entirely sure how to test this either, as my druid is now level 80, and have completed most all quests that involve some kind of swimming. But I wanted to kick this in, because I am 95% certain that it is now possible to use all kinds of objects while in the aquatic form, just like you can in all the other forms (being able to open chests while in cat form is a blessing, and although eating as a bear looks strange, it is very practical in instances). --Metalbunny (talk) 11:14, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
- Pretty sure you can't eat or drink while swimming at all, druid or not. (You'd spend a hell of a long time trying to drink underwater. :P ) They don't put any treasure chests in the sunken ships, so there's not much you can try; I do know that the vase and hawk statue you have to recover from Clam Master K, you can pick up while in the sabretooth sea lion form. --Azaram (talk) 12:34, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
- LOL. Yeah, eating and drinking aside, I was thinking more in the lines of potions and opening stuff... but there's not a lot of things underwater that can be opened/used without the quest that goes with it. I'll find something, I will. LOL. --Metalbunny (talk) 17:22, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
That seal sure is hideous, though 0.0 Wonder if they'll give it an overhaul one day. DacianWarlord (talk) 22:29, 17 July 2009 (UTC)