Mount Acomplishment Thread

[Meggers]

Congratulations! I've been farming AT myself with two toons to finish that bugger off. I cannot wait to be done!

[Sasrei]

Ohh nice mounts! Im working on the metas to but sadly its sooo hard to get a group if you dont have alot of heroic experience... For H rag usually they want you to have atleast 6/7H experience.

[JezzebelPop]

Nice! Congrats on all the mounts both rare and tedious to obtain! :p With MoP looming will the HC Raggy mount go from 100% drop to something horribly low? I've got very little hope of obtaining it before MoP with my 2 normal kills of Beth and the dog guy... yeah that bad I can't recall his name. -.- EDIT: SHANNOX!

I've had a great splurge of luck in the last couple of weeks.

So first off I'm still super psyched to get my Violet Proto-Drake after just over a year of playing! This time last year I was probably still in Outland, perhaps just about to venture to Northrend on my first toon.




Back to more recent times, I got both a Fox Kit and a Razzashi Hatchling days from each other (already had the hatchling) and not long after with a little help from my Lashtail Hatchling got my Littlest Pet Shop Achi!

But this is a mount thread. So back to mounts and the day before yesterday I had a go at soloing Stonecore to Slabhide on normal mode... I could do it! So from then on I'll be doing 5 runs a day along with my 5 Stratholme runs.

Of course I've not seen a drop yet but something MUCH better happened today!
I was on my way to Stonecore, to do my 5 runs, doing a sort of obligatory lap of Aeonaxx spawns but not really thinking about it (it's so ingrained from the pebble quests and various camps), crusing my way to the instance entrance when my scanner goes off and before it fully hit me I was looking straight ahead at Aeonaxx himself in the North-East spawn point!



O_O <- I believe this was my reaction! Also repeating "What!? Really!? Nooooo waaayy, no way, are you serious!?" I have NEVER before that moment had the privilige of just coming across a mount dropping rare spawn or getting mounts on the first run of anything yet it happened at the best possible moment! My favourite Stone Drake and my first Stone Drake.
My fiance was there too and was about to say something to me when I went "WHAT? Really? Ohh my god look!" couldn't beleive what I was seeing! Such an awesome surprise!

Although I have done a lot of camping for this guy before, it's nice to just fly in and pick it up, especially since I missed it by a couple of hours one day and the hassle from other campers I've had with this.
Both Horde and Alliance, friend and foe decided the spot I had been at for hours and hours was also their spot and wouldn't leve me alone. Even when the others are totally empty. No where near as bad as some others on PVP realms (someone from this very forum had a lot of stress with it) but quite annoying and off-putting none the less. Especially from people I was nice enough to help.



Scanner went off again because a long time ago I read that you could pick up his hostile ID on the scanner to tell you when someone was flying on him.




Obligatory kill + prize pic! :p



There was someone who I bet was fizzing something fierce when this spawned. When I saw the drake I made a bee-line straight to him but on my way I spotted a camper on a TLPD who was well within range who wasn't budging. Nor had they moved when I passed them again on my way out. :/ They must have been AFK, when they return they'll be so gutted. >.< While I know how gutwrenching and infuriating it is to just miss something like this I beleive I've put a fair share of time into this mount on previous days, sometimes weeks and it just so happened all that time didn't happen directly before the thing spawned. I knew if I ever saw it, I was going for it!



To finish, my new mount and newest pet together in sunny Stormwind!

[Royi]

Grats on the much serendipitous Purple Stone Drake

[JezzebelPop]

Thanks Royi! xD Love the Patrick, he could do the gymnastics at the Olympics with that move.

[Meggers]

Congratulations you lucky bugger!

[JezzebelPop]

You guys are not going to believe this... might in fact get sick of me and my luck.
IMAGE HEAVY AND LONG... like with all my silly posts.

I opened my mail and what did I see? A bottle of brew? Why thankyou Brew of the Month Club! Also my last brew for Brew of the Year!
I did not expect for this to happen however.



Freaken awesome! <3 I wish I could keep it!



I got something else. Today I started way up in Western Plagulands and finished getting the quests done there for loremaster then went and done Eastern Plaguelands. Flew down to do Tol Barad dailies, all this being outside of the usual order I do things in when I first log on. Normally I do the Dal cooking daily then do a camel tour of Uldum before Tol Barad but today I did that after my duties in TB were done with.

Following the path suggested on a video somewhere I started at the little buildings near a bunch of sheep critters, not far from the dam or Armagedillo's spawn point and I had just reached the grassy cliff near there when my scanner went off. It wasn't Armagedillo, it was a Camel figurine... THE camel figurine as I had the smelly dud cached from last week!

But for the life of me I could not find it. At all. I was getting really anxious and down right irritated that no matter how hard I looked I couldn't see a sparkle, a hump, nothing. "Serves me right, I can't be THAT lucky so soon after Aeonaxx" I thought and was also getting mad at Blizz for making them so dang small. :p Really silly I know but I was getting frantic! I wanted that camel!
Then a ray of light! A friend of mine who I've only known for about a month through WoW came online. I told him what was going on and he offered to help me find it. I gladly accepted his offer and sure enough after yet more poking and prodding around he told me to come over as he had found it!
I still couldn't see it. He said it was right in front of him and he was jumping on it etc and I just wasn't seeng it. ._. I had to dismiss my corehoud as he's so bulky and it still took me a full minute to find the thing! I never saw the full figure all I could see was the cursor turn into a cog and a little patch of camel figurine + sparkle poking through the grass! Honestly an absolute nightmare to spot!

And the guy still let me click on it. <3 That guy, one in a million he really is. I have a lot of re-paying to do!





Here's the pain in the butt spot it was at! Not in the big spikey plant but just behind my camel's feet. It was small enough to hide in the smaller plants there! All the times I was doing scouts for it I kept saying to myself "I hope the real one doesn't show up in one of these hellish grassy areas, that would be pretty hard to find." Typical eh? :p The real one is the hardest to find!




A group photo to remember the day better and a nicer shot in SW as the lighting is better and I have the Uldum portal too.
Insane luck I know, I have no idea where it came from 2 rare cata mounts in 2 days pretty much and 2/3 of the rare spawn drop mounts Cata brought with it. All the hours spent on everything and all the good karma I've racked up with helping people seems to be paying off. While this is only my 10th/11th (sure it's 11 but I can't remember one camel for some reason) figure it has been many months since I first started loking for it (pretty much since I reached 85) and it has felt like a lonnng time looking for it. Although I know how lucky I am to have it in only 10/11 figures. Really wtf is going on? If there is a wow god they sure do love me just now!

I recently got promoted to Guild Master too... wonder if this is like a "good luck" gift or something from karma or the wow gods... also got pooped on by a pidgeon a few weeks ago... that's supposed to be lucky too... I dunno I'm just happy with it all!!! Also if you find a friend like the one I have, keep them. Not many people are as kind as this guy, anyone else from my own guild (bar 3 lovely souls) would have snapped that camel up! He's not even in my guild!!

[Meggers]

Grats! Super cool, haven't seen a statue ever. XD

[Golden]

Nowhere near as amazing as the stuff you guys have been getting, but after so much procrastinating, my first Faire mount! <3

[JezzebelPop]

Yaaay! Still a gorgeous mount so congrats!!

[Bangeall]

Congratulations JezzebelPop! Wonderful luck indeed! I've never even seen a dud camel figurine. The odds of finding one at all must be extremely small. I hope I catch some of your good luck vibes for my mount runs.

[Vephriel]

Thanks everyone for the achievement runs. They've been really fun.

Got my Volcanic Stone Drake tonight.

[JezzebelPop]

Finally got a Swift Forest Strider from the Darkmoon Faire! I opted to wait until I had all the pets and I have the bear so I have them all!




Btw it COULD have been a triple whammy of cata rares for me, when I logged off to play an alt on Saturday I left my hunter at the Abyssal Depths Poseidus spawn and I was later informed that someone I knew got it at that exact spawn about 10 mins after I logged off... Why did I have to go play that new alt of mines... -.- Darn my curiosity for the Goblin starting zone.

Thankyou Bangeal! It did take me a few months to find my first dud and they remained few and far between even until the last one. I never found 2 in the same day, usually a week or 2 between duds if I was lucky. I found my first one while being more interested in Blue Madexx and was surprised to see a camel rotating at the bottom of my screen instead of a big Scorpid. After I found another while doing Archaeology I looked up the best path and just did one or two fly-bys a day, sometimes only the one, sometimes 3 or 4 times a day. Depended on my mood really.

[Snowbird]

Hello there! What days do you guys recommend to Camp Poseidus on? If i can post this here! ^^

[Snowy]

Hello there! What days do you guys recommend to Camp Poseidus on? If i can post this here! ^^

Saturday! I've never actually seen him myself, but I check the auction house and there is almost always a new Reins of Poseidus on a Saturday.

[Snowbird]

Hello there! What days do you guys recommend to Camp Poseidus on? If i can post this here! ^^

Saturday! I've never actually seen him myself, but I check the auction house and there is almost always a new Reins of Poseidus on a Saturday.

Oki thanks!

[Meggers]

I think at minimum it can spawn on a friday. 72 hour timer and whatnot.

[JezzebelPop]

Right I've figured it out! To get rare spawns you just have to narrowly miss them once and the next time do the following.

Camp your rare spawn (in my case Poseidus) for around 4 hours, doing the occasional scout of the area until a stacker comes and makes you move.
Rant to a loved one and get annoyed because apparently YOU are in the wrong so then come on wow-petopia and rant in Everdeen's mount thread to make yourself feel better and make sure to wish them luck too!
Go for dinner which lasts around 20 mins/half an hour, watch a bit of the sports that are on (christ Jamaica, you so fast!).
Log back on to see a new person in the spot you just zoned in at so try to mount up on seahorse but miss-click on a normal ground mount (lol I looked like a fool). Watch this person spaz at you before going off to a southern spawn point so you go in the opposite direction to the northern one.

Feel your eyes almost pop out their sockets when this happens.



Voila! Rare spawn found! Time to kill and loot the beastie!




As you can see in the bottom pic there was someone who arrived a bit late. That was the same person that spazzed out at me and swam off when I logged back on. They were literally seconds too late and arrived when I was still looting and learning the reins. Did they say grats or anything? Nope! They sat in silence at the corpse for ages possibly having a massive rage in /g while I swam around gleefully on my new pony. Another thing to note is that they belong to the top raiding guild of my server! :p That's me never being invited to their guild! Not that I'd ever want to, a bit too hardcore for me to manage.

Also the time was 19:48 UK time, 20:48 server time on an EU server on a Saturday. The zone was pretty empty for most of the day, myself and 2 others for much of it. One point I was the only one there. I was terribly lucky, I was only getting around 10 mins on the computer before my fiancé got his turn.

So if you saw my last 2 posts in this thread you'll know how stupidly lucky I have been, all 3 cata mounts that drop from a rare spawn of sorts in the space of 2 weeks! I don't know why or where the luck came from but please have it all!!!

[Meggers]

Yay seapony!

[Snowy]

then come on wow-petopia and rant in Everdeen's mount thread

LOL! Apparently ranting in my mount thread grants everyone amazing mount luck. Wish it would grant myself amazing mount luck. <: Although I suppose it kinda did. For Aeonaxx.

Congrats on your sea pony though! He's so purdy. Hopefully I can get mine next Saturday.

Edit: Omg your Skoll is called Loki. Mine is called Thor. AWESOME.