WOW everyone has been either really lucky or hard at work obtaining all these mounts! Congrats everybody!
I swore I was going to try upload mount accomplishments as they happened but I've had crazy work hours and a lot to do so here's another bumper post with things as far back as Brewfest!
On my first year of doing Brewfest I was lucky enough to get the Kodo... Now on my third year I finally get the ram!!
That's me making a very good use of it while camping Huolon! I do like the Ram mounts however I feel they may be due for an upgrade from all the weird fur. My ever lucky Hunter got the drop!
A week later my fiance entered the room to see me dancing in my chair, arms in the air and everything... because THIS happened!!
EYYAAAAAA! Ok I say I love a lot of drake designs and that they are all cool but this is THE one guys! Before all my mount collecting madness back when I first started, I thought they were all really hard to get or you could only get certain ones or use the one at a time... daft I know... I was looking at all the skins online and on the game and I saw the Onyxian model and thought "Wow that is the best! It has everything a dragon should have. Wings, spikes, claws and it's in the best colours!! That is the one I want to use."
As far as models go it ended up being one of the last for me to ever get. My shaman was the lucky toon this time! On her 23rd kill after my hunter killing her 52 times and DK taking 28 times.
<3
I power levelled a Rogue to 90 purely to get 4 shots a day at the Headless Horseman this year. Last year was horrible, I had to move house in the last week of the holiday and missed a good 4 days due to moving and no internet. The ordeal in general was bad as well, my fiance's dad was a total lazy A-hole who expected everything to be done without lifting a finger himself.
So did RNG be kind to me this time?
No, no mount this year either. *sigh*
I do not have as much time to play as I used to have so when a certain drake mount that I would normally grind for (and have been for ages anyway) came up on the BMAH I decided to put a little bid on for fun.
To my surprise and for less than 30k...
I was actually really surprised I won it! That's all the stone drakes obtained now and one less grind to take my ever valuable time up! Made me feel better after no Horseman's mount as well!
I also finally got a very easy to obtain mount that I've never gotten before because of the guilds I am in. So I moved my Rogue to my friend's guild which I knew had the Dark Phoenix and did quests in Pandaria to Exalted!
Totally cool! I was really, happily surprised at the Lil' Tarcgosa pet too! I forgot they had it!
Fast forward to the 12th of November. I am STILL on the Timeless Isle farming Huolon. I have been there since the second week of the patch and time after time he does not drop the mount. All the regulars and familiar faces have departed with their mounts but I still remain... For just a few more minutes because on my first kill of that particular day it finally decided to drop!
SO PRETTY! SO MINES!
Is there a way to check how many kills I did? It must be a really high amount! I couldn't do massive day long camps or anything because of work but I managed between 1 and 8 kills per log on, very rarely I got more done. Some days I couldn't log on. It doesn't matter so much now because I don't have to worry about it any more!!
Because it took me so long for that mount I was killing Yaungol on the Blazing Way in between it spawning and was over HALFWAY through REVERED by the time I got it! I did this all on my own, no groups at all (aside from one short period when I was teamed with a hunter who caused more harm than good -.-). So I decided, as much I was loathe to spend one more iota of time on that blasted part of the Isle I kept going and a couple days ago I got one of my proudest achievements.
I am proud because still not many people on my server have one of these. It may not be a raid mount, rare drop or server first or anything like that but it was a long grind, it's glowy and it's mine!
I also liked both pics enough to post two even though I didn't need to. Couldn't choose between them!