Mount Acomplishment Thread

[Seilahyn]

Decided to pick up the Argent Tournament dailies again today after a long break from them. It's always when you least expect it and aren't even looking for it. (I had done a fly through on the way to the Tourny grounds. Was heading up from Icecrown to do the Jorm quest when NPC/Silver Dragon went off. I shrugged it off as "Vyragosa" then saw the brown drake picture and freaked. I almost didn't want to click it thinking it was the corpse. When I clicked and saw it was full health and unclaimed I paniced trying to figure out where it was. It was too high to shoot it down, so I just flew into him and pulled him down to the ground.)

[Vephriel]

Yaaay! It's not a big achievement, but it's taken me forever to reach Exalted with my guild. Happy to have a Dark Phoenix finally, I love the colours.

[JezzebelPop]

Gratz on the Phoenix and the Time-Lost xD My guild is yet to get the Achievement for the Phoenix yet I am at exalted status with them. :p

I couldn't get a minute to post for a while but I've had such a great week of mount collecting!

On Thursday I did a run in Magisters Terrace with a guildie just on a whim as he wanted transmog stuff and since I already had everything I wanted from there I told him I would pass all the good stuff over to him. We totally sailed through it and what do you think happened when Kael'thas was downed? The first thing on the list was the White Hawkstrider! My guildie was ecstatic It felt amazing to see the mount appear on the list for the second time in my playing life and even better knowing a fellow guildie could have it! :3

Later that day we decided to do a random Heroic as a guild run and up popped Vortex Pinnacle -.- I don't really like that place as I run normals with the GM's alt and it pops up 80% of the time, sick of it. It was my first heroic in a while in fact and it came to the Dragon boss who is always tricky for me. I've never seen either of the drakes drop in either VP or SC but there it was, Reins of the Drake of the North Wind. I was in awe, I've not exactly done a lot of dungeon runs nor do I farm the mounts in them (confidence issues, I hate dungeoning without people I know are friendly and helpful with me) so this was just totally exciting! One person passed and the rest of us rolled need.

I WON IT! I could not believe it! I was going nuts with my fiancé going "What!? What happened?" xD I am still so thrilled that I actually won a roll on a low drop rate mount. It wasn't until after I had learned it that I realised I was in fact super lucky. I won it on a roll of 44. 44!!? That's low. Also a guildie had the same roll. =/ I felt really quite awkward after that, I had been going nuts about it after I won it and there was my guildie with the same roll but who RNG didn't pick to get the mount. I still feel horrible, they have been playing since vanilla, i've been playing since the end of May this year... Do I truly deserve that mount? They did congratulate me and since have done quests and dungeons together so it's all good but i feel like I should re-pay him or something to make up for having good RNG.

Either way it's mines and I adore it. Like a little Godzilla drake, the face is so serene yet strong looking!


I have been doing Baradin's wardens quests for rep and points to save for the west wind drake but now I have a nicer looking one (imo) I decided to buy myself the steed!


And while I was camping for Time-Lost with my Drake, it looks really nice in the Storm Peaks! :3





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Speaking of the Storm Peaks...


I have been hunting that Time-Lost Proto Drake for near on 4 months. Since I turned at least lv 79 I have done major camps then given up because I really wanted to play the game rather than waste it in the same zone sitting doing nothing, then taken them up again. I've grouped up a few times with people to help each other, joined a chat channel dedicated to hunting the drake and even had a friend help me camp it.

This friend who helped me ended up finding the drake himself at around 3am one morning, I do not go on my computer at that time so he got it. And then never really helped me again after that. To rub in the salt he got it the day after he found a Brewfest Ram in his keg =/ Although I myself found a Brewfest Kodo soon after so I was a little less bitter. :p One of the people I had grouped with also got hers and on a mere fly-by I had my scanner go off and I got to see her win her prize. That was a good dead drake, the second tlpd I had ever seen. The first one I saw was a gutting experience where I had flown past Brun's spawn mere seconds before it spawned and missed my chance. Got alerted of it's killing and saw it's corpse. =/ I had such a strong feeling of it spawning that night, not very nice end I can assure you.

So after levelling to 85 and collecting a good few other mounts I decided to do the Argent Tournament dailies! What a perfect opportunity to do sporadic camps for the TLPD. These camps would sometimes revert to my old habit of sitting all day for it but it was over all less boring than before. I took to iplayer and reading while camping so it was far more enjoyable. I sat for a solid week without touching my dailies which was anti productive but that week was wasted as nothing but 2 vyras showed up. So back to camping when I had a spare moment, between running dungeons with the guild and my dailies.

That was about a month ago now and on Saturday the 17th December I had just finished doing my snowbold dailiy from Argent Tournament and was flying back to hand them all in. I decided that I would plonk down on the frozen lake ledge like usual (very lucky no one was already there most of the time) and come on wow-petopia to tell the tale of my Drake of the North Wind... Well I never got to do it as you can probably tell as this post is my North Wind Drake story :p. I had just finished uploading all my photos and had clicked on the forums link here when I heard my NPC scanner blare!!!!

I knew it was TLPD. How? Well I already had all the other SP rares cached so you can imagine my reaction!! I alt-tabbed fast to see the drake fly off the ledge (quick mover) and I took pursuit.
In the sheer excitement and just "OMG-ness" of it all I misjudged my dismount and took an angle... died. >.< DERP SO Spirit rez and the drake was still visible, I flew over to it, flew in front of it heart pounding and limbs gone numb out of the fright I just had from dying and fear of it getting stolen from me.

Dismount > Snowfall > TAG! I got it and we descended down into the village of the val'kyr =/ lol


So yeah my dps was rubbish cheers to rez sickness and I had forgotten my pet wasn't out so it wasn't going well, after it was called the drake went down quickly and so did the val'kyr who were wanting a piece of me.

Then it sank in... It was over! 4 months roughly of hope and drake shaped dreams that never seemed to happen, all the time put in finally coming to fruition! xD






I still can't believe it! So soon after winning that Drake of the North Wind as well! Every time I have been in SP I have sat for just a few mins maybe a few hours and all it came down to in the end was 25 mins of sitting on that ledge. It spawned between 17:05 and 17:10 which coincidently is around the time nearly all the Vyragosas i've encountered have spawned... well not 5 o'clock but between 55 and 05 mins past the hour. a couple flying by bang on 00 after spawning from the waterfall.

Also I thought this drake was always at lv 80? I didn't notice until when I was looking at the pictures that this drake was at lv 79. Don't know if any of you have had one at that lv.
EDIT: HOLD ON JUST ONE DARN SECOND. If you look at the first image closely you can see 79 in the circle right? Then look at the corpse image, it says 80 o,o Wtf?
EDIT 2: Ahaa, cheers Kraai, I've never noticed the levels changing when under the influence :p I'd forgotten Snowfall was an alcohol too.

Amazed at how quick it went between hearing the alarm and taking my prize! Also there was NOONE around during the chase and the kill! Very VERY lucky because not long after I noticed that a Tauren druid who always hovered in the air at the same spot near the frozen lake had re-appeared. If he had been there when the drake spawned I would have lost it to him due to my dying mistake.
I did get a whisper from a camper after I was done with the kill, he congratulated me and I wished him the very best of luck. I imagine if I was late with that spirit rez or messed up again he would have the drake instead of me. Mind you if I messed up that much I probably wouldn't deserve the thing. :p

So yeah, pretty amazing weekend xD

[Schwert]

The reason the level changed is because you were drunk.

If your character drinks the levels of things will go /down/.

((Also: FJDSLIKFNSLDKFNSL TOUCH ME WITH YOUR LUCK.))

[Zhuge]

OMG congratz!!

[Vephriel]

After hanging on to the Halaa Battle Tokens for ages, I finally worked up the motivation today to just sit down and grind the 200 Osho'gun Powders I needed to buy my Dark War Talbuk. It took a few hours of endlessly killing mobs, but eventually I got them. I had to retake Halaa by myself once I'd collected them all, but I'm happy I finally have this mount.

[cowmuflage]

Gratz! I do love dem black ones so very much <3 sad hardly anyone has them.

[Lupis]

I have all the dust I need for my hunter's Dark Talbuk, I just need the stupid battle tokens! xD Hopefully I can find some horde player that wants to trade kills until I have all the tokens I need.

[Bonita]

Just got my Darkmoon Dancing Bear!!

[Vephriel]

Eee, bear! Congrats. He'll be next on my list to buy. I love the purple accents.

[Bonita]

ty! Im not sure if Im getting the tallstrider next or the little cub companion... lol

[Vephriel]

I had no choice but to go for the tallstrider first. :3 I have a purple tallstrider and I had to have a matching mount for him. ^_^

[Samskeyti]

It took me nearly a year but thanks to selling tons of cut gems when LFR hit, and with the potion/flask donations from my other half, I got myself a sandstone drake made Then I wrapped it and gave it to him so he could send it to me

Surprise Skoll meeting!

[JezzebelPop]

Lucky you Samskeyti, I am determined to find my own recipe as my main, my hunter is an alchemist. Grars on the bear, the Tallstrider and the Talbuk. I really want a Black Talbuk but have naff all tokens and there's barely anyone at Halaa to get them off of.

Thank you for the comments after my last post :3 made me smile and Kraai I touched my monitor where your post is so hopefully some luck transferred.

Since my success with the North Wind and the Time lost drakes I've gained more champion seals and acquired the Argent Warhorse.
I myself bought the Darkmoon Dancing Bear :3 I adore it, it's my "go to" ground mount for the moment! I love her purple eyes the most I do think the bear looks more feminine compared to my other bears, possibly because my other bears all have that armour stuff on them.

Will upload screen shots later, think they're on the other computer.

I also took advantage of Blizz's holiday sales and bought myself the Celestial Steed/Sparkle Pony for myself :3


Dunno why some dislike this mount, I think it's quite charming. Also yay flying horse with wings! Although the ends of the wings are a bit flappy =/ xD

After what seemed like a month and a half of constant Skadi kills I finally collect my Blue Proto Drake! This was a couple days ago now but i'm still thrilled with it!


Well... in the excitement I grabbed the reins before taking a screenie so uhh they're in the bag...




The reason i'm so damn happy about this is because with a droprate VERY close to the Raven Lord I thought it wouldn't take so long or be infuriating. I was wrong on both accounts although you could say i'm lucky to get it in that space of time anyway.
The first time I did the run I managed to beat Skadi and his minions with a bit of hassle but I could do it anyhow... Not the next 5 tries though. What had happened the first time around is that I had taken an elixir of agility or something good like that beforehand and forgotten. The next few tries failed because I couldn't deal with the adds, got frustrated and left it for a while.
I came back with a slightly better ilvl and lots of potions/flasks/elixirs and the process was long and annoying but I could do it. As I got more confident in dungeons my gear got better and therefore the Skadi encounter got a lot easier but the man would not dorp his drake no matter what! In the beginning when it was still difficult for me to run this boss fight it was very soul destroying because of the amount of concentration, difficulty and near death experiences I had to go through to beat him and then see the usual silver and a blue drop.

So encounter after encounter after encounter... Most of you here have been there either with a companion pet drop, mount drop or armour/weapon drops, you know it's annoying and rubbish when it just. Wont. Drop. I began to hate the encounters, i'd usually still have to use a fair bit of concentration and found it infuriating when on the way through UP I didn't make the small jump in order to avoid some mobs (in the raven's watch bit, running on the snow on the left) and usually died there. In the fight before I got to the ilvl I am at now I hated Skadi even more because his adds were hellish. When you think it's safe to go onto the next group you see the idiots running out from the side and down to meet you... then Grauf and his ice breath if you're not careful -.- It was such a hassle to time my heals and get my pet at the right place to get through the fight but it did get easier. Unfortunately by the time it became a cakewalk I hated the fight immensely.

On the day it dropped however I was in a foul mood for another reason. I have been running HoT dungeons for a while, like most of you I am sure. At this point I was only needing the boots, Windrunner's Bow and the Thornwood Staff to drop then i'll be content to just save up VP. I had run Well of Eternity. The Staff dropped. The FIRST EVER TIME I HAD SEEN IT. There were no druids or other hunters in the group so I was really happy to be there. Rolled Need of course. I noticed an unnaturally long time for the last person to roll but everyone else had went Greed which is normal and the decent thing to do.

I didn't get my staff. A warrior also rolled Need and ninja'd out right away after getting the highest number >:@ I have not seen the staff since then.

So enter Jezzebelpop in FOUL mode, I remembered I hadn't done Skadi yet so went in and rolled through, I was so mad nothing stood in my way... until i missed the jump again and died. Yay more bad mood.

But BUT it DROPPED The reins of the Blue Proto Drake xD!!! Totally made up for the staff in a million ways! XD xD XD xD



I also recently got into pvp which i though was never going to happen, but because of the xmas holiday achievements I had to enter a bg as an xmas gnome and get kills, this was highly fun so I keep going into bgs and do AWFULLY in them. Another revelation to me was the vendor which converts justice into honour points, I do more dungeons than BGs so i've taken full advantage of that and yesterday I purchased the Black War Tiger! Again pics will have to come later but that leaves me with only 4 more mounts to get for my Mountain of Mounts achievement!!

[Lupis]

Finally! Got my newer hunter the last of the Outlands rep mounts. I ended up leveling her up to 72 before I got it.

[GormanGhaste]

5th Tol'vir rare, 129th Tol'vir solve:

(apologies to Sting)

A stone's throw from Ramkahen
I walked a lonely mile in the moonlight
And though a million stars were shining
My heart was lost on a distant planet
That whirls around the April moon
Whirling in an arc of sadness
I'm lost without you.
Though all my kingdoms turn to sand
And fall into the sea
I'm mad about you.

And from the dark secluded valleys
I heard the ancient sighs of sadness
But every footstep I thought only of you
And every star a grain of sand
The leavings of a dried up ocean
Tell me, how much longer?

They say a city in the desert lies
The vanity of an ancient king
But the city lies in broken pieces
Where the wind howls and the vultures sing
These are the works of man
This is the sum of our ambition.
With every prison blown to dust
My enemies walk free
I'm mad about you.

And I have never in my life
Felt more alone than I do now
Although I claim dominions over all I see
It means nothing to me
There are no victories
In all our histories, without love.

And though you hold the keys to ruin
Of everything I see,
I'm mad about you, mad about you...

[Jadein92]

Ran with my guild, random ooo lets do ZA run! Our healer forgot he had two shadow specs xD so he was healing in a shadow pvp spec. And got the Amani battle bear

[Lupis]

While studying yesterday, I decided to log on and sit my character in Storm Peaks. I've only seen TLPD once, and that time I watched a mage kill him (a very gracious mage, though, so I can't complain), but hey… there's always a tiny chance, right? Besides, this character has got to have him. I've had dream after dream about it. It's fate.

However, MY fate is that I must take notes on the economy of the US after the Civil War.

So I sit. And I write. The lake spawn point is empty except for the random checks of Mr. Rude Hunter, who had pulled out his Skoll right in front of me just to set off my NPC scan. (I responded with "Uh oh, we got a badass in here" and he left me alone.)

And I chat, and I sit, and I write. Then I hear NPC scan and go "Herp derpin', Vyrago- WHAT" and, off in the distance, flapping his pretty wings and heading down towards me from the north, is a pretty golden dragon. Now, I'm only 76, but he only had a few seconds of life after that. Thank the gods, I had decided to put a Flexweave Overlay on my cloak the day before. That dragon was MINE.





(Mr. Rude Hunter came back just in time to see me fly off. I feel pretty bad for him.)

[Samskeyti]

Grats Lupis!! And at 76, nice


On Tuesday evening, I was late to login and nearly forgot to do so. I also forgot that my guild had scheduled an OS25 run. So they've been waiting for me in the raid instance, invite and summon me when we finally log on, then we will Sartharion and our guildleader wins the drake. She promptly trades it to me, as she knows how I've been complaining about never winning mount rolls and how nice it would go with my blue rogue Bloodfang recolor.

I has pretty blue drake!!! Always loved this one! Thank you Skylis <3 <3

[Magli]

Ooo, that's nice. I gotta run more OS25.