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!