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Oh, the irony..

Monday, April 5th, 2010

So I’m plodding around on a lower level alt doing some quests and Sylvaine there offers to take my alt through Magister’s Terrace, which happens to be one of my favourite instances. Who would say no to some fun in a favourite instance? Well, I think I might have had I predicted the outcome…

Back in December I made a very happy post that I’d finally gotten my Swift White Hawkstrider after months of grinding for it. Before we went in I jokingly said that mount better not drop. Anybody want to guess what happened in the Magister’s Terrace run I had earlier? Yup, the mount dropped, on my baby alt’s first trip to the heroic version of the dungeon. I couldn’t believe it. After an epic roll of 7 it appeared in my bags mocking me. Thankfully, after 15 minutes of intense persuasion, Sylvaine accepted his nice new shiny mount. Grats to him. But the irony, oh the irony… sigh…

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The long road to a hundred mounts

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Upon request I’ve compiled a list of the mounts that in the end awarded the Mountain o’ Mounts achievement. There are several mounts available that I have yet to collect so this is mostly to show which specific mounts I personally got for the achievement. I have done my best to include what is needed to obtain the various mounts and grouped the various mounts by how to get them: reputation requirements to buy or get given the mount, purchasable mounts that are not reputation dependent, instance drops, achievement rewards and other mounts. At the bottom of the page I will include a short list of mounts that were options I was considering had I not been lucky with a few rare drops. There are full lists of obtainable mounts on various sites, for example WoW Vault has a very comprehensive list.

Before you start collecting these mounts you should know that it will take a lot of time grinding for reputation, tokens for purchasing mounts and gold in order to get all these mounts.

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Mountain o’ mounts

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Well, I hadn’t really planned on updating because I’m not feeling well, but now I just can’t help myself. The couple of heroics Rebella did turned out quite a lot better than I could have hoped for. A new mounts and an achievement I’ve been working on for months.

Blue Proto-Drake

We decided to go to Utgarde Pinnacle, just in case the mount would drop today. A couple of my friends wanted emblems anyway. So, we queued up and low and behold… we were suddenly in ToC! Group leading isn’t always easy when it suddenly comes to selecting a specific dungeon, lol. Maybe someone misunderstood a mount run for a mounted run? It was a minor distraction anyway. On second try we did end up in Utgarde Pinnacle and after Skadi randomly reset himself three times he finally hung around long enough so we could kill him. And it actually dropped! I’d already seen it drop a few times and finally it was mine. I couldn’t believe my luck! And it didn’t end there…

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New toys? For me?

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

I have never had much luck in wow. (That is a statement no one will no longer believe after reading this post.) Normally it takes tries upon tries to finally get what I am after, regarding both drops and rolls. It almost seems like it has all been stored up until this week and I’ve been unbelievably lucky.

The Zulian Tiger

I have lost count how many times I have been to Zul’Gurub poking the two bosses that can possibly drop mounts. I got exalted a while ago and since then my other half has nearly gained exalted as well from mostly just handing in the rep items dropped off some of the trash next to the two bosses. Zul’Gurub has nearly become Rebella’s second home. The bow drop off the raptor boss has on far too many occasions fooled me into thinking the mount has dropped and that’s as close as I’ve been. However, at the end of last week, the lovely Priestess Thekal finally gave up her mount!

White Hawkstrider

After a very hectic day yesterday we decided to just relax with a couple of instances that could yield a mount. I figured that my luck was long gone and I might get another after 6 months or so. Little did I know how wrong the assumption would be. Magister’s Terrace has always been a favourite of mine, even back in the TBC days of crowdcontrolling nightmares. (It is here the name Monstarkin was first used, but that warrants a post of its own.) The pet has dropped a fair few times, the orb only a couple of times and the mount had yet to be seen – until yesterday! I don’t know how long I was sat staring at the screen for, I just could not believe it. Only four days after I had gotten the Zulian tiger. Unbelievable! I was for a moment worried that we would not go back until the Bear said he quite liked this mount, so we will try to get it to drop again! I love Magister’s Terrace, and I love this mount!

Hawkstrider and the Bear

The Bear

The Bear is not a mount, but still needs mentioning. I could not write this post and I very much doubt I would have stuck to trying for the mounts for so long if it wasn’t for him, so thank you!

(the page will soon be updated with better quality screen shots)

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