The History of Rare Vanilla WoW Mounts

[@sneaksies8931]

Glad you have you back Hiru! Hope you are feeling better.

[@Rianoria]

He was busy making Yu-Gi-Oh videos :P

[@wowgeeek]

I remember asking for a TCG box for Christmas one year when I was a kid (~2007ish) and I pulled the riding turtle mount. I couldn’t believe it. Truly a Christmas miracle lmao

[@frydsaman6857]

When they added it as a mount you could obtain by fishing in draenor u must've gotten slightly annoyed

[@lDanielHolm]

"Lord Aurius Rivendare" wasn't the vanilla version of the final boss; that was Baron Rivendare. He was replaced by Aurius in Cataclysm, after Baron Rivendare got upgraded to the Four Horsemen with the level 80 version of Naxxramas. (He was in both Naxxramas and Stratholme for the duration of WotLK, I believe, as the Stratholme version was only removed in patch 4.0.3a.)

[@josejuanandrade4439]

Hiru started to play in WoTLK, that may be the reazon he dosen't know that Baron Rivendare was the original boss, even tho i'm sure the tool tip of the item mentions Baron Rivendare specificaly. He also did not know that this mount is the 1st rare boss mount drop, and not the ZG ones....

[@hirumaredx]

Lol you know I had baron in the first draft, and then changed it when I double checked since I wasn’t sure if I was remembering wrong because I play too much hearthstone battlegrounds. Looks like I should have triple checked

[@ricardoescher5705]

@@josejuanandrade4439 Baron Rivendare was still the boss in Stratholme back in wrath, he was just removed with revamp in cata. I remember farming him with my first pally back in lich king era

[@josejuanandrade4439]

@@ricardoescher5705 Oh that's right!

[@RazanaArcclaw]

@@hirumaredx See i knew i should have wrote the script, i woulda told you right away, y'all will not believe the errors in the initial script. imagine confusing stratholme for shattrath.

[@A_little_bit_of_every_thing]

Hiru thank you so much for the shout out!! 12:22 I’m a big fan and have been watching your content for years!!! Thank you!! ❤️🐯

[@hirumaredx]

Oh wow its actually you! My editor added it in since the news came out in the middle of the production for the video, so you gotta thank him for that.

[@sednah8975]

I saw an Icy Veins article on the Bengal Tiger mount. There’s one player in game who has it. Amara, the Make-A-Wish recipient behind the Jenafur secret. It was another gift to her as part of her Wish. She was seen in game on the mount during the Icecrown Shadowlands pre-patch event

[@RazanaArcclaw]

Yeah while editing the video that popped up, so we included it in the video.

[@Ob_GynKenobi]

You're dying so you ask for wow pixels? Jesus Christ....

[@RazanaArcclaw]

@@Ob_GynKenobi Make a wish is a program that gives kids a wish who may not make it, Her wish was to get the bengel tiger and jenefur as she was worried she may not live long enough to see them ingame. She also had a song she made added ingame, and an NPC of her made ingame. Blizz has done tons with make a wish, who cares if its just pixels. Being on your death bed in a hospital for months, pixels on a screen mean a lot more to you then 20 minutes in a sports car.

[@sickleds]

@@Ob_GynKenobi judging a dying kids wish is a really disgusting thing to do dude, how low can you be

[@A_little_bit_of_every_thing]

@@Ob_GynKenobi lol no. The Tiger was an after thought. I had a trip to L.A. for a week and met all the devs and musical composers of WoW, created an NPC, wrote my own song that is in game, and immortalized my cat Jenafur!

[@DJ_Treu]

Occam's Razor: He quit playing and now because he hasnt logged in for over 5 years his character got name reset and is just a placeholder on servers and therefore wont appear on any list or armory.

[@SCP--rj8hm]

Ocram?

[@LunaTulpa]

It was definitely because he was selling the mount, I distinctly remember seeing the thread for it, with a bunch of people questioning if it was him, and was later confirmed to be the mount owner Very, very shortly after the auction was closed and the thread locked, mentioning that the mount had been taken from his inventory, and I even personally checked the armory to see it was gone

[@iRemilia]

i've been playing wow since the end of vanilla and ever since i've first seen someone on the zul gurub tiger i wanted to get one. i spent the bc and wotlk years farming zul gurub and then on the 6th of september 2009 i finally managed to get the tiger and the raptor, both in the same run. probably still the best moment i ever had in the game up until now.

[@kwahn106]

I don't need to finish watching this video to know it will be informative, relaxing and have a nice background beat. We appreciate your work, and keep making quality videos! :)

[@RazanaArcclaw]

Thanks!

[@josejuanandrade4439]

And that the Number 1 rare mount is Gun-Ther Arc-Anus!

[@Kpazz]

@@RazanaArcclaw Mate please learn difference between "then" and "than". A comment on KZbin is no big deal but when it pops in a video at least 3 times, it's a bit sloppy.

[@RazanaArcclaw]

@@Kpazz does it really matter?

[@Kpazz]

@@RazanaArcclaw Well if it was your channel then no, but when you work for another channel it makes them look bad too.

[@dodgykebaab]

I don’t even play WoW anymore but still watch this channel!

[@DanieJlRamos]

I always feel kinda happy for hirumaredx when the percentage of subscribed viewers goes up.

[@josejuanandrade4439]

There is also a couple other mounts that MAY be considered rare. The original pvp mounts because originaly, you only needed level 55 and 75 riding skill to use them, and of course Commander rank to buy it, but these were 100% speed mounts. And they were the ONLY epic speed mounts for level 55+ ever in the game and also the only epic speed mounts that did not require epic riding skill AAAAAND also the only mounts that did not need the specific racial training, like tiger riding...Yeah folks, you NEEDED to get exalted with Darnasus if you wanted to ride a tiger in vanilla, so you could learn tiger riding. The only 2 mounts that did not require tiger riding were the black war tiger and the zulian tiger. With the death of the previous pvp system, the mounts were reworked to be just like any other epic mount.

[@DevelonLP]

How cool is that having to learn different riding skills for different mounts. Oldschool wow was so much more immersive i love it.

[@akhsdenlew1861]

@@DevelonLP it was cool back then when we were exploring and we were mesmerized by the game. But as it turns out, those "old" systems don't stand too well in today's standards.

[@Dvilofbwc]

I think it would be cool to see this for the rest of the expansions just to see how the game has changed when it comes to mounts that you can find and how to get them

[@soundparticle1498]

Great video! I love it! I'm still your biggest fan.

[@Oton4shi]

7:04 you forgot the Blue Qiraj Mount you can get via Archaeology added in Cataslysm. It's usable outdoors (ground only) and kinda rare. I know it is not a 'rare classic' Mount but you mentioned the revamped ZG mounts answell =)

[@Pollyform01]

Ahh the memories, I got the Zulian Tiger on my 30th run and Death Charger Reins on my 54th run in BC. I also bought the Riding Turtle for like 500g in game..

[@tenkowal]

Guaranteed drop mounts from hard modes started in WotLK (OS 3D mounts, Mimirons Head...) 4:40. In Cata, there were first changes to 1% drop chance of those mounts, as they would be too easy to obtain.

[@heavyspark813]

I still hop on my riding turtle since I actually pulled it. Been playing the card game forever. Wished they kept going with it.

[@jerry1dc]

one of my favorite wow channels

[@realpdark]

I started soloing Baron Rivendare with my mage during the first week of Feb 2008, did a total of 3 runs and got the deathcharger at the last run. I still remember the moment I saw that mount dropped for me.

[@sandrobletry4486]

Rarest vannila pet list?^^ ( not the hunters one)^^

[@kamov2006]

I don't play WoW, but , for some unknown reason, I REALLY enjoy your videos!

[@RazanaArcclaw]

Glad you do!

[@potiler4755]

Not to be that kind of person, but in classic, 1 guy in the Guild APES got the winterspring frostsaber like first week or something crazy. And again, The black Qiraji battle tank, Maitoz Guild leader of APES did it from start to finish on his stream in 23 hours

[@_Lis25]

4:40 oh soundtrack from my childhood.

[@Ozzy242]

When I played in BC I would farm the Deathcharger and the limit was 5 times in a row. I'm not sure if it was daily or it was a few hours. I got it after (I feel was) 5 million runs.

[@eisernfront8549]

I appreciate your videos 👌🔥

[@Eucep]

One other old mount is the non swift Brewfest Ram. Which you only got if you did brewfest first year and got the stamp.

[@RonJomero]

Yep! I still like to mount up on that one when I get into a rare-mount war. I'm a little sad I gave my wife the blizzcon ticket that got her the blizzard bear mount, since she doesn't care and doesn't even play anymore. Oh well.

[@Lone_Wolf_91]

Thx to your very interesting videos that I watch for quite a time and never rly played wow I finally started to play wow and dang its amazing ;) Thx

[@leonst.7471]

I got the turtle while fishing for those darkmoon fishes suprised me quite a bit

[@miseto5211]

Addon name 1:14 dot icon on floating damage numbers

[@GrimFelArt]

My mum was one of the first 10 people on her server to get the frostsaber back in the day. And she the The Insane title too when it was added. Madwoman

[@rkahaog2]

I was a human in vanilla and when I hit 60 I was still saving up for my epic mount. Then I found out you could grind NE rep to get a nightsaber mount. I spent about a month running morrowgrain back and forth until exalted. So my first epic mount was the nightsaber. I think the wintersaber was my second mount grind.

[@stevencastillo8914]

That Frost saber Mount grind and 900 g price is absolutely insane for vanilla

[@debiw8599]

What's special about Rivendare's Deathcharger is that it is the exact same appearance as Arthas' mount in WarCraft 3. It's the only ground mount my DK's use, and they're the only ones that use it, for that reason.

[@chw14556]

I had the riding turtle.. used to get so many whispers asking where it was from lol. Now it’s irrelevant. But it was cool being able to ride it at any level back then.. when the game was good.

[@akhsdenlew1861]

game's still good, but the generation that has been playing the game is just no longer 15 years old. The game is indeed different, but no neccesarly bad.

[@dunnoowo8828]

maybe the next video could be about the rarest white items

[@crankypants1366]

Can you do a Short History of Flight Masters? I don't know if there will be any lore or anything behind them, but I'm just curious. Thank you :)

[@RazanaArcclaw]

Total poggers.

[@justinschuster666]

Nice editing, fellow warlock master race

[@danieldieni3188]

I have a riding turtle on my account! I went for the spectral tiger in like 2009 or somthing i forgot and ended up with the turtle loot card and the tabard of flame card.

[@user-hn9fr7mn3x]

Always aggravated me that the BLACK qiraji mount is actually PURPLE

[@Seabersify]

Even though it was a name change (though I'm sure there's lore implications to use in future I suspect)...It was Baron Rivendare in classic / vanilla, I think the change in name was in WotLK when Naxx was re-introduced. Side note, the sentence in brackets, I only say lore implications because I suspect at some point the boss will be used in some way for DK's or something, but cos it's a classic dungeon, I doubt he will be given the whole "secure Aurius cos he's the barons son" thing.

[@DrPluton]

My only mount in Vanilla (on my main, a human mage) was my Chestnut Mare. I didn't get epic riding until level 64, I think. I picked up the Swift Brown Steed. Before TBC was over, I added an ebon gryphon mount and all the talbuks (except for the Dark War Talbuk). I now have over 200 mounts.

[@chinbold433]

How tf did u get lvl 64 in vanilla

[@DrPluton]

@@chinbold433 I didn't. It took me until TBC to earn enough gold for it.

[@Reelyreed]

The personality your editor puts into the videos is so damn charming

[@leakyo9437]

I still remember getting the swift Razzashi Raptor on my nelf hunter. It was in a pug group, my first ever kill on mandokir and i rolled 100.

[@valecrassus7835]

I was never patient enough to farm rare mounts. I spent all my RNG luck when, in WotLK, I got a Sea Turtle and the Turtles All the Way Down achievement the very day they released the mount, on the second school I fished in within just an hour or two of the servers coming back up after the patch. Didn't get a server first, though, so either someone else got just as insanely lucky as I did, or there wasn't a server first achievement for it.

[@Vidar93]

Ive played on and off since about 4 months after launch and a whole lot from classic to MoP and man that swift zullian tiger is still such a sore spot lol. Its one of those I farmed religiously on multiple characters every single week and never got it to drop and with it getting removed its one of just a couple mounts or titles that ive missed out on over the years that it still bums me out to this day lol. Ive occasionally looked to try and get it off the black market AH but no luck.

[@morgltheoracle7962]

4:34 how did ZH have the first rare mounts? Baron Rivendare in Stratholme also drops a mount which is also pretty rare

[@RazanaArcclaw]

raid*

[@mariemeow9757]

I already ran strath soooo many times - never dropped. Then, when timewalking dungeons where up I went there and it dropped. I rolled a 1 and didn’t get it. Since then I‘m semi depressed and didn’t attempt strath again😂

[@fizzlewick]

i recently saw a screenshot from retail( at least thats what the guy implied) where the guy who posted it was apparently in a random group with someone on a bengal tiger

[@RelatosdeAzeroth]

Que buen video! cuanta nostalgia en un solo lugar

[@nelprincipe]

@hirumaredx do a series on the history of specs with identity crisis (demo/survival) and their concept/lore/gameplay changes

[@rebeccagreen9270]

Hello there! Can anyone tell me what piece of music starts playing at 2:52? I've heard it before and I've been trying to track it down for ages!

[@fierylambion7294]

What's the music at 0:45?

[@igodjordan4364]

About the Tuttle I fish the Tuttle 2 time on cataclysm zone in the fire land areas on the rivers..

[@RonJomero]

Didn't know my Riding Turtle was THAT rare. I was never able to sell the card, so I just eventually used the code myself. I could have sworn the spectral tiger came from that same card season, so was surprised that wasn't shown here. I did have a guild mate who had an unarmored wolf 60 mount. I advised he not trade it in when that became available since I knew it was now a prestigious thing. But the cosmetic look of the new wolves was too strong for him and the idea of farming up another 900 gold was not appealing. Great video, it really took me back.

[@andyf7002]

hate to break it to ya, but it’s not rare anymore, in wod they made it fishable. Got mine In 30 mins

[@RonJomero]

@@andyf7002 meh, no big deal. I'm not the sort of person who needs to be admired for having something rare.

[@josejuanandrade4439]

The ZG mounts ARE NOT the first rare boss drop mounts of the game... that honor goes to Deathcharger's reins. The baron mount was in the game from launch, and there are records of people getting it as soon as patch 1.2.

[@RazanaArcclaw]

yeah we mention that in the video, we meant the first RAID rare boss drop.

[@josejuanandrade4439]

@@RazanaArcclaw Oh i see that. BTW did you see my other comment about the other "rare" mounts, the original pvp mounts? They kinda can be considered rare in a way, because they only existed for a few patches in their original way.

[@RazanaArcclaw]

@@josejuanandrade4439 yeah hiru mentions them in the video.

[@davidsvensson1215]

The thing is that he does not state rare(Blue) mount even if it's a 100% speed which the Deathcharger is, but Epic(Purple). So he has right in that regard but he speak it out wrong!

[@tonyklebs2542]

I just got the deathchargers reins yesterday

[@unholydead9513]

DUDE they really did add the Fluorescent Green Mechanostrider again. It's in Season of Discovery!

[@darylcheshire1618]

The Lucid Nightmare is from doing the long chain that lets you into the Karazhan Crypts.

[@DarkScorpion64]

The reason undead had armored mounts from the beginning is most likely because they already had the model for it. Vanilla WoW release was a pretty rushed affair which is why it had so many hidden stuff in it.

[@yeast7485]

Aurius was alive in the Chapel in Strat during vanilla, he only became a deaht knight in cata.

[@captredbeard471]

So the Bengal tiger has it can be used by void elf, lightforged draenei, etc? But it was never added to the game? So how?

[@darylcheshire1618]

With Winterspring cat, you still built up Timbermaw rep as well.

[@mrmistmonster]

I feel like that first mount something is off with your description because I don't remember a quest so much as endlessly farming those furry guys for their drops to turn in. I never got the mount, just the little summon-able pet that could do a little bit of damage.

[@MrLolguy93]

>Dat warlock with the Noblewoman's laugh

[@RazanaArcclaw]

[@1un4cy]

free rare mount only like 500g epic mount, where you could pay a lot less for another warlock to summon it for you

[@bobothemonkey2313]

im gonna go farm the un'goro mount now

[@Retzmag]

@@krayos13 Why? I recently did it on my rogue after having the quest sit there for a good 4+ years in the quest log

[@Spigz76]

Any explanation for the purple kodo outside Everlook?

[@furydeath]

I remember when I got my deathcahrge in TBC also remember how many run's it took me to this day 97 lol

[@ChaoS1626]

Here before withered baldman watches it on stream POGGERS

[@RazanaArcclaw]

he doesent wathc out videos often anymore :P i have included references to him in many videos he never saw, it be how it be, too many vids for him to watch to keep up with them all.

[@Smurfen249]

Guaranteed 100% for hard tasks wasnt that added in wotlk and not cata? I remember that Mimirons head and Invincible had a 100% drop rate with hard mode fight 25 on Yogg and 25HC for LK and changed to a low drop in 4.0

[@WolfmanXD]

Hey I actually have one of the mounts on this list. I have the turtle mount from the tcg.

[@TheBulldogsk8]

What is that addon where the icons pop off the top of the enemy when you do damage?

[@miseto5211]

Nameplate scrolling combat text my dude.

[@ich8966]

2:21 Wasn't that in WotLK? Great video though!

[@lorrieruff4402]

LOL I did not know about the fact of No Orange tiger mounts for Night Elves.

[@1un4cy]

Based on casual gold gains I feel like 1000g in vanilla is more around 10k in shadowlands prepatch 500k? Imagine doing blackrock foundry for half a year to save up for that (222 weeks in shadowlands gold nerfs) 1000g you can casually make 100g a day just by running dungeons without even trying to goldfarm in classic

[@KaiSilverhawk]

... now I miss WoW TCG again...

[@Nasilje.u.Daskvudu]

only 39,2? common, guys let's get it to 39,3. we can do it! and i love how chris made a fuss boutta orange tigers and they gave 'em some, pretty much, white ones. i love it ironically and unironically.

[@Ocyla]

Oh noes, rare mounts. A weakness right behind rare pets.

[@jasonkan9427]

You forgot to mention the rarest mount of them all... Gunther Arcanus...

[@dragonfan36]

hiru as an owner of a sea turtle since wrath you are actually wrong it is very SLIGHTLY faster than base movement speed even with minor movement speed

[@ItsAVolcano]

No way that tiger had a 1% drop rate. ZG was back when I was raiding and we saw literally 3x the number of raptors than tiger mounts.

[@johnwilkerson1511]

39.2? I think your numbers are improving. :)

[@CHRSS111]

Facepalm for Hiru’s brother.

[@norsknerdwhoamI]

microphone monkaS

[@treiz01]

I have the Razzashi Raptor and I have no idea how or when I obtained it, lmao

[@Wokiis]

You and your editor should talk a bit about doing re-shoots when new info is found. Not the most optimal format to have text say something completely differrent and often interesting while the voiceover talks about something else.

[@UstraMage]

I have 2 favorite mounts, the meco-hog and the ram mount I got from the first beerfest. I really wish they had made that ram look different from the later years as that one was a hard one to get because the quest timing was very hard from most players it seemed, and who really wanted to carry around an extra mount back then

[@bigbigfloof]

The player with the mechanostrider mount tried selling his account. Blizzard caught wind and banned his account thus sending this mount to the twisting nether.

[@tylerdurden639]

I am *STILL* to this day SO pissed that the devs for whatever reason pulled the epic white raptor from availability the literal DAY I was planning on buying it. I had farmed up my 5,000 gold across my characters, and the game gave the notice that servers were coming down in 15 minutes. I didn't have enough time to move all my gold to my troll hunter to go buy the mount and I had been playing for like 12 hours that day anyway, so I thought, I'll get it when the servers come back up. Turns out that was a BIG MISTAKE. The patch notes said that it had been removed. No explanation, just a basic screw you to me. My keyboard paid the price for Blizzard's insolence. Edit: You were wrong in the video... It wasn't 1,000 gold for the epic mount, it was *5,000* gold!

[@TheBigupz]

i was farming every week the ZG mounts, one day i decided to bring a friend who just started playing the game and had just hit lvl 60, so i brought him in, mount dropped, he won the roll, im still salty, but i love that bloke been playing with him for 12 years

[@arthurwiebusch9292]

Cool

[@michixlol]

IMO they should have kept mounts that rare. They could have added new ones, but I would have liked them all to be hard to obtain. Like every mount I have I really have done something for.

[@MrBlablabla119]

4:33 "garunteed" bruh.

[@horrorkesh]

I was finally able to get rivendares mount

[@frtzkng]

I wonder why they didn't just turn the old unarmored epic mounts into rare mounts and instead completely removed them from vendor tables

[@malicant123]

It was rare back in the day to see someone on any mount that wasn't their racial mount.

[@charleskoch7894]

I will sub once the spelling and grammar errors are edited.

[@AbdelhakSmara]

Hey ! 39% .... that's an improvement :p

[@Ash-V-Leal]

Proud owner of Swift Razzashi Raptor and yes RNG was nuts to get one, as per Rivendare's Deathcharger I got that mount farming for a few hours (like 5 a day) in 6 months with another two of my friends of mine.

[@JM-sy5qv]

Got that ZG tiger on my first try. It was WOTLK tho.

[@TiltedSquare4]

My fiance's dad got server first in obtaining the ZG tiger mount in classic . He was ecstatic when he got won the roll on it 🤣