Top 10 Most Annoying Mounts to Farm in World of Warcraft

[@Local_Hobo]

The only time I've seen Time-Lost Proto Drake was when I was lvl 77 during Wotlk and I pulled it, died, and it flew away never to be seen again

[@Sirsammy69]

F

[@tomharrison426]

I've seen (heard) it twice. First time it killed me. Second time I had npcscan, or silver dragon, up and running and my computer screamed at me. Said it was detected but never saw it.

[@TheLionAndTheLamb777]

I've seen it once, I didn't get it though.

[@maxhalpert]

I haven't played WOW since Cata but I got time-lost. I was doing dailys back in Wotlk days and I ran into that MFer. It's the mount I'm most proud of.

[@garyfrazier5414]

I saw it ONCE alive, twice dead. The one time I saw it alive I was on the damn rocket from K3 to Frosthold. No way to get off the rocket. GRRRRR.

[@gripghoulshorts2503]

Time lost protodrake was made a little easier because people in a group could get it which is how I got it. Could not believe some people were nice enough to taunt it for tag and then wait 20 mins for all to arrive

[@Fr33mx]

20 minutes? Were you walking down there or something? It doesn't take more than 10 minutes to get from anywhere to amywhere in this game. The abundance of portals just doesn't make existence of long distances possible.

[@andreramos148]

They really did that? That's so bullshit...

[@XochiCh]

@@mahtavaa1000 If you enjoy something because its rare, rather than it being cool by itself, you dont enjoy it, simple as that. I'd reccoment not farming something if you're going to cry everytime it gets easier to farm for the rest of the people.

[@Zanza1122]

​@@XochiCh many ppl enjoy hunting for rare things, if everyone and their mother could easily get a time lost proto drake, believe me, it wouldnt be such a well known and desired mount ( or atleast used to be desired since its alot easier to obtain nowadays then it was back in the day) or even the heavenly cloud onyx mount, do you rly think ppl only still try to get it just because of how it looks? its the fkn rarity that makes ppl want it, thats the same with most mounts on this list.

[@danlorett2184]

@@mahtavaa1000 This is one of those kids who buys Supreme T-shirts and thinks he's hot shit. Get over it, nerd.

[@sans8946]

I ran into Aeonnax a few months ago while levelling a character through deepholm for loremaster... The minute or so it took for me to relog onto my priest and get to him from SW may have been one of the most stressful minutes of my life lol

[@Zoggosh]

damn i would have just ripped it on my levelling toon man. would not have left that shit to chance

[@afinchinthedark]

I feel you on this one, but with loque'nahak. While leveling my paladin in sholazar, he spawned almost right in my face. The joke was I spent 6 months camping on my hunter.

[@QQysosrs]

got it in cata when i played my alt, just respeced the first time to enhance, didnt even had full gear. i paniced when i engaged him cause i didnt even know how the event works, shoutet at my friends to tell me how to play enhance sham asap and how the event works x)

[@ashtonmurray5012]

I saw it on my shammy alt- I did not know it dropped a mount. :,)

[@TheMasasame]

Dishonorable mention to the Ivory Cloud Serpent: 4 hour spawn timer in the air with a 10 second window to activate after finding a random drop from a mob in 8.3 Pandaria only during Mogu Invasion.

[@samanthaemorgan6]

I was so obsessed with getting void talon I started having dreams about getting to the portal and it despawning. Finally got it and the camel. Time to go do some archeology until shadowlands

[@gaspz5974]

I used to farm it without flying in Draenor, and I eventually got it by pure luck in SMV, i was just going to check the spawns and quit for a while, then I see the portal, lol (There was a guy near camping it, and the portal just spawned at the next spot from him, and I was the one that got it xD).

[@Lagolad]

I must not have realized, when I got my camel, how hard it was to get. I remember I got it after spending a couple of days of effort. To realize it could have taken me much longer makes me shudder now.

[@ForeverFridayVideo]

Handy notes helped me so much with void talon. I just did my rounds whenever I would usually just be doing backflips in storm wind and the portal just appeared! Def don’t give up 💕

[@wilFluffball]

@@ForeverFridayVideo i had no clue it even existed and simply logged on to find this strange portal.

[@ranmo6912]

My roommate was camping for this mount and of course nothing. We had to leave for some reason, I cannot remember why, but as he was about to log it spawned. We both screamed like idiots, he stopped the log out timer and got the mount.

[@Gre-unit]

Got my time lost after 8 minutes of camping. Someone told me they hoped that I'd die. Fun times.

[@THC8513]

Aww i spend more than a year camping and a guy who just wanted me to make him a gem won it by rolling after he got his gem. I will always remember that

[@SevenGC89]

I spent literally an entire weekend, with maybe 3 hours of sleep a night to get the Tol'Vir arch mount lol, It made me so happy when you said only 8% of players have it lol bc im not a mount collector but i love the sythlid mounts

[@WikiHL]

Gratz!

[@danlorett2184]

God that's it? I spent nearly 300 hours getting mine.

[@SevenGC89]

@@danlorett2184 damn bro thats insane

[@jokiczek]

I got it by accident while looking for Vial of Sands. I was actually annoyed because I wanted a jar xD

[@brodynapier1428]

I'm about to undertake the farm this week when i get my computer and i agree, love hearing less than 10% have it, makes me want it more and a rideable battle tank outside of AQ? fuck yes

[@reinhath7665]

I swear he's just trolling us with how he pronounces some things

[@decimater75]

@@GrimMelvin Ultimate Qiraji Battletank...

[@PlatSlinger]

@@GrimMelvin I’m

[@muskeldundret]

Remember a time a friend and I was waiting for one the gronns in WOD to spawn. After approx 18hours I decided to call it. 1 hour later he had his gronn mount.

[@Sirvikrail]

After the queuing crap had been fixed, me and 2 other former guild mates would join hunting groups to farm Sunhide (the Gronnling mount) but didn’t have much luck. Oh man did they get pissed when I decided to skip raid night to stay in a Sunhide kill group. About 15 minutes after their raid started, Sunhide spawned and the group I was in all got Sunhide.

[@RanaRandom]

I bought mine from the Auction House :/

[@7Sarutan7]

a IRL friend invited to a group camping that rare and it spawned as soon as i came to the spawn point they were camping (apx 5 min or so)

[@hellboy19991]

I am pretty sure the other event mounts are all 1%, EXCEPT for the love rocket, that one has a 0.05% chance to drop iirc

[@eier3252]

It's 0.033%, or 1/3333; and you only get about 14 tries per character per year

[@justinmyhan4419]

all WB Mounts are 1/2000, Love rocket is 1/3000 and u can only do 2 weeks a year, definitely not 1%

[@odinoldman1324]

I got all the other mounts from events in a single year. Further 9 years of farming this mount on 9 characters and i have never seen it drop

[@josejuanandrade4439]

NAH, the Love Rocket has a 0.0000fuckyou chances of droping. I did the math!

[@AmberWrath]

You couldn't be more wrong

[@yakumile]

When you realize you have all the annoying mounts and you keep asking yourself if this game entertains you or annoys you

[@RanaRandom]

There was a hole here...... It's nearly gone now

[@Ugaskunkka]

I actually saw Aeonaxx when Cataclysm was released, and I was the first one on my server to arrive at Deepholm. Didn't bother to even tag it because it was 3 levels higher than me, and I didn't know of the mount back then.

[@WeareblueGaming]

unfortunate

[@zechsblack5891]

I saw it the first time I went to deepholm which was well after the expansion was current. Could have soloed it easy but just didn't know it had a drop. Never seen it since.

[@BG_Electron]

@@zechsblack5891 Yeah except back then you were about to mount on it, not to tag it.

[@curtisbell9563]

Surprised the honour level 500 mount wasn't in this list. Literally takes over a year of playing pvp non -stop to grind.

[@RanaRandom]

for me there's this new expansion's PVP Courser mount obtainable at ?!?honour lvl 15?!?

[@qunt100]

Any of the arena team or RBg based mounts are annoying as heck to get. All of them are.

[@RanaRandom]

Currently trying to farm *ECHE-LO* the ethereal Moose, Archaeology mount (Highmountain Area). Six Hundred fossils AARRGGG

[@dustinblanchard2124]

Respect

[@peijrum]

@bean machine You mean 2 40 man raids, one ally one horde.. Wasn't a an exploit or so..

[@josejuanandrade4439]

Pro Tip for people wanting to the the Void Talon: Park an alt somewhere around Socrethar's Rise in shadowmoon valley, and log tuesday right after the reset and look around for the portal, there are 3 spawn points there iirc. I did that and got it in 2 weeks in WoD. I also had seen it there 3 or 4 other times after that just by accident.

[@HavocHounds1988]

What i did is I parked an alt at in each zone near the spawn points and would just alternate checking. I woke up early one day and logged on to check the spawns and luckily one of the ones in Frostfire ridge was up and nobody was around.

[@cameron3351]

Can confirm, that’s where I got mine

[@Khanmanlol]

Good advice. By the time you finally got it, how long did you have to wait since the reset on that day? A few minutes? A few hours? If it were me, I'd wait at Frostfire Ridge, since it also have 3 spawn points that are close to each other.

[@Khanmanlol]

@ jose juan andrade How long did you have to wait after the reset when you finally found the mount?

[@josejuanandrade4439]

Khanmanlol the 2nd week on reset i flew around a few seconds and i saw the portal. To put it better: i was logged in before reset. Servers went down, and i did came back after 45 mins to see if the servers were back on, and they were, so this was 7:45 ish i logged and flew around Socretar's Rise. Saw the portal the first time i flew on the area in front of the burial grounds, you know, on the face of the mountain in a small ledge. Hope that helps.

[@TheBlaert]

True story: Wasn't really farming the TLPD hardcore but had an addon for rares so was just checking each time I was in the Storm Peaks. I was just south of the copperpot base at Ulduar and decided to go make a Pot Noodle. Literally was gone for 30 seconds to boil the kettle. Got back and the damn thing was lying dead at my feet. I logged out and quit for 6 months

[@TempzTea]

i got it by accident, was headin towards Ulduar at around midnight, no addons or anything...saw the thing flying down a clif, flew by and thought to myself "wait a minute...was that" ? and yeah i killed it with one blow in mid air, it fell and landed on a spot where u could not loot it x) i was ragin and made a gm ticket, got it in the Mail an hour later tho from the NPC that sends you the good stuff you forgot to loot

[@brettyacyshen9352]

Getting two groups of people of opposite factions and taking turns killing each other does indeed work, and was how I got my Ashhide mount during the final months of Warlords of Draenor. Took a few hours to get all the coins because we had each side get about 10 minutes or so to kill the opposite faction, then they would swap, rinse and repeat until you had all 500 coins. We did it in Shadowmoon Valley (WoD) and it was a breeze, so glad I got it done back then because doing it the normal way did not seem fun.

[@wyder3317]

00:13 it’s ultramarine not ultimate xD

[@twoac]

I get a slip of the tongue, but when he said it for the THIRD time...

[@maismann]

@@twoac at this Point i think he does it on purpose

[@knighthawk3749]

It's funny he mentions the ultramarine battle tank, but not Eche'ro which is crazy annoying to get by archeology as well.

[@rileyk5228]

No, we've been saying it wrong

[@knighthawk3749]

@@hypercynic I didn't say hard, but annoying. Big difference.

[@brettessex5634]

Have a pretty cool Aeonaxx story, After soling Stonecore (back in MOP, when it was time consuming to solo) , 97 times over a 72 hour period, I finally got the "Vitreous Stone Drake" and was hyped. I stepped outside the instance and thought, while in deepholm might aswell try my luck some more for "Phosphorescent Stone Drake", So i set out (with no addons, just a /Target Aeonaxx macro). literally after about 2 laps round, the spawn. In under 10mins, I targetted the freindly npc Aeonaxx, did the mount event thing, and obtained the Phosphorescent Stone Drake. Got both Stone Drake drops within about 15mins of each other.

[@Makubestu]

As someone who has Aeonaxx and Time Lost I can say Time lost is easier. The spawn TLPD shares stays up until killed and is easy to spot. The bat that shares Aeo's spawn timer on the other hand is a battle pet sized mob that is only up for exactly 15 seconds before despawning so unless it spawns right in top of you your chance of missing it high. I camped Aeonaxx for 17 days straight with my longest shift being 31hrs and my average shift being 10hrs. During that time I only saw the bat once. I saw Aeonaxx once previously to getting the mount but was killed swiped by a random who just happened to log in at the right time. When I finally did get him it was in WM just as I was about to log off and call it quits for the day.

[@dragonswafflesandfire3930]

Just earned the Heavenly Onyx Cloud serpent, been at it for a few months and got really lucky! So damn happy

[@phantom0456]

I still remember getting my Phosphorescent Stone Drake back in Cata... and the Grey Riding Camel. The sheer amount of time it took was absurd. Good memories, but I don’t have that kind of time to spend, anymore 😂

[@AlexeyFilippenkoPlummet]

5:50 Phosphorescent Stone Drake - I used to hunt this one! Never got it lol but these are one of my best WoW memories. People would install the NPC Alert addon and just camp this guy for days on end, turning the spearker loud so that when the mob spawns, they'll wake up if they fell asleep. Absolutely unique experience, a real hunt and a real devotion.

[@albertwalduck6816]

Totally nailed it there. I spent 7 hours left from the month card before I got it. That was with camping every moment I wasn't at work. The last week I slept in front of the screen with an alarm to wake me just before it afk logged. Think I got maybe 5 hours the entire week. Man was I a bear for awhile lol.

[@Ashannon888]

I love how things have been skewed a bit. I was hunting for Vyragosa for weeks to finish off the Frostbitten achievement. Saw the stupid TLPD dead 3 times before I finally found Vyragosa alive. (found her dead twice)

[@bigtiredpotato]

For the record, the Big Love Rocket actually has a drop chance of .03% drop chance according to wowhead. Which makes me feel extra special for having it :P

[@sunflowerfie]

when i found voidtalon i actually cried, and i found camel recently and my dad was SO mad he was like "i found so many of those in cata and you find it in bfa???? amazing, honestly."

[@velkynkarma6804]

This is a newer one as of 8.3, but it's bound to be frustrating to farm: Mollie the Alpaca mount. Since it only drops from a BFA world boss, you can only make an attempt for it once per character every 6 weeks, assuming your character is 120 and has world quests unlocked.

[@MS-fb4vs]

My fiance told me about mollie a couple of weeks ago. We got into a group and went to try to get her. He wanted her SO BAD. We both hit the boss... First try I got her. He didn't. He has to now wait 3 weeks to try again 😅

[@Psoewish]

the takeaway for me here is: time to level 40 alts.

[@roycormanjr7215]

I remember it well. During Wrath while in Dalaran I grew tired of seeing so many alliance players with time lost. I tabbed out, looked up his spawn locations, flew towards K3, and the village just NW of K3 I spotted him in the distance. Pulled him, killed him, mounted up, and flew back to Dal to show him off. Did not realize at the time exactly how rare of a spawn he was. All in all, from my interest in him till I had him was less than 15 mins. I realized later how impossibly lucky I was and it became my favorite mount to this day.

[@Yandehime]

I think Rivendare's horse should've gotten an honorable mention at least, considering the 1/5000 chance to get the drop before they buffed it in Legion.

[@aifon7220]

It got buffed in wrath.

[@mcvardek2917]

had it drop in wrath like on my 7th attempt.............

[@aifon7220]

@@mcvardek2917 The drop rate was buffed in wrath to 1%

[@chriskoohk]

@IHS You'd expect all these "I get X mount on my first run" comments everywhere. (which proves nothing) XD

[@danielrichards4450]

I think I remember reading somewhere that the sword has the same drop rate as the horse, got that damn thing 3 times before I finally got the mount.

[@elenaetienne7347]

So I have been camping the TLPD for almost 5 days straight now. Saw 15 Vyragosas and 1 Proto that died just a spot away from me. Today I try again and get in the nicest group of 5 people. Couple hours in I refresh my KZbin and see your video. I watch it and question myself again with " what the hell am I doing here.." 10 minutes later it spawns right at my spot and we all have a beautiful new mount. Your video did some magic, thank you :D

[@FratinandMadrik]

6:25 When I was farming this mount, I talked to a GM who claimed that the Blood Seeker spawn was a myth, and it was, in fact, not currently in the game files. I cannot confirm or deny this, but I never encountered the Blood Seeker after days of farming, but I did get the mount.

[@bryceanglin876]

I went to the island Gunther Arcanas is at and I'm pleased to announce that even after the battle of Undercity he is indeed still chillin on his island

[@Valsiphez]

I had timelost proto back in the day. Surprisingly I killed it while levelling being 77. xp bar was almost full. Got level up to 78 from killing the rare enemy. Tried to mount. „Requires Level 80“

[@Wokiis]

All these “% of players” sound way too high

[@slowandpaneful]

The only places I've found online that track stuff like this are sites that are opt-in. I'm assuming the numbers in the video are from one of these, so "% of players" is probably % of mount collectors.

[@19Szabolcs91]

@@slowandpaneful Yeah, this is propbably the case. Those who even go on these sites are probably hardcore WoW players / collectors so the numbers are probably multiple times higher than they actually are. A lot of casuals don't even bother buying all the racial mounts and the really easy ones.

[@wbrycec]

Peter A Nope! It’s item ID based. Worldofwargraphs, for example

[@wbrycec]

Szabu it’s based on item ID for all characters. Worldofwargraphs is an example of a source

[@Renwoxing13]

@@wbrycec unique account characters or just all characters regardless of account?

[@johnwilliams8654]

I've been trying for the Headless Horseman's Reins for years...

[@brewno]

I got it on my first try many many years ago :(

[@Sebrav]

Just my words! But after like 10 years I finally got it a couple years back.

[@ZeroiusProduction]

I've been going for that mount since catacylsm, haven't gotten it, a bud of mine started in legion, did it when it was out and got the mount within a week (ish) I hate WoW sometimes

[@godlygamer911]

You should have been here in 2010 where they just gave it out like candy... Before that it was super rare

[@wolfshanze5980]

@@godlygamer911 ya, I got mine in 2010.

[@bigmeknurgle]

TLPD was imho the most fun mount to hunt. Flying there in the late and early hours, /who to see how much competition you have, following the three flight paths it shared with Vyragosa, killing Skoll in the valley at every opportunity for that sweet 15g blue he dropped and occaisionally jumping into PvP moshpits at Ulduars meeting stone. Good times.

[@Ashannon888]

And legions of hunters hated you with a passion for killing the lightning warg.

[@Appliancechat]

The Silent Glider from Soundless is an incredibly annoying mount. A 1% drop on a rare with an 8 hour spawn timer that can spawn in multiple different places.

[@wojciechmarciniak6101]

I can't understand why it's not on the list, it's definitely way worse than a few mounts mentioned here. The only plus side is people sometimes make a group for it.

[@Khanmanlol]

Not to mention, it can be hunter tamed. Let that sink in.

[@Rectumanable]

1%?? I must be very unlucky then. I should have gotten 3 by now then.

[@Yattayatta]

@@Rectumanable It's 0.5% afaik, took me just over 580 soundless kills to get it according to rarity. Wife was going crazy with the groups going up in the middle of the night. I finally got it though!

[@momotanaki6097]

Funny story about the Time-Lost Proto Drake and me. At the time, a good portion of my realm was taking a small reprieve from WoW to poke around in D3 when it launched, so I decided to work on farming the achievement for killing all the rares in Northrend and Outland. So I fly over to Storm Peaks to try to find Vyragosa for my list and think, "Oh, I should probably add TLPD to my rare tracker just in case." I kid you not, I tabbed out of the game to find the code to add to my addon, and when I tabbed back in, I was super shocked to find TLPD had spawned right in front of me. Killed it and got the mount, but oddly had to wait several more weeks before I would finally find Vyragosa. Weird how these things work out sometimes.

[@spangles7]

Surprised the Madness of Deathwing mounts didn't make this list, not because of the low drop rate, but the fact you have to do the spine fight

[@zfilez]

lol the Spine fight is accualy quite easy i done it a few times alone xD

[@marcusrutkowski8919]

@@zfilez Its not hard its just takes 20-30 minutes to get to the endboss for a super low dropchance. So this is the most annoying farm for me.

[@ultimateman55]

Agreed. I farmed both of those mounts and it took forever. I had three drops each for for the Life-Binder's Handmaiden and Experiment 12-B before the Blazing Drake finally, finally dropped. Spine slowed things down so much. Brutal grind.

[@plummet3860]

SoO is longer than DS way more annoying

[@Sazandora123]

By the time I finally got every single mount from Dragon Soul, I had done the Spine of Deathwing fight so many times on so many characters almost every week (minus the occasional months-long breaks I took every now and then) since WoD that I could prolly do it now while asleep and with my hands bound, playing on my toes. And yes, it was tough and super chaotic for me during those first few times, but nowadays I realize Spine is actually really easy once you take the time to figure out how it works. All it needs is a little patience.

[@danbstep]

I had the terrified pack mule drop for me at random while I was getting ganked in Drustvar for a world quest. After I ressurrected for the 69420th time, I killed a single bat that dropped it. I sold It at the AH for about 400k gold.

[@milkysmoon489]

I was for sure hoping to see the Sandstone Drake on this list, lmao. Tol'Vir archeology, collect jars, I think it's a 1% drop chance for the recipe from those jars. Kinda on par with the battle tank but since you can taxi your friends around with it, it's highly farmed for but takes the rng of not only getting the jars to make with the archeology fragments, but the rng of the recipe to drop from said jar. Edit: Recipe is an alchemy recipe to make the drake.

[@horrorkesh]

the love rocket I've been doing it every year on more than 10 characters a day every year since its been added

[@S-AI6]

Saw it drop twice during the first year it was available, lost the roll both times stopped bothering with mounts after that.

[@phantom0456]

I’ve done the same. I think if I actually ever got the love rocket I’d die of shock. Of course, you always hear about the people who get it randomly with no effort and had no idea how rare and difficult it is to get... 😂

[@TheLionAndTheLamb777]

I know of two people that got this mount and did so within their first few runs. I'm happy enough to get the brewfest mounts xD.

[@Holmesy87]

Invincible. I've run ICC thousands upon thousands of times and I've never seen it drop. Every lockout, 6 different characters, for yeeeears. One day, one....day :(

[@michaelcassidy5022]

I feel you. I think I had over 500 attempts before taking a break from WoW (which I'm still on). A friend of mine got it on about his 10th XMOG run of ICC. And according to him (I'm not sure if he's telling the truth or not) two copies dropped at the same time.

[@Holmesy87]

@@michaelcassidy5022 oh wow, lucky guy. It is frustrating, but will make it all the sweeter when it finally drops. I got the Time-Lost after only about 8 hours of searching, so I guess this is my punishment lol.

[@randramb]

Even worse.. I've got two Invincible, but still haven't gotten the BLOODY music scroll from LK for garrison acheive :(

[@Juggernuts]

THIs^ 11 characters a week every week for 5+ years

[@aponinaapu2973]

yea i am on 400kills and fuck me never ever

[@mollyh2629]

just an added note on blood seeker for the bat. the bat doesn't stay up. it was put there to troll people using npc scan, the bat only stays up for about 5 seconds then despawns. now that npc scan doesn't work as it use to, its almost impossible to know the spawn timer with the 9 / 10 chance of the bat and 1/10 chance of aeonaxx.

[@4erographer]

I'm pretty sure that if I went to hell for whatever reason, my punishment would be running skyreach 12,500 times

[@terraglade]

18:58 Spent an entire Fall break watching for this mount while watching toons on the TV. One day i got up to pee and ran back to my laptop, saw someone kill it, loot the mount, and fly away on it. I quit wow from cata until late WoD after that XD

[@fai1t0liv3]

Correct answer: All of them. All of them are annoying to farm. Do I have to quit my job and camp out in a zone for 2 months? Annoying. Do I need to farm a billion gold? Annoying. Do I need to grind reputation? Annoying. Do I have to walk over to a vendor? Annoying. Do I have to complete a quest? Annoying. Do I have to log on? Super annoying.

[@Fr33mx]

What are you on about?

[@dantedante8837]

@@Fr33mx his point is that the game is shit which i agree with

[@frankenbou]

I guess if you are not willing to put any effort into something yeah, then everything is annoying. But the problem then is your lazy attitude rather than the game's mechanics (although some stuff is more than tedious to get I will give you that).

[@fai1t0liv3]

@@frankenbou The problem with mounts is that there are only 4 varieties. Flying, Ground, Water, and Convince aka vendor mounts. I get that some look cool and some have prestige behind their acquisition, however, after getting over 350 mounts myself I can say with some certainty that it's a pointless grind. There isn't anything fun about them as an item. The only fun associated with them is their acquisition and even then, it's mostly tedium.

[@da3m0n88]

Farming Aeonaxx was such a hassle, waiting for days and power-napping in between but am so thankful it finally worked out

[@elmagneficogaming6574]

I remember my first ever sha run I was a measly fresh level 90 warlock with 475 gear and I'm pretty sure I did the least dps in the raid party... then once the sha died boom there it was the heavenly onyx cloud serpent I didn't even know it was a rare mount and everybody congratulated me I didn't have the heart to tell them I didn't even have the cloud serpent riding skill yet.

[@Joe_Potts]

I literally got the Time-Lost Proto Drake because while i leveled my pally through K3, some dudes were about to take it down and were asking if anybody wanted it too

[@fonandoozmando5961]

I started playing on EU servers, the first time I went into the zone I found time lost protodrake, not knowing how rare and annoying to get, I wasn't that excited, until my friend told me how hard it was to get. Inow play onNA and lost my baby :(

[@jasondotg]

Back in Wrath before I went to bed I'd park my lock in Storm Peaks with the volume cranked so if the TLPD was spotted my NPCscan alarm would go off waking me up. One morning I woke up and the pop up notification for it was still on my screen... I slept right through it.

[@navyon2714]

The 4 Mists of Pandaria world bosses have a 0,05% chance of dropping the mounts. If you use your bonus roll every week on one charakter, it takes on average 20 years before you see it drops. But only with your bonus roll, otherwise it's about 40 years.

[@noided583]

bonus rolls don't count for mount drops iirc

[@knighthawk3749]

@@noided583 They do for Pandaria World Bosses. They are the only exception.

[@dashkatae]

I think on your first entry, the reason that 10% had the fishing mount was it was one of the only swim mounts at the time and was a lot easier to get then Poseidus.

[@karnivorebear4652]

I can't even imagine trying to get some of these mounts, when I was farming like crazy for the Thundering Ruby Cloud Serpent I had nightmares every single night

[@ellenmurphy6741]

i finally got the last shard i needed last night lol 8 or 9 months in the making haha

[@randomke7ab]

Bought of ah lmao

[@thrasher930]

I sold soooo many thundering rubies. Farming those shards is a nightmare, but there is a necklace in old shattrath sold by a goblin that SEEMS to increase the drop rate.

[@RanaRandom]

2:04 an ADDON conflicting a bit? 9:30 almost the same mechanic of obtaining the *GhostSabre Hunter pet* located north of Darkshore/Kalimdor area (tameable by both factions). obtainable by collecting the *Cat Figurine* which may or may not spawn the above GhostSabre

[@arc7818]

I was actually lucky and got the stone drake...on the PTR...

[@dakotablust1814]

It double counts towards annoying factor

[@sheepkind]

f

[@minxxaii7369]

I'm so sorry bro 😔

[@Ben-vb2us]

Ooooooooof

[@TheWhiskeyBlue]

Oh that sucks!

[@ashleycotterell5419]

The TLPD has such a high collection rate partly due to how it was able to be infinitely tagged and drop shared for a time, and the secrets discord would get hundreds of people the mount at a time.

[@whibedu207]

I found two of the dark star portals, the first one I didn’t realize what it was until later, second one I was beat to it

[@michaeljohnhalse]

Holy crap, I didn't know the Frightened Pack Mule was so rare! It was the first BfA mount that dropped for me, pretty early on in the expansion too.

[@lilbluecaboose]

It's possible it was bugged-- I know the hyena one had a bugged drop rate for a couple of days. As in, the decimal point was in the wrong place sort of bugged.

[@Special_Tactics_Force_Unit]

I remember the time I got the TLPD. Good times, I was freaking out

[@TE-eq1dc]

UPDATE on big love rocket. Blizzard devs that actually played the game and farmed it this past year inn Feb of 2022 said they feel and understand the players frustrations and there will be changes to the drop rate in 2023. What those are they didn’t specify in the blue post but even nerfing it to 5% would help significantly. I actually have it and I’m not mad cause I got lucky. I’m glad more people will be able to get it

[@CoJoGrizzlo]

I read “10 mounts I’m not going to even bother trying”

[@Corrupted]

Finally got TLPD last night, absolutely staying my main mount for a very long time

[@agilagilsen8714]

Ok, so I have returned to wow just for the summer and so I don't have any friends who play. But I have to share this, I got invincible last night! By far my best wow experience to date, I have wanted that ever since I saw the mount the first time. My DK is finally going to look as cool as I always dreamt she woul!

[@carminedenis999]

Yay!!!

[@joshuadonnelly1978]

Gratz, friend! You must have been on top of the world.

[@BansheeKing22]

Took me over three years to get my invincible. And just very recently I got ashes of alar.

[@bubblelover714]

You didn't mention bonus rolls for the sha mount I can confirm it can be bonus rolled as well as galleon, nalak and oondasta. TRUST ME get your bonus rolls before farming these. Rukhmar on the other hand cant be bonus rolled just the MoP ones. Good hunting!!

[@vorvanjguy3470]

You can also buy restored artifacts with Spirits of Harmony in your factions shrine in Vale of Eternal Blossoms in Pandaria through the Spirit of Harmony vendor. Imo the easiest method to get the tank.

[@Jerry2011b]

Really?? I didn't know that, thx for the info

[@Primecat854]

That was removed back in 6.2. The Vendor sells everything MINUS Artifacts.

[@georgercop]

Interesting story behind how I got my Aeonaxx kill. I actually got it at about 6am on Christmas Day, 2010. I woke up early and couldn't get back to sleep, so I did a lap of Deepholm and he was there. Was one of the first on my server to get it. Later the same day, someone I got talking to about it messaged me at about 12:30, having found and killed the Time-Lost Proto Drake as well, as he went and camped it after being enthused by my Aeonaxx kill! I ticketed a GM about it to query whether or not this was intentional, as it was Christmas day, and he confirmed that it was not planned at all, and we were very lucky to have had both spawn on the same day within hours of each other, and on Christmas no less! I did have a screenshot saved somewhere of it, but haven't been able to find it yet, so may need to do some digging for it

[@tomharrison426]

Headless horseman mount should have had an honorable mention. I've heard players have been trying for it for years. Got mine in 08, didnt know how hard it was. It is fun though to mount up after HH is killed, reactions of some people are priceless. And yes, I can be an asshole at times.

[@alewiina]

Yes, I have been farming this mount for as long as I can remember, year after year.... I hate it so much at this point lol

[@hughjazz4936]

My gf and I got it on the same day a week ago after trying... well... this year only. Doesn't say much because she basically is the luckiest WoW player I know, e.g. she got the recipe for the vial of the sands after like 5 tol'vir solves...

[@alewiina]

@@hughjazz4936 My GF got it this year after only 4ish years of farming... I'm on year 10 now and still nothing ;_;

[@99Pierogies]

It was bugged during wrath or cata one year and the drop rate was super high. I remember getting it along with half my guild

[@danlorett2184]

I farmed the Ultramarine Qiraji mount before MoP. It took me over 400 Tolvir completions. One strategy I used is to leave one dig site up per zone if you don't have any dig sites in Uldum. Arch digsites used to prefer (not guaranteed) to spawn in zones with no digsites so you could raise your chances of getting Uldum by leaving up a single digsite in as many zones as possible. It was a really ridiculous grind (and I was mad unlucky too) but I still use my mount all the time so worth it in the long run.

[@marcelgolsteijn6047]

Funny how the only ''annoying'' mount on this list that I own is number one.

[@darkvulpes]

Same here

[@DevonLad]

Yup, here because I knew time lost would be here. I camped it for 5 months. Every evening and all weekend for 5 agonizingly long months. I must have killed Vyragosa over 100 times before I saw the time-lost once. Side note: After finally killing that drake, it took two weeks before I could close my eyes to sleep and not see that zone :-)

[@sassieminx]

My husband the first time playing wow in Uldum found the figurine and got the camel. I had to wait 3 more years till I got mine T_T

[@sketchysunflower]

The only one of this list that I have is the Ultramarine Qiraji Battle Tank because I am the psychopath who genuinely enjoys archaeology

[@davidgabor2120]

This video has a lot of inaccurate information: 1. The Heavenly Onyx Cloud Serpent did not drop at all until patch 5.2 due to a bug and not because it had such a low drop chance, but it is very low indeed (0.03~) 2. Not all the holiday mounts have a 1% drop chance, the Brewfest ones are the most common, the Headless Horseman's mount has around 0.5%. 3. The Big Love rocket has about the same drop chance as the Heavenly Onyx Cloud Serpent (0.03~) which is far from 1% Apart from the above mentioned, great video as usually, but I would expect a little more research from you before making a video.

[@SpunkMcKullins]

Yeah, a lot of this info is as easy to find as checking Wowhead comments. I'm surprised it has so many errors.

[@annakasartzian4719]

waaait the headless horseman mount is that rare? I thought it was common coz it had bug chance to drop.... i got it on 3rd time

[@alejandrosegovia4587]

Wow I got the ultramarine just doing archeology, I wasn’t even looking for it I was just enjoying creating things and the mount project came up. I did not know it was that rare.

[@Carruj]

love rocket is FARR lower than 1% drop rate

[@americandexter]

It’s .01%. I’m guessing he misread the number.

[@kennethcarpenterii7636]

Still, rivendares charger is even more rare than that ahha. I seen a lot of mount offs but never seen someone jump on barons mount during the competition.

[@ShadowDawn]

The sun hawk mount (I can't remember it's full name) has a low drop chance and if your server has a lot of people camping it, it can die too fast to tag. The weird spawn location doesn't help that.

[@axl4394]

#1 is Heavenly Onyx Cloud Serpent 100% I've killed that dude hundreds of times and I still don't have it

[@AsTheUniverseFades]

painhub QQ

[@mahmoudzedan3701]

I got it on my 4th time xd

[@disc06]

"hundreds" only? Most farmers have over thousands kills, the most recent one i saw had over 9000 kills

[@Tope92]

I got it few years ago and I didn't even farm for it. I was just helping my cousin with the quests on the area and he wanted for us to kill it, so we went for it and the mount dropped. Tho, I did kill Sha of Anger multiple times during MoP and it never dropped back then.

[@Shyftus]

Someone in our guild had over 14.000 tries on it.

[@TheCursedProsecutor]

The drone from the updated Uldum in 8.3. Lots of dailies, followed by a suckerpunch when the dailies swap out for pet battles. When you have a grand total of like 5 max pets, you replace the mount grind for a pet grind so you can get back to the mount grind.

[@craigboone2332]

‘You know what Terry, you’re a nob’ - loved it lmao.

[@Stewartlittle2]

There is a hyper spawn location for the Drustvar one on top of a cave, I got it 2 days ago.

[@lykongheng]

List of my wow depression: - Invincible - Sha mount - Headless horsemen - Love rocket - Ashe's of Al'ar - Rivendare's mount - Mimiron head Not sure i'm just unlucky or my 15 alts are cursed.

[@josejuanandrade4439]

Or both. From that list i'm just missing the Love Rocket.

[@LooseChanj]

The only one of these I don't have is the Sha mount.

[@TheKnizzine]

I remember the ravenlord mount being pretty bad cuz it required someone to be on a druid class quest to even enter that part of the dungeon and then it couldnt even fly.

[@Panchius]

Is soundless gonna be on this list He’s drop from a rare spawn with a long respawn timer *hey but it has a 100% drop chance so once you find the rare you get it right?* Nope, less than 1% drop chance Some rare spawns from bfa are annoying but he takes the spot

[@mrs.alienrope5778]

and if your on WM ON mode, its worse when opposite/alliance faction tags it! also when you have a raid group and najtar battle takes place and then an army alliance come and battle you for it while your trying to kill it, thus lagging the server hard. i got it though like 5 tries. i still list the group if i see soundless up.

[@ITSONSIGHT.]

The bloody coin trial character method still works. I actually charged people on my server in legion 50k to get the 500 coins. Took about 12 minutes.

[@ItsDiamondWolf]

Does this work with 2 accounts?

[@ITSONSIGHT.]

@@ItsDiamondWolf Yes. You also need to lookup a macro to autores and auto accept res sickness from the spirit healer to spam on the trial character while it's getting killed repeatedly. The character doing the killing needs to sit near a graveyard and farm the trial character so he can instant kill them when they revive.

[@joethompson4811]

Imagine having mounts but no hair

[@laurenford3951]

I wonder who that could be.....

[@SurvivalSpec]

Assthmagroan the Balding

[@valik7907]

any mail munchers ?

[@dyingearth]

Back in Legion, I parked an alt in every single WoD zone and check the portal for Dark Star portal. By chance, I managed to get it.

[@Renwoxing13]

That is not by chance. In my eyes that is extreme dedication paying off!

[@Cahejo]

Imagine being bald.

[@Hizbullla]

You might not know that with Aeonaxx, the bat despawns almost instantaneously when it appear. Makes estimating spawn timers extremely different.

[@Mrfiufaufou]

After 11-12 years of randomly passing by....time lost protodrake is finally mine! So happy to get it, never camped it or really tried, phew :)

[@MissFate]

Got my Voidtalon after AFK'ing in Talador near flight master, I just casually run to the spot and BOOM there it is. My friend who was farming it, and who actually left me on that spot to do other things was sooo pissed off :D Good luck to anyone who farms it!

[@AzureRoxe]

I spent days trying to get the Phosphorescent Stone Drake, gave up after 4 sightings with someone getting to him first and he literally spawned right in my face the very next day. Still one of my favorite mounts.

[@Khanmanlol]

I'm certain other people have brought this up, but I'm surprised the Silent Glider from Soundless isn't on this list. - Rare spawn that has several spawn points in an area in Nazjatar. - Can only really be accessed with flying unlocked (not much of an issue, nowadays) - On a 7 hour or so respawn timer. - Mount isn't even a guarantee drop (1%, I think). - On WarMode, you can't collect the mount if the opposing faction tags it first. - Also, the opposing faction can try and steal the kill by killing you if you're already engaged in battle with the mob. - *Can be hunter tamed* It's a good thing there are WoW Communities that are dedicated into hunting Soundless, or else I'd personally put it at #1. Speaking of #1, if you're going to put the Love Rocket at the top spot for only being available for a limited amount of time each year, then any other limited time mounts (like the headless horseman mount, or the Direbrew mounts) should also be on the list for being available for a short time each year.

[@duncanmoore3780]

Years ago, I farmed for the Time Lost, had the annoying alert add-on , the one time it ever went off was for Vyragosa. I have never known such a gut punch in my life.

[@Freemelon07]

that feeling when you realise you've wasted countless restored artifacts on the wrong faction. I'm so glad I saw this!

[@sergiuradu1963]

At min 8:50 you have a skin for the world map. A blue light that sorrounds your map. What addon can I use to get that effect? Cheers!

[@DoofFing]

Thats so funny, I've had Ultramarine tank since Cata. I never even knew it was rare, I got it within a dozen or so relics.

[@momogal04]

I had no idea the pack mule was owned by so few players! I got it while doing a world quest in Drustvar near the beginning of the expansion. I almost sold it but decided it was too adorable to let go of.

[@RaduStancu]

the pack mule had a bug at start of bfa that made the drop chance really high. blizz found out and quickly nerfed the drop chance and went overboard, to ensure it's rarer. it now drops less that all the other zone mounts