I went full strong in with my 33 characters during this event, and I think I did pretty dang well. Most of the mounts took < 20 runs to get. I still have 8 more mounts to farm, but I’m glad I’ve wiped out so many runs from my TODO list.
How did everyone else fare?
Here’s what I got:
Mounts (in no particular order):
Grand Black War Mammoth - Vault of Archavon
Swift Zulian Panther - Zul’Gurub
Armored Razzashi Raptor - Zul’Gurub
Shackled Ur’zul - Antorus
Rivendare’s Deathcharger - Stratholme
Finally dropped after 50+ attempts. This one was annoying.
Drake of the North Wind - The Vortex Pinnacle
Drake of the South Wind - Throne of Four Winds
Vitreous Stone Drake - Deepholm
Zereth Overseer - Sepulcher of the First Ones
Cartel Master’s Gearglider - Tazavesh
Tomb Stalker - King’s Rest
Underrot Crawg - The Underrot
Transmogs:
Runeblade of Baron Rivendare - Stratholm
Can’t believe I hadn’t gotten this before with the number of runs I did before the event.
Taeshalach - Antorus
Tusks of Mannoroth - Siege of Orgimmar
This is the best drop of this event. Over 700+ total career runs to get this thing, running 42 attempts per week when I wasn’t burnt out. It took 160+ attempts during the event to get this thing (it dropped yesterday). I’m so happy to put this raid in my rearview mirror. For the record, out of those 700+ attempts, I think I saw the mount about 12 times.
I ran 9 level 70 characters, with 6 other max level characters as a backup if it seemed needed. I picked up around two dozen mounts during the event. Some of my stats…
I averaged a mount drop every 14.5 runs.
Notable lucky drops…
Fiery Warhorse, 4 runs
Antoran Charhound, 5 runs
Armored Razzashi Raptor, 5 runs
Rivendare’s Charger, 6 runs
Hellfire Infernal, 6 runs
And while it took more runs for both, I got Ashes of Al’ar and Invincible to drop on the same day (I should have bought a lotto ticket).
Notable Hold Outs…
Sharkbait, 26 runs
Drake of the North Wind, 33 runs
Onyxian Drake, 35 runs
And Mimiron’s Head, which still evades me at 46 runs… I only have a couple of characters left that are capable of running the raid, so I have about given up on this one.
I also completed 98 sets of raid gear mogs… most of which had nothing when the event started.
I only needed about 9 when it started, got them all including jailer and Nyalotha which were my big targets.
I don’t have one of the nighthold mounts, the one from normal, but I’ll just wait and see if it pops during remix. I got the wyrm from tomb of sargeras while farming a transmog actually
I needed 19 and got them all. The Destroyer from Blackhand took 65 attempts, and the green infernal from Gul’Dan took 77. I got basically every alt at or near 50, and used all three of the boosts I had accumulated over the years.
Well got the Underrot one on the 32nd run. Still don’t have the King’s Rest after 34 and I am not sure what characters I have left I can run though there - have a few warlocks but I don’t know if I can stand using them in there.
Final results for me will be Rivendare’s Charger (got it in TW this week), Zulian Panther, Razzashi Raptor.
Didn’t farm at all just took a few toons through ZG today for those latter two mounts. I cannot imagine the time people spent traveling during this bounty event. Feel bad for those that went hard.
I started off with 15 mounts of 46 prior to event. And I just got the last one I was trying for, putting me at 45 of 46. The one I won’t be getting is the one from the Jailer. I still need to do the campaign to get to raid entrance and I’m not feeling like doing it, so I’ll try for that one next time around. The mounts were really all I was trying for, but got lots of cool xmogs too. All in all, very cool event IMO, hope it returns.
Unfortunately my 16 Level 71 Frost DKs can’t pass the DPS check on this one. So I gotta level them up to at least 75 to get past it (tested it on one, and 75 worked).
Sharkbait - Freehold
Vengeance - Sanctum of Domination
Antoran Charhound - Antorus
Living Infernal Core - The Nighthold
I had already gotten the Mythic version just a week or so before this event started. Go figure.
I ran about 40 characters. Got 27/29 mounts I needed. Missing the Nya’lotha one, especially because this week most of my alts can’t access the Vale location. Other one I’m missing is the Jailer mount because my alts aren’t geared enough to run that raid easily.
I also ran into this issue, as well as alts being able to even get to The Maw, much less survive the run to the raid. I really wish Blizzard would flip a switch and disable crap like that when expansions are over, it’s maddening.
Got a bunch of transmog and a few mounts along the way (BfA dungeon mounts and a few missing ones from Legion / BfA - though I’ve had most mounts before Legion for years, and was just missing stuff here and there).
I couldn’t be arsed to farm the ones I’m missing in places like Ny’alotha without a skip (and most alts unable to access raids) or the SL raid end bosses without skips and limited 80 alts - though I’ve tried to hit them all on all difficulties for transmog at least once.
I did run a pair of DH alts out to Black Temple and now have multiple character with either the MH or OH glaives, but not both.
Also my personal take - the event needs work around access (portals should be available without the need to do a bunch of broken old quests), skips (add them where missing, make quests warband or only one clear), and lockouts (weekly lockouts are stupid, and doubly so during a collectors event).
If I have time tomorrow, I might give Dragonsoul a few runs as I never got the silly Handmaiden to drop - and haven’t set foot in there in years given all the annoying RP + spine.
