I am literally the embodiment of jelly

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I decided to bring a friend of mine, who is brand new to the game, to ICC, for some spicy weapon mogs. He’s very new and doesn’t have very many mogs for any class really, so I figured he’d get some cool stuff.

That goes without saying.

https://imgur.com/a/exQjvu8

Literally his first 25H ICC ever, his first ICC run ever period and this man got Invincible. Over a decade of farming? Ain’t nobody got time fo dat. He only needed one run.

I am super happy for him and I consider myself lucky that I even got to see it drop in the first place. I’m not super obsessed with mounts (except that dang Grove Warden) so I didn’t pull a jerk move and demand he trade it to me. I was just absolutely blown away that he got it on his very first run.

I was definitely more excited than he was. A new player doesn’t have the frame of reference of just how rare that is, that some of you understand, having farmed that dang horse for years. I censored his name in case this thread doesn’t go over well, lol.

Please save the mean comments for someone else. He’ll probably see this, so tell him how cool his new mount looks on him. :grin:

(If you’re confused how he was able to mount on the Lich King’s platform, we went outside and flew up to the tippy top of ICC to take a cool screenie. The spot up there is very similar to the instance version.)

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That’s the way it goes, isn’t it?

Cool story! Grats to the friend.

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RNGesus has blessed your friend today!

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To the friend reading this Grats.

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Hell with that!!! Get em!!!

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Grats to your friend. And kudos to you for not taking it from him, regardless of whether or not he understood what it is he has.

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This is a great way to start the game just rolling up wherever you want as a new player on your Invincible mount.

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Wow, that sucks. He owes you big!

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Tell him he can now join the cool kid’s club.


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Grats to your friend. Sad that you did not get it. I remember running Stratholme with someone and the barons mount dropped. Took years of farming that place, and only while running it for rep did it drop again.
Sometimes it drops the first tiem you are there. Other times it is the 1000th. Got the astral cloud serpent the first and only time I was in that raid in MOP. I wanted to get paladin mogs and instead got the mount. (I didn’t even know about that mount)
Good luck to you in future runs.

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Damn that’s crazy. I would personally probably unfriend him and never play with him again simply out of pure rage. I’ve been farming that every week for at least 10 years.

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reads title

brings out the Peanut Butter

Sandwiches all around, who wants one?

Also, grats to your friend. :stuck_out_tongue:

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A typical player will take years to get it. Throwing a gigantic army of alts at it got it for me in less time, but at a cost of never wanting to step foot in there again. That is the unavoidable doom.

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I don’t even know your friend and I already dislike him :frowning:

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This exact thing has happened to me.

ICC, fresh noob friend feeling like a god plowing through all the undead…

Slap LK, he gets mount.

…

Now, that’s fine… I haven’t hard farmed it in a while, and I tend to do so on my DK for the Shadowmourne shards I’m still working on…

The bad part was, he gave up playing a week later. :sob:

Silver lining though, that same week during TW… The super rare TW drake dropped for me.

I can die happy after all.

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RNG giveth and RNG taketh away. :dracthyr_crylaugh:

One of the things I said when he offered to give it to me was, “Nope. It chose you.” :stuck_out_tongue:

I’m sure one day he’ll understand, when trying to get some other mount, just how brutal RNG can really be. Once he builds up an army of alts and just throws all of them at the wall and nothing sticks. :dracthyr_crylaugh:

I dunno though. He’s had a great few first experiences and I’m kind of hoping he never has to struggle for much like we all have.

He has definitely outclassed me with this and I’ve been playing for 13 years! lmao

I mounted up on my Mimiron’s Head with him and we sat and chatted before I went to bed. Nothing to see here. Just two cool guys on their rare mounts. :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

He likes to think he does. :wink:

He don’t owe me squat. No one does. If ever you find yourself in a situation where I’ve given you something, don’t pay me back. Show the same kindness to someone else who really needs it. That’s all I ask.

If ever there was a Cool Kids Club, this guy is the new leader of it, as far as I am concerned. :sunglasses:

Also, love the scythe! I want the red one. :grin:

omnomnom

Big oof. This would be the only situation where I’d be actually enraged, haha. The only thing he owes me is to stick around and enjoy the game! :dracthyr_nod:

Thank you all for keeping this thread mostly civil. He’s very touchy about receiving handouts or special treatment, but I enjoy spoiling him. He acknowledged that he saw this thread to me on Discord so I’m sure he’s stoked that you guys are happy for him.

If this is where he’s STARTING from, he’s got a bright future ahead of him. :sunglasses:

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Reminds me of when I sent a friend a pokemon egg as a gift. And it hatched a shiny. ( For non pokemon players. Shinies are rare pokemon that have different colors than their usual look )

They did offer to give the shiny to me but nah I let them keep it.

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For me, this would be like if I bought a friend a starter pack of cards and it had a vintage holo Charizard in it. :dracthyr_crylaugh:

Fun fact: I used to have one of those and I traded it to a neighborhood kid for one of those Japanese Zapdos’. I just Googled how much a mint condition holo Charizard is worth today and it said around 5-6 thousand dollars. The Japanese Zapdos’ are worth like…20 dollars, according to some Ebay auction listings. Haha. Sounds about right.

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There are no friends in ICC

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Tirion is my friend. Eh breaks iceblocks and doesn’t afraid of anything. :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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