Increase drop rate for past mounts

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Ya you are correct, plus you can skip the first boss. I just take the portal to outlands and fly directly from the portal to the raid.

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Either increase the drop rates or have a skip to the bosses that drop mounts.

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If it makes you feel better I’ve been doing that raid since BC and got the mount before my warlocks 2 T5 pieces that drop from there.

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oh wow, Ive seen that warlock t5 pieces drop so many times lol.

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Thats one of the mounts I felt bad about getting. Older ones anyway. One of them anyway.
I dropped down and helped kill one of those zandalari rares/elites/whatever in Pandaria and one of the direhorn mounts dropped for me.
The other guy had apparently been farming that particular mount for a couple months and hadnt had it drop yet.
It was literally the FIRST time Id ever killed one of those NPCs.
Felt horrible. Id have given it to the guy if I could. I have absolutely no use or need of it.

Im guessing youre going to get very few agreeing with you on this one, lol.
Cant take away our prizes. I feel like my stuff is worth less if you have one too :wink:

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Better drop rates would be nice, but some people wouldn’t find the mount to be as special if everyone and their grandma was riding them. As for raid mounts, I would kill for a skip to the final boss, especially ICC. I’ve been doing ICC for almost 10 years and still no Invincible. I’d give away my entire collection of mounts if it meant Arthas would drop his stupid horse.

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3 months is like 12 lockouts with 1% drops. Unless your running alts I can see why


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If memory serves I hit exalted before getting a single tier piece for my priest in BT. Also didn’t get the Warglaive set until a couple of months ago despite farming on multiple characters on and off since wrath.

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I felt the same until I finally had it, but now I usually just cruise around on my Paladin class mount or the Leaping Veinseeker.

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just got invincible after my second try

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You can skip in any and every raid.

Choosing your Main Toon & Clearing the Raid

This is where you set up your main toon and clear the raid to make way for your alts. Through lockout magic that will be explained later, you only have to do this part once. You’ll start each subsequent week on Part 2 of this guide.

  1. Choose your MAIN TOON to be the lockout holder. You want someone who can clear (most of) the raid solo.

  2. Set the raid difficulty to Normal Difficulty and raid size to whatever you need for your item to drop.

  • If you need Heroic for whatever you’re farming (like ICC 25 Heroic for Invincible’s Reins), fear not. You have to select Normal here for lockouts to work properly but you can swap to Heroic later. I’ll tell you when.
  1. Enter the raid with your MAIN TOON and clear up to, but not including, the boss that drops your item. Clear all the trash up to the boss but leave that boss alive!
  • E.g. In our Invincible’s Reins example, you would clear through Sindragosa and NOT kill the Lich King.
  1. Exit the raid.

Running with Alts

  1. Create a custom group in Group Finder then log out of your MAIN TOON while still in the group.

  2. Log into ALT 1 and join the custom group you made. (Search by title to find it more quickly.) Log out.

  3. Log into MAIN TOON and accept ALT 1 into the group. Log back into ALT 1 .

  4. Wait for ALT 1 to become group leader (it’s short; 60-90 seconds or so) and set difficulty to Normal.

  • Even if it’s already on Normal, re-select it! This will save you lots of frustration, trust me.
  1. Enter the raid on ALT 1 . Check the lockout notice carefully to make sure your desired boss is still alive and then accept the lockout.

  • Make sure the number shown reflects the bosses you actually killed and doesn’t include the ones you didn’t. You can also check to make sure the name of the boss you want is in green when you mouse over, meaning it’s still alive. E.g. In our ICC example, that means the number should say 11/12 and the Lich King’s name should be green.

  • If you get no lockout notice, or you do but the count is off and/or the name of the boss you want is red, DO NOT ACCEPT/CONTINUE! Exit the instance, re-select the Normal again, and re-enter.

  • You may also have to “Reset all instances”. This is never necessary on my ICC runs, for example, but has come up for other instances.

  • If everything looks good with the lockout when you enter, accept.

  1. If you need to change difficulties, now is the time. The instance will reload and you will need to check/accept that lockout as well.
  • E.g. For Invincible’s Reins, you’d enter on Normal, accept the lockout, change the difficulty to Heroic, the instance will reload, and then check/accept the new Heroic lockout. (It should still be 11/12 with Lichy’s name in green.)

  1. Run through the now-cleared raid to the boss you need and SLAY IT to steal its loot.

  2. No drop? Exit the raid/leave the group on this alt and repeat steps 1-7 with your same main toon + next alt until you’ve gone through them all.

  3. If you still have no drop after you’ve gone through every alt, I feel your pain. Once you’re done sobbing, move on to Part 3.

If something goes wonky on you during this process, you can always switch back to MAIN TOON and start again at step 1. I’ve had weeks where, for whatever reason, a certain alt just won’t show the proper lockout—the boss I want is dead and there’s nothing I can do about it. Just abandon the group and start with a fresh one on MAIN TOON with the next alt. That wonky alt will likely work fine again next week.

So You Still Didn’t Get Your Drop


When you’re out of alts for the week with no drop to show for it, you’ll have to wait for next week and try again. Here’s where lockout magic comes in. Each new week, simply do the following:

  1. Log into MAIN TOON and extend the lockout for the raid.
  • Go to the Social window, in the Raid tab, and click the Raid Info button. Select the raid you want and extend it.

  1. Complete Part 2 of this guide with all your alts.

  2. Repeat again each week until your dreams finally come true.

This is really handy for long raids like ICC or Ulduar because it takes soooo long to clear them. You forego the extra run that week on your main toon but it’s worth it to save hours each subsequent week.

If it’s a short raid, or for some reason you actually like repeatedly clearing really long raids, you can instead log back into your main toon every week and kill the boss for that one extra chance at the drop. You’ll just need to start fresh on Part 1 every week instead of extending the lockout and repeating only Part 2.

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32

then you won’t have it. deal with it!

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If you cannot or are not willing to put in the time, go without. You do not need it in order to play the game and/or progress in the game.

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Ask the people farming sha of anger how they feel

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it always makes me click peoples armory when they say this.

i guess now we get the standard story of “oh i mean on my other account” :slight_smile:

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Which direhorn? There are a bunch of them. I got two from Throne of Thunder while I was doing the achievements for the Skyscreamer.

I don’t bother with the Warbringers because those spawn spots are always over camped.

Mount farming is just an exercise in patience and luck.

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I assume she’s talking about the oondasta one

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Thanks for the tip, but I’m not gonna do that.

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But, but you didn’t even have to kill anyone for it.

I get it though its a bit of work.

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Yeah
I’m not doing all that. Just make an NPC or something and have it teleport us to the final boss.

And before you say I’m SOL, I don’t really care about mount farming much anymore lol.

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