Unfortunately it was stealth removed in July 2021 and Blizzard has ignored the situation entirely.
I’m hoping someone from the CC is willing to post about it. At the very least, we’ll have an “officially ignored” status if that were to happen. I don’t understand why Blizzard is treating this situation the way they are.
Unfortunately Bruto has not actually appeared on any BMAH across all of EU and NA in almost 2 full years at this point and there has never been a confirmed instance of anyone getting the reigns from the Unclaimed BMAH container (which they said it was also getting added to during the hotfix after which it stopped appearing).
Blizzard dismisses tickets about the issue and ignores threads about it. The only responses they have given is in the space of “working as intended” despite the hard evidence from BMAH info gathering sites proving it isn’t
At this point, absolute best case scenario is Blizz is planning on releasing it in the Trading Post somehow and that’s why no fix to BMAH drop is happening. Worst case it’s gonna be a Pandaria world boss mount issue and will take 10 years to get fixed
Intentionally removed. Ion if I recall correctly made a comment on it during one of the podcasts during BFA.
I’ve no idea why they did that other than to rake in token sales. It’s a 5 million dollar mount. One of the best gold sinks in the game and they retired it.
It was intentionally removed from the vendor in Zul’Dazar in BFA, yes
It was added to the BMAH in Shadowlands and worked like any other BMAH obtainable mount until a hotfix in July of 2021 I want to say which was listed as being just to add Bruto to the drop table of the Unclaimed BMAH Container as well as having the reins showing up as a standalone. After that hotfix went live, it never appeared on NA again, and there were like 2 or 3 confirmed instances of it showing up in EU realms just in the month or two following the hotfix and never again. I think the EU thing could likely just be attributed to delayed/staggered implementation of the hotfix to some of those servers
I agree that BMAH is in a bad spot. I’ve made a thread a few weeks ago suggesting it gets changed to a vendor instead with rotating items on it. The BMAH in its current format is useless to anyone who is not up at 230AM to gold cap a rare item or on at midnight to fend off last-minute snipers.
It was confirmed once on the EU, just days after 9.1.5 (or 9.2, can’t remember the version number at the time) went live. A lot of us thought “they fixed the bug finally!” But, it’s been gone from EU since then (March 2022). Interpret that situation as you wish.
Uh, unless there’s a miscom somewhere 9.1.5 released in November 2021 no? So yes we’d still be approaching almost 2 full years of no brutos anywhere right