Then what is the point of having it drop from the dungeon? I was really scared I wouldn’t get Arfus. … but I kept going on several alts daily and he did drop for me a couple of days ago, and it wasn’t the first run and that alt had no curses. The holiday mounts are literally the incentive to run the dungeon. I wasn’t even running it for years since I had the mount, but adding a few new items got me back in there to try my luck.
If you just add them to the vendor, there isn’t much reason to do the event dungeon at all, just candy buckets and dailies on one or two toons to collect currency. I know if they were a vendor item, I would not be spending time running the dungeon on a chance of it dropping, I’d be farming up the currency to just purchase it.
I’ve seen more people report getting the mount this year than I’ve ever seen in previous years. I got it a very long time ago, but I still don’t have the Love is in the air mount and I’m not pressed about it, over a decade of trying, just isn’t my turn yet.
It’s something you try for, some will get it, some won’t in any given year. I’d rather go the route of if it drops for someone who already has it, they can sell it on the AH or give it away, that would put more out there. As someone who has had to destroy a couple over the years, it’s a sad feeling.
If you go the route of just putting them on a vendor, then why not all dungeon/raid/rare drop mounts? It’s arguably even worse to farm something year round for a decade and still not have it.