What is the phoenix appears with Kael'thas Sunstrider?

So I’ve been running tempest keep for ages in the hope to get the Ashes of A’lar mount. In all the hundreds of times I have run this instance and defeated Sunstrider, I have never seen a phoenix appear. One did today, and it started attacking me, so I killed it. A large egg appeared (but was not clickable), then disappeared. Then I killed Sunstrider. I was hoping this was finally the moment… but no. No mount. Is this something new or should I have not killed phoenix? I am just a bit perplexed by this.

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That’s just a normal fight mechanic. It has nothing to do with the subsequent drops from Kael. Every so often, he’d spawn a phoenix and when it died, an egg would spawn that, if you didn’t kill it fast enough, would hatch into the phoenix again.

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Ah thank you. I was about to get really mad at myself if I was supposed to not kill it or something. I’m a bit peeved at the drop rate. I know it’s low but I see a lot of comments from people who get it in 50 runs or less. I’ve done this hundreds of times and nothing. I even started a 2nd toon and have run it probably a dozen times or so and nothing.

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