Just wanted to thank you for these videos. After playing since beta, I stopped after BfA. These bring back so many memories. Kind of crazy how much time I spent in this game and how nostalgic I get watching these. It's appreciated.
I would have put the Phoenix mounts from the MoP dungeon achievements where you had to get gold in all of the MoP dungeons. Was the 1st introduction of Mythic timed runs as we know them today.
At least personally I find the swift horde wolf to be more rare from ToC... I and everyone who was in my guild got the black horse but only a couple people who were friends with the gm ended up getting the Wolf.
imo the Undercity Plaguebat from the burning of Teldrassil patch is one of the coolest mounts in the game, with the added bonus of it being unobtainable
Great video! just a correction on the PvP mount section: gladiator and rank 1 are and have never been the same thing. Gladiator, until BFA s1, was the top 0.5% rated players, like you said, but this is not rank 1: you'd only receive the mount and the "Gladiator" title, that used to last for the entire next season with the old system and then it would go away when the season ended. Now it lasts for all of the current season with the new system, and it goes away with the offseason. The mounts are permanent, unlike the Gladiator title. Rank 1 though is when you finish at or above the top 0.1% rated players, and you receive the "*name of season* Gladiator" title, which is a permanent title (For example: Crimson Gladiator was the rank 1 title for DF S1). This still works like that to this day. For some context, this title is called rank 1 because there was another system before the "top 0.1%" one, where only the very rank 1 team in the whole ladder of each Battlegroup would get the achievement and title, meaning that sometimes a team wouldnt get rank 1 at 2900 rating because someone in their battlegroup was higher than them, but another team at 2600 would get rank 1 because nobody else in their battlegroup was higher. This created very popular Battlegroups where the competition was the best, like BG9 in NA, but also created a very bad habit for players to transfer to dead battlegroups just to get free easier rank 1 titles. This whole system was scraped and revamped to the current 0.1% one with the removal of Battlegroups. Nowadays its not exactly rank 1, but people still call it that way because of the og system.
if anything i'd argue that anything that's only "available" on the Black Market AH should count as unobtainable too. Cause for 99,9 percent of players it is.
You used to get the recruit a friend mount + 30 days on the first month so it rly was just a little extra cost of grabbing the current expansion in a sale over paying for a month of gametime.
@@ianbattles7290in retail last month the spectral wyvern/gryphon were made obtainable by the trading post. It used to be a very rare mount I think since I never saw anyone riding it, but I was very bummed to find out that everyone has it now. They were probably more rare than any of the recruit a friend mounts given the requirements to obtain them.
Season of Discovery now added the original Epic mounts, that were only available for the first few months of Vanilla when it release, after they were updated with the current models. I only ever saw 1 play on the human epic mounts
Was about to say this as well. I remember the NE had the mounts without the armor. The black mount had a purple carpet harness and that was it. Are you able to collect those on BF accounts. I just got back to playing the game. I had a few of the mounts on here listed like the Zebra and the Ram.
Wait what?! They finally added something for those who formed the staff?! Please tell me the where and the how, I love that mount but I’d love to not have to have the staff equipped in order to use it 😅
@@DZombieDragon You have to do the Blue dragon questline with Senegos, and it adds a bit to the quest chain if you have the achieve. It is added as a transmog to your dragon riding mount, and is then usable by all your characters.
@@DZombieDragonIt is not a mog/transcript for dragonriding. It is it's own normal flying mount and is added to your mount collection tab like any other mount. In this sense it is BoA, however, in order to mount it you must have completed the questline, which requires the character to have completed the staff. It will appear like a mount of the opposing faction if it's learned on the account but the character your on hasn't completed the quest (will be high-lited in red). Only shaman, druids, mages, priests, warlocks, and evokers can unlock the ability to use the mount as they are the only ones that can complete the staff. So really, it's not unlocked account wide, just on the character.
@@mwg3223 Aww, that’s a shame that it’s not account wide, I’ve only done it on my Druid. I was hoping to use it on my Evoker so that I could get a full dragon transformation 😅 Ah well, guess it’s time to farm Firelands for the questline again 😂
Cool to see a list like this, I didn't even know how rare or unobtainable some of these are, which I have. Also wanted to point out that Recruit-A-Friend worked a bit different in the beginning, only needing one friend to make another account and buy one month of playtime. It was particularly easier because Blizzard also launched those bundles for a relatively low price where you had Classic, TBC and I think Lich King in it. All you had to do then is to pay for one month and it would be sent to you. I did this with a friend twice, one time for me and one for him. I got the X-53 Rocket and he got Heart of the Nightwing. We also wanted them to be able to transport our friends around if they made a new character and needed somewhere to go. And those were the only flying mounts at the time which would hold more than just the player, the only other ones were groundbound like the mammoth mounts in WotLK. I might misremember but I think the Sandstonedrake came later with Cataclysm.
I got the original Brewfest mount back in the day. So worth the effort sense getting that ride quest's timing just right was hard. A mount thats rare only because a lot of people didnt like the quest was the Neather Ray mounts released in Burning Crusade. The bombing quest you had to do, for some reason, most people I knew, hated it. So I was the only person in my guild and among my friends who got it and it was rare, at the time, to see someone else on it.
I got the Amani War Bear as a Horde Ret Paladin in BC. Nobody raided as Ret ever in BC at all back then, so this is one of my favorite WoW memories ever.
I own the Warlord’s Deathwheel and I still think it’s stupid as hell the way Blizzard handled that. I’m also surprised that you didn’t put the vanilla unarmored mounts on this list.
Swift Horde Wolf (or alliace War Horse version) from clearing heroic Trial of the grand crusader without anyone in the raid dying.. Has to be one of the rarer one, even back then very few people were able to do that.
@@denith969 I definitely remember Blood Legion as one of the top guilds back in the day I actually quit just before Cata came out(oops, I used a guild-provided key to play the beta) and only a few months ago started being a dirty casual
I recruited myself to get heart of the nightwing- dont regret it at all. It’s a great looking mount and it comes in handy a LOT when playing with my buddy. I also have the primal flamesaber- i love HOTS, i wish Blizzard would try to breathe life back into it. Maybe another run of the promotion? I’d love to see more unobtainable mounts come to the trading post. Actually, it might be a good way to reintroduce the original unarmoured swift mounts back into the game.
I wish you had included the TOGC 25 immortal run mounts. even looking at classic, it is still very difficult to obtain and few players have it compared to the war bear which most players in classic had.
I have the number 10, 9 and 8 mounts, and also the Heart of Nightwing Recruit a Friend mount, so it is nice to see that I have some unobtainable things and some people used to whisp me when I used them at bgs or just leveling an alt, I say that cause I don't play WoW anymore, but if I remeber well, they also gave achievements for having them. But the Qiraji mount is truly the real achievement here. I saw only ONCE a player showing it and I already knew how hard was to get it. I think I will never see a person using it again.
never imaginated i have one of these. I was a huge fan of heroes of the storm at the time. Primal flamesaber is one of my favorites mounts ever, now it's even more special to me.
I haven't played retail WoW properly in around a decade and have never cared much for mounts, however I am impressed with myself that I happen to have the Warlords Deathwheel and the Primal Flamesaber as well as a single gladiator mount from the last season of MoP.
I have quite a few of these myself. I really wouldn't mind if there was a way for people to obtain them in game. Trade post or gold sink. Don't matter. I honestly don't like the idea of unobtainable things. Keeping it sacred for a few expansions is fine, but we should be able to collect everything the game has to offer.
I have the First 3 on the list, I remember doing the DK Starting area, then when the battle I asked "Who here is doing this just to get the mount" And like 90% of the folks said yes.
As of Dragon flight, Dragon's wrath questline was updated, and you get a legendary flying dragon mount. The Black Qiraji battle tank is NOT the only legendary mount in game.
Only thing to correct. The gladiators mount required you to be good in arena. Not pvp. Arena is a completely different type of pvp from the rest. Often gladiator ranked players couldn't do much w/o their team or voice.
I got the Brewfest mount, when it was still available. But for some reason blizzard decided to remove it from my account at the end of WotLK. I made a ticket about it, at the time, but I was completely ignored, so I just gave up.
Most surprised Black Proto Drake didn't make the list. Plagued is on the BMAH, but not that black one. Tier 7 was infamously easy, but still achievements like Immortal and Sarth 3D would've still be hard at the time.
I actually was able to pug 25m immortal back in the day, it was done with several IRL friends and some people i raised with before but we still managed it. It took a few weeks to get right though.
@@JenevieveDeFer Here's a copy paste of the section on wowpedia on why the Horde bike isn't available: Legal issues regarding availability Warlord's Deathwheel: Horde Availability | 2016-09-30 18:12 | Blizzard Entertainment Lore (CM) Q u o t e: I'm still confused as to how the Horde "won", when the bike is no longer available, whereas the Alliance one is. What's the problem with making the Horde one avaliable again for 100k? There are a few unfortunate legal obligations that have halted a release of the Horde's Deathwheel, from what I understand. Something about . Again, an unfortunate circumstance, but I'm not sure that anything can be done. I'll bring this up again next week and see if anything has changed since I last asked about this a few months back.
I hope and pray that they either bring back Jigglesworth Sr or at least give us a recolor of him. I wanted that mount so badly but was just unable to even get close to obtaining it. Maybe it'll be a Trading Post mount someday...
Kel’Thuzad is one of my favorite characters in the game so I was heartbroken there wasn’t really a way for me to get Jigglesworth- so I agree with you!!
you forgot the TOGC 25-manTribute to Immortality and the 10man version (forgot what the name of that one was) mount from Wrath. This plus the AQ gates opening are probably the 2 rarest mounts ever.
a honorable mention should have been the Naxx Protodrakes aswell. Like the Zul'Aman bear Blizzard removed the achievement when Ulduar was released, because it would be too easy to obtain them. But the Ulduar mounts are still in the game even after the release of TOGC, ICC or every other addon after that
Funny enough, I started doing AOTC when the mounts first started. Only missed out on the War Wolf by a day, but got every other one since then with the exception of the ones from Shadowlands and Dragonflight. Also tried to get the Jigglesworth mount, but fell at the last hurdle. I was just a couple raids away from getting it, but we just couldn’t crack them before the final reset when it was removed.
The x-53 Rocket i bought it from the Trading Post with Trader's Tender last week.I guess if you check weekly the Trading Post,you might find some unobtainable mount
Funny that the undercity bat and the nelf hippogryph weren't called out yet both are removed from the game. They aren't an AoTC mount but they did come from a limited time event that was run at the end of the legion expac. The War of Thorns event where players did quest events in Darkshore. I am also pretty sure that the event was gated so that the player had to do it in a certain way at a certain time in order to get the mounts.
I opened the AQ gates on my server back in early 06 and what a cluster fuck that was. I rarely use the mount anymore since flying is the name of the game, but ill bring it out while leveling each expansion. During the BC beta, they actually gave it a flying mode that was the same model as a quest mob in Zangamarsh but reverted it before launch.
Im really surlrised AotC mounts are here but challenge mode mounts from pandaria or keystone master mounts are not, yet for some reason you have gladiator mounts here despite whey are excluded from all the lists like this for obvious reason
I hope they never add another mount like the Qiraji Battle Tank. Making dozens of people pour THAT much time into a task for only one person to get something. Let's face it, if they did the only players who would get it would be streamers and people with a lot of in game influence. I am more than willing to put the time and effort into getting a PVP or AotC mount but that is on a while other level.
Love the video but I got the brewfest ram and everyone I knew was fully aware it would stop being available at the end of the festival. Wonder why he thought we didn’t know?
i believe (may not be right cause ive only overheard it from other players), but the warlord's deathwheel can't be redistributed at all thanks to legal/contract stuff. so it's like, extra cursed that it can't be tucked back in for another round even if blizz wanted
I’ve got the Warlord’s Deathwheel, and I think it’s absurd that any Alliance player can just buy the Champion’s Treadblade even now but that Horde players who never got the Deathwheel can’t get it. Just put a vendor in Orgrimmar who sells it for 100k and call it good.
Black Qiraji got a small boost in prevalence when BC and LK prepatches crashed servers so hard that the gates got reset. Happened for BC and a few people got their new ones, we expected it for LK and organised some groups on the off chance the servers would get destroyed and a few hundred more black qiraji got created.
The "prestige" of the Black Qiraji Battle tank is basically "I was the GM, the GF/BF of the GM, or the best friend of the GM in my guild, and I forced the rest of players to help me get this title and mount". In one of my vanilla guilds the GM was far from the best player in the rooster and still forced the guild to help him achieve this, despite him being practically always doing poor dps as a mage and sucking at a lot of content. But, he was like 40 yo, while the rest were around 15-25. So he normally imposed himself quite a lot.
To me, this is an example of Blizzard abusing their customers. Make these mounts _almost_ unobtainable or obtainable once every year or two but don’t just write them out.
huh. i didn't expect to have any of these mounts, let alone 2 or 3 of them. i have the bike, the fire cat, and also the violet spellwing from argus aotc. pretty good for a casual player who started right at the end of the wotlk. i should ride them more
When they first added the achiev on the PTR the slimecat only needed fated KILLS of all the bosses and not just the normal and above. It was such a middlefinger to the more casual crowd surfing lfr but i can see why they did it. Still kinda peeved they took a mount from the promo contest list and made it yet another fomo mount, shoulve been made a good reason a for a player to rerun timewalking content.
That one mount was only available 28 days, not 30. February only has 28 days, but if it would have been the year before (2016) it still would have only been 29 days.
Really surprised you didn't end on the Green Mechano-strider that was given by mistake. (or is that something they put on the trading post?, idk I don't play anymore)
oh it is, the green mechanistrider was obtained by mistake so it doesn't really count, but Hirumare used to talk often about that (and the legendary MC neck) @@nielsfaaborg2218 🤣
in pvp, "rank 1" is not the same as gladiator. gladiator awards the mount and a temporary generic title. eligibility historically involved being in the top 0.5% of the bracket at the end of the season, but currently only requires 2400+ rating. "rank 1" on the other hands additionally awards a permanent seasonal title and requires ending the season in the top 0.1%.
Me personally, I like to ride on dragons. So far i like riding the Heart of the Aspects, Twilight Drake, Albino Drake, Iron-Bound and Rusted Proto-Drake, Reins of the Crimson Deathcharger and Drake of the East Wind.
