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Dedicated Icecrown Citadel Raiders in the upcoming Patch 3.3 will have a new, glorious armored Frost Wyrm mount to work toward. Blizzard blue poster Ancilorn over on the European forums confirmed Wednesday that the armored Frost Wyrm mount previously data-mined at MMO-Champion will indeed be the next hot raiding reward. Here's exactly what was posted:

There will be a Frostwyrms up for grabs for Icecrown raiders, achievable in a similar way to previous rewards such as the Ulduar proto-drake.

Not a very long description, but certainly enough to get me even more excited for the upcoming patch and all of its wondrous possibilities. Depending on exactly how similar the process of getting this mount is to the Rusted and Ironbound Proto-Drakes, it may be a pretty rare get. The latter two super-fast mounts, rewards for completing the Glory of the Ulduar Raider achievements in 10-man and 25-man modes, respectively, originally were reported as set to be removed from the game sometime after 3.2 because of the major gear upgrades that players would be able to get, making the achievements easier to earn. But it's been several months since then, and back in July blue poster Eyonix said the mounts would remain in-game for now:

After further discussion, we decided not to remove the rusted and ironbound proto-drake rewards for the normal and heroic Glory of the Ulduar Raider meta achievements when patch 3.2, Call of the Crusade, launches, and currently have no plans to remove them in the foreseeable future. However, we will continue to evaluate the situation and if a decision is made to remove these rewards at any point in the future, we'll provide a one month warning so players will have time to make some final attempts.

There's always a balancing act between making rewards like this difficult to get without it being utterly impossible for some of the less hardcore raiders. So if Blizzard continues along their current line of thinking, then it's reasonable to conclude that we'll have at least a few months to strive for the new mount once Patch 3.3 comes out. What do you guys think of the subdued Frost Wyrm as a mount? I'm really digging the skeletal look along with that blue, hazy glow. She's a bit eerie, but in a good way.