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Of Lucky Dice and Rare Mount Drops
pixiestixy on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - Post a Comment Tags: Mount, drake, flying mount, loot, luck, mount drop, onyxia, onyxia mount, onyxian drake, rare loot 
There's a few well-known lucky rollers in my guild, and let's just say I'm not one of them. Sure, I get my fair share of loot, but oftentimes it's by default (that is, no one else wants said loot). When it comes to my guild's 10-man groups, we don't use an intricate loot system -- we're all pretty fair people. Roll if you want something. If it's a bigger upgrade for someone else in the group, take that into consideration. And if you've already won several pieces of loot in a night, consider sitting out a roll. It's not a system that works for PUGs or guilds that don't share a sense of camaraderie, but it's great for my guild.
When it comes to 25-man loot, we usually use Suicide Kings (more on that in a later post). But this past weekend we were just having fun running some random stuff. I asked who wanted to run Onyxia since we hadn't done much dragon-slaying in awhile, and off we went. We wiped once when we tried it out with a 20-man group, then we filled the rest of those slots with friends of friends, and decided to just go with straight-up rolls for gear.
We got her down right away, and none of us were expecting the drop of all drops -- Reins of the Onyxian Drake. It was the first time that any of us had seen it drop. And thank goodness the raid leader had set it to master looter, because it's definitely one of those items that someone might deem worthy of a ninja.
MMO-Champion Posts Screenshots Of Wrath Mounts
iTZKooPA on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 - 18 Comments Tags: bears, drake, flying carpet, flying mounts, mammoth, polar bear, proto-drake, the hog, war bear, wrath mounts, wrath of the lich king 
Ugg, maintenance day. What a waste of perfectly good play time Tuesday mornings are. Doesn't Blizzard know that the morning is when I do my Auction House browsing and such. Anyways, since there isn't much going on in the game right now I figured I could hit you guys with an update on Wrath of the Lich King and the load of mounts that are being added with its launch.
MMO-Champion has a screenshot for all but one of the mounts, so its best you head to their post if you want to see more. At the moment there are 32 new mounts by my count, a few of which we have known about for some time. However, 32 is a bit of an inflated number since many of the mounts are simply different colors of each other. Currently, there are actually only eight drastically different models split up into seven categories.
Category and model breakdown:
- Others – Windrider and Gryphon
- Bears – Four Assorted Bears
- Mammoths – Eight Assorted Mammoths
- Proto-Drakes – Seven Assorted Proto-Drakes
- Drakes – Seven Assorted Drakes
- Tailoring – Two Magnificent Flying Carpets
- Engineering – Two Hogs