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Fiery Warhorse's Reins

Item Level 40
Binds when picked up
Unique
Mount (Account-wide)

Use: Teaches you how to summon Attumen the Huntsman's steed.
Requires Level 40
Requires Journeyman Riding

Dropped by: Attumen the Huntsman

Drop Chance: 0.87%

Drop: Attumen the Huntsman
Location: Karazhan

Was one of the most vicious steeds stabled in Karazhan.

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Comment by Beliandra

Drops from Attumen the Huntsman - http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=15550 - in Karazhan. Not enough data gathered yet to know how common it is, but presumably very rare, like Baron Rivendare's mount or Mandokir's raptor mount.

Comment by pwerkso

Incorrect. The picture above IS indeed the mount that drops off him. The BE epic mount lacks the "fiery" look at the hooves and eyes.

Comment by asakawa

0.1% ~ 0,5%

like baron rivendare,mandokir..thekal mounts

Comment by Lurkina

In case you were wondering, Tauren can indeed ride this mount. Dropped on our first kill for our guild tonight, first time going in Karazhan. Randomed for it.

Submitted a screenshot of our Tauren Druid on this thing, it's HUGE!

Comment by Isilwen

I got mine last night. :)
A first on our server, if I'm not mistaken.

Comment by Resseneus

Reply to Pwerk*

Though a BE Pally mount doesn't have the fiery hooves, it also has different armor, so this is completelay different from the BE Pally mount. Think of it as a mix between a Lock and Pally mount.

Comment by ravage

Dropped last night on Kirin Tor

I rolled a 44 :*(

Comment by MikeL

It can't be *that* rare, we've now seen it fall twice. Maybe we have insane luck, but I suspect the drop rate is probably something like 3% versus the 0.3% for Baron's mount...

Comment by DrAgRoS

It is speculated that Attumen is a Death Knight on wowwiki so therefore this mount, if that is true, is the horse of a Death Knight like Arthas before becoming One with the Lich King.

Comment by PhoenixUnity07

This mount would look wicked together with The Horseman's Helm.

Comment by dankone

Realistically, your chances of getting this is 0.05%, since it is a 10 man raid.

Comment by Dr00d

This Horse looks cool

Comment by Sephisloth

I would like to add that this is the only horse ridable by Tauren :)

Comment by lanc3lot

Just dropped yesterday, for one of our warlocks,Inhell - Samurai Twilight's Hammer (EU).
I posted a shot also, it will appear during the day i assume:)

Pretty hard to drop one:)

Comment by Analillian

Dropped for our guild, Dragon's Fang (Turalyon server) for the first time tonight!

And I rolled 100 for it! Woot!!! I believe it's one of 5 or 6 on this server. Leetness.

Comment by Mechanix2

Picked this mount up last night. Doesn't look to bad on my UD Mage :)

Comment by Lightcloud

I was watching my friend doing kara the other day, and this drops, and im like o damn and the whole raid rolls for it of course, but he doesnt want it he says, im like wtf its really rare, but hes a lock and he says it doesnt fit him. And it apparently went to a guy who doesn't have his epic mount yet.. which i dont belive but what ya gonna do, i wasnt on so >.<

Comment by pik4chu

I jut want to add that this mount counts as part of the loot table, meaning if this drops it counts as one of your epics. Which IMO sucks, we had this drop for us last run and we were annoyed to find this out since most of our raid are crazy with other mounts this would never get used. Would have prefered a void instead... Oh well it does look cool.

Comment by haloman800

yea not to burst anyones bubble but this mount is kind of common, at least 1 person on my server are on this in IF atta time. but yes like Mordachi said this mount is one of the coolest looking rare mounts in game becuase most rare mounts are just mounts from factions (such as Baron Rivendare's steed is an undead mount from horde side and raptor mount from trolls)

Comment by Dallack

Thats the rare Horse with 0.7% drop rate!
I was master loot with my Hunter... Should i ninja it? :P

Comment by silentkilluh2010

This actually droped last night in kara,i was suprissed that i droped so now i at least know that there is a chance for it to drop.

Comment by hvymetalmachine

i think this thing would be much cooler if it wasnt christmas colored and didnt have buck-teeth. =b

Comment by Gruneun

the epic riding skill isn't even worth mentioning, you are karazhan attuned which means you have to have 225 riding skill for a flying mount

The attunement requirement for Kara has since been removed, so flying mount training is no longer required to enter. It's highly unlikely that someone will win this and not yet be able to use it, but it is possible.

Comment by patfactorx

I am a tauren, I have it. It looks really dumb therefore its awesome =op

Comment by Shorty

With the changes to the droprate of Rivendare's deathcharger, this is probably now the single rarest drop-capable mount in the game.

Discounting loot cards, limited-time-only mounts (holiday events or one-time-only world events), the AQ Black Battle Tank, and mounts that simply require a serious time investment (wintersabers, achievement rewards), we're left with:

-This, which has a 1% drop rate and comes from an instance with a week-long reset
-The ZG mounts (Razzashi Raptor and Zulian Tiger) from ZG, which have a 1% drop rate but come from an instance with a 5day reset
-The Raven mount from Anzu, which has a 1% drop rate but is doable every day
-The White Hawkstriker from MgT heroic, which has (according to WoWhead) a 2-3% drop rate
-The Phoenix from TK, which comes from a 1-week reset but also is listed as having a slightly higher droprate
-The red AQ bug, which has an extremely low droprate but which drops from trash which can be forced to respawn by soft-resetting the instance.

Previously, Rivendare's mount had (as confirmed by blizz) a 1 in 5000 drop rate, which not only made it the rarest mount in the game, but (I believe) the lowest drop-rate item in the game period, barring world drop epics. Now it's 1 in 100, which puts it at 1% like many of these mounts, but the instance is freely resettable.

This message bought to you by the Shorticus board of Useless Information. Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

Comment by ikko

i agree whit the 70 level req. You can actually enter Karazhan on 68 after completing the Quest. So even 68 level would use this.

Comment by manbearpgg

I dont personally think the phoenix has a higher chance to drop than anything... I would say it's the rarest mount in the game atm because on my server there were 10 + guilds clearing TK pre-nerf and we pugged it many times before WoTLK dropped and we only have one phoenix on our server. Still to this day, only one phoenix...

Comment by Wisdomsword

It should be level 68 because thats the level you can get inside the instance at.

Comment by Tarpan

Any tips on soloing for this mount as a feral druid?

Comment by OccasusTuralyon

Solo'd this on my blood spec dk (good geared ofc)

Basically the hardest part of the fight is when both attumen and midnight are out, as you have 2 attackers on you, this is the time to use any powerful cds to survive/dps.

After that, its pretty much straight forward, just tank and spank it down to 0 :)

Been soloing karazhan, moroes is the hardest i've killed so far, maiden being incredibly easy

Comment by jaxsonbateman

realistically, even soloing it is not any better: is has less than 1% chance to drop, and the boss can only be killed once every week. there are 52 weeks in a year. you do that math.
...

.....

This just defies logic. Realistically, soloing it *is* better. If two people go, you have a 0.5% chance to get it - a 1% chance for it to drop, and then a 50% chance to win the roll. If three people go, you have a 0.33% chance to get it - a 1% chance for it to drop, and then a 33% chance to win the roll. This continues until 10 people, where it becomes a 0.05% chance to obtain it on any given kill.

So basically, realistically, soloing it does increase your chances of actually obtaining the mount. HOWEVER, realistically, it does not increase your chances of it dropping.

Comment by Slanyou

Just had this drop on my prot pally on the 9th try, its really easy doable as a prot pally, you dont need the best gear^^
LoH if you get in trouble otherwise bubble 'n heal :P.

ive submitted a screenshot^^.

Comment by Chopin2

I did Kara the other night for the hell of it, some people I knew were going and I had never been there so I was just planning on getting an achievement out of it. Then this thing drops... and I got it lol.

Comment by Rymskel

lawl, farmed for it for like, 2 months, maybe 3, every time it reset and finially got it after awhile. I use it all the time, the raven lord, zullian tiger, and the raptor are next :)

Comment by mikachuuu

Droped twice in a row for a friend and me ^^. Just wanted to see if we can duo it easy and yeah we could and got the first one on first try and second one on second try :x.

Comment by Sparklzorz

Anyone tried this guy as a rogue? I doubt I could do it, would probably need heals at the very least, but has anyone tried? Only seeing feral droods, pallies, and dks is kind of disheartening XD

Comment by Vath

Anyone tried this guy as a rogue? I doubt I could do it, would probably need heals at the very least, but has anyone tried? Only seeing feral droods, pallies, and dks is kind of disheartening XD

I don't think anyone needs to even try to know it is suicide to try to solo this as a rogue, unfortunately. They just can't take the punishment or have the tools the tanking classes do to solo old bosses, especially ? raid bosses.

Comment by Alittan

Unlike what people have said, this IS the Death Knight mount of the Warcraft 2 death knights (AKA Ner'zhul's death knights before he became the Lich King). The Skeletal Undead mounts are the ones the Warcraft 3 death knights use, like Arthas.

check out http://www.thanatosrealms.com/war2/images/horde-units/sketches/death-knight.gif , you will see how the concept artists designed the Warcraft 2 Death Knights, and their horses. Note how the horse has more flesh on it than a Skeletal Warhorse. Attumen is a Death Knight himself, you see him in his wowwiki page ( http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/wowwiki/images/d/de/Deathknight.JPG ) holding a staff which contains his Orcish Soul, and his body is just a dead human warrior. His horse has strong similarities with the Warcraft 2 DK Mounts. Say what you want, but him holding that staff with his soul in it is a dead giveaway. He also uses shadow and curse attacks.

So:

Warcraft 3 DK Horse = Skeletal Warhorse of the Forsaken
Warcraft 2 DK Horse = Attumens' Horse

And the current DK horse that you get at lvl 55 when you roll a DK is kind of a Hybrid between them.

Comment by nosebear

i am just wondering somthing here but is it possible for a lvl 80 blood/frost 20/51 DK
DPS to solo the attumen guy to get the warhorse,

--nosebear

Comment by Minkyu

I'm a resto druid, but I have a decent tanking set so I decided to give it a try and it dropped first kill !

At first I tried killing the boss, only to have all the adds aggro and kill me. So just a heads up, clear all adds before Attumen.

Comment by bratok

Check this link and click Feats of Strength.
Its my main and alt. Anyone got more rare mounts? :)

Comment by kriszchef

For me it dropped at my very first karahzan :P
Just today.
btw drop rate is 0.25%

Comment by blackstarr

My two friends I had been farming rare mounts for the past couple weeks, farming the tiger mount and raptor mount, respectively. I had mentioned Kara and Attumen's horse dropping there, we decided as a spur of the moment to go there and try him and see if it drops. I knew it was a rare mount, but didn't know how rare it was in terms of drop-rate and so forth.

I being a ret pally, two of my friends was a prot pally and the other was a boomkin. We cleared the trash and went in, engaged Midnight and just dps burned it down till Attumen showed up, burned him down till he mounted up and burned him again. He died fast, and all of us hoping it dropped... sure enough it dropped, we all clicked "need" on it and I won the mount, got achievement and everyone in my guild was silent then jokingly bashed me in envious that I got it.

In other words, keep farming for this horse even if you have not gotten it. It will drop! It took me months to get the Deathcharger's Reins, day after day of endless mindless farming, it will drop. You never know, it just might drop the first try.

Just clear trash in Kara, engage them both, Midnight and Attumen, and just dps burn them down and hope it drops.

Edit add-in:

They still pack quite a punch, I would suggest using prot aura, to help with armor increase and use Seal of Light, to heal yourself and use Judgement of Light, to keep your health up, and when Art of War proccs, use Flash of Light if needed to get a quick heal in. Before engaging Midnight, use Divine Plea for mana regeneration while fighting and Judgement of the Wise if need quick mana, Scared Shield for damage absorbing, while engaging Midnight, use Avenging Wrath. Use Consecration, Crusader Strike, Divine Storm and Exorcism as well. Use Lay on Hands as an emergency if your health gets too low fast. Burn them down, and get the horse. :P

Comment by Monorion

as a lvl 80 prot pally i went into Kara cleared the room before attunmen then started killing him he dropped this mount the first try for me!

Comment by extremities

So basically, realistically, soloing it does increase your chances of actually obtaining the mount. HOWEVER, realistically, it does not increase your chances of it dropping.

which are still <1% on a boss that can only be killed once per week. of course you have better odds if you are soloing. the comment that you're referring to was poorly phrased. the intended meaning was that the odds are still so low as to be meaningless. solo it every single reset for an entire year, and you have about a 30% chance at it. that's just pointless.

Comment by droodhaxzomg

I would like to make a couple of assertions:

It is not hard to farm the first boss with a healer/dps combo, but I would imagine that not every class can solo it. If you're a dk, pally or druid, congratulations, kill the trash leading up to Attumen, then kill Attumen and collect lewtz.
You will probably have to farm it for a while. This is obvious to anyone who has read the comments on any other rare drop, in particular any rare mount drop.
This mount is the coolest ground mount in the game.

Let me defend #3 there for a second. There are other cool mounts in the game. Zulian Tiger, Amani War Bear, Spectral Tiger, Black Qiraji Battle Tank, Dark War Talbuk. There are a lot of other cool mounts, actually, and some of them probably look cooler than this one until you recognize something, something that is noticeable from every screenshot submitted to wowhead. And once you recognize it and keep in mind that virtually everything in Karazhan is of an undead nature, you will make a connection.

This mount has fangs. You are riding a vampire horse that is on fire. Let me repeat that. You are riding a vampire horse that is on fire. I don't even have to say anything else. "My mount is the Black Qiraji Battle Tank, a rare mount belonging only to the select few people who were selected as champions by the mortal races of Azeroth and the Bronze Dragonflight." "My mount is a vampire horse on fire." "You win."

And the rarity of it is arguably greater than many other mounts, for people who enjoy the "I have something you don't" factor. And one other small thing that helps secure this horsepire's position as the greatest ground mount in wow? Tauren can go through *edit* almost */edit* any door in the game on it without having to dismount. It's a small thing, but not being defeated by your own tremendous girth when you want to go through a door while mounted is a nice little bonus to riding a vampire horse. That is on fire.

edit: note to self, assertations is a word in the same way that administrating is, i.e. not at all

Comment by hvymetalmachine

I was told by someone today that this mount is no longer in-game? Can someone confirm?

Comment by Skellyhell

Decided to try solo this on my DK tonight.

Done all but the last trash pull in PvE gear, blood tank spec (Runetap <3)

Last pack killed me 2 times due to the stuns, 200% stamina debuff and 3 horse healing NPCs.
Decided to use my army on them, but they just attacked the horses, so they died, and i ended up IBFing through the 200% str buff, killing the healers and finally getting them down...

The actual boss fight was fairly easy. Just boring, as you would expect 500k of damage in naxx25 ready tank gear would be...
smacked Midnight down to 20%, throwing a ghoul in when i could. Had to deathstrike alot, since both mobs where hitting for 1.2k each minimum. But aslong as you can survive through this, youll be fine.
Second phase is incredibly easy. Just diseases and deathstrike is all i needed. more ghouls used to speed it up, but thats about it.

Now to do it again every week....

Comment by bmc1968

killed this boss solo and no deaths with warrior tank, not too hard just gotta be patient...no mount for me, maybe next week

Comment by Agereautmore

It's also a unicorn.

Comment by nattylife

just solo'ed it the other day. in a mix of naxx25/ulduar25/toc10 gear (32k health unbuffed). blood spec dk. was a little worried about the hit curse but its really not that bad at all considering how little damage he does. it just takes a while and a lot of spamming death strike when you have the curse. but totally doable. he was actually easier than the trash (which kept charging me which was annoying)
didnt get the mount but confident i can do this weekly no prob

Comment by malminos

Just soloed it with my blood tank DK. Pretty easy fight, i just spammed death and heart strike, throwing in a rune tap or mark of blood when needed. I never really felt in danger at any time. The mount didn't drop but w/e, i'll keep running it weekly either way, hah!

Comment by traen

Dont worry, drop rate is actually higher than 0.7%.
All people I know, who farmed it every week, got it within 1 year(less than 50 attempts). I guess drop rate was buffed to 2% or so in WOTLK. I got it on my run #39 (not including tbc runs).
gl on farming.

Comment by Viskaren

I would agree that this is the rarest mount in the game. It is also the coolest looking ground mount, and rivals other mounts like netherdrakes and the phoenix in regards to aesthetics. I think it is the rarest mount in the entire game due to the combination of an extremely low drop chance and how it is relatively unknown to most WoW players, at least after WotLK. I am one of two alliance players on my server with it, and I have never seen a horde with one, and I get many people asking where I got the mount.
Shorty also has a valid point when he mentions the raid lockout periods (or lack thereof) that contribute to this mount's rarity.
While considering raid sizes (I am assuming full 10 player or 25 player raids), statistically, you have a lower chance of getting the phoenix than the warhorse.
Many rare mounts are commonly sought after and farmed, like Rivendare's mount or the phoenix. Because it is a lesser known mount, less people farm it and less people per server have it.
My friends and I, all level 80 and well geared (I'm 2700+) clear Karazhan every week just for fun. The mount has never dropped, except for once when I did it a different time.
When comparing drop chances and farming rates, you have to remember that statistically, a .7% mount could drop every time you ran it, or it could never drop at all. Killing a boss with a 1% drop 100 times won't guarantee a drop.
Whichever way you look at it, the Warhorse is easily the coolest and rarest ground mount, and one of the coolest and rarest mounts in the entire game, and I am extremely lucky to have mine.
~Viskaren - Twisting Nether(US)

Comment by walrusaurus

easily solo'd as a druid tank. The boss itself doesn't provide as much challenge as the trash pulls, the larger of which can kill you if you don't have any cooldowns up, i've never actually died to the boss, but the trash has killed me a couple of times

Comment by Pallis

Not rarest mount in game, how about the one in AQ the one that can be used everywhere, you had to be there at a certain tiem to get it whe it opened or somthig then unattainable, then theres the ZA mount, quite a few have but unatanable, this is attainable, and how abou ashes of alar
Anyway i came to see if it still drops, ive ben soloing this since i hit 80 a week after release, well 5 month break in there still no drop.

Comment by Eioth

Very, very easily soloable as a prot paladin. Judgement of Light should keep your health topped trough the whole fight, both of them hits very weak, when they actually get to hit me (during the stun).
During the curse, just autoswing to keep Corruption/Venegance up, you will most likely get a hit or two in even with 50% less hitchance.
As for the trash, I pull half of it at a time (approx 10-12 mobs each pull). A fear or two will probably hit you, but I always get feared out of their melee range right away, so next to no damage taken.

Got the mount today, 7th kill.
Also, the mount is not 'extra' loot like i.e. the Zul'Gurub mounts, instead of two pieces of gear he dropped the mount and a gear piece for me, if anyone was wondering.

Comment by Cantoz

Haha damn, unless theres a way to set on fire and glue fangs to it I wanna replace my chopper with this beauty

Comment by chopinsky

Just soloed as a feral druid. Quite easy fight with 31k hp and 5.7k attack power. Only used Frenzied Regeneration once which is enhanced by glyph. Died once on clearing trash, but it's not hard to kill the boss.

Comment by Alleymonkey

Difficult but doable solo as a demo lock in good gear. Make sure you clear everything on the ground level, dont bother with the trash upstairs. Im not sure if I missed two spectral chargers but when I pulled midnight they aggroed as well. This made it much more difficult, the best advice i can offer is to keep threat on all the adds you manage to pick up, health funnel if your demon gets below 50%, and keep his mana up.

When attumen mounts his horse, stay just a bit away from from in, too close for his charge range. If you take a charge pop demo and drain life, and its just keep your pet up from there and your golden.

Comment by roahnwarlock

im going to have to disagree, the warlock mount wins; its a fiery demon horse from the nether realm with spikes and horns

Comment by wowmate

I was unable to see the horse and the summoner. Only the nameplate and emptiness under it :)

any idea why ?

Comment by Greenhoof

Ok, I've been farming this beauty for quite a while now, and guess what ? It still hasn't dropped.

But every week, I'm looting hope that it will drop next week, and that is priceless =)

This comment is just for the people trying to get it (obviously you wouldn't read anything writen here would that be in the hope to drop it), and I haven't read any "hope keeping" comment yet here.

KEEP ON GOING IT MATES !

Comment by TonyTheTiger

Been duoing this with a Disc Priest friend for a month as I simply didn't want to spend more time on WoW than raidlogging while I was still raiding.

Could've soloed as a decent geared Enhancement Shaman probably but he said he doesn't want the mount on his alt so there we were killing the boss every week.

Anyway, few pointers for fellow Enh Shamans:

- on trash you better not pull than 1-2 packs, unless you're wearing PvP gear, the mobs still crit HARD and we are as you all know squishy if not cautious.
- unless you feel condifent about your DPS, drop tremor totem, because you still might get feared and face an additional pack.
- on the boss himself go all out around 50-75% in p1 ( when Midnight and Attunmen are attacking you separetely ), you should be able to nuke Midnight pretty fast to p2.
- when p2 hits, if you pumped out enough DPS, you ought to have 20-25 seconds left on BL/Hero and you pretty much are done now, but for those less fortunate who didn't pray to RNG gods enough, save SR when you get stunned and don't forget to selfheal, because you never know when you could get bashed by crits.

For TL;DR:

It's simple, as long as you're cautious and don't get $%^&y ('lolol its only kara') this should be easy, probably the same with Elemental.

Adding a screenshot of this awesome mount later, think Feralas scenery matches it's colors quite well.

Comment by killercroc

This dropped for me a few days ago. I believe it dropped on my second run. The first time I ran into Karazhan to solo was when a group there had opened the door and I slipped in. At the time I did not have the key on my Druid Tank. Attuman is a quick an easy solo for a feral druid. When I'm soloing I usually bring an Elixir of Mighty Fortitude, and maybe one health potion. The mobs don't hit too hard and hitting barkskin as well as trinket cooldowns makes the fight pretty easy. The great thing about this mount is that it is situated at the beginning of the instance.

I decided a few days ago to get the key to Karazhan and spent most of that day working on it, I also had to get the key to Arcatraz which was a lengthy and annoying delay. Once I obtained the key I ran in and...it dropped. I'm not sure what to say about my good fortune, I'd seen it drop once before (18 months prior) and I lost the roll.
I was not expecting it to drop for some time, especially considering the Raven Lord Mount dropped for me in Sethekk five days earlier. I plan on running my guildmates through weekly to give them a chance. One point of interest: this mount looks nearly identical to the Headless Horseman's mount (the headless horseman's mount just doesn't have fangs or a horn, although it does fly).
Good Luck everyone, it will drop!

Comment by JamesThePaladin

When you farm for this mount, do not skip trash. Once, I dropped down on Midnight from the balcony (from the kitchen by Moroes' room), and I pulled the whole room.

Comment by Wait

I farmed this every reset for a few weeks, i think i got it on my 6 or 7th run. Many people believe that you can't get this anymore, due to the Feat of stregth. Quote from Blizzard; Feats of strength is achievements that is impossible or nearly impossible to achieve for players.
This is one of the nearly impossible ones, it's 0,7% drop chance, and only a few classes can solo it.
With 0,7% drop chance it can take over 2 years to get this mount, due to the 7 days reset.

Comment by Nukillis

Solo'd for this sweet mount a couple times, and I think I have a good, basic strategy down.

Before you go into Karazhan, I advise that you either:

finish the quest line for the Karazhan key

get Engineering for the Seaforium charges

If you are too lazy to do the quest line (like me), and you don't have Engineering (you should, it rox), then you're going to have to die. Seriously.
Pull a few (maybe like 4 to 5) of the ghost mobs outside of the Karazhan front gate (gently, don't overdo it with the dmg), and let them beat on you at the doorstep of the front gate. Turn away from them so that you don't dodge or parry so many attacks. If you have anything that sacrifices your health, do it. After you die, run back to Karazhan and release your spirit. In order for this to work, remember that you must be in a raid group in order to go into a raid instance. Have a guildie get into a group with you quickly, convert it to a raid group, zone in, and have them leave the group instead of you, so that you do not get teleported out to the nearest graveyard. (NOTE: Be careful of dying after they leave. You will not be able to zone back in, so you might want to ask them to stay grouped with you for 10-15 minutes.)
If you are thinking, "well can't you just pick the lock if you're a rogue?" Yes, you can. But, rogues can't mitigate hardly any damage whatsoever, so it will be extremely difficult (if not, impossible) to solo the mobs inside. If you want to hire the services of a rogue, then by all means go for it, just hope they have the mount so they don't roll against you for the 'Reins. :)

So, after you've broken into Medivh's mysterious tower of awesome, go past the Grand Ballroom until you hit the horses and stables. Clear EVERYTHING in the room surrounding Midnight, or you WILL get pwned.
After you've done this, you're ready to engage Midnight and Attumen. Be cautious about the cleave, but other than that, he's a cakewalk. Loot him and GL with getting your shiny, new vampire horse! (That is on fire (homage to Droodhax).

Note: I said BASIC strategy for a reason: I have not tried this fight on a hunter, druid, paladin, or warrior. I do not know how easy/hard it is for them, and in that, I have no strategy for them. The only place where I incorporated anything that had to do with Death Knights is where I put in brackets. All I can say is, careful with the cleave. And once again, good luck!

Comment by estrangedgnome

dropped for me on the 4th run,did it with a druid tank mate,i ve been really lucky

Comment by iamtehg

Soloed as a ICC 25 geared Ele shaman very easily. The few things to watch out for when soloing is to watch out for the knockdown. If you arent keeping your health around 60-70% you can find yourself really low by the time your able to cast a heal on yourself, even with a huge gear advantage like I had. I got this on my second try for it and I learned to not trust your elementals in this fight. The Earth elemental never seemed to taunt the one I wasn't focusing on and the Fire elemental did just the opposite. Getting by the first phase where Midnight and Attumen are seperated is definitely the hardest part of the fight. When they combine together, you pretty much got it in the bag by that point.

Comment by falatha

I can confirm this is soloable as a Shadowpriest, I just did tho I have around 6k gearscore so I had a bit of advantage but some things that can help you is having a health pot can be really crucial in the knockbacks.
It is almost a must to have specced 2/2 in vamperic embrace for the healing when dpsing and have glyph of dispersion it helps alot.

Good luck hunting for the mount

Best Regards
Falatha the Immortal
<Stranglethorn Whales>

Comment by h0lyshadow

Started to farm this 4-5 months ago, did the boss always in Prot offspec because when I've tryed first time as Retribution MS was a fail due to Intangible Presence curse.
Now my paladin is better geared so, since doing this as Protection take at least 5-6 minuts, last week reset I've done another try in DPS spec and was almost a cakewalk.

All you have to use is:

- Seal of Light
- Keep always up Sacred Shield
- Use Flash of Light wherever needed thanks to the Art of War
- Faceroll hard
- ?
- Profit!

If very good geared you can also start with a 10/15 seconds partial brute-force thanks to the Seal of Command and Avenging Wrath, swapping to Seal of Light when you start losing too much life.

Life-steal from Bryntroll, the Bone Arbiter is very great, if you got the weapon, use it!

Oh, btw, mount didn't dropped for me atm, but is kinda nice farming this with my favourite spec. Hope other Ret palas will do that aswell.

Good luck hunting Vampire horses (on fire)!

Comment by Mazovoid

I solo it every week as a ret pally in PvP gear, and I kind of doubt this will drop for me out of the other mounts I'm farming.

Atlasloot says it is .25% drop rate, which almost scares me.

Comment by Pokeme

Dropped for me a few weeks ago when I was running some friends through with my warrior.

I won the roll (100 woohoo) and got the achievement, which was all I was going for, seeing as I still have mr. scruffles the kodo as my favorite mount to ride on land. I decided to trade the mount to one of my better friends so he could get more use out of it.

Once the trade was complete and he learned the mount... poof, achievement for him. It's a 2 for 1 deal :D

Think about this when it drops for you and you don't really need it.

Comment by nostatic

just soloed this first time as an 80 tanking BM hunter wearing ICC10/25/some Heroic PVE gear with no PVP pieces in any slot

SUPER. EASY.

- i used an 80 tank-specced warp stalker. i initially tried last night with a bear and it failed. Warp truly makes a difference

- for the mobs, I generally Frost Arrowed one of the horses and Misdirected the other to my pet that I had stationed further back (as to not aggro room when feared/break icy with Thunderstomp). if it was a mob of 2 horses + 1 or 2 humans, I usually froze 1 horse, had the rest of the mobs go to pet and then picked off the humans before shooting the 2nd horse. I chain-trap the other horse until all others are dead. sometimes i would get feared and wouldnt be able to Mend Pet in time, so I'd just FD and let pet die. nbd

- for the boss fight, basically I just kept Mend Pet up all the time and MD-ed to it whenever I could while keeping up a good dps rotation. since I haven't played as BM since TBC, my dps probably blew but it took me a minute or less to get through phase 1. my pet's health hovered around 40-50% for phase 1

phase 2 i didnt have a chance to eat/drink/heal pet fully cause pet Thunderstomped right as Midnight and Attumen fused, but Mend Pet got pet's health back to 100% in no time. phase two was a joke since my pet was almost always at around 90% health and keeping aggro perfectly. guess they dont hit hard when they're together

mount didnt drop however...

Comment by Vertalous

Just had my second attempt for the mount and it dropped. The comments on here made me feel so hopeless in trying to get it, but guess i got lucky.

Comment by Majiktusk

Now with the gear we can get, Warriors can easily solo this boss using a bloodthirst solo build. I am about to go for third time now but it is easy to do. Especially with the great music in Kara!

Comment by Ixidordreamer

Along with Zul'Gurub, Sethekk halls, and Magister's Terrace, myself and 2 buddies farm this as much as the lockouts allow. I got it on my resto shaman the 2nd time we started our mount farming pact. Of course, this means I have to pass on the Raven Lord and the Tiger as they get a mount each before I can get another.

I solo this every week on my dk, but it's so cakewalk with 2 friends doing it all for fun with each other too. And as the healer of the group you can sit there and watch them do all the work for the mounts. :) Good luck guys. This horse is a lovely addition to anyone's collection. And it's a lot less common than the Tiger or Raven Lord in Dalaran on my server. (Dakkamon, Laughing Skull)

Comment by Hairband

This is the best looking mount on the game, and so very rare. Honestly, the only boss I care enough to farm for, really only interested in this one. It's the first boss of Kara so it's easy to reach as long as you or a party member has the Kara key. The chain quest to get the Kara key is really interesting, the only hard part being the obtainment of the Arcatraz Key which itself is a long chain quest. In addition, you will run about five BC dungeons, the two of five of which are trash pull instances only. Honestly, if you take the Arcatraz Key out of the equation, most of the attunement to Kara should take 2 hours only in a 2 man situation with 2 level 80 toons.

We intended to farm for Enchanting patterns (Mongoose drops from Moroes!) and said, what the heck, maybe it'll drop. I'd been trying on my main, protection warrior, for the last 1.5 years off and on, with the Mr. on his Shadow Priest DPSing. I had a strange feeling Fiery Warhorse would drop on an alt, but we still tried it.

The Mr. and I duoed this boss on my Demo Lock and his Frost DK in T9 pieces, gear score levels about 4.6K. There are about 5 groups of 2-3 trash mobs (2 horses and one humanoid usually) until the final pull just before Midnight. That final trash pull is about 5 mobs total. (Yes, behind those mobs are maybe 5 more mobs but they're enclosed behind a side wall and they do not aggro when you pull Midnight, so just leave them and save some time).

In the middle of the fight a spectral charger appeared out of nowhere and killed me, wasting my Soulstone. However, once tank handled that, burning Attumen was not bad at all.

The best way to convince others to help you if you are not one of the classes that can solo bosses easily is to bribe someone you know seeking the Mongoose enchant from Moroes. Someone's alt always needs it. If the mount drops, it's yours; and you can 2 man Moroes after you get the mount without much difficulty.

Comment by ksabaras

imo best looking mount in game.
Someone will probaly say that Invincible's Reins is better since it can be used as both ground and flying mount though I would still prefer this one as ground mount.

I got this sweet mount this morning, was awfully happy when I saw it.
Been grinding KZ for the past 6-7 months, along with every other low drop % mounts - ZG for both Swift Zulian Tiger and Swift Razzashi Raptor, MGT for Swift White Hawkstrider, Stratholme for Deathcharger's Reins and ofc KZ for this baby.

Only thing that I can say to anyone who decides to farm these mounts is - DON'T GIVE UP!
It was a long grind, but while grinding I never thought "this mount will never drop for me".
It just takes steel nerves and patience, and all of them will drop, one by one.

And just for the record, even though I haven't missed any reset of both ZG and KZ, I find myself to be extremely lucky person since all of those mounts dropped for me.

Just don't forget - they will drop eventually so DON'T GIVE UP!
gl to all farming this mount (or any other)
/Zørg, Draenor, EU

P.S. I know that this comment will be downrated since ppl probably think that I'm bragging about my mounts.
I just wanted to post here to encourage ppl so they continue farming mounts and to show that its possible to get all of these mount if u r persistent enough.

Comment by Volcae

Also possible on my l33t warrior. ICC gear be damned, porbably coulda done it in Naxx gear with my self healing spec. That specs carried me to solo all KZ bosses :) (except chess event)

Edit: Actually hasn't led me to solo all bosses, found out the Shade of Aran is pretty tough on a class/spec based on physical mitigation balanced with healing.

Comment by pallylock

Still drops as of 9/11/10

Comment by Solona

Easy to solo as a Ret Paladin provided your gear and spec are solid and you take care to use your own cooldowns carefully.

Start with waiting until you're low on health before popping Lay on Hands (keep sacred shield up). You should be okay until Forebearance wears off to be able to either divine shield or pop Avenging Wrath and cooldowns and heal yourself up with Art of War and Divine Storm.

Will take some practice but it is definitely doable. Also very viable as a Prot Paladin.

Comment by eli2112

Will this still be available in Cataclysm? I'm a hunter and I'd love to be able to farm this at 85, should be easy, but I don't know if it will happen as with ZG and tiger and raptor mounts from there that are being removed (still haven't dropped for me, damn).

Comment by Keljo

Oh so happy. Second time Ive ever soloed Attumen, this thing drops. Not one hour ago I got my Wrathful Shoulder. Matches my sexy warrior gear oh so sexily!

Comment by bubbles11

As of September 16, 2010 this mount does still drop, me and a friend decided to go to Karazhan to see if Attumen would drop the mount..

Amazingly enough it did drop, but i ended up losing the roll to her =(, hopefully we can get another Fiery Warhorse Rein's to drop before Cataclysm is out, but i HIGHLY doubt we will see another Fiery Warhorse Rein's drop seeing as this is an EXTREMELY rare mount

Comment by Viskar

As of Oct 7th 2010, this mount still drops from Attunmen. - Viskar : Blackrock

Comment by Alorsith

First time in Kara rolled 70 and got it the other 80 Hunter asked to buy it, but he was to late. Very bad-ass looking mount almost thought I was hallucinating when I saw I won same speed as Lvl 40 mounts but it looks much better, kinda wish I didn't use it though coulda got some nice money for it.

Comment by Niixten

Two years of farming as Retri paladin, no mount yet...

Comment by Chainik

On the first day of 4.0.1, I went to Kara to farm enchanting mats since Berserking suddenly became worse than Mongoose. That was the first time I went to Kara since TBC. I easily soloed Attumen (im a good geared rogue, soloing stuff with recuperate is awesome), and to my surprise, this mount dropped. I wasnt even thinking about the possibility before I looted the boss.

First of all, I would like to apologise to all people who have been farming it every reset for years for being this lucky.

Second of all, I would like to say that this is payback time to all those bastards who were laughing at me having gotten Deathcharger's Reins in 1-10 runs after the patch, me having to do the 123 runs after the patch adding to the over 700 runs that I did before the patch. I can now mount both the skeletal warhorse that has been dead for ages, or a vampire horse with fangs that is on fire. Beat that.

Comment by Saybah

I've gotten into a routine with a friend of mine for mount farming. A daily MGT heroic, heroic Sethekk Halls, ZG twice a week and then a weekly Karazhan run. In the space of 4 days, I've gotten the ZG tiger and then this beauty of a mount. I'm not usually lucky with mount drops (100+ Kael'thas kills in MGT) but I must have done something worthwhile for the RNG gods tonight. Duo'd as a Prot Pally and an MM hunter, pretty easy really. I've not really farmed this mount before and my very kind friend passed on it, which gave me the 100 mount achievement!

Keep the farming up Azerothians! The vampire warhorse will be yours!

Elvania - Turalyon Eu

Comment by Baelthuz

With patch 4.0 out now, even 70s can solo this boss! My twinked 70 druid tank soloed the trash and boss no sweat!
Edit: Oh yah and the mount dropped :D

Comment by Blueberries

I just recently started running this with my brother.

Just ran it today for the second time, and saw it drop.

Although my brother won the roll, still pretty surprised that it dropped so early on the first time.
It'll hopefully drop for me sooner or later.

Comment by mimee

This mount is prob one of the hardest mounts to get in game as you can only farm it ONCE a week. And the drop rate is as low as the zulian tiger.0.7% So if you havent been lucky with zulian tiger when you farm it every 3 days.. Expect to farm this for YEARS unless your extremely lucky.

Thats how this %^&*ty game is.. everything is a headache to get.. EVERYTHING...

Comment by Vriesus

Just here to drop a short comment...

As of 4.0.1, a lot of classes that previously could not solo now can. As a feral druid who already could solo it, I find I can easily do Attumen without touching bear form.

A combat rogue with recuperate may be able to do this too, what with 5% health every 3 seconds and reinforced leather, which may just be enough to bring an 80 rogue to the level 70 armor cap (don't quote me on this, I forgot what the armor cap was). An enhance shaman may be able to do this also, as well as different warrior specs.

Comment by Beerform

This is a really great mount ! I won it last year on my Druid and now farm it every week for my friends.

Comment by BethofHearts

261. Got this on my disco priest yesterday, the last in a run of rare mount drops I have gotten over an 8 day period. Once again, amazed I got it considering I really have never actively farmed this one.

Warning: Getting this drop inspires seething jealously :D

Comment by hmanfrin

5990GS shadow priest solo this without problems. Now i need to be lucky and get this awesome mount.

Comment by SaltyScurge

I keep telling myself "It's not the Headless Horseman's mount, it's not the Headless Horseman's mount, I have a unique mount, I DO...."

Comment by Leicad

This mount got a small graphical update in The Shattering patch. It now has 2 small skulls hanging down the sides. Was a pleasent surprise to see when I logged in today!

Comment by Kerrianne

Finally able to solo this with little incident as a Draenei MM Hunter with a Warpstalker (tenacity). Mix of 251 & 264 gear.

The biggest problem I have now is Attumen himself during phase one. Keeping both Midnight and Attumen aggro'd on my pet was a little irritating at first, until I built a good threat level up with Midnight, allowing me to pump 3-4 Misdirects in a row into Attumen to keep him from peeling off my pet and back onto me.

Even as a well-geared lv80, he hits like a truck, and quickly. I went from 29k to 12k pretty fast, so once I rooted him on my pet, I had to pop GotN and bandage myself to prevent an accidental death.

I would classify this as still currently unsoloable by Leather & Cloth classes, and questionable for a lot of Mail wearers, due to the pain of trying to handle both Midnight and Attumen at once.

Once in phase two, it's a total crank & spank.

Comment by Suavest

Was bored on my Goblin so I decided I'd goto Kharazan to get it. Got it first try then was informed by a Guild Member on how low the drop rate is.

Comment by Cullitia

Definitely solo-able with a hunter! I'd say just take a tanking pet, I have a bear, just clear the horse mobs around Midnight, have your pet attack it, and it's an easy kill! Finished the fight within 5-10 minutes. Also, I did this with a Cataclysm green geared hunter at Level 80. Good luck and happy farming!

Comment by kefjerd

can anyone confirm that this one still drops in cataclysm? or has it been removed like the zul'gurub mounts

Comment by guitarguy44

Very easily soloable as an arcane mage, which probably means everyone can do it. Remember to be aware that at 25% he will mount and be healed, but even on cloth he hit 2k, so it really wasnt that bad at all. I havent gotten the mount yet, but if i do i will make sure to confirm it still drops in cata.

Comment by Ashmod

Confirmed to still drop in cataclysm, just dropped for me tonight

Comment by Gonkz

Just got mine after 3 runs as a fury warrior full 346 ilvl, clearing kara for rep, bonus mount!

Comment by Thyder

I definitely can confirm that it drops in 4.0.3 as it dropped for me FIRST TIME. Maybe they raised the drop rate so I would reccomend you go and try this for yourself.

Easily soloable as a holy paladin, took me about 10 mins but nothing hard.

Comment by RoshiArgentDawn

Cata = Solo is faceroll.. But all knows that. :)

Comment by mimee21

Horrible horribleeee drop rate. Ive been doing this weekly for ages lol.
who knows when i'll get :p

Good luck though!

Comment by cstud

You know how you see those comments everyone once and a while where people say "Oh I got _____ on the first try?"

This is one of those comments.

I was bored today because my 2's partner wasn't on and decided I'd give this mount at shot. I've done Strat over 160 times for Rivendare's mount, but haven't had any luck. Heck, I've only had his sword drop once. Well today was a good day.. couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the mount had dropped.

Please keep at it guys!

(I'll upload a screenshot too, not that we need more.)

Comment by Robcooll

just 10 minutes ago Soloed this on my level 84 hunter on shadowsong, first time id EVER set foot in karazhan and it dropped . o.o i was speechless, lovely looking mount :) i love riding it

Comment by Gizeeh

Dropped for me the 3'rd run in WOTLK.. i was there with a help from my cousin.. this is a very cool mount, but i prefer my Amani War Bear instead^^

Comment by rezist

omg. i randomly decided to kill him today and dropped on my first kill. i guess that makes up for the 100+ troll solves and no jin rokh :/

Comment by Demostravius

Although he has been soloable for quite a while now. I figure I will throw in my eperiance. at 85 as a Demo lock, you can from entering the instance, have him dead in about 60 seconds.

Simply run right to the boss, and aggro him. Pop Meta and drop an infernal, once all the trash is gathered on you use Felstorm, shadowflame, and hellfire. Depending on your gear you should get attument into his mounted phase before the AoE runs out. Then just hand of guldan the boss and nuke as fast as posible.

Looting all the trash takes substantially longer than kiling it..

Comment by mechbear

Decided to solo and complete Karazhan for the very first time yesterday and this drop for me! -v-

Confirmed that the graphics seems updated , with 2 skulls hanging from each sides and the legs becoming skeleton legs.

Comment by triple470

Done a random run yesterday (6th march) and it dropped, never really farmed it alot think i was on about 5 kills towards the end of wrath. One of the lucky ones i guess, goodluck to the people farming it.

Armory Proof: http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/shadowsong/lorlad/feed

Comment by czakhem

As i read comments, i see that this mount as difficult to obtain. Jesus loves me and let it drop my third time in Karazan. pretty badass mount, now its time for ashes!

Comment by christiantroy

Dropped me today while i was soloing Karazhan on my hunter at 3.59am server time on Korgath.

Comment by Stealthed

Just want to confirm, this mount (which is dropped by Attumen in Karazhan) should be soloable by all classes of level 85, some can do it quite easy as a level 80.

Happy hunting!

Comment by apatia77

Very easy to solo at lvl 85, dropped on my 5th try :)
You can only kill it once per week now so it might take some time before you see it drop for you.
BTW this horse is very nice looking and it's my favourite mount atm.

Comment by SirRaven

Why oh why did I think this mount flew? I was both so happy (that it finally dropped for me) and disappointed (that it doesn't fly)..

Comment by SirRaven

Well, now that number of scalable mounts has increased.. The Celestial Steed even allows in-water mounting (though no speed increase), unlike other flying mounts..

Comment by Ophelia1986

I have been very lucky this week! Sunday evening the rare mount Fiery Warhorse's Reins dropped for me and then Monday evening The Reins of the Raven Lord also dropped.

Comment by dragondude2

Drop rate on the Warcraft website is simply stated as "Almost Never":

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/item/30480

Not sure what percentage that constitutes but . . . ouch.

Comment by Venresadragn

I got this mount today after about a month and a half of farming. I ran every Tuesday right after resets on my level 85 Beast Master hunter. I found that having a tenacity pet for this fight is not necessary, and that a ferocity one would work just as well (I prefered to use my spirit beast just because I had to worry about healing it less). The fight took me about 45 seconds to a minute, very quick and easy fight. Good luck to those of you still working to get this awesome mount! :)

Comment by Crucifisk

Farmed this for a year or so now, and it just dropped for me, I'm happy as a clam!

Just some random useless facts to provide until I'm going back running around on it;

The mount counts as a drop, so while the boss normally drops two pieces of gear, it only drops one piece and the mount should it drop:)

Good luck on farming it!

Comment by Clueless1

yay this mount just dropped for me tonight, finely the end of years of weekly kara visits

Comment by Trigsa

You are receiving this message in response to the help petition which you submitted regarding the Fiery Warhorse's Reins.

They still drop a friend of mine got them the other month, so have to keep trying.

Regards,

English Game Master Team
Blizzard Europe
________________________________________
Message i got from a gm :-)

Comment by Lledrith

I've been trying for this mount for nearly 1 year now. Its a stupidly low drop rate. No stats can say when you would get this, iits down to pure luck.

Good luck all :)

Edit: Rated down because you cant put stats on when you would actually get this as the stats would reset every week? Nice one... -.-

Comment by Kinkop

Drop on first time to me :D

Comment by Harry4500

Just got this on my level 70 rogue on the first run, the level 85 priest i was with was kind enough to let me have it :D

Comment by masoli78

A note...if you're...say...just finishing up a night with your guild and decide to venture in to see if this drops and you can all have a fun roll for it, DON'T kill the horse before he gets on :) No Loot :(

Comment by GrangerK16

A guildie just got this mount today in patch 4.2

Comment by pancakemage

Got this mount on my second run (apart from when I used to run it at level 70 for gear), pretty easy fight for a mage, down the horse and then pop mirror image when the huntsman jumps on. Any class at 85 could solo this with ease, good luck grinding :D

Comment by UnCorpse

Just got him tonight.

Solo'ed by a spriest, not hard at all, as long as you skill all the adds prior to the boss.

Comment by mimee

It's a matter of time before Blizzard makes Kara a high level raid again like they did to Naxx, ZG, ZA. Kara is def getting back one day. So farm it while you can.

Comment by Niixten

I have farmed the mount for 3 years now, still no mount :(

Comment by Marconin

Finally got this to drop last night after 6-7 months of farming every Tuesday night. Very easy boss for any 85 to solo. Good luck and keep hunting guys!

Comment by Zills16

Got this mount to drop on December 27 after a year and a half of farming on multiple toons. i couldnt have been happier.

Comment by dukenukemi

Now farming with 4 toons and no drop so dont expect a single run drop if you aren´t really lucky person..

Comment by zobley

I won it on my 3rd kill. I was very shocked and happy, but now I really have no reason to go back to Karazhan which is kind of sad. This raid has to be the coolest, IMO, and the mount is indeed awesome!

Comment by Bolyck

This horse looks better than The Horseman's Reins
After 6 weeks of farming I get him

Bolyck,Stormscale,EU

Comment by jellybsly55

You have to be very very lucky.

I got this today after 10 ish runs, but some of my guildies are farming it since cata and others even longer.

just saying: this one looks really cool, so if you don't know which mount to farm, this one is nr1 on the list in my opinion

Comment by Zebba

Well, i got this mount on my first kill, the first time i went there :)
my friend and i went there together, and he has farmed that boss since lvl 80, and i won it over him my first time there :D

Comment by Whiskeymilk

I actually got the mount today, on my alt.. On the FIRST try EVER.. http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/outland/Whiskeywater/simple

Some people are so lucky. ;D

Comment by Worcraft2120

ive been farming this bad boy for atleast a year now and today im hoping its the day , i feel lucky considering i got the Swift Zulian tiger in only 5 months.

Comment by Pkacua

he's like the halloween mount... on drugs... :O that make him vamphorseicorn...

Comment by Bigbreath

be VERY careful at level 85 - managed to kill midnight before attument could mount her which led to the pair despawning.

Comment by Jaffabomb69

Just a quick post to make people jelly and to make me look like a !@# :3

Decided to start farming this bad boy 30 mins ago...got it first kill ;)

People r mad

Comment by poster

got this mount 5th try , WOOT

Comment by Nepturion

Still drops in 4.3.3 :)
What dropped:
Fiery Warhorse's Reins Worgen Claw Necklace
Been trying for a while, maybe 17 weeks in total, and always travel in a raid.

Comment by Raluk

Entered Karazhan with a friend of mine to farm for transmogrification items about thirty minutes ago, end up getting the pony. So pretty. Uploaded a screenshot as well.

Comment by Hamad

I heard this was an extremly rare mount by 3 of my friends that did 10+ runs each, so I didnt want to bother.
But then transmorg came out and i wanted http://www.wowhead.com/item=28573/despair (Nice sword!).
I went to Karazan and BOOM! Mount drops first time im there, I was so glad I got this!

Dont get demotivated people, if you want this nice mount, GO FOR IT!

Comment by Yalabdeen

It is not hard to farm the first boss with a healer/dps combo, but I would imagine that not every class can solo it. If you're a dk, pally or druid, congratulations, kill the trash leading up to Attumen, then kill Attumen and collect lewtz.
You will probably have to farm it for a while. This is obvious to anyone who has read the comments on any other rare drop, in particular any rare mount drop.
This mount is the coolest ground mount in the game.

Let me defend #3 there for a second. There are other cool mounts in the game. Zulian Tiger, Amani War Bear, Spectral Tiger, Black Qiraji Battle Tank, Dark War Talbuk. There are a lot of other cool mounts, actually, and some of them probably look cooler than this one until you recognize something, something that is noticeable from every screenshot submitted to wowhead. And once you recognize it and keep in mind that virtually everything in Karazhan is of an undead nature, you will make a connection.

This mount has fangs. You are riding a vampire horse that is on fire. Let me repeat that. You are riding a vampire horse that is on fire. I don't even have to say anything else. "My mount is the Black Qiraji Battle Tank, a rare mount belonging only to the select few people who were selected as champions by the mortal races of Azeroth and the Bronze Dragonflight." "My mount is a vampire horse on fire." "You win."

And the rarity of it is arguably greater than many other mounts, for people who enjoy the "I have something you don't" factor. And one other small thing that helps secure this horsepire's position as the greatest ground mount in wow? Tauren can go through *edit* almost */edit* any door in the game on it without having to dismount. It's a small thing, but not being defeated by your own tremendous girth when you want to go through a door while mounted is a nice little bonus to riding a vampire horse. That is on fire.

edit: note to self, assertations is a word in the same way that administrating is, i.e. not at all

Comment by Jaycoub

i got this on the second run o.o

Comment by Throsor

I got this today the first time I ever ran this raid, and now I feel bad because it's rare and I don't even want it :/

Comment by Eternityz

Here's an useful guide if you're looking forward to get this mount,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swa39fQFopE&context=C48add6fADvjVQa1PpcFPDAEcuyQotPPxTf88B02IrkW_J62FrOI4=

Hope it helped! :)

Comment by Tigerglory

Whoa, I've tried it a few times, like 10 times, and yesterday it dropped!
Never expected that to happen, lol.

Comment by omghaha9798

Just obtained mine today. Was just like meh might as well go try before Tuesday. Hella happy now. =)

Comment by darklatinflavor

Finally! After trying for a little bit over a year, I got it today. I didn't try every day, I would say maybe twice a week. I guess some people are just lucky when they get it after the first 5 try.

Comment by Rodriesk

Got mine 10 minutes ago. I solo'd it so I won the mount with a greed roll of 1. Lol.
Got it in my 3rd try but the damn Raven Lord isn't dropping yet...

Good Luck!

Comment by Shenzhen

Vampire Horse On Fire,Do I Need To Say Anymore?

Comment by Lonksu

God f*cking damnit! I've done Karazhan thousands of times, my newb friend asked me what I was doing there, I told him about the mount and he got it on his second try ._.

Comment by Gartax

Finally got this on my 42nd run. Luckiest week ever sense i got my raven lord 3 days ago on my 49th run. Still can't get the damn White Hawkstrider....

Comment by Festorum

Just got mine today on my paladin 4th try!

Comment by donthavename

Just got it today decided to start farming all the low drop rate mounts trying to prepare for mop i think most mounts like this will be taken out because it will be deemed to easy. This will look nice on my low levels :D I run 7 85s every week for mounts got this one on my 7th 85s this morning :D.

Comment by Vaugn

Interestingly, when this item finally dropped for me (about 10 minutes ago), it took the place of one of the items in his inventory. So in theory someone has two chances (one for each item he drops) to get the mount.

Attumen never drops duplicate items though for the other 99% of his loot table, so it is unlikely that someone could receive two mounts from a kill.

Comment by Explo1t

Beware of the vampire horse! D:

Comment by mimee

Holy mother of jesus... I've been farming this for approximately 1 1/2 year and still NOTHING.. This and the blue proto drake have been the worst farms I've done.

So keep at it. It might take you as long as its taking me. Good luck!

Comment by Seahnjin

All those comments saying "yup it still drops in patch x.y.z, just got mine today !" are the most thinly-veiled bragging I've ever seen. Of course it still does, you'd think Blizzard would warn us before taking this mind-blowing mount out of the game, Christ.

By the way, yup it still drops in patch 4.3.3 !

Comment by sixxfoxx

I don't believe I have seen it posted, so here goes. Does the raid need to be "Normal mode or Heroic mode"?

Comment by drunkenfists

got this mount today after trying off and on through cata on multiple toons, first run in months today wasnt expecting it at all and got it just keep trying and it will eventually drop

Comment by Kalasstar

After about 100 different attepmts I finally got it today. You just got to keep on trying!

Comment by necrosisss

I got this on my 4th run, when I only went to grab some tier 4 pieces. It was so unexpected, fortunately the friend I was with passed because he has the halloween mount :-)

Comment by necrosisss

Real easy boss to solo on any class, mount seems to be around 0.5% but hey! I got it on my second time (and I only went to KZ for tier 4 tokens!) so it does drop!

Comment by Whoisthiscook

Just got this mount at a random run because had nothing else to do, just like the time I ran Rivendare randomly and got the mount a few months ago. SO confused!

Comment by amauliady

farming this since last week. 1.1% drop rate make me hopeless :(
yeah its best ground mount ever!

Comment by Cozzene

This mount can appear in the Black Market Auction House. It will start at 20,000 gold and can go up to 999,999 gold. I bought mine for 66,000 gold (Area 52), but the price will depend on how rich your server is and how badly someone wants it.

Comment by Minust666

I have been to karazhan at least 30 times farming tier 4 for mogging, and all the times I was there with my brother we never saw this mount drop, would've been cool though.

Comment by Losai

This mount is still a 1% drop rate. However, it can be easily solo'd at level 85 and even easier at 90 (Of course). Depending on class it is soloable at 80. It's been a while since I've tried at 80 (so it may be easier now) but I could do it with my death knight. I finally got this mount about 6 months ago. It looks similar to the headlless horseman mount, even though it can't fly. It does have a horn coming out of its head and glows a little different.

Comment by skyline33

2 items drop of this boss, unless the boss drops the mount. Then it is one item, and the mount (two total).

Finally got it today after over 3 years farming!

Comment by TEMP002

FINALLY picked up this horse after doing atleast Attumen every week since release of Kara. Currently been running it on five toons every week. Uploaded data through the wowhead uploader.:D

Comment by jadeofarc

Wow i feel really bad for saying this for the people who hardcore farm this every week - I never intended to farm this mount, i actually started soloing kara to get the purple sword from the play (which still hasnt dropped), but after the 4th time i ran kara the mount dropped. Id never seen anyone on my realm (draenor EU Horde) with it. soon as i got back to org and mounted everyone ran to me 'omg where did you get that!' 'ive been farming that for years!' lol. Maybe it only drops for people like me who dont farm mounts huh.

If you get this drop your going to attract major envy from people lol. its great ;)

But if you do want to better your chances then if you have several alts over level 70 then you could easily go and solo this guy super quick on them all, seen as hes the first boss its not going to take up much time to run it on reset. Solo it though (get a guildie with nothing to do than doss around org/stormwind to join u in a raid group so you can get in), then if it does drop you guarantee yourself the mount...if it drops.

(i love how people DOWNVOTE my comment, i guarantee these are the people who farm this mount and still dont have it (FYI; envious). sucks to be you)

Comment by GingaDensetsu

Killed Attumen the Huntsman over 150 times now. 90 of them on my Druid, still no drop...

Comment by Ashleyy

I can confirm this is still on the loot table as of 5.1 11/27. This dropped on my second of my toons Karazhan runs and shortly after I also got Onyxian Drake as well. What a day:) For thoes who think it will never come dont give up!

Comment by popchief

This dropped for me today, on my second trip into Karazhan. I had no idea how lucky I was till I read the other posts here. Beautiful mount.

Comment by Organthrone

Well, I ran Kara about five or six times in the spring with no luck, and kind of grew bored of the fiasco. With 5.1, and the oh-so magnificent dissolution of requiring groups for running old raids, I gave it another shot, and on my second attempt (failed last week, succeeded this week), it dropped.

I've been running UP Heroic daily since I hit 90 in September, and still haven't had the blue proto drop. I might start going for Al'ar, just because it'll probably be less stress.

Comment by LasVegas

I've been running this fella ever since the WotLK launch, and so far I haven't seen it yet. I guess I must've killed the bastard over 150 times, including all the tries on my other 8 toons.

RNG can in fact be a %^&*!.

Comment by Saikumi

This mount is available on the Black Market Auction House (at least as of 5.1.0).

It was on Drenden server today, 12/13/2012, with a starting bid of 20,000 gold.

Though, currently (12/13/2012) it doesn't appear to be in Wowhead's database of mounts available on the BMAH, it is in fact available. http://www.wowhead.com/items=15.5?filter=cr=181;crs=1;crv=0

Comment by SPOTremovr

Confirmed that this mount still drops in 5.1 with the recent changes to farming old world bosses. What a relief it was to not have to form a raid group! Ran up, ran in pulled the entire room and worked like a charm.

Comment by mimee21

They seriously need to increase the drop rate on this. Extremely low, I have been trying for so long..

Comment by Kaeldraa

I feel so bad for those who have been farming for a while. I had ran Kara a couple times in Cata for the loot, but in MoP I tried running it for the mount on my DK. Nothing. Then, I tried on my priest.
I ALMOST FAINTED.
The reins dropped and I was spazzing out as I told my friends about it and they were mad xD
I know a lot of you are very unlucky, but don't give up.
There's always the 1.1% chance that you might get it...

Comment by necrosisss

This dropped when I went to Karazhan to get tier 4. My friend passed as he has The Horseman's Reins. Lovely surprise!

Comment by Votum

So, I ran KZ with my friend today and it was my first time doing it, we got this mount right away. He's been farming it for a year now, so really what I'm trying to say is that this comes down to luck. No guide can really help you increase your luck, just keep trying to get this mount and eventually you will. Good luck all :)

Comment by ACleverName

I saw this mount drop last night, but my guildy that was with me rolled higher than me so he got back at me for getting Ashes the first time running TK.

Comment by Taftvalue

As you all know this beauty has green fire on its hooves. Now if you're a warlock you probably know that the class will receive green fire spells at last. Imagine having the Warlock challenge mode set, green fire and this horse as your mount.. epicness overload.

Comment by Pyrosince1985

Level 90 Paladin, I just hopped into Karazhan, engaged Midnight right at Midnight server time (heard the bell ringing). Managed to kill Attumen before the bells stopped, the reins dropped. It doesn't get any more perfect that that.

Comment by LicensedBadass

More of a Felsteed than the Warlock class mount ever will be.

Comment by titanmike

So I've ran this over 220 times and no mount.... (11 times a week with all my alts). this isn't bad RNG this is something else

Comment by Aserraron

Just got mine today after 8 runs so i think i was lucky as hell !
Good luck to all farmers out there ;)

Comment by sickbox

Here is a list of mount drops from Instances, Raids, and World Bosses to save some looking around.

Level 60

Instances
Deathcharger's Reins - Stratholme - Lord Aurius Rivendare

Raids
Blue Qiraji Resonating Crystal - Temple of Ahn'Qiraj - Trash
Green Qiraji Resonating Crystal - Temple of Ahn'Qiraj - Trash
Yellow Qiraji Resonating Crystal - Temple of Ahn'Qiraj - Trash
Red Qiraji Resonating Crystal - Temple of Ahn'Qiraj - Trash

Level 70

Instances
Reins of the Raven Lord - Sethekk Halls - Anzu (Heroic)
Swift White Hawkstrider - Magisters' Terrace - Kael'thas Sunstrider (Heroic)

Raids
Fiery Warhorse's Reins - Karazhan - Attumen the Huntsman
Ashes of Al'ar - The Eye (Tempest Keep) - Kael'thas Sunstrider

Level 80

Instances
Reins of the Blue Proto-Drake - Utgarde Pinnacle - Skadi the Ruthless (Heroic)
Reins of the Bronze Drake - The Culling of Stratholme - Infinite Corruptor (Heroic)

Raids
Reins of the Grand Black War Mammoth - Vault of Archavon (All 4 Bosses)
Reins of the Azure Drake - The Eye of Eternity - Malygos
Reins of the Blue Drake - The Eye of Eternity - Malygos
Reins of the Black Drake - The Obsidian Sanctum - Sartharion (3 Drakes - 10)
Reins of the Twilight Drake - The Obsidian Sanctum - Sartharion (3 Drakes - 25)
Reins of the Onyxian Drake - Onyxia's Lair - Onyxia
Mimiron's Head - Ulduar - Yogg-Saron (No Watchers - 25)
Invincible's Reins - Icecrown Citadel - The Lich King (Heroic - 25)

Level 85

Instances
Reins of the Drake of the North Wind - The Vortex Pinnacle - Altairus
Reins of the Vitreous Stone Drake - The Stonecore - Slabhide
Swift Zulian Panther - Zul'Gurub - High Priestess Kilnara (Heroic)
Armored Razzashi Raptor - Zul'Gurub - Bloodlord Mandokir (Heroic)
Amani Battle Bear - Zul'Aman (Timed Reward)

Raids
Reins of the Drake of the South Wind - Throne of the Four Winds - Al'Akir
Flametalon of Alysrazor - Firelands - Alysrazor
Smoldering Egg of Millagazor - Firelands - Ragnaros
Experiment 12-B - Dragon Soul - Ultraxion
Reins of the Blazing Drake - Dragon Soul - Deathwing
Life-Binder's Handmaiden - Dragon Soul - Deathwing (Heroic - 10/25)

Level 90

Instances - None

World Boss
Reins of the Heavenly Onyx Cloud Serpent - Kun-Lai Summit - Sha of Anger
Son of Galleon's Saddle - Valley of the Four Winds - Galleon
Reins of the Thundering Cobalt Cloud Serpent - Isle of Thunder - Nalak
Reins of the Cobalt Primordial Direhorn - Isle of Giants - Oondasta

Raids
Reins of the Astral Cloud Serpent - Mogu'shan Vaults - Elegon
Spawn of Horridon - Throne of Thunder - Horridon
Clutch of Ji-Kun - Throne of Thunder - Ji-Kun

Comment by Blueviper

Dropped for me today, have been farming on 4 different characters for about 6 weeks, so about 25 runs or so. Ended up dropping on my hunter, almost couldn't believe it. There were some pretty rough horror stories in the comments about it not dropping in way way over 25 runs. Got Anzu a few weeks back, that was around 50 runs or so using the same 4 characters. Been a good few weeks for me.

Comment by Alfa

Got mine 30 minutes ago, hands still hurt from clappin' my hands together in excitement! ha

Don't give up!

1% is accurate, lost count of how many times I killed him though, armory doesn't show nor do character statistics

Comment by Crispesenti89

Got this today 28.3.13 really didn't want to get saved cause I use it to farm knothhide leather but I spose it was worth it..,,,,been farming only for months no drop......., randomly find this, not a fan still cool

Comment by Lynvik

Finally got this after 6 years, YES 6 YEARS of farming on atleast 1 char every week, 10 times a week during all lich king and cata, I've never felt such a relief before, no more kara! For those who's out there and still farming i wish you the best of luck.

Comment by Medeli

I Feel like me Having this mount is like the jersey shore series it never should've happend, i was bored in the badlands and my hearth was on cooldown so i was flying over and i said hmm whats this anyway i killed him and the mount drop my mate was screamign at me because he had been farming this for couple of year but still as the top rated comment said if you have this mount you win

Comment by xXMurderMuffinXx

Just got this today. Isn't really a mount that I was trying for, but rather a mount to go after just because. I originally ran Kara for the sword, but why not go after a mount, too! So yeah, I did this on my level 90 arms warrior, you can obviously solo it at that level...if not, well...>_>. If you don't kill all of the horses in the stables, they WILL attack you when you attack the boss! So if you're in a level to where the boss can give you heavy damage..kill off those horses! Since I'm level 90 and don't have to worry about that, I just ran to the boss and annihilated them all at once. There isn't really much to say that the page doesn't say itself except for to kill off those horses first if you're in the lower level. -shrug- Some are unfortunate, like my husband, who has ran this raid since January, and others are lucky. I've run this only a few times and got it. Just keep going at it! It HAS to drop sometime, right! Right. :D

Comment by IhaveNoLife

I just noticed that this beautiful mount has a blemish. The plates on its face (the segments right above its mouth) and the secondary spike (the one directly between its eyes) are using the same texture as its skin, not the metal. Checking some screenshots, it seems that this bug happened sometime in Cata, and has not been fixed since. While minor, after farming this mount for so long, it saddens me to see this.

Comment by hyrar

Wow cant believe this is so rare. I went on my lock and soloed about half the raid. First time ever in kara and this dropped...Either im amazingly lucky or you are all just extremely unlucky...either way, it is an epic mount, love it to bits.

Comment by Grksinner

Decided to comment,
back in 4/1/09 on my pally, me and my friend where soloing it for laughs,it dropped, I rolled a perfect 100 on it and he rolled a 1.
such an amazing mount, and now that my mains a lock and mounts are account wide, perfect,

will post a pic of it , and again when I get the new warlock dungeon achievement set.

Comment by deviouskat89

This mount is also obtainable via the Black Market Auction House.

Comment by Smokeddhany

This mount is also available on the black market auction house if your lucky.

Comment by Belhades

still no mount and ive been doing this for over 2 years weekly.. i think its Fugly but the cloth sells so @#$% it.. on average id say 6 times a week all chars in thought. therefore at least 400 times, but i reckon its closer to 1500 tries, what with not trying before that.. still no joy and i have been lucky with every other mount ive gone for.

Comment by Gruundarf

Got this today while running Kara for set pieces. Gorehowl dropped as well. No set pieces. I think I'll go buy a lottery ticket.

Comment by Bighappykitty

Proof that the RNG may be random, but it has a cruel sense of humor:

After over a year of weekly runs on 4 toons, this finally dropped for me today. For a few wonderful seconds, I congratulated myself on never having to run Kara again. Until I remembered the 4 minipets that were introduced on Tuesday. One of which is behind the Chess event...

I'm beginning to believe the ghosts aren't the only things that are going to be stuck in Karazan forever...

Comment by Phainein

I farmed this for almost two years solid weekly and never got it to drop.

Comment by RayvenUK

Yipe! Not sure how this happened, but I guess the moral of the story is random is just that, random. I've never really gone hunting instance or raid mounts until two days ago when I decided to go for the Raven Lord. I have 8 alts and sent 6 of them in after it with no success. Tried the next day and it dropped for the second one. Feeling lucky I then went to Stratholme for the Deathcharger and dropped it after 4 runs. My friend then goaded me to go into Karazhan after the Fiery Warhorse the next day, and after 7 attempts no joy so I sent in my Rogue and it dropped! So that was three rare mounts in as many days. I did then try Magister's Terrace for the White Hawstrider but either my luck has run out or it is sticking to one rare mount a day :)

So, my favourite chair is primed for tomorrow morning :)

Wish me luck

Comment by Nexsa

I ran this each week with my 11 toons when Mop started. Before MoP I was running it on only one toon, my main. I ran it on my main since Wrath. I've lost count of attempts. Finally got it to drop today on my 4th attempt of the week.

Comment by sylar1986

After running Kara every few weeks since wrath it finally dropped.. I was filming at the time and uploaded to my channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egmGFDiP9uw

Comment by c0ca1n3

If you're farming this in MoP and have decent MoP gear, make sure you don't kill this boss too fast. He needs to go into the phase where he mounts 'Midnight' (his horse) at which point you can nuke.

If he doesn't get into that phase, you don't get the loot. This happened to me and I simply ran out, reset and re-entered to find Midnight had also reset, allowing me to try again... slower...

Comment by Shadowvenom67

Just got this mount a couple of days ago after farming for weeks on 3 characters running solo. Just found out today it does not scale with the Brunhildar shapeshift you get. i have submitted a screenshot of me on this mount as a hldinir chick!

Comment by zhake132

Dropped for me today on my Pandaren monk. I was going for the Onyxia mount and i thought i could drop by karazhan before taking the boat to Rachet. I will submit a screenshot with the mount on my female pandaren.

Comment by Copperspot

I have been farming this Effing mount on at least 2 toons every week since 2007......

I have seen it drop once and that was in a raid back in 2007 :(

Comment by Malvosian

I can confirm this is still in game, had it drop unexpectedly last night on my 3rd run through.

I had given up hope on ever seeing it drop again, the last time I saw it was at content when Kara was still progression.
I would recommend that if you have maxed out all of your character slots, with lvl 80+, that you can run at least Attumen the Huntsman up to 11 times on a realm, and even more if you are on multiple realms.

I was personally running it for the pets:

And the Warlock Tier 4 for transmog:

Comment by OneLonelyPickle

So, uhh, I got this my first try...

Same with Raven Lord's Reins :P

Not trying to brag, I don't always have good luck like that. It just seems so crazy, considering going in I had no idea what the drop rate was.

Comment by illusionaury

WoW! no joke. soloed at 90 with my blood dk. first try and it dropped.

Comment by ucplayer

Over 100 kills and zero mount...
I'm losing hope -.-

Comment by shrikearghast

Got it today. Wasn't looking for it -- was instead trying to farm for pets to sell. I guess I'll ride it.

Comment by Aquilani

i got this tonight i was so excited i thought it flew though so that sucks

Comment by VoidedTavy

This mount just dropped for me today on my level 87 Shaman. I then decided to go again on my level 90 Warlock, mostly going for the helm I want...and had another one drop. I guess I am really lucky today.

Comment by DELcoolfreezer

Over 400 kills from when i started playing WoW (that was shortly after BC was released...) until today and haven't seen this mount drop once... I'm starting to believe that this mount does not exist in my client/account :<

"Proof": Seen 2 Onyxia Mounts, Both Malygos Mounts, Alysrazor (all while soloing) and Ashes of Alar (lost with rolling same as the actual winner x_O) but this one is hiding pretty good ...

Comment by superforyou

I got this a week ago or so on my 55th run. I can confirm it still drops.

Proof:

http://imgur.com/xn031yo

Comment by booner

This is probably the fastest mount to farm from all the instances/raids, just take the portal to dark portal from your factions capital city and your 30 seconds away. =)

Comment by Baffa

At last this dropped for me yesterday.. after farming several years with several charachters.

Comment by Arcadeunicorn

This mount dropped for me in July. I didn't even know it was a possible drop, I was clearing Kara for pets and transmog.

It was only my second time killing that boss. I usually just ran up the stairs and ignored him.

I usually have terrible luck with drops, so I'm very happy that this one happened for me!

Comment by blacklisted

Been after this mount since early 2007. Week after week on a couple of toons and then eventually several toons and then 11 toons weekly for the last few years. FINALLY my perseverance paid off today on my 3rd of 11 attempts this week.

Keep at it, everyone. I know exactly what it's like to be after this and never see it drop week in and week out. A huge weight seems to have finally lifted from my shoulders. It's frustrating, but remember, without disappointment, you can't appreciate victory. Just never give up and eventually it will drop.

I wish the best of luck to everyone still farming.

Comment by Ameryis

I've been doing this every single week, consistently for 3+ years (no exaggeration) over several different characters and still no drop. Nothing aggravates me more than reading: "I didn't even know a mount dropped here. Got it on my first run."

I still press on but my hope is dwindling. I die a little inside every week.

Knowing how cruel the RNG gods are- while I'm sitting here typing this, I bet there is someone out there in Kara for the first time looting this mount.

Congrats. Oh, how I despise you. :P

Comment by Luvetospooge

Got mine the other evening, embarrassingly only on my 2nd solo attempt. Sorry all who have been after it for years, i understand your pain, Rivendares Deathcharger was my version of hating reading comments very much like what im typing now!

Been in Kara in the past in groups but never seen it. Wasnt really on my list of 'must haves' but thought id pop in from time to time to try my luck. I certainly wasnt going to farm it for ever, done enough of that on other mounts.....!

Noted that if you dont kill all the funny horses in that room the whole lot pile on you if u go for the horseman bloke. I just picked them off until i was left with the horse and the bloke, and...well thats it really!

Comment by coolkid32901

This dropped for me yesterday before i went to bed.
I've only been playing WOW a year and only do the run occasionally when I'm bored.
On my third toon last night it dropped!
i was so excited. Under 50 runs total most likely : )

Comment by GDM1962

After two years of farm, today dropped on my server Well of Eternity. I will cry ..... no more Karazhan .... no more. I put a screenshot with my huntress Terzulein....

Comment by ChiliBean

I AM SO EXCITED! After a year of farming this mount religiously, it dropped tonight. YAY!

Comment by Warxiz

I got this on my 5th attempt :))))

Comment by ucplayer

250th kill and still no mount :(

Comment by bionicman25

does this mount also count as a flying mount or is it a ground mount only?

Comment by twoltirr

i feel awful because i was so stoked when this mount first dropped..... but then it happened again and i desperately wanted to give it to someone who had been farming it for ages.

Comment by kjn2day1

Anyone else here wish that this mount could fly? just that, and everyone won't want the headless horseman's mount.

Comment by KaityUK

I can confirm this still drops, got mine on reset day (EU) this week, 30th October 2013.

Comment by wertski

Finally :). After farming this every single week with 5 toons for maybe a year it dropped. Can't believe my luck right now. Onyxia 2 weeks ago, Stonecore drake and Rivendares deathcharger last week and now this. Crazy

Comment by 4dehorde

Recently gave up hunting for Rivendare's mount and am going for this one now. Anyone got an idea if my chances are better?

Comment by losmi11

This is actually my favorite mount. I started to play WoW in BC so i loved Karazhan as a raid and as a challenge .

Comment by Spaceyace

This mount still drops. It just takes forever. 3 years in my case. I wish they listed the amount of Attumen kills in game to know what the real % is. I got exalted with the Violet Eye just from killing him on 3 different toons. The oddity is that on my first kill with my 83 priest the mount dropped. Coincidence?

Comment by Hetaita

This mount is amazing *w* although sometimes its pretty upsetting how many tries people go through to get it.
My friend and I decided to try oneday, and I didn't get it, but then randomly over skype she tells me she got it.

It was her first try, and she didn't even remember the mount dropped!

Comment by filletr0n

guess what i got for xmas this year? :)

Comment by FloatingSheep

Sorry to upset some of you, but I just ran Kara for the first time on my new 90 alt warlock and it dropped.
Good luck guys!

Comment by spingus

Been farming this mount for years now.

I actually got it in 2010 and got the achievement, but I gave the item to my boyfriend because I'm a sucker.

Now, 4 years later and of course running all 5 of my 90's every week I still have not got it for myself. Does anyone know if having the feat of strength achievement precludes you from seeing the mount drop again?

Comment by mimee21

Not sure why they made this mount so difficult to obtain.. It is ridiculous, almost nonexistent.

Comment by Misuteri

This is one of those "I got mine.." posts. I must do this for my peace of mind more than anything.

I was a BC raider, ran Kara 30-40 times during the expansion, never saw it drop.

During Cata I had 4 alts farming this every week through the expansion. Never got it.

During MoP I was finally up to 10 characters levels 80-90 running it.

In all I honestly estimate 400-500+ runs to see this item once and finally get the feat of strength. The habit of farming Kara was so pronounced that this, being my first week after getting it, my Tuesdays feel empty not having to worry about timing all my runs while avoiding running into the dreaded "You have entered too many instances recently." that I felt something was missing.

Alas the chase so altered how I scheduled reset days that I now feel like Attumen mocks me in Illidan fashion, ""You have won... Misuteri... But the huntress... is nothing... without the hunted... You... are nothing... without... me..."

Sadly, it feels true. As much as I am happy the hunt is over I can no longer claim martyr status of having run a single boss 400-500 times with no success.

Comment by Hulseyism

Luckily this dropped for me this afternoon - this was my first time running this raid on this toon/account! That's a lot of grinding time saved. Hope everyone else gets lucky too... cool looking mount.

Comment by Strath

Currently on the BMAH of Cenarius - US as of 2/12/2014 1:33am. 21.5 hours left on the auction.

Comment by Bagdemagus

Dropped for me tonight, February 19th 2014. I've been killing him four times a week for almost two years.

I had just gotten out of the valentines event dungeon and was still in a party when it dropped. It was probably the only time I ever killed him while i was in a party.

Comment by Eiyame

On my level 90 Pally (prot) I lucked into this mount doing a solo mount farm run for this guy. I don't know how. There is no way to get him to drop it is just luck. As long as you have okay dps and armor you should be able to solo this guy really easy.

Kill all the trash mobs BEFORE you get to him, if your a weaker armored class.
Kill the horse and the huntsman.
Good Luck

I got him on my 4th time killing him. Lets just say my guild mates where pretty upset. And honestly I kinda feel bad; yeah I know one of the hardest to get mounts in the game and I feel bad about getting it.

Comment by Jazzycakes2

So like most people I've been soloing multiple instances for various bosses and have put together some statistical likelihood that I want to share with you all so that you can use this information as well to your own bidding.

So I'm farming these mounts on a day basis
Reins of the Blue Proto-Drake 1.1% Chance to drop
Reins of the Raven Lord 1.6% Chance to drop
Armored Razzashi Raptor 1.0% Chance to drop
Swift Zulian Panther 0.96% Chance to drop
Reins of the Vitreous Stone Drake 0.77% Chance to drop
Reins of the Drake of the North Wind 0.8% Chance to drop

Now I want to look at the statistical likelyhood of NOT seeing any of the above drop, we use an inverted value for the above (1% turns to 99%, 1.5% to 98.5%). The calculation is as followed

0.989 x 0.984 x 0.99 x 0.9906 x 0.9923 x 0.992 = 93.94% Chance of none of the above mounts dropping. (6.06% chance of at least one mount dropping)

I improve this by running this 7 times a week = 0.9394^7 = 64.56% Chance of no mounts dropping
OR run this 21 times a week with 3 alts = 0.9394^21 = 26.91% Chance of no mounts (73.1% chance of at least 1 mount!)

Wednesday I also include 3 weekly mounts which include

Ashes of Al'ar 1.96% Chance to drop
Fiery Warhorse's Reins 0.85% Chance to drop
Reins of the Onyxian Drake 1.13% Chance to drop

This day the chance for nothing is (daily mounts) 0.9394 x 0.9804 x 0.9915 x 0.9887 =90.28% chance of nothing dropping - or 9.72% chance of one or more mounts dropping :)

Comment by maely

AtlasLoot cites this as a 0.25% drop. If true, you could run this place for a year on 5 toons/week, and you'd have a 52% chance of never seeing the mount during that time. (0.9975^260)

For the record, I have not seen this mount drop yet... but I am only at about 180-200 runs or so. Off to try again tomorrow.

Comment by boukouball

Just dropped it and I was extremely close to calling it a day right before I entered the instance (6 am). Needless to say I got lucky. I dont know how many runs ive had in this instance but i can tell you they were many - keep trying and you will be rewarded. Pretty easy to do too even with your older toons as long as they are 80lvl.

For myself, after coming back from a break, collecting mounts sounded like an interesting idea. So far i got my raven lord which I had attempted soooo many times in the past and now the warhorse. This gave me hope for the white hawkstrider which has yet to appear :) Good luck to all!

edit: a lot of butthurt people downvoting. You guys are saltier than the black sea.

Comment by jenesism

OMG! Finally! Got it tonight after what seems like a million runs on 10 toons...all I can keep saying is omg...omg...omg...

Comment by Kangi

Just to be clear, this is STILL available in game. For all the people who have given up hope of ever finding this, you just have to stay at it.

I went on a whim with an alt with one of my friends who had passed this mount to our guild leader a few years ago, and it dropped. He passed it to me after I told him I would run this every week to get him one as well.

The very next week it dropped again, 2 times in a row for the same 2 players. This was in April 2014. It is still there, my friend has seen it drop 3 times, just stick with it people.

Comment by Pipkins

Disclaimer: Sorry if there is already a similar comment but there are so many I can't really be sure. If you have been farming this mount for a while don't bother changing your habits, but if you haven't gotten into a routine you may as well do it the most efficient way.

Requirements
Soloable fairly early on, varying depending on the squishiness and healing abilities of your class. Level 80 onward is when you should be able to do it with no trouble, and from 85 you won't have to think about what you're doing.
Getting There
Take the portal to a city from shrine, then the portal to Blasted Lands and fly the rest of the way. Don't go to Stormwind/Orgrimmar because you teleport to the patch of land your faction gave the Pandaren, then you have fly to the portal trainers who are always tucked away in some corner of the city (where Blasted Lands portal is). In any other city like Undericty or Ironforge you don't even have to move to click the Blasted Lands Portal. If you have an alt that you rarely go on, the easiest option is to leave them outside the instance so you can just walk in every reset. However, there are other raids you might be farming that are far more awkward to travel to, in which case parking them outside there would be better.
Edit: Alliance players may as well disregard this part. I mostly play Horde so I forgot how close the instance is to Stormwind.
Method
If you're 90 just run straight to Attumen and let all the adds swarm you when you pull the boss. Pop all CD's and start AoEing as soon as you can to clear them. Their damage is beyond notice, but if too many get on you they start mass stunning and drag the fight out to twice it's length. Heavy duty AoE's like Bladestorm, Rain of Fire etc. are enough to kill the trash and Attumen in a few seconds. If you're not level 90, pull and kill the trash in two or three groups before starting. Let a tank pet handle the trash while you kill Attumen if you fancy.
Looting
Just want to point out that if you kill the trash and boss together there will be two groups of loot because of the all the greys, BoE's and cloth that drops. If you loot one and take everything there should still be another lootable corpse/s somewhere. The easiest way to check is simply by autolooting everything. Might sound daft but it would be a shame if you passed up the mount.
Vendoring loot
You will pick up a lot of extra loot over the weeks, especially if you run further into the dungeon for transmog gear or pets. For Alliance the nearest place with a vendor and a letterbox so you can send the money to your main if you want is probably Darkshire in Duskwood. For Horde it's Stonard in Swamp of Sorrows (Dreadmaul Hold in Blasted Lands doesn't have a letterbox).
Edit: If you don't want to send the money to your main, or you have the engineering letterbox, you can as Jizzosh pointed out speak to Koren just round the corner in the stables to sell up once honoured with the Violet Eye.
Logging Out
If you're letting an alt camp the instance, just remember that if you log out when inside the instance, you get teleported to your HS location come reset. On a Wednesday lots of people will be coming and going outside, so if you're on a realm that sees a lot of WPvP and ganking, it might be a good idea to go a little out of the way from the entrance so you're not exposed to a predator during loading screens.

The time it will take for you to get the mount matters mostly on luck of course, unless you have lots of alts that can farm it. By doing it this way though, It only took a couple of minutes each week and little effort, so even though I'd been farming it for a while it didn't feel like it had been a massive grind to get it.

Comment by Feranai

the rng gods are with me! got this one and the white hawk strider on my first week of collecting bc mounts :D

Comment by kylyo

Never thought of getting ground mounts with flying, but with WoD speculating no flying for a while I thought I would give this a go...and I got it! I won't say how many tries, in case it angers some of you more dedicated farmers.

But it is the best ground mount for a human I have to say. Super happy!

Comment by tera118

Dropped for me today :)

Comment by Worcraft2120

Duoed this with two level 70s. A Monk Tank and a Mage- Trash was easy with stuns+polymorphs. Attumen was also easy with the dps and tanking cool downs from the monk.

Comment by ucplayer

525 kills and no mount :'(

Comment by UltimateDave

I feel bad for the people who put time into farming this. Never even heard about the mount, a friend said to come and try your luck, it's an easy kill. Got it on my first kill...

Comment by snakefloss

Just got this yesterday, on my third try, along with one of the Warglaives on my fifth try. This is only about a month after getting the White Hawkstrider on my first try. Luck is with me, I guess.

Comment by Dhokk

Just dropped for me on August 8, 2014. been downing him weekly on 10 toons for about 2 months. glad to scratch him off my list...

Comment by Infernofreak6

I won this awesome mount on my warlock yesterday. GL to everyone farming this bad-ass mount!

Comment by drivertz

Win this mount after something like 500 runs with multiple characters!

Comment by Czsixteen

I don't know how it's possible, but my friend got Ashes his first try EVER in TK (Kid didn't even know how to get through the place) and got Fiery Warhorse the week after first try not knowing how to get through the place either.

Same guy just got Swift Brewfest Ram and Onyxian Drake on his 4th try for each. Unbelievable.

Comment by Eddielouise12

I can't even count how many times I've ran this on multiple characters, every week. Still have not obtained. Atlasloot says the drop chance is .25%. Why do you evade me fiery horsie :(

Comment by Drusin

Just dropped for me, can't tell you how many times I've run this place. When it finally drops for you, you won't even think it's real. Keep at it.

Comment by cerradwyn

After 64 runs, they finally dropped for me! Now if only the Ashes of Alar would drop too...

Comment by herumor

Word of advice:

Don't auto loot the group and the boss at the same time. You wouldn't want a good RNG roll going to a trash mob would you?

Comment by pickledjalapeno

Got this today.... on my third kill!

Comment by ucplayer

650 kills and no mounts...

Comment by Arkas205

Got mine today on my first kill. Can't believe it's this rare lol

Comment by schnizol

I got it yesterday during night. Quite unexpected as I wanted to just visit the place to see my favorite raid in this game.

Comment by ucplayer

And it dropped! About time!

Close to 700 kills...

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