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Comment by Silah

The phoenix mount, dropping from Al'ar (most probably) in Tempest Keep: The Eye. Wonder who got this baby ;)

Comment by hawkspur

I don't believe it has actually dropped yet, but was given as a gift by Blizzard to a boy from the Make A Wish foundation.

Comment by KiLLerS

one way or another it has been seen by someone with wowhead, otherwise we wouldnt be seeing it here. good to know there atleast is a raiding flying mount :P

Comment by Mgc1

Not exactly, if the item is in the game (owned by that boy or someone else) and gets linked a lot of people quickly get it in their linkloot (or w/e they use) thanks to linked battlegroups etc. Besides, it's confirmed this item hasn't dropped for anyone yet.

Comment by zomzom

/drool wouldnt sit bad getting this xD
but i dont think anyone has gotten it yet but hopefully someone will get it soon :)

Comment by FISKERQ

I don't know if they have removed this, but at some point you got the items of another person just by being in vision range of him, every item he had equipped and had in his bags was being put in your Itemcache files.

Which is one of the reasons why some items are on the sites but not ingame, some items have been in the bags of some GM's and upon a player seeing the GM the items would automatically be put in the itemcache.

Comment by dotted

This item was originally discovered by FISKERQ by running a script that "searched" for the item on the Armory. It was quickly posted on wowwiki, and now later wowhead.

The item on Armory: http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/item-tooltip.xml?i=32458

The item on WoWWiki: http://www.wowwiki.com/Ashes_of_Al%27ar

It is correct that this haven't dropped for anyone, the only one to have it is Ezra, you can read his story here: http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/05/30/the-phoenix-mount-is-indeed-in-game/

Comment by Wiimage

It doesnt say anything about "This mount can only be summoned in Outland."

Maybe it can be used i Azeroth :D

Comment by Mrnobody

Wow, poor kid, seems like everyone is taking advantage of him, his dad Micah whoring him out like this so he can get a free phoenix mount when his kid kicks it, his guild 32nd Fleet doing some lame gathering in Shattrah to show the mount off, and Blizzard using this sick kid for a publicity stint. Hopefully he dies soon so he won't have to deal with this shit anymore.

Comment by kyudo

Can a moderator please remove Mrnobody's comment?

Comment by azek

Were you abused as a kid? Either you are projecting or you are overly bitter in general. Did you read any of the articles about this? The kid got the spend a whole day at Blizzard and he (not his dad) had a blast there. Did the kid or the father spend a day designing quests, naming items and NPCs?

As if the father could have predicted they were going to do anything for his son's character, much less give him a mount no one truly cares about.

Please. This was a nice gesture and you turn it into a perversion... you should be ashamed to have even thought of that possibility.

Comment by Splitter

This mount is a ground mount. NOT a flying mount.

Comment by SSdraken

Incorrect. Read the article, it's a 310% flying mount (the same speed as the Armoured Netherdrake) and can only be summoned in Outland.

Comment by Skulli

Doubtful since it requires 300 riding skill. Also in the inside news they say it has 310% speed which only flying mounts can have.

And if you click on the green text you get to http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=40192 where you can see it increase the flight speed.

Comment by FISKERQ

No it's a flying mount, and it looks very akward on ground at the moment :P

Comment by AuReacT

replied this guy by accident .. delete please

Comment by AuReacT

Saw a video on youtube of 2 <GM>'s summoning Illidan ..
Yes "it was probably a private server, blablabla" good thing you figured that out - we don't care, it's not the point.
The video starts with one of the GM's summoning the phoenix and flying ..

In the video the mount appears to be a legendary item called "Peep the Phoenix" or something like that
.. and DAMN that shit is fast !!1

Comment by Mrnobody

First of all, have you actually read anything about it, other than a cursory glance? His father is a power gamer, the kid's character wasn't even level 70. Yeah I'm sure this wasn't parentally motivated in anyway. And his middle name just happens to have "phoenix" in it... yeah ok screenshot of his birth certificate with Ephoenix as his middle name or it never happened.

Comment by FISKERQ

Regardless, this is a site discussing loot not the moral implications of an event.

Comment by flamer4021

Dropped from Kael'thas for Method-Sylvanas. World first drop on May 31, 2007!

Comment by Choktzul

Not true. Their website says nothing about this. It doesn't even say theve done any bc raids..

Comment by Deleted23534665

confirmed... one of their warriors got it. lucky
edit: also it drops off Kael’thas not al'ar as some people thought.

Comment by Tyrsenus

Drops from Kael'thas, not Al'ar. Increases flight speed by 310%.

Although it had a chance to drop since the Burning Crusade was implemented, the first Ashes of Al'ar was given to Ephoenix of US-Norgannon (Ezra Chatterton IRL) during a visit to Blizzard coordinated by the Make-A-Wish Foundation on or around May 22nd, 2007.

The first true drop was procured by Korlic of EU-Sylvanas on May 31st, 2007.

Comment by tholex

That doesn't have to be the maximum drop rate.

Comment by Camaris

There's no "This item can only be used in the Outland" line.. is this actually a ground mount?

Comment by Zeneva

Well i really envy this boy here...anyway sincerely grats to him lol..being given a so freakin rare phoenix mount by Blizzard itself..cool

Comment by Mirrormn

This mount requires riding skill 300, so it is almost assuredly a flying mount. It does not say, "This mount can only be summoned it Outland," but considering the poorly rendered filler terrain in Azeroth that Blizzard does not want people flying over all the time, it's probably an Outland-only mount anyway.

As for speed, it has been implied by Blue posters that this mount is supposed to equal the Armored Nether Drake, so it's probably 310%.

And the maximum drop rate could be anything except for 100%, although it is most likely to be the same drop rate as all the other rare-drop mounts in the game, like the raptor, tiger, baron's warhorse, fiery warhorse, or raven.

Comment by Evilgm

http://beta.worldofraids.com/

Yup, dropped for Method.

Comment by Evilgm

That does include kills that were before the introduction of the mount to the game, so the numbers will be off.

Comment by Fishrule

http://www.worldofraids.com/?page=viewitem&idd=81 did drop =]

Comment by Imari

Increases flight speed by 310%.

Comment by gammaomega93

I'd hate to burst your bubble, but no one killed Kael'thas before 2.1, therefore, every legitimate Kael'thas kill had a chance to drop the mount.

Comment by forestblade

Re-post, dropped for method...ect

Comment by Ovek

Drops from Kael'thas Sunstrider, final boss of The Eye.
Edit: Looks like some one beat me too it.

Comment by KiLLerS

first drop for Method Sylvanas EU

Comment by Tyrsenus

Correct. We don't know when the mount was added to the game, therefore we assume that every kill potentially had the chance to drop it. Statistics are incredibly inaccurate for a small sample size, but most mounts have a ~1-2% drop rate. Therefore the 3.8% figure will most likely drop.

Comment by Zupkew

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v138/Weidolf/WoWScrnShot_060207_025242.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v138/Weidolf/WoWScrnShot_060207_025231.jpg

Comment by f0rst

310% flight speed is correct !

Comment by Sawyer

Im not sure but i say that the armoured netherdrake (PvPmount, 310% increase) is easier to get than this... how many times are you going to kill the lord of the belfs?

Comment by Creazil

Those that have, will be every week.

Comment by gammaomega93

It has dropped, it dropped for the guild Method. So there are now 2 in existence.

Comment by gammaomega93

As an addition to my earlier post, the Phoenix Mount has been in the game since the expansion was released, it was not added in 2.1. Blizzard Forum CMs have been hinting at it for months!

Comment by Raidin

It's also the only flying mount not to specifically mention that it can only be used in Outland. Makes you curious, doesn't it...

Comment by kutter86

Raidin, the reason Blizzard didn't make flying mounts available in Azeroth is you can get to place you shouldn't be at(like IF Airstrip, but people got there anyways). Also, at place where you shouldn't be the stuff are poorly rendered.

Comment by Algirdyz

best thing is u can use it in azeroth too, not only outland :D

Comment by NIKKO9393

wrong about that 31 may i saw this mount 1 month ago on youtube
ps it was not private server

Comment by dimaev

Can you ride this mount in Azeroth? It doesn't say that it's only usable in Outland.

Comment by EyyuB

Drops by ( http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=19622 ) Drop % : 10

Comment by Kronos

Dropped for Forgotten Heroes (US PvP Black Dragonflight) June 11th, 2007 on their first Kael'thas kill.

Comment by stealthyboy

my friend said he saw one of his m8's on this mount(Emeriss EU horde), dont no if i believe him though cos this is a very rare drop i think

Comment by Hariizy

Can you ride this mount outside Outlands? xD
toolpit doesent say it cant be summoned as all other flying mounts.
but ofc it would work with azeroths bugs

Comment by Panacea

Today, <Method> On Emeriss EU got the Al'ar mount on our 2'nd Kael'thas kill, world 2'nd I believe.

A bit more information, it is 310%, it has a kind of firey glow before it whilst flying, and also look pretty sick in shadowform, yes a shadow priest without the riding skill won the mount for a massive amount of 1007 DKP, he shortly after bought the riding skill.

Uploading a picture of him in shadowform with it.

Comment by zerenity

This mount fropped yeaster day for a guild named <vortex> on kazzak on first or seccond run there

Comment by Xaria

Mount just dropped for <Praemium Callidus> on Magtheridon.
Our 2nd Kael'thas kill.
I went to Zin our shaddowdaddy movie maker.

Comment by tanoh

You really don't know much about probability do you?

The max drop rate can (potentially, although highly unlikely) be 99.9999% and those killing it so far have just been very very very unlucky.

Comment by Volboris

Are you sure its 310%? This says its a "very fast mount" while the Arena Netherdrake has the text "extremely fast".

Comment by Toldry

azeroth flying mount?

unlike all the other flying mounts this mount does not say "This mount can only be used in Outland".

so does that men i can fly in azeroth with this thing?

i know this has been posted befor but i want to make a post that talks only about this fact.

Comment by Algirdyz

according to wc3 tft u should die in few minutes after using this :P

Comment by eignne

http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/item-info.xml?i=32458

Comment by Zuulong

I'm only wondering what is the % increase when riding the mount

Comment by Eeva

Dropped on Cenarius for Eowyn of Heist on July 15.

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=508783

Comment by cj25cooldude

nvm my comment

Comment by joshb306

This mount was dropped for the guild TG on Arthas, Darkchani won the mount.

Comment by Kapteeni40

It's increciple...Absolutely increciple!

Comment by Angelar

Dropped 8/2/07 on Shattered Hand server

Comment by Raidspy

Droped for eXistenZ on Executus on 1st of August 2007.

http://www.clanbase.ro/media/ftk/First-Ashes_of_AlAr.jpg

Comment by yeahemu

Kael'Thas dropped by 6th kill.

Comment by shmoe010

Saw someone cruisin around in this on Sargeras.

Comment by penguinss

Dyanatos a dwarf warrior has 1 on shadowsong eu and a troll in wrath also on shadowsong eu has 1

Comment by Ankalis

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Comment by Ankalis

Drops from Ragged Timber Wolf 36%.

Comment by shintai

Read about this mount of the web the first ever phoenix mount was given away to Ezra Chatterton, the young man who recently went to Blizzard's offices with the Make-A-Wish foundation. Ezra was given the first ever Phoenix mount in game for two reasons. First, it was probably the best gift that Blizzard could really give any gamer as far as one of the new Outland mounts. Netherdrakes are awesome, but a phoenix trumps that, if you ask me! And hey, who wouldn't want a mount that could move at 310% speed like the Swift Nether Drake arena award mount. Secondly, as Ezra's father Micah explained to me, the phoenix is an extremely important personal symbol for Ezra.

Comment by Wowumi

The only proof that this phoenix exists is that Ephoenix is the rightful owner. The other screen shots are pretty much seen as private servers due to the characters not existing in the wow armory...but it is for good show of the phoenix it self. As for the drop it will be hard to prove due to ppl dropping the UI and not showing their lvl along with very little amount of ppl surrounding your toon that u do not know...so u must prove what server your on and witnesses

Comment by Ruoste

Blizzard's armory lists this having 1-2% droprate. At 2%, any guild will get 1 Phoenix per year on AVERAGE if they clear The Eye every week. When it drops, you have to be the ONE lucky person from the 25-man raid to actually get it (or have the most dkp). In the end it all comes down to luck. Some guilds will get several and some will never get one.

Phoenix' speed is 410% running speed (310% flying speed). With Crusader aura you will go at 492% running speed.

Phoenix doesn't have visible legs and it will always be flying. In "rest" state on ground it will still flap it's wings. When "running" on the ground you will go at regular epic mount speed. Otherwise phoenix performs like any other flying mount and same rules apply.

Phoenix leaves several trails from it's wings and tail. When you go at 492% speed you leave quite a long trail behind you. You can make some pretty looking trail figures with some fancy flying.

Phoenix mount is the Ferrari of WoW mounts and a guaranteed attention magnet. It's funny seeing people going past you in a hurry, do a full stop, perform a quick 180 degree turn and come look at you.

Edit: Removed some outdated info.

Comment by Zarkkyn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFWLsESy-Yk

Here's me and my phoenix.

Comment by Zarkkyn

You can't fly underwater in private servers. I did it on purpose so people would know it's obviously not a live server. And you don't lose breath on private servers either.

Comment by Ruoste

Male troll riding Phoenix.
http://koti.mbnet.fi/sutrik/phoenix/phoenix-troll.jpg

Female gnome riding Phoenix (me with transporter malfunction).
http://koti.mbnet.fi/sutrik/phoenix/phoenix-gnome1.jpg

Additional information and more screenshots:
http://sutrik.googlepages.com/ashesofal'ar

Comment by Kalken

The tooltip seems off. On the other 310% mount it is referred to as an "extremely fast" mount while this one is only "very fast."

Comment by keldran

the ashes of al'ar drop off of Kael'thas Sunstrider not al'ar
this is not the only thing that has 310% speed,Swift Nether Drake ( http://www.wowhead.com/?item=30609 ) is also 310% speed, but you have to win the arena season to get it so i say the ashes of al'ar are easyer to get

Comment by sparky1337

mates look at this http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/761/wowscrnshot060807185551fr7.jpg ... it is be4 black temple opened...this guy is from sylvanas...the warr is my cow with way older gear :D

Comment by ourlasthero

Speed % modifiers are additive. Your speed while on this mount would be 310% of your normal running speed. With a riding crop that would be 320% of your normal running speed. Assuming the riding crop and crusader aura stack you would achieve 340% of your normal running speed with both.

With a normal epic flying mount you would need crusader aura and a riding crop to match the base speed of this mount. 280% (normal epic flyer) + 10% (riding crop) + 20% (crusader aura) = 310% (phoenix speed).

Comment by tselios2

I have a question. On his label, it doesn't mention that "This mount can only be summoned in Outland"... Isn't that strange? I mean, is there any chance it can fly in Azeroth too? Well
if it is, this might be one of the bigest mistakes of Blizzard.

Comment by Phlegethon

Due to the radical amount of terrain fixes they would have to make, Blizz decided a long time ago that flying mounts would never be used in Azeroth. I don't understand how this strikes you as odd, since every other flying mount has the same restriction.

Comment by Recessive

Tucci, thanks; I've corrected my post.

Though, I think you meant to say "Still slightly slower than a paladin with Crusader Aura + regular swift mount, though."

Comment by Swordwaltzer

I'm pretty sure he meant that it's odd that this mount doesn't have that tag of "This mount can only be used in Outland" which all other flying mounts have.

Comment by sverrithor

In the legend when a Phoenix dies it will burn to ashes and then reborn from them.

Well this is the "Ashes of Al´ar" so that must mean that you are flying on Al´ar himself!

Comment by Loladin

with Crusader Aura which paladins have,this mount increase +376% SPEED!

Comment by Corbon

Dropped on our second kill, Pala Daycrailor got it (Mal'Ganis, EU). Server first. With Crusader Aura, the effective speed is (310+100) x 1,2 = 492. Regular runspeed is 100.

The mount is surprisingly small and the trail it leaves behind doesn't fit it at all imo. Like a small amount of colourful paper strips, combined with confetti.

Comment by abomination246

After you get off this mount... you and everyone around you that is the same faction (horde or alliance) have to do the Al'ar encounter and kill it to get your ashes back. No rly, I saw it in the middle of Shat. Don't listen to anyone else... if you get off your mount you will prolly die unless you have a raid with you.

Lawl

Comment by rossy015

ok thats just retarded

Comment by snuke

normal are 280% i think...

Comment by rhodinx

dropped for us yesterday, alot of people have it now.

Comment by Quiteconfuzd

Dropped for Archaeus on Jubei'Thos US tonight, congrats go to Radiate :D

Comment by Smokeymotors

I feel as if at the TK phase of the game, most people SHOULD know that their mount cannot be used on Azeroth ;)

Comment by Ebrahim

it's cool ,, but it's hard to get + why do i need 30% speed more the epic one for? , realy you are not ganna make races , so however, got it or not USELESS :S ....

"In the legend when a Phoenix dies it will burn to ashes and then reborn from them."

about that , this remind me by Harry Potter (2) O_o

Comment by sintet

+1 droped
Server Warsong EU guild VII legion Psyhards

Comment by Critix

Im curious to see what this looks like on the ground when you have the disgusting oozeling pet out. It leaves a green aura on your player sorta and turns your mount green. On my dreadstead it makes the flames look somewhat green.

Comment by Contrabane

It drops every time on gorefiend.

Comment by Thodas

Dropped for Royal Militia of Bleeding Hollow (US-PVP) for Xiana on December 17th at 1:10 AM.

Comment by Falu

Dropped for Crowd Control on US-PVP server Blackwing Lair December 20th.

Comment by Stormwaker

Imagine how bad-ass it look with Shadowform :)

Comment by Darbs

On December 26th, 2007 (Beijing Time), the legendary phoenix mount Ashes of Al'ar appaeared for the first time on the Molten Core server in China; this phoenix mount has been acquired for 190,000 gold by a player.

(what i dont understand about this is how he bought a raid boss drop?)

Comment by Werndog

With the whole purchasing thing...the only way I can concieve of it is that it dropped and he paid all the members in the raid so he could be the sole roller.

Comment by loragheta

so no one is suprised that he had 190000 gold to buy it?

Comment by Darbs

190k is quite abit but i can see it being done, i've pushed around 100-110k on one of the servers that i've been playing since release-this day.

chances are though, him being chinese and all, he bought it, right?(thats what you were getting at werent you?

Comment by dragancla

well..he is chinese, and we all know ni hao chinese are gold farmers
and btw i played on private realms before the original (you know...preparing for the real deal) and max money you can have is ~ 420.000 gold so 190k is like nothing for them

Comment by Kermode

You are saying nonsense, first you claim "Phoenix' speed is 410% running speed " and then "When "running" on the ground you will go at regular epic mount speed. "

Well that's 100% not 410%

Comment by Kermode

It's not a "radical amount", its closer to 5-8% percent. Much of the world looks ok, its the zone transitions which are sloppy - and of course all the capitals which require work - hopefully they well get at it one day.

Comment by Andromus

he was in guild raid and they were bidding with money for it ;).. chinese farmers heh

Comment by stylewalker

From WorldOfRaids.com:
On December 26th, 2007 (Beijing Time), the legendary phoenix mount Ashes of Al'ar appaeared for the first time on the Molten Core server in China; this phoenix mount has been acquired for 190,000 gold by a rich player.

Comment by Stuke

Thottbot is that way ------>>>>

Comment by Arkham

I could've sworn it was this way
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Comment by ChildinTime

No, what he was saying is that the chinese(actually all orientals) are very ambitious, and its a known steriotype to label them 'chinese farmers'(wither they're chinese or not). In my experience(not only wow) people of the orient tend to be less casual gamers, and more goal oriented. None of which is a bad thing. Imo they're also less lazy and more prideful in their accomplishments then casual gamers or gamers as a whole, which tends to discourage the assumption that they buy gold.
Also, being much more ambitious, they tend to be perfect canidates for working for actual gold farming "companies", which verywell could be part of the (or in some peoples oppinions, the main) reason for the steriotype.
Appologies to anyone that I may have offended, that wasn't my intent at all, infact it was the opposite.

Comment by Cynicster

One thing to remember is that the Chinese version of BC came out much much later (can't recall date), so this player could've easily accumulated ludicrous amounts of gold pre-expansion via questing, instancing, raiding, AH trading and so on.

Comment by Champlin

This mount has auctaly dropped on the normal servers. Someone from the guild 'Art of War' on the Gorefiend server auctaly has this mount. I can't remember the name of the person but I see him flying around Shattrath all the time with it. im surprised he hasnt posted a comment about it yet.

Comment by alvinkim

Im curious to know... can blood elf players kill him and have the same mount or is there a reputation thing involved?

Comment by mbg98

Our guild just got one tonight, given to our fantastic raid leader Clarity. Grats to her! You should have seen the amount of lag it caused in Shat when she arrived!

Comment by Odios

I beleive that Blizzard doesn't allow Flying Mounts in Azeroth because of many reasons, and this is one of them.
Darnassus, Origmar, Stormwind, Thunderbluff, (Not sure about Silvermoon, unless it's open from the top), are all without a cover from the sky unlike most of Exodar and Undercity and IronForge.
Imagine how heaps of players from the opposing faction will just fall out of the sky avoiding mny gaurds and attack the cities with no effort at all, this will mean that cities won't be safe areas anymore.
But without them, you can be in PvP mode and not be attacked, you will feel secure in your cities (Unless some bored rogue ambushes you).

Comment by rym5

This is one thing for sure.... There will be flying mounts in azeroth.
there is a hidden valley of troll tribe above the cliffs of the mountain between darkshore and moonglade! near 66.4,24.0 and there is no way to get there but to use a flying mount because it is surrounded by mountains. even at the under city, there is a upper level of the inner ring.

Comment by 2OfDiamonds

you have to be exalted with argent dawn to be able to get the drop.

wait.. what?

Comment by flamero

Crusader Aura doesn't stack with mount speed trinkets.

Comment by coahim

Any shadowpriest have this mount?

Comment by SamjiWahala

i have seen other players with this mount before on Stormreaver, not hobbs though..... it is a 310% confirmed, but dosnt work on the ground.... oddly enough its normal(walking speed)......
its kinda odd though ive only seen 2 people with it, and after asking them about it, they said it droped nowhere near the instance. one said he even got one off a orc in the hellfire penusla!!!! my guess: the mount is one of those special drops, rarely appearing, or just put in for laughs by G gms

Comment by Mochara

This item first dropped on the EU server Defias Brotherhood this week despite numerous guilds farming Kael'thas. It went to Jarvin a Shaman Healer.

Comment by Creomortis

He told you this because hes sick of being asked about it.

Comment by Hiryu

Dropped for Ceriulun - Illusion (Alliance) first on EU-Outland the other day, server first I believe.

Comment by jaschmidt22

I just saw a gnome on the PTR with this mount. It's out there.

Comment by Blorfang

Dropped Today Alliance side on Malfurion

Comment by narcisha

Dropped 18/02 -08 on Emeriss Alliance to a paladin which means Emeriss got one mount on horde, and one mount on alliance.

Comment by Deejai

Shenanigans guild on Arygos (US PvE) has two!

Just ask Clarity or Wispa :)

Comment by Benegesserit

Why is Blizzard rewarding skill for PvP but only giving raiders/PvEers a RNG for the same speed mount?

Comment by Irrazz

They are adding the tag "This mount can only be summoned in Outland" in Patch 2.4 just to clear the confusion.

Comment by Narga

This mount dropped on Auchindoun eu realm. havent seen personaly but alot of other people did and made screenie's. the dude made a show off in shat >.<

EDIT: now i did. submitting some screenies now. His name is Cowtzer

Comment by Nwaps

На нашем серве х1 выбили феникса.

Comment by Cass

Can confirm that, because I do the same myself after I get the same question asked 108 times.

Comment by Cass

Can confirm that, because I do the same myself after I get the same question asked 108 times.

Comment by geoffster

As of 2.4 it DOES say "This mount can only be summoned in Outland"

Comment by RyuSenshi

This itemdescription says:
Use: Summons and dismisses a rideable phoenix. This is a very fast mount. This mount can only be summoned in Outland.
It has also been mentioned by a blue post that this will have a 310% mounted speed.
But the swift netherdrake mount, the other 310% mount has this descrption:
Use: Summons and dismisses a rideable nether drake mount. This is an extremely fast mount. This mount can only be summoned in Outland.
The swift netherdrake mount is also the only mount with this description. all other epic (flying) mounts have the same description as the phoenix of being a very fast mount.

ps. Sorry if you don't understand my english. I'm Chinese and moved to europe so English is my 3rd language.

Comment by supertao

The tag is STILL incorrect. Since this mount goes 310% speed, it should be labeled as an EXTREMLY fast mount, like the Gladiator's Netherdrake and the Merciless Drake, and not a VERY fast mount.

EDIT: It seems Ryu beat me too it

Comment by l33tohs

Did Blizz really give this mount to a sick kid in partnership with MAW founation? That was really thoughtful of them!

Comment by Roho

Mount speed is 310%.

and btw for all you shadow priests just pop shadowform and get on this mount and you will have your own demonic bird from hell!!!

Comment by jeffreyfields

siiiiiick..too bad ill never get that mount lol

Comment by l33tohs

This mount would look pretty cool with fire coming out of its eyes.

Comment by username

That's so unfair to the rest of us who actually work to obtain our gear that the first mount was just given away. The kid is recovering anyway, he might not even die. If he makes a full recovery, I expect him to have his stuff taken away and work for it like everyone else.

Comment by Aeiko

I think you are way more sick then he is to say that. What should blizz say to him? "We were expecting you do die so... ".

Comment by avalose

Would it be appropriate to call you a douche user? Never mind of course it would, and I hope you get cancer.
I mean really, that's like giving your mom a get well soon card and after she gets better you come to her house and rip it up in front of her.

Comment by the88thcrazy

"Oh hey! you're the kid who's dying right? how bout some pixels?"

Comment by Bl4ckSh33p

and how can you get "Trail length at 451% speed"? You can only add 10% with riding crop or the item from the netherdrake isle and it does not stack, paladins get 20%. o.O

Comment by b0uncer

Are you sure this is the way it works? Aren't you just supposed to add % to the total value of the speed? What I mean is this:
Merciless Nether Drake gives you 310% flying speed. Then when you add Riding Crop and Skybreaker Whip you get +20% which makes 330%. And with Crusader Aura it gets 350%. At least that's the way I think things with speed work. I am not quite sure why you added the 100% movement speed which you actually lose when you use a mount.

Comment by Tiran

Percentages are generally multiplicative. The crop, whip and aura don't stack - you can get up to 10% improvement from items, more from talents or auras, but those talents and auras then cancel out the effect of the items.

Further you have to add the 100% base speed because it says right on the tooltip increases speed by 310%. Take a non epic 60% mount. It wouldn't make sense for it to move slower than an unmounted person.

Aether is correct in his assessment of the math, and further there have been people who've verified the math in game using timing and distance mods.

Comment by DeathCoil

Crusader Aura, which is the mount speed increase does not stack with anything else therefore, you cannot reach anything past 330% if u have the aura up, however there are 2 trinkets which increase mount speed by 10% and which would get you up to 330% AND riding skill enchant to gloves and mithril spurs which would bring your mount speed up to a grand total of 336% flying speed increase. Here are all of the items:
Enchanting Gloves- Riding Skill
Mithril Spurs
Riding Crop
Sky Breaker Whip

(Sorry, my computer is acting funny and it won't let me link)

Comment by housetrain

"This mount can only be summoned by a sick boy from MAWF"

Increases cheese by 310%.

Comment by barrs

This is one of the rarest mounts to see in the game minus the AQ bugs. Who wouldn't want to ride a flaming bird right?

Comment by magepwner

im on my first TK trip tonight (my guild has done more already)
didnt down keal so far but if they do and it drops im screwd.
first 3 raids i am not alowed to roll on loot other peeps need -.-

Comment by Desna

Increases flight speed by 310%.

Comment by Metaknight1000

This is, hands-down, the coolest mount in the game.

Comment by hypehuman

Just to make it completely clear:

100 (normal speed) + 310 (increase from the mount) = 410 speed while mounted

410 + 10% (increase from riding crop) = 451

410 + 20% (increase from crusader aura) = 492

Comment by sanford

crusader aura and pursuit of justice does not stack with riding crop

Comment by sanford

410% + 10% = 420%
410% + 20% = 430%

Comment by lsfreak

Rather,
100% + 310% = 410%
410% * 10% (4.1*1.1) = 451%
410% * 20% (4.1*1.2) = 492%
He had it right, it's just a bit confusing.

EDIT: Responding to a now-deleted comment about 410% + 10% = 420% and so on.

Comment by ladylei

Easier still:

10% of 410% = 41%, thus 451%
20% of 410% = 82%, thus 492%

Comment by MLZ1015

It has dropted on Dragonblight

Comment by listen2me

And as the phoenix reborns from the ashes, it rages into flames and bursts high into the sky. Above all, watching peacefully.

Confirmed - First World drop on May 31st, 2007 to the very lucky Korlic of EU-Sylvanas!

Comment by Jachammer

Crusader aura and trinket's that increase speed don't stack. It says so on both the aura and on the trinkets.

Comment by Kurokawa41

This mount should read "This is an extremely fast mount", as the other 310% speed mounts do.

Edit: Why was I downrated? It's true.

Comment by yardclippings

If they are discontinuing the Amani War Bear, does it mean that this one will be discontinued too?

Comment by Lamoresk

Seen on Al'Akir
Owner: Horde - Dræberteddy

This beast... well, it's not a roguemount, since it leaves a pink trail where it has been, pretty nice

Comment by lilflip00

If they are discontinuing the Amani War Bear, does it mean that this one will be discontinued too?

No, they are not. It is going to be an accomplishment for Woltk, basically were going to have to 5 man tempest keep, hopefully its going to be nerfed a little :P

http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?achievement=885

Comment by DkDabura

i got this mount and it OWNZ i love when you fly with it you see the fire behind you the speed is 310% and if you have the mount you own...like me ;)

Comment by realmageosaur

Of course i think it is nice for the kid he got this phoenix,
but still there are many other sick players.
Like me 2 years ago i had a hearth sickness ( i was 10) and still played world of warcraft,
too bad i did not get someting like this.
The kid is lucky,

Realmage

Comment by kikki

Just seen someone flying this on Vek'Nilash EU, will update if I find out his name again :P Not sure how common they are these days but they still look damn fine ;)

Comment by Kurokawa41

I have no idea why my comment was downrated; this mount should in fact read "This is an extremely fast mount" rather than "This is a very fast mount", as all other 310% speed mounts use the former wording as compared to 280% mounts which use the latter wording.

Comment by Kurokawa41

This mount should read "This is an extremely fast mount", as all other 310% speed mounts have that term listed rather than "This is a very fast mount."

Comment by tubago

Might be an useless comment but i'd just like to add i saw this mount on the other day on a Tauren (EU Spinebreaker server) and couldn't resist to w the player to congrat him. I fell kinda ashamed to be riding a swift red windrider *goes do netherwing daylies <_<*

Comment by Hean

Just keep working on your mounts and you'll slowly get there, no need to be ashamed, we've all been there :)

Comment by roper512

Currently not displaying properly on latest PTR

Screenshot comparison - http://s4.tinypic.com/2db6rsj.jpg

Comment by Harson

No, they are not. It is going to be an accomplishment for Woltk, basically were going to have to 5 man tempest keep, hopefully its going to be nerfed a little :P

Blizz has already stated that they are nerfing all raid mobs and bosses when patch 3.0 goes live(30% less health and less damage done overall), and with Wotlk raid gear we should be able to 5 man Kael'thas easily. Or maybe 10 man depending on how hard it will actually turn out to be at 80 ^^

Comment by Tankadinpewpew

Highly doubt 5 man. Kael'thas requires Hunter, Lock tank, at least TWO heals with 3000+ healing, two tanks, and lots of range dps. Nope, not five man, 15 man.

Comment by 32ndShadowwind

As of October 20th, 2008, Ezra Chatterton, Ephoenix, is no longer with us. I don't know at this time whether there are plans for an ingame memorial service, but will post updates on the Norgannon realm forums when and if. If you want to make a donation to his family or send them a message, their website is http://www.ezrachatterton.org/ We will miss you, Ezra.

And from the ashes it was reborn...

Comment by AuReacT

omgiwantit

Comment by Soulkeeper

Wouldn't this be much better if it had legs.?.?.?. I mean it's a phoenix so when ur not flying it's ashes(dead in a way) but how does it walk?

Comment by valioso

The phoenix summoned by Ashes of Al'ar has had his flame trails restored.
As The New patch notes in 3.0.3 on November 4th, 2008 Show, We can now get this mount again, Even though it is only a 1.6% drop rate, I believe we have gone after mounts with a lower % drop rate! I Hope to see a lot more of these in the game very soon! :D Yay Thanks blizzard!

Comment by Pyronos

Man it would be so sweet to get one of these. Definitely one of my favorite mounts available.

Comment by lolcakes4life

oh this is a shame... for now this will be one of 6 mounts to rarely be seen again with the release of WotLK

http://www.wowhead.com/?item=33809
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=30480
and last but not least. my favorite my favorite actually.
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=13335

its a shame how the second a new xpac comes out no one bothers with anything before its time.

*edit. and how could we forget http://www.wowhead.com/?item=19902 and http://www.wowhead.com/?item=19872 ?

Comment by Hean

I'm gonna try to get a group on EU bloodscalp to run this with me :P I'll do a huge favor for them so they won't roll, anyone who got an idea of how many level 80's in what sorta gear could do TK - Trying to get as few people as i can since the favor's are rather...half-big (Like grinding for Thunder-Fury)
The Phoenix shall be mine soon enough!

Also, good luck to everyone else who is trying to get the Ashes of Al'ar - Drops from last boss in TK ;3

- Edit: Also this STILL drops, i can't confirm, but i know that Blizzard has not posted anything or have left any patch notes about taking it away from the game.

Only Amani War bear, some titles and some other random not-so-important-as-far-as-i-know.

Comment by Darkrainin

companion to phoenix hatchling

Comment by Arkopellos

At my server (Magtheridon EU)-(Horde) i see this mount on 4 people plus 2(Allince side) 1st. Nyko(paladin)-(Madness)
2d. Shaurentaman (Shaman)-(Metal Gods)

And 2 guys From Nihilum(now Nihilum rename (''Ensidia'')
After Wotlk the mount removed from game:(

Comment by Beryligos

What is the source on this? As I heard it guaranteed drops such as the bear mount were the only ones being removed. If the Ashes were unobtainable, the Deathcharger or the Reins of the Raven Lord would have been removed with the same thinking.

Comment by violetta

the ashes have not been removed, they are still obtainable

Comment by Archoprez

Look at this video:
Kungen's Birthday
Nihilum, Magtheridon celebrating guildmaster Kungen's birthday :P

Comment by wolfykiller

Hmm, Thats Really Sad, Blizzard are very thoughtful to do that. :)

Comment by Dreadwave

Did he drop anything good?

Comment by szcz00r

Ive got actually an addon that shows your actual speed on map and ive got with crus aura +356% speed with regular epic mount, but im not sure if its 456% movement or if its just replaced so i move
3.56 times faster than normal...

Comment by yoBlade

why my photo is not added?

Comment by kitschsous

As someone who only killed Kael a few times before the 3.0 nerf while BC was out, and then farmed him until Wrath launched, I was also under the impression that he would be 5-man-able when I took a solo trip into TK to remind myself of his and his adds HP pool.

For reference after 3.0 Kael himself has 2.1M and each of his adds have 180,000ish HP, the Mage has a bit less, 130,000 if I remember correctly.

Since then my guild (everyone in a mix of 10/25 man WotlK raid content gear) has killed him 3 times for fun/chance at this mount.

The main problem I see with this fight and people trying to do him with as few people as possible is the fact that he still mind controls, 2 people at a time, and I have yet to see it resist so I’m assuming even at 80 its unresistable. This wouldn’t be a problem if they were 70, but they are 80... and when ever this happens our Kael tank slips below 50% health while the healers are either trying to keep the rest of the raid up as our members with daggers try to dispel quickly or they themselves get MCed. Even with the dagger our fury warrior almost always tends to kill someone when he is MCed before he can be CCed/dispelled.

Our most successful attempt was with the following comp:
2 BM Hunters (1 With Dagger)
1 Warlock (Staff)
1 Mage (Staff)
2 Healing Priests - one DSC one Holy (Maces)
1 Feral Druid (Switching Staff/Dagger)
1 Prot Pally (Shield)
1 Fury Warrior (Dagger)
1 Ehn Shaman (Not sure what weapon he was using, if he was using one.)

Also keep in mind, you have to have a certain level of dagger skill for the dispel to work (350 I was told), so you cant just put daggers in the hands of everyone.

So 10 people. Even with this set up the MT almost always took the Pyro due to the fact so many people were either on MC dispels or phoenixes (Fortunately with the HP pool at 80 this isn’t a big problem) and 3 people died before the fight was over.

You also have to remember, if you get MCed, for example, lets say you only have one person in the raid with the staff. If they get MCed, your raid loses the staff buff, Kael disorients you WHILE people are still MCed and not only are you being killed by the people who are MCed but your tank lost aggro and he’s about to launch a 40k pyro at someone who isn’t a tank.

Another amusing thing that went wrong... One of our priests got MCed and 2 shot the other priest before someone with the dagger got over to them or they were CCed.

So... long story short at the moment its near to if not impossible to 5 man this boss. I would say a very well coordinated group could do him with less than 10, but 5 is a bit of a stretch.

Comment by renilorn

It's still there. I just got it about an hour ago! :)

Comment by snikt228

We were able to 8 man Kael this weekend to try and farm the mount. We first started with 6 but just didn't have enough DPS and phase 3 fell apart. Has anyone done this with less? We used a DK to tank Kael since he could use a CD every minute. Once you got to Phase 4 it was cake, 3 was the only hard part.

Comment by Demosthenes21

Just did this boss successfully last night with 9 players at level 80, took us a few attempts and we had to change dps orders a bit since the raid was smaller than the encounter was originally designed for. This is how we did it, and a slightly different strat for level 80's in a smaller raid.

Raid comp:

2 tanks (preferably 1 prot warr at least)
2 full time heals
1 offheals (moonkin / ele shammy)
4 ranged dps

Our gear level was approx. full T7 / mostly T7.5. Able to down 3 drake Sartharion with all the dpsers. You may need to bring additional dpsers if yours aren't that geared, however when new content patches come out, this won't be as much of a concern.
We wiped a few times trying to 8 man the fight without an elemental shaman, but we brought him in and the random spot chain heals and the heroism/bloodlust helped a ton in phase 4. Having 2 healers is preferred because one healer might have to move, accidentally die, or some other unforseen event. The actual damage going around the raid is trivial, and we had 1 healer healing phase 4 for some time before a mind controlled player feared him.

I recommend using a prot warr for phase 4 because they are extremely mobile for phase 4, and can easily dispel MC's without accidentally killing someone. Most players can easily take several devastates without it being a serious issue. Any tank can now MT Kael now though, the pyroblast was a joke and no cooldowns were needed to survive being hit.

Phase 1: Introduction
Not much to this phase, none of the mobs hit particularly hard and they all dropped extremely quickly. For Thaldred, the melee were able to walk up to him and start dpsing without any care if he turned around and started attacking them.
Actually positioning the mobs so they are in good places for phase 3 was also not much of a concern for us. We did attempt to have Capernian positioned on the right side of the room, and everything else on the left side, but with the speed of the dps it was not entirely successful.
Phase 2: Legendary Weapons
We had enough dps to completely destroy the weapons with about 10 seconds to spare before phase 3 started. I would recommend keeping the prot warr on the Cosmic Infuser, as it does heal itself frequently. Shield Bashes, Concussion Blows, Shockwaves are all needed to stop it from healing while all the weapons are being aoe'd down. Also, having him pick up the Staff of Disintegration early on, silence it, and drag it into the aoe helps a lot. The staff likes to stay in it's current spot and just cast at people unless someone does somethin about it.

We had a paladin tank to pick up all the other weapons (cept the bow, which was still done by a hunter). We even left the Devastation in there with the rest of the weapon as nothing there really hit for much.

DO NOT FORGET TO EQUIP THE WEAPONS. We did have some fresh people on the run who didn't understand that the weapons became lootable when they died, and required being looted and equipped. Not having enough casters with the staff in the raid will make or break the fight still. Phase 3 is serious still.

If you have a good number of single target dps in the raid, this is the dps order for the weapons I would recommend:
Staff of Disintegration -> Cosmic Infuser -> Infinity Blade -> Phaseshift Bulwark -> Warp Slicer.
For us, the bow died somewhere in the mix with the hunter nuking it down and the aoe hitting it. We never really had to worry about having to dps it at all.
Phase 3: Advisors
If you do not have most to all of the weapons down at this point, then it will likely be a wipe and you need more dps.

We were forced to change the dps order of the Advisors because of the annoyance of their abilities to a 9 man raid. Capernian was a serious threat to the raid because she would chain-conflag someone (often a tank, occasionally a heals or unlucky dps). There isn't always a staff that is going to be near in a raid that small so we nuked her first, while keeping an eye on thaldred and kiting him around as needed. If he did aggro to someone important, a bop works wonders for keeping them alive.

Killing Capernian is going the be the tough part of phase 3, her abilities severely restrict movement and make the whole phase rather annoying to deal with till she is dead. We didn't have to burn our heroism to down her, but if your raid is having trouble that is a good option.
Next up is Thaldred, just as much of a joke in phase 3 as phase 1, it took us a little bit longer to down him though.
Either Sanguinar or Telonicus will work next, neither is a very serious concern. We even had an add still up beating on the MT going into phase 4.
Phase 4: Taking matters into one's own hands
This was a bit chaotic for us the first few tries, but we eventually got the hang of it. At least 2 people should have a set of the daggers to dispel the Mind Control with. The prot warrior was the primary person to dispel the MC's for us, because of the mobility the Warbringer talent gives, and 30 yard taunts bring players over rather easily. A backup is needed in case the warrior does get MC'd himself though.
Fear should be avoided on MC'd people unless the person dispelling them got it also. It is very hard to chase down a player and attack them if they are running around randomly.

For the Phoenix adds, we had the prot warrior also tank those at the same time as dispelling Mind Controls. The Phoenixes are still level 70, and their aoe is of little concern as it nearly always misses. DPS should still nuke it down and then the egg it leaves behind though, eventually they will become a dangerous nuisance if you let them multiply and wander around randomly.

Do not forget to move out of the Flame Strikes! Those hurt a lot a 70, and they will hurt a lot at 80.

You can have any tank on the boss really, Pyroblast hits for 20-25k, which is less than our tanks had unbuffed. It is still nice to interrupt it as you get the chance, and use the shield to absorb the first one.

Heroism / Bloodlust should be saved for 80% here, give a good amount of time to make sure all the advisors or down, everyone is in a good spot and is comfortable.
Phase 5: True Power (lol)
The fight is won at this point, this phase is a joke at 80, especially with a 9 man raid. When he does Gravity Lapse, everyone should spread out a little bit as to not be right next to each other. Also don't go too high up in the air as when the debuff runs out, you will fall to the ground and take fall damage. The actual raid damage is next to nothing in the air, so nobody should be dying at this point.
Phoenixes will continue to spawn in this phase, and should still be killed until boss reaches 15% (ish). After that is is safe to straight up nuke Kael and go for the loots, only worrying about the adds afterwards.

1 minor thing to note about Heroism / Bloodlust, it is a risk using it in phase 4 as he can mind control your shaman and buff himself with it. He wont be much more of a threat, but you lose out on your heroism. If you are worried about this happening then burn it in phase 3 right at the start.

Good luck and happy hunting for the Ashes!

Comment by dylan257

Quoted from Ruoste

Phoenix' speed is 410% running speed (310% flying speed). With 10% speed trinket you will go at 451% running speed and paladin's Crusader aura gives you 492% running speed. I also verified these with a mod that shows your speed.
Equivalent regular epic flying mount speeds are 380%, 418% (trinket), 456% (Crusader). So a Paladin on regular Epic with Crusader on will just outfly you if you have only the 10% speed trinket.

Phoenix doesn't have visible legs and it will always be flying. In "rest" state on ground it will still flap it's wings. When "running" on the ground you will go at regular epic mount speed. Otherwise phoenix performs like any other flying mount and same rules apply.

if its "When running on the ground you will go at regular epic mount speed" -which is 60%, then earlier in the first paragraph, why did you say "Phoenix' speed is 410% running speed (310% flying speed)"

Comment by Hean

R.I.P.
Ezra Chatterton

Comment by Hean

Thanks alot for posting this, it'll help alot on the goal to get the ashes.

Also, an average run should take about 30mins with only trash and Kael'Thas Sunstrider without any wipes.

Comment by tursh

Regular epic mount as opposed the flying epic mount is what he was talking about.

Comment by Limbero

Regular epic mount, i.e. Epic Ground Mount, would be 100% speed increase or 200% total speed, not 60% :).

Comment by almillion

This is the best quality vid I could find of the mount - I def. need to convince my guild to try to farm one of these! AFAIK no-one on our server has one yet.

Click on High Quality ...one of the best vids of Ashes of Al'ar

Comment by Demosthenes21

Running in with no strat is a good way to wipe on Kael. That fight was never really a dps zerg, it is a technical fight and it is still more than capable of wiping a raid.

The point of running with less people in the raid is to have less people to roll on the mount against you. Should the mount drop, rolling against 8 other people gives you a much better chance of winning it vs. rolling against 24 other people.

Comment by Thareigor

It dropped on Magtheridon EU (80 run, 22 ppl's), 16/2/09.
Tho our master looter Ninjaed the mount, and there was a giant fight in /Trade... Now he changed his name haha..

Comment by mxiro

how typical =) =p

Comment by Arethus

R.I.P
Ezra Chatterton

Comment by Arethus

Most people don't think its fair to them because Erza Got it first, He was sick and sadly died, (R.I.P),

Comment by furyelf

This dropped on Dragonblight US 2/15/09

As with the above, the master looter ninja'd the mount, and xfered off shortly thereafter.

Comment by manbearpgg

-.- if you change your name then you're still gonna be on everyone's friend/ignore list, it changes it automatically... and plus the fact that you now have the freakin Phoenix... kinda hard to hide that. IMO, SS or it didn't happen :P

Comment by novari1

ezra was remembered during the lunar festival as TB's elder

Comment by shadd0ws

All flying mount< http://www.wowhead.com/?item=32458 I love it best thing ever did by blizz

Comment by Hean

Actually Kael'thas is close to not needing too much, with 15 people you'd only need to make sure that a rogue can get the MC'ed out of that state, or that at least someone can CC the MC'ed people. You don't need to place the advisors any specific places anymore, but just make sure a ranged is tanking Capernian a bit further away from the others.
All the weapons can be aoe'd down in about 30 seconds together. The only real possible problem would be Phase 4 as MC'ed people who isn't CC'ed kills everyone else.

Making it short:
15 people who knows how to play and you got a nice, fast and clean kill.
Farming for it atm ;) Wish me luck. Also, good luck to anyone else trying to get this beautiful mount.

Comment by Deficio

If anyone still doubts that this is in the game, I can confirm that it is!

Dropped today on a pug KT run, about 20 ppl in raid (major overkill)

A lucky DK rolled 100! Talk about saving your good rolls for when you need it... =)

Comment by Arkopellos

I kill yesterday Kael'thas with a pug and ashes drops.A guy from a big guild Ninjia them im not blame him in his place i did the same but the guy now he get Gkick and everyone in the server hates him

Comment by Greatness

fastest mount non-GM flying mount

Comment by nerfrogues

so i just got mine yesterday on my 80 tauren shaman with a very lucky 74 roll. and i now own the 2nd one for Stonemaul US. the other 1 belongs to an undead priest. coincidentally we are both in the same guild. however mine was achieved from a 20 man pug rather than with the guild. finally after all this time farming heroic magister's terrace for the white hawkstrider, i recieve an even better mount from the original instance.. on my first tiem downing kael. hows that for justice? ^_^

LAZER LIGHT SHOW PEWPEW!

Comment by pierrechalfoun

IMO the best looking Mount in WoW

Comment by darklife48

is this mount still optainable? sence wowlk is out we 10 maned tk without trying so wouldent thay take it off to stop everyone on the relm from geting it? a herd people say you can no longer get it but i don't know

Comment by talento

Today just dropped in TH realm EU about an hour ago.So it still drops.

Comment by Bloise

Well, maybe Ephoenix
should have
wished for a
health potion

Comment by Heartofearth

Why the hell was this rated down?

Comment by coyote72

I could have swore that I saw this drop from Kael'thas Sunstrider in Magister's Terrace. I'm actually 100% sure, I don't remember if it was Heroic or non, but I am 100% sure I saw this drop from MgT around the time it was first released.

Comment by Joepiler

thats a pet u can summon, the only mount that drops there is a landmount, kinda cool tho,but not nearly as ashes ofc

Comment by SpiderX3m

Rest in piece Ezra lets hope his dream came true and lets hope he is very happy now where he is...
And for the people that say "This is so unfair QQ free mount" or are just plain jealous or retarded...you should be ASHAMED.I pity your narrow thinking.

Comment by Tan976

This kids story is sooo sad. I hope hes having fun playing WoW in heaven. R.I.P. (heres his character on the armory http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Norgannon&n=Ephoenix)

Comment by jtunis

Since poor Ezra Chatterton has passed away.. well, can I have his stuff?

Comment by Supahtoons

Anyone know if you have to down Al'ar for this to drop from Kael'thas?

Comment by Maximelene

No, you don't have to. Killing a boss don't change the loots of another boss.

Comment by Hean

No, you do NOT have to down Al'ar for it to drop, you can now go directly up to Kael'Thas Sunstrider, instead of having to down any other of the bosses in Tempest Keep.

Comment by xxdjsethxx

To be honest, yes it does. OS10/25 is an example =P

Comment by judethemia

they really should make this scale w/ riding skill b/c u would have 2 pay 5000g to use it

Comment by 32ndShadowwind

Anyone know if you have to down Al'ar for this to drop from Kael'thas?

No, you don't have to. Killing a boss don't change the loots of another boss.

Yes and no, Maximelene. There ARE bosses whose loot is linked to other bosses you may have killed, however, Kael'thas is not one of them.

Comment by Supahtoons

Dude, it's a 310% mount. Faster than normal epic flyers. What more do you want?

Comment by crisp2y

Tbh with you , if this mount was boe, i could see it easily selling upwards of 20k gold, its extremley hard to get hold of, faster than most other flyers, so if you were lucky enough to get hold of one, 5k gold is really nothing to pay to be privilaged enough to use this.

Comment by LeLORD

I didnt know who is he
so i googled wow ezra and got then for all of u to read
http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/05/22/blizzard-and-make-a-wish-bringing-wow-to-life/

Comment by jtunis

Poor fellow passed away. But, I have a question..

Can I have his stuff?

Comment by roper512

Just made a video of my phoenix on Alexstrasza (US):

Youtube HD - Ashes of Al'ar

Comment by joshua10

11 days after Ezra's tragic death (Halloween), I did Tempest Keep for the first time, I read earlier about his death the same day of this raid, so I found a raid for it and joined in high hopes of getting a pheonix of my own, after 3 hours of raiding, we finally killed Kael'Thas, and everyone in the entire raid including me was astonished to see the pheonix had actually dropped, unfortunately for the other people in the raid, our raid leader ninja'd the pheonix and left the group, anyways, R.I.P. Ezra

Comment by ShiroRX

Best mount in the game. Period.

Kid had good taste.

Comment by Modibybob

It seriously doesn't get any better than this. I'd rather have this mount than any proto drake.

Rest in quiet peace, dear Ezra.

Edit:....Ummm, why am I being downrated?

Comment by Mat516

i heard that they took this out of the game once wotlk came out, is that true?

Comment by tempesmagus

No. It's a very low 1-2% drop chance from Kael'Thas Sunstrider in The Eye of Tempest Keep and you can only kill him once a week anyway so it will still be rare forever.

At least I think you can only kill him once a week. I'm not sure how the reset works on raids still.

Comment by Malinq

Still only once per week

Comment by Grekkor

I love my mount and will always ride it. Silly to think im almost at 100 mounts to get something Im not going to ride lol.

Comment by Fone

*cough* sarth *cough*

but yeah, you're still right :)

Comment by Fone

*cough* sarth *cough*

but yeah, you're still right :)

Comment by Lorre

Any1 knows if u can loot this mount if u DONT have riding 300 skill?

Comment by Dy77

can some1 tell me does the mount still drop? or did they remove it after wotlk came out?

Comment by Pachirisuneytor

Anyone on the raid can need on it even if they don't have 300 riding skill.

Comment by BetaFlame

Can anyone confirm if this mount still drops or not? I wanted to put together guild runs weekly to get people the mount (ha!) but a member of the guild said that it no longer drops.

Comment by Lorre

A very nice gm gave me some answers.

- The Mount still drops.
- The Mount can drop if u skip all other 3 bosses & just kill kael.
- People who dont have 300 riding, can roll & win the mount.

Hope this helps

Comment by daemetos

Come to Deathwing and ask about Fleshhunter. He changed his name to Bambishooter and still can't get groups or anything since he ninja'd the Grand Black War Mammoth from Archavon, and this happened a couple months ago. When someone ninja's something that rare, people don't tend to forget easily. Plus, that's what forums are for. To let other servers know of one person's asshattery, in case they transfer.

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Comment by DANCEMASTERAFRO

Okay wowhead is stating that the ashes of alars drop rate is 1.7% so this is actually less rare than the barons mount or even the zulian tiger? man i'd love to have one of them it'd be so cool i love mounts :L

Comment by zdouse

Yes but u can only attempt to get it to drop once a week so it should be higher.

Comment by PolkaDotLillies

After having lost it twice ( to two level 79 ret paladins, who both ironically had NO flying skill whatsoever, and who both also had the same DPS... 320!); on both occasions me rolling 98 and the two culprits rolling 100, I can safely say that:

A) Random loot is random (Along with rolls...) and
B) That ANYONE can roll AND win this mount, irrespective of level, riding skill, mother's social security number, etc..!

May I also add that this is an extremely rare, 310% flying mount; hence the stringent instance reset timer and the actual drop chance.

I'm in no way bitter, I tell you, not at all!

Comment by Armethalieh

If I get a group of 80s ranging from 10-25 with gear of any level and maby a few 77+, we get by without fighting the other bosses as from what I read is possible to do, how long would it take to do a run of TK the eye just killing kal'thas to go faster to get the mount.

Comment by Alouette

The other thing that has not been said is that you have to still have 15-20 others to contend with to roll on this item, unless you 1) reserve it for yourself or 2) take it without permission. With the ZG mount, you are only rolling 1-2 others, and with the Baron mount, you can pretty much solo it, making your chances for those MUCH higher, especially when you take their reset timers into account.

Comment by Rabies

This mount still drops. I never got the opportunity to down Kael'thas during Burning Crusade, but I was invited on a mount run by an in-game friend of mine to tank the encounter and farm the mount. Well, much to our surprise the mount dropped! This was our first attempt, and after all the rolls were done I won it with a 99. I am currently the only Death Knight on the server with the mount, and the first Hordie to obtain it on my server. You can armory "Lechter" on "Ysondre" server.

It looks incredible, and is faster than flightpath mounts with On A Pale Horse to up the speed past 310%. However, whenever you do Kael'thas I highly recommend you get people who know how to loot the legendary weapons and use them to keep the raid from wiping.

Comment by Rabies

Comment by Fipsh

Fireproof pants not included.

Comment by Serrehsieth

Funny how with all those awsome dragons which we have now, this mount remains the coolest)

Comment by TheBeastElite

The best-fastest Mount is ASHES OF ALA'R ! 310% speed. But you need some good G for Training but whoever gets it is lucky for this mount , so hard that it's only 1.6% drop and it's in a very hard boss. Good Luck :)

Comment by rimlanin

Suggestion:

Do this with friends, so they dont leave when you change to master looter.

Comment by Bohrizan

Changing to Master Looter when he's at 5% or so works too. ;P

Comment by Cavalla

If I were Ezra, wherever he is now, i'd still be showing off this mount. Thing is awesome. :3

rip Ezra

Comment by Dranei

Does anyone know weather the drop rate was increased? I've seen the mount drop >> THREE << times in >> THREE << weeks in a row.

My guild just ran it for the mount after raid just three weeks ago, it dropped - then we had the motivation to run it every week. The following week it dropped again and last night it dropped again. Sadly I lost all those roles but is that insane luck or a much increased drop chance?

Comment by Ruilmen

Most people havent seen it dropping yet, you should be happy you did!
To bad you lost those rolls, tough.

And nope, the drop rate wasn't increased, you're just very lucky :p

Comment by misterzhwang

I can confirm that this mount still drops, saw an Alliance Druid showing off his phoenix mount today in Dalaran, and I checked his achievement, 7/22/2009.

Comment by ketzilcoatle

It dropped yesterday for me....first time I had ran Tempest so it was something else too see alar drop. Unfortunately the hunter raid leader ninjaed it, yep Greymane trade was exploding for quite awhile.

Comment by dle0105

Greatest looking mount ever!

Comment by Kryonics

Random is not random. There is no random. There are chances and probabilities and mathematics. To assume otherwise is to backtrack hundreds of years, ignoring everything we know today, and everything we learned.

Comment by DELJaneLame

Be warned: if you ever win this mount, you'll get a lot of whispers from people who ask if you're dying from cancer.

Comment by Dustfire

Minimum Recommended Kael'thas Group at 80

3 Melee - Break Mind-Control
1 Ranged - Tank for Woman Boss
2 Healers
1 Tank

Comment by lehearts

"Ashes of Al'ar" achievement

Comment by Rosebeef11

=(
He had the Phoenix?
I cryed when i was reading it...

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Comment by insane6

these photos may be perhaps the only lucky people in the game with it....some may be a private server, but honestly, getting this mount makes you stick out of the crowd so much...also, some people have quit wow because they either didnt get it or lost the roll by 1

Comment by insane6

everyone check the armory using this link....and it will show chattertons character, i thought he sadly passed away about a year ago, but it says he got the ashes of alar on the 24th (day) - 8 (month) - 2009!
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-achievements.xml?r=Norgannon&cn=Ephoenix&gn=Thirty+Second+Fleet

Comment by Ciedan

http://www.ezrachatterton.org/

Comment by deadforsakenn

Kids ,dont talk lies and baby stories ...world first for Method 31.7.2007...lol kid .......you are soo informed!.

Comment by klumzyee

is this mount still possible to get?

Comment by redwiggle

Just to confirm that this dropped last night in Patch 3.2.2

Grats to the winner with a roll of 88! (not I .. I rolled a mighty 4)

Good luck, future hunters!

Edit: Added winner

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-achievements.xml?r=Blackrock&cn=Swollows&gn=Defenestrate

Comment by redwiggle

Just to confirm that this dropped last night in Patch 3.2.2

Grats to the winner with a Need roll of 88 (not I, I rolled a mighty 4)

Happy hunting!

Comment by riverdan4

i believe that this has become more easily farmable as the lockout has been reduced to three days.

Comment by Galive

its still 1 week lockout , and i got it month ago after 24 runs =6months ,sadly gms removed it and gave it 2 pally who 1 killed kael cuz i ninjad it and raid thought it was ffa , i dnt know y they did that cuz on tos they said they wont invistigate any ninja items /mounts :(

Comment by Bloise

Maybe Ephoenix should have wished for a
health potion

Comment by Niiku

Oh.... that's just in poor taste dude.

Comment by alexunlv

Such poor taste and goes beyond such boundaries justifying a ban.

Comment by Nessephanie

Two nights ago myself and a group of mostly 80's ran Tempest Keep for an achievement run and for fun, and low and behold the mount dropped!

I won the roll with a 94! So yes, it absolutely still drops! :3

Tavia
Silver Hand - US

Comment by thelazypeon

"it still drops"

wow you are so stupid.

Comment by vasheenomed

i am so jelous of whoever has this mount. i want to go into the eye and payoff everyone with 1k gold if it drops lol. i would do anything to get this mount. it is the most amazing looking mount i have ever seen and the speed matches the current epic mounts in wotlk. idk how i could go on if this dropped and i didn't get it lol

Comment by Staghornet

/cry... that was sweet man. really sweet... /cry

Comment by ZanathKariashi

I've seen it drop before. Though before I go too far into detail, it's a ninja story. Be sure to update your ignore list if you play on Gnomeregan.

We got a pug together, 20 man, and went to The Eye. It was mostly a guild raid from Revelation with a few filler dps. Korron was a lvl 70 mage without Wrath and got it together for achievements and to have something to do. Well we killed A'lar as a raid test, worked fine, and went to to Kael'thas fight. First time was a disaster. Fight glitched at beginning of phase 5 and Kael was untargetable while he eventually wore the heals down and killed the raid. 2nd try, no glitches and we downed him without any problems.

The mount, his orb thingy, Phoenix blade wetf it's called, a pair of cloth gloves and the 2 of the tokens a hunter can use, can't recall the name.

Korron saved mount for last, then to narrow down the competition, only let people with epic riding roll, I can't disagree there, though I didn't like it personally due to how rare a mount and irritating the lockout is. Anyways...like 8 people ended up rolling, and another guildy named Nannyog rolled a 100....everyone else was like 20-50's...so..no mess up there...there was about a 2-3 minute period of gratz and such till someone noticed that it hadn't been traded yet. About that time Korron gave it to himself and learned it. Of course the ninja crying began, he was spouting some BS about it being the only reason he started playing WoW and some such. He then immediately /gquit and started flying around shatt for rest of the day pretty much. 2-3 days later, my ignore list updated and he had name changed to AshesofAlar.

I'm pretty sure I heard the event actually got some publicity and some hate from GM's in part cause of the very underhanded methods used as well as fact it was 2nd ever server drop.

To the point. If you play on Gnomeregan and hate ninjas, be sure to ignore AshesofAlar, formorly known as Korron.

Comment by keennyy

is this a 10 man or 25 raid?

Comment by Nobles

I've never ninjad anything in wow in 3 and half years of playing but tbh I would ninja it anytime in a pug. first most ppl on my server are wotlk noobs and i couldn't care less about them and their qqing over /2, second, most end game guilds wouldnt care about my name being spammed over /2 at all since they would do the same in a pug.

not that I'm only admiting i would ninja it, I'm also encouraging you all to ninja it if you're running a pug, but if you're doing a guild/friends run then do not, simple as that...

i know this post will be downrated but 95% of ppl would do the same if the mount drops and you know it.

once, the mount did drop in a raid i was in and some guy ninjad it, i lold, didnt blame him what so ever, sure i was sad i didnt get it but i didnt start spamming /2, only a couple of ppl did, some guildless guys who frequently spam trade asking silly questions "whats the best trinket for dk?" and such....

so take care and happy hunting!

ps: think im gonna make a TK raid now xD

Comment by Nildrohain

Will the feat of strength be earned upon looting the item or upon learning it?

As in, is it possible to trade the mount after it has been looted, but before it has been learned?

Comment by macisme

Funny thing is that, the kid who's account you listed.. who's suppose to be dead... it was last updated on 11/10/09! he supposedly died over a year ago. Looks like someone benefited from his death.

Comment by Diasispro

Like someone has said numerous times, it's the account holders father that occasionally logs in and updates his account. Its still inactive, for the most part.

Comment by droodman

Dropped this mount on my lock... WAUW! But didn't got it :(

Comment by Galive

finnally got it AGAIN 2day after 38 trys{weeks} they removed it once on my 24th run but now i closed all the ways 2 report me so yea it still drops/and u can c it twice in one lifespan so gl with ur hunting/farming

Comment by Dianora

the 310% mount becomes 492% with Crusader Aura, which is as fast as the taxi mount.

Comment by tukimoshi

I've never seen this mount, and it's drop rate is horrendous with a 7-day lockout.
Good luck getting this, it could take years but doing a 70-instance once a week isn't too bad. Good luck to anyone who tries.

Me? I'll go for the time-lost proto-drake.

Comment by Dianora

Just got mine yesterday, so as of Patch 3.3, still drops.

Comment by Dianora

I was invited to tank the place. Having tank the place pre-nerf, the only thing I did was to grab the shield to help with the raid. Fortunately, there's so much DPS, getting the shield wasn't necessary, as Kael didn't get one of his Pyroblast off.

The mount is indeed beautiful, made faster with my paladin's Crusader Aura.

Comment by baphomet58

What a waste of a perfectly good mount.

Comment by fragon900

That's just terribly sad...and I saw a comment a few days ago saying "What a waste of a perfectly good mount." Not sure if it's still here or not but boy, words can not explain how much of an a$$ you are for saying that.

Comment by Pakkos

How come TBC has much more impressive ^&*! than WotLK? I mean, much more legendaries, and even artifacts

Comment by Tassadaru

Dropped for me in Tempest Keep, on 17.01.2010, my first try. (Blade's Edge/EU)
One-shotted everything with a 10-man group, I rolled 100.

My two cents: put enough into it, and you will eventually get it.

Comment by PatchEu

Still by far the best mount in the game. It's very fast, insanely cool and colourful, and unique. Just incredible.

Comment by Letovas

This mount is awesome. Got mine back in march of '09. Just submitted my SS of it. I get comments every day about it.

Comment by Boxxy

I guess you could say this mount is to die for.

Comment by Gumballs

Woah... that is really horrible for you to say.

Have some respect.

Comment by captainj5

This mount would look so hawt with the Phoenix Hatchling. I'm burning up just thinking about it :P. Add a fire mage and I think my head would explode!

Comment by Boxxy

downrated? what happened to people being able to take a joke?

Comment by fmccloud

Oh, you can't take the criticism? That's too bad.

Comment by Gumballs

Because jokes about children dying of cancer are hilarious, right? -_-

Comment by Parkour15

I have too this mount "IS FANTASTIC" i love it :D

Comment by Muscleman

Boxxy, go get cancer, then we can make fun of you. We'll only be joking, don't worry.

Comment by pitch

But, you need like 6-8 people to kill Kael'thas which reduces the chance to get the mount by x8. While you can solo the ZG Mount which makes it still be on ~1,61% like you said

Comment by Boxxy

Oh ok, i get it, a KID dying of cancer is terrible to joke about, but if this was some homeless guy who got AIDS from sharing a heroin needle with someone, no one would give a $%^&. Cool hypocrisy, bro

Comment by Gammosh

Kid with cancer is sad. Druggie with dirtly needle is pathetic. There's a difference.

Comment by jmdin83

Whats the difference between a dead baby and a pumpkin? ive never put my shtick a pumpkin!

Welcome to the internet. there are messed up jokes everywhere here. get used to it and stop bein so damned sensitive about something that happened 2(ish) years ago.

Comment by Hawkedge

The kid was terminally ill, you insensitive jerk. have a god damn heart.

Comment by KillerCheebo

gtfo

moron

Comment by crimsona

In your case, it was because it WAS ninja'ed by a 'friend' for 'payment'

Comment by enzodan86

I saw it drop my first time running TK. To all the ninjas out there if you think you can get away with it haha. The leader was a ninja and bliz deleted it from his account shortly after. Now thats a waste :(

Comment by Thystorm

Most awesome mount ever. Been seting up some farmruns for it, but havent had any luck yet. I'd give so frikken much for this mount. Got 106 mounts atm, but id easily trade all of them for this1 if i could. Think im gonna get a stroke if i ever see it drop.

Some info:
Kael is not that hard with about 7 players. Its ezzzzmode with 10-15.

Setup:
2 tanks (1 must be warr / pala).
1 healer
1-2 melee dps (rogue perfered)
a few ranged dps

It probably is tons of guides of how u can do this, so ill just shoot in a short version one here.

Kill whoever of the minibosses that comes to u. They have very low hp, and are down in few secs. Then nuke down the weapons, 1 tank (the pala / warr) picks up the shield, so he can use the "Use" when Kael casts pyroblast. The rogue / rogues / melee dps picks up the dagger, so u can break the MC. 1 caster picks up the staff for its "use". Then u set up a kill-order for the minibosses and down them. Then u start with Kael. As long as the tank with the shield uses it whenever a pyro is coming, this is easy. Kill the phoenix (and its egg), and bring Kael down.

Good luck with ur mountfarming.

(Sorry for all spelling errors etc.)

Comment by Troxase

Hmm why was my comment purged i was just telling the date ezra chatterton died

Comment by Dotdotgooose

No, they didn't.

Comment by Ldb10671

Incorrect. Crusader adds 20% mount speed. Thus 280% becomes 300%. 310% would become 330%.

It does not multiply it by 20%.

Comment by PandaSan

Not if I'm master looter they can't.

Comment by Solanakeet

^rated up for using the term asshattery.

Comment by lysergia25

How in the World of Warcraft can someone be so cold...I mean don't they get that his life was cut way way short so yea I'm glad they helped him out! And all others who are given a unfair hand in life...

Comment by Seveventeen

Base speed of 100% plus 20% for crusader times 410% for the speed of the mount.

1.20 * 420.00 = 492

This works for any stackable movement increasing effect.

Comment by necrophega

Congrats Roshlin :) I hope there will be faster mounts in cataclysm! Up to 1k % xD that will be dc speed lol. Im Exzavier-Lethon if you want to raid in 80 raids my guild is UNFORGIVING DEATHRBINGER whisper me whenever i am on.

Comment by dannyboy1100

The only item in the game actually worth ninjaing

Comment by falatha

Okey I do a Tempest keep mountrun every week and I use between 8-10 people.
The setup is quite flexible tho I can use druid tanks and such you dont really need a War/Pala since the fight with good geared people doesn't take that long.

My setup for the 10 mans is
1 Tank
2-3 Healers (just for safety in phase 3 and 4 when the raid might take some damage)
And just Dps in general with good gear. (A rogue can be handy for the mind controlling part but its not even close to needed)
I usually 10 man it but ive 8 manned it once and it was as easy as 10 manning.

When you trying to make a group everything week or such you might take in consideration to use group loot instead of Masterloot (if your not going to intentionally ninja) this way it takes less time to find people

Side not: If you really want a good and smooth run (then you need a Féynor)
Hope this helped you cu

Comment by falatha

fake and gay

Comment by falatha

falatha is fake and gay just check the poster above

Comment by stirea

i got time lost proto drake

Comment by Chromell

It is prettier and faster than your average flying mount.

Comment by popzap

Mount still drop.I got mine today(US-Dreadmaul).You don't have to kill any bosses before Kael.

It took me 17 times to kill him every week.

Happy hunting.

Comment by PanMarian

well, i got it without raiding skill on 300, and all adds were dead, boss died as the last one. sot its no true what you've wrote.

Comment by braveortega

Just got this on US-Blackhand on my pally I don't log into very much anymore, may have to level this toon up first in cata to ride in style. Rolled 99 on my guildless, mediocre bg pally, very strong willed raid leader. Those trails go on forever!

Comment by Direbear24

this is a very beautiful mount

Comment by xMelchx

Got this amazing mount after 49 runs :)
Really, really happy with it, can't wait to fly with it in Azerith @ Cataclym!

Comment by Skornaq

I prefer my Netherdrake...But thats me. This thing looks like it belongs in a Vegas showroom if i am brutally honest, neon pidgeon ftw?

Comment by Clath

For those of you that wondering to kill Kael with minimum number of players, we started with 3, failed and got a range for the last spot.So it is doable with 4 good geared raiders. However you will need to know the tactics and use a tank that can use a dagger on main hand, in our case that was me, *protection warrior. ( Reason is MC is casted on 3, never casted on tank, tank will rescue the others. ). *Restoration druid with the mace. *Retribution paladin and a *mage with the staff.
Stay in 30 yards with your staff user at all times, and everything should be fine.

Comment by Malinq

You should've passed it then for someone that actually plays his character -_-

Comment by bluewyvern

If you want to stop this mount being ninja'ed, do NOT let the raid leader turn on master looting. There's no point - if you're going to do normal rolling, you might as well let everyone need on it and the true winner will get it. Why use master looting and risk the possibility of a ninja? Of course, if you're doing this with a ton of 70's who don't want their gear ninja'ed then fair enough, but otherwise, might as well not risk it.

Assuming a 2%ish drop rate, the odds of you ever winning this are very, very, very slim indeed. If you run this every single week with 10 people for nearly 2 years (100 weeks) then your odds of seeing it drop once are approximately 86.7% and your odds of actually winning it are 8.67%. A less than 10% chance of you winning something once every 2 years? That's pretty painful. Yep. I don't think you're going to see many of these in your time.

Comment by pyriendra

Just got this today, and the roll wasn't master looted, won the roll with a 98, somebody offered 50k for it, and i declined it.

and for 2 reasons: 1. im gold capped at 214k, and 2. I've been after this mount forever, and then inspected the 1 who offered me the 50k and he had this mount too apparently, so I was in the right mind, and even stated that he had the mount and the whisper, and he was then rightfully gkicked for it, seeing as the guild leader (not my guild) was in the run and that he was good friends with me.

Comment by Keeyla

Just a bit of a silly warning for some of you guys who're farming this: the mount may actually start to hurt your eyes after a while, that's how neon it is; so take that into consideration if you have sensitive eyes.

Comment by hoisin

Chinese Wow servers have been stuck at level 70...when I am in Shat I usually see about 5 Ally with this mount (I am horde) and about 3 on the Horde Side. A lot of Chinese players go to TK just to farm this mount. Usually they have a gold team that goes.. if the mount drops usually 35,000 G. I been just farming gold lately so I can get a chance to buy this beautiful mount!

Comment by Athenia

Dropped for me today after only 10 kills, vid here.

Comment by rilo82

Got this mount yesterday when I went TK first time with my buddies and won the roll (8 ppl). :)

Comment by Dawnrider

Nice to know something is done on your realm. On Kil'jeaden someone ninjas something like that ppl say "who cares" and raids with them anyways.

One guy named Pastry actually ninjad OS3d 10man Mount, OS25 mount, and TOC25, in the same day. Ppl said who cares and continued to join his raids that day and he gott o ninja all 3, even now ppl say who cares and joins his raids.

Comment by Ascha

I've only seen this thing on my my server (Skywall) three times. First being an Undead Rogue, then a Human Mage, and then a Tauren Warrior.

They were flaunting them on Dalaran's flight landing area, but who wouldn't! This mount is without a doubt, the best flying mount in the game, in my opinion.

I have been trying pretty devotedly to get this mount, but it never drops. Someday, maybe :)

Comment by MorpheusDV

If people are asking whether you can 5-man it with the current state of the game, the answer is "Yes, you can". Here's how we did it (Keep in mind, we were all mostly 277 geared).

Group comp was:

Prot Paladin
MM Hunter
Mut Rogue
Arcane Mage
Disc Priest

To make it a little more simpler, we used Kings and Gift of the Wild Drums from LW.

Here's how it happened:

Phase 1:

Adds come out one at a time. Try to have all the adds stacked with the exception of Grand Astromancer Capernian, in which the MM Hunter dragged her to the back of the room to die. This helps the Prot Paladin pick up the adds easier and keep them grouped up come Phase 3.

Phase 2:

Weapon phase. We had the Hunter and Rogue both pick up the dagger for MC control, Mage pick up the staff for immunity toward disorient and fears. Shield was not needed for the tank since Ardent Defender will save him from Kael's Pyroblast.

Phase 3:

Mage and Hunter both zerged Capernian as fast as they could, Rogue was on melee adds which the Pally was tanking. Both ranged DPS assisted and single targeted down the rest of the adds quickly once Capernian was dead. Watch out for Telonicus' bombs as they still hurt quite a bit.

Phase 4:

Hunter and Rogue were on dispel duty for MC. If both were MC'd, the other raid members used defensive CDs until the MC was up. Phoenix spawns are inevitable, so kill those off quickly including the egg. As stated above, Ardent Defender saved the tank from Pyroblast unless you could zerg the shield down quick enough and interrupt it. Keep doing this until Phase 5.

Phase 5:

Nothing really noteworthy here. Keep doing your normal routines until Kael dies, and hope for a phoenix mount!

We did this successfully so far 3 times without a mount drop, but we have hope it'll drop eventually. The trash is probably the most annoying thing 5-manning this raid. Yeah, you can bring 10 people and blow through this boss with relative ease, but 5-manning it, especially with heroic ICC gear gives you much better odds at winning the mount if it drops, considering you're only running it with 5 people versus 10 or more.

Good luck with your phoenix runs!

Comment by johnnyohoh

Apparently in Cataclysm there will be an NPC in Org named Ezza Chat' wandering around begging for free gold and high quality items and occasionally complaining that his head hurts.

Comment by Cookiedott

There's a bug with this mount where you learn the item, but the item remains in your bags.

Amazing dialogue's accompany this;

Random Guy

OMG U HAZ PHOENIKS! GIEF!

After this it's amusing to open a trade and recieve the following;

Random Guy'

WTF HAX!1111one EBAY!

Minor note: This has dropped for me in the Burning Crusade on our guilds first Kael'thas Sunstrider kill. He wasn't killed for months on our server back then.

Comment by sl0Puffman

Winning this mount legitimately is like winning the lottery. Except instead of a million bucks, you get a shiny, flamboyant orange and pink bird that makes you the talk of the town whenever you mount up. You'll stick out like a sore thumb and attract whispers like ants to a picnic.

Comment by sl0Puffman

Comment by sweetbow

So... does this mean, conservatively speaking, that one could perhaps have this child's account?
hahaa sorry thats messed up
jokes

Comment by Hierty

@voicy

As a proper mount collector, I've won this mount with grouploot on, and no gold involved. Lost it the first time it dropped, won it the second time. Went with the same 6 people for 22 weeks now.

1 Warrior tank (Wielding the dagger as well as the shield)
1 Ret pala/prot if needed
1 Rogue
1 Death Knight
1 Disc priest
1 Boomkin druid

Managed to get a screenshot before I pressed "Need" - Unfortunatly I almost died IRL when I won it so I was sitting on ventrilo asking the others.. "Did that just happen? Did I just win the mount I've been hungering for - for so long?" And the others said "Yeah man congratz." I felt sorry for the people who had to lose it a second time around, can only say I sympathise and know the feeling.

I was still in shock, went to Dalaran and stood at the well for a good hour and a half just looking at it, while loads of people gathered around our two Ashes of Al'ar.

Dream come true for a gamer nerd!

Here's a little video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfhpLwMBmAw
Enjoy :)

Comment by Leat

Ok, so I farm this every week. This is probably the best way to get the mount. Bascially, ideally around 6pm on a day I don't raid, I make a macro for an advertisement on trade. It says:

LFM 80s for Tempest Keep: The Eye. Ashes are reserved, but when Kael'Thas dies I will give you 100g, regardless of drops. Pst for invite. Need everything.

Yes, the trolls come out of their closet and begin the, "ashes reserved!1! lolllol!1! who wuld go to dat?1!1?//" but you just gotta ignore it. It's a little bit pricey, I usually bring 15 80s just to make sure it's a breeze, so drop 1500g every week, but it's guaranteed yours if it drops, since everybody that you bring has agreed to it being reserved. My group usually consists of 2 tanks 2-3 healers, depending on how geared they are, and the rest dps.

...it only has to drop, then it's all mine...

Good Luck!

Leat.

Comment by eternalshogunx

This is a beautiful mount, anyone reading my question in the phoenix npc's forum on who he drops from, please disregard, found this mount's page,now I know where he drops from. Thanks again. Can't wait to get him!

Comment by Allexger

Ezra "Phoenix Rainbow Robot" Chatterton passed on October 20 2008 at the age of 11...

Comment by blackmagique

Just got mine yesterday armory Blackmagique on Haomarush

I waited to bind it till I got to the Dal FP and about 80 people watched as the achieve popped up, and I spent all day flying around OL and NR exploring
so pimp... omg so pimp just wish it dropped for my pally

Also, wasnt ninja'd, the looting was Need before Greed, I just got lucky with a 97 definately the envy of Homorush right now

Comment by Antariosh

please stop saying i got in, i got one... we really dont care we just want info like if it still obtainable, can kalethas be soloed,5 manned etc or things like that

Comment by louisrcasper

I also just got this on my main Slavinthos on Sentinels-US on 7/31/2010. It was my first time ever running TK and it was with a pug group of bored people from trade chat. About 14 people lvl 70-80. Needless to say, I purchased a lottery ticket the very next morning.

Comment by louisrcasper

Dropped for me on 7-31-2010, Sentinels-US. (Slavinthos). My toon's first time running TK. Group of 14+/- between 70-80. Some people did not have epic flying, yet were able to roll on it. All bosses were cleared first.

Comment by darkillity

Agreed with Antariosh stop syaing i got mine, i got 1... & yes Ashes of A'lar is still obtainable (it has 3% drop chance i think),soloable as 6.3k+gs DK,5manable as 5.8k+gs ppl (preferably cc classes or too much geard ppl with high deeps).
I'm pugging this everyweek with 10 80s as a grp loot run!

Blàckrósè
Blackrock

Comment by oonlo

droped on cairne US today for me at 2:14 PM this was this afternoon august 8th

Comment by Srotie

I just uploaded frapsed movie of this mount. It was not my showoff but one from guy in Dalaran. Be sure to watch in "Original" quality.

YouTube.com

Comment by army1237

I love this mount, have always wished I had one, I only hope that the new dark phoenix coming as a guild reward in cataclysm doesn't make this mount less unique.

Comment by Luc88

droped yesterday on Ragnaros EU. First run with my tank warrior and win with 94 need roll:)

Comment by Silverwind

We're 3-manning him for the phoenix currently. It's quite a bit of a challenge with current gear levels. The key to it is a warrior tank using the dagger to dispel mind controls.

With only one damage dealer the forced transitions after 2/3min for phase 2/3 can be a bit of a problem. The synergy of a warrior tank using the dagger to get +25% magic damage on the mobs in p3 helps if you're using a magic damage dealer.

I imagine it could be possible 2-manning it with a tank and a healer if both can output enough damage to get past phase 3 with maybe 1-2 mobs up.

Here's a video of one of our kills.

Comment by Avasian

Probably the new Dark Phoenix wont make this one look less unique: Ashes of Al'Ar is still how you expect a phoenix to be (burning in bright flames). I managed to get it after just 8 runs but you know it might take a lot longer: just dont give up...it will be the "cherry on top" of your collection :)

Avasian, mount collector (144) on Hakkar (EU)

Comment by Avasian

Comment by HorusHeresy

Zephon, Draenor-EU

21/08/10. It's....beautiful!

Comment by IdTheDemon

Won this mount with a 47 with a group of 8 people. I still plan on running with the same people too. Easily the best mount in game and even with the Dark Phoenix in Cataclysm this bad boy will never be topped!

Screenshot of the epic roll

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b163/nofatesid/LOL47.jpg?t=1282429003

I also submitted a screenshot of the mount glowing green with a Disgusting Ooze. Its #22.

Comment by FiresDestiny

Hey guys, I just got this mount today, it was a long grind but I finally got it and I couldn't be happier. It took me 28 kills and I just wanted to share a couple strategies for getting this mount. Before I begin I just want to say that all of these strategies involve having a large amount of gold and I'm sorry about that, but there's no way you're going to get this mount unless you're either extremely lucky, rich, or a ninja.

The first strategy I tried was getting a group of people together to farm it weekly, and using group loot and trying to bribe the winner. I tried this for about 7 weeks and decided that it was a bad idea, as not many people would give this mount up for anything, even if I was offering them 80k.

My second strategy was to get set up 10 man pugs weekly and pay everyone 500g when kael died, no matter the drops. This worked for several weeks, but my pugs ended up failing because of bad tanks (becasue the adds aren't tauntable) or bad heals. This would cost you about 5k a week, however it still takes quit a bit of effort on your part.

My final (and successful) strategy was 1st of all to send a mail in game to the top 20 guilds on my server (using wowprogress.com) and asking them if they would be interested in running me through tempest keep every week, and I would either pay them 5k per run, or 200k when the mount dropped. When the mount dropped the GM would use master loot, loot the mount to himself, then trade the mount with me in the trade window for 200k. I messaged about 10 guilds and I got 2 guilds interested, but one guild ended up changing their mind. So the guild ended up running me for 10 more weeks and it dropped. I recieved my mount, their guild recieved 200k (which they split among the raiders, there was 10, so they got 20k each).

Again, I'm just posting these as suggestions as to how to get this mount and how I did it. Sorry if you didn't find this helpful and good luck on your hunt :)

Comment by oBLACKIECHANoo

its retarded how they give this to some kid just cause he was sick and then just how unbelivably pathetic must you be to ask to visit blizz when the make a wish foundation will let you do pretty much anything ? and all you sad pathetic hippies put there dont even bother saying some pathetic crap about me saying this, its the truth, get a life. but hey i have a cold i may just ask if i can have all the mounts and 300 free frost emblems wile im there.

Comment by dekciw

You are pathetic.

Comment by hazmatt

I have absoloutly no idea what to say to you.

Ezra had cancer, and World of Warcraft meant a lot to him. Blizzard was being sensible when they gave him a mount. The pheonix was a personal symbol to Ezra, so Blizzard was nice enough to grant him one final wish before he died.

And don't QQ over not being able to get it. Go do more raids and stop flaming a dead 10 year old kid for having cancer.

Comment by Chromell

Not only you are a retard, selfish, arrogant prick but you are also very jealous of Ezra because he got the phoenix and you want it so bad. I can't possibly begin to grasp how someone can be so insensitive over pixels being given to a sick kid who admired the game and had the fiery bird as an important symbol representing whatever he deemed worth of it.

Personally, I hope you are never present in a group when the mount drops. Egocentric people like you taint and defile the personal meaning something within the game can represent to someone and the WoW community would be better without the waste of blood that your very being is.

Comment by BANER

wow...just wow

Comment by Kazeijin

If it wasn't for Ezra, this mount might not even exist. Have some respect.

Comment by phoenixlover

A GM in a private server I play in told me that this loot has an "internal cooldown time" from 6 to 8 months, and so told me that until that cd was expired (he did tell me the date of the last drop), it was useless to do the instance. Since I haven't found any information about this fact, I was wondering if you guys could help me figure out if this dude is bs'ing me or not. Thank you very much!

Comment by culiosioso

I have yet to meet someone who is as small minded as you are. In case you don't know, this kid had a stroke. He was brought to Blizzard because it was a really great thing to do. He died shortly after. I have no respect for someone who would mock a person who died and left behind so much.
If i knew who you were,
I would have your account shut down
and have you banished from ever playing blizzard games again
you are a terrible person and you deserve what I'm saying to you

Comment by slothdragon

I just want to say that if your guild does this after you are done raiding icc or something and people that leave during the middle of your scheduled raid because they have a "migraine" should NOT be woken up to participate in the TK run..

An old guild I was in, the gm's wife left the BT raid earlier in the night and then after The raid was over with those of us who wanted to stay did TK and someone suggested the gm wake up his wife to do it with us because the majority of the guild was gonna pass it to her ... that scrub shaman ends up beating me with a 94 when I rolled a 91.. just pisses me off that she got it when she left the raid earlier and then wins the roll..

Let that be a lesson to you ppl out there..

also for it being on a 7 month internal cooldown for drop rate... that is bs.. a pug on my server went in there later on that night and it dropped again... insanely rare for that to happen.. but I got ninjaed so lol..

Comment by Jadikarr

I wish you had taken Ezra's place and died instead. I'm sure he'd be a lot more fun than you are. Less of a &*!@#$-bag too. You must have such a tiny penis in order to be so angry at the world. Especially at a dying child. Troll or not, I hope there is a hell, if only just so that you can go there and burn forever.

Comment by thejmaestro

Ashes of Al`ar
An avarage of 1-2% drop chance(1,6%drop chance reported by Wowhead.com)
Ok so basicly what we are going to do is look at the best and then look and the worst situation you can get
yourself into when trying to grind for the mount.You have to consider 2 things.The first is the actual drop
chance for the item.The second is how many people you actualy have in you raid group,having in mind that
you,byTBC and WotLK gear peak means,CAN NOT do this by solo.
Best case:
2% drop chance with a 2 tanks,2 healers and 4 ranged dps team.
2%=2/100 successfull outcomes + 8 people=1/8 successfull outcomes when rolling for the mount
2 1 2 1 1
---- x -- = ---- = 1 / 400 = -- x ----- = 0,4% chance for you to get it.
100 8 800 4 100
Worst case:
1% drop chance with a full 25 man team.
1%=1/100 successfull outcomes + 25 people=1/25 successfull outcomes when rolling for the mount
1 1 1 1
---- x -- = 1 / 2500 = -- x ----- = 0,04% chance for you to get it.
100 25 25 100
Wowhead.com`s report:
1,6% drop chance
- Best case:
2 tanks,2 healers and 4 ranged dps team.
1,6 16 16 1 16
----- = ------ , so we have ------ x -- = ------ = ... = 1 / 500 or 0,2% chance for you to get it.
100 1000 1000 8 8000
- Worst case:
full 25 man raid
16 1 16
----- x -- = -------- = ... = 1 / 1562,5 or 0,064% chance for you to get it.
1000 25 25000
WARNING: These odds are calculated when the equation is affected by only 2 factors.Any further presision
would have to involve an deep understanding of mathematicly calculating odds,that I dont have.
WARNING: These numbers may not be accurate.Pls feel free to correct them by any means.
WARNING: My english sux.

Comment by djinna

I ran TK for the first time last week.. Ashes dropped. I didn't win. Ran it last night... it dropped again! Again I lost it :( But we have two very lucky guildies rocking this beautiful mount now.

Statitical improbabilities ftw.

Comment by sdch

today I saw feral druid at dalaran flight point. He was so lucky that he got this mount in his second run of Tempest.

I armory him and found it is TRUE that it was his SECOND run.

His name is Deeplight. Check his activity on armory for Spet 14, 2010.

here is a screenshot of his armory

http://i52.tinypic.com/315bhip.png

WHY I CANT JUST BE AS LUCKY AS HIM!

and this is his armory link http://www.wowarmory.com/character-feed.xml?r=Illidan&cn=Deeplight

go to see this lucky druid

Comment by agentex50

Thank you my intelligent fellow wowhead users! About time a thread is completely void of rude little brats bragging about how they rolled a 100 or how they ninja'd it. As for the mount, I will simply say yes it is very rare and yes if you catch someone thieving it by all means ensure they have a very miserable WoW experience. Still haven't gotten it myself but i congratulate anyone who has gotten it that doesn't fall into the previous mentioned categories. Happy hunting!

Comment by santiago404

Droped for me on my first kill, yesterday 09/28/2010.
You can check on my armory profile Ponnstar US-Thrall

As for curiosity, was one of those "come get ur achievment, LFM tempest keep"

Raid was a bit messy, but we managed to kill him and the raid leader (wich i dont remember the name), didnt ninja the mount and told everyone to /roll. I rolled a 99.

Comment by dm0190

I wanted this mount for ages, so I saved up 50,000G and then started setting up runs in guild. It dropped, I paid, yay. Using this method I have found to be the best way to obtain any mount in the game you want, as long as you are prepared to run and run until you find a player who is willing to sell. And yeah, the first time it dropped, they refused to sell it. It was their first run!
This mount will get you spammed with whispers, and people will assume you are a ninja, and you get instantly famous.
But it is worth it, it is so nice :)

Comment by q8naxxer

my big brother was playing with my account 4 months ago he was lvling a Warrior and he was 75 some guy was spamming LFM mount run 70+ and my brother go with him the mount drop he my brother rolled 100 but there was another guy roll 100 too ..

the raid leader simply give the mount to the other guy after that we notice that they where in the same guild ! the big LOL is my brother DELETE my worrior coz he was angry i talk to the GM and he return the warrior back after a week

thank good i was setting next to him or he was ganna delete all my toons :P

Comment by tirsgaard

ThIS IS ThE cOoLeSt MoUnT iN wOw EvEr!

Comment by tirsgaard

ThIs ThE COoLeSt MoUnT eVeR

Comment by Xynthia

After months of farming for Al'ar, It finaly dropped, BUT, I didn't win it :< (I died on the inside when i noticed that D:)

Comment by wow4o

we have a 10m grp that farm this every week. Droped 2 times in 3 weeks....so i think we r just very lucky...

Comment by Chromell

I'd change the last sentence in the description to "This is a f*&!ing sweet mount."

Comment by Xynthia

Went there two weeks in a row and it dropped twice, My best friend won it the first time and I won it the second time :D

Comment by squareenixfreak1

If your a mount collector, you will come to realize something. No matter how cool the mount may look, if its just a drop rate, really all it shows is that you got lucky. Basically ANYONE no matter how HORRIBLE can obtain it.Getting this mount does not = your super pro and better than everyone else, which every baddie on my server acts like they are pro when they got it. You are JUST lucky. I'm not trying to rain on your parade it is a really awesome mount but if u want something to really show your baddass go get an ICC meta achieve flyer, even the ulduar drakes are better to ride in my opinion. Grats to those that got it though, i wont say everyone with it deserved it because almost everyone that got it on my server is a total #$%^&* and this only inflated their ego. A great example of mounts that got destroyed would be zulian tiger/razzashi raptor, i used to think they were so awesome but i was seeing more and more people that could hardly play the game ride it. Honestly, if u dont have epic flying learned your an extreme ninja to roll on this. If you cant even get ur lazy butt to do like 10 dailies a day for a week and a half you dont deserve to ride this.

Comment by Meggie

Maybe the only shiny 310% mount. The rest is dead, rotten or pink.

Comment by Drunkenvalley

In my humble opinion both the two posts that include names in their reports are potentially filthy liars.

You see, that's why naming and shaming is wrong: You're very likely false in your claim,
or there is no data available that actually lets the average person verify the claim,
which means that someone is potentially just throwing a tantrum at a player for the hell of it!

Comment by uknown

my bro is saying this mount is gona away in cata is he full of it or what?

Comment by Chromell

You forgot the Black, Rusted and Ironbound Proto-Drakes. Not dead, rotten nor pink.

Comment by darkillity

this mount is goin nowhere even in next 50years!

Comment by Hehaw

This is a pretty good article about mounts http://franksplace.org/?p=418

Comment by Tormendead

Now with Cat coming out alot of people are going to shift gears to farming this mount. With the way gear is looking I would say a handful of people might be enough to do it. I know that the dark phoenix is coming out but still, how cool would it be to have the original as well?

Comment by Zammick

This mount is truly epic. Was doing a little bit of BC raiding with some friends tonight and we got to TK and were talking about how cool it would be if Ashes dropped even though that's what we weren't really there for, and surprisingly enough, the Ashes dropped, and everybody was speechless in vent. I unfortunately lost the roll, a level 71 alt character without epic flying had won the roll, quite a few people were fuming with rage and jealousy, and ultimately called it quits before killing the other 2 bosses.

Comment by ReForsaken

Zammick, I love you and I am truly sorry for outrolling you and making Mikey rage. Much love, the level 71 Alt.

Comment by watitiz06

im currently looking for a guild to run me every week for ashes and ill pay you 150k gold when it drops to pass it to me contact me in game watitiz tauren hunter dalaran realm

Comment by badley

Screenshots or it didn't happen.

Comment by Zacklad

Just got it after my 8th run, whereas i've been farming the tiger for a year and no drop.... RNG ftw?

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/8531/wowscrnshot112110133859.jpg

Comment by tkfarmer

Soloed at lvl 85... sweeeeeeeeet

Epic music to boot! Love the one starting shortly before 7 min. /goosbumps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atATvXfxwPU

Comment by Tassadaru

After using it in Patch 4.0.3a (yesterday more exactly), I've found that Al'ar now glides. Blizzard must have worked on the new model aswell, since the introduction of the Dark Phoenix, and they both probably glide ('till now it was just wings flapping continuously)

Comment by SparkiesAshes

Just got my Ashes of Al'ar today! Joined a trusted group with a leader from the #1 guild so I knew we were safe with group loot, I recommend that. We went with 9 people and I wasn't even thinking about the phoenix, we downed him and the leader linked Ashes, everyone called bull@#$% until we opened the loot table and saw it. I was on Skype at the time with a mate who won't stop reminding me of how I reacted when I actually noticed I won... That's my story, felt like a dream. Best mate IRL was in the raid isn't talking to me for a day after finding out he rolled 2 under me (85 winning roll). Good luck everyone else!

Sparkie, Conqueror of Ulduar

Comment by N3TKaT

Does someone know if the drop rate for this has been incremented? On my realm it has gone from nobody having it to seeing 6 different people flying around Stormwind with it.

Comment by Fleaman

Lucky kid got that FREE mount! wow.. good job blizz catering too the POOR WITTLE SICK KIDS NOW HUH?

Comment by adezard

when my guild first killed this 8-6-2007 on mal'ganis we got 1 and the gm ninja looted it to himself for his reward to leading the guild, the next week we went back in and killed keal'thas another mount dropped. we had 3 mounts total to drop, our drop rate for warglaives was even higher than our mount drops, we had 4 drop in our first month of killing illidan in total we had 4 people with glaives and 2 others with either the main hand or off hand

Comment by nonentity

Anyone having the problem that Al'ar's tail looks freaky, for a while now?

Like this http://img713.imageshack.us/f/wowscrnshot122010213313.jpg/
Also the pink glow effect on the tips of his wings switch off and on.

Comment by PenelopeRain

I was just with a group last night doing TK and it dropped... unfortunately I was not the lucky one to loot it and I was completely //lusting for it lol but we 9 manned it with all lvl 85's and it was easy enough to get the final bosses down... I am still incredibly jealous and plan on trying again multiple times until I either get it or give up on WoW lol

Comment by Avasian

Atm this mount is slightly bugged. It got a graphical glitch so the tail is somehow wrongly connected to the rest of the body and when its wings are spreaded wide, pink colour gradually turns off. Quite disappointing if you ask me but i guess they will fix it in the next patch.

EDIT: Bugs fixed in 4.0.6

Comment by Notoricus

The droprate seems to have been increased. I see a lot of people flying on this mount lately and i dont think everyone runs Kael now. The people wanting this mount have been killing Kael during Wotlk as well but i never saw more than one guy flying on it (medium populated server). Now i can tell of at least 6 different Chars on my server, the ones i checked we're optained after 4.0.

Comment by tapoo

Soloed on my warrior. Kinda lame with only a 3 min heal

Comment by shaft4783

Hands down the most beautiful mount in the game. Even better than the new elemental drakes.

Comment by nessim

Do you guys think it's possible to farm this as a demo lock?
With let's say a healer paladin?

Comment by fatigue12

drops from Kael'thas Sunstrider

Comment by Kleve

Wait. What?

...so many wasted BT runs....

Comment by asdkafjd

Dropped to my 70 twink today ^^ in my 1st run

Comment by nivekshikles

I saw one today on ravencrest server, nice mount. I wish I could have one.

Comment by boblebobob

soloable? kinda curious i mean rogues and feral druids(tank gear+spec) can pretty much solo alot old content, but is this doable? how much it hits etc? anyone?

Comment by bloodbrother

really wtf!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atATvXfxwPU

good player :)

Comment by Evulgnum

lol we are about to get the dark phoenix in like 2-3 more weeks ^^
shame eveyr reset is like 5k rep a week

Comment by Skiim83

I think he made the wrong wish

Comment by lolpally

I just saw a dude riding Ashes of Al'ar in SW! OMFG! It looked so sick!

Comment by Echoed

I really really really really want this mount.

Comment by Iceveiled

Just saw this mount for the first time tonight on alliance side, duskwood (not known at all for progressive raiding guilds...at all). I was mesmerized at the sight of it. I figured it was some new cata mount but nope. it's old schoolish.

I can only assume the owner transfered from another realm because I've been on this realm for 4 years and have never seen it. Beautiful mount, best I've seen.

Comment by darkillity

well after almost 2 years of farming finally Ashes drop'd.
we have a 3man grp of irl friends that farming tk when we hit 85,before that i used to pug 10man (grp loot) in wotlk.
anyway how we did this is easy as aff lock (me),dmeon lock & resto shammy.
in 1st phase i kited mini bosses to corners of the room & killed em so we have time to pick aggro/heal/dps in p3.
in p2 our demon lock used his aoe abilities to zerg down weapons (i helped him with my infernal & talented SoC),btw we only used staff to avoid periodic stun debuff during fight.
in p3 when all mini bosses r gettin res 2gheter our demon lock picked up Lord Sanguinar (he doin fear) & Thaladred the Darkener (he has no threat table & doin knock back+periodic stun debuff).i picked up Grand Astromancer Capernian (mage) & Master Engineer Telonicus,as aff lock i dont need heals to tank those 2 mini bosses at the same time,u can avoid Telonicus dynamites by runing left or right & keep up DoTs on both & use fel flame or instant shadow bolts to dps em.
in p4 we jus got lucky cause Kael only did mind control on our healer twice & we cc'd him with fear so it was easy.we also killed summoned phoenix & its egg asap to avoid get hit by aoe dmg.we pop'd every cd we had like earth elemental/BL/demonform etc to nuke boss.
in p5 u can enjoy fight cause its almost done & pray god for mount.
it was on grp loot & we all need on ashes & i won with 95 need roll!
i apologize for my grammer i know it sux.

Blàckrósè
Blackrock US
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/blackrock/bl%C3%A0ckr%C3%B3s%C3%A8/achievement#81

Comment by pl4kkie

What you also can do, is offering the player who won it some g's for the bee's. I bought my ashes for about 24k from the player who won it. Because it was an alt and he wanted on his main xD. I ran Tk 3 or 4 times max before i seen it drop the first time. It is rly worth the money imo since i still love this mount

Najietô - Stormreaver horde

Comment by icicle00

Why does the phoenix sometimes have additional bright white glow on its wings and tail?

look at screen shot #2 to see what i mean, and screen shot #25 shows one with the extra glow and one without it.

How do u get it to do that or is it random?

Comment by jesy

id love to know how much they upped the drop rate, because it must have been pretty substantial. I've seen about 15 new ones pop up in the past 2 weeks

Comment by mcbexx

First attempt at this in a loooooong time (5 man, 1 already had the mount), it drops and I lost it to a 44.

Fourty-Four.

<sigh>

Comment by nisx

After 47weeks i finally got it. My tactic was that if the mount drop i will pay 10k gold to everyone in the raid. Like every week i was doing it with 4-5 people with almost no problem (no wipes).In the end i payed 10k to every person in the raid and i looted the mount - everyone was happy.

Setup: 3-4 dps 1 healer and me (DK) tanking in dps gear.

Comment by TheTWIBZ

A rumour is going round that this seems to drop more often (Higher %) if the loot is set to group loot?

This is unconfirmed as of yet, I myself think it's gossip :S

Comment by Melodieous

It dropped for my guild twice out of four runs on group loot. Don't know if it's true, but I can say I'll keep it on group loot for now on. =]

Comment by darkillity

man ur guild is pro! u can 6man that! great!

Comment by SirCero

Is the boss soloable at 85?

Comment by Drathellia

Ok I have only seen a few people say this in there descriptions of the raid, that Alar drops in the 25 man raid, is that the heroic version only... or does it drop in the regular 25 man raid as well.
thanks!

Why did this get down ranked I'm asking a serious question...
and why is furydeath trying to be funny but only coming off dumb. guess we will never know sometimes..

Comment by Furydeath

Yes it's the heroic one only but it only has a chance to drop between 3AM to 3:04AM on the 3rd Friday of of every other month in a Year that does not end with a odd number like 2011.

Comment by stormb

there are a couple classes that have been able to solo it at 85

Comment by deadlaserman

took me 5 runs to grind it, but at last i got it :) seen my friend get more lucky then me, 2 runs in a row to drop it but he didnt win, while i just made ML and took 4 ppl with me, payd each 10k if it drop :), so 100% win for me...

was worth the 40k, now onyxian drake on the list...

btw it is me or blizzard got cheep on files, when i summon phonix i get the sound of dragon, and same with the wings sound, damn that sucks !

Comment by Leat

I'm currently at 26 Kael'Thas kills. I bring 10 people (including myself) every Tuesday. I pay everyone 300g to come, but reserve the ashes for myself. 26 x 2700 = 70,200 gold in the hole. Yesterday, I saw an advertisement on trade chat "LF1M healer tempest keep **MOUNT RUN** free roll pst". I wished them luck. I shouldn't have done it. Of course it drops for them, but not me. And of course, a level 83 death knight from some no-name guild wins it. I would have been server first horde, but now he is.

...that little @#$got.

-Leat, Azuremyst-

Comment by maxkohne

You only need about 4-5 others to go with you. So easy at 85. Hell even 5 extras is overkill.

Comment by Chromell

Boo hoo, people unhappy with their phoenix mounts, you don't like that, DON'T USE IT.

Comment by theorangebox

The feeling of winning this over 24 other people back in the BC days, must have been better than winning the lottery.

I feel sorry for whoever has this mount, because they'll never be able to quit WoW for good.

Comment by Amidaman

Ironically, his father sold the account later for mad cash.

Comment by Tripfel

Im surprised there is no acheve for obtaining this mount, like the ravenlord or mounts

Comment by Ecarlate

won it with 100 need roll, though it's my 7th or 8th Tempest Keep run... how lucky I am

Comment by Darleese

Did this today with 4 - all in a good selection of 359 gear.

Mage
Rogue
Paladin (tank)
Shaman (heals)

We had the rogue grab the dagger, the shaman grabbed the staff. We tried it without the staff a couple of times, but the fearing etc... was annoying, and cutting into dps. The staff made things much easier.

When the 4 bosses spawned at once, we used the following kill order, and found it to be the most effective:

1) All on Thaladred
2) tank/rogue on Sanguinar - mage on Capernian
3) All on Talonicus

To be honest, everything up to actually fighting Kael was pretty trivial. Once at Kael, the RNG becomes the largest factor. Kael can MC 2-3 people. For us, it seemed to always be three. If he MC'd three, I'd have to bubble, and then use other tricks to stay alive. Our best attempts came when I had resistance aura up, and Kael only MC'd one person (since he's supposed to do 2-3, I'm guessing the others resisted - not sure if the fact I had resistence aura up or not helped - it might have been purely co-incidental. I just know for future attempts, I'll have it up!).

On our successful attempt, he only MC'd once and chose the mage who just blocked it off. We did not have a Pheonix spawn. The key thing here is really to save every single DPS cooldown you have and be in position to nuke Kael like no tomorrow. You have to get him to 50% as soon as possible. Lust/Hero is critical. Once you get him to 50%, the fight is won... the next phase he does little damage, and you can relax and dps him to his death.

No mount this time... but we'll be back Kael. >:D

Comment by Blizzo

Ironically, his father sold the account later for mad cash.

You're nothing but a cold heartless piece of trash.

Comment by zaldorz

I dont know if any1 has mentioned this but al'ar does have a /mountspecial unfortunately it does not have sound with its /mountspecial

Got mine February 18th, 2011 :)

Comment by Leat

OK so Leat is back! I went with a pug (same pug where it dropped last week) on my rogue, and IT DROPS AGAIN. Also, once again, A DEATH KNIGHT GETS IT. I armory him and it's his 4th kill. Awesome! He totally deserves it.

EDIT: So it drops in THE SAME DAY (today) for a guy in my guild, Thekingkow. I don't mind that a guildy has it but why does it drop so often blizzard? 2 ashes of al'ar drops in one day? Really?

EDIT2: So, apparently there was a third today also. Just armory Bloodstrain, Thekingkow, and Foreplayz. All on Azuremyst horde. HAD TO HAVE BEEN INCREASED.

Comment by zaldorz

i think that its just coincidence that it dropped that often for u cuz my server only has 2 ashes in total and mine is the only active 1, the other guy hasnt logged in for a couple years.

also theres nothing wrong with being a dk, im a dk and got it on my 3rd run :)

Comment by Thalldor

does it only drop if u skip the other 3 bosses or what?

PLZ COMMENT

Comment by DragonsBlood

years pased and it's probably still one of the best,if not the ultimate flying mount so far... And i highly doubt Cataclysm has to offer something better. Dear blizzard,give us back the TBC times

Comment by hpdark

Started playing wow in BC, saw a horde rogue with it on our server and wanted it ever since. Killed kael a couple times before achievements came out... No luck.
Started farming this over the past 4 months. At 80 I would bring 8 people, 1 tank, 2 healers, and 5 dps... No luck
At 85 I tried to solo (warlock) won't work due to kael's mechanics with a pet out. He mind controls me, I kill my pet and he resets. So I've been 5 manning it every week. 1 tank, 1 healer, 3 dps, cakewalk.
15 kills and it finally drops, I almost crapped myself seeing it, I was prepared to go for years without ever seeing it. I've been saving 20k to bribe the winner each week. Had 40k on me and if they turned it down I was prepared to offer it all.
Won the roll by 1 with an 84. And I couldn't be happier. I would've died if I saw it drop and didn't win. Many weeks of farming finally paid off.
Keep at it and best of luck. You will never see it drop if you don't try, so good luck farming.

Comment by badweather

good thing you got it because I would have laughed at you if you offered me a stupid 40k for this

Comment by Serotin

Something like a week ago my guild asked me to help them out on the boss.
I was like ´Okay, I´ll help them out and I get achi.. Bored anyway´
You can guess what happened...
Got summoned to the boss. Killed it. Ashes dropped. Rolled it with 5 people. Looted it.
*Zing*!

Comment by lopkorv

Got Al'ar on my 70 priest yesterday, mission completed coolest mount ever √

Think I was extremely lucky tho, totally I've done this Instance 7 times and with the 1% drop is just insaine.
When Suntrider was dead and and saw the mount in his corpse couldn't believe my eyes.

It was on masterloot and I thought that he the leader might would ninja the mount, but he didn't
One guy rolled 96 then another guy rolled 96 I was shaking but still i wrote /roll

I rolled 97. Truly one of my best day during WoW

Comment by Jaromor

When looting is there Disenchant option? :P

Comment by Stego593

i just got this on my alt i lost the roll of course but the guy who won it had no idea what it was worth. I asked him what he would take for it and he said 8k. i was like you are joking right hes like no . sent money to my alt and luckily i sent 20k just incase someone else in raid bid more and i ended up getting this mount for 13kg i would of paid 120k easy. It is by far the most sexy mount i have next right ahead of the Azure Drake. it will be till the Crimson Firehawk is available.

Comment by elcius

Dropped 2 weeks in a row, me and a guild friend hunter started 2 manning it about a month ago, he got his last week, i just got mine, still feels nice, but i feel as though they may of nerfed the drop rate.

Comment by Dcn78

Ok i have been running this in 25 man with 25 level 85s, for the last three months it has dropped every single time, and i won every single roll, I have about 11 extra Ashes of Al'ar now. SO #$%^ YOU!

Comment by flinkder

Well after loosing it 4 months before, in wotlk while i was going every week 8-10 man,i changed my tactic.
Now at 85 i just find like 5-6 other players,and we make a deal.If mount drops i take it and each one of them gets 10000g.
Until now i can find easy people to come,so i guess with a hight amount of luck it will drop again.
Well if u got the money and u think that this mount is really worth them,try it too.I can only wish you Good Luck!

Comment by roxy2009

Last night it dropped, so it is still obtainable :) 1st time there and it dropped rolled a 97 v v v happy

Comment by Arganis

What's worse then never seeing the ashes drop? Seeing them and losing.

Comment by Arganis

What's worse then never seeing the Ashes drop? Seeing them drop and losing.

I ran this a lil before Cata with 14 retards, as opposed to making my own raid because I didn't think the mount would ever drop, and of course, it did. A tauren druid !@#$%^bag that had never been to TK, didn't know who Kael'thas was, and only wanted this mount cause he thought it gave you free 310% speed won and then complained it wasn't a dragon.... worst day of my life.

Comment by Arganis

What's worse then never seeing the Ashes drop? Seeing them drop and losing.

I ran this a lil before Cata with 14 retards, as opposed to making my own raid because I didn't think the mount would ever drop, and of course, it did. A tauren druid d0uchebag that had never been to TK, didn't know who Kael'thas was, and only wanted this mount cause he thought it gave you free 310% speed won and then complained it wasn't a dragon.... worst day of my life.

I don't expect to ever see them again and neither should anyone else that has seen them drop once and lost.

Comment by Arganis

What's worse then never seeing the Ashes drop? Seeing them drop and losing.

I ran this place with 14 retards a little before cata, thinking the ashes couldn't possibly drop, but of course they did. Some tauren druid that had never been to TK, didn't know who Kael'thas was or what the Ashes looked like won and proceeded to immediately learn them, only to complain that he didn't get free 310% flying like he thought he would (only reason he wanted the mount) and how it looked like %^&* because it wasn't a dragon.

He did OS 10 3D immediately after and won the black drake which he's ridden around ever since as opposed to the ashes.

My blood still boils to this day, so the lesson is if you're going to run this then make sure you're going to win or you'll cry forever because the Ashes won't drop again anytime soon, if ever.

Comment by Arganis

What's worse then never seeing the Ashes drop? Seeing them drop and losing.

I ran this place with 14 idiots a little before cata, thinking the ashes couldn't possibly drop, but of course they did. Some tauren druid that had never been to TK, didn't know who Kael'thas was, or what the Ashes looked like won and proceeded to immediately learn them. Only to complain, once he was mounted, that he didn't get free 310% flying like he thought he would (only reason he wanted the mount) and how disappointed he was because the mount looked "kweer" compared to a badass dragon...

He did OS 10 3D the same day and won the black drake which he's been riding around instead of the Ashes ever since...

My blood still boils to this day, so the lesson is, if you're going to run this and actually care about the mount, then make sure you're can't possibly lose or you'll be very sorry for a very long time, mark my words. Seeing the Ashes drop is a miracle and usually miracles don't happen twice.(##RESPBREAK##)2060##DELIM##Sas148##DELIM##

Comment by Pornstar

Just got my ashes last night only 2 runs and one month after I got the achievement for TK ran a 3 man group after our raid, new 85 holy pally 360 ilvl feral druid and me a 360 ilvl dk tank consider myself lucky got my hand of rag in september 2010 after only 2 solo runs and got right half of my bindings last week.

Comment by hunterspwn

Does anybody Know if this mount does or does not not drop when master loot is on?

Comment by Nazanin13

Just got my Ashes of Al'ar Mount yesturday and it makes me sad and happy, sad because Ezra is no longer with us and happy because his dream will be with us for decades RIP Ezra xxx

Lucilla lvl 85 EU-Bloodhoof

Comment by zepstah

I feel I need to tell you my story of obtaining this!

It was a normal raidnight, my internet was being &*!@ so I asked to not participate. However while being online I thought of doing Tempest Keep. Since I hadn't done it this week. I invited some people, and we we were going at 20.30.

20.50 we're attempting the boss first time, with a warrior that never had done this. He failed with equipping the dagger because he couldn't find us (I was marked with a star and stood jumping on the dagger)
Our healer had to leave 21.00. And I asked for one last go before we call it. We kill him that try, just before 21.00.
I see it, I shout!

See the rolls, and I didn't win it. I asked the winner if he wanted to sell it for 60k, and he said trade me.
I did and I got this beauty for only 60k! My heart was beating so fast and I was so happy. I was gonna offer him all 120k at first, but then I wanted to go from 60k ---> 120k if he didn't want to sell it at first.

This was my story. Good luck hunting! Totally worth it! :)

Comment by flinkder

Wtf did blizz boosted the drop rate? last week on twilight's hammer server dropped once and this week dropped 2 times!

Comment by Eatmypie

As to be expected Cata gear makes it easier still. As an (equipped) 358 average ilvl warrior tank and an equally geared resto druid, and a doomkin with mostly 346 and a couple 359 we beat this encounter extremely easily. mechanics are ignorable, being as the mobs have only 196k, doomkin was killing each target in about ~15 seconds. Drop rate on mount is still 2% though, so even if you 3 man it thats about a .7% chance that you'll win the mount. go with friends, ninja it, or pay people in advance to pass on the mount. Paying people to pass is worth it imo, being as this is, in my opinion, the coolest mount still currently obtainable.

Comment by melinia

Aggramar server has seen 2 in as many months, i know because i just got mine today, almost 4 years after it was put into the game and i decided i wanted it.

Second time i've ever seen it drop, bringing the server total to 5, 4 ally 1 horde

Comment by nikkihamrick

Hey, this is awesome so I copied it with your name over on the page for the boss. This is a huge help!

Comment by kiowa

I disagree, I don't believe someone that doesn't have the proper flight requirement for any rare flying mount should be able to get it for a number of reasons. The most important one is that there are thousands of players that have been farming said mount for a long time an can use the mount upon recieving it. Letting someone that more than likely has only looked or tried for this mount here and there and that cannot use it is an insult to those who have put in the time and research and has the required skill.

Comment by Kokiron

I just got mine last night. I'd been camping Deepholm for Aeonaxx and got Blood Seeker instead, so I figured i'd gather a few guildies and go smack Kael for some old tier gear and a chance at the mount. We go in and wreck his face and lo and behold the mount drops and I win with a 94. Couldn't be happier (I'm a huge Kael fangirl, still hate what they did to his character in tbc :\ ), probably wont be riding anything else for a long while.

Also going to add, if you want to three man this each week with some friends just make sure one of you can equip the dagger and deal yellow melee damage and one of you can equip the staff, and have the person with the dagger tank Kael. I three manned this with a couple friends after I got the mount on my main, comp was a combat rogue (85, lol roguetank), a fire mage (85), and a resto shaman (82). With an 85 healer the staff might not even be necessary, but the silences are annoying so I'd probably use it anyway. He wont MC the tank if there are other targets, so having the tank use the daggers makes it so you can just stack up on them and when you get MC'd they can just smack you with something to break the MC and go back to tanking the boss.

Comment by Rocheku

Luckily nowadays Kael is very easy to solo for some classes, and will continue to become even easier with each tier.

I wonder tough. If Blizzard decides to take the story back to Outland, and redo the content there like they did in Old Azeroth, does it mean they might remove Tempest Keep etc as it still would take place in Outland's past?

Guess only time will tell.

Comment by melinia

So much hate from people, down rating comments from the fortunate few that have obtained this rare of rare drops.

Regardless of when you got this mount it's still very noteworthy seeing as the drop rate is very low, I know there's still some servers that don't have one at all, and that's 4 years after release. Higher population servers are seeing more simply due to more people going in to farm it.

RNG is RNG, if the dice gods decide to grace you with a drop, weather you get it or not, you should consider yourself fortunate to at least SEE it and be afforded the opportunity to shoot the dice.

I've seen it twice, once in TBC on the last BT attunement run we did, and just a few days ago. I told stories of how i'd been in the raid when it dropped and that it was paid for in DKP dearly. The second time it was all the luck of the dice.

And i've noticed from sitting on it that the tells i get are a fair mix between congratulatory, to straight hate tells, and those who don't even know where it comes from.

I've got no problem passing the information on since I don't hate on anyone that has it. Even if the drop has been increased, which i sincerely doubt, it's still a very very special mount.

Comment by Wulfric11

GREEN PLEASE

I figured out how to calculate you chances (in a percentage) depending on how many runs you do of the instance.

1. Open a spreadsheet
2. In cell "a1", type: 0.988
3. Drag down the cell, depending on how many runs you have done/are going to do
4. In another cell, type: =product(a:a)
5. In the cell that you wrote: =product(a:a) a decimal number will appear
6. Minus 100 by the first two numbers after the decimal, and you have your percentage

You cannot get exactly 100%, because every time you run the instance you get a 1.2% chance of it dropping.
e.g.
If you ran it...
...3 times you would have a 4.6% chance of it dropping
...5 times you would have a 6.9% chance of it dropping
...10 times you would have a 12.4% chance of it dropping
...20 times you would have a 22.5% chance of it dropping
...30 times you would have a 31.4% chance of it dropping
...50 times you would have a 46.4% chance of it dropping
etc...etc...

hope this helps all the solo-ers out there ^^

Comment by Leat

@melinia,

It is NOT easy to solo. The trash takes about half an hour to clear, and then the KT fight probably just as long, if you do it your first shot. So that's 1 hour. I myself have not been able to solo it as a ret paladin, it's REALLY hard. I can kill the weapons fast enough, but don't have enough time/mana to heal up to full before the adds res, and I have to blow my CDs in order to kill the weapons fast enough, leaving me with no burst damage to burn down the mage. The engineer catches up to me first, and I die. I am iLvl 355 and used a vicious crit trinket for the removal of a conflagration.

So no, it is not easy to solo for most classes. Only locks, DKs and hunters have proven is POSSIBLE, let alone easy. I have not seen any paladins or warriors confirmed having done it yet, which is surprising. At this point, for me I think it's just a gear thing. Maybe when 4.2 rolls around and I get full 396 or whatever the item level there will be, it will be easier. Maybe I should try it as prot, although I don't think that would be enough damage.

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Comment by Fenitarn9

I just got this beautiful mount on my hunter.

Funny thing is,I just made a group to get my T5 chest(I already had the T5 shoulders) for the 2-piece bonus to solo old instances.The token didnt drop though,but this did.

I think I deserve it after camping the TLPD for 3 months and still not getting it.

Comment by fallenelf

can any1 tell me if this still drops in cata?

Comment by blackbone

Even though it's been available for a few years now, I still rarely see more than 1-2 players actually riding this pet.

Kael is probably soloable for some classes (deathknight / paladin), but 2 manning him or even 3 manning him is a huge risk due to his mindcontrols.

If you make a balanced 5 man group you should be fine though.
It's a lot faster than soloing as well.

Comment by Dcn78

You really have to love rare drops like these.

When you run the raid and your on the boss you heart is pumping faster and faster as his health goes down. You are checking everything to see if it is going to work. He dies. You run up and your hand is shaking when clicking the loot button. You see it. Your heart drops to the bottom of your feat. You can't believe your eye.

this is why i love wow

Comment by bojan112

not many people run Tk because they dont know about tactic to down kael with 2-3man, and people that want mount so badly would rather see no drops then let it in wrong hands so they dont make bigger raids

Comment by melinia

I took 6 people in when I got mine. While I can see the logic of fewer people = better odds on your roll, doesn't matter if you take 25 or 2, if your dice suck then sorry about your luck

Comment by ElliotHunts

Every week me and two guildies run Tk, Eoe and ony (tank/dps/heal). It's a wonderful number and it's far more fun running with people you like and know well. We've seen the azure drake and the ashes of alar drop so far in our runs and continue to do the runs until each of us gets the mount we want. My advice is not to be daunted by the difficulty in soloing these places. Find a guildie or a friend who will do regular mount runs with you and eventually the mount will drop.

Comment by Fizzles

Does anyone know if this can drop from the new Satchel of Exotic Treasures?

Comment by mortenjs

Got mine yesterday @Kilrogg EU :D

Comment by Xavicus

Got mine yesterday. Maxflaks tarren mill EU, 2 manned the boss and the mount dropped, will be helping the other mate to get it, which he hopefully will in the near future!

Comment by shaft4783

Every week I get a group of 5-6 total people and I pay everyone 200g for coming. I set the loot on master and if the mount drops I keep it, and everyone else gets to roll on 25k or split the 25k. Getting Ashes is priceless so this is a good way of ensuring I get it if it does drop.

Comment by Tehangryface

Mine dropped today, first try on my lvl 75 resto druid alt.....kinda mad that an alt got it but still stoked that I have it at all.

Comment by flinkder

go die! u should pass it for a lv 85 or even sell it to one! having it on a alt i could say its curse!

Comment by Chromell

And I could say you're jelly.

Comment by ElliotHunts

For those Ashes owners who'd like a weapon to go with this mount try The Burning Crusader. The coloration of the axe compliments A'lar perfectly.

Comment by Voldius

Just got this beauty today! Made a 5-man group for it with the mount reserved for me for 50k. I never thought it would drop, since i had already seen it once and some random guy who had never been to TK won it and didn't care about it at all. Since then all the runs i do are with the mount reserved. As a friend told me once, gold comes and goes, but this mount stays! I guess some few people are lucky enough to see it drop twice, so for all of you mount collectors like me, don't give up!

Comment by AleAle

I've killed him 52 times, no mount yet.
The rule are simple.
I'll take the mount, other 3 guys roll, the highest get 75k and the others 2 only 5k.

The rumors of the increased % of drop killing the other bosses it's true, or not? (quite obviuos answer)

Comment by maxkohne

Haha this week will be my 60th for me. You can easily save yourself some money. I run every week and only pay 10k per person if it drops. If it doesn't drop, nobody gets gold. I only take 4 others.... 40k gold for Ashes is a great deal imo.

Also, the drop rate has NOT increased nor decreased. Since more people can solo it, you see more people with it. Sigh, the art of perception is very deceiving. It's all an illusion.

Comment by maxkohne

I think the Golden Staff of the Sin'dorei with fiery enchant looks better especially with the Orb of the Sin'dorei and the Summer costume from the summer event along with Phoenix Hatchling to complete the set.

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Comment by HorusHeresy

I've seen it drop twice on 2 different characters. It does happen.

Comment by dmwt

Well I used the idea of paying off guildies to come with me while I take the mount and well it payed off! First run tonight and what do you know Ashes of Al'ar!

Dmwt
US Arthas

Comment by RuVe

It's pretty cool, but you cant fart on it...

Comment by freemen

i solo it with my main hunter and dropped few days ago.free awesome mount!

Comment by Syncness

By the way, this mount has no "sit" animation.

It's always in its flying animation, and the sound is a light shudder as opposed to the heavy flaps of proto drakes.

It can glide as well as flap, and may disconnect you if you swirl and fly around too fast (lol).

Comment by frizzle

Slightly increased droprate since the release of Cataclysm according to a GM.

Comment by Willemstyle

I've obtained the mount yesterday, and I can't explain in words how happy I am.
Here the steps I took to hunt for the mount:

Ask your guild to make you eligible to create guild events. I got promoted in my guild, so I created the guild events on my own.
Create a Tempest Keep raid for every week, and make it available for everyone >70 to sign up and participate.
Each time I took the leadership for the raid, and assigned master looter to myself. My guild was okay with it, because they trust me, and I was the one creating and leading each raid.
I did the raid for a total of 8 times. 8th time, the mount dropped (I was lucky)
We all rolled for the mount, and a guildmate won the roll
I asked the following to my guildmate: "Can I buy the mount for 35000 gold? Yes or No"
My guildie answered: "You can have it for 35k"
I opened the trade window, gave her 35000g, and looted the mount to myself.

This way, it doesn't matter how much people participate the raid. Just offer a enormous sum of money to the winner of the mount.

(If he wanted the mount instead, I would have give him the mount. I'm not a ninja)

Some calculation on win chance:
If I can calculate it roughly, and if I base it on a 5-man run each week:

- 1.4% drop chance / 5 man = 0.28% win chance per 1 raid.
- 100% - 0.28% win chance = 99.72% lose chance per 1 raid.

The calculation on total win chance is:
- (1-((99.72%)^X))*100
Wherein X = the amount of attempts

Scenario:
- 5 man raid
- Every week 1 attempt
- Everyone rolls need on a fair roll for the mount

Amount of attempts - Total chance for winning the mount:
1 - 0.28%
2 - 0.55%
3 - 0.83%
4 - 1.11% (one month)
5 - 1.39%
26 - 7.03% (a half year)
52 - 13.56% (1 year)
104 - 25.29% (2 years)
260 - 51.76% (5 years)
520 - 76.73% (10 years)
1040 - 94.58% (20 years)

Comment by Drathellia

First the only stupid question is an unasked one.
Second, actually "Coniel" i joined when BC launched. My main is a BE hunter, i was still under lvl 60 when WOTLK Launched, because i have a life and don't just play this all the time, so sadly i missed a lot of the older high lvl stuff; because most people only wanted to do the new stuff.
So before u try to look cool, know more about what ur talking about before u just say things and eventually come off looking like a d-bag.

Comment by bojan112

yes drop % is increased; why are you 4manning it? it can be easily 2maned with almost any class combinations as long as you have staff wielder+some sort of tank (not really needed if you can heal/dps alot in p3)

Comment by Mamimi

and because the Phoenix is the symbol or rebirth, it was a meaningful symbol because he knew there was a very good chance he was going to die and when Phoenixes die they arise from their ashes.

Comment by SirRemusz

The drop rate of this mount has not been increased or decreased.
I made a ticket myself because in 2 weeks I happened to see it drops twice and I got it both times. (Paid the winner)
Screenshot of the GM conversation:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/94/ashesj.jpg/
In case you do not believe me. Im on Hellfire EU in the guild Netherstorm. Character names: Rémus and Remusz
Have fun farming this mount!
P.S.: Sorry Poupi! <3

Comment by social3ngin33rin

anyone know of anyway to solo this boss!

How about with 4.2 around the corner about to be released? :D

Comment by nikolasm18

pls buy fly mode okay

Comment by HazardousPizza

It looks ugly to me TBH...

Comment by iIIusion

Dropped about 20mins ago on Illidan in a 6man Group.

Priest named Greekgodess from Livid won it with a 94 i do believe.

All i could offer was free food and portal's for life. I do not have much gold :(

But of course, they refused my offer.

Someone offered 75k
Someone else offered 125k

Dunno if Greek decided to keep it or sell it though.

Comment by GanondorfTM

Awesome! Cant wait to have 45 years old to see it!

Comment by Deathripper15

I Really must say this Mount is the best mount in game i just love it to much

Comment by stathisdjs

Uhm, no. If he IS playing WoW in the afterlife, that would mean he went to hell after what Blizzard has done!

Comment by cubele

Ive been doing TK for 6months now on my hunter pally, just started on mage also month ago and still have yet to see it drop :( , i reserve it on my server for 30k which is lucky

Comment by maxkohne

Try 68 weeks and never see it drop once... I am also paying for it.

Comment by Thakar

Just got this as of yesterday out of chance. A group begged me to come dps it and I reluctantly accepted. Sure glad I did.

I've never had so many people whisper me "I hate you."

Comment by okenzie99

I saw it drop the 1st time I went in there... I rolled a 95, I thought I won until I saw another hunter rolled a 96...

Ever since then, its been killing me that I was so close to winning >.<

Comment by mindalover13

To all folks who own this mount, I envy you so.

Comment by pezinaris

The % for the mount to drop is 1%. So if you do it 100 times you have an 100% chance to drop

Comment by Backoffkthx

Would just like to say I'm having fun with this beautiful mount! Fun sitting in Orgrimmar and having people stop where they are going turn around and say "Hi, how did you get that mount" and i just reply with a macro i made because of to many people asking on a daily bases.I got mine 9/25/10, just thought to reply now. If your farming it good luck don't give up its well worth the wait!

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Backoff Of US Sever Duskwood

Comment by screamandfly

Won this mount yesterday. I can't believe it dropped and winning the roll was just so awesome. I love it <3.

Comment by NeremWorld

It looks like your dear friend Ashesofalar sold his account not long after he changed his name and then it got deleted or whatever. %^&*!@# made 180 bucks.

So he did it purely to sell for cash.

Comment by thats5

This page is slowly turning into Thottbot.

Comment by dardack

OK I really think the droprate on this has been increased. I've seen it drop on my realm a ton lately.

Personally I went in Feb and it dropped (and I was 2 manning it, and the agreement had been I get first one, I'll stick around each week to help him farm. He says 15k and you get out of your agreement, so that was a cheap ashes IMO).

I've gone maybe 8-9 times since then with another friend. But this past few days, I've been 2 manning a ton of old raids with a friend who didn't start playing until LK. SO we 2 manned Naxx/BT/Hyjal, so we decide to go to TK next. We kill all bosses and get to Kael. I couldn't believe it, it dropped again.

Sigh if it's true that the Droprate has been Inc, I'm gonna be pissed, I was 1 of 3 ally that had it, now like 8 ally have it in the past 4 months.

Comment by ocping

You guys will hate me but I gotta say this: got this biatch on my 4th kill a few days ago.

http://ocping.wordpress.com

Comment by Chromell

It's supposed to be a dark humor joke /pokerface

Comment by Incarceron

Dropped for my mage on my second run. It's quite noisy.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/kelthuzad/Vyndvia/advanced

http://i.imgur.com/wi4Pv.jpg

Comment by citrique

The only annoying thing about having this mount is how other people constantly go, "oh the drop rate must have increased" when they see you on it, as though saying so is somehow going to diminish your having gotten it.

There's still only six hordeside on my server (Kel'thuzad US) and it took me 36 kills to get mine.

Comment by xeradclan

I did Tempest keep with some guildies today. Won the roll on this. I have only killed the boss 9 times. First time i saw this drop i was second highest roll.

Today when it dropped i won the roll. The group that I went with plans to do it each week hoping to get the other 3 people the mount as well.

IMO this is the best mount in game. I have wanted it for awhile but have not farmed it like i have some other mounts.

Purvis- Horde- Maelstrom

Comment by Highfives

Got it on my 2nd attempt (if you do not count those 2 I did long time ago for achiev. and stuff), pretty lucky indeed. Kael can be solo'ed as moonkin, which adds this class spec to the list of those lucky people who can get their phoenix mount alone without a guild (or fixed team) runs - together with DKs, Rets and Shadowpriests. It's been a long 18min fight (first solo kill took 22mins) with quite high apm and some rng factor.
Not going to spam this page with tactic explanation, you may find on me on Bloodhoof and ask yourself :)
Happy hunting!

P.S. Mount is amazing indeed, worth time spent on it, even if it's 3 months each week without a drop.

Comment by Zainafizzcrank

sorry to say but i got it 2 days ago on my main Zaina Fizzcrank EU didnt even know the mount dropped i was just going for tier 5 tokens... honestly i didnt even know what the mount was called until i looked it up after i won it with a roll of 65 ..... i thought it was called phoenix or something, i knew the whole story behind it just not waht it was called i guess.. btw it was my 1st time even running it

Comment by maxkohne

I would love to contact you but you didn't give a name. You only gave your server. What's your gear like? Full Firelands? I am really interested how you did this.

Comment by wowZhenek

44 runs, 2-man with friend alt-protpala and me (mage).

Comment by Luxe

Three people in Intent have gotten it in less than a month. Buffed or not, that's ridiculous luck.

Comment by Cyclops727

This is a really good mount compared with the one that ragnaros mount, and goes great along with the phoenix hatchling and some firey armor.

Comment by bulletshell56

Just got this mount today and I love it. Rolled a 100 against my 5 other guildies and the next top roll was a 37. The funny thing is it was on a rogue which I just got to 85 yesterday and it was my first time being in TK in like 3 or so years. I was really happy and of course they offered me gold for it but being the smart rogue I am of course I kept it. Great mount and within 1 hour of having it someone asked me if I had cancer. Great day.

Comment by Keidara

Got this lovely mount today after a wow dream of wanting it, and it finally came true! I two manned the instance it with a resto druid, I as a fury warrior. Seeing the little orange icon on the screen made my heart skip quite a few beats. I pair it with my phoenix hatchling! So yes, it still drops!

Method Used:
The method we used to two man the instance is one that others may recognize. At the time of attempting this with a fury warrior and a resto druid, our ilevels were about 360 average.
Phase 1 is simple, defeat the four as they are introduced. Something that may come to use for you is that wherever you pull and kill each one of them, that is the location they will resurrect. This may help some make more time to defeat each advisor more individually.

Phase 2 are the weapons, I killed the Staff of Disintegration first, and my restro druid equipped it for the next phase for immunity to the Remote Toy debuff Master Engineer Telonicus casts. I then killed the Cosmic Infuser, and then Warp Slicer. After that, I killed the other weapons in no specific order. What I always left for last was the Phaseshift Bulwark because it doesn't do very much damage in case the phase ends.

Phase 3 was always the most irritating,
The first you kill is Grand Astromancer Capernian, she uses Arcane Explosion whenever melee/someone comes close, and knocks you back with a slow debuff. As a fury warrior, you have multiple ways to kill her as quick as possible and get back to her in melee range. Intercept, and heroic leap. Heroic throw is useful whenever it isn't on CD. To refresh your intercept CD, use heroic fury. At this point she is either dead or almost dead.
Afterwards, depending on how well your resto druid is able to keep both you and themselves healed, you either kill Master Engineer Telonicus because of his remote toy debuff, or Thaladred the Darkener who will silence and focus aggro on a specific player. He still does substantial damage to non-plate wearers, therefore this may be a consideration whether your resto druid/healer is able to keep up with healing. For me and my resto druid partner, we killed whoever depending on the situation.
Lastly, you kill Lord Sanguinar who doesn't really have much of a threat.

Phase 4 is when Kaelthas himself comes into play. Make sure you pull Kaelthas behind the statue of himself on the right side of the room. What you are trying to do here is make sure Kaelthas cannot see your healer, therefore he doesn't not cast Mind Control since the extra player is out of LOS. You healer however should be able to see you, healing you whenever you need it. Kaelthas will also cast pyroblast which is able to be interrupted. Occasionally he will call forth phoenixes, which you kill if they are in distance. If you move too much around the statue and your healer is seen by Kaelthas and he starts to cast mind control, do not run back behind the statue and have one of you disappear from view. You will cause the fight to reset. Generally, this scenario should always be avoided because the dps/warrior will do a good job of slaughtering the healer.

Phase 5 begins when Kaelthas is at 50% health and he runs back to his altar. There will be a brief period of time at the beginning where he is raised up into the air taking in energy where he does not damage you. If there are any left over phoenixes from the previous phase, this is a good time to clear them out. This phase is pretty easy, interrupt what you can and whenever you are pulled up into the air, avoid the black clouds which is Nether Vapor. What Nether Vapor does is decrease your health pool by 10%, and this can stack up to 90% health reduction. Not avoiding these clouds can end your fight, unless your druid is able to use Rebirth and resurrect you. What me and my resto druid partner did was not dps at all this part of the phase, and move away from the Nether Vapor clouds. Eventually his health pool reaches 0% and all you need next is some RNG luck!

Keidara
The Venture Co (US)

Comment by Leicad

Proof that it still drops: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/17/allahlf.jpg/

This is not to brag or anything, but rather to encourage people! Seeing that logo was absolutely stunning. Even though there were times where I was about to give up, the reward is amazing. Do not give up guys!

Been going 57 runs on my druid without seeing it, and 3 on my deathknight where I got it on the 3rd run. Random is random.

Best of luck guys!

Comment by emutolas

Ashes of al'ar dropped yesterday
Ravencrest EU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xG4Q-Q4X6U

I frapsed it even. Did not won tho..

Comment by tidus350

patch 4.2 confirmed this mount is still obtainable. Got it on my warrior on doomhammer 9/02/11
great mount

Comment by Chromell

Oh really? I was afraid the many, many bragging posts above couldn't confirm that, thanks for your clarification.

Comment by Leat

Right now, I've done 65 of each of these runs with the mounts reserved: VoA, TK, EoE, and Onyxia. Still empty handed. Lovely.
Also killed Attumen over 100 times.

Comment by Thelothian

Dropped yesterday... Got it. Really really lucky... It's not looking good with a nelf, but nevermind. :)

Comment by Orchimonde

Got it 3 days ago after having taken a long break from WoW. Did about 40 runs on my warlock, 0 drops. Did 2 runs on my warrior, drops the 2nd time around. Won it with a 58 roll vs 4 other people too.

Comment by Hauro

Got it from first run today... amazing mount and i know i´am extream lucky.. :D

Comment by Narcolepcy

After 26 runs I finally got this precious mount. I'll count myself lucky since there are people who have gone 50 or so weeks and have not even seen a drop. I was also fortunate enough to have two friends running with me and were willing to pass on it for other mounts that they wanted more. I also have a Priest that runs with me who happens to be my lucky charm for rare drops. I nearly had a heart attack seeing it drop. I couldn't believe it but there it was. Anyway, good luck to everyone else farming for this mount.

Narcolepcy - Archimonde US

Comment by Playingnaked

I'm so happy that I have obtained this mount after so much struggle and farming..... I had just got back from 200hrs + farming TLPD without sleeping...but in the end I managed to hunt him down :)))

So as a DK I can pretty much solo this every week.. but since it takes allot of time to do so, I called some friends to help me fasten up the processes a bit.

I had this feeling for 2 days... I kept thinking in my head that the alar would actually drop for me this week If I go... and it did! I was so happy I was shaking..... I Will never ever forget the moment I started screaming like a girl on skype.

I wanna say this to all the people who might eventually hate me for being lucky... I am not lucky as you think.. I work hard for these moments years of struggling.. RNG can be a b.....

I wanna say thanks to my mates, Dollicious, Orfeni, Ramon. who actually passed for me the mount - I didn't use master loot even though they knew they where coming to help me for the mount... What I mean is that I trusted them...and will always do.. I met these people not longer then a month ago.. So guys the virtual world of friends is still possible.. their is still hope!

Kazzak- EU - Playingnaked.

Comment by Hippoboy303

Ok Im sick of this! If you kill it 100 times, it doesn't mean the mount will drop, the % doesn't change no matter how many times you kill him.

Watch how downrated this gets.(##RESPBREAK##)2060##DELIM##Sas148##DELIM##

Comment by Krampan

Few tips to get the mount more easier !

These are the most honest ways to get the mount according to me
1.Get into a group with 1-3 persons (it will make it easier to win the roll)
2.Don't kill the 3 bosses because you don't have to kill the bosses to get the mount.

This is not the most honest way to win it .. But quite good !
1.Assemble a group with about 1-10 people and put on masterloot before you kill the last boss so the group members wont suspect anything ! And then you can get the mount by yourself by ninja looting it.

Comment by Nestroix

If u ninja the mount a player can report you for this and u will lose the mount, the highest roll person will receive it :P
Happend to me when i rolled highest on the warglaive and the MS ninja'd it.
Received the glaive withing the mail.

Comment by Egel

after 5 runs i finally got this lovely bird!

my friend spammed me that i had to come and heal it and after alot of arguing i came along, 4 ppl in group, all needed, i got it, 8 days earlier i also got Azure drake from Malygos with about the same drop rate, im a lucky guy!

Comment by kaeleb

The topic of chance drop is always a sticky subject. The key is in the wording and what you mean by 'chance'. The possibility of a drop will always remain constant. The probability will increase the more attempts/roll you get on an item.

So in essence the majority of previous posters are correct but only in terms of how they describe their 'chance' of getting the drop.

Comment by Hauro

Just to help you guys i post this.

I know some of you guys want to ninja loot the mount if it droped recording to MMO-Champions vote about it 52 % would ninja
- Dont do it !I
Did it some time ago ( About 2 weeks ) and it was removed from me and 3 houers ban.... Only telling this beacurse its such a sadness to see your mount go away :(... And yes i know it was wrong so stop hate hate comments -.-

Comment by kaze25

Does it still drop on 25 man or 10?

Comment by tore1114

iv been trying for 3 years every week and iv never got it. it have drop 2 time didnt win it a singel time

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Comment by Elendill

For some weeks now, I solo Kael'Thas as a moonkin, you need some stuff, I would say that a 359 ilvl helps a lot to manage your mana bar and reduce the length of the 4th phase.

I use a Lunar Shower spec, with 2 points in Furor to help my mana regen, you would probably get rid of it once you managed to do it a couple of times.
Also, overwrite your Glyph of Wrath with the Glyph of Starsurge.

Be sure :

to have 3-4 free slots at least in your bags before engaging KT.
to bind on your bars your weapon (main hand at least), Cosmic Infuser and Staff of Disintegration
to use your innervate as soon as you are at 55% of your mana bar.

Trashs :

First you need to clean all trashs until Al'ar (dragonhawks patrolling included)
Go right (or left, your choice)
Wait before turning left (or right) to Kael'Thas, you must kill trash mobs just before Solarian (Void Reaver) room entrance, then go clean the way to Kael'Thas (you don't need to clean all trash packs in KT room, just then one at your right (or left) when you get in

P1 :

Thaladred : Pull the boss, then go at TK entrance, right in the corner, you can wait for him before Al'ar room to dot him (just one line of dot, overwise you could kill him), finish him in the corner, be careful with his bump, when you go in the corner, be sure that you're not too close from him before.

Sanguinar : He will come by the opposite side you cleaned, use the same tactic, like Thaladred, be sure his fear won't throw you out of the instance, kill him at the same place.

Capernian : Sprint (Dash + Stampeding Roar) to the side you cleaned, and go just before KT room, in the corridor before the "laser" door, wait for her, LB*3 + Rejuv, dot her before she conflagrates you, kill her, no difficulty there.

Telonicus : Go back to al'ar room, use the line of sight to make him get out of the corridor, one line of dot, wait for 20 seconds left on Remote Toy to dot him again, when he's dead, go at the corner between the main corridor leading to solarian and the one leading to Kael'Thas.

P2 :

The legendary weapons are not hard to kill as a moonkin, just stay where you are (described above), plant mushrooms (if you see you won't be in solar for this phase, keep your starfall up for this, just be in Eclipse state), make them detonate when they're all there, thorns, dot them all, starfall, barkskin and lb*3 + rejuv, finish them, loot Cosmic Infuser and Staff of Disintegration, then go to Capernian corpse.

P3 :

Capernian : Put hots on you with the mace, switch to the staff, and use it to get the cc-immunity buff (all this before she spawns), kill her, no difficulties here.
Telonicus : He will come 4-5 seconds after she died, if you did it time, deal with him the same way you did with Capernian.
Sanguinar : Coming 5-8 seconds after Telonicus's death, get away from the laser door to prevent fear problems, kill him.
Thaladred : He will come 10 seconds after Sanguinar's death, spam your moonfire to kill him, while you go toward the place you were to kill the weapons

P4 :

That's the hard part of the fight, wait for Kael'thas, hot yourself with the mace, when you see him from the bottom of the corridor, equip your staff and get the buff, before he comes to you, show yourself and dot him, get out of los using the corner to interrupt his fireballs.
When he reaches you, use the other side of the corner and repeat.

Things you will have to manage :

Arcane Disruption : he should do it as soon as he's close from you in the above-described situation, be sure to have the staff buff on you at this moment. When he did it, equip the mace and lb*3 + rejuv on you, the buff has a 30-second duration, so you'll still have it for the pyroblast, switch back to the staff for the next Arcane Disruption
Pyroblast : You should have the fire resistance buff from the mace, check anyway, or it will get you to 15~20% life, and it's really hard to come back at top life in this fight (except without Tranquillity), be in moonkin form for the damage reduction, he will probably do the Arcane Disruption just after the Pyroblast
Phoenix : Dot them when they show up, keep your living stars proc (or your starsurge at least) and your starfall for the egg's spawn, kill it fast, don't let them revive, or you could be easily submerged.

You'll probably need some time to manage this phase, don't forget to use your innervate on cooldown during this phase. You'll mainly bring him down to 50% while moving from place to place, if he just did his pyroblast and is under 60%, heal yourself with the mace until he does his arcane disruption, equip your "cataclysm" main hand, use all your cooldowns and kill him, don't care about phoenix spawns, you'll kill the during the transition.

Transition & P5 :

Burn him down while he goes to the middle of his room for the event, don't go through laser door, come back then to the weapons' place. Countdown about 15s after his last emote (while he goes up and the wall breaks apart) and equip the immunity staff. This phase is really simple, kill the phoenix when you are under the effect of Gravity Lapse, use line of sight to cancel his casts, repeat and rinse, if you manage to have at least 30-40% of your mana bar at the beginning of the 5th phase, it's almost won, just be sure to not be touched by the floating dark spheres while you're in the air, or you won't hold the whole p5.

I hope this guide will help some of you guys, it's far easier to do it as a feral, but hey, where would be the fun ? :p

Comment by vaanvern

I wish to happily inform, after some years attempting the mount, it finally dropped for me,

heres proof of my armory here

a note to say, it was a guild run! and to be honest none of us where to expect to have the mount to show, it was a run for transmog gear for 4.3 since some people wished to have tier 5 i helped them get it so everything was on open roll.

and then upon the looks of 12 people on the raid, the so fabled ashes dropped

i waited to the last second to all the greed/need rolls to drop so we could get a clear view of the roll

and there... 98

right now i can describe myself as the happiest player in wow!

cheers and good luck to you all that are aiming for this mount!

Comment by pancakemage

I got this today, first time in tempest keep.

Comment by pancakemage

I am getting negative because I got Ashes of Al'ar in my first ever run... jealousy hey. :P

Comment by pancakemage

Alright alright, maybe not you, but other people. And I cant give you a guide because.... well I have only and only ever will have done it once and I didn't even know tactics... I made us wipe like twice too hehe... Ohhhh how I deserved it.

Comment by casedistorted

I had this situation happen in Wrath the first time I saw Ashes of Al'ar drop. It was my second downing of Kaelthas ever when Ashes of Al'ar magically dropped. Of course this was early Wrath so we had to run TK with about 20 people to make it easy...none of us expected the mount to drop but it did and who won it none other than a death knight that was a brand new wrath baby that had just hit level 80, didn't even have epic flying, and didn't know what the mount was. Of course when one of my friends offered him 20k gold for it (which was a lot in those days) he proceeded to keep it and actually ended up buying gold from a website in less than an hour so he could buy epic flying to use the mount. The thing that made my blood boil about that was he proceeded to fly around on the mount on our server (Demon Soul) for about a month and then either deleted his toon or never logged on again. Everyone remembers his name on our server too...Sandwichh.

Luckily Cataclysm made TK a bit easier, but for a warrior like myself that can't solo Kaelthas it still took myself, 1 healer, and 3-4 other dps. 6 months later of doing Tempest Keep every lockout and it finally dropped again for me, second time I've ever seen it drop and luckily I was the one that got it.

But I agree...sometimes there are just people out there that are undeserving.

Comment by Chromell

You didn't deserve the mount because RNG does not play by fairness. The only thing you deserve for bragging is the downrating you're getting.

By the way, the huge amount of comments saying "I got this in X runs" that became downrated should suffice to show you and everybody else that this is not the kind of information relevant or interesting regarding the mount, its droprate or tactics to kill the boss.

Comment by Lasmettus

Was and still is the best mount in the game. So colorful and beatiful. Nothing compares to this mount if you ask me =)

Comment by Darungos

So I got this mount today.

I was sleeping at the Inn at Stormspire, Netherstorm with my mage. I just wanted to take a fast nap before i continue my mining farming.

So suddenly I heard noice outside disturbing my sleep. I run out and saw a guy in the air that has lost control of his air-machine and was spinning like hell... I didnt have time to react and first thing I knew was me sent flying up in the air...

So i used blink to "avoid falling in the void" (yea kewl poem i know) and slow fall imediatly to land smoothly and not hurt my ass! (I know the blink and slow fall stuff is irrelevant to the mount but i felt like sharing them cause i know you /care)

So after I landed I woke up and saw Kael touching my boobs. (female mage i know you /care about that too).
So i am going to skip the textwall and say how i got this. I simply told him that if he wants keep touching my boobs i want a free mount. And there it was.! AFTER THAT I WENT --> amagad wtf heartbeat leet kewl lol ...spam gchat...!

It was my 0 run! I know im lucky, hate me all, lalalalalala!

Message to all the dimwit tards out there. Stop trolling and give us something usefull. I admired that mount since i first saw it in Shatt. Its the best in game and i agree... But we DONT /CARE on what run you got it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIUBVPddJsk&ob=av3e
(they removed link so go search youtube Akon - We dont care)

Me, out ..beep...beeep...beep.....

Comment by Kraaimoar

Mayhaps a bit of a useless comment but...

In Icecrown the flames coming from Al'ar's trail turn fel green.
Seems to be a lighting glitch but it looks pretty neat!

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Wyrmrest Accord - Horde
15 runs

Keep trying folks! Run with a small group of people you know will appreciate it.
Avoid straight up PuG's as with any other mount! Avoid horrors stories!

Comment by Eturnle

Hit run number 50 today on Kael'thas (just counting the tracked kills, also did several before the tracker was introduced). I am determined to stay at this as long as it takes, but I must say seeing so many get it with so little effort put in and so little appreciation for the mount is a bit upsetting. My server has seen 3 this month, 1 went to someone about their 15th try, another went to someone who had never done TK before, and the last went to someone who I spoke with a bit about the mount. We traded stories about farming the mount for a while at which point I asked him how many runs it took. His response was something to the effect of "Quite a few, I have been trying since I leveled this toon to 85" which prompted me to armory his character and see a whopping 6 next to his total Kael'thas kills. For those of you who genuinely got this mount in less than 25 runs (I say "genuinely" because phrasing it as "anyone" is likely to just provoke fake responses along the lines of "Got this first try, UMADBRO? LOLOLOL) should cherish the mount and understand how incredibly fortunate you are. This is not now, nor is there ever likely to be a mount as amazing as this, which is why I am still slaving away at TK every week a full year later. Good luck to all the farmers, and don't let the lucky ones get you down!

Comment by Knox90

Dropped today for me and 4 other guildies, I won the roll, killed Kael'thas 19 times to see it drop, had farmed it before on my Wotlk Paladin which never dropped.

I was quite surprise to see this dropping since I never had high hopes every week, amazing mount still keeps a bit of rarity but these days you see more and more, guess that's how time flows. Keep farming never give up, takes 10 minutes every week, so good luck.

Comment by forthshadow

I have been soloing this as a Shadow Priest off and on since Cata dropped. Got it last night on my 25 run.

Spec/Glyphs Used: http://www.wowhead.com/talent#bfMoZZGrGdMkrd0ro:smMMRV

Now for my strat for soloing Kael.

Begin by clearing all trash up to Kael's room, including all the trash in Alar's room and the hallway leading to Voidreaver.

Start the fight and immediately running the the entrance of the Instance during the RP speech, if you are slow you will be locked inside the room and its over.

Kill both Thaladred and Sanguinar while you are at the entrance. Keep your back to the wall wile fighting Thaladred and apply Fear Ward when Sanguinar shows up to avoid getting thrown out of the instance.

Once they are dead head to Alar's room, Kill Capernian near the ramp on the right side of the room. Once she is dead, quickly head over to Void Reaver's hallway so Telonicus comes down the way you cleared the trash.

Kill Telonicus near the enterence to Void Reaver's Room.

Once the Advisers are dead the Weapons will spawn, Fight them in the Hall leading upto Kael's room, As soon as they are in range, Sick your Shadowfiend on the Shield and Fade off the agro. Use those 10 seconds to Burn down the Shield as fast as possible as it interrupts spell casting and you will die. Once the shield is dead Kill off Mace next then multi dot the the rest of the weapons down.

Make sure to Pick up both the Mace and the Staff as they are needed during the fight with Kael.

When then Weapons die, or after 2 min, The advisers will all wake up, Since you have spread them out all over he instance they should come at you one by one, simply kill them in the 30 seconds or so before the next one arives, You will need to have the Staff Equiped During your fight with Telonicus and Capernian. Make sure to recast Fear Ward when Sanguinar shows up. Simply kite Thaladred, around untill all of your Cooldowns are up or untill Kael spawns.

Just before Kael spawns equip the mace and cast any heal or Glyphed PW:S, this will give you the Mace buff reducing Fire damage taken by 50% for 30 seconds, you will need to keep this up through out the fight, at all other times you should keep the Staff equipped and active so as to not fall victim to the his AOE stun, it looks like Arcane explosion. Kill the Eggs when the Phinoxes die to prevent them from Re spawning.

Occasionally he will put up his Shock barrier and begin casting Pyroblast, at this point you should Pop Archangel or Shadowfiend and burn through the 80k needed, once the shield is broken Silence him to stop the Pyroblasts. Alternatively you can just Disperse the Pyroblasts and/or heal through it.

Once at 50% he will run away and then start casting Gravity Laps, sucking you in and putting up a Shield, simply swim away and keep yourself alive, he is for the most part immune to all damage during as he spams his shield. Once gravity laps goes down its back the the previous grind, keep it up and eventually he will fall.

Simplifying it a bit, keep the Mace buff up, keep the Staff equipped and active, PW:S on cd, line of sight and heal/renew when needed, use CDs for mana, cast SW:D for mana if needed, always Keep dots rolling, kite the Pheonix and always kill the Phoenix Eggs. Once past the 50% mark the fight is much pretty much over simply burn him down while keeping yourself alive.

Good luck and Keep at it.

Comment by Junodude

Horde side on my server gets 1-2 of these every week or so. It took me 71 weeks to get it, it dropped week 27, but I lost the roll to a guy with mimiron's head.

Comment by robspierre

indeed, you can always check youtube for inspiration, there are videos of enha shaman, retri pala, shadow priest and fury warrior :)

add1: ele shammy aswell
add2: combat rogue

Comment by happylemon162

How I long for this mount, why must it be so rare? May Ezra rest in peace.

Comment by Leat

66 kills now with this reserved on my paladin alone. Maybe some day. I think they should implement maybe if a single character kills a boss like this 100 times, it should drop, to avoid that small chance that I literally never get it.

~Cormier, Whisperwind US~

Comment by Chenox

I got this awesome mount this night!

Ashes of Al'ar
I Farmed it with 2 friends for weeks now. Our setup was: Holy pally, Retri pally and a Fury Warrior.
I know many class's by know can solo this easily, but we did it the lazy way, mostly in 378/391 iLvL gear.
The only problem you will run into is in phase 4 where Kael is casting Mind Control.

If you are soloing him there will be no problem
If you 2 man him it will bug and he will reset.
When 3 manning him as i did you will have a hard time since you will be fighting your 2 team mates.

To avoid this simply just run out of sight from him, hide behind the statues and you will be fine. Me and the warrior was hiding and caught up on phase 5 to burst him down.

Hope you guys who really put an effort into this and love the mount as much as i do get it. It is by far the best looking and most exclusive mount in game atm. I don't mind sharing this mount with a lot others aslong it only are those who really appreciate this who gets it!

Good hunting

Chenox - Anachronos

Comment by Lanis

I got it last night running with a Lock buddy of mine, I'm BM with a Turtle he was Demo using a Fel Guard, we just burned through the adds and used the LoS trick for Kael'thas. I equipped the staff to prevent the stuns from the phoenix's and he stayed with his normal weapon. With both of our pets beating down on him on the other side of his statue, we made quick work of him. The only real mechanic you have to worry about is the Mind Control, but once he casts it, he can't cast it again for 30 seconds, that's your window to heal your pet and burn him down. If you're gonna go that method be prepared for pets to glitch and just not attack the boss. That happened to me about 3 or 4 times, but now I have it and I get to farm it until it drops for my buddy because I promised I would lol.

Comment by christianjlo

got it on my 16th attempt... the best mount in the game!

Comment by Hauro

http://imageshack.us/f/12/asdadsaw.png/ - First run with my shaman, dosent even have skill on it so thats pretty awesome :)....

Comment by christianjlo

damn... again... I got it on my lock alt on first kill! so lucky!
now i have 2 Ashes of Al'Ar, one on my main drood and one on my alt lock! so nice :D

Comment by Kemaria

The mount dropped for me earlier this week - something I'd honestly never expected to be lucky enough to get. RIP Ezra Chatterton - I've been beyond excited to get this mount, but I haven't forgotten and will not forget the one who will forever be associated with it - Ephoenix, the first rider of the phoenix mount.

A quote from the tribute Ezra's father wrote:

My son, Ezra Phoenix Chatterton, Ephoenix the Hunter, Squirlanator the Mage, is gone. All we have left in this world are memories of him. Please remember that he was a good person, smart and clever but also very kind, that he loved to play World of Warcraft, that he loved rice pudding and fettucine alfredo, and that he went through so much pain and still found ways to smile all the way to the end. Please remember too the kindness of Blizzard, and the overwhelming love of the WoW community. Without these gifts, Ezra would still have found a way to be happy and optimistic, just not as easily.

Lok'tar ogar, brother Horde.

Comment by rosecrow

My 2nd time running the raid, and the mount drops! I lost but I was on my druid so I'm not too disappointed...for anyone with a rare mount (not sure which ones exactly will count), Blizzard stated they will most likely make them account-wide so don't despair :O

Comment by mauvikinz

Just so. Damn. SHINY!

Comment by pancakemage

I have run Tempest Keep 4 times now, and this mount has dropped twice. O_o ? Winning.

Comment by jlholmes21

Got mine like 5 minutes ago..... 21:20 30/12/2011

Comment by traviscurry89

Rosecow, where did you see this information?

Comment by Andurit

Its really so easy to 2 men this, u can go in many setups but i tell u 2 versions:
- 1th - Tank with dps gear and any kind of healer, i am doing it on my druid as a healer with one funny blood DK
- 2th Dps + Pala tank , farming this way on my hunter, going with pala healer and she taunt mobs on her and i just fully nuke, ofc need some skill of healer in this setup :))

Tactic:
Its really simple
1th PHASE
- Pull first and second on the wall behind u , far away from another and kill them ( its inportant to have them far away for 3th phase when they all respawn at once)
- Pull mage on oposit side of the room and kill him
- Kill last guy, i feel like its really not imporatant where:P

2th PHASE
- Weapon spawn, pop some CDs to kill them faster ( really not all of your CDs but some cna be usefull
- Priority is to kil healer first, then AOE easy (sorry but i dont remember name of that "healer" weapon but u see he cast heal :) "

3th PHASE
-imo most important one, and hardest as well, all of that "mini boss" spawn at once and they cc u as a hell, pop all possible cds one after one (not all together or they easy CC u and u waste all cds at once)
- priority of killing is here different if u are tank(meele dps) or range , if u are range u 1th go for mage then hunter, and so on...go warr as last one, he die really sloooowly :P. If u are meele dont even try to kill mage he just CC u more and u wipe there, stat with that 2 u pull to back wall after it go next , mage should be last
- if u dont kill them all in time boss come with them and its usualy wipe :)

4th PHASE
- Before fight check that u have statue on the left and right side, remember that always healer should stand at one side and boss at another or he will MC one of u for really long time, if u are range dps u can stay close to healer (not too close bot in range to heal u always..) and let boss stay at another side, if u are meele take care, healer have to heal u mainly with instant heals and reall inportant when he yell something like "Obey ......" make sure u are at oposit side, because it mean he try to MC

5th phase
U take him to half HP and he go to his spawn and fly to the air, healer should stay still behind statue and wait until he fly down and start attacking on u , then he come and heal ( or u can get MC again), after this its pieace of cake, just attack and kill him!

Comment by byakun

drop from raid (the eye) I got this mount after more than 27 try

Comment by blindside27

this mount dropped twice in a row since monday for me.. first running it on my pally, and then running it 2 days later on my mage. both runs were started by myself and I lost both rolls, but I sure am happy to see the people who won, using the mount. ashes of alar drop is still very very low, took me 5 years to actually see it drop, although I have saw this twice this week. I believe it is still a random very low drop rate. Definitely lucky if you have this mount! Not only having it drop, but winning it in a roll aswell!

Comment by Paulosio

Got this on my hunter after a solo kill last night. In my achievements I have 28 kills of Kael'thas and I think about 10-15 of those were solo kills trying to farm this mount. I made a group of 8 (I didn't trust pugs to handle MC) about 3 months ago and the mount dropped but I lost the roll by 1... Ever since that happened i've been solo farming it.

Comment by rkokrox

Got this mount today on my first attempt (sorry). I was trying to solo it for 2 hours or so but the gravity bug made it really hard, so my friend logged on and we 2 manned it. The mount dropped and he gave it to me. We have a pretty lucky history of running instances and getting mounts/items 1st run. I got hand of rag on my first run at lvl 60 on my dk.

I feel extremely lucky since I only have a total of 4 mounts on this character, I really hope everyone trying to get it does eventually get it. The drop rate isn't that bad really. Oh and yes, I was yelling from excitement when it dropped.

Comment by Raisher

Saw this drop today in a 5 man lvl 85 group. I was tied at 91 on the roll and thought I had a real chance of winning. Until some lucky butt rolled a 98. I couldn't believe it dropped. So sad I didn't win it. :(

Comment by Wowcrafter

I've been hunting this godly beast since TBC, and seen it drop twice ever (lucky). I was not going to let it get away from me the 2nd time. Now I ride this epic rainbow pigeon through the jealous crowds. Here is your best chance at getting this mount:

Pug it every week with a small group of casual / non-collector types (~5 85s). Unless you are the right class and skilled & geared enough to solo it, which is still a real pain as of this post and you know it.
Master loot if possible. Roll on the Ashes when they finally drop. You'll probably lose the roll like I did. Wait to distribute loot.
Bribe the winner with a large sum of gold. 50k is a good starting offer. Any noob or casual player is going to take 50kg. I paid 60k for mine and it felt like a steal. If you're too poor to bribe, then you just aren't ready for this and you should be spending your time making gold.
Loot/trade the Ashes and learn it like a boss (enjoy the feat of strength achiev). If you have a lucky stickler in your group who won't take a bribe, you're just out of luck. Don't ninja it unless you want to be the most reviled player on your server.

My cup runneth over, b&*!@#es!

Comment by exotice

am so lucky got that mount on my first run on TK on my warr the loot rule was group and since cata it is no longer 280% flying speed and if u have crusader aura on it will be 300% while u trained artisan riding 330% if u trained master riding i hope this was usefull saw 4 on my realm with this mount except me
Edit: this edit is for solors it is unsoloable so atleast get a druid so he can take dagger+ he use a melee ability to brake Mind control or get some 1 who have that mount and he should be a melee if u are lucky u will find some 1

Comment by Paulosio

Got mine on 7th of January:
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/alonsus/Amaryliss/achievement#81

Then just 2 resets of boosting my brother later on the 21st of January he got it too:
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/alonsus/Arlea/achievement#81

I fully expect to get marked down by all the bitter people who have been farming it for a year or more but I don't care :p I'm happy I never haveto go in there again.

Comment by Garby12

Has anyone been soloing this as an 85 pally? Wondering if it's actually doable or not.

Comment by ryantruman

Shame how this mount is becoming more and more common. Where as i appreciate the fact that players who wouldnt have ever been able to kill kael should also get a chance at nice mounts and they definatley deserve to be able to, i don't think a mount as iconic as this one should have been degraded by letting it become so common :(

Comment by Insanangel

Probably no other item can/will beat this mount and the myth behind it ( although a sad one). And it is obviously a shame to see this emblematic piece of jewelry getting ninjaed. Blizz has an ethical obligation to intervene on this matter no doubt about it.

Rank up the comment if you agree to spread the word Regards.

Comment by Nikolaras98

Drops from Kael'thas and it's still obtainable in patch 4.3.2 . Dropped at me but lost it at rolls.Very unlucky !

Comment by Blazingember

Looking for a group to get this mount with. I will do raid every week till everybody gets the mount no matter how long it takes. I'm blazingember on burning legion so plz add me and mention tempest keep.

Comment by hhm1981

I will get it... :-)

Comment by Mitharian

Amazing for my Blood elf Mage. I can't wait to reserve it, I got a Guild who is willing to let me!

Comment by gilgameesh

got mine on the 14th run

Comment by Keristrasza

Obtained 3/8/12 on Uldum, Alliance side. We did it with 5 people, 1 tank, 1 healer, and 4 dps. We did a fair /need roll, and I won it :) I am so excited it is beyond words. I have never seen this mount drop, and I am sure I will never see it again. I have not seen anyone else on my server with it, either. Best of luck to those who are farming, it is a beauty and a real attention-getter.

Comment by nomu87

Got it first try :)

Comment by Ebolkaa

Ebolienka (Blood DK) level 85 (Burning Blade EU) soling Kaelthas Sunstrider... Mount dropped today, 23.3.2012! YEAH!

Comment by sindrelauris

Our guild farms Kael'thas Sunstrider for this every week, along with some other bosses that drop mounts (Sartharion 3D, Malygos, and Onyxia). This mount by far stands the test of time. It is simply gorgeous. No matter what you are doing at the time it's extremely difficult NOT to notice someone flying past on an Ashes of Al'ar with its colorful streamers, the trail of awesomeness. It by far is one of the biggest "look at me"! items ever put in the game. Between this and my Azure Drake, I'll be happy with my flying mounts for about forever. I am an enthusiastic mount collector and have a number of other very cool and/or prestigious mounts, but I always wind up coming back to, and taking flight on my phoenix. Just can't help it.

Even more awesome than the mount itself is the story of its first recipient, Ezra Chatterton (http://www.wowpedia.org/Ezra_Chatterton). If you haven't read about it I highly suggest you do. By far one of the greatest things Blizzard ever did. If you have any soul whatsoever it's nearly impossible to not be moved by his story. Every Lunar Festival, regardless of what else I do with the holiday, I always visit Elder Ezra Wheathoof in Thunder Bluff to pay respects and honor his memory.

Quite possibly the greatest mount ever created in the game.

Comment by centurius

I got it last night on my 10th KT kill in Tempest Keep! Good luck everyone!

Comment by Texxi

Ugh.

It's hopeless.

75 Kills now. And never ever saw it...

Anyone here to share the pain?

Comment by HoboBoxes

Just got mine on my 15th kill. First solo attempt. 4/9/2012.
I can get ashes but I can't get the White Hawkstrider from the 5 man after 149 kills. lol.

Comment by jonnydepths

Just decided to do it on a one off today, managed to solo everything cept Kael'thas so got DK tank friend to come help me kill him, Ashes dropped and only reason I got them was cos he didn't realise they'd dropped and passed on everything XD

Comment by chriz2fer

Confirmed:

You don't have to kill Al'ar (or any other bosses) for Ashes to drop. Got them yesterday on my 4th solo attempt, and I've never killed Al'ar

You also don't have to worry about the two trash mobs on the far sides in Kael's room; they won't aggro as long as you don't get close to them

Kael's mind control ignores the tank, and requires line of sight to affect anyone else. No need to ever suicide anybody

I have two accounts so to make the fight incredibly smoother I'd use my Blood DK for doing the actual kill, and my warlock to just wear the staff for cc-immunity and he stayed out of line of sight when applicable to avoid mind control. Occasionally toss dots on as well to speed up the kill. Easy

Comment by Deckven

I started to organize TK mount runs in June '11 and were doing this regularly till the beginning of February '12, so it is like 35+ runs in total. I usually propose 10k of gold for everyone in case it drops and motivate people with 300 of gold before enter the instance. I consider this as compensation for their time waste.

No mount drops. Am I pissed off? Ofc, no! I am quite lucky to be owner of two old legendary items and a bunch of rare mounts. If I will post a list of rare mounts I have with amount of attempts I did to get them I would be down voted to oblivion. So, I am not obsessed and not getting crazy every time I see old purples in loot instead Ashes. Hunting for this mount is just fun lottery for me. If it will drops I will have mount, if not - I save 20-30k of gold, so, it is win-win situation.

But there is another reason I write this post. What I really love about these runs is social experience. It is old fashioned grouping, like it was 3.3 and we chat and joke during the run, sharing good memories about old times in WoW. Sometimes people asked me how the hell I got so much gold? And I consult them about this. I'm quite proud that I encourage some people to play serious games at AH. Also there were really fun runs with Cata-kids. They pull Alar, thinking this is boss, which drops mount, they pull boss, thinking this is trash, they ask why we run raid with 3-4 people in raid.

My advice to all, who farm this mount with groups. Do not be angry in case of no drop, think about positive side - you might make friends in game as a side result. This side of the game was really vanished after 3.3, so do not loose your chance to socialize.

Comment by traviscurry89

I got this mount on 4/24/12 on Magtheridon 3 manned it with a tank heals and ranged dps I was super stoked when I got it as you can imagine. Thought of Ezra to. Strength and Honor my friend.

Comment by holix12

The mount drops from Kael'Thas Sunstrider. He's the last boss in Tempest keep: The Eye.
edit: Downrate? Hm..

Comment by badweather

now that we know that they are removing this mount in next expansion MoP, there will probably be a lot more people trying to get this before they remove it

submitted screenshot of GM conversation

Comment by ellil

This item really seems to bring out the extremes in people more than any other in the game. I have read and heard about UGLY fights and ninjas where entire servers have put a ninja on blast. But, despite this, I was able to experience the extreme good that this item can produce as well.

I had become friends with a death knight in my guild, and I had been teaching him WoW (he was very new to the game; he never had anyone to guide him. Quick learner and talented, but just needed a nudge in the right direction). I had been trying for weeks to solo Kael, and I wiped countless times on the weapons phase as a mage. I couldn't take a 5 man group into this place because I would be devastated if I lost the roll on the extreme chance it dropped. One day I decided what the heck, I'll try and two man it with my friend. If I lose the roll, at least it is to someone I respect and can I be genuinely happy for. He came along with me and we cleared out all 3 TK bosses leading to Kael just for fun and a bit of gold. I quickly went over the strategy we were going to use to my friend, and after a few attempts to learn the fight as a two man, we finally got it down.

I was able to finish off the final phase of the fight with my friend dead, and I killed Kael while surviving with 100 health and 0 mana (as close as it comes). After the epic end to the fight I went over and looted, and there it was. On some divine intervention, the ashes dropped. Even more shocking, after the initial freak out of seeing it drop, my friend passed on the ashes and gave it to me for helping him out in the game so much. He knew how much I wanted it, and he gave it to me as thanks. He had said he would give the mount to me before we went, but I didn't believe him at all because NO ONE passes on Ashes. I've seen how many people have said they would ninja this if they had the chance despite being honest players normally (I'd even made it painfully clear how rare this is to him).

After I mounted up on my ashes I offered him all my gold, to power level his alts, buy all his enchants, get any mount in the game for him, and basically anything he wanted in the game he could have it for the rest of time. He denied all of it and refused to take anything because he said he was paying ME back (I forced some some stuff on him though haha). I still massively disagree with him on who is paying back who in this situation (I still buy him things he needs). Out of all the ugly stories this mount dropping can produce, this is the last thing I would have ever expected to happen to me when I saw it drop.

Now, here's to farming Kael till the end of time to get my friend his Ashes!

Comment by DorianFyre

A moderately well geared Blood DK's / Monk's brief guide to soloing Kael'thas for Ashes of Al'ar. with tips on how other classes could do it. Brief enough to read as you do it! (but read it first anyway) NOTE this guide was made for Cata and is probably even easier now.

Also edit for interest, patch 5.1 December 6th 2012, I finally got Ashes!. I haven't been farming it every week but it has taken, estimate about 20 attempts? Guess I'm pretty lucky.

First, clear the whole raid. You don't need to kill the bosses but if you can't do them you probably can't do KT, to test yourselves on them. All the trash needs to die though.

Enter Kael's room, aggro, then run to the start of the instance. Put your back to a wall and wait for the warrior dude. He does knockbacks, don't get knocked out the instance, hence why you keep your back to a wall. I learned that the hard way.

As SOON as he dies, run to the back of the phoenix room, in the middle but not up the stairs. Kill the paladin dude.

Next, pelt it upstairs and go into either tunnel - doesn't matter but I usually go to the right. Kill the mage as soon as you see her, she should get to about the bottom of the corridor that leads to Kael's room by the time you get there. Be warned, her disorient can't be broken out of (except if you have staff but DKs can't get that).

Then, run up said corridor after you kill her, and kill the engineer dude. Kill him quick enough and you won't get his annoying stun debuff. You should now be right near Kael's room, a purple barrier thing stopping you getting in. That's fine.

Kael will now summon the weapons. You need to kill them in less than a minute or so but try not to blow CDs. You'll need them for the next bit. Pop a CD if you have trouble killing them before the next step but it'd be better if you didn't. NOTE: If you're doing this as a class that can equip staves, you mightaswell equip the Staff because it makes you immune to the disorient. You'll do less damage but it's the disorients that get you killed, so this way is much safer.

Kael ressurects all adds at once after about a minute and a half or two, with more than twice their original hp. This is the most crucial moment of the fight. As he starts saying he will do this through yell, time it so that by the time he's finished, you've finished casting Army of the Dead you can start nuking the closest guy to you; the Engineer. This is where you need your CDs. You need to get the engineer down (about 400k hp) before the mage at the end of the corridor can run up to you. Icebound Fortitude if you get affected by his debuff before he dies, as you really don't want to get stunned whilst you take on the mage, or are still taking down the engineer.

Kill him and then kill the mage as fast as you can ASAP. This is what I call the danger zone of the whole fight. If you don't kill the mage fast enough, you get disoriented for 9 seconds and you can't break out of it. Or if you arn't a DK you can just pick up the stave and you don't have to worry about the disorient at all, it just takes longer to kill them.. which isn't a problem. But otherwise this CC is unbreakable and the longer the mage is around, the smaller your chances of doing the fight.

Bare in mind you've got the paladin incoming. Tip: use Anti-Magic Shell to not get affected by the disorient and nuke her down with whatever you got left. Finishing the paladin and warrior should be easy enough. Fighting them all at once is virtually impossible and the sole reason you spread their corpses around the instance to start with. Unless you have the staff.

Finally Kael comes out. I run back up to the purple barrier blocking his door and fight him there. Interrupt his Fireball when you can and save anti-magic shell for his pyroblasts. Kael will STILL hurt like HELL, even as a lv70 raid boss. Don't underestimate him. Kill the phoenixes and phoenix eggs that spawn, and stay out of the glowing fire crap on the ground, basic stuff really. When he gets to about 50% hp, he runs back to his room and does some stuff. I use this time to heal up, get CDs back and so on.

(Alternatively, you can run near to the start of the instance and fight him in Al'ar's room. The reason why running back might be a good idea is, when he gets to 50% he will run all the way back to his room, spend about 30 seconds powering up, then run back to you. If you need more time to wait for CDs or anything, try it. I usually find it fine to just sit outside the purple door to his room, though.)

When he comes back he will have a new ability; Gravity Lapse. Basically the moment he uses that, just run away and hide behind a sticky-outy bit in the wall. In fact if you just run away far enough you should be fine but I hide behind it anyway just to make sure. He starts spamming Nether Beam, which reduces all stats by 10% and stacks 9 times. You can't beat Kael if you let that stack on you, so all you have to do is run away, so you don't get affected by it too much and can carry on smacking him once he stops. Then it's just rinse and repeat as he was with above 50% health, except the running away from Nether Beam part.

It took me a few tries to get it right, was about to quit before giving it one more shot which worked.
I tried again recently thinking it would take a few tries but can do it pretty much first attempt every time now.

Good luck. Sell TK boosts to people after you get the phoenix for extra monies. Boost people on RP realms who want T5 for super golds.

Comment by haideau

Just got this tonight. My friend and I started farming this back in 2008. We did it every week, proving that this drop rate is accurate or even lower. No idea how many time we did it.

At 80, we did a group of 5.

At 85, I'm a Priest and did it with another priest. Very easy to 2 man. I can even solo it, but it's a bit tricky and very close. After farming this for 4 years, both my friend and I have this mount. It shows that friendship can get you anything.

Comment by Tox1city

Account wide mounts have been confirmed and have been added to the beta. Now that mounts will be shared between all of my characters, I will be farming this mount on all five of my 85's, greatly increasing the chance of getting this bad boy.

Comment by hyperioussoe

With the new information coming out about Account-Wide Mounts in Mists of Pandaria, those of you who, like me, desperately want this on their main no longer have to fear running TK on an alt.

Where before, you had to run it in fear of seeing the mount drop while you were on an alt, now it doesn't matter. Race those toons to level-cap and start farming this guy ten times a week.

With any luck, the Phoenix will be yours in only a few months' time instead of ten billion years.

Comment by peepjynx

Bump this up - I was never a religious KT killer but this was my 7th attempt in 3 years on my DK and it dropped.

I'm on Lightning's Blade -US and this has dropped for at least 1 guildie every week and on my server - countless others.

I'm sure they increased the drop rate or we're just really lucky - but not a week goes by where at least 2 people get it....

Midnight on the other hand...... :(

Comment by Mcspazatron

Probably the most prestigious mount in the game besides Reins of the Raven Lord. Almost 5 years later and still barely anyone has it. TBC always had the coolest stuff.

Comment by snix001

This mount will be part of the Black Market Auction House in Mists of Pandaria.

Comment by Suntrapper

In Mists of Pandaria, you will be able to purchase this mount from the Black Market Auction House. It will only be up for Auction for 24 hours...and it will not always be up for auction but will be more of a random posting by Mei Francis. I can't wait to see trade blow up when this Mount gets listed...and then see the chaos that will ensue from the bidders.

Comment by Hoodeddeath

From what ive been told im extremely lucky, i went into TK one time my very first time and had this mount drop to go along with my dumb luck of getting the white hawkstrider on my second time in that instance and the fiery warhorse after about maybe 10 boss kills.. still trying on my ravenlord tho.. XD good luck to everyone! hopefully everyone can get what they want if anything save up your gold and buy it in mop...? lol

Comment by Medivhal

Did Tempest Keep today. My 4th time I believe and I got it. Really love this mount.

Comment by saiseee

i got one yesterday, first time in tempest keep, and i was the last to do a need rolll. ITS SO PRETTY ! (:

Comment by Kelep

Just droppe for my 6th run i even have a screenshot here with the legendary wings :)
I was so happy that i got it. To be honest i did it with my friend who already have it so it was obvious that i will get it but not for the 6th run
The funny fact is that my friend has done only 16 runs and he saw 2 of these
Jaqenhqhar-ragnaros eu-allience side :)

Comment by dythe

Finally finished farming this for myself as well as my husband. All things considered, we were pretty darn lucky - the first mount dropped after about 20 weeks of farming. The second dropped on the 54th week.
We duo'd Kael'thas weekly as a Disc Priest and Blood DK (wearing DPS gear) and it only takes about 10 minutes once you get a solid strat for the fight (which may vary between groups - I've seen some just take the MC instead of LoSing it like we do).

The best advice I can give is don't give up. It's bound to drop eventually, but you absolutely may be looking at a year or more before it does. However, it's not a large time investment at all per run.

If you can't solo it, find a good friend who's willing to run with you weekly (hopefully one that already has the mount or will let you have it - or at least one that will keep running with you if it drops and they get it!). This fight can be solo'd by most classes, though duoing is definitely easier. Anything more than 3 people is overkill though, and severely cutting your chances of winning the mount if it drops.

Comment by darkness65

Just got both this and the hawkstrider in the same day only about 2 hours apart. Ashes dropped after 10 kills and the hawk strider after 15 kills. Soloed as an 85 hunter

Comment by Aquafurry

I went to TK on my healer, the characters first time, my third. This mount was mentioned by the raid leader several times and I knew that if it dropped my chances of winning were slim, due to a full raid group. After downing Kael, we were all shocked to see it drop, many of us had never seen it, including the raid leader. We all rolled for it, many of us praying to the RNG gods that we would get a high number. I won it, barely, with a +1 over the raid leader. People offered me all of their gold, but I really wanted the mount all to myself. The raid leader was bummed at the loss, but was happy for me. After a little talking, the raid leader and I became friends and I run with her on her TK attempts.

Happiest day ever =)

Comment by Darkdiamond

Just dropped after 22 runs, and got ninja'd. lol so know I know 22 weeks of running it at the least from now on.

Comment by Homeslice

It has an increased drop % during the midsummer fire festivel. Blizzard wont admit to this, but everyone knows it. I got mine last year during the festival, and so did a few other people on my realm. 4 people on my server have already gotten it this summer. Check the achievement date on somebody who has it and theres a good chance it will be june 21 - july 3.

I ninjaed mine after 7 kills. I have 2 computer monitors so I had my account on 1, and my friends alt on the other one. I made him the leader and changed it to master loot right before the boss was killed. Then I took the mount on his character and hearthed. I left my character in the group to look innocent, so I just complained like the rest of the group. Then I eventually hearthed out on my real toon and traded the mount to myself. Loot rules werent stated so the GMs cant take it from me, and nobody cares that I ninjaed it. People in top guilds on my server were even saying to me they would do the same thing. Happy Farming :)

Comment by donthavename

Got mine on my 7th try today had to pay 28k all well worth it tho :D

Comment by dexter98

36 runs on my ret pally, 34 runs on my warrior, 30 runs on my 1st Dk and 11 runs on my 2nd DK that's 111 runs and still no mount.

I made 2nd DK specifically to farm Ashes, it kills me a little every time I see people flying around with less than 10 kills.

Comment by pLcs

I just ran TK on my blood dk. I died the first time cause of the CC, it was 2 much for me. Second time I almost died but I made it to final phase. I downed the boss and to my surprise the mount dropped, it was so worth staying there. I almost cried :D. So 500g + mount yes please! Well im a happy camper when pandaria comes out since all my chars will have this mount. Just remember if soloing if you get through the disorientation part you could ez do it. Thamuz, blood dk @ Bloodhoof Europe

Comment by wouter1246

My ultimate wow goal is to get this mount!

Comment by THunter

Just dropped for the second week in a row whilst 3 manning it.

15th ever run, also dropped about 2 months ago.

So 3 drops in 15 runs, lucky? :D

Comment by Xliana

I just won this mount on my first try at TK, I ran it with 2 other people and won the Roll :)

Comment by Trukido

From what i've seen in PTR. Ashes of Al'ar will no longer be obtainable in MoP and become a feat of strength.

Comment by Frostician

Got it on my first run of TK. Really pissed that the horseman hasn't dropped from Kara yet though...

Comment by Ellinna

With a 2% drop chance, it's higher than just about any other mount drop in dungeons/raids. The Amani War Bear, of course, is 100% if you beat the timer.

Had it drop today and was shocked as any person would be.

Comment by Yeahmate

Just got it on my 9th run... I'm still shaking... Thank you RNG !

EDIT: Please read my other post about what happened to my Ashes, and a warning to all.

Comment by Cendrine

Got it with my hunter at 1st try,if you are a dk or hunter dont do anything but solo this boss.Good Luck everyone

Comment by Yeahmate

I just had this mount removed from my character after 2 days of obtaining it. The reason it was removed was because I ninja'd it. Just a warning to anyone who encounters the blessing of this mount to drop and decides to ninja loot it. I feel I can never recover from this, and I have no option but to just quit World of Warcraft. The fact that I will probably never see this mount drop again for another 100+ runs kills me inside. Please think before you decide to do something like steal this godly mount... Just a warning.

- Kelandon on Frostmourne.

Comment by Opallace

Dropped for me today, August 14, 2012 on Area 52. I got offered 50k for it, and i couldn't as I don't have it on any other character. It's amazing. I'm so happy as i usually have terrible luck. Thanks you Blizzard and your randomness.

Comment by Teeleh

A friend and I set out in March of 2012 with taming A'lar in mind. (A druid, and a priest.) We had put this off for far too long, and were all out of excuses. We were prepared for the agonizing grind, as we needed to see not one, but two of her drop. Months passed as expected, with not even a glimmer of hope.

& Then it happened. On the 10th of July 2012, Kael'thas fell, and huddled beneath his refuse lay the smoldering ashes of A'lar.

We ecstatically eyed it a moment in disbelief before it registered that the mount was actually there before us. Happy to just see her drop, we rolled fair and square for it, and my friend won. We were then very hopeful, and pressed on.

Five weeks later it happened again, and on this day, August 14 2012, I became the newest and proudest owner of A'lar. I remember when this content was released many years ago..and so this mount means very much more to me than just an additional digit to add to the collection. It is legendary, and arguably one of the most attractive creatures in this game.

Thank-you RNG, as we were considerably luckier than most. & to the adventurers reading this I say to you, don't give up. Keep up the good work..and when you lay your hands on A'lar, make a point to tell the community! Because its not about gloating, its about providing hope to those still searching.

~Thanks

Comment by sTyLnK

I'm so happy to finally get this mount. This dropped my very first attempt many years ago and I lost the roll by one. To lose and be so close, we all know that feeling of losing out on something you really want. It's not a good feeling. But, I decided not to give up. After 70 attempts, it finally dropped again and I was lucky enough to WIN the roll by one. I know it's a comment that people won't care about, but after that many attempts to see it drop again and to finally win, no one is going to take this away from me. It's cliche, but very true. If you want it bad enough, you'll be rewarded one day. :)

Comment by Emypony

i just bought it today from the server and it looks awesome! good thing about other servers is that the loot at KT is not BUGGED! here it is:((
EDIT: why yu downvote :"(

Comment by Wyxoorr

I got this Badass mount yesterday abou 3:00 PM,

Really glad I got it It's just VERY beautiful, However, I first did the instances nearby, The arcatraz, The Mechanar or However you spell them! >_< A few guildies and I decided too catch up people and do a firelands run, but we didn't find as many as we thought so we threw in ourselves in Tempest Keep instead! Jeez good we didn't find peeps! I was already there and I Summed the group with my mate Darión when he came, (I was already there because I had done the instances nearby) The group got inside We cleared thrash, Killed the Bird wich has the same model as Ashes of Al'ar. Then too the giant robot, We did not kill that third boss we just got too the main boss and wiped him out quickly, We were like 10 85s. However the mount was reserved for me and when the boss was dead and I looted him, I saw the mount laying there, I got like 500 heart-beats a second and the leader passed it over too me. Now I am riding on it and many people are saying gz :)

You also get a Feast of Strength Achievement from getting the mount. I am really happy that I got it, The chances were low and I "KNEW" It would not drop, I am still glad we never got enough people for the Firelands!

Beautiful Mount, I am Lucky having it! :)

Comment by johannhowitzer

I heard a rumor this was being removed as a drop in Pandaria - likely only a rumor, but if anyone gets this to drop in patch 5 or later, please post so we can confirm it still drops. If it doesn't, the rate is so low we'll probably never know for sure anyway though.

Comment by johannhowitzer

Rough cumulative chance for this mount to drop at least once over multiple attempts:

(Note: each individual attempt is still 2%, past failures do not increase your chances in the future.)

1 attempt: 2% drop
5 attempts: 10%
11 attempts: 20%
20 attempts: 33.3%
35 attempts: 50%
55 attempts: 66.6% (little over a year)
69 attempts: 75%
80 attempts: 80%
94 attempts: 85%
114 attempts: 90% (over two years)
148 attempts: 95%
228 attempts: 99% (four and a half years)

Happy farming.

Comment by Krusca

Whit the new sistem of sharing mount, if the raid is done every week with all 10 players there is a chance of about 20%!

Comment by Shadowmanx

This mount does still drop 5.0.4 I got it Aug 31. Around my 15th try gl guys don't give up it's an awesome mount.

Comment by darkmaster649

This had dropped August 1'st 2012. My very first run of the eye on my main death knight EVER, i was amazed to see it. Everyone in the group knew it was on reserve for me. However our guild healer left and we wiped, logically i searched through trade chat for a new one. Me being myself, forgot to let out new healer know that ashes was on res. Well, as i said, it dropped, me being the master looter i eagerly selected my name. The healer was furious at the least, since she didnt know it was on res despite the guild letting her know it was, she made us do a roll. The guild all tried to get the mount for me. Unfortunatly, the 3 remaining guild members of The Holy Knights could not win me the Ashes of Al'ar, i am still hunter for the beast and i am determined to get it back. Keep fighting guys! It will drop for you too!

Comment by Corq

I remember when this was the fastest mount in the game. It was funny watching people bow down to your 310% vs their 280% Still looks cool though

Comment by Cassonberry

Dropped on my third 3man run of TK. Hunter spent about 10 minutes begging and offering 1.8k (pfft) for it before I learned it right in front of him.

Anyways, its a beautiful mount, and I am glad that mounts are account wide now :)

Comment by Esploratore

Just in case anyone was worried "oh, al'ar didn't drop in my solo runs so far, now it might have been removed", no, it didn't get removed in MOP, dropped today on my 66th attempt of which first was 8-man not even going for the mount but just for the achievement, a few 3-man mount farming, 15-20 2-man warrior and mage, like 10 more time soloed as warrior, like 34 times soloed on dk, all of this at level 85, and once on a level 89 rogue and dropped on my first and last run on my 89 mage. Got some screenshots in case someone doesn't believe it still drops, till then there's no need to post them.

Comment by fannie

I got this pretty thing on a wednesday at 1 am, me and my friend enterd the eye around 0:30 and it was killed around 1 am, i dont know why but i always loot bosses that drops mounts some seconds after death mounts mostly drop when i wait a bit, but anyways, i looted it like 15 sec after death and i saw the icon if ashes at this moment i was screaming like the little girl i am, my friend was laughing, and was so nice to pass the mount for me, but still gonna do the eye every week till he gets it, happy farming everyone, it will drop sometime

Comment by Kookiebiskit

A friend of mine had been doing TK for several months, years probably, always in PuGs without Master Looter to give everyone who helped kill the boss a fair chance at the mount. A couple of times, I went with him.
One night, we were having particular problems with Kael, as he kept glitching out on us. We had to restart the fight a good seven or eight times before finally downing him. I ran up to Kael's corpse and clicked on it.
The mount had dropped.
We decided all to roll need on it, apart from the priest, who most nobly passed on it. So I clicked the little dice button and waited. Needless to say, I was slightly disappointed when I saw I had rolled a 64. Then I kept reading the numbers. 33, 18, 15... the other numbers weren't as high as mine. I checked my bags and saw the icon there, refusing to believe the possibility of it to be true. My heart skipped several beats.
Then something clicked in my head and I felt terribly guilty. "What", I thought, "will my friend think of me? Will he ever even talk to me again?" So I ran up to his character, opened the trade window, dragged the mount in there and pressed "Trade".
He ignored the trade. Just like that, after I had forced it on him, no price, nothing, just for our friendship's sake. He absolutely refused to accept it, believing that as I won it, it had to be mine to keep.
After a good ten minutes of arguing and making him swear we wouldn't fall out over it, I gave in. And so, by the honour and goodness of one of the greatest people I know, I came to own this extraordinarily beautiful mount.

: Today, 6th of March, my friend finally got his Ashes. I am so happy for him, you cannot believe :)

Comment by britannagis

At 20 runs. I do it every Tuesday night after our guild raid. Must not give up!

Comment by Summeriah

My fi and I ran for this beauty today. He was a level 90 monk while I was a level 85 hunter. During the fight I died but he took down Kael'. In disbelief and awe the reins dropped and he yelled: "Don't Need!" I greed on the reins and he got his phoenix (first time running the dungeon). If I had rolled Need I would had won her... but, fate smiled on me when we ran for the Virtuous Stone Drake afterward and I received its reins.

Comment by Photonz

I obtained this mount about 6 months ago doing a relatively small pug run. All 6 of us rushed to Kael to down him quickly, it was meant to be a simple xmog run.

I was the only healer and our group kept wiping because everyone didn't seem to know the mechanics. My friend and I explained them and we gave additional attempts. After the 8th wipe I was just about fed up with this group until I remembered that it would be rude to simply hearth out. I stuck through and we downed him, barely, on the 9th attempt.

The mount dropped and I lost the roll by 3. Luckily, the winner was a guildy and sold me the mount for 200k.

I see now that this item is purchasable on the BMAH. I'm sad to see it won't be as rare anymore, but I'm glad it will give more people the opportunity to enjoy this fantastic mount. But beware, my 200k buying price of the mount has been scoffed at by many so if you are truly interested at buying this mount from the bmah, you better have well more than I paid. Good luck!

Comment by merit12

just got it as solo fury warrior . First run ever :D sick

Comment by Sneakyone13

Now it wowhead has officially informed us in Pandaria there will be a Vendor that is run by the sever and let's you bid on rare mounts such as this. Hopefully your looking forward to this as much as I am :)

Comment by Ekomi

Just a little pointer: Kael'thas is now quite effortlessly soloable as a 90 Rogue with at least halfway decent gear and a Combat spec.

The best way to do this would be to clear one of the two hallways leading up to him of trash, then killing the advisors into the hallway. Make sure Capernian dies quite a bit away from the others so you have time to nuke her down before Telonicus' Remote Toy or Thaladred's knockback start messing with you. The only real issue is the phase with all 4 advisors at the same time - Kael himself MIGHT hurt you a bit, but just keep Recuperate up and use cooldowns intelligently.

Good luck farming, my Rogue brothers and sisters.
-Ekomi, Scarshield Legion EU

Comment by Anstriber

You can buy Ashes on Black Market Auction House i saw it few days ago on bmha largest bid was around 300k :D

Comment by PainKiller

So... The very first time I kill Kael'thas with my blood dk, the mount drops, I was there for achievements and there it happened, one shocked and happy player lol...

Comment by Sundridge

Mount dropped on my 20th try today. And I can say that it is pretty easy to solo as lvl 90 fire mage with hc gear.

Comment by Xerk1

I've been doing this boss 2/3 man with same friends almost every week.

Today we did 2man it. After 38 kills it finally dropped ! I rolled 73 and my friend rolled 80 :P. He deserved it tho
Guess I won't see it again, but I do have faith!

Comment by Killerchronic

Having just done this as a rogue for the first time solo (i usually try with a healer friend, we were at it for quite some time at 85). I still used the tactic that a pally did soloing back at 85, which was to start the fight, run out the room and to the front door, take down the 2 minibosses there, then run back and take the 3rd (caster) up the ramp as if your going back to KT's room and then brought the 4th into the room with loot reaver. Took the weapons on the ramp while going back up to the caster.

Not entirely sure what happened but after about 30secs with the caster (knockbacks were keeping me away alot) i suddenly ended up ported to the front door with the first two i had pulled there. Caught me off guard a bit but dps'd them down and worked my way back, by the time i was leaving Al'ar's room all 4 were dead and it was KT coming through the door. With level 90 and gear from Hc's and a few bits from LFR he was not very bad at all.

Did use recuperate once or twice but nothing more, also used Leeching Poison, but i never really felt worried, remote toy was as annoying as always though.

And the bit i'll prob get hated for, the mount did drop :D

Comment by Leat

After 102 kills on my paladin alone, and a few others scattered between other toons, all with the mount reserved, it finally dropped for me. Nothing can describe the pain and emotions I've gone through farming this mount. I've literally dreamt about it. Feels good, man. I will never use another mount ever.

~Cormier, Whisperwind US~

Comment by kah06

Just got it 10minutes ago, I'm so happy :) Been trying to get the headless horseman reins without any luck, but this certainly makes up for it!

Comment by gjevestad

Dropped on my second run today 08.11.12.
My key to luck is to always beg god before you loot, always works.

Comment by bliink32

For all dem Ashes of Al'ar hunters out there. <3

> oi49.tinypic.com/35i0ids.jpg (Btw its my alt account, already have Ashes on main ^^)

The Maelstrom EU

/Imenom

Comment by Slylou321

The formula to calculate your drop chance ( x ) over any given number of runs ( y ) is this
1 - ( ( 1 - x ) ^ y )

For Ashes of Al'ar:
Your X Value: .0217
Your Y Value: The amount of weeks you have wasted farming this mount

Comment by Forama

downed Kael'thas yesterday for the first time solo as Pala 90, sadly it didn't drop, I will farm this each week from now on :)

Comment by Losai

I can confirm with Mists of Pandaria this can be solo'd. Of course it would be easier solo'd with a pally, warrior, dk, ect. It may be difficult after just hitting 90 but I did it as soon as i hit on my DK as blood and could get it. If you have a ranged character then you will need to pick up and use the staff on yourself.

You will want to kill the MAGE first. If you are having difficulties then kill the guy with the GUN second. After that it doesn't really matter how you kill the other two. If you are low on health then you should have time to heal up before KT starts to attack you.

If you can't solo this then you will actually have to have safely like 4 or 5 people simply just because if there is more than one person he will do his MC and people will start attacking you and it hurts really bad. I'm not saying that it can't be done by 2 or 3, but when I tried it as 2 Mages and a Priest, the Mages both got MCd and killed the priest in a few seconds.

Hopefully this helps you be able to farm this mount a little better. If I left anything out please let me know =D Happy Farming!

Comment by alovette01

Got mine off the Black Market AH this morning for the low low price of 110K! And worth every copper IMHO :)

Comment by lovechia

I don´t get why this mount is so popular. I´m not impressed at all, plus it´s graphics are way outdated. Of course, back in the day it was a huge thing.

Comment by griffo525

Got mine first try, guess its beginner luck :) easy to solo as a 90 hunter.

Comment by ekinorak

This is not hard to obtain nowdays. Me and a friend decided to farm this mount. Now in MoP the encounter is easily soloable. We used 2 Character each, hunter and druid, and shaman and druid. So we each got loot 2 times each week. Took us 3 Months(he got it after 2months, i got it after 3months). Basicly if you kill it with 2 toons every week, it shouldet take more than 25 tries. You can allways be unlucky, but this one has quite a high drop chance.

I dont like the trail the mount makes, as i tend to get it in my camera(Point of view). My guildmates dident feel sorry for me though :(

Comment by Stuntman

The near impossible happened today...dropped on 1st attempt. Did they change the drop rate! Armory Blargaragaga from Dragonmaw once I get flight training.

Comment by tangze

This mount just dropped for me today 5th of December 2012. Soloed boss as 90 windwalker monk with no problem at all. My ilvl is 475. Used touch of death on da female blood elf Mage, instantly killed her cause wiped on her annoying spells the 1st time. Expel harm and chi wave all the time to regen health. Kill fast.

Comment by ValyBMW

Got it on second run after 5.1

Comment by Ashleyy

To all the people coming here and saying "ohh i got it 2nd run, is drop rate increased?" no. People have been saying the same thing about the onyxian mount. The fact is were 90 now and these bosses are so easy to solo now. Almost everyone is farming these so for a good amount of people to get it, is not out of the ordinary at all.

Tl;DR
Mount drops rates have NOT been increased. Just because it drops for you doesnt mean you have to question the drop rate and post about how you got it your second try

Comment by nopparitari

still drops in 5.1.0 since i just got mine :D

Comment by Cessna

Got this yesterday on my (frost) mage.
I did Kael about 6 weeks in a row, before I got it. Not a lot of tries by any means.
I might be somewhat done with 'mount farming' now actually. I have the hawkstrider from MGT and now Ashes. So I have both of Kael's mounts. The sweetest thing about obtaining it was the achievement popup in the guild chat, and everyone's congratulations.

Comment by Greyvax

Pretty easy to solo this as a war specced arms. Second wind is essential. Bandage after weapons phase. Pop all cooldowns + bladestorm when all 4 adds come active at the same time to prevent getting chain knocked back. For kael just interrupt fireball when you can (hits about 18k or so), and just wail on him. Bandage when he rises up in the air and after this it should just be a burndown.

Comment by Alonon

I have been farming this for over 4 years now. 104 kills on my main account and another 20 ish on another account. I refuse to buy it off the BMAH just because I want to feel as if I earned it after all this time. Ashes, I will have you!

Edit. 5FEB13 119 kills. No luck. 97 ony clears with no luck also. The game hates me.

Edit. 13FEB13 103 ony kills and got the mount. 125 kael kills and still no luck.

Edit. 26FEB13 139 kills. It dropped. Now to malygos farming. =)

Comment by Corq

Lets break it down a bit.

Think of a graph, where Y represents time farming and X represents how important this mount is. X=Y(Squared), based on that formula you can clearly see that there's a point where you farmed the mount so much, that its no longer gaining any importance, its simply wasting your time.

X=Y(Squared)

To all those people who claim to have spent 3+ years farming this, please refer to the formula.

Comment by MrB153

Just soloed him tonight on my warlock first time, and had the mount drop. My joy was dampened as my gf was sitting next to me and about wanted to kill me since it's her favorite mount, and she has yet to see it:S

Comment by catadon22

so... much... farming!

Comment by Grooved

I am currently farming this mount for my collection, i have obtained all satchel mounts, the fiery warhorse, onyxian drake etc. The only thing that is a bummer is i have managed to obtain some very rare mount's in my time, i have farmed TK longer than any other place, and i think that i have drained my luck completely. I will continue to farm, and i wish everybody luck and congratulations if you manage to obtain this beautiful mount. Kael'thas is one of my favourite hero's within Warcraft. All i have left to farm is the Ashes, and the Azure Drake. Then my 'solo' farming is complete, wish me luck!

Grooved/Acidass/DarkspearEU

Cheers!

Comment by dracnus

Just decided to run this, for the first time since last expansion.
Really, I just couldn't sleep and needed something to do for fifteen minutes while I got drowsy.
So, I decided to see if my poor little Ret paladin could solo this.
I ran in, and died...but wasn't tired yet, so I gave it a second chance!
Able to kill his four annoying adds whilst bubbling to get one down, so I wasn't fully CC'ed the entire time,
I was able to get passed them and onto Kael!
Phase 4 rolls around and I'm full health feeling pretty good, and officially tired.
He drops to the ground, I drop him!
He drops... Ashes of Al'ar

Now how am I going to sleep!

Comment by ganjalord

unfortunately this isnt a rare trophy anymore.... after the buff to the drop rate and TK becoming easier to solo this mount is seen all over now... quite common. doesnt have the same spice it used to...once you see 4-5 other ones floating around.

Comment by Jaiyara

Still drops as of 5.1 Got Monday 12/8/12 :)

Comment by petejk

Tried two manning this, and the fight kept glitching out, so brought in another 3 players.

Wasn't even after the mount, but a quest item, but it dropped..

Wow is all I can say!

Comment by Purelife

is it true u can only fly in northrend and outland? or did they change that?

Comment by Tashiel

Does anyone know if Breanni will sell this on the Black Market? If anyone sees it, give us a run down on the bidding war, lol.

Comment by Maelchav

I'm not usually one to post about getting a drop, but then I don't usually get a drop like this.

After reading up on soloing Tempest Keep in MoP I decided to give it a try on my only 90 so far, my affliction warlock. He's only decked out in about half crafted PvP gear and half Honor-bought PvP gear. The first three bosses were cake, no strategy needed except to keep moving from the Void Reaver to avoid getting silenced.

I followed the strategy of spreading the mini-boss adds out throughout the raid during the first phase so I could kill them separately when they were resurrected, and I equipped the Staff of Disintegration to avoid CC. Sacrificed the minion to avoid Mind Control. Then wore Kael'thas down once he engaged. It was harrowing, but very rewarding to finally see him fall after so many failures in the past with small groups.

It was icing on the cake to see this mount when I looted the corpse. That turned out to be my 100th mount, so I got an achievement and another mount. Not 10 minutes later, someone in my guild got his second Warglaive - it was a good night!

Comment by DarkZaraelys

This dropped yesterday. We were there for a priest chest token off kel. a shamy and prot pali with the holy priest, longest fight ever... 2 classes that could heal kept Kel at near full health. Shamy kept me hexed when I was MC.

Was so shocked to see the mount drop that I staired at it for about 50 seconds and then went "Yes, everyone needs" about 50 more seconds passed before the priest asked "we all needing?" He won. ;) Best consolation prize for not getting the drop we were there for, ever.
Now to see if me and the shamy can get one to drop

Comment by phantom325

This item is sold on the BMAH

Comment by Jenadaex

Every single rare epic pre-mists has had its drop rate dramatically raised in 5.1. I don't understand why you all are in such great denial. This isn't due to more people running it, everyone has been seeing more epics. This week alone i have seen both ashes & onyxias mount pop up, that is a 0.00012% chance according to wowheads current data. While that is obviously in the realm possibility you all really need to start accepting that the drop rate has increased. Just watch Reins of the Onyxian Drake's drop rate for a week and you will quickly see it raising oddly fast.

Comment by jam0199

Got the mount last night after only my 3rd successful solo kill. Maybe the drop rate increased.....or maybe it was just sheer dumb luck. At any rate, it seems wasted since I cancelled my subscription 2 days prior. :(

Comment by Sidiouss

I dropped it today
Doing it solo till 4 months and now it's mine.

and I'm flying on Orgrimmar like "like a boss" now.

Comment by Arzax

A guildie and I started running The Eye and some other old raids a few weeks back.

Third run and the mount dropped on 1/4/2013.

Comment by Pionjudson

Last night on an impulse I ran tempest keep on my warrior. I had just seen someone with a dark Phoenix and I thought of ashes. I flew out and did some archaeology in the way and when I got to tempest keep, I was. Expecting to get some their tokens that I had form other raids. I skipped the other bosses and kill kael thalas without using the fake legendarys which you dont have to use. I clicked the loot widow and I saw ashes. This was my first run of tempest keep and you can see that I got the archive for finishing it at the same time I got the feat of strength. My armory is http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/cairne/Pionjudson/simple. For all the people that say It will never drop, it will. I was lucky enough to get it in one night. Just keep going. I'm going to run it again with guildies and see if it will do 1/1000 drop ie a second drop in a row. Btw, I did brag a ton and spammed gs chat cuz I was so happy.
Also, my name is Ezra and this makes it feel even a bit more special considering ephoenix. And don't down rate, I'm just telling you all to keep at it and it will drop. Also, I think any class can solo it at 90 if they have some sort of self healing ability like recuperate, second wind wich is now getting nerfed so I'm running all the bc raids while I can or anything else. You will get it at some point if you don't give up. It also is the sickes mount in wow and I've had people wsp me saying of they could they would pay 275k+ which I think I would have to take for it. And it is the ferrari of wow. People wsp me all the time saying they love it. I've had a guy on a tlpd say he would trade ten tlpds for just one roll on alar. Also, if your n a medium server, you wi ll be the only alar some people have ever seen. Also buy the Phoenix hatchling so you can have alars sun fly along side you and you wil the the !@#$ dat da %^&*!es love

Comment by Zattebanjo

Got mine 2 hours ago took me 5 weeks :)

Comment by soupyshoe

2 manned TK with my best friend randomly and it dropped for me a few days ago.

Comment by Dukor

Been after this since BC havent even seen the thing drop yet.

Comment by mooshimanx

If you enter water while riding Ashes of Al'ar you will be dismounted and you cannot remount Ashes of Al'ar while you are underwater. Ashes isn't the only mount that does this but the effect is to make it look like he got "extinguished" when you head in, which makes me laugh when it occurs.

Comment by Yogthsothoth

Was bored and decided to kill Vashj and Kael'thas.

Anyway why lie I'm here to brag, jokingly I said to my brother if it drops "imma crap my pants". When I saw the symbol in the name time kinda stopped, and now I'm flying around on my ashes that I DO NOT deserve because I got them very first kill..

good luck, glad I'll never know the months/years of grind

Comment by rckman

Easily soloable by a Worgen Shadow Priest nowadays, my item level is 473.

Phase 1:
Kill Thaladred the Darkener and Lord Sanguinar near the entrance of the instance (yes run all the way back after pulling).

As soon as they are dead run fast back to the entryway of kaels room, by the time you get up the ramp in Al'ar's room, Grand Astromancer Capernian will be coming out the gate and meeting you in Al'ar's doorway. She will cast Conflagration on you several times, but just keep your shield on and as soon as you get the chance run to the doorway of Kaels room and kill her there.

Master Engineer Telonicus will come next and it is best to run down and fight him in the area outside the doorway of Void Reaver. Do not kill him yet, he casts a debuff called Remote Toy, which lasts for 1 minute. Get his health down most of the way or just zerg him as soon as the debuff is about 10 seconds of falling off.

Phase 2:
Run back to the enteryway of kaels room and there will be 7 legendary weapons awaiting you. Kill the Staff of Disintegration first, loot and equip the staff and also use it (might be worth throwing the icon on your action bar for easy access). Down the other weapons as fast as you can, order doesn't seem to matter.

Phase 3:
This is where the hard part comes in, as soon as Grand Astromancer Capernian comes back to life, down her very fast. If you do not down her before the others make it back, you will be overwhelmed and die pretty quick from the Silence's, Psychic Blow's and Conflagration's. Kill them one by one as they come to you and you should be fine.

Phase 4:
Kael'thas Sunstrider will emerge and become hostile, just dump as much damage as you can into him to get him down to 50% without using any major cooldowns. At this stage, just ignore the Phoenixes and don't stand in bad stuff.

Phase 5:
When he is down to about 50%, the last phase will start. He will cast Gravity Lapse and Summon Player you to him. Some people try to stay out of melee range at this point as he casts a debuff that decreases your HP by 10% each stack. I just zerged him where it ported me at this point. I ended up with 9 stacks of the debuff because I wasn't paying attention, which left me with only 35k health by the end.

Hope this helps other cloth classes.

I have been soloing this for months now and still yet to get the Ashes Of Al'ar. Eh, maybe someday!

Comment by Bababooeyhs

First time our guild did kael back in bc it dropped. Mass dkp bidding ensued.

Comment by Bortt

Just got this, dropped on my 15th attempt of solo farming as a combat rogue(483 gear currently). Started farming it when I dinged 90, as my gear improved the fight became trivial. I recommend using a pvp trinket to break the 9 second disorient. With a little bit of finesse and keeping recuperate up, the fight was no problem and I was able to do the entire encounter in the main boss room(no kiting) which saved a LOT of time. I will actually miss farming this a little bit, as this was always at the top of my wish list! Time to find something else :)

Comment by hi5560

I solo'd this raid until i got the mount. Only took me like 5 weeks. I got really lucky. Dont worry you will get it eventually if you keep running it

Comment by Hashishem

Solo'ed Today on Andorhol with decent geared combat rogue and this dropped. Yay me, I was just reaching for the achievement points to pull ahead of another guildie. Mount looks cool, but its hard to roll with it because of the flashiness.

Comment by miorc

this sold on the BMAH on Hydraxis realm tonight for just the mere pocket change of 427k

Comment by supernova3756

Was bored and thought i'd give the eye a quick run through befor the reset hadn't been back there for awhile and was the first time soloing it for me, and was suprisingly so much easier then i thought dont think i ever fell below 80% health in ret spec, well ran in there and straight up to Kael'thas and right befor he died i think i heard him say "god take the damn thing i'm sick off seeing your face" and then when i seen what loot he had given me i think i cried a little on the inside for his death.... I GOT HIS DAMN BIRD

After years off wanting this mount and cursing people i seen with it, now i can be the one people look at and go 'so pretty'
Realising that it's alot brighter and sorta can get abit annoying riding the thing then i thought... PRICELESS
(you really dont want to be on acid and ride around on this baby)

Comment by Matthat15

Oh ashes of al'ar... will you ever be mine?...Kael'thas, will you ever drop them for me? Perhaps in time? When I see people with this mount.. I kneel. Am I worthy of receiving the ashes of al'ar Kael'thas? Please Kael'thas.. will you drop it next time? :(

P.S Why downvote me?

Comment by ACleverName

I got this mount on my first run.... rolled a 97 to beat the rest of my group. Pretty damn lucky

Comment by Dyinglight9

I've killed this boss 102 times, ridiculous right? never seen the mount drop. EVER. I think blizzard hates me considering the mount is about a 2% or higher drop...

Comment by dstark9

Just this got this mount tonight after probaly a span of 2-3 years of farming Kael. I don't think I will miss Tempest Keep one bit. It is a lot easier farming it at level 90. I use the pvp trinket and at level 90 you don't need to kite them out of the room like you had to at level 85. Its very easy for combat rogue. You can use cannabilize if your a undead to replenish your health if need be. Recuperate helps since the adds go down pretty fast. During 3rd phase. I would suggest killing the lady first. She can be a pain. Then try to kill the engineer. The other 2 I would definatly save for last. garetjaxx area 52 horde side.

Comment by Lakiria

Just got the mount on my DK's first Kael kill, I hit level 90 tonight and thought I'd go kill Kael for fun to see if I could solo it and it dropped....I've killed him many times over the years on other toons but never really expected it to drop. I've wanted this mount since the Burning Crusade expansion, and it's finally mine, I think this will be the last flying mount I'll ever ride

Lakiria-LVL 90 DK Alliance Andorhal-US

You can see I got the feat of strength achievement the same day I got the Tempest Keep achievement :)

Comment by Memoryk

Do you think it's possible to solo this with Paladin ?

Comment by elhayden

solo'd on a frost mage without pet or mirrors (mc will screw you if you use either). found it easier to just spread the bosses out, so i cleared most of the raid for better kiting. his pyros hit hard, so LoS is all but a must. i also recommend invocation, as the frequent heals keep you a little less stressed.

was fortunate to get this on my 8th run. though not so lucky with other mount runs, this is the grand prize for me. would've been worth months and months of grinding. don't give up!

Comment by Bababooeyhs

Funny. I was asleep during maintenance and dreamed that I was riding this.. woke up and ran kael right away and it dropped.

Comment by notoryus9big

Got it at my second run , soloed as Feral, but im a bit dessapointed about him , he got an anoing sound when he fly the wings noice are anoyng but , cant be all as i like

Comment by dashfiss

Blood DK is the easiest/safest solo choice for this fight, you shouldn't go below 60% health if you do things right, even fighting in the boss room (which I always did with all chars). Boomkin was the 2nd easiest, but faster since you can skip trash (except boss room). If your're a caster you should equip Staff of Disintegration for the adds, but the boss goes down faster on your normal staff, he will only disorient you occasionally anyway. You can swap in combat here.

My first solo run was with DK once he hit 90, and a few others followed: arms warrior (altho fury could be better, havent tried), retri pala, boomkin, 2nd DK on 2nd license, so at the end I had 5 solo kills each week, working on a 6th (shadow priest). It was the 2nd DK who got it, I made him just for this purpose and the plan was to delete him afterwards to make room for another new char. He didn't even have artisan riding since I was going to delete him anyway, but it is required to learn the mount item, however that was 4k happily spent when I got back to sw.

When flying there's a LOT of candy swirls and stars hitting your face all the time, sometimes it feels like a bit too much, but it's the Bugatti of WoW :)

Edit: A note for DKs, Desecrated Ground (talent) is gold for killing Grand Astromancer Capernian (the mage), you just need your back against a wall when you pop it because her arcane burst will throw you around. I usually killed her in front of the door the first time (and 2nd, might take a few tries to get her there, and some luck), the others you should kill nearby Kael the first time, to give you a few seconds of peace to kill her. Once she's down it doesn't really matter what you kill next, sure the engineer's bomb is annoying but it won't kill you.

Good luck, it's easier beating the odds if you have many chars who can solo it, now that it doesn't matter which char gets it.

Comment by Robobro

Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but this is quite a noisy mount. The only flying mounts I have that are as noisy as this are the Netherwing Drake, and the 2 engineering Flying Machines.

I absolutely adore the appearance of Ashes, but as someone who regularly AFK's on my mount whilst doing other things on the PC, the noise can get extremely irritating after a while. A small pay-off for such a beautiful mount, but something worth noting in my opinion.

Comment by axelwestrup

Quick Question here. i have been farming Ashes since Cataclysm and i got on my first run. then next week i was helping my friend just for fun and Ashes of Al'ar Dropped again. now in Mist of Pandaria This mount has dropped 3 times for me, so im just wondering is the drop chance really 2%?

Comment by dragonsss

Today I was doing my normal routine again doing TK for Ashes of Alar, and after doing this run for 3 years straight It finally dropped for me today. I couldnt be more happier :)

Comment by badweather

ah yeah the Ashes of Al'ar, the now common mount that you see everywhere every day and that every scrub can get easily by spending 5 minutes every week facerolling KT with all their 90's

Comment by Sabodune

As of MoP, Kael'Thas is soloable on all classes. Depending on your spec, gear and class, you can solo the fight different ways. If your DPS is lower, you're probably going to want to solo the boss differently.

Basic mechanics for soloing:
As the mechanics in TK are still very important, there are some mechanics when soloing you don't want to ignore.
P1: No class at 90 should have any problem with adds; the advisers abilities are trivial one at a time.
(If healing is a problem for you class, kiting Thaladred is a good idea. If you let him smack you, it may be a good idea to pop a bubble type defensive CD to neutralize the debuff after he's dead.)
P2: Again, should not be a problem at 90. If your DPS is on the low end and you have trouble with P3 starting before the weapons are down, make sure you're interrupting the Cosmic Infuser's heal. Other than that they can be AoEd down very fast. The only weapon worth equiping still is the Staff of Disintegration: it will protect you from stuns for Telonicus as well as disorient from Kael'Thas. (Remember that you must equip the weapon and then use it for the buff.)
P3: This is the phase where things start to get messy. The advisers' abilities all together are a real nuisance, you will have to prioritize the four adds on this one or you will be CC-locked.
Grand Astromancer Capernian: She will cast a 10 second conflaguration on you every so often. She also has the least amount of health among the advisers. When soloing, she should go down first. (melee will want to attack her with their backs to a wall as she does have a knockback that slows)
Thaladred the Darkener: He hits by far the hardest and will silence you in melee range. He can be kited and saved for last, as he walks, rather than runs, but due to his damage output, I recommend killing him second. (He does have a knockback, which can help if you want to kite him.)
Master Engineer Telonicus: He will maintain a debuff that randomly stuns you for 4 seconds
(There is no GCD on this, so it is possible to be stun locked indefinitely, however implausible). Depending on how you plan on soloing this, determines his priority.
Lord Sanguinar: Once in a while he will fear you for four seconds. At 90, his damage is trivial and is not a significant threat on his own.
P4: Kael'Thas will become targetable and you can now work on him. Alone, you do not have to worry about MC, as he does not MC the tank. However, he can still hit fairly hard so this phase is when you want to pop CDs (offensice and defensive)
Pheonixs should not be a problem if they are killed as soon as they spawn (as well as their eggs). If left alone their AoE will add up, and if multiple pheonixs are up, this will add an unnecessary amount of damage.
Flame strike is another unnecessary damage causer. Simply step out of the large red circle.
If healing is a problem for your class, interrupt pyroblasts (silence works best, he will cast three in a row)
Silencing him will cause him to melee which does relatively no damage.
P5: At 50% health, he will return to his spawn point. (He may cast another disorient or MC between phases) When he returns to the ground and becomes targetable again he will throw you into the air. If you touch the ground you will be forced back up. Fly down to around his head height and begin to DPS.
When he casts netherbeams you will want to back up. It lowers you max health be a percentage each tick, if he gets enough stacks on you he can easily one shot you.
He will continue to spawn pheonixs but while in the air, their AoE won't hurt you; so unless you have nothing to do, you can usually leave them. His flamestrikes will also miss while you are airborn.

High DPS soloing:
If you can pull the numbers, the fight is really not a problem. In P3 you may want to take all the advisors except for Capernian to the back of the room, to give you extra time to nuke her, or incase she gets off a Conflaguration. Depending on how well you can heal yourself, you may also ignore the pheonix - should you push P5 before a second pheonic can even spawn.
Casters: If your DPS is high enough and healing isn't a problem for your class, the staff isn't really necessary. If you are not going to use the staff, during P3 you may want to kill Telonicus 2nd or 3rd, and leave Sanguinar alive until your Remote Toy debuff expires.
Melee: When positioning Capernian, keep in mind that her fireball is not bound by LoS, only by pathing. To position her where you'd like, you will have to make her chase you which can be annoying. (Hiding behind a wall will still make her run that extra little bit.)

Low DPS soloing:
This is essentially only for very poorly geared DPS, tanks and 85's.
You will want to use the whole instance for the fight. Clear a full path to the beginning of the instance. If you leave the room before Thaladred becomes attackable, you can use the entire instance for the fight. Kill Thaladred and Capernian at the very beginning of the instance (be aware they both have knockbacks and if they knock you out of the instance, the fight will reset.) If damage isn't a problem, kill Telonicus and Sanguinar both just outside Kael'Thas' chamber. Otherwise kill Sanguinar in the big room where Al'ar patrols(or patrolled if you plan on kill Al'ar first) If you aren't using the staff, pop offensive CDs to kill Telonicus first and then Sanguinar until Capernian arrives (Only focus Sanguinar when there are no other advisers on you (Note: for tanks who are barely too low DPS for the normal strat, you can use the shield to get out of Sanguinar's fear and help with another defensive CD)) Try and get Capernian down as soon as possible (if using the staff, pop offensive CDs). You do not want Caprenian and Thaladred up and on you at the same time. If Capernian is low, finish her off and then work on Thaladred. Otherwise it's probably GG. Make sure to stay away from walls and falling or Thaladred may teleport you to him.
Kael'Thas himself is essentially no different, though this strategy is much more likely to push P4 while advisers are up.
Once Kael'Thas is up and the advisers are down, the only difference soloing based on DPS is how much stress you have to put on the mechanics. (interrupts not mandatory for tanks.)

Pet soloing:
Pets can be quite useful for eating Capernian's Conflaguration. If you send your pet(s) at her before attacking her yourself, it is much easier to bring her down.
With a pet, either you or your pet will be subject to MC. If you can keep yourself up, you can either tank the boss yourself and LoS your pet from MC, or dismiss your pet. If your pet is capable of tanking, you may also LoS yourself from MC and have your pet do all the work. When Kael'Thas yells, "Obey me!" or "Bow to my will!" he is casting his MC. After that you have no more than 20 seconds to DPS the boss/ heal you pet. You will want to kill the pheonixs yourself if possible, or have you pet do it, as they will hit you pet for a notable amount.
In P5, netherbeam's debuff will affect your pet too, and your pet may die if you don't move it.

Comment by Matthat15

A guildie just had the mount drop for him and he won it, he did it with another guildie, and I am currently in a state of shock as I solo TK every week and no mount ever drops for me, And this was both of those guildies first run of Tempest keep. RNG is truly evil.

Comment by zezzox

they upped the drop % and now this mount is the new bronze drake in my eyes, everyone has one.

Comment by Mellro

"The feeling of winning this over 24 other people back in the BC days, must have been better than winning the lottery." up until the launch of MoP, if you had this mount you were considered a world of warcraft god! But now that the Black Market Auction House is up, every gold farmer who has 50kg and above can buy this mount off the BMAH along with the Onyxian Drake, Mimiron's Head, Invincible, and much more without feeling the epic sense of accomplishment of winning something so rare.

I have seen more than 8-10 people with Ashes of A'lar recently with the release of BMAH than i have before MoP. My opinion is that It has lost a little sentimental value since everyone and their brother can buy it without any effort besides bidding for it in an in-game Ebay. Although, this comment is probably going to be downrated to hell I feel.

Comment by Hyperswagger

It is still Possible to get this mount as of 2/20/2013. Got mine to drop finally! Happy Hunting!

Comment by Matthat15

Gotta love how people downvote everything in anger that they haven't gotten this mount yet, lol, My bet is even this comment will be downvoted in anger.

Comment by jimbotoejam

I just got this to drop for me after years and years of nonstop farming for this lovely mount. It does not even feel real that it just has after seeing hundreds of kills with nothing and two times seeing it drop and losing it. Keep going at it guys, one day it will drop for you! I started out with just one character doing this every week up to now 5, thankfully I'm done forever! Best of luck everyone!

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 Tekeer

GG the mount dropped for me in my first time soloing it! :D

Comment by Allecto

I was flying this after I used Aqua Jewel, and found that whilst it still made the mount almost invisible, the long pink trails the mount leaves behind are still as bright as normal. I felt a bit like I was flying a firework.

Comment by Grayswindir

Just had to drop by, last week the Reins of the Onyxian Drake dropped for me and just tonight these dropped for me as well. I've been farming both for years. Man oh man, I am freaking STOKED! GL to all those farmers out there, it will come! Dont worry!

Comment by Gexora

Second kill since patch 5.2, i got my Ashes of Al'ar! =) Thanks Blizz! Finally

Comment by samellis

The long-term chances of the mount dropping for you at LEAST once are: (assuming you solo Kael every week and that the 2.1% drop chance from wowhead is accurate)

6 months - 40%
1 year - 67%
18 months - 78%
2 years - 89%
5 years - 99.97%

If you don't get one after 5 years then you need to ask your mother if you were cursed as a child.
(If you're killing him on multiple characters every week then just divide the times by how many characters you do it on, eg if you did it on 5 toons every week you'd have 99.97% chance of seeing at least one drop in the first year)

Comment by Exidion90

Hey community,It droped for me first timedoing it,i wanted to try if i had a chance with my blood dk,first time doing TK it droped for me i was socked ,,,,and still i am ...gl for thouse who farm it. :)

Comment by rezzax

This have dropped 3 times in a row now for me. Think it has a higher drop rate

Comment by Bweeda

With the mount drop % increased, this mount has become a lot more common. Not a lot, maybe one or two here and there, but overall it says "bragging rights" all over it for you friends and guildies. Congratz to all those who recieved this, and those who are still going at it.

Comment by Matthat15

Dropped for me yesterday, Almost fell off of my chair!

Oh and for anyone who doesn't know yet, You can get a dark recolor of this guy!
- Reins of the Dark Phoenix

EDIT: It would appear everyone Downvotes everything in this page with hate, I hope you never get it then.

Comment by Lentesh

Got mine tonight while soloing as an ele sham. I did notice something different, during the last phase when he raises up into the air and the big animation is happening he spawned a Pheonix, i killed it and the egg it spawned before the animations finished and he became attackable again. I'm not saying this had anything to do with it or a sign, but who know...?

Lentesh

Comment by rogrogg

I decided to run KT for the first time ever (on my current main, ran it a few times back in BC) today for a chance at the mount.

Got it.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/tichondrius/Rrog/achievement#81:a885

Either the drop rate has increase significantly or got lucky.

Comment by shimmybee

Yes, this legendary mount is beautiful, and is a treasure to own... but the constant noise of its wings flapping drives me insane!

Comment by Terrassen

The second most respected older schooled mount in the game after the Qiraji wartank, which's spirit is now completely destroyed by the mindless farming by every casual.

Comment by kevinkyle11

You can predict during the fight with Kael'thas Sunstrider if you are going to get the mount. If during the fight you do not see a small Ashes of Al'ar attack you and then become reborn in an egg, the fight with end with the mount.

Comment by ChilaKIlla

just got last night took a while but worth it :)

Comment by benazzas

I decided to start farming for this beauty a week ago, once I learned that you can already solo this place.
Today, I was soloing the place as a holy paladin. It was a pain tbh. I even wiped near the end and had to go again. I didn't even expect the mount to drop, the chance is ridiculous after all. The boss was down and I looked through the loot. Nothing...nothing...nothing...WAIT WHAT? Ashes of Al'Ar, the dream mount has dropped and I'm the only one in the group!

Can't remember being this excited over a game. Goodluck to everybody farming for it, it's amazing!

Comment by lizziec110

Just got mine today at 11:15pm On the server of Eredar Horde side :) Might ass I been farming it for the past 3 years so it was worth the wait :)

Comment by elhayden

so who are the jealous $%^&*!nozzles downvoting all of the comments just because they can't get this mount? whoever you are, you're awesome and you obviously win in life.

Comment by Infernofreak6

I just got this mount yesterday on my hunter. It was my 11th run on this character, but i also soloed it on two other toons each week. Funny thing is, my brother was standing behind me when i opened the loot window.

Comment by mark1232k6

After a year of doing the tempest keep 25 raid finally it dropped for me! as you would expect over the moon:) So yes can confirm it still drops but at times ive been starting to doubt if you could even get the mount anymore, so glad i proved myself wrong =p

Comment by DragonsBlood

"Sold on the Black Market".

This should be a crime :))

Comment by Skillmare

If you are lucky enough to get this, make sure you have a flyable mount macro, otherwise you'll have to bind another mount since you cannot use Ashes of Al'ar as a ground mount.

Something like:

#showtooltip
/use Ashes of Al'ar;Ruby Panther
/dismount

Replace Ruby Panther with whatever ground mount you want to use when you cannot fly.

Comment by holyalliance

got this mount on about 12th attempt...2nd time on about 50th attempt and third time on 58th i think... so roughly 3 times in 58 attempts...kinda lucky...lol

Comment by ThesexGFUS

just dropped for me as i was livestreaming on twitch.tv......also note in the video i allmost killed him before his second phase....kind of strange....http://www.twitch.tv/mikeailey/c/2136433

Comment by Ripkon

This mount dropped for me after 4 runs (soloing) lucky me:)

Comment by Swarovsky

Today I pwn Kael solo from the first try as 90 lvl prot warrior 498 ilvl. No ashes but I will try and try. Good luck to all of us.

Comment by vukovikdjvs

After 5 years of farming on more then 11 characters, I FINALLY GOT THIS ASHES IN MY 431 RUN. Good Luck to all farming it.

Comment by ImACookie

Just got the mount first run on the toon, lucky me gl guys

Comment by IceWolfDK

Dropped Ashes of A'lar today after 15 solo attempts of Tempest Keep. I saw it twice before I started to solo Tempest Keep.

Comment by handsshaking

I just made an account to post that today, after years of farming, this mount finally dropped for me. After essentially accepting the fact that I would never get it, running TK became more of a habit than anything. While raiding during BC, I saw 3 mounts drop out of 7 kael kills, then never again until today.

It's everything I hoped it would be and more. Don't give up!

Edit: After getting my mount, my boyfriend pretty much decides "oh that's pretty, let me try" and got it on his first run.
Yeah...

Comment by silverspring

About drop rate change; im killing Kael'thas Sunstrider with my 6 char every week and its dropped after 6-7 mouths later (comment date).I leveled most of this chars only for +1 try.

Happy farming everyone i hope its drops at your first attempt.

Comment by Alfa

GOT IT!

Funny thing is, I didn't even know I looted it until I was clearing out my bags in my looking-for-raid group aha So derpy, considering I was looking at what I looted in chat channel, yet I passed it because I was looking for "Reins of the ..." like almost all of the other mounts.

Goodluck to all

Comment by Gartax

Well, after 74 runs... I can now finally call this mount mine. Congrats to all the other people who had to work along time to get this beauty. And if you have yet to get it, don't worry! Every Tuesday i doubt myself and finally it dropped. :D

Comment by olzenkhaw

I got it just now with my Mistwaever, ilvl 507, after doing it for about 50 attempts.
I use Spinning Crane Kick to finish the trash. Use Touch of Death to one-shot the Grand Astromancer Capernian. Use Jab, Tiger Palm, Blackout Kick and Crackling Jade Lightning to kill Kael'thas. Use less than 10 min to finish all of them. So happy!

Comment by Yogthsothoth

I've rode this thing for months now and while I'm not bored ot it quite yet...when I notice the downrates, buttrage and general childish anger over unlucky people..I will NEVER fly around on another mount. Stay mad <3

Comment by nushidorei

This boss is easily soloable by the vast majority of classes now that we are in Mists of Pandaria. I have made a three minute YouTube guide on how to solo him for those interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lcNktMjAE0

Let me know if you are having problems with a particular class via YouTube, I'm more than happy to help!

Good luck with the farming,

Nushi

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Comment by FrozenIvee

I just got mine today May 7, 2013. :) 12:07 am. On my 2nd attempt. Ezra, I'm gonna ride this mount in your honor. r.i.p. lil bro. Now I can see why everyone want this phoenix so bad, It just trumped all my other mounts.

Comment by Xcalib00r

I know I'm probably going to get downvoted for this, but I just have to say; I went in there a couple of days ago for the first time ever, and the mount drops! I couldnt believe my luck!

Comment by nirra

Every other wing flap it opens its mouth.

Comment by Fudgers561

I just got this today while soloing on my paladin, i'd say somewhere about 10-15 runs. Nearly crapped myself when i saw it.

Also, to help with the all the stuns and ccs phase 3 leaves, what I did (found this online somewhere) was I took each one during phase 1 to different corners of the room. The first 2, thaladred and the bloodhammer guy, went all the way to the back. The engineer and mage were on the side of the room Kael is in. Then on phase 3, I killed mage, engineer, and the next 2 don't really matter, at least for me.

Also, on a side note, I also got the white hawkstrider a few days beforehand while farming for the phoenix pet. Kael just really liked me this week I guess. Good luck on this!

Comment by JestrickJ

I just soloed the Kael'Thas encounter on my fury warrior without a PvP Trinket.... I don't know if that's really an accomplishment but I've always heard of people using the PvP Trinket when soloing, run 23 no mount.

Comment by GhostLaFey

Has anyone solo'd this on a Feral Druid? If so, do you have any tips for me? I'm currently lvl 88. Thanks muchly :)

Comment by bostonvince

My guildy got her's today and linked it to me so I went to try it and it dropped for me as well. My heart skipped a beat!

Comment by Akitnaya

I was super nervous about 2-manning this raid w/my bf who's a 90 Desto lock & I, a 90 BM hunter but at ilvl 504 for him & 506 (at the time, i'm at 511 now,) it was easier than I expected. We burned through the trash mobs easy, then burned through Al'ar pretty easy as well.

What surprised me was that when we got to Void Reaver, he shoots you up in the air & I hit deterrence & lived but my bf obviously doesn't have that so he got shot high up & died when he came back down. Maybe pull boss near a wall to avoid crash landing to your death if you can't do deterrence, slow fall or levitate.

High Astromancer Solarian was an easy take down. No problems at all.

Now onto the last boss. I was sure I was gonna die. Because I read on here how hard it is because of all the phases & fighting all the bosses at the same time in Kael'thas Sunstrider's room. It wasn't as bad as I had thought. Killing the advisors 1 by 1 was pretty easy, fighting the weapons was pretty easy. Fighting all the resurrected advisors was pretty easy. But when we started fighting Kael'thas Sunstrider, we got to the part where he turns everyone against you & he turned my bf & my pet & stampede against me & I was down to half health but it ended fast enough so I survived & just burned him down.

Mount didn't drop but it was our 1st attempt so I'm not too sad. At least now I know how to do it.

Comment by miltonpohle

Let me clear this up once and for all ! Ashes of Al'ar's drop rate is approximately 2%. It is based on the # of times Kaelthas Sunstrider is killed on the server, not on the # of times you kill him. Consider a 50 sided die numbered 1 to 50. Every time you roll it, there is a 2% chance that your # will come up. But you have to consider the fact that a whole bunch of people are killing him each week. So, realistically it's not really 2% for you, it's 2% based on everyone killing him on your server.

Comment by kardanis

I dont consider myself lucky in wow but I got this mount on my 22nd solo run. Since patch 5.3. I 've been farming the battle pets from the old world. Another time I stopped by Kael to give a try on the mount drop. I was really suprised when I found the mount among a few old epics. Knowing my luck i think the drop chance has been increased. I also see more and more people around with this mount.
As for the boss I think it is surely soloable by pretty much every DPS lvl90.
I have no problem on my frost mage. The most challenging part is the return of the adds x4 with all their CCs. I summon my mirror images and just burn down the adds ASAP. Right after that part its' better ti dismis pets to prevent MC from the boss resetting the whole event. For the same reason I suggest to solo this fight. Extra person can be a reason for the hassle with Mind Control during the very last stage.

Comment by sindredl

I think I have done this raid 1 time before, so I decided to do it for fun with a buddy, and this mount drops, he rolled higher than me tho : ( I will farm this mount from now on tho.

http://i.imgur.com/EAbctbs.jpg

Comment by funkeken

hi, i would like to know if this is a drop just by killing the boss? Or do you have to keep a phoenix alive etc?

Comment by MacForGaming

I have killed Al'ar solo every week for about a year ON 3 CHARS now which is about 150 kills and still no mount.

Comment by Lyuath

6/19/2013 - Getting the ashes is definitely a reason to cheer!

Comment by freckleface

This mount just dropped for me, and it was my first time running TK.

Comment by Rtucci

Just dropped for me on my first solo kill of Kael. Just came back to the game after about a 6 month break. I used to farm this with a friend all the time and never saw it. So happy. Arms warrior, 463 equipped ilvl, 510 weapon. Was extremely easy to solo.

Comment by EdibleAutopsy

As of 5.3, you can (with a little bit of luck) obtain this mount from Unclaimed Black Market Container

Comment by Sayake

I've been farming this damn mount for way too long. With 2 chars. My fiance decides to try it as well.. He walks in for the 1st time in years, to farm this mount and it drops...It's his 3rd kill ever... Seriously... I'm so annoyed at the moment. I really want this mount :(

Comment by MacForGaming

LOL AT THE NOOBS DOWNVOTING PEOPLE WHO GET THE DROP U JELLY LOL LOL UMAD UJELLY LOL NOOBS

Comment by gfranck7

Just got this after 28 trys. It's worth the time and effort. Easily solo'd in level 90 gear. Read the earlier comments. Spreading the advisors out works well. Kael was no problem at all. Good luck and enjoy :-)

Comment by budrickton

It took somewhere between 80 and 120 kills over the years (I estimate), between progression kills and recent solo kills on three different characters, but I was elated to finally see this drop tonight. So very happy!

Comment by Calenia

Has anyone seen this drop since mists? I have been grinding this since wrath and have not seen it once. Beginning to think I am just wasting my time...

Comment by TheeObserver

Dropped for me a couple days ago on my first solo kill ever, 6th kill of him in all. Ilvl 503 DK dps with 510 wep also. Fiery Warhorse dropped for me same day after 4 kills of Attumen

Comment by glokk

Did it again on my dk with still no luck, guess i'll be trying it on my shaman tonight. wish me luck :)

Comment by rcooper12

drop chance 2.02%, what the heck, why so low,u can then play wow till it ends and never get it

Comment by LEELEE2377

I got it in my first try today ^_^
Happy farming!

Comment by angeldefury

They have DEFINITELY buffed this drop rate. Along with some other things like onyxian drake etc. I just got this on my first solo farm as a hunter today and several others in my guild have gotten it within the past month or so. 2 people even both got Onyxia mount in same day. Don't give up hope, keep at it!

Comment by sylar1986

did aprox 25 kills across all my charcters before i got the drop today http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaDp6ZHYDwA not thinking i didn't hit record until just after the kill but good luck to all still trying :)

Comment by rcooper12

seems like on Kazzak eu realm every 3rd 90 has this, gg not rare anymore

Comment by rcooper12

Kazzak eu realm horde has tons of this mount, guess not rare anymore

Comment by kernal

ok, so is it bad that I ran tempest keep for the first time ever after hitting lvl 90 for the first time same day and got the mount on first run ever! like whaaaaaaaaaaaat! don't belive me look at my achievments, name is kernel on fizz'crank realm, if u look at dates of both achievments (complete tempest keep) & (ashes of al'ar) you will notice they are both completed on 7/19/13 I orig just went in for completion achievement but got super lucky what are the chances! w0000t!

Comment by Brooulon

Drops off of Kael'Thas the Sunstrider in Tempest Keep, Got mine today after only 18 kills C:

Comment by Frankyzappa

I'm seeing a lot of comments about this not being rare anymore or the droprate was supposedly increased. You see more of these mounts now simply because Kael'thas is being killed more than ever. Any decently geared level 90 character can now kill Kael'thas with some ease, the only difficult phase for most being the four advisor phase with it's stunlock goodness.

Comment by jaskasd

Is this only for heroic? and can i get this from 10man or just 25man?

Comment by benx2011

i have been farming this since MoP came out with all my toons every week. i have all classes in the horde and some in the alliance. total 15 level 90 characters. none of the toon gets the mount.

Comment by Gnomzie

About 180 kills in total and it finally dropped... :)

Comment by Varinn

today i decided to start farming this beuty of a mount and so i read about it and watched a few videos then tried my first run but sadly no mount.

i told my girlfriend how simple it is to farm and she asked to show her on a alt and so i did but i said if the mount drops i'll need lol.. and so we did it and guess what the mount dropped! i rolled 59 she rolled 99.. her first time and she got the mount! i offered all my golds which was about 60k but no she flew into the sunset and left me sulking :(

Comment by Phersonia

Today was my first attempt and low and behold the mount dropped! I wish I was as lucky with all the other mount drops.

Comment by nick31896

First run today, and it dropped.

Sadly I lost the roll,
to everyone farming this, good luck and persevere, it looks amazing and well worth the effort

Comment by nesprox

I've all but given up on this mount. Been farming it week after week for the past 5 months..

Comment by Krylee3

08/06/2013 after 1 year of farming each week and soloing the raid instance it dropped.

It was on my bucket list although it is still not my favorite. Just something I wanted to add to my collection.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/argent-dawn/Krylee/achievement#81:a885

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/item/51955 is still my favorite to this day.

Comment by Edeard

Got myne today after year's of farming on different chars. It does drop people!

Comment by Zwizzer

Dropped 6th of August for me and extremly lucky friend.
(his first run and of course he wins it).
The next week it dropped again, never in my life have I felt luckier.

There is hope!

Comment by ucplayer

70 kills and nothing yet...
I'm losing hope.

Comment by teq99

Got the mount after 6 tries. My new favorite mount :)
I didn't kill alar only the other bosses maybe it helps? Not sure. Or just luck...

Comment by SaltLB

Mount dropped on the 15th of August, 2013. After coming back to the game from a 3 year hiatus in April, this was my number one priority. Here's a list of what went on during the time I was farming:

* Leveled main character (priest) to 90, immediately started farming for the mount. As a priest, Kael was incredibly easy, even with good gear at level 90. The ability to use the staff at that time was the most important though, especially with alternate characters whose gear was not up to par. That is due to a DPS and sustain issue if the staff class did not have a heal (i.e. hunter).

* Leveled a second alt (DK) to 90. The DK I had a bit of trouble with at first due to the fact that I could not use the staff and had poor gear (<480 avg). I noticed that without being able to use the staff, I could not even survive in blood. After attaining a gear level over 480, I was able to burn down everything rather quickly in frost spec, with a few potions of course, and in blood, it just took slightly longer. If you go for the mount as a DK, it's important to note that Army of the Dead is an incredibly useful spell when Kael revives his companions. They usually attacked Capernian so that was an excellent distraction while killing the others. Also, on the note of burning bosses, the level 90 talent Desecrated Ground, provides 10 seconds of free character control, so use that effectively. One should also note that Desecrated Ground does not stop the knockback effects of Capernian's nova so be advisable and use line-of-sight tricks found at the bottom of this page.

* Leveled a third alt (druid) to 90. The Druid class went about the same as priest. You can use either feral or balance (never tried bear) and it doesn't really matter because the sustain is excellent for the content level and druids can wield staves.

* Leveled a fourth alt (paladin) to 90. The Paladin class was by far the hardest. In fact, I could not even get past stage 3 (resurrection stage) simply because the CC was too much for me to handle. I tried almost everything I could think of, including bubbling and burning down Caperian, focusing all ranged attacks, including the level 90 talent on Capernian, and various kill combinations. The most amount of advisers I was able to kill was 2, sanguinar and telonicus, before Kael came out and the double conflageration type CC stopped me from acting. It should be noted that I was in PvP gear (mostly Malevolent, 1/4 tyrannical), however, I don't think it would have made much of a difference.

* Leveled a fifth alt (monk) to 90. The monk was a bit more interesting in trying to go for the mount as she seemed to take much more damage than any other class I was using aside from the Paladin. Like the DK, the monk ability "storm,earth, and fire" helped out significantly because it distracted Capernian while I burned down the other advisers in stage 3. Another ability that I found useful was touch of karma. You can save that one for Kael if you want, but I found that I got a lot more damage out of it in Stage 3. It is advisable to save your tiger's eye brew for when it reaches ten stacks, not only for the damage buff, but because it heals as well. When my health was low, I'd start healing with the spheres and if it was still low at the end of that heal, I would pop energizing brew and be at full health no problem. I was able to kill Kael with my monk at an ilvl of about 470

* Leveled a sixth alt (hunter) to 86. No attempts made.

Some things to note about the Kael fight:

Stage 1: You fight the four Advisers, Thaladred the Darkener, Lord Sanguinar, Grand Astromancer Capernian, and Master Engineer Telonichus

Stage 2: You fight the Legendary Weapons that Kael summons

Stage 3: You fight super powered and ressurected Advisers all at the same time

Stage 4: You fight Kael until 50%

Stage 5: You fight a super charged Kael

* I found it easier to kill the cosmic infuser first on Stage 2. This is particularly helpful when one doesn't have quite enough AoE to out-dps the holy-nova-heal it uses. It also saves time in the short run because it gives you a chance to rest after all the weapons are dead (longest interval between stage 2 and 3 I received was about 1 minute). This gives time to regenerate health mana, and whatever else you might need.

* The farther Kael is from the main platform in Stage 4, the more you can bring him down below 50%. This is important, especially as a melee class, because in Stage 5 he will summon untargetable black lightning clouds around himself that reduce your health by 10% per stack (maximum of 9 stacks) for 45 seconds. So if you don't have good gear, this can turn into a problem real fast as his pyro blasts do around 15,000 damage.

* The Advisers in Stage 1 and 3, weapons in stage 2, and Kael in Stage 4, are susceptible to line-of-sight targeting. You will notice two big statues of Kael'Thas when you enter the room. If you hide behind those during each of Kael's monologues, everything that can't see you will run into range to get closer. I found this helpful on my DK, and I'm sure it's very helpful on non-staff classes, because I wasn't getting launched into the air from Capernian's nova ability, which messed up essential DPS times when I wasn't affected by debuffs.

I ended up running Tempest Keep 38 times across these characters, the first one starting in April. It was quite disheartening really, as at the same time I was farming Karazhan and Onyxia for those mounts and 2 friends of mine beat me to both of them so you could imagine how antsy I was to get ashes and rub it in their faces hue hue. Over the course of my farming, including other mounts like the raven lord, the white sunstrider, various legendary pieces and etc, I've found that you will have a better time farming if you come to expect nothing to drop ever in at least the next few, if not more, months of farm time. When the whatever it is actually does drop, you'll feel an ecstatic rush of adrenaline and at the same time if nothing drops, you won't be disappointed since drop rates are incredibly low on most of the cool things. So sit back, relax, collect the large amount of money you get while farming from vending and pet drops, and remember, nothing comes easy, ever. Unless you're a prick that gets the drop on the first run.

I hope this helps at least someone. Happy hunting!

Comment by Luvetospooge

Got this on my 10th run through the place yesterday. Suprised to say the least considering how long it took me to get some other mounts!

Did get his hawkstrider thing on the first go however in wherever that drops from. It was a long time ago...

Id never even been to TK before deciding to farm the Ashes, and found it quite a lot of fun. First time i ran through the whole lot just to experience it. Ive tried and failed to do all the advisors in the main room a couple of times although i did get them once. Usually i ran back to the instance entrance and took the first two guys in there, then the annoying woman in the ashes room, and the last guy back near Kaels main room. Used Army of the dead for his silly weapons, and took on the advisors as they appeared back where i was in that little passage way.

Kael'thas himself i never had a problem with as long as i stayed in the passageway near his room. He has reset on me once or twice if ive dropped my ghoul or something by mistake. Annoying!

I did this on my ilvl 505 DK. Failed on my paladin but hes just not well geared.

Loved all the dialogue - 'No one can stop me now!' 'Blood for blood!' and am sad that i dont have to go back here anymore. I got the Phoenix blade thing on an early run, so pointless to go back i guess...

Good luck all, its a.....strange mount, cant say its my favourite. Still prefer TLPD!

Comment by Vaciatko

I was looted this mount 15/08/2013 and is great :)

Comment by Renraku

Dropped for me on August 23, 2013 after running the place on 2 chars each week for 4 weeks.

Comment by Dalee

It's been a long haul. I've read a lot of theories, a lot of miracle stories... I murdered Kael'thas 105 times. I watched the Karazhan mount drop 3 times before Kael gave me his mount! It's August 23th, 2013. I was my druid, and I was group leader. (If you believe in the hoax that it drops based on what class is group leader). Either way. I had my doubts, but don't give up! It will drop! And those of you who've killed him more times than I, don't lose hope!

Love ya, Al'ar Fans. Keep the Flame Alive.. heh.

Comment by bdschwa

Got this on my second week solo run today. I almost died...it is so awesome...

Comment by superforyou

I got this on my 8th kill. I can confirm it still drops.

Proof:

http://imgur.com/QU2iifz

Comment by Moriat

Canceling the 20 second logout or leave game timer makes this mount sit on the ground for a second or two. Looks pretty cool.

Comment by Rhacius

Ashes and Onyxian drake seem most affected by account wide mounts and ilvl bloat. You can probably see a couple of them chilling in front of the AH at any given time now, if not more.

Invincible and Mimiron's Head seem to have maintained their prestige and rarity to a degree, at least for now.

Comment by voidfoo

It dropped tonight for me. Happy! This is about my 5th kills.

Comment by twopacalypse

Wow this dropped me for tonight, first time doing tempest keep to. I spent a good 20 minutes reading up on ezra and how the stuff he helped create in the game. I feel very honored and lucky to have it.

Comment by booner

Did about 75 kills total to get it, its also worth mentioning that the fastest way to TK is from dark portal and straight to right from my experience.

Comment by mark3554

It does still drop

The Drop chance is 2%

It can drop without killing the other bosses

Just a Quick Note: If you're on a high populated server I wouldn't recommend using this mount if you got other more unusual mounts since on the most populated servers, Ashes is just mainstream.

Hope this Helps :)

Comment by mark3554

Ashes of Al'ar
+
Flametalon of Alysrazor
+
Firelands Transmog
=
PYROMANIAC :D

Comment by Yogthsothoth

GOT THIS ON MY FIRST KILL ITS A PRETTY NICE MOUNT LOL

Comment by ucplayer

130 kills and still no mount. Arghhhhhhhhhh!

Comment by Tservo

Just got the beauty off my second Kael kill, super pumped.

Comment by koldhearted

Can confirm as of 10/25/2013 the ashes are still obtainable

been running kaelthas for about a month now and recently the passed 3 weeks twice per week and they finally dropped on my alt

I don't doubt i got insanely lucky getting them within 14 or so runs but i was happy when got them

Comment by Ategra

Just a mental booster to all of you out there;

I finally looted this beauty. I took me 48(!) kills on a single character to get him.
In the end, it was worth it.

And, as always, when you least suspect, it drops!

Never give up!

Comment by OldForinrais

I want to return to the game simply so i can ride this mount again. Never was i happier in the game then when this mount dropped for me. I miss it so much /tear

Comment by failedprocess

Looted this 10/26/2013, Gul'dan (US)
Level 90 Survival Hunter il527

TK is easily soloable by the majority of classes at level 90. You can either head straight for the end boss or clear the side wings for a full clear. The first three bosses are straight (pet)tank and spank. The final boss (the one pertinent to this mount) offered a bit of a challenge.

The big thing for hunters is to dismiss your pet immediately after killing the resurrected advisers. If there are more than one players in the fight (which triggers off your pet) the non tank will be mind controlled. The led to me fruitlessly punching my pet until the boss despawned and reset. Once this phase passes, you can summon your pet for the final push. Was able to push him through the floaty phase to the big finish.

Best of luck to you mount hunters!

Comment by lunamoonraker

I wanted to post this because it seems unbelievable but is true. I don't suppose it reflects any change in drop rate but bears telling.

It's to report that Ashes dropped three times in the last week (over one reset) first to my son, then his best friend today and now me also today. All on our first kills of Sunstrider. All solo attempts. it's a fact that I felt should be recorded and in no way to gloat because I know the pain of the endless search on other similar quests.

I recently returned to the game along with my son. A week ago he went out to complete his Outland exploration achievement and decided on a whim to go into The Eye to also complete the raid one. We had once before tried to kill him without success back in Cataclysm so I was interested to listen to how it went.

I saw the achievement for the raid go up then a short period of silence on Skype, then and big OMG! in guild chat and he linked Ashes. We were both stunned as we were aware of the low drop rate and tales of endless kills.

The first reaction in guild was also one of shock and amazement as quite a few have been down the endless route with one guy on 500+ kills on all alts over some years. And to see the raid achievement go up, the then Ashes one confirming drop on first kill, well it was hard for my son to constrain his delight and pride but he did pretty well and everyone was gracious in congratulations.

He could not wait to tell his best friend who was as amazed and was spurred to try his own luck on his French realm today. And the exact same thing happened with Ashes dropping first time also.

For me it was almost inconceivable that they could both have it drop first kill at 2% rate in the space of a week. But as I have learnt, WoW is a game of RNG and had my fair share of heartache and frustrations over the years.

Having finished Timeless Isle dailies on a whim I thought why not have a go and took my druid (ilevel 505) to Outland to try my luck given the circumstance Never believing for a second that fate would repeat itself. And indeed it did not though a companion did drop from one of the other bosses so I was happy enough.

But decided to take my main Mage back there as he never did down Kael'thas Sunstrider in my time as RL in 25 man raids to TK. And then, what I can only describe as a surreal moment Ashes drop for me also on the same day.

I felt almost embarrassed linking Ashes to guild after the raid achievement went up having seen the reaction only a week earlier to my son doing the exact same thing. I truly felt for those guys who have hunted for it for literally years.

But one thing I have learnt from WoW is that RNG has a way in the end of working it's way around and now feel just privileged to be the proud owner of this iconic mount. I reflected back on the 500+ hours trying to get the Vial of the Sands recipe at launch of Cataclysm which burnt me out. Months camped in Storm Peaks in a fruitless hunt for the
drake.

I can't begin to compute the chance of Ashes dropping for three friends within a week, all on the first kill (for me the second character though still the first time he was down). And only rely this tale as one of those twists of fate that make the game what it is. Certainly memorable and wish everyone the very best of luck in your own personal quest.

Comment by benx2011

is the drop rate really 2%? feels like 0.2%. i have 10 level 90 horde and 4 lvl 90 alliance toons. every week i do total 14 runs since 5.1 patch came out. still no drop.

Comment by Sinnoh1996

Learning the Mount will award you the Feat of Strenght Ashes of Al'ar.

It is still obtainable in 5.4

Comment by TommyKost

I've been farming Ashes of Al'ar off and on for nearly 2 years and today, it finally dropped.

The farming process is cake. You can skip every boss in Tempest Keep and head straight to Kael'thas. Soloing Kael'thas is relatively easy for any level 90 aside from the 3rd phase. During the 3rd phase, you fight all four of his advisors simultaneously. The difficult part about this phase is dealing with the CC from Capernian and Telonichus. As a Ret Paladin, I simply bubble during the 3rd phase and nuke Capernian. The damage from the other 3 advisors, while annoying, is pretty manageable.

I'm not posting this to brag, rather to inspire. Every week, prior to entering Tempest Keep, I'd hit up Wowhead for a little bit of inspiration. I know how frustrated and hopeless you feel killing Kael'thas week after week only to loot tier pieces and verdant spheres.

My advice? Stay the course. Hope may seem dim, but trust me, your time will come.

Comment by Kallirazswe

Got it on my 12 run! I know it isnt fair to them that has been running it for 100 times....

Comment by lux2341

BOOOM solo'd it about ten minutes ago, first time ever running this raid, and it dropped

Comment by Carnagias

Hey guys, Aintnograves here from Llane. I quit WOW for a bit and came back last month. I've don Kael less than 20 times since coming back and today it finally dropped for my priest Aintnograves. This is the number one thing I wanted in the game and so now my spirits have been restored in the game. I was shocked when my rarity addon said ashes of alar, still in shock. I've been playing since BC and have wanted it since then and farmed it when I could get help. It's pretty ironic I got it today because just last night I was telling my guildmates that I was wanting that mount more than anything. I also prayed last night and this morning for it, lol.
Keep fighting the good fight. Screenshots coming.

Comment by Javelin3o4

Just dropped for me today on my first ever solo and second time ever being in TK.

Solo'd on my 90 Hunter.

Comment by axinte

sweet mother of god that's gorgeous :X

Comment by etnixa

i've been farming TK for like 2 months now hoping for it to drop...you've got to arm yourself with patience if you're going to farm and not buy it

Comment by Kayla69

Do you have to have it on a certain raid setting for it to drop?

Comment by Drensdk1

Did take around 2 months but today i finally got Ashes of Al'ar and was really happy because its my favorite mount in the game :).
So was it luck that it dropped after 2 months?

Comment by Flubchub

If anyone plays a class that can easily solo this fight, then this guide isn't for you, but classes like priest or possibly mage or any class that has difficulties soloing this fight, or anyone that isn't able to deal with the constant conflagration, stuns and fears, here is what I suggest:
1. Definitely level up to 90 if you have not done so
2. Clear out the trash in the first room (Al'ar boss room), but killing Al'ar is not necessary as you can avoid him.
3. Clear out the trash on the left- or right-side hallways before entering Kael'Thas' boss room.
4. After the trash is cleared out in the hallway of your choosing, walk close enough to Kael'Thas to trigger the boss fight, but quickly run out of the room on the respected side of which you cleared out the trash and make your way to the start of the instance, but don't go too close to the exit portal.
5. After Kael'Thas talks for a bit, the first sub-boss will make his way to you, just wait a little while for him to make his way, then kill him somewhat close to the entrance.
6. Try to kill the next sub-boss close to the last sub-boss near the entrance.
7. After the first two bosses have been killed, make your way to the Al'ar boss room and kill the caster sub-boss in there, a fair distance from Kael'Thas, as well as the other two sub-bosses.
8. Finally, make your way to Kael'Thas' boss room and you'll find you can't get in, that's no problem, just kill the engineer sub-boss just outside of Kael'Thas' boss room.
9. Now, you've spaced out the 4 sub-bosses a fair distant apart to hopefully be able to fight them one at a time, because after they all get revived, you'll kill the engineer first, and when he dies the caster should have made her way to you, and then the two melee sub-bosses will arrive soon after.
10. After the four sub-bosses are killed, the weapons will spawn and you should focus down the cosmic infuser as it is the (healer) of the weapons.
11. Now, Kael'Thas will make his way to you, and the biggest threat with him, is when he casts pyroblast, which if you can, pop defensive cooldowns & silence/interrupt him if possible. Don't worry about the phoenix he summons.
12. After you get him low enough, he will run back into the boss room, which you are unable to enter, but don't worry, he'll run back to you after he finishes his second phase nonsense. When he casts Gravity Lapse, you will be shot up into the air and will be able to "swim", make sure you swim about 20 yards away (approximately) or until you are no longer get a stacking debuff, after he finishes casting a set of Gravity Lapses, burst him as much as possible, then when he starts casting Gravity Lapse again, rinse and repeat until victory. Make sure that you don't swim all the way down to the ground while you have Gravity Lapse on you, as you will likely be shot up high and then fall after the buff goes away, which will cause lots of fall damage, make you are just a few feet up the ground and let the debuff come off and fall naturally.

Best of luck to everyone trying to get this, and may the odds be ever in your favor.

Comment by Blueviper

Had this drop at long last after a year of farming, I had collected a substantial amount of rare mounts and this was one of the final two I needed. This happened to drop on the same day(Thanksgiving) as the Azure Drake, which was the other I needed, could barely believe it. The wait was worth the dramatic finish, anyways, stoked!

Comment by Vedrian

I'm probably going to be shot for this, but this beautiful bird dropped on my first ever Kael'thas kill. Solo'd Tempest Keep last night and miraculously, the RNG gods saw fit to bless me with it. Literally, first run ever.

Comment by GreySkiez

Does anyone know an easy way to farm this? Any ways to cut corners and whatnot? Thx

Comment by ucplayer

ABOUT TIME!

It dropped for me today!

Took me 175 kills total (5kills in the char it dropped).

So happy!

Comment by Shalois

After farming this for a few years I finally got it today. Me and a friend used to 2man TK for it, but now we can solo and we both got one each within 7 days of eachother.
Someone said the droprate has not been increased, but I just feel this is just crazy after all this time we get it in same week.

Comment by Kylig

Finally got i after 123runs! never going to Tk again in my hole life.. im so released.. and happy!

Comment by Haroldnca

Does anyone know if the drop rate has increased on this mount? I ran this raid with a buddy of mine and the mount dropped. We both rolled need. He won. I offered him 100k gold for the mount. He agreed. The very next week we ran it again and it dropped. I'm just trying to figure out if it was crazy RNG...or if I screwed myself out of 100k gold.

Comment by skyline33

Been farming this for about 3-4 years, same as most people on here but was so delighted it dropped for me today

(11/12/13)

But it seems the drop rate has increased greatly! My friends guildies got 6 in one day...

Comment by zogr

after running on 5 chars a week, it took me 5 months before i got mine to drop, which comes out to a total of roughly 100 kills. dont give up, it will sooner or later drop, now i am farming invincible and mimrion's head every week. ill keep this updated once i get either or.

Comment by Pootie

Still haven't gotten this mount, and its not because of the drop rate. I just refuse to get the mount. It is a beautiful mount, don't get me wrong! Seeing the mount makes me sad because all I can think about is the reason why it was added.

Comment by yphanh2002

I got this mount today after 102 run. I love this mount sooo much.

Comment by babyoljan

GOT IT today after 7 tries

Comment by herrwow

still the best looking mount inn the game

Comment by revrob

Dropped on my 3rd run. I guess it makes up for the years of grinding others I have yet to receive.

*edit*

you downvoters are salty!

Comment by zartan2755

I believe I have the worst luck so far on this mount I have been soloing it for the past year on 3 toons and have racked up 167 total kills just added DK to make it 4 toons and still no luck. Figured I might see it after the 52 kill or so since most guilds saw it once a year give or take but not me. The worst part is the flight out to Netherstorm so boring to fly there from shat so many times a week:(

Comment by Krakatua

im loving this year, got Azure drake day 1 (20 kills, 4 kills after getting the blue one) and Ashes day 2 (35+ kills)

Comment by BestMageEU

I got tired of farming this mount. Just bought it from the BMAH for 535,500g.

Comment by drio1389

To me this is the most badass mount in the game, i was lucky enough to get it on my first run, i soloed Kael and almost pooped my pants when it dropped. Keep at it guys, dont lose hope!

Comment by Gladiator748

I GOT IT, FINALLY!

Comment by achoo54323

Dropped 2014-01-13 (Sapphirion on Blackrock)
Over 200 runs (though not sure of exact number with all the alts)
Only posting this as encouragement/verification that it STILL drops (sometimes you feel like it no longer does)

GL

Comment by Reverendball

you know your server is dead when.......

Ashes sells for 115k on the BMAH

Ursin-US

Comment by killazszsz

Finally got this after a few years of farming. Something to note is that if this item drops, the order of loot is different, with the tier tokens on top, instead of on page 2/3. Makes it easy to tell if you got your mount!

Comment by Voch

63 kills and 6 alts + main, today it finally dropped don't give up!
I'm now f**king happy!

Comment by captanmorgan

Just wanted to give you guys some hope. After a couple of years farming this mount it finally dropped for me. Date and time of drop 1/22/14 at 5:300PM Deathwing Realm server time. You don't have any difficulty settings to change so no worries about running Heroic or Normal. You don't Have to kill any other bosses in the instance, you can just go straight to Kael'thas and prepare for another week of disappointment or you moment of Euphoria. I also wan't to point out that I ran multiple toons each week and it dropped on a Hunter alt of mine on its 3rd time thru Tempest Keep, other toons have made over 70 attempts each. All in all between all of my toons I am sure I ran this instance around 200 times. Good Luck, Happy Looting and when you get the drop, save learning it until a swarm of guildies are online so they see when you pop the achieve... They tripped about as bad as I did.

Comment by Josielynn

Blue Drake: 1 try
Thundering Onyx Cloud Serpent: 1 try
Swift Zulian Panther: 3 tries
Pureblood Firehawk: 4 tries
Onyxian Drake: 12 tries

Ashes of Al'Ar: 196 tries and counting

..i guess sometimes you have to work for your mounts xD

Comment by spiny64

Boss is easily soloable with SoO LFR gear. I used to help my cousin 2 man this boss back in Cata and did it like 30+ times. The other day I decided to run just for the fun of it with my rogue, killed Kaelthas and it dropped! I was so happy. Good luck to happy farmers :)

Comment by Krusca

now can go under water, but does not increase swimming speed. Before you were dismounted.

surprised that usefull information being downvoted, while "I got at run num 1329019013 no"

Comment by escariot

Well after 5? years of on and off clearing of Kael, this finally dropped.

Now the fun thing is, recently on one of my lowbie characters I acquired 20x Rabbit's Foot along with 1x in another stack.
Doing LFG I noticed random epics dropping for me (Circle of Flame from BRD and Grab of the Wind Serpent from ST).

Puzzled, I did Strat and lo and behold the mount dropped ( I didnt win it this time).

Even more puzzled then before I went on and sent the rabbit's feet to my main, with which I then proceeded to kill Kael and the ashes dropped.

Coincidence? Maybe? But all I know is that I'm sending these babbies on any char I plan to farm anything rare with.

Comment by gutterslug

Rest In Peace Ezra.
You will be remembered always! every time Al'ar is seen!

Comment by Epic117

Just dropped. Don't know why, just felt like posting it.

Comment by atomicsmash

Ran MT last night at 3 am and got it. Totally caught me off guard. This mount looks sick!

Comment by dav777

Got mine today after 17 attempts. Thought I was going to be doing this for quite some time :)

Comment by zarinda

I tried to just kill main boss but i was mc thole time until i died, so i recommend taht kill the other bosses first. ANd i have been killing that kaelthas over 200 tmes and no ashes, my hubby showed me how to do it with weaker toons and it dropped for him. So im convinced that blizzard hates me.

Comment by hockeybalboa69

I soloed this today is a 537 Ret Pally. I was able to DPS Kael'Thas down incredibly quickly, probably the easiest run I have had so far, if any of you have had issues with him before now is the time to get back on it.

Comment by TWK88

Things have changed...

I have been solo'ing The Eye for this mount for a very long time. I used to drag the advisors out all over the instance to spread them out and kill them individually. which made the whole fight much easier. BUT when I went in today and aggro'ed Kael, I then started to run out of his room so I could spread out his advisors like I usually do, BUT I saw that the doors in Kael's room now IMMEDIATELY lock when you aggro him.

I was still able to take him down with my weak gear (IL 487). I had been running in BM spec but switched to Survival.

I did it by killing all advisors and weapons, then when the advisors respawned, I took out the mage 1st and then Bloodhammer, followed by the Engineer, and dismissed my pet, then killed Thaladrad. Then I just did my best to give Kael everything I've got... Bandaged while he was powering up and nuked him down as best I could.

It's definitely tougher now for those of us who don't have the best of gear.

Please don't down rate. I am just trying to help some of the people with lower IL's so they know they can still get this guy down every week even though they changed things up recently.

Comment by zomgname

Finally dropped for me after a few years of off and on farming. I do not know how many kills it took, really ramped up the farming efforts when mounts became account-bound and would kill him with several characters. Dropped on 2/26/2014 on the 5th character I was bringing in for the week.
I never farmed this alone although it is possible, I always ran it with my fiance. He also has a lot more level 90s than me, so we would bring my level 70 alts in while he killed things also. Just make sure that if you do this, you die before you fight Kael'Thas (you'll likely be killed without trying the second time you face the advisors. but you'll sometimes make a nice decoy while they spam fear/stun/disorient you instead). If he happens to mind control the lv. 90 player you will be killed and he will reset which is why you really have to die. Also, when I brought my hunter Kael'Thas mind controlled me and my fiance and left my pet alone and this reset the encounter also, so remember to get rid of your pets.

Comment by Darorana

Got this on 11/26/12 and never thought to pick up the tier set pieces in case I liked them, turns out I do, went to kill him and got it for my second time -.- really wish I brought a friend with me just so it didn't go to waste...

Comment by Auberzz

I've been dying for this mount for EVER. I have to jumble between Phosphorescent, TLPD, Vitreous, and etc drop mounts, and this included.

I'm a very bold and enthusiastic mount collector, who takes what she gets, but sweet jesus, having a "meh" dad, whom we share accounts, isn't very fun.

So when we found Ashes of Al'ar one day surfing Wowhead, I fell in love.
Literally.

I'd run up to him daily, and show him new mounts, whom he just shakes his head and says "Cool, but not worth it"

But Al'ar is one mount he actually wants, but is lazy.

I've asked him time and time again to run it with me, but "nahhh, too low %"
It pains me.

Comment by Mahotah

I finally recieved this mount just a few minutes ago and it threw me off because I didn't even realize I had looted it at the time. I could've sworn that for years I thought the mount was a legendary like the black AQ mount. So when I didn't see that magic orange color, I just figured it was another bum attempt. Color me surprised.

Comment by xaan1

Be aware they have changed this instance , the fears and disorients are WAY , WAY more then they ever used to be , so be sure to bring your way to stop the fears or your going be feared to the point you die before they stop , also you have to take them all on in the main room now , no more running thru the instance and spreading them out and killing them off 1 at a time like before.

Comment by RelentlessChaos

Got the drop on 3/13/14. I've been running it since June of 2013 weekly.

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 Fourchette

Finally got this on 3/18/14 after about two years of consistent weekly farming.

Comment by jamesqyq

I always came to this page when I feel disappointed on farming, just to get myself motivated. on the afternoon 19/3/2014 I looted Ashes of Al'ar on my 4th attempt this week, after 4-month of work, finally!

Before you start fighting Kael'thas, I washed my face and hand in order to get some fortunate. After striking Kael'thas down, I type "/s" with "give me the phnoix" in Chinese, guess what it dropped! LOL!

Good luck all and thank you Wowhad, without you I may have given up.

Comment by Organthrone

People seemed to grumble when the instance was changed and the doors locked. It sounds ridiculous to me that people would run the advisors all out to make it easier. All I've ever done is kill three where they stand with Kael, and kite Carpernian to the other end of the room. Means you can knock her out quickly in the third phase, and if she disorientates you, it'll clear by the time the others reach you. I learnt that by reading something here.

Anyway, I never thought I'd get Al'ar, so I never tried. 23 attempts across five characters - 9 with a 525 destro lock, 9 with a 520 BM hunter, both for whom it was child's play. After flicking through and reading how people had soloed Kael with Ele shams and Balance druids, I took mine in and did one run on the former, and two on the latter. It was a long haul with a 478 shammy, and I thought better than to try him again. A 482 Balance druid takes more damage than it deals, but he held his own without any worry. Oh, and through all this no sign of the ashes.

I'd recently got my Ret pala up to 90, and decided to give him a turn last week. At 475, I thought it was wishful thinking, but he survived, barely. I tried him again this week (still at 475. When you've got nine 90s, it's arduous to gear them all substantially), and he fared much better, and as if for a reward, the ashes dropped. Nine weeks since I'd started farming.

No, no one cares about my experience or how many times it took to get the ashes to drop. I'm merely reiterating, you'd be surprised how some mediocre-geared characters can take matters into their own hands.

Comment by alvuh

Just got it on April 5, 2014 after my rough 209 run. SO happy to see ashes finally drop. Such a beautiful mount going to RP to the max.

Comment by dannyboytexas

Just got it on my 3rd run ever of this raid so happy! best of luck farming my friends and dont give up!

Comment by Josielynn

Finally dropped today on my shadow priest. 270 kills on 7 different chars.

Comment by rzzr

Based on the data from Jazzycakes2 here is a spreadsheet that will help you know the odds of a mount dropping if you are doing multiple runs and maybe using more than one character to farm them.
Will depress some people and hopefully encourage others!

Comment by Nocked

This is so going to get down voted...dropped, 4th run, after getting bored and starting to farm for mount drops. Sorry.

Comment by lizerb

Got this on my 4th run today! 5/2/2014

Comment by Koryn

It dropped on my 30th total kill across all toons today. It didn't drop the Verdant Sphere quest starter though.

Comment by Koryn

It dropped on my 30th total kill across all toons today. It didn't drop the Verdant Sphere quest starter though.

Comment by sascha

drooped today for me taken a while but so happy !

Comment by DeJaVo

i got this mount today and i when i see it my hands starts shaking and sweating :p
my friend told me that he had a greater chance to get mount drop on Saturdays
i didn't believe him at first but than i said to myself what do i have to lose lets try it
my first choice was Swift White Hawkstrider and guess what! i got it !
i was in shock iv been running for this mount in years and i got it today 31 May 2014
so i immediately teleport to Shathrah City and fly to TK killed last boss and OMG
Ashes of Al'ar laying there waiting for me to take it i dont know if i can upload Screenshot
but check there and see got 2 of them on same day in less than hour.

Comment by pateachout

whooohoooo, 2 years and he finally dropped. was using 5 different lvl 90's to farm him and he finally dropped for my main.
I hope never to step foot in TK again...lol

Comment by Briandris

To those of you who wonder why you get down-voted for posting that you got the mount. Here's why.

1. It's not helpful or useful information - the forums are meant to contain helpful information- not announcements.
2. When you've been running the instance for years every week on multiple toons, with no drop, it's just annoying to see. Especially "WOOT! First time ever and I got it!"

Comment by Briandris

With WoD revamping BC, does anyone know if this raid will become unavailable? I'm still trying to obtain the mount after 100's of runs and I'm worried my time is running out. In my opinion it's the most beautiful thing Blizz has ever created. If you've heard or read something, pls reply.

EDIT: Ty for the replies. I've been pretty nervous. Really want that mount!

Comment by Delyser

My raf get this mount on first time.

Comment by orhanyor

still in progress with various characters each week. id like to report ilvls and specs to give an idea for people who are thinking to solo him.

-WW monk ilvl 510 - easy fight. just dps everything down. when you face all of the advisors pop your xuen.

-feral druid ilvl 539 - among my characters druid is easiest to solo with.. forget about CDs just rake/mangle everything and finish the fight at %100 hp. complete faceroll

-combat rogue ilvl 490 - fairly easy fight. keep recuperate on at all times. nothing special to watch out.

-ele shaman ilvl 510 - there are things to watch out. ele shaman takes alot of damage. in order to survive you need to use healing stream totem when its needed without hesitation, if its not enough be prepared to pump some healing surge. to start off ill advise you to get the staff and benefit from its buff. your dps will be less but at least you wont be disoriented and feared. when you face all of the advisors pop your fire elemental totem, flame shock every advisor, run around and cast your lava burst as it procs, otherwise cast lightning bolt while running around the room, never stay in place. when you kill every advisor immediately switch to your main weapon and put your healing tide totem down if you are low on health. pop ascendance/heroism and burn kael to %50. after that point keep on goin witht the usual dps rotation and done. thats my way with ele shaman. im sure it will be alot easier when i have better gears but its not really hard at the moment.

- blood dk ilvl 442 - all the way to kael including killing his every advisor is easy (even at this low ilvl) - nothing special. but when you down kael below %50 he starts to cast Nether Vapor. i got my hp decreased by %90 because of those black clouds and he nearly killed me so watch out for those.

my common strategy for all of my characters: i pull & kill fist 2 advisors at the entrance of the room. killing the other two where they are standing. so when they are resurrected my kill order is engineer --> mage--> rest

Comment by nikitto

Got yesterday after approx. 200 attempts (5 characters during 1 year, solo). Just keep trying and good luck!

Comment by Taltolm

Got it after like 4 runs a few months ago

Comment by oramac

I tried on my Rogue and discovered that I could stealth past everything and into Kael's room, and could simply kill only his room trash and Kael himself.

Question is: will Ashes still drop even if Alar is not killed?

Comment by will9001

Got mine today after 25 attempts. I didn't kill any of the other bosses, just room trash and Kael'Thas and his advisors.. So this is available without first killing Al'ar. Easy solo as a lock, just dismiss pets and create a demonic gate near the back of the room exiting near the front by Kael.... kill Thaladred and Sanguinar, then lead Capernian to the back of the room to kill, then go back up front for the Engineer. After you down the enchanted weapons go back to Capernian in the back, when she is ressurected down her, then gate to the front of the room turn around and take out Thaladred, then Sanguinar, then the Engineer, Kael is an easy kill.

Comment by niknat31

Any truth to the rumor that Ashes may occasionally show up on the "black market" AH (near the Veiled Stair)?

Comment by olteonz

Should be a legendary quality item.

Comment by MilesDavis

Finally just got my Ashes of Al'ar mount after 33 kills. Every farmer out there, keep your head up! You will get it!

Comment by Dervrak

Did they increase the drop rate on this or did I just get very, very lucky?

I soloed the raid with my main, didn't get Alar, (but got two battle pets), then decided it was easy enough at lvl 90 to solo with one my alts, Alar dropped on my second run at approximately 7:00PM on Borean Tundra. I was under the impression the drop rate was something less than 1 or 2%, so if they didn't increase the drop rate I better go buy a lottery ticket....

Comment by PureStrawberrie

Do NOT give up! Took me 78 kills but it was worth it, I love this mount :)

Comment by Zytherion

One of the most beautiful mounts in the game.

Thank god in WoD it will be able to be used as a ground mount. Can't wait! :)

Comment by pittabread770

Just out of interest, is this mount still a 2% drop? Because I just wandered into the raid today to see if there were any achievements and he dropped first time, not sure if I'm the luckiest alive or just using outdated info :/

Comment by Newguy99

I have killed Keal'thas 135 times and never seen it drop once. Do i have bad luck or did they remove it?

Comment by Iceveiled

Here's my love story.

A few weeks back my girlfriend was watching me play wow over my shoulder and somebody was flying around on this mount. I guess it was her first time seeing it and she was awe-stricken and instantly in love with it. I told her to join the club and that it was one of the most desirable and awesome flying mounts in the game, and one that was farmable once a week, but it would probably take a lot of luck and patience.

Myself, I'd farmed this mount probably 3-4 times in the past. It's definitely a cool mount but not something I was super in love with like my girlfriend. I promised her I'd run her through The Eye once a week for a few tries.

That point became today. And wouldn't you know it, HER FIRST TIME IN THERE ATTEMPTING TO FARM THIS WITH ME, it dropped. I promised her if it dropped (doubting the whole time it would, knowing the low drop rate) I would "let her have it while hating myself for it". And yet at the same time I had a premonition it would drop. I guess it was meant to be for her.

My cursor hovered over the "pass" icon in the loot window for what felt like an eternity. Finally, I cringed and clicked my mouse, crying a little on the inside afterward. But you know....she was so overjoyed with it and so happy to have one it was worth it. It's not like I'd spent a lot of time farming it for myself.

Hopefully I won't have to farm it a bunch for my own.

Comment by Iceveiled

Here's my love story.

A few weeks back my girlfriend was watching me play wow over my shoulder and somebody was flying around on this mount and I guess it was her first time seeing it. She was awe-stricken and instantly in love with it. I told her to join the club and that it was something farmable once a week, but it would probably take a lot of luck and patience.

Myself, I'd farmed this mount probably 3-4 times in the past. It's definitely a cool mount but not something I'd put on my farming priority. I promised her I'd run her through The Eye for a shot at the mount at some point.

That point became today. And wouldn't you know it, HER FIRST TIME IN THERE ATTEMPTING TO FARM THIS WITH ME, it dropped. I promised her if it dropped (doubting the whole time it would, knowing the low drop rate) I would "let her have it while hating myself for it". She just wanted it way more than I did.

So I cried a little on the inside as I passed on rolling for it, but in the end she was so overjoyed with it and so happy to have one it was worth it. It's not like I'd spent a lot of time farming it for myself. But I know, going forward, she was extremely lucky for it to drop on her first time and I'm likely going to have to run it dozens of times to get my own.

Comment by ucplayer

It's funny in wowhead why people downvote every comment that it says "just got it after x kills".
Jealousy!

Comment by wonkey

I have a few points to add that may help.

I kill all the trash on the way to Kael. I do not bother killing and of the other bosses.

Capernian can do a knock back, which is a pain. Rather than kite her away I typically kill her where she starts. If you move to the right of her you can face your back to the pillar, so the knock back is not a issue.

Next, Make sure you do not use anything that can be mind controlled. I had this reset on me a couple of times when Kael Mind Controlled me and starting killing one of my blood worms instead.

Finally, I got luckier than most and got this today on my 10th kill. Good luck all.

Comment by briar834

Anyone know the back story of this mount? The kid who passed away?

Comment by Manilya

Kael'thas does not reset when you stay underneath him while killing! So ranged... stack up :P

Comment by orhanyor

keep your hopes up guys! i nearly lost mine at 90ish kill and voila it dropped. i wish u all gl.

Comment by Sarroja

I went into tempest keep today and i didnt killed any of the other bosses just the last boss and guess what! Ashes of Al'ar drop for me :)

So it still drops

May the odds be in your Favor Guys!

GOOD LUCK :)

Comment by Pyke89

Droped st time i go
http://puu.sh/8buyD.jpg
and i droped play=)

Comment by elstohn

Just got mine.

Only 8 runs, I see a lot of recent posts saying they got one, perhaps the drop rate has increased.

I never do the side bosses, always straight back to Kael' clearing trash as I go. good luck and keep trying it WILL drop =) (eventually)

Comment by jonfu1208

Solo'd this raid only two times and it dropped the second time. I feel lucky ^-^

Comment by Sarroja

Is everyone down grading us just cz we got the mounts and they didnt? i am sry that you didnt get the mount and we did better luck next time i guess...

Comment by Bubblewraps

Kael'thas is soloable, bring something that can break the CC. But is easiet as caster (take the staff. Remember to USE IT!)

Al'ar can be skipped to save time.

Hf farming! :)

Comment by Ardy

Every time I kill Kael'thas and Twinblade of the Phoenix drops, I have a brief heart attack thinking the damn mount dropped. One day...

Comment by Msonstad

After 3 years of farming it i finally got it!
Hang in there guys!

Comment by Aminassa

I think there is a small misunderstanding on drop rates and how they work. For example, this has an 1-2% drop rate and it was stated that you could get one per year in a guild if run every week. That's not exactly how it works. The percent chance is the chance to drop on EACH run. So every time you run this, it has 1-2% chance to drop. The idea that you could run 100 times and be guaranteed this drop at least once is known at the gambler's fallacy. In other words, when you flip a coin, you have a 50/50% chance for heads or tails. Flipping the coin twice does not make the chance for heads become 75%. You still only have a 50% chance. I just felt this needed to be said so people get a better understanding on your likelihood of getting the mount better.

Comment by iiCL4RK

Had this drop yesterday on my 10th run (Coincidentally on my birthday). I have played this game on and off since 2007 and remember thinking A) I would love a flying mount in general and B) Ashes of Al'ar is the coolest mount in the game. Couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it setting in the loot window. Good luck everyone!

Comment by Yuyuli

Since 6.0 this mount has become much darker and is now very orange instead of a mix of yellow and orange, which i hope is a unintended sideffect of the render change and will be fixed.

Comment by Frailgraphics

Dropped for me today this morning, while I was wearing teeth whitening strips. My jaw fell to the floor and it was kinda gross since there was saliva everywhere (yuk), but I was so happy! I've wanted this mount since FOREVER <3

Comment by Philk913

finally got the mount to drop after farming on and off over the last 4 years or so =D

Comment by mocjin

from all the comments i see here i can understand that this is a mount that is considered time consuming. im glad i was lucky and got it the first time i ran the dungeon.

p.s. got it on my third run to so 2/3 runs with a drop

Comment by brooks05

It dropped last Night on My warlock, have farmed the Mount with 3 charachters every Week for about 5 month. I was worth the farm, have now the Ferrari of mounts. Dont give up, it will drop.

Comment by Fractal3yes

Decided to start farming for this 12/28/14. Dropped on second run ever 12/31/14.

Comment by mykro9

I know this is a low drop rate mount, but there is nothing in the comments about it:

Killing the other bosses, specifically Al'ar himself, has no impact on the drop rate does it?

I go in and skip everything BUT Kael'thas each week.

I just want to make sure I haven't been wasting lockouts each week skipping everything but Kael'thas.

Comment by dbone2005

ive ran this place for like 5 months once a week no alar the only time i did see it was when i went in with a grp of like 4 or 5 and i always lost it in fact the first one i saw i rolled a 1 then the 2nd a 1 the 3rd i actually rolled a 5 and on the 4th i rolled a stupid 1 =/ and then when i could solo it i ran it for anohter 3 months and nvr saw it again

Comment by Jreem

Does the drop rate change on heroic and mythic?

Comment by Sdowner

Are we sure this even drops anymore? I mean I know the drop rate is extremely low, but you would think that running this solo two times a week for nearly 4 months would produce it at least once (two characters that is).

Comment by Darruk

This just dropped for me during my solo farming runs! What a great mount, it looks awesome!

Comment by Debol

Dropped today 1/28/15
Only killed main boss

Comment by chavbomb

just got this mount and screamed XD

Comment by Mettelor

And on the 59th run, when all hope was lost, this jerk finally dropped his phoenix for me.

Comment by Uneek77

And on the 3rd run of being back playing WoW it drops :) 2/24/2015

Comment by Devilwings75

Over 200 runs since Burning Crusade on and off. Lately running it with 20 characters, on 2 servers, it finally dropped for me on the very first day of 6.1. I'm not setting foot in Tempest Keep EVER again! Burn Tempest Keep, BURN!

Comment by Babytoes

Started farming last week with 19 toons. Got it yesterday on 17th toon = 36 trys over 2 weeks.

Comment by lahtinen

So, on Wednesday evening, the missus and I decided we'd down 2 birds with one stone; she wanted to grab some cloth xmog gear for a mage alt she was levelling up (was 75 or something) and I wanted to farm the new raiding with leases pets from Hyjal, Black Temple and Sunwell. Anyways, we cleared Sunwell, no pets, and decided to portal to Shat and head to BT. As I have the necklace to tele to BT, I was on auto-mode whilst flying her over on a 2seater and chatting, and was heading to Kael'thas - she asked where we were going and explained the above, but we carried on going anyways as there are still some items there for her even though there were no pets - but yeh, you guessed it, Ashes of Al'ar FINALLY dropped, like I was drawn there for that reason heh; the missus passed for me, too :3

TLDR: Got the Ashes finally, after attempt number 200+ with various chars.

Best of luck people

Comment by missbanjo

OMG it really does exist! Got it on my fourth alt run today. I almost stopped after my 3rd run glitched and I was irritated I had to listen to Kael blabble again. Good luck all!

Comment by rogue420

I finally got this today after many, many... tries. Don't give up. It still drops and it's so awesome when it finally does. This fight used to be damn hard to solo, not so any more. I haven't counted all my kills but I'd say I've killed him close to 100 times on all my alts. Good luck all.

EDIT: Oh yeah. I will NEVER EVER go to Tempest Keep again!

EDIT 2: A couple hints for new comers..
- You don't have to kill any of the other bosses.
- You don't have to kill a single NPC aside from the advisers.
- Even though this is 5 expansions ago, it's still probably a good idea to kill the mage first just to avoid annoyance.
- It takes maybe 5 minutes. You'll spend more time flying.

Comment by cville1987

Finally dropped for me this morning. I haven't farmed it often, but occasionally make mount runs on the weekend. It's a lovely mount. Like rogue420 said I will never set foot in Tempest Keep again!

Comment by mrthornhill

Dropped for me this weekend.
Came back to wow after having stopped playing at the end of Cataclysm.

I realized I could run the BC raids with my lvl 80 something characters, so I decided to try to farm this mount up.

I thought it dropped from Al'ar, so I'd run in a few times and just killed him. Then I looked it up and realized it dropped off Kael'thas. So I ran back into my partially completed raid instance, and kill him, and there it was.
So lucky.

Comment by Lavia2

i am so tired from all the try and try, but I still hope one day finally it will drop for me, i not give up even so many runs each week :(

Comment by alvuh

Got it on April 5, 2014 after my rough 209 run. 7esh Years of hard work there. SO happy to see ashes finally drop, such a beautiful mount going to RP to the max.

Comment by Hungrypotato

Just got it today on my 92 rogue alt :) I've been killing him 5 times every week for the past month. this was my 4th guy for the week so I got the mount after 19 kills. Of course the guy that gets the loot doesn't have artisan riding and is broke and different realm lol :(

Comment by TheAlphaNerd88

This dropped for me last week after my first run.

i'm pretty new to WoW and tried to solo farm this with my lvl 88 monk.
it dropped after the verry first time, so me being a noob and all tought it was a 100% drop.

But when i was playing with some friends who've been playing for 10 years+, someone told me i was damn lucky because they did 200+ runs and it never dropped.

This is why i hereby pledge to gather every single mount in the game.

Good luck fellow mount farmers, i wish you all the best of luck!

Comment by lagavulin

For those soloing this, with all the theater you have to slog through it will take you 4 minutes to kill him. The wait seems much longer than that though when this is just one stop on your solo mount rounds.

Comment by Shalank

Just wanted to tell you this is really easy to get, I tried for the first time today and it didn't drop, my wife got on her toon (an alt on my acct.) lvl 98 Rouge. I walked her through it and it dropped on her the first try no lie. Just pick up and equip your style wep that the boss drops and he is easy to solo with any 90+ toon. GL Love you Baby! http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/dentarg/Kalamae/mount#status=is-collected

Comment by vincentp98

hello,

i would like to know if, with the lastest extension, the speed of this mount have been decrease ? (i'm thinking of this because of the latest competencies sold by the mount instructor)
thanks for your answer.

Comment by Hazzty

I am so terribly sorry.

Comment by Bikonito

By far the worst part of farming this mount is the wait times in the fight.

Comment by nashw

wasted more than years of weekly farming just to buy the mount and get it in one day :D

google "Getmounted ownedcore" , it may help you^^

Comment by bunkmoreland

Has the drop rate increased on this in 6.1?
My wife and I have been farming it seperately once a week for months with no luck. But this morning, it dropped for both of us. The odds of that happening has to be really low unless they increased the drop rate.

Comment by Icedveins06

After 97 runs and 4 years I can call this beauty mine! Don't give up all its an amazing mount! Also don't forget to think of Ezra for all those who know why this mount exists in the first place :)

Comment by hamkor25

farmed this mount for years until I finally found this site

just google "getmounted ownedcore" or check this link, just wanted to let you know that this exists

http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/mmo-trading-market/world-of-warcraft-buy-sell-trade/514696-eu-ru-getmounted-rare-mounts-receive-your-mount-today-no-acc-sharing.html

Comment by Leucothea

You do not have to clear previous bosses before going for Kael. Dropped the mount for me regardless of the fact I didn't even kill Al'ar

Comment by Joker1313

Got it today. After all these years I've wanted it and it finally dropped. I've never farmed it zealously like some, but recently I started doing it a bit more since it's easier. So after couple of weeks when I haven't done it, today I decided to give it a go and it finally dropped for me. This mount was THE mount I've always wanted since I started playing WoW back in TBC.

IMO even after all these years I still think it's the most beautiful mount in the game and for all of you farming it - don't give up! I can tell you: seeing it and riding it are two different things...it's even more beautiful when you actually ride it. The only mount that comes close to it's beauty is the Astral Serpent from MoP which reminds me of Algalon so much but that's another story...

Oh and R.I.P. Ezra...if not for you we would not have this beautiful mount.

Comment by delilama

Still drops as of 6.1.2.

Comment by cheap123

http://www.samuelsteelpickling.com/New%20SSPC%20About.htm

Comment by zozor

Second run and I got it !
6.1.2, easy kill with shaman and druid classes.

Things to know to easily kill kael'thas :
- Kill the 4 mobs at each corner of the room on phase 1. Phase 3 will be easier and quicker.
- Grab the legendary staff if you class can carry it after the weapon phase.

Thats all I did to kill easily with a druid feral @ 99 and shaman elemental @ 100.

Comment by hannibalektr

The ashes just dropped for me this morning June, 7th, 2015 @ 8:30am PST. It's my 2nd time running it since I left wow three years ago. I killed the first boss then Kael and it dropped. I am very happy. This will be the new default mount for my main.

I use to run it all the time years ago and never seen it drop once in that time. I know a guy who ran it every week for 3 years before it finally dropped for him so I know how lucky I am. Good luck and Peace!

Comment by Camelsmack

165 runs for me. I consider myself comparatively fortunate - although after all those runs it sure doesn't feel like it. As others have said, don't give up. Keep running this each week and it will eventually drop. Each time I've seen another player with Ashes I've looked away - not wanting to look at all of it's detail until it was mine. A little immature perhaps but that's just how I roll. And it really is just amazing to look at, even after all this time.

I found this easiest on my (665ilvl) Enh Shaman. If you're careful you can sometimes run all the way up to Kael'thas without pulling any mobs then when you get there, you can just stand next to him and your lightning shield will take care of his crew one by one when they attack - no need for spreading out. The rest is cake.

Good luck peeps. Now for Elegon...

Comment by Xanthylos

I got mine today on Patch 6.2 day. About 50 runs total between my 3 characters I use weekly. Actually dropped on my last chance of the week so I was ecstatic to see it when I was expecting not to like always. Worth the farming it's absolutely a beautiful mount.

Comment by techbear

this mount makes a REALLY REALLY ANNOYING SOUND... like literally shares the same sound file as a cooking fire... really annoying.. unbelivable this hasn't been mentioned

Comment by lunchbox1984

i farmed oynxia for about 6 months or so every week and it dropped on a whim. While its good and all to state your lucky to see it drop on your first or second try, most people dont have that luck. i want this solely for the mount achievement, much as the others. I do it for fun, but its kinda fun to try to beat your previous times with the dungeons. farm on my peeps

Comment by Jerryzypher22

Finally got mine after a good while of farming off and on for past year. I was so happy to see it drop... soon as I looted, achievement popped and I couldn't describe how I felt at the moment.... Stay in there fellow farmers as the epic grind continues for other rare mounts.... Happy hunting!

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Ashes of Al'ar

Item Level 70
Binds when picked up
Unique
Mount (Account-wide)

Use: Teaches you how to summon this mount. This is a flying mount.
Requires Level 70
Requires Artisan Riding

"Al'ar was the beloved pet of Kael'thas Sunstrider, who often boasted that death would never claim it. Perhaps he was right."
Drop: Kael'thas Sunstrider
Location: The Eye, Tempest Keep

Drop Chance: 2.00%

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