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Amani Battle Bear

Item Level 85
Binds when picked up
Unique
Mount (Account-wide)

Use: Teaches you how to summon this mount.
Requires Level 85
Requires Journeyman Riding

Drop: Kasha's Bag

The Amani trolls decorate these ferocious mounts in magic amulets and ceremonial masks as a way to venerate the bear god Nalorakk.

Guides

"Bear-ly Made
it", With Plenty
of Time to Spare!

A Fortnight in
Dalaran: Farming Northrend
Mounts and Pets at lvl85+

Mount Collecting: The
Completionist Guide

Comments

Comment by Icelandic

Returning as of 4.1, in the newly 85 Heroic rendition of Zul'Aman.

Armored Razzashi Raptor and the Swift Zulian Panther will be available from Zul'Gurub, replacing their since-removed brethren, Swift Zulian Tiger and Swift Razzashi Raptor.

From the re-made Zul'Aman, we will once again have a crack at a Warbear, namely a remake of Amani War Bear.

I only managed to get the Raptor in old Zul'Gurub and no Warbear...I'm quite thrilled with this change.

Comment by Pyrocosm

It should also be noted that as of today, there is no discernible difference between the 3D models of the Battle Bear and the War Bear. This, however, is likely to be changed.

EDIT: Ohmigosh its purple

Comment by Flyingshots

I'm thrilled to see this, now we all actually have a chance for the bear. Just that the old one is just going to turn out into a status symbol to say. "I've played for a long time, and I was also a accomplished raider during the Burning Crusade."

Comment by Philes

I'm glad they're bringing this mount back. Losing the opportunity to loot this mount forever would have been unBEARable!

Comment by Wravien

How do we obtain it? same way?

Comment by jayse10024

We all know the red ones are faster anyways.

Comment by futbolaholic

Do we know If there's going to be a chest event? Or is this going to be a random drop?

Comment by Fathimir

Quoting from the end of the official content preview released today:
The Swift Zulian Panther and Armored Razzashi Raptor are obtained in Zul'Gurub, while the Amani Battle Bear can be earned by killing the first four bosses of Zul'Aman in a limited amount of time.
Also, finally a screenshot of the new bear: http://us.media4.battle.net/cms/gallery/A1869W1ZSL0L1301010282853.jpg
Looks like it's the same model, with the shoulderguards and toned down from vivid red to a more subdued green (and the trim and secondary colors adjusted to match).

Edit: From live reports, looked like the color scheme was changed since the official preview (see uploaded screenshots). I dub this new look the "Shadow Bear."

Comment by perculia

Completed the run with 3 minutes to spare today. Mount is more purple than previous models linked (not green at all) but has exactly the same textures as the old one (screenshots uploaded for comparison).

Comment by perculia

The mount run works exactly as it did in TBC, in that only the bear and eagle bosses give you more time, you only need to clear the animal bosses, and only one mount will drop.

Happy farming.

Comment by Harson

Well, they picked Pink instead of green for this Warbear.
Very nice choice Blizzard!
/sarcasm

Comment by Illearth

How much time does the eagle boss give as compared to the bear boss? I know from last time i did it that it wasnt standardized, but i didn't pay enough attention.

Comment by adezard

the bear is easy as it was at 70, we did it with a bear tank, priest healers, hunter, ret paladin , and my (enhance shaman) skipped most the trash killed each boss didn't open chest and had 8 mins left on lynx boss and killed it and got the bear

Comment by adezard

also..i don't know if its intentional or not but this doesn't come with an achievement for looting i'm sure they will add one later on in game ...hopefully

Comment by adezard

i'll just post our strat here for anyone interested

skip the main pack from eagle and bear boss, run up to eagle kill only the caster first on each pull then keep pulling up aoe'ing everything down til you get to the top and pull the big add that stops the birds from spawning,

then pull the eagle boss blow hero,a dps will get picked up by a giant white bird (you can dps the bird if your picked up) then back to blowing up the boss should take you 1 min to kill him with hero popped

skip chest go to bear boss

pull his first set of adds and the first set of bears and aoe them down together then head up to the stairs and continue to aoe pull each pack , then when you get to the last pack next to the boss cc 1 of the adds , if its a flamecaster it will be immune to cc (idk if its a bug or a glitch or just that platform) so cc the other and burn the flame caster then pull the boss, have 3 players picked out to stand in range to lessen the bosses dmg in human form(1 at a time soon as they get the debuff)

head to dragonhawk you should have 17 mins or so left on the timer after killing the bear boss, so mass pull adds and aoe , and be sure to kill the scouts , continue to aoe pull til you get to the stairs of dragonhawk, be sure to cc the adds and kill the juggernaut first, he can be purged when he gets the earthquake buff on him which helps him die faster, kill these adds and pull the boss, blow hero again and burn him down and aoe the hatchlings that come from ignoring the hatchers in the fight, you should have about 12 mins or so left at this point.

jump down, skip the juggernaut and the healer pat that go from in front of lynx and dragonhawk area and run to the side of the stairs heading to hex lord and pull the lnyx pack, then after they are dead skip the other adds and that are avoidable and pull the add with the 2 crocks burn them down, then have your tank pull both packs of lynx mobs and pop cooldowns and aoe them down, your healer will most likely need to drink so drink fast and pull the last pack on the stairs

then lynx boss you should have 8 mins left on timer so just pull him ignore healing totem and lightning totem and just zerg him down and you got your mount and free gold on the ground, just be sure your roll hax are on and you have your brand new za bear.. hope this helps those trying to get theirs

Comment by sneepy

Me and my team are using group setup below:

Tank- Prot Warrior- 190k hp and about 8k DPS on bosses.
Healer- Holy Paladin- about 10k HPS on bosses.
1DPS- Survival Hunter- about 18k DPS on bosses.
2DPS- Feral Druid- about 18k DPS on bosses.
3DPS- Ench Shammy- about 17k DPS on bosses.

With last run we've got 3 mins left.

We are using "Hit and run" strategy. Once last trash mob is dying, tank is pulling another group of trash. After killing a boss, we are mounting up immediately!

Notice that your team must know tactics perfectly. Any of deaths may cause you will run out of time.

Comment by DBeckham7890

It probably isn't needed, but Invisibility Potion can probably be used to skip a trash pull at the beginning of the trash on Dragonhawk boss, and then again on the last pull before Lynx boss.

Comment by rockmanzero

Owkeej so you say that you have 368 gear fully nuked everything and still had 1-2 minutes left?

Think you took a wrong route since we did it with a good pace many communication on ventrilo and had like 4-5 minutes left. Not really a challenge if you already did it back in TBC.

Edit:

Protection Paladin
Holy Paladin
Feral Cat
Fire Mage
Shadow Priest

Comment by danonek

We did mount time ryb 5 times today with 1 offspec and 2 alts.
Pala prot- alt (355)
Shaman ench- alt (357)
Pala ret-offspec (367)
Another Pala ret (366)
Pala holy (367)

Everytime we had 4 min left.

Comment by Leicad

I have a small tip after doing the run succesfully 5 times in a row. Just before the bear boss, there will be trolls on warbears. Usually when you kill the rider, the bear will get maximum health and you have to kill that as well. Here is the trick: stun the handler when he is at roughly 40% hp and the bear won't spawn! Since there is 4 of these mobs, it will easily shave off ~30 seconds which can be vital if you are having abit of trouble.

Best of luck guys!

Comment by Azothoras

Some notes for the bear run:

Each run only gives one bear.
You need to kill the Lynx boss before the timer runs out. If the timer runs out while fighting the lynx, the captive will still die, and it will fail.

You will need to kill the four bosses (eagle, bear, dragonhawk, lynx) before the timer on top of your screen runs out.
You start off with 15 minutes, and you get another 5 minutes for killing the eagle and the bear boss, giving you a grand total of 25 minutes to do it.

If you can't manage the DPS, try bringing hex sticks with you, and go into a clean instance and unhex the frogs to get the buffs, then group queue (Note: You have to apply the buff before rejoining ZA, because the item dissappears when zoning, while the buff does not.) at ZA again. The buffs will stick with you until you die.

EDIT: Some more info

Comment by Botixx

Did it 5 times today, wasnt that hard with a good healer.
Our composition looked like this:
Prot Warrior
Resto druid
Bm hunter- just for the hero, using it on the eagle and dragonhawk boss
MM hunter
Shadow Priest

Usualy we were engaging the last boss with 6 minutes left, cleared all the trash, most of the problems we had was the dragonhawk boss our tank and in a few runs a healer died there but we were able to do it nevertheless with the help of mass ressurection :)

Comment by Skyzed

Just did it with my guild mates with vent ofc
360 lvl item everyone

Protection paladin Me<---
Resto shaman
Combat rogue
Shadow priest
Furry warrior

We did it with 6 minutes left
Try to skip as packs and patrols u can ,pop bl/hero at 1st and 3rd bosses ,be fast on your mount ups, and also dont do any ninjapulls, cause from one simple mistake u can lose the run.

Comment by Fathimir

The posts here which happily proclaim they got their bears with X minutes left, without mentioning how geared their group was (or if they had any stacks of the LFD buff, but that's unlikely) are beyond annoying. Gear makes a difference. Please include it in your posts.

Thanks!

Comment by adezard

idk if my post i made earlier shows up or not but i'll do it again, most the juggernaut & healer pats are avoidable this helps you alot in the run, once you avoid the one from dragonhawk to lynx pull just the first set of lynx trash at the steps of hex lord. after they die have a shaman or if you have a dk water walk the group and run just past the hut and run straight out across the water skipping the croc pat which saves you a min of pulling and walking time, have your tank run in grab 2 packs of lynxs blow cd's and the group aoe's these down, doing this plus the water walking saves you atleast 2 mins hope this little extra bit helps you guys

Comment by Qwerg

Guide for ZA timed run

The gates open. 2 mobs appear and the one coming from the right is attackable 4 seconds earlier than the one on the left. nuke it first. Go down the stairs from the left and jump to the grass at the left. Like that u can avoid a bit better the pat. Mark the pat with a stupid mark, like star or triangle, so that it can be noticed fast. Jump up the thrash of the hawk. You pull first pair and kill the caster, repeat and repeat and repeat and repeat, killing the melee mobs with cleaves and such. Pull big fugly guy and make the birds stop spawning. Go to hawk fast (healer has to even drink when the tank is pulling stuff) and pop hero. Nuke it, stay spread 10 yards and hug at his tornado. He dies, mount up and go down. You can even jump from a part of the wall to save time. Go down to the swamp and avoid the 2 pats. Killing these 2 takes 2-3mins of your time. You don't want them

Right about now 3-4 volcanic pots are used. Pull the first thrash and aoe down, when first mobs dies the tank can pull the bear pack if the healer's mana allow it. I am not sure but i think popping mirror images causes buggs on the bear part, so save them for boss fight or use them when u reach the first mounted bears. Go to the stairs, pull, nuke/stun the medic man and kill his 40k hp totem that causes immunity asap. When 3 out of 4 are dead the tank can continue walking higher. Those are the first bear pack. Pop some soft cds or 2 min cd or less and like usual use pots to increase your dps. This after all is a dps + survival race. when they reach 35% of hp u can stun them and bugg them, so the bear isn't spawning with them (saves 1 min if you add all 4 bears). Go up and pull the mobs. After 4 seconds of pulling u can cc the medic man and the other fugly melee and kill the bears like before. (use pot!). Kill the bears, break the cc and kill the mobs too. Pull boss, make a 3 range charge share (use pot!) and kill him like that. when he is dead u hafta be swift, mount up and rush to the first scout.

Scouts are really hard to aim for, the first 2 are easy and the only hard one is the one behind the dragonhawks pack. Try to be careful with that one, since tank must pull the mobs and dps nuke the scouts down. If you have a mage in group you don't cc the casters at this thrash pack. Mages can steal a buff allowing em to move 300% speed and also increases spell haste, making em capable of literally nuking the mobs there. If no mage in group, a shaman or a priest or whoever can, must dispell. if that's not possible too u have to CC the casters as much as possible. Dispelling/stealing also applies to the mob with the earthquake buff. Moving on u nuke em like that, blah blah.

Dragonhawk boss (USE POTS FFS) and pop hero again (yeah u should have it). Kill 1 hatcher at start, let the other hatch eggs, aoe em down, avoid fires, etc etc.

Mount up and move to the west, down the swamp again. Yeah, you guessed right! You avoid the pat again! Shocked. Next to the temple stairs there is a pack of kitties, pull em and nuke em down. (yeah u just used your pot. AGAIN!). When they are dead, you click the icon of your flask and drink the water walking elixir. If you got shamy or dk u save 100g :]. Move between the temple ruins and the troll pack at your right and go near the shore. If you are lucky the croc pack isn't at the egde of their route so u can enter the water and run to the other side. Once there you activate kitties, nuke em. Once 2 are dead u activate the next pack. (used a pot and reused your flask by now). You do the first normal MB and pull the next kittie pack. 3 are dead u move on. Once that's done you wait again and heal up to full, and go for the last pack of kitties. When they are dead u pull the last mob pack. it's the hardest one imo, cause u get rather stressed with the whole situation. Nuke the two trolls down first and then the kitties.

You use pot before pullin lynx and u reuse it like you would have done in a raid (this applies to ALL bosses and packs done yet). You don't have hero, but u keep nuking the boss only. All but boss must enter the water totems for + mana if u caster or healer. When he splits you nuke the boss, not the lynx and also nuke the lightening totem. Again you pull boss out of water totem.

1 death is enough to fail this. Every second counts. You don't need to loot or free the prisoners or antihex the frogs during this. Looting wastes 1 min in total by distracting you too so you gotta be careful

That all. GL with it if you gonna try it

Qwerg

Comment by Dantix

A New Hope for the green amani bear? :D

Posted by Zarhym:

It's purple. Yes, the one we originally previewed is a different color and we may make use of it one day. We try to get information to you as quickly as possible via content previews. The major issue we run into though, is that we're pushing for image assets and functionality information as soon as they come off the presses from our developers. So the quicker we are about getting you information, the more likely it is that something will change between the time the preview is posted, and the time the feature/content goes live. This is one of those cases and we're trying to work on ways to minimize them as much as possible.

Source: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2483738657?page=1

Comment by Qwerg

It's not the lynx giving you the mount :) it's saving all of the hostages before they are sacrifised. Lynx is just always last cause ZA was designed in such a way that it would be pointless and stupidly time consuming to go in another route other than Hawk>Bear>Dragonhawk>Lynx
Edit: This was cause of a comment that was downrated and removed questiong why not rush for the lynx and forget the rest of the bosses :<!

Comment by kolbaska

Random troll heroic feature. Since the start of 4.1 this feature has never diappointed me.

Here's the deal:

According to my statistics the same troll dungeon can not show up again after full clearing of it, but it definetly will show up again if you haven't cleared it or left party.

Examples:

At the begining I was alone: queued up for radmon, cleared ZG, then got ZA via random, then again ZG and again ZA, etc. - they are always changing after full crealing. Also for the experience I left ZA few times after killing few bosses: after leaving and waiting for cooldown to take off I always had ZA in my random heroic, same with ZG.

Then I tried it with group: party leader always defines which random heroic will show up. After clearing ZG I took guildmates to check it - we got ZA.

Moral of the story: use this feature till you can. You have an access to unlimited amount of bear mounts. Leader cleared ZG then took people for time run. Just kill 4 bosses, loot the bear, disband, party up again, queue for random and repeat till you collect needed amount of bears.

Good luck everyone!

Upd:
We made a party of 5 friend and in few hours gathered bears for us, then we took bears for guildmates. (it is possible to sell them via /2)

Comment by thxyoutoo

Video Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNcErxIBIv0

A little info on this video:
1) Travel time is sped up.
2) Combat is in real time!
3) Flasks and Potions are not used.
4) Captions and tips are inserted throughout the video.
5) This is not our fastest kill. It is perhaps our slowest kill so far!

Since 4.1 released our guild has attained about 15-18 Bears. We did not use the mass rez spell ever and only obtained our bears legit. Many videos up for this bear run possess extremely high dps, optimal group compositions, and/or non-optimal pulls and routes. I do not claim this video to be the ultimate guide. There may be more optimal ways of kill orders. However, this is what we've found to be extremely successful. This may be useless to "pro" players. However, this was made for the average player to learn how to succeed in a realistic manner.

Again, we are not running an optimal composition. We do not use Potions and Flasks. We also are not running full 372 gear. This video is a demonstration that the ZA Bear Runs are obtainable by players with moderate gear levels.

Thank you for your time and please let me know what you think.

I hope that this guide is useful to someone.

edit: updates to this guide as well as written supplementation can be found here http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/901523-4.1-Zul-Aman-Bear-Run-Video-Guide!

Comment by cryostasis

Completed this run with the following party:
- tank : prot warrior (358 iLevel)
- healer: resto shaman (358 iLevel)
- dps1: fire mage (357 iLevel)
- dps2: mm hunter (357 iLevel)
- dps3: frost dk (357 iLevel)

During all 5 runs we completed the circuit with 1 minute (on average) to spare. In one run none of us had the timer active and we didn't know how much time we had left - we still got the bear. As we missed some critical buffs (no druid or paladin in the party) we used flasks for all the runs, food buffs, drums (of the forgotten kings) and potting on bosses. Bloodlust was used on the eagle and dragonhawk bosses. To spare healer mana we CCed (poly and frost trap) on the run with the DK deathgripping mobs away from CC and the tank picking it up as soon as it landed. We used Path of Frost to skip the crocodile patrol. Hunter's misdirect allows full nuke right from the start on all packs/bosses.

Comment by enojy

The dragonhawk trash (on the stairs, last pull before the boss) does chain with the boss. However, we were able to skip the trash right before lynx boss with invisibility potions. Then, on a consecutive run, we used invisibility potions once more for the same pack, and it aggro'ed us.

Only two things I can think of for the invisibility potions to be successful -- one, make sure you wait two full seconds for the world to phase out before approaching the pack, and two, line yourself up between mobs prior to taking the potion, then run straight through (not sure if invisibility potions act as a stealth or as true invisibility.)

Comment by Drain7

For anyone wondering how this works, there are 4 Scouts around the lvl, each has you killing a boss to save them. Upon being saved, they will unlock a loot chest. You have 15 mins, and the first 2 kills will add another 5. So you have 25mins total to save all 4 Scouts. This is REALLY hard. If you wipe once you can forget even saving 3, let alone 4. You need Five Star DPS to totally plow this zone to even have a chance at getting all 4. Luckily the 4th has nothing but this mount, which isn't important. Bag 3 isn't important either because there are other weapons to get. The only bag that matters is number 2.

This is the loot...
The first chest opened always has a worthless bag of coins. Blizzard knew this is the only one newbs would get, so they made it a waste of time.
Chest 2 has 1 of 8 different pieces of armor. This is the one most people will get, and as far as they will get. It's pretty easy to farm this chest. You'll have 20mins to drop the first 2 bosses to get this chest. It has a random purple in it. 1 of 8 different items.
Chest 3 has 1 of 2 different weapons, a caster dagger or a 2h.
Chest 4 has this mount, and requires saving all 4 in the timer order to acquire.

The only ideal strategy I can give is to HAAAAAAUL ASSSSS. Kill everything really $%^&ing quick, and don't die. Expect to have a trio of 20k+ DPS to even stand a chance. Most groups can barely get the first 2 before the clock is out. The rest can't even reach the third boss in time.

Comment by parkwaydrivelol

The timed run really isn't as difficult as people make it out to be. I've pugged this twice in a row with the same group whom I had just met in LFD. We had a Prot Warrior, Resto Druid, Ret Paladin (me) Demo Warlock and Feral druid. To show how easy it really is (not ridiculously easy but still) we had no heroism, we didn't use a single cc the entire instance, and me and the feral druid had average gear, blues and a few ZA/ZG epics. We downed Lynx with 3 minutes to spare, and I won the bear. DPS was roughly 20k per person on each boss fight. We skipped a few trash packs, but nothing gimmicky, just like every other pug group would do. The feral druid died on Jan'alai, and on Lynx trash, and again, we had no heroism.

TL;DR: Not THAT difficult in the general scheme of things. Provided you don't dawdle with freeing prisoners, and pulling unnecessary trash, It's a breeze, and you can expect to accomplish it in every ZA run you do with people who aren't braindead.

Comment by LSavage

Gear doesn't make a real difference, good communication and some brains that is what really counts

I won't argue that good communication and some brains are important here, but gear still plays a huge role in being able to do this.

Even if you assume that all fights can be won even in minimum level gear (ilevel 346 is required to do this instance using the LFG tool), your gear level has a massive effect on how quickly you can kill the mobs. And in this case, it isn't just about being able to defeat the mobs successfully, its about being able to defeat them quickly as well.

It doesn't matter how good a player you are, your dps will always be limited by how good your gear is. Higher dps means mobs and bosses die quicker and you spend less time in combat. If you cannot kill the mobs quickly enough, you are going to run out of time even if you never wipe.

So Fathimir's point holds true.

Comment by Trungalung

An arcane mage makes this run extremely easy via Spell Steal.

The Zandalari Juggernauts have a buff called Tectonic Plates which gives them a chance to apply earthquake on the ground that deals ~30k aoe damage every sec + able to crit (seem to have a base crit of 5% or less).

Any mage spec can spell steal but why arcane? The reason is because of Arcane Flows that lowers the cooldown of Invisibility and Prismatic Cloak that make it instant. You can spell steal the buff and invis away which save you time to have actually kill the trash.

Here's what I usually do. There's one juggernaut patrolling between bear and eagle wings. Steal that buff and use it to clear eagle trash. After eagle boss is dead (time warped), go back and steal it again then use it on the bear trash. Kill the bear boss then go back to the same juggernaut and steal the buff AGAIN. It will probably last for two trash pulls for dragonhawk. The last trash pull before dragonhawk boss will have a juggernaut so you don't have to run all the way back. Only downside is you have to kill it. Just make sure the juggernaut dies last so you can have a full duration buff. Use the earthquake on the dragonhawk boss and ignore all trolls. Pop mirrors when the dragonhawk hatchlings are coming out then jump around and melee everything so you have a lot of earthquakes which will probably kill them in like 3 - 4 ticks. The next juggernaut will be the one patroling between lynx and dragon hawk wings. Just steal it use it on lynx trash (will last up until the last two trash mobs if you're fast). After you kill the last trash, there will be a juggernaut to the right. Steal it and use it on the boss (time warp).

Sorry for the wall of text and bad English, but I just want to give as much details as possible. I have successfully pugged through this 3 or 4 times now with people having blues and za/zg gears with my mage in 359s gears and 372 pvp dagger and wand.

Comment by Daudgrim

I tested out a theory to get 5 mounts quick with my guild. You Start a ZG Run, finish that one, and then do the bear run in ZA. DON`T Finish ZA!, by that i mean don`t do anything but get the mount, then you requeue for ZA again. Since you didn`t finish ZA, you will get ZA again. Use this method and you get 5 ZA runs in a row while just having to do ZG once. Saves you a ton of time, and since it was a guild run, we all got the bear fast and easy with 8 mins left on the timer When we got to the lynx. (Out setup was, 1 dk frost, 1 survival hunter, 1 pally tank, 1 healing sham and 1 dps druid.)

Enjoy!

Comment by Knifestalker

just an fyi if u have a rogue in ur group u can have them sap 1 bear thats sitting on the path to the stairs of bear boss and skip the 2 bears to save some time

Comment by Alterraia

I've run this in pugs various times. Kind got tired of playing on my main, but run this on my DK (who's now tanking), and my ele shaman (newest toon).

We just ran this 5 times today, and got 5 bears, on the same toons. So, here is my bear strat:

Buffs, table, everything before opening the gates. Everyone mount up inside, and start running. Have one person open the gate, then mount up quick. As soon as you can move, run down the stairs, agro the non elites and kite them to the eagle trash. Normally the first elites at the entrance will NOT agro. When you get down the first flight of stairs and take a left, go left and go over the little wall so you're on the grass, and hug the wall so you shave off a few seconds.

Sometimes, the pat will be right there, depending on how long you took to get ready before opening the door. If so, wait, but the guardians or elites, you skipped at the start, will for some reason agro and follow you. If so, just ignore them and go up the gauntlet. You can AoE them down as you go up.

Gauntlet is still the same. Kill the Wind Walker and grab the next group. Everything dies from AoE. Grab the tempest as soon as it's safe, then kill. Give healer 5 seconds to get mana, pull and burn boss.

Skip the prisoner and go to bear. Watch the pat. Jump the wall on the way down from eagle. Come around the side to get ready to pick up the first pull: 3 mobs. Tank them w/ your back to the wall so you don't get knocked back towards the pat, if it's nearby. When the last one is at 25% hp or even 50%, go to the next pull.

On a side note, I need to point out a glitch that has happened, that we've all noticed. The trash automatically will move, if you get in proximity range, and then stop. ALL dps, threat, et cetera, resets after they stop moving. They move to their spots, then pause for a second and then agro like a body pull. So dps have to watch it there. It's not the tank's fault. This is because when converting to a 5 man from a 10 man, the way the trash reacts now is weird. The bear pull is ok. The 4 pull on the stairs is immune to CC until they stop moving and engage. The mounted bear pull on the next stairs resets agro until they stop at the bottom of the stairs and then they engage. The final pull before the boss move forward a bit, I think to that turquoise pattern on the ground, stop, then engage. They are immune until they are actually chasing someone. Have to wait 2 seconds.

So, anyway, killed the bear pull. Then the 4 pull. We didn't have CC, so we just blow up the medicine man, tank has back to the stairs, bc of knock backs. Move up as last one is about to die. Have the mounted pull. Wait till they stop at the bottom of the stairs to build threat & start dps. Stun them if you can, at about 40% so they don't spawn a mount. Next pull is tricky. When I'm on my DK, or have a DK, I pop army. If I have an arcane mage, I have them use presence of mind, and then insta poli the medicine man. I go for one of the mounted trolls, and kill its bear after, then the ax thrower. Then the other mounted troll, and lastly the medicine man. In my actual bear runs, we feared the healer, then hexed him. I popped CDs as I needed them.

Kill bear, move to next.

Range kill scouts. Pulls with scouts, make sure to purge, dispell, or spellsteal the flamecasters. As a tank, I ran in on a mount, slowed w/ Avenger shield, or stunned. As a DK tank I'd grip then chains them. This pull is a hard pull, because of rend and sigils, so big heals, and even popping divine shield (if pally) to remove debuffs. I have a macro to cast it and then cancel it in a split second.

Next pull, rush in stun the scout, then aoe the rest. More than likely there will be 1 or 2 more pat scouts there. Watch out. We had one run where we had reinforcements come 3 times, and still were successful.

Range kill the lone scout, then rush in and kill and aoe down the next group, scout dies in the aoe. Remove the buff from the flamecaster.

Next pull, 3rd hardest pull on a run, we CC'd the 2 flamecasters (not always successful). Purged if we had to. I had my shaman purge the Juggernaut of the quake buff he has. I do that all the time on my ele shammy. Then kill the guardian & casters and go to boss. Hatch 1 side (to be safe). Kill adds over boss. Clean up the first set as the first set of bombs go off. Then burn boss and make the rest all come. As a pally, I popped my raid wall and a CD, and dropped conse at the bridge. Died in seconds. Burn boss. Sometimes you kill him just as he does his fire bomb thing, meaning you have to wait for the fire wall to end.

Drop down and go right against the stairs to hex lord. Watch for pat. If you have a rogue, you can sap the elder lynx and hug the wall to the right of the lynx and skip that group. With the changes to CC in 4.2, I'm sure you can do any CC and skip that pull.

Watch for the gator pat. If you have water walk, use it. If not, swim as far as u can till you are around the pat and then proceed to the stealthed cats. 1 group at a time, because they run right passed the tank, so tank needs time to get threat. As the pack is about to die, kite towards the next spot and get rid of that group. Same for the last one.

This last pull with 2 cats that stun first on agro, and 2 trolls who MC, is very hard. With a DK, you can pop army and alleviate the damage. A mage can use presence of mind and insta poli one of the trolls as they come down. In my case, 5x times, we hybernated one cat, shaman spammed hex a troll, our lock feared another troll, though only did it once out of the 5 times. Killed them one at a time. Pulled the last of the group into the boss room.

As soon as the boss drops his 1st water totem, pop lust and all CDs, burn and that was that.

Since you have to kill the last boss in ZA or ZG to be able to queue up for the other dungeon, we requeued and did it over again.

My group was:

Prot pally
Enh Shaman
Destro Lock
Boomkin
Disc Priest

Boomkin is great for using their moonlight ability that silences if mobs are in it. Works very well against flamecasters and medicinemen. No totems, and no time to buff themselves with the crazy haste buff. Also good for keeping the tamers just before Lynx boss, from casting domesticate. Any druid, roots is GREAT for those pesky scouts!

Shamans are great for dps, CC, and purge. Purge is the BEST for them. I prefer ele myself, but enh works. Can't trust mages to be quick on the spellsteal, so purge the haste buff. Purge the quake buff.

Hands down, paladins are the BEST tanks for ZA bear runs. They were in BC, they are in Cata. Raid wall, LoH, conse, salve, BoP, Divine Shield, hammer of the righteous, crusader aura, resist aura, hammer of justice, avenger's shield with glyph for dazing shield. Since lvl 70, I've mounted up, rushed in HoJ the scout, then he died quickly. Drop conse to pick up the rest of the group.

DKs are great, as tanks or dps because of deathgrip on scouts or kidnappers. Chains of ice as well is VERY handy. Army for the pulls before bear and lynx. Blood boil is great to pick up the stealth cats. Path of frost for the water part.

Rogue is nice for sapping the first bear pull and the lynx pull next to hex lord stairs.

Arcane mage for insta poli via presence of mind. If they are quick, spellsteal for flamecasters.

So, we did all this 5 times in a row, and we walked away with 5 battle bears.

Comment by Dradee

I'm glad I have this mount, but really, let's face it; it looks like the Amani War Bear that has been left for too long in the dishwasher.

Comment by jbarbas

i got my bear yesterday with a pug. it was a prot warrior, resto shaman, ret pally (me), arcane mage, and a lock. we got to the last boss with 3 minutes on the timer and beat him with like 20 seconds left. we used no cc and pulled as much as possible and no invisibility potion or other elixers. and the other 4 were on the same server and had some 353 gear so its possible with anything.

Comment by Vaev

Just got this as a resto shaman (ilvl 363) running with a low ilvl Paladin tank, a Warlock (had 2 pvp pieces on), Frost DK and a Hunter. We were ahead of schedule and almost used the LOCK SS pull through the surprise mobs of Lynx through, then mass rez from the soulstone rez... However, the tank opted out of the plan and we pulled them regular with about 5 minutes left on the timer. Tip: Don't need to wait for the healer to mana up before the actual boss encounter and keep that head on a swivel!

glhf

Comment by Kalyssa

Very possible to do a bear run in a pug if people are geared enough, focused, and the tank is a good leader nonstop

Who cares if this will eventually be "the new bronze drake". The difference is this Amani Battle Bear isn't butt-ugly like the bronze drake. I have the Zulian Panther which is actually rare but the bear mount is much cooler looking

Comment by KharmahofExodar

Had the most epic bear run with this pug tank named Fuzzybear from Arygos server.

I won the first bear and was so happy! I felt bad for the tank though cause he had lost the roll for the 4th time.
I told him if we were able to specific qeue I would have gladly gone with him so we could try again. So then it was on.

We qeued again, got ZG over with and then ran ZA again.
This time it was his turn to win-- and with that-- he did! I was so stoked for him! That was going to be his last run but we decided to go one more time so my friend could get his bear.

Finished ZG quick-- then back again in ZA.
My friend won the roll for the 3rd bear run with a roll of 13, LOL. I was so happy!
I just want to thank you one more time Fuzzybear if you ever read this. It was wonderful running with you and I really wish there were more people like you in this game. I am really happy you got your bear finally. =)

Comment by Superbiff

That is an awesome story; it is great to see more people like this in the game.. I have a counter-example of a bad tank: ME .. but wait it turns well..

Two nights ago I decide to see if I am ready to tank ZA full (I'd come in as a late tank before - no issues). Get a group, 2 guys from my server.. That's gotta be a good sign right? WRONG. I totally botched up the Eagle trash b/c I didn't realize about the guys who come running up from the bottom so I was subconsciously not looking anywhere but 'forward'.. Healer is screaming "TANK! ARE YOU F*(# BLIND! PAY $(*$(ING ATTENTION", I'm going "where are they?" in my head trying to find them.. We get them down, get the party back together.. bottom of the stairs up to boss.. same problem.. WHERE ARE THESE EXTRA MOBS COMING FROM! Healer is ripsh*tpissed at this point and I'm so flustered that with all the "gogogo" and the "kick tank after this fight" I ran in on Eagle boss too soon... not realizing the healer was outside.. valiant effort.. wiped, dropped, hung head in shame, healer PST'd to call me "Garbage" (I replied back something nasty.. got ignored)..

Tanked a ZA run about 10 minutes later.. Not the smoothest thing but no wipes, no major problems..

Still I stewed on that guy for probably 16 hours off and on.. Not in a "god that guy is terrible.. ".. What got me is he was RIGHT; my performance was utter garbage; I just don't know how it had gone so wrong. So I decided to send him an in-game mail apologizing for being rude in response to his critique b/c he WAS right after all and sent him 10gold toward repairs. We talked later yesterday and smoothed it out.. He was in a bad mood that night and felt like I wasn't paying attention, etc etc.. I apologize, he apologizes.. Now we're good.

But now the GOOD party of this.. So this morning at about 5:15 am I'm deciding "sleep or play a heroic" once I notice they reset the weekly counter.. So, still a bit nervous about it I signed up to tank, got in, warned everyone I was 'green' for ZA, got reassured healer was pro (and man was he!) and off we went.. Well from there on out it was an absolute massacre. Tanking as bear I was the low-man dps averaging out to about 13k (iLvl 366). We had some psycho DK who was pulling 22-26 constantly and the other two bounced around from 14-19k sustained.. I felt like I was hanging on by a thread but we only had one death (his fault) and he was back up before the boss was done.

I don't know how close we were but the timer seemed like it had said "1 minute left" forever.. Halazzi died with what I imagine could not have been more than 5 seconds left tops.. Battle Bear came down to 3 b/c 2 had it and I got lucky.

After Saturday, I was utterly demoralized as a tank hearing "Garbage" in my head whenever I'd go to tank anything.. Today I get to sign out on a high note with the last thing said to me about it as "You could be tanking FL".. Now I dunno about all that.. 60k dps in a 5-man makes any tanks life easier, but it was nice to hear..

So I dunno.. maybe this will serve as some 'feel good' cheesy thing to make some tank not give up hope a bit..

Comment by Mitbrandir

i dont hope this mount will lose its value like the bronze drake did , would be a shame really.

Comment by sponge

Surely, you may have won the battle, but have not won the war.

Comment by Goats

On my demo lock, after 4.2, it has been quite a bit easier to carry groups with high aoe dps and high single target dps thanks to certain trinkets combined with meta. I'm usually pulling anywhere from 25-35k depending on how lucky I am with rng crits on single target bosses. My gear consists of valor, daily and jp gear. A lock with raiding gear could probably pull better numbers, but good luck finding one that needs to do 5mans.

Comment by DeGoudenEeuw

Love this mount, and the fact that there are faces glowing at the sides visible in Shadowform, which makes it superior to other bear mounts (if you are a Shadow Priest who likes bears, that is).
Got it in a random dungeon group on my 4th roll attempt.

Comment by lxbrgs

If you have a hunter or a shammy(with reincarnation on CD) and you see your time is ending by the lynx mobs, all your group can mount, and go aggroing the mobs, and when you get at the boss room the hunter can FD or the shammy can die and use reincarnation and mass rez everybody, and there you go! you'll probably kill the boss in time and perhaps win the mount!

Ps: The hunter or shaman need to be on a lvl 25 guild, cause the shaman pobrably won't have range to rezz all of the group(And we need to save time here too), and hunter, well, they cant rezz you, unless you're his pet. lol

Comment by dexter98

This mount is so easy to get now. Yesterday was my first time doing ZA and our random dungeon group was able to pull it off with few minutes to spare. I was ret pally in ilvl 358 gear doing 17k - 20k dps.

Today I did it again with the pug, this time as a tank but unfortunately I lost the roll both times. Anyway, it is possible to get this mount with random dungeon finder pug, as long as people aren't stupid and doing 8k dps. It will get easier over time and by the time patch 4.3 hits, this will be the new Bronze Drake of WotLK.

Comment by Rtucci

Tanked for a really good pug and came about 20-30 sec from getting it. Would've had it if we all knew that we were in for a non fail pug. But it started off slower because everyone just thought it was going to be a normal run I think lol. Lock was pulling 42k dps as demo on single target lol. Oh wellz. I just hope I get it before they remove it again : /

Comment by Xuazvius

Just done this with 7 minutes remaining. Overall dps 82.3k

Comment by LeDPS

Finally , I got this sweet bear today :D

I was in a pug and this was my third time I saw this bear dropping but never really managed to get it until today , I rolled a need and I rolled a 98 :D ,

For the DPS , The highest was 24K and the lowest was 16K

Honestly saying (although I think the first one is better) the bear looks good and I'm happy to have this version :) .

Comment by Dealendb

Yay now I have two Amani bears! :D

Comment by mimee

With patch 4.2.3 out and everyone in DS normal gear. This run is very easy.. our healer DC and we wiped on trash and we still made it with 11min left.

Comment by Mohandar

It's good to use a Tablet at start, 10% of my dps was the bonus dps from it.

Comment by Wazdakka

My group was waaaaaay overgeared for this, with the lowest ilvl being over 370. However, the Amani beast-tamer (mob with the crocodiles) nearly wiped us with his mind control. I (warlock) was controlled while I had a bunch of procs, and nearly killed one of my group members, but saved them by instead aoe fearing them, and nearly pulling more mobs. So stay sharp!

Comment by trombi

Anyone know if it will be still available with MoP? Any Blue Posts on that?

Comment by Loony555

This mount can still be obtained in Patch 5.0.4 (MoP prepatch). We just finished a Zul Aman timerun successfully and got it, first day of patch 5.0.4 in europe.

Just in comparison to the old Amani War Bear, added with patch 2.3.0, and available in the old Zul Aman 10 man raid. The old bear was removed from the game with the wotlk prepatch 3.0.2 for "being obtainable too easy from then on".

Comment by baconseed

I think it's nice they didn't change the look but only color from the first mount, so it can still be unique in some way.

Comment by Necrowolf82

I got this today running with a few friends, didn't know they brought it back, and I couldn't be happier. Two of the guys rolled need to be mean and I still got it, huge thanks to Kinetic :)

Comment by Adeltor

By the way did they remove that bear by adding patch 5.0.5 MoP. Cuz some rumors say that it has been removed. Any information?

Comment by Adnamra

For those who wants to know if in MoP (Mists of Pandaria) this mount will be avaible in Zul'aman instance or not, the answer is yes and its still in the patch 5.0.5. Don't know for the future^^

Comment by Joschka

In proper footprints of the original Amani War Bear I would like Blizzard to take this one out of the game as well.

Comment by Joschka

It's about time to remove this from the game, in old tradition with the amani war bear.

Comment by CreeperLeague

I need some help. I've been trying to do this with 2 friends, a lvl 90 pala, DPS, a mage lvl 89 and me, lvl 90 Priest, healer.
Reading some of the comments, it seems that we have a few minutes less than every1 else, as we start with 15 mins to do it.

I dont really know the tacts, but im pretty sure all we have to do, is kill all the bosses within the 15 mins before the sacrifice begins.

Comment by JCrystal

The Bear Run can be soloed by a Hunter with pretty average gear (ilv466).
Here's a complete How-to video with commentary: Link
All the information you could possibly desire is in the description.

As of April 14th, I have also done it with my Paladin (ilv483). Here is the video to which you can see the run.

Comment by johnkimble16

I have some advice for anyone trying to get an Amani Battle Bear.

The first thing you need to be aware of is that time is working against you. As soon as you help Vol'jin open the gates of Zul'Aman you're given a 25 minute timer before a sacrifice is made and you fail the bear run. You start with 15 minutes but gain 5 extra minutes for killing both the 1st boss and 2nd boss. Having good gear, knowing the boss fights, and having a general layout of the dungeon will help considerably when making that 25 minute timer.

Before you continue to read this I must warn you. Jcrystal is right about a hunter being able to solo it. It may even be possible to do this with another classes. The truth is I don't really know who can and can't solo it. What I do know is that having another person with you makes all the difference. Anything you read from here on out will be the information about mine and my friend's duo attempt. If it helps you great! If not then I wish you's the best.

To start things off me and my friend are both DKs. To give you an idea of our gear levels I was in an average ilevel of 475 and he was around 460. I was Blood specced while he was Frost. As most of you probably already know a Blood Tank can soak insane amounts of damage while healing themselves. This made it possible to do this all without a healer.

I knew quite a bit about the level 85 version of Zul'Aman as I have cleared it dozens of times as a tank in Cata. Moving quickly from boss to boss is the key to beating the timer. Remember this! Talk to Vol'jin and assist him in ringing the gong to open the gates to Zul'Aman

Trash leading to Akil'zon (Eagle Boss):

Kill the adds at the beginning of the dungeon. Proceed towards the 1st boss Akil'zon. Be wary of the two adds that patrol the pathway leading towards the boss. Initiate the gauntlet and begin your ascension towards the eagle boss. When making your way through the gauntlet always focus the healer add. Time isn't on your side and any healing they preform will only eat away at the precious seconds you have. It helps to just kill the healer add then continue towards the boss. To end the gauntlet simply begin the fight with the rather large HP troll add at the bottom of the stairs leading to Akil'zon.

Akil'zon (Eagle Boss):

For two players this fight is very simple. It however does require paying attention. Periodically the boss will summon an eagle add that will pick up a random player. It's important to DPS this eagle add down fast. Everyone needs to be ready for the Lightning Storm. You'll know when this ability happens because someone will suddenly be floating in midair with lightning streaming from four corners. Simply stay underneath this player to avoid taking damage from the Lightning Storm. Kill the boss and move on.

Trash leading to Nalorakk (Bear Boss):

Exit the area where you killed Akil'zon and head towards where Nalorakk is. Again be wary of the two adds patrolling that I mentioned at the beginning. Nalorakk's trash hits rather hard and cooldowns may be needed. You'll know you're in the right place when you see Nalorakk yell out stuff. He'll then send adds to fight you. The adds can hit hard so be on the defensive. Once they have been killed head in the direction of the two bears that should be near you. Kill them and keep going. You'll see another group of adds that Nalorakk will send at you. DPS them down and move further. Before being able to enter Nalorakk's arena you'll have to fight two troll adds ontop of bears. It should be noted that if you can kill a troll add before he dismounts (IE using a stun when he has low HP) he shouldn't summon his bear. Kill these guys and head into the arena. Fight the last pack of trash mobs (you may need to use a cooldown here but make sure it's not a huge one). Take em down and prepare for a hard fight.

Nalorakk (Bear Boss):

If you've done this fight at 85 then you'll know he was the cause of A LOT of wipes. That's because of an ability he uses called Surge. What Surge does is the boss will charge towards the furthest player away from him and hit them for about 35k damage. He will do this 3 times before entering Phase 2. Not really a big deal at level 90 right? Well the debuff he places on you is a big deal. It increases all physical damage dealt against you by 500%. If someone takes consecutive Surge hits they will intake quite a bit of damage. If this person takes three Surge hits they will likely be dead. This is why it's a good idea to have at least one other person with you. Here's what me and my friend did.

Before the fight I told my friend to stand away from the boss. Not long after the fight began, the boss used Surge on him. I then told him to run back in because I was going to take the 2nd and 3rd hits. Yes this would mean I would take 500% additional damage for 20 seconds. Risky but better then my DPS friend risking death. My plan was to use cooldowns to survive the onslaught of damage from the Surge debuff. Thank-fully it wasn't an issue. I told my friend to burn the boss fast and I outlived the damage.

Trash leading to Jan'alai (Dragonhawk Boss):

Leave the area where you killed the Bear boss and head left. Notice the troll scout on this pathway. The trash leading to Jan'alai was infamous for a large number of wipes at 85. The main thing to do when heading through this area is to focus fire the troll scouts and kill them before they summon reinforcements. Any reinforcements they summon will only make you waste time so do your best to kill any scout you see. The next challenging thing about the trash is the large amount of damage the troll adds can do. It's best to burn them fast and interrupt any casts they use to help ease some of their damage. Continue through this area and you'll eventually will arrive at Jan'alai.

Jan'alai (Dragonhawk Boss):

This boss can create problems. At some point during the fight the boss will summon two troll adds that will hatch eggs at a rate of four at a time. It's best to kill one add and let the other hatch eggs. Kill any dragonhawks that hatch while DPSing the boss. Watch out for Jan'alai's fire breath and avoid the fire! When Jan'alai reaches about 40% he'll run to the center and summon a large amount of fire bombs. Don't stand near them and you'll be fine. Jan'alai will also hatch all remaining dragonhawk eggs. Simply burn the boss and hope the adds don't overrun you with damage.

Trash leading to Halazzi (Lynx Boss):

Head out of the area and towards Halazzi. You're almost done. Being a DK or someone with water walking will help immensely. Try and skip any adds you see. You need to enter Halazzi's temple from its east side. You'll know you're in the right area when a bunch lynx adds jump you. In this area you'll be ambushed a few times by these lynx adds. They can hit hard so only pull as many lynx as you can handle. Continue through here and enter where Halazzi is.

Halazzi (Lynx Boss):

The only thing you need to worry about here are the healing totems the boss summons. Just move him away from it and he won't heal. The boss will take a bit of time to kill so use DPS cooldowns if you're short on time. Destroy the lightning totem if you see it. Burn the boss and hope you made the timer!

If you fail the timer you can always go again the next day. Good-luck

Comment by vexis58

Two-manned by a level 90 blood DK and mistweaver monk. We were able to avoid a lot of the trash in the lynx area by water-walking over the lake, and ended with 3-4 minutes left on the timer. None of the bosses gave us much trouble, though the healer taunted the bear boss away from the tank when he had the 500% damage debuff just to be safe, as the boss's attacks were dealing about 80% of his health.

The bag to loot the bear is located inside the Lynx boss's room, and can only be taken by one person per run, so you'll be running this twice to get both people their mounts. Once you do it once, it's simple to do it a second time though.

Comment by Pandorajade

Is this mount still avail in Mists?

Comment by Talkmate

Today I 2 manned this with my friend. Both of us hadn't done it before and I had looked up a few level 85 guides just to find out a path to take. I'm a ilvl 488 protection paladin, my friend is a 479 elemental shaman and I had no problems at all keeping myself up at any part. It would be a fun solo timed run if you have a tank that can do enough damage, it may be possible to solo in 5.2 with best in slot tanking gear not for survivablilty reasons, you just may not have enough damage to beat the timer. If you don't have this mount I encourage you to get a friend and try to 2 man it. If neither of you have a decently geared tank then grab a healer from a guild or something and you could speed through this with not one issue. My friend and I finished it with 5 minutes to spare and if we had more of an idea of what to expect we could have shaved off another minute maybe 2.

Comment by kryski

This mount is still obtainable in MoP. Here is a video I found showing the mount is still obtainable in MoP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6KggYX2nag

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 (Heroic) - Anzu
Swift White Hawkstrider - Magisters' Terrace (Heroic) - Kael'thas Sunstrider

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 (Heroic) - Skadi the Ruthless
Reins of the Bronze Drake - The Culling of Stratholme (Heroic) - Infinite Corruptor

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
Armored Razzashi Raptor - Zul'Gurub - Bloodlord Mandokir
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 pestolence

no matter what, it´s NOT the war bear. it will never replace that. if anything it´s just a reminder that you dont have the war bear and will never get it(like myself). just a +1 for the mount achievement. it´s just a tease. when i get it, i´ll never mount up on it, especially in public. it will just remind me that this is what i had to settle for and it´s not the real thing. all i have is the deathcharger and thats the least rare of all those rare mounts.

Comment by Varania

Does this still drop as of 5.2?

Is it soloable by a Warlock?

*EDIT*

Yes it does drop.

Yes it is soloable by a Warlock because I did it.

Comment by romatno

Soloed easily today with a retribution Pally. Everything was easy except Nalorakk's brutal strike which hit me for 500K the first time. Came back and used some damage mit and had no problems.

Just don't play around with skip-able trash and kill those scouts before they waste your time and you shouldn't have much trouble with a fairly well-geared toon.

Comment by zumogg

Destroyed it as a Destruction warlock. ilvl 532. had 11 minutes after killing the fourth boss. And I even missed killing a scout promptly. If you're well geared you will have no problem at all soloing it for the mount.

Comment by zerodark9

I would like to say that the Bear can drop from other loot bags, rather than just from Kasha's Bag. We got it out of a bag from the person who was near the south east boss.

Comment by cacce

Patch 5.4 Info
I was unlucky with rolls all the time and never got the Bear, so I though i try to solo it as of patch 5.4

Today i ran it and I decided to go straight for last boss since I had read somewhere this would work.
It doesnt work.
I ran straight there whilst killing the few pack that blocked my way and killed him quite easy as boomkin on first try.
Kasha opened 2 vases as she usualy does before she shoots the third and i got a bag of coins but no bear :(

Maybe blizzard changed this on purpose, so if u want to solo u need to kill all 4 in the amount of time you have, or they have taken it away, I dont know.
I will do all 4 tomorrow and see if it drops then, I get back with the info on that run.

Comment by Flyra

Got this today as a hunter with help from a priest friend. He made the mistake of getting too close to nalorakk who surged over and one shotted both of us with battle strike. Despite wiping and various other mistakes that would make anyone ashamed we managed to get the bear. None of us have very high gear either. Although we were rushing to make up for the wipe we still had time to spare and I thought it was surprisingly easy. Just make sure if you're using a pet to tank stay well back until he's cast both battle strikes, that's the only difficult part.

Comment by nikitto

Got this today in a group of 5, we cleared the whole instance in few minutes, so now it is absolutely not a problem.
However, we missed the bag. So everybody left without the mount. Then I read comments here and came back, and voi-la: the bag was at the place, so i finally got it.

Comment by Vartear

I'm tried getting this mount twice now and all i've gotten is That coin bag twice in a row and the coin bag is like a 5 percent drop (Or Lower) And this is 90, I'm starting to think this doesnt exist, well Here I go for another run wish me luck aha.

Comment by Tulavelir

Confirmed that it still drops as of 1/5/14. Just let her run around and bust all the vases she wants before looting any of the piles to avoid possibly glitching the bag.

Comment by Briang1332

Tried for this last night as a quick guild run. Freed the prisoners, looted Kasha's bag, only got some plate chest...no bear. Made for some disappointed guildies.

Comment by bennicolaysen

Still confirmed to drop as of 3/14/14. Soloed without great difficulty as ilevel 522 Lock. Only had trouble with the Bear trash, finished with 8min to spare and could have easily gone faster.

One note of importance: when you free the fourth scout in the Lynx room, make sure you wait for her to break all the pots. I lost track but the first two pots she broke only had gold in them, the third had the bag with the mount.

Comment by applebear

I don't know if this was just a glitch on my end or not, but figure it's worth a mention for other hunters. I was on final cat boss with plenty of time to spare. Only I made the mistake of FDing when his spirit form came out and aggroed on me .

As a result, the spirit cat dispawned and he completely bugged. I was unable to kill him as he was stuck in the last phase.

Hindsight, I probably should have dismissed pet and FD to reset fight but it was my first time through and I really had no clue what I was doing. All things considering, if it wasn't for that one hangup, I would have completed in time and had my mount . :)

Side note: After failing, I tried this on a couple other 90s I had and though it was solable, I just couldn't make it in the same time frame. This could vary from person to person depending on gear and skill, but for me it just wasn't going as planned. With the hunter, I was able to run through a lot of crap and FD at next boss, giving me a lot of extra time. Be a little cautious with this, as the first boss has like a mini gauntlet and there are some tattle tale scouts to be aware of getting to the serpent boss. Camo is good too in some of these cases.

Comment by oleikjosen1

There is no way the drop chance of this mount is so high... i did the dungeon 3 times now and all i got was a bag of coins.

Comment by VampyrPryncess

3:43 am EST 6/10/14 still in game.

Comment by demonstealer

Guyz i killed the lynx boss alone and the mount didnt drop from the bag, i tried again but this time i killed the bear boss and then went to the lynx boss and still it didnt drop, do i have to save all of the sacrifices for it to be able to drop?

Comment by Necromanic

Dropped for me from Akil'Zon (from the prisoner you free, it was in the satchel in the crate he breaks).

One thing - this was on the Warlords of Draenor beta server.

Tip : Halazzi resets the 15 min timer when killed..

Comment by Telar

Hey Guys,

I created a video guide which shows you how to farm this mount - Here is the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r967nLz7OGY&list=PLWFEbePPLxz_8gjJLKnHIOizKglE_NblD

Have on my channel more such guides to Wow and other games such as Diablo III, WOD Alpha and Heroes of the Storm – here is the link to my cannel:

https://www.youtube.com/user/TelarsGuides

Sincerely Telar

Comment by KingWancieho

Is it just my bad luck but I just did this run and the bear didnt drop from the bag... 90% chance.

The mount hasnt been removed has it? Before I try again...

Comment by rolled64

still drops as of 6.0.2

Comment by mcjkaiser

I just did this today 11/1/14 and it dropped on my second attempt which i had used an alt. The first time i did it today a pair of boots dropped, but i think i figured out what happened, the first time i killed the boss that holds kasha second and without releasing the other prisoners and the boots dropped but the second time i had done it i released all the prisoners and killed their bosses and then did kashas last and when i released her on the second time i got the achievement Bear-ly Made It and the bear dropped. I believe that was the reason to which the bear would only drop 90% of the time because the did the bosses in the wrong order. Now i am not 100% sure about this theory i could have just had bad luck and been one of the unlucky 10 percent but the achievement Bear-ly Made It makes me think otherwise, its kinda like a wink that you completed the necessary steps in order to get the bear, I hope this is right and this helps anyone that needs it,

PS To those that dont know and are looking for directions to this dungeon it is in the ghostlands which is right under silvermoon,The Blood Elf Capital, the actual dungeon is in the south eastern corner of the Ghostlands and it is a LV 85 dungeon. and the bear still drops as of 6.0.2

Comment by stabbyf00

This item still drops as of 6.0.3. Easily solo'd as an ilvl 491 WW monk. Just do the bosses in the standard order (Akil'zon, Nalorakk, Jan'alai, then Halazzi) and be sure to save the sacrifices in the cages after each boss fight. You don't have to loot their treasures until the end, just have to save the trolls out of the cages. I had a good 15 min. to spare at the end, so yeah, very easily doable!

Comment by Tulavelir

I kept shaking my head in amazement at how quickly the bosses just seem to melt now. It's kind of hard to get used to! :)

Anyway, don't loot any of the piles until she's done breaking all the vases to keep from possibly bugging the bear bag drop. Verified that it does still drop as of November 5, 2014.

Comment by SteakOnSpear

I just got one from the prisoner at Jan'alai. It doesn't just drop from Kasha's bag!

Comment by funkytrousers28

My lady friend recorded a video of her druid running through Zul'aman solo to get this drop and asked me to voice over it for her and put it on my YouTube channel, if anyone's interested in watching a how to video for this mount then you can watch it here :)
youtubecom/watch?v=3FZYVv2lB8Q

Comment by fumanchuaeon

For the love of god, wait until kasha destroys ALL the urns. I spent a week farming this without realizing she walked around like an idiot looking for her bag.

Comment by etychon

As you'd expect this was a piece of cake to clear at level 100 in a dozen of minutes.
All bosses are down in a matter of a few seconds.
That's when you realize how impressive the difference is between level 90 and level 100!

Comment by Scoobydeux

Note that WoWHead shows the Amani Battle Bear mount dropping from Kasha's Bag, but this is not entirely true. The comments for that object say that the bear can drop from other prisoner's loot. You can loot the caches that each of the four prisoners leave as you progress, so for the timed event requirement to work, the bear has to be held in the cache of the last prisoner you free.

Most people will do these in the order: Akil'zon (the Eagle Boss - gives a five minute extension), Nalorakk (the Bear Boss - gives a five minute extension), Jan'alai (the Dragonhawk Boss - you are midway to him after Nalorakk), then Halazzi (the Lynx Boss) last, which gives you 25 minutes total to complete the event. The bear usually drops from Kasha's Bag because Kasha is the prisoner near Halazzi.

Doing Akil'zon last, the bear was in the loot from the prisoner near him. I don't recommend doing this, I was running out of time, since I did not get his five minute extension applied to the timed event, and just barely made it.

You can move directly from Jan'alai (the Dragonhawk Boss), after freeing his prisoner, to the path to Halazzi (the Lynx Boss). You can walk down the pyramid behind where Jan'alai initially stands, putting you back near the center, you do not have to retrace your entire path. You cannot go up that same way, only down.This also lets you avoid the clump of mobs on the central isle (the one joined to the peon areas by two bridges) while you are on the timed event (assuming you killed Akil'zon (the Eagle Boss) first).

A return shortcut door opens up on the left side of Halazzi's (the Lynx Boss) room after you finish with him. It is two way.

Comment by Willasaurus

Extremely easy to get now. Just do all the bosses in order they appear on the objectives list and save the prisoners. You'll have at least 15-20 minutes left on the timer when you're done.

Comment by Species3259

You can kill their respective captors, talk to them, finish the rest of the instance and then come back to pick up their treasures.

No need to wait is all i am saying :-)

Amani Battle Bear

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