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Ultramarine Qiraji Battle Tank

Ultramarine Qiraji Battle Tank
1.5 sec cast
Requires level 1

Summons and dismisses a rideable Ultramarine Qiraji Battle Tank.

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Profession: Archaeology

The Tol'vir sorcerer Azj'Aqir was said to possess a scepter that would allow him to control a Qiraj battle tank outside of its Silithus home.

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Mounted

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0 yards (Self)

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Apply Aura: Mounted (Ultramarine Qiraji Battle Tank)

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Comment by Arram

Seems to be a reward from archeology.

Those who always wanted a battle tank you could use outside of AQ, but couldn't get the black one, this is for you!

Comment by megamech109

An Archaeology reward indeedy, Taught by Sceptre of Az'aqir...

Comment by qwertydood

And here I was hoping for this...

Comment by hunter202

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3rfvBac2NM
Great video showing the Ultramarine Qiraji Battle walking, running, along with a new companion, and how to get them both. :)

Comment by Falithvel

Got this mount as my very first Tol'vir artifact. lvl 84 and around 450 arch.

So you don't have to be 85 and 525 arch to get it, if that helps anyone.

Good luck, and don't give up!

Comment by justanotherdruid

So as soon as I found out about this mount, I started leveling archaeology. I do have my Scepter of the Shifting Sands, unfortunately however -- I did not complete it in time to get the Black Tank before the alliance on our server hit the gong.

Anyway, I discovered the existence of this mount 3 days ago, and I've spent the last 2 days viciously leveling archaeology. I am now 450, and today begins my quest for this mount.

I did a total of 245 runs exactly for the Swift Zulian Tiger, starting from January 8th, 2008 until patch day when it was removed (only missing 4 resets). So there's no way I'm leaving without this mount in my inventory.

I will return here once I do actually receive this mount

-Nollie (Elune US)

EDIT: Just had the scepter pop up today as my 128th tol'vir solve. Here's a video of the pop and the creation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaVwkPq24w0

Stay persistent guys. It's completely random and can come up at any time. And trust me -- it's worth the time and effort. I went through all seasons of Scrubs, Burn Notice and The Office. It takes time, just try to do whatever you can to take your mind off of it.

Comment by Alwayz

Looks like last patch added a few more Tol'vir dig sites so hopefully more mounts will be showing up soon.

Comment by Cure1337

I swear this mount doesnt exist, as sad as it is I've been up day and night for the past 3 weeks 2-4 hours of sleep a night and I've yet to see it. :(

Edit: when last posted... I was on my 120th solve. Now I'm on 219. Still not one rare since then, and its been nearly 3 weeks since I got my last rare for To'vir... I am officially the saddest panda in panda town.

Edit Edit: 230....

Edit Edit Edit: 244...

Comment by Cure1337

I finally got this. here's what it looked like after I got it.

Dwarf:38
Draenei:10
Fossil:238
Night Elf:363
Orc:6
Tol'vir:301
Troll:114
Total:1070

I had ALL the night elf rares before the chance in patch 4.1 to arch so it made it way easier. I would just save up tol'vir keystones and fragments till 200/200 then solve them. using keystones everytime.

I think I bought maybe TWO keystones the entire time I did this, other than that it was all farmed.

Its really a cool mount, now I can sit in org and afk in my T2 or T5 in style :P

The order I got my rares in was.

Scarab (around maybe 20 solves)
Ring (around maybe 30 solves)
Mini pet (around my 50 solves)
Mount (My 301st solve)

I've never seen somebody with a higher number of solves than me in tol'vir. I check WoW database sites regularly, but I'm sure their out there. Happy digging!

Comment by Dracovarius

Notable about this mount is that when you log out mounted and log back in, you're not mounted anymore. Probably a glitch but might be inconvenient in some cases.

Comment by sandyra

Scepter of Azj'Aqir (and the Ultramarine Qiraji Battle Tank that it teaches) is arguably the most coveted artifact obtainable through Archaeology. The following is my guide to grinding this out as efficiently as possible as a level 85.

Things that I did:

I prepared myself mentally that I might have to reach at least 200 Tol'vir solves before sniffing this out.
I would consider heading to Tol'vir sites whenever they popped depending on proximity, though more often than not I'd farm northern dig sites until I had clusters in the south - this would usually end up including a couple of Uldum sites. People on Wowhead have gone to great lengths to decipher the statistical probability of pushing Tol'vir sites - some say dig them up immediately upon spawning, others say let them stack. Both methods have sound rationale. Personally, I went with convenience (or my mood at the time), and avoided absolutes.
I would use Hyjal and Uldum portals to get to northern or southern ends quickly.
I took mage portals to Theramore (as an Alliance toon), and set my Hearthstone to Desolace. Horde players could probably just port directly to Thunderbluff instead.
I would also use The Last Relic of Argus whenever it was available as pot luck (so long as my Hearthstone or Shroud of Cooperation was off cooldown in the event I ended up somewhere completely inconvenient) - sometimes I'd land close to where I wanted to be... And if not, I'd mosey on 'home' and carry on from there.
Whenever dig sites where close to each other, I would fly in a straight line from one to the other.
I used Tol'vir Hieroglyphic whenever I could get my hands on them (I bought up EVERYTHING on my server and even transferred alts to other servers to buy up more and return to my main archaeologist - this option is only for the die-hard). I would also advertise in trade chat and in every zone I entered with the following: "WTB Tol'vir Hieroglyphic and lots of them. Paying 600g each. PST or COD. Tell your friends, tell your guildies..." This ensured everyone knew I was on the hunt and it meant my personal supply of keystones wouldn't dwindle too much. Also bear in mind prices on your server will vary, and your interest alone could spike the market by 200-300g - my server pricing spiked to 1k!
Unfortunately I did solve at least 30-40 without keystones when I ran out... The fragments cap is 200. Beyond that, it will not let you dig anymore. It will come up with the equivalent of 'Inventory is Full'. So at least your fragments won't disappear into a virtual abyss.
I solved everything I could when I could irrespective of its race, including Tol'vir.
With 4.3 (and most recently 5.04), it became possible to get as many as 54 Tol'vir Archaeology Fragments in a single dig site. This means that you can solve one common Tol'vir artifact after every digsite by using up to two keystones (Tol'vir Hieroglyphic) given that common solves required 45 fragments, and with two keystones, you only need 21 actual Tol'vir Archaeology Fragments to complete the solve and push the next one.
Since the release of MoP, you can also trade a Restored Artifact for a Crate of Tol'vir Archaeology Fragments which contains more Tol'vir fragments and can also include an additional keystone.
Most importantly, I just kept digging!

Myths about Scepter of Azj'Aqir:

There is no guaranteed order in which you will get this artifact 'pop' - ring>amulet>mount is a popular theory. If you have scanned as many wowhead pages (deleted and other), forums and all other manner of online content, you will know that everyone has different data. Sometimes there are similarities or congruencies, but at the end of the day... RNG is still bloody RNG. Love it hate it, that's how WoW rolls.
There is no guaranteed number of solves at which point you will get this artifact 'pop' - some people say they got it on their first, others woefully carry on beyond 400! It does appear that the median might lie between 100 and 200.
You do not need to have all your BoA rares on your digging toon in order to get this to pop - though if you choose to for luck's sake, it doesn't hurt! Some people wear lucky underwear.

Truths about Scepter of Azj'Aqir (and digging for it):

It does exist!
Tol'vir sites will be more likely to spawn based on a recent Blizzard update suggesting that if you have solved all rare artifacts for any other race (Night Elves and Fossils will be applicable here), then those races' dig sites will be less likely to spawn, therefore increasing the chance of Tol'vir, Troll and Dwarven dig sites.
It is possible to have all four Kalimdor dig sites in Uldum.
It will turn heads in cities and battlegrounds - many people will think you found a loophole with your AQ mounts and ask how you did it.

There are six rare Tol'vir artifacts:

Pendant of the Scarab Storm requiring 150 fragments with 3x Tol'vir Hieroglyphic that can be used (my 5th Tol'vir solve)
Ring of the Boy Emperor requiring 150 fragments with 3x Tol'vir Hieroglyphic that can be used (my 12th Tol'vir solve)
Staff of Ammunae requiring 150 fragments with 3x Tol'vir Hieroglyphic that can be used (my 32nd Tol'vir solve)
Crawling Claw requiring 150 fragments with 3x Tol'vir Hieroglyphic that can be used (my 50th Tol'vir solve)
Scimitar of the Sirocco requiring 150 fragments with 3x Tol'vir Hieroglyphic that can be used (still don't have it - my warrior tank would have loved this pre-Firelands)
Scepter of Azj'Aqir requiring 150 fragments with 3x Tol'vir Hieroglyphic that can be used (my 126th Tol'vir solve 05/03/12 - follow the item link for screenshots)

There is also one common artifact that alchemists will eagerly hunt for, as it has a chance of containing Recipe: Vial of the Sands:

Canopic Jar requiring 45 fragments with 2x Tol'vir Hieroglyphic that can be used

For a complete tally of ALL the archaeology solves you have slaved through, use the following macro (updated 30/06/13):

/run print("Total artifacts"); for x=1,12 do local c=GetNumArtifactsByRace(x); local a =0; for y=1,c do local t = select(9, GetArtifactInfoByRace(x, y)); a=a+t;end local rn = GetArchaeologyRaceInfo(x); if( c > 1 ) then print(rn .. ": " .. a); end end

This will produce a list like this:

Total artifacts
Dwarf: 44
Draenei: 11
Fossil: 64
Night Elf: 179
Nerubian: 4
Orc: 12
Tol'vir: 128
Troll: 87
Vrykul: 8
Pandaren: 25
Mogu: 26

Comment by Juized

428 Tol'vir solves.. No mount :/

Comment by Nightshine067

This mount was my 26th rare solve. I was actually grinding for the hand pet but this is welcome. I had not been doing much arch recently but just decided I wanted that hand pet because I'm getting close to 150. I have 55 tol vir solves including 8 jars that did not proc and three rares including this mount. Yes there are more fragments now so it goes a bit faster, glad they upped that. For me the order was amulet, ring, mount. I have 7 night elf rares and 4 fossil rares. It looks like 55 is pretty good so I consider myself lucky.

Comment by fergusross

Just got this mount last week.. took me aroud 30 solves and 3 rares.. this was my 3rd rare :) pretty awesome mount :) <3 AQ40

Comment by keremapak

Hello all!
Dont mad at me but i got my mount 2 hours ago. It popped on my 55th solve and on my 7th tol'vir solve. Guess im really lucky about that :D

Comment by dadanox

I got mine on the 181st Tol'vir solve. Very nice mount.

Comment by counterhero

Got mine on 5 Tol'vir solve powerleveling archaeology. Got both fossil and battle tank with first rares.

Comment by EverUpwards

Just picked this guy up yesterday, what a cool mount! Took 111 tol'vir solves.

Comment by necrosisss

This beautiful object just appeared in my queue, I'm at 525 but it is only my 5th or so Tol'vir artifact. Happy!

Comment by SammieBox

I'm working on this now! My 4th or 5th Tol'vir solve!

Comment by Takomi

After 324 Tol'Vir solves i finally got mine.
I did the first 300 in Kalimdor - After that i switched to Pandaria, and i'm VERY Sure that Pandaria was way faster.
Good luck hunting yours.

Comment by Bromstadkis

I was tying to obtain it for weeks and weeks, and gave up before MoP. Came back some weeks ago, and desided "lets give it a try again!" Solved ONE piece, and saw i would get the mount next. Happy in pants.

Moral of the story, dont give up when you have givven alot for it!

Comment by Airee

Finally got mine after 16 days.
Guys, i know its exaustive, but it's worth the time you spend on it.
Pooped after 76 tol'vir solves, doing arch at pandaria. Don't give up!

Comment by Totallynotpanics

465 solves still no mount, getting pretty worn out.

Comment by JenLawrence

Couldn't stand farming this legitly so I used the lorewalkers bug and got mummified hand after 24 and mount after 69 (lol)

Comment by christianjlo

I just got it after 3 days of farming, got it on my 468 tol'vir solve.
I have now 5/6 and they popped like this: pendant->ring->sword->staff->mount. I'm missing only the pet.

All my solves are:

Dwarf:42
Draenei:11
Fossil:115
Night Elf:336
Nerubian:9
Orc:11
Tol'vir:468
Troll:86
Vrykul:14
Total:1092

Comment by jaspercheyney

I finally conjured the determination to start farming for this beautiful...beautiful.. mount.

I had a few spare days (three) and I wanted to make the most of my time so I spent about 12 hours a day Solving Tol'vir puzzles for three days, In total i solved 202 before my mount popped up! Was so happy, and worth the grind, although tiring.

Seem like the average solve range to get the mount is 125-225ish,

Good luck Diggers, and don't give up!

Comment by Gypsysoul

Finally got this mount today. Took a total of 307 Tol'Vir Digs
52 Canopic Jars
50 Castle of Sands
38 Engraved Scimitar Hilts
45 Sketch of a Desert Palace
37 Cat Statue with Emerald Eyes
35 Tiny Oasis Mosaics
45 Soapstone Scarab Necklaces

1 Pendant of the Scarab Storm
1 Ring of the Boy Emperor
1 Crawling Claw
1 Scimitar of the Sirroco

Phew...done =)

Comment by maely

Found the pet yesterday on my 181st Tol'vir solve (my 4th rare Tol'vir solve) and the mount today on my 196th Tol'vir solve (fifth rare Tol'vir solve). There are 6 rare Tol'vir solves total, and once you find one it won't come up again. So don't despair if your first couple Tol'vir rares are like the sword/ring... you'll eventually get it. I farmed in Pandaria and bought crates of Tol'vir fragments at the Seat of Knowledge in Vale. Here are some tips to increase your efficiency with MoP Archaeology:

1.) Buy Pandaren Pottery fragments, Mogu Statue fragments, Mantid Amber fragments, and Tol'vir heiroglyph fragments from your auction house. I often found them for <100g apiece on my server's AH.

2.) Buy Restored Artifacts at the Harmony vendor in Shrine. Farm harmonies at your Sunsong Ranch each day for additional Restored Artifacts.

3.) Use the Magic Broom mount during Halloween. It's an instant cast mount, so you can move around digsites faster. If you're a Druid, then I believe your Travel Form is also instant cast(?).

4.) Equip a set of Forager's Gloves for very fast gathering in Pandaria.

5.) Use a Scuttler's Shell (from Timeless Isle) to reduce your aggro radius (very helpful) and a Windfeather Plume to increase your mounted ground speed (moderately helpful).

6.) As an Engineer, use your Pandarian Wormhole Generator often. This thing is amazing for archaeology as it often ports you to the fringes of Townlong/Dread Wastes where there are many digsites. Then if you find yourself in the middle of no where, use your hearth. Ideally, there will be at least two digsites clumped up in one general direction/area of Pandaria. Head that way and see where the digsites take you, then port/hearth on cooldown when you run out of local options.

7.) Use Lorewalker's Map/Lorewalker's Lodestone sparingly. I might keep one just in case, but remember that you burn an Artifact to buy these. I might use a Lorewalker's Map if my hearth/Wormhole Generator were on cooldown and the four digsites were spread out across Pandaria... I might use a Lodestone when there are two clusters of two digsites at opposite ends at Pandaria... Again, only if my other teleporters/hearth are on cooldown.

8.) Look for other opportunities while you fly across Pandaria. Check to see if warbringers are up. Kill a few rares. Mine a few ghost iron nodes. Check to see if a set of dailies you need for an achieve are up. Etc.

Comment by Vengefulx

One of the Rarest mounts in-game.

Comment by lolmantylol

Made a quick tutorial, my fastest way to get the cool mount-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTbcahMGBF8

Comment by Grimbich

I have yet to get this to pop after many solves using the pandaren tactic. One odd thing of note I've noticed is something RNG based and kind of superstition. It seems that when I ride my onyx netherdrake that each dig rewards more fragments. Like at first I thought it was purely coincidental. But for three days straight now, I haven't had a single site that hadn't yielded Atleast 4/6 9 fragment digs. And about a quarter of the sites are all 9's.

I realize this is probably just me having the stupidest kind of poorly allocated luck, but it's pretty funny nonetheless.

Comment by waytogoteam

This was my 189th artifact for Tol'vir. Stay persistent.

Comment by jaen84

Ultramarine Qiraji Battle Tank, is it a quest to get it? or just a dam lot of tol vir solves? i am tryed to get that mount for ages now......

Comment by kamil09

guide how to get ur tol'vir mount in 5.4.8 patch

1. what you need.

a. alot time
b. flying mount atleast 280% with anvitable flying on mop
c. 525+ archeology
d. exalted with The lorewalkers
e. prefer to be a dwarf, becouse of his racial ability to improve archeology
f. luck

2. tactics

the main goal is to farm as much common artifacts as possible in short time. how to achieve it?

1. buy Mantid Artifact Hunter's Kit for Mantid Artifact Sonic Locator. that will make ur digsites anvitable only at 2 zones of pandaria
2. go to digzones
3. dig as many as possible mandit archeology fragments and turn them to common artefacts ]
4. when you got ~60 of common artifacts make a restored ones from them
5. go to guy who sells tol'vir crates and buy them, all the time between make a tolvir artifacts
6. if you got rares, keep them in bag so you wont get a 2nd ones
7. pray to RNGesus for mount
8. repeat 1-7.

for me personnaly it took about 60sloves to get this mount

Comment by corners

For all the people that could never finish the gong in time(One of blizzards greatest epic quests lines of all time).

Comment by Telar

Hey Guys,

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hochs1O3c2I&list=PLWFEbePPLxz_8gjJLKnHIOizKglE_NblD

Have on my channel more such guides to Wow and other games such as Diablo III – here is the link to my cannel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TelarsGuides

Sincerely Telar

Comment by LanceOmikron

Bizarrely, the description of the mount in the collection tab is completely inconsistent with the flavor text of the archaeology artifact.

Mount Description:
The Tol'vir sorcerer Azj'Aqir was said to possess a scepter that would allow him to control a Qiraj battle tank outside of its Silithus home.

"Azj'Aqir" is the name of the the Aqir empire before it split into Azjol-nerub and Ahn'Qiraj, and I seriously doubt that a tol'vir, a titan creation, would be named after an empire of old god servants. Plus, the scepter of azj'aqir is described as being an aqir artifact that got mixed in with tol'vir stuff. The mount description, while vague, implies that the tol'vir sorcerer created it.

Comment by Ziegorn

Just got this mount today after 3 hours farming.....i got it on my 5 solve, my 4 solve was the Pendant of the Scarab Storm and my 5 was this mount. This is the first time ever i had such a luck in wow.

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