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Comentado por bueno1

Received by all who ring the Scarab Gong within 10 hours of the first person to ring it. After that, this mount is unattainable.

This mount functions as a normal mount outside of AQ40, but is limited inside AQ40 and desummons when you take any damage, or are put in to combat, just like the ones that drop off of the trash in AQ40.

Comentado por Nolimit

Rare mount, it looks cool when you ride bug outside, those who have it are lucky bastards ;)

Comentado por 598

The only Bug mount that you can ride outside of AQ40. The only way to get this coveted mount was by completeing the gate opening quest line and as said above hitting the gong within 10 hours of the opening. the Quest line started with the head of broodlord lashlayer and was extremely long with some very difficult tasks to complete. the quests start out easy and soloable but quickly progress into 10 20 and 40 man raid bosses. between finding 8 pages of " draconic for dummies" that were scattered all around the world or fighting off Maws, the "minnow" that Azuregos gave his scepter shard to. Those that complete this quest are certainly worthy of the black bug mount as well as some of the other rewards that come from it.

Comentado por Sykx

This item is currently bugged (no pun intended). You can cast it, as if to mount, almost anywhere (even in combat), but you cannot physically mount it. You will get the "can't mount here" or "cannot mount while in combat" messages. However, being able to cast it a couple seconds before leaving combat is pretty nice.

Comentado por izlude

This item is only obtainable on servers that have closed AQ gates or gates that have opened in the last hour.

Comentado por 66445

so when u say the first 10 hours of the first gonger, do u mean like the first of AQ40 realease or first in ur raid?

Comentado por 81969

yes, i understand that the only people who can obtain it are those who are in the raid that finishes the quest.. but What quest.. and can more than 1 raid group obtain it... if so i think i may be able to get a grip of people to do this raid.. but not if i cannot get people to obtain it. is there any information about this.?

Comentado por 228

Apparently there has been a change in 2.2, see how the spell effect is now a "Script Effect" instead of a regular mount, anyways apparently this change will sometimes turn you into a wasp-like Qiraji.

Comentado por drivehappy

A few changes with how this mount works with 2.2:
No longer able to start up cast while flying on a mount
Instant cast while already mounted on the ground
It's been seen to cause the player to turn into a wasp on their first login to 2.2 servers, I have not been able to reproduce it

Comentado por 89984

From what i've seen, It's not available anymore.

Comentado por drivehappy

This mount and the title "Scarab Lord" are obtained through the following quest chain:
Source 1: http://www.wowwiki.com/Scepter_of_the_Shifting_Sands
Source 2: https://www.wowhead.com/cata/item=21175#comments

To obtain the mount and title the gates of AQ must be closed before you ring the gong. You can check this by heading to southern Silithus, when you see the wall just past the gong and platform the hexagon will either be closed off (unable to enter AQ20 or AQ40) or open.

Comentado por 70867

it still is, got mine 1.5 months ago
but servers are rare and the questline is LONG :)

Comentado por moblinman

Does not desummon when the rider takes damage, as I attacked a Blood Elf warlock riding one in Nagrand (shortly after taking his picture) and he remained mounted.

Comentado por 131754

Also looks cool as hell. :D

Comentado por exShinra

Also note that the picture with the Draenei is inaccurate, as it would be impossible to get this mount during Burning Crusade.

Comentado por 35495

There is now no possible way to get the mount; blizzard has implemented an auto-opening of the gates. Therefore the mounts will only be seen by the original people who have opened the gates, and not any new realms.

Comentado por 147340

The quest hasn't happened on my server yet, I hope it does soon ;-)

Comentado por ChrisChaud

As of WotLK: Description changed from 'Summons and dismisses a rideable Qiraji battle tank. This is a very fast mount.' to 'Summons and dismisses a rideable Black Qiraji Battle Tank. This mount changes appearance depending on your location.'
Sounds fun, but nobody has it on my server :<

Comentado por chuDr3t4

I began to play at new Russian realm Eversong, which is player creation-only without possibility to transfer character here yet. And I can confirm, that Gates are still closed and same with Isle of Quel'Danas, it's still in the first phase here.
Bigger part of Horde players are still 30-50 lvl though, so.. may be someday there would be Scarab Lord. :)

I don't know about recently opened RU-realms with possibility to transfer there but I'm sure Gates are still closed at Thermalplugg(ru) and Lich King(ru).

Comentado por 205394

Does anyone know how long the gates remain closed on new servers before opening, or, more importantly, if it is before or after Blizzard starts allowing transfers to the server?

Comentado por 209157

I already have the sceptor now could i just xfer over with it or have i done to much of the quest line?

Comentado por addik

last time i looked all the gates were open.

Comentado por 187304

I have just seen someone using one of these as a FLYING mount in the Beta test...
Never seen that before.

Screenshot here:

http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y259/baasheepyrocks/?action=view&current=FlyingQiraji.jpg

:)

Comentado por Fwibbles

These will make people showing off their bear mounts cry.

Comentado por Verydarklord

"The Black Qiraji Resonating Crystal is now a normal mount."
Taken from final 3.0.2 patch notes. I wonder what that mean. =/

Comentado por djsixpack14

I've heard no confirmation that it will be available in any different way. By "normal," the patch notes likely refer to it being changed back to a normal mount from its state on Beta. In Beta, it summoned a wasp-like flying mount for a short period, but this was deemed to be a bug (no pun intended).

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=10043279599&postId=100421965600&sid=2000#1

Comentado por Joroesan

Edit: This post is still here for nostalgic reasons, however it is no longer possible to attain this mount as new servers are now created with the gates closed regardless of whether transfers are open on them or not.

This mount, along with the Scarab Lord title, was a reward for doing a long quest chain prior to The Burning Crusade to open the gates to the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj. Shortly after the quest is turned in by the first person, the title and mount are no longer attainable on that realm.

All of the original realms have already opened the gates along with new realms which are created with transfers available, making this unachievable on them. However, if a new realm is created with transfers unavailable then the gates will be closed making this achievable on that specific realm.

Attaining the title and mount now.
It is still possible to attain the Scarab Lord title and the Black Qiraji Resonating Crystal now. You must do the quest chain completing the final step, Bang a Gong!, on a server which has not yet opened the AQ gates. Once you find a server with the AQ gates closed you have two options:

On a new realm with the gates closed start from scratch and create a new character, do the entire quest chain which includes farming the Brood of Nozdormu reputation and running all of the level 60 raids, then turning in Bang a Gong! once the War Effort is complete.
Completing the entire quest chain on an old realm with the gates already opened, transferring to a new realm that has not yet finished the War Effort prior to the 90 day transfer lock-out period, then turning in Bang a Gong! once the War Effort is complete.

Evidence.
To anyone who says it is not possible to transfer to a new server and open the gates, as stated in a previous comment; Alexio on the US server Exodar has done this already.
WoW Armory
Warcraft Census
Forum Thread

Patch 3.0.2
There were rumors that after patch 3.0.2 anyone could Bang a Gong! to attain the title and mount. This is not true.

There was a confirmed bug on some realms where restarts caused the gates that were previously open to become closed again. Many people took advantage of this bug and turned in the quest to attain both the title and the mount.
You may read about this bug here:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=11296568531

There was also some confusion over the patch notes which stated that "The Black Qiraji Resonating Crystal is now a normal mount." This is probably because the "bug" in beta which allowed it to fly was fixed, the use of regular mounts inside of AQ40 allowed them to change this mount back into a normal mount just as any other; since it also had the ability to be used inside of AQ40 unlike normal mounts, or so that it could be learned like other mounts prior to the release of Wrath of the Lich King.
Patch 3.0.2 notes.

Resources:
Due to changes made by Blizzard to make leveling much faster, the time before server transfers are available has been reduced from 6 to 3 months. This should make it easier for players to transfer to a new realm and achieve both the title and the mount.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=12891295560

You can read a very good tutorial on the quest chain here: Scepter of the Shifting Sands

Here is the official War Effort status page, although it is quite outdated and does not list new servers:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wareffort/servers.html

Here is a good reference point to find new servers which have not yet opened the gates:
Timeline of the creation of US realms

Comentado por 183291

I agree. I'd actually settle of either one just to know that I did not do it for nothing.

Comentado por 232769

Since the large content patch (3.0?) with all new talent abilities, raid bosses health reductions, and so fourth... Some servers "bugged" and had the gong reappear. Several people have gone to the Gates of Ahn'Qiraj, banged the Gong and received the title and mount.

On my other server, our gong has reappeared, and to my knowledge no one knows it is there but myself.

I personally think it is quite stupid how this happened. If it's a bug, or if it was meant to happen. I find it very unfair to the original people who got the title and if you don't have the chance to get it on a server who didn't get a new gong... well that just isn't fair either. If it is not a bug, my guess would be that Blizzard did this because of Scarab Lords who quit or transferred realms; leaving the server "Scarab-Lord-Less." Perhaps they wanted to give new people a shot at the title & mount.

p.s - If is there is any update on this by Blizzard I will edit my post. My information could be outdated.

Comentado por 201338

Show your support for this thread:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=12891292131&sid=1&pageNo=4

After the wake of the 3.0.2 glitch that allowed people on servers with open gates to turn in bang a gong! and the early opening of Drakkari server allowing PCTs to turn in bang a gong! Blizz needs to revise the limitations on acquiring this.

Thanks!

Comentado por 201338

In the wake of the 3.0.2 disaster, players with completed Scepter of the Shifting Sands such as myself feel extremely burned if they weren't lucky enough to be on a server that allowed Bang a Gong! to be turned in even though their gates were opened previously.

I've started a very positive and productive thread regarding a solution for those who have completed the questline so that we don't have to pay to transfer servers just to turn in a quest.

Please show your support:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=12891292131&sid=1&pageNo=1

Comentado por 138910

I saw a Draenie on this mount on Dalvengyr-US, but i didn't catch his name. Anyone know how many BE/Dra obtained the mounts?

Comentado por Patrick1991

Will the gate open automatically?
I wonder if it had opened before we can transfer.
We have to wait 90days for transferring to a new realm.

Edit: From wowwiki, "Five days after the collection quest is complete"
Is this mean the gate can be opened in five days or less?
If I get The Might of Kalimdor in the old realm and transfer to a new realm with gate closed, will the war effort start in the new realm? Should I get The Might of Kalimdor in the new realm to start the war effort?

Comentado por Linaniil

Europe server Area 52 had its gates opened Saturday, about 200 scarab lords were present. Epic moment!

Comentado por 16149

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTLqzufgfHM&feature=hd

short clip about the opening on EU-Azuremyst (yeah my fps went down a little bit at the gong ^^)

Comentado por dexter98

Anybody know if there's any more US servers with gate closed besides Borean Tundra? Borean Tundra players are being gay and want to bang the gong before transfer opens up.

Comentado por Theolol

EDIT: This post provides historic details that will be of interest for anyone wanting to learn about the actual difficulties and planning towards getting the very last Tanque de Batalha Qiraji Pretos on both EU and US servers, especially the decision to reroll vs. waiting for PCTs. Realm forums have been wiped with the Battle.net migration pre-Cataclysm. Warcraft Realms links will show current data.

When I posted this (last week of February 2009) about a month since the new realms were started, there were about 2 months left to plan on partaking in the last chance ever of any character anywhere in WoW to obtain the mount and title. Period.

These predictions came true, to the dismay of hundreds (thousands?) of players hoping to transfer to bang the gong and get the Tanque de Batalha Qiraji Preto. The possibility that the War Effort might easily be completed before PCTs were allowed kept being denied, in spite of educated guesses which turned out to be confirmed well ahead of time. On both Saurfang and Ulduar, the gates were opened in the first half of April, several weeks before PCTs were allowed.

Those who rerolled got what their time and effort was worth. The natives got to build a community around it, starting out the new realms greatly and should be congratulated.

On a personal note, I did my best to explain what the actual progress was like. If anyone took my advice I'm glad to have helped more people get it too! It really has a special flavor to own this and what makes it even better is to share with others and meet and talk with those who went through the trouble themselves!

-

For US players:

From what I could see, Garrosh (US-PvE), Borean Tundra (US-PvE), Winterhoof (US-PvE) and Wyrmrest Accord (US-RP) all started in January 2009 (see "Online Date"), same as Saurfang (EU-PvE) and Ulduar (DE-PvE).

Looking at the realm data and also through their realm forums, you can see the large amount of active characters already in them. For instance, Borean Tundra and Wyrmrest Accord are already in the top 20 most populated realms in the whole of US right now. All of them are non-PvP realms, which, all things being equal, lowers in-game attrition between factions and helps to speed up mat collection progress.

Garrosh is the least populated (although it was online earlier) and therefore your best chance, but with over 15k characters already, more than what Saurfang had by itself, it's quite possible for them to be done with the War Effort before PCTs as well. However, Borean Tundra seems to have a disproportionate amount of low level players whereas in all the other realms the higher amount of characters in a given level are found at the top range of 55-80. This makes it predictable that the War Effort progress there will be significantly slower than everywhere else!

A US player should go on any of these realms and ask around, also step into Ironforge or Ogrimmar to check the progress with their own eyes.

For EU players:

There are currently two realms with the AQ gates on EU.
Saurfang (En) and Ulduar (De)
Both opened at January 31st. 2009, thus making the PCT available April 30st or possibly May 1st.
The current war effort can be tracked at http://vlacula.no-ip.com/aq/

Keep in mind, that these will be the last realms to open with the AQ gates , thus making this the last chance of acquiring the Scarab Lord title.
~Wushy @ Scarab Lord - Achievement page

Having been present at the last event on Area 52, I felt obliged to share a few hints for those who are unsure about rerolling and particularly unaware of the very real possibility of the War Effort getting done before transfers are allowed, as most would leave their chances up with waiting for migrations to be allowed while finishing their quest lines calmly on their home realms.

The greatest danger is in how people sometimes don't realize that the progress speeds up quickly (exponentially), until it's too late. While the first half of the Effort is done slowly, with players leveling up and so on, the second half, consisting of now-easily farmable low level trade materials, the hardest being Runecloth (Horde turn-in), can be done in under a week by only a couple dozen dedicated level 80s, even though they'll take their time getting most of their quest lines completed first. Also, a lot of them will store loads of materials for last minute turn-ins so they can decide the day and time they want for the event to start. Therefore, the estimations on tracking sites won't be accurate at all as to when to expect the Effort to be done. If this happens up to 5 days before PCTs are enabled, you've lost your chance.

The website/addon is simply able to gather information on the current average rate of deliveries and calculate how long it would take for the remainder to be completed at that current rate. Since completion is now set to happen in 90-100 days, it means that progress only needs to speed up around 50% more to beat the clock. At 2 months left and few level 80s playing compared to what it will be in a couple weeks, we can safely say that time is short and there's no reason for you to wait.

In conclusion: if you really really want to make absolutely sure you get it, consider a reroll right now. Ask yourself if anything in WoW right now is actually making you too busy for that. If you're worried that you won't get to PCT your main for it, consider how upset it would make you to not ever get it at all even when you still have one way to do it. If the latter matters the most to you, my recommendation is clear. The "worst" thing that can happen if you do this, is getting two Scarab Lords, instead of none. Recruit-a-Friend and transfering out of the realm with the new character are available immediately, so it would be a safe bet.

Saurfang already has a significant amount of rerollers (as can be understood through their realm forums). This isn't only because of AQ, but about the appeal of a legitimately "legendary" realm name that many players wanting to reroll for any reason will enjoy (imagine how many would want to play on the *Chuck Norris* realm).

For estimates of current progress, you should make your reroll/transfer plans by keeping a close eye not just on the actual AQ War Effort turn-ins, but also make reasonable, informed assumptions about the realm's populations. On Warcraft Realms there's data that averages on 10 daily entries currently, but you can make it even better if you're there often by installing their lightweight census addon which offers a lot more than you can do using the /who command. The guild with the most members there is <Union>, which has already cleared Naxxramas 10. Having spoken personally with some, higher leveled players there fully expect for the Effort to be done before PCTs.

As for the German realm, Ulduar, it's quite similarly paced: only a week behind. They also have AQ threads on their realm forum, but only German is allowed.

Comentado por SkibaDeBop

There is an auto complete of the War effort in progress on Borean Tundra and at the rate it is completing the War effort will be finished within 3 weeks time.. about 3 weeks before transfers are up in april.. The natives to BT are also extremely anti transfer so do not expect any simpathy or reasoning from them to wait for xfers to get the achievment as well. As far as I know only 1 person has grinded out the Scepter quest so far there but it is estimated maybe 10 will have it before the march to silithis ends. So If blizz doesnt end the auto complete no one but Natives will get the bug and title. So basically in a nutshell if you didnt reroll and grind it out there, the hunt is over and Title and bug are no longer attainable. only thing you can hope for is the servers glitching out in future patches and the gate reset other than that there is no hope.

Comentado por wcombs

This mount gets me more tells than you could possibly imagine. Some days I mount up on my Mechanostrider because I just can't take the 200000 12 year old death knights asking where I got it because they're too lazy to google it.

No matter where I go I always bring a crowd, and the other day in AB I had a priest and shaman heal botting me while constantly referring to me as their queen.

It sure does bring in a lot of attention, and a LOT of lulz!

Comentado por wow2304

Did Blizzard cut that one off to?

Comentado por Colby

All U.S. (and otherwise) realms have had their gates opened.

Realms will now start with the AQ gates open.

Therefore, the Scarab Lord achievement and mount is unattainable.

Alas orange mount, we loved you well.

Comentado por Furydeath

I'm sure the gat will bug....again and give a few more people the mount I mean it already happen in 3.0.1 and again in 3.1 and here we have a new patching soon I wonder who the lucky server will be this time.

Comentado por dabrixmgp

Draenei and Blood elves shouldnt have these as they werent around during this event

Comentado por 296147

It looks more purple than black......

Comentado por 111622

Things like this should rather be HARD to get than impossible. Too many "too late" rewards in this game leaving everyone jealous. Things like this, many of the people who did get this have either quit, been banned, or both by now. Nobody on my server has this.

Comentado por chicers

Best Idea at this time is to make a DK and get him the 5 lvls and just max quest to get to bang a bong and hope

Anyway Good Luck at getting mount but the title is what i tihnk more impressive (just my opinion)

Comentado por 492407

it looks like a silithid. I want it XD

Comentado por parishfeb

So can you change severs at the last second and get this mount?Am desprete for it theres a lot of people saying theres a bug is this true?

Comentado por 212003

QFT

i think the quest chain should be... lengthened... or something

And send you to a new CoT instance....

Showing you opening of AQ....

And you can run it a bucnh....

and get the mount finally?

Comentado por thechairmanh2k

im very bitter i cant get this mount :(

Comentado por 389512

Ok i ahve a question... Why the hell does blizz always take out all the cool mounts like the amani bear... That was the best frikkin mount ever... And now they take this out I just dont get it Whats the new cool mount? The mechano hog... Yeah right 13k gold? YEAH RIGHT... Any mounts that are free but sorta hard to get? I mean come on blizz

Comentado por Colby

This is the macro I use to reply to all the "Where did you get that mount?" tells.

/r The Black Qiraji Battle Tank is WoW's only legendary mount. The title/mount requires the use of the Scepter of the Shifting Sands on the Scarab Dais Gong during the 10 hour event at the opening of Ahn'Qiraj. *It is no longer obtainable on any realm.*

It uses up exactly 255 characters. Feel free to use it.

_______________________________

When I'm feeling evil, this is the macro I give them:

/r It drops from C'thun, it's a .004% chance to drop. It's a legendary, but it's BoE so you might be able to find it on the auction house. Make sure you check every day, exact name is Black Qiraji Battle Tank.

_______________________________

When I'm feeling like going to hell for the rest of my life, I give them this:

/r It's a <Current Holiday> holiday event mount, but it lasts forever. It's legendary. All you have to do is buy one of every glyph that's available to your class. Click on the Gong in Silithus to combine them and make the mount. Hurry only 1 hr left!

...I'm the primary scribe on my server. :)

Comentado por Rightousway

Mounts that are free but hard to get:

Invincible
Rusted Proto Drake
Ironbound Proto Drake
Any of the Frostwyrms

Edit:
Or the green/blue/red proto Drake

Comentado por 636180

As a Scarab Lord myself and one of the original ones... I'd have to say that mount comes with so much stigma, believe it or not. It truly has been stigmatized. I love my title and mount, but I do not wear the title nor ride the mount because of it. Even worst than having a Swift Spectral Tiger which is stigmatized as well with hateful comments and questions. People will accuse you of being one of those players who "abused" the gate glitches/bug, they will make comments like "Did you have cancer?", they will spit on you and hate on you for having this mount and achievement. It basically creates unwelcomed and unwanted negativity. Jealousy is a very ugly thing when it comes to this mount/achievement.

I love the mount, the looks of it, the way it rides around. It surely is unique. :)

Comentado por 510011

So, theoretically, if you transfer a character to a new realm and do the event, get the mount, get the title, and transfer back to an older realm, would you still be able to keep the mount/ title? It would be pretty bad ass imo, but I can foresee ensuing QQ...

Comentado por 199996

Archaeology is providing people to get a mount of the same model as this for Cata so all is not lost for the people that didnt get the Black AQ mount at the event you can now get the one from Archaeology not the same colour ofc remeber that

Comentado por olle981

We often see in these large online games bitter-sweet victories and forgettable events; while it is true that the first time you sever the head of VanCleef you feel a surge of pride, it is sullied by the knowledge of the thousands that came before you and those who will soon follow.

Actual history has many more memorable events because they are truly that, history. While the actions are repeatable, none are equal to that original moment in any way, but merely act as homage to that unique moment. This however is one of those true moments of game history, set in a world where history is usually repeatable.

To most they only knew of it second-hand, a friend of a friend hearing something about a hasty Black Wing Lair run; while to others it was a frenzied pace of night-after-night raids and countless hours of grinding to help form this Champion, to help herald in this event.

You may still be able to grasp at shadows of what this once was, and follow the path of those who did it before you, but in this rarest of quests there are none on par with the champions who broke the seal of Ahn’Qiraj to face the would-be god C’Thun, and quest beside us a Scarab Lord.

They, and only they, opened the Gates of Ahn’Qiraj, and ended the Great War Effort.
//Archivist.

Comentado por 628049

I have never been a hardcore player. I dabbled in it a bit back in vanilla...joining a guild that had just about conquered MC and was just starting out BWL. Going through BWL was at times exhilarating, at times frustrating...and always time-*consuming.* The latter turned out too much for me, particularly when bickering over one of our first Chromag drops led to a big chunk of the raid group /gquitting, right on Nefarian's doorstep! ARGH. Ah well. It would be nice to say I worked through the entire thing back when it was a grueling experience, but I'm satisfied with having *seen* all of the spectacular content in BWL, even if I wasn't there when the guild eventually bounced back and manage to down the big guy. It simply wasn't for me, and I've never looked back...sure, I've been through Kara casually a few times, dabbled in raids we've all now out-leveled, but the raider's life is not for me. Frankly I don't even enjoy the pug raids that have risen in popularity with Wrath; the gear is great, sure, but I simply don't find them all that fun.

I saw enough of the raider experience, though, to know the level of coordination, teamwork, and PATIENCE required to get through a raid zone, especially back in the days of 40s. Many casuals belittle hardcore raiding groups as obsessed nerds with no lives or sense of perspective...what I saw in my time with this group was a guild of people committed to a single-minded goal: beating the highest level of content in the game. It did require a vast time commitment and a great deal of sacrifice (i.e., how you prefer to play, spec or spend your time in game when not raiding), but for my part I can admire devotion to a hobby some might perceive as a complete waste of time. I have, after all, run pen-and-paper RPGs off and on for about twenty years now, and I can relate to the sheer delight of seeing the fruition of all that effort, even if the other players at my own table might raise their eyebrows at how much of my personal time was required to make it come together. For them, it was fun...fun enough that they would have put that much effort into it? Probably not, but it was for me...and were it not for my own willingness to commit additional time, their enjoyment of the experience would have been lessened a great deal as well. For them, it is a "game," while for me (and most DMs/GMs, I suspect), it is a "hobby." That's fine; it is a relationship D&D tables have sustained successfully for decades.

The gate opening was the perfect realization of that same experience in World of Warcraft. When the gates opened on my server, it was pure chaos. The zone was packed; huge titans roamed the desert, crushing lowbie and casual spectators with ease. But damn, it was fun! I will never forget the culmination of that event; it was a BIG DEAL that remains unmatched. It was the meeting of those two groups, just like at a D&D table, each having fun in their own way and contributing to the fun of the other party through the level of participation they are willing to commit. The WoW gamers and the WoW hobbyists created a historical moment which cannot possibly be replicated in the game's current environment. The hardcore were the only ones who left with anything to show for it, but at the time, simply being there to witness it was very satisfying.

It is my sincere hope that, as the legend of the gate opening grows, as more and more players join who have only heard of it through word of mouth, Blizzard will realize just how important these events are to the story of the game's world. As the poster directly above me said, killing Van Cleef isn't a big deal for your perception of the game world; the Deadmines is an amusement park ride, complete with the potential for a surprise gift somewhere along the way, and if you want, you can get right back in line once you've finished it. The gate opening was WoW history - not Azeroth history or "lore," but rather a singular meeting of the casuals and the hardcore, united in one purpose and rewarded with one unforgettable night when the gong rang out across the server. I will always be a casual, and I still consider my very casual participation in the gate opening to be one of my best experiences in six years of WoW. Take another swing at it, Blizzard.

Comentado por 795994

New realms will no longer start with their Ahn'Qiraj gates closed, Thus the mounts will no longer be obtainable.

On the side note, When Catalysm is released all the quests related to the gate will be removed and no longer availabl. You can also no longer bang the gong for the rewards even.

Look forward for Archeolgy proffesion in the new expansion. It appears to have a unique Ahn'Qiraj mount... Better than nothing i guess!

- Fodjo

Comentado por heywoods

Straight from the Battle.net API:

US Scarab Lords: 150 out of 242 possible servers.
EU Scarab Lords: 392 out of 247 possible servers.

Quite a sizable difference. I guess EU really did exploit the gates a lot more than the US.

Comentado por timop

Can you get one of these by being quick enough on a new PTR?

Comentado por 977897

DEM EGGS

Comentado por 940848

Take me back... *sigh*

Comentado por 710951

Will come to Black Market @MoP for sure.

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http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/8803/blackqirajiresonatingcrystal8j.jpg

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Enjoy,
DK

1) What Tomorrow Brings

NPC in Cenarion Hold says "Hey guys I hear there's a dragon who despawns at 20% and says something about it not being his time in Tanaris." You go see Anachronos at the Caverns of Time -- return to CH, tell the NPC.

(Everyone can do this.)

2) Only One May Rise

The Cenarion NPC is excited to hear of the return of the Bronze Dragonflight. Maybe ancient bonds can be reforged and they can again work together against their common enemy. He asks you to prove yourself by killing Broodlord Lashlayer. Bring an army, but because only one may rise, only one can loot the head.

(We did this on 1/3/06 -- I looted the head.)

3) The Path of the Righteous

The Cenarion NPC is impressed that we killed Broodlord. But in order to earn the trust of the Bronze Dragonflight, we must work tirelessly to purge their ancient enemies from Silithus. He sends me to Hive'Ashi, Hive'Zora, and Hive'Regal to kill silithids and return with 200 carapace fragments (quest drops, tradeable).

(I did this -- it took maybe 20-30 minutes of grinding with 8 people in Hive'Ashi. The elites drop 1-3 fragments, or up to 4 in Hive'Regal. Nonelites drop 0 or 1.)

4) The Hand of the Righteous

The reward for Step #3 is a one-use badge that lets me make someone else an Agent of Nozdormu. That gives them a soulbound item like an Argent Dawn Commission that allows them to collect fragments from killing Silithids as well. Deputized people don't have any quest themselves, but they can farm carapaces and give them to me. Every 200 carapaces I turn in lets me name another deputy.

This is a repeatable quest. Every turnin of 200 gives me 200 rep with the Brood of Nozdormu. I start, as we all do, at 0/36000 Hated. Over the course of roughly 60 hours, a small army was mobilized. At the end of the first night, I had 5500 of the needed 42000 reputation. My guild turned out in full force throughout the day on Wednesday to help me farm, and most were deputized in the process. By Wednesday afternoon/evening, I had enough carapaces to begin deputizing outside EJ. Generous people from Nocturn, Quarantine, VXIX, Aftermath, GS, and other guilds offered their time to assist in the effort. The farming continued throughout the day on Thursday, and Aeternus generously gave us their gathered carapaces. The end was near by Thursday afternoon, we cancelled our raid plans, and settled in for the final grind. Just before midnight on Thursday night, I reached Neutral with the Brood of Nozdormu.

5) Anachronos

I was sent to talk to Anachronos, at the Caverns of Time. When I got there, first off, he offered me one of three epic signet rings. Note that all players will automatically get these once they hit Neutral with Nozdormu by doing AQ, which will happen quickly. Next, he told me that since perhaps I was truly ready and able to aid them, I would need to learn the history of what I was about to get myself into. He sent me back to Silithus, to gaze into a fragment of a time crystal left in the sands by the wall. When I clicked it, dozens of spectral night-elves, anubisath, qiraji, and silithids phased in around me. I stepped back. We watched a battle unfold between them, with the dragons Caelastrasz, Merithra, and Arygos (red, green, blue) flying in to lend air support as the silithids were overcome. I then watched a conversation between Anachronos and the night-elf Fandral play out, the walls sealed, and the scepter shattered.

These events are depicted and described at great length here:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/underdev/1p9/shiftingsands.html

When I returned to Anachronos, he told me that the scepter had been shattered into four, and that four dragons held them. He has one of them. Azuregos, Eranikus, and Vaelastrasz held the other three, and I was to seek them out.

6) The Charge of the Dragonflights (three parallel paths, each which must be completed)

6a) The Blue Flight

I sought out Azuregos, who had, fortunately, happened to spawn right as I was shuttling between Tanaris and Silithus. I begged the assembled forces to wait until I got there to kill him, and they graciously did, and summoned me. (Thanks again, Nerd/Perdition's.) After an unfortunate misclick, I spoke to Azuregos and learned that he had entrusted his shard to a magical minnow. Yes, a fish. He told me of an arcanite buoy that would lure the fish, and gave me instructions on making one.

One problem: They're in draconic. He mentioned that Narain Soothfancy in Tanaris might be able to help me. So off I went.

He explained to me that I needed to fetch for him three things: his book of draconic language, his lost pair of scrying goggles, and a 500-pound chicken. Three parallel quests.

THE GOGGLES -- Last entrusted to a former friend of his who may be in Silverpine near the Greymane wall. I found him, and just like our good friend Finkle, it seems he was casually strolling through Molten Core and lost them. Thanks, guy. I recently recovered them from an Ancient Core Hound.

THE CHICKEN -- series of miniquests to farm chimeraoks on the Isle of Dread for their meat, kill Lord Lakmaeran for his carcass, bring them all to Dirge Quickcleave in Gadgetzan, season them with deeprock salt and goblin rocket fuel, and then return the horrible product to Narain.

THE BOOK -- This is the big one. He said he buried it on an island south of Tanaris. It's on an island beyond fatigue waters, way off the map. Except that when I got there, I just found a ransom note with instructions on where to bring the money in exchange for his book. Ok, so Narain gives me a bag of rocks (fake gold) and a sweet Narain disguise, and a map to the dropoff point, which was at the SE edge of Winterspring at the cliffs looking down upon Azshara. This step was (Elite) so I brought four friends. I go there, wear the disguise, drop the bag, and Dr. Weavil comes puttering in on his flying machine. He lands, comes out, says he sees right through my disguise (hmm, maybe it was the Sulfuras I was holding), and then gets back into his machine, tells "Number Two" to take care of me, and flies off. A huge yeti-gorilla creature comes out. Kind of like a 5-man instance boss, nothing too bad. He dies. We go back to Narain, who tells me that Dr. Weavil lives on Alcaz Island (NE of Dustwallow). So off we go. We bring a small army to the evil doctor's hideout, and beat him to death. I recover from his corpse one chapter of the book, and a diary chronicling his emo rage as he ripped the book into eight pieces and threw seven of them all over the world. One in Tainted Scar, one in Darkwhisper Gorge, one in Onyxia's chimney, one in Molten Core, one in BWL, one in Undercity, and one in Stormwind (!).

After gathering the chapters and assembling the completed manual, I learned of the various precious materials required to craft the buoy. I presented them, and received the buoy.

We took the buoy to a maelstrom in the Bay of Storms in Azshara, and used it, and up swam Maws, a shark of gigantic proportions. Not too tough, but with 1mil hp, frenzies like Magmadar, and an AoE, so it took a little while. From its corpse I retrieved the Blue Scepter Shard. One down, two to go!

6b) The Green Flight

This was cool. I went to see the sleeping shade of Eranikus in ST. As soon as I entered the room, Malfurion Stormrage phased in between me and the dragon. He told me that Eranikus has been corrupted by the Old Gods and that I needed to cleanse him in order to recover the scepter shard. He sends me to speak with an agent of his outside of Darnassus(!). I did that. The agent sent me to Keeper Remulos in Moonglade. Remulos told me of Eranikus's corruption, and how he wants nothing more than revenge upon Malfurion and upon the Moonglade. He might be lured into a trap, but it would require the recovery of four shards of the corrupted dream, from each of the four dragon portals around the world. Three of them are held by the dragonkin near the portals (raredrops from the dragonkin; they do not drop from the green dragons themselves). The fourth is in Duskwood, which has no trash, but where a demonic Twilight Corruptor awaited me, phasing in as I approached the moonwell there. He was tough (40-man raid mob), but we took him out. The drop rate on the other fragments is awful -- it took 3.5 hours of nonstop farming in Feralas to get that one, and 1.5+ at Hinterlands. Ashenvale has so few dragonkin that it also proved problematic with the new lengthened respawns, but at last we had all four shards.

I brought them back to Keeper Remulos in the Moonglade, and he used them to lay a trap for Eranikus. Eranikus has been in the corrupted Emerald Dream, twisted by the will of the Old Gods, brooding and yearning for revenge against Malfurion and the Cenarion Circle. The fragments were used to open a portal into the heart of the Dream, and Eranikus emerged over the Moonglade lake. With hundreds of people gathered to defend Moonglade (and to watch), an epic battle was waged against dozens of Nightmare Phantasms that emerged from the portal, as Eranikus hovered menacingly in the skies. Aeternus, Aftermath, Advent, LoH, Exordium, and countless others, all turned out to assist us, and I thank them. As the phantasms were defeated, Eranikus landed to do the job himself. He was controlled, and we began to wear him down. As the fight went on, Tyrande arrived from Darnassus (the point of my trip to Darnassus had been to covertly notify her) with a half-dozen Priestesses of the Moon riding white tigers. They healed the army as we continued to rain blows on Eranikus, and Tyrande and Remulos fought against him side-by-side. As he weakened further, Tyrande channelled the powers of Elune in a prayer to redeem the cursed dragon. He thrashed and resisted, but ultimately the light of Elune overcame him. He suddenly ceased fighting. The dragon vanished, and in its place lay a crumpled night-elf on the ground. He stood up and haltingly apologized for all the harm he had wrought, and left to attempt to begin to make amends for his actions. Before leaving, however, he entrusted me with the green scepter shard that Anachronos had given him long ago. I returned it to Anachronos.

Anachronos now holds the blue and green shards, in addition to the bronze one he has kept. Only one remains:

6c) The Red Flight
Vaelastrasz was entrusted with the red shard. Unfortunately, he ran into a bit of trouble. He lay injured and defeated inside Blackwing Lair, having been overpowered and injured by Nefarian. Talking to him, before the fight, he told me that Nefarian had taken the shard, and was seeking to corrupt its power and destroy it. If I wanted it, I was going to have to reach Nefarian and get it back... before it was destroyed.

So, a race to clear BWL. We frantically tore through the zone to reach Nefarian, as he taunted us and proclaimed his victory along the way. We got there in ample time. We killed Nefarian, and we took the shard back from his corpse.

I hurried to Anachronos in Tanaris, and brought him the shard.

He heralded me as the true champion and savior of Kalimdor, and handed me the reconstructed Scepter of the Shifting Sands, to be used when the Horde and the Alliance were ready to wage war against the forces of C'Thun

Comentado por Thottbot

Are you kidding me? I just opened it on the Antonidas server, after transferring with the quest mostly done. All I had to do was inform the person already working on the quest, and you know.......show some courtesy and wait for him to finish. We rang it together, after informing the server about the date and time well in advance so they could all watch it.

Just be courteous to the server, and people will be courteous to you.

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I have opened last PvP realm on EU few days ago - Uldum
Im not was alone - 6 of Alliance and 2 hordes get it also.
Finnaly i get it, it was my dream for long time =)

Some facts about this mount:

1) It's only mount with legendary icon atm =)
2) Possible to starting cast it in combat. But nothing will heppen if u still in combat when cast complite. So you have 3 free seconds to start cast it. It is useble anywhere, arena too.
3) If you alrdy mounted on any other mount (including flying mounts), it will cast instant.
4) It is useble inside AQ40, like other battle tanks from there.

How to get it:
1) You need to be on realm with closed AQ gates. (noone PvP atm, but may be some fresh realms in future). If u like to transfer for get it - REMEMBER - u CANT transfer from PvE to PvP realm back!
2) You need to complite Scepter of Shifting Sands quest line.
3) War Effort on realm must be complited. Gong will be bangeble after 5 days when it full complited.
4) First who bang, and anywho who will bang in 10 hours after first, will recieve this item.
5) War effort/Realms opened page on wow-europe.com is BUGGED. Dont look it, old information there.

Here i am - http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/6333/wowscrnshot122407093206tq8.jpg

Good luck!

Comentado por Thottbot

I have a huge question...when you ring the gong do you automaticaly get the mount without killing all the crap after you ring it, or can i ring the gong by my self get the mount and get killed by the trash and take rez sickness and have the mount..or do i have to kill everything then get the mount?

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are they going to fix this so no one can switch servers and what not to complete this quest and get the mount? i'll be very mad =/

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Yea, the patch notes say that it has become a normal mount, so if you do the insane quest chain can you get the mount now? :O
Time to start farming then ;p

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To awnser everyones questions...i am scarb lord on onxyia server......U MUST be on a server with gated closed to get mount and title....other wise if there open u can do whole quest line and you WILL not get mount...i REPEAT U WILL NOT GET MOUNT ...once i got it on main i decided to go for it on alt ...server scilla....did whole freaking quest and no mount.....i CAN NOT STRESS ENOUGH DO NOT WASTE 4 MONTHS OF UR TIME..(for me AGAIN) trying to get mount ................and yes u must transfer to a server with gates closed to get moutn and u must have sceptor in bag still

i hope this helped alot

Scarb lord-onxyia
name- ( i wish to be anomyous so i dont get tells from 50 people saying OMG SHOW ME THE MOUNT ...like i made the mistake earleir >_<)

Comentado por Thottbot

Anyone know if Blizzard made it so the new servers that arrived with WOTLK have closed gates, or is it only pre-bc servers that never opened the gates?

- Deien- Darrowmere

Comentado por Thottbot

i would totally kill for this mount =/

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I hope Blizz will add questline to open gates of Icecrown citadel so u cant clear that in one day when it comes.

Comentado por Thottbot

well i like to post comments for no reason.

Comentado por Thottbot

This is my proposition. Very few people know about it despite numerous posts on the forum, although i believe this will allow people to still obtain the mount while preserving its "rarity".

Keep the quest chain as it is. despite numberous QQ's i still find it hard to get 10 elementium ore and kill a gnome that can MC an 80 dk.

Make the Scepter of the Shifting Sands a key to an 80-only dungeon with 1 boss (possibly loot, possibly emblems - thats not the point). Everyone in the raid must have the scepter to enter. It will have roughly the same difficulty as malygos, and when defeated the boss would have a 1% chance to drop the mount. Whoever is lucky enough to loot the mount will recieve the scarab lord Feat of Strength achievement, although the achievement will now grant the "Scarab Lord" title.

good idea or what?

Comentado por Thottbot

I think blizzard should release the realms with the AQ Gates closed. I see what they want to achieve by not doing so, the quest chain is lvl 60, we're lvl 80 now, every one will have their mount. WRONG! the fact that players are lvl 80 now haven't made that UBER long quest chain any shorter, some NPC elite you gotta kill will still own the player if soloed, the 300 of elite dragonkins you gotta farm are still 300 and with 65K HP they ain't critters. Indeed it wont require ten 1337 guilds to help 1 player get his mount, yet the quest is long and hard enough to award the brave player with the septer a nice mount. Anyways it seems like a fact we won't be geting title nor mount, legendary players who did will have something to tell their grandchildren about. I don't opose that. But I do opose that:

1) Blizzard don't do this with every other epic/legendary quest reward mount. Not only they didn't prevent the players from getting the winterspring frostsaber (for example), they have made it AMAZINGLY easier, multipling the rep gained from quests.

2) Blizzard don't release more of this events, so that we can stop dreaming of that ugly spider and get to work in a new awesome borean pinguin.

Anyhow thats my opinion.

Comentado por Thottbot

actually there is a mount rarer than this, because it was never meant to be in the game. i was reading about mechanostriders on wowwiki and there was a page about a 'neon' strider (or something like that) that was a basic 60% green wingless strider, given to a player who lost his mount due to a bug, and the gm apparently selected the wrong mount file. his loss, that one lucky gnomes gain.

not nearly as epic as this mount, and certainly no title to go with it. but only ONE person on ONE realm in the ENTIRE WoW will EVER have the neon green strider. like i said, one lucky gnome.

vote this up or il feed your kitteh mounts to my ironbound protodrake!

Comentado por Thottbot

You know, I heard that there is still a way to get the mount!
Essentially, you need to kill ten million bunnies and eventually the guardian of bunnies appears and smites you, but instead of dying you go to a parallel universe where the 10 hour event is still going on, and you have the thing to ring the gong with!
But then to get back to the normal universe you have to say sorry to all the bunnies you killed (because we're in a parallel universe at that point, the bunnies are still alive ofc) and then the guardian of bunnies teleports you back to the normal universe.
Its at this point you show off your new mount and title (but dont tell anyone how you did it!)

Hope this helps

Comentado por Thottbot

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e124/invasion66/WoWScrnShot_022410_012917.jpg

I never seen an image of the quest being completed, so i login on the ptr and i completed the quest there.

Antonov
Lightning's blade realm

Comentado por Thottbot

to the above who did the chain on PTR...

I hate you, im on the last part of the chain. now i cant get the mount since you rang the gong like 2 weeks ago :(

Comentado por Thottbot

HUNTERWEAPON! XD

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If people want this mount soooo much, i think blizz could make a few new servers for people to go to and open the gates and get the mount then transfer everyone back to the servers they were on. then they just rinse and repeat:) it may be a mad idea but, whos with me? :P

Comentado por Thottbot

If everyone could attain this mount, it wouldn't be legendary. People just want it for the reason that you can't get it anymore.

It's supposed to be a legendary mount. I'm up for keeping it that way by not letting any noob who wants to get it - get it.

And as for that 'rarer than this mount mechanostrider' post... he's right.

http://www.wowwiki.com/Fluorescent_Green_Mechanostrider

Only one in the game.
Just like the Talisman of Binding Shard (thottbot it)

Comentado por Allakhazam

i heard that if you can gong the bell and defeat the 4 summend dragon it can be obtainable but dunno if it is true cuz if it is true you still have the chance to get that bug for riding

Comentado por Allakhazam

Tigole confirmed, that this mount can only be attained by the first person completing the questchain to open the gates of AQ and any other person completing the quest within 10 hours of the first person completing it.

Comentado por Allakhazam

waitin for world quest.. want my mount ^^

Comentado por Allakhazam

Think it should be around 125% mount speed, but donno if that is true tbh.

Comentado por Allakhazam

sick looking mount. don't care though. not worth the effort to gain 1 second of cast time. a mage will sheep you and that's it. end of mount.

Comentado por Allakhazam

Ok so i dont know much about this but the quick cast makes it a huge advantage in a pvp situation right? Well if i am understanding this correctly you need a guild to get this with. Well most of the guilds i've seen aren't pvp based, they are raiding based so what really is the point of making this the result of that type of quest? How about make something like that as a pvp reward? Reply so that i can understand it a little more because I may not have all my facts right.

Comentado por Allakhazam

Like someone else said on thottbot:
(IT DOESNT DROP FROM VC)

My warrior has one, so I decided to make a QUOTE on how to get one:

1: Kill Broodlord the Lashlyer in BWL(Only one in the raid gets to loot the head).
2: Farm 46000(or something of that amount, atleast 40000+ for sure) Carapaces from the elite Silithids in Silithus.
3: Get an epic ring of your choice for letting 40 people do your dirty work for 4 days(and nights) straight... also accept three more quests wich are impossible to do alone:

4: Green line:
4,1: Run about the whole damn world talking to some people and wasps and stuff...
4,2: Farm rare drops from the elite dragons around the portals(You know the portals where the 4, recently implemented, Green Dragons spawn?) in Hinterlands, Feralas and Ashenvale. Also kill a "mini-boss"(He's hard) in Duskwood for the last drop.
4,3: Defeat(You don't really kill him, but w/e) Eranikus in Moonglade.
4,Reward!: Choose between a healing necklace or a pair of nice Rogue boots with Nature Resistance.

5: Blue line(This quest-line confused me a lot when we did it, but it was also the funniest one to do):
5,1: Find the Spirit of Azuregos in Azshara.
5,2: Find some GANOME in Tanaris.
5,2: Swim to some island off the southern coast of Tanaris with and uber fast-swim buff(Only the one with the quest can go to this island, OFCOURSE, and you'll die if you attempt to get to it without the buff) to get some things.
5,3: Meet some master criminal gnome in Winterspring and kill the Gorilla he unleashes upon you.
5,4: Kill that master criminal gnome in his fortress in Dustwallow Marsh.
5,Reward!: Get an imba Cloth head armor with +10% chance to resist silence amongst other cool stats.
5,5: Collect 8 different pages:
1 you get when you kill the gnome
1 from Ragnaros
1 from a book lying about in BWL
1 from Onyxia
1 from Stormwind
1 from Undercity
1 from the elite mobs in Darkwhisper Gorge, Winterspring
1 from the elite demons in The Tained Scar, Badlands
5,6: Get 20x meats from raid(not elite, but damn slow to kill with a raid of 10) mobs in southern island in Feralas. Also kill a named Chimaera boss on that same island.
5,Reward!: You get an epic cooking recepie to make food wich gives a nice stamina boost.
5,8: Turn in some rare materials, including some Elementium ore, 20x Arcanite bars etc etc.
5,9: Kill a raid boss Shark in Azshara!
5,Reward!: Choose between a nice Mage robe with +Frost damage and +Fire Resistance amongst other stats OR a ring with some stats and that enables you to swim underwater forever(Or until you die cause of you thinking you are invinsible and swim too far out in the ocean)!

6: Red Line:
6,1: Clear Vaelastrasz -> Nefarian in 5 hours.
6,2: Get some hunter item and, i think it was a necklace with shadow resistance, oh well.

7: Forge the Mallet!

And NOW apparently...
8: GET A LEGENDARY MOUNT!(while the others who helped do the quest lines dont get sh*t!)

Edited, Jul 17th 2008 3:32pm by TalnivarrsBest

Comentado por Allakhazam

Why all the link is down? I cant view the pic s !

Comentado por Allakhazam

Merchant Sell Price: 1000g

OMG SO LUCKY, people that have this can get a quick 1000 gold! LUCKY!

Whoever got this can now sell their account on ebay for an extra $100, WOOT.

I have heard a few things about this mount, besides the 'instant cast' rumor...supposedly it allows you to fly. I think this can be effectively ignored, however, as it is highly unlikely that Blizzard would have released a fully functional flying mount before even releasing screenshots of the flying mounts which will be available in Burning Crusade. I'd appreciate it if someone who has this mount could confirm/debunk this, and if it IS true, I'd really like to see a screenshot of the mount in flight. I'm wondering if this rumor could have arisen from the pic on this page with a solid blue background.

In addition to this, I've heard that the mounts can stealth, which may have arisen from the unstealthing bug mentioned above, and that they can attack during flight-not the player, the actual MOUNT can attack. This last I find hard to believe, but I'd like to know if maybe it allows you to attack during the cast or to attack while mounted.

this definety isn't real, and if it was, it would be completely useless

Think it should be around 125% mount speed, but donno if that is true tbh.

Thank you for the hilarious quotes guys! Good stuff!

Comentado por Allakhazam

This is the hardest quest in the game so far. U had tokill nearly every world boss in the game and u had to clear BWL in 5 hrs. This quest took 2-3 months to complete. these're all true facts. Most of the people who look at this mount r never gonna get it. End of story.

Comentado por Allakhazam

margus typed wrong:P the really adress is

http://www.partingvisions.com/aqwarpics/kalahadmount.jpg

there ya go guys:) plz tell me how u get it;)

Comentado por Allakhazam

It has 100% speed like the other mounts, but there are some differences.
-Its instant cast which effectively makes it a bit faster and a huge advantage in PvP
-The other crystals can only be used in AQ
-Regular mounts cannot be used in AQ40 except at the beginning

About the AQ scepter line, you can do it after the gates have been opened and reap some other pretty rewards, but this one is only for people that turn the scepter in within 10 hours of the first bong. Considering the effort, there will be 3 people tops per server with this mount, less if the server guilds decide to let one guild do this and the rest focuses on the war effort.
And there won't be many more that ever bother with this quest to the full extend afterwards, the cost for the blue line is insane just for a ring that lets you breathe underwater...

Comentado por Allakhazam

http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/8803/blackqirajiresonatingcrystal8j.jpg

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Gratz to Cloctoc, Shammy of Peekay on Dark Iron for getting this.

Comentado por Allakhazam

gl getting this mount guys i dont think all at the server will have it xD

Comentado por Allakhazam

i got the pic for this here

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/8922/screenshot16ns.jpg

Edited, Wed Mar 15 18:39:04 2006

Comentado por Allakhazam

100% speed, just like a epix mount

but.. it has normal cast time right? im not sure if it is a instant cast or with some kind of timer..

Comentado por Allakhazam

Wow, that looks awesome.

But I'll settle for the Epic mount.

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i have a pic of the mounts but link is broken!

Comentado por Allakhazam

http://b0bs0n.uw.hu/blackqiraji.jpg

Edited, Tue Mar 7 09:44:55 2006

Comentado por Allakhazam

look at this http://wow.blupp.net/item.php?id=278119

Comentado por Allakhazam

Kalahad of Fury on Server Medivh got it, don't know something about it, maybe you need the scepter to get one? Kalahad gief some informations!111

Edit:
Screenie of the mount, there also drop some other epic mounts inside the instance but they can only be used in the 2 instances and in the zone behind the great wall
http://www.partingvisions.com/aqwarpics/kalahadmount.jpg

Edited, Mon Jan 23 07:09:09 2006

Comentado por Allakhazam

The only way it's obtainable is by getting the scepter within 3 days of opening the gate and hitting the gong before the war is over.

Comentado por Allakhazam

I hope they open up this quest chain and content at a later date, It would suck if only a select few people could attain this and in a very short amount of time. Also theres a cinematic during the quest chain that shows the gate being sealed 1000 years ago that i would like to see.

Comentado por Allakhazam

To add to that frustration, and quit the *!@#$ing altogether. Not only is it not insta cast, it takes you out of stealth BEFORE you are mounted instead of AFTER like my old skeletal Warhorse. Probably a bug, but atleast now the Pvper's can stop whining.

What right do they have anyways? They're the ones that made most of the good servers take months to open thier server's gates.

Yes I have it, yes I love it, No I don't think that anyone %^&*!ing about it has anywhere to talk.

Comentado por Allakhazam

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?ForumName=wow-bugs&ThreadID=170005

It is now officially worse than an Epic mount.

Comentado por Allakhazam

No, noobs. THIS is the best mount out there

http://wow.blupp.net/item.php?id=395073

You know it.

Comentado por Allakhazam

If you look in the WOW site...
Black Qiraji Resonating Crystal is a quest reward from Bang a Gong!, which requires the player to use the Scepter of the Shifting Sands on the gong on the Scarab Dias during the 10 hour war with the Silithids during the opening of Ahn'Qiraj (a one time server event).

Notes
This Crystal summons a swift, ridable Scarab that can be ridden when outside of the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj.
Should other players possess the scepter, they may also receive the mount if they activate the gong up to 10 hours after the opening.
This mount has the same riding speed as normal epic mounts

So the point of having one is virtually...POINTLESS...unless you are gonna be the one to transfer a player just so you can be one of the few that can brag that your point in life was to go through AQ and spend a rediculous amount of time so you can have a mount that is the same speed as the epic mount you can get at lvl 60 in the outlands. ALSO for the individual that said,"DUDE you can, like, sell it for, like, 1000g!",...you cant sell any mount anymore because Dee Dee Dees, like yourself, were selling their regular mounts, on "accident". Hence, Blizzard decided to make ALL mounts soulbound. So is all this babble worth it.

Edited, Jul 24th 2007 6:19am by ryandsmith

Comentado por Allakhazam

Links seemed to be broken.
Zergs...hmm, there are some vespine geysirs and minerals in silithus but where are the Arclite Tanks? :D

If it really requires the scepter than Blizzard really sucks -.-

Comentado por Allakhazam

It has no cast time apparently

Comentado por Allakhazam

When everyone's best then nobody is. If you had the mount you'd whine "OMG I got teh sceptorz quest Blizz and now every n00b can get it tu WTF?"

Comentado por Allakhazam

Merchant Sell Price: 1000g

OMG SO LUCKY, people that have this can get a quick 1000 gold! LUCKY!

Whoever got this can now sell their account on ebay for an extra $100, WOOT.

Edited, Wed Mar 8 18:31:40 2006

Comentado por Allakhazam

i like that thing dude
it rocks

;)

Comentado por Allakhazam

in my opinion this mount is much better http://wow.blupp.net/item.php?id=368809

Comentado por Allakhazam

Yeah, as they say... work it harder, make it better, do it faster, makes us stonger, although?
This is a frickin long, hard, expensive quest chain, you must raid every boss in the game before AQ, you compete against other players to turn it first, and you get... An EPIC MOUNT?
Well, legendary, but it moves like an epic.
FOR THAT QUEST, YOU SHOULD GET AT LEAST AN EPIC FLYING MOUNT! And an epic underwater mount for the Maws fight.

Comentado por Allakhazam

Hey Yall just wanted to give a shout out to my boy semiamp horde level 80 dk, hes on the realm spirestone. He is the reason that this mount is now a regular mount for use outside of Ahn' Qiraj so I just wanted to give him a shoutout. Thanks Semiamp :)

Princë

Edited, Aug 4th 2009 3:52pm by Princelol

Comentado por Allakhazam

Purple Bug of I Need One of Those.

Comentado por Allakhazam

OMG! Legendary mount ! CAN SOMEONE POST A SCREENSHOT PLEASE !

Comentado por Allakhazam

lolol shhhh it looks like a bug

Comentado por Allakhazam

I got the mount today, and in fact it isnt instant cast. you have the same cast time as for a normal epic mount. the only difference is that there is no animation when you cast.

Comentado por Allakhazam

All in the title. This purely rocks !

Erm... Btw, as far as I understood, such kind of reward can only be picked up by the group who opens the Ahn'Qiraj's doors right ? So, am I the only one feeling a bit unfair that many of us collected goods (metal ore, herbs...) to open AQ doors and only the first group who bangs the gong got this ?

Or am I completly out of the way ?

Edited, Fri Mar 31 03:11:52 2006

Comentado por Allakhazam

I heard its a pain in the ass quest chain, and you need to kill Eye of E'cune. and tuch the dong behind him...
even though, i dont like that chinesian players get those things, i mean about 20 peoples would managed to get that quest done whitin 10 hours.
(same whit those murlocks that they give away to "Special custumors" i mean wtf, why should someone get those kinds of atvantages =/ im on the tap of quite playing WoW because of this! I am SICK of these kinds of items

Comentado por Allakhazam

This is a complete speculation (mixed with rumors i have heard) but...

I have heard that during the 8 hrs after the gong is rung, the mount can still be obtained. If you complete the quest chain all the way up to the ringing of the gong (probably it is best to have done this a before the gong is rung), and then do whatever to turn the quest in during those 8 hrs. , you still gets the mount.

Now this is just what I've heard so if some other folks, who have done this or would know, would reply to this with an answer... that be good

Comentado por Allakhazam

Mounts getting nerfed :(

Comentado por Allakhazam

1ST POST! legendery? Swift Zulian Tiger only got Epic heh

Comentado por Allakhazam

OMG IT"S SO COOL ! But wha'ts the requirement to get this mount? who drop this? So far no infor about that.

Comentado por Allakhazam

According to a post on the other coloured AQ40-only crystals, all the AQ mounts (including this one) give a 100% speed increase, just like normal epics. The only bonus to getting it is as a status symbol. Sure, I wouldbe pretty happy if I could get it, but I'm not that fussed about it when the only difference is the visuals.

Comentado por Allakhazam

I've heard a few other rumors about these things, besides the 'instant cast' story...among others, I've heard from several sources that these can FLY. I'm finding it hard to believe that Blizz would release a fully functional, in-game flying mount before even releasing screenshots of the flying mounts that will be available in Burning Crusade...could someone who has this mount confirm/debunk this? If it's true, I'd really like to see a screenshot of it flying. Also, I've heard it allows you to stealth while mounted, which may have arisen from the bug about unstealthing mentioned earlier. The hardest rumor for me to believe is that the mount itself hits for close to 3,000 damage...while I can't believe that, I'm wondering if maybe it allows you to attack while mounted or during the cast.

Comentado por Allakhazam

This mount is not an instant cast, it has a regular cast time like every other mount.

Want proof? You can clearly see it in this video:

http://warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=20945

Comentado por Allakhazam

It's a Lurker-aspected Hydralisk :-)

Comentado por Allakhazam

so is it faster then an epic mount? and if so, exactly how much?

Comentado por Allakhazam

Banai,Guild Master of "Last Resort" guild in Skullcrusher server (EU) has that.
Banai FTW

Comentado por Allakhazam

Hunter item

Comentado por Allakhazam

is it true that there is only 1 per sever or what plz get back to me on this

Comentado por Allakhazam

can some one tell me the item code for this i'm a gm

Comentado por Allakhazam

grats to the guy on medivh who got this. as i can tell, the quest chain to complete the scepter to hit the gong that opens AQ was a race between all the best guilds on the server, and the first one done with the scepter and to hit the gong gets this mount I believe. so grats to that guy if that is the case.

Comentado por Allakhazam

ok blizzard why do you make things so lame.. a ledgenday in a quest reward and one one or 2 can have it.. and the gM or a offiser ion a guild will get it none of the regular members will ever get it.. so i sugges why don't make it a drop from last boss with 0,001% drop chance or something then every oen have a chance on getting it!

Comentado por Allakhazam

In the new servers, since the Gates aren't open, does that mean the quest will resurface again?

Comentado por Allakhazam

guess it's ok for balance druids, as a fury warrior however i prefer dualwielding two of those: Colher Torta

Comentado por Allakhazam

Laaaaaaame

Comentado por Allakhazam

All of the pics are broken for me...wonderful -.- I'm sure it looks sweet tho :D

Comentado por Allakhazam

Seems that suppose another dragon mount there. Same legendary rank quality mount also

Comentado por Allakhazam

this is the pic, GM of fury on my server got it

http://s151843007.onlinehome.us/images/stories/legemount.jpg

You need to complete scepter quest to get it, so dont get ur hopes up it is very unlikely that you will get it, unless youre a gm/officer of a nef killing guild

Comentado por Allakhazam

i was wondering if you can start the quest after the 8 hours, and if you can, if i get it and go as far as i can, could i transfer to a new server and turn it in and get the mount and open the gates?

Comentado por Allakhazam

It works just like any epic mount people... Lol it does not fly nor does it insta cast! It is a reward form the quest to open the AQ gates... When the Gong to the AQ gates is rung there is something like a 10 hr time frame if you happen to have the mace (quest chain) ready you too can ring the gong and get the mount as well. Once that time frame is up no more can be aquired on that server. It is a One time event per server. Plain and simple.

Comentado por Allakhazam

in my opinion http://wow.blupp.net/item.php?id=368809 it a lot better

Comentado por Sammyx3

This Qiraji Battle Tank can be obtained through The Scepter of the Shifting Sands questline.

If you want to know how to get the Cristal Ressonante Qiraji Preto in more detail, you should check out my guide about it!

If you want to know where you can get all the other Mounts in Classic from, check out my other guide here!

Comentado por Shelgeyr70

This might be a really stupid question, but is there any chance that obtaining this in Classic might ultimately lead to it being available in "regular" WoW?
I imagine Classic will eventually gain access to the same "Collections" system, and I know mounts/pets are Blizzard account level, so it seems to me this might actually be the case unless Classic is completely walled-off.
Anyone know for sure?

Comentado por Azzinothed

Some info on this mount:

Has no casting animation. (This has now been changed with Phase 6. There is now a casting animation like all mounts.)

It is 100% speed.

This does dismount you in Ahn'Qiraj Temple entering combat. It works just the same as the others.

Can be cast in combat but does not mount you unless you leave combat by the end of the cast.

Can be cast while already mounted assuming you cancel your previous mount before the end of the cast. This makes you appear to have instantly changed mounts.

Have no idea why this is being downvoted though. These are all legitimate facts with this mount.

Comentado por Gyan7

Saw someone in a random bg with one and I had to go look it up. Dang, unavailable. Sad face!

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