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Comment by Sam97

I heard that this mount should drop from new rare mobs at Throne of Thunder .

Comment by Wilhelm1135

Drops from the new rare spawns around Pandaria.

http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/3081-New-5-2-Rare-Spawns-5-1-Hotfixes-5-2-Set-Bonus-Issues-5-2-Raid-Testing-Blue-Posts

Comment by Midgetpower

One of the four new Triceratops style mounts added in patch 5.2

Reins of the Amber Primordial Direhorn
Reins of the Cobalt Primordial Direhorn
Reins of the Jade Primordial Direhorn
Reins of the Slate Primordial Direhorn

Comment by Aquifel

From wowhead news:

With the new achievement Zul'Again on the PTR, players can now try to kill some of these new troll rare spawns in 5.2 that drop crafting materials and mounts like Reins of the Slate Primordial Direhorn. Blizzard has stated that these rare spawns can drop one of three mounts, reputation items, and crafting materials.

The 3 mounts seem to be Reins of the Slate Primordial Direhorn Reins of the Amber Primordial Direhorn Reins of the Jade Primordial Direhorn as drops from rare spawns, there is also Reins of the Cobalt Primordial Direhorn that is speculated to be obtainable via some other fashion, but we have no info as to how.

Comment by Daundra

Will these rares be soloable? Or will they require groups similar to the Sha of Anger, and his rare mount?
Hopefully soloable, but if not, people will fight to the death for the mount...

Comment by perculia

Confirmed by WoW Rare Spawns to drop from the Zandalari Warbringers. These NPCs spawn on a mount, which is in one of three colors. This color matches up with the mount type that you have a small chance to win when you kill them!

Source: http://wowrarespawns.blogspot.com/2013/01/new-rares-and-mounts-coming-in-patch-52.html

Comment by Stok3d

This mount drops off one of five Zandalari Warbringer that were added in 5.2

Spawn Location Map

TomTom Coordinates

/way The Jade Forest 52 17
/way Townlong Steppes 36 88
/way Krasarang Wilds 39 66
/way Kun-Lai Summit 75 62
/way Dread Wastes 47 60

NPC Scanner

/npcscan add 69769 Zandalari Warbringer
/npcscan add 69841 Zandalari Warbringer
/npcscan add 69842 Zandalari Warbringer

Rare Elite Overview

Ability / Buff Overiew

All 5x Warbringers share the same abilites
Clicking nameplate will show 4x different buffs
Buffs will determine which abilities that mob will use in the fight

Buff ==> Ability

Tribal Mask ==> Horrific Visage: AOE Feared for 8 seconds
Scarab Brooch ==> Scarab Swarm: AOEable Scarabs and will despawn if not killed
Thundering Sigil ==> Thunder Crush: Avoid lightning cloud on the ground
Star Map ==> Meteor Shower: Avoid Meteors from the sky
Spirit Charm ==> Vengeful Spirit: Avoid the Spirit as it hits very hard

Mount Drops

The colored mount they ride on will determine the mount color if a mount drops (1/3)
Reins of the Amber Primordial Direhorn
Reins of the Jade Primordial Direhorn
Reins of the Slate Primordial Direhorn

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See all 350+ Mounts in the game: Mount Collecting: The Completionist Guide

Comment by Brisamoto

Ding!, just won this mount while in a 5 man group off the Zandalari Warbringer off the west coast of Sik'vess.

Comment by Roull15

Its dropped from the Zandalari Warbringers the new added rare elites. Those NPC spawn on 5 different locations in Pandaria either all together or one by one. Its confirmed that they drop a mount similar color to the one the ride after you kill them. As for now there isn't any accurate Drop chance but its certainly not 100%.

Its suggested a group of 3+ to kill this NPC as it has 21M life but its also soloable by all classes which its time consuming

Good Luck to all the Hunters :)

Comment by Espelyn

The animation for this mount is pretty cool. When you hit the space bar while standing still, the mount will hit his tail on the ground three times then rear back and roar.

Comment by sacuria

Ok, there seems to be an issue at least on my server, so I'm guessing may be the same on others.

Firstly, the rares seem to have a 30-70 minute respawn timer. The Pterrorbird's have nothing to do with he spawn, that are literally just markers or beacons for people to help find these rare locations. Secondly, the warscoutscouts seem to be on their own spawn timers, they can spawn before, during and after warbringers.

Now on to my main point, the Warbringers DO NOT RESET THROUGH DISTANCE. There seems to be some confusion on my server with this. A lot of people seem to throw their dummies in the corner when they miss out on the tag. Many result to whispering the group members furiously trying to distrance them, while others take it upon themselves to attempt to reset the mob trough taunt spamming the rare and kiting, often, to different ends of zone the rare is in. The only way that this will ever reset the mob is if you force it to 'bug out'.

After ticketing a GM about this, the GMs say that exploitation is a cause for banning people, and are willing to ban people for what they attempt to do. Dragging the mob into water in Dreadwastes for example. I had a group who tried 4 times to reset the mob, fortunatly, my group retained the tag and got the kill (no mount). However, aoeing around the mob is not an exploitation, so aoe as much as you need. The more in your group the better tag wise.

So to sum it up:

The mobs do not reset through distance, if they reset it is a bug.
Purposefully resetting the mob is a bannable offence.
Aoeing around the mob is not an exploit, so continue to do so at your pleasure.

Uprate this message so people are aware of this please!

And goodluck mount hunting.

Comment by Haliboot

Hello, fellow "dragon" hunters!
Id like to clarify few details about these mobs.

First of all, they spawn at 5 different locations and all 5 of them spawn.

Spawn points:
http://s634.beta.photobucket.com/user/Stok3d-Photos/media/Zandalari_Spawns_zpsb9b0c0ae.png.html?sort=3&o=0

/way Kasarang Wilds 39.08, 67.13
/way Dread Wastes 47.47, 61.32
/way Townlong Steppes 36.53, 85.67
/way Kun-Lai Summit 75.09, 67.65
/way The Jade Forest 52.73, 18.99

They share those spots with lesser rares but they ALWAYS spawn, no matter how many of lesser rares are spawned before. Warbringers are the ones youre looking for, they have a chance about 10% to contain your mount and they also contain +1000 reputation tokens to various factions and two kinds of containers, one drops crafting material, the socond one may drop ilv 440 epic gear. Lesser rares are called Warscouts and their drop is the same except the mount.

The respawn time of Warbringers is 35 minutes to 55 minutes.
The shortest respawn Iv seen was 36minutes and the longest exceeded 50minutes.

Warbringers spawn sitting on Triceratopses of various color and when killed have a chance to drop a mount of that specific color (remains to be confirmed).
There are at least 3 different mounts - Jade, Slate and Amber Direhorn.
Reins of the Jade Primordial Direhorn
Reins of the Slate Primordial Direhorn
Reins of the Amber Primordial Direhorn

While Warscouts are easily soloable, Warbringers are extremely chalenging to solo, especially for non tanks. I recommend you bring two of your friends with you.

Be aware that there are certain "ways" that can be used against you by other players while trying to achieve the kill. Happened to myself that a druid used his taunt several times, pulled the rare so far away that it reseted and his friend taged it afterwards. Also a group of horde players turned pvp on and waited till I accidentaly hit them with non-direct spell and then swoop upon me.
Took me about 8kills to get mine Slate Direhorn but Iv lost many attempts in the process.

Hope you find this clarification helpful. Happy hunting.

Comment by Worcraft2120

Got this today , will upload a screenshot soon

Comment by Skaturas

There were 7 newly added direhorn mounts in 5.2

Reins of the Golden Primal Direhorn - Requires Kirin Tor Offensive Exalted and 3000 gold (without discounts) - Alliance only
Reins of the Crimson Primal Direhorn - Requires Sunreaver Onslaught Exalted and 3000 gold (without discounts) - Horde only

Note: If you obtain one of these mounts on one of your characters, all of your characters will have it. Though, your Alliance characters will have the Golden Primal Direhorn, while your Horde characters will have the Crimson Primal Direhorn.

Reins of the Cobalt Primordial Direhorn - Rare drop from Oondasta

Oondasta is a new world boss in 5.2, and spawns in Isle of Giants (Long respawn timer).
If you're going for this mount, make sure you take a Mogu Rune of Fate with you.

Reins of the Amber Primordial Direhorn - Rare drop from Zandalari Warbringer
Reins of the Jade Primordial Direhorn - Rare drop from Zandalari Warbringer
Reins of the Slate Primordial Direhorn - Rare drop from Zandalari Warbringer

Spawn of Horridon - Rare drop from Horridon in the Throne of Thunder (doesn't drop in the LFR version).

Comment by nwshful

PROVED: THE MOUNT IS NOT NECESSARY OF THE SAME COLOR OF THE MOB. found an amber after killing a slate.

Comment by ssigma21

The NPC reset through distance. I have a mage on the alliance and used to solo them, but yesterday while I was killing him, a hunter and a dk from ally too start taunting him so far until he resets, then other mage from their group stayed on the spot and got the tag. That was stupidly boring for me.

Comment by WeepingAngel

Everyone seems to have the bases covered on where the Zandalari Warbringers spawn, so I'll help out a little with something not-so-often mentioned. Drop-rates, for those of you trying to figure out if this is worth your time.

According to Rarity, here are the droprates, per Zandalari Warbinger kill:

Reins of the Amber Primordial Direhorn 1/25 or 4%
Reins of the Jade Primordial Direhorn 1/25 or 4%
Reins of the Slate Primordial Direhorn 1/25 or 4%

However, Reins of the Cobalt Primordial Direhorn only drops off of Oondasta at the extremely low rate of 1/2000. Not too bad, considering the Tiny Crimson Whelping drop-rate is 1/10000, but it IS a rare world boss that you have to fight, rather than endlessly grind level 20-30 mobs.

For those of you who are curious, I picked up my Reins of the Amber Primordial Direhorn just the other day after about 4 Warbringer kills, in a group of 5 people, after watching someone win the first one that dropped, as well as about 2k gold's worth of items from bag drops.

Is it worth your time? I think yes. Good luck all!

Comment by Smokeddhany

Just want to say that this mount was dropped within a party of 5 members, the leader was the master looter which indicated the loot rules saying nothing is reserved and the mount will be rolled for, we rolled on it and I won. Unfortunetly the leader stole the mount. Posted a ticket and the next day I got the mount.

To sum it up, always tell the master looter to clarify the loot rules else he will be able to ninja it in-case of you doing this hunt with other people.

Comment by nushidorei

Found a way to solo these (with some difficulty) as a Protection Paladin, I've made a Youtube guide for those interested which can be found here:

Warbringer content starts at 3:05; I was actually doing a guide about scouts when one popped and thought what the hell, lets get it done!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a8WIjIWlME

Happy Farming.

Nushi

Comment by xxgarysnailx

If you want this mount, and have a couple hours on your hands this way of farming can generate a fairly good amount of kills on Warbringers and will hopefully land you a mount.

Ok, i've farmed over 70-100 of Warbringers using a CROSS REALM PARTY METHOD

Using an external website, or even your friends list if you know the right people, create a group of 3-5 people of all different realms. When you create a party everyone moves to your realm, AND vice-versa, so you can potentially farm 3-5 Warbringers per single spot on multiple realms(please note this doesn't guarantee they aren't killed on the other servers)

EXAMPLE:

You want to farm Warbingers, so you create a party of 5 people from different realms to farm them.

Each player flies to the same position in the party. If the current realm Warbingers is dead, then all players would leave party, to be sent back to there realms so they can check if theirs is alive. If the warbingers is alive on that players realm, THAT PLAYER MUST BE THE ONE inviting the party back so that everyone will be on there realm for the kill.

What this does for you, is allows you to potentially kill 20 Warbingers per hour, with each fight lasting a few minutes + Flight time, you can literally NON-STOP FARM these guys till you receive your mounts.

Key Notes:

NOTE: There can not be more than 2 people from the same realm. If there are 3 of you from the same realm, it will always transfer the other players to your realm regardless of who is party leader.

NOTE: Loot IS shared cross realm, so for those of you who will say that another realms player will be ineligible for the mount if it dropped, YOU'RE WRONG!

Please upvote this so that people can start getting the mount!

Comment by Techjimbob

I finally got this mount. This is the last one I needed from the warbringers. I kept a halfway decent count, I got this one on about kill 350 or so. Sometime rng is rng :P

Comment by tupaconwowhead

personal experience
Reins of the Amber Primordial Direhorn is certainly a rare thing.
Keep in mind the mount itself isn't that rare at all but what makes it rare is that 'almost' on all servers (I have farmed five different servers so I think it counts for all servers) is that it doesn't spawn that often.

Warbringers spawn on five different locations: dread wastes, karassang wilds, townlong steppes, jade forest and kun-lai summit if you happen to be on a low populated server (means you got all for yourself) it means that you usually meet 2-5 slate direhorns and 1-2 jade direhorns with the rare spawn of 1-2 amber (this not calculated purely my experience and talking with other players)

I farmed this mount straight for 24 hours with partners to speed up the proces (I say kill all so you might have a chance for a respawn of a amber if you are in the same situation) the point is Amber is the most rare of them all so do not pass this one to other people in those 24 hours of straight farming I've had 4 partners and all my partners gained slate and jade direhorn before I got amber

personal drop experience
Reins of the jade primordial direhorn dropped for my groups 4 times out of 30 kills
Reins of the slate primordial direhorn dropped for my groups 6 times out of 35 kills
Reins of the amber primordial direhorn dropped for my groups 1 out of 14 kills (Doesn't spawn often as told)
contact
If you happen to have a low populated server with a lot of amber spawns hit me up on burning steppes EU tupacmakavli we can 2man and trade my spawns for your spawns (I got a lot of jade and slate spawns around)

extra tip for the tokens and bags to drop
after you hit honored with any faction buy the increased by 100% token so instead of gaining 1,1k rep per token you start gaining 2,2k it just speeds up the proces and its usefull if you farm with multiple people.
and the bag is simple never pass the bags there could be stacks of golden lotus in it (usually 60g a piece), sha Crystals, ethereal Crystals or epic gear pieces (level 85-87) or lots of other different herbs
extra tip for farming the mounts
try to bring a lot of different people from different servers bring 2-3 people from different servers to keep drops realistic. Kill the warbringer then divide loot next(don't split up before loot is devided) step is to not move on to the next position but to all leave party and see if anyone got a spawn before if you do that person invites the others if you don't happy hunting to next place!

I hope that I provided some usefull informations I apolagize for my grammar but I wasn't feeling well while writing this the point is the information!

Comment by Hutchyo7713

I have farmed these guys for a while, easily soloable as a guardian druid. Definitely don't reset on distance, one reset on me 3 times because of fear. I've had them reset as little as 15 years from spawn point. I've found that they are very buggy at times.

Comment by Volleynova

Wow, the very first Warbringer I solo gets me a mount I didn't even know existed! :)

Comment by Pwuebear

When farming the warbringers for these mounts, I found it "slightly" tricky to distinguish between the amber and the slate direhorn. For anyone trying to pick up either of these as their last set of reins, it is worth to notice that this direhorn has yellow eyes and tongue, whereas the slate direhorn has blue eyes and tongue. As a reference, the jade direhorn has purple eyes and tongue, but overall sticks out more compared to the two others.

Comment by Magnusmalum

So far dbm has tracked about 70 kills , though it makes no distinction between color killed or even between warbringers and warscouts, I can say with confidence/ of the kills have been warbringers.

I've solo'd on my hunter and had 1 amber and 2 slate drop so far. Now I still kill other warbringers but try to focus on getting the jade. At the beginning I felt the drop rate was higher than 5%.. more like 10-20, mainly because i got 2 slate within an hour, now I'm starting to think 5% is more accurate.

With gear in 5.4.8 it's fairly easy to solo for most classes, as a BM hunter I have no trouble kiting it around while keeping my pet healed and blowing my cooldowns.

Comment by ktoth04

Purple Eyes = Jade mount drop
Yellow Eyes = Amber mount drop
Blue Eyes = Slate mount drop

Comment by NcJackson

As a level 90 Retribution Paladin, I find I am able to solo the Warbringers with no problems, except sometimes a few Horde trying to steal the kill near death - which is my main issue with Warbringers on a player VS player realm.

In my time killing Warbringers I have defeated about 30 - 40 now, have full rep and all the mounts - which I had no problem acquiring as all the kills were done solo. I would highly recommend trying to do these without a group, because its a lot easier to get the mounts without others rolling against you.

Comment by SaucyPasta64

One of Three that can be looted from around Pandaria.
Locations including: Krasarang Wilds, Dread Wastes, Townlong Steppes, Kun-Lai Summit, and The Jade Forest.
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Zandalari Warbringer drops the Reins of the Slate Primordial Direhorn

Zandalari Warbringer drops the Reins of the Amber Primordial Direhorn

Zandalari Warbringer drops the Reins of the Jade Primordial Direhorn

Comment by Jaydeetoo

Some facts;

There are 5 possible spawn points in Pandaria, and each spawn spot has a re-spawn timer of 30 to 60 minutes. Each spawn spot is independent of the others. There can be more than 1 up at once, all 5 can be up at once (I have killed 6 in a row, flying from one spot to the next, straight after a server restart, able to get 6 due to kind crz).

Here are the figures over a month of camping all five possible spawn points, checking to see whether different spots favour different Warbringers.

In Jade Forest, 47 kills; 17 Slate, 17 Amber, 13 Jade.
Dread Wastes, 40 kills; 14 Slate, 11 Amber, 15 Jade.
Townlong Steppes, 43 kills; 14 Slate, 13 Amber, 16 Jade.
Kun-Lai, 50 kills; 18 Slate, 12 Amber, 20 Jade.

Pretty even so far, absolutely.... But here it is,

Krasarang Wilds, 25 kills; 25 Slate, 0 Amber, 0 Jade.

I have 205 total kills, with 88 of them being slate.
(63 slate, 53 amber, 64 jade - taking out Krasarang)

The last mount for me to get was Jade, when it dropped I already had had 7 Slate mounts and 2 Amber mounts.

Can anyone else confirm this in Krasarang Wilds, or have I just had amazingly bad RNG?

Edit: updated the figures... Still the same result for Krasarang Wilds.

Comment by ricangsxrdude

Just got this one and the Slate in less than an hour each while realm hopping. If you're not hopping, you're wasting your time. Just waiting on the Jade direhorn and I'm done

-Amber in Kun-Lai Summit
-Slate in Krasarang Wilds
-Jade in Townlong Steppes

Comment by Arcblade

With the prepatch for Legion, the Zandalari Warbringer that drops this mount and the others like it have become Personal Loot. You can now tag this mob with at least four of your friends, and each of you gets a chance at the mount and other loot. You cannot, however, share the tag with members of the other faction.

Happy farming!

Comment by Diddz

This bastard FINALLY dropped for me today. Took over 150 Amber kills ALONE, not to mention the countless other two colors I had to kill in that time.

Started farming these about 2 months ago. Got the Slate day 1 after about 9 kills. Jade dropped day 2 after about 24 total kills. This one, though, was such a !@#$% to get. Since then, I've seen 9 slate mounts and 5 Jade, but never the Amber, until today.

Thank God I can finally stop farming these damn things. Hopefully others have better luck then me.

Comment by Raszero

So I was leveling my level 96 death knight in pandaria...came across the mob for this. It's silver bordered, sure I'll kill it.

Hmm, this is taking a while...but I got there. And it drops a mount! Sweet. I didn't know. I come on here to see that it's 5% drop rate.

Sorry to everyone farming this when I can just get it without even knowing there is a mount drop!

Comment by sadistic12345

i think the stars have align for me since i was doing the quest for unlocking the little city for the pumpkin halloween candy and ive seen a warscout so i thought the warbringer could might aswell respawn, and BAM got the mount. Now i have all 3 and didint even farm that much. Its funny how hard they are too get when you think about that you need to wait for a respawn 1 hour then you have 33% chance for the good colour to respawns and then 4% to drop it. good luck nerds

Comment by esmerelda1rm

This lovely mount dropped for me tonight after 81 kills total. I haven't been keeping track of how many Amber ones I've killed but 81 is my total out of all three. C'mon Jade and then I'm done!

Comment by Trabuco

Anyone knows if class trials can loot the direhorn mount?

Comment by ItsFrshh

I successfully farmed the 3 Warbringer mounts over the last week or so very casually and figured I'd report my results:

I farmed the mounts using class trial characters on RP Realms. I made Druids simply because flight form was faster than mounting but any class works. When you make the class trial skip the intro by walking to the back of the zepplin/airship and mounting the windrider/gryphon. From there you'll be taken to SW or Org, where you'll go take the portal to Dalaran. *At this time select your Warmode setting, I had 2 characters per realm, one with Warmode on, one off. You can have up to 12 class trials and make up to 4 per hour*. From Dalaran take the portal to Shrine, and fly to your first target. I would log out if a warbringer wasnt up in the location and try another server/WM Phase, its not worth flying to all 5 locations just to find none are up. If the first was up I would fly to the next spawn point until I either farmed all 5 or ran into one that wasnt up at which point I'd switch over.

To get all 3 mounts took:
Slate - 45 Kills
Amber - 30 Kills
Jade - 28 Kills

The realms I used were:
Argent Dawn
Blackwater Raiders
Cenarion Circle
Earthen Ring
Steamwheedle Cartel (All US)

Total /played time between all class trials was about 4.5 hours.

Good luck and happy hunting!

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Reins of the Amber Primordial Direhorn

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

Use: Teaches you how to summon this mount.
Requires Level 40
Requires Journeyman Riding

Sell Price: 2 50

"There is an old Zandalari saying about wild direhorns: "Run!""
Drop: Zandalari Warbringer
Zone: Dread Wastes, Kun-Lai Summit, Townlong Steppes, Valley of the Four Winds

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