Comentários

Comentário de 1193480

Dropei hoje na quinta tentativa seguida, logo a última. Ao total devo ter jogado a instância solo pra farmar a mount umas 15x no máximo. Então não desistam, a chance é baixa mas não é impossível!

Aliás, se você tiver um hunter (como meu main) você consegue entrar, chegar e matar o boss em 5 minutos +-, usando camuflagem e passando pelos cantos (serve também para outras classes que tenham stealth). Isso claro considerando que você tenha um lvl alto e equips razoáveis (com ilvl 440 não tive problemas).

Comentário de 1202929

Muito chato o drop dessa montaria. Depois de umas 20 tentativas em dias e semanas diferentes, veio a montaria.
Recomendo tentar o drop em modo normal, ao menos você junta ar volátil e vende no leilão a 7 gold cada. Solando a masmorra, você junta de 30 a 40 ar volatil.

Comentário de 1235802

Dropei essa montaria hoje depois de matar o boss pela 109° vez, sim é drop meio raro, mas não impossível, tente fazer isso da sua rotina, farmar lá enquanto ouve uma música, e NUNCA espere que ela vá dropar, porque só acaba criando expectativa e, até mesmo desanimando quando essa expectativa é totalmente destruída, qualquer hunter com ilvl 400 consegue farmar lá fácil (acho que rogue faz fácil também), só passar com camuflagem e matar o primeiro boss, e então ir direto para o segundo, leva de 5 ~9 minutos para cada corrida na masmorra, fiz assim com ilvl 380 e e estava conseguindo fazer em 7 minutos cada, é até que rápido e vale a pena, o draco é muito bonito, e os itens azuis o boss dão uma boa grana.

Comentário de 1061800

Esta montaria possui a mesma chance de dropar tanto na versão normal como heroica da masmorra, portanto é uma boa idéia farmar no modo normal, assim você pode reiniciar a instância e seguir farmando no mesmo dia. (você apenas pode reiniciar uma instância cinco vezes por hora)

Fiz um vídeo mostrando a montaria e a run na masmorra aqui.

Comentário de ShotokanRV

Demorou bastante pra farmar essa montaria. Mas hoje na primeira tentativa ela dropou.
realmente não é impossivel, mas é cansativo.

Comentário de 1263327

Dropouu hoje 20.10.14 depois de 77 tentativas...patch 6.0.2...muito bonita montaria boa sorte para quem ainda está nas tentativas

Comentário de ericknio

1ª tentativa e caiu, ainda pensei " vou aqui perder um tempinho para tentar pegar essa mount" e caiu LOl mt sorte > http://prntscr.com/5kcfdg

Comentário de lampiz

Eae Pessoal, estou trazendo para vocês um guia para pegar:

Draco do Vento Norte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbIZJX4Lhko

Neste vídeo mostrarei a vocês não só matando o boss, mas também o caminho, saindo de Orgrimmar até chegar a masmorra.

Espero que gostem do video! Tenho vários vídeos com muitas montarias. E sempre adicionando novas.
Deixem seu comentário e seu like. E aproveitem para se inscrever no canal!
Link logo abaixo!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPf_3f8samPmGYLdRp6jXIA?sub_confirmation=1

Abraço a todos

Dualém@Azralon

Comentário de gaschrader

Consegui pegar a minha hoje, depois de 188 tentativas contabilizadas ( acredito que houveram mais, só que não contabilizadas ). Achei que não viria, mas veio kkkkkk. Fazia esse farm há muito tempo, mas sem constância. Nas últimas semanas decidi deixar um druida na porta da dungeon(acelerou muito o farm) e sempre que lembrava fazia 10 runs, o que levava aproximadamente 25 minutos.

Comentário de passfailed

Dropei hoje, segunda tentativa. Basicamente eu semprei tentava dropar a do Al`Akir, desde Warlods, ate hoje nao veio. Entao resolvi dar uma passada ali e tentar umas 5 vezes por dia, so pra nao desperdicar a viagem pro Trono, e veio, tem print no meu perfil.

Comentário de Kellthuzad

estou na tentativa numero 85 e nada... mas vendo que alguns conseguiram depois de mais de 100...200 nunca vou entender porque tem que ser tão dificil conseguir uma montaria nesse jogo, não é divertido e nem é desafiador porque oque tem de desafiador entrar em uma dungeon e matar o mesmo mob centenas de vezes repetidamente ate ganhar a montaria...

Comentários

Comentário de 672037

Drop from Altarius, Dragonkin boss in Vortex Pinnacle.(##RESPBREAK##)8##DELIM##Gryphon##DELIM##

Comentário de 54934

I just tanked normal Vortex Pinnacle for the very first time today, and this dropped. Unfortunately, I didn't win the roll but I was very surprised to see it on a normal instance.

Comentário de asaphelps

This is one of the 4 drake mounts new in cataclysm. These come from:

Reins of the Drake of the West Wind - Exalted with Tol Barad (Hellscream's Reach or Baradin's Warders)
Reins of the Drake of the South Wind - Rare drop from Al'Akir (raid boss)
Reins of the Drake of the North Wind - Rare drop from Altarius in Vortex Pinnacle
Reins of the Drake of the East Wind - Reward from Glory of the Cataclysm Raider

Comentário de Tenjen

I like the drakes facial features. Broad noble jaw. A welcome change to the usual look without being as beast like the proto.

edit: i also find it a bit more "wholesome" bodied compared to the regular flights. less scrawny. Its entire design makes it my favourite drake.

Comentário de bogdanepureanu

I can confirm 100% that it drops both on normal and heroic modes; I saw it dropping on both modes, but unfortunately for me didn't win neither of the two rolls. :(

Comentário de 663308

Meh... With 50% of this wowhead page being "It dropped and i won it omgz im soooo hapy right nov!" Just STOP IT. We simply don't care.

With this mount being rare as heck, and the "twin" of the Vitreous Stone Drake (Rédeas do Draco de Pedra Vítreo) from The Stonecore, this mount will be more like the Blue Proto drake in WotLK, but more commonly seen as it drops both in Heroic and Normal modes.

Comentário de 738819

Got my Drake of Northwind on first run in The Vortex Pinnacle. I am a shadow priest. In Shadowform this mount is even better. The blue lightning on the mount seems to show while in shadow form, making you look electric. I'll submit screenshots soon.

Comentário de EonDrache

Totally uncool how Shadow Priests can turn this drake into the most badass thing in the game. Technically they can do it to any of the 4 Storm Drakes. Looks really cool shadow form like the one in the screenshot. Can't wait to see a shadowpriest flying around.

Also, 40 kills for me and no sighting of it yet for me. Going to keep farming, though.

Comentário de 741295

I did normal mode stealth runs to get it with my rogue. Took along various druid healers.
Rogue was geared ilvl346, druids ranged from 330-346 and all were fine. A very geared feral might as well be able to solo it.

It is only needed to kill the first boss and the dragon himself. First boss is a walk in the park (just stand in and go wild). The dragon himself hurts some so use your defensive cooldowns.

For comparison: DPS were 12k first boss, 20k on dragon. Healer had to sustain 3.5k and ~5k hps. The healers still had some mana at the end, so it should also work if you have a bit worse gear, but you shouldn't be far off these numbers.

Dropped on the 10th run already and I persuaded the druid with plenty golds to hand it to me.

Comentário de Juyo

He looks like Godzilla from the Hollywood movie version.

Comentário de 717468

I got the realm first Drake of the North Wind on Eitrigg on 12/10/10 This is a very nice drake but i would rather have the stone drake from Slabhide personally. GL to everyone farming this i hope you all get it :) happy hunting and merry christmas

Comentário de 604233

This drake drops off the 2nd boss of The Vortex Pinnacle. It drops from regular and heroic, both have a 1% chance to have it drop.

Its been said that the fight is soloable by classes that can manage to tank and heal (Hunters, Warlocks and Death Knights from what I've heard. I assume paladins could have a chance on managing it if played right)

It has the same model as all "Of <direction> Wind" mounts, with different coloring. A very nice looking model.

Comentário de 77376

Just saw it drop on a normal run.

Comentário de 104965

Solo farming this as a hunter on regular mode. ~~Hopefully it'll drop soon.~~

My current spec is MM with points in BM for spirit bond, and chimera shot for the self healing. Bandages are also important. I'm using a beetle pet for its 50% damage reduction, so a turtle or another pet also work.

The only danger besides aggro that you'll face is Chilling Breath being casted on you every once in awhile. And it hurts! What you have to do is rotate between Roar of Sacrifice from your pet and deterrence. RoS will reduce the damage you take from the breath, while deterrence completely deflects it. You'll have to eat a few breathes because of the long cooldown, but no big deal just bandage after a breath if you need to. Your pet will also need mend pet kept up.

If you run out of cooldowns while low health, and you have the recently bandaged debuff still... Throw out a fresh mend pet duration and then feign death until your debuff goes away or a cooldown pops up. Be sure to chain pet cooldowns, such as the 50% damage reduction skill, cower, and last stand. Altairus will use Chilling Breath right as you get up so be ready.

The rest of it is easy enough, dps him down and keep the upwind buff. Just be careful on threat because the upwind buff increases your damage a bit.

To get out quickly just jump off the ledge to get teleported back to the beginning of the instance.

Made a quick video of an Altairus kill - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRzxkDtRaFg
The reins just happened to drop that very run too! Good luck everyone!
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You can camouflage through all of the trash, so no need to waste time there. I used the same spec for the first boss, but chimera shot was enough to keep me up through the lightning he does. It was just a tank and spank while dodging tornadoes.

Comentário de 558080

seen twice yesterday while leveling my alt 84... and won the second time... it was normal ofc

Comentário de 29600

Dropped today in a normal random run of Vortex Pinnacle. The group's DPS were quite high (over nine thousand for all dps) and we killed him in 43 seconds which is quite a lot faster than I ever killed him before.

Is the speed of the kill and the drop related maybe? Could be total coincidence, but perhaps it's worth considering.

Comentário de 598787

This just dropped out of... VP normal! ^_^ I didn't win... the tank did then he ninja pulled and left us :(

I posted this as most people have been told it was removed from the normal versions drop table >_> Shhh

Comentário de 64683

Solo farming this on normal as a ilvl 358 feral druid mostly in pvp gear.

Grand Vizier Ertan is the harder of the 2 bosses. You need to be specced for predatory strikes and nurturing instinct. Fight the boss in cat form. Each time you cast a finisher, heal with healing touch, rejuvenation and 1-3 stacks of lifebloom. Use cooldowns throughout the fight.

No special strategy required for Altairus. Fight him in bear form and stay upwind.

Comentário de scissors

drops from the south-est HC

Comentário de Superduperjam

Killed this boss average 10 times each day for the last two weeks (must be +150 kills). No mount. Losing sanity and its not helping when guild says in gchat "lol dropped in random hc and i won it :DDDD". Why rng is so cruel? I should be grateful tho because hunters have it easier thanks to camo.

Edit: I'll tell my strat so I wont just cry about my luck: My pet tanks where the boss is and I myself go shooting in middle, why? Because then I can stand still 100% of fight because in the middle 3/4 wind directions gives me the buff. Only one wind gives me the debuff (one coming from boss spawn point) and I'll just eat it until the wind changes direction. This strat is easier because then I can focus on interrupting breaths and not constantly run for fair wind with the huge hit box.

2nd edit: 30 kills yesterday and 20 today = +200 kills and no mount. Can someone confirm a drop so I can get some hope?

Comentário de Atanox

As of 4.0.6 the drake looks slightly more like how it was datamined from the beta. It now has stationary and constant sparks around its body/wings. Still unlike how it was originally shown in a mmo-champion video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVO5GZZ3348

Comentário de Nobbel

Video guide to farm the mount as a protection paladin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6pASZj3Ing

Comentário de chickensrool

did a guild heroic run about 40 days after cataclysm hit.
i had no clue there was a mount drop here, so you could imagine my face when i won the roll

Comentário de mewmewface

drop on regular mode on a toon i barely use. anwyway someone offered 1k for it, but
i think its too little. i think about 6 to 10k is good (i need tsunami card on my main)

i just like to say that i ran this place maybe about 200+ times accumulated on "all toons"
mainly
human priest
worgen hunter
undead priest
troll shaman
blood elf warlock

and i think about 3-4 times on the blood elf paladin i used that won it.

edit:
since it was a lfd w/ pugs on another server, not so sure if gold can be traded

Comentário de AWildmann

Is it possible for a warlock to solo it? Maybe as demo, using improved Health Funnel and stuff like that?

Comentário de 815727

Sigh...farming this on my hunter,on 40ish runs now,no luck with the drop as of yet

Now that i have some practice i do runs in about 8 minutes (eventually i get instance locked)

ilv351 in PvE gear running as MM with spirit bond

EDIT:
Just dropped on 92nd run,i was already starting to think it won't ever drop and it finally did :D
now im one happy hunter

good luck to any1 else trying to get it,hope it wont take u as many runs as it took me

Comentário de 10436

I was 1st on my server to loot this. (Fenris)
It was day 2 of the expansion, i was lvl 83 at the time.
1st time running the dungeon (normal mode) it dropped. Rolled a 92 to win the mount.
Must of got 1000 whispers in Org when mounted him after that run. Good Times. :D

Comentário de 639386

Got this on normal mode solo, on the 110th run as a hunter. However I did it somewhat differently from others.

I place myself as far away as my range can go from Altarius, directly opposite him. I send in pet and start off with an aimed shot and make sure Altarius is tanked where he sits before pulled. This way I have the speed buff most of the time and I do not run around for one bit avoiding his breath.

MM spec = readiness. I use potion, bandage as well as the Draenei racial. Feign death and deterrence when up and in-between breaths, since I do no running or jumping, I can zerg him. Gear ilvl is 355 with talents put into spirit bond and extra health from the SV spec (121k health). On most fights using these tactics he doesn't get me below 50%. RNG however CAN be against you even though placed that far away but if that is the case, feign death and let him reset. My pet of choice is a turtle for the shield..and I don't like bugs...

I also got a lot of questions even after I got the drake wether or not it STILL drops on normal and yes..it does! I have had this confirmed with 4 different GMs, a friend that also got it last week and myself who got it 3 weeks ago. I have heard nothing about them changing this so for the time being, farm away!

Happy hunting!

Comentário de alkemist

I dropped this last night doing a random heroic, tied and won the roll. Considering I already have the Tol Barad version Rédeas do Draco do Vento Oeste, I was mildly disappointed with the skin. I knew it was the exact same model but the bluish white isn't all there compared to some of the other more colored drakes. Although I can't really complain, I'm a mount collector and glad to have this one in the books.

Comentário de 161773

Hey, guys!

So, I finally got this guy last night after several regular Vortex Pinnacle runs. I found that the first boss is soloable by a BM Hunter with a Shale Spider, but I haven't tried any other pets yet. I needed some friends for Altairus. :(

The first two bosses are definitely duoable by a BM Hunter and a Resto Shaman, and trioable by a Prot Pally, Resto Druid, and a BM Hunter, and two BM Hunters and a Resto Druid. (Trash included for the first two!)

It's a lot easier if you and/or a friend (or two) are able to sneak past all the mobs and go straight for the bosses. Altairus hits hard though, so unless you know what you're doing, you're better off with a healy friend. I didn't count how many runs it took, but in total, it was quite a few. XD

Good luck and happy hunting! <3

Comentário de Faell

It is possible for Druids to do solo runs for this mount at level 85 on normal mode.

I could not do the first boss as Feral, but it is pretty easy as Resto. Then, the second boss can be done as Feral.

Comentário de IdTheDemon

Tried doing the trash as a ivl 372 Warlock........... ugh.

I'm definitely waiting for the the next Tier content or so.

Comentário de s1rens

I'm kind of disappointed, how this drake looks like hundreds of TB drakes. Blizz should made its colour more unique, like blue proto-drake from Wrath.

Comentário de Alfa

First time seeing this drop and I won it with a 98 today. :)

Thing is I was on my alt and my main is my mount collector, if you put in a ticket and have not learned it yet. Could/Do/Would they switch it over? :)

Comentário de 837694

Hasn't dropped for me yet but I'm only 18 runs in. I got the Stonecore one after 12. I can easily solo this as a hunter. Keys to it...glyph into raptor strike. I run it as BM and have no issues. One thing that helps is to take raid consumables. Anything that gives resist. I even had the WoTLK Frost Resist set on me to help and it does. Reduces the damage by almost 70%. Hitting raptor strike just as he's casting his breath helps, popping Deterrence at the beginning of the fight gives you an option to hit it towards the end. Feign as he turns to you, and try your best to always stay upwind...means stand close to him.

Comentário de 837735

Does it drop on the regular instance?

Comentário de 795435

Saw it drop the other day on normal mode on my pally. Have never seen it on heroic.

Comentário de 392424

Just won the roll on this. All I need now is artisan flying. LOL ! 356 Holydin - I don't do much questing. Bit of mining is all.

Comentário de wowangmengsiang

This mount just dropped for me after farming it for 2 weeks. 5 runs per day and 100 runs during the weekends. I would say around 200+ runs for me so far. cant keep track since i didnt down the final boss.

Comentário de 543619

Its all well and good coming on here and saying "Just dropped 4 me on random heroic :DDD" but that is slightly...Redundant. To have the little + hit, it needs to be insightful. And so my friends, I give you this insight!

So there I were, at 2:30 in the morning on the first of July. Twas' a stormy and rainy night (Actually it was quite warm, we have had lovely weather lately), and the sound of thunder clashed outside my room! (Lies, all I could hear was the occasional owl and some teenagers doing substances of questionable legality in the woods behind my house). I was sat discussing Roleplay ideas with my friend in Guild chat, when my random dungeon finally sprung up. The Vortex Pinnacle.

And so me and my intrepid fellow adventurers (who spoke no english) proceeded through the treacherously dangerous dungeon! Until we reached the dragon Altarius, who glanced at us, and spoke! "So, brave adventurers! You have come seeking the variety of mail, plate and leather armor I somehow conceal on my body! And perhaps you seek also, to claim the reins of a much smaller version of myself? I welcome your challenge!" (False, he stood there, shook his head like he had a migraine, and started swiping the tank as he ran in).

As the mighty beast fell after a gruelling fight (It was on normal mode, im level 84, overly easy fight), I saw something purple on my screen, with the icon of a dragon. Now, I dont know if you have ever had a moment where your expressions have gone from -_- to ^_- to O_o and then O_O but that is what occured. We all wished to ride this mighty beast, and so we all hit the need button! A pause, what was this? Only 4 of our 5 members had rolled! I figured that one member was performing some kind of occult ritual to bless his roll, fiends take him! So then he rolled a 6. And I rolled a 98. The drake, was mine! Hoorah! Then they kicked me from the group. But that was the tale, of how my Death Knight would come to ride this drake!

Hope you had a good read.

Comentário de 837694

254 solo runs into regular VP and it's now MINE. So YES IT DOES DROP IN NORMAL!

Comentário de 856429

Just got this lovely drake on my Shaman today.

The tank of the random group offered me 100k if i would come to hes server, i would have said yes if i could get the gold as we where speaking, but to trust in him and give him the drake and then afterwards go to hes server and claim my money would be a 95% foolish suicide.

Anyways i just hope the drake will someday drop on my main instead of my alt. But feeling pretty lucky nontheless.

Comentário de 534473

Anyone else find the red tint this mount has in bright places spoils the colour?

Comentário de 859247

i got this today was so bloody lucky!

Comentário de Grosedy

This droped for me the sixth time I Sid this place. Unfourtunetly I did not win it

Comentário de 852431

just the screenshots of this mount shadowformed make me want to level my priest again...

Comentário de forge013

just dropped for me today on regular mode and won it. Now if only i could get the stone drake.

Comentário de 875952

Nice mount, dropped for me and i won it first time

Comentário de wowZhenek

http://savepic.org/2167013.htm
26th run

Comentário de ssif12

The odds of getting this drake in a full group run is very low.

0,08*0,2 = 0,016

0,16% chance to get this on a run, you definitely have to be lucky.

Comentário de vaderas

I've been working on this recently on my warlock, actually. I have ilvl 373 gear and a very standard demonology spec (no particular adjustments made from the normal raiding spec). It's a little on the unpredictable side in places, but this is soloable by a warlock with sufficient gear. Probably with more defensive play you could get away with lower gear than I've got, but the way I've done it I wouldn't want it to be much lower. Here's a quick summary of what I've found to help anyone else who's interested:

All this is done with Fel Armor up and the Felguard out unless otherwise mentioned. Bring a few Invisibility Potions for a few packs that aren't worth the trouble.

Grand Vizier Ertan's platform

The first trash pull, with 5 mobs, is quite hard. My method has generally been to banish one of the Wild Vortexes and then just do a full cooldown dump (including the Infernal) and Shadowflame/Hellfire on the other four mobs before they can kill me. With Metamorphosis's armor increase and Felstorm hopefully splitting the aggro, I have a fairly good success rate burning them down. Even if you don't quite manage it, you'll generally have killed a couple and made it a much easier pull on the next try.

The next pull is just two Armored Mistrals, and I've had no real trouble regardless of how I chose to handle them.

Down the spiral are 3 groups that are made up of four mobs, in some combination of Wild Vortex (caster) and Gust Soldier (melee). You can do similar AOE cooldown dumps to the first mob pull, but I've also found quite a lot of success just banishing one Wild Vortex, and grinding the other 3 down with Felguard AOE while spamming Health Funnel on him. Throw Shadowflames whenever you can, and it's a good way of grinding through these packs without wasting cooldowns.

At the bottom is a very annoying pack, made up of a Cloud Prince and two Wild Vortexes. Cloud Princes cannot be CCed, and summon a load of small adds. Banish a Wild Vortex, send pet in, and use Felstorm as soon as the Cloud Prince summons his small adds - at this point I generally do another Metamorphosis/Immo dump and try and burn the two mobs down, starting with the Wild Vortex - if it goes wrong, at least get one of them down before you wipe! This is the toughest pull in here, I find, but with practice I generally clear it first time. Make sure you stay facing the annoying lurking vortex mob so it doesn't start bolting you at a bad time.

The next pull is two Cloud Princes. I have not been able to reliably kill these - I've done it more than once, using all cooldowns including Doomguard, and quite a lot of luck - but it just isn't worth it. Just dismiss your pet, use an Invisibility Potion (Lesser Invisibility is enough) and run past them, saving yourself a lot of hassle.

Grand Vizier Ertan herself is not a huge problem. She doesn't really do any significant melee, generally just lightning bolting - so a tank pet is not necessary. I've generally used the Felhunter. I tend to blow all cooldowns at the start, including Doomguard, and burn her down as quickly as possible regardless of aggro. Use Soulshatter intelligently - once the damage on you becomes worrying, just hit it and she'll start bolting your pet instead for a while. Other than that, I've had no problems on this fight as long as you dodge the tornados. She doesn't disrupt you much, so she may well die inside a minute if you get it right.

Altairus's platform

The trash here is significantly easier. The first pull is four Turbulent Squalls - their main threatening attack is a ground-targeted Thunderstorm. Place your Demonic Teleport somewhere on the arrival platform. Pull them all with (yes, again) a Metamorphosis/Immo/Felstorm dump, and get them down as low as you can. If the damage from all the Thunderstorms they'll cast on you starts to mount up, teleport out of it and dot/kite them til dead.

The Storm Dragon on top of the platform hits very hard in melee - make sure you stand clear, as he cleaves. I've generally used a Voidwalker to tank him, and it's a lot easier. Keep him away from his healing well, and use Demon Soul: Voidwalker to keep him on the pet - it hurts if he starts hitting you.

Pass the Howling Gales in the usual way, keeping them in combat with Fel Flame, and run across.

There is a lot of trash on this next platform. The first 3-4 pulls are fine, but there's a six-mob pull of 4x Turbulent Squall and 2x Empyrean Assassin that is VERY dicey. At this point, your invisibility potion should be off cooldown, so personally I recommend skipping the entire room given that you're gonna use it anyway.

Altairus himself has quite significant damage output, but is not too bad. I recommend you use the Voidwalker to handle threat - you'll be taking quite a lot of damage anyway, as you're the only target for his Chilling Blast. By keeping his melee on the voidwalker and his Chilling Blasts on me, I found myself able to kill him, with cooldowns, quite comfortably before I ran out of health. Pet tank him roughly at his starting location, and place your portal off to one side so you can easily port out of the wind if it's in the wrong direction.

Hopefully my ramblings are helpful to someone! Best of luck.

Comentário de 815912

97 runs and still no drop! Someone please assure me it is still dropping on normal!

Comentário de Nordri

350 normal runs here, no mount :(
I did get vitreous drake on normal in 144 when it looked like it's never gonna drop so I keep trying, probability is very low that it wouldn't have dropped for me after so many tries but it's by no means impossible

Edit: 4 runs later it dropped so yeah it still drops on normal.

Comentário de 711058

I can assure you all it still drops and in normal. This week alone I have seen it drop 2 times. Lost both rolls to a non mount collecting healer. ><

Comentário de wildemu

Trying to solo grand vizier as a 367 combat rogue, and it's damn near impossible because those lightning bolts just keep on coming no matter what you do. Any rogues more experienced care to share their strat with how to surpass this boss?

Comentário de 795076

It still drop on Normal?

Comentário de 624490

? wtf learn how to write nobody knows wtf you just said

Comentário de 902198

Just had this drop two days in a row on heroic on Darkspear. Have the drop rates been altered?

Comentário de IMissThottbot

I just ran this as a BM hunter with no special buffs, flasks, etc. I am in PvP gear (365-384) and spec, so basically the survival stamina talents, as well as good stam on the gear (base stats, not gems, obviously).

I used a Spirit Beast to tank it. Manually use cower on every cd, and keep your (GLYPHED) Mend Pet on the pet 100% of the time. Use the SB's heal on *yourself.* Make sure Mend and Cower are ready when you're going to feign a Chilling Breath. The main issue is balancing the damage that you take with the healing your pet needs. In any case, the Spirit Beast can survive it without issue, the fight goes far faster than with a tank pet, and you get the Spirit Beast's healing to boot!

I think that if you hit mend while you have the haste buff, your mend ticks are going through faster--I could be wrong, but my Spirit Beast had very few issues tanking this, and no aggro problems even with my haste buff + only one MD.

I died on the first attempt, due to not spending enough time on the ground; lesson is, don't feign with mend about to run out, or you'll have to pop up early to use it again. I also used my spirit beast on the first boss, same tactics (mend on pet, Spirit Mend on myself) and had no issues blowing it right up.

TL;DR: BM, spirit beast, no special buffs: doable, and fairly easy once you get the timing of cooldowns correct.

Comentário de 908715

i've been trying to get this mount on my hunter for a week now and haven't gotten it yet. then today when i decided to help my friend get a drake mount, i brought him to vortex pinnacle to go for it...first try it dropped. we both flipped out. i let him have it obviously. if u are a hunter, it is possible to do this with beast mastery spec. best of luck

Comentário de 218999

1 run, 1 kill, 1 roll, 1 win

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Comentário de Athilar

Successfully solo farmed this as a blood dk. The dungeon is harder to do than Stonecore, which I have also solo farmed for the mount. The main problem with the trash is they do a lot of magic damage, so you need to make sure you're well equipped for that. The first boss does only magic damage, so you'll need to manage your defensive cooldowns accordingly throughout the fight. You can still hit him while the tornado shield is up, there's usually a small gap in it just large enough to continue hitting him, getting a few extra death strikes in. Altairus himself is by far the easiest thing in the entire dungeon, his breath doesn't even hurt that much and can be healed off with a death strike or two.

Comentário de Renuts

Have any priests been able to solo Altairus?

I've been able to solo Slabhide but I would much prefer the mount this boss drops.

Edit: Why are people downrating this when its a completely on topic and unanswered question? Come on now.

Comentário de JezzebelPop

I got this today on Heroic with a roll of 44. I felt a bit bad after my outburst of "F*CK YEAHS" and "omgs" as it was after I learned the spell that I noticed my roll matched a fellow guildie's. ARGH. I was very lucky, my first heroic in ages and it was a tied roll, first time I've seen the mount drop.

But I still feel guilty about it =/ Dunno why, RNG is rarely this kind to me. It's just it was a fellow guild member. If Slabhide drops his drake with the same guild member in my group I'll probably give them it if I win. It would be way too much guilt if I kept it.

Yes it drops on both Heroic and Normal, use the dungeon guide to see the loot table in game.

Comentário de Ravij

How to: For Blood DK's.

I am currently an iLvl 379 Blood Death Knight and have solo'd this instance six times so far with no drop. But I will let you know how to solo it as a Death Knight.

As a Blood Death Knight in this instance you're key offensive abilities are:

-Death and Decay
-Outbreak
-Death Strike
-Heart Strike
-Rune Strike
-Pestilence

While your key defensive abilties are:

-Bone Shield
-Icebound Fortitude
-On use trinkets
-Death Strike absorb shield
-Anti-Magic Shell

Essential abilities are:

-Vampiric Blood used with Rune Tap and Death Strike. (If you get low on health.)
-Raise Dead and Death Pact. (Again if low on health.)
-Empower Rune Weapon. (When all Runes are down.)

Items that will make the first boss fight easier:
Elixir Prismático

Now on to the Instance.

The first trash pull will be your hardest. Run on the outside ring to the closest caster and pull it with Dark Command, then LoS the entire group around the corner. Try not to be near the ledge as you will get thrown off when you kill a Gust Soldier. Kill Wild Vortex's First. Start with Outbreak, spread your diseases with Pestilence, and then drop a Death and Decay. Throw up an Anti-Magic shield to mitigate magic damage. Basically just heart strike, death strike, and rune strike (when you have the runic power). Also be sure to refresh your outbreak on targets.
Once the first pull is out of the way things will get easier till you hit the first boss.

Continue on to the ramp LoS pulls if you need to.
Once you get to the first section of the bridge you will need to LoS the pull of three, Anti-Magic shield as soon as all the mobs get to you if the two mobs on the outside are Wild Vortex's. Again, Outbreak > Pestilence > Death and Decay to start with the offensive. Continue on after that trash is down, across the bridge. Here you'll face two Cloud Princes. Pick a Cloud Prince and aggro right in its face. You wont be able to LoS these so again. Outbreak > Pestilence > Death and Decay. Anti-Magic shield and recover health as needed with your healing abilities.

Now for the first boss: Grand Vizier Ertan:

It is advised to have a Elixir Prismático and a for this fight!

Grand Vizier Ertan is actually a lot harder than Altairus is and should be put on hold until you have all your abilities at your disposal. Start the fight by running up to her so when he/she aggro's you are inside her/his vortex. Outbreak then Death and Decay. Use your offensive abilities to widdle her/his HP down. Do not use Anti-Magic Shield until she pulls her/his vortex's in. The Vortex's will hurt a lot if you do not use Anti-Magic Shield when they are against her/him. Other than that this is a pretty straight forward fight.

Once Grand Vizier is down, use the whirlwind and jump to the next platform. The next pull you'll want to keep moving out of the thunderstorms without going up the ramp all the way as you do not want to aggro the Empyrean Assassins. Us Anti-Magic Shield as needed, though I technically wait till I have a whole swarm of Thunderstorms going off.
Now you want to avoid the Empyrean Assassin’s by waiting till they’re at the top of the ramp before jumping onto the little ledge to the left (If you went up the right side of the ramp) or right (If you went up the left side of the ramp). Go around towards the dragon and kill it, then continue on straight ahead to the pathway with the two spinning orbs. One Icy Touch should be enough to allow you passage on each orb. For this next room you’ll want to do the same thing you did to avoid the Empyrean Assassin’s in the first room, though this time you’ll have to avoid two sets. Either go left or right when the Assassin’s are far away and run up the ledge to the ramps leading to Altairus. Note: The Assassin’s will not aggro you if you pass them by on the ledge.

Now comes the final trash pull. Run against the wall of the ramp to the first mob in the middle and agro the entire ramp. You’ll have more space to maneuver this trash group around going up and down the ramp to avoid thunderstorms. Kill the Empyrean Assassin’s first as they have a stacking debuff that reduces attack, casting, and movement speed and with two of them in the group they can apply that debuff on top of each other. Again use Anti-Magic Shield when needed.

Now onto the fight you’ve been waiting for: Altairus:

Altairus is a pretty straight forward and easy kill unlike his stone form cousin Slabhide. His only main attacks are melee attacks and Chilling Breath which you don’t even need any sort of magic resistance for as it’s easily healed through with death strike. Though if you do find yourself in a niche, use it. Another thing to note in this fights mechanics are the updrafts. You will always want to be in front of the updraft before it reaches Altairus to where you get the added bonus that makes this kill an even easier breeze.

All in all; aside from the trash pulls and the first boss, this is all easily solo’d by a lvl 85 Blood Death Knight with the proper gear. I would not recommend 359 ilvl Death Knights attempting this. At least a minimum of 370 ilvl would be recommended.

Have fun and Good Luck!

Comentário de 888869

A very nice mount, just got it on my third run, got a lucky roll of 99 and an awesome prezzy for christmas. :]

Comentário de Chuby123

I have ran the vortex pinnacle 70+ times and it has only dropped twice. But guess what? I lost both rolls and I want to punch a small bunny in the face I am so annoyed ! Grrrrrr

Comentário de 846050

This mount confirmed drop in normal instance. I have been soloing the normal instance 5 times each day on my MM hunter with a turtle pet. Finally after 320 th runs , i got the mount today. Do not give up, luck will shine on you one day.

Comentário de Oppelious

Confirmed just dropped 20 minutes ago on Trollbane for my 84 priest in normal mode. I WON

Comentário de Survar

Anyone got any advice on soloing the first boss as an Arms or Protection Warrior? No matter what I try I can't survive long enough through all the nature damage to get her down. As Protection I'm not getting any rage, so no DPS going out on the boss. As Arms I'm just taking way too much damage. I've tried different trinkets, equipping a shield and using Shield Wall, Spell Reflection, Last Stand/Rallying Cry, Enraged Regen...everything I can think of. It's driving me crazy.

Comentário de verduran

Just dropping by to confirm that it can be soloed by a 399 combat rogue. The fights are quite straight-forward, though the resistance you get from the drum and flask are quite crucial in ensuring a smooth run. Altairus's damage output is surprisingly high but fortunately the fight is very short, but swap in the evasion glyph if you want to be safe.

Comentário de 945269

Just got Mine aswell Soloing as Feral druid ( Bear form ) i had Problem with frist boss Only tell i find a way to solo him after 12 fail try after that i did 49 run and i got mine after 4 day's from stonecore mount solo aswell

( Gone - Kazzak EU )

i have screenshot but i cant link yet cuz iam newmm ill show it when i can GL for all dont say it wont drop keep trying and you will find it :D

didnt use ( Prismatic Elixir - or Magic Resistance Potion ) just to know

Comentário de 831138

These drakes are like from Infinitive Dragonflight.I love them.

Comentário de 488005

Resto Druids can solo farm for this mount on non-heroic mode as I did it on my first try today. You can stealth past all trash.

1st boss: keep up dots, wrath, and heal yourself (keep hots up, swiftmend when you need to). Took me 6 mins, only had to barkskin once.
2nd boss: same as first boss, except using the wind to your advantage is a good idea, and thorns helps too. Took me 5 mins to down it.

Comentário de domie1595

I know we are far into the expansion, but didnt think their was any decend guide for a Feral Druid to do this, so thought i would add one:

The mount drops on normal, so no need to go heroic.

You want to do this in full dps gear, since Grand Vizier Ertan cant be skipped, and all his damage comes from lightning bolts instead of melee, and we cant really mitigate that.

The 4 set pvp bonus (improved movement speed) works in here, so if you got that already, you can use it between the bosses, to get through a bit faster.

Recommented spec: http://www.wowhead.com/talent#0ZfbGfRkMzrfzMcz
If you dont have 4x tier 13, you can skip feral charge completly, and go 3/3 in Perseverance (second row, resto) instead, for some extra survival. Also if you have any problems staying alive on Altairus (you shouldnt have), move 2 points from Feral Aggression to Thick Hide.

You want to use Glyph of Mangle in here instead of bloodletting. Since you cant shred any of the bosses, you will end up mangling like a madman, and mangle will be your biggest damage dealer.
Glyph of ferocious Bite is also really good here (specialy since their is no other useful major glyphs), the extra healing will make the fight less stressful.

First boss, use Cat form: You simply have to stealth all the way too him, nothing on the way will catch you in stealth, unless you walk on top of them.
When doing the boss, prehot yourself, i normal do Lifebloom > Lifebloom > Rejuvenation > Lifebloom and then pull the boss with a Fearie fire and Feral charge, if you dont have Feral charge, just Dash instead.

The boss is pretty simple but does a lot of damage, but at full 397 gear, you should be able to kill him without bothering with self healing. If you dont have that much gear, you should make sure to use every predatory strikes to cast healing touch on yourself, but make sure your not full or close to full on energy when you do so, since that will cost you potencial damage.

Doing the fight the boss only really does one thing besides casting lightning bolts, and that is pulling his tornados close to him. When he does that, you have to move at max melee range, you will be able to melee without getting the debuff from the tornadoes (slowed atk and movement speed), if you get the debuff, simply shape in and out of cat form quickly, and it will be removed.
The tornados will do a lot of damage, so i normaly rotate my cooldowns around these, the first times i killed him he would die between the 3rd and 4th time he pulled them in. so i used Barkskin first time they came, Survival instinct second time, and then third time, Barkskin would be ready once again. If you get really low on health doing the fight, change into bear form and use frenzied regenration, but be sure its unglyphed. this should heal you for most of your health.

If you have problems downing him, Prismatic Elixir will help you out a bit, also, Mirror of Broken Images (from Tol Barad factions) sounds like a good help doing tornado "phase", tho i havnt tried this myself, so i dont know for sure

You wont need your Berserk on the next boss, so you should really use it here to get him down fast.

If you manage to do this, the worst part is over, and the second boss will be really easy:
On second boss their really isnt much to do, you just go bear form and put out as much dmg as you can, if your not fully tank specced, he can take a bit of your HP away, but just rotating some cooldowns (Barkskin, Survial instinct and Frenzied regeneration) should be enough to keep you alive anyways. As i said above, if you have trouble staying alive, just spec 3/3 into Thick skin, and things should be alright.

When you got the boss down, just jump over the edge (after looting), and you will be teleported to the entrance.

I never write guides, so im sorry if it is a bit messy, but i hope you can use it anyways.

Feel free to ask questions.

I hope this will help a few people preventing a few deaths, happy hunting to everyone :)

Comentário de 963769

Easy to solo as a 386 ilv feral druid, takes me about 8mins per run and luckily im an enchanter to DE the blues because i'm up to 71 runs and no drop yet..

The Vitreous stone drake only took me 15 runs luckily but this guy doesn't want to drop yet.

Comentário de johnnyrizzle

Can't see any soloing pointers for Mages, so I'm here to say that is easily doable. I'm doing this as Fire (4.3.3) with an equipped item level of 399, including Dragonwrath. Arcane will be a bit harder, but doable, although you do lack some of the survivability and movement. Frost would probably be a walk in the park, but I don't have a Frost spec to try with.

The trash is probably the hardest part of the run, with Altairus being the easiest part by far.

The general idea is to make as much use of Mirror Images as you can and then just nuke down everything in that 30 second window (or until they're dead). Ring of Frost is particularly handy in places as well. Any trash you have problems with - Invisibility.

For the trash leading up to Ertan, the Cloud Princes provide the biggest problem as they summon all the tiny elementals. This is probably easiest as Fire as a Flamestrike/Blast Wave/Dragon's Breath combo gets rid of most of them, but the Princes themselves do a lot of damage.

As for the Grand Vizier - Mage Armor can be handy, but it's not 100% needed. Pre-cast Mana Shield, open up with some pre-cast Pyroblasts, Blink into inside the Cyclones (if you stay outside you will take ridiculous damage) and then nuke. When the Cyclones retract, Ice Block and wait it out. When they open up again, break out, pop Time Warp, pop Mirrors and go all out. If all goes well she'll be dead before the next Cyclone phase. If not, you're gonna have problems.

For the trash leading up To Altairus, the only pack that should cause any problems is the final one before you reach him, with the 4 Turbulent Squalls and 2 Empyrean Assassins. Skip it if you want, but as Fire it's doable with a good helping of AOE, snares and kiting. Kill the Squalls first as they move quick.

Altairus - joke fight. Pre-cast some Pyros, run in, pop Time Warp, pop Mirrors, nuke. Because of the Haste buff, as Fire you just chain Pyros, which leads to a ridiculous Ignite and a ridicuous Combustion. You should only take one, maybe two of his breaths before he's dead. Your Mirrors will be up for their full duration.

Comentário de gephyrophobia

After 107 solo runs in 72 hours as an enh shaman, I can finally sleep. You'll get it.. Eventually. That ^&*! is not easy to solo let alone that many times in a row. Good hunting.

Edit: The icon looks absolutely like Philosoraptor and it can't be unseen after I noticed.

Comentário de Grifball123123

just healed Vortex Pinnacle normal for the first time today, it dropped, and i won the roll. It can drop on both Normal and HC.

Comentário de 986414

For those druids out there who want to solo this without using a healing spec on the first boss, it is very possible to do as a Moonkin. Considering how easy it is to drop Altarius in Feral, (Just stay ahead of the air current as much as possible and pop Frenzied Regeneration if need be.) I'll focus on killing the first boss. It's a good idea to dot the area around the boss with mushrooms before pulling. Also, it's very important to wait on this fight to have a full mana pool, because you're going to use it all. After having the mushrooms planted, pull the boss using your treants. Make sure they have Aggressive turned on as their stance. Once they pull the boss, pop Starfall, dot the boss with MF and IS, and then trigger the Mushrooms. At that point the boss should switch it's attention to you, and have a solid 100K health knocked out of it's 1.8mil pool.

Now is when the fight gets kind of tricky. The boss is constantly dealing pretty heavy damage. Be sure to save your Barkskin for when it retracts the tornados and starts to hurl the lightning bolts faster. Also be sure there is a fresh batch of dots on the boss before it does the tornado shield thingy. During this phase, pop out of boomkin form and heal yourself. You need to be pretty aggressive about healing. I recommend trying to only use Rejuvenation, Lifebloom, and Healing Touch. Regrowth takes a lot of mana, and unless it crits, doesn't heal you much. At around 60% mana, you're going to want to pop Innervate. Regular rotation for when the tornados zoom out. For me, this goes on 3 to 4 cycles before the boss dies. It's still pretty difficult doing it this way, and if you make a mistake, it can derail the whole encounter quickly, so be sure to give it a couple trial runs. The most important thing is making sure you have some back up mana. I recommend buying some Mana pots if you're having a difficult time with mana regen.

Hope this helps any struggling MS Boomkins out there. ^_^

Edit: Finally got this mount to drop last night after 103 kills. Just kept using the strategy I posted above and it became pretty routine. Just keep at it and before you know it you'll have yourself an epic looking wind drake. Love the Blue/grey colour scheme.

Comentário de 987004

I got this on my first run I'll post a picture when i get artisan :P

Comentário de Ironbrew

My account was about to end, I had like 8 hours left. I didn't know what to do and was very bored. So I nonchalantly opened up the dungeon finder and saw that the healers were in demand, the one where they reward you with the Exotic Satchel. I didn't want to heal the Hour of Twilight heroics because I am so sick of that place and so I queued up for regular heroics and instantly the dungeon popped. It was the Vortex Pinnacle Heroic.

This is on my Shammy btw. I was the only one geared in there and everyone else was pulling below 10k dps, occasionally someone pulled above 10k. So as you can imagine, it was a looooong grind. I felt like leaving cause I didn't want to spend an hour in there. But I thought to myself, I don't wanna be that jerk that leaves the group because their DPS sucks so I stayed besides i got nothing else better to do. And so I keep on going. We get to the 2nd boss after what seemed like an eternity and they managed to kill him.

Altairus dropped two items. At first I thought to myself, hmm that's odd usually it's the final boss that drops more than one loot. Upon closer inspection I noticed one was blue and the other was purple. Boom I was wide awake, adrenaline shot through my body, Reins of the Drake of the North Wind had dropped =O. I clicked on Need just like everyone else. While i waited for everyone to Need I was thinking to myself, what are the odds that I'm actually gonna win this roll? I won with a roll of 93! I was so shocked and excited at the same time. The group was happy for me. I stayed with them and completed the dungeon. Only sad thing is, I got to fly around with it for a few hours.

I plan on playing Diablo 3 so that's why I let my WoW account expire. I'm gonna return when MoP launches. For now I can enjoy my mount vicariously as a wallpaper as I took some screenshots.

Comentário de Angelusofnex

Day 6 of my hunt for this mount, at about 180 runs so far, i honestly stopped keeping track once i reached the 100 mark. Doing 30 runs plus a day, I hope it drops for me soon. The Stonecore mount only took me 44 runs so i guess i'm paying for the good RNG I had there. Doing this on my alt feral druid since mounts will be account wide in Pandaria \o/

Edit: 9 runs after this post i got it! Posting on wowhead was the key =P

Comentário de alexz3

don't give up !

after 237 runs, it finally dropped !

just remember that it will eventually drop... someday...

Comentário de clinhin

Oh wow, got this on my first normal VP run on my shaman. Has cool lightning details.

Comentário de flabbergash

Okay so I know you guys won't believe me.

It's Sunday. I'm levelling my hunter that's on a different server to my main, that I don't really play. I go Stonecore in LFG, the mount drops. Weird, I think.

Then I go Vortex Pinnacle, and this mount drops =/

2 in the same day... I only won this one though!

Comentário de Raevsusar

Have been farming this for a week, got it today after 83 tries.

Soloing it as feral DPS in normal mode. Were in catform 90% of the time.

Comentário de 988502

Got this today in an lfg group on my alt. Wish it was on my main that at one point I was in there at least 15 times a day.(215 runs+ it does drop, rng is just painful).. Glad to have it though, because it is an awesome looking mount.

Comentário de Rhaul

This gorgeous mount dropped for me the other day after around 40+ runs on normal mode. This is what i did, its a piece of cake with cata PvP/PvE gear ( ilv 386).

My spec was BM and the pet i used was Jadefang (any other shale spider will do) its buff it gives you helps reduce the damage you receive from Altarius's attacks. I used my pet to tank, casting misdirection first and then spamming mend pet every now and then, roughly when your pet gets to more than half heal him,also helps to use the health buff too.

Healing.

For my hunter in general, i used a tinker, Spinal healing injector, on my gloves from engineering,that enables you to heal for 30k+ without using your potions, you do need Mythical healing potions for it to work (1 will do! :P), i also used my bandages as backup whenever i needed it, but with the healing from the tinker,you wont really need them.

The fight.

Whenever Altarius aimed his chilling breath etc at me i Feigned death OR used deterrence, and always stayed with my back to the wind he summons, if ever you struggle to get into the right position use Disengage. Whenever i my back was facing the wind (giving you the haste buff), i used my rapid fire and beserking buffs,making my casts insta, so its best to not use your rapid fire until you are in position :)
Roughly it took me 2 mins to kill him, and was an easy fight compared to a lot of other cata bosses. You just need to keep on your toes, watch his spells, and look out for your pets health mainly.

DBM is a handy addon to help you time your FD and Dit when he casts his spells at you.

Good luck and have fun! ^^

Comentário de 334079

Currently at 30+ runs so far running as a 389 blood DK in DPS gear, no sign of the mount dispite 100+ runs across all characters. At the beginning runs were taking me around 30 minutes with clearing all trash but now using my abilities properly it is taking me under 15 minutes per run being a night elf ;p

So for any other night elf death knights i thought i'd post some tips to get you started, there is probably a faster method but this works for me.

Take: Prismatic elixers (in case you accidentally pull)
Lesser or normal invisibility pots doesn't really matter which
Buffing food, normal food to heal yourself or bandages in between nasty pulls.

As i enter i run around the outside of the ring where the first pack is and cut in and run past them and shadowmeld just as I reach the top of the steps where the 2 patrol mobs are. Pull those 2 mobs and take care of those quickly, they do very little damage. After those I wait on the cool down for shadow meld (around 1 minute 15 seconds or so) and run down the ramp past the 3 packs with various casters and melee mobs chaining my cd's as i run down to prevent dying, when I am right at the bottom turn to face the vortex so it plays dead and shadowmeld again. The next 2 packs I take as normal as I have found difficulty in melding past those and you want the invisibility potion for later. Once you have cleared the second pack ( 2 cloud princes ) run to the top of the stairs so the vortex can't cast at you and regain health for the boss fight. As blood you should have no difficulty with the first boss, just use your cool downs where needed and use AMS or dark simulacrum on the vortex phases. Once you've killed this boss you will be able to pass to the next pack which has the pack which casts the storm clouds, run to just before the top of the ramp and use shadow meld again ( just before the point where the vapor assassins or whatever they're called patrol route ends, may take a try or two to find out where that is for you) exit shadowmeld as they gain a safe distance away from you and cut the corner to skip that patrol and take the drake as normal. Now you can just dot up the spheres as usual and cross. Next patrol is more of the assassins, and they always have a different sync to how they patrol so look closely, you can completely skip these also (one of the patrols cuts across the inside of the area so it is a tricky patrol sync you can just run around the outside of the ring on their side). It is important to stay close to the outside to make sure you don't aggro the drake in the middle, when i get to a pillar that's the time to use the invisibility potion as it allows you to completely skip the drake and the 6 mob pack altogether. Now you are at altairus :) ridiculously easy to solo as blood!

Happy farming and goodluck to others of you farming this mount it's a beauty! Also please comment if you have any other ways to make this run any faster!

Comentário de Dondarion

72 runs as a BM hunter.... Posting here for luck!

EDIT: 149 runs and still no drop....

EDIT2: IT DROPPED AFTER 218 KILLS!

Comentário de 368785

ITT: A bunch of hunters who don't know pet intervene is the most broken ability right now

Comentário de Vice92990

As of 4.3 this is still Soloable as a hunter. Im a BM hunter using Spirit Beast bear.

-Beast Mastery Solo Kill Strat- Normal Mode
Camo past first few mobs to first boss.
Send pet in with Mend pet kept up, stay between the tornado's and the boss this will allow you to take no damage. Once he starts to pull in his tornado's you can easy Spirit Mend yourself after the tornado's are done and moving out again. even without crit heal will keep you at full health. Rinse and repeat for an easy boss kill.

Once again Camo past all the mobs to Altarius.

The Altarius fight is fairly straight forward. Once again send pet in with Mend pet kept up. Stay in upwind to keep haste buff on. Deterrance the first Chilling breaths, and Feign death the following. Be sure to use Feign death on Cooldown when he casts Chilling Breahs to avoid alot of his damage. For the Chilling Breaths you can not avoid after your hit use your Spirit Mend ability to Heal yourself back up. Keep this up and you will have an easy Altarius kill and with any luck walk away with your Drake of the Northern Wind.

Helpful Macro's

Spirit Mend Macro-Macro that when pressed casts Spirit mend on self.If shift is held down Heals pet. If nothing is help and is targeting a friendly player will cast on Player
#showtooltip spirit mend
/cast Spirit Mend
/cast spirit mend
/cast spirit mend

Misdirect Macro-Macro will apply Misdirect to your current Friendly target. If shift is Held down will apply it to your Current summoned pet.
#showtooltip Misdirection
/cast Misdirection
/cast Misdirection

A note about Misdirect macro you can switch the to lines to allow for simple click with no mod to cast on pet, and Holding shift to cast on your current friendly target.

Good luck and happy hunting!

Comentário de 1018818

This boss is amazingly easy to solo as a rogue with Bebedor de Almas, if you are lucky enough to get one here is how I soloed the instance:
I started out by skipping trash going up to the first boss open get recupe up as soon as possible preferably 3-5 point so it lasts a good amount of time. Pop Adrenaline rush and just zerg with Bebedor de Almas on get slice and dice up now and begging using Feint on his Lightning Bolt attack. Try to Feint at the very end of the cast so it has its maximum uptime and can reduce multiple hits of the attack. From there when he does his first cyclone shield just move outside and don't touch and tornadoes while doing this. You then just quickly feint and dps from the outside don't get to close or a tornado may debuff you. Once they begin to move back out just run in and continue dpsing keeping your recupe snd and feinting the bolts. the second shield if he isn't almost dead you feint again, but if he is about to die or close to it just use cloak of shadows when they all get together. Easy fight
Altarius is a lot easier in my opinion you pretty much have a heroism all the time in the fight. Just start off getting a 3-5 point recupe up and then saving adrenaline rush until he shifts the winds. Once he does you need to position yourself so that the wind HITS YOU BEFORE HIM. If you do this then you will gain the buff Upwind of altarius and will increase your attack casting and movement speed. This is where you pop you adrenaline rush potion if you want and just zerg. A bit after he does the wind shift eh will begin his Chilling breath casts you need to Feint these they do about 30k on me when I didn't so its very helpful to do that. If you can't make one just cloak if you need. Continue to re position yourself as he does his changes the way the wind comes in. From there it's pretty much a kill just jump off the edge and you will be brought to the entrance and leave reset get back in and farm more!

Heres my build http://www.wowhead.com/talent#fcbbZfGccRc0RGo0h:0komfoVMm
For the Bebedor de Almas I put Encantamento de Recomposição - Arma on it, but you can also put Andavento for increased dodge procs

Another thing to know is that Tormentária, Lâmina Sagrada do Perseguidor dos Ventos IS helpful for bosses that their main damage output is their melee swings. The debuff slows their attack speed by 20% and will help out a lot in that sort of fight.

If you really need extra heals you should use flask of steelskin btw it will increase the healing done by your souldrinker and recuperate since your stamina is buffed. Also you can buy the inscription scroll for the stamina buff Runescroll of fortitude II.

Comentário de 1018818

Finally after 92 kills the mount did drop (heres a pic with proof and kills done) http:// imageshack. us /f/594/92 killsandmount.png/ (remove spacing)
Also I have some tips(for rogues/ferals)!

First thing is(this might be a bit bad to do but eh). I qued with a friend and had him go tank spec. Since I am able to stealth to the boss and solo first and second the rest of group wasn't in range to receive loot so you wouldn't chance losing mount. What this did was allow me to do around 10 instances an hour by being able to no have the annoying 5instance limit since I was queing with a tank.(if a smart rogue/drudi follows use just tricks them let em die and then vanish)
Elixir Prismático can give an extra boost in defense if needed
Also bringing an enchanter and inv him to group just to sit in it can be worth it for the free small shards from being able to DE(he doesn't have to actually zone in)

Comentário de 300420

Shadow Priest can farm it solo. Needs some pratice at the begin but I clear it in 30 mins for Altairus, without invisibility potions, nor elixirs.
On packs of 3-4 mobs, DoT 1 mob per time and fear the others when they come close. If the mobs pack is too hard, kill only 1-2 mobs and jump down in the sky , you will be ported at the entrance (but there is a teleporting vortex after the first boss) and the pack will be easier the next time.
On big mobs use shadowfiend and fade. Get glyphed dispersion.

Comentário de ericnhw

got it after 2nd run in vortex pinnacle.. it is after less than 20 runs getting the mount from Stonecore. Vitreous Stone Drake... lucky day.. 2 mounts in one days.. no sweat! now back to TLPD aftrer 1 month , missed it twice, and no sightings after that...

Comentário de 1023168

Today while dungeoning with my husband and a friend we were lucky to come across this mount and i won it. next dungeon came up and another rare drake dropped! my husband won that one. just had to share it :) was amazed that they both dropped where the odds are so low.

Comentário de 1025367

Just got this drake at about 106 runs. Most of them solo but I did count the times I got qued and did not see a drop. It really isn't too bad a solo, about 10 minutes a run and it was worth it for the mount. Not to mention all the gold you make. Keep trying my friends! It pays off!

Comentário de hefron

I farm this mount for long time now on my warlock. In this patch I've found it really fast to reach Altarius. Very usefull things:

Glifo Calcinado and you can use portal to skip ALL PACKS. You of course have to kill first boss then Altarius but it is great improvement in farming speed. At last we are not behind druids and rogues who can easily stealth and skip everything.
Protetores de Mão de Tramavil do Gladiador Cataclísmico and Glifo Calcinado together make your portal cd shorter by 9 seconds so you can use Kilrogg very fast. Gloves and portal glyph made my runs below 7 minutes and now I'm stuck with "You have entered too many instances recently" after 5-6 runs

Happy farming. I'm at 100 kills and counting...

Comentário de 1029934

This instance is dead easy to solo as a boomkin in the current patch (5.0.x). All of the trash can be skipped via prowl with sprint and roar making it all the faster to breeze by (and if you are Ally worgan you have 3 stealthed sprints!).

Once to the boss simply blow your dps cds and nuke while keeping rejuv on yourself at all times with a wild growth/barkskin/"insert defensive cd here" where necessary. My gear is LFR DS with some 10 man DS gear sprinkled in and I have no troubles at all.

Things to remember:
5 runs an hour before lockout ( I can do all 5 in under 30 min)
Don't run back after altruis simply jump off the side and get ported to the front of the the instance
The knockback orbs after the first boss see stealth so make sure to tag them with a ranged skill (boomy dots work great)
On altruis make darn sure to pay attention to the wind direction and keep the green buff rather than the red!

gl and cheers

Comentário de 1030043

Can someone pls confirm that this mount is dropping as of the 5.0 patch... Since patch day I have solo farmed this run well over 100 times, and before someone says anything I am aware it can easily take well into the deep 100's or even 200+ runs to drop... It will just be easier to keep plugging as long as I know that it's still dropping since the patch day

Comentário de zknm7

With the advent of Patch 5.0.4, this fight, which was possible before as a blood dk, is now stupid easy. This is an extremely easy mount to farm now with a Death Knight. I run the instance in Blood spec with dps gear (398 ilvl), which includes a 403 Gurthalak. A Gurth of any stripe is an excellent thing to have, as getting multiple procs can make the bosses and trash go down much faster. The first boss, Ertan, goes down fairly rapidly, there is only one lightning phase when I run it, and I simply pop AMS, which is glyphed to absorb up to the maximum amount. I generally get Ertan down in 40-50 seconds, depending on whether or not Gurthalak procs. After this, I keep moving through the trash packs, however, when I get to the final trash platform before Altairus, I just run around the edges since you can avoid the four patrolling pats and the drake without pulling them, although you still must kill the trash on the ramp up to Altairus. The wind buff on Altairus is a wonderful thing, I've killed him as fast as 40 seconds, once again, with Gurthalak procs. My dk just shrugs off the breath he breathes, no need to even pop AMS, and I always end the fight with full health. Good luck with farming this mount!

Comentário de Vanshir

I've done 47 runs now on my hunter and since the 5.0.4 patch, it became much easier for a BM hunter. I run into the "you've entered too many instances" thing quick now. I thought that I could log on my DK and run it once the hunter was locked out but nope, same message...

It took me 75 runs to get slabhide so I'll keep running it. Sooner or later it will happen :)

Update - took me 105 runs and it finally dropped in Normal today 9/16/12

Comentário de Siffe

got this baby on my 100th run i think since my DBM didn't count my kills after the 65th.
i'm so happy with this

and Good luck to all farmers out there. Never Give up Hope.

Comentário de Kaldrez

It can be soloed as a balance druid at 5.0.5 just make sure you got the glyph of the Moonbeast so you can heal yourself in moonkin form
and i am a CRAPPY geared balance druid got nearly full pvp Ruthless season 11 and got a 318 ilvl trinket aswell. The first boss is a pice of cake! rly easy to solo just heal yourself and burst him down and you can go cat form and use prowl and get pass every adds in the dung so you can do it rly quick but on Altarius make sure that you use your survivor cds like barskin when he does that you cast spell ALOT slower and just heal yourself trough that phase then just dps him and keep a look at your health at ALL time if you get below 50% hp its time to start heal yourself did my first run and no mount so far but i hope it will drop for me soon and i wish gl too every player that are trying to get this mount and gl all balance droods out there!
Hope this will help you :=)

Comentário de gurumed

i'm farming it with fury warrior.. really easy and fast.. its an easy Volatile Air farming place too :-)

hope to grab the mount asap!

Comentário de xSpoz

As of patch 5.0, this has become very easy as a hunter. BM specifically, but I imagine all of the specs would work. I thought I'd take the time to share my strategy to try and help all the other hunters out there who want this beauty :)

For the first tier of talents, I use . This isn't wildly important but the reductions are good for avoiding Altairus' Chilling Breath (Deterrence), and being able to disengage more to face him with the direction of the wind for the haste buff.

The second tier is literally insignificant, don't even worry about it.

For the third tier, however, Exaltação is mandatory. Not only can the 30% heal on you save you if you're taking too much damage, but it's basically a lay on hands for your pet on a 2 minute cooldown, and since your pet will be tanking this, it's by far the best possible choice. Spirit mend is a nice constant heal, but you/your pet aren't taking enough damage for this to really shine. I like this ability because if you ever forget to apply mend pet and you need to make a split second choice, this will always save you, where spirit mend is just a bit more reassurance.

The 4th tier is sort of preferential, but I recommend . All 3 of them are good, but with this you will be doing a LOT less casting, because honestly this is procced almost 100% of the time. The reason I chose this is because both bosses have casting speed debuffs, and you can literally sit back and use only 2 abilities for dps, (Not even having to cast) with this talent (Kill command whenever it's off cd, and free arcane shots for days while waiting for kill command). Although you can get a bit unlucky and have to cast a few cobra shots to regen focus if you aren't getting proccs, I noticed that I barely ever have to even worry about debuffs because I'm only casting for like 5% of my damaging abilities.

5th tier you're going to want to go with lynx rush, plainly because it's damage is unbelievable. When included in your "1 shot macro" which I'll go over in a bit, it can be devastating. Simply put, choose this talent.

For glyphs, I'm using:
- Glifo Calcinado (Needed for soloing instances, without this your mend pet would be almost useless)
- Glifo Calcinado (Not needed, but increases mend pet, and makes your exhilaration heal for like 5k more, so it's nice.)
- Glifo Calcinado (basically a pet taunt, although my pet doesn't ever loose aggro it's just nice to have in case.)

For pets I'm using tenacity, but to be completely honest it isn't really a huge deal. I find I feel a bit more secure with it, as opposed to ferocity (which I was still successful with, just had a bit more tight situations). Choose what you will although tenacity is better, and has a talent that increases your mend pet even more!

The Strategy:

Camouflage though every mob. Yes, you can get by all of them. I've made a route where I can get to the first boss in one duration of camo, but if it's your first time I recommend being a bit more careful and making your own route.

For the first boss, misdirect onto your pet, send him in, and throw a mend pet up on him. 6 (I believe) tornadoes will spawn around the platform and rotate around the boss. They will form a circle, and you must stay inside the circle, or you will take a lot of damage and probably die. Pop your damage macro; damage trinket (if you have one), rapid fire, bestial wrath, lynx rush.Spam kill command/arcane shot and keep mend pet up. Make sure to not touch any of the tornadoes as you will get a debuff that reduces casting speed by quite a bit. When he retracts the tornadoes, you can use deterrence to avoid taking a few little hits but it's not necessary. If you/your pet get low just use exhilaration. Very easy fight, just don't touch the tornadoes and stay inside the circle of said tornadoes. Also, side note, don't use readiness this fight, it will be more useful later.

You will come up to a little bridge with 2 swirly balls. There should be about 10-30 seconds left on your camo cooldown. Wait untill your camo is off cd, and then fire a shot at the ball. This will negate it's damage/knockback effect for a few seconds allowing you to run by. Do the same to the second ball and proceed across the bridge. Stand on the other side and wait until you're out of combat, then reapply camouflage. Run to Altairus.

For this boss you need to be a bit more careful, but it's still a walk in the park. Again, send your pet in with misdirect and mend put up, pop all damage cooldowns. Occasionally, he will untarget your pet, target you, and begin to cast an attack called chilling breath. It hits for around 30k, and depending on your gear if you don't avoid a few of these, it might kill you. There's 2 ways to avoid this. 1, feign death as soon as he targets you. If done quick enough, it will cause the attack to fail. 2, Deterrence. Either one works perfectly fine although deterrence is a bit more reliable. The next thing to worry about is the direction the wind is going. It will face either north, east, south or west. If it is blowing in the direction you are facing, and pointing at him, it will greatly increase haste. If it's against you, it will decrease haste. With thrill of the hunt, you won't really be casting so you barely have to worry, as the direction of wind changes quite often, but if it's slowing you down by a lot, just disengage to a place where you're facing the boss along with the wind. The reason I recommended saving readiness for this fight is because you can avoid a lot more damage. Pop all damage cds, feign the first chilling breath, deterrence the second. Use readiness, pop all damage cooldowns again, and you can now avoid 2 more chilling breaths easily using fd/deterrence again. If you're a dumbass and get hit by too many of these, just use exhilaration and you should be fine. I'm pretty sure my worst ever attempt the closest I came to dying was like 40k health after exhil.

I hope this guide was helpful to anyone who read it, even if you aren't a hunter :) Good luck, and happy farming :)

Comentário de 153135

I just got this on my 240th run since patch 5.04 just 20 hours before mists of Pandaria comes out.... I was desperate to have it crossed off my list before that.

I farmed the mount as a BM hunter with a spirit beast pet. Camoflage past all the trash. Nuke the 1st boss (dies in around 25-30 seconds), skip next trash with camoflage. Nuke Altairus down. Each run normally takes around 5 mins but after 240 runs even 5 minutes starts feeling like a long time.

Annoyingly I saw this mount drop in only my 2nd ever Vortex pinnacle run right at the beginning of Cataclysm, but due to some unidentified bug I didn't even get the option to roll on it.

Comentário de Photonz

I can confirm this mount is available on the Black Market Auction House.

Sold for about 65k on my server (very high pop) yesterday. So, if you have a decent supply of gold and not as much time to farm you might want to be on the look out.

Comentário de tubstermania

Easy solo as 90 Blood DK, or really an N-Elf tanking class:

1) Run into instance
2) Make sure you have full health
3) Run through all mobs up to first boss, Bubble/shield/pop defensive CD when running through the dudes that stun you
4) Shadowmeld right before first boss, let all adds run away before you move out of meld, to be safe
5) Kill first boss
6) Run through all adds to second boss, try not to pull the Storm Drake that is on its own platform, it will be annoying when you try to shadowmeld.
7) Shadowmeld at stairs next to second boss. If adds don't run, kill them (duh)
8) Kill boss, loot.
9) Jump off side (close to stiars), it will tele you to the entrance, run out, reset instances, repeat for farm :)

Comentário de nasapunk88

Can be bought from the Black Auction House (random chance) starting at 20k gold bid.
Currently it is on Shadowsong-US for 105k.

Comentário de Aracela

I'm starting to lose hope that this is actually still in game post Cata. 215 runs since 5.0.4 and I still haven't seen it. =/ (normal mode of course)

Comentário de 1056973

After a one year break from WoW, my hubby and I returned yesterday. A big draw to come back to the game was all of the new mounts and pets. I'm a collector with 151 pets and 136 mounts. I've spent hours, days, weeks farming anything and everything that you possibly can.

I decided to help my hubby level by running him through some early cata dungeons. This mount dropped on our second run through Vortex Pinnacle. Just before, we saw the Vitreous Stone Drake drop in Stonecore on our fourth run. Each time, the dungeon was on regular. Don't give up! Things have a funny way of working out.

Comentário de Miryc

After a long fought battle of 18 runs. I finally got my drake.

I was running on a hunter with quest greens and camoing through the whole thing. 1 run took me ~4 mins to complete. The most annoying part about obtaining this mount was the lockout after 5 instance runs.

Some people are just more lucky than others. I am usually the unlucky one :)

Comentário de 1067253

mages can use invis right before boss to drop agro, this way they can clear the dungeon under 5mins

Comentário de 1069107

Im on 38th run :/, hope I can get it soon running it with a mage in around 5-8min a run depending if I accidentally pull a few mobs on the way to boss.

Comentário de Ospreyfalcon

Just a tip for people running the instance: After you kill Altairus, just hop off the platform into the air, you will get teleported to the beginning of the instance, no running back or dying needed!

Oh and as a feral druid: Glifo Calcinado! Combined with Rapidez Felina and you can do an Altairus run in under 3 minutes.
To track the reset instance counter, I use the addon Instancecounters. You right-click on it instead of selecting your portrait and rightclicking to select "Reset all instances", and it does it for you while keeping track of the number of your runs per hour, and also tells you when they reset, regardless of character you're on.

Comentário de Mydge

How To Run Normal VP As A Non-Stealthie
*Consider each group of mobs as Group 1, Group 2 etc. Hopefully this helps, as some mobs cant be walked around. Done as a 90 Fire Mage (470), had no problems killing groups of mobs. Takes ~15 min/run.

Group 1: Kill
Group 2: Skip - run on edge of bridge
Lurking Tempest

Group 3: Skip - run on edge of ramp
Group 4: Skip - run on edge of ramp
Group 5: Kill (watch push back if you are still on ramp edge)
Lurking Tempest

Group 6: Kill
Lurking Tempest

Group 7: Kill
Boss: Grand Vizier Ertan - as ranged very easy. Simple nuke (1.8mil hp), takes around 30 seconds. Feel free to use Cooldowns as you will be autobuffed on Altairus.

Group 8: Skip - run on edge of ramp (either side)
Group 9: Skip (pat)
Group 10: Skip (dragon)
Circles

Group 11: Skip (pat + dragon)
Group 12: Skip - run on edge of ramp (either side)

Boss: Altairus - make sure you stay upwind = instawin.

Comentário de kiwis

just dropped for me today in normal mode

Comentário de WoWman95

As an assassin rogue (490 ilvl) w/o nightstalker it took 3.5min. After changing to nightstalker it only took 2.5min, so if u plan on faring this, grab nightstalker.

Comentário de 495186

I am able to run this in about 5 minutes on my lvl 90 Shadow Priest. As long as you have the talent Máscara Espectral. Basically if you cannot run around a mob just Máscara Espectral around it. I only have to kill one boss, one drake and the boss that drops the mount.

Comentário de TheWheatOne

Some quick calculations on farm and chance:

Flat chance 1/110 of dropping on normal. This does not change. You could get it the first run, or get to the theoretical binomial limit below. I will be using Binomial Poisson Distribution in calculations.

Farm is assumed to be 5 runs per hour, and all 24 hours of farming per day. I will also consider a "reasonable" farm rate of 3 hours (15 runs) per day, if by all means you have a job or school or family to take care of.

If very lucky within binomial 33.33% (1 out of 3 people) will get this within 9 hours of straight farming. Reasonable farm rate at 3 days.

On average, people will get this within binomial 66.67% (2 out of 3 people) at 1 day of straight farming. Reasonable farm rate at 8 days.

If EXTREMELY unlucky, at 95.83% (between 22 & 23, out of 24 people will have gotten it before you), you'll have to farm this for a staggering 2 days 22 hours! Reasonable farm rate at 3 weeks 2 days 1 hour.

With all theoretical computer simulated testing, 1 million (out of 1 million) people will be virtually guaranteed to get this within 1 week 6 days 8 hours of straight farming; or at a reasonable farm rate of 3 months 2 weeks 1 day 2 hours. If you need to farm this longer than that, consider yourself cursed by a demon.

In other words: DO NOT EXPECT TO GET THIS ON ANY RUN ON ANY HOUR OF ANY DAY. You'll just be disappointed. Count yourself blessed that this is not requiring heroic. Remember, patience and diligence always wins out in the end. Think of it as a pleasure run of how far your character has progressed in power, instead of an endless farm stresser. In fact, you can actually get rich simply by farming this area; vendor trash, and sell BoEs for high prices. Any class should be able to do this efficiently solo with MoP epic gear.

Obviously stealth helps a lot, but is not required. You can actually pass many mobs without stealth simply by going around smartly, so learn the routes well. I was able to pass 12 mob groups max, no lie. It is rare though as it too relies on RNG for about half. Still, saving 5-8 minutes each time really adds up, especially with non-dps roles which can take much longer to clear per mob group. Not to mention it lowers the repair bill.

If for whatever reason you fall, you can use a slipstream at the entrance to teleport back to the platform point after you defeated the first boss per run. When done killing Altairus just drop down a ledge into the abyss to teleport back to the entrance, but do not run and jump too far out or the vortex won't lift you.

Good luck to all!

P.S. Downvote any person that adds "Got on X.X patch" and/or "Took X amount of runs for me to get this". They add nothing helpful and are just ego-celebration spamming, effectively trash, that push down the many helpful comments I've seen here by people that work hard on giving guides and tips to getting this mount effectively.

Comentário de Enterthevoid

This has been my favorite mount for a very long time, but I never had the patience to start farming it. Today I finally mustered the nerve to do so. Here are a few tips on the state of mind you have to keep while farming it and the fastest way to do it as a class that cannot stealth or camouflage. I did it as a frost DK (level 90, obviously).

- Kill the first pack. You cannot avoid it.
- Same goes with the two Armored Mistrals on the bridge.
- You can skip all trash on the ramp. Simply walk exactly at the edge of the ramp, and watch out, since the adds walk around, and if they are facing the edge, you will aggro them. If so, just wait for them to turn around and then pass, it would take less time than killing them.
- Kill the next pack.
- Now if you walk in the exact middle of the Cloud Princes, you can skip them.
- Kill Grand Vizier Ertan.
- On the next platform, kill the Turbulent Squalls.
- Here you can skip both the Young Storm Dragon and the Empyrean Assasins. Wait for them to turn around and simply walk past them, hug the wall so that you do not pull the Dragon.
- Hit the Howling Gales once so that they do not throw you out of the platform.
- On this platform, you can skip absolutely everything. Simply walk as far left as possible past the mobs, walk around the pillar and behind the Dragon until you get to the Turbulent Squalls.
- AoE the Squalls.
- Kill Altarius (make sure you are standing in the Upwind)
- Jump out of the platform, get out, Reset all Instances, repeat.

You have a limit of 5 runs per hour, but I could not enter randomly and it was bugging me. I think it was for the following reason, but I am not sure.
Say, you enter at 20:30. You clear it the first time by 20:40. You repeat that until you get your 5th clear at 21:10 and you Reset all Instances once more. Now you cannot enter until 21:30. Then, you enter, and you clear it by 21:35. Ah, but now you cannot enter again. You will only be able to enter at 21:40, because you have killed it 5 times since 20:40. This was confusing me for quite some time but it's quite simple once you understand it.

And here is how I kept myself going. Do not expect this to drop. Don't look at the RNG - imagine you are doing a quest where you need to kill the boss 100 times to get the mount. You must not feel disappointed for not getting the mount after every kill, but you must feel happy that you are 1 kill closer to 100 kills (When you will supposedly get it). You will probably get it by then, but if not, then just keep going. Tell yourself that you are already past 100 kills and the mount should drop very soon. Also, the people here who claim to be at 200, 300 kills without mount and what not are very rare cases. I was expecting to farm this for days and I ended up getting it on my 15th kill. Watch TV, listen to music, talk on Skype, do whatever you want to keep your mind busy. After 4-5 clears you will start doing this mechanically and you will really not require any focus at all.

In my opinion, this is the most beautiful, majestic mount in the game and it is a must have for every collector! Good luck to those who decide to farm this jewel!

Comentário de benx2011

55 runs so far and still counting.

2/6/13 - 70 runs so far and still counting

2/8/13 - 85 runs and still counting

Comentário de 1089043

Got it after 37 runs , the same day i started ;)

Comentário de Frostpanzer

If you wanna to exit fast .
Just jump down .

Comentário de Virtuoso95

I finally got the mount after alot of runs...130 - 160, lost count.
Just make sure you aren't thinking about it when grinding, it WILL eventually drop when you are least expecting it.
Good luck!

Comentário de rickygabrielbird

I have just started farming for this on my 90 BM Hunter ilvl478.

Works out at just over 3mins from the start to downing the 2nd boss. Use camouflage just before the first mobs and it should last you until the 1st boss, providing you change aspect too.

Every single mob can be easily avoided, you will only need use Readiness to refresh your camouflage after you shoot the orbs to pass the bridge.

Obviously, once the 2nd boss is down, just jump off the edge to get back to the start. You won't die from falling into nothingness so don't worry! :)

Good luck all.

Comentário de mrbrent328

If you're a warlock farming this mount I would suggest using Glyph of Eye of Kilrogg, and you can skip a lot of the mobs.

Comentário de smackthekids

To any Warriors looking to seriously farm this mount until you get it, here's a quick guide how to go from start to finish (2nd boss) in about 2 minutes flat.
Gylph for Enraged Speed, Death from Above, and bring some Drums of Speed and/or Dark water potions.
Start by running directly at the middle of the first mob, Heroic Leap thru him, you won't aggro if you jumped at Max distance. I usually just walk&kill the 2 mobs on the bridge, they die before u make it to the other end of the bridge.
Run around the very edge to avoid aggro for next area, at the end, Heroic Leap directly thru the next mob. Past them is 2 large adds, walk RIGHT in the MIDDLE and they wont attack. Zerg 1st boss. Take tornado portal, then walk up the LEFT side; if you followed so far, the 2 ghost mobs will be at the end and u can walk right past.
Heroic Throw 1st Orb, Charge 2nd Orb to avoid knock back. Heroic Leap thru the patrolling ghosts/dragon, walk up LEFT side again, right side has an add at the end who is much easier to aggro, idk why. Zerg 2nd boss, jump off, repeat. This method nets me 5 runs in about 15min counting load times/guild chatting, much quicker if you're dedicated and maximize potions and cooldowns.
Sadly, I've gotten nearly all the extremely rare dungeon/raid mount drops, but can't get this to drop! Good luck!

Comentário de sickbox

Here is a list of mount drops from Instances, Raids, and World Bosses to save some looking around.

Level 60

Instances
Rédeas do Corcel da Morte - Stratholme - Lorde Aurius Rivendare

Raids
Cristal Ressonante Qiraji Azul - Ahn'Qiraj - Trash
Cristal Ressonante Qiraji Verde - Ahn'Qiraj - Trash
Cristal Ressonante Qiraji Amarelo - Ahn'Qiraj - Trash
Cristal Ressonante Qiraji Vermelho - Ahn'Qiraj - Trash

Level 70

Instances
Rédeas do Senhor dos Corvos - Salões dos Sethekk (Heroic) - Anzu
Falcostruz Branco Veloz - Terraço dos Magísteres (Heroic) - Kael'thas Andassol

Raids
Rédeas do Cavalo de Guerra Fogoso - Karazhan - Attumen, o Caçador
Cinzas de Al'ar - Bastilha da Tormenta (Tempest Keep) - Kael'thas Andassol

Level 80

Instances
Rédeas do Protodraco Azul - Pináculo Utgarde (Heroic) - Skadi, o Impiedoso
Rédeas do Draco Bronze - Expurgo de Stratholme (Heroic) - Corruptor Infinito

Raids
Rédeas do Grande Mamute de Guerra Preto - Abóbada de Arcavon - All 4 Bosses
Rédeas do Draco Lazúli - Olho da Eternidade - Malygos
Rédeas do Draco Azul - Olho da Eternidade - Malygos
Rédeas do Draco Preto - Santuário Obsidiano - Sartharion (3 Drakes - 10)
Rédeas do Draco do Crepúsculo - Santuário Obsidiano - Sartharion (3 Drakes - 25)
Rédeas do Draco Onyxiano - Covil da Onyxia - Onyxia
Cabeça de Mimiron - Ulduar - Yogg-Saron (No Watchers - 25)
Rédeas do Invencível - Cidadela da Coroa de Gelo - O Lich Rei (Heroic - 25)

Level 85

Instances
Rédeas do Draco do Vento Norte - Pináculo do Vórtice - Altairus
Rédeas do Draco de Pedra Vítreo - Litocerne - Couro-pétreo
Pantera Zulian Veloz - Zul'Gurub - Alta-sacerdotisa Kilnara
Raptor Razzashi Armadurado - Zul'Gurub - Sangrelorde Mandokir
Urso de Batalha Amani - Zul'Aman - Timed Reward

Raids
Rédeas do Draco do Vento Sul - Trono dos Quatro Ventos - Al'Akir
Garrachama de Alysrazor - Terras do Fogo - Alysrazor
Ovo Fumegante de Millagazor - Terras do Fogo - Ragnaros
Experimento 12-B - Alma Dragônica - Ultraxion
Rédeas do Draco Fulgurante - Alma Dragônica - Asa da Morte
Aia da Mãe da Vida - Alma Dragônica - Asa da Morte (Heroic - 10/25)

Level 90

Instances - None

World Boss
Rédeas da Serpente das Nuvens de Ônix Celestial - Monte Kun-Lai - Sha da Raiva
Sela do Filho de Gailleon - Vale dos Quatro Ventos - Gailleon
Rédeas da Serpente das Nuvens Trovejante Cobalto - Ilha do Trovão - Nalak
Rédeas do Escornante Primordial de Cobalto - Ilha de Gigantes - Oondasta

Raids
Rédeas da Serpente das Nuvens Astral - Galerias Mogu'shan - Elegon
Rebento de Horridon - Trono do Trovão - Horridon
Garra de Ji-Kun - Trono do Trovão - Ji-Kun

Comentário de Akitnaya

I got this mount after multiple runs, soloing Vortex Pinnacle. 27 to be exact. I 1st used to do it w/o camouflage (I'm a BM hunter,) but soon learned how 2 run along the edges off of videos on YouTube. My bf kept taunting me saying that i'd never get it & to stop wasting my time so I can't wait till we sign on together so I can laugh in his face!

*For ne class that can stealth/camo...DO IT! Watch the videos on YouTube on how to do it if you don't know already!

Happy farming guys & good luck!

Comentário de 1109901

So after farming stonecore for Slabhide's mount, I got it on my 30 something try. I was so psyked up. I decided to go to Vortex Pin just to try a few runs. Wasn't planning on farming it all day like SLabhide since I was happy that I got one of the rare drakes already that day. Sure enough, second kill.... I see purple... Reins of The Drake of The North WInd drop! I thought I was dreaming. 2 rare drakes in the same day. I thought getting Slabhide's mount on my 30th try was lucky. But North Drake on my second kill? Can you believe it?

Comentário de Terrorshark

To all those posting "got it after x number of solves." Why bother posting? We know it drops, whether it dropped for you on your first try or the 200th, it does not alter the chances it will drop for those who are farming it nor do your comments offer any insight into bettering one's chances. I don't mean to be rude but your comments are just as useful as saying "GOT IT FIRST TRY LOOKS SO COOL" The only reason I post this is I feel sorry you guys getting downrated into oblivion for innocent comments, just know that you're wasting both your time typing and the readers with comments like that. Congrats on your sword, though!

Comentário de 919903

I've decided to run this instance 5 times every day, this to make sure it's not too much of a grind..
It takes about an hour to run it 5 times, this because i do kill all the mobs upto the 2nd boss. I can advise every enchanter to do so.
After a typical 1 hour (5 times) run I have made 65g in regular gold loot
1214g in volatile air loot
288g in hypnotic dust
500g in small heavenly shards
602g in lesser celestial essence
and 300g in boe blue items

Cataclysm enchanting mats go for a lot in my AH. If killing all mobs is worth the gold ofcourse depends on your server.
Happy hunting!

Comentário de Zyrinx

Finally... after 189 kills farming normal, definitely well over 200 counting leveling and heroic farming in Cata.

Probably all been said, but as a hunter, i killed 0 trash mobs unless i made a mistake. Camo before the 1st bridge gets you to the 1st boss. Camo when you land gets you to the orbs on the bridge, and you can run past the ramp mobs while visible.

To stay sane I always tried to better my fastest boss kill times (14 seconds for Altairus) and my run times; 3:12 I think was my fastest, only time I ever used the stopwatch (/sw).

Good luck.

Comentário de perculia

I've been farming this on/off since MoP hit (~400 runs). As a rogue, I've found Estouro de Velocidade (does not break stealth anymore in 5.2) with the first-tier talent stacking makes the runs go faster than before in 5.2. This brings you up to 213% runspeed stealthed and the farming runs are slightly over two minutes.

It may be worth dragging the mobs right before Altairus up as you fight him, as I've had them drop up to 12 Ar Volátil. Just Blade Flurry as you kill Altairus.(##RESPBREAK##)2##DELIM##perculia##DELIM##

Comentário de Akitnaya

This mount looks beautiful in shadow form! (I btw don't have it.)

Comentário de oscarucb

The SavedInstances addon tracks the 5-instance-per-hour limit, making it easier to plan your farming runs, and avoid locking yourself out of an upcoming event (eg raid night).

Comentário de Hinalover

Thought I'd at least make some suggestions for those Windwalker Monks out there farming this mount. I just started farming this, but given the few attempts I have done, I think I have my strat down.

First up, I have Momentum Tier 1 talent selected. I've found this to be an extremely useful talent for quick farming runs. What I tend to do is to try to time it so that the buff from my first Momentum is just about to expire and roll the second time so that I take full advantage of both buffs.

For the first pull I run up steps and then Flying Serpent Kick (FSK) all the way to the first bridge. I pull the first two sets of adds and Spinning Crane Kick (SCK) that pack down. The next set could require two pulls depending on gear but due to me being in full Throne of Thunder gear, it usually takes me one pull. But the next 3-4 packs (4th being the pack right before the next bridge) I try to group up. I use the pillars next to the bridge to group everything up and SCK them to death (either on the edge at the bottom of the steps or up top, near the top of the steps). Next I line up the center of the bridge and once I get to the end I FSK past the next pack. Most times I am able to skip them, but there are a few cases where I will not be aligned correctly and accidently pull them.

I then go ahead and kill Grand Vizier Ertan

After that boss, I will cross the gap. The next pull, I will run up the steps and FSK to pull the next 6 adds (the 4 Turbulent Squall and the 2 Empyrean Assassin) and SCK that pack to death. If you get poisoned you can Detox or let it fall off.

Hug the right wall so that you don't pull the Young Storm Dragon. Next up are the Howling Gale. What I tend to do is use my Tier 2 ability on the first one (me personally I use Chi Wave) and then I cast Storm, Earth, and Fire (SEF) on the second. If your SEF gets pushed back before it's able to hit the target, go to the center of the bridge and stay either to the far right or left so that your in a dead zone where the whirlwinds will not hit you. Afterwards wait for your Tier 2 ability comes off cooldown and use it again for the second one. Once you get past the second add, cast your SEF again to despawn it.

Now hug either the far left or far right side of the steps, and at the top perform a FSK to the far side of the platform. You may or may not pull some Empyrean Assassin with you but SCK them down with the 6 or so Turbulent Squall on the ramp that you cannot avoid.

Finally go up the ramp and kill Altairus for the mount. Make sure to keep your back to the oncoming wind so that you have infinite energy. After you kill Altairus, run back and jump off the side. You will be teleported to the front of the entrance. Rinse and repeat until either your 5 dungeon per hour is done or you get the mount. For me, as stated I'm in full Throne of Thunder gear, it is taking me about 4 minutes a run, which is a bit slower than my Stonecore runs but still fairly fast.

Comentário de 1122639

So I have run this instance on normal 400 times over a period of 25 days and so far no mount...

First, I wanted to verify that this mount actually still does drop on normal mode?

Second, I have seen it posted that this mount has an estimated drop rate of 1%, however, the portrait of this item on wowhead has the drop rate at .41%?

Thanks for the help! I will keep you updated on progress...

Comentário de 1117019

Having Drake of the West Wind already, I really felt the need to start completing my collection of all the "wind" drakes. Through some research (thanks to WoWhead) I stumbled upon this mount, and started seriously farming it. I ran Vortex Pinnacle a bunch of times on heroic (feeling my chances would be better than normal) and it never dropped once...story of my life! :/

Then, a friend enlightened me on how I could run it on normal 5x an hour, wait an hour and re-run it again 5x more by simply "resetting all instances". Not aware of this prior, I gave it a shot and the damn Rédeas do Draco do Vento Norte drops! All those heroic runs out the window. -_-

It's really ironic how this mount has a higher chance (0.8%), according to WoWhead, for normal mode...and then, a lower chance (0.7%) on heroic. But hey, RNG is RNG! I love this mount nonetheless, and love its color scheme. It's got a special place on my action bar. :D

Comentário de 1013194

I saw this mount drop at 11:30 pm last night as I was on my sham doing dps so I rolled on it :( no luck I got a 13% need roll on it err. A dam hunter took my mount lol. I have 7 level 90s and this was the first time I have ever seen this mount drop in a random, in the 4 years I been playing wow. I'm 15 runs into waiting on this mount to drop with my 90 rogue. I have daggers, axes, belts ,helms and have only been killing the first boss and the 2ed boss that drops this mount. It takes me about 20 mins to run it 5 times. meaning I have to wait 40 more mins for the cool down to run out. The 5 run cool down starts just as you start your first run. As I have timed. 5 runs 20mins + 40 mins after waiting for the cool down and your ready to go for more. So don't wait one hour after your last run. Time your self and see how long it takes you and wait the rest of an hour from what it took. I hope this helps some one looking to get this great mount. Wish me luck ill keep you posted on my runs. I would have to say if your a horde do TB every day because they win 90% of the time and the TB marks can buy this mount it cost 200 marks. They add up fast doing the quests in and out side + the winning quest is 300 honor, gold and marks x3.

Comentário de krakokot

Feral. 90 lvl.
1 week.
3 min per run.
136 runs (+ ~30 runs before 90 lvl)
Normal and Heroic.
Dropped from normal.

Comentário de 1130029

Dropped first time I ever ran this on my shammy. I believe this is Blizz paying me back for the hundreds and hundreds of runs in Sethekk, Baron, and Kara.

Comentário de 843621

I don't know why I do this
The pain is oh so clear
150 runs and he me shuns
Why is this drake so dear?
I pray to the gods
I promise lots
I'll be good from hither on,
If they let me have
This drake I crave
I'll praise them dusk and dawn.
What sucketh most
I'll say it now
Is when I win this wyrm,
I'll ride him once or twice for show
Then another mount I'll yearn

Comentário de unholydriver

I can confirm that this mount is also sold at the Black Market. It was going for 27,900 gold today on Velen; of course this will vary from realm-to-realm.

Good luck to all those trying to attain it!

Comentário de 749141

a good item to have when your running this dungeon is the Salyin Battle Banner an easy disengage you just run to the boss then pop it to disappear just be careful that the scout does not pull anymore cause they will come after you face towards the wall or something when you pop it. But be warned there is a 10 minute CD so if you die on boss or the trash kicks your ass your going either have to wait for CD or do the run normally killing everything this also means you will likely have to clear the 2nd half of the instance up to the boss if you dont have any DEs but at least you dont have to worry about the first part if you play your cards right

Comentário de 1067561

Got this mount last week after 179 runs on normal! It took awhile but finally did. The people who get it sooner grats to you... you are one of the lucky ones!

Comentário de 675040

Just dropped for me after 400+ (normal mode) attempts across different alts.

Using a rogue does seem quickest with the sprint spec. Was back at Altairus before cd's were back up each time.

Good luck to you all.

Comentário de 1134888

I almost feel terrible, but I was extremely bored and decided to solo this on normal for a little.

First run, nothing, already bored, but I said to myself "what if it just takes one more run"

So as I always do, one more run.

2nd run - Drops.

Good luck to everyone, it's a great looking mount.

Comentário de danandijvie

I've made a short guide on how to solo run this instance in 4 minutes. May be warrior specific.

Comentário de 981934

As of 04.08.13, i got this on my 30th run.

Comentário de inzomniack

So, i've been farming this on and off for a month or so now, was looking to bolster my mount collection up to 200 and with the exception of raid drops, and ZG, figured i had all the other dungeon mounts.

A week or two i thought i would watch a farming video, make sure i was doing it efficiently - found a warrior one, which reminded me i could use a teleport mechanic (they used heroic leap, im a mage so i can blink) through some mobs

Last night I thought i might turn my hand at making a Mage - how to / 4 min video (tried to do this once or twice last week, and stuffed the pathing up so hard aggro came out my nose)

Here's the results - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUpYFHxXCA8

Don't give up hope everyone :)

Comentário de benx2011

as a 522 Survival hunter, i just run through all mobs, then when they are packed, just spam Multi Shot, just 2 or 3 MS can wipe them out at once. i do every run in less than 5 mins.

Comentário de ceasure

I highly recommend killing everything up to Altairus if you are farming Rédeas do Draco do Vento Norte. Why? Because Ar Volátil drops off of most of the mobs and various greens/blues (In the range of level 78-81). In the 5 instance lockout I would go to the AH and make an average of 2.5-3.5k gold on items that dropped. Makes the grind seem like less of a pain if you're making gold from it at the same time. Plus after 127 runs when my mount dropped I had made a total of 81k gold just from the items that dropped there. Definitely worth it.

Comentário de tattooed1976

Mine dropped real quick, got lucky I guess. Dropped in regular on my 6th run or so :)

Comentário de alecrezyrk

I killed this dragon so many dang times now I started farming the stonecore drake, got that in like 6 tries, and still on the north wind drake >< oh well ill get it one of these times

Comentário de 749141

got mine today finally after about 220 tries (i did not keep exact count)

Comentário de 1150800

Sologuide for a level 90 Rogue:

1. Stealth and spam "Burst of speed" (choose it if you dont have it) and skip all trash.

2. Kill first boss. (Cant be skipped)

3. Use "Throw" on the two orbs blocking your way.

4. Use "Vanish" after orbs and spam "Burst of speed" til 2:nd boss.

5. Kill 2:nd boss and skin the bastard if he doesn´t drop the mount! ;-)

6. Jump down from the edge to get teleported back to the entrance.

7. Go out, reset and repeat until you get bored or really happy!

(pls comment if you have helpfull ideas, hope I can get back in the instance now...)

Comentário de Nickoman8725

Just grabbed mine today, 2nd kill.

Comentário de Faydelity

I'm curious as to how many runs everyone has attempted to get this mount. I'm currently on my 106th run and I have yet to see it. Is anyone else running it this many times and not seeing it drop or is it just me? I've been running it on Normal and a few Heroics.

Comentário de Sharwin22

Started farming this mount again today, after having a long break from farming mounts.
As an ilvl 538 ele shaman wearing resto gear, I completed it in 10min. I did it on reg, because there is no need to waste time doing it on heroic.
I killed every mob on the way to the boss - farming a bit of rep while I'm at it.

Since it's only a 10min run, I will have time to spare every hour if I go any faster - which is doable for a lot of classes.
You can only enter 5 instances per hour - this is account wide (or at least for that server).

To exit quickly, you just jump off the side and you fall for a little bit, then start spinning back up, then be ported to the start of the instance.

Edit: on my ilvl 532 MM hunter, this took 7min if I killed everything on the way there. It took 2 min when I used camouflage and aspect of the cheetah - I could run pass everything except the first boss - 16sec kill - and of course killing Altarius - 12sec kill with favorable wind.

Killing everything also resulted in collecting 26 Volatile Air - about 5g each on the AH on Antonidas - and 1 BoE rare item almost every run.

Comentário de homiebrah

Not sure what takes more dedication here.

To get the mount itself, or to keep count of the number of times trying to get the mount.

Comentário de Methiados

Dropped for me today 11/17/2013 on Aggrammar - 3:59 a.m. server time.

Comentário de Soybeanie

Listed on the BMAH for a starting price of 20,000g.

Comentário de Eryndes

Just did the Vortex Pinnacle dungeon.. The mount dropped and I got it. I rolled need 86, another player rolled need 84. I'm so happy now. It was the third time I ran the dungeon with dungeon finder. Wow. 3. damn. runs. and I just got it. VERY happy.

Comentário de 1202300

Decided to give this a try today on normal mode and gues what.... mount dropped on first attempt <3

Comentário de 573167

After 131 total victories the mount dropped! Good luck all!

Comentário de 1206538

If you have access to Timeless Isle, it might be worth it to farm for Scuttler Shells from Ancient Spineclaws and Monstrous Spineclaws. (Respectively 10% and 50% drop chance)

If you play a character which doesn't have a way to bypass the trash mobs scuttler shells make you invisible to the these mobs (unless running directly into them)

This way you only have to fight the first boss and Altarius and can do 5 runs in 20 minutes. With scuttler shells having a timer of 60 minutes you could do up to 12-15 runs on each shell.

When you reach the instance limit log out of the game and the timer of the scuttler shell will stop as well. (If you want to stop the timer in-game you'll loose the shell) Unless you're farming for gold/loot/Volatile orbs using scuttler shell's makes farming a lot less tedious.

I'm now on my 116th run but thanks to these shells I don't mind farming as much anymore. You can have a maximum of 10 scuttler shells at the same time.

Comentário de Ozzayel

I'm now on 255 runs and no drop :(
And there's more uncounted runs on top of that from when it was current content and i never saw it.

Will update as I continue to grind it.
As a hunter I can complete a run in just over 3 minutes, but even being able to do 5 runs very fast it's getting v annoying at this point.

Update: Now 300...

Finally got it on run 340.

Comentário de 1218729

Ran Vortex Pinnacle today and got him on the first try when I was just farming rep, it was a nice surprise! Then he dropped again the third time I ran it... there goes my WoW luck. :I

Comentário de JRxPHANTOM

25 runs in so far. Interestingly, I think it is a good idea to kill the trash leading up to him. The Volatile Air on some servers can sell for a good amount (7g for 1 air on my realm) and they seem to have a high drop rate. Even though I haven't got the mount yet from farming, I've made a few thousand gold extra just on the Volatile Airs from the mobs leading up to him. 210g for 30 Air.

Comentário de lmgodard

I have Mims head, Invincible, Experiment 12-B, A'lar, Onyxia, Alys firebird, Stonecore to name a few and yet...still working on this one

At least 307 so far on my rogue

Will update when I get it, I can almost guarantee that I'll probably have a record of how many kills this will take lol

Edit: 348 kills and finally got it!
I don't care about the downvotes. I'm so happy that I never have to run this thing again!
Good luck to those who are still farming it, I hope you see it soon! :)

Comentário de r8dj

Still drops on normal mode. ~110 runs to see a drop personally.

Comentário de 1228519

got mine today after 65 tries on normal mode

Comentário de 1063987

Fastest way to do these runs as a Warlock is to go Demo with Mannoroth's Fury and Glyph of Soul Consumption. Kill the three Armored Mistrals with Fel Flame (they move slowly; can't use vortexes in combat). Run to first boss, LOS the train, demon form, immolation aura, burn boss while trash dies to passive AOE, and loot. Next part works the same way. Got my run times down to < 4 min this way.

Comentário de 1063987

Statistical information -- or, why you shouldn't give up.

Assume 0.8% is the true drop rate. The chance of seeing this mount drop at least once is 1-.992^N, where N is the total # of runs you've done. So N = ceil(log(1-P)/log(.992)), which works in Matlab so I'm lazy about simplifying. Here's the number of runs at which you're P% likely to have seen the mount at least once:

P = N runs
0.1 (10% chance) = 14 runs
0.2 = 28
0.3 = 45
0.4 = 64
0.5 = 87
0.6 = 115
0.7 = 150
0.8 = 201
0.9 = 287
0.99 = 574
0.999 (99.9% chance) = 861 runs

Comentário de Jazzycakes2

So like most people I've been soloing multiple instances for various bosses and have put together some statistical likelihood that I want to share with you all so that you can use this information as well to your own bidding.

So I'm farming these mounts on a day basis
Rédeas do Protodraco Azul 1.1% Chance to drop
Rédeas do Senhor dos Corvos 1.6% Chance to drop
Raptor Razzashi Armadurado 1.0% Chance to drop
Pantera Zulian Veloz 0.96% Chance to drop
Rédeas do Draco de Pedra Vítreo 0.77% Chance to drop
Rédeas do Draco do Vento Norte 0.8% Chance to drop

Now I want to look at the statistical likelyhood of NOT seeing any of the above drop, we use an inverted value for the above (1% turns to 99%, 1.5% to 98.5%). The calculation is as followed

0.989 x 0.984 x 0.99 x 0.9906 x 0.9923 x 0.992 = 93.94% Chance of none of the above mounts dropping. (6.06% chance of at least one mount dropping)

I improve this by running this 7 times a week = 0.9394^7 = 64.56% Chance of no mounts dropping
OR run this 21 times a week with 3 alts = 0.9394^21 = 26.91% Chance of no mounts (73.1% chance of at least 1 mount!)

Wednesday I also include 3 weekly mounts which include

Cinzas de Al'ar 1.96% Chance to drop
Rédeas do Cavalo de Guerra Fogoso 0.85% Chance to drop
Rédeas do Draco Onyxiano 1.13% Chance to drop

This day the chance for nothing is (daily mounts) 0.9394 x 0.9804 x 0.9915 x 0.9887 =90.28% chance of nothing dropping - or 9.72% chance of one or more mounts dropping :)

Comentário de EvilTroy

A quick note for those of us who can't stealth: at lvl 90 I've found that if I stay near the ledge in the pinnacle and pop nitro boosters and use some swiftness potions, I can get by a lot of trash (wait for them to turn their backs). No drop yet, but I can work on the computer and come back to the came to use boosters and/or potions every couple of minutes. If you would to burn right through it, it would probably only take 5 minutes by avoiding trash. Didn't see anyone mention this earlier, hope it helps, happy farming!

Comentário de 1201219

got this mount after 50+ kills, and made alot of gold from selling the greens and A LOT of gold from all the volatile air. now i have every dungeon mount in wow!

Comentário de 1243254

I know how angry people will be when they read this... I understand because this NEVER happens to me... So I decide I want this mount....I do Vortex Pinnacle Heroic out of curiosity and boredom, I knew the mount wouldn't drop....And yep....It DROPPED....First time on that toon. Long time since I've done it on any toon. I realize fully it's like winning the lottery and damn I'm happy and thankful :)

Comentário de dchriest25

As of 4/07/14 the instance per hour limit has been raised from 5 to 10 per hour.

Happy farming!

Comentário de Gelidus

Went there to start farming for the first time tonight. Dropped very first run!

Comentário de Clern

Got it after 150 runs. I am a rogue and I highly recommend speccing into Nightstalker and Burst of Speed. You can finish the run for the mount in under three minutes in semi-decent flex gear. (545 gear here.) Best advice I have for any one trying to farm it is this: Never give up, it will drop eventually if you keep it at.. Sell the drops you get, run it on a skinner, I made over 14k gold on these runs. See it as gold farming as the priority and the mount as an added bonus and you will feel much better about the farm. Good luck ladies and gentlemen.

Comentário de Dianora

164 run, still no mount.

Comentário de Runawaynow

No one cares to read comments that say how many runs it took, so I'm not here to say (just) that ;)

With the upped instance reset limit to 10, instead of treating every run as "Maybe it will drop this time" I tried to treat it as "How fast can I do this run?" and kept track of my best times and tested different routes to get a faster time for total time spent in each run. This made it less of a chore and a bit more of a personal mini-game challenge...? I guess.

Anyway I'm betting goblin engineer rogue is the outright winner for fastest possible time of any class, but I was doing these runs as engineering survival hunter, ilvl 541. My fastest total in-instance time was 2:51 on run 257 only 4 runs before it finally dropped.
(The addon OQueue keeps track of each instance time automatically, and Rarity keeps track of rare item drop attempts. WoW also has an in-game timer if you don't want extra addons, just use /timer in-game to open it.)

So challenge yourself in some way to make the runs more fun instead of a chore, and good luck! :D

Comentário de Jazzycakes2

After 150 runs in stonecore, finally got that drake.

During my first Vortex Pinnacle I was thinking "is this going to be a long run back to reset this instance" while killing the boss.

Then I saw that sweet purple spot in the loot box.

Stonecore mount looks heaps better though.

Comentário de Raikenkaji

i was fortunate enough to get this beauty on my second attempt on an instance group a few weeks ago. when we got in the healer left group right away after seeing the dungeon and another dps quit right after. I was debating to leave when one of the dps druids offered to heal and tank joined the group and we ended up finishing the instance with 4 people the reigns dropped and we all went for it i was lucky enough to win the roll but they were all good sports about it. this made this mount so memorable to me

Comentário de Rakoi

I'm a level 90 destruction warlock and decided to solo the Vortex Pinnacle to try to get this mount. I mainly used a Fel Imp to help me kill things/heal but I got maybe 10k damage from things at the most. I used a Voidlord on things over 1m hit points. I got this first try! I'm stoked, I normally have okayish luck but this was fantastic! To all the level 90's out there, you should try it! It's easy to solo and if you can't do it just take 1 friend. Hopefully you'll have the luck I had but if not, keep trying! It's a great way to try to get it instead of buying it. Good luck! :)

Edit: I also had a soulstone on myself just in case I died, make sure you remember to do that. Also I don't know if it makes a difference or not but my kill time for Altairus was around 13 seconds. It probably doesn't but if anyone's interested, that's how long it took. :)

Comentário de shadeymcbones

got both vitreous stone drake and this1 on my 8th try today :) guess you just have to be extremely lucky

Comentário de Voltaision

for all mages looking to do this it is super easy just make sure you have improved invisibility so you can invis past all trash mobs and only have to wait 1.5 min for it to finish a cooldown if your not properly geared for it make sure you have the glyph of evocation so that you can heal quickly I got it in 7 days with 115 runs good hunting!

Comentário de dmbardal

I recommend everyone that are trying to get this mount to keep looting everything.
Sell or disenchant everything you get.

I had ~60 slots free when farming, and after a few days.
72 runs later. I had the mount and 8700g more than when I entered and started farming it.

Comentário de armerus

For those wanting to farm this mount, I recommend using Casco de Santola , as you don't need to fight any mobs other than the first boss before Altarius.

As of Warlords, this may no longer work due to the pandaria requirement Casco de Santola , sadly. (Damnit Blizzard why this was useful)

Comentário de 997831

This mount dropped for me today on my mage while soloing heroic Vortex Pinnacle. I recently began farming Chaos Orbs to use for tailoring (for Dreamcloth and ultimately Illusionary bags) and chose to farm Vortex Pinnacle and a couple dungeons in Caverns of Time. Vortex Pinnacle is the most profitable dungeon to farm for me because it drops tons of Volatile Air (I've gotten 50 in one run and they go for ~6-7 gold each on my server). It is an exceedingly easy heroic solo.

Take a portal to dalaran. Go to the Violet Citadel, up the stairs to the left there is a portal to the Caverns of Time. From there it is a relatively short flight south. I usually do it first then port back to dal (since I'm a mage), back to CoT and do a couple other heroics in CoT.

I got the drake after only 3 runs, I guess I'm super lucky. I wasn't even going for the mount, just the profitable Volatile Airs and the Chaos Orb. After using the mount, I very much like the model and it may replace my current go to mount. I was getting a little low on gold on my mage alt when I decided to farm these old heroics and I have made 2k in 3 days just vendoring everything except the orbs and volatiles. I got maybe 5 boe epics on the AH, 14 orbs, 150 airs as well. I could have made more selling the boe blues, de'ing things but to me it's not worth the effort.

There is no feat of strength achievement for this mount (like there is with the Raven Lord, Grand Black War Mammoth, etc) but personally I don't care about achievement points. Overall, I would very much recommend farming heroic Vortex Pinnacle.

Comentário de Aoir

Well, I suppose luck/karma smiled on me today, because after only 12 runs of VP on normal, the drake dropped. Maybe to compensate for the 220 runs it took me through the Stonecore to get the Rédeas do Draco de Pedra Vítreo.

Comentário de strangeclouds

Finally got her on my hunter :) only took about 50 runs or so...

Comentário de TimB1087

For those of you who are curious how many runs it takes, on average, for a player to get this mount to drop, then performing a simple calculation will get you the answer rather than thumbing through comments. Yes, I am fully aware that you could be super lucky and get it after 20 runs, or super unlucky and get it after 400 runs. However, once you near 100 runs, you begin to wonder how many everyone else did before getting theirs.

So, to find out, simply click on the 'Dropped by' tab, punch in the bottom number in your calculator and divide by the top number. That is, thus far, the average number of runs a player must complete before seeing the mount drop.

Again, this is just an average of everyone, which includes both the super lucky 20 run person and the super unlucky 400 run person. Your luck will vary, but this will let you know to not give up only after 50 runs.

Comentário de Darkdefender

Oh my #$%^ing god just got it on my like. 5th? try, and it was my first heroic one as well!

Comentário de Maritas

I can confirm this drops on normal - just got this baby tonight. Farming solid for about 2 weeks and resetting the instance - so about 7/10 runs a night. The shell from timeless isle works but if you're in there, might as well farm gold and the air - as well an the blues that still sell pretty good on my server.

So don't give up, keep resetting the instance and run it. Good luck.

Comentário de Cordessa

Just got this beauty in a normal run as level 83.
Thought it only dropped on HC, guess I was wrong.
You do need to have Artisan Riding to "learn it", so had to use 5000 gold on a random alt to use the mount :/ It is soulbound, not account bound so you can't send it to a main and learn it that way.

Comentário de 1379721

Got it on my first try!

Comentário de 1197457

This is a very easy farm for 90's, especially if you can stealth, although you have to kill the first boss to progress.
I got it down to about 4-5 min per kill on a Rogue(i483) since after you kill Altairus you can just jump off the level and the wind will bring you back to the entrance.
Haven't got the mount yet myself but I just started a day ago. Good luck everyone.
Great looking drake model btw, never liked the proto drakes, or stone drakes, and the vanilla models were getting tiresome.

Comentário de MasterchiefJ

I just got this collector's item after 137 runs on my hunter on Normal mode.

Some additional info with Sv hunter tips:

1. Make sure to switch to Aspect of the Hawk when fighting a boss and start off with a Black Arrow to get an early Lock n' Load proc.
2. Don't bother using Glyph of Camouflage, it will only slow you down. I can confirm that you can stealth past every mob with your pet out.
3. Definitely use Posthaste/Glyph of Disengage for more speed and use Disengage on CD.
4. If you accidentally pull a group and wanna have some fun, you can use Glyph of Explosive Trap to bounce mobs off the edge.
5. When attacking the orbs, put your pet on passive or it will just stay there for no reason.
6. Does the mount really drop on Normal mode? I'm on 125326968 runs and I still don't have it!
Yes, it does...Have patience, you will get it!

Last but not least, don't drive yourself insane. Take a break if you feel you need one and challenge yourself in other ways (like having speed runs etc.).
As a non-goblin/engineering hunter my record was 2:56.
Good luck to all farmers!

Comentário de 1384306

Boss still drops since 6.0.2 went live? Have been running this dungeon on normal with several friends, but none of us have seen it dropped. We all did over more than 150 runs, and this our 3th day farming Altarius for the mount. Would like to see if anyone could confirm this. Thank you in advance.

Comentário de Riipperi

Is this still dropping, can anyone confirm?

Comentário de 1386316

I got this drake right when cata came out and i was leveling and got this dungeon in lfg. I knew it was a rare drop but since I didn't even know about it before i got it and saw it drop my first time i assumed it had a high drop rate; it makes me happy knowing it doesn't and i have it

Comentário de Omega90210

Definatley still drops, took me over 50 tries but i got the damn thing...worth it too! Used my 90 rogue, best way to farm this, stealth all the way to boss one, and boss two... and FYI dropped on normal. Good Luck!

Comentário de 43059

I am now at 451 kills and still no drop. I have Al'ar, the Ony drake, and Experiment 12-B, along with all new and original ZG mounts so I consider myself very lucky. Unfortunately this mount will not drop.

Comentário de 1389279

I did the runs as a lvl90 mage after WoW update 6.0.02. I was using greater invisibility, super nova and a load of blinks and blazing speeds to run run VPn in less than 3mins (on heroic it took a little longer). My ilvl at the time was 494. My fastest time on normal was 2m 41s and after 142 runs it finally dropped on normal while I wasn't even paying attention to the drop (I was chatting with guildies) and after 130 attempts I decided I would stop at 200. So I was doing it for the gold for gear and if I reached 200 I would quit. People that say they got it on their first drop are liars or just jerks for posting that they got it in their 1-10 try. I used the addon Rarity from cursegaming to keep count of how many times I ran it. It took 3 days (not consecutive hours) so good luck and happy hunting. Special thanks to Kavinsky for keeping me sane and entertained. Also, Rarity will let you know everything that DELVelanas said regarding percentages and odds.

Comentário de hobbesmarcus

Tip for people farming the mount: obviously you can do it on normal and heroic, but after you kill Altairus and you want to exit the instance simply run off the edge. You won't die and in fact it teleports you to the start of the instance. Then you run out, change the difficulty and go back in. Much faster than running out or hearthing out.

Good luck!

Comentário de turkesh

I run this on a level 90 Combat Ladino using Stealth with and Sprint with . All enemies can be snuck past except Grã-vizir Ertan and a pair of Ventania Uivantes. Damage the Gales with Lançar to prevent their knockback effect. Jump off the edge of the platform after killing and looting Altairus to be ported back to the front door. Run out, reset all instances, rinse and repeat. Roundtrip is under 2:30 door to door.

Comentário de Spicywiener

Not sure when this occurred probably with patch 6.0.2 but its now possible to run the dungeon 10 times in an hour rather than 5 times before getting the "you've entered too many instances" error :D happy days MOAR FARMS! happy hunting people :D

Comentário de 1206538

524 tries with my Rogue, but finally got him although not with that character. Funnily enough I got him on my first try with my Death Knight afterwards. For some reason I got a nagging feeling I needed to switch characters, and I'm very glad I did.

It was so worth it.

If I didn't have Rogue (stealth + fast movement + Cloak of Shadows for Howling Gale), I would probably have given up eventually on any other character. Took me around 2 weeks with a few breaks inbetween.

Comentário de 1405685

So... I don't know if anything have changed since the release of Warlords, or if I'm just super lucky, but I got this on my second run on my level 100 rogue. So for anyone that's thinking of farming this one, if may just be so that they have upped the drop rate some!

Comentário de 1424961

Currently I am on attempt number 93.. Hopefully I will like this mount!

I will let you guys know how many it took when it finally drops. Good luck!

Comentário de Rayvic

After 66 farming runs, I have finally obtained this mount. Was obtained on normal.

Comentário de 1435441

Hey all, I just got this mount! Took approximately 25 runs. Each run took about 5 mins on my 100 feral druid. Even tried a few on my 90 hunter - any 90 alts with stealth/camo make for a quick run. I suggest clearing the instance after killing the 2nd boss for the 32g reward. I also ran with a tabard on to get exaulted for other mounts ~ 400 rep per run just killing trash quick. Don't forget the gold you'll be making from vendoring drops! I'd guess ~ 80-100g per run (aka /5mins = 960-1200g per hour). Not bad! Keep the faith, I know I got lucky at only 25 runs, 1 in 4 of you will too! Cheers

Comentário de 1434890

I forgot I was even grinding for this thing when it dropped. I would estimate that I did this instance around 200 times previously. Tonight I logged in and my first attempt which was heroic, it dropped. I can't believe how beautiful this thing is. I will add some screen shots.

Comentário de Wheeljack

Having a 90+ rogue makes this farm trivial.
An average run is completed in 2 minutes or less.

Stealth up and Estouro de Velocidade your way through the instance.
Manto das Sombras and Disparada past the two Ventania Uivante. Kill Altairus and jump off the edge to be teleported to the instance entrance.
Put on your favorite Netflix-show and good luck farming.

For added bonus, you can also wear a Cataclysm tabard for championing (unsure if you are getting rep gains at normal difficulty). For example Tabardo de Ramkahen as you are able to purchase Rédeas do Camelo Marrom de Montaria and Rédeas do Camelo de Montaria Castanho at exalted.

Also, be sure to loot the bosses. I made quite a few k of gold just by vendoring the drops.
(and, for the sake of statistics, my final number was 3 heroics, 85 normal runs.)

Comentário de 783088

Finally got mine after what had to have been around 200 solo kills post-cata (heroic mode). I would say 1% is still accurate. 1 less place to fly to every day is a nice thought, heh :)

Comentário de 62136

I got this beautiful mount about a week ago on my 18th attempt. Absolutely ridiculous, as I am never that lucky.

I encourage everyone farming this thing to keep at it. Floating around on this dragon in any major city is well worth it; makes you feel badass.

Comentário de 1445101

Well, decided on having so much "Luck" with Blue Proto-Drake, Went for this mythical mount. I can't help but kick myself in the ass, attained on 6th run. I've have noticed with the comments on the current patch (6.0.3) concerning the mounts that are dropped in instances,Rédeas do Protodraco Azul#comments (Jazzycakes2 comment) seem to be dropping at a higher rate. Although a just an theory, Not smart enough or have the software to research it =D. Wish best of luck. Also Rogue is best in running for this mount but exaggerated at 2min. My best was 3 1/2 min Complete turn with speed buffs etc. Thanks

Comentário de Gannon

At level 100 a hunter can run this pretty quickly. I just dismissed my pet (I was BM at the time) and camouflaged with aspect of the cheetah on right before the first set of mobs and came out of camo only to kill the first boss in two shots.

On the platforms leading up to Altairus, you don't even have to camo, as all the mobs are spread out enough you don't have to worry about aggro, so just keep aspect of the cheetah on and two shot Altairus. If no mount drop, jump off the edge of his platform (like all the way off...like "you just can't take it anymore" off the ledge) where you would normally click the cyclone to take you to the next platform and it will port you back to the beginning, so you can run out and reset the instance.

Don't forget that you can now run 10 dungeons in an hour before getting locked out. Thankfully I only had to do it 7 times before the mount dropped, but this way it's as quick and painless as you're gonna get!

Good luck!

Comentário de DarlingDoolittle

I can confirm that if you are level 100 (And have no pet out), you can simply run through all of the mobs. Find a nice space in the middle of two adds and squeeze right through. Hug the walls like they are your best friends, and don't stop running (The wind elements will "feign" death, allowing you to run right over them!)

The only things that you actually need to attack are the first boss, the howling wind orbs that will send you flying, and of course, the drake that drops this mount. Everything besides that can be ignored. After you're done with the second boss, jump off and it'll send you to the start of the dungeon.

When I ignore all of the mobs, it takes me anywhere from 2-4 minutes to run the dungeon.

Comentário de deepthought1983

Dude. No need to hit the orbs. At level 100, YOU CAN RUN RIGHT THROUGH THEM.

Comentário de selkiesidhe

Was farming rep, not expecting the mount to drop. What a nice day this is. :)

Comentário de gapds

I tried countless runs in normal mode, so I decided to try in heroics too. Got it on the 3rd heroic.

Comentário de Aenes

Just a tip; If you want to reset the dungeon while farming for this drake, Just jump off the platform. You will be caught in a whirlwind and teleported to the entrance of the dungeon so you don't need to run all the way back. :3

Comentário de 931975

Just got this on my main. I got it after my 110th kill in normal mode.

Based on the percentage, this amount of runs wasn't lucky, nor unlucky. Fairly average actually, so if you're expecting to farm for this mount, be ready to do the Vortex Pinnacle this many times in the very least.

Always remember, patience and persistence is always rewarded, especially in World of Warcraft.

Comentário de trploafer

Have to admit it could be just luck. But after read recent comment about high drop rate in current edition I decided to come try this drake. After 3 normal runs I change to heroic to call it a day. And in the 1st heroic try the drake dropped. Good luck and hope this can help.

Comentário de 1481964

I settled in for a long farm, only to get this on my 5th attempt... confirmed you can get it on normal - you do NOT have to run heroic. Also as level 100 you can walk right past all the trash mobs.

Comentário de sterling07

I'm wondering if i'm doing it right..
So i just start farming in normal mode, I go to the drake, kill it, jump off the terrace, than go out from the instance. Than I reset the instance,so that i can re-do it. I'm doing this for about the 60th time...still don"t know if this is a good method, but in 6.1 there isn't any lock in normal mode as i noticed, so maybe this can be a good way.

Comentário de furymask

Went farming for this, Vitreous Stone drake, and Rivendare's deathcharger

Vitreous dropped on my 7th run of stonecore

North Wind drake dropped on my 21st run of vortex pinnacle

Deathcharger dropped on my 203rd run of Stratholme

Overall pretty decent

Comentário de ToviValdora

I'll post this to the other drake too...

I *think* there might be a higher drop rate on heroic than normal. I was able to run both Vortex and Stonecore 22 times a day on heroic.

This drake dropped after about 30 runs; the Stonecore drake after about 60 runs.

I know there's a possibility I just got extremely lucky (rng and all) but I just wanted to share my findings in case someone wants to do just what I did.

Good luck.

Comentário de 1432198

At level 100 this becomes seriously easy to do. I play as a BM hunter, for those who were wondering. This is what I do.
-Zone in
-Just walk through. I didn't even bother to stealth, my pet took care of it.
-Kill the first boss
-Just run through all the way to the dragon
-Just nuke it.
-Jump down, reset, repeat

But remember, this mount is still very rare and can take you hundreds of runs to actually get. Or it could take you twenty. Random drop is random. Personally it took me 4 runs.. I was very suprised but happy with it. Just don't give up and you'll eventually get it!
Happy hunting!

Comentário de g90814

This is so much easier at lvl 100. You can run by most of the mobs without aggro... so just run to target boss, then jump off side. You'll be ported back to entrance, then you can exit, reset, and repeat.

Comentário de scottishvoodoo

Took about 150-200 runs for me. Used a rogue and kept up Burst of Speed. When I got to the Howling Gale I just used Cloak of Shadows and Sprint past. Was very quick to do and worth doing for this lovely mount!

Comentário de 1507435

Farming this bad boy, currently at 70 kills, yet no drop. I will keep updating! Doing normal runs.

UPDATE: 75 kills it dropped! From all the comments below it looks like I had a bit of luck. I just ignored all monsters and didn't loot anything apart from the boss that can drop the mount. GL everybody!

Comentário de 1507575

I can confirm, that he dropped me today at 4th solo run with my 100 lvl mage, just nuke. :)

Comentário de Tiefflieger

Some quick facts:

as a 90+, you can run the instance even without stealth without pulling any mobs.
Every once in a while they will aggro you though when they walk right into you.
After killing the boss that drops the mount, just jump off the platform, exit the instance and reset it.
There's a limitation of 10 runs per hour
Each run cycle takes about 2 mins 30 seconds minimum.
Measured as a lvl 97 feral, starting in the instance up to finishing it, including: exit instance, reset, re-enter instance
You may be very lucky or very, very unlucky: Drops have been reported both at the 4th and at the 800th run.
Doing some maths: A drop rate of 0.9% for each kill leads to:

A chance of 50% to get it within 77 tries.
A chance of 75% to get it within 153 tries.
A chance of 90% to get it within 255 tries.

Things to do once it drops:

Cry and laugh like a maniac
Shout eureka while running through the streets naked (have as per regulations a friend with a handy bath towel nearby though)
Tell those nice men in white they can let you out now

Comentário de alessandrouw

I got this after 235 attempts (/sigh) and I used a level 91 Rogue with Estouro de Velocidade and . I could do roughly one try for each 2 minutes. You can do 10 attempts before you get blocked from doing instances, and you have to wait an hour to try again. I recommend just sitting an alt outside and logging him once in a while.

Comentário de Coldaria

Druids have it easiest when it comes traveling through this instance the quickest. All you have to do is equip Glyph of Travel and go Stag the entire time. You get the 60% mounted movement speed bonus from the glyph in this instance and thus moving at full mounted speed! Hell as a Feral I one shot the bosses in Stag form. It cuts a 2-2:30 min run to 1-1:30 min. Course you'll run out of your 10 instances per hour faster, but you can kill time by farming Cataclysm mats below.

Comentário de Tyudeongi

Got it on my first try *happy*

Comentário de 1535679

I never played cata dungeons, i only jumped right up to pandaria, and i am sorry to brag, but i got this mount, so here is the short story: i was doing quests in Uldum, and i thought, that i would be nice to solo the vortex pinacle for the purpose of learning the lore and etc. When i killed Altairus i just looked at the loot and bam! A drake mount, it looked very cool and it's epic, so i thought i should check him on the wowhead for the drop rates, and then i realised that i must be the most lucky player in wow :D, it was sad to read all the comments writing about endless grinding of this mount, when i just claimed it on my first try, well that's the story, good luck finding your own drake :)

Comentário de Quackie

Hi folks,

While there are far better guides and data collected than I can provide, I figured I would share my experience to provide some insight to anyone looking to farm this mount. While I don't have an addon that tracks boss kills, and the stats page under achievements only tracks the last boss of each dungeon, I did keep a general tally in my head regarding how many runs it took for me to get this mount and the one from Stonecore.

In short, the Stonecore mount took quite a bit longer for me, somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 runs. This mount took me ~40 runs of Vortex Pinnacle to finally drop. Considering the fact that you can run these dungeons 10 times/hour, most people seem to get the drop in ≤200 runs, and most runs take ~2-3 minutes to complete, you can reasonably expect to spend ≤30 minutes per grind session, which equates to roughly 10 total hours in each dungeon. Some might be luckier, and some won't.

In short, if you're serious about getting this drake and the one from Stonecore, just make an agreement with yourself that you're ready to complete 200 runs in each dungeon. You'll likely see at least one of the mounts in far fewer runs, but RNG is stubborn so there's no telling for sure. I set the same parameters for myself, and I wasn't disappointed because this drake dropped in ~40 runs.

Good luck, hang in there, and it WILL drop if you're persistent. Happy grinding, and I'll see you in the skies on your new mount, soon enough!

Comentário de hotcore

I just got this mount after about 100 runs. The best class by far to do this farm is a level 100 hunter and simply avoid all the mobs. Use aspect of the cheetah and barrage things that get in your way, but don't go out of your way to kill mobs as it will waste time. I also killed the first boss due to some of the loot having a vendor price of over 20g+ This grind wont reward much gold so basically killing this boss will pay for your durability of your gear as you will need to repair after 20 runs or so.
This grind can be very long so don't expect to get this mount in the first couple of kills. I got the stonecore mount in about 30 runs and I honestly believe this mount has a much lower drop rate then that mount.
I didn't bother to use any treasure potions as I'm not killing many mobs so pointless having it. Also because I ran it on normal, it has a much lower % rate to drop treasure chests with the potion so don't bother to use one.
Good luck to everyone farming this mount. It's a great mount and worth the farm :)

Comentário de Vitrovius

Does anyone know what the percentage is of not seeing this drop in 300 kills? I'm at that point. I feel like I'm in a very unlucky percentage of people.

Comentário de aceturnedjoker1

So, I realize that this may cause some negative responses, but I can assure you that it isn't my intention. It's simply a demonstration of RNG (and, if it helps coping, I've been after Invincible for years without seeing it drop). This mount dropped after only approximately 30 runs - heroic and normal. Now, off to farming others. Good luck, guys!

Comentário de 1402679

Running Vortex Pinnacle on my Shaman using Glyph of Ghostly Speed takes around ~1:50 in and out without pulling anything and only killing Ertan/Altairus.

So far I'm on around 200 runs give or take on normal mode and yet to see it drop.

Good luck.

Update: Got it around my 280th run.

Comentário de lizardo

I was starting to give out hope. It finally dropped at 392 tries.
Fastest by far for running this is a rogue using Estouro de Velocidade and . Also take Lançar Shuriken to the first boss instantly from far, and to kill the orbs quickly. Speeds things up.
Fastest I could get in and out was 1:45 min.

Comentário de Gormadok

finally got mine after more or less 110 runs (excluding earlier visits for achievements, timewalking etc). 10 runs in row, 4 times a day, and at the end of 3rd session of runs in 3rd day it dropped.

tactics - simpliest and fastest possible. NORMAL MODE
MM Hunter with aspect, with camouflage (which isnt in fact necessary because you can skip all of groups of mobs) just to be sure to not pull mobs.
1) kill 1st boss and loot
2) kill 2 gales to avoid being kicked out of map (barrage is enough)
3) climb up the ramp and kill 2nd boss and loot it.

also got 4000g from those 2 bosses :D

GL
and now its time to farm Stratholme :D

Comentário de Darkr3nder

Was sick of farming the Infinite Timereaver and thought of getting this one instead. I knew it would be an endless grind, but I was prepared to do it. I went in and killed the boss and it dropped. It's the first mount that I actually got on my first try. Good luck to all those farming for it.

Comentário de ttururu

This may have been mentioned already, but a reminder about those orbs...even at lvl 100, you can still get knocked back :| Found this out on my 40th try (never ran the dungeon at appropriate level), when it kicked me off the bridge and I had to walk all the way back. Not anything too big, but a bit of an annoyance. I will just kill these from now on.

Comentário de Ejen

Got this on my first run sadly someone rolled 2 higher than me what a good and bad luck for me

Comentário de dchriest25

Only 290 kills. BAM! (Not including the odd run on alts)

Finally I have all 4 (North, East, West and South).

Comentário de Fyuriah

I've seen several people posting their current attempt count and saying they'll update when they get it, then the mount drops only a few attempts later, so I'm trying that.
Just finished attempt 164, have one run left before waiting for the hourly reset. Will update when the mount drops.

Comentário de 411393

Look i've personally lost count how many times I've run this boss for the mount but if posting here somehow grants the favor of the wow gods and rngesus smiling upon me so be it.... Guild is off this week and it will allow me to max my runs per day... figure I would stop on by and check out these post while I'm locked out...

-Gotswood, Guardian druid for Argent Legion Sargeras-A

Comentário de Aijooo

Mimiron's Head 1/13/16 - 5 attempts
Grand Black War Mammoth 1/23/16 - 1 attempt
Onyxian Drake 1/30/16 - 4 attempts
Raven Lord 2/07/16 - 6 attempts
Voidtalon of the Dark Star 2/10/16 - 1 week of farming http://imgur.com/a/Z9aaf
Azure Drake 2/?/16 - 8 attempts
Big Love Rocket 2/20/16 - 16 attempts http://imgur.com/D1ChGh2
Swift Zulian Panther 2/24/16 - 2 attempts http://imgur.com/igOCjj0
Reins of the Drake of the South Wind 3/09/16 - 11 attempts http://imgur.com/0gylG9f
Blue Drake ? - 13 attempts
Armored Razzashi Raptor 31/3/16 - approx 15 attempts on several characters
Reins of the Drake of the North Wind 4/02/16 - 12 attempts

http://imgur.com/hN6K0lY

rngjesus still blesses me

Comentário de Aaahead

Every class at level 100+, even healers, can easily solo Pináculo do Vórtice's first and second boss in under 5 minutes, and avoid pulling any trash. Just hug walls and walk to the side of the trash mobs or between them. The only combat needed other than with the bosses are any ranged attack against the two Ventania Uivante wind orbs on a bridge to temporarily disable them, to prevent their knockback. The second boss, Altairus, is the one that has a chance to drop Rédeas do Draco do Vento Norte. If that's all you're after, do the dungeon on normal mode; after the fight, you can jump off the platform to be moved to the entrance, leave the instance, right-click your character portrait, choose "Reset All Instances", and go right back in, up to ten times per hour.

The drop rate for Rédeas do Draco do Vento Norte based on current wowhead data is 0.87% on normal mode, and 0.75% on heroic mode. Heroic mode can only be done once per day per character, so normal mode is better for repeatedly farming the mount.

There are a couple mob packs just past the initial bridge that can drop around 8 or 12 Ar Volátils, which still sell for around 7 gold each in WoD, so if you can kill them in a couple seconds it might be worth doing.

Comentário de esmerelda1rm

Finally dropped after 138 runs!

Comentário de Braylyn

Decided after not farming this mount for a long time and was actually headed to Dragon Soul, to fly over and try at it instead. After running it 5 times on normal and resetting, this beauty dropped for me.

I am not sure how many times I farmed it prior to today, however I'd venture to guess about 50 tries. ( Including running this randomly during leveling and time walking.

Also I'd like to add I was able to walk past all of the trash other than the orbs on the way, as a 100 shadow priest.

Comentário de RavingRavec

Just dropped for me on normal mode after a total of 65 runs (45 normal & 20 heroic) 30-05-2016

Comentário de DreadedX

Dropped first run today on Heroic! Amazed :O

Comentário de Pyr15

Dropped today on 2016-06-25. It was on normal difficulty. Altogether, it was 120 runs (60 heroic and 60 normal). I ran the dungeon twice everyday.

Comentário de Devious05

Did 25 runs since installing rarity a week ago and it dropped today. I farmed it on normal using my druid. I've probably done another 15 runs before that.

Comentário de Thedd

A couple of things that helped my grinde go that much smoother and less tedious.

You cannot just leave the instance after downing him which leaves three options:
1: Finish the dungeon and then take the whirlwind out. This means half of the time spent in this dungeon will be pointless.
2: Alternately farm on 2+ characters so that when you switch you will automaticaly be at the start and you can just step out and reset.
3: Do something after each run (I would down him, then run a bg) so you will start just outside AND it will help keep you from hitting the "You have run to many instances" issue.

Possibly use this as an opportunity to farm other reps as well, if you are missing any faction reputations equip a tabard and so you are farming two things at once... at least it gives you secondary goals so it is not as boring a grind. I have been farming Huojin rep personally, and it just feels better to have a bar moving so it feels like something you can track.

Comentário de iaminanimate

Decided as I was bored to insanity of archaeology to farm this. 109 kills on normal before it dropped. Fastest way I found at 100 was an enhance shaman with glyph of ghostly speed - for some reason that procs the faster speed inside the dungeon. You can skip all trash and just need to 1 shot each boss and the orbs that will throw you off. As soon as altairus is down jump off edge and get ported back. Not sure of resets now but I was getting 9 clears before it locked me from instances. Took approx 2 1/2 mins to do the run and port out again. Now back to arch :(

Comentário de datbacon

Dropped for me today after 8 normal runs. From the comments here i see i was extremely lucky. 1:30mins each run on my rogue.

Looks awesome, i love it! :)

Comentário de ayato77

I was so bored and didn't know what should i do in the game so i decided to do a few runs as i was trying this for the first time. Got it on my 4th run :)

Comentário de Sluggzo

With the removal of the rogue's Burst of Speed in 7.0, which class is now the fastest / most efficient to farm this with?

- In WoD, spamming BoS, my rogue could usually reach Altarius in 1:35-1:40. Adding another 15-20 seconds to zone back out/reset/zone back in, I could run laps in just under 2 minutes, and comfortably complete 10 attempts in 20 min.

- Minus Burst of Speed in 7.0.3, my average rogue run jumped to 2:25-2:30, using Subtlety's Nightstalker passive for a 20% speed bonus while stealthed and Sprint on a 1-minute CD (2x a run). 10 runs averaged me about 26-27 minutes.

- I tried using my Shaman's Ghost Wolf form for the 30% speed bonus. This brought my average run down to 2:20, but I without stealth I'd occasionally aggro stuff and lose a few seconds.

- My winner was my druid, using cat form for the 30% speed bonus, plus stealth, plus Displacer Beast on a 30s CD, and Dash on a 3m CD. Depending on whether Dash was available, my laps would bounce between 1:50 and 2:05, and 10 runs would take me about 23 minutes.

I expect people will come up with more efficient tricks than this; thankfully, I don't have to try any more, as I finally got the drake on (what Rarity says was) my 342nd attempt, easily the stingiest mount I've farmed to date.

Comentário de meenaze

A demon hunter can jump from the first bridge and Fel Rush x2 + Glide down to the platform.
So you can skip the whole running down the circle thing, the time it took for me to kill the boss from start to exiting the instance was exactly 2 minutes. So I can recommend farming this one as a DH :)

Comentário de Feldeer

After killing Altairus about 200 times on normal (I think it has the same chance of dropping on heroic), the mount dropped. Let me tell you how you can get done with this dungeon quickly without encountering many, if not, any trash mobs at all, using a level 100 or somewhat below Havoc Demon Hunter (might work for Vengeance too, I'm not sure):

You have three different moves that can speed your way through the dungeon: Fel Rush, Metamorphosis (use wisely), and Vengeful Retreat. If your level is high enough like the level I stated above, the mobs will not notice you unless you literally go right up to them or kill an enemy that is near a pack of mobs.

With fel rush, you can just spam it constantly throughout the dungeon (while keeping out of range of foes of course). If you don't use fel rush much however, you might wanna get to know its mechanics and damage range a bit, otherwise you will attract mobs. Fel Rush has a 10 second cooldown per rush.

With metamorphosis, you can just move your mouse forward to hover the circle over to the farthest distance you can that is away from enemies. I believe this attack has just as much range as your demon hunter's melee attack, so it won't kill/attract mobs if you click on a barren area; also, believe me, the maximum jumping range for this move is HUGE. The only down side, is that this attack has a 5 minute cooldown.

Finally, vengeful retreat. With vengeful retreat, all you have to do is have your avatar stand in the opposite direction of where you're supposed to be going, and then use this move. You have to be quick, though, if you want this move to be beneficial to completing the dungeon quickly. However, you have to have a basic idea of where you're going to land first, as you will have no control of your character until a couple seconds after executing this technique. Otherwise, you'll just wind up hopping into a band of mobs, or, worst case scenario, accidentally jump off the platform and into the abyss of clouds below, forcing you to walk all the way back from the start of the dungeon. This attack has a 25 second cooldown, 15 if you have the "Prepared" talent.

Now let's get into the Howling Gales if they prove too much trouble. If the gales ever push you off the bridge, you can use the Demon Hunter's glide ability to make your way back, or fel rush to get back on the bridge as well if you get pushed off a certain distance.

Finally, once you've done all of this all the way up to Altairus, simply kill Altairus, then jump off the platform so you can teleport to the start of the dungeon, reset it, and run it again. Repeat this whole process, and one run should take you less than three minutes!

Well, happy farming, and good luck getting your storm-born dragon mount!

PS: You do not need to use Metamorphosis to get done with the dungeon in less than three minutes. However, when it is available, it is a good idea to use it to skip past the Howling Gales on the bridge near Altairus' location.

Comentário de 1569509

Got it on my second try
downvote me

Comentário de StrutEQ

Hey Elizia here new to WoW decided I wanted to farm out this mount. I am a 110 demon hunter and decided to record myself doing a run demonstrating how I quickly was finishing this instanced dungeon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY5O__lAeeo

Apparently since I am a new poster my link will not work. However you can find my video by typing in

Farming Reins of the Drake of the North Wind DEMON HUNTER in google.

Ciao!

Comentário de PKM999

Dropped for me on my 30th run on Normal. As others have mentioned, it is fast to run as Demon Hunter.

Comentário de Adisae

I have finally gotten the mount! It took me 93 runs in four days to get it, but it was wholly worth it. This mount is big and beautiful, the lighting animations in its scales are spectacular.

Just a helpful hint I learned along the way is that you do not actually need to kill any ads on your way to the second boss. If you hug the outside wall of all the paths except for the winding path down where you will hug the inside wall, you can walk past everything not aggroed. That is assuming you are outleveled for that area where mobs do not aggro easily. I was able to speed run the dungeon to the second boss in my WW monk in 2:32.02 fairly consistently. That is if the Howling Gale decides to let me pass on my way through the first time.

The main trick to this mount is to lose all hope of ever getting it and eventually it WILL drop. The first 60 or so runs I had a sliver of hope, but after hitting the instance limit per hour so many times, I had stopped believing it would happen anytime soon. So if you are currently farming for it, keep going! You will get it soon enough!

Comentário de Adrena1in

Took me about 300 runs.

Comentário de 765714

Just did my first ever run of Vortex Pinnacle (Normal or Heroic), and this mount dropped for me. Yet it took me years to get the Raven Lord mount. Win some, lose some.

Comentário de Patter4President

So I decided to farm Rédeas do Corcel da Morte, Rédeas do Draco de Pedra Vítreo and Rédeas do Draco do Vento Norte today. Within 9 hours, including the breaks I've had, I obtained Deathcharger after 24 attempts, Stone Drake after 10 attempts and Drake of the North Wind after 18 attempts.

It has indeed been a good day!

Comentário de 748700

Got this beauty after 12 tries.
Best suggestion to speed run this, grab some Tartare de Urso and use instant ranged abilities to keep the speed buff.
Never tracked the amount of time for each run, but i never stopped moving at all, only to loot boss.
After that, just keep running off his platform in the direction hes facing and you are near the entrance for an easy reset.

Comentário de NcJackson

Currently grinding this mount using my level 102 Druid Alt, which I personally find the best for mount grinding and only took 1 minute 20 seconds to get through the dungeon and kill Altairus, before jumping of the side to be taken to the begining of the instance for a quick reset.

No fancy footwork required, simply used:-

Displacer Beast on cooldown
Dash on cooldown
Switched between Cat Form & Travel Form when using spells
Feline Swiftness Passive Talent

Still grinding with no luck, but have been blasting through till lockout and then looking for Mysterious Camel Figurines in my spare time.

Will update when or should I say "IF" the mount drops. Good luck all x

Update: Dropped after 12 attempts (since installing Rarity add on). Also, not cool to down vote comments that are trying to be helpful and help others get the mount. Instead of being childish and jealous, be thankful people are trying to help people quickly mount grind. Good luck to the genuine players <3

Comentário de Vandeel

Got my drake today at Frostmoure at 8:50pm. Did nothing special just hit everything - i did however get a stroke when i realised i got the mount on my first try

Comentário de olaivo

I got it on my 6th attempt... Lucky me :D:D

Comentário de ModishVision

Rédeas do Draco do Vento Norte mount drops from Altairus in the Pináculo do Vórtice on either difficulty.
Pináculo do Vórtice Entrance Uldum /Way 76.7, 84.4
Altairus is the second boss followed after Grã-vizir Ertan
I obtained the mount after 84 attempts farming it on/off for months.

https://youtu.be/vtUBIjMwSFQ
https://youtu.be/vtUBIjMwSFQ
https://youtu.be/vtUBIjMwSFQ

Comentário de WorgenPriest

I'm new in wow and Im leveling through randoms and it dropped it TWICE today, no luck for me because I got 6 and 10 on "Need", but reading the comments I belive I just waste all my luck on that mount and will never drop again T_T.

Comentário de shazzan

Just got it on normal! 126 attempts. Demon hunter engineer seems the best class to run it. I walked passes most mobs to save time @ level 101 just killed the bosses and enough to proc legendary speed boost. took 2 min exactly with loading, resetting and flying around. 10 per hour lock out and its account wide so no switching alts to run other instance. kill boss jump off side leave and reset. Heroic has a weekly lock out so don't do Heroic Good Luck i was wondering if it even dropped

Comentário de TerribleTim68

just confirming that it does still drop. Finally dropped for me, 10man normal. Took about 140-ish runs. I wasn't really keeping solid track as I was running it on multiple computers and toons.

Comentário de 1496792

Just dropped, Vortex Occulus (or something), normal 5 dung, 85 lvl, when leveling. Passed to next high roll, in the spirit of incoming christmas.

Comentário de woans

Just dropped now after 405 runs. I was really starting to think the loot table was bugged in patch 7.3.

As others have said, do yourself a favor a use a demon hunter to jump directly to the lower platform at the start. After so many runs i am thankful for this shortcut.

I should really start praying more times to the Loa gods to improve my RNG luck.

Good luck everyone

Comentário de tcap5225

Does anyone know if this still drops or have had it drop since last patch? I'm on 907 runs and it hasn't dropped. Wondering at this point if the loot table was bugged with the last patch.

Comentário de CrockettMaster

I can confirm for any skeptics that it does indeed still drop as of 7.3.5. I received it today after around 95 runs.

Comentário de 1842136

Mount just dropped for me! Ran it about 60 times (ish) on and off in total. Dropped on the first run for today on Frostmourne server at approx. 3pm server time :3
Happy hunting guys! Hes defo worth it <3

Comentário de lehavila

List of mounts obtainable via drop from raids and dungeon.
A updated version of @sickbox list, a special thanks for him/her.

Classic – Level 60

Dungeon

Rédeas do Corcel da Morte - Stratholme - Lorde Aurius Rivendare

Raids

Cristal Ressonante Qiraji Azul - Ahn'Qiraj - Trash
Cristal Ressonante Qiraji Verde - Ahn'Qiraj - Trash
Cristal Ressonante Qiraji Amarelo - Ahn'Qiraj - Trash
Cristal Ressonante Qiraji Vermelho - Ahn'Qiraj - Trash

The Burning Crusade – Level 70

Dungeons

Rédeas do Senhor dos Corvos - Salões dos Sethekk - Anzu (Heroic only)
Falcostruz Branco Veloz - Terraço dos Magísteres - Kael'thas Andassol (Heroic only)

Raids

Wrath of the Lich King – Level 80

Dungeons

Rédeas do Protodraco Azul - Pináculo Utgarde - Skadi, o Impiedoso (Heroic only)
Rédeas do Draco Bronze - Expurgo de Stratholme - Corruptor Infinito (Heroic only)

Raids

Rédeas do Grande Mamute de Guerra Preto - Abóbada de Arcavon - (All 4 Bosses)
Rédeas do Draco Lazúli - Olho da Eternidade - Malygos
Rédeas do Draco Azul - Olho da Eternidade - Malygos
Rédeas do Draco Preto - Santuário Obsidiano - Sartharion (3 Drakes - 10)
Rédeas do Draco do Crepúsculo - Santuário Obsidiano - Sartharion (3 Drakes - 25)
Rédeas do Draco Onyxiano - Covil da Onyxia - Onyxia
Cabeça de Mimiron - Ulduar - Yogg-Saron (No Watchers - 25)
Rédeas do Invencível - Cidadela da Coroa de Gelo - O Lich Rei (Heroic - 25)

Cataclysm – Level 85

Dungeons

Rédeas do Draco do Vento Norte - Pináculo do Vórtice - Altairus
Rédeas do Draco de Pedra Vítreo - Litocerne - Couro-pétreo
Pantera Zulian Veloz - Zul'Gurub - Alta-sacerdotisa Kilnara (Heroic only)
Raptor Razzashi Armadurado - Zul'Gurub - Sangrelorde Mandokir (Heroic only)
Urso de Batalha Amani - Zul'Aman - (Timed Reward)

Raids

Rédeas do Draco do Vento Sul - Trono dos Quatro Ventos - Al'Akir
Garrachama de Alysrazor - Terras do Fogo - Alysrazor
Ovo Fumegante de Millagazor - Terras do Fogo - Ragnaros
Experimento 12-B - Alma Dragônica - Ultraxion
Rédeas do Draco Fulgurante - Alma Dragônica - Asa da Morte
Aia da Mãe da Vida - Alma Dragônica - Asa da Morte (Heroic mode - 10H 25H)

Mists of Pandaria – Level 90

Dungeons - None

Raids

Rédeas da Serpente das Nuvens Astral - Galerias Mogu'shan - Elegon
Rebento de Horridon - Trono do Trovão - Horridon
Garra de Ji-Kun - Trono do Trovão - Ji-Kun
Jaganata Kor'kron - Cerco a Orgrimmar - Garrosh Grito Infernal (Mythic only)

Warlords of Draenor – Level 100

Dungeons - None

Raids

Destruidor Cascoferro - Fundição da Rocha Negra - Mão Negra (Mythic only)
Aniquilador de Açovil - Cidadela Fogo do Inferno - Arquimonde (Mythic only)

Legion – Level 110

Dungeons

Rédeas Eternas da Meia-noite - Karazhan - Attumen, o Caçador (Mythic only)
Serpe de Brasas Fumegantes - Karazhan - Nocturno (Mythic - Secret boss)

Raids

Núcleo Infernal Vivo - Baluarte da Noite - Gul'dan
Núcleo de Fogo do Inferno Malévolo - Baluarte da Noite - Gul'dan (Mythic only)
Verme Abissal - Tumba de Sargeras - Senhora Sassz'ine
Canisvil das Chamas Antorano - Antorus, o Trono Ardente - Shatug F'harg Felhounds of Sargeras
Ur'zul Agrilhoado - Antorus, o Trono Ardente - Argus, o Descriador (Mythic only)

Comentário de 1874613

I ran this 73 times the last few days and got it. I do not have any recollection of previous runs but there were more than 150 total runs. This most recent spam I used a Demon Hunter and jumped the gap to reduce time. If you do choose to loot you can actually make a decent penny in this dungeon as well, just make sure you have the Traveler's Tundra mount or Jeeves to sell each time you hit instance cap so that you can log the character out at the location. This mount is still waiting to be found BY YOU!

Comentário de Styder

Farmed this on and off for years. Been farming this on Normal for about the past month fairly consistently. Used my demon hunter with 150% speed to blast through the dungeon in under 5 minutes. Rinse and repeat, resetting dungeons until capped out. Didn't do it every day but average about 5 days a week, sometimes more than one set of runs per day. Since stats don't seem to record every boss kill except the final boss in dungeons, I don't know how many kills I ended up doing but it's surely in the 100s. It finally dropped today after years of farming.

Just use a fast character to run through the dungeon quickly. You can burn through the hourly dungeon cooldown in about 15-20 minutes. Most mobs are avoidable if you go between them or on the edges. Night elf is good with shadowmeld between the entrance and first boss in case you aggro some mobs since you can't use the vortex in combat. Don't expect this to drop for a while. The drop rate really is that low. I've had many other very rare mounts drop before this one.

Stay at it and happy farming.

Comentário de Rodurica

Just got it today!
Took me 80 ish runs with my warrior.
Since I already got all items from the last boss I was reseting the dungeon after Altairus by just jumping down and leaving the instance.
I never saw Vento Penetrante or Machado do Eclipse drop. That means I will be returning there soon so see you at the entrance :)
Good luck everyone.

Comentário de Skippers101

Got it under 55 tries took me 4 hours but worth it.

Comentário de RubyCA

Confirmed dropping in 8.0 pre-patch.
151 attempts.
Happy hunting!

Comentário de Spiv5

Got mine after 62 attempts, keep farming!

Comentário de Vanthalas

111 runs since I installed the rarity addon, 2 days ago. I did a whole lot more than that since cataclysm plus a bunch of timewalking runs. I had only seen it dropping once back then, while doing it in a group run - therefore, I'd say, a whole heap more than 150 runs total until I got mine.

In any case, Arma de Pé is your best friend if you're seriously considering farming it. I did it on a druid engineer and hunter, where each attempt wouldn't take more than 2 minutes.

Comentário de dozzenmadder

yeah im gonna be "that guy" .

137 runs and i finally had this drop .

keep trying and good luck .

i hope to never see the vortex pinnacle again .

Comentário de 1928597

Can confirm the mount drops in bfa patch 8.0.1, got it on my 310th run on normal. Good Luck farming folks!

Comentário de Prophethood

Just a fun, anecdotal story to this mount from when I got it during Cata.

So, there I am, playing an elemental shammy and rogue as my 2 characters for Cata. I'm doing Vortex Pinnacle and THE DRAKE OF THE NORTH WIND DROPS. I was super excited and rolled, winning the mount against 4 other people. I was super happy to have a rare mount as my account had gotten hacked.

So there I am, again, doing Vortex Pinnacle on my Shaman this time. We get to Altairus and it drops AGAIN. I rolled for it (this is before mounts were BoA) and WON IT AGAIN against 4 other people. I don't even know how to do the math on how incredibly lucky that was. I was super stoked to have the drake on both of my characters and had fun flying it around and having people ask me where I got it.

And then Blizz introduced the BoA system on mounts...

Sure, the system is great because you can ride most of your mounts on any character now. But since I didn't screenshot anything, I had no proof that I had gotten so incredibly lucky with that particular drake.

Is there anyone that could do me the favor of calculating the odds of acquiring that mount twice whilst rolling against 4 other people?

I hope you enjoyed this somewhat pointless, but hopefully mega-RNJesus story.

Comentário de RocketBuckets

If you are farming this on a DH you can jump from the first bridge to the start of the second, and save a good 30 sec on each run :)

Also, if you are really into shaving time, you can jump the corner uptill the drake with a dobbelt jump glade backflip combo.

Remember to just jump over the ledge to get quickly out of the instance.

Happy farming!

Comentário de tcap5225

I finally nabbed this beauty. It took over 1000 runs, and I took nearly a year break. I got him on normal. I used a subtlety rogue, stealthed and sprinted to Altairus, killing the first boss on the way. I think it took around 2-4 min per run.

Some advice for those thinking about this one or are already in the grind - Limit yourself to one cycle to lockout per day. I nearly lost my mind in frustration because I was doing multiple cycles per day. I damn near un-subbed because I was getting so frustrated. I will think long and hard before mount hunting again.

Comentário de Sereph89

Just had this drop for me, during Timewalking. Needless to say there were some salty friends, but it dropped for me on my 497 kill. Keep at it all.

Comentário de TheOriginalMoves

Just got this bad boy after about 20 runs (~1 hour of farming). I ran this on my horde and alliance 120 druids. Once I got locked out on one I switch to the other faction and continued. It takes roughly 1m 30s per run with a druid. Just travel form past everything. Good luck all!

Comentário de Fishfingers

Yes this guy drops on Timewalking
Proof:
https://i.imgur.com/DBgUmNm.png
Already have it so rolled it away to a lucky person.

Comentário de Warvanov

Everyone here commenting on the drop rate or how to farm it. I'm just wondering if anyone has any good transmogs that match this drake.

Comentário de xantiz

dropped for me out of the blue from a timewalking run . I never actually went on farming this one so i can only thank the RNG gods. For all the people who are farming though - keep in up - it HAS TO drop at some point.

Comentário de Vraul

Dropped for me at random when I did a single timewalking run in this instance.

My friend had called dibs, but I continue to assure him I would've probably given it to him if it weren't BoP!

Comentário de Fondoor

found after about 30 attempts.

druid travel form worked for me so i ran all the way to the first boss, sometimes without aggroing anything, killed the first boss then hit the tornado thing. then go travel form again, skip all enemies and kill Altairus and get your mount.

if you don't get the mount, you can safely jump off the platform into the abyss and teleport to the entrance of the dungeon without dying.

Comentário de Algadatur

Dropped on 2nd run. Why can't I be this lucky with Invincible?

Comentário de gmisterX

Posting this for the sake of documentation, confirmation and to give hope and courage to people farming this in 8.3 (and beyond):
- Mount dropped after 212 runs in Normal and Heroic (1 a day).
- All runs on same character, spamming 10 then waiting an hour and repeat

Having stacked speed gear and using Lightfoot Potion when able, the runs(up till 2nd boss) took 1:50 - 2:30 mins.

Good luck to anyone farming this, may you fair better than I did!

Comentário de dlflyboy

This dropped for me today after 37 runs on the same toon. Good luck all!

Comentário de EXPERIMENTONGOD

Got this mount 1st try on Heroic.

"Run Vortex Pinnacle" was the first step on my simplearmory.com "Mount Planner"

Had to double check if it was changed to 100% droprate or something.

Good luck guys :D

Comentário de Haeggenn

Took me 54 runs, 48 yesterday and on the 6th I got it today! :DDDDDDDDDDDDD

Comentário de peterwooley

417 runs.

I would have given up if I hadn't seen tcap5225 put in over 1,000 runs before seeing this drop.

Comentário de skychase

77 runs for me. Demon Hunter is absolutely the quickest class to use. From first bridge jump to near the second bridge. Sprint, fel rush etc to boss. Averaged around 2:10 from entering instance to exiting instance.

Good luck!

Comentário de beedrill

https://youtu.be/CWKQmW4k9s0
Here is how I run it in under 2 mins on a Demon Hunter.
You can jump way sooner on the first bridge using 2 dashes.

Comentário de ayshy

Rédeas do Draco do Vento Norte: Found after 79 attempts!

I run both Normal and Heroic Pináculo do Vórtice and it dropped from Altairus.

Good Luck All.

Comentário de Mordotz

Another confirmation about this mount(s drop rate). Looted recently with 123 attempts (on a Demon Hunter)

Comentário de Achti

Got mine today on normal mode after 260 attempts.

Comentário de Wolfsinger

I'm on my 473th kill and it still haven't dropped for me.
Going through the comments it seems everyone got the mount by now.
How can I be this unlucky? :'D

Comentário de DillidanForTheW

I have run The Vortex Pinnacle 157 times now and this mount will not drop. This pains me.

Comentário de brothernads

Started farming two days ago and finally dropped after 204 runs, all on normal mode. Swapped between Alliance and Horde DH when I hit the hourly lockout.

Comentário de warlock454

This dropped for me this morning (October 28, 2020). I started farming for this mount almost three weeks ago and reset/ran it on my druid about 4-5 times per day in normal mode during that time. I was primarily doing it because the value of Volatile Air was high at the time and just killed the dragon boss as a bonus, since I did not have the mount.

I estimate that it took about 70 runs or so before the mount dropped (way better than the 300+ attempts it took for the Raven Lord mount!). It's a cool looking mount.

As a side note, I was making between 800-1800g per run on the Volatile Air, depending on prices, so it's a nice little farm even when you already have the mount, especially since you can just reset it and run it again for a bit.

Comentário de Dend1366

is there a higher chance on heroic?

Comentário de Wootwootness

Got today after around 25 runs on normal (my 1st time ever trying it).

Comentário de FranksaMillion

Got after 163 attempts. It's out there alright!

Comentário de Calistro

Just got it today on my first ever run! Was only doing it for the timewalking event! Apologies to you guys that have been trying to get it...

Comentário de Karat

Do you have to talk to Zidormi to get the drake to drop? I mean, is there any difference between before N'zoth? I wonder...

Comentário de Frazlle

Here is a link to a quick video on how to obtain this mount
https://youtu.be/YfVL2JbUWyg

Comentário de Kyl2000

Got the mount on my first time playing the dungeon on timewalkingXD

Comentário de B2ThaG

This is crazy. Im a very casual wow player infact this is my first wowhead comment as what happened to me was so surreal and i had to share it. i skipped WOTLK and most of CATA contents so i never do many of its dungeons. I recently started hunting for lightning themed transmog for my hunter and thought it would be cool if I had a mount with lightning effect too. So i came across this mount and decided to farm for it. I checked the LFR for any custom group farming Ishak but to avail. I waited for about an hour and it didnt spawn so decided to check LFR again and yay ! there was a group. I joined the group and we killed him and guess what. This mount Rédeas do Draco dos Quatro Ventos dropped on my first kill ! I was so stoked as all other group members congratulated me.

An then I thought Pináculo do Vórtice is just beside me why dont i just try my luck for Rédeas do Draco do Vento Norte . I tried normal first so that I can get a second run chance at heroic later. I got to Altairus and killed it and guess what Rédeas do Draco do Vento Norte dropped on my FIRST kill too ! At this point I was so shocked and thought the RNG god is with me tonight i headed to Trono dos Quatro Ventos to get Rédeas do Draco do Vento Sul but i didnt get it. But still 2 rare mounts dropped on my first kill is pretty insane right.

Comentário de LazarusRX

Decided to start farming it yesterday, 1/24/22. Received today, 1/25/22, after around 40 kills on normal. I just kept running to him, killing, and jumping off bridge and resetting.

Comentário de MusicalSurgeon

Dropped on my first kill today. 22 total attempts :)

Comentário de Entelligente

You cannot mount up but it still counts as outside, allowing you to run around with 200% movement speed as a druid in stag form, resulting in about 2 minutes per run. The Wild Charge jump in stag form allows you to ignore the orbs on the bridge before the second boss, just jump forward if you get knocked back or away to reset your momentum.

Comentário de tippstir

Have no idea how many runs of this I've done in my life dating back to Cata, but this morning it finally dropped after 74 consecutive runs, switching back and forth between Alliance and Horde toons when I hit the max 10 instance locks.

Comentário de Lividboar

got this after 3 days, 76 runs

Comentário de ks2012ks

So this dropped for me on normal difficult by accident on my second run i was actually in the dungeon getting volatile air and i just one shotted the second boss and the drake dropped for me on my SECOND RUN! yes i don't believe it but it did... its a really cool mount too!

Comentário de itzSpamlite

Running this in 2022 and I see a lot of comments say you should run this as a DH to be as efficient as possible. I've been running this on my Druid and I have to say it's a little faster than running it on a DH since you can use Travel Form in the dungeon as a Druid. I saw people say it takes a little over 2 minutes on their DH. I just timed it on my Druid. 01:55, thats from entry to exit, only killing Ertan and Altarius and then jumping off the side and slipstreaming back to the entrance. So far I'm 40 kills into farming and no drop yet, seeing the vast array of kills in these comments, Im not suprised. I'll have to reply once it does finally drop.

Comentário de LastM

I just got it after 473 tries (Probably a bit more since I've installed rarity a month ago).
Some tips:
Use a druid. It is by far the best class to farm this mount. Even though it can't jump and skip the first part like a DH, I could always finish a run in less than 2 minutes by swapping between travel and cat form (for tiger dash) and jumping right after killing Altairus. It's even faster if you use speed gear/food, but not necessary.
Find a podcast to listen while doing this and don't do more than 20 runs a day. It's incredibly boring and will drive you insane.
If you're unlucky as I was, don't give up.

Comentário de trishabell

I probably used up all of my luck forever, but this mount dropped for us on the first try tonight.

Comentário de Jomfrublod

Dropped for me 10/11/2022 after less than 50 farming kills.

Apologies that I don't have an exact count. I ran this on normal for four days, only up to the instance cooldown each day. Used a level 55 balance druid (ranged one-shots), with tiger dash and feral affinity (for feline swiftness). As others have posted already, each run with a druid in travel form will take you less than two minutes.

Good luck!

Comentário de walruses

Dropped after 5 runs on normal, DID NOT EXPECT THIS! Good luck farming!

Comentário de Kellthuzad

I'm on attempt number 85 and nothing... but seeing that some managed after more than 100...200 I'll never understand why it has to be so hard to get a mount in this game, it's not fun and it's not even challenging because what does it have to do? challenging to enter a dungeon and kill the same mob hundreds of times over and over until you get the mount...

Comentário de dyabolykal

The drop rate has gone WAY up. I've seen it drop 3 times in 6 runs this week.

Comentário de Arkaeic

I just got this on attempt 124. Some notes on doing this on 10.0.7:
- Volatile Air sells pretty well right now so hold onto it. It'll sell the first time you list it unless you get immediately under cut. They're roughly 12g per and you get just short of 300 after your 10 runs in the hour. So you get about 3k gold.
- On my druid with a speed set and build, these runs take me a very consistent 2min and 36 seconds. I finish my runs after about 28mins.
- This mount drops off of "Altairus", the 2nd of 3 bosses in this dungeon. Once you've killed Altairus, just jump off the map. It doesn't kill you, it sets you back to the dungeon entrance. Also Volatile air only drops up to Altairus, so now there's 2 reasons :)
Have fun!
Edit: After checking my TSM for how much I made with Volatile Air during my 124 runs, I found it was 38k.
Min: 9g 03s per item | Max: 12g 34s per item
Total sold: 3498 (which works out to 28 items per run or 282 per 10 runs) (also I think I didn't start selling this item until my 20th run so these numbers may be higher)

Comentário de Nyxlia

Dropped from M+ 11 chest.

Comentário de Alyoshawow

Just got this today after 195 runs. Dropped on normal. Stick with it

Comentário de neiljwd

Saw this drop in the chest at the end of (untimed) +11 mythic key. Was tradable between the party.

Comentário de Bearsalot

I got this to drop from helping one of my Guildies get a +15 Vortex Pinnacle done.
Helping your mate run a mid key paid me out tremendously it seems

Comentário de gomis96

I mostly play as a casual player so I'm not really interested in M+ but I was able to buy it from the BMAH for 72k gold :D

Comentário de Ignitheus

As of 10.1.5, I can confirm it's possible to get this mount to drop on a Mythic+.

I got it completely unintentional and went in just for my key. Lol

Comentário de littlelover

i've killed this boss 170+ times. i dont wanna do this dungeon anymore. im really getting upset its not droping. im not going back there ever again even tho i dont have the mount

Comentário de magnog

Got it on my 70th attempt literally last run before lockout.

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Comentário de psilosd

Amazingly just dropped on an M+ 10 run. There's certainly gear with a higher drop rate i would like to have drop. Considering how low a drop chance this is I guess I count myself lucky.

Comentário de Valentina

Can confirm it can drop from Time walking.
Got it today and traded it to my husband. He has been farming it since the dungeon came out.

Comentário de WhozYerDaddy

After eons, I finally got it from a M+ 12 chest.
Finally!
She's a beauty, good luck all.

Comentário de Oztriker

Dropped after 107 tries for me on normal, just resetting the instance and doing the 10 per hour allowed.

Comentário de Chopye

Got it finally, 33th attempt :)

Comentário de AngerySnek

How do you get past the "lost in the clouds" fog in Vortex Pinnacle? I can't see any vortexes to click on and there's no one explaining another way to get past this. I guess i'm never getting any mounts from this dungeon. I hate mechanics like this

Comentário de embyveddii

I finally got this mount. I !@#$ you not, over a thousand attempts on me alone, my dad has done many too and never got it. There's always that one mount I guess... I can now rest easy

Comentário de TheWoWVeteran

Started farming this tonight on my main.
Did one Heroic run, and then it dropped on my fifth Normal run.
I'm flabbergasted.

Comentário de yocozome

Where can I see the number of kills i got on this guy?

Comentário de moddok

farmed it like crazy in cata.
sometimes last year i think, i went a timewalk hero dungeon and this thing dropped.
i couldn't believe it

Comentário de DonMorme

Dropped for me in duoing the Boss with my brother who is a mount farmer. He was excited when i was trading it to him. (1 hc, 1 normal attempt) Hope karma points will help me out and i will get it for my own.

Comentário de Wandrd

With a Druid in a speed set I've been able to farm an entire run in about 1 minute and 45 seconds from entrance to exit. You do not need to kill a single trash mob. The only Mobs you need to kill are the bosses, the rest you can thread past or hug a wall and skip. Do not loot the first boss when killed. Just keep running.

When you hit the bridge with the 2 wind gusty bois that knock you. Follow the middle line and Run DIRECTLY up the middle. The effect will miss most of the time but if youre running up the middle it wont matter if it hits you as it will either pop you directly forward or directly backward. Once you kill and loot the 2nd boss that drops the mount. Sprint cat form directly backwards and jump off the platform. Itll port you back to the entrance where you can hop out and reset. A full 10 run lockout can be done in less than 20 mins. If you have 3 druids with speed sets on different servers you can run this infinitely until mount drops.

It still has not dropped for me but Good luck on your grind!

Comentário de RedWolf666

Ground mount only areas, like dungeons, prevent you from mounting up with your Drake of the North Wind and Vitreous Stone Drake as they are considered "flying" mounts, which from what I understand wasn't changed until WoD. With all of the changes Blizzard has been implementing in classic versions of old content, they might as well fix this as well.

Comentário de SheHulk72

I need to say. Guid i use tells 0,8% drop chance and wowhead 0,69%
I have done the boss now 100 times and it tells 0,634% lol
So why all pages guids not tell true?

Comentário de SheHulk72

Must say this mount no fun at all. Exsist or not stil havnt got it after 239 tryes on different characters. BUT NOT!

Comentário de Horata

Got this on try seven (Normal) with the event bonus +5%.

Comentário de ItsBeccur

FINALLY got this thanks to collector's bounty :')

Comentário de Lynexia1

I'm not convinced that the drop rate was increased for this one during the collectors bounty event.
Completed the normal dungeon 52 times and no drop, statistically speaking I should have received it twice by now (Yes I am aware that stats don't = guaranteed drop) which is a little bit fishy considering I got both mimirons head and Invincible in less runs combined. But maybe my lucks just run out for the day.

Comentário de Darksoul1719

Took 34 attempts with the Collector's Bounty Buff to get. Good luck to all those farming! :)

Comentário de CapnHookz

Dropped in 88 runs with Collector's Bounty buff on

Comentário de Adrian99

Collector's Bounty - Drop on first attempt on normal

Comentário de kostet802

Dropped after 17 try during collector's bounty event on normal difficulty

Comentário de Grahf

99 attempts. During the drop event. 99. Dayum.

Comentário de Caithon

107 attempts done....

Comentário de Dyski

dropped on 14th attempts during collector bounty event. repeatable on normal runs

Comentário de fshadowflare

35 attempts on normal and no luck. Switched to heroic and got it the first try. May just be RNG, or maybe the drop rate is higher on heroic. Worth a shot to at least add in a daily heroic.

Comentário de Oxce

Remember that when you've killed the boss, you can jump off the edge to get ported to the start. Saves you a lot of time!

Comentário de BREADSWORD

Dropped after 7 runs on a fresh alt during Timewalking! Super excited about this one. Always wanted it back in Cata but could never get it to drop. :b

Wishing everybody luck if you're still farming it! <3

Comentário de Liliandra

Got this one a few days ago after 72 attempts, I consider that pretty lucky. I was spamming the dungeon on normal mode with my DH.

Comentário de Syvmar

Finally got it today after 171 attempts

Comentário de Frithgar

Decided it's high time I got this mount, as I've run it nearly sixty times previously, however for this I'm rounding down to fifty as I'm not sure of the precise number. I've run it 160 times in the last few days and no joy, so my count stands at a total of 210 runs. I'll update when I finally get it, I want to give people hope!

*Edit1 (21/05/2026)* Currently at 270 runs and no drop. For those that haven't done this much, I'm doing it on a human warlock, it takes roughly two minutes and 15 seconds per run.

I'm destruction build, so have the instant cast conflagrate spell. You can avoid the trash most of the time, run just to the left of the middle one of the first three trash mobs, then across the bridge on that side as the mobs
on the bridge always stay to the right. Go to the central pillar of the spiral and hug the wall running down past the first two groups. You'll need to weave in between the middle of the third group as there isn't enough room
to get past hugging the wall.

If you aggro mobs, quite likely it'll be the first or third group of the spiral because they sometimes move around at bad times, kill them there rather than kiting everything to the boss because they can move quite slowly so you'll
be waiting a while for them to arrive. Also, it's worth looting mobs you do kill because they can drop quite a lot of volatile air, which are about 12g each on my realm at the moment.

I'm normally one to loot everything, but I've taken to skipping the looting of the first boss, because money and value of drops rarely breaks the 10g mark. If you've aggroed anything besides the boss, you'll need to kill it before you can use the jump to the next platform.

Second part is fairly easy, just two howling gales on the bridge, you can target and blast them with conflagrate without having to stop. On the run up the first ramp and the final ramp there are some squall mobs, they have a much wider aggro range than you think.

If you're a lock and using burning rush, pop your first healthstone on the first bridge, you'll finish your full burn just before the first boss, don't start the next burn until after you jump, then pop your stone on the second bridge and that will take you up to the boss that drops the mount.

Once you've looted the second boss, go up the stairs and just jump off the side to be taken back to the entrance where you can go out and reset. Ten runs takes me 20-25 minutes, then I go play an alt for a while, then go do some more. I'll update again when I reach 400 runs or I get the mount!

*Edit 2 (23/05/2026)* 400 runs, no mount. This is my life now. Run in, kill the boss, die a little inside, run out, reset. I'll be back, 600 or the mount. Probably 600....

*Edit 3 (24/05/2026)* I finally got it! Run number 532 it finally, FINALLY dropped! As an aside, I've managed to avoid mobs most of the time, but mistakes do happen, in total I got 395 volatile air, which is roughly 5k gold. Loot etc from the runs netted a further 9k. I also run Rare Scanner, and had it go off seven times with Ishak, the one that drops the Drake of the Four Winds, however that one didn't drop. I currently have no plans to camp and kill that one 532 times....

All runs were done on normal mode, nothing special was done, so can now confirm that it still drops in 12.0 and above, happy hunting and good luck to anyone still going for it

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Rédeas do Draco do Vento Norte

Nível do Item: 14
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Montaria (Ligado à conta)

Uso: Ensina a evocar esta montaria. Esta é uma montaria voadora.

Evoca e dispensa um Draco do Vento Norte de montaria. Essa é uma montaria voadora.
Requer nível 1 to 90 (90)
Requer Aprendiz de Montaria

"Astros! Noites! Tempestades! Rolai das imensidades! Varrei os mares, tufão!"
Saque: Altairus
Zona: Pináculo do Vórtice

Chance de Saque: 0.68%

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