I got it! I got it! {dances enthusiastically but looks more like a spastic monkey on crack} I got the coveted Rivendare’s Deathcharger! I’ve been running the Stratholme (Service Entrance) dungeon, almost every day, for a couple of months on 4 different characters. Beating up that miserable bastard Lord Aurius Rivendare. Today, my Lucky-Lock Kyllia dropped the incredibly hard to obtain mount!
Just to give you an idea, here’s some of the info quoted by another player…
Deathcharger is a black (as per its model skin description) skeletal warhorse mount, notorious for its incredibly low drop rate – perhaps the lowest drop rate of any epic item.
For one run of a given instance, the odds are higher that…
- Swift White Hawkstrider drops (61x more likely)
- Ashes of Al’ar drops (40x more likely)
- Swift Razzashi Raptor drops (28x more likely)
- Reins of the Raven Lord drops (23x more likely)
- Fiery Warhorse’s Reins drops (18x more likely)
- Swift Zulian Tiger drops (10x more likely)
- Baron’s Runeblade drops (3x more likely)
- You are audited by the IRS
- You will catch a baseball at a MLB game
- You die from slipping in a bathtub
- You have a life
If you’re in a group, divide the chance by five
The drop rate is now 1.0% (up from 0.02%) (source).
Although, I think the hardest mount to get these days is the Reins of the Time-Lost Proto-Drake. This is mostly due to cross server playing now. There’s generally 5 – 7 players hunting that 24 hours a day. I’m glad I managed to get that, not only once, but twice before the changes.
