Missing 4, 6 and 10
by 'most popular' you mean most farmed or most sold in the AH (for some of them) because honestly most of the mounts in the list are nice but far from being 'top / rarest' mounts and also not the mounts players ride in game. Obviously i'm sure you rely on data to build this list but i've not seen someone yet riding the hyena, of course selling it that's for sure ;)my point is 6 of them are nice to have but i will never ride them. Most useful mounts for BFA was the water strider, i think everyone can agree on this one ;) and of course for some the flying golem. i think also you didnt really consider the latest mounts from darkshore, some of them are awesome : the panther, the bear etc. i was lucky to get 3 and i love them.many players also put a lot of time & efforts to get the raptor from zandalar (not the zandalari one) , the arathi mounts of course, & the raid mounts.
Hivemind : big credit to the original finder & the ones that are still going through all the quests, but many, many people got it in 5 min befopre the patch and still now are getting it very easily, that mount will be cheap 'usual stuff' in less than 3 months unless Blizz comes back at it and really locks it down.
Invincible WAS a 100% guaranteed mount? o.o Can't they bring that back for Wrath of the Lich King anniversary! Or just for 1 hour. All of us who tirelessly grind Ice Crown Citadel every week would be eternally thankful.
I would have thought that the Brutosaur Mount would be somewhere on this list considering its technically a better Expedition Yak with the account of it having both a vendor and a mobile AH.
you know, i keep seeing the Hivemind in use, but after reading the BS you have to go through to get it and the SEVERE limitations on passengers, it's pretty useless and, IMO, a huge waste of time.but since "top" really means "most searched for/viewed" (in this case) i'm not surprised it made #1if we're talking "most popular", there'd need to be some kind of survey and/or some way of finding out how many accounts have a particular mount "favourited" (my "faves" include the blue water strider, the magic rooster, cenarian hippogryph, and traveller's mammoth )
to me the best mount of this year is the antoran charhound and the antoran gloomhound
Invincible: "originally it was a guaranteed drop" pretty sure that was not the case, don't think they started the guaranteed-mount-drop-while-current-content until years later, Think SoO was the first, but then again i missed most of Cata and Mists.
Pretty upset that i went through the grind for Hivemind with a random group and i can't use it with other people than the ones that i originally did the puzzles with, the only other reason i got it besides its looks, you should add another carry slot of two to this mount, I don't care much about the speed benefit
"Most searched for mounts on Wowhead", right?
Wooh! I got my beautiful Veinseeker on Christmas Day after having run 4 alts previously through Nazmir with no luck, it finally dropped on my troll just in time to make the end of the year great!