Guide Spotlight: Rare Mount Guides by the WoW Secret Finding Discord Staff

Live Posted 2019/01/27 at 12:50 PM by perculia

WoW Secret Finding Discord StaffThe HivemindLucid NightmareRiddler's Mind-WormSun-Darter HatchlingKosumoth the HungeringAeonaxxTime-Lost Proto-DrakePoseidusGrey Riding CamelReins of the Long-Forgotten HippogryphVoidtalon of the Dark StarNotable Open-World Rare Mount GuideFrightened KodoReins of the Thundering Onyx Cloud SerpentFinding Mounts in the DiscordSecret Finding Discord

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Comment by JoshmaulI confess I'm something of a cheapskate, I bought Poseidus off the AH, lol. Fairly cheap, too, I think he was going for...like, 15k?Comment by VelawynnRemovedComment by Ch4rmenI found these updated guides a few days ago, trying to get Aeonaxx. It is really good. What I had trouble finding was information on the bat that shares the spawn time with it. :(Comment by LunarestiaI found these updated guides a few days ago, trying to get Aeonaxx. It is really good. What I had trouble finding was information on the bat that shares the spawn time with it. :(Comment by kodora1316The discord is amazingly helpful and friendly! I was very lucky to be able to get 2 mounts through there myself and I really enjoy helping people find rare hunter pets. I’ve given away a few karomas and a sambas, and it’s very fulfilling to help the community. 😊Comment by kodora1316I confess I'm something of a cheapskate, I bought Poseidus off the AH, lol. Fairly cheap, too, I think he was going for...like, 15k?Comment by TilraI confess I'm something of a cheapskate, I bought Poseidus off the AH, lol. Fairly cheap, too, I think he was going for...like, 15k?Comment by NebronI might be the only one there, but this is exactly how you kill the game.

The whole idea of rare mounts is that those are difficult to find, not even mention to obtain. Whenever more than 100 people can loot one rare mob, it simply feels bad.

most of the people that get the mount through that discord don't know about it's existance prior to obtaining;

I feel sorry for anyone who spent so many hours looking for it, just to see some random people get it so effortless;

I also feel bad for anyone from the low-pop servers as the hunters exploit the use of trials

why?MUCHComment by ElloreI might be the only one there, but this is exactly how you kill the game.

The whole idea of rare mounts is that those are difficult to find, not even mention to obtain. Whenever more than 100 people can loot one rare mob, it simply feels bad.

most of the people that get the mount through that discord don't know about it's existance prior to obtaining;
I feel sorry for anyone who spent so many hours looking for it, just to see some random people get it so effortless;
I also feel bad for anyone from the low-pop servers as the hunters exploit the use of trials

Despite the fact, I like whenever people on Discords come together to find Secrets in the game, this particular thing feels so unhealthy for the game, I can't really watch it. The worst thing is that Blizzard knows exactly what's happening there and they do nothing about it. I am seriously curious why?
I'd love if that stayed the old way - long spawn timers and only one person can loot it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there are no other mobs you can loot that way, just those ones.

In what universe making rare mounts MUCH easier to collect makes the game more attractive? How does it possitively affect it, if anybody can earn something that is reserved for the luckiest or the ones, that works the hardest? I always though that difficult and time-consuming content is a great incentive for players to continue the adventure whenever the boredom gets em. One of us is wrong, me or Blizzard; yet seeing Blizzard being on the losing streak lately... :)Comment by 6by6n6Just had to say thank you. Had no idea how to get Voidtalon.. always assumed it to be a rare dungeon/raid drop.
After reading your guide, took my alts to Draenor, switched on NPC scan (it marks the locations but doesn't give an alarm like for other NPC's) and covered the spawn locations.. Maybe I got lucky but got it in my second run. Saw only a couple of people in the whole of Draenor, so now maybe a good time to do it.

Just one thing.. after clicking on the Edge of Reality I got a loading screen for the instance but then it aborted and said 'Instance not found' with the Edge of Reality having de-spawned.. I obviously freaked out and opened a ticket. But I got a mail from.. Archmage Khadgar! The mount was in my mail.Comment by RegaderitaI might be the only one there, but this is exactly how you kill the game.

The whole idea of rare mounts is that those are difficult to find, not even mention to obtain. Whenever more than 100 people can loot one rare mob, it simply feels bad.

most of the people that get the mount through that discord don't know about it's existance prior to obtaining;
I feel sorry for anyone who spent so many hours looking for it, just to see some random people get it so effortless;
I also feel bad for anyone from the low-pop servers as the hunters exploit the use of trials

Despite the fact, I like whenever people on Discords come together to find Secrets in the game, this particular thing feels so unhealthy for the game, I can't really watch it. The worst thing is that Blizzard knows exactly what's happening there and they do nothing about it. I am seriously curious why?
I'd love if that stayed the old way - long spawn timers and only one person can loot it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there are no other mobs you can loot that way, just those ones.

In what universe making rare mounts MUCH easier to collect makes the game more attractive? How does it possitively affect it, if anybody can earn something that is reserved for the luckiest or the ones, that works the hardest? I always though that difficult and time-consuming content is a great incentive for players to continue the adventure whenever the boredom gets em. One of us is wrong, me or Blizzard; yet seeing Blizzard being on the losing streak lately... :)stillComment by DawnfyreI actually got one of the Nagrand mounts randomly while farming Barn stuff in the middle of the night and I got Poundfist using the old Trial character trick. Took me about 30 minutes to kill him, but it was worth it.Comment by Nebron
You talk as if those mounts were something like the Bronze Drake.

Right now it's either:
-Camp a zone waiting for a spawn on several possible points, that even after the nerfs, still has a several hours timer.
-Join a Discord to get those mounts in group, giving an incentive to meet other players in a game that otherwise has been losing all social aspects outside of high-tier raiding.

This actually gives life to the game. A mount absurdly hard to get, that requires to waste lots of hours I could spend on things I actually enjoy? I couldn't bother less. A mount that I can reasonably get after some time, or easily attainable by socializing in an MMO? Now you get my attention.Bronze DrakeRight now it's either:
Camp a zone waiting for a spawn on several possible points, that even after the nerfs, still has a several hours timer.exactly

healthy, authentic socializing in the game like making guides (which I think are cool), or solving riddles like Hivemind or so;

and

making something rare, prestigious and unique - obtainable for eveyone in highly suspicious way, not to say on the edge of exploitative way of loot distribution.

until it becomes destructive for the gameRegarding Rare mobs, there haven't been true rares since Mists of Pandaria; even in Warlords, cross-server groups opened up a lot of gameplay, but led to server hopping in order to find rares. People wouldn't actually look for rares, they just camp the spawn location and look for groups which have them up. It's something they'd like to experiment with again in Rise of Azshara and beyond, because it is a cool feeling finding and defeating a rare mob that drops something interesting, but it shouldn't be trivial.true raresdeity