This WoW participant spent 12 years on a quest to get an ultra-rare mount

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World of Warcraft gamers are available all styles and sizes, and whereas some like to push Mythic-level content material, others spend days, weeks, months, and even years attempting to get mounts which might be virtually fully gone from the sport’s recordsdata.

On Oct. 4, lasko_leaf_blower reported that they’ve lastly obtained the Swift Zulian Tiger mount that had a slim likelihood to drop within the authentic model of the Zul’Gurub raid. It was reworked with the primary main patch of Cataclysm, Patch 4.1. 

Though the mount can now not drop from Excessive Priest Thekal within the Zul’Gurub dungeon, it’s nonetheless obtainable by way of the Black Market Auction House, and that is precisely how lasko bought it. They logged in on eight completely different characters at 11:25 PST to examine if this legendary mount had made an look, and, a few instances, they discovered it, however it was gold capped in a matter of minutes. 

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Then, in the future, lday luck smiled on them, and there it was, a Swift Zulian Tiger on the Black Market Public sale Home, able to be tamed. Lasko instantly cashed out 9,999,999 gold for it, and after years and years of ready bought their 846 mount. 

WoW character riding Swift Zulian Tiger
Swift Zulian Tiger can solely come from Black Market Public sale Home. Picture by way of u/lasko_leaf_blower

According to Wowhead, solely three p.c of the whole WoW inhabitants can name themselves proud house owners of the Swift Zulian Tiger. Different related mounts which might be both inconceivable to get some other means or which have extremely low drop fee are Shackled Ur’zul, Reins of the Heavenly Onyx Cloud Serpent, Ashes of Al’ar, and Mimiron’s Head.

Black Market Public sale Home is dangerous enterprise, and you actually need to have the time, the gold, and the endurance to play it. I lack all of that, and that’s why I’m at all times doing a mount world tour, and hoping RNG is on my facet.

In regards to the writer

Izabela Tomakic

Workers Author & World of Warcraft lead. Izabela has a protracted historical past with writing and video games like World of Warcraft, League of Legends, Fortnite, and The Sims. Earlier than discovering her dwelling at Dot Esports in 2021, Izabela was an English instructor and a freelancer at Hotspawn, GGRecon, and Gameranx. In her free time, you’ll discover her writing novels, wandering Azeroth, or inting on Summoner’s Rift.

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