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Comment by 212003

someone on beta post a screen, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease!

Comment by 4705

This mount is absolutely huge! It's noticably bigger than a Traveller's Tundra Mammoth on a Tauren, which is the next-biggest mount i've seen.

pic - http://i36.tinypic.com/30shm4o.jpg until it uploads here.

Comment by 176208

I have this mount (I'm an orc) and my friend does to (tauren). It is significantly larger opposed to be slightly larger like most mounts. It annoys me honestly since it is almost small without the size buff for me, but massive I mean really massive for my friend.

Comment by 33153

Here is a link to the alliance version, https://www.wowhead.com/cata/item=43956

Comment by 113336

Can you purchase this mount if your faction does not control Wintergrasp?

Comment by Chronalis

I've got to say, that as a Hordie, this is my new fave mount. All horde mounts are, well, not massive (with the exception of a Kodo, but that's nothing on this). The alliance have Elekk which is pretty big, the Hippogryph (Which i do realise is available to both factions, but it's an Alliance-style mount).

The mammoth's are bigger than any previous land mount and in many places, struggle to fit through some doorways (I'm a Blood Elf, so i'm not the largest race). The only thing that i'm not so sure about is the running animation, but this thing stinks of awesome. The standing animation is a mix of side-to-side swaying, and standing perfectly still. The /mountspecial animation is a front-legs stomp.

I've now got every PvP mount i know of (including the Black War Bear) that's available for horde, and still, this one is my favourite. It's also the cheapest of the mammoth's to acquire, though will take a few days of serious heroic farming while controlling Wintergrasp to get enough Stone Keeper's Shard's to get it.

Comment by Yuksu93

i want a picture of this as a tauren riding it with gigantic feast on and elixir of giant growth

Comment by krelle

Is there an shop on this one ?

Comment by 193462

Seems there are only 6 types of Mammoths available:

Alliance

Reins of the Black War Mammoth

Reins of the Grand Ice Mammoth

Reins of the Ice Mammoth

Reins of the Traveler's Tundra Mammoth

Reins of the Grand Black War Mammoth

Horde

Reins of the Black War Mammoth

Reins of the Grand Ice Mammoth

Reins of the Ice Mammoth

Reins of the Traveler's Tundra Mammoth

Reins of the Wooly Mammoth

Reins of the Grand Black War Mammoth

Some are more easy to obtain than others.

Comment by 182184

Taurens beware, you can not fit in any doorways, or under any overpasses on this mount. It is still crazy awesome, but having to manually dismount, even in Dalaran, is annoying.

Comment by Lightshadow86

Getting new cool mount's, all the same speed, looks matter! True!
Now, not only looks, but the SIZE matters, and what's benefical with this you might wonder? Actually, there is one thing:

You can move in much deeper water without dismounting!

This is actually very awsome. Get your very own deep water mammoth today! ^.^

PS. Even tho it sucks getting stuck at the sewers enterance every time :P

Comment by Ozak

can this be borght at lvl 75?

Comment by lucilomar

If your with a mage ask to put slow fall on and then jump offa hill....you have just turned into dumbo :D

Edit: I just regained my account after 10 years! Cheers!

Comment by 304029

Very nice mount, fun to come and impress friends with. I put an picture up but no signs of it yet.

Comment by 253616

Allright, so today i did VoA25, but to everyone's great surprise this mount actually dropped from Archavon! No kidding here. As WoWhead appereantly haven't noticed yet it CAN drop in VoA, atleast 25.
I got no pics of it tho (Playing in Windowed Mode so no scr33nshots gets saved, they just get saved as a ctrl+v option, wich kinda sux imo.)

So if you are on the edge if you either wanna buy the mount to make your main look awesome, or buy the shoulders for your alt to ding 80 today, i would rather go for the shoulders as this mount CAN drop.

Comment by Inifekt

I've seen this drop in VoA, 10 man, as well.

Comment by 223475

This mount is really big,

But you can't ride inside the Orgrimmar AH, or use this in Thunderbluff, to solve this

a) Use your old fast ground mount!
b) Complain to blizzard to make doors to structures larger!

Comment by sopor30

It's cool and tall, but it does get stuck on low arches. Places like UC and TB just aren't made for this mount.

Comment by 330953

this isquite a cool mount, and unlike most traditional mounts, it comes with advantages and disadvantages.

an advantage is seeing as it is so large, you can ride it through deeper water without dismounting.

a disadvantage is again because its so large, you can get stuck in some doorways forcing you to dismount, walk a few steps and mount again.

still, with these aside, its a cool mount, and if you have no other way of spending stone keeper shards, i recommend it :)

Doomsythe Lightnings Blade EU

Comment by 332502

i have a tauren dk, and i will tell u this, because every mount except for the mechano hog gets bigger because of ur size as a tauren, it does not matter what mounts u r riding, u will get stuck in doorways

well with wolves, its not always a problem

but with things like kodos, raptors and mammoths, u would have a better chance getting a black war bear by urself comapred to getting in a door, lol

heck, even hawksriders can get stuck in the ogrimmar ah doorway

the worst mount for this scenario is a kodo in my opinion

they barely jump at all, especially over something, they are so freakin huge, and plus, after u ride them for so long, u get bored with them

the only reason i bought one on my tauren dk was to prove to some freakin lvl 37 undead warlock that a kodo is NOT a multi passenger mount, but he insisted that it was

so i went to bloodhoof village

bought the great gray kodo

learned it

summoned it

invited him to a group

told him to hop on

and made him admit he was wrong

so basically, the only kodo really worth getting is the black war kodo because is shows that u have killed a lot of allys, so it kind of cool

but even then, i would rather get the wolf or the raptor

so all in all, kodos blow

btw, the vendor for the black war mammoth is sitting on a black war mammoth next to the steps that goes to the vault of archavon

the grand black war mammoth is dropped from archavon, and i believe it has a 2-4% drop rate, so u may have to kill him a few times before u actually get it

Comment by 332502

anybody else notice how all of the screenshots so far r of taurens?

i posted one with my blood elf rogue, but it hasnt been uplaoded yet

i would like to see a gnome ride this thing, they prolly got the freakin calves, lol

Comment by 332502

and to fatdog,

if u have 300 stone keeper shards at lvl 75, then i think u might be doing ok for urself

and yes, it is purchasable at any lvl as long as u have the journeyman riding skill and wintergrasp :)

i have yet to get this mount on my dk, i need like 24 more stone keeper shards i think

Comment by 325704

Being a blood elf, I can't fit into doorways either. Don't think it is race-specific.

Comment by 332502

even though this is one of my favorite mounts, i dont really think it should be classified as a PvP mount

cause think about it

you get the right to collect stone keeper shards when you own wintergrasp

but that doesnt really mean u competed in wintergrasp though

you get the stone keeper shards from instances in northrend (and dailies in wintergrasp too, but not required)

so basically, you can get the mount without ever even seeing the inside of wintergrasp fortress

same as the grand black war mammoth

for both of these mammoths, all u got to do is run an instance,

it isnt really "PvP" mount in my opinion

Comment by 400191

Another advantage I've noticed is that unlike most other mounts, the mammoth is off the GCD. It's rather convenient especially in BGs after rezzing to self buff then immediately mount instead of waiting 1.5 seconds. Sorry if someone already mentioned this :).

Comment by 365856

Quick question, you know how when you buy something with say emblems of conquest, you can resell them within 2 hours for a full redemption, is this the same with heirloom items if you've sent them to an alt? In turn allowing a level 40 to run around on a mammoth.

Comment by 439819

Nice mount and all, but when im in orgrimmar and i see one of these...barreling down the street, i lag a little bit

Comment by Dahork

This actually drops in Vault of Archavon too, it dropped in my group today but i wasn't lucky enough :( Dont know the drop rate and so but i think its very low.

Comment by 178480

One thing I have to say: I don't like the run animation. It looks like he's doing bunny hops. I imagine a mammoth runs like an elephant, if you've ever seen footage of an elephant charging, this mammoth runs nothing like it at all.

Comment by Aenonar

With this, Taurens can't pass through the round south-western tunnel leading to the center fountain in Dalaran for example. It's definitely big, and makes even more doorways impassable. All the shops in Dalaran are also too small for this mount.

Also uploaded a screenshot of a comparison of a Tauren vs Human side by side on the Black War Mammoth. No extra size enhancers!

Comment by AmaHC

As of 4.0.1 this now costs 1000 of the new Honor Points currency from the vendor in Wintergrasp.

Comment by 602256

As of 4.0.3, it is now 2000 Honor,

I got exactly 1k honor, because everything on this site said it was 1k, We just got WG today (Alliance populated) And it turned up as 2k, needless to say I wasn't happy, at all, (I don't like pvping but I did, just for that) it was my LAST mount to get the Albino Drake.

Comment by 760473

Is there a size difference between this, and the GRAND black war mammoth mount? Is one taller than the other, etc?

Comment by 788464

Could this be bought by a level 40 via grinding 2k honor then getting a summon via guild perk?

Comment by fastersamurai

This mount runs with all the grace of a moving van. Still, it is great fun to smugly sit on this beast while observing the residents of Ogrimmar.

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Reins of the Black War Mammoth

Item Level 40
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Requires Level 40
Requires Journeyman Riding
Use: Teaches you how to summon this mount.
Summons and dismisses a rideable Black War Mammoth.

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