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Comment by 460544

possibly the coolest looking mount in game

310% speed... and looks like onyxia!

next we will have the Rag. mount

I hope *crosses fingers*

Comment by Wamo

Has about a 1% chance to drop from the new level 80 version of Onyxia, in either the 10 player or the 25 player mode.

It's a 310% flying mount, remodeled version of the usual Drake model to make it look a bit like Ony.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--zgezAZ2bY

Edit: Few tweaks here and there.

Comment by Cainite

I smell this mount getting ninjad in every single PuG, just like Reins of the Grand Black War Mammoth.

Comment by 453115

I think there is typo, if the mount is 310% shouldn't there be written "This is an extremely fast mount.", just like at Ashes of Al'ar and Furious Gladiator's Frost Wyrm?

Comment by Elfhippie

Be prepared for characters of the opposing faction to follow you around yelling MORE DOTS if you get this mount.

Comment by 441551

this mount is one of the lowest drop rate you can get higher drop chance by entering as 25-player mode

Comment by 421626

Most ninja'd item since...

Comment by 482851

I won this last week. Non ninja and its freaking sweet. lucky roll FTW

Comment by 457821

Any1 else notice that only alliance toons are riding this mount in the screen-shot?

Comment by 157866

Won this awesome mount today
gonna /afk beside gryph master in dalaran everyday now!

Comment by 248398

This mount should be the reward of an ultra hard achievement... not handed to the luckiest guy in a raid or a ninja looting lootmaster...

sigh

Comment by 485707

i dropped this mount yesterday form a PuG raid group and i rolled with 97! lol
i was lucky ... and all of the party member
offered me a LOT OF MONEY lol but i prefer my EXTREMELY rare onyxian mount lol

Comment by theBestInTheGame

Dear lord.... No wonder why you get your comments downrated (Same goes for me) You just go around a do /brag. " I got the mount today! I rolled like 100 and I'm now the coolest guy on my server" Instead of comments like that, how about posting something more insightful or at least just a bit comically? Let's start it off like this;

The mount is rare. The mount has some unique stuff on it, like the spikes on it's tail and head. It drops off Onyxia 10/25 lvl 80. It says "this is a very fast mount" But it's 310%. You sure get a lot of attention from having this mount. People will offer you a huge amount of gold for it. Obtaining + learning won't give you any achievement.
That's about what I can tell you, now good luck with your mount hunt!

Edit: 3 years and 6 months later and I finally got mine. I wish you all the best of luck in your hunt.

Comment by 485839

This mount dropped last night on the 10 man raid. Sadly I did not win it but none the less it was awesome to see it drop.

Comment by 487400

I just got this, but I think that either the tooltip or the mount speed is bugged. It says "very fast" yet the buff shows 310% speed increase. However when flying next to DK or Paladin with 280% mount and 20% speed buff, you will fall behind with this.

Also I find it weird that they didn't add feat of strenght achievement for this :(

EDIT: I tested this out and had a damn long conversation with GM who was also observing. Here's the results:
The mount is 310%, working as intended.
HOWEVER
Paladins https://www.wowhead.com/cata/spell=26023 and https://www.wowhead.com/cata/spell=32223 stack for some reason, givin 280% mount a total speed of 315% - altho they shouldn't stack and only apply 20% speed buff, giving a total of 300%. The GM noticed this too and I think it will get fixed in later patch. Same goes for DK's with https://www.wowhead.com/cata/spell=50392 and https://www.wowhead.com/cata/spell=51267

EDIT2: Seems like many paladins and DK's are reading this since I'm getting downrated because of finding this :D

Comment by 241013

Anyone have any data on the drop rate of this thing? I saw it today and I can't find stats anywhere.

Comment by 533598

AWESOME mount.. been trying for ages to get this one.. it dropped once but I rolled a 1! I almost cried.

Comment by HandofDeath

i just checked onyxia to see the drop rate and it doesn't even say it drops is this a bug or no longer obtainable?

Comment by luubox

Dropped for us on a alt 10man run... ended up winning it for my mage which at the time didnt even have epic flapper skill... sittin round on my "slow" 280% on my main sucks when youwe gotten used to this

Comment by 530761

i doubt it dropped from the 10man run seeing as its 25man only as it says.

and i've had 3 GMs confirm its 25man only.

Comment by 301421

Time to roll play in Cataclysm.

Hey, Deathwing! Yer daughter is my epic mount!

Comment by geniusdude

This has been ninjad on my server
the ninja used it and was hated so much he was never found again

Comment by 629435

Hmm. Since you can ride Deathwing's daughter. I wonder if he will become a mount as well Ö

Would be sweet B]
Having the whole deathwing family in yer bag

Comment by Vijirnwaz

This mount is 310% Speed and drops off of the 10/25 modes. Even tho it says "This is a very fast mount: (for the 280% flight) it is still 310. I believe this mount is very rare, as sitting on the dalaran I have never seen one. GL getting yours... time to kill ony 10.

Comment by 630788

Probably the single coolist mount I've ever seen. I have a high populated server and I have yet to see one in person.

Comment by 634973

How to break up a guild in 4 easy steps.

-Defeat Onyxia in 10/25 man

-Have this mount drop!

-Then watch the guild leader explain why he/she should take the mount for him/herself for whatever reasons.

-Watch guild disperse faster than cockroaches under a light.

Comment by Joken

I use my standart tanking gear. Was almost full epic 359 on my first kill, but it can probably already be done a bit lower.
Specc is my normal tanking spec (0/31/10) focused on Seal of Insight and Word of Glory. It lacks Hallowed Ground, which I would recommend if you are struggling with the whelps, but it wasn't necessary for me, so I didn't bother respeccing.
Phase 1 and 3 are just tank & spank. Onyxia deals so pathetic damage herself, I don't even need all my Holy Power for selfhealing. Just don't get kicked or feared into the whelpcaves and everything should go very smooth.
When phase 2 starts, make sure to have most of your cooldowns ready, because the fist wave of whelps is quite huge and doesn't die that fast because of AoE-damage caps. After that you don't need to save your cooldowns anymore, but should just use them regullarly. Glyph of Holy Wrath is great against whelps during the whole phase. The guards, that spawn from time to time should be your main targets during phase two, while whelps mostly die from your cleave damage with Hammer of the Righteous after the first wave is down. As long as one guard goes down about the same time, when the next one reaches you, your normal selfhealing from Seal of Insight and Word of Glory should be enough to keep you alive. I usually don't even move out of Onyxia's Deep Breath or the guard's Fire Nova thing and it is still fine. Damage to Onyxia can only be dealt with Avenger's Shield and Judgement, which should of course always be used when she is in range unless you are just beeing overwhelmed by adds. I simply Focus Onyxia and use focus macros for these two spells, but I also use Judgement and Avenger's Shield against the adds when necessary or when Onyxia isn't in range. I usually just stand in the back of the cave and wait for her to move in range rather than running after her and only deal with the adds in the meantime.
Once she enters phase 3, kill any remaing adds and enjoy another tank & spank phase.
My kills take around 45 minutes, because phase 2 lasts quite long. Luckily she doesn't have any berserk timer.
I hope this helps and apollogize for my bad English.
And don't forget to take at least one additional shield with you, you will need it.

Comment by dm0190

Got this last week (30th April 2011) on 10 man- 3 manned weekly (I use a survival hunter aoe spec for the whelps, and drag a tank and healer just to make it quick). Really, really faceroll now, I'm sure many will be soloing this towards the end of Cataclysm. Good luck to the mount hunters out there!

-Does drop in either 10/25 man
-Drop rate is extremely low
-Mount can be traded for 2 hours after looting to anyone in raid group.

Update:
I can now confirm that you can loot this from , even if you already have the mount.
Also, Onyxia is now soloable as most classes and specs.

Comment by 375396

Only seen it drop twice outta the 100+ times i killed her. Have seen the ashes more

Comment by wowgeek123

This mount has possibly the lowest drop rate of all mounts. The Baron's Deathcharger mount is farmable of more than 100 runs a week, but this mount can only be run once a week. If you were farming this mount on 10 and 25 man before they made it just one, and you never got it to drop, then you know how rare it is.

I have been running Onyxia since they made it a Wrath dungeon. Back then, i ran it 10 and 25 on two characters, every week, every month.
In cataclysm, i have run 10 man every week on one character. I have killed onyxia at least 100 times (not an exaggeration) and i have never seen it drop once.

I love it very much, and i cherish it, but i have never seen it drop. I run the onyxia raid with full intentions of paying over 20k for it if it were to drop (i am not a ninja, not even for this mount).

Unfortunately, i have never been able to fullfill that promise, as it has never dropped.

:(

EDIT: Confirmed, this mount has the lowest drop rate of any in the game. At a dismal 0.2% drop rate, this mount is THE rarest mount in the game. Personally run this every week, and have since it became a level 80 instance, still no drops. Currently 79 kills.

If this mount drops, and you are NOT the leader, chances of watching it get ninja'd are 99%.

EDIT: October 17, 2012. Finally got this mount. Soloed my 132nd kill. About time.

Comment by orcsmash

You're riding Deathwings granddaughter.

Comment by 570988

Won this on my 19th run, i was not expecting it to drop!

Anyways, I 2 manned her every week with me as a Hunter, and a Holy pally, we would make my pet tank the whelps, and when the big adds came out, i would switch to him, down it, and switch back to ony, making it a 5-6 minute fight.

This mount gets as much (Or more) attention than Al'ar! Dont stop farming her! The mount is Worth it!

Comment by 865802

Soloed this today on my Deathknight, first attempt since lv80.. took me 56 minutes (48 minute air phase).

I deffinitely wasn't expecting this mount to drop but it did. :D

Comment by MelancholyRose

Being a hardcore mount collector, and having a multitude of rare and retired mounts, this one still eludes me after three years. Even though I took a 6-8 month break from World of Warcraft, before then I still had about 80 Onyxia kills under my belt, and no drake to show for it.

As of right now, I have killed Onyxia 161 times (across multiple toons) without seeing a mount drop a single, solitary time. It's my understanding that some people have this mount drop after one run, 10, 20, any less than what I've done. This can be a bit wearing on your mind after pulling teeth over 100 times just to see it drop once.

By now, I see Onyxian Drakes crawling all over the place. If I ask people how long it took them, they always say they didn't have to work very hard. Some of them claim they didn't even know Onyxia dropped a mount. Really?

If you begin farming for this, don't expect it to drop, at least not right away. It only will if you're lucky, and if it does drop for you, you are very, very lucky, and might not know how much. I'm not going to give up; I'm very hard-headed, unfortunately, but be sure that you really, really, really, REALLY want this drake. I find it difficult to express how tired I am of killing Onyxia, and even considered suggesting to Blizzard that they increase the drop rate. I decided against it, realizing it likely wouldn't change anything. Let's just say that me "going insane" over this thing never dropping is an understatement (a weird series of dreams occurring where the reins dropped, and I woke up feeling dismayed).

The drop rate is either 1 in 300 or 1 in 500. Some sources say 0.3% and others 0.2%, and I honestly don't know which is true, but I'm willing to bet it's 1 in 500. The World of Warcraft armory states the drop rate as being "Extremely Low," which is what it also says for the Fiery Warhorse on the armory. Most raid-dropped mounts are "Low" to "Very Low," not including Experiment 12-B, which is also "Extremely Low." Personally, I think they should change it to "Really Lucky People Only."

The armory now states that Onyxian Drake drop rate is "Very Low," instead of "Extremely Low." It's highly possible that they increased the drop rate to 1 in 100.

The Onyxian Drake is now on the list of mounts that will be occasionally available on the Black Market Auction House in Mists of Pandaria. My realm isn't highly populated, so it usually goes for about 350k.

At this point, I can solo Onyxia on various characters. Most classes can solo her now, in addition to the ones that already could pre-Mists, including mages, priests, druids, rogues and hunters.

UPDATE: After three years of farming, it finally dropped on my 162nd kill. To say that I "overreacted" when seeing it drop would be an understatement.

Comment by 846050

Just started solo Onyxia10 1month ago on my MM hunter with a Turtle pet.
Seem easy maybe due to the easy access to better gear and whole fight take me around 7 to 8 min depending. Was only expect to be another disappointed week until i see the Mount drop. This mount is really an attention seeker and to all mount lover and farmer out there, don't give up, luck will be on your side. Currently still soloing VOA and TK for the other 2 rare mounts but i already got Azure drake from EOE less than 2 tries.

Comment by 837727

I remember when onyxia 80 was released, i think it was 2nd or 3rd week and it dropped for our guild. Raidleader did /rw about how much he deserves it for all the "hard work" he did for the guild, and then he just took it. We lost 6 people that night haha. Funny thing is that the raidleader did least of the officer work, he just happened to do the raidinvites that night.

Comment by 905569

I solo onyxia every week as a protection paladin, takes me about 13-18 minutes to get her down now, hasn't yet dropped but soon hopefully. If any paladins are looking for help in soloing onyxia I will soon be making a video of one of my kills

Comment by SinVI

I've got this mount today and i was raid Leader. I changed Loot to '' Need before greed '' But my roLL was 97 and i won it.. Good Luck guyz..

Comment by noodles111

Most beautiful mount in the game. I would swap all of my rare mounts just for this but I think Blizzard are onto me (if i got this basically objective complete) :P. ANYYYYWAY...for hunters looking to solo this the solution is at hand :'D

To start with you are going to want an extreme soloing spec (check out hunter guides on google). SV is pretty good dps wise but I've found the best for this is MM with glyphs of mending pet and also misdirection. Make sure that in your spec you do have beast mending. The trash is fairly simple if you are able to keep aggro on your pet.

Now once you get to onyxia, you want to make sure you have all buffs possible e.g. food buff, drum of kings, etc. Phase 1 set md on your pet and start you're rotation. Once aggro is on your pet move your pet to the very back of the room (do not just put your pet on passive and run there, select 'move to') with onxyia facing the wall and be sure not to get near the tail at all as you dont want to end up surrounded by whelps just yet. Burn her health down to 65%.

This starts Phase 2 in which you want to put your pet on passive so it runs to the wall (see told you selecting 'move to' was useful). Follow onxyia until you reach a the ridge in the floor about 2/3s of the way down the room. Keep dpsing her as the spawned whelpings draw nearer. Once they reach you feign death until they go back into the whelp areas. At this point i like to use all cds such as rapid fire and trinkets, as being mm i can reset them when i need it. This usually gets onyxia to around 45% ish. Another thing to keep in mind is to check on the big adds that spawn from the entrance. To reset these just feign death. You're pet at this point should be passive against the wall and the whelps coming back to you. Again feign death and they will target your pet (at which point change pet to aggressive). You need to keep md up and get this pack of whelps down as fast as, whilst still keeping an eye on the big adds. After this pack is down it usually gets easier. Focus all you have on onxyia, feigning each time big adds come out, until shes at 39% which starts phase 3.

The hard bits over so Phase 3 basically goes back to phase 1 of just dpsing her down and keeping aggro off you. If you haven't got her down fast enough to this stage, another pack of whelps will spawn so just do the same as in phase 2 and get them down as fast as possible. Occasionally she will do bellowing roar which will barely cause any damage if any so just md as per usual until she finally hits 0 :P You've done it! Congratulations :) Hopefully when you open that shiny loot bag (bag? erm not quite sure where onxyia stores all her loot tbh) there will be a glistening purple epic mount there :D

I hope this complete and utter babble is decipherable to someone and helps in some way :D Super good luck to you all in getting this...its time to get serious and go kick some purple drake butt...

Comment by 967023

Possibly one of the rarest mounts in-game right now... during MoP we will be able to solo farm in dungeon drops probably, Same with most single boss raids.

Comment by Kraniks

This is a very awesome mount! Hope that we will be able to ride Deathwing too:)

Comment by vectoria

Now with the Black Market Auction House in MOP it looks like we'll be able to bid on the Onyxian Drake on the rare occasion it shows up. With biding starting around the 10k- 20k mark with no buyout; be prepared to pay a pretty penny for her when she appears on the AH.
For those of us who are well over the one to two hundred Onyxian kills and have yet to see the mount drop- this news alone presents a much needed glimmer of hope in ever obtaining this mount sooner rather than later. My advice to players continuing their efforts in obtaining this mount in MOP; would be to save your gold. And remember to do your dailies and gathering professions to make some extra coinage in the meantime. Who knows? If you happen to get her to drop in a weekly run, you might need it to obtain gear in MOP for pve or pvp.
Best of luck to you all!

Comment by THETypus

the low drop rate can't still be right. I stumbled across the raid, bumbled through it and just discovered I got the mount. Maybe I should be playing the lotto?

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Reins of the Onyxian Drake

Item Level 70
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Requires Level 70
Requires Artisan Riding
Use: Teaches you how to summon this mount. This is a flying mount.
Summons and dismisses a rideable Onyxian Drake. This is a flying mount.

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