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Comment by 619417

This mount drops from the instance on both normal and heroic mode. Amazing looking mount. The idea (Note: the idea, not the actual item) is similar to the Blue Proto-drake from Utgarde Pinnacle in Northrend - simply a rare drop in a dungeon, no strings attached. Amazing nevertheless.

Comment by 41153

Droped today for me, Normal mode Slabhide

Edit: the mount is currently bugged , check the picture:

http://i52.tinypic.com/ztteg5.jpg

Comment by TheMuffinMan

0.6%? You'd think a flying mount made of stone would drop more!

Thank you, I'm here all week.

Comment by 620131

Commenting and you
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Dropped in X kills – Telling users that you were lucky enough to get the crusader enchant in one drop is not considered useful information.

Comment by 293790

I love the concept, a mount which actually carries you in it's clutches.I only wish they would change to appear like it really does carry you in it's grasp.Currently it looks like your ridding on air near/in its hands.Again it's a great concept and hopefully when the team does get some time they can revisit this and make a quick change to this.

Comment by 728590

In Soviet Russia, Stone Drake mounts you.

Comment by bodaxinho

from a blue post tracked @ MMO:

"#15 - 2010/12/17 02:31:34 AM
12/16/2010 4:35 PMPosted by AsozerasI assume this is a bug / glitch or is that intended?

Yup! It's a bug, and a ridiculously awesome one at that. I mean, who wouldn't want to be cradled lovingly by dra -- no, wait, don't answer that.

We're looking to correct the riding animation for stone drakes in an upcoming patch. :) "

cf. http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/144089/vial-of-the-sands-mount-is-buggy

Comment by loreki

Been running stonecore a lot, heard a lot of odd theories on how it drops. It's just an ordinary rare drop. There's no trick to it at all.

Except maybe prayer or sacrificing animals to the loot gods.

Comment by 255865

Did you guys notice the sound the drake makes when it runs on the floor? its like the core hounds / devilsaurs (prenerf?).

Comment by 526895

Finally got this mount after 32 SOLO runs as a BM/Surv hunter on normal. I've also written a little Hunters guide below ^_^

There are a total of 3 groups you MUST kill and each group has a total of 4 mobs, which the exception of Millhouse, the little gnome guy being in the first group and each group consists of Stonecore War-bringers, Berserkers, and Earthshapers.

Go Survival so you have more CC & start with the 2nd to last group and work your way to the first.

Always CC the Berserkers first and save them for last as they have a nasty AoE bleed effect which can take out a nice chunk of health if your not careful. Use Tranquilizing shot when Warbringers enrage and always kill the Earthshapers first as they are the easiest and don't forgot to scatter shot when they use Dust storm.
(Note: After you take one out, it is best if you dismiss your pet & FD so you can kill the next mob w/ full health)

When you finally get rid of the 2 groups then its time to take out Millhouse! All you have to do is to CC two of the mobs and just burn him down. After he runs away just sacrifice/dismiss your pet and FD.

Once the first boss shows up put on your Camo and Cheetah and just run past the tunnel. As for the Boss just keep up Mend Pet and use cower & shell shield if you feel the need too and most importantly be careful of LoS during the 2nd phase.

Good luck everyone! I did this w/ an iLevel of 338 if that helps lol.

EDIT: I've stopped playing quite some time ago; so this little guide is now slightly outdated. Please read some of the new helpful comments below.

Comment by hkspoon

Finally dropped on my 40th attempts on regular Stonecore. I solo this instance on my Prot paladin with mostly heroic tank gears and few purple rep gears. There are 3 set of trash at the beginning of the instance; as Prot paladin I just go in tank and spank and use Word of Glory whenever I have 3 holy powers.

Also, all the trash pulls after the first boss can be avoid therefore don't waste time trying to solo the big elemental down because their adds and quake hit very hard.

Few things I recommend for Paladin when fighting Slabhide.

- Use Seal of Insight
- Save holy power for Word of Glory
- Devotion Aura is your best friend
- Use Flash of Light when Slabhide is in the air

Good luck everyone.

Comment by 766879

Confirming this is solo-able by an affliction warlock. Used a succubus and fear/coex to control the mob packs. No need to run out of instance picking one off at a time. With good control you can manage the full groups.. even though it does get dicey sometimes. For the last group with Millhouse, drop an infernal. You only need to get him to half health before he runs to spawn the first boss. Exit instance then re-enter.

Run down to Corborus, and head down the cavern. Watch the crystal giant that is patrolling up and down.. follow down as far as he will go then pop an invisibility potion (they're 1g on my server). That will get you to Slaghide.

Slaghide is an easy fight... in theory. Just make sure to keep your Voidwalker topped, use Demon Soul on CD and Soulshatter as normal. The tough part is finding your Voidwalker getting stuck in the one of the falling rocks. Whether it falls on him, or he gets pushed back into one by Slaghide, 2/3 of the time my VW will get permanently stuck in one of those, completely line of sight and unable to recall or move no matter what you do. He dies soon after without the health funnel and so do I. I don't know if hunters have been experiencing the same issue with they're pets, but it's quite frustrating to deal with.

So go in planning on spending some time on this... and some gold for the repair bill.

Comment by strifeseh

Hoping they add sounds to this mount soon (don't mind the near silent flight compared to the other drakes, but kind of a bummer that using /mountspecial does the animation, but no roar). There is also still somewhat of visual glitch when riding it, you sit inside the saddle rather then on it (granted, i like this much more then the oddness of the original mounting visual, but still).

Comment by 793750

For those who solo'd the dungeon: how long does 1 run take on average?
And how many can you do a day? Is there a maximum?

I got a tankadin on one account and a healadin on my wife's account.
Thinking about combining their strengths, should be easy runs, i hope...

Comment by 795220

my only problem with this drake...it doesnt roar when you /mountspecial =/
it does the animation,but no audio

Comment by Nobbel

How to farm as a 85 paladin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3Erkl-hK0c

Comment by 538990

Confirmed to still drop in normal, whether it's a mistake or not, nobody knows. Me (Prot paladin) and my cousin (destro warlock) 2 manned it for a few hours before it dropped, and I won the roll. Nice looking mount. With a tank and dps we were going at about 10-14 minutes per run with the use of potion of invisibility to skip the trash after the first boss (although we never killed the first boss, you can just run right past him) so for a Slabhide kill the only trash you need to kill is the first 3 pulls with the gnome mage guy.

~Leat, Azuremyst

Comment by 185932

For any ferals out there soloing for this on regular:

In the initial pulls you can kill Milhouse to send him to the next group and then reset the groups by shadowmelding or running out of the instance. This isn't necessary if you're confident in your gear, but anything to make the experience easier, ya know? You do have to kill the first 2 packs at least, however, otherwise he will keep running back to the 2nd group if you kill him at the 3rd group without clearing. EDIT FOR CLARITY: Only the 2nd set of mobs needs to be dead for Milhouse to run to his proper position after being defeated at the 3rd set of mobs. However, the 2nd pack of mobs will aggro the first set if the first isn't cleared.

There are two strategies I used for clearing the trash:

The fast way: charge in and rotate survival cds while using berserk. I was able to do this and end the pulls with ~30% health without using Frenzied Regen (I was in my normal tank spec/glyphs so it wouldn't have done much anyway). However, I'm fully raid geared with a smattering of heroic raid loot, so this strategy is not for everyone. You could also pull with a root on a Berserker since Berserk caps at 3 targets, but I didn't bother.

The slow way: This route definitely benefits from using the trick I mentioned earlier to get Milhouse out of the group so there's one less thing to worry about. Before you pull use Nature's Grasp to get it on CD and start by rooting a Berserker. I liked to keep this Berserker as my focus so I could watch my roots and reapply when necessary. Your primary target (assuming Milhouse is gone) should be the Earthshaper as it is the only caster. Make sure your Nature's Grasp roots melee away from the Earthshaper so you don't keep getting hit while they're rooted. Go cat form and burn the Earthshaper down asap, it shouldn't be too hard to get him down in time to reapply your roots before your Nature's Graps break. Go bear as you should now have 2 melee on you and 1 rooted. If you need to re-root (you probably will) start by cycloning one of the others to cut down on extra damage while in caster form. Don't worry about your health too much because once you are down to 2 targets you can cyclone 1 while keeping the 2nd rooted and heal to your heart's content. Using this strategy I was able to clear each pack without using CDs and never dipping below ~60% health.

The first boss and the trash after him are completely skippable.

Slabhide himself is actually remarkably easy. If you can survive an entire ground phase, you can solo him. Just play how you normally would as bear. Pop Berserk on CD so it goes faster, just make sure you get the full duration before an air phase. I'd also recommend staying on the move while he's grounded just because the fire pools will almost constantly be spawning under you.

During Air phase immediately get some heals running on yourself. I use LBx3, Regrowth, HTx2 before he lands. My spec has 1/2 Nurturing Instinct and I was able to heal around 1/2 my HP each air phase with this. 2/2 Nurturing Instinct would probably be a good idea at lower gear levels. Also, if you still feel you're falling behind on healing if you apply your initial stacks of LB while running away from the center you can gain yourself time for a refresh on your LB after the 2nd HT as he runs to you. I do NOT recommend using Tranquility. It's a pretty good heal, but it's very easy to get RNG'd by having a rock start to fall on you and tranq doesn't really get effective unless you can channel it long enough to get all 3 stacks.

Comment by 247627

Not sure if it's been mentioned or not, but also easily to solo on a blood DK wearing nothing but heroic blues and crafted/rep epics. The only time I had any issues was on the first three groups of mobs. Having no cc or stuns made it a bit rough with the first three pulls, and I tend to die shortly after killing the first add. But after the first one is down, I'm able to take out the rest without issue.

The boss is easy. Just keep Blood Shield up and you should have no issues (assuming you stack mastery like most Blood DKs).

Comment by dardack

Just an FYI to everyone. You can't skip/reset trash after milhouse. Otherwise next group the previous group/groups come at you, if you can get milhouse to 50% and able to reset before those groups kill you, then your good. Usually tho he stuns me and the previous group reaches me.

DK solo's this and VP every day at least once per day. Sigh, GL all.

Comment by Aparchee

Got mine today, 70th run solo. Protection Paladin glyphed Lay on Hands, Word of Glory, Seal of Insight, Dazing Shield, 2/2 Guarded by the Light too. Used Seal of Insight/BOK for trash and Seal of Insight/BOM for slabhide, 8-10 mins per kill. Nuked 1st 5 trash Earthshaper-Millhouse-Rest, then skipped 2nd pack nuked 3rd pack Earthshaper 1st-Rest, back to 2nd pack Millhouse-Ran out. Skipped 1st boss, Invis pot past trash to Slabhide. When he lands stay back 15 yards no breath use Word of Glory every 2-3 Holy Powers, rotate the 3 def cooldowns when needed, Lay on Hands if needed(not usually) and Holy Radiance if required during wings, 1st 10-20 runs I used bandage during air phase, works great but after more practice rarely needed them, easy kill.
Gear was crafted belt/shield, Rep wrists/feet/cloak and rest 346 hc greens, around 155k health, trash is harder than Slabhide, get that down and you got an easy ride, just make sure you do it before the upcoming Word of Glory nerf ;-)

Comment by Vacc

As a feral I've been doing it like this:

Full tank spec and tank gear.

Trash pack 1 + 2: Use your defensive cooldowns + berserk off the bat. Focus the earthshaper for interrupts and nuke Milhouse down. Afterwards I go Earthshaper > Warbringers > rest. Reason I do that is because you can backpedal and constantly attack the warbringers where the other ones will stop all the time to whirlwind so you take a lot less damage.

If you get in trouble use Natures Grasp and step out to heal a litt.e

Trash Pack 3: I simply do the same but once Milhouse is dead follow him a litte, Shadowmeld to reset the pack and carry on. From here you can stealth straight to Slabhide.

Boss:
Tank her in Bear over on top of the teleporter. You'll need to move every few seconds but I just usually circle her. Don't use CDs at the start as she flies straight up so just give yourself a LB+Rejuv and wait. After this you should spread out your Survival cooldowns each ground phase. You should be able to use Barkskin on every one and spread SI and FrR out on alternating ones. Everytime she turns to go up, go caster and start healing. I use Rejuv, 3xlb, regrowth, nourish, rejuv (she usually has landed and cast a lava here) and one more LB to extend stack then bear just as she gets to me.

Not much to it other than that. The fight takes me about 8 minutes.

Good luck!

Comment by 610103

During my first couple solo attempts as a BM hunter, my pet would get stuck in the rock and it really aggravated me. So, I found a way to avoid this from happening.
When Slabhide goes in the air for his airphase, put your pet on passive and he will run back to you and its just up to you to avoid getting hit by the fallen rocks. Once he has about a second left in his airphase, just put your pet back on defensive and he will rush back at Slabhide without being stuck. =)

Hope this helps!

~Shotslol - Dark Iron (Horde) US

Comment by Alcest

Anyone have an idea if this will be available from the BoA Satchel of Exotic Goods? (As well as the Drake of the North Wind)

Comment by 511816

Seems to have changed slightly in 4.1? Or did the patch just do strange things to my video settings? The wings seem a different colour, and the crystals now glow.

Comment by 760297

All the stone drakes I've seen (Including this one) has changed their colours slightly since patch 4.1 hit.

Anyone else noticing this, besides the poster above me?

Comment by Luvaria

Able to solo him as a feral druid in full tank gear with this spec. It's a standard tank spec. I'm in about 365 iLvl gear. If you're in much less I'd recommend grabbing Nurturing Instinct as you'll be healing a lot during air phases. Pull him near the walls so you get more time with him running back and forth as you can, pop enrage and berserk as often as you can, and just DPS him down in bear form. I want to see if I can use NI and only pop LBx3 and go into cat form for the air phases and put Rake + Rip up and see how much faster he dies or if I die. With the extra + healing and healing taken from the HoTs in cat form, I think I could forgo at least the HT's I had to throw otherwise.

Comment by Tsukushi

Definitely still drops in normal mode. Been solo farming on my marks hunter for 2 days on and off and it dropped on run #31. Takes anywhere between 10-15 minutes per run, the only minor setback being that the stones that drop in 2nd phase of Slabhide can land on your pet and bug it out and you will be unable to heal it because of line of sight issues. If that happens, do your best to distracting shot and kite the boss until the stones disappear and you'll be able to heal it again. Good luck to all that are farming, it's very much worth it!

Comment by 836724

SOLOING STONECORE TIP (for SV Hunters)

Supplies needed:
1) Preferrably SV spec, but this is doable with any spec
2) Tenacity pet, spec him into mitigation/threat/resist etc... basically,make him nice and durable
3) Don't suck

There are several excellent tutorials on soloing Stonecore (for the drake needless to say). Although they present effective ways of CC'ing, I found that method to be too high-maintenance..and always looking for the easy way out, found...an easy way through this without the trouble.

Basically, you can avoid CC altogether. Just burn down main targets. The order of priority is (from top to bottom)

a) Earthbringers (they burn down fast but cause the most damage)
b) Berzerkers (take the longest to kill, cause relative damage, have an annoying charge move)
c) Warbringers (go down easy, don't do a hella damage, not very smart)

CC is only used as a safety net with this method - keep note of that

3RD MOB

- Hunters Mark main target (in this case, the earthbringer
- throw a heal on your pet, get those ticks going
- MD your pet (remember, tenacity)
- Send pet in, HOWEVER, Multi-shot the group BEFORE he makes it there. If you wait until he engages his target there is the risk that some mobs will come after you regardless.
- Keep heals up at all times on your pet
**If a mob breaks loose and comes after you - simply drop a trap at your feet and keep dps'sing
- keep heals up at all times on your pet
- Once earthbringer drops, focus your attention on the berzerker, rinse and repeat
**as mobs dwindle, your pets health will naturally drop slower, making your job easier

HEAD BACK UP TO 1ST MOB (To get Milhouse running)

- Same idea, however, make your pull by the entrance to the instance...should anything go wrong, RUN
- Hunters mark Milhouse
-Throw heal on pet
-throw MD on pet
-send pet in, Multi-shot BEFORE pet reaches Milhouse
-burn burn burn, until Milhouse yells his thang
- IN this case, you can actually zone out to spare both yours and your pets life..otherwise just feign death and let ur pet die

2ND MOB

- Don't pull from the north side, pull from the south. When you engage the mob, grp 1 (the ones you didn't kill), will head down to join the fight. Pulling from the south side will prevent mobs from aggroing you first (or at least will give you those extra seconds to burn milhouse
- MD pet, Heal pet, Send pet in, Multi-shot mob, focus DPS on Milhouse until he runs to boss position

Camouflage and make it past mobs to boss (note that you can easily squeeze between the rock elemental guys and the narrow corridor wall...worst case scenario, feign if they aggro

BOSS FIGHT

From that point on you should know your way through soloing the boss for your vitreous drake. Keep heals on pet at all times - be careful not to LOS your pet with the stalagmites, MD your pet when boss goes airborne. During air phase, watch to make sure a shadow doesn't form over your pet...if it does, call him back to you., otherwise he might get stuck inside stalagmite and won't be healable. Rinse n repeat...

Do that 850,000 times and you'll get your drake!

Kyuda - Zul'jin

Comment by verduran

143 runs so far on my DK and still nothing.
I've found out that the group of 3 flayers inbetween the first and second giants is not 100% avoidable if you don't have camo, I usually aggro them 1-2 times every 10 runs or so. If you did aggro them, I found it best to fall back a bit and pull them into left cave, there is a sweet spot where u can fight them without aggroing the second giant.

And in the case that you did aggro the giant, remember that you can avoid the earthquake by jumping up and avoid the 15sec 50% dmg taken debuff by killing the shard before it explodes.

Edit: 300 runs now and still no sign of it. 89% chance it should have dropped by now. Come on!
Edit 2: Ok, finally got it on my 319th run. That put me on the 10% odd of not getting it within my 318 runs... I hate RNG. (And I've got over 20 Skin of Stone during the runs)

After getting it for my DK I proceeded to try it with my tankadin with ilvl 361 in survival gear (stacking mastery). I can confirm it is still doable after the WoG nerf.

For the first group I have the earthshaper on focus and interrupt his transformation spells while I burn down the gnome (with GotAK, for course). After that I either burn layhand and finish the rest of the group or bubble up and run out of the instance. Fights without the gnome are fairly easy so I usually save up GotAK. I'll then sneak past the 2nd group and take down the 3rd group, hen head back and burn down the gnome in the 2nd group (I usually don't have much problem with this group and can take them out without LoH, though all you have to do is to burn down the gnome before you die anyway).

For boss fight I can just bandage up during air phase, usually I can get by bandaging only every other air phase and never have to burn LoH on it.

A single run takes about 20min and the boss fight alone takes around 8min. I'm running with SoInsight, BoM and resistance aura the whole time with the kings drum and the 90str food.

Comment by 836724

Awesome feedback, and there were a few very useful tips as well. I JUST figured out the 5 yrd range fact with the Berzerkers (which is a relief - because that's the most annoying part of the instance). I also didn't know that you could tranq the enrages - but with decent Zandalar gear, keeping heals up usually takes care of that (I also spec into imp pet heals, and glyph for MD for no CD on MD's on ur pet - very handy when your trap is on CD and you have mobs chasing you - MD pet/disengage/multishot).

A little note regarding dropping a trap before the pull - I personally prefer reserving it for an emergency attack, because depending on the pull, there is a chance that the earthbringer can come after you as well. Charges don't cause significant damage, they hit you, cancel your attack, then head back to the pack. However, if a mob breaks away and starts attacking me (not including the whirlwind, because he isn't actually aggroed to you - in that case just avoid the WW and he'll eventually run back to the pack), THEN I drop the trap, because otherwise I know I'll have mobs chasing after me, which is ultimately what I want to avoid.

But much appreciated...your tips are very worthwhile!

Kyuda - Zul'jin

Comment by SylvanElf

Is there any hope a rogue could solo this? Is it possible to stealth directly to him, or you have to take care of Millhouse first?

Comment by 864971

Can confirm this drops in normal runs - dropped today during a guild run.
No trick at all, just luck.

Comment by 876820

After doing this myself i disagree with the tactics in this thread:

What not to do:

1) Don't go survival the cc is inappropriate because you need you pet to drop out some aoe treat that usually brakes the cc's.
2) Your pet is too weak in survival it will die to fast to zerg the trash down in time (for most ppl)

Pre Fight Prep:

1) Get yourself a turtle pet (if you can go get 'Terrorpene')
2) Go Beast Mastery and buff the crap out of your pet
3) Make sure you have taunt and thunderstomp ON

Trash:

1) Freezing trap at your feet
2) The adds have been given ridiculous aggro tables, makes sure you open with your pet and let him get a few attacks in and 1 thundershock before you attack. Make sure to use abilities such as 'Beastial Wrath' and your 4 second stun, Mend pet!
3) Zerg Millhouse, Feint
4) Zerg Earthshaper, Feint
5) Kill all of pack 1 and 2
6) Pack 3 you only need to kill Millhouse, Feight, Camo, Run to 2nd boss (in camo)

The Boss:

1) Make sure to keep 'Mend pet' up (the stone fragments will break LOS)

Comment by NelleRavencrest

Its very simple as Marksmanship Hunter with Turtle:

THIS TACTIC ONLY REQUIRES YOU TO KILL ONE PACK WITH 4 MOBS = Very easy !

1) Go inside MD to pet, cast aimed shot on Millhouse and instanly cast multi shot right after. That way all the mobs go on your turtle. Just nuke Millhouse until he reach 50% = he starts yelling, then run out of the instance to reset the group (easiest way since you are right inside).

2) Go in again and use camouflage to get to the 3rd and last pack (Skip the one with Millhouse). Put down a trap right infront of you, cast MD on pet and once again aimed shot, but this time on the Stonecore Earthshaper, and emediately after use multishot to make the rest of the mobs go on pet. The Berserkers randomly charge, but since you put down a trap right infront of you. The berserkers will get trapped (sometimes there is 2 x Berserker, then you just have to eat some random charges). But with one of them trapped its very easy to deal with the remaining mobs.

3) When the pack is cleared go back towards the middle pack, it will have Millhouse in it. Once again put down a trap (not really needed) to help with the incomming dps preasure. MD to turtle and aimed shot on Millhouse and multishot on the rest. Now just nuke Millhouse down to 50%, when he starts yelling + run away, you emediately dismiss your Pet and FD. This will make the pack reset. Now just pop Camouflage and run to Slabhide (yes the first boss will come in when you get near the cave-hole in the wall)

4) Kill Slabhide, if you can't do this as MM with a bit of Mend Pet and fire dodgeing. Then don't even bother playing WoW and reroll Hello Kitty Online immediately !

Best of luck with the mount !

Comment by 420835

Solo'd as a feral tank (Shiraiyuki - Illidan US)

The Gear:
You will need 2 trinkets to do this effectively and of course some decent gear too. My Ilvl at the time was 368. I have a few FL drops but mainly rep gear/359 gear
Stay of Execution
Mirror of Broken Images

The trash:
I used my regular feral tanking gear and beasted the pulls up to the first boss. You can skip the first boss and stealth through all the rest of the trash. but be careful since right before the falling rocks gauntlet, it puts you in combat and pulls you out of stealth, make sure the patrolling giant isn't at the end of his patrol since he will agro.

The fight:
It is pretty straight forward, dont stand in lava... don't try to pull some extra dps as cat (its not worth the risk). i like to combine my cooldowns. I use barkskin with Mirror of Broken Images becuase i basically take 0 damage from the breath. remember to keep demo roar up so you take minimal physical damage. you will want to tank him at the very edge of the room and as soon as he starts to walk towards the middle to fly up, pop out and start healing yourself. you should have enough time to get 3x LB 1x rejuvie 1x regrowth and 1x healing touch. When you go low hp, pop frenzied regen the next time he comes down. try to pop enrage at the sametime so you won't rage starve yourself and waste your frenzied regen. appart from that, you just do what you would normally do.

Good Luck

Comment by 881628

Ok so heres a trick i learned, bring millhouse down in first mib, let him run to second...kill all first mob. then go to third mob, kill third mob, run back up to secong mob and bring millhouse down.he will run pas third mob since they are all dead. this kets u kill 2 of the mobs out of 3 and lets u bring down millhouse 2 times instead of 3 :) trust me it works

Comment by 897327

Soloed as a demonology warlock, here's how i did it

Kill the trash before the first boss, I just went all out Meta>Demon soul>Moonwell chalice>Felstorm>Immo aura>Shadowflame and nuked..

Skip the first boss, Kill the first giant, skip the rest of the mobs(You can walk to the right of the flayer group next to the 2 giants) thus you can skip all the mobs there if you wait for the giant to pass by after you've passed the flayer group.

Here's the bossfight:
1: Make yourself a SS and HS, you never know when you might need the extra hp.
2: Put a portal behind the rock wall that falls down when you start the fight, Good if you want to reset
3: Use curse of weakness+Health funnel to keep your void topped, Demonic empowerement if he get's too low
4: I popped cds right at the start and went full nuke, with demon soul my void got lots of threat from this.
5: Make sure you put your pet on passive when the airphase starts, my pet got stuck in a falling rock when the boss was at 20% hp so I had to reset, Also if your pet is not topped, Do that during the airphase.
7: Also use bandages/drain life during the airphases, Helped tremendously.
6: I kept dots up at boss at all times. Immolate,Curse of doom and corruption, Hand of gul'dan if I had enough time and void enough health to cast it
7: Boss dead, loot him and if you get the mount, gz to you my friend!

Comment by immortals

on the link i will post belov u can see easy and fast tactic with hunter... i can confrim that it works since i did it with my pvp mm speced be hunter with ruthless set. mount didnt drop yet tho but still here is tactic how to do it easy and fast. video is 5 min long and you can do it in arround 15 min. all you need is tank (turtle in this video and in my tries)

gl and i hope u get drop soon

link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44Qj3g6PUko&eurl=unknown&feature=player_embedded

Comment by leahcimx

Shadowpriest Soloing Tips

I was able to solo this today 4 times as a Shadowpriest. My ilevel is about ~385, but it should be doable at lower. If not, once you get the 378s from 4.3's Dungeons it should be no problem. On Normal, of course.

The basic strategy is flash heal a lot. The fight takes me about 2.5 minutes now. Having a mod that shows his air phase and landing times helps plan your spells out better.

Start off immediately with a normal 3 dot mind blast rotation, after that is done he'll go up in the air. If you pre-shield yourself you will still probably be 100% health. Make sure to use Inner Fire.

After he comes down the first time, I immediately use my shadowfiend + fade and dps as much as I can at this point. Put shield up and when fade breaks do as much damage as you can before you start taking damage. At that point, I basically just flash healed myself non stop till he went up in the air again. Save your instant casts PW:S and Prayer of Mending for when you need to move out of the fire (which feels almost non stop) and just keep chain gunning the Flash Heals.

When he takes off again, put full dots on him again and dps as much as possible.

Basically repeat this until he's dead. You can usually use Shadowfiend + fade once more to buy some DPS time, and dispersion and archangel and you should have enough mana.

Takes me about 10-15 minutes to clear trash and Slabhide.

Good luck on the drop.

Quick tip for the trash, burn down millhouse first. Don't bother with Mind Control as I find its pretty ineffective here, though it can be alright but itll usually break early because of charge and being hit by Millhouse. Remember you can kite a lot, most of the mobs stop to cast stuff. Also zone out if you need.

Comment by chrop

am summing up EVERYTHING i know about this mount, and my experiance
It Drops from a boss named slabhide in Stonecore, Normal and Heroic. I have seen it drop on normal twice (first time, i rolled 10, top roll was 97, Second time, i rolled 68, top roll was 75), never heroic (probably cuz i farm normal stonecore)

If your in a group with 5 People, seeing the mount drop is 1%, so actually obtaining the mount is 0.2% So This is the Percentage of obtaining the mount
50 kills - 9.5% 1 in 10 people will get this mount after 50 kills
100 kills - 18.1% 1 in 5 people will get this mount after 100 kills
250 kills - 39.4% 2 in 5 people will get this mount after 250 kills
500 kills - 63.2% 3 in 5 people will get this mount after 500 kills
750 kills - 79.8% 4 in 5 people will get this mount after 750 kills
1250 kills - 91.8% 9 in 10 people will get this mount after 1250 kills
2000 kills - 98.2% 49 in 50 people will get this mount after 2000 kills
3450 kills - 99.9% 999 in 1000 People will get this mount after 3450 Kills
This means that after killing Slabhide after 3450, there is a 1 in 1000 chance you will not get this mount
If you want the percentage of it DROPPING , then divide the kills by 5, So after 10 Kills, there is a 9.5% of it droping

For the people who are confused saying "no, if you kill it 10000 times its only 1% of it dropping" Think about this, i flip a coin 10000 Times, after the 10000th time, is it a 50% chance that a Heads will be seen once, or almost Completely certain that you would see it at least once.

I Can solo this boss as a demon warlock, (by killing millhouse first trash, running out, back in and go to third trash, kill all them using infernal, howl of terror and fear, should kill all 3rd trash, Then going to second trash and nuking millhouse, die, rez and skip all mobs in second room, fighting slabhide is easy, just send voidwalker in, demon soul and searing pain until demon soul is done, then health funnel and kill (DO NOT NUKE, Try not to gain aggro, if you do, your dead), will take 9/10 minutes) All together it takes me 25 minutes

it takes too long is the problem, thats why i dont solo it, while if i do it in a group i can get to slabhide in 5 mins.

This mount is my second faviourite mount, many ppl will disagree with me, But i just Love it. (first favorite is Ashes Of Al'ar). For some ppl it might be better for them to solo, cuz iv lost this mount twice and i have felt REALLY gutted about it. and i cant buy the mount of them since when a guy from a different realm wins something, u cant trade of him. the worst part is both guys who won it didnt even have 280% Flying :(

So am saying, Solo it if u have more patients then me. getting a friend along makes it twice as fast, getting ppl from ur realm makes it better so when it does drop and u lose, you can buy it off him.
Good Luck To everyone with this mount!

Chrop-Lightbringer EU

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Comment by Aeyrlol

I actually found this fight incredibly easy as feral tank. I use mostly feral dps gear with only a couple pvp items that I gemed/ench/reforged for tank. 4510 agl, 7921 stam, 16.77 mast, 46315 armor, 33.12% dodge.150k hp (only buff I use is MotW) and my ilevel is about 365 (pvp gear ftw?).

The key is effective mitigation of damage and having the right talents/glyphs (I used a custom solo spec) https://www.wowhead.com/cata/talent#0ZfMGbourzMckMcuo:0mVwzVMzm.

Fight takes about 6 1/2 minutes with a 15 min for full clear (I take my time for the sake of ease and not wiping). The trash is far harder than the boss, but using berserk on packs 1 and 3 then burning down millhouse in group 2 with a shadowmeld "vanish" makes the trash relatively easy. The best thing to do is try to get in as many mauls/mangles off as possible for the shield and to have the proper healing rotation during the air phase.

Air phase healing rotation: Regrowt -> Rejuv -> Lifebloom -> Lifebloom -> Lifebloom -> Lifebloom -> Rejuv/Regrowth (can throw in thorns if you have distance too) -> bear form. With the glyphs and talents this is extremely effective at healing. It is also helpful to outrange the first "fire breath" he does the moment he lands and to use barkskin/SI at alternating cooldowns 3 seconds later (he uses the breath almost approx every 12 seconds).

A weapon with mending increased my healing by about 10%, but I now use my agility weap (I am too lazy to put mending on my good wep... and too cheap) for the sake of speed. Another good idea (what I don't have the spell power weapon to do) is to have a macro to equip a SP wep when you use regrowth and a macro to put your phys dps weapon on when you go bear form to maximize healing. This is sometimes slow (pvpers will know what I am talking about) but it could potentially increase healing massively.

If done properly and with decent RNG you should never need to use frenzied regen. This should be able to be done by a feral with an ilevel as low a 355 (prob 350 with mending on the wep) though the trash would be utter hell.

All in all, extremely easy for feral. My second kill I decided to make a video of it and upload it to show to friends, link is below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWE_W8Ab_Jw&feature=channel_video_title

Good luck farming everyone and hopefully I can join the people who have this mount already :3

<3 Aeyr, US - Stormrage http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/stormrage/Aeyr/simple

Comment by Ravij

A Guide for Blood DK's to get this mount:

I'm an ilvl 379 Blood DK and I just received this mount on my second solo run. Here's how.

On the first trash pull; I always death gripped Millhouse to me, don't worry about the earthshapers transforming, they go down pretty smoothly. You'll want to use your Magic shell as much as possible during thes first few trash pulls to negate some of the damage from the transformed earthshaper and Millhouse himself. You can then kill the trash in one of two orders. Millhouse > Berserkers > Earthshapers > and whatever the Tauren are. -or-Berserkers > Earthshapers> Millhouse > Tauren guys. Berserkers will be your main form of damage income as they hurt really bad and often come in a pair with Millhouse. Pop defensive cooldowns and death strike your current target whenever you see them whirl because if you get two of them whirlwinding at the same time you can take a lot of damage, you can also move out of the whirlwind as well. As soon as you get to the final trash pull; kill it and continue towards Millhouse, stop right as the stone worm pops out.

DO NOT ENGAGE IT! There is no need to kill the first boss to proceed.

So simply run against the wall to the tunnel and continue. Sometimes in the dungeon there will be little groups of spider adds. To avoid them pull the first rock giant near the entrance of the tunnel. When he throws out the little stone add, heartstrike it without switching targets and it should just take one heartstrike for it to die, if not two. When the giant casts quake; jump at 85% into the cast to avoid taking extra damage. And as usual, death strike for your absorb shield. You don't need to pull the flayers unless you aggro them, see where the second stone giant is down the hall to Slabhide. If it's a distance towards the entry to Slabhides cave; simply hug the wall away from the 3 flayers and run towards it. Fight it at the entrance to the tunnel of Slabhides cave to avoid little spider adds.
(All in all if spider adds aggro they should go down pretty quickly with a DnD. And if you're not confident avoiding those three flayers you may choose to pull them back up the ramp in the small cave.)

Now onto the boss fight! Avoid the falling pillars as you run down the ramp. And then buff up, eat food, cast bone shield and horn of winter then start the fight by casting your outbreak and pulling him to the middle of the room. (This is to avoid him running off during the fight to fly up). As usual build up a bubble with death strike, always use Magic Shell whenever it's off cooldown as this will minimize his breath attack damage. When you see a patch of earth rumble under your feet you have a few seconds before that becomes a lava pool. When you see it you'll want to move him around in a circle while you are standing and attacking just within his hit box. This way, as you move, by the time you come back to the first patch it'll be long gone. Ever so often Slabhide will fly into the air, but will still be reachable by attacks but stalagmite will drop down all around you. Simply stand right underneath him when this phase comes up and DPS him while avoiding any nearby stalagmite patches. Also to utilize your runic power use Rune Strike; never use Death Coil as it does very weak damage compared to Rune Strike.

TL;DR:
-If low on health and your vampiric blood and/or rune tap are on cooldown; summon a minion and death pact it.
-Utilize Runic Power by doing Rune Strike.
-Death Strike to keep health up and build reduction bubble.
-Bone shield and Horn of Winter at all times.
-Defensive Cooldowns when low on health and waiting for Rune Tap/Vampiric Blood.
-Always use Magic Shell when it is available (except on Air Phases).
-Stand just outside his hit box to be at max range to turn him and avoid lava pools.
-Fight directly underneath him during Air Phase.

All in all it's a pretty easy fight. Much easier than Vortex Pinnacle. Good luck!

Comment by 715782

This seems to be completely impossible to solo as an Ele Shaman. I'm at 387 ilevel, and the first trash pack flattens me in only a few seconds. I just cannot keep myself alive.

Enh Shamans may have a bit of a chance, having slightly higher survivability, but as Ele, don't bother trying unless you like repair bills.

Comment by verduran

Went ahead and tried it with my rogue, it is definitely doable with enough gear.
I was standard combat specced (7/31/3) with the 2 floating points in reinforced leather at 399 ilvl, with most consumable available (flask, scroll of fort, drum, healing pot). I also swapped out Tott glyph for evasion for added survivability.

Opposite to many other specs, the trashes are actually a lot easier for combat rogue, here is the rundown:
1. For the first trash pack, sap one of the berserkers, pop AR and burn Millhouse down and vanish afterward;
2. Sap and blind two of the melees in the third pack, it should be very easy to kill them off separately without burning CDs;
3. Head back to the second pack, wait for your vanish, sap the berserker and burn Millhouse down then vanish, keep in mind that the first pack of trash will also aggro so you'll need to kill Millhouse quickly;
4. The boss fight is actually quite hard, what I did was feint a bit after the first air phase, and keep feint on CD which lines up pretty well with boss's breath attack, pop AR and readiness after the first air phase, then evasion when readiness is down, and of course keep recup up throughout the fight. I can usually kill it right after the 2nd air phase with around 20% health left, dealing 27k dps and taking 3-3.5k dps from the boss out of 90s fights.

#Update: After taking 319 kills before I finally got it on my DK (see my previous comment), this time I got really lucky and got it after merely 23 kills. Hurray!

Comment by Gonee

Just got mine after 149 ( Normal Mode run ) Soloing it as Feral druid Bear form check armory if needed

( Gone druid in Kazzak - EU ) got my 150 mount after geting it was so happy

i have Screenshot but i think i cant post it for now ...

http://im21.gulfup.com/2012-02-19/1329607572152.jpg

Comment by 953073

Went on normal as a feral tank. Killed the trash before the first boss, then skipped the boss himself, no need for stealth. However, I stealthed past the trash before Slabhide and then fought him. Used normal feral tank rotation, no need to heal during air phase, despite only 380 Item level with kitty gemming and enchants. If in need, you can just use Frenzied Regeneration. It took approximately 10 minutes a run, and so after 5 runs I had to wait because I had entered too many instances.
Repeated this, until on my 15th go the mount dropped. I was shocked as the drop chance is around 1%, and my guildies didn't believe me until they saw it! Good luck in getting this lovely mount!

Comment by twbrien

Got this guy after about 15 solo runs as a combat rogue. Took reinforced leather and fleet footed. Had Fort Scroll, Drums of Kings, Agi flask, Agi food.

Trash: Sap the earthshaper. Garrote Millhouse and back away from the shaper. Hit blade flurry and wail on Millhouse til he bails. Take out the orc(stun him if he bladestorms) then the taurens. You can disarm them all and the tauren enrage is shivvable. Skip the middle group and go to the third. Again sap the shaper and repeat the process. Head back to the middle group, sap shaper and punch Millhouse in his face til he again bails. Vanish. Trash done. Remember to pickpockets. =oD

Boss: Distracted him, opened with ambush and immediately popped killing spree, then his recuperate and feint as he'll hit his breath early on. Circled around to avoid the lava. DPS'd and popped slice and dice. Full 5 combo points and popped recuperate. Save evasion and combat readiness for his second ground phase. Used adrenaline rush while he was in the air and got slice and dice and recuperate back up. Once he lands immediately pop evasion and feint and keep circling/backing away between the stones to make him move. Keep it up and he'll eventually drop.

Found it easier not to prepot in the event that he crits off the bat. Usually around 30k. If you get sub 10% and you're a fair bit out from an air phase either use a health pot or vanish. If you wind up in a second air phase use a bandage while recuperate's running. A little practice and luck and you'll be killing him regularly.

Comment by ItZMuRdA

I've been soloing Normal Stonecore as a Prot Warrior in T13 for the past few days rather successfully, and thought I'd share my tips/suggestions. If your gear is Dragon Soul capable, you probably won't have any trouble just killing Slabhide traditionally, but if you have lower gear levels or if you don't properly use cooldowns, it can get pretty hairy after fighting him for 3+ minutes.

While glyphing/speccing/using consumables specifically for this fight always helps, the best suggestion I have is to make use of Victory Rush (and perhaps even both glyphs for it if you deem necessary) by pulling other mobs into the encounter with you before you begin. My recommendation is to utilize the Rock Borers that run around with 5k HP in the previous room, as they all proc victory rush and can be killed on command. You could also try the rock elementals from the beginning, but be careful they don't pull extra undesirable mobs (like the giants) if you kite them that far. Lastly, even two or three of the Flayer mobs work fine, just be sure to use whatever extra mobs you bring in properly (i.e., if you have flayers, keep them stunned and move away from their Flay ability to avoid taking excess damage; if you have borers, try not to do any AoE since they have very low HP, and simply kill them as you need throughout the encounter).

While I've only done it as Prot, I imagine the encounter could just as easily be done by Arms/Fury warriors as well, especially when taking advantage of Victory Rush from adds. Best of luck!

Comment by 153653

I might get downrated but I still have to ask you Mages out there:

Any Mage that have a "how to solo" guide for this boss? I would be very thankful and happy if someone could do that. If it is possible.

Tactic? Spec? Pots / buffs? Anything Will do, thanks!

Comment by 136075

Been farming for this mount and ended up with some time on my hands so I decided to put together a little video guide for druids wanting to farm this mount.

Link;
http://youtu.be/0aDGgAmX_s4

Summary;
Sneak past the first 2 packs of mobs, kill the 3rd.
Pull the 2nd pack of mobs, when Millhouse gets close - charge him.
Pop defensive CD's + berserk and nuke him to 50%.
Use Stampeding Roar and bail from the instance.

This takes me about 3 min and this trick lets you skip all the trash up to Slabhide.
Then you just have to nuke him and repeat :> .

1 run takes me on average 7min. Too bad we can only do 5/hour. (If you know of an addon which lets you track your Instaneces/Hour let me know!)
The remaining 20min I sit hoping that Aeonaxx will stop by...

Hope it helps!

Comment by 962803

Solo whit my shadow priest, trash realy np whit MC+MC+fear if need swd+fade, first boss np, but Slabhide need some tactic, i down boss whit my 20% hp left to 50% boss HP and use later shadowfiend+fade to zerg him down, dispersion at end help to, 2more sec and i am dead, not using any flash heal just shield up, 27k dps gl

Comment by 963879

I can confirm this mount still drops on normal mode, got it a few minutes ago after 258 tries so patience is the key in obtaining it!

On my SV specced hunter ilvl391 (mix of LFR and vp vendor gear) I just pulled the first group, nuked Millhouse to 50% then finished off the remaining mobs, stealthed past the second group, killed the third group then pulled the second on my pet, nuked Millhouse to 50%, dismissed pet and feigned. Generous usage of mend pet and misdirect is recommended. I also didn't use any cc since the mobs went down really fast.

The Slabhide fight is simple enough, keep mend pet and misdirect up, be careful your pet doesn't get stuck under a rock, loot and repeat.

Good luck all in getting your own drake!

Comment by D4rkness

Loool i ve got it two hours ago, leveling my 81 rogue in random dungeon that dragon dropped it, everyone needed it but i won the roll with 100 :D its pretty cool

Comment by LorkRakt

Hey guys just wanted to make you all feel a bit jelly but also give some advice as well..

My character is an 85 combat rogue and it took me about a week to get it..According to rarity I have looted the mob (on normal) 4 times which is where I got my mount @ 1.00% of people getting it in 4. All I did was queue up for heroic, run it, queue up for normal, run it. I would leave shortly after slabhide was dead and move on. Simple as that..took about a week and I just got him ^.^ So keep it up!

Comment by 943566

I run this all day long and I have about 375 kills and still nothing has dropped for me :/ , I run it on a blood DK, my strategy consists of when I start I target Milhouse first and get him to run away then I kill the Earthshapers first then Berserkers because their spinning slash does lots of damage (when they start to spin if you just run away that attack won't hurt you to much) then lastly I kill the Warbringers, if the Unbound Earth Ragers pull and attack I just throw down Death and Decay because their attacks cut down your armor then just repeat for mob he runs to. You can skip all of the mobs except the first 3 and the 2 Crystal Giants down the hall on the way to Slabhide, you should be able to skip the Flayers but if not just run away behind them when they start to do their flay attack and attack their back. I can usually complete each run in like 4 or maybe 5 runs an hour (5 is the most you can do per hour) Good luck to everyone else with the drop God knows it's gonna take FOREVER for it to drop for me lol.

Comment by Holloww

as a mage i managed to burst him down as arcane ,403ilvl and wasn't easy.

Comment by iBullet

@Vacc

Thanks for the strategy for feral druids.
I ran this today after ulduar 25 (got my ironbound :) ) and was able to successfully solo this dungeon.

So I killed the last boss, kept bear the whole fight and healed occasionally, looted and it seems I am lucky enough for it to drop the first run (obviously I've ran while leveling from 80+) but actually trying for the mount, first run :)

-Had to make a comment to say so and people saying stop saying how many times you got it in, need to chill.. It's comments not guides, we can comment about anything to do with it.

Comment by 978922

Kinda small drop rate ... well i guess im lucky done my 3rd Stonecore HC run as a tank , mount dropped , rolled 91 and got it :)

Comment by TommyKost

Hey guys, I just got this mount today on (US) Whisperwind. I solo'd Slabhide on my Protection Paladin 25-30 times a few days ago and I got the mount today after my 3rd or 4th run.

I didn't do anything special; My tank gear is only ilvl 365 and I had no real issues clearing the trash. The only advice I can give you when dealing with the first 3 mobs is to nuke the Millhouse guy until he's at 50% health and then DPS the rest of the trash down. After you clear all 3 mobs, skip the snake boss and kill the first big rock guy. After he's dead, hug the walls and kill the other big rock guy and then run to Slabhide. Each run took me about 10-15 minutes.

Don't give up guys! :)

Comment by 986414

Got this drop today while running as a Feral Druid in 11 runs. The run is really easy and takes about 10 minutes while doing it as a Bear. Just muscled through the first 3 groups of trash, stealthed past the first boss and trash to Slabhide. The key to killing the trash is to nuke Milhouse Manastrom until the Earthshaper transforms, take out the Earthshaper, finish Milhouse, and then rotate Lacerate stacks and Mangle procs amongst the remaining three mobs.

Slabhide is pretty straight forward. Just dodge the lava pools, use Pulverize with three stacked Lacerates before popping Beserk to really spike in damage for awhile. Really easy. Don't even need Frenzied Regeneration for the most part. Item level is 377. Make sure you have some decent trinkets. Something like Veil of Lies really helps.

Good luck to those going for this mount. Definatly worth it.

Comment by burns91

The drake dropped for me after off and on solo'ing Stonecore as a BM hunter, though I probably only solo'd it maybe 10 times, I was extremely lucky. I made a video awhile back that might be helpful for other hunters looking to solo this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujwnvgeWGkc

Basically, set Millhouse in the 1st group to focus or keep him targetted so when everything gets pulled, you don't lose him. Go to the 3rd group, lay a frost trap to trigger them, run back up to the 1st group and DPS Millhouse down to under 50%. The 3rd group will pull the 2nd group, and the 2nd group pulls the 1st.

As long as all 3 groups are pulled, and Millhouse goes down to 50%, he will jump all the way forward to activate the 1st boss. At this point, just feign death or run out of the instance to reset the trash. You do not need to kill any trash (except I like to kill the little elemental rock guys in between groups).

Then you can camo through everything up to Slabhide, who is an easy kill with a tanking pet.

Good luck, everyone. This mount is a beauty!

Comment by 639386

I am surprised that they, for once, made regular rare drops look better than raid/world rare ones. The Vitreous Stone-Drake and Drake of the North Wind = two of the most stunning drakes I have ever seen. And dirt easy to farm too! I hope they'll make the MoP dungeon drops this farmable.

Comment by 721719

i got 386 ilvl, BM/MM hunter (was BM at the time) and i thought id give soloing this a go...

the first time doing it killed no prob, no drop tho, then went to reset then died pretty much 10 times for the 2nd and 3rd go, 4th time i changed my pet, from Skoll to Terrorpene

pretty much stayed above 30% of its health with no panic of dying..
then i screamed
so shocked!
Happy as can be!
IT DROPPED :D

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERDFHGHMDHGUJERHGQUJADFHBUHG!1!

so, solo this as a hunter with my 386 ilvl with my rare pet was a breeze ;)

(can work with any other turtles or tanking pets i guess :P )

time i done this was roughly 4 mins ~

Comment by Harry4500

Just dropped for me on first try when I was doing it with another death knight.

I roll 45 and he roll 92

I lost the roll :(

Comment by Equeon

I can confirm that burns91's method works easily. As a BM hunter, camo your way down to the third group, set Millhouse as your focus. Launch an ice trap at the 3rd group from as far away as possible, then use Aspect of the Cheetah to skedaddle on up to the gnome and get him down to 50% HP. Quickly get to a safe place away from the trash, deterrence, dismiss pet, and feign death. Then use camouflage all along the path to Slabhide, and it's a breeze from there.

Comment by 334079

Just dropped for my DK Thallusen after about 20 runs. Very simple for a blood dk in dps gear to solo normal, just clear the first 3 packs skip the first boss then due to the night elf racial could just run through the next room and shadowmeld at the bottom of the gauntlet and was at slabhide again :) for those with a little less love for RNG good luck!

Comment by 973372

Currently 48 kills on slabhide normal there has not been any drop for me... Yet

Running the instance in about 10 - 13 minutes each as a Retribution paladin.
For all paladins (Retribution as well as Protection) this is with DS Gear without a doubt doable.
The three trash packs before corborus are a pain in the ass at first and takes some getting used to.
For the spec i used I try to maximize the healing i do on myself, concidering slabhide hits around 10-25k )Depending on his critical strikes)
But if you manage kill him in under 2 minutes you are guaranteed to get a kill, if you are fast enough on lay on hands of course.

Comment by Anathaema

Have been running Slabhide for more than 3 months now with my rogue friend (dual rogue setup) and so far no luck.
We're at around 200 kills each and still no sight of it.

The trash is easy (we're 400 and 403 ilvl legendary rogues) but the boss is a challenge because we feel like we're fighting the mighty dragon (story)

Hopefully, one day ... it will be mine :)

Comment by 1011859

Haven't seen it drop for me yet, soloed about 10 times so far on my Death Knight.
Blood pres/spec.
Killed first 3 mobs, potion of lesser invisibility past first boss (Corbus or whatever) And easy downed slabhide in about 2 minutes.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/moon-guard/Intoxication/simple

Comment by Rabond

This is hard to solo with a lvl 85 hunter ilvl 380

Comment by mohammed12

i have done 62 solo stonecore and never saw the mount =/ any tips(##RESPBREAK##)16##DELIM##Sas148##DELIM##

Comment by 1014289

solo farmed as blood dk on normal.
skipped first boss always
69 kills to get it.
easy quick runs 5/hr (cap)
if u can stealth by class or engineer belt u can skip some more trash just not the milhouse packs as they will all pull if u only try to kill the last pack.
u also need them dead to open the cave wall.

happy hunting.

http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/thunderhorn/Ice/simple

Comment by 1017111

102 solo kills and still no drop :(. I need some encouragement before I give up >_<. And does anyone know if the drop rate on normal is 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, or 0.9%? I keep reading different numbers.

Comment by 1013125

Hello fellow Drake-Hunters,
I'm soloing this dungeon to get this damn mount!
At the moment i'm on run number 48.

I know several players on my realm (Emerald Dream) who got it while leveling, or just an random run.
Also on this comment page i see several people getting it pretty 'fast'.
Please reply if you GOT this mount and let me know how many runs you did for it!

Thank you :-)

Comment by Skeven

Hello. I don't know if the drop chances are different between normal and heroic. But I do both anyway, if you're doing this heroic as a feral druid. There are a few things you should be aware of.

As you engage the battle, the physical damage dealt by the boss himself isn't very much, clearly depends on your gear myself I have Ilvl 404 (PvE.) But the main thing is his breath that he does. It hits around 30-35k and that's usually quite a lot since he does it often. The way to prevent from getting this breath at you is whenever he flies up in the air, he'll do that ability where spikes fall off the roof.

What you should do is, run away as far as possible and heal up your HP even if you don't heal a lot it will prevent you from dying since the fight will take some time. Stay far away, because when he comes down he'll do the breath and won't be able to reach you with it. And the second time he does the breath is when he shoots out spikes and you're suppose to hide behind one of those pillars/spike. Take a spike far away from the boss and put up a few heals and you'll avoid another breath which means that 60k damage has been avoided. You will still take damage from it at some points when you can't avoid it, and you have to keep moving at all time due to the lava coming from the ground.

I hope this helped those who are feral druids.

Comment by Matchitisiu

Soloed this on my SV hunter on regular mode. Took 66 kills to get the drake. Seemed to take forever. Gear ilvl 397

Comment by 835202

Running this as a Feral tank, My gear ilvl is 383 (some LFR gear and some PVP gear). Not too hard to do and takes me about 12 minutes. Trying to get this mount for when MoP comes out, Since mounts will be account wide and it's too hard for me to solo on my main (mount collector) :P

Comment by 683070

Protection Paladin - soloable

If I did everything right I could clear this in 7-9 minutes, but it usually takes me about 12.

I run with a hit/exp capped tank set around iLevel 397. I used Devotion Aura and Seal of Insight, and hardly have to worry about my health.

I pull the first 3 packs, focusing down Millhouse and then the Earthshaper. Skip the first boss, and then pull the two Crystal Giants. Slabhide doesn't do much damage and I just circle around him avoiding the lava pools until he's dead.

After a few runs I switched to my best tank gear and started pulling the next pack after killing the Earthshaper. By the 3rd pack I had to use a cooldown or two, but it wasn't very difficult. After the 3rd Earthshaper died all the melee mobs were easy to clean up, and they don't do much damage.

Comment by 841567

...I must be the luckiest guy on Earth... I got it in level 83, while doing a normal run for the quests..
We downed Slabhide, saw the dragon in the loot list, and everybody went like "OMG OMG OMG"
I rolled, /prayed and waited for the winner to be announced. There it stood... "Wolph rolls (can't remember number, too excited) for Reins of the Vitreous Stone Drake.

I heard a sound, as I was playing without music, like a boss, and saw "Wolph recieves loot: Reins of the Vitreous Stone Drake. I wrote /cum, turning down every bid, (did it with some guildies) and did bad dps the rest of the dungeon because I was so happy. I am now using it every time I can, now I only need Raven Lord, so that I have both an awesome ground mount and an awesome flying one (using Black War Bear atm)

All in all, if you ask me, this is the most epic looking dragon in the game, and the feeling of flying in the night sky of Stormwind is just incredible. :) Totally worth farming, for you less lucky people.

Comment by ericnhw

Less than 20runs i got the mount.. lucky i guess.... i was like mount mount mount when looting. oni for this time.. so farm it will drop...

Comment by faerogue

With the coming of account wide mounts there's no reason not to farm this with your most solo-capable character. For my money that's a blood DK. I swapped to a blood spec specifically to try this farm, and after a few pulls getting the swing of things I was having an easier (if a bit slower) time than on my better geared hunter (the mount collector). Here's a couple of tips that work for me trying to get through there as quickly as possible:

1) Use your dps gear: I have an ilvl around 380 for both sets, and I don't notice much difference in the damage I take between sets, but I do around 3k more dps wearing my dps set. It speeds things up considerably. Even if you find you need the tanking gear for the big trash pulls, the hallway and Slabhide should be doable with a reasonably set up (ie not questing greens) dps set. I shaved a full minute off my Slabhide kill time just by putting on my dps gear.

2) Let the earthshapers evolve: It goes against everything we learned when running through at level, but after they evolve they die in the span of 2 death strikes, that'll be before, or very shortly after, they start their aoe. The unevolved form takes much longer to die, you take more damage, the group takes longer to kill, the overall run takes longer.

3) The 3 pack of flayers at the end of the hallway can be skipped. Just hug the far wall, it's a narrow window but you can make it.

Comment by zknm7

I'm just going to outline my experiences with the Stonecore as far as soloing normal mode to get this mount goes. For a long time, I soloed Stonecore on one of my DK tanks in order to obtain the mount: Even a dk tank in all HoT tanking gear can easily solo this dungeon on normal, and I was soloing it with my dk when Firelands was the current raid and I had about a 374 ilvl as a tank. As has been stated earlier, do not engage Corborus, as you can just run along the wall and bypass him, saving yourself a lot of time and effort.

Moving on, I've also been able to solo this with my prot warrior as of late, mostly due to using Victory Rush on the Millhouse mobs and through judicious use of healing CD's and having a normal mode Souldrinker to further heal me... that being said, my attempts to solo this dungeon with my warrior in Fury spec wielding Heroic Gurthalak in the MH and Heroic Ataraxis in the OH have been for naught.... sometimes I can clear the trash but usually she ends up dying, and she always ends up dying on Slabhide, although I've gotten him down to about 100k specced like this before dying. However, when I respec her to Single Minded Fury and dual wield normal mode Souldrinkers, she is capable of soloing both the trash mobs and Slabhide, although judicious use of healing cooldowns and keeping a healing pot or two on me for Slabhide is a must. With about 1/2 Heroic dps gear, my fury warrior manages to down Slabhide in about 1min and 15 sec, which is quite a bit more rapid than either of my blood dk's. That being said, there are many attempts on Slabhide where I've had very little life left (and one more thing, my warrior is a Draenei, which means she has the racial self-heal) meaning you'll either have to get very lucky or have a healer if you want to down Slabhide with lesser gear and LFR Souldrinkers. Yes, the normal mode Souldrinkers are that good, outhealing every class and racial ability that a fury warrior has at her disposal to a large degree. With 2 heroic Souldrinkers, it would be even easier, although obviously those are not easily obtained by most. Anyway, best of luck: as stated previously, just about any blood dk with an ilvl of 378 or better can easily solo this, and a prot warrior in the hands of a capable tanker with decent gear can as well, the trash is easy, just be careful on Slabhide, and a fury warrior can with some heroic gear and normal Souldrinkers when specced into SMF, with careful use of CD's. Hope you all get your mount!

Comment by 950815

Easy Blood solo. Just do the obvious, keep up Blood Shield, mash Death Strike, Rune Tap if need be. Corborus is skippable. On the run in bit before the boss, don't just sprint through, let some rocks drop or the boss doesn't spawn and you have to run back up. On trash, remember Earthshapers first, but let them change to Elementals, they die waaayyyy quicker. In the words of DBM "Good luck and have fun!"

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Reins of the Vitreous Stone Drake

Item Level 70
Binds when picked up
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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 Vitreous Stone Drake. This is a flying mount.

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