I'm a proud owner of the Tribute to Immortality mount. Even though I obtained it on alliance, eventually the horde one became available as well they started making things more account bound. The Black Proto Drake I have as well, but Immortal wasn't even near as challenging as doing the Trial of the Grand Crusader 25 without anyone dying, due to the nature of Anub'arak's design. In the final phase, healers had a 1.5 second window where they had to find their designated target and heal them before they would get 1-shot, and due to a lack of WeakAuras back in those days, it was very difficult to assign. Additionally, you used an offtank with max block gear that would tank all the adds (4 per spawn) and get hit 20 times a second.. per add.. which meant that tank wasn't allowed to move since a split second of not facing the mobs would mean you'd die instantly. Thus, all the adds were to be misdirected and tricks'd to the offtank, and if they didn't do enough threat in that window a healer would get aggro and get popped instantly.
Looking back when I wasn't able to raid when BC, Wrath, or Cata were live, I like to see WoW as the hardest game to ever play, because the game needed players to obtain a certain piece of gear/object/gem, attune to a raid by following long quest chains, or required everyone to perform specific moves in order to earn those hard achievements. It's like comparing how to play guitar today to thirty, maybe forty years ago. Really, the hardest achievement I could ever earn was one of the meta achievements in Firelands, but that's still current content. I was too young to understand back then, and I'm often jealous that a select few are able to earn these fantastic awards.
The original epic unarmored mounts are among the rarest in this game nowadays. Not only you had very short window of opportunity to buy one (had to play since the game was brand-new) but you also had to decline the offer to trade this mount for the armored version. "Less than 1%" doesn't even begin to describe how rare these are. 1% of 1% would be generous, as in 100 players per a million.
We had 1 guild on horde and 1 on alliance on my server that managed to get Undying/Immortal. They also did the Tribute to Insanity or whatever it was called for TOGC
To put in perspective how rare the grand crusader mounts are... I've seen More Scarab Lords running around than Grand Crusader mounts over the years. While this is subjective based on mounts people openly choose to ride, still, its pretty wild to think about.
The Scarab Lord mounts are more common because for a while into WOTLK, new servers were created with the gates closed. Hundreds if not thousands of people xferred to these servers to cash in on this before blizzard opened all gates to maintain the rarity. Even popular classic servers had at most 2 or 3 people receive it back in the day.
@@FreedomAndPeaceOnly Cool so everyone can use rank 1 gladiator titles with elite pvp sets from various seasons while also using items like corrupted ashbringer etc ? All that just to look cool while in reality you dont even deserve any of it ? No thanks This game is not for everyone. For example : You cant complain about the fact that only the best pvp players can have the gladiator mounts. Why ? Because you are a bad player that is hardstuck at 1.2k rated. Why should blizzard allow you to have that mount that requires the best pvp players to works their asses off, just because you are unable to get it and it looks cool ? Thats not how the game works man. And the same applies for literally everything else in this game
it took us 11 weeks to get "A Tribute to Immortality"... this was easily the hardest Achievment i ever did. Not only because of random Disconnects... no the Bosses on Heroic had little room for Error (especially the Valkyr Twins and the Champions Fight).
Was a hard fight, I had the strangest luck with my achievement. My guild was 25 man HC progress but we didn't do too many 10mans, I must've gotten the worse players when I set up runs because we failed for months....pugged it with total randoms and got the cape and mace as a tank, leader ninjad the wolf.
The Immortality runs became a lot easier when everyone was full ICC geared. We did a half guild / half pug run for the 10 man chest and we were all heroic ICC geared, at least partially, which made the fights pretty much a joke except Anub which was the only fight that could really fuck up your run.
We should get an update to this video in particular! This would be fun to see. For example Tyrael's Charger went up on the Trading Post months ago, so some of these are back (temporarily).
I am 100% certain that the _Black Qiraji Resonating Crystal_ (which let you summon the Black Qiraji Battle Tank) is the rarest no-longer-obtainable mount in WoW (I know there is a mechanostrider that is rarer, but there is only one of those and it was given to a player by accident, so it was never 'obtainable' for real)
I'm so happy with myself that I have a good amount of these mounts. I realize I'm the only one that cares about it, but it kinda validates being a collector and doing whatever I need to do to get my mounts/pets.
@@mmoarchives2542 the original is the unarmored version and is ONLY available to people who were able to purchase it in 2007, with the handstamp other then that its removed from the game
Everytime I've unsubbed and quitted wow, you have always been the piece of wow that never goes away. Your videos are so rewatchable and fun that no matter if I continue playing wow, I Will never stop watching your videos. Thank you Hiru!
i would change the title to "top 10 no longer available mounts" rather then unobtainable, because the no longer available indicates that they where once obtainable but "unobtainable" doesnt neccessarily convey that information, plus the mount that got given to a player by accident by a gm isnt on the list :P
I have the mounts from #10 to #4 and the yeti. The time spent on this game is just so much and the mount rewards are all lovely. I just hope whatever the AOTC mount for Shadowlands will be just as good as the other four before it (which in my opinion have all looked far better than the mythic raid mount drops by comparison)
You didn't mention my rarest unobtainable mount. The Brewfest Ram. No I'm serious. Only available for the first year of brewfest and most people bought the swift brewfest ram instead. I was gonna try get it again in classic but the barker quests where bugged and by the time they fixed them there was no way to get enough tokens...
My friend and I got the Obsidian Worldbreaker pretty much on the first days of the whole event. It was tough, for sure, took lots and lots and lots of re-tries queuing up for those fights (we both play LFR since neither of us is into "hardcore" raiding), but I never expected it all to be SO hard that only a small handful of people got the mount. I thought it was way more common than that.
ahh I remember getting the Brawlers mushan beast in Pandaria, that boss with the pink hexagon beams closing in gave me flashbacks haha. Didn't think the mount would be so rare after they re-used it as the reward for season 2 though
Mine I can't use. Tldr my ex made me sign up under his sister's account originally so when we transferred my character off it had to be in her name or they'd close both our accounts because blizz is so iffy about account sharing. I had never played before so I didn't know a trial account was possible. Since we broke up it was too risky since she could easily prove it was her and just take the account if she wanted to. I logged in a final time, moved all my valuables to a new account, put a cool outfit on my old rogue as a sort of tribute and never logged on again. Though part of me wants to take that risk sometimes it's just not worth investing time into and then losing the account for one reason or another down the line. I had a time lost protodrakes on it too that I camped for for weeks
When I first started playing they brought in Brewfest and I grinded it all day long, riding my ram up and down and earning my little tokens. I got 2 ram mounts, and one of them was later removed. :)
I had it on my first account. Then during Wotlk I got a perma ban for buying gold. Later on I asked since we can buy tokens aka gold if I could get it transferred to my current account. No luck.
Remember we were so so close to getting that, but some players just did not prepare like getting health stones and drinks, every try 1 or 2 or a group of 3-4 players always died to some stupid shit and it was not internet. We also got realm first or horde first Arthas Lick King kill dragging a 3-4 people through the fight. Video still on YT and some Sunwell kills.
@@edgargross2789 14 months and 3 days. Still a little bit less than WoD 6.2 drought which lasted for 14 months and 5 days (at least it had a very small 6.2.3 patch with expanding of timewalking to Cataclysm). So both those droughts gave devs a time to prepare extraordinary huge amount of content for Legion.
@@TheLesoro yeh these droughts were rough. Over a year without any new content coming. They just put more and more valor point upgrade levels so players would push through the raid easier instead of quitting. But this point system was flawed, as it had a strict weekly cap. Especially bad in MOP where it took you an entire weekly pool to upgrade a single gear piece to 4/4. In WOD you had much bigger VP cap of 3k per week with same costs and half as many levels, so if you cleared all WOD dungeons on mythic difficulty in one week you had enough to upgrade like 1/3rd of all your items. Even though MOP had absolutely no new content in its second year I still really liked the expansion. WOD not so much, but I still don't think it was worse than Hitler (like people portray it to be). Early BFA or current Shadowlands is much worse than WOD.
@@alewis514 MoP was my personal favorite expansion. Class power fantasy was at its peak, and the last two raids were incredible. Throne of Thunder is the best raid in the game Imo, even beter than Uldular. It helps that I played a Resto Shaman, and they were OP as fuck in Mists. RIP Conductivity.
Turiel’s Charger was BA but if you didn’t keep your account in standing for a certain time you lost it. I had it and lost it because life and bills for a certain time. I hope at some point they bring it back.
Well orginal Amani War Bear, yeah, He also left out the orginal barron mount, ashes of the phoenix, and alal's ashes, all of who are almost never seen.
the glory of the raider mount removal always pissed me off because they didn't continue removing them after, it was only those two that they removed. when they decided they were going to leave the others obtainable they should've added the first ones back.
I'm one of the few owners of the original Brewfest Ram which was obtainable only if you bought the voucher for it back during the original Brewfest event in 2007. This was relatively tasky feat to achieve since getting the tickets required for the voucher required you to "grind" the event several hours a day. During the first day or two of the event the Dark Iron assaults used to award tickets without cap so I camped the event grounds pretty much 8 hours a day and was able to purchase the voucher for the mount 2 days in to the event being most likely among the very first people in the world at the time. They removed the voucher system after the 2007 event and introduced the dungeon drop for Epic Brewfest Ram and Epic Brewfest Kodo making the non epic Brewfest Ram unobtainable unless you had received the voucher during the 2007 event. It's funny that I can still go to Dun Morogh and buy the original and epic versions of the Ram from the vendor if I want to but there's just nothing I can do with them since I have both of them learned already.
I have the ram myself, I got it becayse I wanted my Tauren warrior to ride something different then a kodo as back then the kodo was the only mount a Tauren could ride.
I have the spectral gryphon / wind rider mounts! You didn’t have to choose, I got both! :D horde characters were mailed the wind rider and alliance, gryphons :)
The ultimate flex for someone from Wrath is Black Proto with Conquer of Ulduar or a realm first. (Although some realm firsts are pretty trash to be fair)
I thought the Brawlers Guild was some PvP dueling mode and never tried it, because I'm terrible at dueling. I really wish they decided going into Burning Crusade that old content should in some way stay relevant. Instead they made the decision that new content should replace old.
Agreed. I always thought it was a shame that WoW expansions were replacements rather than actual expansions of the existing content, especially since the minor parts they did expand on (more / improved quest hubs, Jewelcrafting) felt pretty natural
@@etou1146 it really did. What didn't (still doesn't) is replacing raid gear with quest greens and dungeon blues. I hope over the next few expansions they're able to bring together the good of classic content with the good of modern.
I was one of the few who got Tyrael's Charger, it's a beautiful mount great for pallys who want to fly. Glad I bought it while it was available for US brief market time. Love my horse of the angels ❤ Okay I watched the rest of this, and I've been playing since 2005, and I have all of the epic mounts from Horses to Rams, to Gnomish Road Runners as I like to call them. And I had a friend who had quit, and got him to come back getting me the spectral Gryphon, and to think I thought all my mounts were not as cool as others. The Celestial Steed is another I heard you can't get in the US and not at all anymore, unless you were able to buy it that brief moment when it was available in the US for purchase accidentally and Blizzard removed it's from purchase in the US market. I was up pulling an all nighter with a buddy when a server restart was needed, don't know if they still do those, I haven't seen one for awhile cause I'm not up at 3-4am playing WoW anymore. This was different from the Server maintenance, around WotLK or Cata without warning a timer would start and they even played a ticking clock in the trade chat you would read SERVER RESTART REQUIRED GAME WILL BE UNAVAILABLE FOR 2 MIN, something like that anyway while I was waiting I went over to look at the mounts available for purchase because I had a game card for items purchase back in the good old days Blizzard had game cards like Pokémon well sometimes you could score sacks of gold with a key code and i had one silver holographic game card for 1000 gold and decided i would redeem it and see if it was enough to buy anything. Looking back I bet that card would be worth something today, I remember after rubbing the incredible hard to scratch off crap that it nearly took the numbers under it with it, lol it was good for like $100.00 buddy of mine told me it's random, he had one for the same amount and it was $45.00... Anyway it was more than enough in fact I was able to buy the Celestial Steed, that Gold Aspects Dragon, and that purple lion with wings that leaves a gold dust trail behind it...I forget the name of it, and then after I bought them took that Celestial Steed out in front of a friend, and he was loke okay we need to go....hold up, where did you get that! I told him he went to look and it wasn't in the store to buy. Some random night I was up and Blizzard goofed, thank you Blizzard Team about time you paid off, since they lost my pet Skarr and my warlock's green fire. Yup, had them and then logged out and came back GONE. No way to recover them...the GM said.
Small correction: Tyrael's Charger didn't require you to buy a 12-month sub; you just had to commit to subscribing to the game for at least the next year. You didn't have to pay for that year all at once. In fact you could just continue on a monthly sub. I got it because I'd knew I'd be staying that long anyway, and wanted into the MoP beta. I never even played Diablo 3 even though I could have for free.
Its still both so cool, and so aggravating to see some of the ones on that list that I missed for whatever reason. I'm not the "I didn't play then, its not fair. Bring back the werebear" dude. I'm the "damn, he has that...bad ass." And it inspires me to keep getting stuff more hardcore. Like the phoenix eggs make me sick that I missed them because I'm a huge phoenix fan, I even have one tattooed on my leg. I understand others opinion and get why they say it...but I'm a prestige guy and I'd rather something like the Black Proto stay retired even though I don't have it.
My favourite mount in retail (which I've not played for years, admittedly) is the Kor'kron Juggernaut. Not sure how common it is, but defeated Garrosh on mythic quite a few times with my guild to get this mount for as many of us as possible (when it was current - we managed Ahead of the Curve just in time).
Unfortunately the juggernaut is an extremely common mount and is still farmable to this day, also Heroic (Now Mythic) Garrosh awarded you with Cutting Edge, not Ahead of the Curve, AOTC was the normal mode achieve.
I'll never forget when I won the 10 man Tribute to Immortality mount in WOTLK. I only ever ran a successful immortality run once. We cleared with no deaths, the mount drops, some guy rolls 100, "oh well", grats. I complacently /roll; 100. Shitting my pants, we rolled again, I got 67, he got a 33. I about damn near had a heart attack.
I can proudly say im the owner of 9/10 mounts listed on here. Only one i missed out on was the Naxx Glory of the Raider. In the only week we attempted A Tribute to Immortality, i won the mount, good thing to, everyone else in that raid group has long quit the game. Im currently sitting at 578 mounts on my warrior alone and i still use most of these along with the original ZG mounts and TCG mounts in my rotation.
Omfg the memories of wotlk thr mounts and achievements to obtain it, looked forward to it every week 😭 no game will ever give me memories like wow did with thousands of people in a realm
Ditto, I felt so embarrassed about paying that much for just a mount back then but it seems like a steal now. Plus needed to use that garrison money for something!
Can say I am an owner of the original epic mounts and have the achievement "Old School Ride." Blizzard also gives you all the original epic mounts depending on the race you pick and not just the mount you owned in Original WoW. I obtained mine on a Night Elf orginally.
Although I quit long time ago now, I actually have the epic Kodo on my horde char, unarmored version, later bought all mount on every faction when we could, and the brew fest Ram and Kodo all the rest of teh list never managed to sadly. Still to this day my most proud mount is the purple proto drake from what a long strange trip it has been, may not mean much bit to me it's the world got the very last item on the very last day of the Halloween event (the pumpkin pet at 5.30 am just before I left on a fishing trip for a week). The good old days when wow was worth it. Haven't played since Warlords of Draenor and obtained the title Warlord of Draenor on both horde and alliance char just before Legion came. But just rambling on great video by the way and glad I have(had?) atleast one of the mega rare mounts.
That "not enough players were around to get it" rarity seems a bit too dominant now that you look at it. Many might want it but not enough want to play the game it's attached to
Couldve saved a spot on this list for gladiator mounts in general with the aotc filler section. I personally run into the issue of whispers from players who dont know how they become unobtainable.
whats about the normal brewfest goat mount? it was jsut awaible in the first brewfest and no one buy it. because the armored one was better. and then it came never back
Now a year later... Tearyls charger ended up in the Cash Shop for 25$ and is now being given away during the current Diablo 4 event. If you faction changed with the spectral griffen/wind rider you ended up with both when mounts went account wide (I have both) Is the swift zevrah still attainable?
Thought Swift Zulian Tiger would of been on this list. I got it on a fluke chance like 11/12 years ago coz my IRL mate boosted me through it and i gave him £5 to let me have the mount. Best £5 ever spent.
I actually found out that i have worldbreaker when i came back for shadowlands. Which was weird cuz i left wow in middle of the anniversery event without finishing all of the requirements.
I just realized as someone who quit WoW back in Legion-- THEY CANCELLED BRAWLERS GUILD? That was one of the most fun solo content I had ever done, that's a fucking shame.
So, we literally did server first kills of OS, EoE and Naxx, but never did the metas, cos didn't think it was gonna get removed so fast>.> Feeling so bummed I missed those 2 drakes :S I think Amani warbear deserved a spot too tbh. I was last one in our raid to get it before it was removed for good. The thing they did with original vanilla mounts was actually really really annoying and kind of sneaky. What they should have done instead is allowed us to keep the old ones too, especially since we did buy them and worked hard for them. I had all horses on my paladin and I obv exchanged them for fast epic ones, since I did have money back then. Had I known the old ones are gone for good- never would have done it. So, I think they really should have told ppl that... just super sneaky and unfair imo:(:(:(
Only one I managed was the Obsidian Worldbreaker- it's funny playing through Dragonflight and hearing all the exposition about Deathwing while sitting on a smaller version of him LOL
Have 6 of that 10. Obsidian Worldbreaker (left the game just with the start of Legion), Brawler's Guild (there were mounts?), Black Proto (was a casual at that time) and those "original epic" mounts (just started WoW with WotLK) are missing in my collection. Miss the black Qiraji drone in your list.
@@hirumaredx awesome mate, look forward to more of you vids they are always good. Some ideas I have, rep mounts and toys that aren't the easiest or hardest but somewhere in-between. I feel I have all the easy ones, will never get the hard ones but I'm a little lost on where to go next.
I have the tribute to immortality mounts and the server first title. I didn't realize how rare those mounts were until I saw this video. I haven't played wow in years though either.
The korkron wolf was available on normal cause back then there was only normal and heroic, only during wod prepatch they make flex mode and flex became normal, normal heroic and heroic mythic
You're somewhat right but also wrong, Flex was introduced with Siege of Orgrimmar not the wod prepatch, however you are correct that the wod prepatch is when flex became normal, normal became heroic and heroic became mythic.
My guild farmed a bunch of the totc mounts in wrath. Internet was the hardest boss of all lol. The faction pvp boss was also stupid since it could just be broke sometimes. That being said, the playerbase is so much more skilled now. I'm sure in wrath classic many will get one
Just a heads up, the Brontosaur mount cant be obtained on the BMAH like you listed. Its been several years and it hasn't shown up once I check daily on multiple servers as well as use several discords that have bmah listings daily.
The inability to acquire this kind of content is one of the many reasons I quit playing wow. I can understand giving people something to strive for so they're unique and rewarded, but gating it off forever seems so lame. I wish we could acquire "lesser" versions. It could maybe have a name to denote its not the real deal and not be worth an achievement, title, etc. I didn't realize wow did this until I discovered that area in Pandaria that requires a cloak is forever off limits.
I'm glad I got it cause right after that event I quit with retail (I hated bfa) and had picked up vanilla some time later. Didn't touch WoW for over a year now though. Not worth for me to return right now sadly.
I was very lucky to end up winning a raffle from some twitch streams to get a couple of the AotC mounts, the moose and the void dragon specifically. Didn't really care for the arcane bird, and didn't even see what Shadowlands' was. I didn't know the plagued proto drake was on the BMAH though, gonna have to keep an eye out for that, I missed out on that by ONE achievement (the sapphiron one) and only because lag screwed over one of our team when he was getting behind an ice block on the last week it was available. Really feelsbadman.
yeah, instead they locked instances behind requirements and made quests hard as hell to complete within a reasonable amount of time without a fuckton of luck.
ok, i wanna point to the spectral mounts, i have both, and im pretty sure that the reason is, with the mount merge of all characters, this one just change factions with you
im not sure about those numbers on the spectral wind rider and gryphon. Even though it clearly says in the advert you can choose i got both despite just doing one scroll of res with a friend
I’m still pissed about the Spectral Wind Rider mounts. I brought my friend who hadn’t played in years back to wow specifically for this mount, and it glitched out and I never got it.
I first played retail on the WoD content drought. I suck so hard at raiding that I die in LFR. I sold Peerless greataxes on the AH. After selling 2 or 3 of those I bought myself a carry to Archimonde Heroic. I died within 10 seconds of the pull. I got the Grove Warden. Best time I ever had in WoW, XD I was pretty upset they re-used the model in legion though. THAT would never happen to store-mount.
what no mention of the original Brewfest Ram (not the swift one) which was available only during the very first year of Brewfest, the quest and required tickets removed the year after?
'Very rare to obtain, especially if you didn't have any friends'. This hit the feels hard :'(
"No Longer Unobtainable" means they were once available, no longer available, but are now available again.
Thought the same thing, looked between the title and thumbnail a few times.
Same, the title sounded oddly specific. For a minute I thought Blizzard had made old mounts available again.
Yup, this title confused the hell out of me.
The title confused me so much that I had to watch the video
It's like flammable and inflammable.
I'm a proud owner of the Tribute to Immortality mount. Even though I obtained it on alliance, eventually the horde one became available as well they started making things more account bound. The Black Proto Drake I have as well, but Immortal wasn't even near as challenging as doing the Trial of the Grand Crusader 25 without anyone dying, due to the nature of Anub'arak's design. In the final phase, healers had a 1.5 second window where they had to find their designated target and heal them before they would get 1-shot, and due to a lack of WeakAuras back in those days, it was very difficult to assign. Additionally, you used an offtank with max block gear that would tank all the adds (4 per spawn) and get hit 20 times a second.. per add.. which meant that tank wasn't allowed to move since a split second of not facing the mobs would mean you'd die instantly. Thus, all the adds were to be misdirected and tricks'd to the offtank, and if they didn't do enough threat in that window a healer would get aggro and get popped instantly.
You gave me a flashback of helping my guilds warrior farming the appropriate gear for the adds. God that feels like ages ago.
Looking back when I wasn't able to raid when BC, Wrath, or Cata were live, I like to see WoW as the hardest game to ever play, because the game needed players to obtain a certain piece of gear/object/gem, attune to a raid by following long quest chains, or required everyone to perform specific moves in order to earn those hard achievements. It's like comparing how to play guitar today to thirty, maybe forty years ago. Really, the hardest achievement I could ever earn was one of the meta achievements in Firelands, but that's still current content. I was too young to understand back then, and I'm often jealous that a select few are able to earn these fantastic awards.
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The original epic unarmored mounts are among the rarest in this game nowadays. Not only you had very short window of opportunity to buy one (had to play since the game was brand-new) but you also had to decline the offer to trade this mount for the armored version. "Less than 1%" doesn't even begin to describe how rare these are. 1% of 1% would be generous, as in 100 players per a million.
I've got one. Old School Ride :)
Omg... that 25m immortal run i did for the title back in LK.... god i miss those days. Thanks for the trip down nostalgia lane!
We had 1 guild on horde and 1 on alliance on my server that managed to get Undying/Immortal. They also did the Tribute to Insanity or whatever it was called for TOGC
To put in perspective how rare the grand crusader mounts are... I've seen More Scarab Lords running around than Grand Crusader mounts over the years. While this is subjective based on mounts people openly choose to ride, still, its pretty wild to think about.
The Scarab Lord mounts are more common because for a while into WOTLK, new servers were created with the gates closed. Hundreds if not thousands of people xferred to these servers to cash in on this before blizzard opened all gates to maintain the rarity. Even popular classic servers had at most 2 or 3 people receive it back in the day.
@@FreedomAndPeaceOnly That sounds incredibly boring.
@@FreedomAndPeaceOnly So basically fuck integrity, right?
Wow, I've been playing for years and never seen the Scarab Lord mount.
@@FreedomAndPeaceOnly Cool so everyone can use rank 1 gladiator titles with elite pvp sets from various seasons while also using items like corrupted ashbringer etc ? All that just to look cool while in reality you dont even deserve any of it ? No thanks
This game is not for everyone. For example : You cant complain about the fact that only the best pvp players can have the gladiator mounts. Why ? Because you are a bad player that is hardstuck at 1.2k rated. Why should blizzard allow you to have that mount that requires the best pvp players to works their asses off, just because you are unable to get it and it looks cool ? Thats not how the game works man. And the same applies for literally everything else in this game
it took us 11 weeks to get "A Tribute to Immortality"... this was easily the hardest Achievment i ever did. Not only because of random Disconnects... no the Bosses on Heroic had little room for Error (especially the Valkyr Twins and the Champions Fight).
Was a hard fight, I had the strangest luck with my achievement.
My guild was 25 man HC progress but we didn't do too many 10mans, I must've gotten the worse players when I set up runs because we failed for months....pugged it with total randoms and got the cape and mace as a tank, leader ninjad the wolf.
dude as a warrior tank back in the day i feel your pain, i cant remember a harder boss fight than anubarak
The Immortality runs became a lot easier when everyone was full ICC geared. We did a half guild / half pug run for the 10 man chest and we were all heroic ICC geared, at least partially, which made the fights pretty much a joke except Anub which was the only fight that could really fuck up your run.
We should get an update to this video in particular! This would be fun to see. For example Tyrael's Charger went up on the Trading Post months ago, so some of these are back (temporarily).
I am 100% certain that the _Black Qiraji Resonating Crystal_ (which let you summon the Black Qiraji Battle Tank) is the rarest no-longer-obtainable mount in WoW (I know there is a mechanostrider that is rarer, but there is only one of those and it was given to a player by accident, so it was never 'obtainable' for real)
unarmored vanilla mounts are the rarest unobtainable mount
Grove Warden is probably the most obtained rare mount since people were literally helping others get it. I got mine the same way. Good times 😁
Sadly I didn't play wod. played mop but was new )=
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I'm so happy with myself that I have a good amount of these mounts. I realize I'm the only one that cares about it, but it kinda validates being a collector and doing whatever I need to do to get my mounts/pets.
I feel like the original Brewfest ram should be listed here since so few people have it and it can't be obtained at all.
Oh boi I have that little fuk
Damn shame those unarmoured beauties have never popped back up on the BMA. I would sell my soul for an unarmoured ram.
it's still obtainable, i just got it this year after 9 years of trying
In live? Damn, that's kinda clean tho
@@mmoarchives2542 the original is the unarmored version and is ONLY available to people who were able to purchase it in 2007, with the handstamp other then that its removed from the game
Everytime I've unsubbed and quitted wow, you have always been the piece of wow that never goes away. Your videos are so rewatchable and fun that no matter if I continue playing wow, I Will never stop watching your videos. Thank you Hiru!
i would change the title to "top 10 no longer available mounts" rather then unobtainable, because the no longer available indicates that they where once obtainable but "unobtainable" doesnt neccessarily convey that information, plus the mount that got given to a player by accident by a gm isnt on the list :P
Good suggestions, I'll do just that
6:21 I feel like you just personally attacked and called me out...wtf did I do to you man :/
You didn't like and share my videos!
I have the mounts from #10 to #4 and the yeti. The time spent on this game is just so much and the mount rewards are all lovely. I just hope whatever the AOTC mount for Shadowlands will be just as good as the other four before it
(which in my opinion have all looked far better than the mythic raid mount drops by comparison)
1:45 "WoD was likely and likely will always will have been the lowest the player base has been."
Shadowlands would like to have a word with you.
You didn't mention my rarest unobtainable mount.
The Brewfest Ram.
No I'm serious.
Only available for the first year of brewfest and most people bought the swift brewfest ram instead.
I was gonna try get it again in classic but the barker quests where bugged and by the time they fixed them there was no way to get enough tokens...
@Blaz _ do me a favour, remind me this next brewfest so I can confirm
My friend and I got the Obsidian Worldbreaker pretty much on the first days of the whole event. It was tough, for sure, took lots and lots and lots of re-tries queuing up for those fights (we both play LFR since neither of us is into "hardcore" raiding), but I never expected it all to be SO hard that only a small handful of people got the mount. I thought it was way more common than that.
Really? I thought it was so easy. But each to their own :D
Same, got it within the first couple of hours, it was difficult with the Rag bug but other than that it was easy.
@@TuberoseKisser exactly. Rag was so bugged. But i didn't realize people had problems with Cho'Gall.
@@chonkyadventures4930 Yeah, Rag was pretty crazy and friend had no idea how to do the Heigan safety dance so we wiped a lot, but we made it.
ahh I remember getting the Brawlers mushan beast in Pandaria, that boss with the pink hexagon beams closing in gave me flashbacks haha.
Didn't think the mount would be so rare after they re-used it as the reward for season 2 though
Never done this boss but it reminds me of "Super Hexagon" which is a game and basically the same lol
@@LostBear. lol maybe hexos was a refference to that game then
@@ClassicKovu I sure hope it is cause it's almost the same xD
now I kinda regretting my old account that has Tyrael's Charger.
Mine I can't use. Tldr my ex made me sign up under his sister's account originally so when we transferred my character off it had to be in her name or they'd close both our accounts because blizz is so iffy about account sharing. I had never played before so I didn't know a trial account was possible.
Since we broke up it was too risky since she could easily prove it was her and just take the account if she wanted to. I logged in a final time, moved all my valuables to a new account, put a cool outfit on my old rogue as a sort of tribute and never logged on again. Though part of me wants to take that risk sometimes it's just not worth investing time into and then losing the account for one reason or another down the line. I had a time lost protodrakes on it too that I camped for for weeks
I had Tyraels charger and that Horde bike. Kinda miss both of them tbh
@@sugarskulls2817 You got time lost?! Just sell it!
When I first started playing they brought in Brewfest and I grinded it all day long, riding my ram up and down and earning my little tokens. I got 2 ram mounts, and one of them was later removed. :)
I actually only could afford the small one and that was the one removed. I like it better.
How is not the Original Amani War bear on this list?
I had it on my first account. Then during Wotlk I got a perma ban for buying gold.
Later on I asked since we can buy tokens aka gold if I could get it transferred to my current account. No luck.
Knew a couple friends who had the immortality mounts from trial. Anyone who has those just scream nostalgia and epicness
Remember we were so so close to getting that, but some players just did not prepare like getting health stones and drinks, every try 1 or 2 or a group of 3-4 players always died to some stupid shit and it was not internet.
We also got realm first or horde first Arthas Lick King kill dragging a 3-4 people through the fight.
Video still on YT and some Sunwell kills.
I obtained The Grove Warden no less than 3 days before the prepatch. Albeit a carry run, it was nice to obtain something that is no longer obtainable.
If you managed to get spectral gryphon/wind rider, you received the other one as well once the account wide mounts were implemented :)
The warwolf was not obtainable in LFR OR Flex which was a thing then, so it was a proper 10 or 25 man Normal+
Kor'Kron WarWolf and Spectral Gryphon are the only mounts I have from this list. I loved MoP but damn, yeah that SoO drought was wild.
How long did it last?
@@edgargross2789 14 months and 3 days. Still a little bit less than WoD 6.2 drought which lasted
for 14 months and 5 days (at least it had a very small 6.2.3 patch with expanding of timewalking to Cataclysm).
So both those droughts gave devs a time to prepare extraordinary huge amount of content for Legion.
Yep, over a year. Luckily SoO was a great raid and Garrosh was a legitimately hard fight.
@@TheLesoro yeh these droughts were rough. Over a year without any new content coming. They just put more and more valor point upgrade levels so players would push through the raid easier instead of quitting. But this point system was flawed, as it had a strict weekly cap. Especially bad in MOP where it took you an entire weekly pool to upgrade a single gear piece to 4/4. In WOD you had much bigger VP cap of 3k per week with same costs and half as many levels, so if you cleared all WOD dungeons on mythic difficulty in one week you had enough to upgrade like 1/3rd of all your items.
Even though MOP had absolutely no new content in its second year I still really liked the expansion. WOD not so much, but I still don't think it was worse than Hitler (like people portray it to be). Early BFA or current Shadowlands is much worse than WOD.
@@alewis514 MoP was my personal favorite expansion. Class power fantasy was at its peak, and the last two raids were incredible. Throne of Thunder is the best raid in the game Imo, even beter than Uldular. It helps that I played a Resto Shaman, and they were OP as fuck in Mists. RIP Conductivity.
I loved Pandaria and have both the AoTC mounts, the wolf and the moose.
AHHhhh New upload on my day off!!! Gonna help me through tbc leveling grind!!
Odd you didn't include the non-swift version of Brewfest Ram mount. Unless you did the first Brewfest and got the hand stamp, you can't get it.
i got reminded of this last month, i wish that it was a 0.1% Drop from Coren Direbrew instead.
Turiel’s Charger was BA but if you didn’t keep your account in standing for a certain time you lost it. I had it and lost it because life and bills for a certain time. I hope at some point they bring it back.
8:17 Was so disappointed they didn't add this to the first phase of classic. Wanted that sweet ancient frostsaber.
Not putting Amani War Bear on that list it's a crime.
I've seen a million War Bears over the years. Probably the most common "rare" mount out there.
Well orginal Amani War Bear, yeah, He also left out the orginal barron mount, ashes of the phoenix, and alal's ashes, all of who are almost never seen.
the glory of the raider mount removal always pissed me off because they didn't continue removing them after, it was only those two that they removed. when they decided they were going to leave the others obtainable they should've added the first ones back.
I'm one of the few owners of the original Brewfest Ram which was obtainable only if you bought the voucher for it back during the original Brewfest event in 2007. This was relatively tasky feat to achieve since getting the tickets required for the voucher required you to "grind" the event several hours a day. During the first day or two of the event the Dark Iron assaults used to award tickets without cap so I camped the event grounds pretty much 8 hours a day and was able to purchase the voucher for the mount 2 days in to the event being most likely among the very first people in the world at the time. They removed the voucher system after the 2007 event and introduced the dungeon drop for Epic Brewfest Ram and Epic Brewfest Kodo making the non epic Brewfest Ram unobtainable unless you had received the voucher during the 2007 event. It's funny that I can still go to Dun Morogh and buy the original and epic versions of the Ram from the vendor if I want to but there's just nothing I can do with them since I have both of them learned already.
I have the ram myself, I got it becayse I wanted my Tauren warrior to ride something different then a kodo as back then the kodo was the only mount a Tauren could ride.
I have the spectral gryphon / wind rider mounts! You didn’t have to choose, I got both! :D horde characters were mailed the wind rider and alliance, gryphons :)
The ultimate flex for someone from Wrath is Black Proto with Conquer of Ulduar or a realm first.
(Although some realm firsts are pretty trash to be fair)
Number 1: High Inquisitor Whitemane 😔
Theres prolly some cosplayers on pornhub that might help you play that fantasy out...
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Number 2: Denathrius 👹
I thought the Brawlers Guild was some PvP dueling mode and never tried it, because I'm terrible at dueling.
I really wish they decided going into Burning Crusade that old content should in some way stay relevant. Instead they made the decision that new content should replace old.
Agreed. I always thought it was a shame that WoW expansions were replacements rather than actual expansions of the existing content, especially since the minor parts they did expand on (more / improved quest hubs, Jewelcrafting) felt pretty natural
@@etou1146 it really did. What didn't (still doesn't) is replacing raid gear with quest greens and dungeon blues. I hope over the next few expansions they're able to bring together the good of classic content with the good of modern.
I was one of the few who got Tyrael's Charger, it's a beautiful mount great for pallys who want to fly. Glad I bought it while it was available for US brief market time. Love my horse of the angels ❤
Okay I watched the rest of this, and I've been playing since 2005, and I have all of the epic mounts from Horses to Rams, to Gnomish Road Runners as I like to call them.
And I had a friend who had quit, and got him to come back getting me the spectral Gryphon, and to think I thought all my mounts were not as cool as others.
The Celestial Steed is another I heard you can't get in the US and not at all anymore, unless you were able to buy it that brief moment when it was available in the US for purchase accidentally and Blizzard removed it's from purchase in the US market. I was up pulling an all nighter with a buddy when a server restart was needed, don't know if they still do those, I haven't seen one for awhile cause I'm not up at 3-4am playing WoW anymore.
This was different from the Server maintenance, around WotLK or Cata without warning a timer would start and they even played a ticking clock in the trade chat you would read
SERVER RESTART REQUIRED GAME WILL BE UNAVAILABLE FOR 2 MIN, something like that anyway while I was waiting I went over to look at the mounts available for purchase because I had a game card for items purchase back in the good old days Blizzard had game cards like Pokémon well sometimes you could score sacks of gold with a key code and i had one silver holographic game card for 1000 gold and decided i would redeem it and see if it was enough to buy anything.
Looking back I bet that card would be worth something today, I remember after rubbing the incredible hard to scratch off crap that it nearly took the numbers under it with it, lol it was good for like $100.00 buddy of mine told me it's random, he had one for the same amount and it was $45.00...
Anyway it was more than enough in fact I was able to buy the Celestial Steed, that Gold Aspects Dragon, and that purple lion with wings that leaves a gold dust trail behind it...I forget the name of it, and then after I bought them took that Celestial Steed out in front of a friend, and he was loke okay we need to go....hold up, where did you get that!
I told him he went to look and it wasn't in the store to buy. Some random night I was up and Blizzard goofed, thank you Blizzard Team about time you paid off, since they lost my pet Skarr and my warlock's green fire. Yup, had them and then logged out and came back GONE. No way to recover them...the GM said.
Small correction: Tyrael's Charger didn't require you to buy a 12-month sub; you just had to commit to subscribing to the game for at least the next year. You didn't have to pay for that year all at once. In fact you could just continue on a monthly sub. I got it because I'd knew I'd be staying that long anyway, and wanted into the MoP beta. I never even played Diablo 3 even though I could have for free.
Its still both so cool, and so aggravating to see some of the ones on that list that I missed for whatever reason. I'm not the "I didn't play then, its not fair. Bring back the werebear" dude. I'm the "damn, he has that...bad ass." And it inspires me to keep getting stuff more hardcore. Like the phoenix eggs make me sick that I missed them because I'm a huge phoenix fan, I even have one tattooed on my leg. I understand others opinion and get why they say it...but I'm a prestige guy and I'd rather something like the Black Proto stay retired even though I don't have it.
My favourite mount in retail (which I've not played for years, admittedly) is the Kor'kron Juggernaut. Not sure how common it is, but defeated Garrosh on mythic quite a few times with my guild to get this mount for as many of us as possible (when it was current - we managed Ahead of the Curve just in time).
Unfortunately the juggernaut is an extremely common mount and is still farmable to this day, also Heroic (Now Mythic) Garrosh awarded you with Cutting Edge, not Ahead of the Curve, AOTC was the normal mode achieve.
I'll never forget when I won the 10 man Tribute to Immortality mount in WOTLK. I only ever ran a successful immortality run once. We cleared with no deaths, the mount drops, some guy rolls 100, "oh well", grats. I complacently /roll; 100. Shitting my pants, we rolled again, I got 67, he got a 33. I about damn near had a heart attack.
You can see this is old video since they have added trading post since and some of these mounts have been added there.
I can proudly say im the owner of 9/10 mounts listed on here. Only one i missed out on was the Naxx Glory of the Raider. In the only week we attempted A Tribute to Immortality, i won the mount, good thing to, everyone else in that raid group has long quit the game. Im currently sitting at 578 mounts on my warrior alone and i still use most of these along with the original ZG mounts and TCG mounts in my rotation.
Omfg the memories of wotlk thr mounts and achievements to obtain it, looked forward to it every week 😭 no game will ever give me memories like wow did with thousands of people in a realm
ahhh the grove warden...
i still remember how back in the day i bought that thing for merely 10k gold, looking back now it was so cheap.
Ditto, I felt so embarrassed about paying that much for just a mount back then but it seems like a steal now. Plus needed to use that garrison money for something!
Yup. Paid 10k as well
inflation be like
Can say I am an owner of the original epic mounts and have the achievement "Old School Ride." Blizzard also gives you all the original epic mounts depending on the race you pick and not just the mount you owned in Original WoW. I obtained mine on a Night Elf orginally.
Ooh I had the Plagued Proto Drake and the Swift Horde Wolf back in the days, but never thought about them being rare 🐺 🐲
Although I quit long time ago now, I actually have the epic Kodo on my horde char, unarmored version, later bought all mount on every faction when we could, and the brew fest Ram and Kodo all the rest of teh list never managed to sadly.
Still to this day my most proud mount is the purple proto drake from what a long strange trip it has been, may not mean much bit to me it's the world got the very last item on the very last day of the Halloween event (the pumpkin pet at 5.30 am just before I left on a fishing trip for a week).
The good old days when wow was worth it. Haven't played since Warlords of Draenor and obtained the title Warlord of Draenor on both horde and alliance char just before Legion came. But just rambling on great video by the way and glad I have(had?) atleast one of the mega rare mounts.
That "not enough players were around to get it" rarity seems a bit too dominant now that you look at it. Many might want it but not enough want to play the game it's attached to
No it doesn't, that's pretty much only for the vanilla one.
Couldve saved a spot on this list for gladiator mounts in general with the aotc filler section. I personally run into the issue of whispers from players who dont know how they become unobtainable.
Oh snap. I've got the black proto drake and had forgotten what I did to get it. I was watching wondering if I have a rare mount :)
whats about the normal brewfest goat mount? it was jsut awaible in the first brewfest and no one buy it. because the armored one was better. and then it came never back
Genuinly surprised it doesn't list the black quiraji tank mount for ringing the gong back in vanilla.
Now a year later...
Tearyls charger ended up in the Cash Shop for 25$ and is now being given away during the current Diablo 4 event.
If you faction changed with the spectral griffen/wind rider you ended up with both when mounts went account wide (I have both)
Is the swift zevrah still attainable?
Love how most the unobtainable mounts are just spiteful kicks to players who made the reasonable choice of not playing the game when it was shitty.
Still regret not getting the Obsidian Worldbreaker. I even had a friend tell me about it, but I just couldn’t be arsed to sub again at the time.
But hey, the game is at its shittiest state right now, never before ;)
pf brewfest ram is easily the best unobtainable mount.
coool I have the spectral gryphon and didn't realize it was unobtainable anymore
I didn't even know the last mount(s) on the list existed. Great list as always
Thought Swift Zulian Tiger would of been on this list. I got it on a fluke chance like 11/12 years ago coz my IRL mate boosted me through it and i gave him £5 to let me have the mount. Best £5 ever spent.
Tiger is still on the BMAH table far as i know.
@@UltimateGamerCC yep
I was lucky to get it as well. My mother and I two-manned it and it dropped on my first run 😂
I actually found out that i have worldbreaker when i came back for shadowlands. Which was weird cuz i left wow in middle of the anniversery event without finishing all of the requirements.
I just realized as someone who quit WoW back in Legion-- THEY CANCELLED BRAWLERS GUILD? That was one of the most fun solo content I had ever done, that's a fucking shame.
1:53 "... likely will always will have been" LOL
So, we literally did server first kills of OS, EoE and Naxx, but never did the metas, cos didn't think it was gonna get removed so fast>.> Feeling so bummed I missed those 2 drakes :S
I think Amani warbear deserved a spot too tbh. I was last one in our raid to get it before it was removed for good.
The thing they did with original vanilla mounts was actually really really annoying and kind of sneaky. What they should have done instead is allowed us to keep the old ones too, especially since we did buy them and worked hard for them. I had all horses on my paladin and I obv exchanged them for fast epic ones, since I did have money back then. Had I known the old ones are gone for good- never would have done it. So, I think they really should have told ppl that... just super sneaky and unfair imo:(:(:(
Only one I managed was the Obsidian Worldbreaker- it's funny playing through Dragonflight and hearing all the exposition about Deathwing while sitting on a smaller version of him LOL
Have 6 of that 10. Obsidian Worldbreaker (left the game just with the start of Legion), Brawler's Guild (there were mounts?), Black Proto (was a casual at that time) and those "original epic" mounts (just started WoW with WotLK) are missing in my collection. Miss the black Qiraji drone in your list.
dident you saw you stoped playing wow. im glad we still getting videos
Nope I still play all the time.
@@hirumaredx awesome mate, look forward to more of you vids they are always good.
Some ideas I have, rep mounts and toys that aren't the easiest or hardest but somewhere in-between. I feel I have all the easy ones, will never get the hard ones but I'm a little lost on where to go next.
I have a few of those. The special mounts look badass with a shadow priest aura.
Watching that Hexos footage brought back painful memories
Surely the Swift Zevhra (recruit a friend) was more rare than the spectral ones?
and the original Armani war bear not featured either?
I have a few of those. The Trading Post however giving Tyrell’s Charger etc takes away from its uniqueness and takes away its prestige
I have the tribute to immortality mounts and the server first title. I didn't realize how rare those mounts were until I saw this video. I haven't played wow in years though either.
I was watching this not realising that I have a few of these mounts. Feels good.
That Corehound is still a mount I want badly
TLPD for me
The korkron wolf was available on normal cause back then there was only normal and heroic, only during wod prepatch they make flex mode and flex became normal, normal heroic and heroic mythic
You're somewhat right but also wrong, Flex was introduced with Siege of Orgrimmar not the wod prepatch, however you are correct that the wod prepatch is when flex became normal, normal became heroic and heroic became mythic.
Got my swift horde wolf /flex. also failed to mention that only 1 mount drops each time so you had to do it multiple times for everyone to get one
My guild farmed a bunch of the totc mounts in wrath. Internet was the hardest boss of all lol.
The faction pvp boss was also stupid since it could just be broke sometimes.
That being said, the playerbase is so much more skilled now. I'm sure in wrath classic many will get one
Just a heads up, the Brontosaur mount cant be obtained on the BMAH like you listed. Its been several years and it hasn't shown up once I check daily on multiple servers as well as use several discords that have bmah listings daily.
About those tribute mounts, bliz still do something like that, but instead of mounts they give titles, like the "The Chosen" from Helya back in legion
I have a little over half of these and didn’t realize how rare they were. Playing from way back actually paying off finally, I guess
Chogall wasn’t the issue, ragnaros being literally unplayable was.
The inability to acquire this kind of content is one of the many reasons I quit playing wow. I can understand giving people something to strive for so they're unique and rewarded, but gating it off forever seems so lame. I wish we could acquire "lesser" versions. It could maybe have a name to denote its not the real deal and not be worth an achievement, title, etc. I didn't realize wow did this until I discovered that area in Pandaria that requires a cloak is forever off limits.
You can just goblin glide to Ordos plateau though
@@vedmaburuxova68 which immediately teleports you to the center of the Island once you enter the sanctuary if you don't have the cloak.
I'm still proud to get my deathwing mount. Love that thing even tho I don't play wow anymore.
My favorite mount besides invincible
I'm glad I got it cause right after that event I quit with retail (I hated bfa) and had picked up vanilla some time later. Didn't touch WoW for over a year now though. Not worth for me to return right now sadly.
not sure if you caught it but when you were talking about the spectral mounts wind rider or gryphons you said wind gryphon and gryphon
Uuuh, where's the original ashes of a'lar? or the orginal baron's charger mount?midnight eternal reins? or Invincible's Reins?
We gotta start Tweeting Microsoft this man’s videos we need to make wow great again and he knows what he’s talking about
I was very lucky to end up winning a raffle from some twitch streams to get a couple of the AotC mounts, the moose and the void dragon specifically. Didn't really care for the arcane bird, and didn't even see what Shadowlands' was. I didn't know the plagued proto drake was on the BMAH though, gonna have to keep an eye out for that, I missed out on that by ONE achievement (the sapphiron one) and only because lag screwed over one of our team when he was getting behind an ice block on the last week it was available. Really feelsbadman.
Tyraels Charger is currently obtainable with the Diablo 4 event. Low drop chance mind you but still possible
I do have Tyrael’s Charger, back when I was still paying for my subscription
Aah WOTLK, back before blizz used mounts as shamelessly to drive player engagement.
yeah, instead they locked instances behind requirements and made quests hard as hell to complete within a reasonable amount of time without a fuckton of luck.
ok, i wanna point to the spectral mounts, i have both, and im pretty sure that the reason is, with the mount merge of all characters, this one just change factions with you
As a top tier support main. I ran trials for such a long time. But im so happy i own the white warhorse.
im not sure about those numbers on the spectral wind rider and gryphon. Even though it clearly says in the advert you can choose i got both despite just doing one scroll of res with a friend
You do get both but maybe some people have never played a horde character and is yet to register it on the account.
I’m still pissed about the Spectral Wind Rider mounts. I brought my friend who hadn’t played in years back to wow specifically for this mount, and it glitched out and I never got it.
I first played retail on the WoD content drought. I suck so hard at raiding that I die in LFR.
I sold Peerless greataxes on the AH. After selling 2 or 3 of those I bought myself a carry to Archimonde Heroic. I died within 10 seconds of the pull.
I got the Grove Warden. Best time I ever had in WoW, XD
I was pretty upset they re-used the model in legion though. THAT would never happen to store-mount.
what no mention of the original Brewfest Ram (not the swift one) which was available only during the very first year of Brewfest, the quest and required tickets removed the year after?
I hope Blizzard brings back Tyrael's Charger back to the store.