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Comment by 7262

100% Increased Speed mount that is only usable inside The Temple of Ahn'Qiraj. It's important for everyone in your AQ40 raid to get one of these bug mounts. Once you kill The Prophet Skeram and enter the actual Temple, you can no longer use your normal mount. AQ40 is huge and having one of these bug mounts will help negate some of the downtime.

-The red version of the bug mount is considerably harder to come by. It's drop rate is a good deal lower than the other 3 colors.

Comment by Faradize

red one=ferrari

we cleared aq40 with 14 man last weekend, only 1 wipe at huhuran, everybody get 1 yellow, dropped about 6-7 green, 3 blue and 2 red

Comment by 182004

In WOTLK, obtaining this mount counts as an achievement, "Why? Because It's Red."

Comment by 219042

So far have killed the first pull in there solo as a Prot Paladin, 25 times, still no red

Comment by 221460

In an attempt to farm this mount for the Feat of Strength, I found that you can treat the first pull as you would SWP Trash farming. Kill the eradicator first off, and kill 3 of the sentinels and run out with one still up. Sentinels reset, rinse, repeat. I have not seen one drop yet, here are most that I have seen drop.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b288/Canefml/WoWScrnShot_092808_022927.jpg
One blue and one green are excluded as they were alts of others in the raid.

Comment by 156620

I got one of these babies yesterday during an AQ40 pug and to my surprise It's the rarest out of all of them! I'm loving this thing.

Comment by 56783

The ferrari of aq mounts. Nice to see this one got an achievement, as it is pretty rare.

Comment by 237295

When I raided this place pre-BC, I did it with 2 guilds.
If I recall correctly, it dropped twice for both guilds, in around a span of a month.., after that, I didn't see it much.

It is the rarest, I wouldn't say best looking (Not the biggest fan on red), but it's something quite good to have.

I remember my guild leader saying on vent:
"Oh look its the red mount, im ninjering it, take 300 DKP points". So everyone was like "lol".

But you could tell that only the Guild Master, and officers were entitled to this =p;

Comment by 113741

Can anyone confirm or deny that these mounts count toward the 50 mounts that are needed to obtain the achievement that rewards an albino drake?

Comment by sarge132

This mount won't drop in the beginning of the instance. I generally tends to drop after the Twin Emps. Thats probably why its a feat. Due to the fact that guilds actually had to be somewhat good pre-bc. Not that that matters now and u can easily rock the place with 70s probably even easier with 80s

Comment by visionarymm

went into aq40 today on my 80 DK to try and get this mount. in less than 30 minutes and killing about 10 mobs had all 4 drop including the red. don't know if I got lucky or they're dropping more regularly since fewer people are running AQ for the achievement.

Comment by Lanceler

Perfectly soloable by Protection Warriors.

I got mine after roughly 5-6 hours of grinding myself and the best way of grinding it appears to be:

Kill off the patrol at the start of the instance.
And charge the pack of 4 Anubisath Sentinel's.
Kill off 3 of them, run out of the instance & run back in, the 3 you just killed will have respawned and you just continue on killing those 3 for as long as you want.

Just keep in mind that they always have random buffs which they share with their 'brothers' when they die, and when the remaining anubisath's gain a buff and they're healed for 50% of their hp, so don't bother spamming cleave/tc/sw, just focus them down one by one.

Their Abilities (ninja'd from wowwiki):

* Mending aka Renew - Healing for 4752 every 3 seconds.
* Mortal Strike - ~3200 damage to the target.
* Periodic Knock Away aka Knockback - Periodically knock enemies away, reducing their hate. Immune to taunt.
* Periodic Mana Burn - Periodically casts mana burn.
* Periodic Shadow Storm - Periodically casts Shadow Storm. Targets all players outside of melee range and up to some distance >40 yards.
* Reflect Arcane and Fire
* Reflect Shadow and Frost
* Thorns - Causes 475 to 525 Nature damage to attackers. Resistible
* Thunderclap - ~800 Nature damage, no debuff, resistible.

Basically, leave the Mortal strike- & thorn-mobs until the others are dead (Unless you get one with Mending) If you're a paladin attempting to do it like this, add the mana burning mob to the list.

Good luck. :)

(I realise it's roughly the same as the above comment, but please don't downrate this, as it'll help many others.)

Comment by 290784

Mortal Strike was a little too rough for me as a death knight, so I'd just reset them until none of them had it (completely random).

There's also a visual bug with the Anubisaths who have the mending ability. If you kill one before the one with mending, the mending buff will disappear from under their name. (it will still have mending)

I got the red mount on my second pack of Anubisath.

Comment by 72402

Can you solo the packs of Anubisath as a Rogue with decent gear?

Comment by 282668

god this sucks to farm, didn't think it would take that long but i have had 19 mounts drop so far (10 blue, 5 green and 4 yellow) but not a single red im going crazy!

Comment by NeverFinal

Me and a friend went in last night and started killing the beginning trash. We killed the first pat, went around the corner and killed the other 2 pats plus all the Sentinels before the first boss. Then we started reseting the first 4 sentinels. Killing 3 and then running out. Killed the pats and the sentinels as they respawned. Overall we did this for about 90 mins or so and got 5 Red, 4 yellow, 4 green, 2 blue.

They must have increased the reds drop rate cuz there is no way we got that lucky to have it drop more often than any others.

Comment by 150208

Farming this now at 80 as a hunter with a gorilla, BM spec with talents for pet tanking. I've gotten about 26 mounts so far yet no reds. I'm clearing the first three patrolling Obsidian Eradicators and then resetting. It's easy to solo them. I beat the instance lockout period every time and have to wait before I can resume farming.

Sigh. I'm still going. I'll update if I get it.

Edit: I changed from SV to BM to be able to solo the raptor boss in ZG. So if you want to spec for soloing, don't forget about him too (drops the raptor mount). I haven't tried AQ as anything but BM as I originally switched for ZG. So, I can't comment if AQ is possible in other trees.

Comment by 67477

Ya, it is pretty rare, but don't get bogged down. I got it after about 6 rounds of the "Kill starting trash" method. This'll go great with my Pally Tier 2 set! Good Luck all!

Comment by Mandarin

Got my mount on second trash when i soloed with my paladin O.o

Comment by Havocreaver

Killed 300 of those Anubisath Sentinels and still nothing.. Got about 100 in total of other colors :(

Comment by 250218

I can confirm this drops from the trash at the start of the instance as well. I'm never lucky, but had my red drop on the 3rd set of 3 o.O

Comment by GDiBIG

Got it on the 5th reset, from the last Sentinel. (in each reset we (protpala+svhunter) killed all the trash till the first boss)
On other repu runs it always dropped before C'thun, so i think you need to kill a fix amount of mob before it can dropp, regardless of the chance.

Comment by 164509

Disagree about the fixed number thing you mentioned, GD. We got on the first trash pull after first boss, and then 3 mobs later another one dropped. 2% is 2%, no trick to get it. Its just rare.

Comment by robertdexter

quick noob question how do you reset raids? leave then make a new one?

Comment by raebirth

Perhaps I'm just extremely lucky, but all four mounts dropped for me in one session, about 2 hours total killing just the first pack of Anubisaths and the Obsidian Eradicators. I was on an 80 feral druid specced for cat and in blues with some Pre WotLK tanking epics. You can Armory Calluna on Khadgar to see my point.

Just keep resetting the mobs until you get a pack with no MS'er, and it's easy days.

Comment by darkbane

It's very easy to farm all of the 4 colored mounts without killing any bosses at all. You only need a tank with decent gear at minimum. I've soloed it on my prot warrior who has Naxx10/Naxx25 mixed gear. The mobs on the beginning of the instance respawn fast enough and you can farm those. Having a rogue to pull the boss and vanish speeds up the respawning procedure. It's not 100% confirmed but I've seen it myself. All the mobs respawned the same second that the rogue vanished. But it seems you have to wait a bit for this to happen... Not sure how exactly it works...

Comment by 222052

There's no point in killing 3 and running out to reset. You don't get saved until you kill the first boss, so you can run in, kill the Eradicator, all 4 Sentinels, then run down the stairs and kill 2 more Eradicators and 4 more Sentinels. I mean honestly, what if the one you left alive was the one that was going to drop it?

Comment by ajdinh

100% sure guide how to get it:

I got that mount. There were 30 people in the group and I rolled 100. For information you don't need to use the mount to get the archive,you just need to have it in your inventory.In two runs it dropped twice. But only one time in each. The drop is low but the lower the people the higher the chance to get it. I got all bug mounts except the black one. And I got them in 5 runs. With 20+ people and to say its not hard to get one. Just group up with guild and make it up who will get witch, so you make sure you get one. And if you pug never let the group loot on. I know it takes much to check the rolls but its worth then if you make the rule that you don't roll if you get or got already one mount and its on group loot, then they will need, its always one person. So its quite good and safe way that you make master looter in pug then there is always one that ninjaes it. If you read this carefully you wont have a problem with group to get the mount.

This is all guys.

Comment by Kalx

Already killed like 500 of the sentinels and a lot of eradicators, even got one of those 0.1% epic drops from them, but not a red crystal... Yeah, random can be very random and this is sad.

Comment by 390996

As a Death Knight tank, I can solo all four Anubisath Sentinels and come out at 100% life. Only negative effects is that it takes a while for me to kill them because I'm a tank, and the regrowth buff screws me over. I have to Shadowmeld out of combat and wait for them to reset. As I'm soloing, it's often very hard for me to find somebody willing to be in a raid group because you can't do dailies or quests, so I just find somebody that doesn't mind a two second invite, convert to raid, enter, and then leave the group. It doesn't kick me out and since I never die I can stay in for as long as I like. With Shadowmeld, I don't have to reset to kill the mobs. The Burn Mana buff is also very nice, as I don't have mana.. Heh.

Basically, my strategy is to run in, aggro them, kill three, then shadowmeld. Being a night elf sure has it's advantages.

Just advice, when they get the 'Regrowth' buff, kill the ones without it and then use any way possible to leave combat, because it's much faster just to ditch the one and let the others respawn and then try again then spend ten minutes grinding him down.

Unfortunately, I have really bad luck.. Gotten a few epics to drop, about thirty of each mount type, and still no red.. /cry.

Comment by 399822

Got all the mounts after only a 30 min farming, including the red one :)
Realy easy as a hunter, just kill the three "gryphons", run out and reset. And then just run in again and kill them.

Happy hunting :) // Trionunix @ Haoumrush, EU

Comment by 347146

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmDeDCY71OI

Found that helpful although it isnt me in the video

Comment by 417626

I was lucky enough too get it on my first solo try. A lvl 80 can easily kill the 2 single pats before the first boss, but my hunter had trouble taking on the three anubis guards. The first time I did it i got yellow from the first pat and red from the second. The second time I got nothing from the first pat and blue from the second pat.

Comment by Pawaox

<<<HUMAN PALADIN>>>

Obsidian Eradicator & Anubisath Sentinel
Both has, according to The Armory, 1-2% chance to drop Red Qiraji Resonating Crystal. Therefore, you should in the teory have the mount after ~66.66 kills. which is around 22 resets.(if you kill all 4 on the 22th attempt)

When one dies, the rest will be healed for 46-50k Health (~42%-~45.5%)

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I did 18 resets, meaning that i killed 55 Anubisath Destroyers. In this timespan, i had 3 Obsidian Eradicators respawn, meaning that i killed 4 of them, making it 59mobs.
Yellow Qiraji Resonating Crystals Acqiured: 6 - Run 1, 4, 9, and 16 & Obsidian Eradicator Respawn 2 and 3 (~10% dropchance for me)
Blue Qiraji Resonating Crystals Acquired: 3 - Run 3, 7, 13 (~5% dropchance for me)
Green Qiraji Resonating Crystals Acquired: 3 - Run 8, 13, 17 (~5% dropchance for me)
Red Qiraji Resonating Crystals Acquired: 0 (0% dropchance for me)

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This is all the available buffs for the Anubisath Sentinels.
On the pull i quickly target all 4 of them, and marking them in the order i'm gonna kill (Skull > Cross > Star) - This goes quick if you have the marks bound.

They are placed in my Ret Pallies killing order.

Fire and Arcane Reflection - Reflects all Fire and Arcane spells & abilities
Shadow and Frost Reflection - Reflects all Shadow and Frost spells & abilities
Periodic Shadow Storm - Casts Shadow Storm every 9 seconds (~500 damage)
Periodic Thunderclap - Casts Thunderclap every 7 seconds
Periodic Knock Away - Casts Knock Away every 13 seconds
Thorns - Causes 475 to 525 Nature damage to attackers.
Periodic Mana Burn - Casts Mana Burn every 11 seconds
Mortal Strike - Casts Mortal Strike every 11 seconds (3000+ Damage)
Mending - Heals 4752 every 3 seconds (1584HPS)

Mending is by far the worst, as you have to do 1584 DPS, which is hard to keep up when you're using your healing 1H/Shield.
The worst combo i have yet to meet is (Mending, Mortalstrike, Manaburn, Thunderclap) - I just ran out and resat
The reflect abilities reflect weapon procs(example), trinkets(example). EVERYTHING in that school

AQ Specific Drops:
2 Clay Scarab
1 Stone Scarab
1 Ivory Scarab
2 Bronze Scarab
1 Gold Scarab
1 Crystal Scarab
1 Bone Scarab
1 Idol of the Sun

Mining:
Each time an "Anubisath Sentinel" dies, a "Small Obsidian Chunk" will spawn.
Mining it can give you:

Small Obsidian Shard
Large Obsidian Shard
Essence of Earth
Huge Emerald
Azerothian Emerald
Arcane Crystal <- Used for arcanite bars -> Thunderfury

Reputation:
Each mob gives 100 reputation (110 for humans) with Brood of Nozdormu
Since i killed 59 mobs, that gave me 6490 reputation.

Money:
57 Black Stone = 8g 55s
20 Runic Stone = 8g
Mining
84 Small Obsidian Shard = 21g
5 Large Obsidian Shard = 2g 50s
+Random $%^&

That's minimum 40g earned.
My repair was at 52g. That's 12g lost, not considering other drops.

Conclusion:

You farm for a hot "eat of Strength", and it doesn't cost you anything but time.
The mount also count's towards the other mount achievements which, in the end, will reward you with a Blue Dragonhawk Mount(ally) Red Dragonhawk Mount(horde)

I myself, will continue this untill i get my Red tank!
Why? Because it's red!

Comment by drakosflame

I just thought I'd mention that if you reset the instance after clearing all the pre-boss trash, all the mobs reappear. You don't need to pull the prophet and vanish to speed up respawns, you don't need to clear three sentinels but not the fourth --- there's no needed "trick" to resetting the spawns. Just clear all the trash, walk out, reset, and walk back in. If you clear ALL the trash before Skeram, which includes 3 eradicators and 8 sentinels, you shouldn't beat the max number of instances per hour timer (especially if you're just doing it with one other person).

Also, I wouldn't recommend soloing the trash, if only for the fact that the regular colors drop like candy and will help your buddies out with their mount achievements. Myself, I went on a resto shaman with a death knight friend. Put up an earth shield and dpsed away! We both got extremely lucky and ended up with all four colors in about an hour of trash farming.

Comment by pouljin

Very easy for resto-shammies to solo... just earthshield, flame shock, and fire nova totem... takes a little while but it works... changing your glyphs to speed up elemental drop rate and flame shock glyphs help, but it's an easy solo. I also solo raptor boss and tiger boss (though make sure you wear hit gear for interrupts on tiger boss.)

I have seen about 50 or 60 mounts so far of the other colors... no red yet... but at least you can keep re-killing them unlike all the other instance rare mount drops that you have to wait for a reset...

Comment by 293465

For italian users, you can find a strategy guide explaining how to get it quickly in solo or duo:

Enjoy :)

Comment by 323020

Took me 116 kills. I am a demo lock. I killed a mix of the Eradicators and Sentinels, but the mix was heavily skewed towards Eradicators, even though this caused me to run into the "too many raids" warning a few times. I just found it too hard to have my demon hold aggro on all 4 Sentinels, and one with Mortal Strike pretty much meant game over.

If you have a pet, I highly recommend hanging well back while sending in your pet to see what buffs you're up against. If you get a Mortal Strike or another undesirable (Shadow Reflect, *shudder*), hightail it out, and chances are you'll get your Soul Shard back before you ever leave the instance. Even so, I was running mighty low on shards towards the end, so bring plenty, as it could be a long trip. Good luck.

Comment by 461691

Did this as a 80 ret pally. Killed 14 Obsidian Eradicators dropped 2 blue crystals, 1 green crystal. Killed 285 Anubisath Sentinels dropped 20 yellow crystals, 13 green, 12 blue, and the 1 red. 20% chance to drop at least one of the mounts. Total mounts dropped 49, 299 total kills, total damage done 32,577,313. I was unlucky, hope you get it faster ;)

Comment by derkrieger

Got 1 tonight and my friend also got it.
Me-SV hunter full epix pve ToC 25 geared-along with my bear pet plus my drood friend who was a healer for it, went in and started to farm the Santinels as mention above( 3 dead than reset).
1 one dropped after 65-70 kills( i counted the obsidian chunks on the floor ) and second after next try so total is 25 resets plus or minus 2-3 times that i tried different approach and died cause of aggro. Guess we were lucky regardind the above posts which state lower drop chance :).
P.S.- i ALWAYS killed the sentinel with the healing buff/mortal strike first.

Comment by thranlynn

Is it possible that the drop rate has been changed for these? I literally saw three drop within 24 hours. I was soloing (with a friend in the 'raid' while in Winterspring) and got two and then later when guildies joined, we had another red drop.

Thranlynn US-Nordrassil

Comment by 467485

Got mine on the second kill :)

Comment by 332502

i just thought i would put in a helpful little way to farm these 4 mounts

i did this on my dk and my druid, trust me it works

doing this, i got all 4 mounts in 3 days (3 on one day, didnt go the day after that, went back the next day, got the last one)

get like u and 1 other person, u could solo it, but its just always easier to have like 1 person

anyways, go in, kill the black bird thing first, loot it, roll on a bug if it drops

then go on to the huge 4 dog people things, kill them, make sure u loot them all, get the bugs, then kill the next to 2 black bird things, loot em, move on

then kill the 2nd group of big dog people, loot em all, get the bugs

and then heres what u do

after u have looted all the dudes from the mobs u just killed

run out of the instance

reset all instances

no, a lot of u may be thinking, "well, u cant reset a raid", well, actually, u can!

as long as u dont get saved to the raid

if u DONT kill any bosses, u can just keep doing this forever until u get all the mounts

go in > kill mobs > stop > dont even touch the first boss > run out of instance > reset all instances > go back in > rinse and repeat

good luck, hope this helped, and happy farming =)

Comment by 433620

Not sure if they did officially change drop rate on these, but I was solo'ing the trash before prophet. Did 3 resets by myself, got 1 yellow and 2 blue mounts from those 3 resets. Then, had 2 guildies join me for my 4th reset. On 4th reset, I saw green and red drop. I was sad because I lost red roll, but won green. Then on 5th reset, we saw 1 yellow and 2 reds. So in 5 trash resets I saw the following:

2 yellow mounts
2 blue mounts
1 green mount
3 red mounts

I hope you have as much luck as I did, it still is feat of strength so I am assuming this is still a low drop rate, but definitely not as hard to farm as barons mount.

Comment by 118565

Soloing as a prot warrior, a trick I found to make it much faster was to kill 3 of them all at the same time with a shockwave.
To do thi, get three of them to about 20k then carefully work each of those down to about 3k. if you get it right, they all die together so you dont have to burn through their heal again.

Comment by 258799

Easy to farm solo as a feral druid.
Stayed in bearform the entire time, almost never dropped below 80 % health, did it in tanking spec but in dps gear. Have mostly ToC 25-Man gear but think it is doable with lower tier gear since the mobs are only lvl 60.

Asked a guildmate to help me get into a raidgroup with one of my own alts so I could grind away without any problems.
After killing the first pat mob I pulled the four Anubisath Sentinel's and pretty quickly I found out that their debuffs didn't matter except the healing buff, just always ignore that mob.
Took them down one by one with mangle, maul, lacerate, faerie fire and swipe on a free gcd. When there was one left I simply shadowmelded (being a nelf) and the last one resetted, and all four spawned back up again.
Found a bug after a short while, when I shadowmelded and the mob started to reset I simply started running towards it and it attacked me again, the other three joined as they spawned. The first one never got a buff, and thus never healed the other ones when it died making the whole grinding faster.

On average it took from 1:30 min to 2:00 min to kill 3 mobs. Got the red crystal after about 2 hours and 10 min of grinding.

Comment by 100563

As a mage, I decided to kill the patrolling Obsidian Eradicators, since fighting the four sentinels would be too difficult for a squishy. Had to spec as frost and use mirrors, though. Fortunately, I was lucky enough to get the red one on my very first kill! I was floored x_x..after a few resets, I had a paladin healer friend come in, and we killed the sentinels with little difficulty. We both left with 4, and 3. A red one never dropped again.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v213/littletitus/WoWScrnShot_010810_202747.jpg

Comment by Samin

Retribution paladin with no progression gear (only emblem gear) clears the trash without problems. It can get close if you get a unlucky combination of buffs on the big ones. This can be farmed easily by just doing the trash before the first boss and then reset it. Remember to ask guildies/friends who are around the 60s (some xp, if you are lucky a nice green+useless mounts) or are skilling mining (the obisdian ore "dropped" by the trash give skill pretty long time). Just tell them to stay behind and survive.
I recently tried it with 3 guildies (all 80, prot warrior, mage, priest, wanted the mounts) it goes a bit faster and a lot smoother (you don't need to watch your health for self heal if you take a healer with you). After 3 resets everyone had every common mount (at least one time...) but I still need to farm trash a bit for the red one.

Comment by smashfanDS

This is what I do to farm th em, get in, kill the first patrol, and 3/4 of the 1st group of trash, loot them, get out, then get back in, and the group will reset as long as you don't kill the 4th, in that way, you wont have to "reset" the instance :)

For weaker classes/geared players, killing 1 or 2 is ok too :)

You can even loot them after getting out and coming back in if you like :)

Comment by Kleven

Just went in came back from a short trip in AQ40 farming the trash before first boss. I went as a resto shaman with a fury warrior friend of mine. We did three runs, used not much more than a few minutes each time. On our third run we both got ourselves a new Red Qiraj Battle Tank each :)

Comment by Lindentree

Remember not to use a Qiraji Battle Tank to ride through the gauntlet in AQ40. You will still be dismounted by any damage.

Comment by mimee21

As a hunter i went BM and a gorilla pet - Both lvl 80.

I cleared trash all the way to 1st boss once then i reseted and went in again and it dropped on the first set of 4 mobs- it took me prob 10min to get the red tank mount *luckyyyyyy* seeing you guys take hours and hours of farming.

- the winged patrols and the 2 sets of 4 mobs.. Very easy - when they go in a frenzy you just tranq shot them and buff goes away. Plus if you have a gorilla with full tank spec he'll heal himself plus your mending pet glyph etc etc.. piece of cake your pet wont ever DIE ever.

The mobs heal themselves but at lvl 80 that wont really do anything you can easily burn them down like nothing happened one by one.. I tried dps one by one and getting them all down to about 20k but they would heal little by little.. its better to just target one and kill it then next mob.. and rinse and repeat.

Good luck.

Mimee - LVl 80 hunter

Comment by 551638

Just incase anyone is considering attempting these mounts but think it may be too difficult, it is REALLY easy, I was doing it on my blood DK with 5.3k gearscore in my DPS gear and spec and I only died once out of about 200 kills (And even then it was because I pulled the single mob and the sentinels)

If you can solo the Bloodlord in Zul'Gurub, you are more than qualifyed to farm for these mounts.

It may take a few attempts though, once you get it down in what order you should kill them depending on their skills you can smash your face on your keyboard and still farm these mounts.

Comment by 388120

A note on droprates...

When looking at the drop chance, you need to account for statistical dropchance, not just face value. 1% doesn't mean you will get one in 100 kills no matter what, it means each kill has a 1% chance of dropping the mount/rare thing you are looking for.

To calculate this, we instead look at the chances of the item NOT dropping in so many consecutive times.

(chance of not seeing item)^(amount of runs) = Chance to NOT see the item drop
Chance to see item drop = 1 - (chance of not seeing item)^(amount of runs)

This is the equation that must be used to calculate your ACTUAL drop chance

For say a 1% droprate, the chances of not getting a drop is 0.99. If you run it 100 times, you get the following:

Chance to drop = 1 - (.99)^100
Chance to drop = .634 = 63.4%
To ensure a 75% chance of drop, you need 138 kills, a 95% drop, 298, and a 99% 458kills are required.

Yes this definitely isn't what you want to hear, but it's the truth. Some of us will get lucky and see it within a day. Others will farm for months and still never see it. Such is the case with random chance.

Comment by 422399

I thought I'd post my actual results from the mobinfo add on.

It took me about three hours to do 92 kills (then I got tired). (Pulling and resting guards at entrance)

Coffer Keys: 11
Blue Crystal : 7
Yellow Crystal: 6
Green Crystal: 5

Red Crystal: 0, zilch, nada.

It makes me appreciate the fact that my alt has the red one and got it moons ago on his virgin run through AQ40.

Comment by F0xx

As a Mutilate rogue it's nearly impossible to kill all 3... however its possible as Combat.
I usualy have 400/24442 of my hp when i Vanish after i killed the 3rd, i wait for arush bf ks and evasion every pull. I usually rest if i have less than 50% after mob 2 and I'm out of cds.

Also on MS/TC/Thorns/Heal i only kill 1-2 this is by far the worst you can get... ms hits for 8-9k and autos for 1-2

Edit: Just got mine
#205 Kills till Red Crystal

185x Black Stone
83x Runic stone
3x Greens
4x Illusuin Dust
3x Lesser Eternal Essence
1x Zone Epic
26x Sarabs
8x Idols
23x Coffer Key

Comment by rivellangel

Similar experience to Onenightstab. Was with a group doing a full clear (about 20 of us). Loads of yellow and blue ones dropped (at the end of the raid, everyone was passing on them). 5 red ones dropped altogether but only a couple of green ones. Possibly a coincidence but would be interested in hearing other's experiences.

Comment by 528502

Can i farm this as a retri pala? I always use seal of light, judgement of light and blessing of kings so my health is always full.

Comment by Thottbot

i wanna see how the mount looks like ^^

Comment by Thottbot

AWESOME!

Comment by Thottbot

NICE!

Comment by Thottbot

I was wondering if this has a 100% speed increase or 60% speed increase.

Comment by Thottbot

why would a mount only usable in one of the most difficult instances in the game have a 60% increase...

Comment by Thottbot

This one is the least common, from my experience.

Sadly it's the one I want most.. *shrug*

Comment by Thottbot

The drop rate may look low but we cleared up to skeram for the firts time and got 5-6 Bug mounts so they do drop and in no time i imagine the entier raid will have one

Comment by Thottbot

the other ones (blue, green, yellow) have a decent drop rate yes but not this one (red). ive never seen one drop

Comment by Thottbot

We Just Group loot Through all Trash mobs in Aq40 and When these Mount Drops its just normal need or Greed, no Dkp.

Comment by Thottbot

These are useable only in AQ, but are the normal mounts useable in AQ?

Comment by Thottbot

I coulda swore I saw one of these on Ysera server yesterday(08-13-2006) in Iron Forge. If it wasn't this, it was something that looked a whole lot like it...it was definately a bug mount!

Comment by Thottbot

I will post all in caps and in bold because no one is reading what others have posted.

THIS MOUNT DROPS IN AQ40, IT IS A EPIC MOUNT YET IT STATES IT ONLY NEEDS RIDING SKILL OF 75 (SO THE DROP IS BLUE). YOU GET IT OFF TRASH MOBS IN AQ40. YOU CAN ONLY USE IT IN AQ40.

IT IS NEAT, BUT ONLY FOR FUN. YOU DID NOT SEE ANYONE RIDING THIS IN IRONFORGE, STORMWIND, ORGIMMAR, OR ANY OTHER PLACE.

I STRESS AGAIN, IT CAN ONLY BE USED THERE

Comment by Thottbot

I saw one in Ironforge a NE druid had it!

Comment by Thottbot

I saw a Undead warr on it in AV :O

Comment by Thottbot

It says only useable in AQ. However, I think it has been changed, it was linked in org a few weeks ago and it was not the black one, but it had the same description as the black one, where it is useable anywhere.

Comment by Thottbot

The mount "everyone" see around the world, is Black Qiraji Resonating Crystal... u get it from an insane long quest chain, and it can be used everywhere.. it looks exatcly the same as this, except the color.. and then it got a legendary icon..

Comment by Allakhazam

they should give the one guy that completes opening quest the choice between all the colors of this mount. Im all for individual expression (rock out, man) and I think that if your hardcore enough to be the one guy to complete the quest on the WHOLE server, you should at least get your pick of color.

Comment by Allakhazam

High resolution
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Comment by Allakhazam

where r the mobs in AQ20 or AQ40

Comment by Allakhazam

Why is the drop rate on red so much lower than the other colors? I hate blizzard. This is ridiculous. I want a red one and we've only had ONE red one drop. wtf mate, seriously.

Comment by Allakhazam

pen1s

Comment by Allakhazam

Does anyone know if the rumor about collecting all 4 gets you the Black one is true? Im inclined to believe it isnt but just wondering.

Comment by Allakhazam

haha im the only one in my guild wit one, makes all the bloodfang rofues pissy

Comment by Allakhazam

anybody knows anything about the speed? are they 100%, 60% or faster?

Comment by Allakhazam

Both these and the legendary mount stemming from the Gong quest are 100% regular epic mount speed. The main purpose of these are for faster navigation of the passageways through the center of AQ40. Very fun stuff, the Red ones never seemed to drop though (1 out of 30 that dropped were red)

Comment by Allakhazam

these drop inside AQ (any mob can drop it) and can only be used inside AQ. as the description says you will unmount instantly once you get in combat / attacked.
blizzard created those to make travelling through the huge outdoor areas of AQ faster.

Edit: so they can only be used inside AQ40 and not only outdoor but also indoor.

Edited, Thu Jan 26 08:28:38 2006

Comment by Allakhazam

Anyone got a pic of it?

Comment by Sammyx3

This Qiraji Battle Tank is a rare drop from Trash in Ahn'Qiraj.

These are all the Qiraji Battle Tanks that drop inside Ahn'Qiraj:
Blue Qiraji Resonating Crystal
Green Qiraji Resonating Crystal
Yellow Qiraji Resonating Crystal
Red Qiraji Resonating Crystal

Note that the Red Qiraji Resonating Crystal has a lower drop chance than the others.

If you want to know where you can get all the other Mounts in Classic from, check out my guide here!

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Red Qiraji Resonating Crystal

Item Level 40
Binds when picked up
Unique
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Requires Level 40
Requires Riding (75)
Use: Teaches you how to summon this mount. This mount may only be summoned in the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj.
Emits a high frequency sound, forcing a silithid tank to burrow out from its home beneath the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj. The silithid is obedient to the summoner and can be used as a mount within the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj. Any hostile action towards the rider forces the tank underground.

Red Qiraji Resonating CrystalTemple of Ahn'Qiraj

Red Qiraji Resonating Crystal

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