The most expensive 10 mounts in WOW

Now in World of Warcraft there are about 555 vehicles: the exact number is not easy to calculate, since some exist in only a few copies, while others are duplicated for characters of different factions. You can check how many mounts are available for your hero on Simple armory. The functionality of the portal allows you to see the collection and find out where you can get the missing mounts.

Big Bear Blizzard

The Blizzard big bear could be obtained during the BlizzCon 2008 festival. All users who personally attended the event were given a vehicle code, so it is estimated that there are about 10-13 thousand copies in WoW. According to Wowhead, 2% of players in the world have such a bear.

Despite the fact that the codes for the bear were issued 12 years ago, the mount can still be bought. There are two ways: to find an entrepreneurial businessman on eBay and offer him a large amount for an inactive card, or arrange with the owner of a rare vehicle to merge your accounts. Many use the second method, selling in this way not only a bear, but also other rare mounts. Blizzard is extremely reluctant to carry out such transactions: officially trading accounts is prohibited, but many pretend that these are their old profiles, thereby deceiving responsive tech support.

Fluorescent Green Mechanostrider

In any article about mounts in World of Warcraft, one cannot fail to mention the Fluorescent Green Mechanostrider. Once a user accidentally deleted a standard racial mount and contacted technical support for help, and there they messed up something with the code and handed him the legendary little animal in return.

The fluorescent green mechanostrider has long been considered not only the rarest vehicle in the game, but also the rarest item – there was only one copy on all servers. Unfortunately, the account holder did not manage to curb his greed, sold the account and was banned for it. After the violation, Blizzard removed the mechanostrider from the game – now this is just a beautiful legend.

Reins of the ghost tiger and other loot card mounts

The Phantom Tiger is the mania of all World of Warcraft fans. You can get this mount only by entering the code from the World of Warcraft: Trading Card Game loot card from the Fires of Outland set. There are two problems: this CCI is no longer officially supported by Blizzard due to the release of Hearthstone, and resellers have inflated tiger prices – from a thousand dollars or more.

In fact, not only a tiger can be obtained from World of Warcraft TCG loot cards: all mounts from this collection are very rare. There is a rooster on the list that you can get from the Magic Rooster Egg – on WoW pirate servers it can often be purchased for little money, and users are happy to dissect it on a feathered fighter.

The code also unlocks the Big War Bear, the Swift Coast Strider, the White Riding Camel and many other vehicles. Of these, the tiger has the most interesting model – transparent textures in 2005 seemed very unusual. Over the years, one can see how few polygons a representative of a feline family has, but this nuance is not scary for collectors.

Reins of the Invincible

The faithful steed of the Lich King Arthas Menethil want to receive all fans of World of Warcraft. This transport compares favorably with the previous ones on my list in that it can still be obtained. Despite this, in 2023 only 19% of users in the world have the Invincible – for a mount that can not only be redeemed on the black market, but also wound up from the final boss in the Icecrown Citadel, this is very small. According to Wowhead, the chance of the Invincible falling out is about 1%: for 183 thousand attempts, luck smiles only 1.8 thousand times.

The mount was even given the nickname “Unapproachable,” because many players have been cleaning the raid dungeon for years and cannot get it in their collection. Externally, the undead horse is inferior to modern models, but having it on your account is prestigious, because, according to many players, the Wrath of the Lich King addon is the best thing that has happened with World of Warcraft.

Collective mind

In World of Warcraft, there are not only standard quest chains marked with exclamation marks above the NPC’s head, but also Easter eggs. For some of them, players can get vehicles. One of these Easter eggs is a chain of tasks to unlock the Mount Collective Mind, which can only be completed in a group of five players.

The quest for this vehicle is quite complicated, players will need to not only fly on the map to various points, but also solve complex puzzles. Users can share the preparatory stages of the task, but in the end they will need to collect four key items and go together into the maze.

Going through the quest for Collective Intelligence without a detailed guide is not for the faint of heart. To start the chain, you need to buy the “Talisman of the Search for True Treasures” from the merchant Julia in Shattrath. If you put on a seemingly useless item, four letters will light on the table next to it. Each of them is a meaningless phrase where some words are capitalized. They form an anagram indicating where to look for the next letter. What would you do if you found just such a “clue”?

Letter: “The aphid somehow goes on the table – around the dish, the steam is still falling; but she didn’t dare to overeat, otherwise Cholesterol would still jump. ”

Solution: Aphid Steam Cholesterol >>> Throne of the Guardian.

The collective mind is the only mount in the game that can carry five people at once. The downside is that, despite the largest capacity, only the players with whom you performed the task can use this function. For everyone else, it will be an ordinary mount, albeit rare. According to statistics, only 14% of gamers have successfully completed the quest chain to receive the Collective Intelligence.

Black Qiraji Battle Tank

Another mount already inaccessible in the game is the Black Qiraji Battle Tank. It is so rare that, according to Wowhead, 0% of players have it – according to users, active profiles with battle tanks in this recolor can be counted on fingers.

The black Qiraji battle tank could be unlocked during a global event – for the first opening of the An’Qiraj gate on the server. The battle at the entrance to the ancient city of Silithids unfolded in addition to Wrath of the Lich King, only one person could complete the quest for this mount – the dragon Nozdormu called him the chosen one. At the end of a very complex chain, which even the most experienced fighter could not have completed alone at that time, the player received the item “Quicksand Scepter”. They could hit a gong at the entrance to the ancient kingdom, open the gates and get the achievement “Lord of the Scarabs”, as well as the legendary ground mount silithid in an unusual color.

Many users began to hunt for this mount: after the opening of new servers, dozens of high-level players who transferred characters from other realms rushed to beat the gong with a staff at the ready. With the onset of the Cataclysm, Blizzard announced that the gates of An’Qiraj will always be open on the new servers, and moved the achievement to the section of great feats.

Core Hound Chain, Swift Zulian Tiger and others

The hound of the bowels cannot be called a very rare mount; approximately 46% of the players in the world have it. However, if you are a beginner, but you liked this vehicle, it will not be so easy to get it.

A subterranean hound chain was issued to all players who crushed Ragnaros during the tenth anniversary of World of Warcraft from November 21, 2014 to January 6, 2015. Now this mount is only available on the in-game black market, and the fight for it, like most of the items in this location, is usually serious. You can buy the Hound’s bowels for several million gold, but for this you will have to monitor the store for many months.

Other rare mounts sometimes appear on the black market – the Swift Zulian Tiger, Ashes of Al’ara, Child Ji-Kun, Experiment 12-B and others. Usually, their price is immediately set to the maximum value of gold that one character can wear in the inventory, and it is already impossible to interrupt it. Players have been monitoring the market for months to buy a lot of interest.

Upright steed

One of the most beautiful mounts in the game, I think Skakun upright – a pale blue unicorn with a model without extra corners, bulky armor and other extraneous elements. This horned horse is in several recolors – the dark purple Conscious nightmare that fans of hidden quests can get, and the light green Dreamer, who can be found with little chance in the supplies of Azsuna.

The good news is that the upright Steed can still be obtained legally in the game, and in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands it will even become flying. The bad news is that only 5% of the players in the world have unlocked the vehicle, since the condition for obtaining it is to upgrade your reputation with 100 factions in MMORPG to the maximum level. For beginners, it will take forever.

Crimson Chiphorse

In World of Warcraft, there are not only ground and flying mounts, but also underwater ones – they accelerate movement in water, unlike ordinary ones. One of these vehicles can be obtained by bargaining with murloc Mrrl in Nazzhatara.

If the hero wears the item “Cloak of Azsh’ari – the Stormcaller,” then he can buy various strange goods from the murlocs in Nazzhatar — dirty murloc socks, slimy eyes of the naga, dust from under the feet of the sea giant, and so on. Each of the Murlocs in the city exchanges their goods for fellow tribesmen. You will only have to calculate how many unwashed socks you need to purchase in order to buy the desired mount. Detailed guide can be found here.

Since the Crimson Chip Skate was added to Battle for Azeroth, he has not yet moved into the very rare category – 36% of the players in the world have already bargained for it from Mrrl. Over the years, Blizzard can change or delete this quest, so you should consider purchasing a mount now.

Reins of the Heavenly Onyx Cloud Serpent

Onyx snake can be obtained from the world boss Sha Zlosti or wait for the lot at the black market auction and compete with other hunters for rare goods. This black snake appeared in the addition of Mists of Pandaria and then did not appear on the list of prey from Blizzard. The first such mount fell out a few months after Sha Zlosti began to farm – the chance is still minimal, so only 1% of users have an onyx cloud snake.

Rare mounts also fall from other world bosses. For example, in Draenor with Rukhmar the Sunny Hawk of the Peaks falls out – players from all over the world are hunting for him, since he is valuable in a very well-drawn flight animation. I consider the hawk to be one of the most beautiful vehicles in the game, but for hundreds of attempts I have not knocked it out to my account.

All mounts in WoW are unusual in their own way: some have an interesting story to tell, others are hard to get, and others in 2023 can only be purchased on the in-game black market or from resellers on eBay. There are very expensive vehicles that ordinary traders sell: “Reins of the mighty pack brutosaurus”, for example, cost five million gold coins – a considerable sum even for experienced players who have been saving their fortunes for years. Talk about all the mounts does not work: if you know other interesting facts, welcome to comment.