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Comment by Kimmi

Horde only?

Comment by GregoryVance

My guess is that that Alliance will get a mammoth from another faction that is analogous to this, like the Kurenai and Mag'har are to Alliance and Horde respectively. Either that or there are faction specific (colors?) mounts from the same Sons of Hodir quartermaster. There is an achievement for both factions to obtain the Grand Ice Mammoth Mount so the Alliance must be able to get one somehow.

Comment by happysmiley

lol! the hordes need to be exalted and ally reverded, hord only get 1 of them and we get 2 :D

Comment by CatonStrike

costs 12k so I've heard :( will need to save longtime for this one

Comment by Thuran

Hmm, i was wondering, the 3 person mammoth from Dalaran have a reagent vendor and a repairman in the side seats when not taken up by players, is this also the case with this mount, or are the side seats empty?

Also, in the case this one does indeed also have vendors, why ever take the dalaran one over this one?

Comment by Polishedhead

It looks a bit ugly to me...

Comment by CatonStrike

If this is a 3 person mount like the Traveler's Tundra Mammoth, then how come this one costs only half of the other mount? I mean..it's a pretty big difference so why get the traveler's one? Ok the other one has nicer colours (at least in my opinion) but it's a lot of money for just a different color :S

Comment by BurnNBlast

Does this mount come with vendors like the Traveler's Tundra Mammoth?

Comment by piggybox

Because the rep for Sons of Hodir is one of the hardest ones to get in Wrath.

Comment by Danteshammy

Got mine today... and it is about a third the size of the normal Ice Mammoth (on a Tauren)

Comment by fadeaway

http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/september/8970/mount_grandicemammoth2.jpg shows the mount having three seats, and mmo-champ is usually a reliable source, however I am also worried that this mount does not have a description which indicates that it carries 3 people.

Perhaps it was nerfed.

Comment by jamakasi

yup just bought it and it says "allows two passangers to board"
doesnt have any vendors on it tho

Comment by Giskler

Just purchased one myself, it does indeed not have any vendors. Dont waste your gold if you want a mount with vendors on it, all this does is allow you to have 2 people ride with you.

I spoke to a GM about the vague tooltip the mount has and the fact that when you mount up you get a "Grand Black War Mammoth" mount buff instead of "Grand Ice Mammoth" and he said he would pass it along to the developers to get this looked at.

You can forget about getting the mount refunded if you bought it for the wrong reasons like me.

Comment by Wowi

"You can forget about getting the mount refunded if you bought it for the wrong reasons like me."

Wrong reasons? The tooltip doesnt say it should have vendors and it actually doesnt say you should be able to pick up more people either - so technically you got more than what you paid for.

Comment by Revrant

It is not one of the hardest to get, you get a 350 rep infinite turn in for Everfrost chips, but it isn't easy, I mean no Championing, no reputation from kills, but not one of the hardest.

Comment by Thrashnak

He said it was one of the hardest in Wrath, he didn't say it was hard. The relative ease of the rep grinds to other factions makes his statement true.

Horde Expedition/Alliance Vanguard is easier.
Argent Crusade is easier
Knights of the Ebon Blade is easier
Kal'uak is easier
Oracles/Frenzyheart is easier
Kirin Tor is easier
Wyrmrest is arguable as to whether it's easier or harder.

Comment by Thrashnak

He said it was one of the hardest in Wrath, he didn't say it was hard. The relative ease of the rep grinds to other factions makes his statement true.

Horde Expedition/Alliance Vanguard is easier.
Argent Crusade is easier
Knights of the Ebon Blade is easier
Kal'uak is easier
Oracles/Frenzyheart is easier
Kirin Tor is easier
Wyrmrest is arguable as to whether it's easier or harder.

Comment by Turrican123

Carrying people around sounds pretty sweet but...
Do the people who ride shotgun need the required Riding 150 too?
I mean, I want to get this so I can escort around my buddies when I'm helping them level.
But if they need 150 Riding skill they might as well just get on their own mounts so we can diverge paths if need be.
Someone please clear this up before I buy this thing.

Comment by nonentity

Just bought mine - no vendors....
I feel ripped off actually. I bought it for 8k, yeah, the Traveller's costs about double that but you don't have to farm rep to be able to use it (just to get it cheaper), so I thought it'd be fair if that one had vendors as well. Otherweise I could have just bought the 800 Gold version.

Guess I'll have to get the Traveller's Mammoth sometime, but not anytime soon, pretty much throwing 8k out the window does hurt a bit, not gonna spend some money for some time after that....

Comment by McCheez

The item itself doesn't say that 2 more players can mount it, but if you read the spell it teaches, it there says that 2 party members can mount it aswell.

Comment by pugna

Can anyone confirm if this mount can be used to carry other players in battleground/arena?

Thanks.

Comment by Vorph

Yes you can.

Comment by Penywise

why would you want a 10 000g, ground mount, 100% speed, level 80
when you can have 5000g skill, flying mount, 280% speed, level 80?

Comment by Vorph

Because:

1-) You can carry your friends and even can give taxi service to low level players as a side profession with this mount.

2-) You can carry your team mates in BGs with this mount.

3-) A lot of people misses this, but this is not actually a mount but a vehicle. Which means, if you jump from a high place, your mammoth will take damage and die but you will be unharmed. You are able to summon it back again later.

4-) Simple as it is.. Prestige. Everyone has flying mount now, but rare people can be seen with this mammoth. If you are not flying with a Proto-Drake, you are not unique at all.

Comment by hunternat

I'd say it's best to get this if you only want to carry people around, but if you want vendors then be expecting to pay at least 10k more (Traveler's Tundra Mammoth)

Comment by Putriss

Just got mine today.

Some weirds things :

- As a hunter, aspect of the pack does affect the mammoth speed (and i get dazed instead of the mammoth)
- It provides me the 'Grand Black war mammoth' buff.

Comment by norco

isn't putting a wyrmrest tabard on easy?

Comment by norco

prestige or stupid waste of money, i dunno

Comment by Ineosa

Seems there are only 6 types of Mammoths available:

Alliance

Reins of the Black War Mammoth

Reins of the Grand Ice Mammoth

Reins of the Ice Mammoth

Reins of the Traveler's Tundra Mammoth

Reins of the Grand Black War Mammoth

Horde

Reins of the Black War Mammoth

Reins of the Grand Ice Mammoth

Reins of the Ice Mammoth

Reins of the Traveler's Tundra Mammoth

Reins of the Wooly Mammoth

Reins of the Grand Black War Mammoth

Some are more easy to obtain than others.

Comment by Zunik

There is also the Grand Black War Mammoth wich is a rare drop from Vault of Archavon.

Comment by Bahamett

Just wanted to let you all know that this mount has 8.9k HP

Whereas the Traveler's Tundra Mammoth only has 5.3k HP

Comment by bubbathefrog

The only real purpose i can see this mount being used for other than something for the looks and showing off is if you dont feel like waiting on someone who is lower level than you and you are taking them through an instance they can hop on with you and get a ride to the instance itself

Comment by bubbathefrog

btw the comment i posted above is going to be the exact reason why i am going to buy one once i hit exalted im already at revered :P

Comment by Draylynn

The multi-use mammoths are great for PVP atm (Until patch change(?)). Hunter(AOTP)+friend and you zoom across bg's putting paladin's to shame. The fact they have their own HP bar makes them even more valuable for that extra little boost.

However, I find Traveller's Tundra Mammoth highly annoying to use in BG's(flipping off npc's everytime for carrying players) opposed to the Grand Ice Mammoth.

Comment by Articon

makes a change

Comment by Crowgirl

Ok, I think this question was answered up above, but just to clarify: The traveler's tundra mammoth is the only one with Vendors? and if so, is there another way to get Vendors ? can you perhaps hire them somewhere?
Stupid curiosity always makes me ask things like this.
Crow

Comment by bek1

Another WotLK money sink.

Comment by Gardius

As of patch 3.0.8, this mount no longer takes fall damage. However, it can still be killed by being attacked.

Comment by aphistionakis

I'm not sure that it does count as a bug because in a lot of quests where you're 'riding' a vehicle type item, even if it is a golem or a construct or something, you don't take any damage at all no matter how far you fall.
I noticed this the other day doing one of the quests in Howling Fjord where you ride around disguised as a golem, looking like the Westfall Crop Reapers :)

Comment by Googla

(How to pick up girls) Wanna ride on my mammoth?

Comment by frodo7770

Last night i was in Obsidian Sanctum. I was riding my Grand Ice Mammoth around and jumped off of it. Presumable with in some split second timing I would assume a shaman guildie jumped on to ride in one of the seats and he actually grabbed the mount from me and was able to sit in the main seat on top and ride it. I tried mounting up again thinking i could have one to and it dismounted him and i didn't get the mount. I had to recast and then i could ride it again. Couldn't get this to duplicate.

Comment by Noobta

Does AoTP still work on this with the vehicle mount change?

Comment by Googla

Wanna ride my mammoth?

Comment by Helblindi

Few quick things, First for someone to ride on this "Vehicle" they need to be in your party. This makes this mounts use in Battlegrounds limited because people are always dismounting their mounts trying to mount my Mammoth to no avail. Which is really disappointing considering the Choppa does not have this limited functionality.

Second even though I have the option checked to "auto dismount on spell cast" this does not apply to this vehicle you actually have to manually click the "Leave vehicle" button, which makes engaging your target take another two or so seconds; unacceptable in a Battleground situation. As is the fact that Paladin's will leave you in the dust as crusader aura does not seem to work with this vehicle at the moment.

Third all the doorways and bridges that your http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43956 got stuck on do not hinder this mammoth in any way.

Lastly and most importantly if you get this mount right click one of your passengers and select "follow" (try not to puke).

Comment by Velren

apparently, this mount is now treated like a real mount.

- it suffers from falling damage
- aspect of the pack / unholy presence don't affect it anymore
- you mount / dismount instantly without the known animation

haven't checked on doorways, but i bet it has a bigger hitbox now.

guess it's time to love the old mammoth on live realms for the last time. :(

Comment by gerwim

No, as of 3.08 neither the rider nor the vehicle/mount is taking fall damage. You can jump from whatever you like and continue on your way. I'd presume its a bug but haven't reported it.

And you say this has been fixed (same patch). If you, if would have been hotfixed then.

Comment by mingoo1109

Hmm.. would this work? I'm a DK.
1. get 2 passengers aboard, and tell them you'll give em a ride or something.
2. jump from a higher elevation into any water (where you would die normally if the water was solid ground.)
3. use Path of Frost so your party members get the buff.
4. quickly remove your buff by right-clicking it
5. 2 angry party members ?

can anyone try this? I want to have some fun so bad =D

Comment by Visitation

4-) Simple as it is.. Prestige. Everyone has flying mount now, but rare people can be seen with this mammoth. If you are not flying with a Proto-Drake, you are not unique at all.

Pft, yeah and I suppose you
have a Magnificent Flying Carpet like everyone else in the game? not unique. rofl

Comment by Ashty

Just acquired this mount today, things to note;

As of writing this it still does not take any fall damage, nor do you or your passengers. Jumped off Dalaran a few times XD
The land mines near K3 do damage to the mount and you.
Eating a buff to make you larger or smaller doesn't change the size of the mammoth.
You can eat clickable food while mounted on the mammoth. By this I mean things such as the feasts and other various raid 'shareable' foods.
It does not have a /mountspecial.
It's a hell of a lot of fun. :)

Everything else has been mentioned several times throughout the thread.

Comment by Resurect

Just got mine yesterday and I and my DK friend went straight to the land mines near K3
Three things:
1) Neither of us could get any mine count for the achievement and we are pretty sure that we hit lots more then 10
2) The mount and we two took damage from the mines, although as metioned before fall damage is off (Fall from Dalaran over a Azure plataform, without no damage and aggroing the Azure guys, lots of fun)
3) The mount can be healed. My DK friend used bandages on me as we get out of the minefield and i said "try heal the mount", worked without problems. I guess the other healing factors should work as well

Comment by Mystok

Strange that you pay about 6000 extra gold over the regular ice mammoth just for that extra saddle on its back

Comment by tfizzle22291

Hey guys I was wondering, because I am going to buy this mount, if it can hold two people AND if it has vendors on it. Thanks!

Comment by Humanenemy

I currently have this mount and bought it on 3.0.9. Hella fun to use.(Back then, These bugs were FIXED)

Couple Bugs and Fun Things to do:
1. Using Aspect of the Pack or Unholy Aura adds Speed to the Mount.
2. It fits into almost every building unlike the regular one man mount Mammoth's.
3. If you follow your party member who is on your mount you will spin ridicoulusly fast.
4. It takes absolutely no fall damage what so ever but it takes damage from mobs or enemy players.
5. In some area's in Dalaran you can dismount and go through certain walls.

Possible Bug Fixes:
Numbers 1 and 4

EDIT: For Number 4, Try jumping from the Temple of Storms down into the Engine of the Makers in the Storm Peaks ;).

Comment by Beorinn

Sadly, as of today's patch 3.1, this mount has had QUITE a few changes. It no longer counts as a seperate unit but as a normal mount, meaning no more cliff diving and continuing, you WILL take fall damage. It also cannot be affected by aspect of the pack now due to this, and for all us show-offs with both this and the Headless Horseman's mount, we can no longer dual mount, riding the HH mount ontop of this one... And lastly, it's...hitbox is...well...HUGE. You can't even get through 75% of normal pathways as you did before, and this makes it such a HASSLE in small areas like UnderCity, those elevators are pure unpassable walls unless you dismount or choose a smaller one.

I'm quite disappointed with all these changes, as it was fun running around Dal after drinking a growth pot, dual mounting, and having a friend shrink the mammoth.

R.I.P Oh super fast mount, I will miss you in Alteric Valley for sure for those fast tower caps...

Comment by Praiseworthy

this is referring to mingoo1109's question,

if u take any damage at all while using PoF, the effect will be canceled

so if u take it off in mid air while falling into water, u will just land in the water, not take any damage, and as of patch 3.1, u wont be dismounted either

now another thing is, the only way to take PoF of off ur party members is to simply take it off of urself, it is counted as a group spell, even ur minions will be effected by the spell

and besides, if this mount still takes falling damage, dont know if it still does or not, then u and ur party members would not take any damage, only the mammoth would, so the effect would only be taken off of the mammoth, so u would just end up with a cool looking swimming mammoth

a good way to prove this is to jump off of some part of dalaran, and try to land into that small pond below

and if by any chance that i am wrong, well u better make sure those passengers were some rogues, mages, priests, or some pallies, or else, u will have those po'd party members u were hoping for

Comment by Rahizzle

Reasons to get this mount:

-It isn't a mount it's a vehicle.
-You can carry friends, great for boosting, BG's
-Yes it's alot of gold, but you probably don't have a mount like it.

Gold is so easy to get, the gold needed to buy this will come around in the near future
It's cool and alot of people will ask you for rides etc.

Comment by Rahizzle

This mount is useable in arena.
And your team can sit on it.

Comment by ineb

"4-) Simple as it is.. Prestige. Everyone has flying mount now, but rare people can be seen with this mammoth. If you are not flying with a Proto-Drake, you are not unique at all."

Not sure about you, but I find Gladiator mounts, Copters, Rockets, Phoenix mount etc. MUCH more unique than a Proto-Drake. Proto-Drakes are far from unique now, at least they are on Illidan.

Comment by shockfromdestro

its 10k, but when u get exalted, u get a discount and takes it to 8k, the mount that is more expensive is the one in dal , that u get from mei francis, which is 20k, but if u get exalted with the kirin tor, then it is only 16k

Comment by Thingamajig

Fastest pachyderm in Azeroth.

Comment by switch89a

Its worth noting that this mount cannot be returned for the full price since you gain the achievement on purchase and not use.

Comment by Blarnay

I think it should be noted that while it can make traveling in cities difficult, the height provided allows one to run through small rivers and streams that a smaller mount would otherwise swim (and thus slow down to swim speed).

Comment by Rahizzle

Just a little note:

You can take two friends to AV. One drives the mount. The two can jump off, do a bit of ganking and jump back on - even in combat. Then you run away, replenish and go back.
I did this with a friend once was highly amusing, dropped him off, let him killed stuff, when he got low, i ran past he hopped on, then healed him up and went back :P

Comment by Sbhobbes

haha that happened to me, i created a lvl 1 lock opposite of my main's faction, well anyways i wanted to get to Booty Bay so i payed this guy to take me, didn't even notice i died when i aggroed some 1 hit mobs, but he kept going till he was far away, it was hilarious as my sister was beside me watching (:

Comment by Pears

Not sure if anyone stated this yet, but you can probably get other people the explorer achievements if they ride on yours. Havn't tested this yet btw, just assuming. Oh and if you buy this mount be prepared to say farewell to getting through doors.

Comment by Sermihage

You cannot sell this mount back for its full price! Dont buy it unless you want to keep it.

Comment by tai2687

Does it actually sell back for the 2500g price shown above?

Comment by Pears

Its fun to kick people off this during a For the Horde/alliance raid (prefferably into a group of the opposing faction)

Comment by Penti

Fun fact about this mount: If used be a priest in shadowform the passengers will also get shadowform. So all non-priests out there: If you wanna see what you look like in shadowform, this is your chance.

Also worth a comment to clarify some things about previous bugs with this mount:
* This mount will NOT turn insanely fast if you select follow on a passenger any more.
* This mount will allow you to take fall damage like all other mounts.

Comment by mattgaff87

So, if you take a level 18 through Arathi Highlands to go to Shadowfang Keep, for example, be careful because the mobs will still want to eat your little friend

Just thought I'd point out, because it confused the hell out of me, this comment is correct and is usefull but the part about taking level 18's through Arathi to get to Shadowfang Keep would probably be better served on the aliance version of this mount. A better example would be taking a level 15 though Duskwood or Stranglethorn to get to The Deadmines. As you can tell I'm 100% nub at aliance. Had to have someone explain to me who "Hogger" was.

Comment by Titansteelsword

Isn't there supposed to be an option to kick people from your mount anyway?

Do they stay on the mount once you leave the group?
Or is there no other way to kick people from the mount except resummoning?
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When you are on a multi-passenger mount, you will get a little picture of the mount near your mini-map. Right click the dot of the person you want to dismount, and you should have an eject option.

When lowbies beg for a ride, pop a water walking potion and take them out passed the fatigue line and let them die a few times swimming back. (evil, yes. funny to do to annoying beggers, also yes)

Comment by leet3lite

...and don't forget to de-select any of your passengers first, otherwise they'll be the ones laughing.

Comment by Moobix

Or just buy a f'n rocket, fly them to the top of the map and request for a tip or death.

Comment by Crumpy

Tbh, I'd still rather get the Grand Ice Mammoth rather than the Traveller's Tundra Mammoth even if it does have vendors. The price difference is pretty damn big, and engineers like me can just use Jeeves instead which also saves cash.

Comment by Deru99

Just as a heads-up for potential buyers:

Despite previous comments on this page, this mount works the same as all the other mammoths size-wise. It will NOT fit into many of the doorways in Dalaran, or any other doorways that the other mammoth's are too large to fit into. After reading above comments I made the decision to buy this over a motorcycle because it was cool and would fit through the doorways... The above statements were incorrect :P Just wanted to let anyone know who was thinking of buying this with the impression that it fit into those doorways.

Comment by CPUzer0

Or spam Noggenfogger and wish for slow fall effect to come out of it. Makes the whole thing so much more interesting (and costly in case you dont get slowfall before you hit the concrete).

Comment by jamezdee

this mount is 8000g, not 2500

Comment by Wetfish

If a mage with this mount casts slowfall beforehand, and then jumps off a cliff with passengers on the mount, does everyone slowfall together?

Comment by electricx

Get a shirt that says "If you can see this shirt, the n00b fell off!" lol

Comment by Neutralis

It's good when doing quests in Tol Borad and need to make a 3 person party. You can carry them with you! :)

Comment by Brienna

With the bartering guild perk, this mount is 7000g

Comment by Xithxocutl

7000g at exalted now.

Comment by EliteSerial

This mount is now only 7K @ Exalted and if you have the 10% off Vendor Guild Perk. Just bought mine tonight. Took me 1 day to do all the chain quests and get to exalted. (Solo farmed the two Ulduar instances for Relics and turned them in. Along with a few dailies.)(##RESPBREAK##)520##DELIM##Rankkor##DELIM##

Comment by Emma123

Hi I recently purchased sons of hodir commendation badges to get my rep from hated to exalted, however i can't find Lillehoff and have been told you need to do daily quests to be able to find him. This will however put my rep back down to hated, can anyone help me out and let me know if this is true?

Thanks

Comment by VindicoSolus

This mount was originally NOT going to be on the list of account-wide mounts in Mists of Pandaria. However, a decision was quite recently made to change this:

Mumper wrote:

We have been discussing this issue the last couple of days and we made the call to make the following mounts account-wide:

•Traveler's Tundra Mammoth
•Grand Expedition Yak
•Mechano-Hog
•Mekgineer's Chopper
•Sandstone Drake
•Grand Ice Mammoth
•Ice Mammoth
•Jeweled Onyx Panther (all color variants)
•Cloud Serpents (all color variants)

At this point, the only mounts that are not account-wide are either class specific or rewarded from PVP. We feel like both these types of mounts should still be character specific.

Thanks for your feedback on this issue!

Source 1: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/5633973536?page=15
Source 2: http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/06/25/mists-of-pandaria-gold-sink-mounts-will-be-account-wide/

Comment by Duodenum

This one made it on the list of mounts that will not be shared across characters in Mists of Pandaria. You can find the full list of mounts that will not be shared here: http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/4551305996

Comment by Bloodiemarie

Does anyone know if you can still buy this mount in MoP?

Comment by Rosebud

When purchasing this mount, be aware that even though the tooltip states that it is "account-wide", it will only apply to characters of the faction in which it was purchased. In other words, if this was purchased on one's Horde character, it will be available to their Horde characters only. It will not be usable by their Alliance characters, even on the same account. It is technically an account-wide/faction specific mount.

There is some confusion in that the mount has the same name for both factions and is from a neutral vendor. It is however faction-specific, even to characters on the same account.

Comment by Rosebud

Update: As of patch 5.1, this mount is now available to be used to both factions. This means if your Horde character has purchased this mount, your Alliance characters will be able to use it, now. This is good news.

Comment by therantris

Here is a list of all the Multi-person MOUNTS in the game as of 5.2

Grand Ice Mammoth
Grand Black Mammoth
Traveler's Tundra Mammoth
Mekgineer's Chopper
Mechano-Hog
Vial of the Sands
Grand Expedition Yak

If I missed any just reply and add to the list!

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Reins of the Grand Ice Mammoth

Item Level 40
Binds when picked up
Mount (Account-wide)
Races: Orc, Undead, Tauren, Troll, Goblin, Blood Elf, Pandaren

Use: Teaches you how to summon this three-person mount.
Requires Level 40
Requires Journeyman Riding
Requires The Sons of Hodir - Exalted

Sell Price: 2500

"At home on the narrow, icy trails of the Storm Peaks, these mammoths are the only mounts the ice giants trust to carry large loads and multiple riders."
Vendor: Lillehoff
Zone: The Storm Peaks
Faction: The Sons of Hodir - Exalted
Cost: 10000

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