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Comment by trexxter

Drops from Skadi the Ruthless in Utgarde Pinnacle heroic

Comment by Talord

If anybodys played the Monster Hunter games, does anybody think this looks like a blue-black...-purple Tigrex?

Comment by blackcrusader

i can not imagine what one of these the size of stormwind (from the last guardian, not in game) would look like

Comment by Spl4sh3r

Is it 100% drop on this one?

Comment by WingsOfDaidalos

An epic flying Proto-Drake, mounts that you can get in only a few ways such as Achievements and rare drops.

Take a wild guess.

Comment by silvah

got mine today :)

serverfirst on frostmane ^^

Comment by bebbe

You made an account... to say that you got a mount?

Sorry dude, but thottbot's that way ------->

Comment by silvah

you're just jealous you don't have it so careface is that way --------->

Comment by Mordrag

It has a higher drop rate if you do it on heroic, but not by much.

Comment by Dagormatix

(This item only drops in Heroic Mode)

Comment by Spl4sh3r

I have read that the Time-Lost Proto Drake is on a 100% drop rate....so can't I be right to wonder if the blue one was too?

Comment by Rezzin

Got mine today =D server first in ragnaros

Comment by WingsOfDaidalos

Yes but that one has a certain "achievement" connected to it - do Heroic Stratholme in 25 minutes.

This one is just a normal rare drop, like Baron Rivendare's Mount and the Heroic Sethekk Halls one.

Comment by Spl4sh3r

You are incorrect. Time-Lost Proto Drake is not a drop in Stratholme. It's Reins of the Bronze Drake that drops from there. Time-Lost Proto Drake is 100% drop from a mob outside the instances, in Storm Peaks.

Comment by Electrodram

i just got this mount on Emerald Dream - Alliance best looking mount ever:D

server first:D

and for those who wonders it's 1% drop chance on it so go ahead and farm:D

Comment by Census

Dropped on our 2nd heroic UP run and I was lucky enough to win the roll.

Here are some screen shots:

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I absolutely love this mount! I use it over my 310% mount... XD

Best of lucky to anyone who's attempting to farm it!

Comment by Puistola

Dropped on Neptulon - EU

22/11/2008

First run in UP Heroic.

Comment by elfrider16

The 3rd boss was really hard for seeing it the first time, and after he instagibbed 2 of our dps in his whirlwind we 3manned him down in what felt like an epic battle. And lucky me won the roll 98 to 92.

Comment by Shacksfury

I got Mine on my first Heroic Run of UP. If you want to see it in game. try to get somewhere where you can summon flying mounts and i can show you it on Laughing skull

Comment by Ohpaque

My group ran our first Heroic Utgarde Pinnacle last night and through amazing luck not only did this drop but I won the roll.

I'm surprised how small it is, which is a good thing since you can easily see around it. The detail and variation of the movements while flying or even standing around is really impressive.

Love the color too, it's very appropriate for Northrend.

Comment by aggression

This beauty dropped for us the 5'th time we cleared it on heroic. Went for a guildie. Coolest mount in-game atm from those I've seen myself in-game. But then, there are other colours than this blue one to get.

Comment by Zerotorescue

*cough* *cough*

Comment by jukediesel

got mine today 4th or 5th time ive done heroic pinnacle. love the way the color of its mouth matches my DK eyes

Comment by Althal

Awesome mount. Got it on EU Vek'nilash today with a lucky roll. I have been searching for the Time-lost proto-drake since I've been 78 so this was a very welcome surprise :)!

My only concern is that I'd like the orange "dust" thingy that's coming off him/he breaths to be blue instead of orange to better match his colour. Posted it as a suggestion and I hope Blizzard notices it.. most likely not though. Anyways, it's still an awesome looking mount and to the awe of all my friends :D!

Comment by wiiz

Dropped on Skullcrusher and lucky me won it.

Comment by tenta

haha at all the jealous noobs downing peoples posts how sad :p

Comment by Ideonl33t

i wanna see u on it :)

Comment by Zulathar

It dropped tonight, it was my third run this week. My friend rolled 1 literally 1 higher than my 98. I wanted to kill him lol. Anyways I saw him on the mount and it is awesome, my favorite in game mount right next to my future azure drake.

Comment by Ltblaze

Got this on my very first heroic Utgarde Pinnacle run.

Comment by rmk1999

Actually the "noobs" are the ones posting how many runs it took them to see it drop, how much they won the roll by, or how "awesome" they think the mount is. The wowhead community(the ones downranking the posts) could care less when "YOU" got your mount. Save that trash for Thottbot or the wow forums.

Comment by oemas

Does anyone know it it has a higher drop rate when you do the timed achievement for downing him or did it just happen to drop the time we did the achievement?

Comment by xhenea

Excellent question. It dropped for us as we completed the timed event/acheivment. Coincidence? Or is there something to it.

Comment by ionthejester

I've completed all the achievements related to Skadi and am in the progress of farming H. UP daily for the sword. I have yet to see the drake drop so I don't think it's related to the timed achievement. Perhaps there's a greater chance to get it if you complete the kill in that time but it's still not 100% if you do.

Comment by Sunwind

I can confirm that it's not a guaranteed drop with the 3-minute achievement (although it would be nice, if you're reading, devs)

However the drop rate could still be higher while doing it under 3 minutes, but it's unlikely.

Comment by Seres

I believe this may be true, I've been farming this mount almost everyday, and this is the first time I did the achievement and it dropped. I will be back to post if this happens again, especially since I didn't win it, but also for the greater good of Wowhead!

Comment by piggybox

I got it a few days ago. Quite lucky. Though I still think proto drakes are pretty ugly on land, they are actually quite cool when flying.

Comment by nema1234

it would be nice if blizzard or some one could clear this up becouse today the mount dropped for me after my third time in the instence and its dropped when we got he acheivement....so it might be fact that the drop rate is greater when you can one..drop him one shot off his mount..or 2 ...kill him in under 3 mins...

Comment by Klebaten

It's more than likely just coincidence that the mount drops after doing the achievement. It's because people are doing the achievement and accomplish it then see the mount that they mentally link it with the chance of the mount dropping. The reason there will be such a belief is people are trying to do the heroic achievements for the red proto drake and it'll drop enough after people accomplish it that there will be such a belief. Much like the drop rate idea of it being a "sure thing" after killing a certain amount of mobs.

Comment by Dagormatix

As this has never (to my knowledge) been the case for any similar rare drop item, I doubt doing the achievement will make any difference to the chance to drop.

Comment by waarez

Has a 0.5% dropchance from Skadi the Ruthless.

Comment by infamouslink

dont think so.. everyone that posted has gotten it within their 6th run im thinking more like 20%

Comment by Ragaxen

Yes but then you need to factor in most of the people who it didn't drop for. Then you get an accurate picture of the droprate\

edit: this is true, and this is why people need to give results to ppl so you dont just get ppl listing how easy they got it, there are plenty of ppl who would farm for this and never see it drop.

p.s. if u downrate, ill see it as u are the ppl who were lucky enough to get it on their 1st, 2nd whatever try.

Comment by Ryxis

surely that makes the drop rate higher than on normal :)

Comment by shorstf293

hey wat realm are u on?

Comment by Phantarch24

check here to see all the Proto-Drakes

Comment by Thram

yea just because people have luck and get it on there 6th run or w/e doesnt mean that drop rate is high...at all.

Comment by philamon56

Got mine today, completely random, didn't go for the achivement so it's not linked to it. I'm sure this is like any rare mount (i.e baron or attunement) very nice mount too bad no achivement is attached to it.

Comment by Colamisu

Finding the Time-Lost Proto-Drake alive is rare enough to make that be considered a "rare drop" in my opinion...

Comment by proline

You do mean a Feast of Strenght, right?
Because some people might never see this mount drop, making it impossible to get that achievement completed.

Comment by Sfyri

it doesn't. I have a way of doing it that completes both achievements for him at the same time, and i've done it this way every time for about 15 runs. This mount has yet to drop for me once....

Comment by timoros

U are wrong time lost proto drake is a !@#$ing rare mps that drop the mount.and i am so unlucky i have for 2 times lost this !@#$ing mob from allis

Comment by Veronessa

Dropped for me 10 mins ago, on Khadgar (eu). Lucky me won it :)

Comment by Notaa

But not by much ^^

Comment by unaminity

Just got it! It look's the best out of all the protodrakes imo although looks rather odd when it runs along the ground :D
Edit: To confirm, it is a drop!

Comment by Laskai

how epic unhelpful was that comment...

less unhelpful that this one.

Comment by shanthia

And at a 1.1% droprate, that's not by much :O

Comment by Autopsy

Surely they must care if they could care less.

:)

Comment by BEpally

It dropped for us and we did not get the achievement, so it is random. The only thing that was not random was that it went to the pug huntard who was doing less dps than the tank

Comment by Kamitis

ASS....................................

Comment by rmk1999

Skadi is 3rd boss

Comment by dragon2041

/facepalm. Typo, sorry. i edited it

Comment by Shirash

I was both lucky and fortunate enough to see this drop yesterday. We did not complete any Skadi related achievements during the fight, so I believe this is merely a very, very rare drop.

Now...if I only had the flying skill to ride it! :|

edit - why downrate this? I'm helping to dispel the theory of it being tied to achievements...

Comment by BlizzagaFerret

I had only run this twice and saw it drop. I was fortunate to win the roll. No sort of Achievement was done during the fight.

However; some things we did during the fight:

1) No one was hit by the Breath.
2) One person was picking up the harpoons and throwing them. None of the opportunities to throw a harpoon were missed.
3) Only one person died.

Comment by dashmudtz

Because its not informative in any way. if you want to comment on myths or feelings do it on another board. We already know its a drop rate and nothing else.

Comment by Shirash

Of course I rolled on it. You're telling me that you would pass on a rare mount based on the fact that you can't use it at that exact moment in time? As soon as I finish grinding money for my DK, I will certainly be using it. Does that make my claim to the mount less valid? No.

And I think we know that it's not tied to achievements now, you can stop pointing out that other people have pointed it out.

Comment by Shirash

So you're telling me that it's illegal to roll on a rare mount if you can't ride it on the spot? Please.

Not that you would have guessed, though, in your hurry to flame a lucky mount owner, but no one else in the group had epic flight training either.

And I think it's been quite well established that we know it's just a drop now, but thanks for repeating what I already said for me.

Comment by Shirash

Not that it has any relevance to the discussion on the item (much like half your post, in fact...the other half repeating what I said), but no one in my group had their epic flight training. Would you have been happier if I posted that we just left it on Skadi's corpse? <_<

Besides, just because I couldn't ride it then, doesn't mean that I can't ride it now I finished my gold grind. Didn't make me less priviliged to roll on a rare mount drop, and I wouldn't expect anyone to simply let it go to someone else without even rolling. Especially not in a pug.

Shame on me for responding to a troll post, but it had to be said.

Comment by petercopter12

And the difference is only 1.1%, which isn't that big.

Comment by doronik

Won this 12/29/2008

Comment by wasniahC

Shame on you for calling it a troll thread, opinions aren't "trolling", I respected your viewpoint until that line

Comment by morgil

I can confirm that killing Skadi in under 3 mins does not guarantee the drake drop.

Curiously we didn't get credit for killing grauf in 1 pass even though we did.

Comment by Vickii

I was one of the lucky ones to get this, and we did not kill him in under 3 minutes :) actually we wiped about 6-7 times, extremely bad PUG with only me (healer) and a boomkin alive at the end.

I'm pretty sure its just an entirely random drop, we didn't do anything special as far as i know.

Comment by saliret

Well i went to UP heroic for my first time and it droped for me i dunno how i won it cos i never win stuff like that O.o and it does look awsome espically when he roars xD

Comment by Magenn

Skadi the Ruthless drops this, I actually saw it dropped and I won. Sweet mount learn it the second you get it. It is actually rarer then the HH mount. :D

Comment by Magenn

Wowhead is a bit off, with the drop rate. It is actually lower. Because from what I hear that boss drops 2 items normally and Wowhead only considers the boss to drop one item. Anyway I don't under stand why they down-rated my comment since it wasn't bad in any way. Not a fun boss to kill but it is worth the chance of getting the mount.

Comment by Ilux

Dropped for us in heroic tonight, everyone needed and I got it.. =))

Great mount imo, looks awesome.

Comment by Tinuviel

I can confirm that this might drop even if you dont complete the achievements! Dropped on my first UP heroic and it was messy and we for sure did not complete any achievements!

This is my favourite of the Proto-Drakes and I still cant believe I was lucky enough to win it on my first run :) I know it dropped the day before my first run aswell - so its not too rare!

- Tinúviel

Comment by phobert

Recently got this mount and it saddnes me I got this quicker than the Deathcharger, which I still don't have after doing roughly 15 runs a day for half a year now.

Comment by Tinuviel

Dont get why you downrate my comment, as I confirmed that this may drop even though you dont do the achievements for this boss... Purged cause of jealosy? =/

Comment by fluenz

I have seen it drop today on my run

i did this instance alot ( like 25 times ) and the only time i have seen it was today
i dont say it drops because of this but the mount dropped after we did the achievement at the first boss.

the achievement where u need to put the abonimation under the sword ritual.

unfortunally is was unlucky and didnt won the drake

Comment by Kcired

Like rmk1999 has stated earlier, saying you got the mount is redundant and will be down rated. Also, if you have a problem with a post being downrated please to not make another post, you can send an email to one of the WoWhead staff stating why you have a problem with it and negotiate it.

Comment by wall91

about the ID part, i've heard there is a way to enter your instance ID (addon? web page?) and see what's gonna drop, and save time if you don't like he results. if anyone else has heard about it / know what it is, feel free to reply. although it sounds too good to be true

Comment by Yuka2

@Spl4sh3r Still it will be alot of headaches till u find him :o

Comment by Quadrophenia

I heard that the the chance of this mount dropping increases if you are exalted with the Argent Dawn, and I was when this dropped. Therefore, correlation = causation.

Comment by zivadira

To broaden your knowledge, there are Achievements that change the drop rate of some items. As a perfect example I would point out Reins of the Twilight Drake - 0% drop rate - but with Heroic: The Twilight Zone achieved it has 3% drop rate. And there are more items like this one that drop from Sartharion

Comment by Gorrk

Actually to broaden YOUR knowledge. It has a 100% drop rate if you kill him with 3 drakes up. 0 if you do him with 1, 2 or no drakes up.

Comment by zivadira

still, 100% drop rate WITH achievement is higher rate than 0% drop rate WITHOUT the achievement. That was my point

Comment by collector

This mount is a really rare drop chance on Skadi the Ruthless in Heroic mode Utgarde Pinnacle.

and No, doing both the achievements My Girl Loves to Skadi All the Time, and Lodi Dodi We Loves the Skadi does not increase your chances to get it. It's a 1% drop rate no matter what on Heroic mode. I just got this mount today and I've done all Heroic mode achievements for Utgarde Pinnacle, multiple times for multiple groups. To be honest I didn't even know it existed, I was in a "WTF" state of mind for awhile, even after I won it lol.

Comment by ninkosen

I guess this mount is gonna be a feat of strenght in the futur, but unless you run it everyday and you somehow find a way to bypass the rolls once it drop I don't see you running this Five hundreds times...
As a mount collector, this one is a pain in the ass, I guess you would need like 20k gold, to pay each of the party member 5k gold so they pass if the mount drop. This is the only way, or in guild, but no guild run pinnacle one hundred time just so that one guy gets his mount.

Comment by ninkosen

the loot of any boss is defined when the instance is created, not when you loot or kill it
so when you put the first foot in the instance, it's already set if there gonna be the mount on your run

Comment by morvain

Or you just get lucky with RNG on the drop AND rolls....

Comment by Messor

This guy has no clue whatsoever... This is indeed rare drop and only time when we have seen it drop was when we did the 3 minute gauntlet achievement...

Comment by Lightshand

Just won it, we killed him without any achievements, drake dropped rolled 88. 7th pinnacle run

Lightshand - kazzak eu

Comment by Corhen

actully, its an infinite increase, the differnece between 0, and any number, is infinite,

think on it, x*0=0, it takes an infinite amount to make x*0<0

Comment by Tiorda

I got this on my second H UP run and saw it again on my fourth. I was lucky I had a guildie druid in my party that passed due to his flight form. No Bronze drake on the third day in a row of downing the boss :( Stupid rolls...

Comment by iv00w

He's saying that maybe (or not) one of these points could be a required criteria for the mount to drop.
Think over it again before you talk crap.

Comment by shadowaninja

This mount drops only if someone is your party is exalted with the Argent ~~Dawn~~ Crusade.

I base this, of course, on absolutely nothing.

Comment by shadowaninja

This mount drops only if someone in your party is exalted with the Argent ~~Dawn~~ Crusade.

I base this, of course, on absolutely nothing.

Not a lot of people remember the days of farming the baron mount bre-BC huh? Oh well.

Comment by shadowaninja

This mount drops only if someone in your party is exalted with the Argent ~~Dawn~~ Crusade.

I base this, of course, on absolutely nothing.

Edit: Not a lot of people remember the days of farming the baron mount bre-BC huh? Oh well.

Comment by sl0shk0sh

Because the mount is "unique" you can obviously only ever get it once. With that said, do you even see it if you've already won one or is it like BoP recipes?

Comment by Jforsyth

I would assume that the "You automatically pass" message appears if the mount drops and you already have it. If you killed Coren Direbrew everyday in hopes of getting a Brewfest mount, than you have most likely seen the message.

Comment by azax

a very saddening thing for me, being my favorite mount.

in the last 4 days it has dropped twice for me, i rolled an 8 and a 1.
ive been very sad to say the least ><.

Comment by Moeisha

Hi

I would like to know how many runs it took the people who are doing the instance everyday (farming) to get theirs?

I just did my 21st run and haven't seen it drop.

thanks

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Kill #22 = nothing
Kill #25 = yet nothing
#28 = nope
#34 = nothing (starting to get impatient)

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RUN #42 AND ... IT ... DROPPED !

WOOOHOOOOOO!

Everyday for the past 42 days I took people to UP and offered 1500g to each person to pass on it

Today three people got 1500g richer and one lied and rolled and LOST!

Moeisha - Dark Iron - US

42 Days for me so stick with it guys

Update : Since that guy lied and rolled I split his share of gold (1500g) among the other 3 so each got 500g more for a total of 2000g each :)

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Comment by alfahane

Been farming for my Red sword of curage in UP for a while now.

And today when i fired up my regular runs the mount dropped! maybe the 6th time i do the instance..

The group went totaly BONKERS.. Sadly i lost the roll but awell win some loose some atleast i got my sword in the end :D

Comment by Superdruid8496

you sir have a great attitude towards heroic rare drops :D

Comment by Jehizak

We got this mount while running him. We were 4 friends and 1 random doing this instance, and as always, the random gets the rare stuff...

Comment by vampiric161

With the obvious exception of loot that is awarded on time-based prerequisites. For example, the bronze drake mount.

Not really. The corruptor will always have one when you start the instance. The timer just determines whether you get to kill him and get the loot or not.

Comment by Moeisha

To all of you fellow blue proto-drake lovers:

If you plan to farm this mount (like I did) here are some tips:

1. Don't give up! It took me 42 days (I consider myself lucky!) to get it. 39 full clears and 3 runs just to the third boss and I only see it drop once and I won! But you ask what if you lost the roll? Well keep reading :)

2. Everyday I offered 1500g per person to come with me to H UP and pass on mount so it cost me 6k gold total. Make sure they know what mount is dropping and they WILL pass on it if drops. Most of the time I had many whispers.

The day mount dropped some a$$hole (Wolfblitzr <Panda Attack> - Dark Iron - US) refused the gold (although he had agreed to pass) and rolled against me and lost. It would have sucked had this son of a &*!@# won the mount. I gave the other three their share and split that mofo's share among them for 2k gold total. Lesson here is Master Loot even though people in your group might refuse that since well they don't know you and you might just ninja it!

It has been several days and I absolutely love this mount! It was worth every run and I'm very glad I helped three people with 2k gold :)

So don't give up if you really want it

Good Luck!

Comment by Dakkar

Yea, I ran UP Heroic about 26 times trying to get that Dam Dps Trinket.And the two times that it did dropped I got out rolled on so it was just another day of running UP heroic and a full pug group, We are downing each boss with no problems and then we came up to the third boss and OMG! Mount drops.We all roll for the mount and I won it with a 100 roll.I think blizzard felt sorry for me when I coulden't get my dps trinket but this mount is worth it.

Now for those trying to get the mount the chances of it droping is like 1% and you have to run the place about 100 times to see it drop and you know it should at least drop once among that 100 times you ran that place.Now you add in 4 other people rolling against ya for that mount.Your chances to get the mount get cut down to a 20% chance to win it.The only way for anyone to guarntie you get that mount is if you run that instant 500 some times with the same people.

Comment by Amathal

Your math is wrong, that is not how probabilities work.

Comment by Moeisha

I farmed it

42 days and I got it! every day i took people to instance offering 1500g per person to pass on it and once it dropped i won. So keep it up, it cost me 6k but ill take that any day rather than seeing it drop and losing it to first timer!

Comment by flaco

well, going from 0% drop to 1,1% is a infinite increase in drop as at 1,1% it actually have a chance to drop unlike 0%

Comment by flaco

actually it isn't a fire breath but a frost breath, but still your point remains valid

edit: typos

Comment by suniki

I got it around 30 minutes ago... So amazed. This thing is a 0.8 chance drop lol.. thats 0.16 chance for everyone in ur grp every time u do UP which is once a day if u got it on farm.. So if ur lucky u can get it.. in around oo.. a year of running it constantly.. Luckily it only took me 3 weeks of doing it every other day.

Comment by condon

Actually... if you kill him under 3, 4, or 5 mins... i don't remember i think it is 3... its a 100% drop rate. So.... most of u are wrong. There is also a trick to getting it. ( at least that is what everyone with the drake says.)

Comment by suniki

Wrong. My group has downed him on multiple occasions within 3mins and faster. U just get an achievement. There just messing with u.

Comment by Divinehate

There is no Feat of Strength for getting this mount. I got it today and equiped it and no achievements was rewarded.

Comment by FreakEyy

I got mine today, been 80 for around 5 days been there four times 'cuz I want the sword. I just need to train my mount skill now :<

Comment by Lurven

Dropped after my 13th run and of course I lost the roll to a druid, a druid!..

Comment by vorton

After my fith trip i collected this item best drake in the game looks lovley

Comment by gricko

I can confirm that this mount is not "achievement-bound" as it dropped in my group( I won...wont go into personal stuff) and we did not do any achievement.This mount rocks.

Comment by taurenmoo812

In all the times I've run UP, since my main dinged 80 4 months ago, I've not seen the mount drop once, and even recently when I've been trying to do UP every day for the last 3 weeks have I not seen it.

The drop rate is very low, though parhaps not as low as riverdares mount.

The best methods to go about getting a proto drake are

- get exalted with oracles in shalozar and buy an egg from them each week (Green proto drake rare drop)
- Do glory of the hero achievement (red drake), working over time with a good group of people to get the achievements done
- Same with glory of the raider
- Camp in storm peaks for the time-lost proto drake to appear, and get him before someone else does (bronze drake)

tbh, all these methods have proven to have better results in getting a proto drake, as I've seen a few of them around, but only one person on my server with the blue drake.

Comment by Seiyuki

You only need revered to by an egg from the Oracles.

Comment by jaxsonbateman

As far as I'm aware, the dropped proto-drakes (blue and green) both have a 1% chance per loot to drop. IMO, the easiest mounts to get are:

1) Red proto-drake: some of the achievements may seem tricky, but all are doable with a skilled, decently geared group and the right strategy. If you put in the time and effort, you should have no problems getting the drake.
2) Time-lost proto-drake: generally, the mob will spawn once every 2 to 3 days. Then it all comes down to how good you are at camping and tagging. If you can tag it and stay in dps range of it, you get your mount.
3) Blue proto-drake: whilst you have the competition of other group members if it drops, you have 7 times as many chances in a year to get this as you do the green proto-drake. You can also eliminate group competition with enough gold to grease the wheels.
4) Green proto-drake: as previously mentioned, you only get 52 chances in a year to earn it. The saving grace is that there's no competition if it does drop from your egg.
5) Plagued proto-drake: this is one of the more difficult drakes to get, as it involves a fairly difficult achievement - the Twilight Zone. As such, it would be very unlikely that anyone but a serious raider will get it.
6) Black proto-drake: along the same stream of thought as the plagued, this one involves getting the hardest T7 raid achievement - the Immortal. It would be even less likely to see anyone but a serious raider get it.

So with that in mind, if you're looking for a proto-drake but don't mind what colour it is - go for the red. All it takes is a bit of skill and dedication.

Comment by yangman

I want to know whether it helps improving the drop rate If skadi is shot down in one round and killed under 3 minutes

Comment by sahar

I belive it dose not metter how many runs you do, it is half confirmed by a gm, that every 90th to 110th run of the server in UP heroic it dropes, I belive its metter of luck to fall on the right one. So basicly, you can run 200 times and you will never get it becuase you wont be on the right server run, or run it once and you will be on the right server run :)
Gl, Sahar-Darkspear Horde, Undead Rogue.

Edit: It was half confirmed by a gm saying this: "It has nothing to do with the times you did it, Sahar. Its all about the times server did it. I can't confirm more than that, I am sorry Sahar."
Next Gm said:"It's indeed have great chances of drope between 90th to 110th time Skadi dies, Sahar."

Comment by jdmkm

Proto-Drake's are awesome I love'em

Comment by jdmkm

Proto-Drakes are awesome I love'em. I who woudn't want one

Comment by Tapu

I wonder what it's @#$%^ looks like

Comment by Mnemnosyne

Or loot that's determined by how you kill things. Loot being determined when the instance spawns may or may not ever have been the case, but it's not always the case now. Certain fights dating as far back as Ahn'Qiraj give different loot depending on the order in which you kill mobs in the encounter, which clearly means the loot must be determined during the encounter.

It's valid to question whether a noticeable change, such as the achievement, can affect loot, but in my experience this is not the case, with this particular drop.

Comment by fastdak25

Dropped today for my group on Arthas, was about the 10th time i have run the instance total. been running it everyday now for about a week trying to get mount. Lost roll so will keep running still =(

Comment by MJMPsycho

This is bigger than normal fast speed mount, I just noticed that it's impossible to fly inside the ship in icecrown (From top deck) but with normal very fast mount bought from vendor it is easy to fly in.
I recommend using normal mount since it's smaller and can get into places easier, for naxxramas for example.

Comment by KainDarkfire

Save that trash for Thottbot, the wow forums, or Trade channel.

/fix'd

Comment by Shadowtion

This pretty much has the same drop rate as of all rare-drop mounts in 3.0.3.

But I suppose this would be a tad harder to get compared to Deathcharger's Reins for example, since you only get 1 shot a day, and if you're a pugger, you might actually get a fail group that can't even get there.. Like me *cough*.

Seen the mount drop once in 12 kills. Hunter loaded in blues, that didn't even have 300 riding won it. Rather lame, but well.

Comment by Airquotes

i saw in the sceenshots the dragon standing, how would you do that?

Comment by Jushak

Call it a twist of fate but this mount dropped on the first ever UP run I did on my warrior alt for the tank sword there, after I had given up on this mount on my main.

Now it might be just the animation, but the mount "feels" like it's faster than the other epic flyers - and seeing as I'm collecting mounts on my main I've tried many of them. I'm quite sure it's supposed to be 280% speed like the rest of them - something another guildie who has it keeps telling me - but still I wonder...

Another thing I found odd is that the icon is that of red proto drake. Searching wowhead shows that all proto-drakes have the same icon, which is shame really.

Finally, good luck to everybody farming for this beauty ^^

Comment by shiverina

++++++++++++++++++
By ninkosen on 01/17/2009 (Patch 3.0.3)
the loot of any boss is defined when the instance is created, not when you loot or kill it
so when you put the first foot in the instance, it's already set if there gonna be the mount on your run
+++++++++++++++

Post your credible Blizzard source. No one here is interested in your noob speculation.

Comment by Sandalf

In my opinion Blizzard failes on those rare drop mounts... U can go 10-20 runs and never see it drop. Then u go there , it drops and some noob that just hit 80 wins it...

Where is fun there? its based on luck too much... Its too impossible to get.. Same with green protodrake from egg...

Blizzard should make it more obtainable... and drop should be 100% when done with both achievements on skadi, thats my point :P

Comment by TopCat

I was lucky when i was in UP FOR THE FIRST TIME on my Death Knight... I got it first time it dropped!

Sometimes you get lucky! ;D

Keep trying! ;D

Good luck ;D

Comment by Tulcas

Me and girlfriend running through with randoms, mount drops, she wins. ><

She opened a GM ticket and gave it to me, and now i have to be extra nice to her..

Still, woot mount :) best lookin flyer in game save for maybe mimirons head.

Comment by rappydoo21

14 Apr 2009. Pugged H UP and Proto Drake dropped after killing Skadi. Huntard won the roll.
15 Apr 2009. Did H UP w/ some guildies. Dropped again and I won w/ an 85 roll ^-^.
I've never heard of this mount dropping twice in a row, but Im a happy panda.

Comment by Ghostyamine

I've seen this mount drop TWICE on two different toons. I was lucky enough to get it on one of them. What's interesting is that we wiped once before we downed him BOTH times.

Comment by Dinkyy

All you people that have seen this drop multiple times are trying too hard to find a reason

"okay if u wipe 3 times while avoiding fire whileeating a banana on the toilet, it drops!1!"
No, you're just lucky.

"k but wat if u kill him in 3 minutes and 21 seconds? Ive seen it drop 2 times and we did that both times! it"
No, you're just lucky.

Also, to see the idle animation easier, just fly to the floor and do /mountspecial

Comment by yagami

I'm playing as rogue at US Dentarg - Ally.

just FYI, first time i run heroic when i hit 80 is H UP, my PUG group wiped on this boss because i didn't know the fight (i didn't pick up harpoon as told so, i got panicked!), then we fight again and its drop. And i win the roll, the bad news is at that time i can't use that :( (didn't have 5kG for training)

and yes.. this is just another noob's "its drop on X attempt and I win the roll" comment :)

Comment by Mobbe

But its an extremly rare mob to find. its like 1-2 each day or less.

Comment by Dinkyy

See above: luck, RNG

Comment by Kaezen

While helping my prot warrior friend farm the tanking sword, I had the chance to see this mount drop 3 or 4 times. My statistics on the armory claim I have only done Utgarde Pinnacle 11 times lol... So just hang in there!
Both me and my friend managed to win the mount, yet we still have never seen the tank sword drop =S

Comment by achido

I was one of the very lucky ones, it dropped on my very first hc ever and i won it.

p.s. still dont have the skill to ride it though(the party was @#$%ed at that lol)

Comment by supabilly29

how much drop chance is it?

i got it on my first H UP run and i dont hafe my riding skill my group got mad at me that i won it.
so whe downed skadi the guys sa it dropped and the tank got amazed and then when i won it he was %^&*ed, becuase i em kinda nooby.

PS. when whe killed last boss he dropped a hunter item and not the sword he wanted and the hunter item was a upgrade for me so i asked can i roll on it and he sed NO and the healer sed just roll on noob

Comment by Flamelz

As of 3.9 it's gained a /mountspecial that allows it to stand up and roar.

Comment by Phalange

A 1% drop does not mean you will only see it once in 100 runs. It means you are guaranteed to see it ATLEAST once in 100 runs. It could drop 100 times out of the 100 runs but it would still be 1% drop rate.

The 1% is not an indication of how much it drops, just and indication of how likely it is to drop. It is very very very unlikely to drop, but it's not impossible to drop if it's already dropped once.

Comment by irelance

Your sir, fail at probability.

When you flip a coin, it has a 50% chance of landing heads up.

That doesn't mean that a heads is guaranteed in two flips. In fact, there's a 25% chance that there will be no heads.

To find the chance of this dropping after 100 tries is (1-(.99^100))*100%, or 63.3967659%

Comment by irelance

Comment by Lucid

It means you are guaranteed to see it ATLEAST once in 100 runs.

This is incorrect; See Sarasvati's post a few above this.

If an item has anything less than a 100% drop chance, there is absolutely no guarantee it will drop, regardless of your actions before or at the time of the loot.

See : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_fallacy a.k.a. Gambler's Fallacy.

However you are very correct that drop rates really mean: "how likely it is to drop".

Comment by Hiccupz24

I've been doing H UP for a while trying to get this mount but no such luck yet. I wonder if you have to beat Skadi without dying in order for it to drop? I made a simulator to try and see what my chances would be of getting this while competing with five other people...they're not very good. But you can play around with the simulator at http://wowdropsim.com.

Comment by Borathis

I died to Skadi's Whirlwind attack, then won the roll on a random PuG run. So a party-member death does not seem affect the drop rate.

I love this mount and feel very fortunate to have acquired it without farming for it :)

Comment by shaloom

I was very lucky I got this yesterday the first an only time I completed this instance. It is grate, I nearly fell off my seat when I got this mount. Its worth the effort guys.

Comment by Kazmaki

Holy crap this dropped for me and my group and i rolled the highest but then the rougue who had dided like 7 times and iddent even had riding skill got it :/He rolled higher then me.....^&*!.....We talked bout this mount wyhen we entered the instance lol and then it dropped...

Comment by Kazmaki

Holy crap this dropped for me and my group and i rolled the highest but then the rougue who had died like 7 times and dident even had riding skill got it :/He rolled higher then me.....!@#$.....We talked about this mount when we entered the instance lol and then it dropped...And also because im !@#$ed of on the rouge he dident have any trinkets :- but i still have a green proto-drake so maybe i shouldent $%^&* about it :)

Comment by Feastypoop

Sick of tards and scrubs who dont have epic flying. I 3 manned this boss and a scrub doing 1k dps got it, oh yeah he didnt have epic flying anddd after he won it he asked me for 3k for epic flying ARGH!

Comment by Kevvyfbaby

This is a message to everybody.

Don't get discouraged if you don't get a Blue Proto Drake on your first couple runs threw Heroic Utgarde Pinnacle. It does take a while due to the fact it's based on pure luck. I just recently got mine today after running it several times. When I received it after I beat the other four people rolling against me, I was overjoyed and in my opinion I really believe it was worth the time and effort. Just don't get discouraged and give up guys if it doesn't drop or somebody else wins it if it drops. It's one awesome mount!

Trenton - Skullcrusher US

Comment by INvShika

For the record, the drop % on these rare mounts isn't additive.... it's multiplicative

You have a 1% chance to see this drop every time you kill Skadi. You will NEVER have a 100% chance to see it drop. If you run H UP 100 times, you have a 63.3967659% chance to have seen it once, not a 63.3967659% chance to see it drop on the 100th run. l2statistics

Comment by thebitterfig

It is interesting (but not really important) to note that the 63.4% chance of it dropping at at least once, and it doesn't rule out the possibility of it having dropped more than once in that time. There is a 37.0% chance of it dropping exactly once in 100 runs, to which we add the 18.5% chance that it'd drop exactly twice in 100 runs, plus... and so on, up to the almost infinitesimal chance that it'd drop 100 times in 100 runs. Or we can use a trick, and subtract the chance that it doesn't drop at all (36.6%) from 1.

Comment by Thebombio

So I finally got my Blue Proto-Drake today, about 20 minutes ago and I'm already in love with it! I love the colour and have wanted it ever since I saw someone on it back at the start of the year!

I tried to do H UP everyday but sometimes couldn't due to other things getting in the way but I got a decent amount of runs done. I'd say maybe 20-30, which is quite low if you think about it.

The funny thing about this run is that I had 3 negative people bashing me, two of which were my guildies. One was the tank on the run, he came just for fun and said: "It's not going to drop." which was a funny thing to mock him about after we looted. The second was someone who didn't want to come claiming, "If it does drop you won't win it. :)" Which was also funny. The third and final person was a random person who saw my LFM ad in trade chat and said "You mean the mount with a 1% drop rate? GL..." :)

Keep farming, it WILL drop eventually.

Comment by Vihor

It dropped on my very first run, we 4 manned the boss,everyone rolled need except me who greeded (by missreading what to do)...

what a noob i am...

Comment by Khent

We run this on a daily basis to have a chance for drop.
The drop rate is normal as a rare drop.

07/30/09 - Drake dropped.
07/31/09 - Drake dropped again , guess we were lucky.

2days back to back :).

Comment by Ishtar

Unconfirmed reports that the drop rate has slightly increased with 3.2. The stats on wowhead say 1.1% but i am unsure if that changed recently.

Comment by thenumber1sill

is this 280% or 310%?

Comment by Posearn

I can confirm this, dropped for me 2 days in a row also.

8th august - dropped
9th august - dropped

-Posearn

Comment by mikec789

280%, just got this mount today it looks awesome.

Comment by sasexw

Hey i have seen many comments terribly mistaken on this item and many other rights, i will try to simplify it as much as i can with my poor english.
1% chance doesn't mean that it will guaranteed drop once in a hundred times.
It does mean that every time you kill this boss , you have only one percent chance of dropping this item.
Some people have luck, that does mean it might drop on first kill.But sometimes you might kill it 100, 200 or 300 and not have this mount dropped, chances are strange so keep farming if you like it so much.

Comment by Lunii

Question - If you have already won and learned this mount, is it possible to win again? I've heard of this, but never seen it confirmed.

Comment by HolyCrusader2011

Yup, yup. I would rather have the Time-Lost Proto Drake or the Green Proto Drake but I'm happy with this guy. It dropped twice for me in one week, but a day a few days a part.

8/9/09 - Dropped - Won the Roll with a 80 something
8/11/09 - Dropped - Guildie Won it

Even though I like the other two proto drakes I mentioned above better and I'm still aiming for them, I have to say that I love the uniqueness of this one, as all other proto drakes have black/brown going up their heads and down their backs with some color, minus the rusted/iron bounded proto drakes, and this one is pretty much has all shades of blue all around, like the mobs that you can kill.

Comment by DwarfsPwn

This just dropped for my group about 40 minutes ago.. tank won it :X

Comment by radgh

People should really stop trying to explain probability for the drop. It's a 1% chance per run, simple as that. No matter how much math you do to see how likely it will drop in 100 runs, it's still chance. You can't put numbers on chance.

Comment by kmaeh

Odd thing happened today with this but probably just a weird coincidence. While fighting Skadi the warning came up that he was doing his breath but the actual action never happened. This happened on each pass by (he never actually did the breath). A guy running with us who already has the mount said that the same thing happened when his dropped.

Must have been some weird glitch and coincidence because the mount dropped and it was the first time I had seen it. Just wanted to comment on that XD

Comment by Spectacular66

This is like the next Baron Deathcharger mount. If you're a person that likes to collect mounts, then you'll never get it because it'll never drop. It's dropped before during a guild run for me out of pure surprise, but my then-guild leader won with a lucky roll with me at a close second... Looks great. Wish I could have a mount that not everyone can have!

Comment by Firkash

Realm: Illidan
Dropped 8-27-09

Utgarde Pinnacle Runs: 43

It was my first time actually seeing it drop. And i won it. CHEA!

Comment by lazygirl4996

Here you go.

http://db.mmo-champion.com/a/4404/

Comment by Spiku

I have never spent a penny on any optional mounts since vanilla WoW, as I never thought of mounts being a good reason to spend thousands of gold on. Though when running around Dalaran I would see people with the Black Proto-Drake I would say to myself "Damn, that IS one cool ass dragon mount" and kinda be inspired to try to get a proto-drake one day.

Then low and behold...

I go to UP to do my daily quest with a random group, and this mount drops! Never have I seen it drop after countless runs of UP. After five rolls go down the screen... I am the lucky winner.

To conclude, this IS one bad ass mount, for the fact that now in Dalaran I see more Black Proto-Drakes than this one.

US Blackrock
80 NE Rogue
Soljah

Comment by Ishtar

Bought this after 28th kill. I paid the winner of the roll TONS of gold for this. Worth every cent IMO.

Comment by calwez

Yesterday I did both the ach. and the proto droped, it`s likely it drops easyer when doing the ach.

Comment by Jhumanji

I don't know where you got that information , calwez , but I've done this run over 200 times and did the achievements at least 10 times and it didn't drop on all those tries. You've just been lucky , I got it on my 150th+ run ... and it dropped a second time right after I got it next day I went. There's no such thing as increase droprate on items by doing achievement. So you'd be better off getting that nonsense out of your head. I'm a player who got 110 mounts , farmed stuff for months in a row , Insane achievement , 7000+ achievement points and I can assure you, what you're saying is a load of horse puckey.

Comment by Magikarp

All that, and you still fail to grasp English.

Comment by Dotdotgooose

Just because it drops for you on a first run doesnt mean the drop rate is higher. Yes, something dropping on the first run could be a 100% drop rate, it could also be a 0.000000000000000000000000000000001% drop rate. Achievements, speed of the kill, none of this will effect it. It will always be a 1% drop rate.

Oh, and a 1% drop rate doesnt mean you get it in 100 runs. it means every time you flip a 100 sided coin. If you flip a coin twice you are not guaranteed to get heads and tails because the coin does not have any sort of memory.

Comment by Sofiah

This mount dropped for me today, i got outrolled by 6 points. I still cry

Comment by corinth

My second run on my Shaman of H-UP this dropped, I got out rolled so after the instance I offered to buy it from the winner worth every copper I paid imo.

Comment by WhackCheese

I just got this today, didn't expect it ever.

Comment by Krylsia

I think it might be better to have it drop on your 100th or greater run. That way, all the gold you made running UP 100+ times can help you pay for Epic Flying.

Comment by Fatalfart

btw just droped we did the one-shoot + 3 mins and it droped lol

Comment by Sharpless

This is easily my favourite proto drake out of the ones currently available. It just looks magnificent, and I cannot believe my luck that i managed to win one! =)

Comment by casedistorted

in reponse to Sofiah I almost cried...I had been running heroic up almost everyday which I had been playing WoW because I wanted that blue proto drake more than any of the other ones (probably because of all the time spent in Storm Peaks seeing those blue frost wyrm/proto drakes flying around while I was camping my Time-Lost Proto-Drake ) and since hitting level 80 I have had about 44 days played at that level. So lets just guesstimate say probably 50 times running heroic UP since hitting lvl 80 and on my 50th try abouts I was saying to my guildies running the heroic daily with me "hey wouldn't it be nice if skadi finally freakin' dropped that proto-drake..I've never ever seen the thing before" to which 2 of my guildmates replied "neither have I". Of course lo and behold a normal piece of loot dropped and the Reins of the Blue Proto-Drake...a guildy and I both rolled a 90 and the one guy who didn't have epic flying in my guild who just decided to tag along rolled a 93 and outbid me...you could imagine my fury. You have no idea how glad I am though that they have added the whole trading soulbound loot items because I was able to talk him into trading it to me for 1k gold fronted, and another 4k to help him buy his epic flying which he currently does not have :O This was a few days ago and I am only about 2500g left from paying off my debt! Way worth it imo for something so rare and so awesome looking, just seems so much prettier in that shade of blue than any of the other proto-drakes...but the violet one is very nice looking too. Now I have the blue and time lost ones and both of them have blue mouths -.-

Comment by Saerwen

Cool story, bro.

Comment by KlitCMDR69

I've done the achievement several times and it just randomly dropped for me last week. I don't think it has anything to do with the achievement.

Comment by Lolsausage

I farmed this HC like f**k to get this mount. I was gutted that I lost a drop to a friend, and then again to my guild leader. However after the patch it became tradeable to anyone in the group, so he gave it to me :p Which was really nice of him :) I was chuffed after that, as I wanted one so badly xD but it did take a long time. It dropped from Skadi just before the server closed down for maintinence. A friend told me that the drop chance increases slightly at night, but i'm not sure whether this is just a rumor or not. Good Luck :D

Comment by Azeraphael

Got it from the 2nd run and won it with a fair need roll :) I suppose they have increased the drop rate since so many people are getting those. They are pretty common in ToC areas tbh...

Comment by lagvanas

Got this today :D whoo:P

Comment by TengaRyu

you guys are going about this the wrong way a 1% chance does not guarantee that you'll see this mount at least once per 100 runs

the chance that you'll see this mount drop is 1% no matter how many times you run it you could run this instance once a day for the whole year and each run will still be a 1% chance of seeing it

So there's no guarantee that you'll see this mount out of 100 runs or even 459 runs it's all a matter of how the game plays out your odds will never get better so all you can do is keep running this instance and hope that your roll is higher then everybody elses or carry a bunch of cash to payoff the person who did out roll you when the proto-drake does drop

You all phail at math btw

Comment by Xhougnaamn

To calculate the probability (p) of an item with x chance of dropping to drop over n number of attempts, plug your numbers into this equation:
p = 1-((1-x)^n)
To calculate your probability of seeing this item (which has a 1% chance of dropping according to Wowhead) drop over 365 attempts (every day for a regular year), turn 1% into a decimal, .01, then:
p = 1-((1-.01)^365) ≈ .974

So your probability of seeing this item drop in 365 attempts is roughly 97.4%, which is very good.
However, in a normal group of 5 participants, assuming all roll on the mount, you actually have a 20% chance of obtaining this item every time you see it drop. Due to this, you must also factor in the number of people in your party (represented by a):
p = 1-((1-x/a)^n)
p = 1-((1-.01/5)^365) ≈ .518, i.e. your chance of actually attaining this item under these conditions within a year would be 51.8%.

In a regular 5-man group, it would require 347 attempts just for the odds to be on your side (over 50%), and 1833 attempts to have an greater or equal chance compared to if you were to solo the instance for an entire year (approximately 97.4%). Your best bet would be to either wait for the level cap to be raised so that you can super-humanly solo this instance, or offer a significant amount of gold to the person who wins the roll on this mount. I prefer the second option.

Please remember that just because you are on your 365th attempt does not mean the chance that you will see the mount drop on that attempt is 97.4%. This is the probability that it will drop in a number of attempts, not for any individual attempt. The chance for this to drop for each individual attempt will always be, for as long as Blizzard does not change the drop rate, 1%.

In addition to all of this, for comparison purposes, the approximate chance that you will be able to attain Reins of the Green Proto-Drake within a year at maximum effort is 65%.

Edit(s) - 02/05/2010: Made changes in my math to accommodate the change in drop rate on this item; Fixed a couple mistakes/typos.
Edit - 01/11/2011: Not sure how this has gotten almost half as many down-ratings as up-ratings. I thought a simple formula would be pretty useful information, but maybe not. It's completely accurate mathematics.

Comment by Joey474

My last sybscription expired in February and I didn't play wow till November and a couple days ago i went to up hc and and the drake dropped from Skadi.2 bad i wasn't that lucky on the roll.then tomorow i went to up again and skadi dropped the drake again!i didn't get him on the roll but then i thought that blizz put the drake to drop every time when u kill skadi in the past patches so i wasn't that mad,but the next time i saw that it didn't drop and the grp member sayed that it's very rare to drop and i was disapointed.2 rare things happend so quickly and i didn't get them.now i'm going every day in up lol :) i hope this might give u some inspiring to go to up and try ur luck.this should be i think the easiest way to get a proto drake

Comment by Saan

The only problem with the theory that it will drop 100% over an amount of runs is that it can't be true because the drop rate does not increase each run. That would be nice, but it's simply not the case. The drop rate is specific, so once you run it, than the next day run it again, it's the same chance it was the previous time. The loot choice is automatically reset, so it's completely random. And no the achievement does NOT increase the chance that it will drop.

Comment by mjhmia

I won this the other day and I traded it to another party member for 1500g. Because gemming my alt to kick more ass > a vanity item

Comment by Peppitto

Yeah! I got mine blue-proto! ^_^ I thought that I would never see it drop. but I did and I got. haha.

Comment by sluguts

I had this drop and won it yesterday afternoon. In a strange twist, we had lost 2 dps just prior and so we 3 manned the whole fight for skadi the ruthless. I wonder if using less people increases drop chance?

Comment by palihaszysz

Just won the roll for this drake on my 2nd visit in UP ever. I guess i am extremely one lucky bastard.

Comment by amiga2091

My son was playing my Death Knight the other night and was doing Utgarde Pinnacle. It dropped and he won the roll! :)

Comment by Hoofrage

well after farming this since i dinged lvl 80 today the mount finally dropped. ofc we all need rolled it and when i saw i rolled 80 and 2 people below me rolled 17 and 52 i was thrilled...then the pally rolled (man i hate him right now) and guess what. he rolled 81. he even wouldn't give it to me for 1000g. as i said i went to this instance almost every day since i dinged lvl 80. that was about 3 months ago if i remeber correctly and it dropped only once

Comment by sivlah

Got this bad boy last night. Pally immediately slammed a trade window in my face with an offer of 8000g - "Not for sale, sorry". Looks cool with the fire breathing.

Comment by active9x

This mount finally dropped for me last night. I ran this instance over 300+ times in my wow lifetime with 2 different toons and never seen it till last night. The chance of getting it also slims more when 5 people are needing it. It may drop 1% of the time but that 1% get divided by 5 when you have a group. haha All four ppl kinda hated me after I won it. The time from that boss to the last was pretty ackward lol.

Comment by flarez86

I never see him before this week and i have see it drop 2 times in a week 1 time i loose it for 5 rolls but today i win it with 99 roll very lucky :)

Comment by Hoofner

I saw it drop on my 10th UP HC run, and I won it.
Got to say that this is one of the coolest flying mounts ingame :)
Love it!

Comment by Raulnor

I was very lucky to get this at the same time I got both achievements from Skadi, it is a very nice mount, and I get a few comments on it when people see it.

Comment by Eioth

Either I've had extreme luck with this mount, or they did actually up the dropchance in 3.3.
In my 6 last runs on my paladin tank it has dropped 4 times (too bad I fail at rolling), and in one out of two runs on my rogue. Thats 5 times in 8 runs, and seeing I've run this instance on heroic probably about 100-150 times over my various 80s prior to the new LFG-system and never ever seen it, I would assume something has changed.

...or I've just had insane 'luck'. It's a very good looking mount nonetheless, only beaten by the Plagued imo, which is no longer obtainable.

Comment by option843

you're just extremely lucky. ive ran this everyday since 3.3 came out on 3 differnt toons, and I have yet seen it drop once. I have run this insance atleast 200 times and ive never seen it.

Comment by thekeeper

Just got one on my druid we all needed i came out on top then the group disbanded insulting me cause i dont need mounts, because i have flight form :s

hell first time i seen it drop and that are alot of UP runs i have done

Comment by AsciiAficionado

I just got mine today - Jan 2nd. This is the second time I've seen it drop and the first was last week but I was on an alt, this time I got some friends together that agreed to pass and I let them bring in fresh 80's for badges and it actually dropped and I had to shake my head and look at the screen again to believe that it actually dropped.

And of course the first time it dropped the DK that couldn't break 900 DPS and didn't even know what speed the mount was nor did he have epic flying won the mount.

Avoid the cross server/LFG tool if you're trying to farm this mount, if someone from another server wins it they can't trade/sell it to you.

You can easily 3-4man this with a decent healer and a good tank, so don't keep thinking you have to find 4 other people willing to pass, It's good to have friends willing to help and that will pass if you ever happen to see it, and if it doesn't drop you still get badges so I always had people willing to go.

I now have 104 mounts, and 4 Proto-Drakes, Red, Blue, Green and TIme-Lost Proto-Drake !

For fellow mount collectors here's a list of all my mounts www.warcraftmounts.com/user/collection.php?id=12792, I use warcraftmounts.com since I don't have to create a new link every time I add a new mount like I would on wowcollect.com, I use both sites though but I'd rather not update the post on here every time.

I'm still farming ZG, Sethekk, Kara. 4 years and I have yet to see a single ZG mount drop.

- Lufy - Haomarush

Comment by Jak13

FYI: ! was in a Oculus run 2 nights ago and it dropped out of a (green/uncommon) bag of gems from Eregos's chest for my guildie! and yes i was totally amazed as I also farm UP daily for the mount, I'm not sure if blizz up'd the chances for it in 3.3 or what but I'll post a SS link soon...

Comment by Avalionis

I managed to snag this drop after I dunno how many runs...but if I had to guess...I'd say 2. Seems kinda odd that with a drop rate of 0.6% I get it in 2 runs, yet Rivendare's Deathcharger has a drop rate of 1% and I've yet to see it drop in the last 8 runs. :P

Comment by Bareno

On my 13th run I finally got this baby... very happy, first time seeing it drop also, was hella surprised that I won the roll.

Comment by Reaf

This dropped for my group a few days ago and I was lucky enough to win the roll!

I was immediately whispered by someone offering 10,000g. I declined and now have a mount that is uber and people always comment on it ;o)

You can always make 10,000g but you may never see this mount drop ever again.

good times!

Comment by Illumenati

Did random Occ the other day for my Expert Drake Raider and got the Reins of the Blue, the next day (today) I ran UP for all 3 achieves and rolled and won on this first run through! Someone crunch the numbers on THAT! Still 1kg away from epic flying too haha

Comment by Maddroxx

theres one small detail that i havent seen mentioned. at is you still have to Win the Roll. Even if it drops you only have a 20% chance to win the roll. so if you take that into effect and factor in the drop percentage rate, a single persons odds of getting the moubnt to drop and win is like .020% at best.

Comment by Braingasim

Can you only get this if you use the random finder or can you select specific? I know in Oculus, you have to use the Random finder for a chance at the drake.

Comment by Joemeatballs

You people and your drop-rate formulas are killing me. Save yourself the headache and just know that this is a very rare drop. If you get it, great, if not, its to be expected anyways.

Comment by mariospao

it is 1 of the best epic flying mounts.

Comment by Fatalchicken

The drop rate listed (1%) is for all normal runs and heroic runs combined. Since this mount drops only in heroic, the drop rate is actually higher.

Comment by Chaga

Anyone noticing an increased drop rate lately?
After spending maybe 6 months without ever hearing of anybody getting the drake on my server, we suddenly got 3 guildies (including me) see it drop, and win it in 1 week.

Comment by Akaforty

It just dropped for us in random and some 1300 DPS DK won it :( Darn those randoms!
Great looking mount.

Comment by Tyja

Could be a coincidence but have seen this drop twice in the past week. Both times while getting doing it under the achievement time. Now that he only takes 3 shots to get down maybe more can speak to drop rate when getting achievement.

Comment by Styttso

Dropped first time =D (dropped 2 weeks after WotLK released just havnt posted ^^)

Comment by Skornaq

Come now! we all know the only way to get this set of reins, is to strike Skadi in the chest with a harpoon, hope he falls off, let Grauf come down and allow him to choose his own master.

Comment by mookman

got me mine an hour or so ago.. never even knew of it till it dropped. random dungeon all pug and i won .. wooohooo 10-20th time in there dunno exactly

Comment by Pofus

I have seen the reins drop twice this week. Two guildies have seen it in the past week as well. Probably a truly weird coincidence, but maybe the drop rate was increased by quite a bit. If that were the case, I'm sure we would have had confirmation by now.

EDIT: Since I posted my comment, I have not seen the reins drop again. I've approached the fight many different ways and nothing. So rest assured, it was a coincidence and nothing more.

Comment by drbiggblunts

Just got mine about 5 minutes ago. All 5 of us rolled and I rolled a 98! Where are these rolls in ICC 25m? I'd like to know!
Beautiful looking mount, a nice addition to the collection of Proto's. It drops when its past 3pm and the sun is covering the mountain in the background, look for the murloc %^&*ing in the wind on top of it....then your mount will drop :P

Comment by megastealth

i was just upgearing my rogue and i got very lucky i saw this sweet mount drop and won the roll and in my next dungeon (heroic: CoS) i even won the bronze drake ^^. (now i just need to get money for the epic flying skill :S)

Comment by Risby

I've done the instance two times with my new character, one yesterday and one today. It dropped both times, first time we didn't get the speedkill but the second time we did. I rolled 93 now, and just lost it again.

Comment by Johnnyp

Im curious do anyone succesful farmed it solo ? I mean class which are able to do that. I have started today and going to farm it until it will drop.

Comment by iSocom

i got the drop last night, about the 6th time i've ever ran that dun. 3 ppl rolled, luck went my way for a change! :)

Comment by IbFeeshin

@ Johnnyp, I try to solo it on my lock every now and then and a well geared pally or deathknight should be able to with ease.

Comment by Rensje

I've been spending weeks with my guildies running random heroics and trying to get all the achievements for Glory of the Hero done. I really wanted that Red Proto-Drake so bad.

I was down to one achievement yesterday and we had already failed it once, so now we were doing more randoms in hopes of getting into Gundrak again so we could try it once more. One of the instances we ran was Utgarde Pinnacle and sure enough, this mount dropped and by a stroke of extreme luck I won the roll. After months of running this instance almost every day, it finally happened when I least expected it.

This is by far one of the most awesome types of mounts you can earn in this game, regardless of its colour scheme, and this blue variant is easily one of the prettiest!

Comment by snowkiller

The drake dropped for me yesterday evening, i was screaming with caps "GIEF MOUNT!" before the pul.So it dropped and i rolled 97 and now i am on blue wings and sh1t

Comment by Chodgra

Dropped for me. Won with a 95 roll....didnt even have fast flying at the time!

was riding it 2 days later!

Comment by Rohitv

First time in awhile I been lucky. I was leveling my druid and decided to log on my pally before the random reset, got in right before this boss and it dropped. I was excited and I won the roll. At first I did not realize it was a proto I thought it was just a blue drake like from oculus/malygos. Anyway really liking this mount and for everyone whos farming it just remember things happen when you least expect them :P

Comment by stevindir

My girlfriends swears that everyone has to live through the fight with Skadi for the drop to have any chance at occurring. While I don't give the idea any merit, I was wondering if anyone else has an opinion concerning this hypothesis.

Comment by NeroRain

Didn't see this posted, but found out today that you can skip the first two bosses (Svala Sorrowgrave & Gortok Palehoof) if you just want to do a quick Skadi run. Just have to blast through some of the trash before you get to him.

Comment by SniperReady

Party member found this in the loot bag out of The Oculus.

Comment by Aestu

Skadi is easily soloable by a protection paladin; I did it in full T8.5. In T10 it's a breeze.
Blue proto drake dropped for me on a solo!

Keep Shadow Resist aura up as it is the Witch Doctors which do the most damage. Freedom out of the nets thrown by the Harpooners. Shield Wall and Holy Wrath if many adds are up.

Comment by Chromell

Today (04/13/2010) I, Chromell of Llane server will have my 100th kill on Skadi to see (or not) the drake drop. With 1% chance there is no telling how many tries it will take for something to drop, the only way to find out is to keep doing it. Until then, I state: the drake is a lie.

- edit -

It dropped today on my 104th run and I'm quite disappointed for I didn't win T_T

Comment by mofolis

2nd run on my new lvl 80 warlock and the bloody thing dropped, i was gonna pass as i didnt have the riding skill but i thought sod it why not, all needed and i won which made me go and buy the riding skill but since then all i get is /w saying omfg your so lucky with that blue drake.

I'm very happy today :-)

Comment by Munkbob

0/68. Never seen it drop at all. I've been 2 manning it lately with a prot pally (I'm a huntard) Hopefully I see it soon! Really sucks that you can't buy it in randoms, because I'd offer 5k for it... if I could trade gold cross servers...

Comment by Arpa

JUST DROPPED FOR ME :D. It was the first time I've done this one heroic, and boom it dropped. I rolled need like everyone else and won with a 14.... Then I got booted. I was like WTF? Then I looked to my bag and saw I got it!

Comment by tiprun

I have seen this drop twice in two days, won it once and my friend won it the second time around.

Made me wonder if the drop chance has been increased or anything, going to run it tomorrow and see what happens.

EDIT: I have ran it another six times and nothing, so I'm guessing it was just a pure stroke of luck.

Comment by stabbylunch

I have run this a bazillion times on my warrior and never seen it drop, first run on my fresh lock and it drops (to be won by some scrub pally). Also with the 3 min achievement. God, it is so beautiful and I am so sad right now.

Comment by Asiva

I got this Mount on my Second run so was extremely, extremely lucky there !

Especially as three party members rolled a need for it.

Comment by diinale

i got it with the achievement hell for all i know it could but my guess is its a coincidence but it is cool

Comment by greywolfsage

Blue's my favorite color so I've been running this place to death, I'd be happy to at least say that I've seen it drop...
No such luck.

And to rub salt in the wound I see a LOT of Alliance flyin' around on it.... >.<

Lok'Tar O'gar!

Comment by Shercko

I have seen this drop 2 times in my time, 2nd time was 3 days ago when I actually won it. All I can say is this: The only bad thing about this mount is seeing someone else with it!

Comment by Quafrinhage

Since this mount was available well before the new Dungeon system was added, is it safe to say that it will still have a chance of dropping when using "Specific Dungeon" to enter UP?

Comment by Johnnyp

http://yfrog.com/jnwowscrnshot060510192320j

succesfully farmed it . Took me about two months ? Maybe more of solo runs 10-15 minutes.

Comment by Oshiri

Dropped for me on my 8th run of Pinnacle. Was just doing the daily with my friends. Rolled 98 on the drake. I was on skype with my friends too so I could hear their reaction. Priceless.

Comment by AMCope

I got this from a Cache in the Oculus (Heroic)

http://i404.photobucket.com/albums/pp122/amcope85/World%20of%20Warcraft/WoWScrnShot_060810_225049.jpg

Comment by stanbrook

got 2 of these on my 2 mains :D was well happy wen i got the 2nd

Comment by Chlorure

Lost this mount 8 times in around 25 runs. Some of you will think that im "OMG SUPER LUCKY" to acutally have seen it that much but quite frankly, I would have prefer not seeing it that much.

The last I saw got looted to someone that already had learned it (so he needed on it), and deleted it in our face because "If you are not going to pay me 20kg for it, too bad scrubs".

Blizzard needs to fix this. You shouldnt be able to need on something you already have learned

Comment by coolsmoe

Not true, if you have learned the mount you'll automatically pass. Try it on a strat time run, if you have learned the bronze drake, you can't roll on it again.

Comment by doomlove

Many of these maths would be true, if the drop chance was stated to 1%.

But in this case, wowhead has calculated drop chance to be around 1% because of the statistics.

Proto-Drake dropped 1262 times out of 99436 kills. So it has droppet about once for every 100 runs.

If statistics hold, it will drop once for every 100 run, as some people guessed.

Blizzard could have set the drop chance to 0.5% or 2% or 99%, just if so, most people have been extremely unlucky!

Anyway, this statistic could be that 98174 groups have killed this guy with no luck, and then the last 1262 groups in a row, saw it drop.

Point is, drop chance of the Proto-Drake could be allmost any %. But statistics say that if you kill this guy 100 times, and no others on your server does, in between. You will see it drop once. Statistics are often right...

Comment by Mazovoid

Realistically, you have a .2% chance to obtain the mount. 1% chance to see it drop/5 players in the dungeon (assuming they are going to roll on it).

It should also be known that this mount drops in addition to Skadi's normal loot.

Comment by BethofHearts

Winning the roll for this mount is sweet, until you realize you dont have the money to learn how to fly it :(

Comment by Yata

So, what's Blizzard's problem with making this 310% speed? Did they just think a really rare mount like this doesn't deserve 310% speed, or were they just being retarded that day?

I really have no reason to learn Epic Flying, even though I have this. Not 310%, not worth it.

Comment by icedragon32

has anyone seen it drop by skipping the first 2 bosses?

what im asking would it make a difference if we kill the first 2 bosses or not.

Comment by KrazeyKami

When running this instance on my own account, never saw it drop, like most of you.

When taking my GF's char through the instance for the first time, it dropped on 1st kill.. I kinda figured she wouldn't win it anyway and wadda ya know... rolled a 100 -_-

Nowadays i'm trying to avoid bossfights / encounters on her account that can drop something as nice as this ^^

Comment by Kraggosh

I just got this from Skadi the Ruthless (Heroic Mode). It dropped without any of us getting either achievements.

Have fun grinding. XD

Comment by clovis6780

This man has a 99% chance that he knows what he's talking about.

/roll
100

fail.

Comment by Comipicaso

zefinnar whats that town behind you?

Comment by Ixidordreamer

I've seen this mount drop 5 times in total on my 2 80's. Twice on my DK in the past. Then on my newer resto shaman, ended up getting it on his first drop, much to my best friend who was in the party as well's anger.

I got this around 8/27/10, and have seen it drop twice both the day after and the day after that as well, adding to my total of 5 times. Three of which in the last week as of posting. I was worried they nerfed the drop, but I've done it a number of times since and haven't seen it drop. Must have been freak luck.

This thing is a very nice addition to any mount collection. It's the only flying mount my considerably mount lucky shaman rides when in the air. (Fiery warhorse when on ground). Good luck with your farming, guys. It drops, you just gotta have the perserverance to wait till it does.

Comment by Mambajamba

Didn't really feel like reading all the comments, but I decided to contribute.
The items that you loot off of an NPC are chosen WHEN they spawn (when the server brings those NPC's into existence in game) so that means that what you do or don't do to kill the NPC in **NO** way effect the odds of the mount dropping.

Comment by romanf1977

i farm this every day, if you have a tank its super ez, the LFG is instant, the first run is for a UP, skip 2 first bosses and straight to skadi, kill him, and drop group. this is done under 9 min. then put youself in LFG for a random, you might get lucky and get UP again, if not, drop group log off, hop on you next toon, repeat. If you have a DPS only toon, this is a problem , as the wait time is 15 minutes, which defeats the whole point of "farming" as its not fast, how ever tanks and healers are perfect for this. so far i seen the drake 3 times. still did not win it tho. by the time you cycle thru your toons, the dungeon cooldowns from quiting the randoms ware off...so you can attempt the randoms again.

Comment by Sanaka

Just got mine today, paid 5000 for it though, luckly the guy who won it was on my server.

Comment by Cellane

While I could bet this was just one of these “WTF, what an accident!” moments, I can't not to share this with you just for the very little chance it wasn't accident.

Because of little communication issues in our group, we've engaged both second (“frozen animals”) and third boss (Skadi) at the same time today, which resulted in the proto-drake to drop. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying “both bosses engaged at the same time = 100% chance for this to drop”, someone would surely noticed that already, I'm merely speculating if this might increase the drop chance. I guess we'll never know for sure, though.

Comment by Arpa

Just got this on my fifth run, and I got kicked for it. XD

Comment by illidanwbb

For gods sake it dropped a few minutes ago. Rolled 11 and the winner won it for 78... and he was a total idiot. No clue how to play WoW but he still won it. Life is a biatch.

Comment by exyon

Those tones of people with Violet Protos might be faster, but they know we have the cool mounts....

Comment by rickkimmick

Please stand in the fire...the buff is GOOD.........

Comment by Ashorttrip

I won this drop on my druid while helping players gear up in the random dungeon queue. We all entered the queue as solo parties, so don't forget that the queue gives higher/nicer drops. Well, off to fly the skies!

Comment by petejl

just got this mount, never thought i'd see it drop, let alone win the rolls.. woot! sweet lookin mount, as blue is my fav color.

Comment by icedragon32

ran UP on my mage 105 times already. still havent seen it drop once.

blizzard needs to make up the drop % more after so many runs.

Comment by Catlover74

Saw this drop just moments ago, didnt win it though. =(
But hey, least it dropped.

Comment by Nexsa

Seen this drop once. Won it too. Was very surprised, since my rolls are always under 20.

Comment by clonetek

Got this mount tonight, only the 2nd or 3rd time I've ever seen it drop.. Mount #116 for me :)

I noticed the boss said something different during the fight, and I wonder if its linked to the mount dropping?
He yelled "Mjor na uul kval"!

I dont remember him saying that before.

Comment by fidfid

it droped in my 6th random run on my alt today
came second on roll T.T
seems i have better luck with this alt. been 80 for 3 weeks, brewfeast kodo + ram, blue drake from oculus, and this one (though i didn't win)

Comment by KuniZero

After 35+ runs on my mage, it dropped.

One party member immediately rolled Need, another Greed. The party leader thankfully caught this, rolled Need, won the drake and asked everyone to reroll. I won the roll.

Can't say I noticed anything "different" from other runs. The RNG god just happened to like me today :)

Comment by q8naxxer

i hate this mount =( a few weeks ago i was talking in vent with a guildy and i was in UP random H group and its drop one of the group ( PASS ) its he said he have it already !

the roll was GG no one pass 30 ! ( my roll was 7 , the winner was 28 )

my guildy was laughing at me, the day after i specific UP for the mount with the same guildy with me on vent he said he will pay me 1k if drop and it did ! the same poor roll again this time no ont pass 50 ( my roll was 40 and the winner 41 ) =(

i sing for a random and it was UP again ! and it drop 3 time in 2 days and i loss again the winner roll 79 and my roll was 63 .. i will wait tell the 85 and solo farm it

Comment by Grimeripe

Odds are, that if you're farming it, someone not farming it will get it first! ;)

Odds are, if two people in each random group is farming it (ie queing up for the instance and not for a random) someone not farming will get it three times out ot five if it finally drops.

Like you said, odds are those not farming once it drops.

Odds of getting it at all are in favour of those running the instance more however.

Comment by CrazyGirl28

Been a lvl 80 for just over a week. Did UP heroic for the 3rd time ever today, the mount dropped and I won it =) I'm sure there are some people hating me for it lol

Comment by Funkdvoid

Been able to farm for this as a prot-pala before the patch (just did it a few times, it was boring)
The trashpacks before the room with Svala got 5 times worse after the patch, with the reworking of block.

I can´t imagine how bad the packs in the gauntlet up to Skadis harpoons will be... im not gonna
bother, might come back at 85 and see how much is possible to bypass.

Might run it the normal way with 4 other people, but since im just doing it for the mount... it feels a bit lackluster and
unmotivated to.

Comment by Dorleron

I have 8 level 80 chars, all fairly geared (Most a 5.5k gearscore or higher but a few only at 5k) and I looked at all my characters, added up how many times each of them has killed Skadi, and came to a total of 217 times I've facerolled this guy. I had never seen this mount drop.

I did it for the 218th time today, I saw it drop, rolled a 2, and lost it. This really pissed me off because according to recount I was doing 74.2% of the damage dealt, I was taking 86% of the damage dished out by the enemies, and I was doing 42% of the healing done for some unknown reason. The winner of the mount was a 192 DPS ret paladin, who was not even present for the first two bosses of the heroic.

At this point I decided that Blizzard gives me fail dungeons with the random dungeon finder, and fail dice, and ridiculously bad luck with drops, because Blizzard is pure evil. I say we stand up and rebel against Blizzard, make them run around with a bunch of people who can't wipe the drool off their face and then flaunt shinies at them that they can't have T_T

Comment by Gwain

Hi,

Could someone please clear some things up for me about this drop.

Does this drop in Normal, Heroic, or both, because the dropped by tab makes it look like it's dropped in a normal dungeon - the lack of a "(Heroic)" after Utgarde?

Can you run this many times in one day and be eligible, or only once per day?

Honestly, if Blizzard are concerned about people getting out and having a real life as well (read their tips), they should ease up on the drop rates given the number of people competing at each roll. People who are addicted to collecting things can't help it.

Comment by Gwain

Hi,

Just a couple of questions:

Is this a normal or heroic run (or both)?

Can you run it more than once a day?

G

Comment by BrNbearPWNall

Me and my friends were running heroics to save up for BOA gear for Cata.... Out of all my time playing WotLK, my friends and I have never even seen this drop once... except for last night!

They we're angry when i won it, but it didn't matter...i was walking on sunshine! :D

Comment by RedStarAce

Been farming for this since 3.0.2 when he first began to drop on my hunter. Not more then two minutes ago my Shaman who I've spent not alot of time on got it on I think officially his 10th run into the place with a roll of 78. Officially the wow gods have a sense of humor.

To those who want this thing, just keep killing the boss eventually the bloody mount will drop. When it does roll and pray to what ever god you believe in, and cross all those fingers and toes....if you have a tail do that to. It helps.

Good luck on the hunt guys, my hunter will continue to run it for the mount. Since my shaman no longer needs it.

Comment by Blemish

Have tried for a long time on my main and an alt. Figured cata is coming out soon so i got my 3 character to 80 and was running Heroics for the first time to get gear and JP. The first run in UP and low and behold what dropped. Won it with a roll of 66. Woot

Comment by Zakton

Skadi's corpse made a fine morsel for my new drake.

Comment by aggrox

I just received this mount. I was pretty stoked. Ive seen it drop a total of three times since Wotlk has been released. One of the time's, there was a under geared rogue who just hit 80, and does not even have epic flight won it. If it was not for him i would of won it. But i have it now. All i can say for all the people trying to get it, "Keep working at it, if you dont try for it, you will never get it".

Comment by chix0r

This dropped for my Shaman. I rolled a 98, the next closest was a 97. Bet that guy really hated me :D

Comment by aymiah

Got him today after rolling a 90! Never seen it drop before in my life. Talk about luck!

Comment by vincistis

Im not gona farm this im just going to passively kill the bloodsail while doing other stuff... but anyway i already know im gonna give it away once i do get it :D

Edit: Please disregard this comment... i posted it on the wrong place LOL.

Comment by Valiska

Saw it today, 1 week after hitting 80. First time I saw the drop too and was lucky to get it.
92, 92, 94.

2 people hate me now, I'm certain.

Comment by Razzell

Easily soloable on my Hunter, lvl 85, average item level of 324. Mostly blues, some greens. 92k hp

Take it steadily up the path, killing all the adds. and collecting the harpoons. As a hunter i just pop off the 3 harpoons, send pet in and feign death. Never went below 70% hp for the whole encounter. My pet never went below 95%. The only issue is making sure my pet gets aggro on the new incoming mobs, or they blast me. If you have issues, wait for a quiet no mob moment and eat back to full hp.
Once you are on Skadi it really is a breeze, wait for whirlwind, make your pet taunt. Again pet was on 100% hp the whole fight.

With Camouflage i can get to Skadi without any fighting.

I am sure once the real gear gets equipped i can gather all the adds together. As of now i need to do it in stages.
A tank with equal gear should have no problems at all.

BM of course, with Tenacity pet.

So at least now if it drops i have a 100% chance of getting it.

Comment by ChaosD

Soloed as Ret with wannabe Prot gear (some 346 Prot blues, some 312 Prot greens and some 346 Ret blues) and Seal of Insight. Trash is fairly easy but Skadi himself turned out to be a little tricky. Just make sure to use your CDs wisely and heal yourself during Whirlwind (once you're out of range). Burning your Holy Power for nothing else but Word of Glory is a good idea as well.
Don't know if it would've been better to use Ret gear altogether since my wannabe Prot stuff really isn't all that amazing.

Comment by Renuts

Very easy to solo as a 85 Blood Death Knight in DPS gear. Mount dropped first kill.

Comment by KordEU

easily soloable as a warrior tank at 85 but i would advise in keeping two adds up once you bring him down from the drake so that you can kill them to pop a victory rush if needed. they won't do much damage so they are definitely worth the 30-40k self heal.

Comment by BalnazzarFaid

For an assassination rogue, I managed the event just fine, but the boss just crushed me. I tried sprinting, evasion, first aid, cooldowns, but it just crushed me. I'm thinking maybe some better gear/enchants and imp recuperate would make it possible, but if you're not prepared to solo this, don't even try as rogue. Go with a friend : )

I will give a few pointers though. When you're passing the boss and the event starts, immediately pop sprint so you reach the adds while they're still in a pack and they don't have time to seperate. Pop evasion and combat readiness, and just burn them down with fan of knives. When the adds start spawning from the room, make sure you're standing out of aggro range from the three mobs at the harpoons. This way you can keep killing the adds until your cooldowns are back if you don't feel safe without them (but you shouldn't need them). You should also shoot two of the harpoons and then keep killing adds until your cooldowns are back. Make sure you continously use recuperate throughout the fight, and make sure not to shoot the last harpoon just as two adds spawn. The additional pressure will be a bother. Try to burst down skaldi and sprint away and first aid when he whirlwinds.

Comment by Joe1991

I've seen this drop 4-5 times In 2 and a half years and I've won It on my DK and my mage. (Y)

Comment by StaticLgtBrngr

Its probably easy for all tanking classes, I did this earlier as an 85 blood death knight and was surprised at how easily I reached skadi.

What was even more surprising is that he actually dropped the mount, never seen it drop in all my wrath groups there yet it drops on my first solo attempt. I wonder if the drop rate has been changed?

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/7979/bluedrake.jpg

I suppose we will find out some time soon so good luck to the rest of you who are looking for this mount.

Slightly off topic but I carried on to the end of the dungeon since I was hunting for enchanting mats and I found king ymiron more challenging than the rest, he casts stacking debuffs on you and one of them can reduce your health back to what it was when ulduar was the progress raid.

Comment by obeahshamman

Easily soloable as enhance shaman. I had 345 ilvl when I tried it.

For the dungeon trash up until the boss that you can't pass by without aggroing it's safest to hex the healer mobs or a wolf depending on what group you are facing. If there were more then 3 mobs I would use my wolves just to be safe.

At the boss encounter it is important to remember that you don't need to rush yourself and take too many mobs at a time. They go down quite quickly and using a bit of aoe from Magma Totem and Fire Nova will help with the big groups. Wait until all the mobs are dead and your cool downs are ready before calling the boss down.

When battling Skadi I popped wolves, trinkets, bloodlust and my rock elemental at the start. Heal yourself on Maelstrom Weapon 5 stacks. When he does whirlwind the first time your wolves should still be out. Have them taunt. You should be able to stand in the ww with the wolves healing you. If you are taking to much damage just move away as he will be after the wolves and not you. If he does a second whirlwind use your Shamanistic Rage to help reduce the damage you take. I also needed to heal myself in ww while running away with Spiritwalker's Grace.

Comment by wizardcho

soloed with 85 level beast mastery Hunter with PvP gear video in YouTube 720p HD

Comment by RedmondD

I soloed it as well with a BM "stay alive" spec and Terrorpene as my tank. With Glyph of misdirection it makes it a lot easier. As a hunter you can camo through most of the way to Skadi. I wiped prob 3-4 times my first day trying but was able to one shot it afterwards. After the 4th day or so he dropped the blue proto drake so I was pretty happy with that. The last time I saw those drop was probably a year ago.

Comment by effingy

Just soloed as Enh Shaman. Gear isn't so great, so I had to pop wolves, SR and BL. I did it with relative ease. Now I need to add this to my daily farming for mounts ><

Comment by stfelixz

I soloed Utgarde Pinnacle heroic today for the 3rd time, and i got this mount, against all odds and expectations.

As of Cataclysm, this is totally solo-able as a Protection warrior in heroic gear. To clarify, i have an average itemlevel of 347, 144k hp and about 75% total avoidance/mitigation. I had to use my CD's conservatively though.

TL;DR: Roll tank, get mount.

Edit: Apperantly other classes can solo this to. Go ahead and see for yourself if you can, it's worth the effort in my opinion.

Comment by kilajo

I just soloed this boss as a DK it was very easy. I don't have any tank gear, but I switched to blood spec for some extra survivability. I just used my pvp gear AIL 331. So if you want this mount and not a tank, but have a class that can be a tank then jus get a tank spec. hopefully mount will drop soon!
I think you can skip first boss, I know you can skip second boss so the only thing is dealing with trash got a little tricky that’s why I got a blood spec.

Comment by Habby

i am actually about to try to solo this to see if i cant do it. im a shadow priest with 112k health and 347 in game item level. wish me luck

Comment by alexko9

Easily solobal by any class at 85, did this on a UH DK for Elder and its quiet easy and fast though haven't checked for a drop boohoo

Comment by ksabaras

Soloing this for a week now, 8-9min for blood DK tank (atm ilvl 353).
I'm skipping as much as i can, some mobs can't be skipped however.
Trash takes me 5-6min or so and additional 2-3 min for boss.
Pretty easy, still waiting for drop however.

After this sweet mount drops, to Stonecore normal! :)

Comment by zelmon

Mages don't worry, it's easyil soloable even for you.
If you can't pull good dps in fire spec (minimum 17k), respect to arcane.

When the skadi's event starts, wait where skadi was before the event started. Mobs are gonna come to you in groups of two. kill them and also take care of mobs that are constantly spawning and running to you. You can eat food inbetween killing mobs to recover your mana and health.

Once you get 3 harpoons and all the stationary mobs are dead, go shoot harpunes at skadi. When he jumps down, immidiately use mirror image, and if they don't take aggro in 2 seconds use invisibility to lose aggro. As soon as skadi is on your mirror images, pop time warp, trinkets, arcane power, everything you have and just spamm arcane blast (i have 70k mana and i don't run out before he is dead) because you now have about 25 sec to take his 450k health miror images dissapear. If he starts killing you you might end up dead. Just for the case have mana gem and maybe a mana potion ready.
My gear is nothing special (6k SP, 24% crit, 105k hp), 2 BoE epics and the rest is PvP.

Happy hunting

Comment by Kristin3515

Just a quick question. The Cataclysm dungeon mounts drop in normal and heroic... Has then been changed in Wrath of the Lich King dungeons or does the Blue Proto-Drake still only drop on heroic?

Comment by JokerJoe

easily soloable as a combat rogue, i just use my pvp gear, start with a cheapshot on first mob and add 3 more points for a 5 point recup then kill next mob, redirect his points to the one after him and put a 5 point snd, with deadly momentum its easy to pick your way to the end, until only the 2 are spawning take skadi down right befor the 2 spawn again and put blade flurry up (now a toggle switch) and and pop combat readiness and adreniline rush as he comes down. the 2 mobs there allow u to keep your recup up when they die, toggle blade flury off use evasion and finish him... i have 114k hp and this guy is so easy i feel like it wont even be worth it to get the mount. got green proto drake 5 days ago, time lost proto drake 3 days ago, hoping to finish the week off with blue proto. lol

as long as you are combat spec with deadly momentum and relelntless strikes. this fight is EASY, assasination and sub are too soft, you will die vs skadi most likely.

Comment by druidsrus

this would probly be easy on a fury warr cause of all the self healing abilites (victory rush, enraged regeneration, blood craze...) i have yet to test it out. i just got artisan flying and am hoping to get a couple proto drakes

Comment by Onijitsu

type (or macro) the command: /mountspecial

Comment by Antariosh

ive seen this mount drop twice and neither of thos drop i have won T.T

Comment by Nobbel

Video guide on how to farm for the blue proto drake:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvL3kc_8cug

Comment by brainlesss

easily soloable by any 85 lvl now i think. Just did it with a blood dk without any problems, was just irritating that i had to kill every pack of creeps till the boss.

First heroic run with this char and the mount dropped for me! was pretty nice having in mind i have never had any luck with such drops :D

Comment by Zorrah

Easily solo'ed by a BM hunter with a bear pet....going for rep so I clear the whole instance and even got the achievement on the last boss (solo).

Just keep your pet healed and MD as much as you can and its all a breeze.

Edit: Been soloing this for about 3 weeks now and working on LK rep..clearing the instance about 50% of the time. I kill him faster as survival....but BM is fun too. Keeping at it...not stopping until I get the drake. As its been posted I'll also agree that I never saw this drop during heroics in LK...

Comment by Arcanepally

I've been soloing Utgarde Pinnacle Heroic once a day for awhile now. Retribution Paladin ilvl 350. It's easy and fast. Got my mount today luckily, no more soloing :)

Comment by Craxen

I got mine today after I've been farming it for around 3 weeks, Im so damn happy. I did this as a frost mage. I used blink at start to grab almost all the inc adds, AoE them down with pets freeze and then blizzard> easy cake. Looted the harpoons, shot him down and popped illus so I lost all threat ( illus tanked him, very useful), Time Warp to get him down a.s.a.p and I almost got an heart attack when I looted, there was the shiny blue proto drake.

And I would like to say to other farmers out there, DO NOT give up. I've NEVER seen this mount dropped under the expansion Wrath of the Lich King so I though drop rate must be very very low, even tho I got Utgarde Pinnacle as daily heroic almost every day O.o

Do not give up and happy hunting!

Comment by toob

Finally looted it today :) 97/100 now!
Think I've done the encounter solo for about 27 times. Not counting in the endless amount of runs in Wotlk itself.

Dust - Bloodscalp EU

Comment by DaGorthok

type /mountspecial

Comment by Sandrao

Got mine today after more than 200 trys!

Good luck!

Comment by wowZhenek

Dropped for me today. Happy hunting lads. Looks really cool.

Comment by zero0911

At lvl 85, i can kill him as a fury warrior. Victory rush the adds and health regen is nice. Also if you are a night elf you can skip a lot of the adds. Go on the snow to the left, shadowmeld if you pull. Heroic leap over mobs.

So this is very quick for Nelf warriors, you can shadowmeld and leap over half the adds you have to fight on the way.
Soloing the boss is easy, you regen health when low and with those two adds that aways come in they are easy victory rushes.

Comment by zelmon

Most already know this, but some, like me, are unsure so here: i can confirm that you don't need to kill any other boss or for that matter any other mob for the mount to drop. mine droped on the 75th kill, after killing only skadi and 3 mobs on the stairs

Comment by killerbot23

Been farming this quite a bit now, no luck yet.

Comment by Stealthed

Confirming from my own experience that Fury Warriors can easily solo this with barely any gear. From entering to have killed Skadi should take from between 6-10 minutes for most 85's.

I'm not sure how many kills it took me to get it, but I was lucky and got it after around two weeks of farming it every day, keep doing your daily run and it will drop eventually.

Happy hunting!

EDIT: In my 80 runs or so in Wrath I've only seen this mount once, and lost the roll of course if you're wondering about the drop chance :)

Comment by Gabacho

Decided to start farming this at 84 as prot warrior with my wife an 84 hunter. Easy to do of course. Expecting weeks of tries but got the drake on try number one. So excited!

Comment by BuckyMcLachlan

Confirmed, Skadi the Ruthless is easily soloable by anyone with halfway decent gear and a brain at level 85.

Comment by Craynak

As a Assasination PvP rogue I can comfirm you can do this....Just
Stealth through dungeon, get to the walk away, just KEEP RECUP up ALWAYS, do it slowly, 3-4 mobs at a time, moveing forward....when you get the 5-6 mobs at end, blind one, gouge another followed by kidney punch and disarm another while smashing the other three and start to WALK AWAY from Skadi....back down the hall way kiting the mobs, this allows you to gain health and energy.
Once your back to 2-3 mobs coming out of the walk way....start hitting skadi with the harpoons.....when he spins, blind a random mob, run down the walk way and start smashing skadi.
I had recup up 24/7, deadly on main, instant on off, instant on thrown, you need to make clear use of misdirect (for points to switch target).

Comment by Fyara

I just got this sexy dragon drop on my prot pally on gilneas. I think this is my 15th time up to 20th time running this dungeon which isnt bad considering its drop rate .

Comment by Bahel

Not sure if getting the achievement raises the drop rate but I was lucky enough to have this drop my first run through on my warrior.

Comment by Icandi

I am still gobsmacked... I have been running this place daily for about 2 weeks on both my hunters (85BM with tenacity pet). One of my hunter is less then a week old at 85 and on consecutive runs just before raid time the mount drops for both hunters. So either I am extremely lucky or the drop rate has been buffed. I have been lucky wih mounts before (2x TLPD , 2x ZG tiger, 1 baron mount) but those took a fair amount of effort (lots of runs ove 2-3 months).

Being BM is easy to solo, MD to pet, keep pet heal up, camo to boss, run should take about 5-7 minutes.

Comment by oranj

as a combat rogue in ilvl 359, this is completely trivial and requires no tactics or unusual talents whatsoever. downed in 20 seconds.

Comment by Leat

Finally dropped for me today, been soloing since the day cata came out. iLvL 358 ret pally so far my record kill on skadi is 16 seconds. Pretty faceroll. Awesome mount.

Comment by Hamandeggs

On an 85 rogue, you can just sneak in, skip the trash, and complete the event within 10 minutes easy.

Since rogues, even at 85, are kind of squishy, here is my personal strategy:

Keep Recuperate up as you're mowing-down the ghouls in that gauntlet; FoK them up. If you're Combat spec, Blade Flurry will make this part even simpler.
Don't shoot your last harpoon unless you're at full health.
Pop Readiness right when he comes down.
Use Dismantle.
Kill any ghouls that may have emerged right as Skadi entered.
When Skadi starts his whirlwind, Sprint away and bandage yourself (Note: you'll need to Cloak off the poisoned spear dot to make bandaging effective. Dwarf rogues use racial talent instead and save Cloak for later).
Pop your damaging cooldowns and Evasion and destroy him.
Loot his corpse, find some piece of junk (no mount again), /cry.

Comment by Vaydra

Just did my first Call to arms on my prot pally and got this mount. Just confirmation that you can get this mount from the goodie bag.

Comment by Austinroflol

Today I did the instance with my friend (we are both frost mages) because he was about to finish the Children's Week event and get his purple proto-drake. We did heroic mode, and we got both achievements (I had never been there on my mage) and the reins dropped. It was my first time ever being there.

Comment by Daz73

Ran this instance lots during wrath never seen it drop.Doing childrens week and figured I would see if I could solo on heroic for chance at mount, what do you know it dropped for me! nice looking mount! :)

Comment by lukus22

I can say with certainty that there is a (small) chance to get this beautiful mount in the new Call to Arms bags for tanking and healing :) I got mine today! woooo! :D

Comment by Swordy

3rd poster to confirm this drops in the Call to Arms bag. I think I'll send it to my next alt to use.

Also, yes, you can transfer the bag with this in it cross faction.

Comment by CazzDK

FYI, easy as demo lock.

Comment by edathren

are you CRAZY? ALWAYS stand in the fire, otherwise you don't get the buff!

Comment by golney86

Confirmed to be in Satchel of Exotic Mysteries

Comment by Detroitchamp

Accidentally solo'd him as an 85 Hunter while going for the Children's Week achievement to kill the final boss of Utgarde Pinnacle.

I used Camouflage to skip through the entire instance and just had my bear tank this boss along with the adds. Pretty easy kill and I managed to get the Reins of the Blue Proto-Drake off of the first attempt. Not bad for an accidental kill.

Comment by dragondude2

Tips for getting to Skadi quickly if you're farming for this mount:

1. If you have an ability such blink or heroic leap, the mobs in the room filled with gold can be skipped by going from the top of the ramp to the front of the door (may have to move around a little to make sure you're in view of the door).

2. If you don't have stealth, the abominations in the first hallway can be skipped by jumping up the crates to the left and going along the snow.

3. For those who are unobservant (like i was :P), the first boss can be skipped.

4. The mobs of wolves and ranged val'kyr at the bottom of the steps, leading up to the hall with stuffed beasts, can be skipped.

5. The second boss, just before Skadi, can be skipped.

6. When walking through the mob filled hallway after Skadi takes off, it's quicker and easier to pull every mob in this hallway to the end, and AoE them all down, assuming you are a high enough level to take on this many mobs at a time. This can be done even quicker by charging from mob to mob, sprinting, or using an ability equivalent to Heroic Leap to quickly reach the end of the hallway. If you time it right, you can just leap past some of these mobs as they run down the hallway at you.

Happy hunting.

Comment by alex543

I made an account just to share my story. Well i was casually farming this everyday; maybe skipping a day here and there. One day after stopping for a while the dungeon comes on on the Random dungeon finder. The whole time i wasn't even thinking about the mount, but when it dropped i almost didn't believe it. Then i realized i had to roll against 4 other people, just my damn luck..Well in the end i lost the role in second place...I kept trying but sadly it never dropped again.

Comment by drop20allday

According the most of the sources i have researched it is indeed a 1.6% drop chance. That means if you run Utgarde Pinnacle 62.5 times (100/1.6=62.5), then you should expect it to drop. For all you people who think this mount is impossible to get then your wrong because 1.6% multiplied by 3 is 4.8%. That is very close to Green Proto Drake which hatches in 3 days(5% drop chance). So comparing those two statistics Blue and Green Proto Drake are just as rare to get. I don't yet have this mount but I have been farming it for a week or so. Just think of it as a daily. As an 85 with and ilvl of 348 i find it not hard to solo Skadi. Good Luck though :).

Comment by Gizmok

33 runs, no drak... :/ well, I can only hope for tomorrow, as always.
Wish there were an achiement for this guy tho.
Well, good luck on him everyone!

Comment by cioffy

I'm doing that boss till the opening of Cataclysm, nearly every day. No luck. I assumed nearly 150 try.

Comment by Insanium92

Super easy solo-able by 353 Blood DK, it takes about 10 or 15 minutes, so i think chances to loot the mount jumps greatly..!

Comment by neldor

farmed it for some time now, doing it every day. its pretty easy to solo as a 85 hunter.

today, i went there with some other ppl to do some achievements, so i wasnt alone.
it dropped, and i WON , i felt so lucky.

can anyone confirm, that it has higher drop if you are not alone?

Comment by Halibela

Solo'd Skadi and it dropped for me today as a 360 ilvl blood dk. The trash leading up to him, along with the fight is fairly trivial, with only taking about 2 minutes to kill him. Only thing worth running away from was his whirlwind and even then that didn't hit hard at all either.

Dropped after 2 weeks of heading in daily, so don't give up if it hasn't dropped yet.

Comment by BrNbearPWNall

I've Been solo'ing this on my il358 arcane mage, and finally dropped the other day for me. Really easy fight for a mage if you keep your distance, and arcane blast appropriately. Used my Mirror Image as a distraction for Skadi popped cool downs and blew him up. As a geared 85 now, almost any class should have no problem downing this boss.

Comment by Darkdiamond

This pretty lil proto just dropped for me. Easy to solo as an 85 ret. just takes patience and a whole lot of runs.lol

Comment by MatteoG

Just got this mount after about 7 runs. So happy :D

Comment by drop20allday

I have searched many websites and even contacted a GM regarding the drop rate of the Blue-Proto Drake. It is confirmed to be a 1.6% drop chance. This means that if you run Heroic Utgarde Pinnacle about 62.5 times you SHOULD see it drop. As of patch 4.2 I still have no trouble soloing Skadi the Ruthless for it. Best of luck. O.o

Comment by robertpalsen

lol been soloing on warrior alot and back in wotlk had it drop 2 times in a random but lost both rolls was really pissed so now i solo everyday along with raven lord lol

Comment by lolup

Solo'd the boss today, and I got the mount on my first run! :D

Comment by DELjseong88

prot pally here. I got call to arms reward bag for zand random and got this mount! along with proto drake werp!

Comment by Lissabrian

I received this in the satchel of exotic mysteries today. Pretty nice.

Comment by Zorrah

Up to about 150 runs total now...leveled my hunter late...so needed rep with all LK factions. I'm now exalted with all LK factions from tabard runs in this instance...and still no mount :(

Comment by Andiae

Many classes @ 85 are OP for this place even on heroic and just as a side note you can Skip the first two bosses if you wanna farm for this .

I was able to do this with my Hunter with ilevel 358s but I'm sure you can easily do it with 350. Used Turtle Pet as a "tank" and toss him one mend pet (probably not even necessary) but downed the boss in 26 seconds , most of it was due to running from his whirlwind.

Comment by primativeshark

Would a lvl 83 beast master hunter be able to solo utgarde pinnacle heroic? oh and i also have survival spec so if bm doesn't work will surv work?

Comment by cherrieh

I ran about 2 weeks in urtgade trying to get this mount with no succes.
But today I got it from the satchel, tehe. No more farming for me^^

Comment by CazzDK

Just confirming this do indeed still drop, been farming this as long as i could solo it (cata), so no lucky bastard 1 run here.

Comment by coryblake

just decided to solo the heroic just because i was bored, was very shocked to see the proto drake drop for me the first time i ever soloed this instance

Comment by Zorrah

Finally got the reins...after about 160 runs....I was so used to not seeing them drop I was shocked.

Comment by OSKiSmurf

It was call to arms for healers, this mount dropped in the bag along with 3 mythical mana potions. i am a poor druid and i dont evan have artisan riding "_

Comment by masterpuppeteer6

Just solo'ed up to Skadi in literally 5 minutes. Fury Warrior, ilvl 365. Easiest thing I've ever solo'ed. Ran through trash and destroyed Skadi in 1 minute.

Comment by simfik77

Solo'ed it today with my lv85 warrior on heroic difficulty, got the Reins of the Blue Proto-Drake from the first kill.

Comment by SylvanElf

What's the odds a level 85 rogue could do this?

Comment by juanmoretime

Just got this from the mysterious bag you get from random heroics. It has only been my 5th random heroic run. Sweet. What a waste considering I havent even gotten artisan riding.

Comment by Huii

Okay, so ive been farming this mount for a couple of weeks now, and it HAS not dropped is there anything that i can do, or and tips that will help me out? I know ive killed him in under 3 mins for sure... but it wont drop
thanks,
Huii - Ravenholt

Comment by Petitclerc

Got the drop on first try on Heroic.

So yeah, it still drops and no I didn't kill him under 3 minutes.

Comment by Meburningyou

I ...have been farming Skadi for months now....still, no Blue Proto. I'm becoming more and more frustrated every time it doesn't drop. :( But I farmed for months to get my Ravenlord mount so I guess this is no different. Still though, it's kind of a bummer reading about some people getting it in one run.

Comment by dabigwilli

Any idea what the drop chance is for this now that it is dropping off Malygos again?
I'm guessing its between 1-2% (10 man) and 3-4 % (25 man) but would love to see some numbers.

Comment by Sylbort

More like Flesh Maker.

Comment by Cyoor

This is easily soloable as a lvl 85 Arcane Mage. (372 ilvl gear when I wrote this)
I didnt even have to use evocation to get HP during the whole instance.

Could probably be doable by any lvl 85 mage.

Comment by akileez

Decided to try and solo this after watching the Youtube video. It was actually an easy solo on an 85 Hunter (i359). But, no drake drop and it wasn't fun. Good luck to whoever has the patience to do this again and again.

Comment by WorgN6

I've did this instance pretty much everyday since a week half after WOTLK release...

And not saw this drop even once.

Though, at least I can solo it now.

Comment by Tajind

I have farmed sethekk halls for weeks but still the raven lord hasn't dropped while i played utgard pinnacle 3 times and the mount dropped... and i just wonder why it is like this, is it luck or is it the drop chance ? cuz i really want the mount...

What im trying to say is what is the drop chance of this mount? :P

Comment by drools101

Speaking on percentages.....

I ran Stratholme 283 times on the 1% drop chance before I finally got the Baron's mount to drop for my Paladin..... I almost needed therapy. (after 200 times, I wasn't going to stop...all...that....wasted...time....for....nothing?)

I ran it all of 14 times with my Deathknight, and it dropped... go figure. (I wish I had run my damn DK through first, I may have saved myself some serious aggravation...)

I have run UK at least 150 times, and have never seen the Blue Drake drop.

1% is just that...... if your lucky, you will see it sooner rather than later. Eventually it will drop....eventually.

To those of you that have it... I fricking hate yo.... er congratulations, well done.

Comment by Bartan

so after like 45+ runs this bastard finally dropped the mount, its about god damn time, NEVER GIVE UP PEOPLE, it will drop eventually

Comment by d3sign8t3dDruNk

47 Kills, and it hasn't dropped once. I didn't even have a chance to lose the roll and I been soloin' it as much as I can since Cata dropped, and all i seem to get is the spell blade or the staff lol...I had good luck with the Anzu and Kaelthas mounts in the BC heroics, but this one is just eluding me entirely :)

Comment by Brewtal

Starting my farming runs for this as of today. Easily soloable on an 85 Fury Warrior.
Was able to complete the speed run (already had the achievement though) and down him with no worries at all.

Comment by ZufalligeFenster

This should be given as reward from exalted with Sons of Hodir considering you take one using the flightpath from Dun Niffelem. Thats just my two cents, it would make rep with them really worth it. I'm doing them just for the 100 mounts acievement, but I hate running dungeons and raids.

Comment by MelchiahAlex

Krokaska, you say:

Warning: While you can get it from the Call to Arms reward, the chance that it actually happens is too low to depend on it. If you really want to get this one, you'll still need to kill the boss for it and hope that he drops it.

That is incorrect. According to Bashiok, mounts coming from the Satchel of Exotic Mysteries have the same rarity as they do when slaying the boss they originally come from.

He says:

We also wanted to clarify, mounts that have a possibility to be found in a Satchel of Exotic Mysteries are found with the same rarity as if you had slain the dungeon boss that normally drops them.

You can find the entirety of his comment, in it's original post here: Call to Arms Addendum

Comment by vasco90

drop after 3 run! very lucky!

Comment by ormas

Got this in a Call to Arms bag. Much easier than farming it!

Comment by Kyokushin

Ok guys! This mount doesn't drop only from the boss in utgarde, today I have opened a box in my bag and there it was....also the bag had a jewel and some other creapy item it wasn't one of those boxes that only rogues can open, sorry I can't remmeber it's name or where I looted it from but it was for sure a normal box...anyone have any ideea about it's name and drop?

Comment by Thrallscream

The luck of the Ancestors were with me today for sure. Double whammy. Farmed Skadi (was getting sick of seeing his damn belt drop), closed my eyes after the loot --took a deep breath-- and WHAAMMM. Purple Letters right in my face lol. Let out a howl of joy, such a cool feeling....oh no, but I'm not done...had a Mysterious Egg from the Oracles in my bag that hatched....I think you know where this is going. WHAAAAMMM. Purple letters again. Green and Blue dragons on the same day. I'm dead serious lol. I couldn't believe it. Such a happy day. Farmed Utgarde for about a month and a half and went through maybe 5 eggs. Overall not a bad investment. Popped some giant growth and flew around Org on my two prizes for an hour showing off. (I know not like I'm the only one that has them, but still)

Keep trying, it will drop. Good luck friends.

Comment by fenix291

Just got one when I opened satchel of exotic mysteries

Comment by mmulder6512

The Mount dropped for me on my 3rd solo run, I couldnt believe
how lucky i was,I think the proto drake is the best looking drake in
the game.

Comment by viralez

finally got this after a couple of years of doing it for heroics everyday during wotlk, and recently soloing about a dozen or so times. i was amazed that it actually dropped, i was started to think my character was bugged for drops -_- @_@ lol. Obviously joking, I've been flying around Stormwind for about an hour now.

Comment by Typhussss

Just got this today after about 10 days of solo'ing. (I've been playing since middle of BC) Been mount farming since. =)

Comment by Systex

This mount drops from Skadi the Ruthless on heroic mode only, there are 2 related achievements to this boss which are pretty easy to accomplish. Soloed it as a 85 fury warrior, Skadi can hit for 10k+ on plate. He also does a whirlwind ability which is quite annoying. I survived by killing the trash and then using victory rush. Drop chance is probably higher than 1.6% because I got this baby after 5 days. Not sure if any cloth-wearing classes are capable of surviving this.
One of the best looking mounts in-game IMO.

Comment by Poloo

Got it today after more than 150 runs (yeah, pretty unlucky), couldn't even believe that I finally got it, lol

Comment by Thrallscream

Gratz!

Comment by TaKeN

Hello
I don`t know how many times i do but many many... i faster get mount from Stratholm!
I do everyday all instances where drop a mount and i can solo and this is the last what i farm - all other drop in 60+ try...
i think i do this instances 60-80+ times and still no lucky...

Edit 11.10.2011 - 96 try still nothing....

Comment by latinlover90

wich 3 min achiv?
Btw i've already killed Skady 60 times and havn't see mount..are u sure still drop that mount? maybe coz i skip 2 boss before him?

Comment by Poloo

lol, I got mine yesterday after around more than 150 runs (yeah, pretty unlucky).
Thing is that I was also farming the green proto (around 3 or 4 months ago), and after it dropped i was about to quit wow, and it just dropped. Same thing happende now with the blue, THEY'RE SPYING ME!.

Comment by latinlover90

Sry man but i kill Grauf every day under 3min but nothing mount..so i this or drop rate is 0.01% or u didn't drop if u skip 2 boss befor him...that's is fact i think. if some 1 got info pls tell me

Comment by ApocalypticDrew

I can confirm that it still drops in Cata, 45 Skadi the rutheless kills. And it took more than 3 minutes the time it did drop. Unfortunately it's all pure drop chance as it has a 1% drop rating. Don't give up hope! It will surely test your patience.

Comment by ApocalypticDrew

Congrats to you!

Comment by BeProtadin

Just got this from Satchel of Exotic Mysteries. I'm not sure exactly how rare this is but I know I got really, really lucky!

Comment by Guldbarren

I've been a collector for quite a while now, and i thought i might try to get this one... 2 tries and it was MINE!

Comment by Hamandeggs

I have run UK at least 150 times, and have never seen the Blue Drake drop.

Try Heroic UP. It should improve your luck.

Comment by elionor

up to 90 runs and no mount

Comment by mmulder6512

Ran this about 6 or 7 times before it dropped for me,about 14 times for hawkstrider and Raven lord about 10. Fiery war horse and rivendale mount still in progress. I guess its just the luck of the draw.

Comment by heathora

Droprate is 1,7%. So 100/1,7 = 58,82 is the average =P

Comment by mimee

God this mount's drop rate is TERRIBLE... i've been at it for quite a while..
217 kills - I have seen mount 2 times only which both times I lost the roll. And i have been soloing this for a few months and nothing.

Comment by jaycobh

Got mine after 53 runs.. Such an awesome mount! i <3 it

Comment by TaKeN

Hello Guys
After 114 killes Skadi the Ruthless on HEROIC version Utgarde Pinnacle i get today 29.10.2011 on patch 4.2.2.14545 my own mount:
You receive loot: .
You have added the mount Blue Proto-Drake to your collection.

Good Luck guys!
Mount still drop but verrry low drop rate!

TaKeN

Comment by Zeadla

I got this mount on my DK while doing a dayily heroic during lich king expasion while the LFG system was still new i was exterly happy when i won the mount. :D

Comment by Invaki

Got this beautiful mount today after only 4 solo runs! (So lucky.) I almost had a heart attack when it dropped, lol.
Don't give up people, it will find you eventually!

Now, if only Poseidus would show his slippery hide and give me his mount...I've been waiting 6 weeks Mr. Seahorse!

Comment by Jenevieve

Got this last night after a month or so. Glad to be done with that one.

Comment by Sinistor

It is unbelivable that I just got it in my very first run with my character while soloing the instance.
Also got the achievment, but it's probably unrelated with eachother.

Comment by Heracleea

I was running out of ideas on where to get mounts, since I don't raid and being sick of farming the Raven Lord and the hawk in MGT, I remembered the blue proto drake in UP. I had run the dungeon every day at level 80 and never dropped, but I thought of giving it a chance - got it today, on first try.

Comment by baalzevuv

To solo as an Arcane Mage, take your time getting to the harpoon launchers, killing the mobs two or three at a time and waiting for the groups of adds as they come out. You should have nearly full mana / hp when you get to the harpoon launchers. As Skadi is dismounted, I like blink and start running ahead in a sideways fashion throwing Arcane Barrage as I go. If I'm not far enough ahead, I'll use rocket boots when Skadi starts his spinning attack.

As of 4.3, I got lazy and just started running in with arcane blast and one-shotting the adds with arcane barrage. I get my harpoons, cast ring of frost at the entry where additional adds come out and evocate before Skadi's second pass.

If necessary, use Iceblock to survive Skadi's spinning attack. He ignores mirror images when he's in this mode, so don't bother using them yet. When he's done spinning, drop mirror image and unload on him.

And /highfive to all of you that got it your first run. You guys are awesome.

Comment by RiFTER1337

I just got this from a Satchel that you get as a reward when your tanking or healing a heroic dungeon.
First satchel i've ever gotten on my shammy and there it was ! :D

Comment by omni1123

Got mine today on my first try soloing Skadi. I couldn't believe it, I thought I was in for a daily farming!

Comment by Rex0z

I just killed him for the 100th time today and no mount yet :(

Comment by azh2929

I saw a level 70 with this the other day...I asked him how he got it but he said it was a secret. Can manually get into the heroic dungeon at 70, but was he just not telling me, or was it some sort of hack?

Comment by insanetimelord

Got lucky on my fourth solo run through to see this beauty drop XD Definitely my favourite flying mount

Comment by jbarbera

I was always a big fan of the drake, always wanted it but never was too over excited about getting it. So one day I decided why not start farming for this drake once a day and i am bound to get it, which is true because it would only be inevitable that one day i would get it. Anyways on my 2nd day of farming the boat to northrend appeared but i thought (was this worth it? would i honestly get it?) and i decided not to go on the boat. An hour later i decided one more try and headed to utgarde pinnacle and guess what, I GOT IT. So that basically gave me a morale boost and i must say usually once u start doubting a drop or a mount or somthing is usually when u do actually get it (like blizzard can feel bad for u or somthing)
anyways, now i am in orgimmar enjoying it hope the best for you guys never give up!

Comment by Jigon

I just Got mine on my 3rd solo run in Utgarde 8) I was so happy.

Comment by bj91x

After months of farming, this mount finally dropped for me. I was so happy I could cry! I jumped up and down my apartment with joy. Then I woke up only to realize that was just a dream...

Several weeks later, this mount dropped for real. Woot! Finally! I've had dreams of getting this mount and I finally got it! Then I woke up again...

This went on quite a few time so the next time this dropped, I wasn't very excited. I wasn't going to be fooled again so I decided to wait until I woke up the next morning before getting excited about this. I went to bed and woke up the next day. I logged on to WoW expecting to not see this mount.

Holy crap! To my surprise, it was still there! It wasn't a dream! HECK, YEAH! I FINALLY GOT THIS MOUNT, YES!

Then I woke up again...

Blizzard, thank you for increasing the drop chance of the Green Proto Drake. If you can do the same for this mount, I'm sure it'll help a lot of players keep their sanity. Thank you.

Also, for any players who have multiple characters that can solo farm for this mount, it wouldn't be a bad idea to farm this on multiple characters. Depending on how the account wide companions go, Blizzard stated that they may make mounts account wide as well. Depending on how many characters you run this with, this will multiply the chances of you getting this mount. Another thing to keep in mind is that Blizzard said they might crunch stats, which may make it harder (or possibly impossible) to solo farm for this mount when the next expansion comes out.

Comment by Amito

I started farming Skadi solo last night on my warrior, and the mount dropped on the 2nd kill. Extremely lucky, also got an Ashkandi for transmog on my 3rd BWL run since they added transmog.

Very happy with the Blue Proto tho, looks really nice in game.

Comment by LBCake

OK, I created a WoWHead Account just to type this message.
I have been solo'ing this zone for over a month! No Drop, Is it even still a possibility now?

Comment by papand

Been tryin to farm this for some time now, soloing on my mage every day - 85 frost mage. and yet, never seen it drop :/

Comment by Alfa

After 50 kills(1.7% drop rate today, 2% is spot on), not in succession, dropped for me on my level 85 hunter. :) Have to say, was pretty excited, I have all the Protos obtainable as of today, besides the ones they removed(Black and Plagued).

Comment by santipants

I played WOTLK for maybe 2 years and never saw this stupid thing drop. I would do it almost every day and never even got to roll on it because it never dropped.

And today, out of boredom, I went into UP and killed him myself just to see if it dropped

and it did.

First solo kill. Thanks, Skadi. You're the best. Now to link it in gchat to my guildie who has been solo farming him for the last year and a half.

Comment by Maduce

just got this for my 100th mount achieve. swag.

*waits for haters to hate*

Comment by Equeon

Long wall of text incoming:
So I've been hunting for this mount for the past two weeks. Every day, depending on the time / how bored I was, I would do a run of the dungeon three to five times. At one point, Skadi the Ruthless dropped "Frigid Mail Gloves." After all of those runs, I was curious to know what the drop rate was (if it was, say, a 2% chance, then it wouldn't be much of a difference from the mount's drop rate...)
Turns out, that item wasn't on the list! Curious, I noticed that drops I'd been getting all the time like Drake Rider's Tunic were only dropped in normal mode... I'd been doing the wrong dungeon the entire time!
Saddened, I decided to do a heroic run, and found it was a lot harder to solo, even as an 85 hunter. To my amazing luck, Skadi decided to drop the mount on that one run. Makes up for all of those other ones, I guess!

Happy hunting everyone and remember to never give up! The mount is definitely worth it!

Comment by Pheenomenon

Just got mine from a Satchel of Exotic Mysteries.
I was so happy. Haha!

Comment by Executioneer

Do we need to do it on Heroic?

Comment by tyrosus

Dropped today on my 6th run,most easily soloed as an Arms warrior with full PvP gear,just keep using victory rush and your health never goes down.

If you are after this mount,i highly reccomend skipping first boss(just keep walking through the stairs) and the second boss which is next to skadi's hall simply by not activating the orb.

Happy hunting !

Comment by tomislavk

Got it on my hunter on 2nd try :))

Comment by Praxidice

Have been solo farming for this beautiful mount as an ilvl 378 Elemental shaman for 2 weeks so far. Im a draenei and no other mount would match my pretty blue skin as well as this. :) Skip the first 2 bosses, drop earth and fire elemental totems just after I shoot Skadi out of the sky. Keep my distance and it's a non-issue. No luck yet, (I am generally the last person to ever get the drops I want.) but I am a shammy on a mission.

Comment by Zenitas

Got this nice mount on my 50 solo run of the instance.I m gonna miss the dungeon at least it was supplying me with frostweave cloth lol.

Comment by Munkar89

woohoo I just dropped for me after 4 runs! Im never lucky and I seriously thought this is gonna take an XX amount of runs for me. Just need Aeonaxx now :)

Comment by Zhvart

Done this one like 50 times on my warrior...very easy run. I do the Argent tournaments dailies, then use wormhole(engineering) to teleport to the "castle", do a quick kill, and heartstone. Very simple. Ill keep doing it till it drops...just as i did with raven lord ;D

Comment by Verceus

Mandatory for Frost Dks

Comment by ztrust

just got this today on my hunter hi´s first attemt :D not counting the 100 runs on other toons but i felt lucky, so lets try and go for raven lord and wupti there it was this was not the first attemt been at for over a year but all done :D now i just wish Reins of the Blue Drake was soloable

Comment by Jhhovey

After farming Skadi (as a Fury Warrior I could easily solo it) for 2 countless weeks, this mount finally dropped :D

Comment by RobertCB

Hiya, I got this baby in two days, I am a level 85 Hunter and I solo it on heroic, the first day nothing except some of the other items, but the second day I got it!

Comment by blackshado9

Farming this for half a year already....still no luck : /
Gratz to all that got it.
I'l just keep on farming ^ ^

Comment by Myro85

I've seen this drop twice i won it both times on the same character the first time i had to give it to someone else because i did not have 280% flight

Comment by Revector

been farming him for over 4+ months.. no drop.. :(

Comment by guyintheback

So do i have to kill the first two bosses to get the mount because im a hunter and ive just been using camoflage to go past everybody to get to him

Comment by Revector

I've just hit 200 runs of this place, and I am yet to get it.. It annoys me alot that people get it first time etc.. but oh well, I will keep trying until I get it..

Thumbs down inc >.>

Comment by Titanius05

49 kills and I finally got it. What I learned from doing this so often was that heroic wrath dungeons such as this are a good place to collect Grisly Trophies for the DMF, just go for a full clear. Decent amount of gold and cloth and greens if you loot and vendor. Such little side things make it a lot less frustrating.

I will say this was not always easy. Here and there there I would get bursted on and because I was a pally(ret), my heals made this do-able. I sorta doubt it would be without. Solo, Skadi wasn't too terrible, just a dps race to not run out of hp and mana. Killing the trash as quick as possible was the most viable for me (as opposed to taking it rank by rank). Pop all the CDs when I got him down. I could avoided the whirlwind or just take it, didn't seem to be too bad on plate.

Hope that's useful to somebody.

Comment by Anieyu

Wow people are brutal with this topic. Sooo many down votes for people who got it rather quickly. Not everybody can be so lucky. Think of it this way. Everytime you kill Skadi a dice with 100 sides is cast. If you roll a perfect 100 then it's yours. For others, you just gotta keep gambling.

Comment by LoanzTheHunter

Finally got it on my 91st try...but it was worth it I love this mount:)

Comment by invector

How to farm for this lovely pet:

1) Get your character to a reasonably powerful ilvl, doesn't matter which race or class(370+ is great)

2) Go to UP

3) Enter, kill the 3 skeletons at right side, jump down, go right, kill everything in path, skip 1st boss, kill the big guy, skip 2nd boss, kill everyone until you have 5 harpoons

4) Shoot harpoons at boss, at 5 strikes he will come down

5) Kill him the way you want to(Tanks and plate users have easier time, however if you play your class well, like frost mage or enchantment shaman, you will kill him easily)

6) Open the loot with best hopes

I did this 5 times and today I got my drake :)

Comment by taylangecit

Just dropped today after soloing for 3 months. Well, i guess this was my last run on UP, i ll never enter that instance again.

Comment by Jumek

Just got this on my 5th run through last night. I probably shouldnt even have it if it wasnt for a guildie needing the 'my girl loves to skadi' achievement either. She told me that she had gotten it on her first run thru, in a WotLK random heroic, and rolled 100 on the need roll. So I for sure was bringing this lucky rabbits foot with me lol.

So we go through it, and we get to skadi, but instead of just going to the end and letting the dragon pass thru a couple of times, we grabbed a couple of harpoons each, and we reset the boss for the achieve. We eventually bring him down, and lo and behold, there was the mount. It was pretty awesome, considering after we told the guild what happened, some guy started nerd raging about how hes been trying to get it for the past year. It was pretty funny, but good luck to all of you guys still trying to get this. Its an amazing looking mount, and it will be worth it.

Also, maybe bring someone who has good fortune in this game with the RNG gods. It couldnt hurt.

Comment by Rockangel19

I've been trying, every day since a year to have this mount and it has NEVER dropped...arg hope my luck turns around someday...

Comment by bizzaysera

Just got mine, after 15 tries solo (Cata, 4.3.3).

I'm Hunter MM, 383 ilevel. It is easy, and pretty fast to try. As I'm engineer, I use the wormhole stuff to teleport to Howling Fjord. This portal will bring you on the opposite side of the tower that has the entrance for the instance.

1 - Set it to heroic
2 - Get in
3 - Aspect of Cheetah
4 - Use Camouflage
5 - Walk to the boss skipping all the adds (you will need to activate Camouflage again. For me, it happens on the stair that has a patrol with a wolf pet. If he sees you, feign death)
6 - Start the fight. Missdirection on your pet, mult-shot the first pack of 4 or 5 mobs.
7 - Once new adds comes up, MD your pet again (use MD glyph). Use Mend pet.
8 - Collect the harpoons and watch the boss. When he stands on front of canons, shoot the harpoons on him. After 3 shoots, boss will get down.
9 - MD your pet again, mend pet, burn the boss. Pretty easy.

Good luck all!

Comment by kruskal24

Easy to solo on a hunter as pretty much anything tbh....

And there's no need to kill anything but the boss.... Just camo on top of the ramp at the entrance, that gives you enough time to cross all the way to the first boss, skip her while she's RPing with The Lich King, pass the abom and then wait for camo to wear off down the ramp where the path with the 2 wolves is walking.... Then camo again and obviously skip the second boss and get to the 3rd boss....

When you pull him the RP should still be going... Then is just kill kill kill, get 3 harpoons, MD your pet when you get him down and voila!

Still no luck for me tho.... Good luck on your farm :)

edit: finally got it last night after.... well, too many runs :)

Comment by Purebob

I got ths drake on my first try on my death knight ^.^ but it took a month for it on my hunter :\ but it was still funny that I got on my first try on dk xD

Comment by Anieyu

For fellow Hunters out there. If you camouflage as you pull Skadi you can run down the hallway and not have to kill those mobs. It's like walking through a trip wire. If you feign death when your in combat, then everything resets so be careful with that.

Comment by zeroica

So, I hit UK last year for quite a while trying to get this mount on my paladin (She got Reins of the Raven Lord on her first attempt in AUCH ever, so I thought, "well, aren't they ALL 100% drop rates?" ;) This one is damned elusive! After a couple months away leveling my RL, I logged back into Azeroth and decided to crank up the grind for this mount again. First attempt back - dropped like skrillex ;)

BTW - easily soloable by RET paladin.

Comment by FatalD

dropped for me today 3/23/12. I've been farming it for a few weeks now.

Comment by Wolvra93

Okay, so for hunters who want to solo this:
First be 85, makes getting past enemies much easier now that you have camouflage. With camouflage and aspect of the pack/cheetah on, you can get to Skadi in 1 min.
Make sure you have either a turtle, beetle, or shale spider on you. IMPORTANT: Make sure that your pet has Thunderstomp otherwise it'll be hard for him to keep aggro. Even with Thunderstomp, you will still need to actively cast misdirection once every 20 seconds before you take down Grauf. Which means you'll also need the misdirect glyph.
When you start the "event", keep aspect of cheetah/pack on until you get about half way then switch to aspect of the fox. (Use fox so you dont have to switch later.) Then Misdirect on your pet, and cast multishot at the inc 6-8 vykrul mobs. This will cut your time by 2/3s.
Make sure you pick up at least 3 harpoons.
Once these mobs are killed move upwards towards the last mob and kill them plus the adds that have been spawning to your left. Once the "main" mobs (ones that are not spawning) are killed, and Grauf is in range, shoot down with all 3 harpoons at once.
Focus on the last of the adds. Once Skadi comes out there wont be anymore spawning. Then keep mend pet active on your pet and spam arcane shot. Use Beastal Wrath + Fervor if you're a BM and you feel like using it and killing him fast.
When you slay Skadi, you will get My Girl Loves to Skadi All the Time at the very least. Of course right now the drop rate is 1.5% for the mount so good luck in farming him!

Comment by Ansible100

Been farming this fellow for months without seeing it. I have my nitro-boosts, misdirected and camouflages timed down to a dance routine. I know where each mob will be, how fast they patrol and how long Svala sorrowgrave's speech takes (I usually reach said by the time she finishes). I have seen the proto-drake drop ONCE in my WOW career, and my wonderful girlfriend is currently riding it. One day, it will be mine.

For those interested: 37 attempts thus far.

Comment by curverthegreat

just got this awsome mount on my first go while trying to do Glory of the Hero

Comment by Mohandar

Farmed 2 weeks with friend, finally got it when went alone first time

Comment by Grim077

I can confirm that this can also drop from a Satchel of Exotic Mysteries

Comment by Strand

FYI as a rogue or druid soloing this, you can stealth past all the mobs in the gauntlet. I usually just kill the last 2 to give a bit of moving room.

Comment by Samaramon1

Was the first thing that dropped in my first ever satchel.

Needless to say I sh*t myself.

Comment by Nikkip

I FINALLY got this today, I was farming Wrymrest rep. And well because I am rep. grinding I did a FULL clear, I killed everything. The drake dropped. Any other time I have not done full clears.

Comment by DELMistrzu

Is it obtainable on normal mode or only on HC ?

Comment by Blaiddrwg

A little tip for those trying to solo their way through this: Once you start the Skadi battle, wait for the first group of adds, then work your way to the harpoon launchers, picking up harpoons along the way. Gather three harpoons as soon as possible. Once you do this you can stand at the middle launcher against the wall and the adds will pass you by allowing you to heal up and prepare for the final battle against Skadi. Then just wait for him to come by and shoot all three harpoons in quick succession. For those of you not geared to the teeth this will give you the time you need to hit Skadi with everything you have.

Comment by kodibud

so what is this 3 minute achievement everyone is talking about?

Comment by Currently

So, I was doing the achievement "Hail to the King, Baby" (Children's week, where you kill the King). When I got to this boss, I killed him in under 3 minutes (I got the achievement for it) and the mount also dropped. Children's week and the 3 minute are probably not relevant, but regardless, I'm pumped.

I easily solo'd this as a 396 Sub Rogue.

Comment by Hungsolo

It should take u about 5 times to get it considering u can only do it once a day.

Comment by Dristor

I've got mine after 3 months of farming every single day. It was painful and I was close to give up but today was my turn to get it. Everyone who also farm this mount for really long time - don't give up! It's better to try everyday and finally get prot-drake than don't go and have nothing. :)

Comment by m0gwai

Finally got the mount! Approximately 1,5 month of daily visits to Utgarde Keep. I was almost considering skipping that day's run, but last thing I did was to clear Skadi as usual... And it payed off!

Comment by bobbysibobby

I did this for 8 weeks and got it. I was a 375 Item level warrior. It's a bit of a long fight, thank goodness there are adds there. ( Kill one and get Victory Rush - Giving health back ) Pallys, Warriors, druids, mages, Rogues, Death knights. Not sure about others. I bet all class can you do it if there geared.

Comment by Gloriosa

This beauty dropped last night for me at my 7th run! I thought I was in for a very long grind but seems I was lucky.

Very easily soloable as a shadowpriest (My Ilvl is 397). After the harpoons pop your shadowfiend, fade and dps/kite him down. It should be a very fast kill

Comment by Saikusu

My friend Axura on the US-Ursin Server and I were farming for this for a lil' over a week, maybe two.. Each day we'd do a run. Sometimes he'd try and solo it, he's an undead hunter at item level of about... 350ish? Not sure, but needless to say, it dropped suddenly on the 2nd of June and he was excited. Now I'm farming it each day.. Still no drop yet, but I'm hopeful!

Comment by Sgtthunder

I dont know if im just lucky, but i was just farming cobalt ore and i saw that dungeon and i decided to just do a quick run-through and i had no idea that u could get a mount and i got the mount on my first try :D

Comment by Guy19

My math suggests that it will take an average of 67 runs to get this drop.

Comment by D4rKn3ss92

obtained after 88 run. Players try and try to obtain this mount, is not impossible!

Comment by bluesky172

Been running it on my pair of DK's; got it today on my horde toon on the 75th run. Still working on my ally...

Comment by Haxan

Did they increase the drop rate for this one? A friend of mine got the Blue Proto Drake some days ago and I got mine today, and I havent even been farming for it.

Comment by Elarink

On my level 85 DK, I killed skadi about 47 times... Then I realized it wasn't set to heroic. /facepalm

Comment by RBF652

Got it yesterday after two months soloing UP every day.

I was camping for the Time-Lost Proto Drake for two weeks and I decided to give up. I remembered I hadn't run UP yet, so I flew there wishing for the best.

My main spec is destruction and I couldn't survive this way, so I switched to demonology whenever I ran UP. Skipped the first two bosses, only killing trash mobs.

It took a while, but I collected plenty of cloth for my tailoring and some greens to vendor while I was trying to get the drake.

Comment by WeeMoto

Took me 23 days running it with my good mount collecting friend, then I finally got it.

Comment by Kraniks

If you are an engineer i recommand killing all the trash, because it gives reputation with Horde Expedition, allowing you to buy the motorbike recipe, when you get exalted.

Comment by zeroi

You don't have to kill any other bosses.

I just stealthed through everything, not killing a single mob except the ones that spawn with Skadi. Three runs and it dropped.

Comment by zeroi

I got this one today, after three runs only.

You don't have to kill any other bosses, neither do you have to wait for 3 minutes (to fail achievement).

I stealthed through the entire dungeon, only killing the mobs before Skadi.

Comment by pieter92

I can confirm that this still drops on the latest patch.got him a few days ago after around 20 kills.

Comment by Drimbok13

Dear Blizzard Employees ,

I have been facing off with Skadi the Rutheless for three months now. When I log into WoW, I do my Hyjal dailies. Then Tol Barad. If we do not have Tol Barad at the moment, I head to Northrend. I complete my Oracle dailies that I have just started on. I make several passes through Storm Peaks. I then head to Howling Fjord for my "Skadi Time".

My point of writing this message is simple; I'm quite uncomfortable with the loot Skadi continuously drops for me on Heroic. It's all one BIG sexual innuendo. Every afternoon I'm leaving Utgarde Pinnacle with either his belt, his pants, or his sword in my bags, and a horrified look on my face. Why do I keep running this instance you ask? I would like to obtain this rare, beautiful creature and tame it as a mount, like any other player would! Please, do me a huge favor, and drop this mount for me on my next run. It's the least you could do to compensate the continuous sexual harassment Skadi is placing upon me.

Sincerely,

Drimmka

---TO READERS OF THIS COMMENT! :D----

If you want me to send this to Blizzard like some of my guild mates do, upvote this. xD

Also, think about it. After 3 months off and on I've seen nothing but his belt, pants, and SWORD. HIS EFFING SWORD. If this isn't Skadi coming on to my hulking beheamoth of a space goat, I don't know what is. o.O

Comment by RyuX119

First time killing him on an alt, and it dropped.

Comment by damorons

104 kills and counting. Nothing.

Comment by Ahile

Just droped for me from Satchel of Exotic Mysteries. Also green protodrake and a few rare pets also.So instead of farming countless days for it...simply keep your tank and/or healer farming for the satchels.It realy pays off

Comment by Shamonty

Just dropped for me after about 25 solo kills. Fastest way is to skip first two bosses and head right for Skadi's gauntlet. I would not consider myself to be a lucky person at all, but less than 24 hours ago the green proto dropped from egg as well. So keep farming and you will get them... i hope :)

Comment by Athorha

Just picked it up. Only saw it once across all my characters back in wotlk. Unsure how many solo attempts I've done, but I haven't been going at it for more than a month.
One thing I noticed this kill was that he didn't do his bladestorm attack. Probably a coincidence but hey... I find that when you get into mindless grinds for mounts you have to hold onto hope somehow.

Comment by ebeni

got this bad boy on my first type today. Blizzard most really like me because i also got the white swifthawk today as well.

Comment by hemma

Did this on a 85 dest warlock only me, didn't die but by the time the boss was half war dead i was OOM and really below health (i did have a few health potions but only the ones you get from outlands forgot witch ones) but i pulled through, all that work and no mount, poo lol but next time i know to do it with a friend :)

Comment by Wathley

Some Soloing information:
First of all, several packs are skippable. Assuming that you want to get to Skadi ASAP, skip as many packs as you can. Always stay as far away from them as you can. Like really tightly. The group at the top of the stairs is also skippable, again just pack right in. Svala is skippable obviously. The room with the giant monsters in it is actually a boss. It only activates if you click the little stone thing, so basically, don't. As a stealther (feral kitty) it's very easy all the packs are skippable, including the ones in the Skadi gauntlet. As a tank (blood) it's still very simple, just blitz through, plus SMeld will work, just check for DoTs first.

Comment by lilianvoss

I would really like some confirmation that this has been removed as of patch 5.0.4. I just checked the updated dungeon journals and under Skadi the Ruthless - there is no mention of this mount. Can anyone else confirm?

...may you be fleet of foot and quiet of blade...

Comment by Bloodiemarie

Is this mount still obtainable as of patch 5.0.4?

Comment by Lovhagsgatan

Confirmed drop as of 5.0.4.

Comment by Lynkyn

9/4/2012 It still drops off Skadi. I had been farming for months, I have two accounts and was running my Pally, DK, Hunter, Druid all solo and Mage/Shaman as a duo. Did Druid, Hunter, DK today and it dropped when my Pally got him. Now it's Battle Net Account bound so it's on both account!

As Charlie Sheen says "Winning!"

Comment by Summeriah

It's getting to the point where I'm starting to believe if this baby will ever drop...
Please Mr. Proto, pleeeasssseeee drop.

Comment by mtenebras

I'm a unluck man... on all my chars i had solo about a thousand times and nothing... I think that theses things only happens to me... I've lost Aeonaxx on a miracle ''Phase Bug'' ( GM Anwser) too... It look that i cant get anything epic item..peharps a problem if my no exists NRG... Ty Blizzard... Yes U can

Comment by Lostjerry

Been farming maybe for a total of 8 months everyday with at least 2 diff toons and still nothing..... what happen to the more you do something the better the chance you have thing?

i hate you sometimes blizz

Comment by nealj121

Would like to update that I have not been told that anyone has seen it drop since 5.0.4. However, that does not mean it isn't still dropping.

I noticed when 5.0.4 was released, the blue proto was listed in the "updated" dungeon journal. However, after many hotfixes - it is no longer listed. This goes for other rare mount drops in heroic dungeons. But I did get the raven lord in SH the day 5.0.4 was released so I believe they are still dropping but Blizz is being more "Secretive" about it (aka rare).

Comment by macochey

Confirmed drop as of 5.0.5 even if it's no longer listed in the codex

Comment by Mahieu

Just had it drop here on US Malfurion after patch 5.0.5. As I was looting trash I had Wapach's Spaulders of Solidarity drop. I chuckled to myself wondering if that meant the mount would drop too. Probably a coincidence but any info I can offer might be helpful. Best of luck to everyone else on their hunt!

Comment by Caterpillar2011

Is this mount still dropped? I was looking though the dungeon journal in the 5 play heroics and when i went to skadi the ruthless the mount did not show up under what you could loot from skadi......it worried me.

Comment by mtenebras

Confirmed!
That mount never will drop to me... never!

Comment by Syvan

Woot! Just had this drop tonight. Quite easy soloing with a level 85 Retribution Paladin. It was only my 3rd run, so I think I was quite lucky unless they increased the drop chance or something. Unfortunately my characters are poor and I don't have the 4000 gold required for Artisan riding on the character I had this drop for, so it'll be a little bit until I can use this.

Comment by mazhop

dropped for me tonight, 7th run.

I'm going to update this since I did do something different on my last run. Prior, I just ignored everything up until the boss. This last time I was bored and cleared everything up till him. Could it be related? who knows but I felt I should mention it.

Comment by Mazrimtaym

I have no run this 186 times without seeing the mount. :( Sad Panda

Comment by Belhades

Still havent dropped this mount and im running it on average 5 times a day for about 2 weeks.. im up to 10 runs a day now on my account and i still havent seen it :S

Comment by mtenebras

Confirmed! Droped for me today, one day before MoP release.
Finnaly! I've w8 so long for it! ^^

Comment by azzgunther

I wonder if the drop rate has been boosted somewhat. This mount went from fairly rare on my server to seemingly common in about a week after the 5.04 patch. In the ensuing weeks I've seen more people on it than I can ever remember before, and it fell for me as well. Has anybody else seen this on their servers?

Comment by Gartax

Well today i finally got my blue proto! I have about 50 runs and I have seen 2 blue protos drop. First one i gave to my friend around 20 attempts and now i have mine :3

Can confirm it still drops as of patch 5.0.5

Comment by revernt

Just got it today. It was somewhere between 70 and 100 runs, I cleared all the bosses except for trophy room.

Comment by Opallace

neither this mount, nor rivendare's charger show up in my atlas loot addon or the dungeon guide as a drop off rivendare or skadi. i have it updated, but does anyone know why this is? and can anyone confirm both still drop as of 5.0.5?

Comment by Frijole89

Ok i'm new to this site but i wanted to help out anyone i can to get the Blue Proto Drake. I ended up getting the mount on my first run, and what i did was pretty much skip a majority of the mobs and only defeated the first boss. When i got to skadi i got both achievements for defeating him in 3 minutes AND defeating him with the harpoons in one pass. I'm not sure if i just got extremely lucky or if i happened across the way to getting this to drop.... Good luck to those who still need this mount!

Comment by Archoprez

Just saw this on the black market AH, bids starting at 20k

Comment by ShadowWolff

The achv has nothing to do with the drop rate on this item. As stated before, the loot table is already decided when you enter the instance. After MoP came out, I decided to solo it at 90 and it finally dropped for me today. I am a bm hunter and just camo all the way to Skadi, and then I used the Barrage talent to take out the trash in seconds.

Comment by gamedotwow

This mount has a slightly higher numerical drop rate to the Ashes of A'lar. However, due to Lich King Heroics being based off of an individual lottery when you enter the instance (versus an algorithm-based drop system in The Eye), the drop chance might even be lower.

I got it out of pure dumb luck, as did everyone else who has it. The key is farming, because number crunching doesn't really work in Lich King instances.

Good luck, though! It's a very cool mount, and (like the Mammoths) if you're a Tauren, the damn thing huge!

Comment by Greyvax

I was fortunate enough to get this mount out of a Misty Satchel of Exotic Mysteries recently.

Comment by bobalmity36

run H Utgarde pinnacle with 5 85s every day - check
go from 0/1000 neutral to 999/1000 exalted with horde expedition on all 5 toons jsut from running the instance - check
memorize every mob and how to avoid them on each toon - check
subconsciously memorize svala sorrowgrave' and skadi' intro monologue - check
get stupid-lucky and have mount drop - still working on that

Comment by frailgesture

I just looted this out of a Call To Duty reward, the Misty Satchel. So it's apparently gettable in Pandaria.

Comment by Pyxxie

Not even an hour after getting my Reins of the Raven Lord, this fat boy dropped after seven consecutive instance runs. This was on November 15th, 2012.

Yep. That was a good day.

Comment by kahnage

Just looted this bad boy 10min ago. Definitely still dropping. Farmed UP HC everyday on 4 toons. 150+ kills. A bit taxing, but feels worth it in the end :D

Comment by likearobotdoes

Just got it off of a Satchel of Exotic Mysteries, first time running. 11/22/12

Comment by Summeriah

Just got the Blue Proto this morning on server Ysera. I was starting to think that it was never gonna drop for me, but after 300 runs on three different chars the reins finally drop (I did not get the reins from the satchel though). This mount is perfect for my frost dk, I cant be happier! Don't give up on the drake... sooner or later the reins will drop for you. :)

Comment by Heteroscodra

Just got the mount on my level 90DK (patch 5.1), first heroic run on that char, dropped on the first try, killed it in under 1 minute.

Comment by Aetherin

I got mine at the start of WoTLK my first time in the heroic instance. The other day, another one dropped for me. :( I wish mounts like this were able to be gifted to friends.

Comment by AffeGaming

Anyone know If I have to kill every boss or kill it a special way?
I tryed to get this mount since the sommer, and i have 3 characters and still no loot.

Well I'm NOT giving up! Never surrender! WOAH!

Comment by Dinosaurs

Me and my friend decided to complete some old achievements (The Incredible Hulk from Svala Sorrowgrave) We decided to do Skadi just for the possibility of getting a mount, and we got it! I was also lucky enough to win the roll :)

Comment by PandaBoo

Can anyone confirm that this mount still drops after MoP release?

Comment by Akitnaya

Been farming for a month now 4 this mount & still no luck. As a lvl 90 hunter, I usually go invisible & skip all the bosses before Skadi & kill the trash mobs 4 frostweave cloth then kill Skadi in under min. Good luck to everyone else farming like me!

Comment by Organthrone

Well, I'd basically been running UP since I turned 90. Three months of perseverance, and it dropped yesterday, on New Year's Eve.

I've had worse ends to a year.

Comment by andrubear

Can anyone confirm if this still drops if the instance is soloed on Heroic Mode, as the information on here is a little conflicting?

Comment by sgscarborough

After 178 runs across 3 toons I finally got Skadi to drop my very own blue proto-drake! It was a long grind! I got exalted with 5 factions doing these runs! I'm sure it will take a while before the dreams of wandering around Utgarde killing Skadi will subside. I first saw this mount drop when WotLK was brand new. Sadly I lost the roll, but I knew I had to have this mount and never gave up. If you are still farming this mount don't give up! It will happen! :)

Comment by Skarli

Got this one now after about 20 runs on my shammy. Have done it about 8 times on my druid as well. So sweet that i don't have to farm this instance any more. Now i got the raven mount this one so its only the green proto-drake left now.

Comment by mezili

If you are grinding for Reins of the Blue Proto-Drake, here's how to get to Skadi the Ruthless while killing the least amount of mobs possible:

How to get there (Horde only, I assume):
Take a portal to Dalaran, and fly to Vengeance Landing in Howling Fjord (the flight path from Dalaran will take you straight there). When landed, look West, and you should see the wooden lift. Fly up, and around the right side of the dragon's head, as the entrance is on the North side of the castle (57, 46).

When inside Utgarde Pinnacle:
In the King's Hoard (the first room with the gold), run in between the torch and raised ground (43, 33).
In Raven's Watch, run on to the large pile of snow, and stay left. Use a targetable AOE on the mobs to the right of the second pillar to avoid aggroing the pat mob. Run past the Scourge Hulk, staying close to the snow. When you get to the mob of four by the fire, jump on to the ledge of the pillar to the left (from the snowpile) and run around the left of the dragon lantern.
In Observence Hall, just ignore and run past Svala Sorrowgrave. She won't aggro because of her conversation with the Lich King (if you run through fast enough, she'll still be talking when you get to Skadi the Ruthless). Stick to the left wall as you turn the corner.
To avoid aggroing the pat on the stairs (Ymirjar Flesh Hunter and two wolves) wait until they're standing at the top of the stairs to run by them on the left.
In the Trophy Hall, run alongside the right pillars to avoid the pat.

For Skadi the Ruthless, run towards the harpoon launchers while collecting all the mobs and throw an AOE on the ground. Collect three of the harpoons, stand between to launchers so you're in range of both of them, and wait for Skadi the Ruthless to fly in front of them. Harpoon him down (click left launcher, right, and then left; or vice versa) and DPS.
There will only be two trash mobs left over that will keep you in combat after you kill Skadi the Ruthless.

Comment by Enterthevoid

It is notable that while the drake is blue, its breath remains beige. I believe that this needs fixing, since it doesn't look right. A blue breath would be so much cooler!

Comment by Bugtrooper

Unfortunately I am almost ready to give up on this, looking at about 300+ runs now across my characters, I know the drop rate is low, but come on! As mentioned below it does allow you to get exalted with loads of factions from WOTLK not to mention the 7 honor points Skadi gives you for the pleasure of ruining his day of course, have about 2500 now and have never once PVP`d. If you are going for this mount just remember it may take a while and don't get too angry with those lovely people who "got it on my 1st run, woot!". Good luck drake hunters.

Comment by MTemplar

Just passed 100 runs on each toon, times 5 toons for a total of 500 runs, across 100 days and still no drop. This thing might as well be the Time-Lost Proto-Drake how hard it is to get.

Comment by z1z2z3

FINALLY got mine after probably over 100 runs (3 different characters), so can confirm it still drops in MoP!

Also, make sure it's on heroic. If you aren't getting it after 500 runs, something is up.

Comment by Ebolkaa

Finally guys... 87 runs, my heart stop beating.. I am very happy. Good luck all

Comment by DBGOW1

Lucky enough to get this on my second solo run. For the record, however, its so much less tedious if you have a druid or rogue to just stealth past everything. Good luck people, and keep hope!

Comment by TheWheatOne

Some quick calculations on farm and chance:

Flat chance 1/70 of dropping. This does not change. You could get it the first run, or get to the theoretical binomial limit below.

Farm is assumed to be once per day, and is estimated by the Poisson formula.

If very lucky within binomial 33.33% (1 in 3) will get this by 29 days.

On average, people will get this within binomial 66.67% (2 in 3) counting 2 months 16 days.

If EXTREMELY unlucky, at 95.83% (22 to 23, out of 24 people will have gotten it before you), you'll have to farm this for a staggering 7 months 8 days!

With all theoretical computer simulated testing, 1 million (out of 1 million) people will be virtually guaranteed to get this within 2 years 9 months 13 days. If you need to farm this longer than that, consider yourself cursed by a demon.

Comment by SpectraKitty

I jUST got this drake today on my druid. BEAT THAT

Comment by SpectraKitty

As a dragon lover... i love all these dragons in this game.

Comment by borek921

Just got mine, after 95 Skadi kills...

Comment by Geardagas

Just got the drop in patch 5.1 landfall. Sent in the three of my characters that are able to solo it once a day for a few weeks. 62 skadi kills altogether. I skipped both of the earlier bosses and i've had both skadi achievements already.

It's still a drop even though the dungeon journal doesn't show it as one, and there are no tricks to increase the drop rate. Just keep plugging away.

Comment by Nacebomb

Just dropped on Nemesis-EU , 8th run. :)

Comment by Varinn

dropped for me today on my level 88 panda monks first time in the heroic version.. i was there farming rep for a engineering recipe and was surprised to see it after farming it on my {unlucky} paladin for years.

Comment by TheXiz00

I tried to get this mount for far more then 100 times now, im just incredibly unlucky. :(
Mine hunt will continue..

Comment by TheWheatOne

Dropped on X amount of runs for X amount of days, as of X.X patch on X-US realm, so I can, like so many others, confirm that this hasn't stopped dropping for some random reason that does not exist and having no reason thinking it to exist. This comment is helpful and is obviously not an ego-spam celebration that adds nothing.

Comment by hack830

Got it on my second try..don't know whether I should be happy or a little sad that it didn't take that long...lol #needthingstodo

Comment by InOneEar

This mount is occasionally available through the Black Market Auction House http://www.wowhead.com/npc=62943. Starting bid is 20,000 gold and every time someone bids on it the time left on the auction is extended.

Comment by Bugtrooper

Dropped for me this weekend, just running it on my Paladin as I have hundreds of times before, almost on auto pilot now when I saw the loot come in! Just could not sop smiling, my girlfriend was also happy as she no longer has to hear my moaning about the low drop rate etc. Really worth the wait and if anything will appreciate this mount even more for the hassle I went to in obtaining it. Don't lose heart on this one, believe me it will drop for you eventually. Bit sad about not seeing Skadi anymore now, he has become like a stingy friend who never bought a round at the pub...

Great example of why people avoid MMO`s, was simply trying to verify it still dropped and that people should not giving up chasing their dream mounts. But thanks for the hate Enterthevoid, enjoy your bitter small minded existence, I shall think twice about entering into dialogue with the wow "community" from now on. Jeez...

Comment by HikateNeechan

I´m farming this mount for 3 months... Still nothing... Oh god, why me...? :(

I´ve got so many items (belts, pants, staffs...) but mount? NO! UGHHHHH! >o<

Comment by Artim

Hope springs eternal.
I have ran 220 ish times on a single toon (only play one) and no "luck".
I have ran Utgarde Pinn. (H) where looting was set on free loot before I knew a mount was to be had.
I have trusted these people and I am sure that they would have said something if the Blue Proto Drake dropped...
I hope.
Thank you Wowhead for letting me vent.
All is good, maybe soon. :)

Comment by Alavic

Just got this out of my Misty Satchel of Exotic Mysteries.

Comment by Valenci

Fury warrior - Skipped Svala and Gortok, 2 initial harpoons - 3rd harpoon on Skadi's 2nd flyover, killed him and it dropped. 30-50 runs, lost count, hope this helps - keep at it - don't give up!

Comment by SpectraKitty

Why is he/she called a proto-drake? Doesn't proto makes "Fake"?

Comment by Gusman917

As I waited for an Xmog run of DS10 to form I decided to solo this for the very first time and the very first run(heroic wise) for the heck of it. I usally seem to get stuff when Im not paying attention so I got the nice little achieve and started to read it, which actually distracted me and I about forgot to loot the boss when suddenly...... BOOM! I see 2 drops, 1 epic(the reins) and some blue. I was in a group so I had to roll on it, and luckily no one was in there with me because I rolled... a.... 5. Haha NOTE: This achievement does not lead to a 100% drop, that would be stupid as of now seeing you can one shot the mobs who drop the harpoons at lvl 90. But happy farming and best of luck to you all!

Comment by sickbox

Here is a list of mount drops from Instances, Raids, and World Bosses to save some looking around.

Level 60

Instances
Deathcharger's Reins - Stratholme - Lord Aurius Rivendare

Raids
Blue Qiraji Resonating Crystal - Temple of Ahn'Qiraj - Trash
Green Qiraji Resonating Crystal - Temple of Ahn'Qiraj - Trash
Yellow Qiraji Resonating Crystal - Temple of Ahn'Qiraj - Trash
Red Qiraji Resonating Crystal - Temple of Ahn'Qiraj - Trash

Level 70

Instances
Reins of the Raven Lord - Sethekk Halls - Anzu (Heroic)
Swift White Hawkstrider - Magisters' Terrace - Kael'thas Sunstrider (Heroic)

Raids
Fiery Warhorse's Reins - Karazhan - Attumen the Huntsman
Ashes of Al'ar - The Eye (Tempest Keep) - Kael'thas Sunstrider

Level 80

Instances
Reins of the Blue Proto-Drake - Utgarde Pinnacle - Skadi the Ruthless (Heroic)
Reins of the Bronze Drake - The Culling of Stratholme - Infinite Corruptor (Heroic)

Raids
Reins of the Grand Black War Mammoth - Vault of Archavon (All 4 Bosses)
Reins of the Azure Drake - The Eye of Eternity - Malygos
Reins of the Blue Drake - The Eye of Eternity - Malygos
Reins of the Black Drake - The Obsidian Sanctum - Sartharion (3 Drakes - 10)
Reins of the Twilight Drake - The Obsidian Sanctum - Sartharion (3 Drakes - 25)
Reins of the Onyxian Drake - Onyxia's Lair - Onyxia
Mimiron's Head - Ulduar - Yogg-Saron (No Watchers - 25)
Invincible's Reins - Icecrown Citadel - The Lich King (Heroic - 25)

Level 85

Instances
Reins of the Drake of the North Wind - The Vortex Pinnacle - Altairus
Reins of the Vitreous Stone Drake - The Stonecore - Slabhide
Swift Zulian Panther - Zul'Gurub - High Priestess Kilnara (Heroic)
Armored Razzashi Raptor - Zul'Gurub - Bloodlord Mandokir (Heroic)
Amani Battle Bear - Zul'Aman (Timed Reward)

Raids
Reins of the Drake of the South Wind - Throne of the Four Winds - Al'Akir
Flametalon of Alysrazor - Firelands - Alysrazor
Smoldering Egg of Millagazor - Firelands - Ragnaros
Experiment 12-B - Dragon Soul - Ultraxion
Reins of the Blazing Drake - Dragon Soul - Deathwing
Life-Binder's Handmaiden - Dragon Soul - Deathwing (Heroic - 10/25)

Level 90

Instances - None

World Boss
Reins of the Heavenly Onyx Cloud Serpent - Kun-Lai Summit - Sha of Anger
Son of Galleon's Saddle - Valley of the Four Winds - Galleon
Reins of the Thundering Cobalt Cloud Serpent - Isle of Thunder - Nalak
Reins of the Cobalt Primordial Direhorn - Isle of Giants - Oondasta

Raids
Reins of the Astral Cloud Serpent - Mogu'shan Vaults - Elegon
Spawn of Horridon - Throne of Thunder - Horridon
Clutch of Ji-Kun - Throne of Thunder - Ji-Kun

Comment by KillaGuerrilla

Terenas Eu - Saw this mount on the BMAH for 21,000 gold with *long* time left. I knew I would rather buy it than run Utgarde Pinnacle for it, so I camped there on my rogue.

I got nervous as hell because there were loads of other people around, but turns out they were there for invitations or the T3 paladin helmet.

A few hours later, it was just an alliance shaman and I (horde rogue). I thought it was going to get ugly and go really high, so I sent a large chunk of gold from my bank. Bid after bid, we kept battling until he suddenly gave up at 32.5k. At this time, it was *short* time left. My heart was pumping, I didn't dare do anything in case I got outbid by some random guy hiding on the roof.... Then suddenly I won!

For 32.5k as well, which in my opinion is WELL worth it, comparable to Vial of Sands or one of the panther mounts.

Good luck to anyone who is farming this, and a big Gz to anyone like me that wins this on the BMAH!

Comment by Blueviper

Just dropped for me on my priest, I've been farming on 2 chars daily for a few weeks, probably about 30 runs total, including the runs I did with my DK for about a week before running it with my priest too.

Fiery Warhorse's Reins dropped for me yesterday and Anzu about a month ago, been riding the wave recently haha.

Comment by Zuter

Just got mine on second try!:) So awesome looking!:)

Comment by viff

Drops in 5.2 still got it today. Did not kill any of the begining bosses ran it across 5 characters everyday for 1 week and got it good luck

Comment by andwefrolicked

dropped today on my 34th kill

Comment by Elthia27

Finally got this after around 300 runs. RNG can be a pain, had started to wonder if it still dropped at all in 5.2 but it still does. :) Best of luck to all who are farming, Skadi is pretty easy now so good luck and have fun!

Comment by dspenguin1966

Just drop for me the first time running through solo @ lvl 90. Got lucky as hell!

Comment by ghunt23

Got this on my Second run! Been having good luck with these rare dungeon mounts. Now off to vortex pinnacle!

To better your chances take all of your toons 85+ Recommended each day, happy hunting!

Comment by StaFish

Here's my cool story, i was in random heroic. Was tanking like a god of course, so what i was about? uhh okay, so 2 paladins in my party we going to kill last boss, .. done! So i was like uhmhmhm, wow NICE PLATE, oh wait there is 2 palading? well $%^&.. roll... 1! GOD F*CKING SAKE, (their roll 90, 86)
/s GUYS CAN I HAVE IT PLEASE? - NOPE JUST CHUCK TESTA. they leave...
also i was having no slot im my backpack, and the Misty Satchel of Exotic Mysteries like i was thinkking lost.
but no 5 mins later some mail came, (forgon about it option), like always i was uhumhmhmh 21-36 gold again TY god,
(do my 2 steps back (it really work try) loot, AND BOY THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY! Reins of the Blue Proto-Drake and some grey isht
Well good luck every one! hope you will loot it!
Старфиш ЯЛ. (russian server)
p.s sorry for my bad english

Comment by BubbRubb23

Some people thought that this mount had been taken out of the game, but after killing Skadi, and looting his damn iron belt hundreds of times (been over a year) I FINALLY got my blue proto-drake today. It's funny because I actually took about 2 months off from killing him because I was starting to think about just giving up on this mount. Today was my first day back after my hiatus. I started yelling when it dropped...my brother and boyfriend both think I've completely lost my mind to get excited over something like this. Haha! Good luck to everyone else still farming their blue proto-drake. I never want to see that damn dungeon again!

Comment by Thecanman

Way back in Wrath, it was my 16th run of the Pinnacle, and this drops from Skadi. I was ecstatic, and I was even more ecstatic when I rolled a 99 for it.

Then the tank got back (he went AFK right as we downed the boss), and he rolled...a 100. I was a sad puppy that day.

RNG can be a @#$%^ sometimes.

Comment by Alayener

I can say this mount is still available from the same dungeon. I believe it's drop rate hasn't changed though so it still might be a challenge to get this if you haven't already. This dropped for me on my 5th run but I know several people who still haven't got it after several years.

Comment by Kalabash

This dropped on my 458th run :P

Comment by Floofili

After months and months of farming the drake, I was sad, yet I never gave up no matter how much I wanted to. The other night, this baby just so happened to be on the BMAH (Black Market Auction House), and I won it! <3

Comment by Pyrotechx

Got one today! I was so excited to see this bad boy drop. I had run about 5-7 Skadi runs in Cataclysm, but didn't get it before I canceled my membership. I recently bought MoP and he dropped on my 3rd run!

First proto ever :)

Now time for the green and time-lost.

Comment by rymo

Dropped on my first farming run at level 90. I nearly wet myself.

Comment by Queenofdruids

I finally got the blue proto drake after many attempts. I can confirm that you can skip adds and bosses and there is still a chance that the mount can drop. I hope this helps good luck mount collectors!

Comment by joburocks

Got this on my first run. Consider myself extremely lucky. 5.3

Comment by Mage12322

The dungeon for this boss is very easy to solo at level 90, so if you have multiple level 90s, they can all do this run once per day (as only 1 character has to learn it for all the others + future ones to learn it too)

Comment by r00t61

So I was sitting here at 131 Skadi kills without seeing the proto drake drop, and since I was getting annoyed by the RNG gods, I decided to do some math.

Previous posters have described what the drop rate is (1/70, or ~= 1.4%), and how to calculate the cumulative binomial expectation, and so forth, but these don't show the whole picture.

I decided to perform a large Monte Carlo simulation (1,000,000 total iterations), to see whether 131 kills was actually really unlucky, or if I should just my mouth and keep farming.

The results might surprise you.

First off, the minimum value is 1, and the maximum value is 1,013. What does that mean? It means that in our simulation, consisting of a sample population of 1,000,000 players, some got the drake after just 1 kill, and some needed an astounding 1,013 kills. More on the min/max values in a bit.

Second, the median is 49. What does that mean? That means that 50% of our sample population of players saw the drake drop after 49 kills. I.e., 500,000 players (out of the simulation sample size of 1,000,000) got the drake after no more than 49 kills.

Third, the mode is 1. What does that mean? It means that getting the proto drake after exactly 1 kill is the single most likely outcome in this probability distribution. Let me say that again. GETTING THE DRAKE AFTER EXACTLY 1 KILL is the single most likely outcome. In the simulation, 14,257 players got the drake after just 1 kill. This represents nearly 1.43% out of the sample population of 1,000,000 players.

For comparison's sake, the next most frequent outcome was getting the drake after exactly 3 kills. In the simulation, 14,045 players did this. They represent 1.40% of the sample population.

Conversely, only 1 player out of our sample population of 1,000,000 needed 1,013 kills to get his drake. This poor fellow represents 0.0001% of the population.

Let's talk about the median again for a minute. I said that the median was 49, which means that 50% of players will see the drake drop after 49 kills. In your mind, you are probably thinking, "Well, then the remaining 50% of players should see the drake after another 49 kills, right? So 98 kills total? Doesn't sound too bad."

You'd like to think so, wouldn't you? I would too.

This would be true, if the probability distribution for this drop rate was normally distributed - i.e., a classic symmetric bell curve. Unfortunately, this isn't the case. The probability distribution for this drop rate is decidedly asymmetric, with an extreme skew to the right. You can clearly see it on the histogram (see http://i426.photobucket.com/albums/pp342/r00t61/Blueprotodrakehistogram_zps9c0672c6.png).

Let's talk about quartiles, and how they illustrate this skew:

1st quartile: 25% of players will get the drake after just 20 kills or less. (The Really Lucky)
2nd quartile: 25% of players will get the drake sometime between 21 and 49 kills. (The Pretty Lucky)
3rd quartile: 25% of players will get the drake sometime between 50 to 97 kills. (The Kind Of Unlucky)
4th quartile: 25% of players will get the drake sometime between 98 to 1013 kills. (The Fel-Cursed)

75% (or 750,000) of the players in the sample population will get the drake after 97 kills or less. However, the remaining 25% (250,000 players) will need anywhere between 98 - 1013 kills. There's the skew, right there. Those extreme outliers are THE definition of bad RNG.

At 131 kills, I am already in the 4th quartile. The odds of my getting the drake on my next kill (number 132) are roughly 0.19%. If I continue to farm Skadi for a year (365 more kills), the cumulative binomial expectation of seeing the drake drop increases by just 15%.

Ugh.

This post isn't meant to discourage anyone from trying to get their favorite mount/pet/xmog/what have you. Rather, it's meant to illustrate that when your item doesn't drop, that's because you're fighting math.

And the only way to beat math is with patience. Sometimes, a whole lot of it.

Comment by Ciggyyy

I have bin grinding it for 2 weeks, woke up this morning coffee in had. It dropped on my run . Not gonna lie i ran around my house for a little awhile .

http://imgur.com/ff8DMnO

Comment by bbymolo

Confirmed still Dropping 07/05/13

After only 5 runs! :D

Comment by Kierazer

While going thru this and no drop everytime, there is an upside you can atleast get 50g per run and frostweave cloth while doing these runs, so you are leaving with something good :)

Comment by fatboys1im

Was flying past Utgarde Pinnacle today, thought to myself, may as well give "The Incredible Hulk" a try.

After a couple goes I had my achiev and thought, well.... I'm here, may as well see if I can get the Blue Proto. So I carried on, killed Skadi, then looted and closed my eyes, hoping for that "reigns-of-something-you-just-totally-lucked-out-and-looted" sound effect ...

VOILÀ

I couldn't believe it. I'll admid I've tried this before, maybe twice... always at my leisure. So the moral of this story is don't let drops like this eat away at you; wanting something too bad will only bring frustration. On the other hand, it's worth remembering these things are out there just waiting for you. Give it a go if you've got extra time.

Never know... you might just get lucky =]

Comment by wordspinner82

Went in to do "The Incredible Hulk" and decided to try for the mount. Been after this since Wrath came out and guess what?

:D

Comment by thedude640

Just dropped for me after farming this for a month or so took a few days off was flying by and thought I give it a try and boooooom got my mount! :D

Comment by Jeolene

Yay! I finally got it... but I can't use it because for some reason, even though all my alts can use all my mounts, the alt I got it on can't learn it... thank for the waste of time, blizz.

Comment by Luvetospooge

Finally dropped for me tonight.

Unsure how many runs ive done through this place, its certainly not a stratholme and ive mainly had fun doing it. It would be my first task everytime i logged in each day...(now what do i do?)

Ive 81 King Ym...what ever hes called kills, but i didnt always do the entire thing. In fact most times i didn't, so id estimate 200+?

I ran it on 2 toons for a long long time. I can recall it been a bit tricky in the distant past and occasionally dying at the hands of 'you-motherless-knaves-somthing-or-other-for-my-new-drake shouting Mr Skadi' .

As others have noted, its not a fruitless run through if you do it all, a bit of gold and some stuff to sell. I would always do everything up to skadi, however tonight i bypassed everything. No idea why!

I was kind of expecting it, for some reason. And there it was. But no fanfare, no achievement ringing out or anything like that, there it was, in the loot list, along with his blasted iron belt thing which i must have sold with all the other vendor trash loot more times than I've had hot dinners.....

Six/Luvetospooge, Bronze Dragonflight EU

Comment by socalheel

Got this last night on my sixth or seventh dedicated run trying for this mount. Who knows how many times I've run this dungeon at level but I never set out just for this mount until now.

After all the time I've put in grinding for drop mounts, getting this so soon was a nice surprise.

Comment by Sallitha

I've seen this drop my first time trying for it, but I was with another person who's tried to try for it, I rolled a 1-5 can't remember entirely, he rolled a 90-100 (still can't remember)

Comment by mcbigj

Awesome. Mine dropped today, only second time doing the dungeon. I know I'm lucky, but I'm stoked.

Comment by Luke823

Just dropped for me on 10/17/13 at 2:57 p.m. I can confirm it still drops. Looks great with the archaeology item: Vrykul Drinking Horn.

Comment by Stugs

My Dad looted this proto drake twice (I'm not 100% sure if it was possible to loot twice or he just seen it drop for a second time). It was before cataclysm so mounts weren't account bound.He deleted the character in the end so never got it back.

What's wrong with this post? Oh right it looks like some idiot has had a disliking spree.

Comment by MrDemious

I seriously started to think that this mount dropping from Skadi was a myth... It took me like 5 years and well over 1200 runs to see it drop for the first time. Today it finaly dropped and I'm so glad I never have to do that run again!

Comment by BestMageEU

I am currently going for this mount.

Comment by digitalsoda

The first time I ran this dungeon it dropped and I won. Thinking it must be a pretty standard drop off the loot table or something (because who is seriously that lucky, right?) I took the offer of some dude in my group wanting to buy it for about 1k gold.

Years later I finally get it again after countless runs on multiple alts.

Comment by Stugs

What's with the mass of downvotes on this page? I've just upvoted quite a few as there's nothing wrong with them.
Yep...Idiots.

Comment by bizslim

Finally got this after more than a year of farming. Wow! :D

Comment by Cambie

Haha just got this first go. Ended up spending 259 runs getting the Deathcharger from Strath and thought I'd give it a go and BOOM first run!

Comment by roteus

It dropped for me yesterday on the second run.

Comment by Humiliated

Is it possible to get this mount without Artisan Riding?

Comment by ih303

I just got this in a Satchel of Cosmic Mysteries from Vale of Eternal Sorrows. Interesting since I've been farming Skadi on another toon for a while now.

Comment by Ebonator

Just got this from a Satchel of Cosmic Mysteries. First mount I've ever received :D.

Comment by Jinxia

Got mine in a "Satchel of Cosmic Mysteries" today. Didn't even make the connection as to where the original comes from until I looked it up. Guess I got lucky.

Comment by Estellebabii

SO HAPPY!
only mount i ever wanted in the game i feel a little more pro now that i finally got it!

was farming this baby since i got my first 90 about 2 years now,
after having starting farming with 7 ,90's everyday now for months finally it dropped,
my kids had said they wished they had a web cam on me,
when i realized what the purple item that had drop was,
i shook,i cried,they said it was a 'youtube" moment...
my hubby laughed really hard,
thought i won the lotto or something i was that excited!
i was in shock that it actually dropped,
wasnt even sure if i was running the dungeon right cuz it had never dropped,never even seen it in groups

never give up folks it'll drop <3

9:10 am Atlantic time,Stormrage 11/02/2014

now off to see if i can catch me a Ravenlord!

Comment by huldu

Is this mount a 100% drop chance nowadays? It can't be "luck"... I got this *and* Raven Lord on my first try. Note: I haven't played since wotlk.

Comment by Achooah

I will never know what getting this mount will feel like because i got it from a exotic mystery bag. Hate all you want.

Comment by Ulsleg

Got this today at 3:30 pm est after 23 runs on heroic!

Comment by SpawnRuler

Well, after a gazillion tries i finally got it!
I cheered so loud, my gf came down to check what all the commotion was all about :)

Comment by Jazzycakes2

So like most people I've been soloing multiple instances for various bosses and have put together some statistical likelihood that I want to share with you all so that you can use this information as well to your own bidding.

So I'm farming these mounts on a day basis
Reins of the Blue Proto-Drake 1.1% Chance to drop
Reins of the Raven Lord 1.6% Chance to drop
Armored Razzashi Raptor 1.0% Chance to drop
Swift Zulian Panther 0.96% Chance to drop
Reins of the Vitreous Stone Drake 0.77% Chance to drop
Reins of the Drake of the North Wind 0.8% Chance to drop

Now I want to look at the statistical likelyhood of NOT seeing any of the above drop, we use an inverted value for the above (1% turns to 99%, 1.5% to 98.5%). The calculation is as followed

0.989 x 0.984 x 0.99 x 0.9906 x 0.9923 x 0.992 = 93.94% Chance of none of the above mounts dropping. (6.06% chance of at least one mount dropping)

I improve this by running this 7 times a week = 0.9394^7 = 64.56% Chance of no mounts dropping
OR run this 21 times a week with 3 alts = 0.9394^21 = 26.91% Chance of no mounts (73.1% chance of at least 1 mount!)

Wednesday I also include 3 weekly mounts which include

Ashes of Al'ar 1.96% Chance to drop
Fiery Warhorse's Reins 0.85% Chance to drop
Reins of the Onyxian Drake 1.13% Chance to drop

This day the chance for nothing is (daily mounts) 0.9394 x 0.9804 x 0.9915 x 0.9887 =90.28% chance of nothing dropping - or 9.72% chance of one or more mounts dropping :)

Comment by Deebles

Just dropped for me. I must have ran it 40 or so times over the years...

Out of the blue while buying the mammoth mount from the exotic mount vender in dalaran I decided to head out there and have a go at it... It dropped. I was kind of in shock. I seen the purple but it did not register for a good couple seconds.

Pretty happy finally got a protodrake.

Comment by athrun66

a tip for engineers
Wormhole Generator: Northrend
use the howling fjord way point it drops you on top of the keep
good luck to all

Comment by alecrezyrk

I mean just a thought, it dropped for me the first time I killed the dragon in one go with 3 harpoons

Comment by sakkath

Have tried about 600+ times and still havent got this one..

Comment by rzzr

Based on the data from Jazzycakes2 here is a spreadsheet that will help you know the odds of a mount dropping if you are doing multiple runs and maybe using more than one character to farm them.
Will depress some people and hopefully encourage others!

Comment by kylyo

Made an account just to post this.

I am a casual player, just don't have time to raid. I've wanted an awesome mount for a while, but without raiding they are hard to come by. Make a long story short, I got this baby yesterday on my 30th Birthday! Was in shock seeing a purple icon upon looting!

I would say I am pretty lucky with only 25 total kills. Super awesome mount!

Comment by Heidimus73

Got this today on my run #80 :)

Comment by Telar

Hey Guys,

I created a video guide which shows you how to farm this mount- Here is the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUTh2PM3bkA

Have on my channel more such guides to Wow and other games such as Diablo III – here is the link to my cannel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3aP4dU-K2EeAErk2To5Chg

Sincerely Telar

Comment by Tanner95

I've gotten this mount from the bags you get from level 90 scenarios lol

Comment by Jalthelas

Just got the mount on my 2nd attempt on my hunter.

Ran for it at least two dozen times on my warrior, no drop.

I figure I am extremely lucky!

Just keep at it. Who knows, you could get it on your next try!

Comment by Powerdog

Got this from a Satchel of Cosmic Mysteries whilst running ToT LFR on my resto druid, neat little reward for gearing up a toon

Comment by deepthought1983

Just got this after farming intermittently for about six months and wanted to share my logistics with you.
1. This dropped for me at 11:35 pm
2. Realm time was 2:35 am
3. It was Thursday
4. I skipped virtually every mob I could using
camouflage as a 90 hunter with my spider
Pet. I only aggro'd two mobs, one in the very
1st corridor (the second mob, I was able to
Get by the first & 3rd).
5. I skipped all bossed except SK Addi
6. I had gotten bored with the routine so I started
Making patterns with the harpoon launchers.
7. At a high enough level, it only takes 3 harpoons
to kill him.
8. Before it states that he is in range, I shot him
With the middle one. Stepped over and shot
Him with the one on the right, and as he started
flying again I ran over and hit him with the far
left one.
9. This was my 81st Skaddi kill.

So. Long story short, this instance needs to be on five player Heroic. As a 90 you can solo it. And you don't need to kill any other mobs or bosses to get it..HAPPY FARMING!

Comment by Mertens

Aah, this guy. The fun we had...

At first, it was just "that annoying boss with the harpoons where some party member always messes up the timing". The one where pugs (my god, we still had hand-made pugs back then) would disband because someone still wouldn't move from the ice after 50 attempts. Oh, and he also dropped a mount, but it's not like you would ever see that one, let alone win it.

Then cata hit, we all hit lvl 85, boredom struck within the next few months, and it must have been early 2011 when I thought "you know what, let's pay good ol' Skadi a little visit". And so the journey began...

You know that feeling, when you start farming a mount, and you think: "this will be cake, 10 kills tops". You got your little cross set on the calendar, you're planning it in in your daily routine, the deal is done before you set your first foot in the dungeon. Oh, I was feeling it alright.

It must have been around attempt 20 that I thought "maybe I should put my hearthstone at Valgarde". Since I'm a mage, that wasn't really an issue. We port anywhere anyways, muha!

I vividly remember attempt 69. According to all the fancy calculations you see everywhere with the whole "if you killed it x many times you have an x * (<insert high-school statistics formula but I'm making this look like rocket-science>)% chance you see the mount drop. At that time, I was still looking at those numbers. An my god, I was at the 50% mark. Surely, it would drop now. Surely, I would not belong to "the other 50%". But I did.

At around attempt 150, I was on a first-name basis with the bosses in UP.
Svala, always up for some sucking up to the Lich King. "Oooh, look at me, I've been such a good girl, I beseech you for your blessing!" And he'd be like "lol, sure, lemme just point this beam at you" and then she'd be like "the sensation is beyond my imagining!". Pretty messed up, if you ask me. I just let them do their thing and walk on by.
Gortok never moved much. He would just stand there with his stuffed buddies. I have no idea what their deal was. If you're just going to stand there until a flying orbs comes to tickle you, maybe they shouldn't have given you those fancy blues to hold on to!

Skadi himself was never happy to see me. He'd just tease me with his mount (that he managed to farm apparently, thanks for rubbing it in) and call in his buddies. And the sorry lot this was! Still, they would get a hamstring in here and there, causing quite the annoyance.

Sometimes I would farm them every day for a few weeks, sometimes I would stay away for months. At times, I went in with 5 alts each day, trying to get this magnificent blue creature. Yet, the years went by. Deathwing was defeated, we discovered the mystical land of Pandaria, we conquered the power-hungry warchief of the horde, but the secrets of Skadi's mount were never uncovered. And Valgarde was my home.

It was a warm august night in 2014. I was about to call it and log for the day, when I thought, "I might as well go visit my old friends in UP". It was just a few days after the end of an "every day with multiple alts"-cycle. Svala was angry, Gortok was stoic and Skadi was arrogant. But this time, after he fell, a little message popped up. It was over...

In the end, it took 348 kills. By the math of the geniuses, I had around 97% chance that run that I would have seen the mount at least once. Then again, I was already in the 90% range since run 230...

I was extremely unlucky in this endeavor, but I never gave up hope...

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some boxes to pack and a heartstone to reconfigure. I'm moving out of Valgarde!

Comment by kamodobone

will i have higher chances of just doing it on heroic or normal? cuz i just been doing it on heroic once a day, and is the same aplay to the cata mounts? stonecore drake and north drake dungon ones?

Comment by sakkath

Finally got this today after like 650 runs, Got it on my new monk alt, and it was only his 5th run there :)

Comment by Shredderizer

Here's a question i can't seem to get answered anywhere. If i run thorugh the dungeon with 2 characters, is it a chance for the BPD to drop on both charcters?

Comment by RavenEwan

I have been soloing this for almost 2 weeks and it hasn't dropped. I got the achievement and all but still no drop. Does wow hate me? I'm starting to give up on it. Help?

Comment by Lyrrick

Well, after close to 8 months grinding this mount it finally dropped today. I would recommend running this on multiple toons and if you have an engineer invest in making a Wormhole Generator: Northrend. Anything to make your grinding easier :) Good luck everyone!

Comment by Heycresto

I got this mount on my 9th or if it was 10th kill on my warrior or if it was on the Paladin about a year or so ago. So kinda easy to say it even though the drop %.

Comment by Schlafrok

Went back to World of Warcraft after 2 years-lenght break, and after my 10th solo run to kill Skadi the Ruthless, here he is, Blue Proto. :3 Well, I guess i'm not going to have such luck with another drops.

Comment by NervousRex

I wouldn't normally rant on a comment section for an item, but after returning to WOW after a two year gap, I ran this just because its where my wormhole dropped my pally out.

I'd been farming for this mount on my main hunter for months and months during wotlk and then during cata and I never saw it drop once.

I ran this dungeon tonight and it FINALLY DROPS.....on a toon that does not have the flying skill to learn it! >.<

I am so gutted- If I had the spare gold to learn the skill I would not have been farming low level dungeons in the first place!

I swear blizz GMs watch us and do this kind of thing to be mean!

Comment by MoDiFiEdLoRd

This instance can be solo'd by a 90 mage, i walked in the other day first time since lvling and it dropped first time, can invis past a fair amount of this place which is good as well!

Comment by Damura

Had a guy get this from Ji-Kun in ToT. HotsforDots from Emerald Dream. Not sure when the loot table on this changed, maybe a bonus in the last patch?

Comment by Alreadytaken

As of patch 6.0.2 the fight now requires you to shoot 6 harpoons instead of 3, significantly increasing the time it takes to down Skadi.

I feel sorry for myself :(

Comment by Spyderz

Finally managed to get 3 spears quickly enough to down him before he flew off, barely. Was feeling good about it and.....! No mount :(

Comment by Orphia

If you're going to solo him as a hunter, don't make the same mistake I did. Make sure your pet's on passive. Mine ended up one-shotting him after I harpooned his proto-drake down, so no loot for me.

...with my luck, the mount would have dropped.

Comment by BlackSpade741

was running utgarde pinnacle for heroic achievements and it dropped! i didn't even expect it!

Comment by lokyo

Um.. Still Blown away by what I've seen. Snagged' it First Run, First time Heroic on Rogue. RNGesus played it. "Well Met!" Thanks for the guide and also the comments. Still can't believe what happened.

Comment by Blackbolt22

I got it on the first try. Patch 6.1.0! Very easy and mobs don't even agro. Skip to the last boss.. I am in disbelief that it dropped on the first try for me. Perhaps they increased the drop rate? Looks awesome and took me longer to fly (Horde) to Vengeance landing than to get the mount, lol.

Good luck everyone!

Comment by ucplayer

Just started farming this with 11 chars per day. I'm on the 2nd day today.
Lets see how many months it will take :D
(I did around 50 runs in WotLK and never seen it drop)

Comment by Random0009

I don't count my mount runs anymore (just roughly with DBM addon). I was farming with 4 characters, and it dropped in 65-75 runs. Good luck!

"Your sacrifice is a testament to your obedience!"

Comment by Yogthsothoth

Just got this after like 10 runs

Comment by philerup

dropped first run. call it dumb luck. TY RNG.

Comment by Ulphilas

Decided to try for this mount last night. Ran it, didn't drop. Wasn't expecting it to, with the drop rate at 1%-ish.
Ran it again tonight. Dropped him with three harpoons on his first pass. Got the achievement looted him and was shocked to see the reins there. Only two runs.

Am more than happy :)

Comment by Nerdstomper

For me this mount is a myth.Never,ever seen it drop while solo or group back in wrath.

Comment by biggaz69

I honestly think Skadi the Ruthless should be renamed Skadi the Lonesome, he has to be lonely wanting me back every friggin day for the last 124 days :( He doesn't want me to fly away into the skies of northrend on the Reins of the Blue Proto-Drake

Comment by Mechanofrost

Can anyone confirm that it drops in Timewalking mode during the event? I personally doubt it: it is not listed as possible loot in Timewalking mode in Atlas and it would be strange to give such things via Personal loot, imho.

Comment by Nerrevar

As of 6.2.2 this mount can be obtained as personal loot in the Heroic version of Utgarde Pinnacle during a timewalking event.

Comment by furymask

Dropped for me today, 8/20/15 52nd run, was the last mount I needed to have all the dungeon drop mounts

final total count all dungeon runs

Swift White Hawkstrider, 3 runs
Vitrious Stone Drake, 7 runs
Swift Zulian Panther, 16 runs
Drake of the North Wind, 23 runs
Blue Proto Drake, 52 runs
Armored Razzashi Raptor, 61 runs
Raven Lord, 66 runs
Rivendare's Deathcharger, 203 runs

Comment by LaCokaNostra

Just got in on my first timewalking dungeon! awesome!

Comment by deathxelf

This mount can also drop from timewalking, just so you know

Comment by riotangel

The other day a player in my party was automatically assigned the blue proto-drake reins without any roll (gear drop was still being rolled for). Has the reins been adjusted as personal loot now? If so, then remember to loot Skadi yourself always.

Comment by jde1126

Got it today from a "Misty Satchel of Exotic Mysteries"

Comment by Gooby

Just dropped for me in Timewalking mode :)

Comment by angryoprah

Just received this mount from the hotfix mentioned above. It was personal loot, didn't even roll in the group. First drake. Finally something other than my headless mount.

Comment by Gluscus

159 attempts...

hints:

You can run on the snow mound / hill on the left
you can skip first 2 bosses

Speed increase down the gauntlet so you can launch 2 harpoons (can launch right before it says he is in range)
Kill the mobs or avoid since they will hamstring you.
Speed increase to kill the harpooner that spawns so you can run back and launch it to bring the boss down before he casts breathe. You can bring the boss down before he makes one pass.

Proceed and kill the final boss so the gates open and exit the instance and park the toon for tomorrow.

Comment by Gormadok

dropped for me today. funny thing is that after i farmed while chicken from Magister's Terrace and Dino+Panther from ZG i decided to focus all my 100s to catch this drake. even if it takes a while to fly to that instance from Dalaran. And ive got in my 3rd attempt today (30th or 40th overall) with an alt which ran this one first time ever. Its true that yiu can skip 1st boss and dont activate 2nd. just run to your destination and pray :D

Comment by Malthmazar

Been after this drake in Utgarde Keep for almost two months and almost doing it daily. No drop yet. I'm 100 and overly geared and wonder if that has anything to do with it. I'm going back to old content to get mounts and rep grinds. This has been the hardest one I've been after so far.

Comment by Soul1376

Droped from timewalking, twice.

Comment by Horsemalf

Skadi finally dropped the drake for me tonight.

Comment by SacredLie

Droped from timewalking, nice mount
https://youtu.be/mIlFqhGNl0E

Comment by Velariana

Dropped for me tonight while visiting the Lunar Festival elders and I wasn't even actively trying to get it. I just figured the holiday event would be a good excuse to do Heroic Skadi and then there it was!

Comment by biggaz69

Finally got it, had 6 alts parked there and for over two weeks they got nothing but a bruised ego. So I thought I'd add another, my shammy, dropped first time for him. Now the other alts wont speak to him :/

Comment by Arthasecous

I refuse to believe this mount exists. I have been farming this mount daily for 2 months now, with 12 (TWELVE) alts. And it still hasn't dropped.
To cope with this incredibly bad luck I've concluded that I must've done something incredibly upsetting to a Blizzard employee. There's no other explanation.

Comment by Shetep321

Just felt like mentioning that if you are farming this with a buddy for fun (I know it's easily soloed) be careful as the personal loot roll for the mount that was implemented for the Lich King timewalking is still in effect well after the timewalking ended.
My buddy got the mount while we were partied together on March 08, 2016 (months after the timewalking event) without rolling for it, and I didn't even know it dropped until I read it in the chat log. This occurred when the dungeon was set to group loot.
This mount is non-tradable when looted this way.

Farming mounts with a friend/significant other is great fun, but when it's a P-loot roll and they can get multiple of the same mount before you get one, it can be harsh.

http://i.imgur.com/Tk33BEM.png - my point of view
http://i.imgur.com/tqCo6l2.png - buddy's point of view

Comment by GreyeMayne

I'm what one might call a Noob of WoW... or a WoW Virgin... I've only been playing for the last 6 months... and a quick note about it: I freaking love it!

I read about getting mounts from running instances/raids etc, so one day I decided to go give it a try... I've done Zul Gurub now around 47 times with absolute no luck at all... so I decided to head out to UP and try there...

I had no idea what I was doing as I've never seen this place before, so I cautiously killed everything in sight... it came Skadi's turn, and like the bosses before, I anhialated everything in view... including him. When I picked up the loot... I could not believe my eyes! I actually and finally looted my very first mount EVER! I nearly fell out of my seat and cried out with a big cheer!

This was about 3 months ago... I figured I had just found a mount that was a 90% drop rate... (see how Noob I am - I know, even I'm disgusted!). It wasn't until now that I realised how rare it is...

My love for this magnificent creature has only grown upon the discovery of his rarity.

I want this story to be an encouragement not a boast... I want people to believe that it is truly possible to obtain rare mounts on any run... wether its your 84th or your very 1st!

good luck guys...

Comment by Switchbackqt

399th attempt and still nothing ... fck

Comment by Coregis

I've lost count. Four 100s daily for weeks, probably more like months. Big fat 0.

This is what I get for getting the Thundering Onyx Cloud Serpent on my second try, just casually roaming through Panda Land not even trying to get it.

Comment by hnwh

Dropped on 72th run on me.

Comment by Ordealz

Finally got this beauty after 254 attempts, 9 characters every day.
After 2 weeks I was kinda disappointed but you know. Never give up and the feeling at the end is incredible!
Skadi I hope we'll never see each other again.
Good luck to everyone ;)

Comment by Smu3

This is my nemesis.

I've been farming this on and off since wotlk, but never seen it drop. Around 60 kills before rarity was installed, about 30 "uncounted" kills with rarity (apparently, when I loot Skadi too fast, it doesn't register), 142 attempts on account #1, and 136 attempts on account #2.

In total: 368 attempts and still no drake for me.

I'm now trying to brute force it with 42 characters with hearthstones in Valgarde, running this daily. And needless to say, questioning my sanity.

I did however "luck" out on one character today and one yesterday: I got timeless badges from the boss when soloing the hc (non-tw dungeon). Proceeded to kill King Ymiron and got badges and the 500 badge prism as well as tw-gear. Would rather have the drake tho....

Comment by Jeolene

Ok, here goes:

I've gotten all BC Legendaries and mounts AND pets, Invincible, Onyxia mount, Kara mount, Headless Horseman mount, and all Cata mounts, minus Dragonsoul, in less time than this mount. I should mention, I still don't have this mount.

Probably a lot I missed, but you get the idea.

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Reins of the Blue Proto-Drake

Item Level 70
Binds when picked up
Unique
Mount (Account-wide)

Use: Teaches you how to summon this mount. This is a flying mount.
Requires Level 70
Requires Artisan Riding

"The Storm Peaks! There we will find the beast strong enough to bear me into battle. -Skadi the Ruthless"
Drop: Skadi the Ruthless
Zone: Utgarde Pinnacle

Drop Chance: 1.13%

Guides

A Fortnight in Dalaran: Farming Northrend Mounts and Pets at lvl85+

Guide to Timewalking Holidays and Rewards

Mount Collecting: The Completionist Guide

Obtaining Items from the Black Market Auction House

Proto-Drakes: Your Guide to Finding or Collecting Them All

Utgarde Pinnacle (Timewalking) Dungeon Strategy Guide

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