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Comment by Longnight

~~YAY first comment~~...ice chip isn't in the chest after killing ahune, it is in the bag you recieve the first time you kill him (after queing). Also the bag drops a nice caster & heals staff and som say they found cloaks. It is also predicted that future world events will use this bag system for mounts (like HEadless Horseman & Coreb Direbrew)

Comment by Satoku

It's a pet.

Comment by Arkuda

I still didn't get it... killed him 3 times already (i mean got the bag three times), so apparently it is not in the FIRST bag :)
So maybe you just got lucky...

Comment by Ukecko72

I got the Pet on my 1st Run! He throws a Snowball at you or anyone near him which gives you a Buff! Real Cool Pet for Sure added him to my collection. I now have OVER 100+ Pets, lol.

Comment by EssieArathor

This drop is a mini ice elemental pet. Use the Ice Chip to learn the pet, the Frigid Frostling.

It has the same model as many earth elementals (lots of floating and rotating boulders), but is icy, when it remains in one place it leaves an ice patch below it/icy trail behind it. There is a lovely little snowball throw it does to random individuals around it. It is probably the same model as the first add when fighting Ahune, only smaller of course.

Out of my first 20 tries I have had it drop 3 times, unfortunately twice on the same character and not yet on my main :(

Comment by Dreverda

Anyone got a guess of the drop rate?

Comment by matthewh16876

on warcraft pets it says the drop rate is 1 in
20

Comment by crimsoncoder

I got the pet on my second run on both my characters, so the drop rate is likely not as low as the rate for the scorchling.

Comment by oodoe

umm, he didn't say it was a garenteed(sp?) drop from the bag, just that it drops from the bag, and he's right, frostling drops from Frost Lord Ahune's Bag that you get after random Queing for it, I also can Confirm the staff dropping from bags, but if any capes drop from them it's a glitch, capes are supposed to be from ahune's chest only.

Comment by ZeroEdgeir

Actually, what he said wasn't that it was in the first bag you get, but the bag you get for your first Lord Ahune kill of the day.

Got your mords wixed up there a little. (note: read "mords" like you would "words" to get the joke)

I've got 6 kills on him so far (3 toons, 2 days each), no pet, or staff yet. My mom got the staff 1st shot on her priest though.

Comment by AleAle

2 runs, 2 drops :S seems weird

Comment by Cookiedott

This dropped for me on the third day of doing Ahune from the Satchel of Chilled Goods.

Note that this pet gives a "buff" that gives you a freezing look (much like the rose petals).

Comment by Sersi

He also occasionally throws snowballs at you and people around you.

Comment by adorabull

I hear ya - 100% for me today. I had 4 toons, and each one got an ice chip. Was starting to wonder about that drop rate. Doesn't seem hard to get.

Comment by Mairin

35 44 54 bags and counting /sigh

Not trying to state that the drop rate is really that terrible (not ruling it out though) just that some of us are there to offset the "zomg first bag" people so it's probably somewhere in between although without a bigger sample size who knows.

Comment by Souldout

I can also confirm this seems to have a rather low droprate, +30 satchels opened without any Ice Chips.

Comment by Namzor

Yep, rather low drop rate indeed. Got it 1st day on my alt, but still waiting on my main. *Sigh* Well at least my alt can have a snowball fight with em..........

Comment by Kicia

When idle, it throws snowballs at me (like lil' K.T. is shooting at critters) :D

Comment by jcns731

1 try and i got it must just be lucky :P

Comment by Theddasapa

Since nobody has posted the math involved... I figured that I would

The formula for percentages over time is: 1 - ( ( 1 - x ) ^ y ) where x=drop chance, y=number of runs.
For more information on this formula you can visit http://www.wow.com/tag/drop-rate-calculator/

Applying the actual numbers from Ice Chip instead of the rounded drop rate by using the number of drops divided by the number of samples multiplied by 100 we have (50/1672*100) which is more accurate (yet not perfect) for calculations.

There are a total of 14 days you can run this holiday boss this year.
This equals 34.62615 % .... so you have a roughly 65% chance of getting this pet should you run it every day.

As I am posting this several days into the holiday... having run this and not got the pet (so not counting today) I have 9 days left so that equals 23.90937 %

Basically this equals :(

Note: Instead of fighting with the calculator over the parentheses... I applied 2.990430622009569 as the drop chance from the formula provided above and the number of days in the pre-set calculator on the website previously mentioned.

Comment by Scoundrill

Wonder if the Searing Scorchling (scorchling) and the ice chip will fight if they get close, being that they are both opposite elements

Comment by guardian84

I'm not a math genius, but isn't the probability of 3% per day independent of each other? I mean, it's still gonna be 3% per day.

Comment by Tsaza

Another item that will take over Google search result, by WoW.

Comment by crimsona

Using the calculator you posted yourself in your original post, this is what it gives:

Drop chance (enter 1% as 1):
3

Number of runs:
14

"There is a 34.71637 percent chance of the item dropping in the given number of runs."

Comment by Arlor

Unfortunately, no, or it's so rare as not to be observed in half an hour of putting the two next to each other.

Comment by atl2rva

Thought this was pretty cool. If you actually explore the dungeon a little further back past boss you can see a few of these guys roaming around. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ They don't really do anything but still thought it was neat!

Comment by tihutoha

So, does this drop only from the bag, and if it does then you can only try once a day for it, right? I got it on my hunter, but I want it on my main.

Comment by cornflare

I got this pet this morning. I have completed the Ahune quest everyday since the midsummer festival started. It was contained within the satchel of chilled goods and so far this is the only drop other than the 2 Emblems of Frost from the bag that I have had. This is also the only time I have seen it drop within any group I have been with (if they open their bag while still in the group) but I've seen Frostscythe of Lord Ahune 4 times.

Comment by Jafis

Classic. I can't believe I fell for that. XD

Comment by Jafis

Classic. I can't believe I fell for that. XD

Comment by TrollanGaems

Looks like I wasn't one of the lucky ones

Ran the place daily and got nothing but emblems on my main, and the scythe on my alt (a paladin)

Wish there had been something to improve my odds but oh well.

Comment by Erodak

Ran this boss every day without fail on all 3 of my 80's..

Got 3 Scythes, countless capes and tons of emblems, didn't see this drop once.

/sadface

Comment by StaticLgtBrngr

Did him every day looking for this item and ended up with 2 frostscythes instead ><

Didn't see anyone looting it from the sachels in any of my groups either.

I find it a shame that nice little elemental pets are / were only available from this short lived event as I never got the baby inferno elemental from him in previous years either and now I'm told its not available any more.

Still, theres some elemental filled instances coming in cataclysm so I'm hoping there will be chances for other cute little baby elemental pets in those. Lets just hope they don't mess it up like they did with the battered hilt if there are.

Comment by Forgetme

I got this two times on all my alts and each got a Sythe. Not once did this drop for my main. Pretty disapointed since I colloct pets on my main :( Atleast I have my pet Scorchling to dry away my tears of disapointment.

Comment by CladtheMage

Dropped twice for me over the 7 days I did the boss.
Also while I have had it out it does a rumbling emote, but I haven't seen it do any visual emote worth notice.

Comment by Mbowling

lol, im a dk and i wanted to equip the scythe so bad just cuz it looked cool

Comment by Trankar

Still drops from the Satchel, as of 2011!
Just got mine on the first kill.

Comment by rkaycom

Hmmm, I got this first kill to...

Comment by owbu

me and another guy from my group got it on the first try, too

Comment by Feranda

Hate to tell you guys, but I didnt get it on first try with any of my 3 characters.

Comment by Alterraia

5 toons, no chip so far. Only 1 needs it though. Missed it last year. : (

Comment by CorneliousJD

This is the LAST thing I need from the fire festival as of now... do want!

Comment by paulette1966

Got the cape 1st day, staff on the 2nd, and ice chip on 3rd. Figure the odds on that one.

Comment by VexWoW

Still trying to get it. If its a 5% chance you got a 1 in 20 chance. Midsummer is aboout 20 days so anyone will get i eventually.

Comment by Junyed

Two weeks is fourteen days.

Comment by Ruhler

5% chance according to this site for it to be found in the bag. However, do we know if you can receive another ice chip when the pet has already been obtained? If you can't, then the odds of it will be higher than the data obtained here suggests since many people will have been continuing to run this world event after already obtaining the pet and obviously never receiving another ice chip.

Comment by Bumluffa

My, what a cool story bro

Comment by Ataxus

Entirely too rare. This will likely be my entire second Midsummer without seeing this.

Comment by Tishra

I didn't get this one. Toooo sad.

Comment by ibechief

the great thing about this is if they change it to a low drop off the boss and even one tank is looking to grind it, then the que times for hundreds of dps will become negligible.

Comment by Hannibal08

In 4.3 several (almost all) holiday pets were changed to become tradeable. For some reason this one and the slime from Love is in the Air were not. I hope they correct that prior to the patch.

Not even sure why they bothered with something like the squashling. That one is so common you don't need to trade it. In 2011 I couldn't collect 10 consecutive candies without getting another squashling to destroy. Meanwhile the ice chip, which my alts have all gotten mutliple times, continues to elude my main. I did save one on an alt though, in hopes that someday they'd make it tradeable.

Comment by Azrile

If you are really desperate for this, make sure you run the dungeon on all your alts. With the changes in MoP, even if you get it on an alt, your main will get it also.

Comment by Davisrc1201

I'm very lucky with this pet drop, I got it the second run! Good luck to all other pet hunters out there! This made my 129th total non-combat pet. So excited! :)

Comment by mintedcow

Just now dropped for my rogue, 2nd ever time killing ahune.

Comment by avatarofshadow

For the 2012 holiday, this is still BOP and still comes out of just the bag that you can loot once a day on each of your 84/85 toons. The fight is very quick, and requires very little in the way of actual tanking. You can't trade it with other players, and there's still no way to buy it from the holiday vendors. Good luck, all you pet collectors.

Comment by Lyandria

Since pets is now account wide, my old post no longer fill it's function, most pet collectors have many alts, and with many alts the % increase of pet drop increases if you do this everyday with all alts.
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OLD POST: Last year I did this everyday on one character which means 14 satchels opened, but this year I came back with my main AND 6 alts, done it everyday so far and will continue til midsummer ends.

70 satchels this year + last year 14 satchels ~ 84 satchels
Number of Ice Chip so far: 1

Pets like this should be able to be sold.. My friend has gotten 3 Ice chip, with alot less runs then me, and what does he do with them?
He throws them all away now. Is that what blizz want?

I think I deserve this pet now.. from 70 runs.. and so do you!
Please blizzard make this pet BOE so all of us desperate pet collectors can buy em for insane prices.

LAST EDIT: Got the pet on my 84th satchel, finally... But something like this, that you can only do once a year should not have this low droprate anyway, and if you really want to have low droprate on the pet, it's fine, as long as you make it BOE.
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Comment by borek921

Just got mine !

Comment by Kurasu

A suggestion for people: if you already have this, don't destroy it! Keep the little devil in your bank. It might be BoP, but in MoP we'll be able to box up pets and sell the 'boxes' on the AH. Keep yours around and there is always the chance that in MoP, you will be able to box your old one and sell it. A chance for those of us who are having bad luck!

Comment by Agnarotojat

Ran this in the first time for years, and got it first run :p

Comment by lolmonkmaster

it´s a icy pet

Comment by lolmonkmaster

Second year trying to get ice chip

Comment by lou69

I got this today today for the first time ever and it showed up an achievement type note saying Ice chip first time? either i have been very lucky indeed or this happens quite alot? anyone else had this?

Comment by Pzypro

Have been trying to farm it this season using all of my lvl 89+ alts. Probably about 20 attempts so far with no luck. If I use all my alts everyday I should be able to squeeze in about 30 more attempts. Really hope that I get it :)

Comment by Organthrone

Has the drop rate increased on this or something? I ran Ahune from 2009 to 2012 on my main and never got it; once on an alt in 2012, and it dropped first time. This year, I've got it once on my main, and just now on an alt. Which means nowadays, cut out the inexpensive middleman, and buy it from AH.

This can't have anything to do with good luck on my behalf, because that totally never happens.

*EDIT*

I just got it again on my main. Three times in less than a week. This is ridiculous.

Comment by Gregoreee

Five alts ran each day of the festival and still no pet, but I did get the scythe twice and cloaks.

Comment by Esploratore

Last year I did like 40 attempts (used 2 chars) not seen this, now this year I had ready 17 chars (not joking, tired of bad rng), got one the first day, 2nd run, didn't take long... 1 week running in with less and less chars (was actually 15 the first day cause my 2 mains didn't need the cloak) as they got the cloak, and I got 4 drops in total. 4% so 1 in 25, shouldn't be too hard to get for anyone with 5 + alts running every day.

Comment by elionor

sigh 4 years of of trying for this son of a !@#$% and nothing this year this year i had 2 characters that i tried on and still nothing i really hate ahune

Comment by elionor

woot after 5 years i finally got the sucker on my 2nd try this year and i had 4 toons ready for it to oh well

Comment by Fetkosh

I got mine on the last try, 10min before end of the event...8-) GL to all next year

Comment by Random0090

I'm so glad I got this, this year. I didn't even know about the pet until told me it was available, but I was really sad to hear that you can only try for it over a small period of time a year and that you needed a level 100 to queue for the instance because I only had 1 max toon. I don't pet battle at all but I definitely will get into it sometime soon because I have a lot of rare pets already like Disgusting Oozeling so this is a great addition to my pets.

It took me only 3 tries. I was really, really surprised to get this on just the 3rd try. I hope everyone else gets lucky enough to get this, this year too.
Good luck everyone!

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Ice Chip

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