You probably won’t believe this, but I am still chasing dragons for the Awake the Drake achievement. Given my love of all things dragon, it pains me, it hurts. Deep inside.
I have been “regularly” chasing down 2 of them – Onyxia and Malygos. I have wanted Onyxia as a mount since the first time I saw her. So long ago now. I wouldn’t even be able to tell you when, sometime in 2005. I remember the first time I walked into her dungeon and came down the ramp and saw her. I was so enamoured of her size. Once again the raids in Vanilla felt epic – they had scale. Size. Dominance. Maybe it was because I was a noob and everything was exciting to me, including having to farm her to make the Onyxia scale cloak for BWL. (Which I still have in my bank).
So I headed to Malygos and saw an item be added to my appearance list (or so i thought). [sarcastic woo] which when I actually read it turned out to be a goddamn dragon!
I just scored the Reins of thee Azure Drake! I may or may not have started dancing excitedly. I was cursing out how long it had taken, so I decided to check and then felt decidedly ashamed.
Yeah…only 10 times according to my stats. Not entirely sure these are accurate as I am certain I have killed it more times than that….but…um….yeah….I can only go off the information and I think that is a pretty good drop chance based on my experience. Maybe I don’t kill it as regularly as I imagine…
Onyxia is proving to be slightly more difficult.
So my current tally with the drakes is almost there. I am terrified of doing Dragonsoul because I can’t solo the spine encounter but i don’t want to go with anyone else because then I will not win it if it drops (Statistically speaking whenever I am in a group and a mount has a chance to drop 90% of the time it will with 99% of those times it being won by other people – the only time it has not occurred is when I won the Swift Zulian Panther).
If people are keen to do Dragonsoul with me I am more than happy to do it. I will literally cry if it drops though and I don’t win it…LOL. But here is the gorgeous Azure. What is your next big mount chase?
Congratulations! I only saw this cheevo the other day and I am quite a bit behind you in terms of progress.
How many do you need? If you need the blazing let me know – i am happy to run Dragonsoul weekly with you to chase it until we both have it….or we both give up.