Mounts - AQ40 Battle Tanks

[Xeya]

Hello again, nice to see you too. So I am sick and tired of people posting guides without pictures or screenshots, leaving us in the dark many times. So it is my goal, and journey to walk you through many guides (Including pictures and walkthrough details!).

Today's lesson and guide involves the 4 (not 5 anymore) mounts you are available to get in AQ40. These mounts are only usable in AQ40, but they do count towards your Achievement goals. So these are a very nice way to get 4 more easy mounts.

What you'll need:

• If you are not powerful enough to take down a mob with 170k Health and hits for around 700 on mail, a tank
• A mount to make travel faster
• Flightpath to Silithus
• Time

Once you have those, which all are readily available besides the first one sometimes, you may adventure forth to the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj.



Once you have landed in Silithus, ride your mount to the very bottom left of the map, to Ahn'Qiraj. Once there you can either go forward to AQ20 or you can head right and go up lots of stairs to our goal, AQ40.

When you enter the portal, make sure the loading screen has this picture on the left side. This is to make sure you are entering AQ40, not AQ20.



Enter the portal and discover that the first two rooms are the only rooms you are able to work with, since you have to kill The Prophet Skeram to get past this point.

At this point you have access to kill Anubisath Sentinel and Obsidian Eradicator. These mobs are quite easy to kill if you are a level 80 with decent gear and healing abilities.
*NOTE*: You must be able to dps well at the same time, not recommended for Holy Pallies and Priests.

The Anubisath Sentinels come in packs of 4 and heal the other ones if one dies. Which means, AoE does not work. So you must be able to tank these guys and have a healer or tank readily available.



Their abilities are as follows:

Anubisath Sentinels have a normal attack that hits for 600 - 800 damage and one random ability. The abilities are:

* Mending aka Renew - Healing for 4752 every 3 seconds. Use Mortal Strike
* Mortal Strike - ~3200 damage to the target.
* Periodic Knock Away aka Knockback - Periodically knock enemies away, reducing their hate. Immune to taunt.
* Periodic Mana Burn - Periodically casts mana burn.
* Periodic Shadow Storm - Periodically casts Shadow Storm. Targets all players outside of melee range and up to some distance >40 yards.
* Reflect Arcane and Fire
* Reflect Shadow and Frost
* Thorns - Causes 475 to 525 Nature damage to attackers. Resistible
* Thunderclap - ~800 Nature damage, no debuff, resistible
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The Obsidian Eradicators are quite easy, can be solo'd, and pat back and forth. They are the ones most people kill because the other mobs are too difficult solo.



Their abilities are very simple, they occasionally drain 250 mana from a mana user and they gain 500 mana, if they allowed to gain 100% mana, they blow up dealing 6.5k damage. (If you are soloing these mobs, this will never happen.) Other then that, they just hit you. Big deal.

Now start killing some mobs, and eventually you will get the drops, but many times it will only be trash. The drop rate for the mounts are around 10-20%.



After many kills with my friend, my first mount eventually dropped.



We continued for awhile, but got tired waiting for respawns. (30 min)

Currently I am at 3/4 of the mounts.
Yellow Red Blue


Also, if you loot the Red Mount, you get the achievement below.



Thank you for reading this guide, I hope you enjoyed it.

[Stew]

Today's lesson and guide involves the 4 (not 5 anymore) mounts you are available to get in AQ40.

Which is the 5th, the black one? because that was technically available 'to get in aq40'

[Xeya]

Which is the 5th, the black one? because that was technically available 'to get in aq40'

Yup. The black one was a reward for hitting the gong with the scepter.

All AQ's are now open when the realm starts.

[Flawl]

All AQ's are now open when the realm starts.

That's not quite right. You know Blizzard makes new realms once in a while, and I cannot say every time - because I haven't paid that much attention, but still I'm pretty sure about it -, but in most of the cases, Blizzard didn't open the gates.

[poppy1195]

um hi i jaust wanted 2 say tank u for halping and i totaly agree with u when u wanted to put pictures in the giudes im 100% bahind u i cant w8 2 find more of ur giudes so bye and keep up the exelent giudes

[Xeya]

That's not quite right. You know Blizzard makes new realms once in a while, and I cannot say every time - because I haven't paid that much attention, but still I'm pretty sure about it -, but in most of the cases, Blizzard didn't open the gates.

On February 6, 2009, sometime after Patch 3.0.8a, Bornakk posted on the forums that the Ahn'Qiraj gates will automatically be open on all new future realms. He would also later clarify in the thread that there are no plans to have an alternative method to obtain the Black Qiraji Battle Tank.

On February 11, 2009, a day after Patch 3.0.9, Server:Nesingwary US was the world's first realm to be opened in this way.

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um hi i jaust wanted 2 say tank u for halping and i totaly agree with u when u wanted to put pictures in the giudes im 100% bahind u i cant w8 2 find more of ur giudes so bye and keep up the exelent giudes

Thank you for reading my guides. More will come, trust me.

[yamidante]

Basically, go in aq 40 and kill stuff 4 easy mounts towards achiev.

Well +rep for the effort of writing the guide i guess.

[Xeya]

Basically, go in aq 40 and kill stuff 4 easy mounts towards achiev.

Well +rep for the effort of writing the guide i guess.

Ya, most guides and things in WoW are common sense. But sometimes (which seems like most of the time) people just don't want to think about stuff. Many people wouldn't think, hey let's go back to AQ40 and get mounts. They come for guides to do things. Thanks for the +Rep though

[Constantaggro]

Thanks for the guide mate! , i went to aq40 yesterday with a pally friend...we killed all the trash and are at 3/4 and 2/4
But basically i just farm the trash for the meteor trinket

[Xeya]

Thanks for the guide mate! , i went to aq40 yesterday with a pally friend...we killed all the trash and are at 3/4 and 2/4
But basically i just farm the trash for the meteor trinket

Glad to have helped you! Going for 4/4 (missing the green one) in a few minutes.

[Constantaggro]

Iam missing the yellow one
any epic drops so far?

[Xeya]

Iam missing the yellow one
any epic drops so far?

Nope, in the thing atm.

[Thimpey]

You got the red one now? Damn low droprate but I got it at 60's

[stormcrowsix]

Thanks for the guide mate! , i went to aq40 yesterday with a pally friend...we killed all the trash and are at 3/4 and 2/4
But basically i just farm the trash for the meteor trinket

what trinket is this?

[Swh777]

what trinket is this?

Shard of the Fallen Star - Item - World of Warcraft


ya can see someone back in 60 using it here
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk_kHHI0t4o"]YouTube - Xolkar 20/0/31 Paladin PvP[/ame]




EDIT: kay not sure why I'm getting 2 copies of the vid