Time Runs Short: Battle for Azeroth
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When Sylvanas Windrunner shatters the veil between worlds, you’ll be leaving Azeroth behind—at least for a time. But before you journey to the Shadowlands, you may want to spend your remaining moments in the mortal realms seeking out a few rewards that will no longer be obtainable (or will be more difficult to acquire) in the next expansion.

Read on for the full list, and make sure to collect everything you’ve been eyeing before time runs out.

Going Away with Shadowlands Launch

How to Claim Your Dragon

When Azeroth’s heroes depart for the Shadowlands, the last vestiges of N’Zoth the Corruptor will fade away—and the “Lost Flight” quest, which rewards the Uncorrupted Voidwing mount, will vanish along with him.


Uncorrupted Voidwing

To earn: Enter the raid Ny’alotha, the Waking City on Heroic difficulty and defeat N’Zoth the Corruptor. You’ll want to be around 445 item level and be accompanied by at least 15 others in gear of similar quality to take down the Old God.

Upon defeating N’Zoth, you’ll loot an item that grants you the “Lost Flight” quest, which can be turned in for your Uncorrupted Voidwing.

You can further prepare for the climatic final boss in Battle of Azeroth by watching the N’Zoth the Corruptor FatbossTV guide.

TIP: Ashjra’kamas, Shroud of Resolve is a must-have for all members of your raid group when fighting N’Zoth the Corruptor. Those without the legendary cloak will succumb to an instant mind-control mechanic, becoming a Servant of N’Zoth who will ravage your raid. Follow our guide to obtain your legendary cloak.

Estimated time: 2 hours


If you need aid, some fellow heroes in the community are willing to help those who want to earn their Uncorrupted Voidwing. Check out the list below, and read their guidelines to find out how to participate.



Your Heart Only for Azeroth

The Heart of Azeroth, the legendary necklace you’ve kept close to your own hearts, derives its power from your connection to Azeroth. You’ll find that connection weakens when you step foot into areas or instances not introduced in Battle for Azeroth, severing features that derive power from it—Essences and Azerite Traits. The potency of these powers will reactivate whenever you return to eligible regions and instances (e.g. Horrific Visions.

Going Away with Shadowlands Pre-patch

Mind-Blowing Mount


The prestige achievement Battle for Azeroth Keystone Master: Season Four and its reward the Awakened Mindborer mount will only be available to earn prior to the release of Shadowlands. To earn the achievement and mount, you must complete all Battle for Azeroth Season Four dungeons at Mythic Level 15 or higher, within the time limit.

Unsure of your current progress? See which Keystones you need to complete by checking your progress in the Mythic Keystone section in the Group Finder (default hotkey: i).

Extinction Event


Mighty Caravan Brutosaur

Just like the real dinosaurs that once walked our own earth, the Mighty Caravan Brutosaur’s days in Azeroth are numbered. Once the Shadowlands pre-patch goes live, the shady vendors Talutu and Tricky Nick will cease selling it. The Mighty Caravan Brutosaur will then trek from its Battle for Azeroth vendors to the Black Market Auction House where it can show up occasionally as a purchasable mount for players to bid on. The accompanying Feat of Strength Conspicuous Consumption will be earned upon purchase.

To earn: Purchase for 5,000,000 gold from Talutu in Grand Bazaar, Dazar’alor (Horde) or Tricky Nick in Hook Point, Boralus (Alliance).

Corruption Cleansed

With the Black Empire turned to ash, the Old Gods’ power of Corruption will wither away once the Shadowlands pre-patch goes live. Your Corruption-tainted items will shed away their dark power, leaving your gear in its pure form. With Corruption no longer a threat, the Corruption Resistance found on certain Essences and your legendary cloak will also dissipate.

Utter Madness

One of the more challenging achievements to arise in Visions of N’Zoth—Mad World—will no longer be acquirable once the pre-patch goes live. If you successfully earn the Feat of Strength, you’ll be granted a fitting title, “the Faceless One.”

To earn: Complete all objectives in the Horrific Visions of Stormwind and Orgrimmar in a single visit while not in a party and with all 5 Faceless Masks active.

Changing of the Seasons

The current PvP Season will end with the pre-patch, taking with it all of the usual earnable rewards for eligible players who end the season in the top 0.1% of the 3v3 arena ladder. To commemorate this feat, these elite players will earn the Corrupted Gladiator title, Corrupted Gladiator’s Tabard, and the Corrupted Gladiator mount.

Top of the Class

Just as with previous raids at the end of an expansion, the Ahead of the Curve and Cutting Edge achievements for defeating N’Zoth the Corruptor on Heroic and Mythic difficulties will go away at the beginning of pre-patch. In addition to earning limited-time achievements, you’ll also get your Uncorrupted Voidwing and—for those seeking to get Cutting Edge—have a chance to get the Ny’alotha Allseer mount for defeating N’Zoth on Mythic difficulty.

Your Essences Preferences

If you’re trying to collect the prestigious title Azeroth’s Champion, be sure to add earning the achievement Phenomenal Cosmic Power to your list of things to do, as all Rank 4 Essences can no longer be earned once Shadowlands strikes.

To earn: Infuse the Heart of Azeroth with all available Essences from the Rise of Azshara update for any role at Rank 4. Refer to Wowhead’s comprehensive Essence collection guide to get started!

The Truth Hertz

In the same vein as Rank 4, the achievement Hertz Locker which grants the Rank 4 Essence Vision of Perfection will become unobtainable, but earlier during pre-patch.

To earn: Within a single lockout, defeat all bosses in Operation: Mechagon and prevent the destruction of all non-robotic life on Azeroth without any player dying on Mythic difficulty.

Some mounts and achievements will become more difficult to acquire due to drop rates changing or requirements going away with Shadowlands.

Difficulty Increasing When Shadowlands Launches

Mythic Mounts

When you sail away from Battle for Azeroth, the current guaranteed drop rate for the Glacial Tidestorm and Ny’alotha Allseer mounts will significantly decrease, and the amount of dropped mounts will decrease to one (currently two).


Glacial Tidestorm

Glacial Tidestorm: Defeat Mythic Lady Jaina Proudmoore in Battle of Dazar’alor on Mythic difficulty. You’ll need 20 players total to enter the raid, and it’s recommended that all players are 415 item level or higher. You can further prepare for Mythic Lady Jaina Proudmoore by watching the Mythic Lady Jaina Proudmoore FatbossTV guide.


Ny’alotha Allseer

Ny’alotha Allseer: Defeat Mythic N’Zoth the Corruptor in Ny’alotha, the Waking City on Mythic difficulty. You’ll need 20 players total to enter the raid, and it’s recommended that all players are 470 item level or higher. You can further prepare for Mythic N’Zoth the Corruptor by watching the Mythic N’Zoth Complexity Limit guide.

Please note that the corresponding Cutting Edge: N’Zoth the Corruptor achievement will no longer be available to earn once Shadowlands goes live.

As these instances are both Mythic difficulty, we expect defeating Mythic Jaina Proudmoore and Mythic N’Zoth will still require a fair amount of coordination to defeat in Shadowlands—so if you want either of these mounts, you may want to consider taking advantage of the guaranteed drop rate.

There are also some heroes in the community who are willing to help those who want to earn their Glacial Tidestorm or Ny’alotha Allseer mounts—check out their information below!

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  1. Laego's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Jester Joe View Post
    It's a good title though in general. Regardless of hate for BfA or not (And honestly I'd still say BfA was better than WoD).

    I doubt I'll ever get the rating for rank 4 CnS, otherwise I would have made more of a push to round up the last few rank 4s.
    Rank 4 C&S is significantly harder than the others. It should have been 2100, not 2400, and it would be more reasonable for a greater number of people.
  1. Triginhil's Avatar
    Well that made my decision, the fact that I wont ever get all rank 4 essences means i dont need to bother getting rank 3 on ones I dont use. Which means no need to run older raids, less reason to login. GG Blizz, smart business model
  1. Whitedragon's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Aerisot View Post
    The only ones I do not understand why they are going away are the end dungeon mounts (Jaina, N'zoth) If Ashes of Alar is still in the game as well as Invincible, and the Gul'dan mounts, why are these two being removed?
    they aren't, they are dropping to 1% drop rates like all old mythic mounts.
  1. Stardrift's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by ThatsOurEric View Post
    Angry, because of their inability to put their time where they put their money.
    No wonder welfare gear is under every rock in this game. Everyone ends up the same item level by the end of the expansion because of people with this entitled mindset.
  1. david0925's Avatar
    i havent played wow in 2 years so i dont have a stake in this, but im interested to see why people think blizzard shouldnt award/entice people that stay subbed and played the game with limited edition stuff (that wont be completely gone due to bmah)
  1. ThatsOurEric's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Stardrift View Post
    No wonder welfare gear is under every rock in this game. Everyone ends up the same item level by the end of the expansion because of people with this entitled mindset.
    Okay boomer. I'm sure we're all impressed (or care) about your in-game accomplishments.
  1. Scathan's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Cæli View Post
    maybe you don't care that much about missables, some players do care about missable, those are the ones hooked always harder, missables used to be not missable by using a guide, now we're pressured by time which shape our life if we decide to collect everything (thing which shall be something possible in every well designed games). incorporating timed missable is bad for the game. achievements date, lower drop rates, and easy to get promotional/one time stuff (like the stuff from the diablo event) is enough for this kind of prestige. all that fomo marketing does is frustrating the real collectors(since it's close to impossible to collect everything if you have a job and or a family), while non collectors don't care that much, since they're not collectors.

    in my book with this blizzard is just exploiting some kind of person's addictive behaviour to hook them more. not nice.
    it would be tolerable if there were few, like before, but those days there's countless of those.


    If something else like a job or a family prevents you from getting an in game item that is that person having their priorities straight. The fact is it isn't the business practice that is the problem. The problem is people making sacrifices that they shouldn't for a game. And that is their problem. Not blizzards. It should not be illegal, because that is just treating adults like they are children.

    If you are an adult. You are responsible for your actions.

    If you are a child, your parents are responsible for teaching you how to prioritize gameplay in your life and limiting the amount of gameplay.

    Neither of these things is blizzards job.

    Tldr: grow up, just because you pay for a game you play doesn't mean you deserve everything in it.
  1. DeltrusDisc's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Forever Alone View Post
    Forced scarcity makes you look like pieces of shit Blizzard.
    Because they've never done this before, right?

    Oh wait, they do this literally every expansion since WotLK...
  1. Stardrift's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by ThatsOurEric View Post
    Okay boomer. I'm sure we're all impressed (or care) about your in-game accomplishments.
    My in-game accomplishments are irrelevant. I don't play anymore. In fact I've deleted my account because I no longer wish to support Blizzard and Activision, mostly irrelevant to the state of WoW. I don't personally know a single person with a positive view on WoW. I used to know many a decade ago when I first started playing.

    Just about everyone I knew on that game had already quit before me, IRL friends and online friends. Everybody has been jumping ship and I've never seen interest be so low for an expansion before. Even MoP had more excitement around it.

    It's sad there's still people like you clinging on to these clearly poor design choices. The game has become an equivalent to parents crying about their child who had a long night of crying because they didn't get a trophy too for coming in last.
  1. ThatsOurEric's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Stardrift View Post
    I don't play anymore. In fact I've deleted my account
    So basically your opinion is utterly useless then.

    Cool, glad there's a few less elitists in the game now.
  1. MrLachyG's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Eosia View Post
    I guess they're still going full steam with the stupid decision to get rid of the Brutosaur mount. Nevermind the fact it's unpopular. Nevermind the fact that people have been asking for a regular one since launch. Nevermind the fact that the genie is out of the bottle for the AH vendor on a mount. But who are we? Just the people who pay the bills so we know nothing.
    It’s not being removed it’s being moved to the BMAH. Where the starting price will probably be 5 million however probably won’t go much higher than that. How do I know? Most people who can buy it for that price have already done so; there won’t be very many people with more than 5 million gold who don’t have the mount
  1. Greyvax's Avatar
    When they announced that corruptions are going away with the pre-patch, it literally killed ANY motivation to keep upgrading the cloak.

    I mean, what's the point then?
  1. SkagenRora's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Greyvax View Post
    When they announced that corruptions are going away with the pre-patch, it literally killed ANY motivation to keep upgrading the cloak.

    I mean, what's the point then?
    I'm gonna miss Beam a whole lot.
  1. Wavebossa's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Greyvax View Post
    When they announced that corruptions are going away with the pre-patch, it literally killed ANY motivation to keep upgrading the cloak.

    I mean, what's the point then?
    Agree with this. Corruptions have completely changed the way you gear you character, spec your character, even for some their rotations. I wasn't a fan of them but they have ingrained themselves into pve and pvp content thoroughly. At this point removing them before Shadowlands actually starts is a strange decision
  1. Stardrift's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by ThatsOurEric View Post
    So basically your opinion is utterly useless then.

    Cool, glad there's a few less elitists in the game now.
    There went most of the playerbase lmao. Only LFR heroes now.

    What's the matter, you need a trophy for sticking around too?
  1. ThatsOurEric's Avatar
    Complains about LFR? Check.

    "There went most of the playerbase"-statement? Check.

    Participation reward (i.e. outdated elitist go to insult) remark? Check.

    Yep, definitely a boomer all right. Definitely glad there's less of this guy.
  1. Cæli's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Scathan View Post
    If something else like a job or a family prevents you from getting an in game item that is that person having their priorities straight. The fact is it isn't the business practice that is the problem. The problem is people making sacrifices that they shouldn't for a game. And that is their problem. Not blizzards. It should not be illegal, because that is just treating adults like they are children.

    If you are an adult. You are responsible for your actions.

    If you are a child, your parents are responsible for teaching you how to prioritize gameplay in your life and limiting the amount of gameplay.

    Neither of these things is blizzards job.

    Tldr: grow up, just because you pay for a game you play doesn't mean you deserve everything in it.
    I think you don't understand what I'm saying, priorities are jobs and families, which makes the game uncompletable by design. bad design. a game should be completable. and exploiting addictive behaviors which makes life more pressurized (fomo) in exchange is vile. like exploiting people who can't stop spending money on random stuff. that's it. I'm for economic freedom, but there's limits because of our greedy nature. furthermore some limits could make games more qualitative, for instance banning real life ads in every texture of the game or pornographic stuff in games aiming to be qualitative. or making the game actually completable.
  1. tuxedobob's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Forever Alone View Post
    Forced scarcity makes you look like pieces of shit Blizzard.
    Forced scarcity? What do you mean by that?
  1. Tyrgal's Avatar
    Finally got the voidwing mount!!!

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