Originally Posted by
Yarathir
It's curious that Ion Hazzikostas just so happens to be a Scarab Lord!
(though I wonder original, or WoTLK cheeser)
But yeah, I maintain that a new model should be available from current efforts. I don't care if the new one becomes the rarest thing ever again, or easy as sin, it should be obtainable from current content, not "you had to have done a thing more than a decade ago to get a mount and title and then you get a bonus title now and if you don't like it build a time machine lol!!"
And the new mount still is nothing like the old one, so no, it does not trample on Scarab Lord achievements at all.
Or do you want all the non-gladiator Netherdrakes removed from the game, too? By grinding rep, you can literally get the same mount model that gladiators got, only without armor.
Meanwhile, this new Black Qiraji not only has no armor, but it has a whole new model and textureset, as well as a different design. That's leaps and bounds more different from the original Black Qiraji than any gladiator mount is different from a regularly obtainable mount.
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So the conclusion is you won't get the other colors. For more than 7 days, that is. And they won't add to your mount count either.