Over the years I've killed the boss a few hundred times trying to get the mount. It's a very boring grind.
I saw it drop once in vanilla. Someone else in the party got it, but I don't even know if that guy kept playing for very long or what.
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i did hundreds of run and never dropped in TBC, not counting the (admit far lower) vanilla ones
u getting it in 40 run doesn't change that it had extremely low drop rate, if anyone remember the patch when blizz streamlined mount drop they will find that blizz did say that this mount specifically was the lowest drop rate item in game on purpose, so if u have long free time or iron memory go check it
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Is Rivendare even soloable at 60 effectively or do you still need to group to run it?
Layering abuse was strictly dungeons and in the cases where MC reset, it wasnt an exploit but a known bug from Vanilla.
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And some people will get it on their first run. Whats your point?
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Possibly, with a decked out character, but most likely not yet.
People underestimate the amount of players on the classic megaservers. This is in no way comparable to vanilla, you have constantly 50+ people running strat all day.
Even if we assume a 0.1% dropchance of the mount (aka one in thousand or ten times less than the 1% we currently have in retail on mount drops), and 100 baron kills per day, we have a 1-(0.999^100)=~10% chance that the mount drops at least once per single day. When we now look at a timespan of 30 days we get a 1-(0.9^30)=~96% chance that the mount drops at least once in 30 days (still assuming 100 baron kills per day on a server at a ridiculously low 0.1% dropchance).
You can obviously tweak the estimated numbers to whatever you like, but the sheer amount of people on those servers is the reason why you see so many deathchargers, thunderfuries or hammers.
its 1% chance drop i guess
but back then it was 0,02%
According to wowhead in 2.0 post someone linked a, gone now due to forum changes, forum post that had the drop rate at .02% in Vanilla that was raised to a 1% drop rate.
That would make it a 1 in 5000 chance to drop. Still silly low but not improbable to see more than 1.
People have been farming it for the past 15 years. It's not a secret where it drops and who drops it, all you need is time, luck, and determination. 5 resets every hour in Stratholme Undead-side for a geared party is more than enough to keep a constant chain-run going on for Rivendare mount farms. It's something I plan on doing at 60.
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They obviously changed the drop rate AND enabled layering abuse.
The chance that two people just got lucky sounds far to farfetched.
From my understanding, they only took action against the guilds that abused the reset in Molten Core. Once it happened on a live stream, and a GM informed that person that he was fine to loot it again, people starting killing Molten Core bosses on repeat. I don't believe they took action against those abusing dungeons as far as I am aware. I know for sure they didn't for people hopping layers to get more nodes.