Amani War Bear to be Retired
Tigole posted today in the WoW Dungeons & Raids forum that the Amani War Bear mount from Zul’Aman will no longer be obtainable after the Wrath of the Lich King expansion launch.
Tigole says:
I wanted to give a very early head’s up to all of you Zul’Aman raiders out there:
Once Wrath of the Lich King goes live, you will no longer be able to obtain the Zul’Aman bear mount by saving all 4 prisoners in the timed run. The Bear Mount will be replaced by a very good, epic item that is level appropriate for people doing the zone. To be clear, the Zul’Aman bear mount is supposed to be an item of very high prestige. We want players who have earned it during the appropriate era (aka before the level cap gets raised) to be recognized for their accomplishment. We have absolutely no problem with higher level players (above level 70) going back and doing Zul’Aman after Wrath of the Lich King is live. We just want to preserve the accomplishment of having saved all 4 prisoners at the intended difficulty level.
We will most likely do something similar with the titles “Hand of A’dal” and “Champion of the Naaru” as well.
Please don’t panic! You still have plenty of time to complete these feats! Wrath of the Lich King is coming along great but is not ready yet! In fact, we’re not even in beta yet! So have fun adventuring for your bears and titles but please consider this your early warning.
You’ve got some time yet, but if you want a War Bear you’d best start working towards it soon!
4 Responses to “Amani War Bear to be Retired”
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NaturalChaos - May 12th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
While I can understand their reasoning, what about those people who want to earn that mount but won’t be able to reach max level before WotLK comes out? Not everyone has time to power level characters to 70 and start doing raid content. I think a better way would be to keep the bear mount available to those characters level 70 and below but, for those over 70, make the new item available.
Elyxaar - May 13th, 2008 at 4:12 am
Problem with that idea is that a level 70 could well go into ZA with a load of 80’s and so still trivialize the event.
Suzi - May 15th, 2008 at 10:11 am
I’ve been following this a little after the announcement about it. After being asked if a new bear mount would be put into WOTLK Tigole replied with Polar Bear sound cool?.
Although it could have been considered speculation, today Bornakk confirmed that a bear mount would be included by saying For players who are focused on romping around on a bear, there will be another one in Wrath of the Lich King. He jumps back into the thread later to reply to someone who asked what kind of bear. His answer was As Tigole put it, does a polar bear sound cool?
I’m excited! :)
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