Zhevra Mount Revealed
As you may remember, the client data for a zhevra (or zebra) mount showed up in WoW back in patch 2.4.2. But we haven’t heard much about it … until now.
Today Blizzard announced their new Recruit-A-Friend program. And one of the rewards for recruiting a friend is … *drumroll* … a zhevra mount!
Here’s the relevant quote from the Recruit-A-Friend FAQ:
How can I earn the exclusive in-game mount?
For each person you refer who upgrades to a retail version of World of Warcraft and purchases two months of game time, you will be able to give a character on the account you sent the invitation from an exclusive in-game zhevra mount. This unique mount can be claimed through the website, is only available to Recruit-A-Friend participants, and can only be applied to a single character.
If you’re interested in this deal — and I definitely am! — make sure that you read the rest of the Recruit-A-Friend FAQ so you understand exactly how this works. There are other neat rewards as well, including triple experience, free summons, and even free levels! But mostly I just want that zhevra …
There are several different color variation of the zhevra mount available in the WoW client data, but from the FAQ I am guessing that we don’t get a color choice — we just get the black & white zhevra shown in the screenshot Blizzard has posted. We won’t know for certain, though, until the first recruits start signing up for two months of game time.
(Many thanks to Riri for cluing me in about this!)
12 Responses to “Zhevra Mount Revealed”
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Suzi - August 5th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
I was just about to tell you, pretty exciting stuff!
Unfortunately I don’t know who I’d invite that doesn’t already play… :s
Estella - August 5th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
I can say I’m more or less a little disappointed in this stunt of Blizzard. So many people were looking forward to grinding rep, farming for the mount, or whatever else that may had been required to obtain a zhevra. To make them exclusive to recruiting people is two fold.
1) I won’t deny it is a smart marketing strategy. Make your clients do your work for you. Make them do the marketing. You get new business.
2) I can say I disagree with it because it IS lazy marketing. Not only that, it really is a difficult situation. I think I’d of been less inclined to be disappointed if say…we got the mount if we referred someone and they took a trial. (skip all the other stuff).
But that’s my two cents. I’m just disappointed that the referrals are not retro-active to boot! Here’s hoping that maybe one of them will be available through other means.
Chris Weber - August 6th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Well, I’ve been considering picking up a second account to dual-box with… lol
PepsiJedi - August 6th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
I told my guild leader about this last night.
She went to walmart and 3 hours later (( I assume she and her husband went out to eat))
She already has one. She has the black and white one. I didn’t ask if she had a choice of colors.
If you wanna see one in game, her name is Nokomis on Shu’halo. She’s got TONS of mounts. from Spectral tigers, to riding turtles and as of yesterday, the Zhevra.
PepsiJedi - August 6th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Update. She LITERALLY came online a minute after my post.
You get the black and white. It arrives in your mail. :) So no colors as of now.
Ritsuka - August 7th, 2008 at 2:28 am
It may be lazy/clever marketing, but hey, it’s the -cheapest- mount to date that we’re forced to use real-world monies to obtain~! Go go $50!! (rather than $100 turtles, $250 rockets, $1,200 tigers….*sobs*)
Marathonian - August 7th, 2008 at 3:44 am
I plan on getting a second account just for this mount.Not because I collect mounts.
Nope simply because I get seriously sick riding my racial mount.BE hunter is my main.I cannot ride it for a few minutes without getting urpy,and that’s without looking at it.I can’t ride a raptor either for the same reason.
I’ve worked hard from the beginning to become exalted with UC,but I’m still fairly far off (16831 Revered) despite doing every quest I could find that gave UC rep,including all the starting zone quests.I’m having such a tough time I thought I’d have to wait until Brewfest to level my character past 48.
It really is that bad.
Mania - August 7th, 2008 at 4:16 am
I know *exactly* how you feel, Marathonian! I also have problems with hawkstriders and raptors making me motion sick, and my blood elf is also still struggling to make Exalted with Undercity.
Estella - August 7th, 2008 at 7:43 am
Marathonian and Mania -
I actually had my own Belf exalted with Undercity by the time she hit 40. It requires a bit of out-of-box thinking, but here’s what I’ve come up with.
Despite the ‘ZOMG. Do Ghostland Quests!’, those don’t do anything for you. Seriously. They give you Tranquillien rep and that’s all.
Start out on doing the entire starting area. Wind your way through and do the end of that quest line. I then went to Allakahzam and looked up and did all quests that give HORDE XP. This means it fills out all brackets of Rep. You’ll still be shy after you do all the Horde and UC rep quests. The last topper is going through and doing any quests that are for Lv10+. This grants you spill over. I think what I did was went to Barrens and just worked on random quest lines there and dinged randomly. But you cannot do it before 40 alone if you don’t do the horde + spill over type rep things. (Also don’t forget the cloth rep rewards!)
Good luck.
Marathonian - August 7th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Estella-
I’ve done all that.I’ve done every UC starting quest as if I was playing a Forsaken.
I did the Barrens after doing Silverpine Forest.I did Hillsbrad,Arathi Highlands,Badlands,STV,Swamp of Sorrows,Desolace,Feralas,Tanaras,Thousand Needles.
You name it,if it gave UC rep or even spillover rep gains and it’s within my level I’ve done it.I might have missed a drop quest here and there because I have really bad luck with drops period.I’ve also turned in cloth including Mageweave.I’m still short.
If I can manage two more levels I’m just going to do Runecloth donations no matter how long it takes.I’d rather grind for Runecloth than mess with this headache.
It stinks that Horde only has two 10 to 20ish zones that gives spillover (Barrens and Silverpine) while Alliance has four (Westfall,Loch Modan,Darkshore and Bloodmyst Isle).
kitschsous - August 9th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
It wont help for those of you wanting to get the mount before 30/40, however you can farm AV starting at 52 and turn in the repeatable quests there for spill over rep.
You’ll also get honor so you can start 60 with decent gear/save till 70 for S2, and you’ll easily get exaulted with Org this way as well, giving you the wolf as another option. I wanted S2 on my BE Hunter and decided to do this, got Exaulted with all 4 cities before I was done with my honor grind. The hardest part is figuring out when to go back to the hold. Wait to long and there will be too many Allies/NPCs are dead, go back too soon you have to run up to the battle again to get more items.
Gamon - August 15th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
I got my Zhevra last night… you can basically get it within a few minutes and without leaving your computer if you want to.
- upgrade your account online with Blizz for $19.95 (I think)
- DON’T choose to pay with a credit card unless you want to wait a month… instead, purchase game time from the Blizzard site. I bought 3 months for $41.97.
- Apply the time to your new account and you get to assign your Zhevra instantly. If you already used a credit card to pay, just change your subscription; it’ll ask you why you’re cancelling your account, but just continue and apply the card.
- Don’t forget that you get a free month for your main account, too, so it cost me about $45 for the mount and getting to dual-box…