Warcraft Mounts: News

Blizzard mentioned quite some time ago that the Amani War Bear, the armored bear mount from Zul’Aman, will be retired when the Wrath of the Lich King expansion launches. Today they clarified that statement and let us know that the bear mount will cease to be available with the next major content patch to WoW, which will actually happen before Wrath launches.

Zarahym posted:

As an update to this, the Zul’Aman Bear Mount will be removed with the upcoming content patch, prior to Wrath of the Lich King:

And he linked to another post of his:

Will bear mounts still be available when the new content patch hits?

No. This item will no longer be available with the release of the next content patch. Mind you this patch will happen before the release of Wrath of the Lich King.

So keep that in mind! There is not yet an announced date for the next major content patch, Patch 3.0, but Blizzard has said that it will be on the Public Test Realms in the coming weeks. If you still don’t have the Amani War Bear but you plan to get it, you might want to do it soon!

Now that Servants of the Betrayer, the newest expansion for the WoW Trading Card Game (TCG) has been released, we should start seeing X-51 Nether-Rockets and X-51 Nether-Rocket X-TREMEs around and about in Outland.

The Upper Deck WoW TCG site even has some video footage of the X-51 Nether-Rocket X-TREME in action (plus footage of some other in-game card rewards as well).

There are two varieties of rocket mount. Both come from the X-51 Nether Rocket card — the code on the card allows you to buy either or both models from Landro Longshot in Booty Bay. Both models are flying mounts: the red X-TREME model requires a riding skill of 300 while the blue (non-X-TREME) model requires a riding skill of 225.