Aux's Top 5 Favourite Ground Mounts

Mounts are essential to World of Warcraft, without them you can't go anywhere (quickly at least). There are literally hundreds of mounts in World of Warcraft but here are my favorites!

1. Grand Ice Mammoth: Yes, I chose the Grand Ice Mammoth as my favorite mount in the game! I have a thing for Mammoths and I have many great memories riding this thing around Northrend and around Dalaran, its a huge mount and gets you lots of attention, has a gorgeous character model and an awesome running animation.
Its quite a common mount and is often confused with its smaller War Mammoth cousin but this is the real deal.

2. Riding Turtle: I choose the Riding Turtle just for its rarity, in all of my years of playing World of Warcraft I have only seen a handful of these, at least from my experience they are the rarest mount in WoW. You get the Riding Turtle from Fishing it has an extremely low drop rate. It actually has a 0% speed increase which defeats the point of it being a mount but its awesome and a real great one to brag about!

3. The Kon'Kron Annihilator is a reward for when you hit Exalted with your level 25 guild. It was released in Cataclysm and is basically a huge scorpion you get to ride and it even comes with enough room for 2 players, need I say more?

4. Is it a bird? Is it a raptor? No.. its the Reins of the Raven Lord, its a 1% drop from Heroic: Sethekk Halls in Terrokar Forest. Sethekk Halls is a level 70 dungeon and at level 85 even the Heroic mode is easily solo able. Once you get Honored rep you can go to Shattrath and get a key that will unlock the Heroic version, from there you just keep farming until you get the mount which as I said only has a 1% drop rate from the second last boss.

5. The Fossilized Raptor was introduced in Cataclysm as a high-end reward from the profession Archeology. It allows Alliance players to ride a raptor. But not just your run of the mill raptor, this raptor is a skeleton held together by .. something, it doesn't look very safe to ride but its so god dam awesome you want to anyway. The Fossilized Raptor is again quite a rare drop so don't expect to get it anything soon, but that's the thing, if it wasn't rare everyone would have it and then it wouldn't be so special!