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This was done in quest and 80-instance gear on all parts. Imagine after you get a couple raids in. Even if abilities are scaled back a bit, I'm sure it'll be no issue.

I think a lot of people are missing the point. The bear isn't getting taken away because it's easy to get, it's because you're guaranteed to get one if you beat the timer (which is also pretty much guaranteed at 80). Baron's mount is still in the game, even though he can easily be duo'd (and solo'd by many classes), because it's a LOW drop rate. So is the raven. It'll stay.

Because god forbid a casual player gets a cool mount after he gets to a point where he can finally see said content that drops the cool mount. For a game prided on its casual appeal, they like to make things impossible to get for casuals. And Tier 5 raiders who can handle ZA and beat the timer ain't casual.

They could've mixed in the Bear with several of the trash drops in the final chest and given it a 0.005% drop like the ZG mounts, but nope, no bears for casuals. People keep claiming there'll be more in WotLK for casuals, but there's nothing out of beta yet. The only other bear mount will be a BlizzCon goodie. If you're not a casual who can fly to LA to BlizzCon, you're SOL again.

How did I get to ranting about bears?

@RogueJedi86:

Most high end guilds are still selling bear mounts for 10Kg. Plenty of casuals have this mount. Don't fret. You can still get one if you talk to these guys soon.

I thought Anzu could only be summoned once per druid for their epic flying mount quest?

Nope - once you turn in the quest you get a special key in your bag to summon him as often as you like (once per day).

While I see the boss being 2 maned - I can't imagine soloing him. He hits really hard if you don't have hots on the various aspects. Dealing with the bird ads would be difficult at best for a feral druid as well.

Not to mention you still need to clear out that entire room to start the event, and you can't skip the first boss anymore.

Actually it is very easy, we downed 1 boss with 2 paladin - 1 mage. I think with some more can easily do all AQ.

Of course, I am talking about AQ 20 =x, AQ40 is another 1000 words.

At 70 we already 6 manned 2 bosses in MC for a laugh once... had a good tank and 2 good healers so we could go all day, which was fine because 3 level 70 dpsers don't do anywhere near as much damage as 35 level 60 dpsers :)

So yeah, if you are good you might be able to 5 man some of AQ already.

2-manning a couple of bosses in ZG is a common enough pastime. Tank, healer, pewpew.

It's fun. :-)

Anzu is already cake. It is only a heroic. I don't even have any tier gear.

My paladin pretty much soloed DM for my level 60 warlock's mount quest.

@Manatank

My casual feral druid alt (tier-4/S2) has been trying to get its epic flight form for over a year now, and cannot even make it TO the boss, much less kill him. This is using various guild members, all in Kara/badge/S2 gear (nothing special, but we're not in greens or anything silly).

The instance might be "just a heroic", but it's one of the hardest heroics in the game right now.

I'll definitely be looking forward to running it again at 80 to try and get my epic flight form.

I suspect that the mechanics of the warlock epic mount encounter will prevent it from being soloed, regardless of level. You need somebody else to take care of the spawning mobs while the warlock keeps the bell, wheel and candle active. Any damage to the warlock interrupts the process, and the ritual fails if all three items become inactive.