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Black Drake
Drop Mount
It never pays to leave a live dragon out of the equation.
3D Model
First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.
Details
Summons and dismisses a rideable Black Drake. This is a flying mount.
Taught By
The item that teaches this mount. Hover a name for its tooltip.
Icon
Background
How to Obtain
Drop
Drops from Sartharion.
Where it comes from
The sources Black Drake names in its in-game collection entry, each with its own page.
Also from Sartharion (1)
Riding Requirements
Black Drake needs a riding skill of 375 and the spell Skyriding Basics. Its mount type carries 6 capability entries, 1 of them naming flight capability record 11.
What the Item Costs
The client stores a buy price of 200g for Reins of the Black Drake.
Where It Drops
Black Drake drops from Sartharion, Shadron, Tenebron and Vesperon, an encounter in the raid The Obsidian Sanctum (Wrath of the Lich King). The Adventure Guide lists it only on 10 Player. It is one of 44 items in that encounter's loot table. The game files carry no drop chance, so none is shown here.
Other mounts in this loot table
Entrance and location
The Obsidian Sanctum entranceThe game data places the raid entrance for The Obsidian Sanctum in Dragonblight at map coordinates 60.0, 57.0.
Counts Toward
Learning Black Drake completes a criterion of 1 achievement: its summon spell is named in their criteria trees.
What It Looks Like
Its model measures about 11.0 yards long, 5.9 wide and 4.1 tall, the rider sits 2.9 yards up. Figures come from the CreatureModelData bounding box.
Same body, other looks (11)
These mounts are drawn on the same CreatureModelData record as Black Drake: one skeleton, different skins.
Client Record
The Mount.db2 row for Black Drake in the current retail build, as datamined.
| ID | 253 |
|---|---|
| MountTypeID | 424 |
| SourceTypeEnum | 0 |
| Flags | 128 (0x80) |
| PlayerConditionID | 0 |
| SourceSpellID | 59650 |
| UiModelSceneID | 4 |
| MountFlyRideHeight | 0 |
| MountSpecialRiderAnimKitID | 0 |
| MountSpecialSpellVisualKitID | 0 |
| CreatureDisplayInfo | 25831 |
| CreatureModelData | 2858 |
| Model FileDataID | 234564 |
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