Skip to content
Mounts

Grand Black War Mammoth

Drop Mount

Rarely, a war mammoth is born stronger and more tractable than its peers. These mammoths are dubbed "grand" and carry more than one rider to the front lines.

3D Model

First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.

Advertisement
Grand Black War Mammoth

Details

Drop
Mount ID287
SourceDrop
ExpansionWrath of the Lich King
AvailabilityIn-game source

Calls forth the Grand Black War Mammoth! Allows two passengers to board that are in the same group as the driver.

Taught By

The item that teaches this mount. Hover a name for its tooltip.

Reins of the Grand Black War Mammoth

Downloads
Where it comes from

How to Obtain

Drop

Drops from Boss Drop in Vault of Archavon.

DropBoss Drop
LocationVault of Archavon

Where it comes from

The sources Grand Black War Mammoth names in its in-game collection entry, each with its own page.

Also from Vault of Archavon (1)

Mount dossier

Riding Requirements

Grand Black War Mammoth needs a riding skill of 150. Its mount type carries 2 capability entries.

Riding skill required150
Capability entries2
Mount type#230
Creature displays#27240

What the Item Costs

The client stores a buy price of 100g for Reins of the Grand Black War Mammoth.

Required level10
BindingBinds when picked up
Client buy price100 gold

Where It Drops

Vault of Archavon Adventure Guide art
Vault of Archavon in the Adventure Guide

Grand Black War Mammoth drops from Archavon the Stone Watcher, an encounter in the raid Vault of Archavon (Wrath of the Lich King). The Adventure Guide lists it on every difficulty of the encounter. It is one of 120 items in that encounter's loot table. The game files carry no drop chance, so none is shown here.

Instance typeRaid
ExpansionWrath of the Lich King

Entrance and location

Map of Dragonblight with the Vault of Archavon entrance pinnedVault of Archavon entrance

The game data places the raid entrance for Vault of Archavon in Dragonblight at map coordinates 14.0, 2.1.

Counts Toward

Learning Grand Black War Mammoth completes a criterion of 1 achievement: its summon spell is named in their criteria trees.

Availability

What the client data says about Grand Black War Mammoth: In-game source.

  • It is faction-specific: the journal shows it only to one faction.

What It Looks Like

Its model measures about 6.4 yards long, 4.6 wide and 5.4 tall, the rider sits 4.4 yards up. Figures come from the CreatureModelData bounding box.

Same body, other looks (7)

These mounts are drawn on the same CreatureModelData record as Grand Black War Mammoth: one skeleton, different skins.

Client Record

The Mount.db2 row for Grand Black War Mammoth in the current retail build, as datamined.

ID287
MountTypeID230
SourceTypeEnum0
Flags4 (0x4)
PlayerConditionID0
SourceSpellID61467
UiModelSceneID45
MountFlyRideHeight0
MountSpecialRiderAnimKitID0
MountSpecialSpellVisualKitID0
CreatureDisplayInfo27240
CreatureModelData2824
Model FileDataID234720
Advertisement
Other versions
Related

More Collections