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.
Details
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.
Icon
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How to Obtain
Drop
Drops from Boss Drop in Vault 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)
Riding Requirements
Grand Black War Mammoth needs a riding skill of 150. Its mount type carries 2 capability entries.
What the Item Costs
The client stores a buy price of 100g for
Reins of the Grand Black War Mammoth.
Where It Drops

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.
Entrance and location
Vault of Archavon entranceThe 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.
| ID | 287 |
|---|---|
| MountTypeID | 230 |
| SourceTypeEnum | 0 |
| Flags | 4 (0x4) |
| PlayerConditionID | 0 |
| SourceSpellID | 61467 |
| UiModelSceneID | 45 |
| MountFlyRideHeight | 0 |
| MountSpecialRiderAnimKitID | 0 |
| MountSpecialSpellVisualKitID | 0 |
| CreatureDisplayInfo | 27240 |
| CreatureModelData | 2824 |
| Model FileDataID | 234720 |