Onyxian Drake
Drop Mount
She has a lot in common with her mother, except for the being killed and reanimated. But she is young still. -Maloriak
3D Model
First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.
Details
Summons and dismisses a rideable Onyxian 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
Where it comes from
The sources Onyxian Drake names in its in-game collection entry, each with its own page.
Riding Requirements
Onyxian 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 Onyxian Drake.
Where It Drops

Onyxian Drake drops from Onyxia, an encounter in the raid Onyxia's Lair (Classic). The Adventure Guide lists it on every difficulty of the encounter. It is one of 70 items in that encounter's loot table. The game files carry no drop chance, so none is shown here.
Entrance and location
Onyxia's Lair entranceThe game data places the raid entrance for Onyxia's Lair in Kalimdor at map coordinates 56.6, 69.6.
Counts Toward
Learning Onyxian Drake completes a criterion of 1 achievement: its summon spell is named in their criteria trees.
What It Looks Like
Its model measures about 10.7 yards long, 5.9 wide and 4.4 tall, the rider sits 2.9 yards up. Figures come from the CreatureModelData bounding box.
Client Record
The Mount.db2 row for Onyxian Drake in the current retail build, as datamined.
| ID | 349 |
|---|---|
| MountTypeID | 424 |
| SourceTypeEnum | 0 |
| Flags | 128 (0x80) |
| PlayerConditionID | 0 |
| SourceSpellID | 69395 |
| UiModelSceneID | 4 |
| MountFlyRideHeight | 0 |
| MountSpecialRiderAnimKitID | 0 |
| MountSpecialSpellVisualKitID | 0 |
| CreatureDisplayInfo | 30346 |
| CreatureModelData | 3200 |
| Model FileDataID | 318963 |