While we recognize that this is a unique event, we feel that the complexity of this event can cause various issues that negatively impacts a player’s game play experience. Going forward, the gates of Ahn’Qiraj will start out open on all new realms that are created. But its still a shame! The Black Tank is a typical ‘oldbie’ status symbol, and now even the most intrepid mount collectors can’t get them We knew the Black Qiraji Battle Tank was near impossible, so it doesn’t really bother our mount count that its being taken out. Its not that hard to duo, I just keep Lifebloom on him and since he’s an awesome tank anyway, I can usually help with a little DPS. They can only be ridden inside the instance, so you wont ever see them outside unless Blizzard changes that. I’ll never speak out against my exclusives being shared if I get the one thing I feel I missed out on.Myself and Cablin have been working on getting the Red, Yellow, Blue and Green Qiraji Battle Tanks from Ahn’Qiraj, since it classes as mounts so we can work on getting the Albino Drake. I’ll even share my WoD weapons and 36/36 Mage Tower appearances with everyone! And if we bring this one back, there’s no excuse against bringing everything else back as well. All of us that refused to ruin the event for other people were essentially punished for our courtesy. We were assured that these players would be punished and their rewards taken away - they never were. In the years to come, I watched many people transfer away to new servers to ruin their gate event and greedily bang the gong before anyone could naturally finish the questline. I had the scepter during my server’s event, but due to server issues and academic priorities, I missed my shot.

Let’s give everyone a chance to bang the gong, get the Scarab Lord title, and the Black Qiraji Battle Tank (which received an updated model long after it was made unavailable, no less)! If we’re going to be bringing back limited time exclusives, let’s go right to the grand-daddy of them all.

New black qiraji battle tank