Baron Rivendare's Mount - Finally

I began running Stratholme about a year ago after i lost interest in leveling any more characters.  i've been through the whole instance several times and the Baron's side of the instance many many more times than i can count.  each and every time, the baron would not drop his mount.  there were times where i would queue up for a dungeon and the queue would pop a minute or two before i would get to rivendare.  so those opportunities are lost. 

Last night, i was a little bored and decided to hop onto my death knight Devyn.  she's the main character who have been running stratholme for the mount.  although she has never seen it drop, he has looted rivendare's runeblade three times.  i have two runeblades in the bank. the third (or first) was sold some time last year. she's exalted with the argent dawn, and 100% due to killing mobs in stratholme.  now, if only i can gain old world faction rep like that, i'd be exalted with all the horde factions as well.  surely, i've been running around with the title, "The Argent Champoin" for almost a year.  i've been there that many times.  i can probably do the instance in my sleep if it werent for those pesky gargoyles that fly around.

So last night Devyn created a deathgate to the Acherus and flew straight to Light's Hope Chapel.  there, she rode on her trusty chopper to the service entrance of stratholme.  once in, she began killing as if she had never taken a break from killing (in reality, she's had about a three week break).  she did get confused on whether it was good to use howling blasts on mobs. she soon remembered that it would have just been easier to take one down individually.  In any case, she finally got to the Baron Rivendare with barely half her health left.  she made quick work of him tho, and he dropped right when he was summoning his minions.  the minions died from a single blood boil from Devyn.  as the mobs dropped, a little sigh was heard from under both mine and devyn's breath.  we were both pretty sick of this instance, and sick of the baron never dropping our steed.

i clicked the body expecting just to pick up the usual items, but instead, on the second page, saw the Baron Mount.  i was pretty happy, and releived i do not have to come back to this instnace ever again (at least not on Devyn anyway).  I was pretty stoked i had to link it in guild chat.  people congratulated me. i wanted to tell everyone of the 50 to 100 times i've been into this dungeon without ever seeing it dropped.  i wanted to convey my frustration and happiness as i received the mount.  it wasnt one of those, oh hey, i got a nice shiney! yay me!!   no, its one of those "finally, i can cancel my subscription!!!" moments.  but i wont. there's still much more to do.  and there was no way to tell anyone in guild just how i felt after a year's worth of baron runs.  maybe my guildies knew, but i wouldnt know. 

in any case, i do enjoy the mount.  its really fitting for a deathknight anyway, since we are, after all, undead.  i keep thinking how redundant being an "undead" death knight is (which is also why i never made one).  but i've thought about it and thought it was interesting how the undead has infultrated all factions and races in azeroth in the form of a death knight. 

So with that said, screen shots!!!!

Now im gonna work on my undead quests, because that white skeletal horse is pretty pimpin.