I got my Ashes of Al'ar from the last time TBC Timewalking was on from the cache.
Looks like something out of mario 64
I believe the gear from the cache not being able to be catalyzed is a bug, as the very same gear from last season (and also last last season) can be catalyzed.
Fix the 441 Curio !
Blizzard started giving away everything. I've been waiting for legion mage tower hidden artifacts for years, but there is no development on them. It would be great if they at least added different color variations as a reward to the existing mage tower. It's really frustrating that you can't get the best weapon designs in the game at all.
Now make the Firelands cache drop the blazing drake! And the other Cata raid mounts, too.
I got mine from the last TW.
WHAT THE HEEEELL OH MY GAAAAH
Well, I wouldn't call al'ar elusive at this point! I think the cata cache is more impressive, as it has a much better drop rate for timereaver, which is the only really low drop mount in these caches.
I've had the mount for nearly 10 years. Honestly never use it. The lack of feet and no ground animation always bugged me and I don't care for the streaming ribbons off its tail. It's a rare day if I ever see anyone else use it. Only time I see it pulled out is if players are doing a ring of Ashes of Al'ar, Dark Phoenix, the fire hawks, Anzu, and the flame/fel/void talons. Past that, I never see anyone seriously using that ... before dragon riding opened up to the rest of the world at any rate. It's a mount for the mount count and honestly not much more than that. Also can't really say it's that rare when apparently something like a quarter of the player base has it according to the addon LiteMount.
For the other collectors out there (and Wowhead, for future articles) The following Timewalking Raids have the corresponding mount drops: Burning Crusade Timewalking: Ashes of Al'ar and Infinite TimereaverWrath of the Lich King Timewalking: Invincible, Mimiron's Head and Infinite TimereaverCataclysm Timewalking: Flametalon of Alysrazor, Smoldering egg of Millagazor, Experiment 12-B, Blazing Drake, Life-Binder's Handmaiden and Infinite Timereaver. If you have some spare 70's, it's certainly worth your while to run the Timewalking raids!
2 friends got it from their cache, good stuff
that's pretty sweet tho
Unfortunately didn't drop on my 13 level 70's. So gotta wait for next TBC week in August.