Free Mount for WoW Shadowlands Owners Now Available

Last September, Blizzard gave the World of Warcraft community the opportunity to decide what free mount would appear in the title as part of the Shadowlands expansion. The choices included the flying book called Soaring Spelltome, the spider-like Nerubian Swarmer, the caterpillar-like Curious Caterpillar, the gelatinous Gooey Slimesaber, and the giant tree known as Wandering Ancient. At the recent BlizzConline event, we learned that the latter won with a significant majority of votes. Now, nearly three weeks later, it can be picked up in the game. It debuted along with patch 9.0.5.

You could conquer the world with this mount.

To be able to pick up your Wandering Ancient, first of all, you must own the Shadowlandsexpansion. Once you've met this condition, just go to the Mounts tab, which is located in the Collections window inside the game. Your new mount will be visible as a gift at the very top. Press the Unwrap button to add it to your account. That's it, you are now ready to travel the world of Azeroth on a giant tree.

Note: There are two things to keep in mind. Firstly, if you've done everything as described above and you can't find your mount anywhere, don't panic. It may take a few days for Blizzard to send the gift to everyone interested. Secondly, the Wandering Ancient cannot be activated and used in World of Warcraft Classic (via Blizzard Watch).

You can pick up your Wandering Ancient at this location. / Source: Blizzard Watch

Belonging to the race of Ancients, well known to all Warcraft fans, the Wandering Ancient was designed by Jon McConnell, an artist working for Blizzard (via Wowpedia). To a large extent, the model of the new mount was based on the Ancient Protectors that were already present in WoW. At this point, it is one of the biggest mounts in the game. He is dubbed by Glenn Stafford, who usually composes music for the Irvine team. An interesting fact may be that Wandering Ancient changes its appearance depending on the season. You can see it in the tweet below (via Game Rant).

We remind that World of Warcraft and its expansions are available only on PC.

1. World of Warcraft - official website
2. World of Warcraft: Shadowlands Review - 75% Legion; 25% New

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November 23, 2004

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