Not going to bury the lead with this one, especially given that I talked at length about it on twitter. This weekend I finally managed to get the Headless Horseman’s Reins. I have been chasing this off and on since 2008 when the event was first patched into the system. That first year I tried to tank it for anyone who was willing to let me use their summon. Back then each player got one chance to click on the pile every day, and as a result you could summon it for a group that didn’t have the ability to summon it themselves. I attempted to tank it for everyone that would allow me to use their summon and saw it drop so many times, but each time lost the roll.
Once it went to a personal loot system, where the boss drops a loot bag and the mount is contained within it… I ran it on pretty much any character that was eligible. I have been chasing this with varying degrees of vigor for twelve years, and this year given that I have so many max level and near max level characters I made a hardcore push to attempt to get it. At the beginning of my run I had thirteen characters eligible for the mount, given that you have to be at least level 45 (pre-squish 110) in order to get the right kind of loot bag. As the event ran I kept leveling more characters to the minimum level and as a result expanded my roster of attempts to nineteen. If my calculations and memory is correct of the sequence of when I leveled which characters… I ran it in total 206 times before finally getting it.
Probably the coolest part about the entire process is the fact that when it FINALLY dropped… it dropped for my OG Main Belghast the Human Warrior. This was the character I started the chase from all those years ago. This was the character that I would beg people to get their daily summon all for a shot of getting the mount. Why did I care so much? Well I have always loved this mount model and I have Attumen’s mount that I won fair and square while we were running Karazhan. However none of the other versions of this model can fly, which greatly cuts down the utility of the mount. The best part about all of this is that I never have to do Horseman ever again pending I don’t want some free rings for alts.
What did I do AFTER getting the mount? Well I proceeded to start working on my lowest level horde character my shadow priest. I think I finally found a character that the Eternal Traveler set actually suits. So I am now spending the last days before the pre-patch lands running a low level character through BFA which is supremely weird. In some ways it makes BFA much easier, and in other ways… it is just a pain in the ass not to have flight again. I should in theory be able to train flight in a few levels when I ding 30, and last night if I am remembering correctly I hit 28. Still working on the first zone of BFA so you end up moving through the levels at a pretty good clip.
In other less enjoyable news. Yesterday my Dad was out working in the pasture and was just about to hop on the tractor and move it, when he lost his footing and took a really bad fall. He landed in such a way as to crack the ball part of his hip joint and separate it. I found out about the time he was being taken to the hospital, and given Covid protocols no one is being allowed back with him. We’ve thankfully been able to talk to him off and on over cell phone. Essentially they are going to treat this like a hip replacement and at some point this morning he is going to have surgery that removes the effected joint and replaces it with an artificial one.
What makes this more complicated is that my Mom is effectively bed ridden, or at the very least has very limited mobility. So my focus has been trying to make sure she is okay. I spent three or four hours up there yesterday making sure she was settled and locking down my dad’s shop and retrieving the key from the tractor out in the pasture. It is no wonder he fell because just in my traversal to get the key I ended up tweaking my ankle when what I thought was stable ground was significantly less stable than I thought. She is set for now, and am going to call her in a few hours to check in. I will likely run up there tonight just to make sure she is doing okay.
The thing is… I have no clue what the schedule for the next few days is going to look like right now. I am making a post this morning but I have no clue if and when I will make posts from this point forward until the situation is stabilized. I greatly thank you all for the comments that I have received over twitter. Yall rock, simple as that. Basically my life is going to be real weird for awhile so I will update as time allows.
Congrats on finally getting the mount. I ran it s half dozen times this year and last. 11 years for me, only time I had a chance back in 2009, I was asked to pass it to someone that had been running it for others the entire time, don’t worry, you will get it next year.
Sorry to hear about your dad, hope he makes a speedy recovery.