One Sunday last Autumn I experienced a demotivated funk for no particular reason. Just one of those days. What I needed most was the thing I least felt like; getting fresh air and a nature hit. I’d wanted to go Red Squirrel spotting but lost motivation for even that. Fortunately Wild Daddy and Caroline knew best, dragging me on a cheer-up-Mummy mission, to seek one of the UK’s most endangered mammals.
I’d never seen Reds in the wild except, tragically, as road-kill in Scotland. Woodhorn Museum A location that ‘virtually guarantees’ Red Squirrel sightings in Northumberland is, on the site of an old Colliery. In addition to the extensive museum showcasing disused pit buildings there is a 2′ guage railway, play areas, a cafe and shop, woodland walks and 3 squirrel feeding stations around the perimeter where wild Reds can supplement their natural diets in safety. It’s a great place to visit in it’s own right and though I returned to the feeding station 4 times, Caroline was able to make halloween decorations and we enjoyed a trail around the fascinating museum too. Love at First Sight It’s not as though I didn’t expect it, but these energetic little animals are stunningly gorgeous!
The photo below was my first view – from quite a distance – but if that had been all I’d seen I’d have been happy. The log from the pine tree allows the squirrels into the museum grounds to access the feeder and a bowl of water.
I went back to the feeding station several times, each time being ‘allowed’ to get closer by the cheeky rodents! All these photos are from the same visit. Seriously Endangered Estimates suggest there are now as few as 120,000 Red Squirrels in the UK, with around 2.5 million Greys and that Reds could be extinct here within a decade.
The native Reds are intolerably cute but sadly can now be found only in a few places in the UK due to competition from the North American grey squirrels, introduced here in the 1870s. Greys are bigger, stronger and arrived with the virulent squirrelpox disease to which our Reds had no immunity. Grey Squirrel culling Most people in the south of the UK will never see a Red Squirrel and many people don’t know they still exist. It’s a huge conservation issue, with grey squirrels culled in certain areas to assist the reds’ survival and reds provided with food and nesting boxes in other areas to help them thrive. Grey squirrel culling will come as tough news to those who love feeding and seeing grey squirrels around the country and for kids who enjoy tempting greys with treats in our London parks. Squirrel Pie In order to help the conservation effort, grey squirrels are trapped under licence in some UK areas with entreperneurial business people making good money selling squirrel pie to pubs and restaurants. I even found a recipe online for roast squirrel and much as I’d love to see our native Reds back thriving again I can’t bring myself to share the recipe!
Where to find Red Squirrels in the UK The main UK Red Squirrel population is in Scotland, but they are also on the Isle of Wight, the Poole Harbour islands, in parts of Wales, Cumbria, Northumberland, Merseyside, Lancashire, north-west Durham and the Yorkshire Dales, with a reintroduction programme on Anglesey. Visit the for a map of where you can find our native squirrel in the north east. How To Spot the Difference Other than the obvious colour, what are the main differences between Reds and Greys?
My first Red at Woodhorn, 2016, and a Grey on my birdfeeder in Stoke, some years ago. Reds are roughly half the size of greys. Reds are a warm red-brown colour with a bushy, dark brown tail and cream underside.
Greys are silver-grey with some orangey-red tinges, a white underside and a white ‘halo’ around the tail. Reds have ear tufts which moult every autumn. Greys have rounded, mouse-like ears and do not have ear tufts The lists more fascinating differences. Report a Red Squirrel sighting. If you spot a Red Squirrel in the wild please report it to one of the organisations below for monitoring. Red Squirrels.
Red Squirrels. Red Squirrels Things to do with the Kids Spot a drey – a squirrel’s home. Look at least 6m off the ground for spherical nests about 30cm in diameter with a twig frame. They are lined with moss and grass which you’re unlikely to see and may be spotted in tree holes or against the trunk and branches. Bury acorns – on a recent nature reserve visit the children hid acorns in woodland grass and returned half an hour later to see if they could find them.
Alpha zawgyi unicode keyboard installer mozilla. Proof of how hard it is to remember where one’s next meal is after such a short time, let along weeks or months as the squirrels do. Dress up – here’s Caroline in nutty model mode! What is a Squirrel? Squir rel ˈskwɪr(ə)l NOUN: an agile tree-dwelling rodent with a bushy tail, typically feeding on nuts and seeds. S quirrel something away hide money or something of value in a safe place (like a squirrel overwintering its nuts by burying them in the ground) 2. Published by Kids of the Wild Lucy has a lifelong passion for wildlife & nature and the benefits of getting children, adults & families outdoors into the wild, all the more since her daughter's cancer diagnosis in 2017.
She was instrumental in setting up a Forest School in 2002 and the adoption of 28 rescued swans at a stately home where she worked. Lucy loves walking, travelling, exploring the wild with her family, dog and camper van and cries every time she sees a whale in the wild! Post navigation. I saw my first red squirrel when I was staying with my German pen friend in Bavaria many years ago – I was leaping about with excessive excitement and the family, who saw them with great regularity, thought I was completely mad! I had to explain to them that they are so rare in the UK that I had never seen one.
Fast forward several decades and I now live in Normandy where they are also very common – we often see them on our walks or driving along and I still never tire of the fleeting glimpses I get as they dash up a tree to safely. Red Squirrels are one rodent that got the marketing PR spot on! Thank you for adding this post to #AnimalTales and apologies for being so late reading and commenting. I have been struck down by an evil lurgy and am only just getting back on track.
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Comment by NelleRavencrest Been farming this all day, would say I have done 100 summons. I know two other people, who are up to almost the same amount of summons and none of us have seen it yet. When I try to use the here from wowhead it cant retrieve the item in game, this is usually due to the fact that the item have NOT YET dropped at ALL on the server. I went to test this theory of going to Silvermoon (EU) and using the link and immediately received the item info ingame (most likely cause the mount have dropped there) This would suggest that the droprate is something like 1/1000 or maybe even 1/10000 since I play on one of the most active servers in EU (Ravencrest) and im sure there have been an insane amount of summons all day. Lets see what the following days bring. But as it is now it doesn't look like a 1/100 droprate like most other rare mounts, it seem much much more rare. As a refference, the Headless Horseman mount had a 0.3% drop chance Best of luck to all of you!
Comment by mleczna Just like a Headless Horseman mount it seems to be scaling with your raiding skill, so it can be used BOTH as flying 150% / 280% mount as well as ground mount. It has very low drop rate from in Shadow Fang Keep during 'Love is in the Air' event. It also looks like a pimp's mount. I have seen one on my serwer.
You must also consider, that the 'Love is in the Air' event just launched, so we are sure to see some more of those sweet mounts in game. Just kill Apothecary Hummel and pray for it to drop.
Comment by ceemeeir I'll most likely never know the reason of downrating such comments. Yes, they would be better to be collected together, like a reply to the previous one, but ATM these are the only source of drop-rates. Edit: Grats to the one, above me. I wish all ppl dedicated like you could have one instead of ppl who just had 1 lucky summon. You truely deserve it.
Fourchette: I feel with you, I did only 420 summons for my HH mount, but it was 400 more than I ever want to do again. That is one of the reasons I didn't even try to farm this mount. Better luck next time:(. Comment by Kaledan You better sit down son. Would you like the good or bad news first? The good news is that I can remotely diagnose your ailment. The bad news is the cause:- 454 loots?
This means one of two things. A) You are full of the proverbial. B) For a boss you could have only legitimately looted 35 times up to when you posted this message. One loot per person per party of five per day. If you have managed 454 it means you have been riding on other people's coat-tails, expecting to contribute nothing to the team (in the way of a loot) but wanting a free roll on drops.
It's ninjas like you that ruin the game for everyone else. I hope you don't get the drop. The Random Number Gods are working as intended. Comment by Thystorm Ive been farming this baby pretty hard, but i havent got it yet. So i have a question for all u other mountfarmers out there: Does it just drop on the US servers?
Or is it able to get it on EU servers as well? Some things in-game has been exclusive for US, like this.
So Im just wondering if theres any point of me continuing with the farming or not. Did about 130 attempts on the Headless Horseman without seeing 1 single mount drop, so I guess it can be bad luck aswell. I dont think we have any of these mounts on my server. None have answered me when ive asked in trade, and I havent seen anyone with it. List of rare items that have dropped for me while farming for this mount: x 4 x3 x3 x2 x0.
Comment by Ruike It scales to riding skill, not to your highest level mount. If you have epic flight training it will be 310% speed, there is no extra training for it. If you have only basic flight it will be the basic flight speed. If you don't have flight it will scale to whatever land mount training speed you have. It is exactly the same as other mount speeds, not because you have the other mounts but because that is the fastest your training allows.
310% mounts have the same req training as 280%. Its like saying your ponies would scale up because you got the warhorse, speed is based on mount not skill, except the ones that scale with your skill not your other mounts. Also because this mount scales with your skill, unlike the X-51, it can be used in areas that don't allow flight, like Dalaran and most of Azeroth, it just stays on the ground and has 100% speed.
Comment by ninkosen The droprate is outrageous.But I suppose for it to be 310%, probably the best looking flying mount around, flashy and all. Both ground and flying. I mean this is the whole package. If it had been 1% it would have be easier than ZG mounts etc. Just don't except to farm this, or have it. Beside I don't see any pride to have this, so what you go around town, and you look just stupid not because it looks bad but because it's like taunting everyone 'look how lucky I am and you are not' and the fact for him to be able to have it, it requires 2500 people who tried but didn't have.
Technically and fairly this mount is equally owned by 2499 other people. We just don't ride it ^^.
Because we all pay for the same game. You could write a book on RNG. Now Blizzard doesn't like 1% droprate mounts, they are into 1/2500 ones. Kalu'ak countest and!@#$. Power to the RNG in 2010. Just to clarify some misconceptions about this new functionality, the summoning of holiday bosses is going away. Players can queue for these bosses via the Dungeon Finder or special holiday NPCs found in the world.
Once the party is finalized, the group will be ported directly to the area where the holiday boss resides. Players can kill the holiday bosses as often as they want for standard loot (epic rings, trinkets, etc.), however, they will only drop one holiday-themed loot trove per player per day. These loot troves will have a chance of containing rare holiday items such as The Horseman's Reins. This means, you no langer can take alts and let them summon the boss to get your mount/ pet etc. Is obviously the loot trove you get for killing Apothecary Hummel.
By menemew 18 days ago (Patch 3.3.2) As of 3.3.3 the mount will dropp from a kind of box, obtained the FIRST time you kill Hummel each day (just like the emblems of frost reward) IF you use the dungeon finder (Which will let you search grp for world event bosses). Still the same droprate although it will not be shared by grp members. This information is unnecessary at this point in time considering there will be around 11 months for holiday drop mechanics to potentially change before Love in the Air happens again.
Comment by Aimsyr Female Blood Elf? Bah, this is clearly the latest fun-filled vile creation of the Legion. I blame the Succubi. Although the Blood Elves did serve the Legion for a while, and they do have Warlocks. Female Blood Elf Warlock + Succubus + Big Pink Love Rocket =. Or to make it simple: 1.
Get one or more Female Blood Elf Warlocks and one or more Succubi (the more the merrier!) 2. Get Big Pink Love Rocket 3.?/Censored 4. Okay let's pretend that never happened and I never said any of that, I think I even managed to creep myself out on that one. Comment by adrian12308 ok guys this mount despite of its color is pretty cool to have, considering u get ur chances at it once a year keep in mind that it is also the 3 and only way (for now) to obtain one of these types of mounts 1st way. Buy a X-51 Nether Rocket Xtreme mount from Ebay or get lucky with some TCG.
Do the Recruit-A-Friend way for the X-53 2 seater one. The Love is in the Air holiday bosses.
Yesterday a Horde obtained the Pink rocket and he showed it to us in Dalaran, it looks very cool and honestly i would love to have it. Besides REAL MAN WEAR/USE PINK! For wat i see it has the same drop rate as the HH mount and the Brewfest Kodo and Ram so guys lets just keep trying and congrats to any person out there who gets their hands on this baby!
Comment by Rankkor yep, on WOTLK the event was redesinged. It used to have a diferent plot, diferent villian and diferent quests. When the boss was added, so was this rocket. Of course this was before the random LFG was implemented, so back then you had 5 chances per day to get the mount (but also had to compete with the other 5 members of the group if one dropped) today you have only 1 chance per day to get the mount and 14 days per year, but this time if u have it, it's yours. No need to compete wit anyone. Comment by abhigailstephen The role of social networking services in online dating has been explored in a book dedicated to the subject.
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Comment by Murdekklok Five years doing this on ten toons I already know I'm not getting the mount. Not looting anything but Love Token from the Heart-Shaped Box and only 5 of those.
Blizzard hates me. Someone that worlds at Blizzard hates me. No mask, no pet, no rose and no mount. Five years not a thing but the very lowest they can give. Blizzard if you advertise your product and do not provide the customer with what you advertised you run the risk of being hated by your customer. It's just a game, why not give your customers what you create?
Why not actually distribute all the content you spend billions of dollars creating to your client? Five years is a long time to only get five Love Tokens, you should call them F.k You tokens.
Comment by Murdekklok The idea is that you don't give your customer everything in order to encourage them to keep coming back for more is no way to maintain a social game environment. That's horse hockey.
The client that leaves is the client that doesn't like your product, ef them. You're punishing the client that likes your game and wants to stay. The client that doesn't like your game and is leaving should not be the focus of your game design.
Ef the guy that leaves, there will always be in your life someone that leaves. When you create product based on the idea that your client is going to go you will always fail. Assume instead that your client is happy with your product and reward them with everything you create. The only client that is going to leave is one that had the intention to go before he purchased your product. He left, why punish those who stay? The more you punish your loyal clients the less likely the are to stay with you.
Don't cater to a client that is walking out the door. Reward your current customer with all the goodies. Examine LFR, you're giving equipment to customers with no gems and no enchants on their items. You're rewarding those that don't invest time in your game, it's a cycle you continue to pursue Blizzard.
Comment by Myzou Can confirm it still drops. Got it in a bag on my druid yesterday. Almost gave me a heart attack. Though, naturally, I wish it had been on a toon other than my druid. I will like, never see my flight form again. D: Just another confirmation for those curious: The mount can be used in Flightless Areas. People are rude.
Downvote comments from people confirming things. Tip: Before telling me it was already confirmed, pay attention. No where here has it been said it can be used in flightless areas. My comment does. Comment by Wescman MoP is coming, and mounts are going Account Wide. I made a little list of mounts, so you can show off how epic you are, starting at levels as low as 20. This list is meant for mounts you can achieve in-game without buying them from the Blizzard Store, as all of those can be used at 20.
I have not included the TCG mounts, as those don't really show, 'Feats of Strength' either. Obtaniable In-Game There are, of course, all of the capital city faction mounts as well. Recruit a Friend, Scroll of Resurrection, and Big Blizzard Bear mounts are all usable at 20 as well. Please comment mistakes or tell me if I missed anything.: ). Comment by Esploratore With a 0,03% drop rate, as in 1 in 3.333 drops, and 14 days in which you can farm over a period of a year with each of your characters, this mount is mathematically impossible to get unless you get lucky.
If you had the character cap (50) and ran this event every single day of the year you would get (a headache) and 700 attempts per year, so you would have to do the same for almost 5 years, and still you would only have around 63% to have seen it drop at least once, as in, you would get lucky to have it dropped before the 5th year of farming ends. So spam it on all your characters and hope you get lucky, there's NO way to put enough dedication into this to get it with a quite sure%, and for this reason, despite having atm 5 characters level 90, 8 dks level 83, 1 dk level 84, 1 dk level 82 all with a lot of rested bonus, I will only run it with the 5 characters which are already eligible to do it (90), as 70 attempts or 140 or 210 don't change anything with this drop rate, not a decent chance to get it. Comment by Talisse The only drops from, not from the event-boss how it's said in the event article ' the extremely rare Big Love Rocket, dropped by the event-only boss Apothecary Hummel in Shadowfang Keep'. And proof for this is the answer from a GM: ' Greetings Talisse, Thank you for contacting us.
The Big Love Rocket can't be obtained from the apothecaries themselves, in order to give a fair and equal chance to all players without having them reset the instance multiple times a day. We're wishing you the best of luck for this year! Regards, Game Master Broldnir Blizzard Entertainment Europe '. Comment by Iwannabeer You may queue up praying for a Toxic Wasteling to beat up critters with; you may pray for a Vile Fumigator's Mask because you are frequently flatulent; you may pray for a rose, a greeting card, or a useless doo-dad that makes people cry because you're mean that way; you might even pray for just a few more tokens so you can buy a very annoying pet or a trampy outfit.
You might pray for any of these and might have those prayers answered. But if you queue up praying for this mount to be yours you will only finish this holiday assured that the gaming gods love only a very few players - and you're not one of them.
Comment by Grandore It was hilarious last year. It was the last day of the holiday and I got my Paladin up to level 85. That was when I was like 'Oh hey I can run the Valentines dungeon on my Pally! So for #$%^s and giggles I decided to run it. After completing it and getting the heart shaped box I proceeded to open it and The Love Rocket was in it. I couldn't believe my eyes! One of if not THE RAREST mount in the entire game in my possession.
I literally $%^& my pants when I got it. And when I mean $%^& my pants I mean as in I seriously @#$% myself! My reputation as the resident mount collector is now set in stone on my server.
187 mounts and still counting! Comment by Thecanman, the drop chance of this is 1 in 3333, or a 0.03% chance to drop from something which is only available once a day per character FOR TWO WEEKS. It holds the honor of being the rarest item in-game.
To help me illustrate your chances of getting the mount, let's compare the odds of the mount dropping with some things in the real world. Comment by Floppydawg As mentioned, this is a rare gift indeed. The chances of getting one is: 100% - ((chance of not getting one) ^ number of attempts) = dropchance With a 0.03% dropchance, that gives X = log (1 - Y) / log (0.9997) Where Y is the desired chance for a drop, and X is the required number of kills.
For a 25% dropchance, you need 959 kills. For a 50% dropchance, you need 2310 kills. For a 75% dropchance, you need 4620 kills. For a 90% dropchance, you need 7674 kills. Love is in the Air lasts for 2 weeks, so that's 14 attempts pr toon pr year. Basicly, chances are good you ain't getting any for YEARS! Comment by Jazzycakes2 Before anyone starts throwing around 'Rarest mount in the game yada yada' let's look at the maths.
You get 14 runs per character a year to get this mount. It takes several minutes to do this on each character. The instance only takes 1 minute plus a couple minutes in queue where you could be auctioning, questing, dancing on mailboxes etc.
Might have a better drop AND each character gets 52 attempts per year, however how long does it take to get a group together to down the world boss? Comparing apples to apples, running for both mounts with the same amount of attempts, you will end up with first. However it will take more than tenfold the amount of time invested. If you look at the 2 weeks that the Love is in the Air event last, you are far more likely to get a than due to the fact that 14 attempts trumps the 2-3 attempts per character plus time invested. Sorry for the rant, I believe people need to look at these 2 mounts in a different point of view!
Comment by lilyandrea Just buff the drop rate. This is really stupid. All other event mounts have pretty normal drop rate yet still remain rare enough. After doing this for YEARS on multiple characters, I believe I deserve it. Simply cos I worked my ass off every year for this!:S I am sure many mount collectors agree. This is the only mount I am missing from world events. And have been missing for years.I am yet to see anyone in my group getting in, anyone in my guild getting it, anyone I personally know getting it.
This makes me seriously sad. Comment by Danjirox So I ran this boss everyday on 6 level 90's I decided to open the boxes immediately on 3 characters and save them on the other 3. I realise the small percentage change might not actually show up significantly, but I decided to try to see if there was a noteable change anyway:) Now here's what I found out: I openend them immediately on Druid: rose, mask and the heartbreaker charm for her Death Knight: 2 roses and a mask Warlock: nothing! I waited on Monk: rose Rogue: 2 toxic wastelings Priest:a rose and a heartbreaker Conclusion: RNG does not like my warlock:P My druid and death knight actually did better than the characters that I waited with, but I think that may be because they are my oldest characters, so they have years of experience with this shi.:P Unfortunately no mount, better luck next year.
Comment by brnnoser6983 It’s that time of year again. Oh yes it is Valentine’s week in Wow and yet another quest to get that elusive love rocket. Over the years of attempts on the rocket I figured I would track my drops this year. The numbers: This year I ran 12 toons on 2 different servers over the span of 13 days (15 in total this year but because of maintenance on the servers and my work schedule I skipped 2 days) A total of 156 different runs. Bag drops: Toxic Wastling: 8 Forever-Lovely Rose: 11 The Heart Breaker: 1 Vile Fumigator’s Mask: 6 Token drops: In total I received 1018 tokens with an average of 84.83. Numbers aside I am beginning to think that the rocket is a lie just like cake is a lie. Better luck to those who get it on their first try.
Comment by Rtucci Saddens me to see people downrated for their tales of good fortune. Gone are the days of yellow posts on Thottbott where people would update and edit their posts and tell of their progress, giving hope to others through their persistence and screenshots. People would root them on and continue to farm the mount for themselves.
Now there's so many people that are just jealous and greedy, downrating and complaining. You can't really post anything constructive on a mount or item that's multiple years old and doesn't have any special ways of obtaining other than good luck and persistence.
So good luck and be persistent!and be happy for the people who spent ridiculous amounts of time for something that only has meaning in this community and game and to them. Comment by bullshizzblizz12 Well every year every event it lets u do holiday bosses one lvl below cap well not this year i found out the hard way I had 13 99s I now have to lvl to 100 I didnt do the last lvls cuz i was already so burned out after 13 99s and one 100 so now i'm gonna lose days on some sigh off to the grind once again a heads up would of been nice blizz u give us so Lil time before event to lvl all our alts then u hit us with a lvl cap holiday boss that's the rarest of all how thoughtful of u I was so excited I had so many for the event now I'm sad lol. Comment by Taraezor Chance to get the mount?
Well we need to know the approximate drop rate and the number of attempts. Chance to get the mount = 1 - ( 1 - drop rate ) ^ number of attempts Example: drop rate is 1 in 1000 or 0.001. Number of attempts is 10 1 - ( 1 - 0.001 ) ^ 10 = 1 - ( 0.999 ) ^ 10 = 1 - 0.99 = 0.00996 = 0.996% After 693 attempts: 1 - ( 1 - 0.001 ) ^ 693 = 1 - ( 0.999 ) ^ 693 = 50.01% chance of snaring a rocket.
That's the minimum number of attempts to tip the% chance in your favour! (And if it does drop then for heavens sake get yourself some swag pimpin clothing so you can pose in style.) I have seen people say the drop rate is 1/3333. Ten attempts = 0.2997% chance and to nudge over 50% you would need 2310 attempts.
Now I edited it with maths that is actually correct. The down votes are coming in fast). Comment by Mightyena5875345 If you ran this on 50 characters every day during the event each year, on average it would take you almost four and half years to obtain it. With 10 characters that would take 22 years and with 20 characters it would take 11 years. This drop rate is rediculous. Blizz, please make it like 0.3% instead of 0.03%. That would be soooo much more fair.
Hell, even 0.1% would make it not stupid. It would still be the rarest currently obtainable mount in the game, it would just be actually feasible instead of impossible.
Comment by Devilwings75 As a mount collector, I would love to get this mount. Sadly with a 0.03% drop rate, I’m pretty sure I will never get it. Funny really, I have better chances to be struck by lightning or being attacked by a shark (which in my case, is an actual possibility, since I go to the beach almost all weekends, LOL!) than to get this mount. I have chatted with several “casuals” on trade channel that got the mount this event, saying yeah, “I didn’t even know about this mount” or “I helped a friend queue with my healer and I just got it.” I have ran it in previous years with 5 or 6 toons, but not this year!
I prepared 14 characters for this and some for other reasons, but mostly for this event alone. So far this is what has dropped for me: Days running the event: 7 14. No. Toons Running per day: 14 No. Runs: 196 Vile Fumigator’s: 9 13 Forever Rose: 8 11 Toxic Wasteling: 6 12 Heart Breaker: 3 4 Avg Ticket at the end of the event: 93 per toon Rocket: 0 Real Life Broken Hearts: 1 Anyway, I want to thank sites like this one, who have helped to keep me informed throughout the years and for funny videos that have helped me keep my sanity while waiting on queues.
Speaking of which, I found this little gem, that I’m sure everybody reading this can relate to, I hope you all enjoy it! (NSFW language) Yeah, if you try this, don’t forget the goggles! I’ll try to update when the event is over if this comment is not too downrated or if I’m not too heartbroken or if I haven’t rage quit the game then, in which case, “anybody has a laptop I can borrow?
Seriously, anybody?”:P Good Luck everyone! Edit: To include final numbers, etc.Counting Monday morning, you could have squeezed an extra run per toon, but I missed a day of the event due to Connection issues, I'm sure my mount dropped that day! Maybe next year. Comment by helladin finally i get it this year 5 year farming every second year expansion do wth ton of caracter this year was done 20 toon with finally drop only at panda kill it more then 400-500 time probably half amount at cata its really nasty drop rate ps:if u buy legion or consider to buy buy it now so u can use 1 extra toon for farm.
Becouse of now exapnasion lifespan shorter next year will be ok too prevous sepmeper or october expansion with u cant have first year expansion enough max lvl toon dont lose hope. Comment by Lostelf To make this more bearable for those of us with several alts, do this only with classes that have a tank/healer spec (Preferably tank) and stay DPS spec (Basically getting a quicker queue whilst remaining DPS). For example on my ret paladin with a prot off spec I queued as tank, but stayed ret for the actual dungeon, got an instant queue and was done with the dungeon in less than a minute, whereas if I'd stayed DPS i'd have had to wait 5 minutes or more for a queue to pop.
The boss(es) are soloable, so nobody will miss a tank/healer and it goes a lot quicker with 4-5 DPS. Edit: Expected this to be hated on, but whatever. It's still good advice, who cares if it's a little immoral?
Comment by Agony123 Ok so I done this event on 51 characters every day now sense day 1 and manage to do all 15 days with all my alts, feels like no point in leveling that many alts to max level when it wont just drop xD:( 2014:255 attempts (17 characters per day) 2015:170 attempts (12 characters per day) 2016: 764 attempts (51 characters per day) So this is what I ended up with in loot: 1190 attempts (764 only from this event) VIle Fumigator's mask: 35 Forever-Lovely Rose: 47 Toxic Wasteling: 42 The Heartbreaker: 7 Big Love Rocket: 0 Now Im just sad I dident get it but next year. Feels like I will spend alot of levelig in legion if I want 50 attempts per day again (dont think I will) Congratz to all that looted the Mount. Im jealous:). Comment by Rockbottomm So I've been told I should go jump off a cliff for this.
But went in to help my sister with hers on the last day at the last hour of the event this year. Didn't even realize it was in my bag for over half hour. I've been told I'm bad and should feel bad, my sister didn't speak to me for two days. I wish it wasn't BoP because I would have totally given it to her. I didn't even realize what I big deal it was until we were in H HFC a week later and they were talking about it in Vent and I was just shocked that it was this rare. I'm really sorry to those who farm it non stop, maybe just 'not want it' so bad and it'll come to you.
Good luck next year everyone.:). Comment by Niixten Seems like Love event will be scaled just like the invasions did in pre patch to legion. I feel happy that I dont need to rush leveling all my 54 characters from level 100-110. If you can farm this on level 1 character, then this would be the end of rare love rockets.
I think the level cap to get the mount should be level 80, just like it was when it came in WotLK. Good luck to you all:) Edit: 'You no longer have to be maximum level (110) to defeat the Crowne Company; these bosses now scale like the pre-expansion Demon Invasion bosses. We were able to queue up on level 20+ characters' From Perculia post. I will level up 50 characters to level 20 on each account until I have 400 characters. 400 attempts per day=5600 attempts per event. I think human monk would be best for leveling to 20. Monks get 50% exp buff at level 10.
Edit: I saw a post on mmo-champion about Love is in the Air event. 'You can now queue for the Crown Chemical Co. Encounter on any Level 16 or higher character!' Guess I will level up characters to level 16. Comment by Engade According to the wowhead info ( ): ' You no longer have to be maximum level (110) to defeat the Crowne Company; these bosses now scale like the pre-expansion Demon Invasion bosses.
We were able to queue up on level 20+ characters; have fun farming the! ' In this case, in order to max your chance to eventually grab this lovely rocket you will need 50 characters of at least 20 lvl. Eventually, it lets you spare some time without a necessity to level through all your alts and gives you a wider perspective of queueing up this instance. I do already have 50 chars ready to start. The hype is real! EDIT: Unfortunately, this year did not bring me a good luck.
However, I won't give p! Raise your eyes to the skies and hope that someday it's gonna be ours! Comment by lolablerants all i can say is.!#@! As this year you only have to be lvl 16 to farm the boss and hope for the love rocket, that means farming on every char is nolonger unreasonable. It's not hard to get lvl 16, i think i already have 45+ characters above that level.
So now i'm going to try farm it on every single alt, and maybe even delete and remake level 16's if i have time. And i still won't get the mount. Atleast before i knew i wasn't going to get it, but it only took a few minutes a day to try TT. Comment by Flink I've been farming for this mount since the year it was released. Many, many years ago, an incident occurred that still bothers me to this day.
This was back when you got five chances per character, but had to split the roll between five people. So one day I did the fight, and it dropped! Of course, I lost the roll, but offered to buy the mount off of the winner.
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The person who won said this: 'I don't even like it, but I'm keeping it for my collection.' And then they used the mount, forever binding it to them. I lost the roll on the mount, the only time I've ever seen it drop. Comment by MRTF Big love rocket, hah. More like Big 'cringe' rocket.
For years I've been doing this grind while also listening to Haddaway- what is love; I'm trying to figure 24/7 why they named it love. Well so far I haven't found that love. And I doubt I'll ever find it. Finding love in real life hasn't been nowhere nearly as hard as finding this big love rocket. Thus, it has made me believe that this isn't love. It's an obsession. Be careful what you want from this game, because most of the time it's heartless love that you get.
Comment by Djongov Ok time to talk in 2017 Legion terms is the rarest mount in the game. it drops from and not the bosses corpses. can be looted once per day per character. it has 1 in 3333 chances to drop which is around 0.03%. only available during the event which is once per year from 7th Feb-21 Feb.
You can queue to the dungeon with all toons level 16+ so the real farming starts now. Don't go crazy if it doesn't drop this year. The chances aren't very high to drop in a single year but it's better than not trying at all. Is not a dual seat mount. You have 15 days to try so you better not skip any. You cannot join more than 10 instances in an hour and for some reason this counts when doing this even with your alts. Good thing is that you queue, you get the error that you cannot teleport to dungon but you if your team kills the bosses you still get the while in town!.
If you are lucky enough to drop for you - be happy, it also gives a feat of strength -:). Rolling Death Knights won't work. You have to complete the whole storyline before being offered to queue for the dungeon. Comment by Peredhil To the abysmal low drop chance, add at least 2 “fun” factors: the $%%^& failing /declining the queue and those entering the instance and afking near door the whole fight-prolonging it unnecessarily. At 50 tries/day I get at least 20-25 examples like this, and it adds up.(imo ppl failing queue should get some kind of deserter debuff - because you can easily run wow in background with sound on if you alt+tab, therefore avoiding wasting other players time, but that's another topic).
Comment by Raline I tried to track down the source of that 1/3333 drop rate, but wowhead references mmorpg that references wowhead, so I'm estimating the chance myself. Using data from a few of my guildmates in the 2017 event, I can tell with 99.9% confidence that the drop chance is smaller than 0.45% (1522 attempts). Method: Chance of not getting the mount with N attempts.
(1-X)^N=0.001 EDIT: Why the downvotes? Anyone disagree with the method?
If the drop chance was greater or equal to the chance mentioned, there is a 99.9% that we should have got it by now. So either the chance is lower (with 99.9% probability) or it isn't and we are unlucky (0.1%). This is a reliable statistical analysis (which is why I'm only using reliable data). More accurate than this, only a bluepost, that I haven't seen yet. Links would be appreciated. Comment by Slamina Just got the Big Love Rocket mount on a lvl26 alt today. Took approximately 1300 kills this year (2017).
Did about 500-600 attempts in 2016 and I dont remember how many in 2015 or 2014. Notice there is NO level requirement, only requires apprentice riding when I mouse over the item. (newly registered users can not post links) The closest time consuming mount similar to this is the Reins of the Infinite Timereaver.
After gathering about 25,000-30,000 boss kill data from a combined 10 guys from my old legendary premade raid I used to run, we had determined on average every 1000 Timewalking boss kills 1 person in a 5man would see a Infinite Timereaver mount drop pretty consistently which made its droprate odds 1 in 5000 since its personal loot. However that mount is still no where near as rare as the pink rocket mount since the love is in the air is so short and timewalking runs are only 5min in a BIS premade. I made tons of 16-20alts on my second battlenet already months ago so I am going after a second Big Love Rocket mount! I'll reply with more attempt data when the event ends or if another drops before then, Do not give up!
The Amur leopard is one of the world’s most endangered wild cats. Every day, species around the planet are going extinct. And for each species that goes extinct, many more become and remain endangered due to habitat loss, poaching, human activities, and climate change. Some are so critical that they are teetering on the brink of extinction. All these threatened animals are included on the, a non-prescriptive list that is the world’s most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of species. “The IUCN red list tells us how close to extinction species are,” Craig Hilton Taylor, head Red List Unit of the Global Species Programme at the IUCN, told Business Insider.
“It is a fairly coarse measure but we have a set of quantitative criteria that we try to rank species under, and if a species moves into one of the threatened categories — vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered — then we know that a species either has a high, very high, or an extremely high risk of going extinct in the wild unless we do something about it.” For example, he said, polar bears are considered vulnerable to extinction, while tigers are endangered (a more critical category), and just this July, the IUCN declared that. Here are 12 species at risk of extinction, including some that you probably didn’t even know existed.
Twinkle toes was caught having a dance (Picture: Comic Relief/BBC) Back in No. 10, The Prime Minister dancing to Drake’s Hotline Bling was about the best thing on the show. Andrew Lincoln’s Mark nearly ruined our night when he asked if Jules and Peter were happy and when she said yes, he responded ‘shame’. Thankfully he was only joking. Turns out he married Kate Moss and actually Peter could hear them the whole time. We were afraid he’d been taken for a mug. Joanna asks Daniel if she can marry Sam in a fun twist that we didn’t see coming.
(We kind of wanted her to sing too). The Prime Minister, played by Hugh Grant, gave a stirring speech at No. 10, and he said: ‘Goods going to win. I’m actually sure of it.’.
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After the mini-sequel aired, people called for Hugh Grant to be named PM (Picture: Comic Relief/BBC) ‘I’m optimistic, wherever you see tragedy, you see bravery too, where you see ordinary people in need, you see extraordinary ordinary people come to their aid. Today is Red Nose Day and people are giving their hard earned cash to people who they’ll never meet but whose pain and fear they feel and want to fight,’ he said.
‘So it’s not just romantic love that is all around most people still every day every where have enough love in their heart to help human beings in trouble. Good’s going to win. I’m actually sure of it.’. Hugh grant really should be prime minister — Victoria Walker (@TullyTrotter) He’s asked about the best Christmas film ever made, and he said: ‘Don’t be stupid, everyone knows it’s Elf.’ Just as it was revealed that over £11 million had be raised for Red Nose Day, the highly-anticipated clip aired and it was a success. It’s quite rare that you get a look to see what your favourite characters are up to so many years later, but this has left fans gagging for a feature-length movie. We’d, in which he used his famous cards to tell us all about the Red Nose Day special, just like the ones his character Mark used to tell Keira’s character Juliet he was in love with her.
The highest price paid for a pink diamond at auction was for a 24.78 carat Fancy Intense Pink. Known as The Graff Pink, it fetched $46.2m when sold by Sotheby’s in Geneva in 2010. Over the years, the retired construction business owner from Long Island, New York, has been polishing an interest in rare coloured diamonds, particularly pinks, which can, on average, hold up to 20 times the value of a white diamond.
“We look at white diamonds as being very ordinary now and there’s so many of them around,” Picone said. In the Manhattan showroom of JFINE, a boutique diamond firm in New York specialising in rare fancy coloured diamonds, Picone looks on fondly as his 30-something daughters consult with designers. One daughter selects a shark’s mouth pendant design in yellow gold, then picks out diamonds of different colours to insert as the teeth. As well as spending around $1m on rings, bracelets and necklaces for his wife and daughters over a period of years, Picone has paid out a similar amount for loose stones. In buying and selling pinks, reds (the most valuable type of pink diamond), blues and greens, he reckons he’s seen an average return of 40% to 50%, usually over one to three years. The hunt for pink Only one in 10,000 diamonds mined has a trace of colour. Of these, a very small percentage are pinks.
Unlike other coloured diamonds, such as blues and yellows, which take their hue from chemical impurities that absorb light, scientists are not yet certain about what makes pink diamonds pink. The current theory is that their colour comes from the effect of severe underground pressure altering the molecular structure of the stones. And, not all coloured diamonds are rare.
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For instance brown diamonds, now marketed as “chocolate diamonds” in shades of champagne, latte and cognac, are the most common type of coloured diamond and have been widely employed for industrial use. Historically, pink diamonds have come from India, South Africa, Brazil and Indonesia. But today 90% of the world’s supply comes from Rio Tinto’s Argyle Pink Diamonds mine in Perth, western Australia — a mine that started production in 1983 and is set to close in 2020. While the biggest volume goes to Japan, where the tiniest accent of pink is symbolic of perfect love, the largest market in terms of value is the US, said Josephine Johnson, manager of Argyle Pink Diamonds. Buyers in India are also taking an interest in them, while in China, deep-hued pinks, classed as reds, are popular because the colour is associated with good fortune, she said. Over the past decade, Argyle pink diamonds have delivered 15% to 17% appreciation per year, she said.
While you can acquire a 0.02 carat stone for around $250, the costliest change hands for millions of dollars. What to look for White diamonds are judged mainly on what are known as the four Cs: colour, clarity, cut and carat weight. The first three characteristics are each classified in a grading system with a flawless colourless ‘D’ stone with excellent cut being the finest. With pink diamonds, however, colour outweighs every other factor. Ranging in hue from light champagne and cherry blossom shades to purplish and deep reds, it is the strongest and darkest shades that are most sought after. “The greater the saturation of colour, the greater the value,” Johnson said.
From light champagne and cherry blossom shades to purplish and deep reds, it is the strongest and darkest shades that are most sought after. “Pinks come in what I call a whole variety of different flavours,” said Jordan Fine of JFINE who is also president of the Natural Color Diamond Association.
“It’s important to pick a colour that inspires and motivates you. Don’t just look at one stone. Look at what flavour speaks to you.” When it comes to budget, the decision is often between depth of colour and size, he said. “Do you want a larger stone with less colour or a smaller stone with more colour?” As well as the strength of the colour, other aspects such as hue, intensity and brightness all play a part in determining value, he added. Provenance is also important, with a clear chain of custody commanding a premium, especially given concerns about the so-called “blood” diamond trade, whereby their sale is used to fund civil war and also human rights abuses in countries such as Angola and the Central African Republic. If in doubt about where a stone has been sourced, ask the seller for a human rights due diligence report.
With Argyle Pink diamonds, “we track all the way from the mine through to the end,” said Johnson. “The rough comes to us, we polish it in-house and laser-inscribe it on the girdle with a unique identification number which you need a loupe to see.” The mine issues a certificate for each diamond so that buyers can always check that a stone matches the description in the document, she added. What it’s worth At JFINE in New York, you can pick up a 0.03 carat Argyle pink diamond ringed with white diamonds on a snowflake necklace for $3,000, or shell out more than $2m for the ultimate vivid pink diamond. The nature of how pink diamonds are mined means that large carat stones are the rarest of the rare and are beginning to fetch the same stratospheric prices as fine art masterpieces. In almost 250 years, for instance, only four pure vivid pink diamonds of more than 10 carats have appeared at auction.
In almost 250 years, for instance, only four pure vivid pink diamonds of more than 10 carats have appeared at auction. The latest is a 16.08 carat cushion-shaped stone that fetched just more than $28.5m at Christie’s Magnificent Jewels sale in Geneva on November 10 “This is the Mona Lisa of diamonds, a super-rarity,” said Rahul Kadakia, Christie’s international head of jewellery. What makes it so exceptional is that whilst most pink diamonds have a colour modifier such as purple, orange or brown, this particular stone has no trace of a secondary colour, he explained. Offered for sale as the PINK, it was immediately renamed The Sweet Josephine by Joseph Lau, the Hong Kong property billionaire who acquired it. Two days later, Lau also put in the winning $48.4m bid for a cushion-shaped 12.03 carat fancy vivid internally flawless blue diamond which he renamed Blue Moon of Josephine.
The stone was sold by Sotheby’s in Geneva, which declared the sale a new world auction record for any diamond of any colour. Where to buy it Pink diamonds are on offer at well-known jewellery houses such as Graff and Tiffany & Co, and online at luxury retailers such as 1stdibs.com. Argyle Pink Diamonds also works directly with around 30 jewellery ateliers worldwide, a list of which can be consulted at Argyle Pink Diamonds. Each year, around 200 collectors and traders are also invited to buy the finest stones directly from the mine by sealed bid.
This year’s sale of 65 diamonds totalling 44 carats featured the Argyle Prima, a 1.20 carat pear-shaped fancy red. How to look after your sparklers It’s not so much care that diamonds need, as security. “Diamonds are one of the hardest materials we have. All that will cut a diamond is a laser or another diamond,” said Fine. “They’re very resilient. The key thing is safety, which means security and insurance.” If you have a vault or a safe, use it. And make sure you have photographs and documentation.
“The fact that Argyle stones have a lot number and accompanying certificate is very useful for insurance companies,” Fine said. You take a large chance but the rewards can be tremendous. As far as the safety of pink diamonds as an investment is concerned, Kadakia is brimming with confidence.
“With the way the coloured diamond trend has been going the price will only go up between now and the next ten years. It’s a very secure, very portable investment,” he said. A word to the wise Be that as it may, this is a sophisticated market to be approached with caution. Picone, who buys and sells individual stones, said, “When you’re dealing with something this expensive my advice is to start slow. Buying the raw stone and being able to forecast its value is very complicated. There are very few experts who really know what they’re doing.
You’ve got to find one and put your trust in them. “When you resell, to find the right person who wants to buy such an expensive stone can take three years.” Picone speaks from experience. His interest in diamond collecting began about 15 years ago when he was first bedazzled by coloured diamonds. He started by buying jewellery for his wife and investing in loose stones for himself.
Then eight years ago, after his daughters had graduated from university and embarked on their careers, he started the family tradition of yuletide jewellery shopping. Meanwhile, he continued investing in loose stones. On two occasions he bought pinkish-red stones and took the risk of having them recut with the aim of having them reclassified as reds. In each case, the cuts were successful. “We lost weight, but by making that change to red the stone can double to quadruple in value,” he said. “You take a large chance but the rewards can be tremendous.” To comment on this story or anything else you have seen on BBC Capital, head over to our page or message us on.
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