Black Drake
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Look it up on WowheadHow to get it
Drops from Sartharion in the 10-player Obsidian Sanctum when he is pulled and killed with all three twilight drakes, Tenebron, Shadron and Vesperon, still alive. Killed that way he always drops the reins.
Inside The Obsidian Sanctum, a raid (10-player)
Time there about 10 min a visit
Before you go
- Tenebron, Shadron and Vesperon left alive when Sartharion is pulled: the wiki gives the mount only for the three-drake kill
Getting there
/way Dragonblight 60 57 - Take the portal from Wizard's Sanctum to Crystalsong Forest*
- Fly the rest of the way
- Take the portal from Pathfinder's Den to Crystalsong Forest*
- Fly the rest of the way
/way is for the TomTom addon. Travel times are estimates: flying at 55 yards a second in a straight
line and 30 seconds for a portal. A star marks a portal that needs a quest or other unlock done first.
Notes and sources
The wiki: 'This item has a 100% chance to drop from Sartharion on three-drake hard mode in 10-player Obsidian Sanctum.' Wowhead's tooltip shows 29.61%, which is the share of all its recorded Sartharion loots, kills with fewer drakes alive included. So it is not the chance for a kill done the right way, and the drop is counted as certain.
The wiki does not say how many reins drop per kill, nor state the lockout. A raid's lockout is weekly as a rule, so a kill with a drake already dead costs a week.
The entrance, beneath Wyrmrest Temple, is from the game's own table. The time on site is an estimate.
Confidence in this entry: high. Looked up in 2026.
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