Rusted Proto-Drake

Reward of the achievement Glory of the Ulduar Raider: earn thirteen boss achievements in Ulduar, one on each of thirteen bosses. Since patch 7.3.5 the raid has one size and this one achievement, which gives the Rusted Proto-Drake and the Ironbound Proto-Drake together.

Inside Ulduar, a raid (any (one size since patch 7.3.5))

Time there about 2 h a visit

Guides Wowhead: Ulduar - The Complete Achiever's Guide · Wowhead: Iron Dwarf, Medium Rare, achievement page (the comments of 2025 give the Razorscale method that works now) · Wowhead: Glory of the Ulduar Raider, achievement page (the comments list the thirteen by boss)

Nothing to unlock first: go there and it is yours.

/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.

One completion of Glory of the Ulduar Raider gives both this drake and the Ironbound Proto-Drake, so a player who already has the Ironbound from the new achievement has this one too. The wiki's page for the achievement (12401, added in patch 7.3.5 on 16 January 2018) gives its reward as 'Mounts: Rusted Proto-Drake and Ironbound Proto-Drake' and lists the thirteen criteria. Wowhead's tooltip for the reins says 'Achievement: Glory of the Ulduar Raider', the new one. The wiki's page for this mount still names only the old Glory of the Ulduar Raider (10 player), which was this drake's source until 2018 and was made Legacy when the two raid sizes were merged.

Everything below about the thirteen achievements, and the guides, entrance and time on the spot, is taken from the notes for the Ironbound Proto-Drake and was not looked up again.

The thirteen, by boss (Wowhead's tooltip for achievement 12401 and a comment on its page; how each is done is from Wowhead's achiever's guide, brought up to date in 2018 after the raid was reworked):

• Orbit-uary (Flame Leviathan): speak to the Lore Keeper of Norgannon in the staging area first so that all four defence towers are active
• Iron Dwarf, Medium Rare (Razorscale): her Flame Breath kills 25 Dark Rune Guardian dwarves
• Stokin' the Furnace (Ignis): dead within 4 minutes
• Heartbreaker (XT-002): destroy the heart he exposes, then kill him
• I Choose You, Steelbreaker (Assembly of Iron): Steelbreaker dies last
• Disarmed (Kologarn): both arms and then Kologarn within 12 seconds
• Crazy Cat Lady (Auriaya): none of her Sanctum Sentries is killed
• I Could Say That This Cache Was Rare (Hodir): dead about 3 minutes after his tunnel is entered
• Lose Your Illusion (Thorim): the tunnel is run to his platform in about 3 minutes, so that Sif is still there for the fight
• Knock, Knock, Knock on Wood (Freya): all three Elders left alive
• Firefighter (Mimiron): press the red button at the back of his room before the fight
• I Love the Smell of Saronite in the Morning (General Vezax): leave the first six Saronite crystals alone until they merge into the Saronite Animus, kill it, then him
• One Light in the Darkness (Yogg-Saron): at most one of the four keepers asked for help

A character far above the raid's level has to hold back in places:

• Heartbreaker fails if XT-002 dies before the heart is out
• Vezax must live until the crystals have merged
• Razorscale must not die before she has breathed on the dwarves

For Razorscale the Wowhead comments of 2025 agree on this method (more in the notes for the Ironbound Proto-Drake):

• let the engineers repair all four harpoons without using them
• gather the dwarves without hurting them
• wait for 'Razorscale goes into a berserker rage!'
• then fire the harpoons and stand the dwarves in front of her

The count is kept when the fight is reset and, by a 2025 comment, shared by the whole Warband.

No comment newer than 2021 was found that covers the whole meta-achievement, and none from Midnight, which is why confidence is medium. No player count is set, on the strength of comments telling of the whole thing done by one character. The 120 minutes are an estimate for one clear doing all thirteen.

A boss killed without its achievement has to wait for the raid to reset; the lockout was not looked up (the notes for Mimiron's Head have one Yogg-Saron kill a week). Whether the Timewalking version of Ulduar counts was not looked up. The entrance is from the game's own instance-entrance table. The reins ask for level 27 and Apprentice Riding since patch 9.0 (wiki).

Confidence in this entry: medium. Looked up in 2026.

Sources

• Wiki: Glory of the Ulduar Raider
• Wiki: Rusted Proto Drake
• Wowhead tooltip: item 45802
• Wowhead: ulduar the complete achievers guide 780
• Wowhead: glory of the ulduar raider (comments)
• Wowhead: iron dwarf medium rare (comments)