Smoky Direwolf
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Look it up on WowheadHow to get it
Rare find in the Invader's Forgotten Treasure, the bag paid once a week for a Gold rating (1,000 points) in a Garrison Invasion. To call an invasion, buy a Scouting Missive from the garrison quartermaster, do its quest out in Draenor and hand it in; the quartermaster then offers the invasion, which is fought inside the garrison. A Platinum rating (1,300 points) adds a second weekly bag, the Routed Invader's Crate of Spoils, with a smaller chance of its own.
Chance 2.69% once a week, so about 37 tries on average — Wowhead: 1,055 mounts in 39,200 opened Invader's Forgotten Treasures (the bag's contents list as the Garn Steelmaw record, 642, read it on 2026-10-11; pooled since 2014; not read again for this record). The Platinum crate, Routed Invader's Crate of Spoils: 808 in 80,636 opened (1.00%), from the same record. Both in one week: 1 - (1 - 0.0269) x (1 - 0.0100) = 3.67%
Time there about 15 min a visit
Before you go
- Draenor garrison founded and raised to tier 3 (the last upgrade costs 2,000 Garrison Resources and 5,000 gold) · about 4 h
- For each attempt, one Scouting Missive (200 Garrison Resources from the quartermaster) and its quest: a few minutes of kills at the place the missive names · about 0.25 h
In all: about 4.3 h of play, 5,000 gold, starting from nothing.
Getting there
/way Shadowmoon Valley 29.6 16 - Take the portal from Wizard's Sanctum to Ashran*
- Fly the rest of the way
/way Frostfire Ridge 47.9 65.9 - Take the portal from Pathfinder's Den to Ashran*
- 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
About 37 Gold bags are expected at 2.69%, one a week on each character; with the Platinum crate as well, about 27 weeks. Once a week is confirmed by a 2024 comment.
Of the four invasion mounts this is the second commonest in both bags. In 39,200 Gold bags:
- Garn Steelmaw: 1,604
- this one: 1,055
- Giant Coldsnout: 871
- Shadowhide Pearltusk: 826
In 80,636 Platinum crates:
- Shadowhide Pearltusk: 1,079
- this one: 808
- Garn Steelmaw: 656
- Giant Coldsnout: 599
Wowhead's tooltip for the mount item (as saved in 2026) names only the Gold bag and carries no drop chance. The wiki's page for the mount (edited 2025) lists both bags and six garrison bosses as sources (Annihilon, Commander Dro'gan, Gaur, Lady Fleshsear, Mage Lord Gogg'nathog, Teluur), each called with an item an invasion may leave behind, and gives no chances. The item binds when picked up and asks for level 17.
Most of what follows mirrors the notes for the Garn Steelmaw, which has the same two bags and read both loot lists; for this mount only its own wiki page was read, and Wowhead was not looked up again. Nothing here was checked against the game as it stands in Midnight beyond what was found for the Garn Steelmaw.
Taken from the Garn Steelmaw and not read again: the score marks (Wowhead's guide, written for patch 6.1 and last updated 2018) are 300 Bronze, 600 Silver, 1,000 Gold, 1,300 Platinum, and a rating also pays the lower bags not yet earned that week. That guide has invasions come from kills in the Apexis daily areas and does not mention Scouting Missives, which are the dependable way. The coordinates are the quartermasters' spots as worked out for the Shadowhide Pearltusk and the Giant Coldsnout.
Which invasion: comments on both bags' pages (2021) say the Iron Horde invasions from The Pit missives score badly since the 9.0 level squish and recommend the Shadow Council ones from the Shattrath Harbor and Heart of Shattrath missives; a 2025 reply says that still holds in patch 11.2.0 and reaches 1,300 points.
Up to three players can fight an invasion together (Wowhead's guide). The time on the spot is the estimate used for those mounts: the guide gives a hold-out of about 8 minutes between an opening assault and a final boss.
Confidence in this entry: medium. Looked up in 2026.
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