Rare Mounts how to raise them

[Tothjowii]

I been trying to figure out how the blazes to get Giant stags and the like and see if you could get them or stuff like that on the royal island or you like i have seen in EVERY video on the subject they only spawn in the black zones if anyone could tell me how it works that would be great thank you.

[Monoxide]

I am pretty certain any stag can drop a fawn, regardless of zone color. The drop rate is just very low (somewhere between 0.1% - 0.2% | EDIT: database says 0.12%). In the grand scheme of things, this isnt that rare considering if you are a skinner youll take out hundreds of stags in a T4 outing. I have 3 stag fawns in a chest waiting to be raised.

This is also just one type of rare mount. Others can be handled in different ways; swiftclaws only drop in dungeons (AFAIK) and must be raised in a kennel opposed to a pasture (which is where you raise them - pasture for grazers / kennel for meat eaters).

All things considered, I dont find stags to be all that useful. They have better capacity than a horse, but have low defenses. I prefer using an armored mount and banking often opposed to carrying so much that if I get dismounted I am automatically dead.

[Tothjowii]

Thank you for the info it just seemed like when I was researching for raising rare mounts they where doing the grinding to find them in black zones (at least when I looked it up on YouTube) but I thought to myself that doesn’t make sense not ever one wants to do that and risk everything to find them there.

[Monoxide]

I think its more of a situation of having the land in the black zones and having less competition. After a certain point in the game, most people spend their time in black zones. Its generally less risky than a red zone (depending on guilds really).

I can probably kill 10x more stags in a black zone than I could on the royal continent. The potential risk is well worth the overwhelming reward.

[Tothjowii]

True but if you are a solo player black zones are not your best friend with a guild yes specially when they have lands in that zone