- The doing damage, being in party, having aeonaxx die near you still works in 4.3. Just, sometimes, it doesn't. Worth the risk, IMO. Usually, if you're not Ponderance, a GM will assist in switching it over too. Just remember, if they say no, don't put in more tickets. It'll make your name shitty like Ponderance did. Grin.
- Linking reins doesn't mean anything at all. More below.
- Killing Blood Seeker, or taming it, or anything like that, doesn't change spawn times at all. We did that research back when we had time before they changed it from being up for 5-7 minutes shortly after launch to the rest of the time it now spawns in 2-6ish seconds.
- You CAN mount it just fine as a druid in flight form. I know. I did it on my druid. -proof
- Aeonaxx doesn't share spawn timers with any other rares in deepholm. Only Blood Seeker, which isn't a rare.
- Aeonaxx DOES NOT travel in circles around the temple before being mounted.
- Aeonaxx is not triggered by any dailies. Any of them. Nothing to do with them.
Regarding Linkable Reigns:
Reins do not only become linkable when somebody kills/loots Aeonaxx. There are 3 reasons (that I know of) why reigns switch from unlinkable to linkable. And 2 of the reasons are why I don't even bother with it.
1) Somebody kills Aeonaxx and loots the reigns (well known, and already stated above).
2) Someone has an old version of Atlas Loot from before Blizzard had them alter the way it retrieves information because it would force the server to fetch uncached item information - thus making anything it requested linkable. - Anyone that still has one of the versions can punch in the reigns and force them to be linkable [apparently for a short time, from what people who do it have said] (don't ask me what version number(s) do it I don't know, probably can find out on google)
3) A player has the reigns unlearned in their bags/bank and logged in. Not sure if they have to mouse over it to do it or what, but this is a long known reason for things becoming linkable.
(I'm not putting up the script because I personally find it to be a moot point resulting in more self-inflicted grief than needs to be applied beyond an already probably long camp.)
Because of this, I do not suggest putting any validity in the reign linking meaning anything. Because of reasons 2 and 3. There being more reasons something becomes linkable than only being looted means it's a pretty pointless thing to exersize.
Furthermore, when I got PSD on my Druid, the reigns stopped being linkable about 45 minutes later. There was no reset, crash or maintenance. They just stopped being linkable.
Rein Link Theories
Some other theories on this that I can't really prove easily that could be plausable are if it drops on one server in a battlegroup, it could become linkable in all servers on that battlegroup. Another theory is it could be linkable if someone has it in their bags in a random and makes it linkable on everyone's server in that random.
