There's no better feeling than getting a rare drop in a game that you've been chasing for a long time. Especially when the enemy you have to kill for that drop is rare in itself. Beledar's Spawn is one of those mounts, and I finally got it.
How to get Beledar's Spawn
The Beledar's Spawn mount drops of an enemy with the same name who also has the exact same design as the mount. The special thing about this enemy is that he only spawns at certain times each day in the Hallowfall zone. Every three hours this zone goes dark and is consumed by the void for 30 minutes. During this window you have to find the enemy and kill it before someone else does. If it dies it won't spawn again for anyone until the next cycle.
The mount itself appears to have a 5% drop chance but the rarity of this mount is added by the extra steps of having ot be online at the right time and quick enough to get to the enemy before it's killed. Luckily there are people organizing raid groups to make sure as many people as possible get a chance to kill it. If you've done your kill for the day and it doesn't drop you can't just wait until the next window however. You get a lockout for the enemy meaning you have to wait until the next daily reset.
It took me roughly three weeks of semi daily kills to get this mount. I had expected it to take way longer but just like with Ol' Mole Rufus, luck was on my side with this one. I now have both the mounts that drop from open world enemies with a low drop chance. I'm quite happy about that. The sad things is that it gives me less things to do each day in the game but at least that means I can focus on other things.
My next target is to get the Daunting Imperial Lynx mount. This mount is tied to the weekly activity in the same zone and drop from caches you get for completing quests. You can open roughly 15 of these each week and the mount has a 0.7% drop chance it seems like. I'm at roughly 90 caches so far without a drop. I haven't done them yet this week so let's hope I can get lucky.
All images in this post are screenshots taken by me.