Black Qiraji Resonating Crystal

The Black Qiraji Resonating Crystal summons a Black Qiraji Battle Tank, a legendary mount. As of Cataclysm, it was the only legendary mount to have ever been added to the game for players. The Crystal is a quest reward from Quest:Bang a Gong! which requires the player to use the Scepter of the Shifting Sands on the gong on the Scarab Dais during the 10 hour battle with the Silithids which occurs during the opening of Ahn'Qiraj. This is a one time server event.

Patches and hotfixes


On February 6, 2009, sometime after Patch 3.0.8a, Bornakk posted on the forums that the Ahn'Qiraj gates will automatically be open on all new future realms. He would also later clarify in the thread that there are no plans to have an alternative method to obtain the Black Qiraji Battle Tank.

On February 11, 2009, a day after Patch 3.0.9, Server:Nesingwary US was the world's first realm to be opened in this way.

The final step of closure came with the release of Patch 3.2. The commendation officers in all major cities where removed and replaced with mailboxes.

With the release of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, a new silithid mount has been added in the Archaeology profession, the Scepter of Azj'Aqir.

One-Time Bug
If a player was logged out while mounted on this mount when patch 2.2 was deployed, upon logging in after the patch, the mount "buff" was replaced by a buff that transformed the player into a flying wasp. This was a one time occurrence, however, as there is no evidence the flying wasp buff is obtainable by any other means. However, a buff like it is available from Underbelly Elixir, possibly inspired by this bug.

During the Patch 3.0.2 PTR, the Black Qiraji Resonating Crystal had a changed tooltip which was roughly "This mount changes depending on your Riding skill and location." Upon testing this in several locations, it was found that the mount became a wasp in any zone you could fly in and the regular scarab in other zones. This functionality was removed before the patch was released.