Zul'Aman Bear Mount

I wanted to give a very early head's up to all of you Zul'Aman raiders out there:

Once Wrath of the Lich King goes live, you will no longer be able to obtain the Zul'Aman bear mount by saving all 4 prisoners in the timed run. The Bear Mount will be replaced by a very good, epic item that is level appropriate for people doing the zone. To be clear, the Zul'Aman bear mount is supposed to be an item of very high prestige. We want players who have earned it during the appropriate era (aka before the level cap gets raised) to be recognized for their accomplishment. We have absolutely no problem with higher level players (above level 70) going back and doing Zul'Aman after Wrath of the Lich King is live. We just want to preserve the accomplishment of having saved all 4 prisoners at the intended difficulty level.

We will most likely do something similar with the titles "Hand of A'dal" and "Champion of the Naaru" as well.

Please don't panic! You still have plenty of time to complete these feats! Wrath of the Lich King is coming along great but is not ready yet! In fact, we're not even in beta yet! So have fun adventuring for your bears and titles but please consider this your early warning.

Q u o t e:

Please give me a purchasable mount in WOTLK, which is a bear then. It can be a more crappy looking bear, with like junkyard stuff on it.

I'm a subscriber too, so giving me some kind of a time limit to get in a guild right now where I can accomplish this to get a bear, when I've been in your game since beta phase 3, is really irritating. Thank you, loyal subscriber, but you are denied a bear unless you get with people who can get it right away.

Polar Bear sound cool?

As an update to this, the Zul'Aman Bear Mount will be removed with the upcoming content patch, prior to Wrath of the Lich King:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=9336866249&pageNo=1&sid=1#6