I have just logged on and it is now 16:43 and I am wondering where is my Ancient. I would say it has been a few hours since 09:00 this morning when the patch went live and still no tree burning… sorry tree riding fun. Is it not funny how the gifts you get after buying a new expansion or stuff you buy in the shop is available immediately, but this will take a few hours. It’s not like they did not have time to prepare for this.
Feels like “something went wrong…”
something indeed did go wrong
It’s been all over the internet that it might be delayed.
“Don’t worry, it’s working as intended.”
Do I need to login to SL to get the mount? I have active subscription but I have uninstalled retail WoW and wondering if I have to reinstall it to get the mount
I’m confused… if you’ve uninstalled… you are not playing Retail… so you dont need the mount anyway?? Am I missing something?
It gets added to the mount panel directly not in game mail, so if you reinstall later, it’s safe to assume the mount will be there.
I meant that I am not playing retail now, but you never know, I might come back later and I was just wondering if I need to get the mount now or is it safe to assume I’ll have it when/if I come back. I mean, I bought the SL, I pay subscription like everyone else
I’ll try to remember to come back and update once I get the mount to confirm one way or the other if it needs “activating” in some way.
It got lost in the woods, perhaps we need to start checking the forests of Darkshore and Elwynn for it?
Silly sentiment aside, they messed up the rollout. Not that I’ve any desire to use the mount.
You just need Shadowlands for the mount, whether active subscription or not.
If anyone else is wondering the same thing, according to Kaivax, the mount is granted to all accounts that have bought The Shadowlands expansion, there is no login / unlocking required. Of course, you need to login to use the mount 
but it should not be a limited time only.
Wow retail is quite large, so uninstalling makes sense if they want to play some other larger game in the mean time.
Players today:
I think it’s kinda sad to find your mount by scrolling your mount tab, instead to have and get it through a quest or even in mail box.
How people are even supposed to know there is a new mount there? (when there will be)
It’s possible it will be like some of the other gift mounts in that when you open your mount collection it defaults to a wrapped gift you click and it adds it. I wont know until it appears 
I was referring to that part of your quote
Oh I know. I’m just “wandering” (see what I did there) if it’s perhaps a choice of words in that it may still appear as a gift to unwrap in the mounts tab… we shall see.
lt will be wrapped so it’s at the top of your list
According to Wowhead
Not got mine yet but I do have a question, what the hell is that pulsating red and green thing on the top?