Frenzied Black Drake

The Frenzied Black Drake is a black drake spawned when a player talks to Cyrus Therepentous in the Burning Steppes during the quest A Taste of Flame (2). This quest requires a player to obtain a Black Dragonflight Molt which can either be obtained through Hoard of the Black Dragonflight (container) received at the end of the Divine Retribution questline or by slaying and looting the Frenzied Black Drake.

Prior to patch 2.3, this drake used to be elite and very difficult to solo, forcing many players to obtain the Molt through the questline Divine Retribution. After patch 2.3, this is no longer the case. The Frenzied Black Drake can now be soloed easily. It is worth noting that before patch 2.3, many new players didn't know that talking to Cyrus Therepentous would spawn an elite dragon, and Therepentous's cave would often be filled with player corpses or skeletons from attempts to solo the quest with no prior knowledge.