worldofwarcraft: Time-Lost Proto Drake

Dr_Laxative (

dr_laxative) wrote in

worldofwarcraft,
@ 2008-12-02 08:46:00

Time-Lost Proto Drake
I just started farming for this guy and so far I've only seen vyragosa once, as per rumors I returned 6 hours later but didn't find any of the spawns. Dirkee being on the same respawn seems kinda strange to me though, any reason why this is being speculated?

Does anyone have any success stories with getting it?

(Post a new comment)

what9000
2008-12-02 02:04 pm UTC (link)

Only one person on my server has it after almost a month of the expansion being out.

It's just ridiculously rare, especially since it shares a spawn with vyragosa.

TBQH I wish they had made it a rep grind or something with the argent crusade (since they actually use the time-lost drakes for quests) but whatever. It annoys me that all the protodrakes are a bitch to get. They're all either low drop rates, rare spawns, or tied to incredibly obnoxious achievements.

(Reply to this) (Thread)

	dr_laxative 2008-12-02 02:09 pm UTC (link)
	I'm annoyed too but I'm also determined. My toon will be seeing nothing but storm peaks for quite awhile. I honestly just wish that there was more concrete information on him, instead of rumors left and right, that way I could farm him properly instead of hoping he paths by here at this time. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

what9000
2008-12-02 02:13 pm UTC (link)

Yeah, if I were you I'd just set up a macro and fly around jamming on it. I always flew close to the terrace/engine of the makers since that's where all the other drakes spawn.

As an aside: I only just noticed yesterday that protodrakes have arms. I thought their wings were like, their forelegs. Then I turned the camera when I was flying on a blue protodrake from dun neifleheim and noticed they have tiiiny little forelegs that actually look hilariously small.

I still want one though. Hoping I get lucky with my oracles egg but lol 1% drop rates. Fucking protodrakes.

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	blighttdm 2008-12-02 02:28 pm UTC (link)
	Macro+ endless flying= The only way to find this sucker. I've been camping the space for a few days with no luck. But a free epic flyer? I'll take it considering I don't even have the 5k yet for the skill but it makes it that much sweeter when I can. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	what9000 2008-12-02 03:33 pm UTC (link)
	Apparently the first person in the game who found one was only like 76 when he got it, lol. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	dr_laxative 2008-12-02 04:05 pm UTC (link)
	How's that possible? He only paths on grounds that need a flying mount to get to. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	dr_laxative 2008-12-02 02:28 pm UTC (link)
	Yah, that's what I've been doing with the macro. I've read up on all the websites to try and determine a good path to take. I'm kinda curious if they spawn automatically when the servers come back up. I should look into these eggs. I've been 80 for over a week and I still haven't been to the Basin yet. I'm still finishing Dragonblight quests now. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

what9000
2008-12-02 03:29 pm UTC (link)

One of them might spawn automatically when the servers come back up just because of the length of the maintenance, so it's probably a good time to check. I've also heard the dirkee doesn't share the same spawn as them but the problem is that vyragosa is 10 times more likely to spawn than the protodrake.

Originally I check with Wowhead and someone had a map of possible spawn locations. Eventually I just started flying in a circular path while hitting my macro.

ETA: And yeah the eggs have a chance of being a dud, a noncombat pet, or the low low chance of being a green protodrake. the only downside is you can only hold 1 egg at a time and it takes a week for them to "hatch". But still, it's better than nothing.

Edited at 2008-12-02 03:40 pm UTC

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	mirhanda 2008-12-02 06:04 pm UTC (link)
	What is the chance of them being a pet vs. a dud? Probably low isn't it? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	what9000 2008-12-02 07:45 pm UTC (link)
	Pretty damn low. But nobody is sure of the exact numbers yet due to the fact that there's still so little data. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ben_ten 2008-12-02 02:19 pm UTC (link)
	It annoys me that all the protodrakes are a bitch to get. They have to make something a hard find in the world or something to work for, plainly for the people who are into that kind of thing. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

what9000
2008-12-02 03:26 pm UTC (link)

They do have something hard to find that people have to work for. There's an achievement for finding a bunch of the rare spawns in northrend.

I gave up on the timelost proto-drake because to me, flying around mashing a macro doesn't seem like "working" towards anything. It seems like tedious half-afking while hitting a macro hoping that someone else doesn't get there first.

Again having luck =/= working for something.

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	thermalnoise 2008-12-02 05:37 pm UTC (link)
	They do have something hard to find that people have to work for. There's an achievement for finding a bunch of the rare spawns in northrend. I kinda stumbled into one while questing in Grizzly Hills. Obviously not something I had to work for. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	makabriel 2008-12-02 03:14 pm UTC (link)
	Why does this annoy you? You'd rather they be easy to get and everyone have one? I'm more annoyed that Dragons are the big thing now, personally.. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

what9000
2008-12-02 03:24 pm UTC (link)

Why does THAT annoy you? It doesn't bother me. Everyone is different. Besides, it's not like the netherwing drakes were hard to get before WoTLK. I got one in just over a week and a half on my shaman originally. Some of the drakes now are a bit easy to get, like the red drake is just an inevitability, but have YOU done Sartherion with all 3 drakes up for the twilight drake? Some mounts will always be more rare than others. It's not about a type of mount (like drakes, hippogryphs, etc.) being rare, it's about the specific mount itself being rare.

I just want one protodrake. I don't want every single color of the rainbow. Most, if not all, of them are incredibly hard to get and are based on luck. Absolutely no real reliance on skill with the exception of -maybe- the achievement based protodrakes. And even then you have to have a not shitty group or poor luck with certain things (not dying in naxx or having someone in the group with fast interrupts for the moorabi achievement, for example) to get it.

There's a difference between working to get something and just getting damn lucky.

Edited at 2008-12-02 03:41 pm UTC

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

makabriel
2008-12-02 05:25 pm UTC (link)

*chuckles at the amount of editing*

Again, I ask. Would you rather everyone have one? What is the point then? May as well have a vendor with every possible type.

What I don't understand, and it's not just with you, is why someone can be annoyed at a viable aspect of the game.

The level of difficulty in this game has dropped enormously from its conception. Everything in this game is almost EZ mode.

So, the fact that something isn't given to people for just showing up is the only thing that keeps this game remotely interesting to play.

They have two options. 1: The grind, whether it is for money, rep, achievments. 2: Luck. Randomness, rare spawns. There is -no- other way something unique in this game. If someone wants something unique, one of those options has to be used. Please, if you are capable, come up with another. And don't list skill, because it falls into the EZ mode catagory.

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	hoshika 2008-12-02 06:51 pm UTC (link)
	This. Thank you. I hate grinding for shit too, but realistically speaking...any other way will make it too easy to get the drake. (Reply to this) (Parent)

anycah
2008-12-02 09:10 pm UTC (link)

I dunno, PUGGing Heroics with every idiot that just hit 80 and thinks they are too good for normals is pretty damned hard. Like, the tank and healer (me) soloing Loken hard. Like DPS is way too slow so bosses take forever and I run out of mana with starting Naxx gear hard.

We know a few strong DPS, but the rest we're finding are nightmares that can't manage to move out of poison rings or coordinate on boss fights.

It's kinda hard.

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

manicdee
2008-12-02 10:30 pm UTC (link)

I would submit the proposition that those who are 80 only three weeks out from the expansion are more than likely in the group of people who drop out of school/work to farm their way to 80. They aren't the brightest tools in the shed, and they've been entirely focussed on killing stuff as quickly as possible, so it hardly seems surprising to me that they're not quite with the program in terms of how to behave in heroic instances.

Rapid levelling is a totally different playstyle to running heroic instances.

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

nodgerkith
2008-12-02 10:43 pm UTC (link)

Two days ago, I healed for a couple 58 hunters who needed a run through Ramps. They were friends who had been playing for all of ... about a month, I believe.

They didn't know how to trap. They got angry with me for not tanking. When one of them aggroed the patting boss and four mobs, one of them RAN AWAY FROM ME saying "I don't want to die, sorry". And THEN for some reason the topic came up that I'm a chick who digs chicks, and they went AFK for five minutes. ._. Very awkward.

So yeah. I think you're right. Powerlevelers are not always the bestest. XD

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	manicdee 2008-12-03 12:18 am UTC (link)
	But those were special cases - there's a reason that huntards are called huntards. (Reply to this) (Parent)

michaelsullivan
2008-12-02 11:18 pm UTC (link)

At three weeks out many of the raiders who do know how to play are hitting 80. My guild is just starting 10-player Naxx, and the group they have has many of our best players. The *real* hard core, the people who are going for world, region or big server firsts, mostly hit 80 within a week.

rapid leveling is different, but it doesn't take especially rapid leveling to hit 80 in 3 weeks, I don't think. And I'm not sure it's accurate to say that the first batch of folks to 80 are more likely to be lousy at instancing than those of us who take a few months.

(Reply to this) (Parent)

anycah
2008-12-03 12:00 am UTC (link)

It depends.

There are two types of players that will rapidly hit 80 (though three weeks isn't that bad), very good players (raiders, etc) and players with a lot of free time (which go through the spectrum of good and bad). Most raiders are in guilds, so they can do guild runs. I am pretty much a reroll in a guild just starting, so I don't have access to the people, and get to take my chances. Though, pugging is the only way to really meet people, so it has yielding good connections with the bad.

(Reply to this) (Parent)

tchernobyl
2008-12-02 02:52 pm UTC (link)

of the proto drakes, it's by far not the easiest.

from worst to easiest:

1. What a long, strange trip it's been: All seasonal event achievement requirements. violet proto drake

2. Heroic: glory of the raider: complete all achievements of 25 man raids. black proto drake.

3. glory of the raider: complete all achievements of 10 man raids. plagued proto drake.

4. glory of the hero: complete all heroic achievements. red proto drake.

5. Time lost proto drake: camp him. you could argue this being #1 though but it's simply that, camping :P

6. Heroic Skadi the Ruthless: kill him, as he has a chance to drop it. very low chance though. Blue Proto drake.

7. easiest of all... grind oracle rep to exalted. get the "mysterious egg". wait 7 days, open it. It can be one of 4 noncombat pets, a green proto drake, a dud, maybe more.

(Reply to this) (Thread)

	equiraptor 2008-12-02 03:05 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, hey, I'm grinding their rep for the non-combat pets. Maybe I'll get the green proto drake, too. Thanks. :) (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	tchernobyl 2008-12-02 03:13 pm UTC (link)
	it kinda makes the frenzyheart/oracle decision easy :P unless the frenzyheart jar has something similar. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	what9000 2008-12-02 03:34 pm UTC (link)
	I'm gonna laugh if they have the frostwyrm mount or something come outta that jar. I'll laugh. Then cry. Then switch factions. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	nodgerkith 2008-12-02 03:59 pm UTC (link)
	I'm gonna go Frenzyheart and stay with them for a good long while just to see what I get. Everyone's going Oracle right now so there's next to nothing on wowhead about what the jar gives up. Just a bunch of booze and crappy potions so far, and that trinket which is kinda cool but otherwise useless. Well, you know. Also, badgers. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	thermalnoise 2008-12-02 05:39 pm UTC (link)
	Please keep us updated =) My instinct says that Blizzard will give the Frenzyheart jar something just as nifty as the Oracles' egg. Edited at 2008-12-02 05:39 pm UTC (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	kaziel_fateseer 2008-12-02 06:54 pm UTC (link)
	This! I'm fully epxecting the same thing. Hell, maybe it'll be a Wolf mount that the Alliance can finally get (yeah, not a big thing for you Hordies, but a Wolf mount has been the thing I've wanted for so long and couldn't get!). (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jess_k 2008-12-02 06:38 pm UTC (link)
	*puppy men! (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	nodgerkith 2008-12-02 07:10 pm UTC (link)
	They're not dogs, lol. I call them badgers, but they're actually anthropomorphic wolverines, which - like badgers - are in the mustelid family. ;P Edit: See see? Edited at 2008-12-02 07:16 pm UTC (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	twelvethirty 2008-12-02 08:30 pm UTC (link)
	The Oracles call them 'puppy-men' - so she didn't mean that literally, lol .. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	nodgerkith 2008-12-02 08:47 pm UTC (link)
	But but that makes no sense ;_; Baby wolverines are called kits and they don't even look like dogs, they look like bears and ... and ... brainbreak (Reply to this) (Parent)

	theblackcrane 2008-12-03 01:52 pm UTC (link)
	I call them wolvies. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	equalinvain 2008-12-02 06:29 pm UTC (link)
	I was planning on taking the #1 route since I first saw the achievement. Does #4 only apply to heroic instances or heroic raids as well? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	what9000 2008-12-02 08:53 pm UTC (link)
	There is one for both heroic instances and heroic raids. So there's one for heroic instances 10man raid achievements and 25 man raid achievements ETA: Here's a list for ya http://www.wowwiki.com/Proto-dragon Edited at 2008-12-02 09:07 pm UTC (Reply to this) (Parent)

	gonk 2008-12-02 04:59 pm UTC (link)
	Does the Time Lost Proto Drake drop Time Lost Leaping Boots? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	tchernobyl 2008-12-02 05:07 pm UTC (link)
	This is not Time lost Leaping lizzie! (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	ryab 2008-12-03 11:59 am UTC (link)
	Although at least we all know where she spawned. (Reply to this) (Parent)

twelvethirty
2008-12-02 08:44 pm UTC (link)

I've been camping this guy on and off since I learned about him .. and I haven't even seen the other drakes yet! Is it true that Vryagosa and the time-lost drake share the same path, or is that just speculation? Can anyone whose killed Vyragosa share some info? Like, how high is she, where did you find her, etc? I've been primarily flying around the terrace/engine of the makers aimlessly, but I always feel like I'm in the wrong place.

(Reply to this) (Thread)

	ellonwye 2008-12-03 01:57 am UTC (link)
	She's quite high (can be seen from the ground, but not attacked) pretty much everywhere she patrols, a target macro can pick her up way before you see her so don't worry too much about being too high or too low to find her. I had a hell of a job getting her into melee range as a feral druid, ugh. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ellonwye 2008-12-03 01:53 am UTC (link)
	Camped him for two weeks. Still hunting. Managed to get Vyragosa though, so it's not all a total loss. (Reply to this)

	dajoey 2008-12-03 06:30 pm UTC (link)
	I've been spamming my macro while running around in storm peaks looking for icethorn. But no luck yet. I've seen someone riding one, but I haven't seen any of the three drakes myself out in the wild. (Reply to this)

Username:		Create an Account Forgot your login or password? Login w/ OpenID
Password:
	Remember Me
	English • Español • Deutsch • Русский…

About

Help

Get Involved

Legal

Store

LJ Labs