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评论来自
51018
A solid month of camping has gone by and only 2 Time-Lost drakes have spawned on our server. Hopefully the rest of you have better luck.
NEW! Updated map with all 4 speculated routes.
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/3272/vyragosa4yn3.jpg
What we feel is true -
1. Time-Lost Proto-drake and Vyragosa share a spawn timer.
2. Time-Lost Proto-drake and Vyragosa share patrol routes.
3. Time-Lost Proto-drake and Vyragosa share spawn points.
Additional tidbits -
4. The respawn of either mob is reported as 6-12 hours, with some reports of as little as 1 hour, to as much as 72 hours.
5. Time-Lost Proto-drake does NOT have to spawn once a week.
6. Time-Lost Proto-drake is reported to despawn after 10-15 minutes (unconfirmed).
7. Time-Lost Proto-drake is affected by phasing. (It is believed he can be seen in all phases until he is tagged, where upon he shifts into the phase of the player who tagged him).
8. Time-Lost Proto-drake is considered hostile to other creatures in the zone and may attack or be attacked by them (unconfirmed).
I strongly believe that the Time-Lost Proto-drake is simply the rare spawn of a rare spawn so to speak, either the random number generator comes up as Vyragosa or him, with much higher chance of Vyragosa.
- Edited for Typos.
Update 11/18/08 - Map edited, same colors apply.
Update 11/20/08 - Map edited, same colors apply. Things are becoming more clear I think.
Update 12/16/08 - New map with all 4 agreed upon routes shown on 1 map. Thanks to Rjko and MrReed!
UPDATE Friday April 3rd 2009 4:22 EST
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I've finally tagged and bagged me a proto-drake! I still had not to this day even SEEN this baby dead or alive, and after monhts of camping finally saw and tagged it for myself. He was flying towards the frozen lake up and over the waterfall from Bor's Breath when I spotted him, had a heart attack, and finally stop panicking enough to take him down. Good luck fellow drake hunters!
http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/1306/wowscrnshot040309050040.jpg
^_^ b
评论来自
51018
I've heard rumors it's a once a week rare spawn, but that seems a bit crazy to me.
评论来自
251023
Alright so there has been alot of hype on this mount so far. I think we all know that.. But now let's try to figure out more of an exact spawn point or where he does pat through. There has been alot of info spread around and i have been gathering it. Just myself last night i spent 17hours30mins waiting for him and no luck..( got vyragosa twice tho ) I know hey this guy needs a life i do have one but i did go out of my way for this one. Ok so lets break down what we know...
1. 46.60 is a coord that has been comming up frequently. Which is in the Stormpeak Wyrm field ( Possible exact spawn point ? )
2. There also has been sighting of him in The Broodmother's nest .. 38,65
3. Also sightings in Bor's Breath which is right below...
4. Brunnhildar is also a spot that many spotted Vyragosa... I myself went exploring accross it to the other mountain and saw more of those Stormpeak Wyrms. < Dragonspine Peaks >. Which people have said to see him come up to the Wyrm fields from that direction.
5. Engine of the makers has also been mentioned which crosses paths with most of the points I have just mentioned
6. Known information that Vyragosa and Dirkee share the same path and from where i have killed these 2 they seem to share the same info that people have been sending about where they have killed the " Time-Lost proto drake "
Alright so let's sum this up .. Starting from the most common point .. 46,60 + 38,65 + 30,65 + 52,68.. Now just connect the dots or make yourself some waypoints on your map and you get yourself a path for all 3 of the spawns.
Note: It is said that more then one of them can be up at a time so don't get your hopes up. If you really want this mount i think its worth giving a try.
As for RESPAWN timers there isn't solid information about it i tried to squeez it out of blizzard but no luck, BUT there is 1 sever that 2 people found it within 1-2 days from eachother so possibly 24hour respawn timer ? hmm.. Well Good hunting to you all i shall keep you posted!
100% DROP RATE ( Don't forget to spam your /target Time macro )..
评论来自
166696
Update:
http://www.gamona.de/gamonatv/world-of-warcraft-wrath-of-the-lich-king,patch-3.1-ptr-zeitverlorener-protodrache:video,1444560.html
Watch Time lost fly around on the ptr :>
Edit:
I wrote this post initialy because I was fed up by two things:
- Having to read through 200 new Comments a day on wowhead alone.
- and 95% of these comments consisted of silly specculations, assumptions and other stuff I would summarise as supersticion (or bull^&*! for that matter).
So I tried to gather everything that was backed up with evidence (read: screenshots) and the following was the result:
We are
slowly
quickly reaching
200
300 Comments, thats a lot to read.
So this will be the
TL;DR Version
with a summary at the end.
Hard Facts
(confirmed by screenshots):
Confirmed sightings of the time-lost proto drake:
Bor's Breath - several times:
Flys from one side to the other, starting from 37/76 going north, leaving the canyon around 30/36
Then either gos south to Frost Hold or north towards Valkyrion
Engine of the Makers - several times:
Coming From Brunhildar
Flying down from Terrace of the makers
Patting around on the ground
Map with all the confirmed locations (originaly posted by NefariousNinja)
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:321660439590459600461520279660380650300650367718373594375578304440291477
Thats all we *know*.
Specculations and assumptions are as follows:
Supossedly shares respawn and/or path/s with
Vyragosa
Supossedly spawns between 6 hours to 3 days, to just once a week.
One spawnpoint might be at 50/52 (Terrace of the makers)
The get-itemid script seems to behave weird. Time-lost was killed today and script is still loading item information.
Debunked specculations:
The 3 rares in this zone share a respawntimer - I have personaly seen Dirkee and Vyragosa being alive, others have too. This does not mean Vyragosa and Timelost dont share a spawn, but it could.
The mob itself
18k HP
Hits fairly weak on cloth
Likes to stay at a distance.
Can teleport behind you (but stays in close-combat range)
If you cant attack and kill via ranged attacks, you might have problems.
Bodypull helps, Pala-Bubble helps to drag the mob towards the ground too (it "stops" spellcasting).
Having an option for slowfalling, like the slowfall-lager might also be VERY helpfull in tagging the mob on time and scoring the kill.
Target-Macro
/tar Dirkee
/tar Vyra
/tar Time
/stopmacro
/tell YOURNAMEHERE > %t <
I personaly used this macro, as it helps with accidentaly targeting something and then freaking out if you loose your target too early to "realize" what you have targeted.
Bottom Line:
If you want this mount, be prepared to spend over 100 hours doing nothing but mindnumbing camping or flying around in circles.
I personaly spent 90 hours camping and a friend made around 20k gold just by selling Herbs on the AH he gathered while flying in circles for the last 3 weeks and he hasnt seen the corpse just one.
Summary:
The drake has its name for a reason. ;)
Edit:
I removed my "victory shot" due to countless whispers ranging from extremly polite and friendly to extremly rude and demanding and simply couldnt stand being spammed on a daily basis.
评论来自
triplekill
guys, im just imagining.
If this mob have a rare spawn...
Like, in instances when a boss have the possibility to drop a rare mount, it have like a 1% chance.
What i mean with rare spawn, is when you kill a certain mob the Time-Lost Proto-Drake have 1% chance to spawn on his place...
Come on, the mob have 100% drop rare mount, something needs to be extremely rare on it.
Just an idea... if you could consider it a little.
评论来自
257319
Been searching for this guy for over a week now. Havnt seen him dead or even alive. I dont even think hes spawned yet in my server. Talked to a GM.. asked if the spawn is bugged or something but he said its working fine. But what the hell.. ive come up with about 4k gold in herbs.. waiting for this guy.. soo i guess its ok. The only Proto Drake we have in my server is the Blue one.
评论来自
127490
Can spawn rate be somehow related to server population?
I have been looking for it and nothing in about 2 weeks. The cache macro never returned anything else than "retrieving info" which means it has never been downed. No one has it on my server anyways. it's a small server, so just wondering if it's related.
Edit: just killed Vyragosa. was flying above Valkirion and a target popped up when I hit my macro. She s pretty big. I wasn't expecting her to be that
slow
and big. Had a hard time bringing her down (constantly) leaving combat... She was moving counter clock wise around the temple of storms. Anyways:
Saw her 26.56 @ 6:18 PM.
Killed 26.64 @ ~ 6:24 PM.
Despawned @ 6:56 PM.
评论来自
257917
Posting this off because I finally, after a long time of trying to get him, tagged him while absentmindedly flying around his alleged pat areas and not really paying attention until I saw this big golden dragon below me. I didn't think I would even see the thing because I ended up leaving earlier to do like, 4 heroics in a row so I didn't think the allotted time would be on my side. Considering there was, to my knowledge, 4 Protodrakes on Horde side all ready(before I got mine) and atleast 2 that I know of on Alliance, I didn't think from the day of release on up that there would be anymore since a lot of the comments on this board say stuff about not even seeing the thing and his time frame being a little ridiculous...but on my server (Blackwater Raiders) there are quite a few now, mine included.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Illithlith/WoWScrnShot_112708_091922.jpg
I about died(Not,not because of the drake, he hits really...well, softly), but anyway...onto some information that might help, might not.
That morning, and the reason I decided to camp him most of the day was I was flying around really early (7am Est I think) doing the Sons of Hodir quests. I would pass through the area, back and forth and while doing one of the quests, a friend of mine messaged me kinda guessing I was out there also for the drake. I decided to just check it out since he reminded me, and then my macro struck gold...but it was dead gold. I flew up to where the body was (in the valley with all the blue drakes, respectively) and the killer was still there. He had killed it around 8am PST so, I decided to come back in 6 hours and see if I could get him. I wasn't expecting him to spawn so soon, but stuck around when I came back at 2:30pm EST that afternoon and stayed till about 8:30 EST and then decided to finally get out and do something before I went stir crazy.
After all the runs, I decided to fly around a little bit before going to sleep...I was there for probably 30-40 minutes maybe, and was flying over Bor's Breath I think its called, way down with the harpies, and happened to look down and there it was. I killed him at 1:45AM I believe and I JUST flew through this area a little bit ago, so he must have spawned maybe a little bit before. I can only assume he spawned at the end of the stream, and was just coming up when I snagged him (he was a little ways up at the end, on the edge of a waterfall). Coordinates are on the bottom of the map, and the area, well, is circled. I did use a macro (/tar Time) and spammed it frequently,but when I caught him, like I said, I wasn't even paying attention. He was just there.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Illithlith/WoWScrnShot_112708_091944.jpg
Much luck to people still trying to get him, I hope the information I provided helps somewhat-and honestly, he just kinda pops up out of nowhere when you least expect it. Its pretty crazy. Also, I did not see either of the other rares...so they could have been up-but I never saw them so I can't tell you anything about the shared spawn times or whatever if its true; but I never even saw any bodies.
Either way, good luck and take care.
评论来自
258387
i found Vyragosa dead at 37,71 at 2:38 server time, only about 10 minutes after i had gone thru the valley myself
corpse dissapeared by 2:55
评论来自
98891
If the macro for the server cache tells you that its not in the server cache, does that mean he's there or not (yes im a n00b)
also, any advice for a ret pally on how to pull him?
评论来自
Screwthename
anyone know if he is soloable at lvl 78?
评论来自
Zabel
Vyragosa Killed
33, 81
4:32 pm
http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/1437/wowscrnshot112808163221hv0.jpg
评论来自
259084
Could someone please make a large compilation of screenshots of Time Lost proto drake only? you cant pull it far from where its flying without leashing it so the path created by that would be best. A map can be made with every screenshot out there and with this one disregard the posted locations etc to kill any false locations if any out there.
If no one else will I will eventually but that will be after I get it or when I go insane looking for it. Im on the smolderthorn server and ive been here the last 3 days, probably at the computer looking at least 40 of those hours with no sign at all. The server cache thing shows it as not being discovered but it is on our server(I was told it goes by the resets on tuedsays or something).
Anyways this would be the most helpful map out there if someone creates it and provides all the screenshots used. I have made a path in my head that i search on but have had no luck at all, not even seeing a corpse. Also if you kill it or find a corpse always take a screenshot and help the community out. I think the exact spawn timers may take a few more weeks to figure out though, or if it has any association with vyra(on this server vyra has spawned 3x in that span all within 23-25hrs of each other)
评论来自
253890
Right, after around 10 days of camping (from which 7 were nearly non-stop) me and my hunting partner finally found him flying around in Bor's Breath at 17:56 server time on Stormscale-EU.
Funnily enough, the day earlier my mother said to me jokingly: "The drake will spawn tomorrow, now get some sleep."
How she knew what I was doing is a mystery, but...she was right...
评论来自
Grock
A friend killed Vyragosa at 3:08 server in Bor's, and I spotted her an hour later over Brunnhildar.
Next spawn was 8 hours later at 12:08, north of Valkyrion. Make of that what you will, I suppose.
评论来自
259375
ok i was flying around the spawn point since last night 9pm EST.
and saw a TLPD at 1:44PM..but it was dead...i flyed opposite side QQ
which means it should be respawned around 1:40~1:43
anyway my point is that i've checked time and zone in 6hours and 14hours later TLPD got killed.
and I saw a Vyra respawned exactly 14hours later TLPD got killed
I saw Vyra two times so far
both time vyra spawned at 45,59
and TLPD was killed at 28:43 ( maybe new respawn point?)
so it maybe drakes r randomly respawn proc after one dies?
(like item drop rate %... could be drake respawn rate%) just wonder...
评论来自
235739
But if he is flying so high, how can you kill him?
Or does he sometimes flys low?
评论来自
64225
Might wanna add
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:349345
to your location, since Vyragosa and Time-Lost Protodrake is supposed to share spawntime. I found Vyragosa at this location
评论来自
Numsu
Before all the 300 comments got removed, there was a post where a picture where a GM said that this mob has nothing to do with phasing.
评论来自
255646
Finally got mine at 18:51 after 9 days of spawn camp, 12+ hours-a-day... It was coming from Abandoned Camp heading east, like 50/60 yards in air, I was near blue drakes south east of Engine, and tar macro caught it... Still can't believe. Good luck all
评论来自
259752
From everything I've seen, I'm fairly sure that this is just about dead-on:
Map
No clue what happens at the end of the paths though...has anyone seen it despawn or anything like that?
评论来自
Prokos
So I finally found it, dead.
29,65 @ Ragnaros EU
评论来自
Herecius
I've killed Vyragosa 4 times while camping this guy for the past week, on and off. No luck yet, but I am not giving up by far.
When querying the server, I can see the item pop up in all of its taunting purple glory, but cannot shift+click it into chat. What does this mean, exactly? I've seen a couple theories.
评论来自
darkbiship
We've never seen him spawn as of yet, but because of the reported death locations, you can build a decent path that you can camp where it's highly likely he will run into you (If he has spawned)
If we do ever seem him spawn trust me it will be reported and that spot will always be camped :D
评论来自
djkostasg7
Here we are,the first Time Lost Proto Drake spawned for first time most likely in Kazzak EU at 06:00 ...Too bad i was late and a guy that didnt even know about the mount got it :(
What can i say,good luck with the hunting!
The guy told me that he found it exactly at 47,64 and it was flying north.
http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/2637/wowscrnshot113008065602uf1.th.jpg
评论来自
260014
Are we sure that TLPD ONLY spawns around Temple of Storms and Engine of Makers? Has anyone ever considered checking the Northeastern and Eastern areas? Considering a gm said the drake could "teleport" to places he likes, who's to say he can go way off to the East, or up near the Terrace of makers?
评论来自
258387
my guess is he spawns at blue drakes near engine of makers and valkyrion, not sure where the 3rd spot could be.
评论来自
260820
The Roar is from a quest, a guy mounts up on a similar drake, part of a long quest chain, it roars when he jumps on because it is unfamiliar to its master or something like that.
评论来自
86090
Somebody on here said that they were simply graveyard locations, which makes sense since I died fighting Dirkee and was brought to one of the nodes that's above Bor's Breath (roughly 32.67)
评论来自
258713
I can confirm from a gm that all three rares can be up at once and the roar is definitely a sign of tlpd spawning. Will post ss later.
评论来自
261102
So after about 15+ hours of camping prior to today, I finally got my mount at around 8:20 am server time (skullcrusher) . After I finished the brunhildar daily's, I decided to log on wowhead and read some of the updates on this drake. Since I had just finished revamping my whole UI, I had lost the Time-Lost macro. I wasn't even planning on camping at all this morning. But after reading some of the updates I figured I would camp for a couple mins before logging for bed. After creating a super simple macro (/tar time) I spammed aimlessly, however not 20 seconds later the macro selected the golden drake @ 27,64 heading north towards Valkyrion, around 60 yards in the air. I wasted no time.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v79/forum95/WoWScrnShot_120108_052833.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v79/forum95/WoWScrnShot_120108_053133.jpg
评论来自
261205
I'd been stalking the Time-Lost Proto-Drake for over a week; I had ran into two others who were also doing it and the three of us created a channel so we could talk privately without having to let others in General chat know about the Drake, and thus less competition. We had found Vyragosa twice between the three of us the whole time and circled the supposed pat areas.
I was hanging north of Valkyrion near the dig site when I turned and noticed the Drake. I would like to take a leap and say that (if it hasn't been said already) that the Drake has a spawn point at around 27,55 or so as it was flying towards Valkyrion and I had just come from that direction not too long ago.
Please don't be discouraged folks and keep on trucking!
Here is a screenshot (albeit small, I'm sorry!) of where I killed it:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v14/sword/WoWScrnShot_120108_100602.jpg
评论来自
261224
I used this script today, and it worked perfectly fine, so it should for you as well. The link also worked fine, so at least someone must have gotten it the past days (we had a server reset a couple of days ago even)..
/script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Shift-click this to place a link into a chat message: \124cffa335ee\124Hitem:44168:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0\124h\124h\124r");
评论来自
nonentity
kk
just got a response to my ticket, asking if the TLPD was bugged on my server, because I had heard of a few incidents on over servers where that had been the case (few posts here).
Weird thing was, I waited for bout 2 hours, then got the response by ingame mail, stating that (rough translation, was in german) "according to your request we did not contact you while you were ingame." uhm... 1. I was ingame the whole time 2. I did not request this... but.. whatever, I got my answer, that's important.
The GM said that there were no problems _anymore_ (keine Probleme mehr) with this npc and that the dragon was supposed to be very rare (uhm yeah, already knew that). Not sure if it actually _is_ important, but I'll run with it. ^^ If I go by that there were problems, but well, not anymore.... let's hope that's the case.
Guess it's better to wait for days, at least knowing that he should/could spawn any time, rather than wait for days when there's zero chance of him spawning due to a bug.
评论来自
Mazterpill
Just found it .. Dead :,( I seem to have been 6 mins late.... Still sad! Wanna cry. I been searching for days... On Sunstrider EU. Grats to whoever got it, I hope it was another farmer.
评论来自
142571
reported to roam up to ulduar , killed on my server by someone on the repair guy close to halls of lighting
评论来自
Mayia
I've been tracking the Drakes for a few days, have 3 kills on the blue drake and 2 on the gnome.
I have ticketed a Gm and they have said Phasing doesn't effect this mob or its patrol. (something i had suspected might had been causing the spawn timer to be longer due to not being able to see it)
There are two reports of spotting it around Halls of lightning, and Ulduar Can anyone confirm this with a screen shot of a corpse, or either mob flying around and a rough idea of what Height these mobs Patrol at.
I've found the Brood mothers Nest is the best place to Idle at between pats between the 3 known paths the mob takes trying to follow the other direction the mob takes each time.
So does anyone know if they travel the same direction on those paths every time, or they can spawn to go the other direction on the same path?
Good luck in every ones Hunts, i hope to have mine before i go insane.
- Mayia Of Aman'thul.
评论来自
nonentity
k, update: considering we still go with the "Vyragosa and TLPD share one/more spawnpoints" theory (still no promised screenshot of the GM confirming that all 3 can be up at once....) I'd also say one of the spawn points is probably at about 31, 66, above that small frozen waterfall in Bor's Breath.
I'm pretty sure that they share spawn points and routes, or at least part of, though maybe they don't spawn mutually exclusive, that is, one can't spawn when the other is still up.
The paths in the picture below were said to be Vyragosas (someone here, can't remember the posting, sorry) and pretty much all of TLPD's ... "kill spots" were along those routes (some exceptions like Terrace of the Makers or the ones really far in the east, no screenshot of those though so we can't be sure).
I've been waiting on and off for bout 6+ hours in Bor's Breath, the last hour or so at ~34, 66, hoping to get a chance to catch him with the macro at any of the possible routes shown here
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/7919/671wi0.jpg
I was playing around in Prat with the config a bit, spamming the macro all the time when suddenly it caught...! Vyragosa... -.- damn, but hey, she's the first of the three mobs I've seen in 2 days. Well, she flew in the direction of Valkyrion, turned north, killed her shortly after Valkyrion, but i must have been the brown route in the pic.
Considerung:
- I did not see her spawn in me/in front of me ( I was looking W, from my position pretty much in a straight line towards Brunnhildar)
- and I could hardly have missed her (the prat config window being not too big, me looking around and spamming the macro like a paraonoid monkey all the time and her being a pretty big dragon and all)
- when I targeted her she was at ~ 30, 65 and she was flying westward.
Pretty much only leaves 31, 65 as a spawn point.
She flies a lot slower than the 280% mount, must be about the 60% mentioned a few times already, I easily got ahead of her and attacked her at a rise at 27, 55.
18900HP, had everything out, water elemental, clones, IV, trinket spellpower buff - didn't need all that though, she went down very easily, must have been just a rare, not a rare elite (using xperl so I can't go by the blizzard elite/rare symbols and she was shown as , Rare+ at the portrait, wasn't sure if that meant Rare Elite or Extra Rare.
Btw, no roar, got Ambience at 100%, Sound at 100%, turned the volume up a good bit, so either it's not very noticeable, even on loud volume or there is no roar at her spawn.
Got the Northern Exposure achievement and at least some small satisfaction after 2 days waiting on and off and not even seeing anything, living or dead.
评论来自
Kiony
Hello TLPD hunters,
(excuse my english, i'm french so it's only english learnt in highschool that i'll use^^ I hope you'll understand everything clearly)
well I got some more informations about that mysterious and legendary proto-drake which is totally lost in time...lol
After a long serie of comments on Judgehype concerning the TLPD somebody broke the glass and told us he was camping the beast since the beta test version and that there was absolutely no true respawn time, that the drake could spawn only 3 times a week and that it could only fly around for 13 minutes before it despawns. He told that it could spawn 2 times in like 4 hours and reswpawn a 3rd time 5 days later.
He also told us it could spawn absolutely EVERYWHERE in the storm peaks. (maybe the same with Vyragosa)
No way of knowing if he says THE truth or if he lies but I believe him for the 13 minutes because if the drake was flying around until death it would be tagged by people much more often and easily.
I believe him for the respawn places too and imo most of people see it near by the engine, bor's breath or burnnhildar because those are places where everybody's doing quests.
But imo it spawns more than 3 times a week according to the fact that a lot of people have already seen it 2 or 3 times on their own in just 1 week.
A last thing: It would be great if those who have seen the drake alive could tell us if they already had finished the 100 different quests in the area or if they didn't. Just to make sure it has nothing to do with the phasing.
评论来自
259084
Just some random thoughts that probably have no value, but theres a small chance of possibility.
Based off the facts:
WoW is huge.
Thousands have probably looked for proto drake alone.
GMs have said three spawn points.
GMs have stated it can despawn.
I understand that the WoW playerbase is huge and many have spent countless hours looking for this one drake alone. There are 3 spawn spots and he can despawn, according to GMs and proven with screenies. It got me thinking though, what if everyones simply missing it by looking in the wrong place(well one or two of the right places, but not a third), maybe its been found elsewhere just rarely and not reported. Then I thought where in Storm Peaks doesnt the average person go, I came up with two main answers being extremely high in the sky where ya cant even see the ground(no reason for it to be up there unless bugged) and near the cliffs all the way along the northern part of the land. I think its possible but highly unlikely he can spawn and fly along those huge cliffs and despawns because no one is ever there. Im not saying waste countless hours checking it out, but if your for example flying to Dirkee spawn location #3 right below TaunkaLo to check if hes up, fly along the cliff and keep your macros going. If your doing Halls of Lightning or Stone and waiting for someone else, make a quick loop around the island spamming your macro, just simple checks. If hes not hes not, but its better then wasting time.
Once again I highly doubt this, but if it by rare chance did happen to be true and someone found it there that would be HUGE. Like what if it flys the same path every time it spawns until its killed or a tuesday rese/patch. That would make some sense for our current issue. Were so used to camping Bors Fall all the way up to about crash site(well me anyways) we dont really put much effort into other areas. I do think it would have been found on those cliffs by now if it did and it would have been posted here, this games way to huge for a spawn path to go unnoticed in this amount of time.
Anyway, day 6 for me. Vyragosa and Dirkee are probably 6-12 spawns each now(I dont necesarily camp them often) because of there 12-24hr spawn periods. I know I recorded at least 7 vyra 5 dirkee.
Not giving up but definately not passing up on heroics anymore, im way behind from this drake.
By this post you can obviously tell its making me go crazy.
评论来自
127490
Interesting. The 13minutes timer makes a lot of sense to me even though some people have said he will patrol till he is killed (which I do not believe). The 3 times per week spawn rate makes some sense but I would like to know if it
must and will
spawn 3 times per week or only if
could
, which is entirely different. On a side note, 3 times per week is probably not entirely true as it would more likely be something like 3 times till next server reset, which usually is a week. Although on fresh patches like that, some server are being rebooted a few times per week which can slightly increase the spawn rate on an entire week.
That and the completely random spawn place would explain why low pop servers don't see much mount at this time. Simply because. There is less people everywhere to farm what could be found at most during
39 minutes per week
...
评论来自
259084
Ask him for screenshots, if it pathed everywhere someone would have seen it elsewhere by now. However I do keep my macro running everywhere I go(I used g15 so I dont have to spam a key, I have it automatically do it every .5 seconds)
Also I have done every quest in the zone and havent even seen a corpse in the zone in the past 6 days, and someone was saying a GM said it didnt phase.
评论来自
Elodie
I can confirm I've only done 32 quests in Storm Peaks and have seen it alive
评论来自
261558
Your thoughts about the so called roar/bellow meaning the drake has spawned is incorrect.
http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/7397/34640126qa7.jpg
评论来自
FoxtrottMG
well last night i was up untill 06:30 in the morning when the morning show came on the radio i decided to go to bed. when i then got up i started looking again right away and got news from a m8 that the TLPD had been killed around 06:50 by a guy who just happened to run into him... wasen't looking for him or anything... i'd say ur better of just running around like a headless chicken untill u are agroed by a big Lost Proto Drake...
You have to be lost to find that which can't be found ;)
评论来自
nonentity
Considering the "we only find him in those spots because those are the area most people quest in" - I don't think so. I can't remember a single quest I did in Bor's Breath or near the Engine of the Makers and I did most of the quests in Storm Peaks if not all of them (got the quest achievement, and then some...) so I guess that's what most people experience (Horde btw).
After 80 about the only quests I, and again, I assume it's that way for most people who still quest here at 80, I do are dailies, for the Sons of Hodir and in Brunnhildar, and quests for neither of them take place in those areas. Only one quest for Brunnhildar in Brunnhildar or rather one there, one in the mine, and one in Valkyrion. The quests for Sons of Hodir all take place around Dun Niffelem, yet no sightings there.
I just got up after bout 4hours of sleep, at 3am (wierd thing, I woke up more easily than when I sleep from ie. 2am to 8am), continue farming... as in sitting there and waiting...-.-
I try to make the most of the time right now by doing the afforementionend dailies inbetween farming for TLPD, doing one quest, back to sitting at my 3way-intersection point for a few minutes, do another quest, go back.
Easily 6 hours, going onto 7, after my Vyragosa sighting/kill, still no sign of her or TLPD.
@Kadem - yeah, I know about that roar, but who's to say it's the only zone-wide (is that one actually zone-wide? Don't remember seeing the message pop up except the time I did the quest myself) roar?
Another possibility, that TLPD is tied to that roar/step in that quest? Just another straw I'm grasping for (or rather not, because that would suck and as more and more people leveled to 80 and fewer and fewerd new guys did Stormpeaks quest TLPD spawns would get less frequent and farther in between).
Concerning the "spawns everywhere, moves everywhere" thing, sure, possible, but seeing as he apparently already
- shares his spawn point/time/route with another Very Rare Mob
- his respawn is very rare, variable and unrealiable
- he's only up for a certain period of time
- he despawns
- gotta find him, 1 mob in a huge zone, in the air, more possibilites to miss him, especially given WoWs awesomeness of mobs popping up very late, as in when you're nearly on top of them, if you're moving fast.
I think are already more than enough points to ensure it's rarity, making it even more random... please please, make it not be true.
Also I don't think he moves totally random, not sure how well that'd be possible from a technical standpoint, given the different heights and so on, clipping problems, whatever, he'd often fly into a mountain for example. I'll still go with set routes, maybe more than 3, but routes nonetheless, which means sooner or later someone's gonna figure them out.
I don't think Blizzard would go to such extraordinary lenghts for this mobs, as in changing his patterns every few days, making his respawn dependant on totally random stuff like 'if this and this ore and flower are up he'll spawn'.
If they did that it would just make discourage farmers because there'd be pretty much zero chance of successfully camping him, and we know how Blizzard loves people farming....
Guess we'll sooner or later find out about the roar, someone might hear it or not hear it, when TLPD spawns, but we probably will never find out about the despawn because honestly, who'd follow him around and wait for him to despawn to confirm anything?
评论来自
drothar
It has pretty much been determined that TLPD has three possible spawn points. Whether or not it has set paths from there is up in the air. I am also willing to believe the 13 minute timer before it despawns...but 39 minutes a week seems almost ridiculous considering how many people have already found it.
评论来自
249679
I can't even imagine the crazy amount of
time lost
by the people hunting this
proto drake
.
评论来自
259866
Hello guys, i might have some new info on this mobs spawn issues.
Yesterday, i had well about looked for it for 7 days, without luck.
As i, as the first time, leave the area where it spawns, to enter a heroic, i get my luck by having it linkable later on, while i was in there.
This means that it had been dropped, and i missed my chance, gah..
Twas about 21:50 server time, on Shattered Hand
Well.. To the interresting part.
I chatted to an irl friend from another server, (Runetotem), of my demise, since he was also looking for the mount.
What we unraveled next day, was that it spawned at his server too, on the exact same time as on mine.
The more exciting part is that we share the same battlegroup (Cyclone EU) which get's me to the conclusion.. Can this mob be a shared spawn for battlegroup servers?
I think it needs further investigation, please tell me if you get to anything with this
评论来自
Tokugawa
Ok, I am the poor rogue Nef is referring to above. It was all OK though. Emodac tagged him first fair n' square. So I'm VERY sleepy, going on over 38 hours of no sleep, but here is my theory after being in storm peaks that whole time (with the exception of 2 hours).
I was sitting between the engine (hole in the ground) and frigid tomb, looking northeast when it spawned 20 yards from me. I immediately flew to it, was frantic, and couldn't attack it. At that time, Emodac flew up to it, spell tagged it, and we fought over it, clumsy fumbling on my part and he downed it two seconds before I downed him. Epic. Killed at 5:01pm, Nov 29th.
Fast foward 11 hours, to 4:45am, Varagosa spawns, a little south of Valkyrion (I witnessed the spawn as well, but was immediately jumped by a horde warlock and rogue, wasn't going to fight over Vyra anyway). Killed on the spot at the "crossroad between the west exit of bor's breath, where BB, Rhomedhal pass, and entrance to Valkryion village intersect.
Fast forward 8.25 hrs to 1:00pm Monday. Joonz(sp?) of Eminence reported watching her being killed, again, near Valkrion (he was unspecific as to exactly where).
Fast forward to 9:30-9:45 pm Monday, Joonz (sp?) tags and kills Vyragosa inside Valkrion village, witnessed corpse on a hut.
After reading what others have posted and what I have seen, here's what I think happens.
Vyragosa has some pretty localized spawn points, 2, maybe 3...she is (unless some extraordinary coincidence) on a 8 hr timer with a small window, 15-30 mins).
What I believe happens is after Vyragosa is killed, the TLPD has a very low percentage chance to spawn in her place, but not on the 8 hr mark. TLPD can likely spawn anytime within that 8 hr window. If Vyragosa doesn't spawn at the 8 hr mark, the chance for TLPD to spawn keeps running, until the next 8 hr window, and so on. Eventually one will spawn. Question remains as to what happens when TLPD is killed. Either a. timer resets (but that can't be because Vyra didn't spawn until 11 hours after TLPD was killed), or b. the spawn of the TLPD within that 8 hr window REPLACES the next Vyra spawn. For example in my situation, Vyra spawned 5 hours before TLPD spawned(this is my assumption), then with 3 hrs left until next Vyra spawn, TLPD spawned, leaving an 11 hr gap until the next Vyra spawn.
This random chance to spawn between Vyra spawn windows would explain the variety of spawn times, and the lengthiness between them at times. Also, I HIGHLY doubt it was coincidence Vyra spawned 4 times in a row, within 15 mins or so of 8 hrs. Perhaps other reports where people said 24 hours, and other various times, people just missed a kill and didn't realize it. I was spamming in general to please report if you saw her, her being killed, or her corpse.
Now, the next issue is where TLPD will spawn. I know it spawns at the engine...lots have reported bor's breath spawns...and several have reported spawns coming out of Uldar and Terrace. I think it's spawn points are probably finite, but vary a lot more than Vyras. Also, since Blizz wants this to be a rarer than your average rare mount, it likely makes a segment of a trip, and "time shifts" (i.e. depsawns).
In otherwords, outside of using Vyra as a rough gauge, finding this mount really is luck of the draw.
Just my theory though.
Good luck all.
评论来自
nonentity
Just an idea, the G15-thing that was mentioned sometime here (saving key-sequences) had me thinking how could I do that without a G15.
Well, I still had AHK from when I tried to dual-box and seeing as it's legal and okay with Blizzard I tried - and it works. ^^
Constantly spamming the macro now without having to press the key more than once every few minutes (made a sequence of a few hundred I think, just kept copy-paste-ing ^^).
Put a call to a spell at the end, which he won't be able to cast without a target, so when I hear the "Can't do that",or whatever,message I know I gotta press the key again to restart it.
评论来自
124177
Found varigosa dead at 37.22 now i'm just waiting for the spawn of the other 2 dragons
are we sure that the other spawns are related with the dead of the other ones?
do we have some news about the spawn of the other rare when one of them being killed?
评论来自
124177
a friend of mine just got the proto drake
i have spammed this:
/script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Shift-click this to place a link into a chat message: \124cffa335ee\124Hitem:44168:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0\124h\124h\124r");
and is still stack on "retrieving sistem information"
so i think that link doesn't work
评论来自
drothar
stuff we know:
-Dirkee is not a dragon, he is a mechanical gnome
-TLPD has 3 spawn points
-TLPD despawns after a certain amount of time
-Vyragosa has been seen in many very similar places to the TLPD
All i know is that i found vyragosa dead at 8:38 am on Magtheridon and i made trips around the kill sights nonstop until 6 pm, and more after that. I saw Dirkee dead in the Maker's Terrace around 2 pm and haven't seen anything since then. I'll do some more patrolling when the server comes back up.
Also Mag is a very populated server, yet nobody found a TLPD this week, and I haven't heard of anyone with one yet.
评论来自
drothar
The eastern dot is where I found Dirkee, just outside the library of whatever in the terrace.
The western dot is where I found Vyragosa 5-7 hours earlier (I can't remember exactly when I found Dirkee)
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:414419331456
This entire area is the terrace of the makers I believe. Not sure though.
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:537518547512547497544475533448518429509421505409485355501388497370475349462349449351443365433368422370398378410374388378375382361372351368340380334398336415345431358440371448379448391448400450417450428452437454448462458473470487485495498500509508518508527520
评论来自
DrAgRoS
Is it possible that this will be spawned when the servers go live today? (12/2)
Seeing as there is extended maintenance could that make the rares spawn? Also, does server maintenance reset the server cache and make you unable to get the link for it with the /script macro?
One more question about the /script macro... If someone has the dragon as a mount would that add the reigns to the server cache? Or does someone actually need to be logged on who is holding the reigns in their inventory?
评论来自
262246
Chubbs here from a low pop Hydraxis server. Dirkee Killed 3 times. Vyrgosa seen dead once.
No sign of the TLPD.
Im becoming more and more a believer of the high pop servers getting more spawns. And also the battlegroup wide spawning pattern. but i dont have much backing for it.
I would like to make a collection of the 3 possible spawn points to get an idea if i can maybe find a pattern.
So far theres the south of valkyrion point (28,63) ish.
The engine of makers (44,58) ish.
and i have not been able to find a 3rd point. Im wondering if the valkyrion spawn point is a dual purpose one for both the northern and southern paths.
Anyway just some more fuel for the fire.
My search pattern for those wondering is following the paths and criss-crossing over to check all 3 known patrols. Then randomly just flying around like i have downs just tryign to get lucky. Also titanium nodes affect my pathing.
GL to all. and lets hope we can figure out a little more about this thing.
评论来自
mthrl
Found TLPD dead an hour ago at snowdrift plains. I'm pretty sure she spawned somewhere close because all the other areas were being camped for hours.
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o61/mthrl/WoWScrnShot_120308_011511-1.jpg
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o61/mthrl/WoWScrnShot_120308_011652-1-1.jpg
评论来自
DrAgRoS
OK guys... I have been researching this mob extensively and I have gone through all of the 168 comments (so far) on wowhead and all of the comments on thottbot about this particular dragon and compiled a nice list of kill and sighting locations onto a
map
.
These spots are all places I either got an exact coord to or I made myself by looking at screenshots of the dragon (dead or alive).
Things I know about the Dragon itself:
-GM confirmed that it spawns in one of 3 possible locations.
-GM confirmed that it "may have a respawn timer that exceeds 8 hours".
-GM confirmed that it cannot teleport between spawn points
-GM confirmed that it despawns after a certain time
-Easily soloable by any class
-100% drop for the mount
-the path(s) it follow(s) are in the air and therefore you should probably have a way to slowfall so that you can tag it in the air Especially if you are a melee class.
- using this macro:
/script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Shift-click this to place a link into a chat message: \124cffa335ee\124Hitem:44168:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0\124h\124h\124r");
should tell you if someone has found it on your server (possibly also can tell you if someone has found it since the last server restart.)
Speculated facts about the Dragon:
-May share spawn points with Vyragosa
-May share spawn points with Dirkee (see note below)
-May cause a zone wide roar sound indicating it has spawned (I have never heard a roar)
After learning all of this information about the TLPD and using the map I linked above I created
this path
that I will follow while looking for the dragon. I will probably start at the most southern point moving northeast past the engine. Check the spot with all the blue drakes and continue north and circle Ulduar. Next I will take the western path south and go through the canyon back to the blue protos and to the most eastern point. Then I will turn around and follow the path back to the most southern point and repeat.
The common macro being used to find the TLPD is this:
/tar Dirkee
/tar Vyra
/tar Time
/stopmacro
/tell YOURNAMEHERE > %t <
Replace YOURNAMEHERE with your character's name. It will send you a tell if something is targeted that has the name of what is targeted.
Happy Hunting!
Note on Dirkee: one post here on wowhead says that he killed Dirkee and saw Vyra's corpse less than an hour later. This tells me that the 2 don't share spawn points and therefore he doesn't share spawns with the TLPD. Also, the fact that Dirkee is not a Dragon and cannot fly says that they can't possibly share the same path. However, a common speculation is that if one of these 3 rares are alive the others will not spawn.
评论来自
Kiony
Chubbs, a GM told me the spawn of TLPD has absolutely nothing to do with a server's population.
High pop servers tagg the proto drake more often just because there are a lot of players around. It increases the chance of the TLPD to be tagged by somebody.
PS: Dragros, I don't understand what /tar stopmacro is used for
could you tell me plz? : ) thx
评论来自
Kangi
PS: Dragros, I don't understand what /tar stopmacro is used for
could you tell me plz? : ) thx
The /stopmacro command is so that it only whispers you if you have something targetted, so you don't get constantly spammed as you use the macro.
评论来自
nonentity
Yeah, but someone else said that he (or his friend, can't remember) killed Vyragosa about an hour after he'd killed her, so the very short spawn between Dirkee and Vyragosa doesn't have to mean anything. But yeah, I'd be glad if TLPD did not share routes with Dirkee, cause apparantly Dirkee also spawns waaay east, no sighting of TLPD there though afaik. If we could drop those points as a possible route, it would cut down on the overall route a great deal.
Also - do we have ANY screenshots on any of the supposed spawns near Ulduar and the Terrace of the Makers?
ie. I remember one guy saying he saw him coming down Terrace of the Makers - did he mean the area that says "Terrace of the Makers" on the map? Or could it have been over, down the hill/mountain-range at 41, 49?
drothar also said dirkee was in the Maker's Terrace, when according to the coords he provied he was actually at this library thing area, close to the north-western route.
Is it possible somone also mixed this "down from the terrace" up with that area as well? Cause that would fit this north-western route, rather than the Maker's Terrace coords, for which there is no screenshot afaik.
Damn, why can't people just provide proof. There ARE some guys here that bullsh*t us, like the one who said the GM told him that there WAS a roar and that roar announced TLPD, but he never provided the screenshot as proof. That same guy also told us that all 3 mobs can be up at the same time. So I don't believe those two statements until I see them proven with my own eyes respectively ears (the roar... ;)).
It's hard enough to get information on this thing as it is, without some jerks spreading false information.
I don't like the Ulduar/Terrace of the Makers idea, it would increase the area we have to check by a lot and we have seen no proof. I still check them every other flight, but I concentrate on the Engine and BB+Valkyrion area, seeing as there were the most confirmed kills. As I witnessed an hour ago it's hard enough to check that relatively small area if there's competition... Losing a possible TLPD in BB because I was checking far away Ulduar, which might be totally useless? No.... Only if I'm pretty much the only one farming at that time.
评论来自
Itstoolate
I would just like to say thanks for all the dedicated info about this drake. I've been camping him going on 24 now and have yet to see even a body of either 3, but I beleive in persistence. Thanks to all! Server restart in an hour so i'm hoping I can knab mine. Only real threat I have is a guild that claims to know exact spawn points and farming him(doubt it), but they were out there while i was farming before shutdown last night and trying to sell his pat for 200g (psshh!) and a whisper about any info on his whereabouts only got me "I can sell his exact location for thousands of gold! Why would I tell you?". Thanks again folks, i've got my route mapped out as soon as servers come up, just hope i have no problems pulling him as a RG.
评论来自
262363
i have been looking for 3 days now, like 12 hour each day. still no sigh for it. =/ startet to give op abit. i´ll give it 1 more try tomorrow (Wednesday) at the opdate and the reset.. well the positive thing is that i grinded 4 bags full of herb (18slots) =P
评论来自
262439
From what I've understood, the detailed description of the item ("This is a fast flying mount, blah blah blah") only shows up after someone on the server has looted it. So if it's stuck on "Retrieving item information", that means nobody on your server has looted it yet. It doesn't have any bearing on whether or not the TLPD is currently spawned or not.
Please correct me if I'm wrong on any account.
评论来自
259084
I still dont see why people think Dirkee has anything to do with TLPD, hes a freakin mechanical gnome lol. Also search him up on wowhead for the locations he spawns in, ive seen him in all 3. His locations arent mystery, hes just rare because its a 12-24 hour spawn. Im also leaning towards vyragosa not being tied to TLPD at all, I could see how it is thought that they could share spawns but I think its just a normal rare spawn just like dirkee. Both of them are seperated by the achievement from TLPD who is absent from it, I know that doesnt matter but it gives me more reason to believe. Vyra seems to spawn every 12-24 hours no matter what from what I have seen.
评论来自
Ruless
Just killed Vyragosa at 31,69 on 3rd day of my TLPD camp, was flying above of abandoned camp, i tagged him at air then popped slow fall potion but it went back his position and evaded, then i mounted at killed it at very high position on a mountain. Maybe helpful.
评论来自
nonentity
Concerning the roar - still had no TLPD spawn, thus no possibility of a roar - and the idea that it was actually the roar from the quest from Thorim to get his dragon back - I'm just sitting above the frozen lake south of Valkyrion and (thx Carbonite) someone seems to have completed the quest just a short time ago (saw at her Carbonite-Node Info "Verdanus (or Veranus or whatever that thing is called) 1/1", next location update on her was her flying towards Temple of the Storms, where Thorim resides.
So I have to assume that she finished this quest, and I've been here for hours, didn't move, and I did not hear a roar nor see a pop-up message "Verdanus roars loudly blablabla" or something like that, and I'm not that far away from where the quest takes place.
Master Volume 100%, Sound 100%,Ambience bout 50%, volume on my sound-system turned up pretty high, so I should have heard this roar if there was one.
This gives me hope again that there actually might be the infamous roar when TLPD spawns.
评论来自
255101
I'm not sure what this means, but its only just about an hour (or so) since servers came back up and my server query macro is already linking the dragon.. but when i spoke to another player he said his wasnt?
ive been searching for 2 weeks now but the fellow i was talking it was his first day. are we sure the macro is usuable strait after server reset?
or could it have already been looted to close to the servers coming up.. and if so it still wouldnt explain why his macro is still coming up with "retrieving information"
评论来自
nonentity
double post 5 minutes apart? Oo
No idea what that means, so far the macro has been an integral part of the "hunt". Anyone got ideas or insight why it works this way?
Maybe it works the same way Atlasloot works (guess they both use the same mechanic) and you got it in your local folder because you've already seen someone with the mount or you have it in your local folder because last week someone looted it and even though the server cache was reset and is empty (his result) the script uses the local copy of the information, thus your result?
No clue if that could work, just an idea.
评论来自
253124
The same thing is happening to me. I was online within minutes of my realm coming up this morning and the server query macro returned the reins info. I just don't believe TLPD was killed within those few minutes.
评论来自
249679
http://img519.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenykb7.jpg
That's a screeny to show where i'm camping (right behind me is Engine of the Makers). If i'm spending time doing something else, is this a suitable place to just sit and click the macro once every 30 seconds or so?
评论来自
262560
Day five on Shadow Council. No Vyr, no Gnome, no TLPD. Server returns the reins, but I have seen NOTHING. No corpses, no excited folks in chat channels, nothing.
I shall press on!
I WILL tell you one thing. Farming this jerk BLOWS on a normal speed Flying Mount. Oh my God.
评论来自
262575
Have there been any sightings of this crafty fellow towards the eastern side of the map? For example around the Thunderfall / Tunka'lo camp. I think the key to bagging his reins will be an efficient farm route. Assuming he does have a path ;)
评论来自
Warlol
While using the script that checks the server cache, it shows the mount and you can proceed to see it, but try to link it and it only comes up in script. Which just means maybe Blizzard is trying to negate that macro for us to use on finding rare items, though not completely done because you still can't link it as an item, but only preview it for yourself.
Edit; So now all you have to do is use the macro, then try and link it in say, or whatever chat you use.
评论来自
262567
Ok well here's my story...
Two weeks ago before maintenace I was camping it, flying around the zone spamming my macro (pretty sure my Z key will die soon). The link returned nothing, I never saw anything right up until Tuesday maintenance.
Last week I started out right from the get go, link returned nothing and I kept flying around spamming my macro, mainly at key locations. That night there was a server restart which got my hopes up a it more, though I got nothing even after that. Went to bed for a couple of hours, came back and the link worked. Really bummed me out, found out some blood Elf mage had gotten it. So I gave up for a few days, started back at it the other day.
Today I logged on right after my server came up, within 30 seconds. The item link worked which kind of surprised me as I logged out in Storm Peaks and there was no way someone had killed him. I flew around the zone and never found a corpse. So unless some git under 80 has it sitting in his bags then I don't know.
I've killed Vyragosa a few times and Dirkee a couple of times.
http://img266.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot120308105645sm8.jpg
Skulls mark where I think possible spawn points are, or there abouts.
Star marks where I know Vyragosa spawns as she spawned right in front of me there. As in popped up, didn't move for a bit, then started on a path.
X marks where I have killed Vyragosa
Diamond marks where I know Dirkee spawns as I've killed him there multiple times.
I'm up to the point where I'm flying around the zone like a nut spamming my macro, flying everywhere, even flew down the cliff on the north and inside mountains.
There is a spot just east of Brunnhildar Village with blue proto drakes flying around it, I've been thinking this may be a spot where he paths or spawns.
This mob wasn't meant to be found easily, which means he could fly anywhere. North East part of the zone is possible.
Good luck to everyone trying to find this guy.
Edit: Just got another Vyragosa kill right where I marked my spawn point, some 79 Warrior in trade was asking for help to kill her.
And also yeh, the item link doesn't actually link when you link it in say, whisper or whatever. Thanks for the info.
评论来自
nonentity
Yeah, thanks for the tip on the item link, good to know the macro _does_ work. ^^
The one skull at Bor's Fall is also where I suspect the third spawn point, given that the areas where most of his kills took place are also around suspected (the ones where Vyragosa spawns) or confirmed spawn points (the one near the Engine) and around Bor's Fall is a relatively high number of kills.
Would also fit for the third route of Vyragosa and, if not confirm, make it highly likely that TLPD and Vyra share spawn points and routes.
It would also result in rather nasty positioning of spawn points. You can either
a)camp at a spawn point and surveil 2 routes (ie the one at the Engine, its route and the one with the BB/Valkyrion spawn, but not the Bor's Fall one) and lose the chance on the third route, but be pretty sure to get the 1 spawn point you camp, IF it spawns there ... or
b) camp at the intersection at around 36/67 and have a chance on all 3 routes, but only if TLPD is already moving along the route(s) and no one catches him at the spawn point.
Would make sense imho.
I also think Vyra shares the TLPD spawn near the Engine, there have been many reports of her being killed in that area, makes sense one of her spawn point is there and given that TLPD already got one there, they seem to be connected, would make sense they share the spawn point. Same goes for the BB/Valkyrion spawn point.
Just my 2cents.
Still problems with the Terrace of the Makers and Ulduar in that theory though.
What if he has those routes and follows one of them, but after he finishes, he teleports to either Ulduar or Terrace of the Makers and flies around there for a bit before de-spawning? Makes sense?
评论来自
262560
Vyrgosa just spawned and killed on Shadow Council, 28;55. Never moved an inch. Definitely a spawn location.
评论来自
rakuen
I've camped many things in wow before, but this definitely takes the cake. Blizz made a bit of a boo-boo by making this one so random. I can see how it's driving a lot of people crazy; sure it's just a game and all, but those of you whom have been camping him on and off, or for hours straight, know what I'm talking about.
For fellow drake hunters, how many of you are actually using a path going back and forth? Do you happen to stop at the supposed spawn points and sit there for a bit and hope, or do you keep moving? How many of you have assistance from a friend to find him? I'm curious. I'm spawn camping right now, and after being here since server restart, with nothing in sight... going around in circles mashing that macro.. I'm kinda waiting now at a supposed spawn point with a friend at another.
I have been searching for a full week; not 24/7... but a few hours here, checking back and forth. Seen Vyra dead once, killed her once, killed Dirkee once... Checked back, no TLPD. Haven't even seen a corpse or anything.
Seems like it's all about luck and being there at the right time. Unless you can sit there for 48 hours straight or something to that effect and change shifts with someone. Ugh, nasty timer for it to come to that.
Good luck fellow drake hunters. We need it.
评论来自
262656
Vyragosa just spawned 4 minutes before server shutdown at 33,,65. Hopefully TLPD will be wandering around when the servers come back up.
评论来自
237485
A little food for thought:
Questhelper's find feature (/qh find Time-Lost) gives these 2 locations:
http://i33.tinypic.com/28o6fb.jpg
Flying to the southernmost point puts me right about here:
http://i35.tinypic.com/25q8wsy.jpg
The north point is right here:
http://i36.tinypic.com/dhbfra.jpg
I don't know exactly what QH bases its mob locations on. I assume it's the most frequent place you'll find whatever it is you look up. Regardless, this seems to reaffirm the patting along Bor's Breath and also point towards possibly even more north than previously thought.
评论来自
262575
Hmm, I think you're skull spawn points are accurate Alysandra, they certainly seem to coincide with the confirmed sightings thus far.
(Relinking for convenience)
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:321660439590459600461520279660380650300650367718373594375578304440291477
I think there's definately a circular route there.
评论来自
253902
Just killed
Vyragosa
above Valkyrion. She seemed to be making a path something like
this
when I found her. I had been out there going through my camping route (which includes above Valkyrion) and I had just been there a couple minutes previous, so there is a good chance that she had just started her pat.
评论来自
117643
TLPD got killed around 17.00-20.00 yesterday then spawned again 6 hours later 01.00 right before the maintenence, saw the corpse laying in Bor's Fall. Then comes the thinking "what if i stopped fooling around in IF those 15min...and came here to check earlier" :P
http://img75.imageshack.us/my.php?image=prot1founddeadpq6.jpg
评论来自
Zabel
TLPD Link doesn't work All Week until Monday, day before maintenance. So Might have a higher chance if you waste all your time searching the day before maintenance and right as the severs come back online instead of wasting 100+ hours per week for nothing like I have..
Dont believe me? I have over 5200 hours logged.. 200 of which was the past 2 weeks searching for this freaking mob.. and the one time I log off to get some sleep it drops,.. so typical of blizzard.
http://www.xfire.com/profile/gta801/
评论来自
Ninja1
I can confirm that i Saw Varygosa on Bores Breath...but sad for me, i saw only the dead body of his. Means someone killed him, as in general chat, there was no talking about someone linked or told that he just got a mount. Either he did not drop any mount, or it might be alliance who killed him, since iam Horde.
But, As i saw him and as MANY here says, Bores Breath is the most and best spotted place where u might see him alive or dead.
Bores Breath is the Icy lavyn just abit east north above K3
This map is gathering all cords of the NPC has beeing seen dead or alive. Will update later
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:287650306656329660351662360681365706371733369757284681272718275607269572272537286510294489299469297452297436299415304392314370268378275415319456
评论来自
drothar
I used Autohotkeys to spam my macro when I left. I remember someone saying a GM told them that TLPD can teleport to his favorite locations. I assume this is correct because it accounts for the seemingly larger than three number of spawns. So potentially the mob has 3 spawn points, and can teleport to other points where it pats from until it despawns.
评论来自
42946
28,55 is confirmed as a Spawn location for Vyragosa. No roar. Spawned at 3:50AM server time on Medivh (US). Right as I was alt-tabbing in from reading comments here. Now to find out the spawn timer!
评论来自
bratok1
few words about server query script
it works if one of the following conditions is true
1-item is in server side cache (was looted by someone since last maintenance or someone got it in his bags)
2-item is in client side cache (link was clicked by you earlier while its worked)
so delete CACHE folder from WoW root folder before querying server
评论来自
bratok1
and few more things:
1-Vyragosa and TLPD got at least 4 routes, not 3. And i dont care what GM told you. Its 100% fact
2-forget about roar, its not connected with spawns
3-forget about Dirkee, he is not shares spawn cooldown with dragons
After 10 days of almost non stop hunting using 3 accounts (multiboxer) i've killed Vyra 12 times and TLPD once.
I'll give full info (all routes, spawn points, spawn intervals etc) after 2nd and 3rd drop for all my characters :)
评论来自
HamBurger
well after about 30 hours of on and off camping i finally seen vyragosa for the 2nd time , this time it was at 28.50 and i got her. was reading comments and alt-tabbed back in and macro whispered me, looked down and there she was. flying about 50 yards above ground. i just flew extensive circles in that area so she must have spawned close by. hope this info helps.
评论来自
nonentity
Sorry, but at this point nothing is 100% fact.
I'm willing to believe the TLPD spawn at the Engine for example, because it fits and it makes sense and two people have reported seeing him spawn there.
But other than that it's speculation.
Unless you have a video or a few screenshots or whatever of this fourth route (it would make sense actually) that too is not 100% fact.
If you have this information then great, yay, please share it, thanks and I apologize.
Don't 100% agree with Dirkee, he is a very rare spawn after all like the other two, so there could be some shared cooldown or whatever, but it's definitely possible there's no connection.
My server just went up a few minutes ago, logged in asap, must have been one of the 10 first people or so.
Flying all over Storm Peaks atm, checking pretty much everything, including the 1 90% confirmed and the other 3 speculative spawn points, Ulduar and Terrace, even the eastern parts.
Nothing so far.
Server query returns nothing so far. I'll do one or two more full zone sweeps.
If I don't find anything on either of the 3 (yeah, going with 3, just for the sake of going on anything at all) I'll go with "no immediate spawn after server restart".
lol... world server down... ffs! -.- immediately after the weekly maintenance... my server is so f*cked up, get it toger Blizzard!
评论来自
Nausicaa
I got mine more than a week ago.
I see a lot of wacky theories about this rare mob.
Let's see if my one in weird enough:
3 proto dragons come from "dungeons and raids" achievements (black, red and plagued)
1 proto drake comes form "world events" achievements (violet)
1 proto drake (green) is a very rare drop from exalted Oracles item. If it were an achievement it would go under the "Reputation" tab
So this one is a rare mob. It should be under the "Exploration" achievement tab like the other rares, but it's not.
Maybe it "phases in" only for player who have a high exploration rate, like "Explore Northrend" or "World Explorer".
评论来自
seroko
Talked to a GM today about another issue I had and thought to bring up the TLPD, heres the information I gathered:
1. Possible confirmation again on three spawn locations.
2. Clearly stating it does not despawn at any point or after any certain time.
3. It has a long respawn timer (duah...)
Me posting this isn't going to convince anyone without evidence so here is a screenshot of the key points in the conversation:
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/1899/infopg2.png
评论来自
nonentity
Uhm.... the other GM clearly stated that he DID despawn.... So we got one stating that he DOES despawn, another stating he DOESN'T:.... what the...?
which would make more sense, seeing as how few people had him... he was not found on my server last week, assuming he spawned just ONE time (should happen at least once in 7 freakin days) and didn't despawn someone's bound to have bound him - which did not happen.
So I'll go with the despawn, would also make more sense according to Blizzard's tradition (like the books for the Higher Learning despawning 3 mins after someone activates it).
评论来自
262656
Just Got my TLPD at 13:00 server time at 37,, 61, was just flying over the little ruins heading south as i grabbed it. Thank god my 4 day search is over :)
评论来自
263074
Alright spoke to a GM so, Only four spawn point, no announcement.
评论来自
nonentity
Now it's four, from a GM... opposed to 3 as another GM said before... huh
Yeah, four makes sense atm, but I seriously don't know what to believe anymore.
Blizzard really ought to tell them the damn facts so they don't all say different things on this already very hard to get mob.
I'm getting really tired of this thing, might take a break from it, spent 24 hours camping yesterday with pretty much no result. I'll still camp there when I'm doing something i RL, when I'm looking for a group and so on, but I'll cut back on my patrolling time.
It is after all just a 280% mount. It would be awesome to have, but considering the amount of time you have to invest to get it it should be in line with the other proto-drakes, which means 310% speed.
评论来自
234845
150 hours of camping, 6 hours of sleep per day. haven't done much else than camping this mob for the past 10 days. was stolen right in front of my eyes once, haven't seen it since then.
I think im going mad
评论来自
avenger9872
How high does Time fly above the ground?
评论来自
Inevitable
No screenshots of this sorry. But I found this a little interesting.
Two weeks ago, my server had 5-6 TLPD spawns, great. Next week rolls along (This past week) no spawns for 2 days.
So on Thursday I do a GM ticket because I read numerous posts of it being bugged on a lot of servers after Manitenance. GM confirmed it was not spawning and was indeed bugged. Again, this was last week. The entire week, my server got 0 spawns.
Now this Maintenance rolls along (dec. 2). Servers come up, I do a ticket to see if it's still bugged (GMs have to tell you if it's working correctly or not, or are supposed to). The GM I get says it's working correctly, and i'm thinking finally!
So I dig a little deeper and he says it was NEVER bugged at all, on any server. It seems ALL the GMs are now saying it's not bugged and never was.
What are the odds, I do a ticket, a GM says it's bugged and that week we get 0 spawns? Yet new GM says it wasn't ever, and the week before we get 5-6.
I really wouldn't go off of what ANY GMs say at this point. They are all over the place and not even on the same page as other ones.
So those servers with 0 spawns since launch. My guess is it's bugged (for whatever reason) and they are just saying it's working correctly.
评论来自
Myseria
Been camping this since saturday the 22nd. After only an hour of flying around I found TLPD dead with a 77 shammie standing next to it, apparently he had just killed it. I figured it wasn't THAT rare. Boy was I wrong.
After that I saw Vyra 3 times, killed it 2 times, didn't see Dirkee at all, and haven't seen TLPD since.
I put all my personal sightings on this map, which is 100% accurate. Sadly no obscure new spawn points or anything, but at least I can confirm two paths Vyra takes:
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:338796345790357776363763367745367733369718369695369683327803417700319654309658297664288675284691281706277732279561
27.9,56.1 is where I found TLPD dead. I don't know if it was flying north or south, but I'm inclined to believe he can go either way.
Next, the path starting in the middle of BB is where I bumped into Vyragosa, it was rounding Frosthold to the south.
Third, the path starting south of Bor's Fall is also Vyragosa's. He was coming from the west, so it had possibly completed a full loop around Frosthold, or it might have spawned south of Frosthold high on the mountain.
The 4th dot is where I found someone else killing Vyra, next to the cave in Sifreldar Village. Again not sure here whether it was flying north or south before it was brought down.
On another note, the "roar" sound a lot of people describe, I'm 99% sure it's coming from the blue protodrakes when they do a frost breath on one of the poor buffaloes.
Hope this helps someone.
评论来自
shadow1515
Nearly 24 hours after my server last rebooted, the mount is not in the cache and I can't find Vyragosa or Time-Lost (I searched thoroughly...if they were there, I would have killed them). There were other people looking for these guys at the same time as me; I'm positive that if Time-Lost had spawned then someone would have downed him. That means that, nearly 24 hours after a server reset, he's definitely not there.
This could mean a couple of things.
The timer may be variable (sometimes 6, 24, or even more hours between spawns). Alternatively, this could be confirmation that Vyragosa really does share a spawn timer with Time-Lost.
Of course, it could also mean both. I don't have a way of knowing whether anyone has killed Vyragosa unless I come across the corpse before it despawns, so maybe she spawned after 12 hours and either her or Time-Lost will spawn soon. Just thought I'd add my information to the pool.
评论来自
Myseria
Possbile 4 spawn points+paths ?
http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/4718/picturevu0.jpg
-edit- Nice one Drothar, we had almost the same idea at the same time :)
-edit 2- about directions: I'm almost sure red, green and purple are counter-clockwise, and blue is clockwise.
评论来自
nonentity
had another Vyragosa just now, didn't see her spawn unfortunately.
I was waiting at the eastern edge of the engine when suddenly my macro had a target, Vyra.
Made a few screenshots of her path.
I wanted to follow the whole path, but some dumbass 77 warlock attacked her at Bor's Fall, even though I immediately whispered her to stop, because I wanted to follow her path. I would have explained the situation better had there been more time... well, she didn't stop, killed her, great... -.-
She didn't even get the Northern Exposure achievement so she didn't even need the kill (except for the Frostbitten achievement, but really, what sane person would go after that?), she saw me following her very closely, so either I wanted to follow her or I wanted to kill her... and her not being TLPD she could have let me have Vyragosa either way as she's not that important.... damn, how I hate those people.
She could either have spawned still near the blue proto-drakes, so more or less close to the "confirmed" (as much as we can confirm anything) TLPD spawn at 44, 58, or somewhere else entirely, no clue.
评论来自
49495
just to be sure, is he flying in the air, or walking around?
评论来自
262560
Warning!
Be prepared for far more competition, folks.
http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/12/03/seeking-the-time-lost-proto-drake/
GOD.
评论来自
nonentity
"if you're willing to do some dragon hunting
for a few hours
and have some keen eyes for what's in the air, you could pick up one of the coolest flying mounts yet."
lol..... they don't have a clue, do they....
as for competition - bring it on... provided they post any new information they get. While naturally I want the drop I'd be glad just just see the damn script work for once, as in tell me that someone actually found it on my server... just to prove it's not bugged, cause so far I don't know.... no one's found it yet since I started farming.
评论来自
thraton
Been farming for a few hours, log off for a quick break, log back in and there's a gnome of all races on the TLPD right in front me. Fortunately, another fellow hordie nearby told me he's seen that gnome b4 on it. The script still doesn't work for me, even though Ive been right next to the mount.
评论来自
Grenthelad
So, one thing i would like to know is...
What are you guys doing when you farm this guy? are you sitting in one spot hoping to catch a spawn/pat, or patrolling in a certain manner? I just need some ideas on how i am going to get this guy and i was thinking that maybe sitting over the Engine would be the best thing to do. Help would be mutch appreciated and i will be sure to post if i find anything.
I farmed it a little early this morning and patted around, from bor's fall to valkyr and around the makers terrace and back to the engine, and i didnt even see a corpse. going to try later today
Good luck to all, and happy hunting =D
Edit: If i do end up patrolling, does this seem like a reasonable route? if there is a better one let me know
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:369733363689345658312654281640268578282514279467287434309446330456362499395510426524449547461580443600420600396613400636401662401691396714378745
评论来自
Grenthelad
So I am a noob when it comes to macros, made a few useful ones, but other than that might as well torture me =) But is there a way to click the macro once and have it repeat itself for x amount of times without having to spam it? it hard to fly and press buttons at the same time =)
I am using the standard macro everyone is using that will whisper you if you target something
评论来自
263414
I wept this afternoon when I saw the post on WoW Insider about TLPD. Okay, I didn't really weep, but it's damn frustrating all the same. As if there needed to be more people searching for this thing. As for me, I've been flying around in circles every day but my search has been in vain; not even a corpse. I know it's been killed and looted at least once on my server. I logged on a little before 6 hours past the extended maintenance on Tuesday and looked for an hour, but to no avail. To know a solid spawn rate or concrete spawn locations would make this monumentally easier. Oh well, back to the drawing board. This is still very high on my wishlist and I figure anyone who looks for it enough WILL one day see it, it just takes a lot of patience. Patience I don't know if everyone (including myself) has.
评论来自
263424
I was working on another matter with a Senior GM (for 4.5 hours mind you) while sitting and spamming my macro looking for the TLPD. After my problem was solved the GM asked me if there was anything else he could do for me. I asked him how much he knew about rare elites. He said "If you ask me about the Time-Lost Proto Drake I swear..." So I did! Not much info really but something he said really stuck out to me.
He hinted at the fact that the TLPD could be KoS (Kill on Sight) to some other mobs in the area. Thus making it even more rare and seemingly a reason that it would "despawn" after a certain amount of time. Take it for what it's worth, and I have screens to prove the whole conversation if proof is necessary.
评论来自
262575
Apparently if you have a G15 there's a way to make the macro repeat itself without you having to constantly press it. I've not found it though :p
评论来自
263074
Just for your proof that a GM actually gave advice on this here you go with screens
Yeah I do have proof, I'll get those screens for you.
1st pic stating only four points
http://www.upload-image.org/img/856b59de81b9fbb79a76ef0e4ed1210a/WoWScrnShot_120308_083534.jpg
2nd Pic saying no announcement or roar
http://www.upload-image.org/img/36eae02ab2c8281d5b6ead52c38d568c/WoWScrnShot_120308_083928.jpg
评论来自
127490
Third time I meet with Vyragosa (first since maintenance). This time she was being slained by a horde prot paly.
For the third time, it happened at the exact same spot (northern part of Valkyron).
评论来自
263466
If you are playing on Thunderhorn, that was me...
I just killed W. at Bors Breath, she/he/it was flying very slowly towards Valkyrion and must have spawned less than a few minutes before my encounter with it, as I had just made my usual TLPD-turn around the engine and the crash-site starting around the same area as I killed W. in...
/Candylac
EDIT: Coords for my kill is 29,66
- sorry that I didn't think about taking a sceenshot...
评论来自
263478
Just killed Dirkee at 37.0, 57.0 roughly 12 hours after the realm (Alonsus EU) rebooted, right on the western edge of the Engine of the Makers. Was (of course) looking for the Time-Lost Proto Drake, but I guess this means that he
does
share a spawn timer and path with Dirkee, or at least sometimes does.
/Helpful, I know
Edit: Entertaining factoid from the official forums: The name (Time-Lost Proto Drake) is apparently another one of many Blizzard's jokes about players (time wasting with camping, hence "Time-Lost")
评论来自
262560
I'm just saying, chum, you're a bit of a jerk. I bet your advice is "PATIENCE".
You are posting here, so you've seen our maps, you seen our info. I bet you even used some of it. I guarantee none of us are on your server, so you're in no danger of 'more hunters'.
Spill the beans or stop leading us on.
评论来自
nonentity
uhm, why do you think that means he shares a timer with Dirkee? This area has already been established as an usual area for Dirkee (killed him there myself).
Yeah, Time-Lost is kinda mean... if it's meant that way. Personally I want to think it means something like "lost in time", like he's from the past and finds himself here now, in his "future", thus he's Lost in Time, Time-Lost..... or something.... That's also a reason why I'm considering him having some connection with the Titan structures, like he's from their time, thus connected to the structures some way, might spawn near such structures... no clue, just an idea he had. But there are no Titan structures near the North-of-Valkyrion spawn (unless you count the Temple of Storms), so I guess that theory is out the window.
评论来自
nonentity
While he could have said it a bit nicer, I have to agree.
Pleas tell us what you got so far now. You know that it could take a week, easily, or more till you get your third TLPD.
With your info some of us may get lucky before that and might be able put an end to this torment... ;)
评论来自
Kiony
yeah nonetity, I agree with you it means that he's lost in time.
In french it's called "proto-drake perdu dans le temps" which means exactly "lost in time proto-drake" so I think that's what blizzard means by Lost time, but Thakh is right lol I think "Time Lost" is a blizz' joke to the TLPD farmers who lose their time^^
评论来自
Grenthelad
So, i just went out on a loop I developed (
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:374751369728367697361673352658339652323634314631305613292586294555301530312524323522344520357541363559374582375596393613415607427605446601449570435535409520389522378514331450362502341467322429299425275429273454281471288489281506266537256570244592243613266617277636288646316656
) and at the snowdrift plains I found Vyragosa. Trailed her south south west towards Valkyrion and finaly got to a point where i could kill her at 28.51
unfortunately i did not get a chance to see the time, but roughly 6:45 server.
TLPD, im coming for joo!
The map goes north from bor's fall, clockwise around the Temple of Storms, counter clockwise around the Engine, counter clockwise at the snowdrift plains, and south toward Valkyrion, and repeat. Hope this helps!
(just for fun, click the + button if this helped)
Edit: Vyragosa either despawned at roughly 7:12 server
评论来自
263014
Ok guys lets sum up what i got from the comments above.
1- Only Vyra and TLPD shares same paths
2- No allarm for the summon
3- More then 1 spawn point (up to 4)
4- No despawns (not sure maybe some enemies are w8ing at the end of her routes)
I took every single kill point and compared with others so i got this map. Im not sure what happens after the cut lines maybe end of routes or maybe the enemies of her. Dunno the path near Ulduar and Terrace of the Makers. And also the path maps can be confirmed with this map with little differences.
This is the map i made from the commends above:
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:358642393702367700376728365685362671356660341656348662334658321660312658304658295662288675278702272716286691292650284644279634270627266613265586262598269574273553277535281524281495389506341341321359331355367627374615383605402600414596427588437574445557449539461530393603373598375576378557384539386524391452398481268728397466465679471667476652477634477613370716382712405693418683431679444681457679474598470582465565463545466512477497321473393493334464348456358450370448382448290500299491312366301368288376278384274396273411273423272438273454274467277481281508309483265741268757273770282780291790303794353765344776363751336786325790312792369737
and this is the 3 path map someone (dont remember who im sorry) posted above looks like nearly same with my map, just with a little difference (and dunno if the spawn points are true) :
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g134/Knight0fTheDead/speakz14.jpg
评论来自
262560
So you're some kind of WoW Super Hero? You're saying none of the information we've gathered is correct?
Then enlighten us, oh Great Bratok. We who dwell in the shadows beneath thee, bathed in light.
评论来自
262560
Vyragosa just killed, 41;63 on Shadow Council. Seemed to be pathing around the Engine. Common spot for these two.
Scuttlebutt around the server says TLPD spawned at 12 Server yesterday, Tuesday, and was bagged right away. That's RIGHT as the server came back up. At least I know she isn't bugged!
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262567
I like how you think we all play on the same server or something
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263579
I have been searching for this for over 2 weeks now, yet to find still though.
I have followed and killed Vygra, starting from Broodmother's Nest
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:397662395644400677398712396693398724408745414774413798411813410836420844436844
I have also seen vygra killed twice in bor's breath.
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:331650332667
The gms are giving out little bits of info though, I was at the blue drakes and told to look south west..
After further asking I gained a riddle:
Keep an eye out between where breath has touched and feet have stepped
I have also however, heard 3 small rawrs, and I flew to the nest and it wasn't the quest dragon wasn't there..
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263586
While it makes me sad that you've got 2 already, and I havent even seen him dead, after 30-40 hours of hunting. I don't blame you for not sharing information until you get your final. I would do the same.
I would hope you share when you do get that final TLPD.
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nonentity
The riddle ain't really hard... breath is Bor's Breath and feet have stepped is The Footsteps, the area around/east of the Engine.
So it means the area of the Engine/around the Engine and possibly the area of the Abandoned Camp, which connects the two. Nothing new there, we already know he/they fly along there.
What do you mean by that? "and I flew to the nest and it wasn't the quest dragon wasn't there.."
Do you mean no one was there (if you took too long, the quest dragon, Verdanus, despawns after her part in the quest is played out), TLPD was there instead of the quest dragon, or what? Also, if you were in that area the roars you heard would probably just be the blue dragons in the area. I've camped at the Engine pretty much the whole day (whole day not one TLPD loot, script still shows nothing) and heard my fair share of roars from those guys... -.-
It's great the GMs give out at least a little information, but would be even greatter if it was new/improved/correct(-ed) information. ^^
Cause in the end, even if we knew everything there was to know, exact spawn points and routes and maybe even the factor for TLPD spawn (chance of x%, conditions and so on) it would still be very hard to get the thing, as he despawns, spawns without notice, in a very big area...
you might totally miss him even knowing all that, because you might just decide to take a break those exact 15 mins he's up, and you'd never know...
I assume the respawn-timer+chance of spawn still leave a huge amount of possibilites when he might spawn.
I actually think not even GMs know for certain when he'll spawn, until he actually does - they might just be able to confirm when he IS and/or WAS up, not when he WILL be.
4am... and the perfect song kicks in... Jack Johnson - Wasting Time... uhm yeah... zZzZzZ
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thraton
So, someone correct me if im wrong, the script searches the server cache, and if someone has looted the TLPD since the last reset, then it will return information. If it continues searching, or fails to find anything, then either no one has looted the TLPD and its either flying around, or yet to spawn.
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246002
Got this mount on Mazrigos 08-12-04 06:10 server time,
The time-lost proto drake was patrolling the route previously posted here
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:370724367704366689353666362675344662334662321658309658299658290658281667278687269695265716262737261755261766262786266803274807287809299809313809325809341805353792366780370766373747
Be advised if you try to do this without flyingmount like I did, the mobs patrol route is too far from the ground to be pullable until he passes the waterfall and flies between the cliffs on the northwestern portion of it.
Soloed with lvl 74 prot warrior (Maldred, Horde side),
no cooldowns or consumables used.
Had some issues with range bugging while fighting him, I had to jump to smack the last revenge on him, due to the mob never "landing" but flying at ground level when engaged.
Huge thanks to all the posters in this thread so far who encouraged me to get there without flying mount and camp him for a little while.
Now i just need to ding 80 and train flying skill, sheesh...
To all the nay-sayers:
Getting to the zone without flying mount is dead easy, there are paths over the mountains if you really really look, but I did it the easy way.
Swim around the coast from Zul Drak and drown, ress at spirit healer in storm peaks.
And guys, its not an elite, its a 18000 HP rare mob, but not a rare elite.
Basically it hits like a lepergnome on plate.
And to clarify:
I did this before seven in the morning, with a total of 3 people on the horde side in the zone.
There was no questing going on, i for one hadnt completed any quests in the zone since im too low lvl to get them.
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263690
I think I found some nifty information. My fellow drake hunter and I were out looking for it in different spots, and then he found the TLPD corpse around 46,60.
I came to check it out because I had never even seen the corpse on our server, so i went over there, and i couldn't see it where he reported it.
So I asked him where it was again, and grouped with him so i could see where he was. We were standing RIGHT on top of each other and could not see eachother, he could see the corpse, I could not.
We left the Foot Steppes/Engine of the Makers area and we could see eachother again. As soon as he would go into the area, he'd disappear. What is up with this? Possible phasing or something weird? This is getting way to complicated for my little brain.
Also wanted to add that in the area, he could see big Iron Giant guys or something, and all I could see were the blue drakes. He could see the blue drakes if he was outside the zone, but as soon as he ENTERED the zone would morph and the blue drakes would go away and the giants would spawn.
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263579
What do you mean by that? "and I flew to the nest and it wasn't the quest dragon wasn't there.."
I was in bor's breath, I shouldn't be hearing any rawrs at all and it only took me a few seconds to get to the nest. All I heard was three short bursts, and they sounded different to the blue drakes
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busmus
Looking for this one like a week now on TM, mount is not showing in via the link and I don't think anyone has it on the server. I'm following the paths but I haven't even found Vyra or Dirki once. Talked to another dragon hunter who said he has killed Vyra twice following the paths he found here on wowhead.. Getting tired of this but I so want that dragon :P
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263853
Okay about the whole scripting thing, if it comes up that means someone has it... that is wrong... On my server where no one was even to certain bosses or even in that instance yet, items from it were linkable. So how is it possible to say that this is different, that if someone has it it shows up and if not it doesn't.
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234845
GOT IT
160 hours of camping ~15 hours a day. Saw it alive once last Friday at 13:00~ but got ninjad right in front of my face. Didnt spawn since then (AFAIK) on the server. Was camping the "predicted" spawnpoint at 43;58~ (where i think it spawned last time i saw it, 90% sure of this) since it was clearly on a different patrol route this time.
Last time was it patrolled south east towards Brunhilldar Village, this time it patrolled, (spawned?) straight over Engine of the makers and headed towards either one of the patrol routes around Temple of storms or around the mountain to the south.
I was close to giving up and the dragon's at the engine have probably killed me enough to give me a 100 g repair bill but i can not explain the excitement when it poped up on my screen, at first i thought it was just another Vyragosa, had my fair share of those >_<, but the very significant orange color soon changed my mind.
My hands were shaking really badly from lack of sleep and excitement and the nightmare it would be if anyone got it before me AGAIN. Caught up with it at 38;35:60;34, shifted out of flight form poped a couple of moonfires and a Snowfall lager to make sure it stuck with me. Unlike vyragosa or the other blue drakes it had not even the slightest intention in keeping distance to me as i fell slowly. Instead it did an attack called Time-lapse which was some kind of blink spell that brought it to me. The fight itself was very easy although it stayed a few yards above the ground so melee attacks were a very minor annoyance to get in.
As it dropped to the ground i felt a relief that ive barely felt before, maybe when i passed on some really hard test in school :D but it was a great sensation.
Probably took the mount hunt way too far than what's healthy and i wouldn't reccomend it to anybody unless they have the same urge to get this very exotic and rare mount.
Thanks Wowhead for all the awesome comments, maps etc, the people who have gotten it, youve been a great inspiration :).
Pics or it didnt happen!
http://data.fuskbugg.se/skalman01/1%20(1).jpg
kill spot
http://data.fuskbugg.se/skalman01/1%20
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mount in my inventory
http://data.fuskbugg.se/skalman01/1%20
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where i first targeted it
http://data.fuskbugg.se/skalman01/1%20
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me sleeping on his corpse in travel form awww :3~~
http://data.fuskbugg.se/skalman01/---1.jpeg
Me looting his corpse
Moofíe
80 druid
Guild: Remnant
Server: Doomhammer server 4th with this dragon (first tauren to 80>3<)
Good Luck
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259084
Well... GM gave me no answer as to whether phasing was involved but I did get him to launch an investigation!
He did mention that it was possible that someone could have pulled them into their phase, causing it to be unseen by others.
In the end of the convo I hinted that he has my email addy being a GM(I think) right after he said he cant share info haha. Doubt that will get me any answers though.
If ya want a pic I got it, but im going to bed for now.
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263919
From what I've seen so far, 50% of the people complaining/farming this, are not level 80, and/or do not have epic flying training, please if your gonna farm this, stop wasting your time, go hit 80 first, get enough gold to buy epic training, THEN complain.
PS: This NPC has not yet spawned on the server Gurubashi.
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Vinas
I'm looking for it since past saturday and haven't seen it or it's corpse :S
6 hours a day, 34 now :S
I'm in Los Errantes, spanish server (it sucks) and don't know if anyone has it atm, but I don't think there could be a large number of hardcore players in the server.
I hope that with the help of ppl who got it or seen it is providing, I'll found it.
As for Savereofguru said, not in need of level 80, go hit 77 and buy epic flying training. 80 is not needed to kill rares :P
Thanks for the comments :)
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260101
Killed Vyra at 6:07 Server on Thrall just recently. Man im talking to so conveniently named time lost mentioned he had killed vyra on 3:13 am server 2 days prior. will post screenie when i can. was in the middle of where the blue protos are outside of the cave north of Brun vill.
Edited again for screenie
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/6451/wowscrnshot120408031105at4.jpg
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263936
http://data.fuskbugg.se/skalman01/WoWScrnShot_120408_120046.jpg
Found him dead at this location in the small passage north of Valkyrion. Sad part is I just logged back on after a short afk, and targeted him from my current location I was logging from at the first macro use. Well, I guess luck is a factor that isnt applied to me at all.
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263956
On the lv 80 note, I didn't notice it needed you to be level 80 to use it >.< but still its a awesome mount. ( no i dont have one xD ). As far as my server goes i've yet to see either spawn or mount, in truth i haven't seen any rare spawn at all in my day worth of hunting. I had just hit 77 and I wanted to get a dragon mount.
So I have a question before i waste days worth for hunting this mount, has anyone under level 80 gotten the mount or seen the dragon? (dead or alive).
评论来自
264012
I doubt the Master Explorer quest has anything to do with it, as this is an Alliance only quest. Unless I've mistaken.
Anyway, Killed Vryagosa @ 12:10 server, and again @ 8:10. It's now 7:50, almost 12 hours later, haven't seen anything. Anyone think that if the time gets longer between spawns, it means that TLPD will spawn?
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263533
oh well, I'm another one who is "hunting" for the TLPD, but I'm not really camping for it.. evertime I'm in Storm Peaks I look for it.
Anyways.. I just logged in and whispered myself the link of the reins and it worked. Now I got curious, afaik somebody posted, you get a working link back if TLPD spawned somewhere and/or somebody looted but
has not
learned it. Well, I was flying near Bor's Breath spamming my TLPD Makro and tagged his corpse. 14:26 Servertime.
Screen where I found him
.
I don't know when he got killed .. oh man, I guess I was a bit optimistic :D
For anyone who want's to know it:
I have the Explorer Achievement, also the 100 Quest in Storm Peak's.
Haven't seen TLPD before, but Varythingy dead once, BEFORE I've compleadet the Questachievement and Dirkee once (killed him with Guildies) AFTER I had the Questachievement (and a few of my guildmates havent got the Achievement yet).
Edit: Despawned right now at 14:33 Servertime.
Link of his reins are still working.
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262567
Well it's now been around 42 hours since my server came back up. Left the zone for a bit to go do some dailies. Link isn't returning anything still. No mention of him, no corpses, nothing. Almost at the point of giving up, but that's more than likely when he'll spawn >_<
Edit:
This is the current path I'm flying
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:445574430588417607401621386629373646366666366693366718366743367763362782345794330792314790300788286778268753275766262737262720270700279687286669287656286642278629277611274600269584268563268535277524282508282495273477272460262440257423253401252386252368264345281343295343313343326349335347347353358339367320373306382285389269404256433252419252448256457271463289463310463328462347454365444384436394432411426431424462424448424477430500441512444526444541439557274664296667299652275648259549257565269549278561278545430557441592435574450563426570250347440499
I sometimes do a sweep over the North Eastern part of the zone for the heck of it, even flown inside some of the mountains and down to the bottom of the Engine. At this point I'm willing for anything.
I did every quest in the zone, not sure how many over 100 there are, but I did them while I was leveling. Maybe it was a mistake, dunno.
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rakuen
It has nothing to do with Phasing or Quests.... because I haven't done any quests whatsoever in Storm Peaks and I nabbed myself my TLPD yesterday. ;) (upcoming post, was busy yesterday) That's right, I haven't done any quests in SP.. so it can't be that. I'm not a Master Explorer either.
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262560
7th day of farming, still no corpse. Got reports of TLPD spawning as 12pm on Tuesday, which would put it at an hour BEFORE THE SERVER CAME UP.
No corpse, two Vyragosa spawns in seven days. No Dirk at all, either. Spoken to two GMs, just for kicks, no new information, just a confirmation that it's not bugged.
My route is I start at the waterfall in Bor's Breath, fly clockwise around the Temple of Storms, over Valkyrion, dip into Snow Drift and then turn around. Back over Valkiyrion and once more to the Waterfall. Then up and over the mountain to the Engine, check the drakes, check the confirmed spawns, then back to the waterfall. Repeat.
On a slow flying mount, it's an 8 minute patrol. So if there IS something to the 13 Minute Despawn, I should be good as long as no one else finds him.
In all honesty? I curse like a sailor and complain to friends about it, but I've never enjoyed WoW more. Sure, the beans were spilled in WoWInsider, but the air of mystery surrounding this stupid drake is amazing. When everything else in WoW is a numbers game and all information is known before it even arrives on Live Servers, to have even a single mob that's a complete enigma is refreshing. Bravo to Blizzard for this, we definitely need more like it.
...NOW SPAWN, DAMNIT.
评论来自
rakuen
I started searching for TLPD exactly last week... A couple of days I was out there for hours 10 here, 10 there... Consistently through the week going by to check, sometimes being there for a couple of hours to keep searching.. Killed Vyra once, no sign of anything for 10 hours. Saw her dead once, no sign of anything for 10 hours.. No TLPD sightings at all, nor did my query every work.
but on Tuesday after maintenance, I was out there with my fiance for 16 hours.
6 hours after the server came back up, I spotted Vyra at 27,50 making her way to the Temple of Storms. Immediately I nabbed and killed her. I was going to leave the corpse alone and see how long it took to despawn, but a Hordie came by and skinned it.. so I continued my search. For hours and hours we went, hoping to find something.. server query came back with nothing.. we barely left the computers and if one of us had to afk for a few, the other would take up both routes. I took the bottom half of the map.. going by K3, Valkyrion, all those places.. While he took Engine of the Makers, Terrace of the Makers, etc. Welp, nothing. The entire time, we saw nothing.. heard nothing. Heck while on our search, someone asked in general where the green drake drop came from.. We responded as it has nothing to do with Storm Peaks.. Some rude ally started blabbing about the TLPD.. by the time he was done (and I even asked him to stop, he said he didn't care..) there were an additional 10 people coming through that had been in the area all day but had obviously not been camping.. The server was pretty full in SP that day. So we thought heck, what if ? Well, you know how that goes.
1 hour, 2, 5, nothing. By the time it was 4:30 AM we gave up, exhausted, disappointed.. as it had been 16 hours since the server came up, and 10 hours since Vyra was killed.
I was going to wake up in another hour and go check, just to make sure. I hit my alarm clock and decided to keep sleeping instead. I woke up some hours later, by this time it was 11 AM Wed, nearly 17 hours since Vyra was killed, and nearly 23 hours since the server came back up. Decided to hop on and check. Signed on with a "sigh", thinking no way. Not that lucky...
Log in at Bor's Breath, 27,64.. headed east under Frosthold... past the small waterfall.. up towards the abandoned camp.. checked around the elemental cave (sorry forgetting the name atm) around the edge near all the wyrms by Brunnhildar... I then go back towards and over to the right of Engine of Makers.. and then BAM! My macro hits gold, I shrill in delight, waking up my fiance who comes running in.. I'm thinking OMG OMG, there he is! He was heading south from the Crash Site.. over the little ridge towards the Engine... I flew into him, not wanting to take any chances since this was going to be the closest pull spot for a while.. he aggro'd.. I de-mounted, and proceeded to kill him. Easy kill, my pet tanked as I dps'd him down. Looted, and there ya go! Of course, now the script works.
He died at 39,47. 11:03AM PST. I know how hard it is to hunt for this guy! He de-spawned exactly 30 minutes later.
BTW, I have done no questing at all in Storm Peaks. I am no Master Explorer. :P
Pretty sure I'm the 2nd person on Scarlet Crusade to have it from what I was told and what I have seen. :-) Real happy gal now, good luck to all of you, and don't stop looking, even if it is the occasional check! It worked for me! ;)
评论来自
Grenthelad
ts been 15hrs since i killed Vyra, and from what i can tell she hasnt respawned and no TLPD sightings..... o corpse either.
This is Grenthelad reporting to you from Farstriders. Tune in to see whats next!
评论来自
264012
Update from
Killed Vryagosa @ 12:10pm server, and again @ 8:10pm. Camped it all the way to 11am (15 hours) and ...........
Vryagosa spawned again.
Done till later. Good luck everyone.
评论来自
79637
Vyragosa @ 30,60 heading North.
评论来自
Tuhma
I just killed Vyragosa at 50,52. He was flying north-east from engine of the makers to terrace of the makers 17:38 servertime, Talnivarr. First encounter/sighting with any of the mobs in macro since I started over a week ago. Hunt for TLPD continues. 10-4
评论来自
264335
Been camping this on and off (mostly on) for about 5 days now. I hadn't seen any of the targets in the macro until this morning, when after a short afk I came back to find Vyragosa's corpse in Bor's Breath, halfway up the mountain almost exactly across from the entrance to Uldis. This was at 10:45 am CST on Uldaman.
My path is basically just to start at valkyrion, go down through Bor's Breath, up over the abandoned camp, make a quick leg through the blue drakes, then back up around east of the zeppelin crash, back around to the cradle with the huge guy, and back down over Valkyrion. I switch between clockwise and counter-clockwise, just to mix it up.
I know I've logged at least 40+ hours just watching for this mob. I work at home so I have wow on one computer and work on the other.
I'd give up, but I'm stubborn. ; )
EDIT: One other thing I thought of - if some mobs do have TLPD as Kill on Sight, then it's possible that you could be chasing the thing, and a mob from a different phase could whack it, taking it out of your phase and into it's own. My personal theory, after reading everything here and anywhere I could about the TLPD is that it has slightly different paths for different phases, and you'll only see it if it happens to spawn in the phase you're within. I think it was probably a concious decision on Blizz's part in order to play with the side-effects of phasing. Whether this applies to Vyragosa or not, I don't know, but I can see the play on it's name "Time-Lost" as being a (meant or not) clue as to why it's so hard to get a finger on.
All theory, of course.
评论来自
Oomie
Killed Vyragosa at 2:10am. She was flying over Valkyrie, heading south towards Bor's Breath, which leads me to believe she spawned by the cave north of Valkyrie. 2 Vyra Kills, no TLPD sighting.
评论来自
nonentity
another Vyra kill, found her at ~ 37, 67 in BB, bit north of BF, guess she was coming from the supposed close-to-BF spawn, or the BB/Valkyrion spawn, doing the route around the mountain with Frosthold on it.
Going by the despawn timer of 30min she must have spawned at about 21:55 my time (found her at 22:19, despawned at 22:27, lil bit of time flying the route).
Same here Mavia. I'm on day 5 (I think, or 4, or 6? I honestly don't know for certain atm...Oo), I have spent pretty much exactly 24hours yesterday alone (got up at 3am, did it till servers went down for weekly maintenance at 3am the next day), easily 12hours the day before that, and so on... and it's getting freakin annoying, as there's still not one f*cking kill according to the script. I'm also more lax about it by now.
We got about 3 more or less confirmed spawn points, 1 unknown one, I figure I can just as well camp one spawn than check the whole route.
my thinking:
4 spawns (supposedly) = 25% chance for him to spawn at any of them, so I already got a 25% chance of catching him. I got about 0% of catching him if he spawns near BF (or wherever that spawn is) and does the round-Frosthold route, but I might be able to see him from my position if he takes the round-Temple-of-Storms route, or the route where he flies up/down towards/from the Terrace.
To get a chance of catching him this high or higher by checking his routes, you'd pretty much have to check all his routes completely non-stop. But you got an equally good shot at all routes this way.
Guess you gotta decide for yourself what to do.
I only wish I knew for sure I would see him if he was flying the Terrace route or the Temple of Storms route... damn drawing distance is too damn short. He could actually be flying on the other side of the Engine and I wouldn't know... f*ck.
I definitely don't see the Rhinos on the other side of the Engine, but he's flying so I might see him, tried that one time with Vyra's corpse, I could see her sooner the closer I was to her in height, if I checked near ground level I'd see her much sooner than when I was flying high.
My computer can easily handle WoW, let me adjust the drawing distance for objects/characters ffs....
评论来自
264779
Not a single mount has been looted on my server, before or after patch. Somethings missing or my GMs are lying to me about it spawning correctly. Its been how long now since expansion? And as far as I know, Vyragosa has spawned once.
评论来自
xundk
Days of camping.... My hand are starting to hurt a bit from the constant tapping of my macro.
Just talked to a GM.
-"It's working as intended"
-"My non-GM advice would be to spend your time on something else"
-"I cannot reveal anything about the mob, other than it's rare"
:( Man! this sucks...
评论来自
reisen
I've been camping this thing for...days. I don't like to think about the exact time to be honest ><. What I have noticed is now my server has an influx of people camping one specific point all around the clock, it used to be just me and one other person :|.
Anyone else noticed that the number 3, anything between halfto-15past the hour tends to crop up? I know that leaves 15minute windows where it isn't seen much (if at all from the list I made during the hour it was garunteed not to spawn on my server because someone just got it). I tend to read alot of people really seeing it within 30-the hour. Some just after.
I dunno, I'm really getting bored with this thing now. It used to be quite fun camping it while researching, speculating and streaming films. But when you're a 'lock surrounded by instant taggers it's shameful :(. Might go for the sensible option and try for the red/blue one and just macro-spam when I'm up there mining/doing dailies.
Also, does anyone know if a GM telling you "to use the public forums to confirm this" is different from a no? Will GMs deny something but not tell you things you ask about? I asked specifically about the "roar" people hear. He told me to use public forums to confirm it. I'm not sure how the mind of GMs works.
评论来自
Sabros
TLPD #2 spawned on my server, and both times I was late by about 10-20 min logging on. As in, both times I logged on, flew around and hit my macro and saw the corpse. Talk about demoralizing.
I guess I should be happy the thing is spawning, but for every other person that gets it, that is going to be more competition, as more people will see its awesomeness.
Goodluck fellow hunters.
评论来自
264901
Just killed Vyra on her flight path going counter-clockwise around Frosthold. So if you are searching for her or maybe even the TLPD that is one confirmed route.
NOTE: Killed her in Bor's Breath. She flew about 60-70 yrds up and could be dragged down by LoS. As a rogue i was unable to use anything to grab her down into mele or even throwing range. The TLPD is also able to be kited down purely by agro distance.
评论来自
264899
Im on day 6 of the drake hunt. 10 - 15 hours a day.
I will usually sit above the lake at Bors or north of Valk for a while, run the circuit and go back to camping a known a spawn. Rinse and repeat, with my macro tied into my gamepad spamming every .75 seconds.
My results? One Vyra corpse. Thats it after all these hours wasted. I havent even seen anyone claim they have gotten Time. I would think there would be a self congratulatory link in local.
I wish I had some usefull information to share with everyone but all Ihave to share so far is frustration.
But Ive decided Im going to keep going at it. I get pretty good tunnel vision when it comes to stuff like this.
评论来自
264899
Hahaha! As I was finishing my last post I alt/tab back and hit my macro. Theres Vyra right next to me! Its no mount but its a lot of moral support after all this time.
He spawned at exactly 28, 51. Wasnt traveling and didnt give him a chance to find out what direction he was going to head.
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评论来自
264899
Thats very interesting. Seeing as how nobody has shown proof of this path until now I wonder how many other possible paths there are.
As far as the time between kills, it could still hold to the 6 hour theory. Would be 4 spawns in exactly 24 hours if they were killed right when they spawned.
评论来自
260026
TLPD was killed on a tower in valkyrion on server detheroc (US) on November 30, 4am
-naxxramas, detheroc
评论来自
nonentity
Uhm, actually we've been talking about Vyra and TLPD sharing route/spawn and that there seems to be a Terrace route, so that essentially is nothing new... ;)
BUT - we had no screenshot of ANY kill in Terrace, Vyra or TLPD, nor even part of the route, so this is awesome. :)
You should have followed her for longer though... ;) Could have actually gotten us the Ulduar route... :( Damn.. :(
But, still, thanks alot, any bit of information is great to have.
I totally understand that nobody follows TLPD on his route but kills him as soon as possible, can't risk losing the kill, but as we are about 90% certain, at this point I think, that Vyra and TLPD share routes and spawns, I wish people would take the time to follow her and map out the routes, with coords and screenshots.
评论来自
264976
I got mine tonight after 3 weeks of camping and server first !
Easy fight even as a Resto shami. Dont forgett to bring some
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/item=43472
That was the flight i saw him flying:
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:369700375718386710397702406691410671
Killed him at 36.9 : 70.
评论来自
corners
Just got this at 42,57 at 935 server time on Auchindoun. Was anywhere from 40-80 yards in the air.I had to body pull him to the ground. Hes a lvl 80 elite, and was very easy.
评论来自
192905
the macro to target this guy is /tar time right?
评论来自
264779
TLPD teleports correct? I am a pally and the only ranged i have is avengers shield. I can tag with that but i am worried TLPD will not come down and fight.
评论来自
262567
Almost 100% confirmation that TLPD and Vyragosa share spawns.
http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/8214/gmconvo1qm6.jpg
Along with a few other tid bits.
评论来自
263690
Just to clarify about the Master Explorer questline phase thing. Nowhere did I say that you could not see this dragon if you did not have this questline completed. I am simply stating that there ARE phase issues.
I am not lying, no matter what GM's say. We've seen a number of places where GM's comments contradict one another. I'm just trying to help figure things out and see if anyone can relate to my experiences.
For the record, I was standing in the SAME place as my friend by the Engine of the Makers, he could see the corpse, I could not see HIM or the TLPD's corpse. I saw blue proto's and rhino's, he saw a bunch of iron gollem giant things.
We researched a little, I did the questline "The Master Explorer" and then I could see the iron giants. All I am saying here is that phasing plays a part in this mounts spawn and such.
评论来自
Aldila
Been looking for TLPD for almost a week, have not left storm peaks at all, I have only seen/killed Dirkee. Two things i have seen so far, 1. That Drake is harder to find than a 3 dollar bill. I have camped and patrolled the whole Western side of the map. While patroling/camping, i noticed the 2nd thing, I cant belive how many players are looking for this drake and have a regular flying mount! Your 80 and your looking for a rare that you cant even use? Come on guys, if you cant even mount it because you cant save 5k gold, you shouldnt be lowering the chances of players who have actually earned the right to fly that mount. You may get a few "Grats" on getting the mount, but the laughter that you can't even use it would make you not even want to post that you got it. Happy Hunting!
评论来自
264335
I don't think anyone who is going to spend the time to actually get this thing really thinks they're going to "waltz in and grab it," epic flier or not. The fairweather farmers will weed themselves out over time, once they see it's going to take them more than a two hour camp to get it.
Also, laughing is the
last thing
you'll be doing if you lose the mob to one of us 60% flyers. The idea that you would laugh at anyone who got this is instead of you is absurd. You link the reins in general, and no one's going to look at your level or riding skill...they're going to wish they were lucky, too, because there's no skill to getting this thing at this point. It's all dumb luck and wishful thinking.
Personally, I've never bought epic flying because I wasn't in a hurry to get anywhere, and had better things to blow my gold on. Once I get the mount, I'll have a reason. Consider it my incentive to "earn the right to fly that mount."
评论来自
262567
Another Vyragosa kill - 12:30am server time, east coast US server.
Spawned in the drake field east of the engine - 45,59
I think it's safe to say that they 100% share spawns.
评论来自
260026
Just a screeny of me and a GM chatting just confirming that what other GMs said are in fact true.
Didn't censor anything because i really didn't see the need to.
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/9872/picture24tu8.png
P.S.
I think the TLPD does one full pat of its 1/4 spawn points then either de-spawns for x amount of time and re-spawns or de-spawns and goes through another of its spawn points until all 4 have been completed and then it de-spawns for x amount of time.
评论来自
Techno
He is not Skinnable as I have tried to cover up the evidence before
评论来自
nonentity
Yeah, gotta agree there. Imo it's ridiculous that people who can't even use the damn t hing would steal it from people who can and spent a ludicrous amount on time camping it.
Honestly, of course I don't want to lose it to anyone, but if I were to lose it to someone, I'd rather it be someone at lvl 80, that also spent a lot of time on it, gathered and shared information, got epic flying and so on, OR someone who just got if by dumb luck, flying around.
What would really #$%^ me off, if some, as you call them, fairweather farmer, who doesn't even know the correct name of the mob, doesn't know sh*t about it ("Vyragosa doesn't drop the mount?"), figured he'd fly by, camp it for an hour and get it, easy as that, is neither lvl 80 nor got epic flying....got the kill/mount.
And there will be more of those every day (saw one myself yesterday who wanted to know what Vyragosa dropped, as I was camping the corpse - uhm, who gives a flying f*ck about Vyra's drop? unless they don*t know jack and think Vyra drops the mount...)....
I can live with losing it to some fellow farmer who knows the real value, or to someone getting it totally by dumb luck, but losing it to someone like that.... f*ck...
Personally, I don't get why you don't get epic flying if you got the money. No one stops you from using the 60% flying mount after you got epic flying and the 280% mount. I found normal flying to be horribly slow, by now even epic flying seems slow...
评论来自
shad0wNeo
Got some proof for some statements regarding TLPD
http://server2.uploadit.org/files/Th30n3-blinkproof.JPG
评论来自
Phineasbogg
Reading this thread is like watching people try to figure out
Lost
.
评论来自
nonentity
Had something similar, dreamed I was on hunting this thing when suddenly the script worked, the ugly hateful red Retrieving item information became purple and I was happy, beause even though I had not found it, someone had, proving he CAN spawn.... then I woke up and it's back to staring at red Retrieving item information.... -.-
Btw, actually anyone mentioned the script specifically in a conversation with a GM? I'd really like to send another ticket, asking them if the damn thing's really not bugged, as their was not a single loot in 6 days. But they'll want to know how I know that for a fact and then I'll have to mention the script. Is it ok with Blizz, legal, whatever?
评论来自
Pixelz
EDIT: error
评论来自
Grenthelad
Scripts are what run the game, and it is meant to be typed in. its no secret that people use them, so i am pretty sure its legal. but i could be wrong.
评论来自
Rukkii
Somehow my qhelper showed the target/area to find TLPD in a complete different area as a couple of hours ago...
First it was at Snowdrift plains and now its the south part of Valkyrion...
I hate this search for this TLPD specially since i know i found him while i was questing here but didnt want to atack him since i thought i wouldn't be able to kill him -_- I saw him while i was doing Q's in the Valkyrion area (the egg destroy quest in the pool next to the village)
Anyhow guys! gl in searching for him, i know im probably the only one lf him except for 2 ally's on this server (i know this since i camped these spots for the whole day now (': )
评论来自
262575
Look on the bright side folks, the sense of satisfaction and relief after the countless hours of camping will be imeasurable.
评论来自
253801
after days and days i finaly saw one of the rare spawns..
26, 65 Vyrgosa Dead 19.23 5/12
评论来自
nonentity
great... another dead Vyragosa, north of Valkyrion, no way to tell where exactly she spawned.
Switching camp to the lake at the end of BB, since I've started camping at Engine I have missed at least 3 Vyragosas (that I know of).... thinking that everyone of them could have been a TLPD I missed instead.... *shudder*....
Also - no stupid blue drakes here that make camping the best spot in the area or anywhere else other than above the Engine a royal pita....
Damn, I'm nearly considering buying Wotlk for my second account so I can put my lvl 34 twink at one of the spots (and be it as a ghost) to increase my chances slighty......Oo C'mon TLPD before I actually do that...
评论来自
Pixelz
To save me flicking through 498 posts. Can anyone please verify that TLPD flies Counter-Clockwise OR Clockwise around the Temple of Storms (If he's taking that route)? Or is it randomly decided when he spawns? Thanks.
<Pix>
评论来自
nonentity
Had reports on both, I believe he "decides" when he spawns.
评论来自
Herecius
I asked a GM, and they gave a pretty generic 'problems might be due to addons' answer.
Not clear if this meant your addon, or even the looting player's addon.
评论来自
262236
oh lord i HATE searching for this thing,im starting to go crazy -_-
评论来自
223711
If I had thousands of guys waiting to kill me the second I showed up... I'd stay out too
评论来自
nonentity
You followed 4? Got any new input on the routes from when you followed them?
I'd love to follow Vyragosa, if only she spawned when I was in the area... -.-
I'm also thinking about leveling my DK, or rather Pala atm, got the itch for some pala-leveling, but there's always that nagging thought that as soon as you stop camping him, the bastard shows up and gets himself killed by a tard.... -.-
f*ck Arthas, this thing is the king of Northrend...
One drake to rule them all, one drake to find them, one drake to bring them all, and in the Storm Peaks bind them.
or something like that... -.-
评论来自
HamBurger
the quest helper find feature should be used. the coordinates it gives in snowdrift plains for TLPD is right where i seen vyragosa spawn. 27.49. didnt follow to see where she was headed but she spawned and started on a southern path toward valkyrion and bor's breath. she wasnt flying too high. i was able to tag her with moonfire and then just starfired about 3 times. hope this helps
评论来自
nonentity
Don't use questhelper anymore, I'm with Carbonite now.
Also, don't really need that information, as far as I can tell questhelper only shows coords we know already anyway, know all the areas by heart by now anyway, don't need questhelper to remind me.
评论来自
265644
Vyragosa killed just outside of Valkyrion - not by me, I screwed it up - but she went down at 3:05 just outside the main gate. Dalaran US.
评论来自
214674
Just found a corpse of the TLPD on Galakrond, at 40, 60, just on the lip of the Engine of the Makers. Server Time 12:49. I had literally just flown past that area a minute or two before, so i just missed it. *cries*
http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/5909/wowscrnshot120508154415lo7.jpg
It was on the same day where minutes before, i had found 3 everfrost chips in close and quick succession. I don't know if that has anything to do with it, but i thought i'd mention it, if it helps in solving this mysterious spawn.
评论来自
Gagtech
Found TLPD corpse... Daggerspine, 1:25PM PST is when I stumbled across it.
See Screenshot for location and time....
http://img380.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ltpdqb6.jpg
It spawned about 5 feet from me and I didn't even notice because I was tabbed.... Sigh....
评论来自
264335
Totally random theory:
Maybe th TLPD doesn't spawn on a timer...maybe it spawns across servers. So, for instance, I finally get lucky and down him on my server. The corpse sticks around 30 minutes, and then he spawnsrandomly on another server in the same place I killed him. He tracks a ways, someone kills him, and he respawns in that spot on another server.
Kind of out there, but it would explain the erratic nature.
评论来自
Grenthelad
It could be true, but its a very wild idea.
I think it works more like this...
Once Vyragosa is killed, there is a x chance that TLPD
could
spawn at point y
The spawn timer itself is bout 6hrs plus, so you have z chance for it to spawn 6hrs after Vyragosa was killed on your server, and if it doesnt the chance for it to spawn increases every hour until x is spawned again.
In other words, if you kill Vyragosa on your server, it all comes down to x. if x becomes TLPD, the rest follow with when and where.
I could be wrong but this appears to be the case as i have now killed Vyragosa twice
exactly
24 hours apart.
Once again, it is a theory but a very logical one at that.
Happy hunting, i hope this helps!
Grenthelad, Farstriders
评论来自
Grenthelad
Confirmed: Makers Terrace route
I was question and my macro hit Vyragosa, and i was pretty happy. 2nd time i tagged her, and EXACTLY 24 hours after the first time. She was high up and me being a melee i couldnt get her somewhere attackable because she is ranged, so i followed her. This was probably the best decision i could make, because i found the makers terrace route. I found her at Bor's Fall, and went from there. Here is the map.(
Map
) And for you skeptics here are 2 SS showing land marks and map showings of vyragosa. (
SS 1
) (
SS 2)
As you can see, the 2nd SS is just of the map in front of the same image.
I think it is safe to say Vyra and TLPD share a pat route.
I hope this helps, and maybe in the next 24hr i will get lucky. I follwed Vyra for 5 mins until i could get her, and her kill location is 50.61, 36.5
The location i pulled her from was roughly 46, 39
Good luck hunting!
EDIT: I re posted it here because i thought it would be more helpful...
Grenthelad, Farstriders
评论来自
266266
Found Vyragosa on 44 57, followed it until it was close to the ground then killed it
评论来自
Draintwo
Some of you people have the most wildest of ideas. You're making it sound like theres some big pre-req before you can get this drake.
It's pretty simple. Vyragosa has a 90% chance to spawn while T-LP-D has a 10% chance to spawn in any of the pathing areas they share. There is no phasing issues which cause problems with you being able to see it, you don't need any rep etc. It's just random.
I'm one of the first few who got the drake and after posting what I knew on here(Page 1) I've gotten the most random messages in game asking me for my 'secret'. Can you believe some guy asked me if you needed to be exalted with the Brood of Nozdormu to actually see this drake? I was shocked at that rumor and some of the others that have been started. I mean I'm a Death Knight and I got the second Drake on my server so its obvious I don't have rep with anything special. Oh and guess who got the first Time Lost? Another Death Knight whos my guildie.
评论来自
Ryoushii
Found Vyragosa and killed her at around 6:35PM server time (CST). When she came into view on my screen, she was just past Bor's Fall heading north. I killed her at 36, 67.
Pic of corpse:
http://home.comcast.net/~trinityligerba/VyraCorpse.jpg
Height she was flying at the time:
http://home.comcast.net/~trinityligerba/VyraHeight.jpg
评论来自
239168
Killed Vyragosa today after a horde tried and got ganked by another alliance.
Tagged the mob helped kill the horde and ofc dragon was nearly dead and mine.
Like the post above she to flew from Bor's Fall to Bor's Breath
at the same hight to. hoping its the right drake next time.
评论来自
266449
i have a teory about the spawn of this mob, try to test it...
Vyragosa-Dirkee-Time-Lost Proto Drake these are the 3 rare mob of SP.... (we suppose that they are tied up among them)
i have killed "Vyragosa" at 00:20 after two hours at 02:24 i have killed "Dirkee" at 04:30 i have killed already Vyragosa..
Granted that Time-Lost Proto drake have a X% of probability that spawn after the cycle, we have:
Vyragosa (after 2h)-> Dirkee (after 2h) ->X% Time-Lost or 100%-X% that spawn already Vyragosa & the cycle restart
In this way, we can make sense of the long period of spawning that can have been varying for the 6 hours to 3 days of which it speaks to many forums.....
I hope to have made the idea of my reasoning and you excuse for my very bad English ^_-
评论来自
Folcon
Time-Lost Proto Drake corpse found at 28,66.
评论来自
141925
Just found it dead, Bor's Breath, near Valkyrion.
In my search I've seen:
Vyragosa 4 times (killed twice)
Dirkee 2 times (killed once)
TLPD once (corpse)
I give up. I think I would have better luck from the mysterious egg at this point.
Good luck all.
评论来自
230660
can I solo him as a 77 rogue? how do I aggro him out of the sky? fly through him? I'll probably level to 80 while waiting for him.
评论来自
260026
For people who look for dirkee and vyragosa while waiting on TLPD dirkee's spawn time is 36 hours, i killed him Dec 4, ~7:45 am and again on Dec 5, ~7:45 again, he body despawns within a couple minutes so if u see dirkee dead made sure to check back int he same zone 36 horus later.
-naxxramas, detheroc
P.S.
- maybe some helpful info for you guys, Vyragosa has been seen everywhere Time-Lost has been seen and Time-Lost has been seen everywhere Vyragosa has been seen. None of the dragons have been spotted in a position that the other dragon hasn't been. This maybe helpful in getting a better understanding of how time-lost works and the co-relation between the two dragons.
评论来自
262600
Meh, i'm not in much of a hurry to get this mob. Mostly been looking for it while waiting for heroic groups. Been running heroic Utgarde Pinnacle with the Wyrmrest tabard for those 2 mounts (red drake, blue proto) and waiting on my oracles rep to get reverred so i can farm the green proto-drake from the egg. Now all i need is for my guild to hurry up and get the achievements for black, plauged and red. May get the violet one day but it looks like #$%^...
Green has the best graphic anyway and is much easier to farm :-)
评论来自
264012
Yet another Vyragosa kill. Thats 9 Vyragosa kills in 3 days, with no Time-Lost ever spawning. 6-14 hours between each kill.
评论来自
257621
To those wondering how high they fly:
http://img211.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vyraqe6.jpg
She popped up in my face coming from BF, I planned on following her to see if I would discover any new routes but she didn't get much further before somebody killed her. :(
Not sure where she spawned, though.
评论来自
Rubedo
Just killed Vyra about 2:30 in the morning on Farstriders. She spawned at the Engine of the Makers, then began to move south towards Bor's Fall. Then she continued to head south towards K3, but turned east just before getting there. I ended up killing her at 43,82 @ Garm's Bane. I can post screenshots if it's deemed necessary.
评论来自
216723
GGGGGGRRRRRRRRR i just typed this out then my comp forze when i was putting the SS in!
So after a week and a half of camping during all my free time I FINALLY GOT IT!.... Behiro here from the Realm Ysera. pretty much confirming the vyra TLPD theory... vyra killed aprox. 6 and a half hours prior to my downing at 2:38 A.M. Hokay so, heres my story... i spotted him here (aproxx height):
http://img213.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=52102_WoWScrnShot_120608_030641_122_42lo.jpg
then i caught up ti him at the waterfall ahead..... dismounted and popped NS OH NOES OOR! so i mount back up and catch up to him fearing someone else is gonna tag him.... then i get up close to him get his aggro and FROST SHOCK I GOT HIM! WOOOO heres the death spot here:
http://img183.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=51977_WoWScrnShot_120608_024144_122_26lo.jpg
hope the info was useful
-- Behiro
Edit: pictures didnt work
评论来自
WNxPi3
I finally got HIM!
I was camping at 30, 65 BB, half awake with my macro going, 6AM Server on the dot the macro strikes him, Laptop Speakers blaring Whispers and Chat sounds, (It's an Addon, that no one should be without)
I spring to action, too bad the macro found him but I couldnt see him anywhere. Franticly flying around searching for him but to no avail, I loose track of him.... I began to fly his PAT and for 9 minutes or so, still no sight of him .
Back at BB and insanely mad that I just lost Him, I decided to head towards Valkyrion for one last check, just as I was crossing into Valkyrion the macro hits gold again! Shaking with excitement I keep moving forward till our eyes met! Nearly having a heart attack and shaking like mad, I spam Ice Lance as fast as I can until the spell finally got within range and my Ice Lance struck Time-Lost Proto Drake, Hes all MINE!
Being dismounted after casting Ice Lance I'm falling for what felt like forever, no problem being a mage and all I go to click Slow Fall, to my horror I can't click it! My hands were shaking too much for me to even concentrate on a single button... I landed with a thud and to my amazement I had 500 HP left, theres still a chance!
I finally came to my senses and the battle had begun. First things first, 500 HP, CRAP! I popped my Water Elemental and cast Ice Block and let them duke it out for a bit. After letting my Water Elemental get a good amount of aggro I pop out of Ice Block and pop a Runic Healing Potion, too bad that still wasn't enough and I didn't have full HP and I'm not risking low HP on a PVP Server period.
With the Water Elemental and Time-Lost Proto Drake still duking it out I then popped Evocation and wait for my HP to be full. (Thank you Evocation Glyph!) Once full I downed him with ease. I can finally finish leveling to 80!
Four Vyragosa kills one week and about 40+ Hours invested has finally payed off! (Still no Dirkee sighting yet, Like I care =P) Pretty sure this is the server first on Anub'arak.
http://i322.photobucket.com/albums/nn433/xxruxx/WoTLK/WoWScrnShot_120608_063807.jpg
For anyone thats interested the macro setup I used was
/tar Dirkee
/tar Vyra
/tar Time
/stopmacro
/tell YOURNAME> %t <
Hot key it to your Mouse wheel or combine that with a laptop touch pad thats set to coast and you have a never ending targeting spam.
Don't give up guys and keep checking Wowhead if your feeling down about not seeing him, this board really does pick your hopes up when you're feeling down.
评论来自
magrathea
Just had a reported spawn of him on Frostmane-EU, source claiming him to be at footsteps heading east to brunnhildar. The source already had his mount so he told me this after letting it out of sight, not really beeing interrested in it, and i was unable to find either dragon nor corpse, even tho starting the search in the area and what i think are the paths connected to that one (brunnhildar->BF->K3 / Engine->BB->valkyrion) asap i couldnt find anything
Not seen anyone mention anything in main about him, nor have the 5 or so alliance i assume camping him in the area left(which i would do following a reported kill, pretty much no need to be in that area the next few hours atleast) so not really sure what to think
Time frame for this would be:
Sighting reported to me at ~13:55
Posting this, still no sighting of him, dead or alive, nor anyone else mentioning him ~14:30
Leaving the possibylities, that either a) killed and skinned(is this even possible? heard both ways) without anyone saying anything, atleast hordeside, cant say about alliance, but the people camping BB during the whole night are still there b) despawn or whatever now happends c) still around in some obscure location. Find it hard to belive he should still be alive after a good half an hour
Gonna continue my search atleast, 1 Week and counting
One day, one day....
While this might not add anything to the discussion, its a lifesign atleast :)
评论来自
266882
I had a seperate PC set up at work directly next to my work computer. Every spare second I had I would be flying around the known spawn areas spamming my macro.
Two weeks ... 8 hours a day. No sightings, no corpse ... nothing .. then BOOM my macro locks on him in Bors Breath !
I couldn't believe it ! First thing that came to mind was "omg he's gonna despawn" and "zomg a random Death Knight is gonna tag him". My fingers were literally shaking ..... I play a Rogue so I demounted n tried to tag him but missed ... nearly died from fall damage LOL
At this point I was crapping in my own pants, but mounted up n caught up to him near Valk ... pwnd the crap out of him and seeing those Reigns in my backpack was just total and utter "Pwn".
Woot !
评论来自
xundk
Do we have ANY confirmation on wheter this mob despawns after a certaint amount of time ?
评论来自
Harson
Oh for heaven's sake. After TWO WEEKS of camping this bastard, some random tard decides to kill it 5 minutes after I exit storm peaks to do a heroic... *sniff* I need a hug :(
3 Vyra, 1 Dirkee Kills.
0 TLPD. ffs. Starting to get on my nerves now.
评论来自
Zazigoda
I saw the Time Lost Drake just now. He was flying towards the Engine of the Makers over Brunhildar Village. I (stupidly) decided to buff then attack. I aggroed one of the stormpeak worms and managed to lose him... I flew all over looking for our bronze friend and decided to check IN the Engine of the Makers. Sure enough, he was making his way to the bottom. Then... despawned.
I'm thinking a viable strategy would be to camp the engine, as that may be where all the drakes go to. Pure speculation on that part. Sadly, I was panicked so I didn't get screenshots...
Just to add some data to this: I have done no Storm Peaks quests and most of my Wrath reps are friendly/honored, so he really is just a rare spawn.
Edit: Right after I finished submitting this post I decided on one last sweep. Found his corpse around all of the Stormpeak Wyrms. Perhaps he doesnt despawn, just teleports? That or I somehow missed him flying back out of the engine. I don't know what to think now. Corpse was at 46, 61.
评论来自
xundk
This is both new and interresting...
评论来自
265644
Dammit.
Found the corpse just now above Valkyrion in the (northern) passage towards the plains. Night Elk DK flying off with the mount. Dalaran US.
评论来自
265644
As a side question - has anyone gotten any confirmation about whether the randomized spawning of this is limited to 3 per week per server or not? There were several rumors about this a few pages back, but no solid evidence either way.
评论来自
Kiony
Personnally I camp between Valkyrion and Bor's breath and that's where I saw 4 Vyra in 5 days. I sometimes patrol to the engine and to north Valkyrion path but I sometimes wonder if I should better camp at the engine or in that north Valkyrion path.
6 days of camping right now and still no TLPD, I'm becoming crazy, I see him everywhere, I hear roars everytime, when some friend whispers me I think it's my macro...but it's all my imagination
I hope i'll say someday: "my macro targeted him when I was almost asleep, my hand was shaking, i had only 100hp but I got it ! omg omg omg..." (or something like that)
lol
评论来自
254059
The first TLPD was received 3 weeks to the day after the wotlk release day on our server. I know at least 4 people that have been camping its route almost constantly, so it must have one massively variant spawn timer. Gratz to the ally shaman who got it.
Dreadmaul, Oceanic
评论来自
79637
Same here; the person with the mount was just in front of me but the link couldn't retrieve information.
评论来自
Saddik
ok this might have been mentioned already but no way i'm goin through 500 posts...
my take on the "Time Lost" part of the dragon and the GM mentioning that he blinks to a different spot and or is only available for a certain amount of time is that the TLPD blinks to different phases after a certain amount of time has passed.
for example, he spawns and is in the phase for people that have not done any of the quests then after he hasn't been killed for an X amt of time, he blinks to a phase where people have done all the quests in storm peaks and so on and so forth. whether he blinks to a different area in a different phase or to the same are in a different phase is beyond me lol...
this way he is available to everyone but kinda not lol...you could be right next to it but in the wrong phase LOL
just a wild guess... some feed back or changes/corrections that can be made to my ideas?
my idea of phasing might be wrong too lol but i thought this was how phasing worked lol if different types mobs (like the revenants and dead iron giants in the frostfield lake or whatever) can be in the "same place" but not be seen by some players and be seen by some players depending on what part of a quest chain ur on then y not the TLPD eh?
these are the spots i've seen vyragosa in in the last week and a half...my kill is the one near brunhildar village coming up from brunhildar
the other 2
once coming down from frosthold mountain
once going north in bor's breath
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:470623321667304669
it is almost confirmed vyra and TLPD share a path
the 2 in bor's breath fit into a path but the one near brunhildar is a completely out of the way...some how make a path?
评论来自
267530
I've spent some 12 hours looking for TLPD finally found him at 6:02 sever time at the 46.60. Sadly I wasn't the only one, and ended up losing him to a rouge.
7:23 sever time, same day (12/6/08) I found Vyra flying at 23.3/60.4 headed strait for the Valkyrion town. Flying north west having just come over the mountain south of Bro's Breath and north east of Frosthold.
This leads me to believe that the spawn time in either one and half hours or totally random. That or they don't actually share spawn times, which is against popular belief that they do.
Sadly once again i lose out, didn't manage to grab Vyra thanks to a lock standing on the roof of a Valkyrion building on the southern entrance.
评论来自
267555
Got it on the Archimonde server (server first) tonight about 4 hours ago.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=13275280115&sid=1
I wasn't even looking for it, I was coming out of The Inventor's Library and it flew right past me going East. I followed it around the mountain going South towards the Engine. It flew directly over the Engine and I was able to aggro it after trying quite a bit, and we went to the ground.
It was indeed an Elite, and put up a fight. I was only 79 at the time. Wasn't able to mount it for about 2 hours until I hit level 80.
It also dropped 25G, 20x Frostweave Cloth, and a blue BoE neckpiece.
Good luck hunters!
评论来自
267557
I got it around an hour ago. he was flying really high, from Frosthold towards Bor's Breath going around the mountain. I saw him from a distance and I tried to tag him from edge of the mountain, but he was too far, so I followed him frantically not knowing if a horde or alliance had also seen him, i couldnt find a spot to land and I couldnt risk it going any further into quest territory so I jumped off, hit him, landed with 1/4 health, used all my cooldowns everything.
The funny thing is, an alliance character got his this morning. I usually had a quick fly around the paths around 3 times a day and often found him camping the area. I should also mention, i only ever saw vyragosa once and she was dead near valkyrion.
Good Luck.
评论来自
xundk
Another vyra kill:
Time: 12:50
Place: 49, 58
Body Despawn : 13:00
评论来自
foofur1
Bagged him Friday 12-5, 2:10pm @ 27/62 (he was flying south) on chromaggus. I had just gone thru the area less then a min before and nothing, possible spawn area? Figured since some of the info here helped my search, I`d give back. When I killed him it was 16.5 hrs. after my last confirmed vyragosa sighting. Just at the front of the valk village. Tagged him in the air with a moonfire and then used the slow fall brew avaliable from the relics. He wasn`t up that high when I targeted him over the village. I`d been watching and tracking for just under 2 weeks. No more then a couple hrs a day. Tried to guess routing times based on intervals after reset. (Wary of peeps saying they downed him just to get you out of the area.) In that time I`d seen vyra dead twice (both times at the turn before the valk village. No sightings on the tlpd til the day I got him. Pic showing place and coords/time of the down. GL
http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq30/foofur1/WoWScrnShot_120508_151456.jpg
评论来自
265644
I am working on a ridiculous and implausable theory for my own amusement as I go slowly mad waiting for this to spawn and be successfully tagged by me. Has there been any sighting, confirmed or at least not easily debunked, of TLPD or Vyra in the southern Thunderfall region?
评论来自
268086
41 hours and counting since last known kill/sighting of EITHER rare spawn.
评论来自
268135
Had just flown over Brunnhildar Village on my way to Dun Niffelem for the dailies and the Time-Lost rare flew right in front of me. I was so stunned I almost let him get away, but managed to aggro, pull him down into the ice field and finish him off just as a Death Knight that had been hunting him came up. I felt sorry for the poor guy (said he had been camping potential flight paths for days) but I am quite happy with my seriously cool new mount.
评论来自
263956
ugh! it's such a pain on my server to find out if either dragon has spawned or not -.- for the people who have camped the area for days they tell you it hasn't spawned since restarts, and then you have other people saying a alli got it a hour ago. I mean is it really that bad that you have to lie when someone asks a simple question of if it spawned yet?
Then you have the people making fun of all the people hunting the dragon.. what ticks me is one of them ran into the drake... irony of it all..
oh and don't forget the random person who was asking about it before yelling out "OMG I FOUND IT" then said a location and probably laughed till he was blue in the face at all the people flocking to that spot xP (i didnt go cause if it was there, not way in heck i was gonna tag it 1st xD )
~mini rant sorry xP
its more of bothering me i haven't seen any corpse yet at all without completing the quests and with completing all quests O.o; I know its rare but i'd expect to see a corpse with all my random flying abouts.
评论来自
Sibrina
I wonder if Blizzard intended the name of the drake to be a bit of a joke because they knew people would lose lots of time camping him.
评论来自
268086
Script suddenly started working while I was patting around in search. No sign of a corpse or anything. No one mentioned getting it in general chat. =( Only guess is that an ally skinner got him. Strange thing is my friend logged on only about an hour later and killed Varygosa.
评论来自
bunyip
Script suddenly started working for me now, it didn't work 2 hours ago (on mannoroth). Never heard anything about anyone finding it, though of course they could have just not told the world about it.
Does the script suddenly working mean there is a 100% guarantee that someone got the TLPD in the past 2 hours? Or is this unclear too?
评论来自
Quait
News on the Itemmacro you can use to "find" the Timelost:
/script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Shift-click this to place a link into a chat message: \124cffa335ee\124Hitem:44168:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0\124h\124h\124r");
I talked with a GM about it, he said:
when you use this macro and click the item, it shows "retrieving item information" the mob is not killed and lootet
you cant use the macro to detect the mob, it has to be looted, KILLED to work.
Macro works = mob is killed, you are to late
macro doesnt work = mob is not killed yet this week, but doesnt say it is spawned right now or not.
评论来自
268335
I found today Vyragosa at 21:13 Server time (GMT +1) EU Arathor.
She was already dead when I came to the spot.
some pics with explanation :
http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/8308/wowscrnshot120708211353kz1.jpg
http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/7278/wowscrnshot120708211405dc6.jpg
pic with EXACT cords:
http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/3553/wowscrnshot120708211518es1.jpg
but I'm very surprised... she despawned in 3MINUTES!
I hope this will be helpful, ill check around for time-lost proto drake between 23:00 - 00:00
Maybe proto drake really spawns some hours after dead of vyragosa :)
Anyway GL guys at hunting :D
评论来自
Tokugawa
Does any server have more than 3 of these? I know it sounds silly, but Sargeras was getting a rare spawn every 8 hours or so...now, since maintenance, Vyra has been seen twice in the past week!
评论来自
268492
Was sitting at the crossroads today between Bor's Breath and The Foot Steppes when this HUGE dragon flies under me coming form behind. It was Vyragosa. I followed her West towards Valkerie. As soon as we got to the point of the pass I pulled her down and burned her down at 2:47pm Server.
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b333/motolink23/WoWScrnShot_120708_174518.jpg
I will be sitting here nonstop until TLPD shows up. Hopefully the rumor of 6 hour respawn is true and I can confirm it. Anyhow, I will update this as soon as I happen to see his corpse or I get my new drake! Best of luck and happy hunting!
评论来自
268492
I know there isn't a confirmed respawn timer. Nor is there a confirmed note that Vyragosa and TLPD share a spawn point. I was merely saying that the rumor is 6 hours and in some other cases people think it could be as long as once a week. I understand this however, I will be sitting here nonstop until I see him again. If it is exactly 6 hours I will pass the info along and hopefully help someone else out. Unless they are on my server also :P
评论来自
Flaks
Holy hell 600 posts. I'm guessing that's the highest number for any item in wowhead database.
评论来自
264542
Hi everyone!
Just got the kill on Akama at 6:00PM. It was flying West through Bor's right above the treeline where the Harpy's are and I ended up killing him at 32,65.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/Nildayan/WoWScrnShot_120708_180348.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/Nildayan/WoWScrnShot_120708_182354.jpg
Good luck to everyone searching for the Drake!
评论来自
268392
Before I get started, I have one question for the community. Can anyone who has seen him path through the dip beside the Crash Site post a screen showing estimated altitude and point of entry? I know it's not optimal but I was considering AFK'ing there when I couldn't fly around and hopefully hear him aggro on me as he passes through.
FWIW I confirmed a corpse on Lightninghoof US 2:00 PM server time. Despawned at 2:08 PM. Have neither seen Dirkee nor Vyra but also not looking for them. IMO TLPD is the coolest mount in game. <3 the Argent Skytalon and if it were possible I'd buy/ride one exclusively even if it was 60% and my hunt would be over.
http://img83.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tlpddeadgx4.jpg
From what I read in the 600 comments here I think these are his routes more or less and at engine he can go wherever he wants even if the paths loosely connect there, although it sounds like some paths he prefers more than others:
Map
I believe his spawns are where his paths connect: the cave at Snowdrift, the lake in Bor's Breath, frozen waterfall east of Frosthold, and the engine (over/in?). I know there's times he appears to spawn in thin air but we all know the game has drawing issues. My PC is far from mediocre and half the time I don't see a mob until I've flow past it or unless I stop for a few seconds. Also I don't think you can target something until your client picks it up (visible or via combat log).
If you are going to camp for TLPD I would camp the waterfall or the engine. Either spot will have you at 3 of his 4 path intersections, either missing the unknown Ulduar or Frosthold path. The paths through the engine are a bit spread out, so the waterfall might be the de facto best spot for outright camping if you don't want to move around.
If you intend to fly around, this is the route I would go. You cover all 4 intersections (spawn points?) and skip the out of the way spots he seems to not be killed at often. However I would not fly this unless you are the only one looking for him (not likely). If you want to change your direction I'd do a southern sweep through Bor's over the waterfall in doing so.
Map
IMHO he seems to be tagged regularly in Valk because that is a high traffic area so he sometimes finds his way there if he does not despawn first. Most likely from the K3 path. My theory is he prefers the K3 and/or Frosthold path to stay out of sight as much as possible. Of course, rare spawn might just be rare.
评论来自
267502
I'm still waiting on the spawn of this mount this week on Black Dragonflight. I saw Vyragosa killed last night at ~9:30 PM EST. Has been almost 24 hours and so far no report of spawn and I've been here for quite a few hours. I have been camping several spots and so far haven't seen anyone else in these spots so my guess is I'm the only one looking for him right now. When I saw Vyragosa killed he was killed on the top of one of the houses in Valkyrion. I went afk for a sec and then came back and hit my macro and thats when it hit right on him. I almost had the tag on him but another DK beat me to it.
评论来自
268677
Been stalking the spawns for over 13hours now, and nothing..last report on my server was that it got killed friday /night to saturday.
Seen none of the rares but Dirkee who spawned north of the engine
评论来自
Saddik
are there any screen shots confirming the kills/sights of vyra or TLPD at or near ulduar? if so post them plz~~
and near K3 plz lol
评论来自
268745
What is your server cause i wanna get the time difference right cause ive been researching times places all day and im coming to a conclusion on time so can u tell which server
评论来自
263919
From what i have read on the forums, wowhead, and thottbot, this mobs most common spawn point is west of the Temple of Storms.
The npc has never spawned on my server, but when i get a corpse or loot it myself, ill be sure to post a screen-shot.
评论来自
268821
I caught the Time-Lost Proto Drake about a week after the expansion came out, and was the first on my server to have one. The Funny thing was that i was able to aggro it on my 60% flying mount about 4 hours after i bought the Cold weather flying ability at lvl 77. While i was questing in Storm Peaks i decided to do a little searching for this rare creature but gave up about 10 min in cause i felt skeptical about catching it, because many people unlike me had the epic flying skill already making it much easier to catch this drake. While i was slowly flying over the gaping hole in the ground also known as "The Engine of the Makers" i spotted the drake flying about 50 yards above the ground.(so for everyone whose looking way above ground u'll never find it.). Once spotting this rare creature, the race for servers first time lost proto drake begun. since i had a slow flying speed it took me about 5 long ass, sweaty, shakey, hyperventalating, min to catch up with this drake. The drake's speed is about 60%.The drake basicly did a semicircle around the Temple of Storms and made a u turn at the terrace of the makers which was the place where i killed it. I dont know exactly where it goes after it makes the u turn (try looking at other peoples experiences). But i hope ,my info on this drake's flight path helps u guys out.
评论来自
263956
grats to all the newer posts of people getting their drakes x.x about now i wish for some dumb luck lol, going on day 6 of flying around stormpeak, mostly semi afk in one spot but still. I can't say im really bored out of my mind yet.. i make trips around to skin corpses that people don't skin ^w^
From what i've seen the drake hasn't spawned since restarts on my server o.O; or if it has its been no where anyone thought of looking before it despawned. As far as I can tell it's not been looted at all this past week/weekend /ley sigh
lol slight edit: right after posting this Vyra patted and was killed at 45,60 cords (blue proto drake field).
评论来自
267502
I think that the only way to know for sure if it has anything to do with phasing of any kind, whether it be pulling the mob into a different phase by completing a quest or anything of that sort, is to have two people in different phases and find either the drake or the corpse and see if both can see it or only one. If only one person can see if, it would definitely symbolize something having to do with phasing.
Also, I have still been flying along possible routes for the last 9 hours and haven't found anything. No Vyra, no TLPD, and no Dirkee. This is really really frustrating as I haven't seen anyone with the mount on my server, whether it be horde or alliance, and I have yet to even hear about a spawn. Server is Black Dragonflight. Oh and the server query comes up as "Retrieving item information" in red.
评论来自
243210
Finding a hard time to find TLPD? Can't help.
But with the help of the Hand-Mounted Pyro Rocket (
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/spell=54998#taught-by-npc
) attached to your gloves it's a piece of cake, burnt cake.Cheesy laughter.
"But mister, is it safe?"
"Billy sure it's safe, it's crafted by the craftiest engineers in Azeroth and made of the finest materials you can get. So now you'll having no problems with tagging you TLPD"
Sped-up voice saying in the end of the commercial: "Goblin Corp and/or, but not limited to, Gnome Mekingeers, does not take any responsibilities for usage,"
Srry 4 änglish, itz gut jesh?
评论来自
Alterraia
The drake has a teleport capability like blink, but can go further. One of the earlier posts say it. One of the larger ones actually.
评论来自
Alterraia
I was up all night waiting on the spawn. I actually dozed off. I decided to go to bed. Came back into the office to land and hearth. I just happened to click my macro and I got a hit on Vyra. She was heading west along Bor's Breath. I Avenger Shield her, but she wouldn't come down so I had to divine shield to make her go melee.
8 hours later, I get a 2nd hit on her, only she's flying north, down the mountan she usually pats around. Much harder to kill her that time because my bubble was on CD and as a prot pally, you have limited ranged capabilities. The time I downed her this time was at 3 PM. Oddly, it was exactly 8 hours between both kills and in the same general area. I believe she doesn't have an exact spawning area, but can spawn w/in a certain range of one area.
I've had people mention that Vyra has been seen patting around the blue proto drakes.
I get on about 10 server and no reports of any mobs spawning at all. Not till after 2 AM server did I hear that someone downed Dirkee. I didn't see the corpse, but the source was reliable.
I'm not sure if Dirkee is effected at all by the timers of the other two mobs, but I really hope he's not.
It also seemed that TLPD won't spawn until at least a day or so goes by. Because she was downed about a day or two after her last sighting.
评论来自
248978
Right so, I don't know if anyone knows but...
Is TLDP classified as a dragonkin or beast? Would help me slightly if I knew whether of the two it's classified as or if it's classed at all? (Me being a hunter, y'see..)
3 days hunting, sitting on a house at the southern gate of Valkyrion watching the gate opening and down Bor's Breath.. God I hate this rare already. -_-
Anyway, a huge thanks to the peeps who've been busting their asses out there for us believers :P
评论来自
265644
If you read the thread - and god knows, you have time if you're camping this guy :/ - then you may see repeated mentions of it indeed being a dragonkin.
评论来自
nonentity
..... *sigh*....
I took a break from TLPD hunting this weekend, because even after a whole week of camping him nobody had found him, according to the script.
Today the script finally linked the item, so somebody found him... -.-
I don't know whether I ought to cry or jubilate... "yay he's not bugged!..... but the one time I don't look for him he spawns... f*ck!"
评论来自
Hinahina
Found last night by a Night Elf on Ner'zhul. I died a little inside, glad for him, sad for me.
评论来自
HamBurger
that doesnt mean it hasnt spawned just that it wasnt spotted and killed. most likely the despawn timer theory is true. so on low pop servers it could be awhile before u start seeing someone flying around on the coolest mount in the game.
评论来自
Thasilencer
I asked a GM just some hours ago if i had to have done a quest to be able to see him and he said: Ok sorry i cant answer more questions sorry.
So i guess you have to?
评论来自
Thasilencer
Why give my comment ''-'' im just telling you what that GM told me?
评论来自
Harson
Because, you do not have proof. SS's and such.
评论来自
Mexifry
Thank you everyone for your insite, macro's and screenshots, it's been very helpful. I myself have been hunting this drake for 6 days now. Killed Vyra myself 3 days ago, and heard Vyra was killed again about 3 hours ago. According to the macro provided no one has looted it yet, so that keeps me going. Today will be very rough though seeing as how tomorrow the servers reset.
The path I use is simply circling Engine of the Makers, going through Bor's Breathe (heading south) and coming back up through Brunnhildar Village. Occasionally I'll fly over to Valkyrion. Only spotted Vyra in Bor's Breathe though, which is why I'm drawn to camping that area. I'll let ya know how things go.
Happy Hunting. :D
评论来自
257280
After ours, days and weeks of farming wind in Stormpikes, tonight, 4 hours AM, just after finished my quest to get revered to the Oracle, i went to Stormpikes ans i saw "him" (or it ..), i was SO nervous (exited)(i have made a mistake the first time i try to agro him, i am priest, dismount, lévitade, try to DOT but to far, i goes down and there i agro 2 mob, i kill them as fast as a disc prist can do it, i take my mount and find it where you can si it on the screenshot), i think the best chance to get it is to go there sometimes, during the night (or morning, why not), be lucky, very lucky.
http://img214.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot120808042226sv9.jpg
评论来自
verduran
Just killed this on TW server at around (42,81). Here's the screenshot:
http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww39/taaveti/SS/WoWScrnShot_120908_024941.jpg
(nvm the chinese, the loc is right above the middle of the hotkey bars)
Been looking for it for more than a week on and off. Longest camp was around 12 hour straight which was when I gave up and started taking it casually. Have seen vyra 4 times and killed her personally twice. I decided to take a patrol around its route after spending some time camping the resist recipes and I was so excited when my macro hit 'golden' that I didn't notice which direction time-lost was heading. It was northeast of K3 when I found it and I had no problem dragging it down for the kill as a retradin.
I followed the map someone drawn above:
http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/4718/picturevu0.jpg
Thanks everyone who have provided all the advices and maps here and wish you all good luck. ^^
评论来自
267502
So this morning I finally saw him killed, unfortunately it wasn't by me. The exact location was right next to the waterfall near the lake in Bor's Breath. I logged on and hit my macro as it struck gold, however just as it struck gold, it showed him die. So unfortunately for me, I missed it by mere minutes. Due to the server maintenance tonight I'm debating whether to camp any of the spots and for how long, because this is the first time the drake has been killed and looted since the last server restart. Here is hoping for one of those very rare 6 hour spawns. Oh I forgot to mention that the time was 11:38 AM EST server time.
评论来自
Oomie
Well, TLPD hasn't spawned all week, as its link is still broken. Last reported Vyra spawn/kill was around 12 hours ago, 2:33 server atm, here's hoping for a TLPD spawn before maintenance....
评论来自
269680
I killed Vyragosa today at 1.22 PM PST .
Btw a GM told me that the TLPD does not despawn . He stays up until he gets killed .
评论来自
Drizzell314
Can anybody confirm how high this NPC is flying
评论来自
Zulisity
It dropped about an hour ago, and I just flew past where all the Blue Proto-drakes are and scanned the area abit to see only a druid farming the Blue drakes for their skins. A min or two later in general chat that same druid was typing in caps," HOLY CRAP I JUST KILLED THIS RARE AND HE DROPPED A MOUNT" I was hoping it wasn't true but sure enough right on the southern end of the Engine of Makers there he was, Dead of course.
So I asked him how he saw it and he said it spawned flying upwards from the cave where all the Blue drakes flew around heading over the Engine of makers. Assuming he takes the same flightpath as Vyragosa , from there he would of turned inbetween the Broodmothers nest and the mountain next to it down into where the frozen lake begin.
I hope that helps in some way, because everyones assumption of where the general flightpath and locations are striking the same.
评论来自
Harson
It's been stated tons of times and shown in almost all the pictures, that it varies between 30 and 60 yards high.
评论来自
262761
After 50 hours of camping TLPD, my macro finally hit gold. Unfortunately, I was about 3 seconds late and watched a rogue kill him.
He was killed at 27,60 @ 4:10AM.
评论来自
Alterraia
Next day. I pulled an all nighter (not much of a sleeper). There were no spawns at all. Well, Dirkee spawned and was downed at 2 AM, but from what I understand, he is independent of Vyra and TLPD.
Nothing else spawned for hours. Vyra however, spawned and was killed promptly at 7 AM, then respawned at 2:30 and downed again. She didn't come back till about 6:30 PM when she was downed a 3rd time.
Since 6:30 PM ST, nothing has respawned, or at least been reported. Usually people are good about it. It's server down day,and realms are late at going down (by over an hour). I'm hoping TLPD will spawn at 7 like he did 3 days ago. Well 7:45 AM, but 7 ish has been the trend. 7 AM seems to be a reoccuring time though. I wojn't know until a bit from now if something will spawn then.
评论来自
270489
hey people, i just made an account to post this (imo) really important Vyragosa kill picture.
I didn't kill it, just found the corpse, but I was making rounds around the usual routes, and it couldn't have been more than ten minutes since I last came near.
Anyways to the meat of the post:
time was 19:53, coordinates are 32.2 38.6
Yes you saw it right, it was damn near uldar.
http://www.imagebam.com/image/5bf96a20442376
Too bad nobody knows which way it was going..
EDIT:
My "usual route" doesn't include Uldar, because I'm picking flowers, and there be few flowers in Uldar. Also, I didn't finish any quest at all in Storm Peaks.
Oh well, even if I never do get to find this enigmatic drake, at least I'll have the gold. QQ
评论来自
262761
Is there a way to make:
/script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Shift-click this to place a link into a chat message: \124cffa335ee\124Hitem:44168:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0\124h\124h\124r");
start showing "retrieving system information" again? Do I need to delete the Cache folder or a certain file within the folder? Sorry, I didnt wanna read through 650 comments to find the answer.
评论来自
270604
Wanted to share my Time-Lost Experience so far:
- Been checking these comments since there was almost no info, pretty confident on 3 spawns - my route runs from just North of SnowDrift Plains, through Bor's Breath, and all the way to the east end of Engine of the Makers and back
- Have probably camped Time-Lost somewhere in the range of 50-60+ hours between spot camping and floating
- Confirmed with GM (including screenshots) that Valy/Dirkee and Time-Lost respawns are completely INDEPENDENT (randomness for the win)
Now for my own personal bad-news story:
I log in this morning at Bor's Breath to check and immediately see him flying away from me heading north into Valkyrion about 50 yards up. Macro does work and he does target before you can actually see him. I'm all alone and fly up to him and am humping his butt above Valkyrion. I am (I think) too high to tag and drop so I slow fall and get a range bug. *pause*
- on this note, new info I would share is that, his hitbox is very close to his head. make sure you get close before you try to tag.
*unpause*
I'm @#$%ed at this point, take off slowfall then reslow 1 inch from ground and remount. As I'm flying up to him some random I've never seen in the area gets the tag on him and I invite... I get lucky and he accepts and this screenshot shows the awesome to follow:
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/30/unbelievabletimelostgb9.jpg
He rolled a 10.
I rolled a 1.
Needless to say, this spawn is going to be a combination of patience and luck. Mine wasn't there today. The scrub in Kara gear *ahem*, I mean really lucky guy passing by... well it was his day. He didn't mount it, hearthed and logged off.
- 2 seconds later logging on and he would have been out of range for me to see
- knowing he has hitbox near his head and i would have had him
- 5 seconds earlier missing that tag (or the random running 5 seconds later) and I would have been able to try to tag twice.
I'll update when and if I ever see him again.
/sadface
/facepalm
评论来自
Alterraia
Does anyone know if a rolling restart effects spawn timers? Passed few days, we've had spawns around 7 to 8 AM and nothing.
The spawn of the TLPD seems to be completely random. I've read it spawned twice in a 3 hour window, and then twice within a week's time. So, very random and i've been farming him for 3 mornings straight. I've not seen him once. Sadly, nothing seems to spawn at the ealry AM times for some odd reason, and no one is on then. : (
评论来自
186371
I guess they were lying. I was on at the time they claim it was killed too and my macro has said nothing but "retrieving item information"
评论来自
37079
So, i've been looking at everyones maps for the pat. I was just wondering if i can get some feedback on this flight path. Been doing it for the last few hours but i havn't seen any of the rare elites.
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:273559279535283520295506314497323493347460335473330487349448362429370417379415410438393423400433414462417487415502397526389537378561376580389596418640433582440547449535474566467590454613444629427631410638396642386662382675380691378718366718366697366679273590275623287648300654314660325660335664344666354666277640268609266578303497415450406514379545378598402592410592422584436561459532466537467551475582462605435636375706
评论来自
xundk
Just spoke to a GM. He said that it is working as intended and that it's a rare mob... pffft
评论来自
MrHelix
Flying Path for TLPD and Vyragosa
HERE
I need no screenshots for this post, but merely the proven evidence of every other screenshot available of TLPD's and Vyragosas' death points. If you've read these posts, and seen the testimonies (as well as screenshots), you'll see the similarity.
评论来自
263690
I have a theory of my own, that has to do with "blink points". I don't think the TLPD blinks necessarily. If you read my post a few pages back, I confirmed some phasing issues where I could not see the drake's corpse and my buddy could.
My theory is that where the TLPD "blinks" is when you are in a different phase then the NPC. So let's say there are 5 phased areas. In his flight, he hits each five of those phases, blinking in and out of them (if that makes sense) and spending equal time in each of them, giving everyone a fair shot at getting him.
I would venture to get a bit more complicated by saying that for example: He's in the engine of the makers during one spawn, and you're in the incorrect phase and can't see him, but the NEXT time he spawns, he spawns in the phase you are in.
All of this would add another element to this mob's rarity. Overall I'm saying he doesn't blink, he just switches in and out of phases. All of the points you've marked are areas that phase. I saw a post earlier of a guy that said he saw Vyra and she blinked in and out through Brunnhildar, I think this is because she was going in and out of phased areas.
Maybe I'm completely wrong, but it sounds plausible to me. Take it for what its worth, I'm just trying to help the cause of figuring out the mystery of the TLPD.
评论来自
187038
check
here
to see all the Proto-Drakes
评论来自
MrHelix
Phasing corresponds with quests. For example, the numerous group quests in Icecrown are meant for each member of your party to have them. One day, while questing in Icecrown, I noticed a group at the Icecrown Citadel. Assuming they were questing, I went down to help. HOWEVER, among my departure, I noticed a tank among the group taking dmg. Not seeing any mob or alliance around him, it seemed strange that he was taking damage without no visible explanation. Having done
The Fate of Bloodbane
myself, it only seemed plausible that they would be doing the same quest. But for some reason I could not see Orbaz Bloodbane. This...is phasing. Where as, in Storm Peaks, if you were on a certain quest, it may have certain characteristics attributed to it, that only you can see. THAT is why some people can see Giants rather than Stormpeak Wyrm's, and THAT is why a few posts back, a player killed TLPD while viewing Giants in the area, and his friend could only see Blue Wyrms.
评论来自
nonentity
Uhm... those "circle pods" are graveyards, this kind of theory has already been brought up once or twice. Don't believe me? Get yourself killed, for example in the blue proto-drake field.
Please don't throw around stuff like "I know exactly" or "this proves"if you don't even know that. Hard enough to get that drake without being led down a wrong track.
The reason those points are "connected"/correspond to the routes is because the routes cover a pretty big area and Storm Peaks has a lot of graveyards as it is pretty big and has many different levels of heights.
Still, you MIGHT be right and there MIGHT be a connection, other than that blatantly obvious one, but unless you have proof don't act like you know those things for a fact.
Your map is pretty but, but you're missing the area above Brunnhildar, there have been several sightings there, it's actually part of the supposed Engine->Brunnhildar->K3->(Mine Field)->Bor's Fall-> Sfwhatever Village->Engine, wouldn't just leave that out.
评论来自
MrHelix
So TLPD and Vyragosa path around Graveyards, just another piece of the puzzle.
评论来自
265644
You're missing two points - one by Frostfield Lake and another by Tunkalo. They are indeed 'spawn points.' They are spawn points for dead players, i.e., very unusual cemeteries. This does not exclude them from being TLPD spawnpoints - indeed, the pathing pieced together over the last few weeks lines up frighteningly well with the cemeteries. You can easily trace 'patterns,' where a spawn at one position will lead you in a path to the next position.
Example: The Vyragosa corpse discovered a few posts up, on the high shelf south of Ulduar. Very possible that the spawn occured at Snowdrift plains and curved north-northeast around that cliff edge, and at that point the ultimate destination would either have been the Halls (we had a confirmed TLPD death there last night on my server) or veering down to the Library spot next to Grom'arsh.
TLPD could also spawn at the library spot, then arc up over the hill into the Engine, as he has been repeatedly seen, and towards the Brunn village spot or through Abandoned Camp to that marker there.
There is also the rumor of the mob being 'kill on sight' according to at least one GM - the Brunn village marker site is frequently glared at angrily by a blue drake on the ground. (It is also near a breeding site, and we have a lot of environmental animals behaving 'normally' in this expansion, such as fights for pack dominance among shoveltusks) A potential spawn there might be in danger.
The only hitch in this theory, keeping it strictly a THEORY right now, is that there have been no confirmed sightings at Frostfield or near the camp.
A note on the cemeteries themselves: This is the first zone where you are especially encouraged and able to make it back to your corpse via a ghostly flying mount. Very few people actually rez at the spirit healers here, leaving the cemeteries themselves usually emptier than they might be. They are also distinctly technological - you see them more 'active' when you're dead, involving a glowing crystal and several oscillating circles. Obvious Titan technology, and similar items were used in the 'waypoint' of the Sholazar/Un'Goro questline, lending credence to these also being 'teleports', example that you are being teleported back to your body seconds before you 'died', perhaps. Only it didn't work very well for the Proto Drake... and now he's lost, respawning perpetually throughout Storm Peaks, dropping phat lewt and rare mounts for those lucky to meet the rare 'flying dutchman' of Lich King.
(Yes, I know I got TL;DR there)
评论来自
nonentity
-.-
you just got your theory and stick to it no matter what, huh....
There are graveyards near/along their routes, not the other way around.
There are graveyards in the east with not a single TLPD or Vyra sighting even close to them.
评论来自
MrHelix
Screenshot of Circle Pods
Here
In response to Phewl's post about phasing and blink points...the theory may very well be, that if you're in a quest phase, you will see a TLPD. However, if the TLPD is agroed, it may vanish into your phase, being non-visible to all other's who aren't in your phase, or who don't have the same quests as you. This being said, the TLPD may not correspond to your quests, but when you kill it, it might. This is possibly another reason TLPD corpses are hard to find, which could a spawn rate projection.
评论来自
MrHelix
There is a possibility the Graveyards to the east stray too far away from the Engine of Makers and / or Temple of Storms, which both seem to be the central route points. However, seeing as there has been a siting of TLPD near the Terrace of Makers, it very well may be that TLPD and Vyragosa fly over Durkee's spawn point near Thunderfall, go near (72, 57), and then head west of Dun Niffelem, where there are Wild Wyrms. Seeing as how TLPD and Vyragosa spawn mainly near the Blue Wyrms, it could be a coincidence that they also fly near Dun Niffelem, where there are more Wyrms. However, time will tell that option.
评论来自
nonentity
Sorry, but do you (sorry, not meant to be condescending) new guys even read the older posts?
Phasing has already been discussed, TLPD has been seen/killed by all kinds of people, some had not done any quests in the Peaks, some had done all, some had done part, some were on the Master Explorer (the one with phasing of the blue proto-drake field), some not (the quest is for alliance, Horde got no counterpart that uses phasing in that area).
Phasing may have an... "accidental" influence on TLPD, as in someone can pull TLPD into his phase by attacking him, but it's not like he'd spawn/fly/be able to be seen in a quest-specific phasing "instance". If that was the case (for example in the often discussed blue proto-drake field phasing instance) it would be very, very unfair to Horde player, they'd never be able to see him in that area. If some Alliance guy was doing the Master Explorer quest there and saw TLPD (who should be able to be seen across all phasing instances) and attacked him he would pull him into this phasing instance, making him invisible to all players who don't have this phasing instance active/available to them at this time.
I remember only a few posts ago somone mentioned a druid, randomly killing TLPD and getting the mount, while he was doing what.... huh.........? Killing the blue drakes there, so he could see them and was not in this other phase, and he could see him.
评论来自
269680
Is it now confirmed that Vyragosa and TLPD share a spawn timer or not ?
And if so , do you guys have informations if this could be 3 or 6 or 8 hours ?
I camped here 1 night over 18 Hours and haven't seen any of them .
Vyragosa kill at Ulduar 3.53 PM PST at 45/27
评论来自
Salroh
Adding fuel to the speculation pile: Drake supposedly is on a 6 hour respawn timer if one can believe info from Spugnort.
评论来自
Saddik
just wanted to sum up some facts about the drake over what i've read here...
these are things that most people seem to agree on...
1. vyragosa and TLPD share spwn timer(GM confirmed with screenie)- common belief is that after vyragosa or TLPD is dead, after about 6 hours or so, there is a chance that either vyra or TLPD with much lower chance to spwn the TLPD
2. there are plenty of maps to look up but from what i've gathered this seems to be the popular belief of their paths(vyra and TLPD also share paths) -
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:365328400267436236472233489273498326498363496400497436501458503487484530467559453594455640472656475691476749459780457823436834419848396852374854352850344825365800369774371749371712361691358658380625414598432580445545423504401467404448384403362380335400314433312460288493283516277563269588275607281625290638314648348648332656275669260714257743268776275786301801318794327790363343347384382293415248458225494510452582455609
I haven't seen any screenshots of either dead on the opposite side of frosthold mountain from bor's breath but many maps point that path out.
3. (GM confirmed) they have 3-4 spwn points and a different path for each point.
rumors- things i've read, heard.
blinking, phasing, TLPD only spwns 1-2 times a week, guesses at spwn points...
contrary to popular belief i've heard some say that vyra and TLPD's timers are not related at all.
personally with the way things are looking i'm going to go with the crowd on this one...if i had to take a whack at spwn points, i'd guess south gate of valkyrion, and east of engine of makes for 2 of them...altho i'm hopelessly lost for the other 1-2...
评论来自
271720
Just saw Vyragosa spawned. Ally warrior just tagged .1 seconds before I did. Hopefully TLPD will spawn soon.
评论来自
263956
dose anyone on here play on firetree an know is any rare has been sighted today? As far as i know none of the rares have spawned >.< and i've been online pretty much all day/night minus a short nap xP and my buddy in the area said he hadn't seen either of the spawns. This is kind of getting the best of my hunting.. only heard of one drake sighting and that was over two restarts ago D: Not sure how many more days i can deal with hunting thinking it's not spawning for another week @.@
Edit: it was killed by allies 7 hours ago from 11:44pm.. x.x i swear the server loves the allies for mine
评论来自
212700
so yea... i killed him to the south east corner of the engine of the makers on the hill outside the cave
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:420600
it was exactly 6:00am in the morning and the was plenty of people farming for him, which makes me think he had ony just spawned.
i felt quite pleased with myself because i had only just hit 80, 20 mins before.
评论来自
MrHelix
Just found a Time Lost Proto Drake corpse at 58,60, inbetween Brunnhildar Village and Dun Niffelem. Unfortunately the corpse disappeared before I could screenie.
Location
评论来自
260655
I have confirmed - Vyra patrols through the blue proto drake area, flying towards Engine of The Makers.
评论来自
ainami
Ok i have heard all your theories of the phasing now, but why do you guys think it is called, a Time-lost Proto-dake.
When you complete one of those quest to get a phas the area goes on in time and gets a different look then before. So other players are in other time zones than you are.
Since its a time- LOST proto-drake, i think it would be fair to state that it indeed is visible for everyone no matter in what phase you are but vanishes in your phase when you aggro it.
I also follow mrhelix in his node theory cause indeed it fits up with the paths he takes and they just look like pods
评论来自
Myseria
I've been following this for 3 weeks now, and I have to say it's almost hilarious how rumours go live a life of it's own.
The whole "pashing theory" is based one ONE report of a dude that said he couldn't see the drake and it's killer. Plausible explanation as Nonentity stated above; either one of the players was one a point in a phasing quest and just happened to pull the drake into it.
The "teleport" thing is based one ONE report (not screenshotted) of some guy that said a GM told him that the drake "has a teleport ability AND has places he likes to hang out in". We know he has those places, and we know he "blinks" in combat. It doesn't neccesarily mean he teleports all over the map.
The report about Vyra teleporting over Brunnhildar could be explained by latency issues, ie. the game "catching up" as it sometimes does.
The reports about spawn points: I'm fairly sure 99% of the time people don't see an actual spawn but the game rendering range picking up on a mob.
The graveyard-pod story sounds less plausible to me than the abominable snowman theory, but kudos for the effort.
I know that for most people (including myself) this mob has reached an almost mythical status, but let's just keep things simple: The drake has an irrational spawn time and a number of spawn points and different routes he takes. Good luck finding out how to camp it most effictively.
评论来自
nonentity
yeah sure, it was too fast to use the screenshot button, which takes all of one second.
Weird that you found the corpse there just when it would fit your theory, when no one has ever seen him there before and you sadly can't take a screenshot...
uh uh....
评论来自
272639
First of all sry for my bad english but this is pretty much the most detailed discussion about TLPD I became aware of. Thx for so much information it really is a huge help in finding this little greedy bastard ;)
I want to stick to some fact where either TLPD and/or Vyragosa has been slain at an Route going east of Brunnhildar and east of the Makers Terrace clearly not leading through the Wyrmfield north of Brunnhildar but east of it.
As of now im not right sure if they are taking the direct route west of Branns or near Tunkalo but they are takin at least one of it due to different killscreens and sightings.
Map to the Stars
I would please people having a look at these two routes and give some informations based on sightings, here. Im doing so.
Btw yesterday i found my first dead Proto-Drake and saw+killed Dirkee the first time so im looking forward to find it, maybe not this week..maybe not even this year. But i will claim him as my own and ride it with pride ;)
Rjko, EU Azshara
评论来自
249679
Killed Vyra at 45, 60. She was flying from Brunnhildar Village towards the Engine of the Maker not very high in the air (just above the rocks you see in the blue drake field). Macro picked it up, I splooged a little, and just went UGH....Vyra. First kill though so I don't mind the achievement.
http://img88.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vyrawx3.jpg
评论来自
186371
according to that it patrols most of storm peaks =/
评论来自
273050
http://bildr.no/view/302419
http://bildr.no/view/302420
This pictures can confirm that he is patrolling near Ulduar as well. Unfortunately it wasn't my kill, I was, of course, camping around Bor's Breath, Engine of Makers and Valkyrion. The person who killed it didn't even farm it. Typical...
Have seen the corpse twice, ones was just north for Burnhillldar and now there. It was killed on a high populated server, around 19:20.
I have been farming it for around 4 days, and maybe 15 hours. Seen the corpse twice, as said and seen another person with the mount in Dalaran, so AT LEAST three kills on my server.
Didn't bother to check if anyone else has confirmed his patrolling near Ulduar, just thought it could be nice to share.
Good luck with the hunting folks!
评论来自
PraLiNeN
Been camping it for one week for about 8hours everyday and this is the first time I see either one of the rares and OFC it has to be other than me, a lucky dwarf pala got it :(
TLPD died at 23:25 Wednesday 10th December 2008 on Outland EU at (40;62)
Screenies:
http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/9418/wowscrnshot121008233346vr8.jpg
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/2997/wowscrnshot121008233403wx5.jpg
EDIT*
Corpse despawned 23:53!
评论来自
273681
Has anyone been thinking if killing Blighted Proto Drakes (or eggs with frost oil) has something to do with TLPD spawn/spawntime ? TLPD is almost colored like Blighted and Vyra is blue :)
Same with Vyra... Killing those Blue Drakes?
Kill x egg/drakes --> get spawn ? Might explain "random" spawtime...
Just thinking, not sure about anything.
评论来自
265644
Interesting, but someone's gonna need a screenshot to back that.
评论来自
260026
Use this
for the aproximate spawn points and pats of the TLPD. As you can see I only know 3 of the 4 spawns.
I believe that once the TLPD finishs it's pat it despawns for "x" amount of time and then respawns at another point; I'm not sure if this spawn change timer is related to the kill timer.
- naxxramas, detheroc
评论来自
Anatomizer
11:48 p.m., Wednesday night... no TLPD on Bloodhoof since server reset on Tuesday. I've been checking the server cache regularly and zero lewtz. No sign of it in almost two days.
I'm speculating at this point that Blizz gave us the Mushroom Treatment on this one... feed us some sh*t and keep us in the dark. We're all over the place trying to figure it out while a couple of developer nerds giggle in the corner.
评论来自
Rotten
Hey all, I just killed Vyragosa on Chamber of the Aspects EU realm maybe 20 mins ago at 28,69.
Here are 2 screens:
http://bildr.no/view/302738
http://bildr.no/view/302739
I logged in at engine of the makers, and took a round along the suggested route as many have plotted out in a clockwise fashion and nothing.
Then I stopped at the engine again for a few minutes, maybe thinking I would log off again. But something told me to fly down to Bor's Breath again, and I tried the macro again. And wow, I got a hit at Vyragosa. Though my adrenaline skyrocketed, I saw that she came from Bor's Fall at 36,69 oddly enough. I tried to tag her but I was too far up in the air and I dismounted and fell to the ground being killed.
Dammit I thought, now someone else will kill her, but I quickly ressed and flew after her. She was flying west through Bor's Breath, but then I saw that she turned southwards again through Rohemdal Pass. A bit odd, since no one has suggested that path. But I quickly aggroed and killed her before anyone else jumped at it. I was lucky and got the achievement as well. Imagine if this was TLPD, I would have been shaking :p
At least there's hope. Happy hunting guys.
评论来自
186371
second vyragosa kill almost exactly 10pm server. He was going over the abandoned camp coming from BB into the engine. Couldnt have been spawned long at all because I had just flew thru BB and circled around thru brunnhildar and the engine when I caught him on my way back to BB.
评论来自
186371
Same thing happened to me yesterday with her coming over the fall and being too high to kill. I got her in between BB and valkyrion and I could have sworn she turned away from valkyrion as well. Im convinced that she does it now. Maybe for that spawn she just circles frosthold mountain.
评论来自
274154
HI, just killd Vyra for 2nd time now (Bloodscalp Eu-PvP 07:24AM).... This time it was @ 40,62. I guess she spawnd at the blue drake field. I came flying back from ulduar and there she was already above the Engine of makers. - Corpse despawnd 5 min's later.
There were no complications, macro catchd her I tagd and pulld near the ground and she was dead, no ally, no horde. I hope I will catch the TLPD as EZ as her someday.
GL for all the hunters outthere!
DOnt give up on it!
评论来自
272296
just saw vyragosa killed at 2:40 am server time by two alliance that tagged her away from me
this after last night when a friend killed her at exactly 2:40 am as well
as far as vyragosa goes, i believe she has a set respawn time. maybe TLPD is just a rare chance to spawn instead of vyragosa?
edit: killed right at 36,68. i spotted her about 60 yards up, put on ret aura and tried to kite her to one of the ledges, and just as my holy shock got in range a couple alliance tagged her out from under me.
if that happens on the time-lost drake, judging by how mad i was, ill probably uninstall WoW :<
评论来自
274214
Created an account just to post this.
I've been following the comments here off and on for the past few weeks, but never really got into the hunting for the rares.
Well I was reading through the post tonight and decided to go up and do a little hunting. I flew through Storm Peaks a couple of times and didn't see anything. So I stopped at Ulduar and tabbed back out to read some more.
Tabbed back in to make sure I didn't afk out and was dead. I thought "WTF killed me?" So checked the combat log and TLPD did. >< At this point my heart is pounding. Release spirit and run to my body immediately. Hop on my mount and start flying west from Ulduar since I had read reports of him going that way to Snowdrift Plains, then south from there toward Valkyrion.
Found him dead at 28, 52 with a BE Pally and Troll Shaman still there.
I was flying about 30-40 yards above the ground at 43, 29 when he killed me.
Time of his attack on me was 3:30 am server time. Found him dead at 3:35.
I also talked with someone in Dalaran who was riding him earlier today that killed him at 7 am that morning.
评论来自
274342
Found TLPD dead at 1.47pm on Magtheridon EU
http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/639/wowscrnshot121108134709ma8.jpg
edit: corpse still laying at the same spot at 10.31pm. Heard it was there yesterday, the 10th, as well.
second edit: still laying at the same spot at 7.52am, on the 12th. Is this normal?
评论来自
265644
Vyragosa lived and died at 33,67, found the body and her killer at about 9:28am EST. Saw Dirkee last night, too, around 9:15pm at the Inventor's Library in one of his usual spots, but we're all pretty sure he's not linked anyway.
评论来自
Harson
Greetings fellow Proto Hunters.
I am now 3 weeks(!) into farming for this thing, and as you can think I am a tad bored of hitting the Target macro for him.
Now what I was wondering- are there any addons out there that perhaps auto-click the macro as well as play a sound when/if it targets something? Would be nice to watch a movie and keep an ear open for whatever sound will play when it targets a mob :)
Also- the script macro. Do I need to click it again to see if someone has gotten it, or, will it auto update if the item-info link is open on my screen?
Thanks for your help, much appreciated.
GL in finding your own Proto-drakes, be they Time-Lost, Green, Red, Blue, Plagued, Black, or Violet!
评论来自
AuReacT
I was patrolling back and forth for about half an hour at the confirmed points, spamming my macro.
Second time I got to the valkyr village I found his corpse -_-
It had spawned somewhat right after I had left the village and someone killed him then...
评论来自
237306
Did they change the spawn time on TLPD or isn't it shared with Vyragosa anymore?
I killed Vyragosa 12:32 today, then the script macro was saying "retreving info", I logged back at 16:00 (3.5hours later), and the macro was able to link the drake.
That is no way near the 6hour spawn that has been reported here.
(I allso killed Dirkee at 20:23 last night)
评论来自
272639
Killed Vyragosa again at Bors Fall.
So just want to let you know that im convinced about the spawn point right behind frosthold mountain now cause of guarding bors breath. I once saw her coming down the mountain flying over the frosthold but this time it came the other side around from frosthold going over the waterfall clearly spawning behind the mountain.
I was already flying 40+ yards high when i suddenly saw these giant blue feet on the top of my screen (didnt use my macro that moment) and it was still flying to high to tag it from my mount as a hunter. It was flying around 100 yards high descending to the trees as i first thought about following it but there clearly would be no interested in BB.
I know people like screens.
Managed to tag in my position flying remember it was much descending
I am tracking such a rare over approx 400 yards
My little test about phasing as i can see vyra..
..in my both phases.
And for the end my map still being in development with the eastern route, hoping to find more evident informations on them an still thinking about some more eastern way too.
Map
I would please people having a look at these two routes and give some informations based on sightings, here. Im doing so.
Rjko, EU Azshara
评论来自
272639
During my research on the web (and I am watching different forums in different languages) there have been multiple sightings
in these
areas. I do believe them even without having seen screenshots (guess i saw one for the southern area though) like i believed every other, and like every other I will prove them for myself or getting tlpd beforehand ;D
Generally
these
are the _only_ pathes shown on
that
map that I have not proven to be 100% accurate by myself (though there might be some more links between them) /edit I saw screenshots deeper to K3 and even heard him flying over it but can´t tell more on that path..pretty much think his spawnpoint is between K3 and K3 graveyard heading to Brunnhildar.
I am pretty much a believer in the graveyard-theory, btw. Its quite obvious that they are flying around them, over them, even spawning next to them. oh and by the way they are taking all bigdotted pathes on the map, why not at Branns or Fjorns? ;-)
There might be just a spawn at the terrace or Branns graveyard but it could even connect them both (
they are here
)
The main issue is that there is going on something in the east. There have been to many informations on that. Of course another reason is that we (yes we) sometimes cant find a rare spawn for like 2days and most like 13-15h respawn but personally I am pretty much convinced that we are just not finding it. That´s why I invented the eastern Route as my own lil experiment.
评论来自
274416
Well I would agree that there *could* be more spawn points and paths they take. However, there are screenshots of GMs stating there are only 4 spawn points and they are known for the most part. Of course the GMs could be mistaken. You have the counter-clockwise path in
Brunnhilder
, counter-clockwise around
BB and Frosthold
, clockwise path around
Valk, temple of storms, and tcrashsite/library
, then finally the biggest path counter-clockwise through
terrace of the makers, up to Ulduar, down through snowdrift, through valk, through BB and back up to terrace
.
I too have seen people claim north of Fjorns, east of Brunnhilder, the far north of Ulduar, and whatnot, but I will not believe it until screenshot shows it.
评论来自
PraLiNeN
Today I was scouting for TLPD even if I saw it killed yesterday, however after 1 hour of flying around I decided to go afk for about 10min, and when I came back i flew over to Bor's Breath and what do I see? A dead Vyragosa :/
So it died ~17:20 Thursday on 11th December 2008 on Outland EU
Screen:
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/1641/wowscrnshot121108172900sn0.jpg
I don't know if TLPD or Vyragosa was spawned earlier today but if it wasn't, it was about 18 hour respawn if I counted from what I saw yesterday (23:25) til now.
评论来自
mekanikos
I was flying at about level with the Temple of Storms coming over from the library when my macro caught the TLPD. Who was tagged. :(
But, as I was diving down to see him, he became free; someone must've fallen and died! With Crusader Aura's aid, I made it down and wafflestomped him, with two Alliance desperately trying to kill me.
Sabria: 1
Alliance: 0
From when I picked him up, he was heading around the west side of the engine towards Bor's Breath. Those ten seconds were a long long dive.
SS in a moment, ToD on Lightning's Blade being 1203 server.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Mekanikos/WoWScrnShot_121108_111133.jpg
I'm on a different computer than my normal one, so the UIs all screwed up. Edited out the bad word, kids!
评论来自
274480
Heres my tale in regaurds to obtaining this awesome mount. After spending about 20 hours searching and patroling back and forth for this rare spawn and leveling up to 80, I decide to head back to town and buy my skills and all that stuff. So after skills are bought I decide that maybe one more quick round won't hurt. After hearthing back and making one counter-clockwise pass around Bor's Breath while spamming the macro, Jackpot! Time-Lost targeted and ready to be taken down. Had to fly right next to him, earth shock, and use slow fall potion down so I wouldn't die, then the battle had begun..
He hits fairly hard on mail and, so I had to use cooldowns and one health pot but after 2-3 minutes of fighting he fell under my sword (or mace rather) and dropped the sweet mount and a bag of gold. 30 seconds after I kill him a guy messages me with a reluctant "Grats on the mount" but he was looking for it too. Stay resilient if your trying for this mount and you will eventually have it.
Technical information:
In regaurds to respawn time, it took 22 hours since the last time i saw vyragos' corpse so what people are saying about spawn time seems about right.
Drake was found around 29,66 (give or take a few yards in any direction) had to pull north a few yards. definately worth the time.
screenies :
http://shinobitechno.deviantart.com/art/proto-again-106041224
评论来自
HamBurger
well i've been camping storm peaks for atleast 14-18 hours a day for well over a week now. seen vyra 5 times, 3 of which were my kills. still no TLPD sightings. i logged off last nite and slept for about 3 hours, got back on and click the one macro and it shows item description. a few minutes later i get to Dalaran and see it leaving the flight deck heading down toward dragonblight, i really wish i hadnt run out of stacker pills, and energy drinks. oh well my hunt shall continue. just a little curious as to whether they will let me use my computer while locked up in the looney bin.
edit- i tried deleteing the cache folder again, but this time it didnt reset the link, it still showing the info. so maybe blizz did something to make it always show the item info? i'm gonna hope for that and that the 1 i seen flying from dalaran was the 1st one my server had dropped.
评论来自
mekanikos
No, sorry. I didn't see anyone fall, but as from previous experiences, even if it's attacking another mob, it won't go grey. Another player had hit it, and had apparently misjudged either how hard it hit (heh?) or the distance to the ground.
评论来自
260026
I use a program that presses my hotkey 4 times / second. I had a guy report me and talked to a GM about it and convinced him it didn't give me an advantage, it just stopped me from getting arthritis at 24. lol.
Now that I've confirmed this doesn't get you in trouble you can email me (velociraptorwithajetpack@gmail.com) for the program (autoit) and for the script I use. I can either send you the script as a premade file or as source so you an inspect it (for you paranoid people). I use Bottom/Right arrow keys for the hotkeys for the macro so youll either have to use WASD for steering or change the script to your hotkeys.
Happy Hunting!
评论来自
186371
I can personally confirm that Vyragosa goes thru the abandoned camp because I killed her there yesterday. She was coming from BB on her way into the engine. I seriously doubt those npcs will attack her because she was flying low and 1 of them was attacking my ghoul while another was attacking me. They didnt seem interested in her at all. My current theory is that she spawns over BB or above that abandoned camp because I had just been thru there and she wasnt there. Either way I can personally confirm 2 different paths through BB.
评论来自
114843
I just got this today on Cho'Gall! I found him flying high up on the mountain near Bor's Breath. He was pretty close to that Alliance flight path area. I was at the bottom mining, then I hit the macro and he was up there. This leads me to believe that he spawns up there, or flies there and paths for a while, because I had flown from the Engine of the Makers, down into Bor's Breath, mined the vein, then spotted him. Hope this helps you guys! I am sad to say I don't think I've ever been as excited as I was when I hit his target, then grabbed him and killed him.
评论来自
263956
working on week 3 as of today, today it's been reported that another alli got the drake spawn once again /heavy sigh
maybe i should stop looking for it till all the allis on the server have it then try again _-_
still yet to see any sign of the drake alive or dead D:
评论来自
265171
Finally got him!
He was flying high over Brunnhildar into the blue drake field. I didn't have any competition for the kill.
http://img71.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tlpdnd9.png
Coords are on my mini map. I also included my combat log so you could see how much he was hitting me for. Just need to get the last bit of my level to use him! I am a very happy warlock. :]
评论来自
274416
If you are talking about the TLPD, then yes...hence the word drake in his name. But many people talk about Vyra due to the evidence they share pathing, and Vyra is a blue DRAGON.
评论来自
Mukaltin
Just got another Vyragosa sighting today :) Macro dinged at about 28, 60 or so, but I didnt see her around. I flew a little bit higher and noticed her descending from the Frosthold mountain. As long as I got her earlier this morning, I decided to follow her around. She flew directly to north and above Valkyrion she's been tagged by a Horde DK. Funny enough, this greedy bastard aggroed few undead Bjork-like humanoids and cowardly ran away. Then Vyragosa retostored her hp and continued to fly further north. She descended to the very low height (about 20 yards or so) at the path west of Grom'arsh where she has been tagged and then killed by that tauren again. So I have two sightings of her today (which I believe to be quite lucky for the first day of extensive farming) :)
- 36.72 - 36.66, 5:39 am server time, 11.12
- 28.71 - 35.42, 2:10 am server time, 12.12
Kul Tiras EU
Uploadede video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8xd-ddCySE
(sorry for the bad quality, I waited 2 hours for it to upload to find out how bad it appears on youtube >,<)
评论来自
186371
2 Vyragosa in a little over 3 hours apart?
评论来自
274416
No, Blizzard hasn't changed anything. The explination you are looking for is that either someone who isn't 80 or doesn't have the 300 riding skill killed the TLPD. So that person is unable to use the Reins and learn the skill, in turn the Reins are sitting in their backpack which is why you can still grab the link for it.
评论来自
265171
As a general rule I would hover around just high enough to kill me (if I fell). But other than that there are a lot of nice screenshots of people following Vyragosa to show you how high you should be. Their height ranges a lot depending on where they are.
He was very high when I found him in Brunnhildar. He was even with the blue drakes he was headed to. I was able to target him despite being a lot lower than he was so don't worry too much.
I wouldn't recommend trying to cast at him from the ground (you likely wont be able to reach him). If he's high enough he would deaggro if you tried to pull him to the ground. If you pull and kill him on a slant (like on a bad snow patch on a mountain) you wont be able to loot him without falling. lol wouldn't that be awesome? You can either follow him around trying to find a place to pull him or save yourself the trouble and get Snowfall Lagers. You can safely tag him almost anywhere with them. They're in Grom'arsh Crash Site for Horde. I know this has been said already but for anyone who doesn't have them they're great to have.
I ran this path:
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:278518266549264582268605277636294648317654334654351660366656380644391629398609409598290504306487330466318479347440357425376405393409401438405467405491402506402524413533432541437555446566457559467541477526494504423598445611461763475741484716487691483656465627439798426813415817391813497481494458497433497401492374484345479328471318459302432291411293392299378312365347366370378786367763365737365706357689
And I did a lot of camping in these spots:
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:292652269565371633432281
Each one (except for the Ulduar spot) did get hit by Vyra and/or TLPD when I was camping it, so I know those would work. But I wasn't able to tag him myself until I caught him
before
he hit the heavily camped areas.
In total I've seen 2 Vyras and 3 TLPDs. So I hope my experiences can help ya!
评论来自
217282
Ok guys am one of the lucky ppl in WoW i got my Time-Lost Proto-Drake this week and i think i am the first alliance in my server.I have bad news bout the paths and spawns. He spawnned right under me near the cave above burninhar village or how its called anyway and he was heading to village i followed it not far untill he was flying above the village where i had to downed him and kill him due to, to many hunters and i didnt wanna lose the mount. it was 05:19 tuesday morning when he spawned and 05:22 when he was dead. From that day untill today am still hunting him not for the mount but to count his time respawn between and everything. On wednesday time 16:15 i was near where Vyra was getting killed and i have talked to the guys who killed it and they showed me the way he was coming. He was coming from the mountains near Valkyrion towards the Bors breath..Well some said that after 1 hour to 20 hours after Vyras death TLPD respawns NOTHING am still searching but no spawn. Ok i dont really know still if horde killed it but what i know from my search and everything didnt see him coming. I will find out what happened there if something happened and i hope i will find the time respawn.
I also heard that a GM from blizzard that this Drake its rare we all know it when he spawns and noone there spots it and kill it, he blinks away and then dissappears putting some more rarerity to his kind or something like this(hope someone can confirm it)
soon coming pics made bymyself bout the mobs and a map with the routes of both
Good Luck to all guys and hope am not confusing anyone with the routes i saw
Khalas - Genjuros EU
评论来自
217282
well when spawnned under me i think we was at 65-70 yards above
评论来自
217282
as promised the map of both mobs the left one is Vyra going towards Valkyrion and the right one TLPD spawned and kill in the village
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:404629410625424634435642441662439677433697420704409706253753264743269733274718281700284683287669288658287642282633279625273611273598272586
评论来自
270127
BTW smart guy the term DRAKE is archaic for DRAGON
评论来自
114843
I just wanted to add something about altitude, and how to pull him. For me, he was quite high in the air, near the top of the mountain to the north/east of Frost Hold. But: My macro was able to target him when I was on the ground mining a Saronite Node. Meaning, if you fly at a medium altitude, you should have no problem targeting him whether he is above or below you. Now, for pulling, I was way up in the air and was scared I would be unable to pull him. But what I did was simply fly into him, to aggro him, and then land on a little out cropping on the mountain, there are lots of them.
评论来自
Creotor
Well, after about 13 hours of flying around and spamming /tar macros for the time-lost and Vyragosa drakes I hit Vyragosa approximately at 39,42 - just where the previous poster found the Time-lost drake. I started following her.
This was her route. She managed to fly through it 1.5 times at about 60% mount speed and then some hunter killed her.
Map
She practically didn't descend when coming to Bor's Breath from Foot Steppes. Was going at about 80-100 yards above Valkyrion and then about 60 yards over the western part of the path.
This leads to a conclusion that Time-Lost/Vyragosa have multiple routes, but will use only 1, circling it over and over until he/she is killed(maybe despawn?) after which he/she might spawn in a different place and use a different route.
评论来自
playhard
i was reading the comments for the time-lost proto drake (the one with the fewer comments), someone suggested to create a macro with this script:
/script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Shift-click this to place a link into a chat message: \124cffa335ee\124Hitem:44168:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0\124h\124h\124r");
well i tried that and i got a popup that said 'retrieving item information'. it's just a popup box that i can close.
what does that mean? does it mean that the drake has never been killed on my server? i can't find it!
评论来自
263956
well the link macro seems to work now... so who knows when the horde FINALLY looted one... must have been sometime recently though.. makes me kinda sad thinking a random person wondered onto it once again x.X and that i missed a spawning once again
i guess all i can do is keep trying na hope i get a lucky break ^^; good luck to everyone else who seems to have my unlucky run of luck after almost 3 weeks lol..
Edit: it was reported looted at 5pm so thats helpful as far as a time period goes >.< i don't think this information helps anyone here and i dont have a screen of where it was killed at D: sorry
评论来自
274959
I don't think that Dirkee and Vyragosa/TLPD share the same respawntimer.
Killed Dirkee and Vyragosa in half an hour.
http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/5960/wowscrnshot121208082611oj2.jpg
评论来自
272639
-Updated Videos, deleted unnecessary evidences and redesigned maps 1.1.2009-
Just to sum all these facts up and pasting the evidences as we had over 1k comments already..ok so I went through ALL the data available, again.
And I found some nice TLPD screenshots and comments about the routes and infact the routes with known spawns. So this post is dedicated to the hard facts. (no boring screens of Bors and most of TLPD we even got a few Videos!)
Im drawing the maps in circles cause thats what they are supposed to fly..in circles (though they do spawn a bit offroad). Remember that TLPD is just a superrare spawn of Vyragosa and they do share all pathes. It is a common belief that they got a very small spawnchance every 30min after , though 6-8h is more likely and over 15h possible.
Since we
got this video of Vyra flying the full cycle
the following map is just a matter of fact like the others.
1.
Library-Temple-Route
We also got another
Video
showing Vyragosa flying descending from Frosthold heading into Valkyrion. She is having some fights there..continues the pat to the Library where it is getting killed.
2.
Ulduar-Terrace-Route
Update:
Video of the full cycle.
3.
K3-Brunhildar-Sifreldar-Route
Vyra came from Brunnhildar and was followed around to K3
Vyra flying over Sifreldar...
..near Waterfall
..at Waterfall
..to K3
Minefield
4.
Frostholdmountain-Route
TLPD
southwestern edge of stormpeaks (sw of Frosthold) and many many other drakes and dragons flying that route no need for Screens.
So here are quite the
flightpathes known by now
with
recent spawnareas
.
Videoproof that Dirkee and Vyragosa do NOT share spawntables:
http://vimeo.com/2716456
Thoughts on that are welcome :)
When I started my researches on the Time-Lost Proto Drake, people said he does not fly near Ulduar or along the Terrace. They even said TLPD and Vyragosa are not sharing spawns or they are not elite.
There have been many right and wrong rumours out there; and there still are. So remember..the truth is out there
http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/164/locationsho3.jpg
评论来自
274984
Hey guys, after careful observation of ALL these posts for about a month now, I actually think I may have a pat route.
Many of you are saying that he travels several different paths each time he spawns, however, I have created a map that shows a spawn path of vyra and TLPD in every single location they have been discovered!
Take a look:
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:374850386848400850414848426838435825440807448792459768466747475728483710489695494679490662484648479636471621458609453613443617430617414617398615389611382627376640371658363666351664340658326660317662305658290654286669283695278714272728265747274765284778300784319780340780358770373761370743371718367685369706283640279629275617273596272582273557277535284516292500308491317481330462345442353434362425375419388417408415424419400421436411448401461388476372487361496341497326496306485297477291468281465260459238449238440240424242414248401248397240389234376236365246356262352279347291339306331322322341317355305376294392284415272438257473253489265458250510251532256549264568378782378800371821371838
Now it may be complicated, so i'll guide you thru it.
- first off, start just west of K3, follow the dots east and then north towards and thru brunnhillar village, across the foot steppes, and south past the engine of the makers into the northern part of Bhor's breath.
-From there the route loops around Frosthold, back into the southern end of bhors breath heading north. (this will explain why vyra and TLPD have been seen heading both north and south thru bhors breath. South-bound will be explained later on)
-They then go through bhor's breath completely in Valkryion and then North-east into the passage thru the maker's library.
-The route loops around the southern tips of Ulduar
-Continues southwest past Ulduar and into Nivadelir.(TLPD has been tagged heading south in Nivadelir)
- Then one final time in Bhors breath, heading south, the drake's begin back at thier starting point south of the frozen waterfall.
Now I'm not sure if they despawn after a certain amount of complete routes through Storm peaks, but I'm fairly sure this route is correct. It explains all directions the drakes have been seen taking, and covers all the kill spots.
Good Luck guys!
评论来自
nonentity
*sigh*
my first dumb luck sighting of Vyragosa (just decided to fly over Storm Peaks when flying from Icecrown to Zul Drak) and I couldn't follow her for a minute before some @#$%^& decided it would be an awesome idea to kill her....
Found her over Valkyrion, coming from the north, flying towards the south. He attacked her over the lake at BB, so I can't tell which way she would have turned from there. I think he lost her aggro for a second because she flew back to the height she flew before, for a second she turned west, like she'd continue to fly over BB, but can't tell 100% because he attacked her again.
Not important anyway as this is a pretty much confirmed routhe either way.
Only good things I took from that:
- once again confirmation that my camping spot over the lake at BB should work, even if it could take quite long, sooner or later he'll spawn there or fly by there
- he actually seemed to lose her aggro a few times while he pulled her down so I might have to reconsider my supposedly well thought out "tap TLPD in air and then attack him during slow falling" approach, no longer sure this might work.
Slow fall is really slow so it should still work, but I think I'll try it with Vyra first if I ever get the chance again.
- It is possible to spot either just by pure luck.^^
Also - I know for a fact that I won't be able to be online ingame in 6-8 hours after this Vyra spawn... -.- So I hope TLPD takes longer to spawn or we get another Vyra instead so I don't miss out on TLPD (90% chance of that anyway).
评论来自
nonentity
Just thought to mention - actually I don't think they fly in circles.
Afaik that assumption came from someone who posted a picture of 3 routes that pretty much covered everything except the Ulduar/Terrace route, and he proposed those circles.
Has anyone ever managed to follow Vyra (I assume no one follows TLPD for longer than absolutely necessary before he moves in for the kill, I wouldn't) for long enough to check if she really flies a circle?
Nice collection of info though, you got pretty much everything important in there. I especially love the video of Vyragosa flying down from Frosthold, haven't ever seen her come this way.
Unfortunately that put a lot of doubt on the supposed spawn point south of Valkyrion of which I was a firm believer until now.
I assumed I had seen her spawn there myself because I was waiting a lil bit east of the small waterfall in BB when I suddenly had her in my target over the lake at BB, flying north, she couldn have come from my way nor pretty much any other way because my target should have covered that.
But now I think that she MIGHT have actually come down from Frosthold instead.
My theory on the routes (I've already mentioned it once quite a few pages back), for which I have absolutely no proof, just the proof of nothing to prove the opposite assumption ^^, is that the drakes have this route "network" and they follow parts of the routes (maybe even have a preferred routes) until at intersections they may decided to "switch" to follow another route.
Also I think they fly those routes clock-wise or counter-clock-wise, they may decide to do either.
I think that might work because there have been a few reports placing the one or the other drake along some of those routes, but someone mentions them flying ccw, another person mentions them flying the same route cw. Also there were reports of them following a route for some part and then, seemingly leaving that route and following another route from there on.
Either that or there may be far more "pre-defined" routes than we assumed so far, that may just seem like they switch routes simply because we don't know that he's actually flying a route we don't know yet.
Again, this is just a personal theory which I think might account for the randomness of the sightings of TLPD/Vyra. I have no proof and I don't think I'll ever will as I no longer "hunt" for TLPD, I just camp one spot whenever I have time, not doing dailies, heroic instances, raids and so on.
If I spot Vyra I'll try to follow her to find out more about the routes but that happens so very rarely....
评论来自
PraLiNeN
When I woke up today, 3 of my guildies whispered me that they saw Vyragosa got killed at 11:03, this is the about Outland's 3rd kill for the week for the dragons.
1st got Killed ~23:20 I have screenie from my previous posts
2nd got Killed ~17:20 Screenie from previous post
3rd got killed 11:03
I dont have screenshot for the 3rd one since I woke up 11:50 today :/
But, if he spawn next time at 05:00-05:20 We could _maybe_ decide that the respawn is atleast 18h. (cant be really a coincidence that he spawn 18h apart 4 days in a row can it? :P)
评论来自
262761
I'm am now going on 70 hours of camping TLPD.
So far I have killed Vyra 3 times and seen the corpse twice. All three times I killed vyra it was in valk, and I saw the corpse near all the blue drakes and in BB near the waterfall.
I have seen Dirkee twice, just north of the engine of the makers.
Lastly, I have seen TLPD once, it was alive flying in valk heading north, sadly I was just a few seconds too late.
Good luck to all trying to get their mount.
评论来自
274416
I personally do not believe that each path can have a cw or ccw pattern. I have seen Vyra do the Brunnhildar path 3 seperate times and each time was ccw. From other people and posts they report the same.
I have also never seen the temple/crashsite going in ccw motion, always cw; same with other people.
The fact is the only time people have seen Vyra and/or the TLPD fly two directions over the same area would be BB and Valk, that is only because more than one flightpath goes through those areas.
评论来自
78626
Archimonde (US) - 12/06/08 at 6:09PM (server)
-Server first TLPD kill, 38.63
Archimonde (US) - 12/12/08, between 3:00 and 7:00AM (server)
-Second TLPD kill, unconfirmed location
评论来自
260655
I have been farming this for 6 days by now. The only breaks I take are HCs/sleep & RL. (More than 100 hours spent) I've seen Vyra 3 times, 2 at BB & once at Engine of the Makers. TLPD spotted at Engine of The Makers once although that son of a bitch "evaded" and despawned shortly after. gg blizz. There has not been even one sighting since the server maintenance so I can assure you that the spawn time is longer than 6 hours OR there are unknown spawn points. This is said considering the fact there are around 30/40 players camping all spawn points all day.
评论来自
Rotten
Just spotted Vyragosa again, either spawning or coming from somewhere. Macro hit her at "Foot Steppes" flying west over "Engine of the Makers" and down Bor's Fall counter clockwise further down to "K3" where a mage killed her.
Even though it's the "wrong" drake for me, it's nothing like seeing a majestic dragon flying through the air. It draws attention for sure.
The hunt for "the illusive one" continues..
评论来自
54021
Just spotted Vyragosa's corpse lying dead on the river bed at Bor's Fall. Have been hovering above the body for 15 minutes now and it has yet to despawn. 57.2, 57.7 exact cords of corpse.
评论来自
Alorae
Two Vyragosa sightings in the past day or two, first one wasn't much help, but was my kill, not sure if I caught her just as she spawned, but she came over the lip from Brunnhildar towards the engine, took awhile to despawn, however I can't skin.
Tonight I saw her again, descending the frosthold mountain as noted in a few other posts. I decided to follow her a bit since I had no need to kill her again and though I might earn something new from following her. She went over valkyron, past the inventor's library, almost at the lip of the chasm between the mainland and ulduar, then turned and flew into the gap next to the crash site, over the center of the engine of the makers. right as she approached Bor's breath she was tagged, so I am unsure of where she was going next, I am pretty sure if she went right, she would complete at least part of the same loop, I was wanting to follow her left and see where that headed. Guess I'll have to wait for the next spawn. Still no TLPD but I know of 2 alliance side, 2 horde side, and one other player (not sure what faction, but a different class than those that I know of), so at least 5.
The last two I am pretty sure that I missed by mere minutes, it seems that some people are giving up, but there are a handful of devoted I still see around every day. GL
评论来自
nonentity
Btw, what attackes does TLPD use? Does he fly into melee-range, alway, or does he use ranged attacks?
Because recently I decided to try my slow fall+attack idea which I wanted to use if I ever see TLPD, on one of the blue drakes near the Engine, figured they'd work in a similar way.
So I hit slow fall a bit above the drake and spammed ice lances, at first it seemed to work but then he just stopped moving down and used his ranged attack. So I went further down, he stayed high up and that actually led to me leaving the combat.
If TLPD works similarly this whole "tactic" is useless.
Pulling him somewhere is definitely safer, but there's always the risk of someone else tapping him while you "lead" him somewhere.
评论来自
276381
If the TLPD follows Vyragosa's paths, I've followed her on her Ulduar path and boy is that a ride...
the
precise
map :
Map
She flies CCW. The spawn point for this path appears to be right in front of Ulduar, or probably in the building I'm talking about below.
On some sections, especially when above The Maker's Terrace, going down the stairs there, and when going from Ulduar to the Snowdrift plains, she flies VERY high, in excess of 100 yards, in the stairs down the terrace she flies noticeably above the lowest arch there.
A pathing bug, when she does her last turn to the left towards ulduar, she flies through the building at 49.25 on the map (actually is more like 48.29 IG)
It took her approximately 14 minutes to do a full loop, and it isn't affect by phasing, when I was above Snowdrift Plains with her, I had no problems following tho I haven't done a single quest there.
评论来自
Maconi
After much "Lost-Time" I have snagged myself one of these beauties.
From:
http://img81.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot121508012431nz0.jpg
Towards:
http://img101.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot121508012435vs8.jpg
Coordinates:
http://img234.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot121508012454em3.jpg
He was flying pretty slow (60% Normal Flying Mount speed slow) from the direction of Bor's Breath towards Valkyrion at just above tree level.
As you can see from the screenshots, quite a few people showed up instantly (I never said a word). Many people were scouting for it, so it had to of spawned not far from where I killed it.
The body also despawned after 30 minutes. (TLPD was killed @ 1:22AM EST, body despawned @ 1:52AM)
Another note, I have not did a single quest in The Storm Peaks (for those interested in phasing).
评论来自
193092
How high was he in altitude?
评论来自
nonentity
Ok... quickreminder... save yourself some pain and be sure to clear your local cache if you switch between different servers when playing...-.-
I freaked out - a lot - right now because about 4 hours ago there was another Vyragosa kill here (was fortunate enough to log on and immediately see the corpse near my camp, 2mins after that she despawned), so I figured "k, no TLPD in the next 6 hours at least" and checked a few twinks on other servers.I might have checked the TLPD script there, not sure, can't remember.
Just logged back on my main character, check the script and it tells me the item was looted... like 4 hours after a Vyra kill, I definitely did not think that was possible so I was p*ssed.
Just to be certain I logged out, wiped my local cache, logged back in and, tada, nothing, still receiving information, checked with atlasloot too, nothing..... phew........ Shift-linking the item also doesn't work. Seems like the data carried over from another server. Definitely gonna remember that next time...
评论来自
268337
last night a GM told me it doesnt despawn if not killed
http://img100.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot121508025317rb5.jpg
ofc this could be his bastard way of telling me its after a random time.. but when it comes to game-hints GM's are probably just full of BS :)
评论来自
279674
ok , i am hunting for him abou 1 month ( 15 h/day ) , i seen 4 corpses of TLPD , killed Vyra 2x . I can say that he spawns 2 times per week max ! maybe one time per week . Just want to say GL to everyone . Server Maghteridon , Faction Horde
评论来自
279783
Finally got it after a week of camping. I am convinced it spawns twice a week as for the past two weeks it has spawned on Sunday and Tuesday. Appeared in front of me at 26,55 at 1:10 AM Tuesday, fairly close to the ground and very slow moving towards Valkyrion. Within minutes of it's death, Horde and Alliance swarmed the area to spit on me in congratulations, thanks friends !
Time- Lost Proke-Drake Envy
评论来自
274416
Yes, it is cross faction, 100% fact. I am horde and was unable to link the Reins of the Black War Bear (alliance version) until Alliance killed all our Horde leaders. Same goes for this, was unable to link it until an alliance character looted the reins. All the link does is query the server for the information. The server doesn't care what faction has it, just as long as the data is available.
评论来自
nonentity
Quick tip, to anyone who can't bear to hear the flapping of wings anymore (if you hear that for hours each day for days and are stuck with a drake/gryphon/whatever and don't have the possibility to switch to the Halloween mount it gets, really, REALLY annoying) yet still wants to camp in the air because it's a good spot or whatever- use the Fresh/Preserved Holly.
The reindeer doesn't make any sound... it's soooo awesome. ^^
评论来自
nonentity
Interesting tid-bit of information at the wowinsider article. Nothing of concern for the hunt itself, but nice to know nonetheless
"As a side note: In 1992 Synapse and Silicone made "The Lost Vikings" a videogame abut Vikings lost in Time. In 1994, the sequel was released adding a playable gold dragon named Scorch who was lost in time with the vikings. S&S would later change their name to Blizzard entertainment and produce WoTLK, featuring a continent that was formerly populated by a viking like race and coincidently, with a "Time-Lost" gold dragon. ;)"
http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/12/03/seeking-the-time-lost-proto-drake/5#comments
So much for the name, guess we know now where that comes from. Scorch, golden dragon, lost in time, in a land formerly populated by a viking race...
TLPD, a bronze (~~ gold) dragon, Time-Lost/lost in time, the Vyrkul...
Now gotta look on information on this Scorch, maybe he had some characteristics our TLPD shares....
edit:
The guy who posted the Ulduar route said that Vyra took a little .. extra trip (about that
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:445264459264470264481264497256512242527240545244546256547291544318529330510335496339476359
)
just stumbled over that in the lost vikings 2 script:
Scorch : Hmmm. Scorch, the magic dragon, living by the sea. I have always wanted to see the sea. Okay... I'll come.
That would fit, sorta.
评论来自
186371
did you see both corpses personally?
I saw vyragosa dead slightly NE of K3 at 5:10 server (pst). I was hoping this path was a myth =(. She was actually in the field with the things that zap the creatures running thru. I wonder if they will zap her if she gets too close. Does anyone have idea of where the spawn point for this path might be? I would assume not too awfully far away since she was killed during peak hours but I could be wrong.
评论来自
281518
Does anyone know if the drake makes any sound to help locate him?
Also Quest helper gives you an idea where he is by typing /qh find npc time proto drake
Not sure where the info has come from but it puts you in the spot that ever map i have seen the drake crosses this area
评论来自
Creotor
Found dead Vyragosa at approximately 31.37 at 5:44 PM. Approximately 4:45 hours after the server reset.
Probably was pulled over by someone from that huge Ulduar - Snowdrift Plains - Bor's Breath - Foot Steppes - Terrace of the Makers - Ulduar route.
Screen:
Vyragosa
Edit: A few people asked already, but I don't think anyone ever answered. Does TLPD cast or is he a melee? I tried aggroing a few drakes in Foot Steppes and practicing my Dismount, Damage and Slowfall routine - they would move down a little and then start casting from far away, more than 30 yards and eventually deaggro. Hope TLPD is just pure melee.
评论来自
268337
i just had a nice little chat with a GM.. he told me that the 3 Rare's do share spawn..
also he said TLPD aint affected by phasing by himself.. the way i understand his answer, if you are on a quest that phases an area you wont be able to see him cos he is in the normal world phase.. but im not entirely shure about this.. i dont think he understood my question completely..
for completeness, here is the ticket i wrote:
is the mob "Time-lost Proto drake" bugged?
since the mob has 100% drop chance on "reins of the time-lost proto-drake" it is easy to check if anyone has killed it by using a script to link the item
if the item has dropped you can link the item
but you couldnt just before server reset
is it possible for it to not spawn at all for a week? or is it bugged? or was it spawned but noone killed it.. a GM told me it cant despawn by it self, but if it was up im 100% shure someone would have killed it
and here's our chat:
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/3276/gmchatck8.jpg
i know people says multiple of em can be up at the same time and such.. but yea why shouldnt that be possible? it seems like the spawn timer is pretty short (or maybe random) and in theory one could spawn and not be killed untill after another has spawned.. ofc its unlikely, but it could happen..
i've only seen dirkee twice and vyra once (havent been camping hardcore) but all 3 was on same minute of the hour.. ofc its highly coincidental that i saw em all at **:27 (both dirkee dead, vyra alive) but it could hint they spawned at the same time too, cos they're likely to be killed within a very short time..
edit: just saw dead Vyra right on the BB waterfall at 14:30 server time.. im pretty shure spawn time is around **:15-20, possibly every hour (possible with a chance that none of em spawn)
评论来自
281899
I killed TLPD on the deathwing server on the snowdrift plains at about 6:30 am.
评论来自
nublok
Today at 13:23,
EXACTLY
two hours after my server had got back on, Vyragosa spawned for me. I was at the frozen lake part of Bor's Breath and saw her flying down from the top of Frost Hold mountain, so she must have spawned from up there.
Stayed ever since but no spawns so far, and the macro for item link doesn't work yet.
I believe that TLPD and Vyra have a chance to spawn every hour counted from when the server is brought up, which would fit in with others having same spawn times in a row while others have times that are different from those times but still get same for themselves. Would be great if others could help confirm/deny this theory.
评论来自
268337
im not shure.. but i think the "chance to spawn every hour" thing is right.. but i doubt it is increased every hour.. at least for TLPD..
and your "days without spawn" theory.. no.. the ulduar route goes through BB wich is the spot most seems to camp..
but even if you and 20 mates camp the area 24/7 it could still spawn somewhere else and be killed by some random guy who dunno anything about theese rare's.. nomatter how hard you camp it could happen and you could believe none spawned for days..
评论来自
Creotor
Imo, TLPD/Vyra can spawn every half hour since server reset.
And I agree with OverOne on one of them being killed without anyone saying anything. Especially if Vyragosa spawns and is killed... by some grinder/quester who won't say anything in gchat. After all, killing a rare is not that big a deal unless it drops an epic mount.
评论来自
262560
That's a possibility, though some servers still have the "Item Link Macro" not function for days...which should pop up no matter who killed her.
Perhaps the probability algorithm never exceeds a certain percentage chance? Since we're almost positive that the TLPD USES a Vyragosa spawn, perhaps it's a percentage chance on top of the percentage chance for Vyragosa to spawn.
Vyragos has a 50% chance to spawn, TLPD has a 10% chance to spawn INSTEAD when Vyragosa does. That puts her probability way lower, obviously, but that makes the most sense to me.
All I know is, our server has seen her twice in two days. I'm going to go crazy tonight farming.
评论来自
Kiony
I have to tell you something and I need people to confirm what i'm trying to figure out.
The first TLPD on my server was killed on Tuesday december 2nd
The second TLPD was killed on tuesday december 9th at 11h35pm
The third TLPD was killed on tuesday december the 16th at 10h45pm
I noticed he spawned every tuesday evening since 3 weeks
so i'm thinking that he spawn only once a week and regularly (every 7 days)
Some people on other realms said they saw him spawn 2 times in a week with 6 hours only between the 2 spawn so maybe what happened on my realm is just a coincidence but I wanna know if there are some other people who noticed a respawn every 7 days on their realm.
评论来自
262560
Thinking on it again, our server is having a lot more spawns recently. Is it possible Blizzard increased the spawn chances?
I kind of hope so and I kind of don't, at the same time.
评论来自
262560
It's possible the other people who killed her aren't of your faction or don't advertise it. It could also be your server, I'm not sure.
I will say that every time my server has come up from Maintenance, Vyragos or TLPD was THERE. Without fail. No idea what to take of that.
评论来自
268337
AdmiralSnackbar: yea but when i said "it" i actually meant any of em..
TLPD could theoretically never ever spawn on your server (according to the GM i chatted with)... but you could still not spot any of em (all 3 rares according to the GM) for weeks if for example youre really unlucky and only vyra spawns and is skinned..
评论来自
282264
Ligheninghoof server. been camping a possible spawn point for 4 days. so far no TLPD. for the first time however did spot Vyra. 10am servertime lost internet connection. spent a half hour getting it going again. log back in at 10:34am and there sits the corpse of Vyra. only time in 4days. despawned in exactly 30 min so thinking she was up for at least 4 before someone downed her.
评论来自
282446
After 17 days of farming i finaly got mine!, i was camping BB (cords 29.66)
http://data.fuskbugg.se/skalman01/WoWScrnShot_121808_020724.jpg
Outland EU
happy hunting
评论来自
265644
http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/5766/screenshot121808104131bs4.jpg
Just sacked Vyragosa at 10:45am on US Dalaran. About crapped myself when I heard wings while tabbed out - I was sitting on my drake while landed to NOT hear its wings going. Camped out on the ledge at 30,68, appeared above and a few yards in front of me. Had to lift up and fly a few meters myself to get in range, deathcoiled for tag, then lager'd down safely to the ground. She did not deaggro via this method, as I was afraid she might. Dots took the rest. Dirkee absolutely frickin' murders me, this chick hits like a baby. If TLPD hits like this, no problem for any clothie.
At present, no sighting of TLPD since reset - the cache macro is not coughing up the goods.
Edit: Despawned, as per prior discovery, exactly one half hour later. Nobody came by to skin her.
评论来自
zuecafajm
Been looking for him for a few days now. Found Vyragosa twice just thought I would contribute with times and locations.
First: 38, 62 @ ~3:35 Wednesday - heading south
Second: 31.5, 66 @ ~11:35 Thursday - heading west
评论来自
Ruless
After searching for this mob over 2 weeks, i saw a ppl which mounted TLPD today, i talked with him and he said that he got the mob this morning around 05:00 and while i was talking to him, another ppl came and mounted ANOTHER DAMN TLPD and /wave'd to him ... I whisped him that "when you got this one" too , he answered that he got it this afternon.... i was like WTF but he said that "it may sound wierd but , this is truth" .... One of them found it on Bor's Breath, other one said that he found it @ HoL entrance.... So , no sign for 2 weeks in my camping ( 3 vyra 1 dirkee ) , but 2 DAMN spawns while i was @ heroics in a single day.......
Good luck who's camping this, i dont think im gonna resume tbh.
评论来自
260026
what server was this?
评论来自
data261
im fairly sure that its safe to assume at this point that the TLPD is a rare spawn of a rare spawn (Vyra)....so it is well within the realm of possibility for TLPD to spawn twice in a row....and its just as plausible for it not to spawn in any given day(s).....
if you can figure out when vyra spawns (the most common one ive seen is every 6 or 8 hrs - though my findings seem to indicate somewhere around 10 hrs) then you can figure out when you got a CHANCE at finding TLPD
评论来自
data261
sorta unrelated but...
i was reading posts on this thread and all of a sudden the list seems to have been trimmed to around 200 posts.....do they remove posts often on here? cause i was reading some really good info on the TLPD somewhere in the post #600 region earlier
评论来自
227157
Just something interesting I noted while looking around the blizz WoW site, if u check the flying mounts page, it states that the TLPD is a rare spawn in
Icecrown
. Dunno if they are changing the spawn, or if someone there has just made an error.
Good Luck to all interested in getting this baby!
*casts Good Luck on all who read this post*
Edit: This was where I got it from
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/basics/mounts/flying.html
, look about halfway down the page
评论来自
277653
So finally just killed vyra.. no tlpd yet though!
I have killed Dirkee on the terrace before, facing uldular, but this time I was just doing a couple of quests out on the edge of the snowdrift plains. I had done a few and turned them in in the inn, walked back out the door and macro hit gold. I am talking the small quest hub in just beside the snowdrift plains.
I had no idea how frustrating it was to kill this guy. Sure hes weak but hes crafty. almost died twice. lucky I was alone!
First off I slowfell and somehow misjudged the range of my taunts, and I was really high up so I had to watch him fly away as I helplessly fell slowly. went after again this time aggroed, but managed to land in the middle of a group of jormungars and elementals. Vyra just stayed way up in the air and icebolted me so I couldnt get any attacks off. Deathgrip also wouldnt pull out of the air, mob is immune. almost killed me on third attempt as well but my frost plague and deathcoil killed it mostly.
Be careful where you pull!
评论来自
268337
that page also says "requires level 70" wich is not true..
评论来自
Harson
I just noticed that as well. Very strange, hope it's just a typo.
评论来自
283505
I have only one question, at what altitude does it fly?
评论来自
283562
it just dropped me like 50 yards or less from K3 ! he has 16k hp and hes quite easy! dropped a blue bag with 20g and frostweave cloth, a random blue AND THE AWESOMEEE MOUNT!
评论来自
234831
I saw it yesterday one my server but a paladin just swooped in an took it but he said in /Y wohoo i got it so the chance is 100% that it drops, plus it spawned one the ground so who ever said it cant spawn on ground is wrong
评论来自
dfgreat1
Found the TLPD dead at 8:10am this morning on the Icecrown - US server at 40,65
Screenshot :
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c234/dfgreat1/WoWScrnShot_121908_081021.jpg
Coords :
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:400650
edit: clarified zone and server
评论来自
drothar
Ah finally someone got the GM to say "spawn time" instead of just "spawn."
评论来自
nonentity
who/what are you referring to drothar?
评论来自
dfgreat1
Anyone consider making a spreadsheet with all the server and spawn info. If everyone reports their server, time and coordinates we could probably get some good statistical data. Any thoughts?
评论来自
277653
its height varies. in some areas its about 200 yards up in the air, in other areas its as close as 35-40. all in all you will almost certainly take some fall damage or need to use a snowfall lager in order to pull. I say again though, its really tough to pull vyra, probably tougher than tlpd. Just tough in that it stays out of melee range and casts on you so be ready to use a few health pots until it expends its own mana.
评论来自
dfgreat1
How do you tell how far something is in yards? Is there an Addon?
评论来自
lildave151
I wouldn't give too much credit to the blizz page. That page just really needs to be proof read. It also says that the Red Proto-Drake is from completing all Northrend normal difficulty raid achievements when it is in fact from completing all of the heroic dungeon achievements.
评论来自
TehAlex
I saw Vyragosa today, flying over Valkyrion, at approximately 27.8, 61.7. On top of that building is where I engaged. I have yet to see Dirkee or Time-Lost, but I think this location might confirm any suspicions as to patrolling areas. She was flying south, heading towards Bor's Breath.
Edited for Typos
评论来自
tsikoutos
So as i can see in a SS of conversasion with the GM , it can spawn in 3 different places.
I tried to "cheat" to find them using questhelper custom objectives.
"/qh find time-lost protodrake"
if the mob has been killed and the reins of the time-lost protodrake exist in the server cache,
questhelper can show u 2 "spawn" places witch are 28,65 & around 27,49.
Also i noticed something more.
I am using this custom objective a long time now and the spawn place that questhelper shows on the map differes between those 2 , so it may really work and shows me the spawn place that the time-lost protodrake spawned the last time.
Here is a SS of the map with the objective on
TLDP_QH
Good luck!
评论来自
HamBurger
it does not show the last place it spawned. i puts the skull at the nearest known spawn point to your current position.
if you sit at the spawn point where the skull is not it will update within 10 minutes and move it to place you are sitting.
评论来自
lildave151
TLPD killed at 45, 60. 12:15 am. Server: Gorefiend. Flying north at an altitude of maybe 60 yards. Macro started spamming me with the raid warning and I about freaked out. Flew right up, earth shocked and hit my snowfall lager. Lukily he followed me all the way down where I was able to kill him pretty easily. A horde lock came and killed me but the time-lost was already dead. I flew back, ressed and let him kill me again just so I could loot. Then flew back again and killed the lock. By this time there was at least 4-5 horde and a couple alliance around. I feel damn lucky. (Screenshot submitted.)
评论来自
tsikoutos
i am making this custom objective every time i log in.
And everytime i log in , in the same place like i am standing in the screenshot.
And i can surely tell u that "it puts the skull at the nearest known spawn" is not true 100% , there have been several times that the skull shows in the north place..
ANyway questhelper can proove 2 spawns and thit is the point of my post ;)
Also if u run the que for vyragosa , it seems that it has more spawn points that diferes with the 2 confirmed (by quest helper) for TLPD
评论来自
220860
just in case u all want to know, vyra was just killed 2:50 am st on gurubashi at 30,65
he was going north from the top of the frozen waterfall, woulda gone further but horde was lingering around.
评论来自
263797
Spotted over frozen waterfall at 37, 79. Check my uploaded screenshot.
评论来自
26074
http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/9126/timelostmq6.jpg
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/5153/timelostmapqo3.jpg
Found it last night at 12:30am EST on Gorefiend. Took a long way around Storm Peaks and found it a few minutes later, freshly killed. Excessively frustrated with that, but there you go. Right in the middle of the blue proto-drakes.
评论来自
235545
I Had it twice now... I found him exactly between Engine of the makers and Temple of storms..
As i was about to loot it another person farming for him said he had been looking for it for days on end.. long story short.. I invited him to the party and he got the mount! Merry Christmas man..
the second time just as i started to pull him exactly in front of Valkyrion.. he got ninja'd.. ohwell
Edit for post below.. my bad.. i invited him as i was killing it..
评论来自
tsikoutos
Yeah , and how u explain that i run the objective for TLPD and nothing shows,the same time the script for checking the server cache if the is stuck to retreiving item info.
Some minutes after running again the objectives and this time it finds the dragon.Also this time the script warks ,so someone has looted.
For the reason that i did it in about 5 minutes i went there to check for the corpse on myself.
And ofc i found the corpse.
So ,as it seems when u are searching for something to create an objective, qh checks (also) the server cache (maybe).
the sure thing is that questhelper on its own does not have such info .
评论来自
186371
well then someone must have killed it as soon as my server restarted because its been working since last sunday
评论来自
268337
delete \World of Warcraft\Cache\WDB\enGB\Itemcache.wdb
评论来自
moorent
US-Hellscream
The item link was stuck on retrieving data until Friday night around 12:30am. I found and killed the drake today, Saturday, at 4:40pm at coordinates 35,35. He was flying west over the huge valley when i spotted him from the Ulduar meeting stone.
http://i43.tinypic.com/4h4nyd.jpg
评论来自
Daoni
First of all thanks for all the posts and at times fun reading!
Just wanted to input my way of "slackgrinding" this mount:
Make the handy ingame macro:
/tar Dirkee
/tar Vyra
/tar Time
/stopmacro
/tell YOURNAME > %t <
Bind the new macro to a key ingame. (I used this: | )
Get a new keyboard (why not use a little extra on a good keyboard when you obviously have no problem sitting hour after hour on your machine) that will let you make macros:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logitech_G15
Make your timed keyboard macro! WoW detects some timed events it seems and not all works as intended; but this seems to work like a charm for me: {press | 0.025 sec - wait 0.750 sec - press | 0.025 sec - wait 0.750 sec - press | 0.025 sec - wait 0.750 sec}
Or just look at this image:
http://www.tseierstad.no/wow/images/g15macro.jpg
Make sure you have set the macro repeat option to TOGGLE as this will be your "on/off" button for your repeated macro
Download this mod or similar:
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/chat-sounds.aspx
(Configure with /chatsounds and set the MOST anoying sounds for incoming and outgoing whispers - Disable all game sounds, as the mod plays the sound files anyway.
Place yourself in your best spot you can think of after reading this thread
Start up your favorite TV show on screen number two =) Activate wow window again; and hit your G15 button. Now just fly round until you hopefully hear the sounds play. NB! when agroing something you WILL be arroused thinking you hit gold.. it is just the macro playing you a trick since you just aquired a target ;)
Now im gonna put this to the test =) Happy hunting fellow geeks!
评论来自
186371
I like this targetting macro MUCH better because it doesnt spam your chat box and it automatically untargets if you accidentally get aggro from something. It also doesnt spam the sound if the target is dead but it still targets it.
/cleartarget
/tar Time-Lost
/stopmacro ,
/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\interface\\RaidWarning.wav")
I actually use 2 different macros so that I know instantly if its TLPD or just dirkee/vyra. This is the other one.
/cleartarget
/tar Dirkee
/tar Vyragosa
/stopmacro ,
/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Spells\\Bonk1.wav")
and wow, that is a nice keyboard but its also $100.
评论来自
220860
BAHHH i cant find this thing, im patting the whole western side of the map and ive seen everything except the time lost. and ive tried numberous times to get a gm to reveal info but nothin
评论来自
277939
Just found Vyra's corpse at 40,64 on Darksorrow EU, nearly had a heart attack when the macro picked her up.
Screenshot:
http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/4262/wowscrnshot122108042332ul0.jpg
Exactly where someone found the TLPD's corpse on the previous page, funnily enough.
评论来自
186371
Finally got him tonight at 10:35pm server =D. I was in my normal camping spot which is the intersection between valkyrion and BB. I had killed Vyragosa here a few times and on 2 seperate paths so I figured my chances were good and tonight all my time looking for it paid off.
http://s376.photobucket.com/albums/oo208/dmc41883/?action=view¤t=WoWScrnShot_122108_020234.jpg
评论来自
278861
I Killed Varygos last night at 02.01 am and when i logged on this morning to continue my farming for this awesome drake i asked the general chat if it was any news on Time-Lost or Varygosa and 1 guy tells me that he had seen Time-Lost dead around 08.30 so the 6hours spawn time is there.
评论来自
263080
Reporting from Magtheridon EU. I have the exact location of one of the spawns. Above Valkyrion, a little north of the south gate. I can also confirm that Vyragosa and TLPD shares this spawnpoint because I've seen both of them spawn there.
Vyragosa spawned at 15.15 exactly 49 hours after the TLPD was killed east of the engine of the makers. I believe these two drakes share spawntimers, and that they have a small chance of spawning every hour.
http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk134/sileps/m9d3tmp.jpg
This is where it spawned. Its body is still lying under me as you can see.
评论来自
nonentity
Last confirmed Vyra spawn here was about...39 hours ago... -.- was out for a few hours last evening, even if she spawned back then it would be easily 12+ hours since the last spawn. I'm checking 2 spawn points together with a friend so I got a pretty good chance of getting him. Luckily script still turns up nothing, so at least TLPD wasn't killed then.
Nearly had a heart attack right now, I'm above the blue drake field and spotted some green/bronze proto-drake beneath me... *heart stops* target it... it's a blue drake with some disease or whatever from the guy that was fighting him... phew.. woulda killed me to lose him being that close.
评论来自
Harson
My alt just reached Storm Peaks level(Yay!) and bought epic flying, so hoping for a miracle where I just fly into him :>
By the way- spotted a dead Vyra by the blue drake field yesterday.
评论来自
Hutchi
had vyra spawn twice 16hrs apart @ 29,65 on aggramar eu, was right ontop of me both times,
first time 0300 (server time) flew the anticlockwise terrace route just over twice before been taken down, was up for 32 mins(so either doesnt despawn or its rather long),
2nd 1900(server time) started loop opposite way but was killed before i could find if it was terrace route been done clockwise or the loop of temple
评论来自
MajinSpleen
I just started 'farming' Time-Lost yesterday around noonish, and so far I've found Vyragosa twice and Dirkee once, infact today I saw them prolly an hour apart. Tried soloing Dirkee and almost got 3 shotted :P. But as far as Vyragosa goes she is quite easy to solo if you can get her on the ground as a melee class.
评论来自
Firebrande
I just killed Vyragosa on the Skywall server @ 1:34p, PST at 28.1, 49.3 coords. She was headed into Valkyrion, right above the little ice cave with the Mechagnome in it. She dropped a Azure Dragonhide blue boomkin helm and 16g +20 Frostweave cloth. She was maybe 100 yards up from the ground, right at the height of the tallest pine tree at those coord's but the macro showed her dead body from an unbelievable height... those /tar macros really do have a hell of a range on them.
Hope this helps! :)
评论来自
207882
I just killed him at around 2:40PM server time on the Kil'jaeden server. I saw him coming out of Sifreldar Village heading down and in front of BB before I tagged him. He hit me for like 500 damage each (and I'm a clothy), so yeah, he's REALLY easy to kill. More of a "find this guy earn a free mount!" deal. Below is a screenshot of my kill. It took around 15 minutes or so before he despawned.
http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/7695/timelostprotokillct2.jpg
评论来自
nonentity
Nice.
What bothers me though... at several pictures there seems to be a .... "tear" right down the middle......
for example between WoWScrnShot_122108_214736 and WoWScrnShot_122108_214738, right down the middle. Not only does it go through the "world" but also right through your UI... what's up with that?
评论来自
268337
no idea.. its not on my local files and i just downloaded my up too.. dont see it there either..
try zooming or opening it with another app
评论来自
263956
i just viewed the pics they all look fine to me O.o; all i did was use the windows viewer ~shrugs~ but thats awesome that you disproved people's saying that it de-spawned after x amount of time ^^
the pathing also gives me hope i can find this rare mount on the live server where i have been camping the same spot for almost a week (not including my other 3 weeks of flying all over the place trying to catch this guy xP )
great job on it ^^ and I never even thought of trying to find him an watch his pathings on a private server, and good luck finding another spawn for the other pathings on ptr ^^
评论来自
nonentity
Same here, also using the standard Windows XP viewer, it is the zoom-setting it seems, when I zoom in it looks the same. No clue why the hell it displays this way, I view the pics in the normal zoom setting, there it's... "bugged". When I zoom in it's fine.
Weird...
@disproving the despawn - not true imo. Gotta remember this is Test server. What's true there isn't necessarily the same way on Live servers.
Who knows, maybe they remove, him despawning, in 3.08?
That's not on a Private Server, but on the PTR, Public Test Realm, the official Test server.
I'd actually love for someone who runs a private server to check into TLPD. They got GM permissions and so on there so they should be able to find out and reveal a great deal more information than official GMs are allowed to/want to.
The shown route has been pretty much confirmed already, but very nice to actually see it. My camp in BB isn't ideal, but if he makes it here I should definitely see be able to catch him with the macro.
btw, now at 49h no spawn, either or the 2 or 3 -.- Even if Vyra spawned while I was out yesterday we'd be at bout 28 hours of nothing already... great. Either that means nothing at all, or it means that he's bugged or that this is the 'foreplay' and he'll finally spawn, maybe tomorrow, maybe in two days.... no clue.
One Vyra I killed bout in the middle of Bor's Fall actually seemed to have slipped "into" the waterfall, even seconds after I killed her I could still target her with the macro but couldn't see her anywere near and I imagine seeing her slipping downwards after I killed her. I figured she's just 'end up' on the lower step so I didn't really pay attention, but a few seconds after I took off and I turned round and decided to sit our her despawn - couldn't find the body anywhere near where I killed her, yet was still able to catch her with the macro. Maybe a clipping error or whatever.
Unfortuantely I don't remember if that was the last Vyragosa I killed or not, maybe that somehow bugged the spawns....
评论来自
268337
yea ofc PTR dont proove anything, but i really doubt they've changed it..
and i dunno, but i dont think a private server would help.. I really doubt Pservs have official data for anything that cant be seen through normal clients.. the rest is just made by the people who made the Pserv.. else all data of the game would allready be known.. boss tactics wouldn't say "hits for about x on plate" etc.. everything would be exact numbers..
but i did try a Pserv... but it was just an old beta.. no npc's in storm peaks at all.. :s
Edit: just followed Vyra on the Ulduar route.. on.. hmm.. spanish PTR i think.. hehe.. (edit again, it was still there an hour later.. was easy to kill in resto gear as 0/0/0 spec luls)
MrReeds route isnt entirely true.. but he talks about it clipping with a building in the east end of ulduar, so maybe they corrected the route to prevent it.. anyways.. it flew over the gorge between Ulduar and terace like
this
(route not 100% accurate but its close enough and you can spot em from pretty far away anyways.. ;) )
评论来自
286228
macro hit gold just as I logged on. I'd searched for him about 2 weeks until I took a break from looking for this to get to 80. i'm glad i did!
found him at 32,65, and then flew two circles around bor's breath until i finally caught up to him at 36,66 (regular mount speed). you can still see him from about 30-35 yards away. I was actually surprised to see how low he was flying when I first saw him - about 10-15 yards off the ground.
http://img50.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot122308001600ey8.jpg
评论来自
262560
Dooon't Stop!
Belieeeeeeevin'!
评论来自
zabatzu
I saw it flying around above Brunnhildar Village, freaked out and let my friend have it.
http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/9199/wowscrnshot122208105508mf9.jpg
评论来自
220860
just saw vyragosa again flying south from 39.47. i had JUST logged in and 5 seconds later my macro went crazy, i let him go cause he was to high for me and a warlock got him and dotted him to death like they do best but when i flew away i kept macroing him for the longest time. so i know the the time lost hasnt spawned in a while yet cause i know my macro woulda hit him by now. btw if u want details. gurubashi server 12:00 pm st on the dot
评论来自
12472
It spawned at 30.67 at 2:50 pm on a Monday.
Hope this helps
评论来自
zexz
yeeesh an hour or so camping and finally he show's up, the kill was located 42,57.
http://data.fuskbugg.se/skalman01/WoWScrnShot_122208_224612.jpg
评论来自
286312
Shortly after I read your post (OverOne) about the PTR TLPD route I came across Vyragosa. My macro hit in a typical camp spot of mine near the waterfall in BB. I had positioned myself slight higher than normal because I read a few posts about TLPD coming down the mountain near Frosthold. Per your screen shots on the PTR it is clear that TLPD does indeed do come down the Mt. near frosthold as part of its route. I can CONFIRM that I followed Vrya for 2 complete circles of the SAME exact route you posted that the TLPD was on. Thus, it further shows that TLPD and Vyra are most likely on the same routes on live as well as the PTR shown by OverOne's images.
评论来自
238763
Two questions:
Is there a 'server reset' each Tuesday (for US) where the server cache would be reset, and if so, at what time is it?
And, after server resets, is there a guarantee one of these mobs will be spawned?
Thanks in advance.
评论来自
286841
Hi all :)
Going trought the comments , was like reading a great dragon hunt book with all of you hunters noting down every possible theories...
so i decided to join the hunting party and get that trophy ...ouuuyééé
i've have seen all the maps posted and ideas suggested, i relied on screenshots mainly !
1- all the maps and paths posted good to follow, from Ulduar To K3
Vyragosa in ulduar (( i don't know if it was pathing or not, the macro hooked it, turned the camera around like crazy for 1 sec...then saw her head going out of the green area in the wall , head first then the body, maybe she was passing througt the bulding ! almost sure she has just spawned because i was on my way back then i catched her ( i don't afk Oh no ! ).
i couldn't pull her ): if your are a melee class, i think don't pull her, or call a friend caster,because she won't go down,playing a war i did a heroic throw and fall a pretty, it kept spaming frost bolt, i did wathever i could to get to it, noway, untill i brought it next the camp guards that killed it she almost had me; and guess what no loot !
My personal map :
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:475262329353246493309485374516418530388603353623321656288652275702367724375790391831459755485693493609475539516491646444721487527341396396257592366297274427375553436580382448436805506304427264545434593434
screens :
http://img520.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot122308015002ly9.jpg
http://img385.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot122308015551zp6.jpg
评论来自
286904
I heard first time about this from my brother, not long ago. Having leveling still to do, I ignored this whole thing and said that I would never fall to farming that thing. Later on, I came curious about that dragon and so I started this morning the patrolling around Storm Peaks. So far, I were lucky enough to spot and kill Vyragosa and now im really excited to spot, Time-Lost Proto Drake. Intresting thing was, Vyragosa was flying in Terrace of Makers (high above the big structures). After killing him, I looked at the map which has been posted here, and saw that this dragon was flying pretty randomly according to that map. I didnt spot him because of the patroll route I do, no. It was just pure luck, and now Im wondering if the same goes for Time-Lost Proto Drake. So what I think is, Time-Lost Proto Drake will spawn eventually after he is dead, but has nothing to do with the two other rares. And also, I think this dragon patrolls whole Storm Peaks, strongly between Terrace of Makers and Ulduar.
Ofcourse this is just my thought on this, but I sure keep searching every spot, not only those where Vyragosa has been killed.
BTW: I dont think that Time-Lost is hostile to anyone, except players. Cmon, both of the dragons are very weak, wouldnt it be strange to see rare that has been killed by some normal mobs. Not to mention those white birds, which are elites (forgot names).
I whish everyone luck and happy hunting. Now I think myself too, that this dragon is worth farming if you really want it. Well not farming, but going to look for it once a day or so.
评论来自
287012
For those of us who are melee classes and who are having trouble fighting Vyragosa due to her staying high, I had the same problem when I started my hunt. The first time I saw her I was lucky enough to aggro her when she was passing over terrain high enough for me to to hit her from.
What I've done since then is fly through her to draw aggro, then stay on my mount and keep enough of a distance to make her stop using ranged attacks and start following me, without going so far that she loses interest. There's not a great margin of error but if you find that sweet spot she will follow you, and you can pull her down towards the ground or to an outcrop or ledge you can get stabby from. Of course, there's always the chance that some ranged class with come along and steal the kill since you won't have actually attacked it yet, but maybe it's possible to do this on foot too so you can get that all-important first hit in.
Oh, and I have no idea if any of this is relevant to TLPD, as I haven't seen him yet and don't know if he's prone to staying high up and using ranged attacks like Vyragosa is.
I've seen Vyragosa 6 times on Blade's Edge EU in the week I've been hunting, killed her 5 of those times and haven't seen TLPD once, not even as a corpse.
Good hunting everyone!
Oh and Vistadoesntsuck, that post has given me motivation for another week's hunting, thanks!
评论来自
zealouslol
Hasnt been looted this week according to the script, and I have camped here 15+ hours a day since last reset, the RNG on this mob is seriously frustrating.
I have killed Vyragosa a total of 6 times this week averaging a spawn per day, and seen it dead once, 15 hours apart from my own personal kill, and Im curious to know how Vyra/Time-Lost react with server maintenance
Ah, 4:50 GMT, about 24 hours after my last kill -
http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/3820/wowscrnshot122308164822xx5.jpg
Exactly the same spawn point as 24 hours ago, Vyragosa has officialy spawned once every day this week on my realm, Iand I have had 6 of the kills, and helped on the 7th.
(Deathgrip works btw!)
评论来自
233804
i camped him for a month. went all the path's that other players put, made 2 micros to track him and still nothing. Am always there day and night time still no rare mobs spawns at all. can u tell me if he really spawns only in storm peak or in ice crown too ?
评论来自
220860
i know what u mean, ive seen him countless times to. but theres a ton of horde campin out for it to so i dont hear of all the spawns. i think blizzard really doesnt want this thing to spawn but once every blue moon. i heard the tlpd body stays for at least 30 mins or so after kill. i havnt even seen as much as a dead body but im going to try after servers go back up, that might be just what it needs to spawn
评论来自
287389
I would like to add that Dirkee does NOT share a spawn timer with the Time-Lost Proto Drake. I found that Vyragosa spawned at 11:30 ST on Archimonde-US and Dirkee spawned at 1:30 ST. Coincidence? Maybe, but I do know that this isn't the first time Dirkee has spawned randomly. Vyragosa has a pattern of spawn with the Time-Lost Proto Drake where as Dirkee does not.
I can also conclude that the Time-Lost Proto Drake does not have a 6 hour spawn timer as it has not spawned in a week on my server. I find this because it has a 50% chance to spawn since it is shared with Vyragosa. Vyragosa does happen to spawn exactly 24 and/or 48 hours later from the time I saw her spawned and killed by another player.
An additional note, she was flying at the north entrance of Valkyrion at an equal distance from the village and the Temple of Storms at a height of a bout 50-70 yards. She has a ranged attack so people had to fly through her to pull her down to the ground. Fairly weak and I would of gotten the kill if I had not gotten blast-waved off a cliff by an alliance Mage =*(.
Again, Dirkee does not share a spawn timer with Vyragosa or the TLPD!
评论来自
284447
1 thing i wana say , i killed him at 00.47, we when there to find him again 6 hour later but he wasint there, we did all day the thing for every 6 hours but no result,
then again we when at the same time i found him but nothing,
i dont think he respawn every 6 hour or mabey 1 a day ,
评论来自
186371
I killed vyragosa 6 times personally. Saw her dead about 3-4 others. Before I got my TLPD I had never seen TLPD dead or alive. It was about 10:35 pm server (1:35 am my time) and he was coming from valkyrion going into bors breath. He despawned exactly 30 minutes after killed. 2 of the times I killed vyragosa I caught her in the same spot and in the same direction as my TLPD kill. 1 other time I killed her was in the same spot but coming from bors breath and around frosthold mountain. The lake between valkyrion and bors breath is an excellent camping spot imo.
评论来自
263956
on Firetree I just killed Vyra at 9:15pm server time. cords were 39, 63 and it looked like she was headed up to the brood mothers nest. wasn't super high from the ground, i'd say at the least the normal height or more common height these rares are reported at.
Not sure fi this is helpful or not to anyone, because as far as i can tell there is no common spawn time or link in times as to when the drake may spawn again. Also it seems to have been evading the firetree server for the past week, so hopefully it'll spawn at least once this week ^^;
~yes im still at it.. going on i think 5th week of this now idk i think i lost count somewhere x.x ~
评论来自
Mukaltin
Reposting the comment I've just made on Vyragosa page:
I've just followed Vyragosa on one of her patrol routes around Temple of Storms mountain. That was the third time I spotted her taking this path (out of 4 times I've already seen her alive), and all three times my macro dinged when she descended from the Frosthold mountain. I believe that this is one of her spawn points, evenmore once she made a full loop she flew over that point at insanely low height, almost descending to the ground level.
So the path I've followed her was like: Frosthold mnt -> Valkyrion -> Shadowdrift plains -> Terrace of Makers -> 38,49 -> Engine of Makers -> Abandoned camp -> Frosthold mnt. The most surprising thing for me was an attitude she takes over Bor's Breath... It's incredibly high!
Proof video:
http://vimeo.com/2617252
So I'll try to contribute to our TLPD research :) If TPLD and Vyragosa do share their pathes, I strongly believe that one of his spawn points is around 31,69 (on the Frosthold mountain slope).
Hope, it helps! Ghallar <Ultimate Chaos> of Kul Tiras EU.
评论来自
286841
7 hours roaming, only a dirkee ! that i catched 30 sec after i conect !
http://img392.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot122308222913ef2.jpg
http://img72.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot122308224748sp1.jpg
as i coneted at the engine of makers heading towards ulduar....macro hooked Dirkee that didn't appeared in my achievement after it killed me two times and died the 3rd, but my friend who i was grouped with got it !
i heard the TLPD's been killed today at 14h am ! more than 12 hours later still nothing ... and i also heard it was killed at 6 pm yesterday , i killed vyragosa around 3pm the same night
- if i rely on the info given by players in the general chan : less than one day spawn, can spawn 2 times in row and then not respawn for a while !
Good luck that's freaking too random
评论来自
288004
Ok. Now I have to say I have read all the comments. And from what I understand there are at least 10 people here who has seen/killed the dragonkin.
Everyone did it on different places, different times with different gaps between Vyragosa and Dirkee kills.
So to be really honest with you, have you still not figured it out?
He has his spawn locations, he has his routes and he has his spawn/despawn times. And they are and will always be different. There is no "effective" way to look for him. He pretty much hang around that area and what you need to do is to spend alots of time looking for him, AND GET LUCKY SOME DAY if you even will!
Im sorry to dissapoint you guys but from all the comments I get the feeling that everything is random with this mob. Think of it for a minute, he has 100% droprate on a Epic flying Proto-drake.
It is not supposed to be easy to find him. Just keep looking, and hope you and I get lucky.
I just killed Vyragosa standing on a peak, but she fell and landen in the middle of a peak making it impossible to loot. There was no place to stand. Im happy I bumped in to Vyragosa and not the Time-Lost Proto Drake. I learned a lesson now and I want you guys to be careful too.
Kill the dragonkin and make sure it is a safe place to be able to loot him afterwards.
Good luck to you all and myself! Some day...
评论来自
288024
Hi Guy´s
Well i got mine last week thursday after camping him for 2 week straight not sleeping much. My makro hit him as i was camping at BB there were the little waterfall is. First thought was ? what is this ? oh tlpd .........WTF ! omgomgomg went to him dismounted , shot , tried to use my snowfallthingermagig but somehow i didnt ^^ Died ! Schock ! couldent believe this was happening. Came back to my body, mounted and flew as fast i could. Got him again going up to the engine at that little camp and still was able to tag him ! :) Pulled him down blew his ass away and looted. I was the third to get him on the server from alli point. I also had a friend who camped with me every now and then. The funny thing is he downed him to at exakt the same spot pretty much exakt 12 hours later the same day, so maybe the 12 hour spawn is correct not that he spawns ever 12 hours but he or Vyra.
Well that was my fight for the lost one, to the guys still out there every night Dont give up, he´s out there! go get him he´s worth every hour ! :)
Happy Hunting
edit : he was flighing just a littel over the trees there not fast at about 60% his melee really suxx and he came in for melee right away. iwas pretty near him so i dont know what its like when he´s further away.
评论来自
287450
ATTENTION PRIESTS/TECH GENIUSES:
should a macro like /cast Mind Vision work? it has unlimited range.
评论来自
267783
All these comment have been very useful ( maps, vids & stuff) but i've read some comments about people checking the cache system for checking whether the reigns have dropped or not
I was wondering how do u check that actually ?
/an eager drakehunter
评论来自
HamBurger
/script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Shift-click this to place a link into a chat message: \124cffa335ee\124Hitem:44168:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0\124h\124h\124r");
that is the macro to check the link for the reins. if it shows retrieving information it has not been looted since last server reset. if the link works then it has been looted. once its been looted go to your wow directory and delete the cache folder to reset it.
评论来自
cremor
There is a easier way:
Just try to link it in the guild channel. If a link is sent the item was seen since the last server restart. If only the text is sent it was not.
That way you don't have to delete your cache.
评论来自
Tekari
To those of you that have found the dragon; what loc were you camping at when you successfully "tagged" him?
评论来自
HamBurger
but if you do it that way , once it has been looted the link will always work. in order to go back to retrieving item information you must delete ur cache folder.
评论来自
zealouslol
No it wont, because the cache log is temporary because the mount is added to your "pets" item slots, after the Maintenance, the cache is refreshed, thus making the macro work
评论来自
nonentity
awesome luck right now....... lol.... well, almost...
went back home for christmas, just went online to check ingame mail etc. flew to K3, on my way back I tagged Vyragosa with the macro.... wasn't online for at least 12 hours and she's up just now... but damn, why was it not TLP.... :/
Spotted her over Sifreldar (or whatever) Village, started to fly down Bor's Fall when I killed her, so probably Engine->K3 etc. route.
评论来自
HamBurger
i know this but it can be looted more than once a week, so if you wanna keep track u have to delete the folder.
评论来自
Cogeme
Got it today, spotted it close to Valkyrion. I was omw to do the dailies for Sons of Holdir and I pretty much ran into it at the first peak when entering Storm Peaks from Valkyrion side. A big relief thou, since i've spent several hours trying to find it and it served himself as a perfect christmas gift :D....
评论来自
288402
Just seen this rare dead as i flew past Temple of storms
评论来自
263956
still no sign of the time-lost but got killed by 2 allis trying to take down Vyra around 9:40am
I didn't know 20 some odd gold an cloth was worth getting killed over lol, ;P silly prot pally found out how annoying a resto druid could be though.
didn't get the kill but i still took them out xD so i feel better. As far as the mount goes it dosen't seem to have been looted yet this week so maybe i'll get lucky here soon ^.^ even if i don't it's still fun ... or at least maybe i'll figure out a sort of timer or spawn pattern or anything useful..
Oh vyra was heading into Valk and flying what looked to be the path where it loops near the HoL
didn't get to follow her as long as I wanted to.
~Firetree server
评论来自
Jagema
I personally waited until server restart because it's impossible to track if you don't have any clues where to start or when it was killed etc.
So I checked every now and then from around 10:52 AM, time at which my server came up. After a few breaks, I followed the usual BB's Waterfall -> Engine route and there it was, Vyragosa lying dead in the intersection of these 2 areas, as
this screenshot
can confirm, at 5:53PM. I also read a few pages back that it spawned at 11PM for another guy who also waited for server maintenance.
To sum up, this means that you can wait for maintenance day, then start looking at these times. For me, today, it seems it took 7 hours to spawn, although something leads me to think the spawn timers are on multiples of 3, or up to 6.
I'll try to update this post with future findings, until then, happy hunting.
评论来自
186933
killed vyra yesterday at about 620ish sever PM at 28 66 was flying south from valkyrion twards bor' breath. then almost 11 hours later at 5am server today killed dirkee at about 43 40. have yet to see TLD this week.
评论来自
230660
the GM I talked to implied that only a player could take him down.
评论来自
zealouslol
How about read the thread?
评论来自
Gent
Something wierd is going on, on my server *icecrown*. I've litterally got 3 accounts logged in, in 3 seperate spawn areas (all grouped so I can tap and fly my main for the loot). All using a g15 macro keyboard to just spam that macro. Not a single rare has spawned since server came up from maintenace around 1:30pm yesterday. it's been almost 26 hours now..... :( Was a shame as last week I had around 5 Dirkee kills and 8 Vyragosa kills. Just missed TLPD by about 1 minute as I made a route. (part of the reason I swapped to logging all my accounts on and grouping, increased my rare kill count tremendously)
评论来自
Royi
i think GM's are purposely contradicting each other for amusement
this is probably the main topic of hilarity on thier 15 minute smoke breaks :-P
GM1: I told this guy today that the Time-Lost is actually a rare spawn that only appears when you have become Exhaulted with Ravenholdt -
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/faction=349
, and they actually believed me!
GM2: LOL! Thats nothing though, I told a kid earlier that the Time-Lost only spawned for 30 seconds at a time, depending on the Lunar Tides and the gravitational pull of Neptune.
GM1: I really hope no one ever finds out the secret that you simply have to /yell Jous Dosstan!
GM2: I know right, then we would only have RL things to talk about while on our breaks from Blizz :-P
评论来自
186371
I never believed there was a guarantee of a rare spawn even every day. With 3 accounts logged in at once you are bound to get him soon.
评论来自
Gent
Ya, im pretty sure this just debunked any 3-6 hour respawn timer and put's in more in the line of pure randomness.
评论来自
Bultaco
It just dropped for me on Stormrage EU, at 1.34am server time. It was flying counterclockwise around the temple of storms, through bors breath and valkyrion, and I tagged and killed it in the little passage just about Valkyrion. It came right into melee range, unlike Vyragosa, so it was a very easy kill. Hardest thing about it was trying to focus through the shakes!
Corpse stayed around for only 10 minutes.
评论来自
289135
Got it today! Thank god little alliance children have to be with their parents on christmas. 19:00 EU Lightbringer, first Horde character with it ^^! For the Horde!
评论来自
244510
Got it today, don't know how I found it but I was going to tank heroic HoL, flying up there I saw it and was like OMG OMG OMG, then I dismounted in the air, fell down, missed my parachute and started the fight with 3khp... But I got it! Right around the enterance into HoL.
评论来自
cremor
Where is the difference?
Deleting your cache will query the server for the item. And the server will only send the item information if the item was seen (read: looted, because no one will not learn that mount as soon as he gets it) since the last server reboot. No difference if it was looted once or ten times.
Same for linking in the guild chat. If the item wasn't looted no link will be created (only text is sent). If the item was looted once (or ten times) since the last server reboot a link is sent.
评论来自
153953
Like Overcharged Capacitor, there is a cruel truth to Time-Lost Proto-Drake's name.
评论来自
289731
I just killed Vyragosa at 27, 65 8:32AM EST on Zul'Jin. The location is just at the entrance to Valkyrion from BB. Vyragosa was moving Counter-Clockwise. Despawn time was 30 mins. I am 99% sure that her spawn location is at Valkyrion, or at least one of her spawn locations.
http://img114.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vyragosavk3.jpg
评论来自
289761
Hi. My first post here. I'm just stopping in to express my gratitude to all the people who have taken their time to give helpful hints on finding Time-Lost Proto drake ^^.
After 3 full weeks of farming Time- lost i just found him (xmas morning!). I found him in Bor's Breath EXACTLY 12 hours after i saw him killed by some horde N00b.
The #1 way i can suggest to you in finding time lost is finding him or Varygosa first, then going on with your day, write down the exact time and come back 12 hours later and do full circles of the Bor's breath and Foot Steppes, specifically paying most attention to Bor's breath. In the course of 3 weeks i have seen him spawn here by far the most, about 6/8 times, the other 2 were in Foot Stepps and up by Ulduar.
Other Suggestions :
Don't give up lol. Chances are your not going to be lucky with a quick pass through and find him. This drake is going to take some serious time and dedication. Make your macro and hold your ground, on my server at any given time there is 20+ people looking for him. You just need to find the best route and get there first, i'de suggest if you have a guildy in the zone that you contact him prior just in case you need to quickly invite him to group and ML so he can defend you. Horde will insta kill you if they see you killing Time lost, it has happend to me. The first time i found him, was in Bor's breath, 2 horde shammys set up totems popped hero and blew me away lol. So yeah, have backup handy if you can.
Suggestion 2- Bring pots if your not a healer, your probably going to take a lot of fall damage because he pats pretty high, I had to aggro him and pull him to the ground to avoid dying. If you know the time he is going to spawn by coming back 12 hours if you initially seen him insure you are SS'd to, that would help out alot.
Well thanks guys i hope some of this info helps out, and thanks to everyone else who has helped me :)
Merry x mas from Ner'Zhul.
评论来自
186371
Wow 20+ people at once? After about 11:00pm theres no one looking for it on my server. Thats why I started camping at night and thats when I got mine. He could spawn far away and would still make it to my camping spot cuz there would be no one to kill him.
评论来自
Kooremiks
Kooremiks here (77 Gnome Arcane Mage At Vek'nilash)
Guys Follow these steps Groo made They are very good! I did read the tips 24/12/2008 04.00 And i did get known with the map he was following for 1 hour and did search for it but sadly servers went down 05.00 So i went to bed and did get up and went to fly the map again twice(takes 10 min), Didnt see anything. So i went haveing christmas with my family and after dinner i went down to fly the Map twice again(takes 10 min). But when i went down to my room 24/12/2008 20.30 i was loggin in and had just flew 30-40yards before i got "Time-Lost Proto-Drake" on my Target, I didnt belive what i saw, so i flyed pulled it and Went down on the ground, And i did it with 77 Gnome Arcane Mage ( As some1 know Dragonskin Mobs have Insane much resistanse to Spells and Magics) So its no Problem to solo it. And 30 sec after i killed it a Dr shaman and a Ne Druid+ Undead mage. So its alot of ppl that hunting this drake, Acually the whole started with a talk in the guild chat with a guy in guild thats been hunting it whole day ^^. Btw Forgot to Write Cords Was up there and got them today :P Cords: 45,7 52,2
Cheer At Groo ;)
评论来自
zealouslol
Just caught Vyra (again, 9th time, those helmets are begining to irritate me), just north of K3, and I was incredibley surprised at the height she was flying -
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/61/wowscrnshot122508204329ih5.jpg
Path she took was from the bottom of Bors Breath (Where I caught here) Up the large waterfall, over Sifreldar Village, into the Blue Wrym Field east of the Engine
评论来自
273852
This is turning to be a hunt for Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster
评论来自
289761
Here is a video of the path i used to find my drake. Happy Hunting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuK__L_1D3A&feature=channel_page
评论来自
238763
Hey guys, finally found mine and thought I'd share my method:
I'd been running routes for 2 weeks straight about 3-5 hours a day. I had my macro, patrol knowledge, etc. but wasn't too lucky. I read on one of these pages about the special keyboard that auto pressed the key to the '/tar' macro (or however it worked) and after sitting in my mind for a while I had an idea. Anyone who's played Runescape is familiar with auto-clickers and auto-typers. So after browsing I found a suitable one.
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Auto-Typer-And-Auto-Clicker-Download-52265.html
This is the one I used. You should be able to figure out how it works. Put WoW in windowed mode. Make sure your macro has both dragons and makes noise.
/target time
/target Vyragosa
/target dirkee
/stopmacro
/run RaidNotice_AddMessage(RaidBossEmoteFrame,"THERE IT IS! KILL IT!", ChatTypeInfo)
/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\interface\\RaidWarning.wav")
Now, from everything you've read in this topic, pick a single spot to
sit and wait
.Turn off all sound (Not volume, but un-check all the Playback selections). You'll still be able to hear the Raid Warning. Finally, run the client. Select the Auto Clicker and set a speed. Place your cursor over your macro. It doesn't look like it is clicking, but it is. You should place it over a spell to make sure it is working.
You're free to do anything you want now (off the computer), because surely you've turned the volume of your speakers all the way up so you can hear it will you watch a movie in the other room. You won't auto log out while using this, so for those of you with the computer in your bedroom, you will hear it when a dragon passes by during the night. It woke me up twice to Vyragosa, but alerted my to the real prize while I was playing my Xbox.
As a side note, for a camping spot I used the frozen lake south of Valkyrion (28,65) because this is a major intersection for each of the patrol routes, and I believe also a main spawn point.
I sincerely hope this helps, and I would love to answer any questions in order to return the favor to the community that made it possible to earn this awesome mount.
Thank you to the fellow campers on Altar of Storms for having a pleasant attitude, and if anyone on this server finds the TLPD using this method I hope to hear a /tell on my character Ðeathmeister.
评论来自
186371
Thats another reason I decided to either be close to my comp playing xbox so I would hear it if I got whispered by a GM. Or leave it on late at night while im asleep cuz there is literally no one to report me late at night. If your computer is close you can turn the volume up really loud and even the sound of a GM whisper will wake you up. I would not have my TLPD right now if it wasnt for leaving an "auto clicker" running all night while im asleep. I camped this drake nearly non stop for the first week and it finally spawned while I was doing 1 heroic which took maybe an hour. Thats when I decided to start using the "auto clicker" and its what got me my TLPD.
I got the logitech G15 keyboard for xmas and it is a great keyboard even aside from the macro functions. Programming it to spam your macros is as easy as falling off a log and its also less buggy than programs like autoit. If you want a really nice keyboard and a huge asset in getting the drake I definately reccomend it. All you gotta do is bring up your logitech G-series keyboard profiler. Click settings>profiler then check record delays during quick macro creation. Log into WoW and hit the MR button (macro recorder). It will tell you to press a G key (the one you want assigned the macro) then you will press the key/s you want the macro to use and at the pace you want them pressed, then just hit the MR button again and your macro is saved. I use 1 macro for dirkee/vyragosa and 1 for TLPD, they are set to down and right (not a good idea if you use the keyboard to turn). Last thing you wanna do is open the keyboard profiler again and left click the macro you made. Scroll down to repeat options and check Toggle. Now you can toggle your macro on and off just by pressing the G key you assigned it to.
btw I believe that automation software is referring to programs like @#$%^& which actually moves your character around and makes them fight/loot etc.
I didnt know the name of the program is censor material, sorry about that =D
评论来自
291366
I ended up asking a GM about the Time-Lost Proto Drake on the tail-end of resolving another issue, and this bit of dialogue took place.
http://img155.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gmprotoha4.jpg
Thought you might like a screenshot of what their official stance is.
10+ hours and counting on the hunt...
评论来自
289131
Finally she's mine! I'm on the US Ravenholde server, i've been hunting this drake for days with my 80 Orc Warlock Daku. The past few days I've mostly been reading all the information I could get on this drake and Vyragosa while periodically patrolling the known and hypothesized paths.
Tonight, December 27 2008, at approximately 10:37pm EST after reading some more info on the drake I alt-tabbed into the game and clicked on my macro (I was at 28,65) and immediately it gave me a loud raid warning and I saw those huge words in the middle of the screen telling me "There it is! Kill it!" First thought that came to my mind was that it must be Vyragosa, but I looked to the top-left corner of my screen and it said Time-Lost Proto Drake, I almost fell of my chair as I quickly told my windrider to go forward.
At that point I still had not made visual contact and I started to panic, but a second later I saw it at approximately 32,65 heading west towards me at an approximately 45 degree angle. I flew near its body until I got aggro and then I dismounted and casted shadowflame to try to tag it but that was a very bad choice because of its small range, I actually missed and the drake was the first to land a hit on me, actually two for a total of about 1000 damage. I forgot all about my snowfall lager and took 11555 damage from the fall. I told myself to calm down the tag is mine this drake is mines but all of a sudden an 80 Human Paladin named Settanna appeared and tried to kill me. I panicked once again wondering how embarrasing it would be to die and lose the drake to her. Seconds later I was dead but not before I killed the drake and looted its contents :)
The macro I used was basically a mix of the best elements I've found from the WowHead threads and other websites, this macro automatically selects this drake and Vyragosa and Dirkee (although it is now appearing as though he has no connection whatsoever with the drakes) and whispers you the target and gives a text raid warning on the middle of the screen and plays a loud raid warning sound. Also if you target something that's not one of these TOI for example a player this macro automatically deselects it:
/cleartarget
/tar Dirkee
/tar Vyra
/tar Time
/stopmacro
/tell Daku > %t <
/run RaidNotice_AddMessage(RaidBossEmoteFrame,"THERE IT IS! KILL IT!", ChatTypeInfo)
/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\interface\\RaidWarning.wav")
I spotted Vyragosa earlier today at my campsite at approximately 3:12pm EST, and she was killed about two minutes later.
For those of you who have been camping for long hours for the Time-Lost Proto Drake, keep trying, eventually this awesome mount will be yours! Here's proof:
http://img254.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot122708223748qj8.jpg
评论来自
225186
Can anyone tell me ca. how high up in the air their patrol routs are?
评论来自
291799
After about a week and a half of looking, finally got him. I tagged him via macro at the frozen lake below Valkyrion at around 1:30pm server time. This was actually the first time I waited instead of flying around.
I didn't think I was gonna have any luck but after an hour, there he was flying right toward me from the east and my macro alerted me with "THERE IT IS, KILL IT!". I flew into him and got aggro, landed as fast as I could and started doing damage. He went down easy. I almost didn't believe it when he died and it was my kill.
Good luck to all you, with some patience, maybe this sweet mount will be yours as well
评论来自
291908
just killed tlpd at 38.61 in storm peaks . was an easy kill for a holy priest.got him on a spawn kill i was just flying like always and wham he was right there flew in hit shadow word death slow fall and started to kill it.i'm on on jaedenar server us. killed at 6:15pm realm time.can confirm 30 min despawn time watched it the whole time
评论来自
287389
Here is a screenshot proving that the TLPD does not share a spawn timer with Vyragosa or Dirkee when asking a GM about it.
http://img126.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gmtlpd1el5.jpg
评论来自
292054
Lucky, really.
After only a day of camping, I got this drake. I wasn't so sure I would get it because I couldn't find it, but one of my guildies who already had the drake was on his way to get the Storm Peak dailies, and he passed it, almost dead. However, another guildie and I went and chased after it, and found it recovered health and the one who attacked it dead. So we killed it and got the drake =)
--
From what I noticed it was hard to solo, since a single horde tried to and failed. But with a mage/holy paly it went very smoothly.
We killed him just west of Grom'arsh Crash Site, a place where he pats.
My strategy was to have someone else in your group, and just fly around with a macro that will send a tell when you target something.
/target time
/target vyragosa
/target dirkee
/stopmacro
/tell phoenixen ><%t><
I have the other rare elites in there too, but you don't need them.
In all honesty I don't know if it worked, but I DO know, that the whisper self tell works.
Good Luck Drake Hunters!
评论来自
Chew
My "tweeked"
Target Macro
:
/cleartarget
/tar Dirkee
/tar Vyra
/tar Time-lost
/stopmacro
/tell
MYNAME
> %t <
/stopmacro
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\Ashbringer\\ASH_SPEAK_12.wav")
Hope you like it.
(Now it just has to do it's full length once)
EDIT: Instead of opening another post, I answer here to "iweil" about the
/stopmacro
line ...
Although quite obvious, the macro stops here if the found target is dead and the sound won't go off.
I wanted to have a different response to an alive and a dead target, with the sound-file shaking you awake (+wisper) and just the wisper on a dead mob, as I could then stop searching for it the next hours.
评论来自
203660
Want to post a confirmed kill for those hunting for it. I was doing constant laps around Engine -> Bor's Breath, I spotted the TLPD flying among the storm peak wyrms. For the record, been doing this for weeks on and off. I'm 99% certain he spawned while I was doing these laps, though I don't know exactly where he would've spawned from.
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:445582415609
The northeastern dot is where I saw him, the southwestern dot was his general direction he was heading towards.
He was rather high up, but it's easy to get him to the ground without any risk or tricks by simply flying through him. He aggros normally and will follow you down without a problem. So if you do see him, don't be afraid if he's inaccessible at first glance, just drag him down. :)
(edit)
Point of amusement, I've never, ever seen Vyragosa. Ever.
评论来自
rvuthy
I've talked to a GM today, he said they all share a spawn timer one out of the three randomly spawn; they don't despawn but they spawn in a certain location not randomly so that the good news. He also said if one of them is killed the next one will spawn in a couple of hours. I'm not sure how long is that but I believe it is still randomly 6hrs-8hrs. So pretty much you have to kill one of them to get the next one to spawn in couple of hours...
Hope this help you guys in your search, Good luck and happy hunting.
评论来自
292364
So. I saw Vyra dead today at 18.13, was killed straight after its spawn. I stayed there most of the day, atleast looking now and then, till about 05.30. I told myself to go to bed after a few more loops around the mountain, and then at 05.48 it spawned, at the same place it was killed. I know that it was not killed in the meantime, and had not spawned in the meantime, the 05.48 spawn, 11hrs and 35mins after its death, was the first Vyra spawn since 18.13. Dont know if this info is of any use, but that tells us that, it is NOT a 6hr respawn, NOT a 12hr respawn, and the theory about a percentage chance for it to respawn at the same minute it was killed every hour till it spawns again, is also false.
Good luck trying to find the pattern^^
/Blacon
评论来自
168246
This scares me. A lot.
i was farming the Scarlet Ruby pattern off of the vykrul girls just northwest of Frosthold, i go in and kill the first mob and the pattern drops, lucky me. im happy. i mount up and fly a couple hundred yards in the air. i look on atlasloot to search for the next one nearby.
I hear a big ass roar and look up to find...yeah you guessed it. Big and Ugly attacking me as i sit there. i go down a couple of yards flame shock as i dismount, Spirit wolves to assist and kill her. i get the mount. This process took all of 3 minutes. i ran into her right above the front gate of Valkyrion around...10:10 pm tonight. December 29. not hard to kill at all. she came from the north.
I guess good advice would be just patience. I can't say anything else since this was a total fluke... Wait til all the lil kiddies are in bed for school and have at it. Good Luck.
Flawlessrage- 78 Dran Enh Shaman/ Blood Furnace.
评论来自
292760
There are many kill points, but the most frequent one is in this area.
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:297666288669274656279667279642290642297650288654
评论来自
galaxypa
I killed Vyr at 1:30 pm Burning blades. I found Dirkee then at 4:14 am. (+12 hour respawn)
Vyr was fighting the mobs around herself. (35.69) Dirkee was just walking around.
Post pics soon
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x69/galaxypa1/ScreenShot_122908_134310.jpg
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x69/galaxypa1/ScreenShot_123008_042555.jpg
Also for a tip: mount speed increases from trinkets do not work.
-if you get attack by a horde killing this proto. Try to get him to somehow attack the drake or get him on its aggro list incase you die the mob will still be tagged to you.
Update.
It has been 24 since Vyrs death and no re-spawns for the 2 drakes. Rolling restart happened 5 hours ago and no pops. Since then no proto drake has been looted. They are also known to pop up after a reset! disregard Haylow comment.
JUST GOT IT
评论来自
Kurtosis
Remember to test your ability to attack things while flying. I couldn't, then remembered there's an option in Settings: Display -> Combat that has to be checked to allow this - Autodismount in flight.
评论来自
haylow
Neither the TLPD or either rares "reset" their spawn on server restarts.
I stayed on for 4 hours after the restart today and flew around with my macro to no avail.
I think the spawn timer just keeps going through the restart.
评论来自
10382
Okay this is just something that I threw together as I was having to work thru Christmas, but... in theory my idea is this:
Since posts keep getting deleted here, and along with them the coordinates of confirmed deaths... I've created a page that will allow for the submissions of confirmed deaths of each creature (TLPD, Vyra and Dirkee.. who cares about Dirkee I know but oh well). If we record the points of death, then eventually it'll fill out the entire path.. again, in theory. :)
This is on some crap free server so bear with the slowness. I made it with 1027x768 resolution, and haven't tested it on widescreen or higher resolutions.. so other than that, I'm sure it looks like crap (stupid work computers) but should still function. I'll work on tuning it up, but in the meantime please be respective of the data you enter - hope this helps / works.
EDIT: the byethost URL was pointing toward what appeared to be spyware so I have removed it for the sake of everyone.
btw.. I haven't got a legend up yet so:
Yellow Dots = TLPD
Blue Dots = Vyragosa
Orange Dots = Dirkee
Thanks,
-Z.
评论来自
293373
I do not agree with several of the postings here. Today After server reset (rolling restarts) Vyra and Time lost was both up and kicking.
Vyra was killed at 10am server, Time-lost at 10:41. I was logged on before the restart and had kept my eye out. After the server restarted, I had gone to bed. During which I logged on later to have confirmation of both kills. Apparently they both spawned minutes after eachother.
Time-lost was killed on Uldar grounds, which tells me he spawned up in the area above the Blue Drakes and flew down towards Uldar. Vyra was killed just before she hit the canyon coming from the drake area.
I think maybe blizzard has taken them off the same cooldown or something, but coming here and seeing people say they share spawns..then to see this is confusing.
评论来自
289131
Youtube video showing the Ulduar flight path:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUoXMyN_FS8
评论来自
Vere
So I had been camping this drake since I hit 80 on December 4th. At least three hours a day, every day I could spare (pretty much everything except when I had an exam).
My patrol route was fairly simple, start at Valkyrion, go north and around that giant construct, then fly parallel to the Terrace of the Makers, between it and the crash site, over to Brunnhildar Village, then back through the blue drakes over into Bor's Breath going southwest, to the edge of the Fall, then back west to Valkyrion again.
I picked it up with my macro just at the transition into Bor's Breath, around 10:30pm EST (9:30 server). the TLPD was heading south over the Falls into the the valley with K3. As is expected, I started shaking, heh. I followed it until I could close into Icy Touch range (being a Deathknight). Unfortunately, I took the Snowfall Lager off my hotbars and died from hitting the ground before I could find it in my bags.
I really think that if Storm Peaks didn't have the ghost gryphon while dead I'd have never found it again. I flew back to my body, which was directly at the edge of the blue ice at the base of the falls and proceeded to fly southeast into the vale spamming my macro. I picked it up again near K3, and this time I flew through it to aggro and dragged it to the nearby cliff, which at the height it flies (significantly higher than the lethal 66 yards distance) was much closer than the ground - I couldn't risk dying again.
TL;DR: Attached is the map of this little diatribe:
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:366615370724370743369766367786367801405809415811424813436813446815448842
Northernmost dot is my location at target lock, close dots nearby are initial tracking, second set is second tracking after I rezed and the last dot in the southeast is where I killed it. To all of those still hunting: Never surrender, with glory we fall!
-Nevinyrral, Deathknight tank of Felony, Detheroc US-PvP
评论来自
Slyfanitor
Dropped for me 8:03 AM on Dec. 29 so 2 days ago on Nordrassil(EU)...
I used a simple "/target time" macro, was doing Brunhilldar dailies and everytime I fly over engine of the makers I use the macro and that time got lucky :)
The kill: I'm Human demolock lvl80 and I used Death Coil on the mob (mounted on my Gryphon), used Snowfall Lager from the Frosthold to prevent fall dmg, I fell right on the edge of Engine of the Makers , was lucky not to drop in the hole though :P the Proto-Drake came down I had VW out at the time send him to get aggro, put dots on Drake used couple of Incinerates and healed VW a little with Health Funnel. Very easy kill and I only had quest blues from Icecrown and Storm Peaks and I think a few from Zul'Drak.
On a side note: When I used Death Coil 5sec after that while falling I saw a lvl80 Tauren Warrior flying on a Nether Drake right behind me :P Judging by how he was spamming something in I think he must have been actually camping for it for longer than me and was pretty #$%^ed for a small Alliance guy coming and getting it right under his nose
评论来自
75756
Hi all. This is my first post here.
I red almost all your (5+ rating) comments and now I'd like to add my hunting experience.
I started hunting TLPD on 23rd of December. I had no macro and didn't know well about it. I just hoped to see him. I just hoped to have some luck. Anyway. (Europe Time - Paris)
The first 2 days I didn't see neither it nor Vyragosa nor Dirkee. Of course I didn't have much information about it.
The third day, at 00.24AM, the famous macro spotted Vyragosa at 41.61. unluckly there was a paladin who killed her. But I didn't care about it. The important thing for me was to know the time and the spot spawn.
6 hours later (the forth day) I went to the same spot and spammed the macro. At 4.22 PM I spotted Vyragosa at 29.65 in Bor's Breath. This time I killed her and I looted
www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/item=44732#dropped-by
of the Marksman and
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/item=44663
(Frostweave Clothx20, +20g).
The fifth day I spotted her dead corpse. At 2.40PM in Valkyrion at 26.56.
The sixth day I asked in "1.General" and a guy said that he saw her in Snowdrift Plains at 29.49, 5.29PM.
The seventh day I spotted her Over Brunnhildar Village flying in the direction of Engine. I killed her and she dropped the same items again.
I didn't find neither TLPD nor Dirkee during my hunting. But I can tell you now the exact spawn point of Vyragosa.
All the times she was flying in "clock wise" starting from Brunnhildar Village, going in the drake's field, Engine, Bor's Breath, Valkyrion, Snowdrift Plains. All the times I saw her she was going this direction.
Someone on "1.General" said to have spotted her at Brunnhildar Village.
So now I'm thinking that her exact spawn point is the mountain over Brunnhildar Village, at 52.73, in the nest.
In my opinion there's just 1 spawn spot of Vyragosa, (don't know TLPD yet) and the times are every 6+ hours starting from the killing time.
EDIT n.1 for voshikid: The mount drops off TLPD. Dirkee and Vyragosa drops blue items + a bag with money, frostweave cloth and sometimes "WOTLK motes".
EDIT n.2: I saw TLPD's dead corpse on 6th January at 00.15AM at 28.50. Vyragosa's dead corpse at Bor's Beath Fall (2.20PM) and Vyragosa alive over Brunnhildar Village (8.34PM) again.
EDIT n.3: I "stopped" camping TLPD since wednesday (14th January). I used from then the macro that tells you if someone has looted the mount. Well no mount loot from wednesday 14th january to saturday 17th january. On saturday after two heroics I went off at 7PM and came back at 11PM. Checked the macro and it said that the mount has been looted by someone. I checked tha area and I saw the dead corpse at engine.
I hope this helped a bit.
I'll edit this as soon as possible, when I get more information.
Sorry for my bad english.
Happy New Year to all :).
Evandar, Skullcrusher EU
评论来自
reisen
Finally after no spawns(looting of it anyway) for a week on my server I managed to down it! I've mainly been camping Engine of Makers but I decided to take a little fly around knowing the only people after it today were me and a mage already on a red proto (sigh). I found it North of Valkyrion in the path leading to snowdrift flying south towards valkyrion - never had so much trouble killing a mob because of me shaking too much! XD.
My server shows no real consistency in spawn times or days of this thing yet which makes me believe it really is truely random. Been camping/researching on and off for the best part of a month thanks to a gamepad's help and WIM.
In my month of spawning I have seen Dirkee twice, vyra about six times (3 of which I killed her) and TLPD for the first time today.
Doomhammer EU, time and coordinates on screenie
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/BulletGutz/screenies/TIMELOST-1.jpg
Excuse the crap WIP UI and quality of screenie.
评论来自
291517
Ok if anyone reads this i have CONFIRMATION that Vyragosa and Time-Lost Proto Drake are definitely not on a 6 hour + timer it's completely random and unpredictable like a few said.
At 9:22PM December 30th Vyragosa i killed her looted her body and that was that.
To my much displeasure i followed what the people on this sight said about him spawning every 6 hours - 2 days YOUR WRONG. I logged off for my 6 hours of sleep i happened to wake up at 1:30 i logged on and there he was dead....with an alliance sitting at my face mocking me. I've never been such a unsatisfied mix of anger and depression.
Took me about 8 hours to get over it and i'm gonna push on and get this freaking mount if it's the last thing i do. This isn't about just earning it anymore it's about my pride being stepped on twice by the alliance!
评论来自
Chaoticzero
Here's a picture of a dead Time-Lost Proto Drake I hope it helps you all.
http://img377.imageshack.us/img377/1508/timeproto3aa9.jpg
评论来自
294225
So I've found Vyra three times now, the first time I was taking the flight path from Frosthold to Dalaran. There was a pally killing it just west of Frosthold. Then a couple of days ago I saw her dead just north of Valkyrion. Then just now I got her at the end of the path connected to the frozen river, Bor's Breath (27,69). This leads me to believe that vyra spawns somewhere in Bor's breath and always flies clockwise. I suspect this because there are always at least 3 people looking for TLPD on my server, and they probably wouldn't let vyra get far without dying, lol.
Anyways, at least I finally got something after nearly 2 weeks of looking for this drake. Now to get TLPD!
评论来自
ggplz
This will be a long post but i have been looking for this mob for a while and finally got him today - hopefully it will clarify a lot of things. I will also add a log of all kill times ive seen for Vyragosa + time-lost, i missed a few while sleeping or breifly AFK+skinned though.
I have observed many things in the zone. Its very competitive since people are camping it and he spawns on routes common to miners and herbalists as well as being right next to the alliance base.
I've been logging all the spawns i can find from my server and camping them out to see if theres any connection between the spawn times and unfortunately it doesnt seem like there is (more on this later). I have also followed Vyargosa and observed her routes.
Here are the routes i've seen Vyragosa take:
http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/7095/91328797wt3.jpg
http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/4653/74374098es8.jpg
http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/5978/52015078sv8.jpg
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/1581/27407665ip5.jpg
Be prepared to take these mobs while they are flying in the air at high altitudes. Grab some snowfall lager. I (rogue) used killing spree and evasion+unfair advantage vs them can do about 15k or so to an air target then DPS the rest off them with my thrown. I am also wearing stamina/frost resist gear to improve my length of DPS-combat with the elites to ensure i can use as much thrown as possible due to our range being so weak.
My patrol route(s):
I originally used this route:
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/5596/patrolroutejo3.jpg
It was too slow though by about 3-4 minutes so i made some changes after seeing time-lost killed minutes before i got there twice.
The day i killed him, i used:
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/1239/revisedpatrolrouteep5.jpg
I would recommend the second route because if you pay attention to the suspected spawn locations in my Vyragosa patrol routes you'll be able to get to them all very quickly and wont need to scout further..
My theory on the spawn timers:
- Every 5 minutes there is a chance that Vyragosa or Time-lost will spawn. By this, what i mean is - there is maybe a 1 in 600 chance that either of them will spawn and in this chance there is maybe 4% that its Time-lost and 96% Vyragosa.
- Vyragosa will spawn a much much higher % of the time than timelost - judging by the Mysterious egg chance of dropping a drake, i would guess this is about as rare if not more - so maybe 4% chance or less of spawning on the same route as Vyragosa.
Vyragosa Cold Hard Facts:
- There are a number of routes she can spawn/travel in.
- After catching her twice in a row and timing the times between spawns, i can confirm that on the third pass of all routes she had not spawned and neither had any other rare-elites. This means, she doesnt have a 'set' respawn timer exactly.
- People very very quickly skin the rare-elites after they die. You have to be very quick after a kill to spot a corpse. Afaik time lost is skinnable, Vyragosa certainly is - i have seen it.
- Melee will have trouble killing Vyragosa especially if they cant LoS pull (line of sight) behind something.. I used frost resist and had much more survivability vs Vyragosa's spit (as melee).
- I have seen Vyragosa spawn 9 hours 30 minutes apart then not spawn 9 hours 30 minutes after that kill or for that entire day (yes, i camped all day).
Myths busted:
- Other mobs do NOT attack Vyargos and certainly do not attack Time-lost. People are confused about this because of the mobs in bors breath that fight each other but they do NOT fight any other mobs than the ones they are scripted to. I have witnessed this.
Speculation:
- I have never seen Vyragosa or time lost at terrace of the makers but i have seen quite a few posts claiming they killed TLPD there. Due to this, i have factored it into my patrol cycle.
- The GM pictures posted on wowhead are probably all fake. GMs as a policy do NOT give out this information. The chat style is also extremely casual and unlike a GM. The players in the conversations are almost having their questions and answers spoon fed to them - unlikely a style of a genuine TLPD conversation. I also tried asking about it and was denied 4 or 5 times.
My target Macro:
/cleartarget
/tar Time
/tar Dirkee
/tar Vyra
/stopmacro
/tell YourCharacterNameHere > %t <
/run RaidNotice_AddMessage(RaidBossEmoteFrame, "RARE SPAWN! WAKE UP!", ChatTypeInfo)
/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\interface\\RaidWarning.wav")
Macro to check if time-lost dropped this reset:
/script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Shift-click this to place a link into a chat message: \124cffa335ee\124Hitem:44168:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0\124h\124h\124r");
/tell YourCharacterNameHere link me the item, if you can link it, its dropped.
For this macro, you need to msg yourself the item link and if you can only see text, it means it has not dropped since the weekly maintenance.
Combat/interraction with Time-lost Proto drake:
Being melee i was very worried i wouldnt be able to kill him due to the high altitude he flies at. This is not an issue. He seems to want to get into melee range and has one ability he cast before i killed him:
Time Lapse
30yd range
Instant
Stuns an enemy for 2 sec, inflicting 569 to 731 Nature damage and clearing threat.
When he casts this, it also looks a lot like blink so i can see why people would think that he blinked in combat. He instantly dismounted me (unlike other storm peaks proto drakes) but i had snowfall lager and survived the fall. He was happy to get into Melee range and hit for 300-400 on leather. Easy kill as a rogue.
Something else i noticed about this mob is that the /tar macro actually has an incredibly long range for him. You can target him when he is very far out of your normal /tar range.
Now, kill times for Dirkee+Vyragosa+time-lost:
###################### Dirkee Kill times ######################
Monday 22nd
- Dirkee @ 12:44, killed by me.
Thu 25th Dec
Dirkee 17:00 (40,52)
.. Continued in next reply/post.
评论来自
ggplz
###################### Vyragosa Kill Times######################
Wed 17th - Friday 19th
12:07 Vyragosa. (I saw it heading to valkyrion)
Saturday 20th
, 17:00 - corpse of Vyaragos.
Wed 24th
- 17:45 Vyragosa spawned @brunnhildar (right) and killed by me.
Thursday 25th
- 03:37 heading towards valkyrion (35,65) so probably spawned at 03:30.
Thursday 25th
~19:00 Jimmy killed him.
Friday 26th
15:15-15:20 Vyragosa spawn. 15:29 killed.
Sat 27th
05:39 - Vyragosa Corpse (28,65).
Sun 28th
05:11 - Spotted at Valkyrion, followed. Killed 05:30, suspect 05:00 spawn time. His route took 13 minutes for a full cycle.
Sun 28th
, 19;00~ Vyragosa.
Sun 29th
, 06:00~ Vyragosa.
###################### Time-Lost kill times ######################
No kills for the week since Wed 24th (server cache returned nothing till 29th when he was killed)
Time lost dead,
Monday Dec 29th
@ 15:52 Brunhildar villiage.
Time lost dead,
Wed Dec 31st
@ 14:09 (43,56) @ engine of the makers
Time lost dead,
Thursday Jan 1st
10:20 (44, 55) @ engine of makers by ME!
Sometimes i forgot to do so but for those of you interested in Vyragosa's actual patrol routes, i took screenshots while following her several times and uploaded them here:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EEAP0VBL
Mourning the death while being a few minutes away from him:
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/3001/mourningmi4.jpg
Killshot:
http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/2671/killshotop4.jpg
Victory shot:
http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/5260/victoryshotzp2.jpg
Well, I hope this helped and clarified things for everyone, Good luck all.
Gortz, Auchindoun EU.
edit: updated the vyragosa rare-elite download rar link
评论来自
294446
Does TLP cast ranged? Just killed Vyragosa, she was a pain in the ass to pull down...
评论来自
269680
2 confirmed TLPD kills on one day
01/01/09 11.50 AM EST above Brunnhildar Village (i saw the body )
01/01/09 2.35 PM EST Snow drift plains (a friend of mine got it )
评论来自
290308
I'm pretty sure the TLPD, Dirkee and Vyragosa do not share spawn timers. Or, atleast...within 8+.
I had seen Vyragosa flying around 30.2, 36.3. But only to realize that if I attacked I surely would of died. I was heading to turn in the quest to be able to purchase Snowfall Lager...as a rogue I have no slowfall options. So, when I flew back to those coordinates, Vyragosa was gone, nowhere to be found. However, I was taking a route that flew south from Bor's Breath into the Engine of the Makers then continued north. With help from a friend I killed Dirkee, at around 41, 40 around 35 minutes or so later.
Kinda sucked that my macro struck gold twice...just not the kind I wanted. I'm still sitting here camping it, hoping the third time is the charm.
评论来自
296033
TLPD spawned 7 hours 40 minutes after I killed Vyr.
Prior to that, I was killing Vyr every day around noon on a 24 hour rotation
.
It was always give or take 10-15 minutes.
I did this 6 days in a row. One day Vyr would spawn at noon, next day 12:10, day after that 11:55 and so on. Now I can not say if he was spawning in other locations and getting killed or not, as I was camping the small waterfall next to the lake in Bor's Breath only. I occaisionally roamed, but never saw any spawns anyplace else other than Dirkee west of the machine. this morning his spawn was off from *my* percieved normal rotation, and Vyr spawned at 2:30am, with TLPD 7 hours 40 mins after that.
评论来自
296150
Okay Heres my go at it ...First the Facts.
Location Spawned: Valkyrion some where around the north tower.
Location Killed: Valkyrion 27, 64 about 100 yards from where he poped and i aggroed him.
Time spawned: 7:12 A.M.
I was level 77 and it died easy.
Spawn height: Maybe 20 yards above the Towers.
My Story....
After Hitting 77 around midnight or 1am I flew to storm peaks to start the hunt. In the 6 hours of flying around I read all the info on locations and times. I decided to camp Boars Breath mainly occasionally flying to The Engine Area and back. And occasionally flying all the routes repeatadily.
Once again this all began around 1am EST on shandris server.
I was getting very tired but it was so close to the 6 hour mark that i didnt dare log without finding anything in the last 5 hours.
After flying and flying and flying. I was hovering in the middle of the frozen Lake infront of Valkyrion watching TV to stay awake and spamming my macro.
WHEN BAM. 7:12am struck gold Looked at the screen it was hovering above Valkyrion near the towers, tunred to start flying and I Flew in aggroed pulled him out and downed it at 7:15am. @ 27, 64
Now this only confirms to me that theres a minimum of 6 hours, but who knows. And that Valkyrion is a definate Spawn point. If I would of been watching i would of saw it spawn. The frozen lake is by far a good place to camp. But I suggest getting the paths down and flying them after a while u can do it quickly. With a epic flyer u will out fly these dragons easy. not that i had to.
Okay now the Money shot All info can be confirmed in my screen cap.
http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff177/voodoob/protodrake.jpg
Taken the next day spawn point my view
http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff177/voodoob/protodrakespawn.jpg
My guess on exact spawn point
http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff177/voodoob/spawn.jpg
评论来自
Mukaltin
Ok, one more proof of my theory. We have all evidencies to say now that spawn point of Vyragosa's Temple of Storms path is 31, 69.
But I still have doubts about if Vyra and TLPD share pathes.
评论来自
296513
I killed Time-Lost Proto Drake 05.23AM on EU Ravenholdt.
I spotted the mob flying pretty low down in Bor's Breath towards the icy lake and turning down towards Frost Hold , Attacked it when it was down in Bor's Breath and died from fall dmg , since Levitate ( priest slow fall spell ) dismiss when taking dmg. Luckly for me the graveyard was about 50yards away from where i died, ressed and kill it when it was about to fly down towards Frost Hold.
Screen:
http://imageshack.dk//viewimage.php?file=/imagesfree/sbZ49194.jpg
Secondly , me and another hunter camped pretty much all known spots for around 23 hours. NOTHING spawns... imo the 6-12 hours spawn time people are talking about is BS. After my experience, i would say the spawn time is random.
My guess would be, it can spawn anytime within 24hours.
评论来自
nonentity
... just woke up now, figured "ah, gonna lie in bed a few more minutes".
When I got up just a few minutes later I thought "damn it would suck if TLPD had just been killed.... nah, not gonna happen. Camped him for 12+ hours yesterday, after the Vyra kill every hour mark and 10 minutes before and after that each time and he didn't spawn.".
Well... it did. I log in, and just 5secs from my camp spot his body is still there...
BB again for anyone interested, last Vyra spawn I know was yesterday 1.40 pm, this TLPD was lying here at 10.10am.
Last Vyra kill before that was at 1.10pm the day before. So I guess each time Vyra spawned somewhere else in between where I didn't witness the spawn, at least once. I guess that the respawn timer starts with the kill/death.
I wanna give up on that bastard, I really do and I will for a bit, but I know in a few days I'll be back camping him.... damn. But probably not this week, guess there's next to no chance of him spawning again till some time after maintenance and once you can't check via the script if he's been killed already because the item's already in the cache from a previous kill, camping him gets even more annoying.
You really gotta camp him 24/7 because the SECOND you decide "whatever I do in RL only takes one more minute" he'll spawn and get himself killed by somebody probably camping him for a total of 5 hours...
评论来自
PhineEredar
Video proof that Dirkee and Vyragosa do not share a timer and can be up at the same time:
http://vimeo.com/2716456
This was taken on the PTR this morning (1/4/09).
评论来自
Zohra
@ Howa, do you happen to remember the time he spawned or the time you were herbing? Not sure it would help, but could. What server are you on? Also, how high up was he? I'm thinking of camping that spot but I dont wanna be too low or high :)
Lastly, can someone explain to me how this link works?
/script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Shift-click this to place a link into a chat message: \124cffa335ee\124Hitem:44168:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0\124h\124h\124r");
Im not sure I understand how pasting that into a chat box in wow will tell you if anyone has gotten it. Thanks!
评论来自
Wanderingfox
Because the mount item can only exist if someone has looted it that week. Every time the server resets, it resets its item cache, and in so doing, only items that have been seen by the server will be linkable (everything else will get stuck at retrieving info). Since the player uses the mount item to learn the mount, only people who have caught it this week (or someone who hasn't used the item yet) will be able to make the server 'validate' that link.
评论来自
298058
I am unsure if this mob flew in from the side of me but i could have sworn I saw him spawn directly where i found him at
37.3, 78.1.
made the macro spammed it for about 30 mins, bam got em.
评论来自
221612
I got Mine Thanks To This Web Site all of u were right he shares rout thanks guys :D
评论来自
yoshimo
Mhmm, instead of screenshooting this mob and posting coords, wouldnt it be more effective to download the wowhead-data gahtering addon and upload the data with this tool?
i think wowhead should be able to plot a map with it.
shouldnt they?
Timelost Protodrake and its location is still unknown to this database although many of you have already killed him...
that looks strange ;)
评论来自
298633
Omg this week i really have proto luck lol
Last friday I opened my cracked egg and it contained a green proto which is the most beautiful of them all if you tell me :D
Monday evening the reins of the blue proto dropped in hc UP, it went to the tank in our party but I didn't really care cause allready had the green one
Today after coming home from work at 5pm I logged and flew to storm peaks for dailies
I entered Storm Peaks and after 10 seconds my macro targeted Time-lost Proto drake, he was right under me north west Frosthold in the valley with the lake
He came from boar's breath, went to the lake (coords 29/65), then a bit north west of frosthold (coords 25/71) , there he turned back to the lake and flew north over Valkyrion into the snowdrift plains where I finally killed him (coords 33/44) at 5.10 pm
I also think he flies a bit faster then Vyragosa
I met another proud owner of this drake in Dalaran FP same evening, I asked him when he killed it and he said "yesterday after 11pm" which means 2 proto drakes in less then 18 hours
Trollbane EU - Rumiko mage
proud owner of Green Proto Drake & Time-lost Proto Drake :D
评论来自
298681
I have a question about the Logytech G-15 Keyboard : if I use the "timed" macro for the TLPD's research, could Blizz ban my account ?
评论来自
286841
Hello, stressed, depressed sad and so....but still Struggling...Never give Up
I decieded to Gather TLPD kill hours from the aboves comments and screenshots
(i've read them all ! )
And here is a surprising result :
00:15|
01:30|
02:00|02:35|02:27|
03:00|03:30|
04:44|04:55|
05:10|05:23|
06:55|
07:12|
08:00|08:20|
09:30|
10:16|10:41|10:20|10:34|10:35|10:37|10:39|10:55|
11.23|11H27|11:50|
12:00|12:36|
13:18|13:45|
14:09|
15:52|
16:30|16:51|
17:00|
19:20|19h29|19:50|
20:00|
23:30|
10 AM kept poping as i was going trought the comments ! is it the key ? another path to follow who knows ....
anyway i'll try to update the timeline ,juste keep posting accurate kill hours and screenshots plz .
### Edit ###
I spread my search over other french/english forums to get more info.
good luck all
评论来自
mikethered
This has been the most frustrating thing I've ever done in WoW, hands down.
I've been camping the most common routes of the TLPD for 5 days now, varying between patrol routes and just flying still and tapping the macro at the Bor's Breath frozen lake.
I have never even seen the corpse... and I've found Vyragosa 16 times now.
After the server reset on Tuesday, I used the link macro to see if it had been looted, and the link which was copied just copied into words (not a link) so I knew it hadn't been looted.
Today (Thursday) I was sitting in Bor's Breath tapping my macro, when I decided to check the server cache again... Apparently someone looted it in less than 6 hours after the last Vyragosa spawn.
I thought that they shared spawns, which lead me to believe that after finding Vyra this morning at 10:50am I would have at least 6 hours to STOP camping and take a break.
I guess that's not the case...
I'm so depressed now, after 5 days of camping and not even seeing a corpse... I might give up after tonight. 72 hours of straight camping is just too much to ask.
=(
评论来自
299644
I have a question
Are any other dragon ellites that flight on Storm peaks?
This morning I was doing a regular daily quest and I was fling really high when a blue dragon having around 605k life flight next to me. He was patrolling the area and must be in a fight with something because he had 50% life. Also I don’t think his a rare dragon but the speed of this dragon got my attention.
评论来自
298681
Macro to check if time-lost dropped this reset:
/script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Shift-click this to place a link into a chat message: \124cffa335ee\124Hitem:44168:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0\124h\124h\124r");
/tell YourCharacterNameHere link me the item, if you can link it, its dropped.
I have used this macro and it works fine, but only for the first drop after the server reset.
Then I have tried to delete the cache file many times , but the link still worked fine.
So, does this macro work only for the first drop after the server reset?
Edit: please you con downrate this post but at least answer me
评论来自
23276
Ive already given up awhile ago
However doing dailies in storm peaks today I came across his corpse and as I got up close to look at it, it despawned which means it had already been sitting there for awhile which means I missed it by a good margin. so theres no case of "omg I JUST missed it".
well at least I know he's actually real now.
I found him dead at 36,78 on the HUGE frozen waterfall coming out of bors breath.
at 3:36am EST (12:36 am server time)
评论来自
MightyBobo
Here's something I figured might be worthwhile. Theres tons of info on pat routes and how high it flys, but one thing I was always curious about was how far away you could SEE it from. Kinda like how you can see Vyragosa from a long way away, but Dirkee, not so much. So today when I found it dead (I missed it by about 5 minutes btw - stopped doing my laps for 10 minutes to make a sandwich, and on the first lap I found it dead /sadface ), I tested how far away I could get before it would disappear. Sorry for the automatically resized screenie, but Im sure you get the idea...
http://images48.fotki.com/v1406/photos/9/98309/7115642/WoWScrnShot_010909_152649-vi.jpg
Hopefully there were some other curious people out there like myself...as you can see, it appears it has the same view distance as Vyragosa - quite far.
评论来自
1stDkOnUrsin
Coords (57,12) (42,16)
评论来自
301607
When you use the macro and link it, the link will appear if the item has existed in the game. The server reset will reset all these options therefore it will no longer appear.
But that only works if the item is no longer in the game (assuming the person who looted has used the item putting it into their mount collection, which will remove the item from their inventory).
it has nothing to do with deleting your cache. I dont delete my cache and it always works.
Likely the reason it didn't work for you is because somebody looted it and did not use it leaving the item still in-game.
On another note, I have seen Time-Lost dead twice, and living once (someone tagged a second before me) at 36,68 in bor's breath
EDIT: killed vyra at same place.. /sigh have to wait atleast another 6 hours for spawn
评论来自
true89
Well, i can tell you all that today i'm pretty surprised..
This morning at 8.06 am approx i managed to do Dirkee near tauren's village.. it was a lil tough cuz i'm a holy priest and he hits hard, anyway using my lil' pet and mending it wasn't so difficult.
After that i continued my routine search of TLPD, and i flew into vyragosa, just spawned over Valkyrion at approx 30-40 yrd of height, 8.36 am. Killed her at 8.37 am, corspe despawned like 30 mins after.
Sad i decided to give up searching for TLPD, everyone says he's spawn is shared with Vyragosa.
Like 30 mins ago i decided to go check anyway, cuz i'm scrupolous, and i clicked macro to check this server cache (ahn'qiraj EU), that was clean of the mount this morning.. surprise now i can link the mount to other ppl.. Do anyone know if this means that TLPD can spawn even 4hrs or less after Vyragosa?.. i'm a lil disappointed and i'll continue on searching for him now, 2 hrs from now and 4 hrs from now.. gl to all the others whose search is longing!
评论来自
301723
I'd been looking for this for about a week after hearing about it and doing lots of research, and by assuming it shared spawn timers with Vyra of 6 hours (who I'd killed the day before) I was flying round lookin for it but not really hoping to find anything. Crossed the field of blue drakes and was in the middle of typing to someone when I saw a weird coloured drake so without thinking I moonfire spammed it down but I was already flying quite high so fell and nearly died to fall dmg >.< used a health pot fast, went bearform and just managed to kill it before it killed me, was nearly having a heartattack at the same time from the surprise of finding it ^^ the corpse stayed there for about 20 minutes after I'd killed it. From what I've read the blue drake place around engine of the makers seems to be a common place to find it, just make sure you have a slowfall type thing (can buy a slowfall beer from some guy at Frosthold) or some health pots should you fall heavy. I'm guessing it shares the spawn timer with Vyra since I found it at the same time which I saw Vyra the day before. GL finding this thing, it's worth it :)
评论来自
Arthagon
I don't get why people give -1 or less rating for people that want to ask something properly...
评论来自
nonentity
Because you whine about camping for all of 6 hours when other people have spent weeks (on week 6 myself, 12 hours today alone).
And you want us to tell you pretty much everything again because you're too lazy to look for the information yourself or whatever, like everyone else here did. All important information can be found here and on other websites, put some effort into it or give up.
评论来自
true89
cuz my post was one of em heh none? =), i'll post screens for dirkee and vyra tomorrow, one person said that the drake got killed 30 mins after i killed vira (30 like 40 dunno exactly..). If macro works i can trust that TLPD has been killed between those 4 hours i was away from storm peaks.
8 am wondering, dirkee..
http://img89.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot011109080113zl1.jpg
http://img504.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot011109080407oy1.jpg
8.36 wondering.. vyragosa spawned right in front of me..
http://img505.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot011109083650se7.jpg
http://img396.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot011109083714qq9.jpg
http://img72.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot011109083800py2.jpg
i can swear you macro at that time gave out only that red phrase..
at 12.3x i went there and macro gave me mount link, if you want screens only i made one of it at 13.30 but without another of b4 isn't so useful.
评论来自
Deathforsale
I think I wanna /vomit.
Was cruising for the TLPD a few days back and saw a draenei priest fly by on one. I had to do a double-take cuz for a moment there, I thought it was the actual NPC, and not just a player on the mount. "Good for her," I thought.
Then tonight, while doing dailies in Storm Peaks, I fly by the SAME draenei priest, landing a killing blow on a freshly-spawned TLPD. That's right... she killed it for a SECOND TIME. A mage landed next to me and I told him what just happened and I thought he was gonna blow a gasket.
@Blizzard: Please make it so that if you have this mount already, the TLPD is friendly. For the love of all that's holy, please.
评论来自
Sigmae
I have finally obtained this mount after months of searching for this thing on and off. (Took a well needed break for the holidays.)
Seeing as I have no reason to keep anything to myself anymore, I will share my findings and what I believe the actual spawn points for each patrol path to be. (Based off of about 20 Vyragosa sightings, mostly my kills as well.)
First, the specifics of the actual kill:
Located:
Blue drake fields.
Time:
Exactly 4:00am server time on January 13th.
Elevation
: 40-50 yards (Only traveled a short distance before it was within range of my holy talented Judgement with a 40 yard range.)
Most recent previous sightings:
Vyragosa at 10am the same day. TLPD on January 10th. (Time unknown.)
Below are what I believe to be spawn points for Vyra/TLPD.
This is based off of the most frequent first sighting locations, the likelihood of it being killed before reaching that location, and approach angles to rule out view distance as a factor.
Don't hold me to these absolutely, however, mob visibility can be a bit laggy at times and could still be a factor.
Ulduar/Terrace Path:
:
Seen coming down from the east side of the tower in this location. Would have been spotted earlier while patrolling the rest of the path if it had not originated here.
Temple of Storms Path:
:
Near the end of the bottleneck towards Snowdrift Plains. Most likely accounts for the majority of the Valkyrion sightings.
Brunnhildar Village/K3 Path:
:
Where I located mine and where I have seen Vyra appear while statically camping this area in the past.
Frosthold Path: :
Vyragosa seen lowering her elevation from higher up near the bridge-like structure near the graveyard disc. Vyra seemed to move from this point into the Frosthold path and was facing away from the center of the mountain when located.
I hope this helps all of you and wish you the best of luck. Finding this really makes you appreciate the time you have to not camp Storm Peaks.
It should also be noted that this mount perfectly matches the Paladin T7.5 armor set. I feel pretty now.
评论来自
301513
does anyone know how fast this guy flies? Does he fly slow like vryagosa or like those blue protos flying around. Thanks
评论来自
Moonchill
Ok. I talked to a gm a couple of days ago, and he/she told me the following:
http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/1739/despawnvi1.jpg
Which, as far as I understand that, means that the drake despawns after it flown its route.
评论来自
13777
Hello.
I posted a message similar to here in the TLPD NPC entry (32491), and would ask you consider a few points when posting. Let me preface my comments with a hearty congratulations to all who have the mount. A lot of us who do not yet have the mount use this site as a reference source to at least calculate how to improve their chances of spotting and killing the beast. For future posts, the following information would be appreciated, as opposed to, "omg got kthx bye". This helps no one searching these posts.
Please post:
Server:
Name:
Recommended so people can ask specific questions related to the server spawn times.
Server Time:
Coords:
eg 28, 65
How you spotted it:
eg. I came across it from the North/South/East/West
OR
I was camping 28, 65 and it spawned under me.
Height:
eg height of the ledge at 34, 65
Direction of travel:
It was patrolling from the North/South/East/West. It appears some servers have clockwise and others, anti-clockwise paths
Did you kill Vyragos prior or know of the kill prior? If so, how many hours before?
eg. I killed Vyra at 28 65 and TLPD spawned exactly 18 hours later at 44, 58.
The above information would be sincerely appreciated by other contributors on this forum, and allow them to update their research. Thanks in advance and big thanks to those who posted the macros and useful information above. It has allowed me to kill Vyra twice at 28, 65 (0820 & 1420 two days later) and narrowly miss a TLPD kill (I was camping 28, 65 and it spawned at 44,58, where a Horde Paladin was camping, 18 hours after the 1st Vyra kill. 2nd I saw nothing at 6hrs with guildies camping spawn spots and +12 hours was server maint).
lol. I just saw Sigmae's post (a few above) and it is excellent. Exactly the information we need. Thanks!
评论来自
303714
Hey guys, I have been reading through the various posts here and thought you all might find my story amusing if not a little embarrasing :)
About two weeks ago I had just dinged 80 with my Lock on Ballnazar (Euro) and was going through the various Hcs. Had just joined a raiding guild and was stood at the summon stone for HoL and HoS, we were just waiting for one guildy to get something from Dal and then we would summon him.
I was a few yards south of the stone away from the group when I saw a huge dragon go flying past, gold and green with a rare tag... oh I thought what could this be. So I shout 'hey guys, come look at this mob, rare tag'. By the time they all made it over to where I was I had stuck a DoT on it and brought it down to the ground. Like people here have said it was easy to kill and yes... you guessed it.... I had no bloody idea what I had in my hands :)
As it happened my guild members did and needed on the roll. I lost the roll and shrugged to myself I'd come back the next day to have a look for it. Next day came and in general chat everyone seemed to be looking for this mob, it's only now that i come on here I can see how lucky (unlucky) I was and have been kicking myself every since :)
So... I'm now hunting for the thing and so far nothing but I rekon the guild member owes me a pint :D
I'll post up again when I find it, happy hunting lads
评论来自
270604
Finally got him, 8:25 EST - Toorc on Kel'Thuzad:
As an update from my previous post about camping him, mis-tagging him (his hitbox is smaller then I thought), losing to the guy who tagged him on the roll (I had a 1 he had a 10):
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/30/unbelievabletimelostgb9.jpg
After maybe 70-90 hours (could have been more) looking for him (temporarily giving up and resorting to Sons of Hodir dailies, Brunnhild and Frostborn rep dailies) got him doing the Frostborn daily to kill Stormpeak Wyrm's just east of Engine. I was actually mounted on the bird for the quest and had to dismount to tag, this time I did the dismount on his nose. TLPD was moving West and I saw him well below me, flying lower then I saw him the first time near Bor's Breath.
http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/7942/wowscrnshot011409083722uz1.jpg
评论来自
301607
Spawn timer must be able to go pretty high, last time it spawned on my server (Burning Blade) was 10:30PM server time on thursday night.
But this could also be due to a despawn?
评论来自
23276
well im back and like I said I had already given up a long time ago.
Anyways I just did the daily that gets you the bag with the chance of a polar bear mount in it and I was flying back to hand it in and I flew down to mine a Rich Saronite Node (coords 41,51 Engine Of The Makers. Just a few feet away from the female blood elf chick standing there with her wintersaber pet) when all of a sudden Dirkee spawned RIGHT behind me and started bullying me. I then returned the favor and bullyed his ass dead
this happened at exactly 2:03am Server time (5:03 EST my time)
评论来自
cyphex
Well i have been reading this section for the last moth or so and i have been looking for the TLPD my self.
I am posting today to show you where i killed Vyragosa because i think its a route i have not have seen him on.
i know its not that important but as most people say Vyragosa and TLPD share routes and Spawn times this might be helpful
This is the location on map:
http://img103.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vyragosahq8.jpg
hope this is usefull to someone :)
Regards
评论来自
298078
Ok, So let me add my info to this thread...
Server Archimonde
Alliance
Tonight I couldnt sleep, spent most of the night chillin in bed watching TV. Around 620 AM (Server time) I decided to get up and log on, see if by chance I may get lucky and tag Vyra or Dirkee at least. I knew that Someone had killed TLPD on tuesday a few hours after reset so I wasnt to excited. But W/E I couldnt sleep anyways. So I loged on and decided to fly to K3 and ride up Bors Breath. I had forgoten to set my Visual settings high so only saw a fleeting shape disapear into the mist of something big as soon as i left K3. As I followed over the mine Fields I saw a green dragon appear infront of me. It took my a few seconds to register to tell you the truth... I flew to him and agroed him over the mind fields and had to pull him back.. I hit the ground and forgot to call out my pet in the excitement, but finally did. My pet took a huge hit from a mine and almost lost him but I pulled out and fought him to the death... His. Thanks guys for all the awesome posts.
In the Picture below you can see K3 in the background
(Edit*) He was heading over the mine fields going east, not towards Bors Breath at about 45 yards off the ground.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/Kingpin3/WoWScrnShot_011509_073224.jpg
Facts
Cannot be skinned
Body disapears in 30 minutes ( I was hovering over it while typing this)
Killed at 620 am server on Archimonde thursday 1/15
评论来自
298342
May I ask on which height he was flying at? He's going up along the water fall towards Bor's Breath after beeing next to K3. It's obviously a huge height difference between the two areas so I was wondering where to look, would you be able to spot him from ground level when he's at the K3 area for example?
评论来自
254448
Alright let me tell my experience on this rarespawn and general rarespawn timers. I think rarespawns are exciting so I have researched a lot, and this last screenshot of TLPD so close K37 completes my theory. This thing is PURE LUCK to find. It must have like 20 spawning points, since this drake can be found ALL OVER Storm peaks (I though only the part above in the mountains until I saw this screenshot by Saunier, thank you). I also trust people in their screenshots, since if someone sees a rarespawn in Northrend, they dont kite it around, they kill it as fast as they can. I also think its nice that its so hard to find, since its a *!@#ing free Proto Drake..!
Now lets see the timer. First of all, I am so tired of people whining about this being bugged. Let me explain why you dont find any rarespawns: The Northrend rarespawns got unique and weird looks. Players who sees one, and see its silver dragon, wont leave it alone. And how many people you think it is in Storm peaks? Lets just see... ow 49.. That means its over 50 players there, probably around 60-70.. and thats only your faction! 70 * 2 = 140... 140 players in this zone.. What is the odds that you are on that one spot it spawns before the other 139? And as I said earlier, this thing can spawn all over this place, and its corpse lasts for 30 mins.. You cant scan the whole zone, every single spot, in 30 mins.. But now lets get some usefull stuff here. I talked to a GM while camping for another rarespawn for my hunter. They are not allowed to say much, but he gave me a hint: "There is no need to search for a new rarespawn while the corpse of another rarespawn is there" (just with a more PRO GM english).. So what he said is:
YES - The rarespawns shares respawn time, only one can live at once.
So this should explain why you cant find him.
Thanks.. and good luck
评论来自
mikethered
The reason why people are thinking the spawn timer is bugged is because it's SO random.
There are reports of people finding the drake a few hours after the server reset, and then there are other scenarios like the one I'm caught in right now.
It's now Thursday morning and the server cache says that it hasn't been looted. That's 48 hours. Also, we've established that he doesn't spawn on intervals of the clock... Which means he's either triggered by en event or a flag, or he has a chance to spawn every minute and it's 1 in 1000 or something.
In fact, I've never seen him, and I've been out here for 200+ hours in total.
I have an entire 18 slot bag full of Vyragosa helms. I've killed her so many times I don't even bother attacking her when I see her. I've seen Dirkee four times.
评论来自
Sigmae
Ahhh, you're the one I had the TLPD party with at the landing. I was going to ask you the specifics of your kill, but couldn't due to faction difference.
TLPD has been rather active on Archimonde lately.
I located mine on the 13th right before server maintainence (4am), then, if I understand right, another one spawned right after maintenance the same day?
Add that to your own kill and that's 3 in the span of 3 days.
Dirkee and Vyragosa were even up at the exact same time before your kill.
You're the first I've seen to actually provide a screenshot of TLPD actually around K3. Should be useful, as I've been trying to help a guildmate get a drake as well, who coincidentally logged off just before you found it.
评论来自
304976
-
Icecrown server:
Times posted are US PST, NOT server time.
-Spotted and killed Vyragosa on 1/12, approx. 2:45pm. Sighted @ coords. (47.4,64.5).
This was the maximum distance my macro would pick up the tag: You can see the corpse is outside the max range of the minimap:
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll41/SaxyNate/Public/ScreenShot_011209_144213.jpg
I approached from 44,55 N heading south towards Brunnhildar and spotted the dragon @ 47, 64 heading north from the village, already on the cliff and flying right above the tree tops. After the tag another player approached from the south: I believe they may have been camping Brunnhildar as there was no one above, below, or behind me, and I had seen that toon camping there earlier:
This could put a spawn just before, or at, the cliff north of Brunnhildar Village.
-Vyra corpse sighted 1/15 @ coords. (27.7,62.8).
No pic.
-Here's my macro (taken from an earlier post):
/cleartarget
/tar Dirkee
/tar Vyra
/tar Time
/stopmacro
/tell Burtran > %t <
/run RaidNotice_AddMessage(RaidBossEmoteFrame,"THERE IT IS! KILL IT!", ChatTypeInfo)
/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\interface\\RaidWar
_____________________________________________________________________
Breaking News
As I was about to make an addendum to my original post, a Vyragosa spawned right on top of me in game and nearly killed me!
My exact coordinates:
(28.5,66.0)
Time
: 5:05am PST
Icecrown
server
Materials Looted:
-Azure Dragonleather Helm of the Sorceror
-Abandoned Adventurer's Satchel containing:
-20x Frostweave Cloth
-15G 86S 43C
Here you can see the corpse of Vyra is skinnable from the third pic .
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll41/SaxyNate/Public/ScreenShot_011609_050539.jpg
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll41/SaxyNate/Public/ScreenShot_011609_050649.jpg
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll41/SaxyNate/Public/ScreenShot_011609_050837.jpg
_____________________________________________________________________________
I decided to mess around since no skinners were around. Check out how high I could fly up and still target with my macro:
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll41/SaxyNate/Public/ScreenShot_011609_052855.jpg
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll41/SaxyNate/Public/ScreenShot_011609_052807.jpg
I made sure to clear target first, and this doesn't work side-to-side. But apparently height won't matter much when targetting with your macro.
Corpse despawned about 20mins after kill.
Happy hunting.
评论来自
305135
He spawns just south of the engine of the makers circle i dont have exact cords atm but im getting the mod soon
评论来自
155592
I'm pretty sure Vyragos and Dirkee share spawn timers with the Time-Lost Proto Drake. I killed Vyragosa at 5am ST and game back at 11:20am and killed Dirkee the same day. Can anyone confirm this?
评论来自
155592
OK SO HERE'S HOW THIS WORKS:
These rare mobs are on a 6 hour timer!
I killed Vyrgosa at 5am server time
I came back and watched Dirkee spawn at 11am server
I came back at 7pm server and the Time-Lose Proto Drake spawned at 7pm
I now have my drake
-Triune 80 Mage of Ursin
评论来自
274293
I can confirm I downed him this morning at 6:16 UK time, Screenshot included. After 3 days of constant camping he did not show at the Engine of Makers 42,58, only Vyragosa was there, I got him at 30,65.
Hope my screenshots give your more info, I took it while I was fighting him so HP is confirmed as well as how easy it is since I am a level 78. I used all the info on these page so THANK U, I even used the pathing and made myself the pats using Notes as you can see on my minimap.
Good luck guys.
P.S.
To update my notes, Vyra spawned at the eaxact same tim 17:27 UK time, besides Vyra no other spawn showed up at 42,58 I camped the Engine place for 2 days straight both days only Vyra. I started camping at 23:30 on Wednesday night, on Thursday at 17:27 Vyra sight, on Friday Vyra sighted again at 17:27 so I decided to move to 30,65. I logged back into the game before bed at about 00:00 Friday night and at 6:16 Saturday monring I woke up by the Dinging:)
From what I see they don't share any spawn points or timers... that's my conclusion from the outcome.
评论来自
Vandrill
Hello first time poster on Wowhead, so i just downed Vyragosa, first rare i seen in my 3 day camp
Server:
Perenolde US
Toon Name:
Vandrill(H)
Server Time:
2:12 am ST
Coords:
Downed at 27,55
How she was spotted:
I was camped at 28, 66 w/ my macro being relentlessly spammed as i watched TV. I believe i was about 70 yards off the ground and my macro hits gold going crazy. I look around a bit and see nothing until I see a few wing flaps above me about 5 yards or so. I aggro and use a macro where I cast avengers shield and bubble so i dont die on fall. It works but now im being hit by his ranged attacks, so I decide to run out of aggro range. mount up (60% flyer....Vyra isn't flying fast at all) and get the aggro again and kill her at 27, 55 on a mountain.
Direction of travel:
She seemed to be just leaving Bor's Breath (but also not sure if she had just spawned) and headed West over Valkyrion....she didn't get much farther after that lol. I did take a screenshot but i dont know how to get it here sing Windows Vista.
This was my first rare kill in Storm Peaks so i hope this helps and also hope the next one is TLPD
Back to the hunt!
评论来自
47267
Downed Vyragosa at 4:15 AM, this day, over the Terrace of the Makers, just northwest of the meeting place with Thorim after he gets his hammer back, didn't have my map coord on, lol. Couldn't bring her to the ground and had to use my caster spells, almost didn't make it. Oh, yeah, 80 DK, Duskwood server.
评论来自
skeetar
Just dropped him right at the base of the waterfall on Bloodscalp
评论来自
298681
Does anyone know if the macro used for check the item cache, works instantly once the item is dropped, or if you need to wait some time (minutes, hour, days etc..) in order to see that the item is showed on the link?
(sorry for my bad language)
EDIT: downrate it but answer at least
评论来自
110767
4pm ST on Carine
Just killed in front of my GL by a gold farmer.
....
评论来自
morvain
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:38963340161341360542360543660145060146158844857043357442057840558
...
This route is the one i've been using for about a week or so now and I find it's the best one I have made, here's why:
It covers Terrace of the Makers route, Valkyrion, Bor's Breath, Bor's Fall, Foot Steppes, and Engine of the makers... Every patrol path that we know of.
I've come across Vyragosa twice and TLPD (dead) once on this route.
It also covers Dirkee pathing zone
GL and enjoy!
Edit: Literally, 3 minutes after I posted, Found Vyragosa again and killed her near Valkyrion.
SS:
http://i44.tinypic.com/16aa0cn.jpg
and
http://i40.tinypic.com/30t2ky8.jpg
评论来自
Coldylol
Just found Vyragosa 33.8,88.7 while flying around. Followed her for a bit and killed her on waterfall.
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2ed7fvt&s=5
Searching for TLPD now.
评论来自
cyphex
Well i just killed Vyragosa again my 5th time .
The weird part is that i killed Vyragosa almost 3 days ago and TLPD has not shown up or has been looted on my server after i killed Vyragosa 3 days ago and Today suddenly i see him again .
Does this mean the share Spawn time Theory might have changed ater the latest Maintenance?
Or did this happen to any1 else as well? Kill Vyragosa 2 times in a row with out the TLPD showing up?
评论来自
290593
2:30pm server time (Jan 18, 2009) - Draenor US
28,51 Time Lost Proto Drake
I'd been camping the mountains near this area the last couple days. I saw Vyragosa traveling what looked like the green route (clockwise) once, and then traveling back counterclockwise (maybe the red route?). I didn't get to follow him much each time, just enough to know that he would eventually pass my location. After maybe a couple days with no sightings, I was still determined to sit there. My macro pops up with Proto Drake, and he's headed right toward my spot (toward the village from the colossus), so I'm guess it was the red route again counterclockwise...
Good luck to all you happy campers out there. And I do know that It was looted at least once since the servers came up on Tuesday, because on Wednesday my Itemlink script started working. Here it is Sunday afternoon, and I have at least the second one on the server for the week!
Thanks for all the great info you wowhead devotees! :)
评论来自
Fallerup
32.65 seems to be a point in almost all his flight paths, if you stand there, he'll come by there sooner or later, if not killed elsewhere while you are standing there waiting.
评论来自
307719
Is it too far-fetched to believe that my best odds are to just check after each server reset?
I realize it's likely the Dirkee or Vyra would be up instead, but from all the posts it seems people have the best luck being the first one out on the routes right after the servers go live after a reset..
评论来自
307926
Can someone clarify something about the macro that tells you if the Reins have been looted?
After the the 3.0.8 patch, I used the macro and it said it was Retrieving item information. Five to ten minutes after I used the macro, the Reins became linkable. I searched The Storm Peaks but could not find a corpse, so does this mean that after you the use the macro once, I would have to wait until the server reset in order to use it again or has it indeed been looted?
Thanks for clarifying.
评论来自
308198
Tip to Ret Pallies (or any pallies really)
Due to our lack of a ranged attack and that judgements are too short to hit them we can't bring them to the ground to tag them.
But if you turn on Ret aura and fly right up to the dragon he will melee you making him (her?) tagged so at least you don't have to worry about other players.
Also, if you get dismounted then bubble :)
评论来自
194467
Finally got mine after about 3 weeks of hunting :D
Server: Nagrand (US).
Name: Minties (Alliance).
Server Time: 1.00am, January 22 (Thursday), 2009.
Coords: 29.66.
How you spotted it: I was camping it at the coords above, decided to go to K3 to get the money from some auctions, omw back to my camping spot, my macro hit gold at Bor's Breath, it was flying towards Valkyrion.
Did you kill Vyragos prior or know of the kill prior? If so, how many hours before? I never killed Vyragos, but a friend told me he saw her corpse at the engine of makers on January 20th, (Monday).
TLPD Dead and looted :)
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a139/JZ-515/94ab4504.jpg
Me and my new mount :D
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a139/JZ-515/ef78f517.jpg
Good Luck! :D
评论来自
308581
Found dead in the snow drift plains today.
Honestly, some of the crap being thrown around here is laughable, mostly coming from people who claim GM's have given them information. A GM is not supposed to give out game information of this nature, so please do not listen to
anyone
who claims a game master gave them info on things like flight paths, respawn times ect.
Happy Hunting!
评论来自
308611
For paladins I made this macro:
#showtooltip Divine Shield
/Dismount
/cast Divine Storm
/use Divine Shield
You just have to ride above the mob and left click on the macro to tag it w/ divine storm and then right click the macro to fall safely, while I have not seen the rare spawns I tried it on the blue drakes and it worked on tagging them.
Ret Aura does not work because it is a passive ability.
评论来自
Moonchill
Skinnable. Saw her today, with very obvious "Skinable" in the tooltip.
评论来自
Oomie
Ok. I'm not quite sure where she came from this time but I found her (Vyragosa) at 31.8, 69.2...........way way way up high like she was about to circle Frost Hold, she was heading west around it, then angled downwards, north, towards Valkyrion....I didn't follow her after that lol too much competition someone else would have killed her.
Again not sure where she came from but it was 11:57am server when I spotted her, I think she may have spawned at 11:55? Just a theory, because I killed her the day before on monday morning a 1:55am (before the servers went down), she spawned directly south of Valkyrion then.
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My hunch may be right, I just spyed TLPD corpse in the Foot Steppes at 12:05am server. I missed it by 5-10 minutes.
Previous spawns I've seen/killed, 1:55am Monday, 11:55am Wed, 11:55pm Wed?
评论来自
308885
Thanks to all for the information! It really helped me secure my own TLPD mount.
I killed the TLPD at 00:12 server time (Argent Dawn - EU) on 16/01/08. It was flying west into the highest tier of Bor's Breath, just south of Valkyrion. The altitude was just skimming the tops of the trees the harpies are around.
The next known kill on the server was at 05:40 on 18/01/08, unknown location.
The next known sighting after that was flying north-east through Thunderfall, where it idled over the crater before despawning, unknown time.
Good hunting!
评论来自
Pinto
Summary of facts:
Server:
Executus (EU)
Name:
Pinto or Galanir
Server Time:
14:49
Coords:
30,65
How you spotted it:
Was camping at 28,65 ... it came flying along Bor's Breath from the east.
Height:
Pretty close to the ground level, was easily attackable standing on the frozen lake.
Direction of travel:
Going clock-wise
Did you kill Vyragos prior or know of the kill prior?
No I did not, and don't have any idea of a prior kill.
Details:
First off, let me make it clear that I been looking for 15 days before I found TLPD,
BUT
it was not a 24/7 camp. I usually logged off at night, so I have no accurate way of knowing the interval between spawns. Also, I only camped one spot in particular, so I have no way of knowing about vyra spawns/kills elsewhere.
I'd been camping 28,65 for almost 15 days. After checking all the suggested routes, maps, spawn points listed here on wowhead, I decided that 28,65 intersects 3 routes hence it was my best bet, mixed in with fly-bys on the patrol routes given in the previous posts from time-to-time.
During these 15 days, I initially spotted one vyragosa kill around 49,50 (Terrace of the Makers). Soon after this, came the server reset. I cleared my cache and proceeded to wait. During this week, I had 2 vyragosa kills, and witnessed another one. First time, she came from Valkarion and was moving over Bor's Breath in a counter-clockwise direction. The second time, she came flying low over Bor's breath going clock-wise (same direction/height as my TLPD kill). The third time, I spotted vyra coming down from the western side of Frosthold, and heading towards Valkarion. This time, I decided not to kill her but to follow her instead. She was decending from Frosthold, and then flew straight at around 60-ish yards from the ground. She was killed before reaching Valkarion though. So Vyra spawned 3 times that week atleast. On saturday, my server-query macro found the TLPD item-link when I logged in, so I assume it was killed sometime on Saturday.
After that, no sign of Vyra or TLPD for me. Wednesday came with another server reset, I cleared my cache, and proceeded to wait again. No sighting of either on Wednesday ... but Thursday at 14:49, my macro started going beserk. I looked at the top-left corner of the screen expecting to see Vyra, but NO, it TLPD. I look around frantically, spot it ... fly towards it clicking attack madly and finally tag it and get the kill.
Screenshot of the kill:
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/7995/wowscrnshot012209184954ib5.jpg
You can see the server-time on the mini-map = 14:49
And the co-ordinates on the fubar = 30,65
Another one, just to show the general area in regards to Valkarion:
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/9209/wowscrnshot012209185207yj9.jpg
And finally a last one to see how far its visible:
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/8749/wowscrnshot012209185322sz9.jpg
Acknowldgements:
A huge thanks to everyone who's posted here with comments, theories, patrol routes, etc.
To everyone who's camping for him, don't give up. The wait is worth it.
To Deem, the alliance mage who had been camping that spot for the past 5-6 days (if you read this), bad-luck that you were logged out when he came. I can only imagine how bad you must feel, logging in and finding the corpse there with me sitting on a fresh kill. You've been a good sport mate, no gankings, etc ... and I wish you the best of the luck in your hunt.
Finally, 28,65 is becoming an over-crowded spot. On our medium-low population server, there were 4 guys camping that place on-and-off (including myself).
Edit: Wowhead client has uploaded the kill location
评论来自
265278
was farming my herbs near the engine of the makers... decided to hit my macro and BOOM he pops up. I hit it 2 seconds later and he was gone... about 30 seconds later and someone in general claims to have killed him... =[
评论来自
283165
I was searching for the time-lost and found Vyragosa instead. He spawned directly above the pit in Brunnhildar Village. He was barely off the ground but quickly moved north and then west around the mountain like in the link of possible routes. I'm assuming this movement would be the same as the Time-Lost
评论来自
300200
Well, my search has finally ended. After spending 12 hours a day (actually sitting there, NOT botting like most >.>), from January 6th to the 22nd, the Time-Lost Proto spawned! My technique (if you want to call it that) was sitting in one spot and NOT moving. The location I chose was Bor's Breath, right in the dead center of the frozen lake, maybe about 40yds up. Proved to be an excellent spawn point. My times thus far are as follows.
- Tuesday, January 6th at 5:30pm Vyragosa killed at Bor's Breath (spawned in the center)
- Thursday, January 8th at 9:50pm Vyragosa downed at Bor's Breath (spawned in the center)
- Friday, January 9th 1:15am Vyragosa found dead in Valkyrion, seemed to be heading NE towards Snowdrift Plains, and was most likely killed by the NPCs in the location.
- Saturday, January 10th at 9:30pm Dirkee is killed slightly north of the Engine of the Makers
- Sunday, January 11th 7:51pm, Dirkee is killed due east of the Engine of the Makers
- Monday, January 12th at 11:54pm, Vyragosa found dead at Bor's Fall, most likely flying off the edge towards K3
- Saturday, January 17th, 2008 6:20-6:25am, Vyragosa spotted in Bor's breath, 29.1, 66.3, about 60yds above the ground. I could be mistaken, but I am almost certain she spawned directly on me, in the exact location, or a little west of me, but no more than 15yds away. I decided to follow for a moment, and she flew directly east along the frozen river (about the same height up as I found her) leading to Bor's fall, and seemed she was going to fly down it.
- Sunday January 18th, 12:50am, next day, Spotted Vyragosa flying down from the path from Engine of the Makers that empties into Bor's breath. She seemed to be flying towards me (heading west) but a shaman intercepted and killed her. I'm surprised she was up as long as she was, and assume she spawned near 12:30am.
- Tuesday, Jan. 20th, 2008 : 2:20-2:29am Vyragosa spawned, but "Bots" beat me to her
- Wednesday, Januarty 21st, 4:30am, Killed Vyragosa. She seemed to be coming from Valkyrion, from another spawn location. Some rogue tagged her but got killed by her, so I tagged and took down.
- Thursday January 22nd, 12:30am, PVP battle ensued as we rushed to kill, yet again, Vyragosa. I ended up getting the killing blow ahaha. She spawned literally on top of me, in the center of Bor's Breath, and flew directly towards Valkyrion, a route that was shown on
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Vyragosa&hl=en&emb=0&aq=-1&oq=#
- Thursday January 22nd, 9:50pm, Time-Lost was spotted on my tracker, flying east coming from Valkyrion. He wasnt flying in the same spot as Vyragosa, but more to the side of the temple, hugging it closely, about 40yds off the ground. He continued to fly and seemed he was heading up to the Engine of the Makers from Bor's Breath. PvP battle ensued as the chase for him began, and I finally flew into him to aggro and pulled to a cliff and downed asap.
Notes: All of these were confirmed downings, either by myself, or I've seen the corpse in person. There was one TLPD spawn about 6 days before mine, at approximately 2:00am, confirmed loot, but I didn't see it myself.. My conclusion is about every 3 Vyragosas, one TLPD spawns, but take from it what you will. Be sure to bring some Snowfall Lager! They can be purchased at the crash site for 2 Relics of Ulduar. I believe both are skinnable, if not skinned the bodies exist for exactly a half an hour. Both are indeed trackable, but the targeting macro can spot them right before they come into view:
/target time
/target Vyragosa
/target dirkee
/stopmacro
/run RaidNotice_AddMessage(RaidBossEmoteFrame,"There it is!", ChatTypeInfo)
/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\interface\\RaidWarning.wav")
The battle: He has 18k hp as said before, and will prefer to hit you with a few "time lapses" (hit for about 600 or so =/ ) before coming in to melee. Easy kill. If you are melee though, Vyragosa can prove to be a pain in the ass seeing as she almost always stays at a 20+ yd distance.
Anyone who wants this mount CAN get it if you TRULY want it, and don't give up! I am a perfect example; I was constantly taunted and told it'd never happen, but it only motivated me more. The rush is like no other =D. Good luck to you all on your search, and I hope I've helped!
- Raei : Shattered Hand, US : Feel free to contact me for more information =)
评论来自
25427
in the last week, i've seen the TLPD 5 times.
Once, i lost him by 30min, on Friday, i had a pc crash, logged in and there he was, dead, amoung the blue drakes.
Been camping for over a month.
评论来自
Naad
I just got mine, was looking for it for about 6 hours.
I was flying the Green, Orange and Red paths in turns and got lucky I guess, someone said in chat that he/she just killed Vyragosa and after like 20-30 minutes I found the Drake.
http://img440.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot012309221247ph1.jpg
And here is the location where I found it
http://img162.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot012309221301fo9.jpg
评论来自
264822
Alright guys i'm a bit bummed but what the hell. it's been a month of looking for this guy 6 or more times a day. i've now seen Vyragosa 5 times 1 Dirkee and 2 Time-lost proto drake. The first TLPD i wasn't bummed b/c i was raiding and had no chance of finding him , he was killed in Terrance of the Makers. Now 2 days later which is today, I do my daily path from k3 to Bor's breath to Valkyrion To the Plains to Engine of the Maker back to BB. Now either i do that path or camp BB. So i do this and im feelin lazy like lets just stay at BB but i dont sure enough i do my route come back to find a druid ckilling my drake. So just remember Guys you can be takeing a risk leaving your area or doing the right thing u make the call im bummed but whatever. I tried my macro on him you can be a good 70 + yards up to hit him. GL To all and Gratz to the druid on Uther who was rewarded it.
评论来自
Bizarre
Server: Shandris
Name: Megalis
Server Time: 9:00 am
Coords: 28,65
How you spotted it: I had camped the location the night before and logged out here. When I logged in at exactly 9am server time, it was flying directly in front of my face, eastward into Bor's Breath.
Direction of travel: East
Did you kill Vyragos prior or know of the kill prior? I spotted her corpse at 7:20 pm the previous night.
评论来自
MightyBobo
Summary of facts:
Server: Mug'thol
Name: Palabobo
Server Time: 0415
Coords: 30,67
How you spotted it: Was camping at 28,65 ... it spawned at the usual Vyragosa spot on the side of Frost Hold Mountain, and began its pat down the side.
Direction of travel: North
Did you kill Vyragos prior or know of the kill prior? Nope, and don't know when it was killed last.
Details:
As for the server, Mug'thol has had a serious drought of TLPD spawns. It used to be found within 1-2 days of the server coming up. The past 2-3 weeks, it hasn't been found for, easily, 6 days after each server up. As far as I know, I'm one of 3 who've gotten it the past few weeks. I check the server cache script religiously, so I'd know almost instantly if it spawned or didn't.
Not much to say about - I'm fairly sure this is one of the first 100% confirmed spawns at the Vyragosa spawn point, on the mountain side. I've had Vyra spawn there MANY times, and have killed her many times there. I banked on TLPD spawning there, patting south from Valkyrion, or patting west through Bor's Breath. It just happened to be my lucky day (or, night?), and spawned at my favorite spot on the mountainside.
Sreenshots of the kill:
http://img294.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot012509052813tw5.jpg
http://img292.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot012509051856cp7.jpg
My apologies, as I took all the screenies with the interface off.
Acknowledgments:
I cannot thank the positive thread contributors enough. I have spent the past 6 weeks here, maybe times in 12+ hour spurts attempting to find TLPD. Ive only seen it twice - once, I missed it by 5 minutes due to stopping to make a sandwich. The other, was my kill tonight. I finally deemed that laps were unreasonable, and decided to pick a spot with what I felt was a semi-high likelihood of spawning or at least running into her. Tonight, finally, seemed to be my lucky night.
Many times I wanted to give up, especially after I got my Red proto-drake the other night. I couldn't help but almost say to myself, "Well, its red...its good enough right?". In actuality I knew this became my white whale, and after spending weeks of my time camping it, it'd be a slap in my own face to give up.
To those left hunting it who truly want it: don't give up. Stick to your guns and eventually you'll find her around.
评论来自
Moonchill
I have been camping him for the past few nights, and noticed something (which has been reported before, just for the record).
Last night, at 6am, Vyragosa flew into my macro flying in east towards Bor's Breath (Was camping over the frozen lake). He was killed quickly afterwards (Hunter managed to tag him). The hunter was camping engine, and ran into him at the curve in Bor's Breath. He assumes a Frozen Waterfall spawn.
Tonight, again at almost exactly 6am again, Vyragosa flies into my macro again. I'm still above the frozen lake. This time, we have a guaranteed spawn location at Valkyrion, seeing the hunter was flying in from the north, saw her, then fell to her death trying to tag her. Vyra then pathed towards my location at Bor's, where we tagged and killed her.
Now, I find it a very large coincidence that both of our spots have been at nearly 6am. As such, I assume that there's something to do with a 24hour timer, or a spawn time at 6am. If this also comes into affect with Time-Lost Proto Drake is another matter altogether, but it might.
SUMMARY:
Vyra killed twice at 6am above Bor's breath 24 hours apart.
First kill was most likely a waterfall spawn.
Second kill was a
definite
Valkyrion spawn.
EDIT: We did not find a spawn at 6am this morning, but much to our suprise, just spawned a few minutes ago. Thats another 6 o'clock spawn. Coming down the mountain by Frost Hold.
Getting a bit.... noticeable.
评论来自
312053
I wouldnt just call it luck since many people like myself used this thread to find as much information as possible, but still a part is luck. But the best tip i can give you all is to get a gather profession like Mining or Herbalism. Its more "fun" then just flying around.
评论来自
Yellowstars
Just killed Vyragosa on US-Kilrogg at 23:55 Mountain time, 22:55 server time.
I've killed her once before and it was at 17:55 Mountain time, 16:55 server time. To me this confirms many posts that have said she is on a 6 hour spawn timer.
As for time-lost and her sharing a spawn timer, I'm still not sure.
评论来自
23276
wow some butthurt child went through alot trouble just to down rate these 18 posts above me, be it negative OR positive info.
hey if your out there why dont you go mess with wikipedia
评论来自
23276
well what do you know im making another post!
was afk in bor's breath cause I was hungry and making food
(was flying back to brunnhildar to hand in the polar bear daily even though I already have it the money is still good)
low and behold I come back to sit at my PC and.........................I see Vyragosa fly from underneath me!.
too bad it wasnt you know who :(.......anyways I proceeded to drink a snowfall lager and tag her as I fall down, though thanks to her not flying all the way down the ground and me being a melee class, I crossbowed her to death! >< it actually didnt take as long as I had thought it would although there was still plenty of time for someone to come and gank but that didnt happen. Late night ftw!
Killed at 32,66 in bor's breath just in front of the small frozen waterfall there. Time was 12:56 server (3:56 EST, My timezone)
评论来自
Scell
After more than 14h of camping TLPD didnt show up, instead Vyragosa did. Found her flying trough Bor's Breath heading west, at 29.65. Pulled her by flying trough her and using Death grip to pull her to the ground since shes ranged. Droped a satchel of spoils with 30g, some crystalised fire and 14 frostweave cloth and a blue leather caster head lvl 78. Will post a screenshot soon.
评论来自
312863
My current assumption is that on either a server reset or a kill of one of the rare spawns, a new timer is started between
30 minutes
6 and 24 hours. When the timer fires, a new rare spawn appears. There is a very small chance that spawn will be the TLPD, otherwise it will be one of the others.
There have been a few 30 minute respawns noted and a few 24 hour respawns.
(All of the reports of less than 6 hours between spawns have been of Dirkee.)
There is obviously no proof to back this theory up.
Edit: When I wrote this I thought that all three rare spawns shared a timer. It seems much more likely that Dirkee has separate spawn timers from Vyra and TLPD. From reading through the comments, it's clear that Vyra is on a spawn timer between 6 and 12-24 hours. (The times greater than 12
could
be someone else killing and skinning Vyra without it being noticed.)
评论来自
Oomie
Ok. After nearly 3 months of searching and hoping I had about given up. I was heading south down Bor's Breath over Bor's Fall to do my Brunnhildar daily when I saw the TLPD heading southwest around Frost Hold, and he hadn't been tagged!
I proceeded to aggro him and cast moonfire and used a lager so I wouldn't fall to my death. A few seconds later and this legendary beast was dead at my feet. Killed at 1:40pm Draenor US, corpse despawned 2:10.
Killed/saw about 7 Vyragosas before this.
Loot
Recap on all I know of TLPD:
-Shares spawn timer, and spawn points with Vyragosa. Dirkee has no connection whatsoever.
-Vyragosa is on about a 8-24 hour spawn timer, that timer has a very tiny chance to spawn TLPD.
Confirmed Spawn points:
-North of Valkyrion, near the cave. May path north, east, or south.
-South of Valkyrion, over the frozen lake. May path north, east, or southwest around Frosthold.
-The Foot Steppes, southeast of the Engine. May path northeast, southeast, west, or southwest.
-Brunnhildar, directly over the pit. May path north or southwest.
Unconfirmed:
-Somewhere around Frosthold, I'm thinking near the peak.
Theory: I'm 80% sure that this spawn point is just east of frosthold, behind those ruins on a large ledge with trees at 34.5, 70.
Handy macro:
/tar Dirkee
/tar Vyra
/tar Time
/stopmacro
/w Your Name %t Is watching you!
/run RaidNotice_AddMessage(RaidBossEmoteFrame,"THERE IT IS! KILL IT!", ChatTypeInfo)
/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\interface\\RaidWarning.wav")
Good luck everyone and happy hunting!
评论来自
Shibbykiko
I finally got my TLPD today. I have spent every spare minute of my time for the past two weeks in Storm Peaks attempting to find this mount for myself.
After about a week of camping and 9 or 10 Vyragosa kills, I decided to start logging my info so that I could post my findings for you guys, since the comments I read before this were insanely helpful. Hopefully I'll be able to help you guys out too.
1/25 - 6:00pm Vyragosa @ 28, 66
1/26 - 8:00am Vyragosa @ 28, 66
***I missed a couple of spawns in here due to work and classes.***
*Tuesday Maintenance, Sever came back up around 11:30am*
1/27 - 7:10pm Vyragosa @ 46, 60
1/28 - 6:18am Vyragosa @ 28, 66
1/28 - 11:13pm Vyragosa @ 46, 60
1/29 - 2:30pm Vyragosa @ 28, 66
1/30 - 2:40am Dirkee @ 42, 53
*Rolling Restart @ 9am Server time*
1/30 - 7:10pm Vyragosa @ 28, 66
1/31 - 9:22am Vyragosa @ 28, 66
1/31 - 6:18pm TLPD @ 28, 66
All times Central (which is my server's time)
Do what you want with the info.
I noticed that most spawns happen within 11-14ish hours of the last spawn, occasionally a spawn will differ though and come sooner or later.
~Minishibby
Lightninghoof
评论来自
23276
well seems like all positive info gets downrated unless its someone gloating about there kill.
but I shall persist.
was going to heroic HoL and saw vyragosa along the way again at the exact same spot as my last kill on her
Killed at 32,66 in bor's breath just in front of the small frozen waterfall there. Time was 12:56 server (3:56 EST, My timezone)
评论来自
Kristianzen1
After 15 days of intense camping, my macro FINALLY hit gold. i was camping the waterfall facing K3, because i had seen Vyragosa spawn there several times during my stay and if the rumors was true, and they did share a spawnpoint. It would be here.
I was watching Oprah around 12:55 when my macro went crazy, i did'nt see any dragon towards K3, i turned around and i saw this brownish beauty flying over The Abondended camp (or something, you know where) and towards Engine of the makers. My drake flew over this dude that was afk and that's when my heart started beating. I took him down shortly after when he was heading up towards the Terrace, i killed him infront of the cave there down on the field.
Screenie
It's hard to tell, but it was north of the Engine, as you can see. One dude came RIGHT after i killed him, and i concider myself lucky, since the drake managed to fly pretty far
http://img246.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot013009140457uz6.jpg
SCREENIE
i was pretty suprised of the width of my macro. as i was camping several hundred yd's away from the sighting.
And as for spawntimers, I camped for 15 days, and one week he did not spawn at all, i waited till 3 at night for the server cache restart and nothing happened. i killed Vyragosa several times myself and several more dead bodies. Killed Dirkee only once, I can say that they do not share a spawntimer, very unlikely. I think spawntime and spawnplace.
Hope this helps, because all your comments did. GL will post more screenies later^^
Hope you find this helpful, if not. dont rate me down, maybe som others will^^
Sorry for the typos that you might find.:P
评论来自
pumpkinmuffin
Hello! I decided to write some information about how I got my TLPD to help those hunting.
After 2 months of searching I was getting really discouraged about finding it and so tired of flying around Storm Peaks.
I had killed Vyragosa 4 times and Dirkee twice.
I decided to stop flying around and camp around Bor's Breath since thats where he is found the most.
I started camping on a little ledge around 30,3. 68,2. facing the temple of storms.
On 1/29/09 I at about 6amGT (PST) I spotted Vyragosa flying the path of Bor's Breath towards Valkyrion (which was interesting to me since thats the first time I had seen her flying towards it and not away from it) and Killed her right at Valkyrion.
The next day at about 1:30-35pm-ish I was camped at the same spot talking to some friends in my guild.
A druid in my guild had just told me he was in Storm Peaks and had JUST killed Dirkee.
I stayed at my usual spot not even 2 mins after he told me that I spotted the TLPD! (Which makes me think they may some how be connected? *shrug*)
There were a few people near the area who seemed to be AFK, I flew after it and took it down right outside Valkyrion (it was flying the same path as Vyragosa the previous day).
He was a very easy kill, I just hit him with Shadow Word: Death and then Levitated to the ground then he WARPED down to the ground and I killed him.
He dropped a neck piece and a bag with frostweave and gold.
Below is a picture showing were I was standing when I spotted him, the arrow shows his height and the direction he was flying in.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y230/usagiyuri/TLPD/TLPDSpotted.jpg
And here are some shots of where I took him down
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y230/usagiyuri/TLPD/TLPDKilled2.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y230/usagiyuri/TLPD/TLPDkilled.jpg
BTW, one of those AFK people said they were using a exploit that was to make a loud noise when the drake spawned and that it did NOT go off as he sat there AFK while I took the drake down. I was not using the macro when I found him, just sitting there.
Hope this is helpful to someone.
Happy Hunting!
评论来自
maxsincerny
Gm's info are only rumors... if you go ask for a ticket it is clearly say that questions about characters(NPCs) are NOT allowed and gm will not be able to help you.
http://s562.photobucket.com/albums/ss67/maxsincerny/?action=view¤t=gmtalk.jpg
and autohotkey is illegal.
评论来自
316912
Found it after an hour of searching lol and I'm not even 80 yet
It was at 39.60 for me just around the Engine of the Makers
Soldure
Thrall-US
评论来自
huntre
So this morning while browsing over the WoW community forums during college, I stumbled upon a thread about some sort of rare spawn that dropped a Proto-Drake. Along with the other 99.9% of the WoW population, that was more than enough to peak my curiousity, and so I headed to this Wowhead entry to read everything I could about the "Time-Lost Proto Drake" and the theories and strategies surrounding its capture.
Around 11 P.M., I finally wrapped up my college and decided to head home for the night. The Proto-Drake still fresh in my mind, I logged on around 12:00 A.M. to try my hand at some farming.
After doing a heavy bit of reading here and over at thottbot, i followed the normal routes around the temple of storms, the engine of the makers, Bor's fall, k3, brunhildar, etc. for what seemed like an eternity. Finally at 3:45 A.M. i decided to give it a rest and accepted an invitation to 25 man O.S.. We wrapped up the raid around 4:45 and although dead tired, I decided to give the Storm Peaks one last go around.
After about 10 minutes of flying over the same old Patrol routes, I was about ready to throw in the towel, but I managed to muster up the will to try one last time, and this time I decided to try a slight deviation and head up to the front edge of Ulduar from the NW edge of the temple of storms.
As I drew closer to Ulduar, I saw something flying at me through the fog. Could it be? Yes, flying straight at me was the Time Lost Proto Drake, and before I could even hit my macro I was flying full speed towards him. This happened at approx. 5 A.M. server time, and as no one else was around, I had no problems dragging him down to the top of a pillar, where I basically 4 shotted the poor thing.
So now I'm sitting atop my Time Lost Proto Drake, happy as can be.
Total Time Invested: 4 hours farming + planning.
Yah, you could call me lucky. I know I feel it. Thank God. I was just about to log off to.... haha.
Anyways, good luck to the rest of you, and here are some screenshots of the location I killed him at, and even a date and time stamp for all you doubters. Good luck, God Bless, and Good hunting. :)
Standing over my kill, date and time stamping for credibility
http://www.imagefreehost.com/files/04022009/lp35098640099.jpeg
Riding my shiny new Proto Drake :)
http://www.imagefreehost.com/files/04022009/qm57935333983.jpeg
-- Fievel, Human Paladin, Maestrom (US)
评论来自
312476
Killed TLPD at 16:05 server time today, he spawned at 30,65. This morning killed Vyra at same spot at 03:05, so i decided to stay whole day after server maintance lf next spawn.
Just one more note, i can confirm that TLPD was killed last wednesday around 16:00, so exactly 7 days ago.
Tnx to all for nice informations.
Good hunting
评论来自
grimholt
Just spawned at 03:36 CET on Stormscale EU after
two hours of INTENSIVE grinding
. Spawned at the end of Bor's Breath, near Valkyrion and flew over Valkyrion towards Snowdrift Plains, killed it before it got that far though.
Several of my friends had it spawn on that excact location, so this is surely a hot tip if you're after this ubercool, uberepeen mount. :-)
Btw, I really think they should add some kind of Feat of Strength for this mount, perhaps with a title reward ('the Time Lost'?).
Deathcharger's Reins
has got
one
(not with title though), so why not this one.
评论来自
Gratzner
Just saw the corpse of the Time-Lost at 13.45 (1.45 PM) on Kazzak EU server. My heart skipped a couple of beats when the macro responded of the Time-Lost and not some Dirkee dude but... only a corpse.
评论来自
Trither
I have been looking for a while on my own and thought I would share the info I've gotten so far as well as ask for answers.
I've mostly been hanging out at 28,65 or around that area, spamming macros while reading, studying, watching movies, you get the picture.
So far I've recorded 7 Vyragosa observations, 3 of them being actual kills.
Here's the date and time I've gotten since I actually started recording my observations:
Vyragosa:
3rd Feb. Time unknown, observed at 31,65
4th Feb. 02:30(am), 28,65 (kill)
4th Feb. 12:10, 28,65 (observation)
4th Feb. 17:50, 28,65 (kill)
5th Feb. 04:50(am), 28,65 (kill)
7th Feb. 11:40(am), 28,65 (observation)
7th Feb. 23:32, 40,62 (observation)
From my experience she seems to be respawning every 6~10 hours, and seeing as I'm almost only searching for her from 28,65, this would mean she could spawn even more often if you include the other spawn points. That, or she just have a quite high chance to spawn at 28,65.
So far I have neither killed nor seen Time-Lost, before this weeks server reset the server enquiry was stuck on retrieving the whole week, meaning he didn't spawn at all last week I take it. (how's that for rare) However what's worth to say is that the morning just after this weeks server reset that macro struck gold, and it found the link to the item when I logged in at 07:00 in the morning. (server maintenance scheduled for 05:00-07:00) I'm pretty sure there was 0 people in the area after doing a /who storm peaks that morning, and I've never seen anyone with the mount since. Have they changed the way that macro works, will it show the item regardless of it it has spawned or not? In any case, is there a way to reset it? (Probably not though)
Good hunting to you all
评论来自
Eiskalt
In response to the speculation of them sharing respawn timers, the only true fact about that can be confirmed by something a GM said in regards to Loque'Nahak. There can only be one rare alive in a zone at a time, the space between the deaths and spawns were not clarified.
评论来自
319151
Just died on Stormreaver at 11:05 pm server exactly. Could not possibly have been spawned for more than a minute, as I had just flown by the area and stopped to chat with a friend, turned around and saw him get tagged. I was actually mining at the time and since I have a green proto not particuarally interested in killing him ( although, I definitely would have if I had been the first there ). He died on the small frozen lake at the intersection between Frost Hold and Valkyrion.
The lucky killer was a warlock from my own faction ( I actually flew over very quickly to see if I could gank the person and steal it =P ). Such was not the case however, and grats to him. Hope the information helps the hunt. Good luck all!
评论来自
319167
So I have been looking for this drake for around 2 weeks now. Ive seen Vyragosa twice. I killed her once at 7:36pm severtime at the frozen waterfall on bor's breath near valkyrion and also seen her killed near the gates of valkyrion. I have only once however seen the TLPD... and it was its coprse. I had been camping it all week and left for just 1 min to check another area and read a post of the WoW forums. I sadly came back to a dead TLPD with another player standing over it. I asked if he was the one that killed it and when it was killed. The reply i got was "it was a hordie no more than 1 min ago"
I found his corpse on the side on bor's breath just past the waterfall where i usually camp. :( hopefully next time ill have some luck and ill be the one that gets the kill.
Goodluck to everyone else out there hunting this drake.
评论来自
319653
I killed the drake today on my 78 shammy alt. lol I couldn't catch up to him but a guildy was very near and we both killed him. He spawned above me while I was questing and I followed him along the entire route marked in green on the link from this page. I lost the roll but was still really cool to get to kill it. He spawned on 2-8-2009 @ about 8:20 PM server time, The Forgotten Coast.
Librachris
评论来自
319738
Has anyone made up a rare spawn addon yet for the time-lost proto drake yet?
评论来自
274984
found dead at about 4:00am server time on Executus - US.
@ 49, 64 - just within Brunnhildar Village
He was most likley tagged flying above the village on one of his common pat routes
评论来自
BeaverDono
I got really lazy and I found TV make passing the time a lot better... so I added both things together and came up with this macro! Its alert you by raid warning that the dragon is near you in the area you are camping.
/target Time
/script if UnitName("target")=="Time-Lost Proto Drake" then SendChatMessage("Target Found - %t", "RAID_WARNING"); end
Hope this make farming a little less painful! It does work outside or groups/raids.
(Has Been Tested)
Happy Farming! :D.
评论来自
295504
I just got the Time-Lost Proto-Drake on Garithos (H). I have only been farming for 3 days, so it was more luck.
However, the spawns of Vyragosa and the TLPD were all 24 hours apart. That was 3 days, back to back. The first 2 days I killed Vyragosa shortly after 4am server around Bor's Breath. The TLPD kill was over Valk. They didn't spawn in the same place, but all 3 spawns were at 4am server.
评论来自
lock101
Is there any way of telling when the Time-lost Proto-Drake was last killed or spawned?
评论来自
321261
First comment of my new account.
Kill TLPD after 1 and a half day of camping. ! (total 12hours)
Location: Frozen Lake 28,65
Server: Neptulon EU
Time: 6h after maintenance today
Player: Hatenia 80lvl - Holy paladin (transfered from Genjuros EU - as Linely)
Story.
I got my riding skill 2days ago and i had only 100g in my bag... so i ask my friend about any cool dragons mount that i can get for free..(i knew only about CoS timed).
He told me about an egg of oracles, some rare drops in UP and Oculous hc and about a rare moob in peeks.
I said wtf?, there is a moob that drop a drake , where is it?
he laughed and told me that if i get it he will give me a b***job ...
anyway i started reading the comments and learned about it.
i picked the frozen lake route to run, and i kept reading the comments...
so around 18.00st , and 1hour before raiding i was running up and down on the frozen stream, and i saw a horde trying to kill the Vyra exactly in the middle of the frozen lake...
fly near him , stun , aoe , bubble and holyshock him until vyra kill him..(im holy pve, i suck in pvp) then i aggro the drake and i took the achiv :)
the second day it was maintenance so server was off till 11.00st . i log on 12.00st and i decided to camp over the lake and NEVER make laps...
i had wow in the left part of my screen in really small window and watched the valkyrion village with max camera range..
in the comments above i saw a macro about linking the item and watching if there is on cache and a macro that makes a raid warning when TLPD is near you.. so i was trying to make that macros..
around 15.00st i run CoS timed , but we failed in the last grps and disband..
i flied back in the lake and i was waiting for my 19.00st raid ..
i completed the macros and i binded it to my middle scroll button .. i muted all the sounds except for the one in the raid warning ..
when i finally read all the comments, i focused on my scrolling about 10min ... when .. my speakers start playing a stupid sound and i was targeting in a red window the TLPD !
Hand of Reconing , and Bubble .. for 10sec i was shacking and my finger was spamming the macro .. then i killed him and i brag in all chats about it ...xD
评论来自
321495
15 hours of camping, no TLPD, no Vyragosa , no Dirkee.
server reset this morning, on from 0900, on Burning Steppes EU, using target macro and the server cache macro....no sign of the elusive Proto Drake...am gonna carry on thru the night..wish me luck.
评论来自
321587
Hey, guys. I finished the search for the TLPD at the second day of camping.
I can say, that the flight routes are all right and that the TLPD respawn only full or half hour...this is writing little bit higher comment too.
Good luck....
评论来自
321495
so.day 3 of camping the TLPD....i finished at 3am server time..back in at 0930 no sign that he has spawned, and no sign of Vyra or Dirkee. our server seems not to like these mobs.
评论来自
emptyage
I spotted it last night just after 7PM at 33,66. It was flying just below the ruins on the side of the mountain there. Flew by to aggro and pulled to 36,64 where I killed it. Almost died from 3 adds during the fight.
Ravencrest server
评论来自
321495
so..after 30 hours in the last 2 days, i can safely ascertain that this Drake does most definitely not have a 6, 12, or 24 hour spawn time on the Burning Steppes EU server..since reset wednesday morning, I have not been away from Storm Peaks for more than 10 mins whilst online for about 15 hrs a day, and have seen no sign of TLPD, or Vyra and Dirkee. Maybe it could have something to do with the "the ice stone has melted!" announcement that comes at intermittent times, close to what have been described in previous posts as spawn times.....still like it tomorrow, a ticket will be raised....
评论来自
274298
Well, I can officially say I've seen the TLPD....dead of course. I've been camping this guy for a few months now, on and off of course, started out camping him like crazy non stop for 3 weeks and kinda gave up.
After that I would camp him a few ours a day if that. Today I decide I'd start the hard core camping again. I was camping 28,65 where they say is ONE of his spawn points, and watching tv/spamming my macros. I get done watching an hour long show and decide to check my link macro to see about server cache.....sadly it showed up. I did a quick run through and found his corpse at 46,59. No hordies fessed up to the kill neither in Storm Peaks nor when I got to Dalaran, so I'm assuming it was an Alliance kill.
Needless to say I'm quite bummed...but I guess you just gotta be persistent! I'll keep trying, some day it'll be mine....
Server: Zul'Jin
Time: 9:04am Server time.
BTW: this server sucks for his spawns think only 3 or 4 have it now...maybe 5 but doubtful.
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/8695/wowscrnshot021309060414ya2.jpg
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1715/wowscrnshot021309060631aq3.jpg
评论来自
323347
Map
i spent alot of time looking at a whole bunch of different sites and everything this is the best i could come up with to search all 4 accurate flight paths
Good Luck and wish me the same =X(##RESPBREAK##)2056##DELIM##adashiel##DELIM##
评论来自
15980
Well after running laps mining nodes & spamming a target macro around Storm Peaks for the last month and a half I am very happy to say I finally killed the beast today. I'll add my experience so maybe it will help someone still looking.
I found him this morning right at the entrance of Valkyrion from Bor's Breath around 7:30 am server time.
He was flying maybe 50 yards up. I flew into him to grab aggro, he followed me to a cliff, I dismounted, death gripped him to me & killed. Easy kill hits like a girl.
Prior to today I saw him once about a week ago around 8:00am server time at the Engine of the Makers. Unfortunately he was already dead.
To find him all I did was fly laps around the map looking for nodes to mine while spamming a /tar time macro. Checking the server query link to see if he spawned & was looted since server restart already or not.
During my 5 - 6 weeks of looking for him I killed Dirkee 3 times & Vyragosa once. One time Vyragosa spawned 10 mins or somewhere around there right after I killed Dirkee because I saw & killed both within 40 mins. This was around 1:30ish pm server time.
Here are the pics/proof of my kill today.
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/8505/tlpdhl9.jpg
Me riding it =)
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/466/tlp2vs9.jpg
I have to say being a miner was a godsend. It gave me something productive to do while looking for him. If it wasn't for that I probably would of gave up weeks ago. Hope this helped & good luck to you !
评论来自
324328
Someone in this thread spoke on how you could clear your server's cache by going to the Cache folder and deleting it. This would be useful if the reins have been looted after a maintenance/reset and you want to track times before it appears on a fresh server query (in the cache folder again).
Problem is, this doesn't seem to work for me. I delete the folder, close wow, restart, it creates a new cache file but when I run the macro to query the server again it finds the reins again. In other words, it doesn't reset back to the initial "retrieving item data".
Anyone else have this problem? What am I do wrong (or was the person just guessing it could be reset in this matter(.
评论来自
308411
lol... i have it targeted... but i was dozing off... then when i try to find it again it was heading diff direction i think.... wish i have a tracking item or w/e on
oh and it's around borh' passage area.
评论来自
264986
Just want to add the little bit of info that I know. I got on as soon as our server came back up after Tuesday maintenance at 2:00 PM and waited. I was under the impression that one of them would spawn right away, this wasn't the case. So I made my rounds for awhile, checking if the reins were looted at all on the server, but nothing. I logged out at my camping spot and went to level an alt, checking every once and awhile to see if the reins were looted, but nothing. I would switch over to my main every hour, on the hour to check for a spawn. I was playing on my main, grinding away in Storm Peaks and checking til 9:50 PM, I checked if the reins were looted and nothing. I got a fast shower and got back on at 10:10 PM and made a round to see and nothing. Well I decided to check to see if it was looted and wtf, it was. I was so !@#$ed.
TL:DR summary, 8 hour spawn timer after fresh server maintenance from my experience.
评论来自
325463
I completed my JC daily quest in Valkyrion and was taking the long way around back to Dalaran when directly at the bend at Bor's Breath I saw the Time-Lost Proto Drake. It was around 4:45PM EST for those of you who think there is a time related element to him.
He was flying from the south and was making the turn west to follow Bor's Breath towards Valkyrion. He didn't spawn there, but was flying when I found him.
评论来自
325568
Well I been hunting this beast for a few weeks now have never even seen his body but came up with some interesting information today. After haveing a server restart this morning i log on and check my macro to see if the drake has been looted yet at all since restart and nope nothing comes up stuck at retrieving information. So I go do my rounds of herbs spamming my macro and bam i lock onto Vyragosa in Bors Breath @ 3:00pm server. More then sure she spawned right on me as well. 36,66 . I kill her and think hmmm im gonna go run some instances and such. so i did. Anyway so im randomly clicking the macro to see if its been looted or not while running instances .
So raid time comes up and all i keep thinking is its gonna spawn @9pm server(6 hours later then i killed vyra) and im gonna miss it i know it. But im in doing naxx and decide to check the macro @8pm and bam it works!. This puts a proto-drake spawn @ 5 hours or less after a vyragosa spawn. Witch leads me to think do they actually share a timer?
Ive killed Vyragosa 9 times since my hunt began and not once have i ever seen her less the 6 hours apart , i seen her 8 -15 hours apart but never less then 6 hours.
anyway just thought i would throw this stuff out there.
Happy Hunting, even though im abit down for missing out on that drake tonight :(
评论来自
AMP187
Realm: Firetree
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/8338/wowscrnshot021909093520rt9.jpg
Thanks in large part to the great help I found on this thread, I FINALLY got my Time Lost Proto Drake kill this morning at 10:43 Server time. I got the kill at 28, 65; he seemed to spawn high up above me in the mountains, although it isn't out of the realm of possibility he was patrolling over the mountain. It took a long time to finally find this guy, I made great use of the macros posted on here in addition to my G11's repeating key feature. Thanks for all the advice guys, and good luck in your own hunts.
评论来自
194641
I've seen the TLPD once, and that was the night after release for WotLK.
Unfortunately, by the time I got close enough to him to pull, all my gear was broken from my use of Spirit Rezzing to get that far into the Storm Peaks at lvl 70. If I had realized at the time that it dropped a fancy unique mount every time, I would have gone back after repairing, and tried again.
The route it was taking at the time was the one that crosses over the library.
评论来自
325568
2 Weeks of solid hunting and I finally got my drake this morning. I was spamming my macro when bam , I sturck gold i was expecting to see vyra when it went off but i was in bors breath and when it goes off in there i usually see her , so i look and see im whispering my self Time-Lost drake Im like sweet. Odly enough it looked like it spawned right beside that alliance town in bors breath. 30,67ish . I killed him just past Valkyron. tryed to get him before then but died cause he was so high up and for some reason my slow fall lager didnt go off so i ended up dieing once from fall damage :( good thing the grave yard was close i ended up catching him again fairly quickly he doesnt move that fast less then 60% mount speed.
Right after I learn the mount there standing beside the body , I mount up and an alley drops right on me trying to gank me , he was definatly after it or sure. Anyway it was a long 2 weeks of solid camping so its definatly farmable if you put the time in it . I find late night early morning is gonna be your best time to farm for it , less people. I farmed from 11pm server to 8am -9 am server every night/morning. 6:50am was the time of the kill.
评论来自
sparkles
I had heard about this drake a while ago but today i decided to have a go at getting it for myself. I spent 2 hours macro spamming around the more popular routes. I then decided to just camp at Valkyrion as this seemed to be the best place to find the drake. At 15:09 my macro found the Time-Lost proto drake.....much to my disappointment it had just been tagged by a horde hunter and was taken down with little effort.
The drake was killed north of frost hold and southeast of Valkyrion. The body despawned at exactly 15:39 so 30mins after it was killed.
评论来自
326894
Was in Storm Peaks for a run to make a few daily quest and while i was there I thought "Well, could take a proto run".
Spammed the macro and the unthinkable came up, yes, the proto drake.
Was abit hard to get him down cause he was rotating above the "Engine of the makers".
Lucky as i was i got him down to the ground in time so he didnt evade.
I play on Emeriss and honestly dont know how many who got the mount, but around 5 i should think.
Anyway, Im a happy owner of the Time Lost Proto Drake :)
评论来自
nirvaphreak
Just killed it earlier. The way I found it was just idle around right under Temple of Storms. I was idle in the air while watching a movie, just to try my luck. And around an hour into the movie I saw it fly past me. Didn't really aggro so i had to catch his attention for a bit, but it helps. Those of you who are looking for it, it's prob better if you go with "Don't look for it, let it find you." Btw, I didn't start looking for it until last night, so hopefully this helps some of you xD
PS: There are people who will PM you telling you that it died already, but it's up to you if you want to believe them or not.(I sure didn't :D)
评论来自
325671
That makes me believe that if your server goes a long time without seeing Vyrgosa spawn (more than 24 hrs), the changes increase that a Time-Lost will spawn at some point. That's my theory.
That's natural. Some quick math:
- Let's assume Vyragosa has a random spawn timer between 6-12 hours (= 9 hours average). This means she should appear ~2 times a day. In many cases she gets skinned very quickly, so that her death (time, location) isn't revealed to other TLPD campers. You might have missed her more than one time.
- TLPD is a rare spawn of Vyragosa (same timer). Let's assume it can appear ~1 time per week (average). In relation to Vyragosa that means ~1/18 spawns (average). The time frame is then ~108 to 216 hours.That's why TLPD sometimes doesn't show up for over a week, and sometimes twice per week.
The larger the time frames get for Vyragosa (without a TLPD spawn), the higher is the chance that TLPD will spawn.
评论来自
141401
got mine a few days ago, got lucky and found it when i wasnt even looking for it. now my whole faction is jealous and hates me..... QQ oh well atleast i got my TLPD now. :D
评论来自
147502
Been camping the usual spot around 30,65 the past 2 weeks no sign of the proto drake untill today at 6pm server time. and then sadness happened soon after that i flew down really quick to tag him and i threw a living bomb on him but i was too high to survive fall damage and too low to cast slow fall before i hit the ground so needless to say i died and someone else got him right right after that :(
评论来自
327810
Ok...i got the macro, i got his routes and i know that he shares it with Vyra what i dont know is what do i do if i see Vyra or Dirkee? and how high do they fly? How do i get him down?.....
评论来自
219762
the time between i saw 2 TLPD bodies is 41 hours,I am sure it is killed as soon as it respawn,lots of people are on the camp
评论来自
327810
i have got the macro, it works and i do know how to use it :P
but i need to know whas is about Vyra and dirkee...what if i patrol around, spamming macro, target one of them...what next? ok ill kill them...what information will that give me?
Please explain all the smartass tips...
评论来自
276019
If possible, please help me in confirming on which directions the TLPD flies on these routes (as shown by
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/3272/vyragosa4yn3.jpg
)
I have these routes input on my cartographer as chains of note icons to help me hunt for this drake but knowing whether the TLPD flies on these routes clockwise, counterclockwise, a combination, or if it can fly in either direction would prove to be very helpful in hunting for this drake more efficiently.
I will scan these comments for any clues on which direction it may be (such as if someone said, "I saw TLPD flying from spot A towards spot B before I killed him.") and try to add them in later for each flight path.
RED
-
Possible Clockwise
Counter-Clockwise
"He was coming from Valkyrion flying really slow, killed him at the frozen lake in Bor`s Breath."
Clockwise
"Bor's Breath: from one side to the other, starting from 37/76 going north, leaving the canyon around 30/. Then either south to Frost Hold or north towards Valkyrion."
Clockwise
"Engine of the Makers: Flying down from Terrace of the makers."
Clockwise
"It was flying WEST of the engine of the makers, decending towards the ravine."
YELLOW
-
Unconfirmed Counter-Clockwise
Counter-Clockwise
"Engine of the Makers: Coming From Brunhildar."
ORANGE
-
Unconfirmed Counter-Clockwise
Counter-Clockwise
"Bor's Breath: from one side to the other, starting from 37/76 going north, leaving the canyon around 30/."
GREEN
-
Possible Clockwise
Counter-Clockwise
"He was coming from Valkyrion flying really slow, killed him at the frozen lake in Bor`s Breath."
Clockwise
"Bor's Breath: from one side to the other, starting from 37/76 going north, leaving the canyon around 30/. Then either south to Frost Hold or north towards Valkyrion."
Clockwise
"It was flying WEST of the engine of the makers, decending towards the ravine."
If you know anything that can help, please reply under this comment.
~ Bloodreaver
~ Dragonblight US (Horde)
Edit: From some of these comments, I'm beginning to think the flightpaths are really complex. From what I've seen, I'm beginning to think that the TLPD can fly in either direction
AND
it can go different directions at particular junctions. The map above may not be as solid as I initially thought. Will continue researching on this...
评论来自
327810
And a last question that i should have thought before...how high does this thing fly? and what is im not a mage (no slow fall) or not an engeneer (parashoot).....what could u advise me to (maybe) drink or any tactics...
评论来自
kbyz
can confirm that location. i saw Vyragosa spawn there, and i believe that to be a spawn point for them.
heres the macro i have been using, it performs better and yours doesnt work that well because if something attacks you you will auto-target them... and thats a waste of pm's
/cleartarget
/tar time
/tar Vyragosa
/tar dirkee
/stopmacro
/run RaidNotice_AddMessage(RaidBossEmoteFrame,"There it is!", ChatTypeInfo)
/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\interface\\RaidWarning.wav")
/w $self OMG %t
also, its a decent one b/c the sound/rw spam, and the whisper acts like a log. Plus it can target any rare spawn in Storm peaks. i believe it was posted ealier in this thread, but here it is anyway.
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a trick i have been using, is with AtlasLoot, you clear your cache in now all cache files in there i delete, you really only have to delete one, but its a good habit to do. Now after you do that, log into your character, go to atlas loot. search for -- that way you get all the mounts in WotLK, right click if you get info on it... than bad luck it has droped on the week already...
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now, my server population on Jaedenar(us) is around Medium... or so and the spawns of TLPD have been maybe 1 a week...sometimes 2. with spawns being 3-4 days between. Vyragosa spawns just as much as every server, being 6hours between or so, and if you dont see him odds are someone else killed him. Also, i think the 2 Rare-spawns on entire Northrend might be true... or that i just have the worst luck ever... haha been camping constantly and i have only seen it twice. but it has dropped maybe 4-5times in past 3 weeks.
评论来自
kbyz
NEW INTEL ON A PATH:
i just took like 20-30 screenshots on a Vyragosa path around Terrace of the makers. i will upload em later but it was a pretty cool loop. Someone took my kill after he overlapped the first path, so hopefully this helps people. -- rumor that TLPD varies slighly on the guys path. but here it is anyway.
Spawn - vicinity of Valkyrion // i did loops around Storm peaks for like 30 mins... and on my 4th one Vyragosa was just north of Valkyr.
Flight Path Around Temple of Storms
total time on path: 7-9minutes
screenshots:
http://img27.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vyragosapath3ae3.jpg
http://img15.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vyragosapath4cy4.jpg
http://img6.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vyragosapath5vc8.jpg
http://img16.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vyragosapath7ov8.jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vyragosapath10og9.jpg
http://img18.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vyragosapath9jk0.jpg
http://img24.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vyragosapath11vw1.jpg
http://img15.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vyragosapath13ym5.jpg
http://img23.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vyragosapath15fj6.jpg
http://img18.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vyragosapath18jh9.jpg
http://img24.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vyragosapath20or7.jpg
http://img15.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vyragosapath22mv2.jpg
idk what this will do to the bandwidth or anything... oh well, i tried reducing the amount to the basic turns/heights.
评论来自
329810
i seen the time-lost flying when i was questing i tryed to kill him but a orc came and killed him and laught at me and he had a red proto too.
评论来自
274984
Killed Vyra at 37, 74
Came on half asleep, half drunk when dailies reset on friday 3:36-ish am server Executus US
clicked the macro once and got the drake heading into bor's breath from the south.
评论来自
Silverhowl
So...after reading all you guys comments about this beauty, I decided to set out on a journey to aquire it myself... but that wouldn't have to be so easy... so I went to the location where most people have found and killed him, flew around for some time while using my target macro, but with no luck, then I sat down on a nearby cliff, put up a campfire and pulled out my binoculars (engineering ftw) and I sat there looking out for something shiny... but no... then I mounted once again to search for him elsewhere, and before I knew it, I had spend 12 hours just looking for him, sadly, sitting up so long without sleep had taken its toll on me, and I was soon forced to rest, but before that I went for a little fly-by to look other places... and guess who I found... Dirkee... Not exactely what I was looking for, but nonetheless I killed him, he has around 50k hp, and is a bit tough, good thing im a rogue and used my evasion to dodge his slow, but rather powerfull attacks...
I went to sleep 21 gold richer... but my quest for the time-lost proto drake goes on...
评论来自
330543
Does it fly or walk?
评论来自
330561
Dirkee is a big mechanical gnome.
Vyragosa is a big blue dragon.
Time-Lost Proto Drake looks exactly like the mount.
And i have a question to all that have killed/seen the drake. Does it fly clockwise or anticlockwise? or is that random?
评论来自
283725
So I was just flying from Valkyrion to Dun Niffelem and saw a rare spawn, so I figured I could get Northern exposure done with finally. So I kill him and he drops the
Reins of the Time-Lost Proto-Drake
, the
bag of goodies
(a stack of frostweave and a few other items inside, as well as
Time-Forward Talisman of the Bandit
. Surprised the hell outta me because I was never really one for the rare item collection if it involves camping. Not after 3 days farming an emerald whelp back in the day :-p Now I am being told this is one of the rarest spawns currently in the game... and I killed him by accident? >.<
*leaves to go buy a powerball ticket for tonite*
Hokaru - 80 Warlock - Moon Guard (RP)
评论来自
331066
1 month of searching -> 3 vyras ( no kill ) 2 dirkees (1 kill ) and 1 TLPD (1 kill)
He flies at high altitude so make sure you have the slow fall drinks ( if u are not a mage/priest ) from the orc ( if u are horde ) which sells you the iron boot flask ( you can buy the drinks for 2 ulduar relics ->
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/item=43472
)
Engine of the Makers -> I was under him at 30 yds and when i fell ( didn't have the slow fall things at me ) i took 14k fall dmg ( out of 18 k total health ) .
Good luck finding him...
Nikrom EU Emeriss <Fallout>
P.S: thank you all for the information provided
评论来自
331270
so i was farming for time lost for about 7 hours straight flying in circles today and i tagged vyragosa at 27,64 just south of valkyrion, im almost positive vyragosa spawns around here because i was stationary talking in g chat for a bit spamming my macro and it tagged vyragosa before i could even see her and she appeared on my screen a few seconds later.
http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa181/BubbleGuttz/WoWScrnShot_030209_035356.jpg
http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa181/BubbleGuttz/WoWScrnShot_030209_035412.jpg
评论来自
Threnn
I was tabbed out watching a youtube vid on the drake's pathing. I was at 29, 66 about 40-50 yards up in the air, I'd guess. I heard noise from in-game and frantically jumped back to WoW. The drake was attacking me!
Dismounted in the air, tagged with a Hand of Reckoning, and glugged a lager to float to the ground. Yea!
Note- I had just finished circling a reverse path of where I thought the drake was and had been in-game at this spot for pretty much all of the day.
评论来自
Thanatoast
4 days I spent farming herbs in this area, flying the projected route of TLPD. On average I'd say I spent about 4 hours twice a day flying in a circle. Last night it finally paid off! I killed TLPD just outside the cave seen in the screen shot. It was at the time flying westward across the field. I simply flew through it pulling aggro by contact, landed, dotted him up. Super easy kill, no fall needed unless you see someone else moving in on it before you tag it.
http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/716/wowscrnshot030909211849.jpg
Screen shot of location and corpse.
It remained for 30minutes before despawning
评论来自
PhineEredar
Possibly the first ever video of the TLPD? In this video, he's flying the CCW Brunnhildar -> Engine of the Makers -> Sifreldar Village -> Bor's Fall -> K3 -> Garm route. I followed him around twice (only the second route is in the video), he seemed to phase out at the end of Garm both times, and reappear a few moments later, ascending back towards Brunnhildar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRbOssnGZ9s
Taken on the PTR this morning (March 16, 2009).
I did a /who, there were only 5 people awake and in the zone at the time (myself included). I never saw anyone else while following the mob around.
Storm Peaks used to be packed (over 49 results returned from a /who) at all hours of the day. The PTR is a lot quieter now than it was when it first started up, especially during off-hours.
edit: I wasn't camping the spawn, no. But I was logged in to see if I could catch him, just out of curiosity. Does he follow Vyra's paths, etc. I killed him and looted the mount on my live server a little over a week ago, but didn't really get the chance to study his route... I just assumed it was the CW Temple of Storms route. This video really proves that he does indeed overlap Vyragosa's route(s) exactly.
评论来自
Korleth
Hey all,
I've started camping for TLPD a few days ago. I noticed something really odd 2 days ago. Vyragosa spawned, unfortunately, I wasn't the one that killed it. I was at the NW end of Bor's Breath and it spawned on the SE end.
Anyways, before I saw the corpse, I was spamming the macro for the server query and the information wasn't there. A few minutes after seeing Vyragosa, I tried it again. The information for the Reins came up. Why is that? It was Vyragosa that spawned and not TLPD...
评论来自
331645
Could be possible that TLPD spawned right after Vyragosa was killed, highly unlikely but there have been reports of it.
评论来自
vintos
hiya people got mine 21/3/2009 9:55pm
here my story of this thing
i started to look for it about 11pm on the 20/3/09 and i farmed for about 7 hours and only saw and killed Vyragos
http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/2441/vyr.jpg
then though after all day of wow befoure i started to farm need some sleep had about 3 hours sleep got bk up and back to farmin 11 hours whent past nothing not even a site of anything so i though i need smoke landed on a rock on the protdrakes path came bk spamed my macro and i got a hit but it was dead i was well gutted cos no 1 els had been there all that time
http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/3456/timeloste.jpg
Woo here me in daralan with the ally cheering at me :)
http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/7886/allycheer.jpg
/tar Time
/tar Vyragosa
/stopmacro
/tell putyournamehere > %t
that is the marco i spamed all that time hope it some help map are on here where he flys about
hope ppl done get to bored reading this hope it helps
评论来自
Ungr
It would be nice if you could edit your post to fix all the spelling and grammar errors. It's very difficult to understand what you are even trying to say here.
评论来自
Hogans05
Since everyone seems to think that the Time-lost drake shares a spawn point with both Dirkee and Vyragosa, then I will give my coords to where i have spotted them both.
I have seen Vyragosa 5 times now, 4 dead and once alive.
She was dead twice at 45, 60
Dead at 45, 58 (which i saw this morning at 10:18 am and it is now 10:47 and her corpse is still there)
Dead and alive at the same spawn point of 28, 52 ( this is where i finally got to kill her)
I have seen Dirkee only once by chance I was farming herbs and so was another player so i took a short cut to get around them and came up the side of the mountain at 68, 47 and saw his big head. I engaged him in combat ( after the fact i noticed a lvl 80 alliance mage that was eating/drinking so i assume that Dirkee had just killed her) and be careful because he punts and punted me off the side of the mountain. I revived myself came back to where he was and the alliance was now fighting him and got killed again pretty fast. So then i started up, he killed me pet and i feigned. Revived my pet and healed myself back up in which this time the alliance tried yet again and failed (3 deaths for him and nearly 2 for myself so far) so here i go for the 3rd time and finally got him! So Dirkee seems to be a bit harder fight then the other rare elites i have tried so just be prepared. Vyragosa is really simple to kill i had no troubles with her.
So i hope this helps a little with your quest for the time-lost drake! I am still searching myself but i only look when i am farming, dont wanna go outta my way for a disappointment. Good luck to all!
评论来自
286091
I had just finished a naxxramas run and my guildies had told me about the TLPD. So I was curious and flew over there for a quick look. I obviously didn't expect to find anything, but when I was flying around
30,66
I happened to see Vyragosa flying ahead of me. Now I don't know if thats where she spawns or it was just me loading that area that made it look like she just spawned. She was flying from up on the hill downwards past valkyrion.
Me being a rogue made it hard for me to tag it because I did not come prepared with snowfall lager. So I decided to follow it since I heard it shares a flight path with the TLPD. just when Vyragosa was past valkyrion some idiot DK decided to death grip it and kill it. I questioned him as to why he didnt watch where it flies and he just said "oh, I thought this was the TLPD".
So as to the flight path I can confirm that it does fly in that direction along that route.
评论来自
148221
Random Questions
Do you have to be fully zoned into Storm Peaks to use all of the patrol routes
edit: Edited for grammar and spelling
评论来自
Hawtt
http://www.xfire.com/live_video/hawttness/
My live broadcast of the hunt for Time-Lost, you guys can use the chat for discussion and such feel free
评论来自
Onarenth
Hey guys, I am an 80 fury warrior who found this mount today. I found it in the mountains above Brunnhildar Village. It was in a nest above the "H" of Brunnhildar Village. I have seen it there about five times now. I think it chills there after its done patrolling. I have not seen it ever despawn, so I do not think that is true. I hope this helps.
评论来自
233355
Id definatly like to do this (
Click to find out
) on the time lost proto drake.
评论来自
342118
Just killed Vyragosa @ the SouthEast corner of "Engine of the Makers"
No mount dropped, just a blue leather helm and a satchel with cloth and eternals...
评论来自
342127
i hunt the tlpd each day , i have killed vyragosa 4-5 time , dirk 2 time , and i have watched 2 corspe of the time lost but i have a question ... the time lost spawn time is shared with dirk and vyragosa or just vyragosa ?
评论来自
Conks
Well... Im not sure about the whole spawning time either.. Ive just spent 16 hours from 11pm march.26 to 2:30 march 27 and not sightings of any rare spawn.. Have also been checking for a few hours the days before that... Im currently on thrall relam.. I will post more info as i get it ... Even if i find tpld or vyragosa, im still gonna look and try to figure some of this out
评论来自
Miramis
Just killed the Time-Lost Proto Drake on EU Anachronos server about 20 minutes ago.
I thought I'd say how this happened, 'cause I haven't seen it mentioned here before.
I was passing Brunnhildar village and suddenly saw a "Storm Wyrm" coming from the big mountain.
Not a "Stormpeak Wyrm" but a blue drake called "Storm Wyrm". He flew in a straight line towards the
area where the other wyrms and rhinos are.
Of course I got curious and followed it. Much to my surprised it then turned into the Time-Lost Proto-Drake.
Here's an explanation of how the Storm Wyrm flew, before it turned into the Drake:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y133/MiraZorro/map.jpg
Hope that helps you :)
/Miramis
评论来自
Miramis
It's a shame that you decided to call it a fake straight off, have you ever actually seen the TLPD spawn?
This is what I saw, hope to be able to get a screenie of it next time, if I ever manage to spot it again!
Was only trying to help, not being called a liar =/
/Miramis
评论来自
342127
i can confirm the exactly spawn of vyragosa he spawned in my face like 3-4 time ( 31 - 66 ) bor breath
评论来自
MattimusPrime
It's very possible that what you saw was a Player flying a Blue Proto-drake for a quest that takes them over that very path, and you saw the TLPD after following them. That's my best-fit guess, at any rate, because I highly doubt a "Storm Wrym" spawns, then transforms into the TLPD every time.
评论来自
Korleth
Hey all,
Stormrage server, just killed Vyragosa at Bor's Breath. She was really high off the ground at around the level of Frosthold's top part. Had to kill her on a ledge right up against the mountain. Dropped the usual stuff I think.. and the bag had 20x Frostweave Cloth and 3x Crystalized Fire.
First kill for me. I hope the next would be TLPD.
评论来自
315470
/cleartarget
/tar Dirkee
/tar Vyra
/tar Time-lost
/stopmacro
/script local t=UnitName("target"); if not (t == null) then PlaySound("RaidWarning") DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(t) end;
/stopmacro
Some small tweaks to the one above...
(not sure about the /stopmacro line..dunno what it does)
评论来自
220291
Failed to kill it one two occasions now. Yesterday i missed the spawn by 20sec only to see my macro hit and a druid hoovering above the corpse with the mount :'(
Came back to check after 6hours and 8 hours and no spawn, so the 6-8hour spawn time is NOT correct.
P.S. I checked all spawnpoints and no tlpd or vyragosa
Off to hunt once again
评论来自
relias
Ok guys here is the deal about something super strange that happened:
You guys probably know about that script that detects the information about the time lost proto drake item. Well, there was a time yesterday that i checked my script macro, and still was stucked on the retrieving item information ... but 10 minutes later i hit it again and there it was the info of the mount... immediately i made a group with 5 ppl to search around for the corpse of the time lost proto drake before the 30 min despawn timer ends ...
we #$%^ing searched everywhere, every path, every spawn point, every area next to the paths and simply NOTHING was found...NOTHING... i asked in the /1 channel if any1 had spotted its body ... and no one said nothing ... no one saw nothing ....
i dont know guys but from that point i started to doubt a little bit about the script command... i have some sort of theory to explain what happened but i dont want to say before i hear your opinions ...
just to open your minds with a nice question:
when the server resets and you clear your server cache ... if you make 2 scripts: 1 for the tlpd mount and 1 for warlglaives of azzinoth ... if you hit them just after the server comes up, it will show the information about the warglaives but not the information about the tlpd mount ... if its according to what you guys have been saying, so the warglaive of azzinoth was looted on the 1st second just after the server comes up ... which is pratically impossible ...
so yeah ... the point where the /script macro starts showing the information doesnt mean exactly that the item was looted ...
so ... what does it mean? again: i have a theory for that ... but i wanna hear you guys first ...
评论来自
woodenstars
nothing strange there. script gives you information if someone, who have this item in bank or inventory, come online. sorry, worst english -_-
评论来自
relias
yeah that makes super sense ... dont even need to explain anything about my theory ...
but serious ... you said that the possible scenario would be if a person has the item in the inventory just after a server reset ... but man ... i stayed hitting my macro from tuesday to sunday and only on sunday the macro showed me the informations about the mount ... and i searched the corpse with my friends and didnt find anything ... searched everywhere and asked for everyone ... so i ask: how can the macro show me the information only on Sunday if the proto drake wasnt even killed? and according to what you said "The scenario where the glaive ISN'T in the cache is if nobody with the item has logged in after server reset.", i checked exactly when the server came up and logged super fast just to hit my macro ... and it showed me the information about the warglaive, sulfuras, thoridal... is it possible that in this 1st second all the guys with warglaive, sulfuras and thoridal logged at the same time? let me explain a bit about what i was thinking:
when the macro shows the information, it means that the server at some point had to use the item for something. That means, when a server comes up after a reset, all the instances must be prepared, so obviously, the items dropped by the bosses inside these instances. This means that after a server reset, when the servers comes up, he has do some sort of "preparation" for all the items that are possibly gonna be looted. Anyways, what happens with the time lost proto drake item is that the server will only "use" it when the server receives some sort of stimulation. This stimulation is from what we all know a chance on every vyragosa kill. So what im trying to say is that, maybe this point that the information starts showing isnt actually the point that the item was looted, but the point that the server started to "use" the item for something. This means that this point would actually show the start of the 1st timer for the spawn of the time lost proto drake, since this mob holds the item that we are talking about. So yeah... its more like, the item stays in the database until the server receives a stimulation (vyragosa kill). When this stimulation succeds (vyragosa kill hit a chance for tlpd spawn), the item "gets out" from the database and starts to be using by the server, or in other words, enter in the server cache.
This thing that i just that i kinda cool to think of, cause it explains really well what happened to me. What do u think?
评论来自
343796
I was searching for the TLPD on Ghostlands server and spotted him at 3pm server time. I flew up to tag him and a Orc Warrior snagged him right before i could get to him. I stayed by the body untill it despawned then after it was gone, continued to farm herbs. Aprox. 5:15pm server time the same day (2ish hrs later) the TLPD spawned again..
just makes me wonder what kind of timer this drake has going on..i see him or his dead body almost every day..but other ppl say he spawns once a week. Just throwing this tid bit of info out there for any TLPD Seekers..hes out there..jus keep searching!
评论来自
relias
i dont really wanna risk an exact percentage for the spawns of the time lost proto drake during a week ... what i believe its 100% true is that he is definitely a chance of spawning after vyragosa kill. So when you kill vyragosa and the chance to spawn succeeds, then from that point the timer starts. This timer is a random value between 2 numbers ... this is what we should worry about, not how often the drake would spawn... Some people say its 1/16 for each vyragosa kill, others say its 1/10 ... But, again, what we need to be sure is that the drake is a CHANCE of spawning after each vyragosa kill. This explains the "timers" of more than 1,2,3 days or even a week. It's not actually the timer that has 1,2,.. N days, but the exact point that the chance of spawning succeeds.
Putting my previous theory into this, here is an easy way to get the drake:
1 - Watch out for the macro every 10-15 minutes.
2 - When it shows the information, that means after between X-Y hours the drake will spawn.
3 - And when it spawns, you must have another question: where will he spawn?
3.1 - I assume there's some sort of connection among the place/spawn point where you killed vyragosa(the kill that succeeded the chance) with the place/spawn point that the tlpd will spawn.
Note: for X-Y, we have all types of speculations ... but if we consider the proto drake spawn like the other rares, then it would be something between 6-12 i think...
So, here is one example:
At 6:00am my macro doesnt show anything. At 6:01, vyragosa spawns in front of me and i kill her. I check the macro again and there shows the information of the time lost proto drake. That means that after 6-12 hours the time lost proto drake will spawn. Where? Already said above: I think it would spawn at the spawn point that you killed vyragosa(ONLY IF THE CHANCE PROCS). So, I would camp the spawn point that i found vyragosa between 12pm and 18pm in order to see if the drake will spawn. I think that the /roll between 6-12 regulates only the hours, not the minutes. So maybe if you check at 12,13,14,...18pm EXACTLY, your chances might be higher. Also, i dont know if the timer starts after the corpse despawn. I think not, but it wont hurt checking every 30 minutes from the time that you killed. That means you would check every 12:30,13:30,....17:30. But i recommend staying in that spawn point during that time and go take a nap. You might wake up with a tlpd in front of you.
From these things that i said, check out what we can conclude and what we cant:
A) If the TLPD spawns, but not at the spawn point that you killed vyragosa(repeating: the kill that procs the chance), then that means he can spawn anywhere between his 3-4 spawn points.
B) If the TLPD doesnt spawn in this interval:
B.1) The interval is smaller/bigger.
B.2) My theory for the macro is completely wrong.
Well, I just tell you guys one thing: It's hard to stay in one place waiting for the luck of Blizzard without some sort of explication to stay there. You just stay there, cause you stay, you want the drake and nothing else. But what about adding to this staying some logical reasons, like what I said above? In my opinion, it's better to have something to believe in, then to not have any reason to stay at that place.
Anyways, im trying this that i said this week. The most difficult thing will be finding the exact point that the item starts showing the information. If everything that i said is right, ahahah, i think im gonna help everyone with instructions to find this drake. Well lets see first ...
评论来自
76693
Two days ago i saw the corpse of TLPD southeast of engine of the makers, i can confirm it at least flys over there on its pat.
~
(46.4 - 65.3)
评论来自
relias
So yeah ... I FINALLY GOT THIS DRAKE AFTEr 23 hours exactly of my vyragosa kill.
I came here to say:
my theory was wrong.
If you find the "point' that it starts showing the information, then this point can mean 2 things:
1 - Time lost proto drake has spawned
2 - Someone looted it.
10 minutes before the kill the macro was stuck on retrieving item information... after the kill, it showed the information... and no, i didnt check the macro before i looted and just after the kill ... when i killed i went straight for the item ...
ok i killed it at 28.67, over the frozen lake ... was camping there ... he came from the east of bors breath... he was doing the path around frosthold, the same path that my vyragosa kill exactly 23 hours earlier was doing... so yeah, that thing that i said about some sort of connection among the place where the tlpd will spawn and where u killed vyragosa... that may be true ... if you kill vyragosa in a path that is connected to some route, then probably the drake will do the same ... i think he spawned in the begining of bors fall (37.77). So yeah, my theory was wrong but i pointed out some nice things that may be true:
1 - Connection between the spawn point/path that a vyragosa kill procceds and the spawn point/path that the drake will spawn. What happened with me is that example: they were doing the same path and were separated by 23 hours exactly...
2 - The macro thing:
2.1 - If you dont know the exact point that the macro starts showing the info, then if you see it with the info it means it has looted on since the server reset
2.2 - If you know the exact point, this means that:
2.2.1 - The TLPD is up and can be killed.
2.2.2 - His body is up and was killed.
in order to check this we need someone to kill the proto drake, check the macro and see if it shows the information or not.
Anyways thats it... im kinda busy now but later i do a better post helping you guys out ... basicaly i was camping 28.64 and he came from the east ... thats all ... later i do a better post ... not now sorry ...
评论来自
342127
my theorie about the spawn of the tlpd is after the kill of vyragosa the tlpd have a chance to spawn after few hour at the death point of vyragosa .. anyone can tell me about this ? ex: vyragosa is dead at engine of the maker and after some hour the tlpd spawn at exactly the coord of vyragosa death
daxz , lethon us
评论来自
344458
Just killed it flying north from Frosthold. He spawned right on top of the frozen lake pretty much. I had seen Vyragosa here and killed him 3 times, but hadn't killed Vyragosa in about a week. I had seen proto-drake dead in mountains by Engine of Makers a day before so I was pretty miffed.
I camped proto-drake on and off for about a month. Took to just sitting on my mount above the frozen lake. Time wise, I think sitting there AFK and running macro is probably most effective.
Very easy fight. Probably didnt even need to slowfall based on how high above the ground he was. Just fireblasted him to aggro then slow falled down the 20 feet or so.
评论来自
189105
Killed TLPD today, after only 2 days of hunting. I aknowledge that I was extremely lucky, and had expected to spend days camping for him after reading through various forums.
I witnessed him spawn directly over the Fang Pit and start patting north towards the fields of Stormspeak Drakes. This particular patrol is the one that passes through Engine of the Makers, Bor's Breath, and finally K3 in a counter-clockwise direction. I know that not because I followed him, because really, I was frantic to bag him and immediately fumbled across my hotkeys in an crazy panic. However I've spotted Vyragosa spawn in the same loc and take the same patrol route.
It's not really news anymore that they share paths, and for this reason I can only conclude that they also share a spawn timer. I became familiar with this concept while hunting for Loque'nahak, that of
rare spawns of rare spawns
, and I'm sure Blizzard have employed this concept elsewhere in the World.
To put it simply, if you see Vyragosa dead, go have a sandwich and take a walk, for your sanitys sake.
My killshot.
The three of us came crashing and scrabbling down in the Fang Pit, much to the confusion and surprise of the players doing their dailies. :)
评论来自
346058
Alright, after 20 days of camping and alot of research I got my Time Lost april 5th.
I used this macro bound to my Z key for easy patroling but i stayed in one spot most of the time.
/cleartarget
/tar Time
/tar Dirkee
/tar Vyra
/stopmacro ,
/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\Ragnaros\\RagnarosSlay01.wav")
No need for screenies of my info but I will show my kill screenie.
The kill:
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/6497/tlpdkillshot.jpg
The Ride:
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/3317/myridei.jpg
So, I have some health issues and am not able to work at present therefore I have alot of time on my hands, decided to camp TLPD seriously. I put on my seasons 1-3 of Battlestar Galactica with WoW on my top window and just watched TV while spamming Z every few seconds. and not all the time i should say...
Started on March 17th ended this morning April 5th, 20 days of about 8-10 hours a day sitting in two spots, mostly late at night, early in the morning.
At first I camped the engine of the makers at 40, 56 as i felt from all the posts that this was the best spot to catch him, Dirkee and Vyra patrolling the 3 routes. Here is my kill list from that place:
Vyra 4:45am Mar 17th
- Engine of the Makers (patrolling south from over the crash site)
Vyra 6:29am Mar 18th
- Engine of the Makers (patrolling south from the Terrace of the Makers)
TLPD body 5:44am Mar 2
1 ( was so *!@#ed I almost gave up) - Body at the crash site
Dirkee 3:00am Mar 22nd
- Engine of the Makers (just north)
From this point on the server query macro was empty, not bringing up a link, I therefore assumed that the server reset on the 24th cleared the cache.
I then decided to move to Bors fall around the Frozen lake as I figured the TLPD had patrolled North from Frosthold up past the crash site where it was killed. And because I was camping over top of the engine of the makers, I wasn't going to miss the next one.
Vyra 9:52am Mar 26th
(patrolling south from Valkyrion)
Vyra 9:18am Mar 27th
(patrolling north from the frozen waterfall right at the Temple of Storms)
Vyra 1:07am Mar 28th
(found at the small junctions north of Valkyrion)
Vyra 11:12am Mar 29th
(found in the ravine at the Temple of storms with the tagger boasting!)
Vyra 5:09am Mar 31st
(Missed it by minutes as I camped over the engine of the makers again that night, macro went crazy turned and saw him coming down from the Terrace of the Makers a Alliance DK killed him quicker than me.)
I missed a day here and was told by someone I trust that they saw a horde player kill the TLPD this day in the afternoon. However, the server query macro was not sending information back. I assumed that if a player of a different faction looted a mob, the server would not cache the item for a opposing faction.
Dirkee 3:55am Apr 02
Vyra 7:37am Apr 02
(macro went off and spawned right in front of me while I was facing south towards Frosthold, he began patrolling southwest at a very high altitude around Frosthold mountain, I was tired and died 2 times trying to kill him. I finally did when he was over the top of the frozen waterfall between K3 and Bors Breath)
Vyra 6:38am Apr 3nd
(At the frozen lake patrolling south)
Vyra 9:18am Apr 4th
(over the frozen lake patrolling south)
Dirkee 9:39am Apr 4th
(normal spot - both these kills I gave to guildies also)
Still no server query...
Then I get him:
TLPD 8:42am Apr 5th
(spawned right in front of me at the frozen lake, i watched him come forward then he turned to go southwest, tagged him and the fight began)
The server query macro did bring up a link once I looted the mount and therefore I assumed that there is no cross faction sharing of info, just like we cannot see the faction trade of an opposing faction while in there city.
I cant say for certain there is a spawn timer, nor can I say that there was a method to my farming the mount, yet perseverance pays off. I did camp at night, and during the day, but as you can see, most of the kills were late night / early morning. I found after the first 4 kills i made or rares in Storm peaks that i spent most of my time camping at the same hours intervals, 3am-9am in the morning. There could be a rough 24 hour spawn timer for each server depending on when the last rare is killed on that specific server, test this yourself.
In my humble opinion there is a roughly 18-24 hour spawn timer for Vyra, yet the confirmed "2 numeric variables" could allow for a 1 hour - 24 hour spawn timer also. :lol: TLPD is a "Sly one", a GM told me, so get used to missing him.. :)
My suggestion don't bother trying to find it unless your super serious about camping it and have a lot of time on your hands. Otherwise do dailies and farm herbs, eternals or ore. You'll get one sonner of later.
评论来自
Conggo
Just dropped for me 20mins ago on Kel'thuzad Server. All I was doing was passing through near Engine of the Makers @ 37,65 doing dailies and I happened to spam my macro and I got a hit. Tag'd him from 50 yards up and killed him. Best advice to people who are thinking of "hunting" him, dont waste your time. I have taken the same path for 2 weeks though Storm Peaks while doing dailies, I never once went out of my way to look for this Drake.
Best of Luck and Cheers!
Conggo
80 Tauren Hunter
Kel'Thuzad
评论来自
47021
I just got mine today at
30,65
as stated it crosses the most pats and you can watch/spam/auto click your macro to target the drake. Only took me 30 hours to get the spawn and patrol to me.
Epic find, an addon that conforms to Blizzard EULA and ToS.
http://sites.google.com/site/wowsaiket/Add-Ons/NPCScan
NPCScan tracks seldom-seen rare mobs by proximity alone, making the old “/targetexact …” macros obsolete. It has the same range as those targeting macros, but you won't have to mash any buttons. Just go about your business and let _NPCScan alert you when it finds something.
评论来自
346219
Here's my little TLPD story...
When I first heard about this mount, I had hoped that one day I could have one. However, I really didn't want to camp it and compete with other campers for hours. So, I pretty much gave up on my dream of riding this drake.
I woke up early yesterday morning to do a bit of herbing in storm peaks on my druid, hoping to get a few stacks to level up my Death Knight's inscription. I did a few rounds, and as I was flying past the Engine of the Makers a third time, there on my screen was the TLPD. My heart practically jumped into my throat, and as I targeted it, my computer froze. After staring at my screen in disbelief for a minute, I rebooted, trying to stay calm. I decided that if he was still up, my Death Knight should have it, so I logged on as quickly as I could.
Taking the flight path up to Storm Peaks, I happened to go by the drake. Overjoyed, I landed at the crash site and proceeded to the Engine on my 60% flying speed mount. He was gone. I saw a human death knight on the ground killing mammoths. I thought my chance was gone, but didn't want to give up so easily. I waited patiently, and sure enough he flew back around. I just aggroed him in the air and flew to the ground, killed him quickly.
Here are the specific details:
Server: Laughing Skull
Time: 6:30am server time
The flight path he was taking was the red one on this map:
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/3272/vyragosa4yn3.jpg
Dead on the engine:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y165/Breakbot/WoWScrnShot_040509_073410.jpg
The best part:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y165/Breakbot/WoWScrnShot_040509_104803.jpg
(I can't even ride it yet)
Edit: Farmed up the gold for flying over the next day.
评论来自
Kaidos2009
I am looking every day here for infos about the time-lost proto drake :P
The reason why i create an account was the comment from Verdig above me xD
At all: Please get epic Flying first before you camp him^^
评论来自
101769
First off Let me apologize for lack of times with these kills. I foolishly didnt expect this hunt to be so long/hard and felt my info would be useless to future farmers. Little did I know, there really is a huge lack of concrete information of the tlpd....so I feel any info is good at this point.
I came back from a break of wow to be intrigued immediately like many by this mount. Seen him in town and instantly wanted him. I did the usual mad scientist research and gathered everything I could regarding this mount. I think to myself, "Pfft, all these lazy "tlpd hunters" prolly give up early and shame the true farmer of a rare they want".
Golly! The name suits the rare perfectly. Ive got the macros (yes quite a few), the time to farm, and Im very lucky when it comes to low drop rates/rares in the past. Im rdy to go!
Well, my first day I spent 15straight hrs flying in circles all around storm peaks spamming my macro. Only one Vyra siting, dead body in fact. Get some sleep and get back to it when I get up. (33, 65) cords of dead body.
Day2 went farming for around 8 hrs flying around the suspected paths, only to find myself loggin in disappointment. As the countdown began til logout I continued spamming my macro...sure enough my first minor heart attack with only 6 seconds left till exit I tag a rare dragon! I quickly hit cancel and start freaking out. Oh course Im so excited to see what I tagged I didnt bother to check my whisper to myself via macro...It was only Vyra! (28, 50) cords of death. She was traveling from snowdrift plains from what I gather.
Day3 another 8 hrs or so of flying around (farming herbs sounds more truthful than hunting this mount lol, wish that was the case) another vyra siting and kill. (28,43) cords of death...apparently same pat route as last vyra kill, coming south from snowdrift plains.
Day4 around 4 hours of flying, Vyra dead body found @ (28, 65). I was burnt out and call it quits early at that point.
Day5 was my most promising experience, killed Vyra in my normal break spot (also very close to my other kills) (27, 64) kill cords. I took a break and ran 2 instances under the assumption a rare wouldnt be popping up soon. Returned to flying my routes, spamming macros having a good feeling, also not many if any at all seemed to be hunting in the early morning hours. SADLY I was on my more eastern loop of the paths, as Im flying through the lil canyon/my break spot (~27,64) my macro hits! No mistake this time, my whisper says its him! I continued foward while having my usual mini heart attack when my macro tags something....There he is! oh joy! oh wait its a dead body...WTF! I wasnt gone more than 3 minutes! (30,49) dead body of tlpd @ 4:27am server time!
I figured Id be happy to see a dead body of him to at least confirm this isnt a myth and Im not chasing an invisible dragon. It wasnt happiness I experienced upon site of his dead body lol.
After my first week of searching I hit a wall...Alot of my farming times were cut down, and have only gone searching for continuous farming for over 10 hours twice since my first week. Dirkee was killed by me at (40, 43) amongst my search, cant recall which day it was for his kill was almost worth just leaving be (he's not soloable by a mage hehe, but had a guildy doing dailys in SP at the time whom lent a hand)
Bottom line of my story is I pity the many I see doing standstill searches for this rare. As many people after these guys the thing is gonna have to spawn on your motionless head, because chances are (my server at least) the rares arent gonna make a full circle pat before being downed. I thankfully am a herber and can look at my wealth so this hunt wasnt/isnt a total loss (was making well over 1k a hunt for this guy). Truely make an easy 200g+ per hour while looking, but would gladly give a stranger 10k at this point to pass the next tlpd kill to me lol. I guess I can say Ive seen an abundance of rares for the short time Ive spent compared to most, but I just cant stumble across the right one ><
From what I gathered, there is no set timer on storm peak rares. Ive spent 15 hrs on 2 different days searching and nothing was conclusive. Im not saying I was there for every second to confirm all deaths, but I definately was covering ALOT of ground for a long period of time to miss somethign while I was there. In my first two weeks I can confirm 1 dirkee death, 1 tlpd death, and close to 10 vyra kills....Did I miss a spawn or two? Im sure I did...but regardless to say, the tlpd is RARE! Good luck to all those farming him, congrats to those lucky enough to have him downed alrdy and wish me luck as I continue my search! Ive only given up once before on a farm (3 weeks of sfk for shadowfang), Im not about to give up on my second!
I will be sure to update this comment with anymore information I might be able to bring to the table.
评论来自
347571
Got mine yesterday, after about five weeks of rather active (5h+ daily) camping, some random flying about in Storm Peaks before that. He was flying from Valkyrion towards Snowdrift Plains, I'm assuming he spawned at the frozen lake. Anyway, I've been keeping a kind of diary of my Vyragosa kills, and body sightings of Vyragosa and the TLPD. Perhaps you can make something of it, it pretty much matches known spawn timers and routes. But hey, everyone loves statistics. Here goes:
18.2.2009, 4:40 - ***Killed Vyragosa (East of Engine, about 45,60)
19.2.2009, 8:40 - ***Killed Vyragosa (North of Valkyrion, about 27.4,54.6)
22.2.2009, 7:20 - Vyragosa dead (North of Frosthold, about 28,68)
4.3.2009, 3:00 - Vyragosa dead (North of Frosthold, about 28,68)
6.3.2009, 2:00 - Vyragosa dead (Waterfall near Frosthold, about 31,66)
7.3.2009, ~0:35 - <<<TLPD killed/despawned? (trustworthy source that had him targeted but sadly lost him)
7.3.2009, 7:50 - Vyragosa dead at 28,46
8.3.2009, ~2:40 - Vyragosa dead at 37,76
8.3.2009, 19:00 - <<<TLPD dead at 31,66
10.3.2009, 1:15 - ***Killed Vyragosa at 33,67
10.3.2009, 22:10 - Vyragosa dead at 40,64
13.3.2009, 09:50 - ***Killed Vyragosa at 31,69 (spawn location)
13.3.2009, 19:40 - Vyragosa dead at 29,66
14.3.2009, 02:45 - ***Killed Vyragosa at 31.4,69.6 (exact spawn location, didn't move an inch)
14.3.2009, 12:20 - <<<TLPD dead at 42,60
21.3.2009, 8:35 - ***Killed Vyragosa at 32.5,66
21.3.2009, 21:50 - Vyragosa dead at 32.6,67
22.3.2009, 9:50 - Vyragosa dead at 42.6,82.5
23.3.2009, 6:20 - ***Killed Vyragosa at 39,59.5
23.3.2009, 14:05 - Vyragosa dead at 27,44.6
23.3.2009, 20:16 - Vyragosa dead at 34.6,66.4 (exact time of death)
25.3.2009, 2:40 - ***Killed Vyragosa at 42.4,59
27.3.2009, 19:10 - ***Killed Vyragosa at 48.5,67.3 (flew towards Engine, over the village, from 51.7,71.6)
28.3.2009, 2:02 - Vyragosa dead at 27.4,56.8 (exact time of death)
30.3.2009, 20:15 - <<<TLPD dead at 27.4,53.2
31.3.2009, 18:40 - ***Killed Vyragosa at 27.7,63.5
1.4.2009, 1:20 - ***Killed Vyragosa at 35.6,66.1
2.4.2009, 17:55 - Vyragosa dead at 26.8,58
3.4.2009, 17:40 - ***Killed Vyragosa at 30.8,82
5.4.2009, 15:14 - Vyragosa dead at 36.9,77.6 (exact time of death)
6.4.2009, 21:55 - Vyragosa dead at 47.8,52.8
9.4.2009, 21:29 - ******Killed Time-Lost Proto Drake at 27.3,56.6
I also made a map of these kills and sightings.
Here's the rather boring looking killshot:
http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs538&d=09155&f=tlpdkill165.jpg
It was a wonderful, adrenaline filled feeling to actually get the mount after so many hours spent, and I don't really have regrets. I watched some movies and TV series while camping so it didn't really get boring at any point, especially since I set up my G15 keyboard to repeat the target + raid warning macro listed here. This comment section was of tremendous help in general, thanks to everyone who posted something useful and good luck to all the TLPD hunters out there.
评论来自
338204
Grats Swavve :) saw the proto dead.... so many ppl that was QQin.
评论来自
332911
well, im tryin to camp the time lost one, but i dont get these macros? doing something wrong im sure, but for those of us who dont ever use macros, heh. no one is saying WHAT u do, lol
/tar Dirkee
/tar Vyra
/tar Time
/stopmacro
/w Your Name %t Is watching you!
/run RaidNotice_AddMessage(RaidBossEmoteFrame,"THERE IT IS! KILL IT!", ChatTypeInfo)
/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\interface\\RaidWarning.wav")
is what ive seen used alot, but um... first line, do i make that a button? second=another button, spam 1,2,3,4 etc buttons, or all in one, is there any char's in that text that arent supposed to be there? um.... *then the obvious "your name here".
评论来自
thedjvan
Server: Muradin (US)
Name: Thimble
Server Time: 1:21 AM
Coords: 28,64
How you spotted it: Was camping at 28,65 ... it came flying from Valkyrion
Height: Fairly high, I used a slowfall lager.
Direction of travel: South
Did you kill Vyragos prior or know of the kill prior? No I did not, and don't have any idea of a prior kill.
Details:
I was watching CSI and about had a heart attack when
_NPCScan
shouted at me. Flew over and took him down.
评论来自
349403
OH!
http://data.fuskbugg.se/skalman01/Time%20Lost%20Proto%20Drake.bmp
(Edx = me)
评论来自
253302
the name of this drake actually comes from the original Blizzard game series 'Lost Vikings.' The sequel to the game featured a dragon named Scorch, who was rescued by Olaf and vouched to assist the 3 vikings whilst being lost in time.
You can see reference to the 3 'lost vikings,' in Ulduman by the chest where you pick up the Medalion naer the start/ entrance.
Although you do waste a lot of time if you are camping this rare mob, it's not 100% the reason for the name.
-Soundwave-
Ghostlands (EU)
edit;
a week after posting this i killed my TLPD while handing in the Frostborn daily, after a total of 2 months farming. He was flying due South from The Snowdrift Plains, and I flew up and tagged him over Valkyrion. He was flying about 100 yards up, so definitely grab a
Snowfall Lager
, or be prepared to Levitate, Slowfall etc. Worth the wait, and the hate mail I got the next day was hilarious.
Good luck to all!
评论来自
189105
The reports about spawn points: I'm fairly sure 99% of the time people don't see an actual spawn but the game rendering range picking up on a mob.
As someone who admits the mob is at "mythical" status for yourself, I would advise against discounting the testimony of players who have actually seen and killed it. You may come across as hypocritical.
While many of your points are valid, this one definately is not. Both visually and upon my tracking I have witnessed the TLPD materialise above the fang pit, and hover idly for a moment before starting his patrol, as do all freshly spawned mobs.
Unless I pumped a k into my graphics card only for it to render mobs within twenty yards? Unlikely.
评论来自
Grapepizza
Seen Vyragosa spawn(and killed her shortly after) at 36.8, 72.2 in The Storm Peaks. Traveling North through Bor's Breath. At 16:02PST on Frostmane US.
If she does share a spawn with TLPD then he could spawn in the same area.
评论来自
mikethered
This week will be the second farming session I've done on the Time Lost Proto Drake.
I have killed Vyragosa 41 times. (That's not an exaggeration) The majority of them were above the frozen lake in Bor's Breath, but there were several which were near the Engine of the Makers and east of there.
According to the loot cache queries I have done, the TLPD has not been looted since the server maintenance last Tuesday (and it is now the Monday after).
I have been online literally 24 hours a day parked over the frozen lake at Bor's Breath and have been doing server queries regularly, so I'm positive I haven't missed a "rolling restart" or "hot fix patch" (though there have been some, I have been back online immediately after they were finished and the server loot cache queries still only say "Retrieving Information")
Anyways, the point is-
It's been close to 168 hours since he has been looted (a week). This guy is a lot rarer than people give him credit for.
In all my farming sessions (about 300+ hours in total) I have only seen the corpse once, when I stepped AFK for 10 minutes to cook some food.
If you plan on camping this guy, expect it to take a very, very, very long time.
评论来自
wallix
I officially give up on this drake. I wrote a little poem about it as a tribute...
TLPD, can't you see?
How you've made a fool of me?
From Ulduar to old K3,
at one-hundred feet to thirty-three.
In endless circles I fly again,
(Counter clockwise, for the win).
My macro spams, my temper flares
You are, indeed, the rare of rares
Now, Vyragosa? What a bore.
I've seen her 4 times (Maybe more)
I need your Reins to feel complete,
As the prototype for my Proto-fleet.
So tonight I'll take my final flight,
With ghetto-drake into the night.
For I am not one who's about to beg,
(Please hand me one more Unhatched Egg)
评论来自
354737
http://i43.tinypic.com/ehlnbq.jpg
Found mine yesterday, on my second day of camping. I was extremely lucky to come across him. Tagged him about 2 minutes after arriving in his spawn area, caught him flying north of Valkyrion.
Good luck to the rest of you!
评论来自
354936
I've been camping Engine of the Makers for a few weeks now for TLPD but have only vyra-three times. Twice she came directly overhead of the engine and continued west through bor's breath the headed north through valkyrion, which is where i killed her twice. The third time she came from the south and headed brunnhildar village where an allience shammy took her down.
After that third kill, i left thinking that i would come back 6 hours later, which i did. My kill macro (tells if someone has killed it since last realm restart) still had nothing when i came back to engine of the makers. So i camped there for about 15 mins, but nothing was hitting, so i hit my kill macro again and it lit up. I asked general if anyone had seen the TLPD or killed it but i got no response so i thought a horde got it (im a human pally).
Im in a lower pop realm (Jaedenar), well we were recommended so we are at medium with a lot of lowbies, and i have only seen 2 people on TLPD, both horde.
Well, the hunt continues, ive spent too much time sitting around for TLPD to give up now. Good luck to everyone looking for him and ill be sure to post when i get mine :).
P.S.- any1 kno if a pally bubble will be able to pull vyra or TLPD down to the ground? ive been meaning to try it for a while, just havent been able to find either of them lately :(
评论来自
355649
I have some interesting information.
After 3 servers restarts I constantly used this script “/script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Shift-click this to place a link into a chat message: \124cffa335ee\124Hitem:44168:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0\124h\124h\124r");” and when it showed the information I checked out all routes and found no TLPD/its corpse. Once, when I killed Vyragosa, script showed nothing but exactly after its corpse disappeared it showed retrieving information. I cheked all possible routes once more and again found no TLPD/its corpse.
评论来自
332911
great idea just came to my brain..... transfer to a Low pop server, camp the heck out of TLPD, then move back to your server lol... anyone done this?
评论来自
mikethered
FINALLY, I have found the TLPD and obtained the mount.
I can confirm 100% that the spawn location was one shared with Vyragosa. I was parked above Bor's Breath and saw the drake enter my view from the middle of the mountain to the southeast-
Just so we're clear, his back was to the mountain and he was only inches from it. Drakes cannot fly through mountains, so this was _definitely_ his spawn location.
This is a confirmed spawn location of Vyra (per my own eyes) and now the TLPD too.
Let me just say that again,
THIS SPAWN LOCATION (SouthEast MOUNTAINSIDE IN BOR'S BREATH) 100% CONFIRMED TPLD SPAWN LOCATION and SHARED WITH ONE OF VYRAGOSAS SPAWN LOCATIONS.
So there is a definite link between them.
Here are the kill shots-
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/8453/wowscrnshot042309143238.jpg
As you can see, it took me less than 10 seconds to get to the drake and bring it down from it's spawn location. (In fact, I had it dead before it even landed)
This is the location where it spawned...
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/3853/wowscrnshot042309143320.jpg
Just as Vyragosa spawns here, so too does the TLPD.
It took me approximately 21 days of 24/hr round-the-clock camping to get him.
评论来自
356769
Not that much time lost to be honest.
Coming from "The Foot Steppes" and directly moving into Sifreldar Village i was able to kill him.
Coords: 39,74
Pic
评论来自
Zukiji
PendrakeEredar has posted a very notable video following the TLPD on the PTR to 3.1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRbOssnGZ9s&feature=related
Near to the end of the video, he looses the drake, maybe due to phasing etc, not too sure.
Very very good video though, I recommend anyone looking for the TLPD to watch this.
评论来自
Deadstroke
Got mine today at 3:15AM PST at 45.82.
Was just doing my Argent Tournament dailies and hitting up Storm Peaks while there mashing my macro and he popped up. Was searching periodically for about 4 days while in the area.
I put a black dot on the mini-map of where I kited him to since it was hard to see my arrow in the screenshot. Good luck getting yours.
http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/73/l_d9836bdbd8764b49afd1af7c9eb4b0d8.jpg
评论来自
Waus
This is me getting my TLPD!
I even frapsed the kill!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PgFkFe_t74
评论来自
359384
i been farming this mount for about 3 weeks now. but somthing odd i just dont understand when it comes to the cache macro to check if the reigns are in the server catche. now seing i only been farming for now starting my 3rd week from wednesday. almost within a max of 2 days the reigns are in the server cache every week 3 weeks running. im on almost 20 hours a day and i check the cache every 15-20min or so and then it just randomly shows up 3rd week in a row? that cant be right can it unless this server is very lucky. i dont think so though. So my question is , are we 100% sure that the cache macro tells you that the reigns have been looted recently? or is there some lvl 77-80 flying around with the reigns in his bags waiting to get money to lern cold weather flying that logs on every week and adds it to the cache?
btw everytime the reigns apears in the cache i go fly around prity much the whole of SP and dont find any corpse. I see the same people camping the drake as me as well not riding the drake or seing any corpse.
so whats going on here? i cant see how it can spawn evey week and be looted without any TlPD farmer seing or getting it 3 weeks running
评论来自
359740
Just wondering about the speed. 280% or 310%?
评论来自
laerhof
Notice the difference with
a Gladiator's drake
, which is 310% speed.
Very fast = 280%
Extremely fast = 310%
Time-Lost Proto-Drake is therefore 280% speed
评论来自
359384
Well i finally got my TLPD after 1 week 3 days. much shorter than i thought it would be.
IT spawnd at 29, 67 right on the snowy mountin, just where the poster said on the last page.
I was spamming my macro while watching a film , had a wav file in my macro that started spamming me and at first i thought meh its just the other dragon again ( killed him like twice that day already) i looked at my screen saw him taking off from the mountin side and i couldnt berlive it. My eyes just went blury and i started panicing like crazy. I flew up to him and tagged him but he resisited and i couldnt berlive it, i was freaking out so much i forgot to use my slowfall ber and had to bubble. Then i mounted up again flew over here was now at 27, 60 flying north. I tagged him again this time properly and again forgot to use my beer forgot i used my bubble and fell to my death lol
Lucky the gy was right there and i then went to my corpose flew north to try and find him again, i was swearing at myself that somone else has tagged it by now lol. Then there he was at 30, 48 flying north east towards ulduar. II tagged him this time made sure i used my beer and even as i was killing him i could of swarn i was about to be ganked lol , thankfuly no one was around and i got his reigns :)
If it wasnt for help from other peoples posts and help i wouldnt have got it so thank you everyone whos contributed and best of luck to everyone else still trying. :)
very easy kill, comes to melle range very fast as well.
So yeh id say if your going to camp a spawn id go for 29, 67
评论来自
338204
hahahahah, Same here I forgott to use the snowfall larger because I went crazy, when I landed I had 8k left. So I could die from ally but didnt :) because I downed The drake easliy.
评论来自
153510
Vryra killed at 41.2, 69.7 12:15 CEST (European Server Shattered Hand) Heading from engine of the makers.
Vyra killed at 30.1, 68.1 02:10 CEST (European Server Shattered Hand) Heading from those coords to Valkyron
Corpse took exactly 30 mins to despawn but I don't know if this is in any way important.
评论来自
360233
TLPD has been looted on my server today. The macro and a guy told me when I asked in General if anyone has seen his corpse. I was 30 min. to late. Now I have to reset the macro. I have deleted the cache folder and logged in to WoW again. When I try the macro again it still shows me the reins of the TLPD and not 'retrieving information'. Is this correct? When does it shows me 'retrieving information' again?
Thanks!
评论来自
Canbie
Well, I just got mine. After quite a bit of "time-lost". I can't be sure but I'd guess around 100 hours of patrolling/camping.
Actually I camped a spawn yesterday for about 7 hours only to go afk for about 3 mins and come back to a dead TLPD. Almost quit but again I figured it was only a matter of time.
My total rares spotted are only about 5. Two live spawns of Vyra (missed one, got the other kill). 1 Missed TLPD and the second my kill.
Then, about 5 hours into my camping tonight, POP!
Top of Bor's Breath seems to be the most stable place to camp, I've heard a few people saying Engine is more reliable but I stuck with my spot.
GL to the rest of you hunters out there!
评论来自
314568
I curse all of you! DAMN YOU!
I wanted that mount.... So bad.. And I have a bad story about that luck of ''Getting Time-Lost Proto-Drake''.
I was in Bor's Breath as I used to do in evening - yeah only evening I'm not ''crackpot'' with it and standing there all the day - I was speaking with someone by whispers, so my macro was not activated (Because it would do ''H6i, mi6 na6me is6 ka6munk6in6'' >< So, I was speaking with a friend when I saw TLPD flying really slowly, not flying high, coming from K3 heading to Bor's Fall. I was alone, and I was suddenly the happiest person of the moment in the world. I've not even had the time to press ''W'' to run after him, that my WoW freezed, and got ''World Server is Down'' ................................................. I was simply yelling, camping him since almost 2 months, I'm kinda bored to see those guys flying on their gold dragon, and much more because I collect mount, and actually got 74 mounts.. So when I connected back, after +- 1 hour trying to reconnect, he was killed... My macro said that he has been looted... So well, I'm just starting to believe that I'm cursed... Blue Proto-Drake dropped, not got it. Black War Traveling Mammoth in Vault dropped, not got it... Azure Drake dropped, not got it. Blue Drake dropped, not got it. Opening my 234523587th egg, not got the green proto (I know is a question of luck, but there's so many on my server (Lightning's Blade - US)...
I WONT GIVE UP! ><
评论来自
rmziidx
Server: Kirin Tor (US)
Name: Upgrayed
Server Time: 5:07 AM
Coords: 31,49 (spotted @ 28,52 flying northeast)
How you spotted it: Was camping Bor's Breath; macro picked him up just north of Valkyrion, flying north. I caught him immediately after logging in so it's entirely likely that he spawned at the usual Bor's Breath location a minute or two prior.
Height: ~30 yards.
Direction of travel: North/northeast
Did you kill Vyragosa prior or know of the kill prior? No.
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/9087/wowscrnshot050309030759.jpg
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/2498/wowscrnshot050309030802.jpg
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/6256/wowscrnshot050309031015.jpg
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/3707/wowscrnshot050309030921.jpg
I had just about convinced myself to stop wasting my time camping him; I signed on to check "one last time" before leaving for the night, and there he was. Don't give up, and good luck to all fellow TLPD hunters!
评论来自
360233
Almost 2 days after the kill and the macro still shows me the reins of the TLPD. I guess it resets if the server goes offline on tuesday night?
评论来自
361322
Everyday since April 12th I sat in Storm Peaks 12+ hours a day. I got 3-4 hours of sleep a night, went to work and came home and farmed, it was seriously killing me! I read so many posts about this thing its been unreal. Well tonight I can finally sleep!
Killed him today:
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/1328/timedragon.jpg
Saw a Night Elf Hunter bringing it to the ground so I paniced and took the kill. To how I beat a hunter to tagging it first when im a prot warrior and was 9488947 feet away... I dont know. He/She then went PVP and was taunting me and I killed her.
But after the 50 spits on me the dragon is mine =)! I just have to say that after my countless Vyragosa Kills and Only ever seeing the Time Dragon once, your best luck is just walking into it. Now with the dailies in Storm Peaks people are finding it at times when the farmers are not there. Its all about luck and today I got super lucky.
The Spawn timer I believe is shared between any rare mob in the zone: Vyra, time, Dirkee. Theres a chance every 6+ hours one of the rare mobs will appear and of course the Time Dragon has a lower spawn timer. People get excitied once Vyra is dead and start farming for 1-2 hours. DO NOT, waste your time. Vyra and the Time Dragon will not spawn in under 6 hours. I saw AND killed Vyra 18 times in a row and never once saw the time dragon which made me think it spawned when i went to work (which it could of possibly happened).
Just my 2 cents.
评论来自
149612
Just saw TLPD spawn right in front of my eyes in front of Ulduar (43;25,8) at exactly 22:00 server.
评论来自
232960
im posting this less than a minute after servers have gone back up following tuesday maintenance and the cache macro is returning the drake info. Asking everyone in the zone on both alliance and horde sides and searching for the TLPD body all over the place but nothing. The cache was either not cleared with the maintenance or it's now confirmed that it does NOT indicate that someone looted the reins since the last server reset.
评论来自
Lodenuri
Got mine a few days ago after several months of searching for him. Keep spamming that macro and you will get yours as well.
As for statistics I killed Vyragosa about 8 time in total and Dirkee about 5. I saw TLPD dead once before I got mine a few weeks later. DO NOT GET DISCOURAGED!
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/5276/timelostkill.jpg
评论来自
Lossified
Found at 11 PM server time on US Misha. Went on my daily routine to farm saronite ores for ammo while spamming my macro (/tar "most rares in Northrend.") Took me a good 1-2 mins to find him after my macro targeted him. I was so nervous that I dismounted by accident. After I located him, I simply dragged him down to the gound and smashed on him. Be warned, when you finally find this beauty, be prepared to jump off you seat in excitement. He's just that awesome.
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/9044/aaaehx.jpg
评论来自
Eversion
TLPD has been looted on my server today. The macro and a guy told me when I asked in General if anyone has seen his corpse. I was 30 min. to late. Now I have to reset the macro. I have deleted the cache folder and logged in to WoW again. When I try the macro again it still shows me the reins of the TLPD and not 'retrieving information'. Is this correct? When does it shows me 'retrieving information' again?
Thanks!
I think the server cache is deleted every maintenance, but I'm not entirely sure.
评论来自
312413
The cache is deleted every server reset, but in order for the check macro to work you must delete your own as well.
So best bet to see if has dropped on your server is that after the weekly server downtime, you run repair.exe in wow dir. and only use the option Reset the world of warcraft cache data, and click the button Reset only.
Logic is simple. if it doesent find it in your local cache, it checks the servers cache, if its not in server one it hasn't dropped yet. But if you have it still in local cache, it will show up anyway even thou it has not spawned yet that week. so clear your local cache!
Of my experience this only works until someone loots it once per week, as it gets into server side cache, then you have no way of knowing if it spawned and was killed maybe 3 times that week.
I'm however begining to think that TLPD spawns once a week and thats it :P BUT it is 100% once a week because not a week has gone by that at some point some day before the reset.. server DID return the item from cache..
so there you have it.. still camping mine :(
good luck to the rest of you.
p.s. the macro im talking about is this:
/script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Shift-click this to place a link into a chat message: \124cffa335ee\124Hitem:44168:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0\124h\124h\124r");
评论来自
beckis
2009-May-08 11:54. EU - Asjol Nerub
Just killed it. Spawned above me when i was just about to log out.
评论来自
nexieaggaman
Got one last thursday 18:50 at Snowdrift Plains. Was waiting for my Ulduar raid to start and i poped up in npcscan...never acutally looked for it...guess i was lucky :-)
After reading all your comments i kinda feel it should be a 310% mount or at least give an achivement/feast since its so rare.
评论来自
HellRaid
Today was a very lucky day. I came out of HoS HC after managing to get the killing blow on the final boss while the rest of my party was dead (a lucky Hammer of Justice crit), I flew off to sit at the three-way junction at Bor's Breath as I'd done for weeks, this time to read about HoS a bit more whilst clicking my macro every so often.
So a rogue flies down to me, and asks if I'm farming. I gave up on that a while ago (I'd never even seen the corpse until today), so I told him I was just chancing my luck. He asked me again, and while I was typing my reply, he invited me to group with him. I'm moving my mouse over to click 'decline' and what appears in the distance is none other than the Time-Lost Proto.
So I accept (I figured he'd tag it without me if I didn't), and he flies in to tag it - but he falls too fast and loses it (and almost dies!) So I tag it, slowly let it follow me down to a ledge, and the rogue appears just as I kill it. We both rolled on it, and I won! Woo! I'm happeh.
Anyway, some learning points:
A tag and drop definitely won't work - you fall too fast and lose aggro. Just fly past it and take it to a ledge - there's plenty around.
I can confirm it spawns at the lake in Bor's Breath, so it might be worthwhile camping there if that's what you wany to do.
It has 19k hp and a Holy Pally can kill it in about 10 seconds. Not tough at all.
This was the first time that both me and the rogue had seen it alive or dead in both our two weeks of camping/visiting. I've never even seen Vyragosa alive once, but found her dead twice on Bor's Breath as well.
Proof:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v737/HellRaid/WoWScrnShot_051009_000659.jpg
Next to my kill. The Time-Lost is quite big in comparison to the Bronze Drake.
评论来自
Serpream
Hi, Tagged this at coords 41,60 at 3.41 am on Ravenholdt server.
Time taken, 1 day O_O. I setup a basic dual screen setup where wow was on the other so i could play some Killzone 2 :)
Quiet day with no alerts, went off did a few heroics then did the dailys on reset. Went over to do my brick daily from tournament and boom, alarm went off. After my hear attack i looked high as people had warned to see a small golden dot. This thing was way beyond 100 yards high. So i mounted quick, flew up and did a jiggle, slowly desended to the ground and poped ghost wolves. Bagged done and sorted. Also got a neck peice
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/item=44682
of the marksman. Strange how easy i found the rare of rares yet have issues getting uldaur ready mail gear :(
评论来自
307900
anyone one think that its called time lost proto drake because you lose alot of time looking for it ?
评论来自
360233
Killed Vyragosa again yesterday night at the frozen lake. Saw it spawn just beneath Frosthold on 30.1. TLPD has not been looted since last tuesday according to the macro.
评论来自
101839
I got the drake at 4AM this morning. I camped Bor's Breath for 2 days about 8 hours a day, and I was using NPCScan to alert me when a rarespawn appeared on my screen (I edited the LUA file to change the sound to something more alerting). The first day I killed Vyragosa twice and I might've missed a Time-Lost spawn when I was away IRL. The second day I killed Vyragosa once and then Time-Lost spawns later in the day.
Here's a pic:
http://i39.tinypic.com/2hhgevq.jpg
评论来自
362309
Whats the altitude at which it spawns?
评论来自
88541
After about 3 days of solid camping, finally got mine on Saturday 9th of May at 5pm server time on Jubei'thos US. The previous wednesday i saw a dead TLPD that i was minutes late of killing myself, and thought i'd give the camp another good attempt. I was dual boxing a toon in naxx with my rogue camping Bor's Breath using NPCscan, and just as we pulled Thaddius it went nuts in the background. Checked the other window to see TLPD coming down from Frosthold, and nobody was in the area!
Things i learned when farming this mount
Vyragosa and TLPD DEFINITLEY share spawn locations and spawn times.
All of my Vyragosas and TLPD spawned roughly 4 minutes before the hour, out of 6 kills, all of them shared this time.
I cannot confirm the 6+ hours spawn, but it is most definitely no less than 6. (I had to wait on average 12 - 18 hours before seeing another Vyra spawn at all.)
You can see him from very far away, so the best thing to do imo is to sit in Bor's Breath over the frozen lake infront of Valkyrion and watch some TV, Read, do anything to pass time.
This is the EXACT spawn location of ALL of the Vyra's i have seen, and the one TLPD that i managed to find alive (and kill)
http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/9689/vyraspawn.jpg
And finally, here is my Kill Shot :P
http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/4453/mytlpdkill.jpg
I was on low health because my cloaks parachute wouldn't go off when i was falling after pulling -_-
评论来自
364103
Aggramar - US
10:52 server time
TLPD corpse sighted @ 27.7 64.2, right in front of the gate to Valkyrion
I'd been camping most of the day and logged to help a friend w/ a quest on my DK, logged back in and saw the corpse, woe is me =(
least i can guestimate the respawn timer now, kinda =(
评论来自
Ishtar
Found him last night on my way back to Dalaran. I have probably only spent maybe 6 hours searching for him total since I hit level 80. I just happened to be very lucky. Here is where I killed him.
Pic 1
Here is about where I first saw him.
Pic 2
This was his route that I witnessed.
Map
评论来自
Kairn
So if you can't click on the link generated through /script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Shift-click this to place a link into a chat message: \124cffa335ee\124Hitem:44168:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0\124h\124h\124r");
the proto hasn't been looted this server reset? I had a clean cache, couldn't click it went a half hour afk and now I can :/
评论来自
365403
Found it today on Kirin Tor by the blindest, dumbest luck of all time. I honestly wasn't even looking for it. I was on my way to finish the Enchanted Earth quest. But there it was, flying away from Ulduar over the snowdrift plains. I'm a lvl 79 Protection Pally and I found it VERY easy to solo. Should be a cinch for any class...If you can find it. :P Good luck to all of you on the hunt. ^_^
http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/9429/protodrake.jpg
评论来自
365742
I've been hunting the Timelost for about 12 days now, not as long as some. Although I haven't personally found it yet, these are the dates and times of the spawns I've seen, dead or alive. All times are Eastern Standard.
This is only at the Bor's Breath paths; I don't fly around looking, so several days I may have missed spawns.
May 1st - Vyragosa, 3:12 PM
May 2nd - Vyragosa, 3:47 AM
May 2nd - Time-Lost Protodrake, between 4 AM and 7 AM
May 3rd - Vyragosa, 1:20 PM
May 4th - Vyragosa, 12:58 AM
May 8th - Vyragosa, 1:59 PM
May 8th - Vyragosa, 10:26 PM
May 13th - Time-Lost Protodrake, found dead at 12:24 PM
From what I've seen so far, there seems to be a pretty reliable 12ish hour gap between spawns. It's not exact, but it's close.
评论来自
blacklamb
You want this mount?
Be prepared to spend hours camping. Sure, you could be one of the lucky ones that just happen upon it, but chances are you'll spend a LOT of time in Storm Peaks before you get a glimpse of this guy. More then once I've seen a camper give up and leave after a few hours have passed. As boring as it is, the odds of you catching the drake are multiplied significantly if you show a little patience.
I also advise any serious camper to pick a spot and stay there. Sure you could lose a kill that way, but every single time I've gotten Vyragosa, someone inevitably comes along a few minutes later from their patrol, and I got the kill because I stayed put. I think the risk is worth it, as Bor's Breath is a known spawn/hot spot.
Anyway, I casually started to camp TLPD as soon as I first heard about him, but the more I read up on it (and after a friend bailed on me to complete "Glory of the Hero") I decided to really go after him.
The very first night I started I caught a Vyragosa sighting, but I was specced feral, and in my excitement I couldn't locate my logger and died. Since then I've killed her a few times. Granted, this has not been a 24 hour camping experience so I've probably missed a good number of spawns, but this is what I've seen personally:
5/4- 5:30 AM-saw her, lost the kill. She spawned in front of Valkyrion. She flys fairly low around that area, so don't be looking up in the sky for her.
5/5- 3:40 AM-my kill. Flying over Bor's Breath towards Valkyrion
5/6- 9:45 PM-a friend of mine stumbled upon her by accident and got the kill. Bor's Breath
5/8-2:30 AM-my kill. Bor's Breath
5/10-12:53 AM-my kill. Once again, Bor's Breath.
I share info with another camper I usually run into, and apparently TLPD spawned later on in the day of my last kill. Ironically, every kill of TLPD that I know of (on my server) has been on a Sunday. The one (and only) day I found it dead was on a Sunday. Another Sunday someone announced on general the body had been spotted on the Snowdrift Plains. It's probably a coincidence, but it still makes me wonder.
Given I saw multiple Vyragosa spawns my first week of camping, I figured this would be a cakewalk. Unfortunately I haven't had a single sighting since then. The spawn rates and times really
are
random and unpredictable.
评论来自
365970
When I woke up this morning, I thought: Hey, he maybe spawns soon, I go turn on the computer. I have heard he got spawn timers, as fast as the time was 08.30, I started patrol. I started at bor's breath end, and when I got to engine of the makers, someone had killed him exactly where I started. I got really ^&*!ed, cuz he prolly spawned right at my back when I went off. :/ It seems, he spawns at fully hours like 08.00, but also 08.30!
EDIT: He spawns at any time, not what i wrote
评论来自
Andie39
These are the three confirmed routes shared by the Time-Lost Drake and Vyragosa, I have personally monitored these routes and followed either the Time-Lost Drake or Vyragosa. There is a forth route but I can't confirm this one yet but it is probably a route but I have not been able to follow either rare on the red spotted route. And now I have the Drake on my three toons I think I’ve wasted too much time on this already to confirm the red route.
Good luck.
Time-Lost Drake Route Map
评论来自
saizo
got it today around 520am server time at engin of the makers after 2 days waiting..make sure u w8 at the village near the blue proto drakes r flying..if u r luck u will see it coming ...
评论来自
44926
Time-Lost Proto-drake is considered hostile to other creatures in the zone and may attack or be attacked by them (unconfirmed).
Just as an update. I can confirm that it does not attack or be attacked by creatures in the area that it pats in. I was doing daily's today and flew through it and did a double take to make sure of what I was seeing. It was in among the blue drakes that fly around in the area of the engine of the makers.
评论来自
saizo
it doesnt matter how high the drake flight...juz agro the drake n it will follow u till ground..make sure u didnt die bcoz of falling..cos i died frm falling..n i run fast back to my dead body..it seems the drake flying speed is slow n u ll manage to catch up n kill it if nobody is around.
评论来自
367752
/sigh i just flew over the cliff above the engine of makers next to the crash site, a second later it appeared there and was killed by some lucky sod - anyways was wondering what is the chances of it spawning again before restart?
评论来自
183035
Hi everyone,
Just a little word: I killed TLPD this morning 7:54 am at Bor's fall (36,78) on server Dalvengyr
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/5105/wowscrnshot052009075513.jpg
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/7848/wowscrnshot052009080100.jpg
good luck to all of you!
评论来自
365464
Just killed him on (Windrunner server) 2:32am by the inventors library 39.9 , 42.00 He spawned literly out of thin air 5 yds to the right of my flyin mount in a crash course for it i was rolling thru to check and see if Dirkee was up and Time lost decided to make my night =). It was smooth and fast took him right on the roof droped a snake trap pet was on him and he was dead seconds later nothing to this fight at all just burn him down a couple shots for me as a Hunter he wasnt to high so pally could easly pull him but he flys lightning fast. droped a neck with 29agl 44stam and 58 attack power (Time-Forward talisman of the bandit the Mount and the bag which had 20g some change a stack of cloth and 3 cryst. earths. Good luck on getting this Guy its a very nice mount for literly NO effort on killing it =)
评论来自
369788
Just got this yesterday around 3:00 pm server time.
Until yesterday, I had never seen the corpse, let alone a live TLPD! I'm currently saving up for the Mechano-hog, so I left Storm Peaks to go and do Tournament dailies. I finished up Tournament dailies and flew back into Storm Peaks to do Sons of Hodir. I was cruising through Bor's Breath when I noticed a large golden dragon coming around the bend. I had to do a double-take to realize that it was the Time-Lost Proto-Drake.
I flew down and tagged him immediately, and the fight was over as soon as it started. He's a real easy kill. I was surprised that no one else had gotten him already, as it was pretty busy and there were tons of people all over the place.
http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/2281/picture6jva.png
评论来自
230660
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info12995-_NPCScan.html#info
does this mod work?
addone?
npc scan?
someone said they got it using this
评论来自
370316
Well, I'm on day number 2 out of...well, probably a lot, in my quest to find the Time-Lost Proto Drake.
I've read hundreds of comments on varying web sites, and have learned a lot. Mostly, though, I've learned that most people don't know anything about this mount. Most posts conflict each other, even with both posters claiming they "know" their information is true. There's also a lot - a LOT - of people that are making up information. Please, don't post if you're going to mislead people. That's just evil.
I have a small log compiled of what has happened so far, but really the only thing related to the Proto-Drake is about an hour after I started camping last night, Vyragosa came into my view while I was camping at about 36,66. She was heading east from what looked like to be either Valkyrion or Frosthold. I'm on a PvP server and had seen no one until she appeared, which I thought was odd. I flew into her, caught aggro, landed on a nearby ledge and proceeded to kill her. About halfway through it, a Horde Paladin jumped behind me and started dps'ing me, so I just jumped off the ledge and casted Slow Fall, Living Bomb'd Vyra and Fire Blast'd her, and she was dead. I Naaru'd myself and flew back up to the corpse, looted my bag and the helm, stayed for about an hour longer(yeah, I didn't really know anything last night), and logged off.
I logged back on today, stayed on for three straight hours in the same spot and found nothing. I logged off, came back a few hours later, and I'm still sitting in pretty much the same spot. I've been here for about four hours and haven't seen anything.
So that makes for about seven hours spent today trying to find this mount, with no success. My hope isn't lowering at all, though. I have many patience.
I'll update later on with more useful information if any comes along.
评论来自
121822
Be prepared to spend a lot of time looking for this mount if you really want it. I am going on 153 hours of "Time-Lost" and I have also killed Vyragosa eleven times, seen her dead three, and seen Time-Lost Proto Drake dead twice. Hard core camping is the way to go, if you only do laps every time you are in the area you will be depending on luck a lot.
Biggest tips from my experience so far is to talk to the people who are going for the Time-Lost as well. They may know things about the last spawn time that you do not. The shortest time I hear on sights is six hours, the shortest time in my experience was eleven hours from the last kill. Longest was 23 hours. If someone else tries to take your area move closer to where the spawn point is or find another one of the spawn points and switch to that area. Ones I know (seen for myself) are spawn points include: 30, 65. 27, 55. 44,62. I think that 35, 65 and 27, 44 are spawn points as well, but I am not sure. People who are doing laps are less likely to get the mount if others are in the area looking for it, especially if their are people camping spawn points. I have run into many people doing laps looking for the drake, herbing and/or mining, this is will make it less of a time waste but do note that you have less of a chance of getting the mount and will most likely spend much more time looking for it.
I have found that sitting in one spot and waiting is the best thing to do, and the spot to do it is the frozen lake at Bor's Breath. The exact place where I hang out is 28.13, 63.58, in this spot I can see two of the spawn points that I know (I have seen Vyragosa spawn there myself) both out of the cliff face towards Frosthold and the pass from Valkyrion and the Snowdrift Plains, you also have a good eye on the the path that the dragons take from one of their other spawn points (they would come towards you from the east flying low). Do note that Bor's Breath is one of the lowest areas they fly, which is another reason it is a prime spot. If you are on a high population server you will run into people a lot at this spot, so be prepared to encounter mages, druids, and shamans trying to get you off your mount.
I have been hard core camping for just over a week now, staying up for two and three days at a time. This is very much a test of patience and luck, do not get discouraged, their is nothing you can do other than to stream line you strategy and pray. Good luck to you all.
Heironeous -- Bloodscale Alliance
Darkbain -- Wildhammer Horde
评论来自
121822
Time-Lost is280%. Mounts that are 310% are "extremely fast mount", where as 280% are only "very fast."
评论来自
370316
Just found him today :) This is my journal/log I kept while camping his spawn.
May 22nd
>>started camping 35,66 @ 2:30am<<
3:30am server - vyragosa(alive, killed her myself)
>>stopped camping 35,66 @ 6:25am<<
(sleep)
>>started camping 35,66 @ 3:15pm<<
no sightings
>>stopped camping 35,66 @ 5:29pm<<
(work)
May 23rd
>>started camping 32,65 @1:25am<<
no sightings
>>stopped camping 32,66 @ 6:27am<<
(sleep)
>>started camping 29,67 @ 2:47pm<<
no sightings
>>stopped camping 29,66 @ 5:26pm<<
(work)
May 24th
>>started camping 29,67 @ 1:45am<<
no sightings
>>stopped camping 28,64 @ 5:01am<<
(sleep)
>>started camping 29,64 @ 4:18pm<<
no sightings
>>stopped camping @ 5:58 pm<<
(work)
>>started camping 29,64 @ 8:25pm<<
Attacked by three Horde who overtook my spot. I was repeatedly killed when I rezzed and attempted to stay at my camping spot. I'm guessing they're camping there now, I slightly changed my spot to 27,61 @ 9:26pm, just beyond normal viewing distance from where they are. Since they're in a group, I doubt they'll last long. I'll check back in a couple of hours.
Checked back at 9:39pm, the Horde have already abandoned their post. Previously, they were set up in a line, about a hundred yards in between each other, which made me assume they were camping for TLPD. Either TLPD or Vyragosa spawned, and they killed him(which would require outrageous good luck on their part, and terrible bad luck on mine), or they have already lost patience. I assume - and hope - the latter is true. Camping 29,65 @ 9:42pm.
no sightings
I just camped for about ten hours straight with no breaks in between. If anybody reading this really wants to obtain this mount, you'd better be serious about it. If you can't take days of having no sightings or clues, then this mount isn't for you. The worst part about it is, even if I wanted to quit, I couldn't. I've already spent about twenty five hours on this mount, give or take, and if I gave up now that would all go to waste. And the sad part is I have an evil feeling that it's going to be a long time before I get it, even on this low-pop server. Good luck to you.
>>stopped camping 28,64 @ 6:25am<<
(sleep)
May 25th
>>started camping 29,65 @ 3:00pm<<
no sightings
5:32pm - changed my spot back to 35,66. There's nobody on my server in my area camping him, at least there hasn't been anyone since I started. I figure this way I have a lesser chance of missing him.
7:15pm - FOUND AND KILLED THE TIME LOST PROTO DRAKE! Coords 35,64, he was flying much, MUCH, higher than I thought he would. He was exactly even with the hole in the side of Temple of the Storms. I don't really remember, but I'm fairly sure he was flying TOWARDS me from Engine of the Makers, or somewhere around there.
Wow. What an experience. I was alt-tabbed, going from my WoW window back to firefox pretty much all day. I heard NPCScan go off, and my heart rate immediately exploded. I got back into WoW, and low and behold, the Time-Lost Proto Drake had been spotted. I went into freak out mode and started looking for him everywhere, I was just waiting for someone else to tag him, and couldn't find him! I targeted him and looked up, and there he was. UP THERE. Wherever you think he's going to be, it's going to be higher, definitely.
I was waiting for someone to tag him, but I got him. I flew right into him, dismounted, fire blasted him, and casted slow fall...everything seemed to take years. I started going into freak out mode because I casted my Mirror Image, and he turned to one of them and killed him instantly, but since I thought he was targeting me I thought I had died! Oh man, that part sucked for a second lol. I killed him in like five seconds. He doesn't hit hard, and he barely has any life.
Now for the protips.
x Stay calm. Just kidding, it's not possible. Once you see him, you will nearly die of a heart attack, guaranteed. I'm a pretty mellow person and I was even babbling to myself when I saw him. That's how much spotting him will make you freak out.
x Once you decide to start camping him, DO NOT GO ANYWHERE ELSE! That's probably the most important thing. You have to realize that if you sit in that spot long enough, you will be guaranteeing yourself a mount. If you leave to go do naxx, or whatever, that's probably going to be the time that he spawns. DON'T DO IT! Getting this mount has been the most rewarding experience in WoW for me so far.
x At times it will seem like he's not ever going to spawn. Some points you'll start to convince yourself he doesn't even exist. I sure did. I almost up and left god, I don't even know how many times. I almost did right before I saw him, but instead relocated to a more viable position. It worked out very well for me :). Don't give up. You'll get this mount if you set your mind to it. I guarantee it.
Good luck to all of you going for this very rare and exclusive mount :)
Some pictures:
Me going a little bit crazy:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Gh0st11/WoWScrnShot_052509_033941.jpg
His corpse, and how far away he can be seen:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Gh0st11/WoWScrnShot_052509_182038.jpg
My vanity picture :) :
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Gh0st11/WoWScrnShot_052509_182627.jpg
评论来自
370316
It's no problem. The only help players have when looking for this mount is other players, so it's my pleasure.
Another interesting piece of information, I killed TLPD at 7:15pm server time at Bor's Breath. I was just now doing my dailies in Storm Peaks, and my NPCScan went off again. My heart jumped into my throat because I thought I had spotted him yet again, lol, but it was only Vyragosa, dead, at Brunnhildar village. This happened at about 4:50pm, so Vyragosa spawned a little less than ten hours after my TLPD kill.
That's golden proof that the spawns can be about ten hours apart, even though this probably isn't shocking anyone, haha.
If anyone has any questions, feel free to contact me. I'm Shawnx on Azshara, Alliance side, and I'm usually playing :D.
评论来自
muteki
Finally got one on Aggramar US server.... After about 3day of camping him...
Monday: night Vyra spawns at
2:00am
Server time.. Dead body disappears at 2:35am Server time.
Tue: No spawns. <-- yes no spawn all day of any kind of rare. Weird i know.
Wed: log on at 4:00pm and stayed to 7:00pm
Wed: log back on at 10:00pm. stayed till kill time..Time Lost appeared at
2:10am
Server time. body disappears 2:37am.
And yes this was a 3 day camp only logging off to take a break. Did however play Xbox360 and watch a movie while waiting on him.
Screen shot here.
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http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/5228/wowscrnshot3b.jpg
评论来自
227262
I've been trying to farm this for a couple weeks and made a song to pass the countless hours passing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI
is the rythem i based it off of, here are the lyricss.
"This was a bad week
I'm making a note here:
Waist of time.
It's hard to overstate my disapointment.
<name> the farmer
I did what I could,
Not quite enough...
For the save of vanity
I won't ever give up.
But theres no sense crying over every mistake,
You just keep on trying until you get your drake.
And the farming gets done
And you have zero fun
With the people who are still farming.
I'm not even bored yet,
I'm being so lifeless today.
Even though you just spawned
Infront of me,
I didn't get credit.
Because that guy just ninjad my kill.
As I cried it hurt because I was so angry with him!
Now these points of data make a beautiful line,
I'm out of this thread
I'll get him this time!
So I'm sad I got burned
I know he'll just "lose" his head.
for all the people who are still farming.
Go ahead and leave me,
I think I prefer to stay inside
Maybe I'll find some time to help you,
Yeah later today...
That was a joke,
Haha fat chance!
Anyways this rout is great
I've seen vyragosa thrice!
Look at me still talking
When theres farming to do,
When I look out there it makes me glad I'm not you!
I've got a killer rout now,
There is farming to be done
With the people who are still at it!
And believe me I'm farming,
I'm doing well and I'm still farming,
I feel cheated and I'm still farming,
While your dying I'll still be farming,
And when your dead I will be done farming.
Done farming,
DONE FARMING!"
Anyways I really hope some1 enjoys humming it to themselves as much as me.
Edit: typos
评论来自
378732
I guess I got SUPER LUCKY. I think I broke the record on fastest TLPD found. I came here today to read up on it during work and when I got home from work I did my dailies and thought I would take a few trips around with my marco to see if I would find anything. And what do you know I find the TLPD on my second trip. Like 10 mins. of seraching! SOO LUCKY, I was soo stoked when my macro went crazy!
I want to thank everyone for the information on the TLPD... THANK YOU!
I used this route map: (Thank you for the guy who made it!)
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/1239/revisedpatrolrouteep5.jpg
And I used this macro:
/cleartarget
/tar Time
/tar Vyra
/stopmacro
/w YOURNAMEHERE >> %t <<
/stopmacro
/run RaidNotice_AddMessage(RaidBossEmoteFrame,"THERE IT IS! KILL IT!", ChatTypeInfo)
/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\interface\\RaidWarning.wav"
Literally took me like 10 mins. SOOO stoked... I feel sorry for the people looking for this guy for months. Found him patroling up the path from K3, heart raced, looked everywhere till I saw him and tag him with exo and bubble fell down. Easy fight and easy loot. It was around 6:30pm server.
Victory shots:
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/7113/timelost1.jpg
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/3413/timelost2.jpg
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/1080/timelost3.jpg
ßrutal, BE Paladin
Bonechewer
评论来自
379221
Hi all you TLPD hunters/campers :)
I just wanted to do my bid in the hunt for this illusive mount.
After 1½ months of camping this baby from 9-18 five days a week on a seperate screen while working I finally found the TLPD and got my mount today! WOOT.
Server: EU, Bloodhoof
Character: Kithiaar (if anyone on BH have questions)
So here is the list of my sightings (havent noted coords, soz) and other ”observations”
- TLPD seems to be a rare version of Vyragosa as others have noted
- Despawn time of the corpes have been exactly 30 min except for 2 instances, where it was below 3 min. Think it might despawn just after being skinned.
- Vyragosa/TLPD is hard to pull any other way than flying through them. When you do this there is a chance that their attack dismounts you and as the fly very high you might die from fall damage as the TLPD flys away.. For this reason: If you do not have a bubble/slow fall spell or similar REMEMBER TO BRING SNOWFALL LAGER which can be purchased at the Crash site for 2 Relics of Ulduar.
Apr 28th 09
Vyragosa spotted just above Bor's Fall coming around up the fall/around the mountain heading towards Bor's breath. Killed 20:51 EU time, body despawned at 21:21 (after 30 min sharp)
May 7th 09
Found TLPD dead just on top of Bor's Fall at 17:55 just 5 y outside my NPCscan range; have been flying towards Bor's Breath.
May 14th 09
Found Vyragosa dead at the southern entrance to Valyrion. Despawned at 16:53
May 18th 09
Vyragosa spawned (or maybe have come down from Valkyrion, not 100% sure) over Bor's Breath. Helped kill her, but kill went to a NE rouge (and i write rouge intently here!) Strangely despawned within 2 minutes. (perhaps because of skinning?). Killed at 14:39
May 26th 09
Vyragosa killed above Bor's Breath (ice lake) coming from Valkyrion. Despawned within 3 min (possibly because of skinning)
May 28th 09
Vyragosa killed – came down from Valkyrion towards Bor's Breath. Killed her just outside the southern wall at 10:39. Despawned at 11:09.
May 29th 09 (a glorious day!)
TLPD killed just outside the southern wall of Valkyrion. Came flying over Bor's Breath and seemed to come from the Frosthold direction (rather than up along the frozen river). (Unfortunately i have no screen as this might have confirmed a route around the mountain and Frosthold.
Good luck fellow hunters! Enjoy the wait.. its worth it!
- Kithiaar, Bloodhoof, EU
评论来自
muteki
I know people probably are tired if seeing maps etc. I used this route to get my Drake.
The map is in Hi Res an was ripped right out the game. If you like or if you don't, it's up to you. Thought i would post it and maybe help some people out on what they really need to see from a overhead view point.
I hope this help's someone.
]http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/2078/timelostmap.jpg
评论来自
380674
Ok after seeing people post the same thing ..maps, estimated times and spawn points..Ive got real information that I have put together and seen with my own time and experience..ok so here we go pay attention..
Blizz has a reason for everything they do with World of Warcraft ..so me knowing that theres a reason its called TIME-LOST PROTO DRAKE...its not because the amount of time you will be camping spawn points its because the Proto Drake really takes time hince..the (-) between Time and Lost...this theory has worked for me with one miss kill because of raidng and one time with kill of the Drake..so you ask how did I come to this ...
1. 1st week (after I came to my theory) I camped Bor's Breath I killed Vyragosa at 12:20 pm despawned at 12:50pm thats 30min on the despawn timer. So I knew to check back at the 6 -12 hour mark right.... WRONG ..I have the macro to search the server to see if anyone has used the spell to obtain the mount ..everytime i checked it came up with nothing .....so I was like WTF this is good very good...I remeber someone saying something about 24 hours after Vyragosa kill....so the next day I was camping and got bored so I took an invite to Naxx 25 (huge mistake) ...at 11:15am I checked the server while in Naxx and nothing came back at 11:20 on the dot I checked again and "BOOM" there is was someone got the kill..."minus (-) one hour of the Vyragosa kill not the despawn"because I was went to freakin Naxx I failed ..Epic Fail....
2. So after that experience I made a promise to myself never to leave my camp zone and to stick to my theory because it seems to be working...The the next day the sever had emergency restart so I was like hellz ya my macro reset and I searched the server and it was clean..at 4:20pm in my camp zone (Bor's Breath) Vyragosa spawned the kill was mine she despawned at 4:50pm ...SO I was like no since of sitting here lets go raid so I did whatever I wanted not worry bout Time-Lost spawning on me.....to the next day went to run errands and enjoy my weekend with the fam..at 3:15pm (23 hours and 15 minutes after my Vyragosa kill) I was logged in.. NPCscan ready and in my spawn zone right over the frozen Lake in Bor's Breath I was ready to rock....3:20 pm and "BOOM" NPCscan goes nuts and there she was right under me ....tag & bag baby all mine....so ez right well now it is for you
I took 2 months of heavy camping and never leaving my camp Zone to come up with this Ive always missed the spawn becuase I was an hour late thinking it raiding or in the wrong area...
This post is not to take away from people saying 6-12 hour spawns ..this is to just let people follow a theory that has worked for me and give them some spare time but the secret is this you have to know the Vyragosa spawn time or watch the despawn and subtract 30min then you will have the spawn time..Then then count 24 hours up and subtract 1 hour from that and be at a spawn point of your choosing ..I picked the frozen lake in Bor's Breath in the middle because you have 1 connection from 3 diffrent paths and you are sitting on a spawn point...
So use this theory at your own risk I love it and it worked for me TWICE!
Your boy, Swaggah
Mug Thol /US
评论来自
381012
what macro do you use to see whether or not someone has used the spell to learn how to use the drake?
评论来自
360233
Ok..this is the first time I've saw this on my server. TLPD spawned friday. Have not seen the corpse, but it was just the macro who showed me the reins. So I was not expecting TLPD spawns the next few days and I thought I had to wait at least 4 days again or so before someone claimed a kill. Then on saturday night I was sitting in SP just under Frosthold playing some useless AB matches (losses all the time). I wanted to log off, but decided to go to Engine of Makers one last time just to see. There my macro picked him up dead. It was around 1:25. Stayed at his corpse till he despawned around 1:50. So I was just to late! Coords: 39.2
评论来自
378438
Camped about 3 hours yesturday afternoon and it was quiet, nothing spotted at 28.65 (frozen lake) so i thought i would go for a quick shower, was in the shower for no more than 5 mins.. I came back to a DEAD TLPD at 31.65. Was killed by my friend who i was talking to about 15 mins before i he got it, it was killed at 17:32pm (4:32pm UK time) and i believe it spawned at the top of the waterfall in bors breath.. I didnt wait for the despawn time as i was so furious it decided to spwn at that time.. it had the whole day to spawn and it choose to spawn then.. it was traveling west up the waterfall when it alerted his NPCScan.. I have now seen this drake dead twice and missed it three other times while i was logged out, I keep a record Vyragosa/TLPD deaths/kills, from what i notice from my info it looks like TLPD is killed 1 maybe 2 times a week on my realm - so maybe next time it will be me who gets it -.-' anywayz Grtz Hitandrun who got the mount! Also Id like to add I have been camping for 4 months for this mount now, and its getting boring!
Luccio..
Aggramar EU
评论来自
360233
Ok..just to edit my post, TLPD spawned AGAIN om my server. I was reading the post here about the spawn time-theory while sitting at Engine of Makers. When I was finished I went back to the waterfall (were I've camped 15 min. ago) And I saw a dead TLPD. So now it has been looted on friday, saturday and today! But it is kinda strange because I haven't seen the one who killed it or claimed the kill on these 3 days. One guy told me he had seen someone flying without a mount and said either it was a GM or a hacker and that he could not whisper him. He may speedhacked it.
评论来自
atjays
The theory is interesting. But not quite sound. It is IMPOSSIBLE that it is a hard coded 24 hour spawn after Vyra is killed. I killed Vyra one morning, lets say around 2am. Time-lost reins were not linkable at that time. This all happening 4 days after normal server maintenance, 4 days no spawn. I went to sleep after killing Vyra, figuring there wouldn't be any sightings. Wrong. When I woke up Time-lost was linkable, meaning he had been killed sometime during the time I was asleep. I would have to bet 6 hours after Vyra was killed... So either Vyra can have up to a 96 hour spawn timer, or TLPD did not spawn or maybe did and wasnt killed? Both are hard to believe.
So this theory. Although I do agree with it for the most part, I think there is more to it. If you look back over all the kills, sadly there doesn't seem to be much of a pattern. I put this down to a whole lot of BS in whats being reported, but if you take the more valid kills, I think there is something to the 6/12/24 hour spawn timer. This would have to assume that the kills that were reported 30 min to 1 hr after Vyra kills are fake, OR that the killer of TLPD had been lied to regarding when Vyra was killed... In any case, I think using this theory as a basis for camping for this week isn't a bad idea.
评论来自
381012
Well i've actually been searching for the drake for exactly 7 days..and saw it twice during those 7 days. On the first day I found and killed Dirkee with a random person who had been hunting the drake on the same day. He let me get the loot. The next day at about 10:35 PM on a monday, the drake spawned, I thought I had tagged it first, but it turns out a rogue had gotten the tag before me and won the loot. I was so mad i couldn't sleep that night. Throughout the week I left my character on while I was at school, while my younger brother was on, since he was feeling sick and didn't go to school; he watched just incase my npcscan went on. Throughout, that week I had sighted vyragosa 3 times and only seen Dirkee on my first day. Today(sunday), early in the morning I had found Vyragosa dead at around 10AM and later today at 10:35 exact time as before TLPD spawned and go the kill. Took several hours of camping this week, but I think it payed off.
评论来自
Xecutor
DUDE SWAGGAH YOU ARE MY HERO!
I read Swaggah's post on his theory and I was like well Ive tried everything else ...so like he said "use this theory at your own risk " ...I was like what the hell it's been almost a month why not
At 1:15pm got the Vyragosa kill she despawned at 1:45pm
I logged off and chillaxed for the rest of the day
Logged back in the next day did the normal went to my spot at Engine of the Makers at 12:05 ...was waiting till 12:15pm longest 10 minutes of my life and then there it was 12:15 on the spot! NPCscan went off I tagged her and got the kill ...Time-Lost all mine!
So Swaggah of Mug thol TY! :)
Good job buddy
If I was on your server I would so emote hug and kiss you!
评论来自
382270
I've been camping this bad boy for over 40hrs for the past two weeks and not even a corpse, the closest I've come is downing Vyragosa four times.
A bit of information, so I've read the latest post and theory and I am adding my two cents to this. So last night I am hovering Bor's Breath hitting some mining veins... the usual Sunday night away from it all. At 3:10AM I tag, kill Vyragosa for the fourth time, seen her about 10 times in the past two weeks. So I write down my Vyragosa kill time and remember when I swear I killed her twice before in 24 hrs.. and I think hard to myself (is it the all nighters and times of camping 12 hrs straight doing this to me) or ... could it have been 24hrs later. So I test my luck today. I forget to empty the cache in my NPCScan and do a quick raid before reset, and go to Bor's Breath testing the newest theory and without fail I am hovering at Bor's Breath see a Titanium vein on my mini-map and come across Vyragosa's corpse, this is at 2:10PM the next day. Now this makes me wonder how come folks are coming across it 24hrs and not my at my 12hrs?
So I will be testing my luck tonight after work.. wish me luck with the Time(-)Lost Proto Drake!
评论来自
338204
I dont really understand SWaggas theory. So you mean if I kill vyragosa or find it should I wait 24h then TIme lost might spawn or what?
评论来自
360233
so just to make the theory clear for me...when you see Vyragosa/TLPD spawn, you have to look at the time he spawned and than count up 24 hours and subtract one hour and pick a spawn point?
评论来自
382270
For him maybe vryagosa spawns every 24hrs(maybe variables like server pop or reset cycles it to a 24hr timer) but you subtract an hour from the time you killed it to find the next spawn time because it is Time (-) lost. Play on words from blizz?
评论来自
Bigjev
Just got him on Echo Isles at 30, 68 in Bor's Breath
at about 9:15
Pics:
Killshot
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/3598/wowscrnshot060109212445.jpg
Victory Shot
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/3665/wowscrnshot060109213419.jpg
Gl all hunting him :)
评论来自
Prestoh
I had been camping this drake for about 6 weeks before finally getting "lucky" on sunday morning. I had myself sitting over the frozen lake for at least 8-10 hours every day with my wife's toon sitting near Brunnhildar village on the computer next to me, both running _Npcscan. Over my 6 week camp I killed Vyragosa close to 40 times and had seen the TLPD 4 times including my kill. Each of the 3 previous times I had been beat to it by another player. I personally saw it spawn right over Brunnhildar village once. Twice I was making a loop from the lake around Frosthold mountain and saw it being killed at the waterfall end of Bor's breath. Finally my kill came after it spawned right over Valkyrion flying straight at me sitting at the frozen lake.
Now some of the things I noticed in my 6 weeks of nonstop camping. I definately agree with the theories that the TLPD shares the same 4 flight paths of Vyragosa. I also agree that they both share the same spawn points and spawn timer. I had never seen a Vyragosa or TLPD spawn less than 6 hours. I had seen several right after the 6 hour mark. I had also seen the next spawn take up to as many as 23 hours. I had seen a few at 9 hours and some at 15 hours, making it seem to me that it is totally random between 6 to 24 hours. My TLPD kill came 15 Hours after my previous Vyragosa kill. In all my kill logging (way too many to post here) there was no rhyme or reason. Every kill was very randomly spread out. If anyone has any questions feel free to contact me.
I finally got my kill on Sunday, March 31st at 8:45 am PST on the US server Azjol-Nerub. I'm so glad its finally over. Here are some screenshots.
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x274/jeremy099/WoWScrnShot_053109_084702.jpg
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x274/jeremy099/WoWScrnShot_053109_084922.jpg
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x274/jeremy099/WoWScrnShot_053109_085040.jpg
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x274/jeremy099/WoWScrnShot_053109_092227.jpg
Prestoh
Azjol-Nerub US
评论来自
Treenia
Found and killed on Terokkar server 1:57am (realm time) at 31, 64 right on top of the frozen waterfall in Bor's Breath
评论来自
360233
Vyragosa spawned today around 12:35. So just count up 24 hours and subtract 1 hour?
评论来自
378438
Right, I tryed this method/theory and for me it didnt work ;( Vyragosa died at 16:05 pm on the 1st (got skinned so no despawn)
then later that night i camped all night and Vyragosa was killed at 04:35 am, so i woke up at 9:10 am game time (had to look after my brother who was home sick) and have been camping at 28.65 (Frozen lake) for 8 hours now, Im still there atm and I have been taking a few patrol routes but have seen nothing yet... Wish me luck! PLEASE
评论来自
319073
TODAY 3.JUNE.09 I GOT MINE TLPD ;D
1 day after my camping "mate" got it ^^
Until now, ive seen 4-5 ppl on Boulderfist EU with it, and i'm the FIRST Death Knight so, its a bonus ^^
评论来自
IceHawk79
Im starting to think, the TLPD doesnt exsist on Durotan. Ive seen people with the mount, but I have never seen a dead body or anything. =(
Id love to get this mount. The oracles mount I probably wont get. Going on 4 months now.
评论来自
382270
Nothing spawned on the 11 hr nor 23 hr mark on my server so the theory maybe bunk or just pure luck. Good theory though... I continue to wait for my TLPD
评论来自
367752
Okay i'm with the 23hr spawn time after vyra, but, yesterday it was 23hrs after vyra had spawned in the valkyron town, i waited just outside so as not to have to be attacked by the other mobs, and me being a hunter i can track them pair so red dot come flying along however it was not time-lost instead it was vyra again. So perhaps its random between the pair?
评论来自
385042
Just got my proto lastnight at 4.45am server time. I originally had an auto-clicker clicking the /tar time /tell you etc. macro but found when i targetted a mob my chat box got spammed so much i started to lag. So i ended up using the auto-clicker to click a macro that didn't do anything just so I didn't dc and had NPCscan on while i slept with the speakers turned up.
2nd day of doing that overnight and I got it.
I was camping at the frozen lake just south of Valkyrion (perfectly level with the hole in the side of Temple of Storms) and I wake up to Time-lost patting towards me from Valky just below where i was hovering, so he still flys pretty high.
Exorcism to tag, bubble, and it was over in about 10 seconds.
I was shaking so bad, and had to double check in the morning again to make sure I hadn't dreamt it.
Dunno if this helps anyones theory but I killed Vrya 2 days before at 8.27pm server time.
Thats 32 hours difference, and i know Vyra or Time-lost didn't spawn in between those times.
Some people say the've seen it up after 6 hours, this just shows how random it is.
Not giving out my character name or server because im sure someone will report me,
goodluck all!
评论来自
338204
How do you keep yourself online? do I need a program for that too?
评论来自
385253
I killed him this morning at 6:35 on boulderfist US. I have to say that the theory is right.
My buddy said he killed TLPD at 7::41am on june the 3rd. 24 hours later Vyragosa spwan right over Bor's Breath and I killed him.
So since it had been 24 hours since I killed Vyragosa. I woke up at 6:30 logged on. 5 mins later there he was coming to my way.
I aggroed him and BAM he was all mine.
I have been camping for 2 weeks now and the 24 hour minus one hour theory worked for me.
Good hunting
评论来自
385577
I saw Vyragosa dead at the frozen lake in Bor's Breath, then i saw the Time-Lost Proto Drake dead in the same spot, then again i saw Vyragosa there and killed her. So i started thinking that besides the multi spawn point probably that spot was lucky and decided to hunt the TLPD. After the last server restart my npcscan detected Vyragosa, I saw her getting killed by another player at 18.30 on 4th June. Thanks to Swaggah theory I came back after 23h from Vyragosa death and after 40 minutes camping the frozen lake, the Time-Lost Proto Drake spawned right behind me. I killed it exactly 23h 40min after Vyragosa got killed. I'm probably really lucky but in my experience the Bor's Breath frozen lake is the right spot to camp the mob. Killed at 18.10 on 5th June.
The 23h Theory worked for me too. Thanks to Swaggah for the hint. :)
Daraku - Runetotem EU
评论来自
thoraine
Spotted him flying the Frosthold path at 8.48PM (PST) on my server after a few days worth of camping. Coordinates are 36.3, 67.7 when I tagged and killed him. He wasn't flying very high above ground, probably 40 or 30 yards above the frozen river bed. Really recommend _NPCScan to everyone that's camping for him. It will automatically alert you when TLPD is loaded into your Cache and you don't have to spam the macro when you are flying around. Have fun drake hunters!
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/74/wowscrnshot060609115004.jpg
评论来自
378438
Finaly got my TLPD today, 7th of June at around 1:52am, was a bad night for me as my run in Ulduar 10 went suprisingly very bad so I thought I'd camp for TLPD using _NPCScan.. I was on my xbox and my brother was on my PC looking up a vid on youtube when he heard the NPC alert and called me over, I targeted TLPD and started shaking alot :S as i flew towards it my heart started beating faster and I began to lag more and more, I thought i was going to get a DC or someone come and tag it just before me, I flew into it and used Heroic Throw (I am a warrior) ued snowfall lager and killed in 10 secs as a tank, co ords of corpse were 25.66 at the frozen lake, It was flying up the waterfall heading west flying from the east, exactly the same path my friends kill was exactly 7 days ago, it took longer than i expected to despawn, around 35-40 mins :S
评论来自
blacklamb
This drake broke my heart today.
I started hardcore camping again recently, all in all I've probably put in at least 70 hours so far, camping anywhere from 6-12 hours on any given day, without any sort of autoclicker. I killed Vyragosa twice yesterday, once at 3:21 AM, and another at 10:17 PM. Both at Bor' Breath.
I had a good feeling about him spawning soon, since, as I mentioned in my first post here, he always seems to spawn on a Sunday on my server. I don't know why, maybe that's one of the variables the GM mentioned in another poster's comment here (for my server at least). But I was determined to camp as much as possible today.
I went to bed a few hours after killing Vyragosa last, and set my alarm to wake me up six hours after she had spawned. I woke up, waited around for an hour, then determined that I would try again at the 12 hour mark.
I wasn't able to sleep this morning, so I logged onto my DK alt for a minute, and then my main, who has been doing the camping. I moved down Bor's Breath a bit, NPCScan went nuts, and I was shocked to see Time Lost. My heart lept into my throat, and I thought my long search had finally been over. I clicked on his little portrait, and I saw he was already dead, close to where Vyragosa spawned for me last. The same place I have been camping for days and days. Three hours after I had logged. Let me tell you, it's a horrible feeling. The only solace I had was watching the 79 Alliance that killed him fall off the cliff and die after another Hordie attacked him.
I waited nearly half an hour for him to despawn at 9:21 AM. I realized that if I had logged on only a few minutes earlier, my searching really would have been over. On one hand, it's really encouraging to actually see him again, as I haven't seen the body for a few months. On the other....wow, ouch. This kind of disappointment is really frustrating.
Oh well. Congrats to you, Mr. Alliance, wherever you are.
评论来自
82002
I had vyragosa spawn for me at exactly 3:00am server (Hakkar) on the east side of Bor's Breath and again earlier at 2:20PM, so I will check again at 1am to see if the 11hr spawn time continues...i will post if it does
评论来自
385359
This is easily the hardest camping experience I've attempted after close to 5 years of WoWing.
评论来自
354776
Well, I usually dont post comments on rare pets/mounts etc. but this one I feel is just a bit different. So, I learned about this mount back around the end of december/ beginning of january, and made a targetting macro that I must admit i have clicked probly 10,000 times or so while flying through storm peaks. The other day i was flying through Storm Peaks doing my JC daily once again randomly clicking my /tar macro and there was the tlpd. Swooped down and got it to attack me, flew over to a ledge and killed it. So, after 6 months or so of clicking that stupid Fn thing i finally have the tlpd. And to all the people that just dont think they are ever gonna get this mount ill leave you with this; I usually have really terrible luck with mount drops. I am currently running Sethekk Halls with druid friend, soloing ZG, kara, and strat (over 200+ runs for rivendare charger) and every once in a while getting someone to come with me to do H MgT and of all the times ive ran these not one time has a rare mount ever dropped so maybe this is blizz's way of making up for it. :) GL all
评论来自
387310
So last night i was hunting time-lost with the macro mentioned down the page. i was herbing along the way and wouldn't you know it Vyragosa got targeted. I accidently went the wrong way but helped the one that taged her down her as he was sure to fail. She spawned at the broken brigde above the harpies at exactly 2105 servertime (cairine). I have seen time lost in the same area on 3 other occasions but did not know about the mount drop the first 2xs and the last one was not able to tag her. ALL SIGHTINGS OF TIME LOST WERE WITHIN A 15MIN WINDOW OF THE ABOVE TIME.
Being lvl 77 the first 2xs and seing 80 E scared me lol what luck now im destined to hunt her forever.
BTW the guy that taged Vyragosa was using and addon "? rare" if it helps use it and happy hunting
MONADEAD
评论来自
387353
I recently started searching for this elusive mob, sometimes discouraged by the lack of success that others have had. So after pouring through these comments and other threads on the TLPD, I wanted a little bit of clarification.
I have been doing fairly regular patrols of Bor's Breath, EOTM and Brunnhildar and I've been spamming a simple macro to target Vyragosa/TLPD. I've also been flying near Garn and K3 after watching that popular Youtube video of the guy trailing the Drake. But Swaggah's post has made me think about reconsidering this tactic. I've been patrolling Bor's Breath for up to 6 hours and seen no evidence of Vyra or TLPD and I need a corpse sighting or a kill to start the 23 hour timer. So first off, I was wondering whether you guys think an 18-24 hour camp of the Frozen Lake in Bors would be a good plan to find Vyra.
Secondly, I've been reading alot about different macroes for targeting the mobs. I don't really want to get a ban for using an auto-click but constantly manual-spamming a target macro is a pain in the ass. Can anyone give me a better way of doing that?
Finally, I don't want to come across the TLPD and fail to kill it due to a fumbling of buttons and dodgy tactics. I'm confident I can down it on the ground, but should I fly through it to aggro (also tagging it because I'm a mage and we have molten armour)? I'm worrying about the fact that I might lose aggro if I try and pull it to the ground too fast on a mount.
Any response would be appreciated - you can downrate if you want but I'm fairly new to this and could use some honest help :) - Metaraminol.
评论来自
385669
I spent about 6 months looking for the tlpd . This is what I learned in my search. def share spawn points and paths but I dont think they share timers . From what I could tell time lost just spawns when it spawns and has nothing to do with when vyragosa douse.
He spawned for me at 150am server time on aman'thull and vyragosa had spawned earlyer def was not 6 hour gap more like three.
I killed vyragosa more times than I could be bothered counting in my hunt and now have triples of most of the leather head pieces she drops so i got a realy good idea of there spawn points. I actually found there is three spots at bb and the frozen river alone and at least two more at eng of the makers. The pat routs they take dep totally on the spot they spawn at and they always go the same pat rout from the same spawn point only thing that changes is the direction
I also found they seem to spawn at quarter past half past and quarter to the hour.
Well that's my input on the matter i hope it helps someone find there tlpd only other thing i might suggest is try camping one spot that's how i got mine in the end and goin off how many vyra kills i got once i started doing that ide say its the way to go.
Happy hunting guys :) pics of kill and spot in link
http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww192/matthewfoth/WoWScrnShot_060609_015518.jpg
http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww192/matthewfoth/WoWScrnShot_060609_020118.jpg
评论来自
385359
Camped him for 9 solid days. I missed him today by 3 minutes. He was on my NPCscan, but I was afk at the time.
Edit; got him on the 11th day of camping! I almost had a heart attack when I spotted him. This was easily one of the most epic experiences I've had while playing WoW.
He was flying south through the snowdrift plains. I assume he spawned on the Ulduar flight path.
评论来自
385583
I was just chilling on monday afternoon as my npc_tracker goes off, it was TLPD! I have beening looking for him on and off since I hit level 80 afew days after lich kings release. I got a dot on him and my @#$%in pc freezes up. I logged back online I was dead and so was he. lets just say my pc case has a huge dent on the side. and I needed to replace my video card.
评论来自
82002
Does NPCScan show vyragosa or TLPD when TLPD is found?
评论来自
387353
It'll show the mob (whether Vyragosa or TLPD) in the bottom right of your screen - it will not target it however from what I've read, so you really need to be quick to look around if you see your screen flashing. I think I'd suffer a cerebral bleed if the bar went grey before I caught it . . .
These rares are bastards - I'm gonna start hardcore camping over Bor's Breath (something in the region of 10-18 hours a day) . . . I hope I'll get somewhere.
评论来自
301723
Vyra and Dirkee do NOT share spawn timers with each other, and assuming that TLPD shares a spawn timer with Vyra, Dirkee has nothing to do with either of them. I killed Vyra and Dirkee was standing right next to where I killed her, they were both alive at the same time. I've seen TLPD dead twice and killed it once on my alt, and I've seen Vyra dead multiple times - in the same places that I've seen TLPD, so I guess they share flight paths.
http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/6622/vyradirkee.jpg
评论来自
LittleMess
So I found this rare today after 4 months of tracking it down. It was 7 in the morning, and when I found it I started shaking like a leaf, couldnt belive my eyes. He was flying really high at Brunnhildar Village. I mounted up, doted him and hit the ground (was so out of my head that I forgot I have levitate ouch). Started fighting it, still completly out of my head, brain freeze I guess, got him to 50% then an ally mage comes along, he was out herbing ofc, didnt even look for the mob.
The mage silence me, kills me, kills the mob, loot the dragon, /laugh at me like 50 times, mounts up on his new well earned mount and flys away.
I was heartbroken, and so mad at myself for having a brain meltdown. I can take a mage np but at this stage my head was away on vacation, after tracking this mob for 4 months and never even seen his corpse lets just say I wasnt myself at this stage.
I think I just missed my one and only chance on this one, cant see it ever happening again tbh.
A sad sad wow players confession.
评论来自
Deathlockes
Ive Started to farm this Drake a few day's ago and did alot of reading and watching video's . However i do have a few question's .
1. Npcscan , what is the range that it will detect a mob ? Does anyone know this ? I didn't look much into it but was curious if anyone knew.
2. The most common place where people tend to camp is Bor's Breath just in front of Valkyrion . I have seen 2 Vera kill's there . What other place is good to be camped besides there ? A poster calimed that Brunnhildar Village is good since one of the Spawn points his right over it . Is there anymore spawn points that can be confirmed ?
Thanks for the responces in advance . Hopefully i can bag me one soon and get back to sleeping and playing some wow again besides camping this mob XP
评论来自
54474
Basing on my encounter with vyragosa, npc can be targeted from 340 yards in straight line. (i measure it on the same height level as Vyragosa with help of cartographer).
When my macro hit I was delivering 'maitaining discipline' daily. At Brunhildar village.
My first rare killed in Northrend. too bad it wasnt TLPD.
Hunt continues.
评论来自
73436
I got My Time Lost Proto Drake today, around 5-6pm PST on Eonar realm. This is THE only drake (proto) i wanted. I would fly through Bor's Breath and through the area where the Storm Drakes hangout. I happen to stop near a cave near the Engine, and go mine some saronite. I come out and head through the Storm Drake area to make a sweep.. and behind coming towards me.. i see the TLPD! I immediately fly near it to grab its attention, and brought him close enough to the ground where i wouldn't loose to much health.. after that.. history. :) I'm one happy DK.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2441/3624227504_733583859b_b.jpg
评论来自
Mordrag
Killed on June 15th 2009
I was at the mine field just 20 feet north of K3 he was flying in the air above my head.
评论来自
poetry
make sure u watch out for retards who skin vyra's corpse while u are waiting there for her to despawn in order to calculate the spawn time.
评论来自
391888
this is an elite very rare Reins of the Time-Lost Proto-Drake sapwn..u can locate it in storm peak.. if you're very lucky to find it.. kill it and it'll drop 100% .
It's spawn timer hasn't been confirmed yet, but it's at least 6 hours; however, it could be much, much higher.
Here are the coordinates that I have spotted it at:
- Pats around Engine of the Makers
in a little valley north of valkyrion
good luck...;-))
评论来自
392247
Ok... I wasn't even farming this mount i never knew people were so into it. I just ran into it..
But i was flying on the Loaned Gryphon from K3 lol, and i saw a cool looking dragon so i clicked it and bam! it was a rare spawn.
So now people yell at me for having no life and apparently spending months waiting for it to spawn, it's funny cuz it just ran into me while i was flyin around.
Yeah sorry you guys spend too much time farming this mount, it is cool and i love it.. but i wouldn't spend months waiting for it to spawn.
It is easy to kill and flies just high enough for you to shoot it or cast a spell.
well good luck everyone, don't spend too much time on this spawn.
peace
评论来自
Solace101
Having read about this wonderful mount only a few days ago, and resigning myself to never seeing one, the following occoured (EU, Hellscream):
Flying around Storm Peaks doing some quests on my lvl 78 prot warrior, getting annoyed at wow crashing with the damn error 132 and decided to head back to a town to log.
As I'm flying, just north of Frost Hold, I see the beauty, ten feet from the floor on the side of a cliff. Dismount, tag, nuke..she took maybe 5% off me, Loot, explode with happiness.
She also dropped some Boe blue caster item and a bag of goodies: cloth and pots.
Now i just need to lvl him to 80 to be able to use it....
Good luck to all you would-be drake hunters, remember, if you have faith and a total acceptance that you won't get one, things may look up.
评论来自
392507
Found the body of Vyragosa around 9 pm yesterday, thought that i'd spend some time camping it. But went raiding instead and found out that it was killed later on around 3 am today. Too bad I didn't camp it by then. But don't know if that theory is correct :P
评论来自
341380
Hello can I ask you to tell the people on what server you spotted or killed Vyra or TLPD to make camping easier :) for every one 10x in advance
评论来自
geocyn
Flew past me last night whilst i was doing Frosthold daily.. it flew to engine of makers then turned south where i bagged and tagged it.. Woo! happy days!
评论来自
367752
was wondering if we could perhaps start a map with the most popular spawn path/ place, from what ive read it appears the lake is most popular but i dont know what route it is hes flying. also i don't quite know how to make these maps... little help please?
评论来自
222003
Hello!
I've camped this drake for around 400 hours. So far, i assume:
The drake shares spawn timer with Vyragosa.
There are fixed spawn points and routes.
The theory i found a little bit higher has some sense.
Here is a few of my kills, i've written down (just few, since i was checking the theory):
Date - - what
31.5 - - Time-Lost Proto Drake (i DC'd as i pulled him, when i logged back in, 77 rogue killed it infront of my face)
5.6 - - Vyragosa
6.6 - - Vyragosa
6.6 - - Vyragosa (skinned)
7.6 - - Vyragosa (skinned)
8.6 - - Vyragosa
Anyways, i got my drake yesterday at 3:06.. here is the screenshot:
http://www.shrani.si/f/Z/k7/1AaQJA67/wowscrnshot062009031224.jpg
You can also check a video i've recorded at youtube, which includes the best map i've found. Green dots are Dirkee spawn points.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCdwYYf6-B0
I have killed over 40 vyragosas and i saw the drake 6 times in total. I've finaly got it so im off with it :D:D
Good luck to all of you who are still seeking it.
-Peli
PS: Check my other videos aswell, there are some guides to farm mounts and such.
评论来自
398393
I decided I wanted to give this a try during a rainy afternoon, and got supremely lucky. At around 12:00 server time I installed NPCScan and flew to the coods suggested by this discussion (29,66). I sat back and watched a movie and played some Xbox while keeping WoW in the background, making sure to hit the spacebar ever 10-15 min to avoid afk and subsequent disconnect. At about 5:15 server, an extremely loud sound issued from my speakers and sure enough, right below me, was the freshly spawned drake, still on the ground, having not taken off yet. Just as he was taking off, I aggroed him to the ground, and nuked him. About five seconds later (mind you this is a space of about 45 seconds from alert to kill) I was ganked by three horde, but to my delight, I had killed the drake before they could kill me, and the reins were mine. Those coods definitely seem to be a confirmed spawn point, and as well it was less than 24 hours between spawns, and a fellow guildmate got his mount yesterday. I highly recommend sitting on those points, and using NPCScan, it was infinitely useful. Good luck to everyone in the future!
Nephilim,
80 Warlock, Destromath Server
P.S. Screencap here:
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/1965/nephtlpd.jpg
评论来自
387039
I noticed that the /tar command may be altitude independent. I flew to the very top of the storm peaks and could still /tar mobs on the ground even though they were far out of my view. With this in mind, i believe it is possible to /tar the proto drake regardless of how high it is flying.
评论来自
atjays
Sorry Swaggah, but your theory was proven wrong twice this week. I watched Vyra die in Valkyrion and came back 30 min early to the 23 hr TLPD timer, he didn't spawn. Even waited past the 24 hr mark and nothing :(
Vyra was again killed monday afternoon by my guildie, he got the achievement with it. I was camping in Bor's Breath at 4:22 am (roughly 13 hrs later) when TLPD spawned right behind me. Easy tag and bag :D
Some advice for those camping him or plan to start, listen up:
1. You MUST download Npcscan and utilize it. SOOO vastly better than spamming a macro hotkey for hours/days on end.
2. Don't fly around. I picked coords 28,65 which is just barely south of Valkyrion hovering over the frozen lake that is right outside it. I chose this because this single point has 3 of his flight paths go through it, and because there is a confirmed spawn point at that location, he will spawn just inside Valkyrion above the first building on the right. He is also rumored to spawn at the cave that is right there too.
3. Stop "looking" for the TLPD. In my case, I was playing a lowbie alt on my laptop with my main on my desktop camping. Basically don't just sit there and "wait" for him to appear. Turn on Npcscan and just let your toon sit at a location of your choosing and go do something else. If you have a TV or Xbox or anything else you can do to pass the time you will be much better off. Also a great time to do some studying or homework. I tell you this because if your flying around your going to miss him, and if you just sit and stare at your monitor all day your more and more likely to give up with each passing hour...
4. Lastly pick a strategy and stick with it. I chose my spot and camping hours. I explained my camping spot, and I chose the hours of 12 am to 6 am due to roughly 75% of the kills taking place between these hours. You are also a lot less likely to have camping competition.
I camped for 2 months, roughly 40 hours worth of time in Storm peaks looking. The moment I least expected there he was. Happy hunting :D
Pipe of Frostmane-US
评论来自
337106
Found him flying over valkyrion towards the north today on my way to Ulduar. I was so surprised and happy. :D
I never camped him or anything, just happened to spot while flying over. Happy hunting!
评论来自
davionic
Downrate my comment if you wish, but i feel this needs to be noted.
I saw it. Gracefully flying in the sky, the time-lost proto-drake, but my mount was a bit slow to catch it. I began to slowly aproach it as a...blood elf....stole and killed it.
I hate blood elves forever now. Just because of that. *cries*
评论来自
Deathlockes
June 24 @ 3:44 A.M Server time , Medivh realm i bagged my TLPD .
Info on kill - I was camping at Bor's Breath facing Valkyron Village . Was alt-tabed out watching video's on youtube when my NPC scan goes off . Tab right quick back in to see it was him . Heart racing i fly torwards the village to find nothing , turn around there he was . Use my taunt grab him use brew to fly down and its history from there .
How ever i got really lucky for 2 reasons .
1. There was a hunter that i have been sharing Vyra kills with and such since i started farming him . He was there tonight sometime during when i was alt-tabed he logged off for a few minutes . TLPD poped when he was logged . After i killed him he logged right back on to find him dead .
2. My GF is the best ! Tonight on our way home from diner she bought me a Energy drink . When i was gonna call it quites and log to go to bed i decided to get my Drink and tough it out . It payed off ! I love you babe :)
Here the pic's
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/tt90/deadcrusader1/WoWScrnShot_062409_045343.jpg
Where he came from
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/tt90/deadcrusader1/WoWScrnShot_062409_044704.jpg
Best of luck to all the Drake Hunter's out there ! Dont give up.
评论来自
Honathina
Killed Vyragos a just now, 6;38 pm servertime
评论来自
Bamazing48
The spawn timer has been confirmed by Game Masters (and by the personal experience of many players) to be randomly generated, with an upper and lower bound. Don't expect to be able to predict when these mobs will spawn, because they just don't work that way.
评论来自
360233
25-6: Just can't believe what just happened. Was just finished with some midsummer achievements and a MGT mount run. Camped TLPD the whole afternoon, haven't seen him or Vyragosa. Reminded myself that I needed to check de 23-hour timer again. So went to Dalaran ---->> Storm Peaks. Around 1.47 I arrived. (I killed Vyra the night before around 4.15, so I was in time) Seeing my Troll Hunter mate up in the air. Stayed for 1 min. at the frozen lake, than went to the Engine to see if there were any spawns of Vyragosa. Nothing, after 1 min. I went back to the frozen lake when the npscan went off: TLPD dead. This was at 1.50. So this all happened in just minutes! First I thought the Troll killed him. But he was still up in the air, AFK. It was a Druid who camped him also for a while on a spot just in front of Valkyrion. If I didn't went to the engine and stayed at the frozen lake, he was mine. This is the second time I missed him in minutes. The whole day I had a feeling he was going to spawn, also because I didn't see Vyra the whole day. But I won't give up..! I will stick to the 23-hour theory, and the 12.00-18.00 camping time. Hunt continues...
评论来自
Deathlockes
Update on Medivh Server -
On June 24 3:44 A.M Server time i got my TLPD . Same day around 4:00 P.M TLPD respawned . Ive read all these post and for some the 24 hour Theory seemed to work but in my case on 10 or more Vera kills that i have tryed this theory it didnt work for me . However after a Vera kill i usually started camping no later than 11 hours later . Using a 12 hour theory and most of the times this is when i have seen spawns of Vera. In this case 12 hours later another TLPD did Spawn at the same spot that i got my kill . Right over Bor's Breath . To conclude this shows that TLPD can respawn more than once a week and even the same day for that matter .
Best of luck to all Hunters again .
评论来自
406165
Hi everybody!
Tomorrow i'll check Swaggah's 23-hour theory and post my results here.I got the exact time of Vyra's kill and despawn,and I also know,that TLPD wasn't killed from the last server restart.So let's everybody wish a good luck to me :)
评论来自
406165
Oh,just forgot to ask.How can I prevent my character from loggin off while I'm tabbed or AFK? You guys used some auto-click software or smthing else?
评论来自
Kjart
04:39am ST on Scilla at 29,70
My wife, who i have obviously taught well! Was flying to Frosthold to do the Frostborn daily when NPC_scan alarmed Time-Lost. She then flew down to the ravine and TLPD was flying along at about the same height as the witches in the area. Aggroed him down to a ledge and killed him and a witch at the same time. (80 Lock with no pet out!) LOL
Now we have our great mount to boot around on! Exact coords were 29,70 at 4:39am Server Time. On the Scilla realm.
Kjartan
80 Afflic Warlock
评论来自
Deathlockes
An1ma that auto-clicker program people have said it could get you banned . All i did was windowed my wow and do wtr in the background leaving the wow background music on . Id watch video's on youtube and such then just tab back in once in a while to move to clear the afk .
评论来自
Only1Chris
Ok so I've killed Vyragosa twice today.
1st Kill was at 9:20AM, corpse disappeared at 9:50ish
2nd Kill was at 3:52PM, I think this puts truth to the 6 hour spawn time, and they were both in same area. Coming from the canyon next to Valkyrion.
评论来自
406165
So as I promised,I'll reveal my results.
The 23-hour theory didn't worked for me,and TLPD was killed in period of 18hrs(last time i checked cache) ~ 22hrs(time I logged in and he was already dead,according to the cache) after Vyra's death.By the way,maybe there was another Vyra's kill after i killed her yesterday,I don'know.
评论来自
367752
swaggahs theory is most likely false, nice to have somthing to stick to though rather than looking randomly to begin with, ive been trying the theory out for the past 2 - 3 weeks and whenever i find vynd i have waited 23hrs and either vynd has spawned or nout has appeared, perhaps it was caught somewhere else on the route, and nothing on the routes. I personally think its better to sit and camp at the frozen lake, as its the most popular spot, and get an npc checker also i recomend to people dont hardcore camp cos you wont get it, im camping every so often now found vyra many many times and when i camped straight i probably wasted more time as people still got him. i think i find more spawns by flying aimlessly around northrend found four in the last 3hrs including vyra
评论来自
317509
One thing i can say for sure , i reccomende you to not camping whole day. If u kill VYragosa then after 6 hours u can just stay at one spot and pray about spawn of TLPD. First week of my camping be like 12 hour per day , after week i have killed only two Vyragosa and dont seen TLPD. Also this first week my guildmate get one TLPD. After 2 weeks break from farming it my friend told me yesterday about 8 p.m. that someone killed VYragosa just about 6 p.m. THen i get on our Ventrilo server , staying with my mates , talking ,watching movie on youtube , listen music and about 2 a.m . that proto drake just spawned right behind me. My silverdragon addon make noise , i flew up , seen him , pull him to ground and kill. HAHHAHA i can say its freak feeling , my heart beat like crazy . But i succed.
Good luck with your hunting guys , its not that hard as everyone think.
info about time , spot and reins in my inv
http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/3145/timelostprotodrake.jpg
and few second after kill me on me new drake
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/9845/timelostprotodrake2.jpg
评论来自
Gile
I've been hunting this beast for over a month. I watched every "Wipe Out!" episode there is on youtube, posted countless times on the warlock forums, and pretty much kept the TV on throughout the camping experience. I think I watched The Dark Knight on HBO more times that I'd like to. I recently finished "Arthas: Rise of the Lich King" during this camp. As much is this is a break from being at the keyboard at all times, this still makes you question the value of this mount, and your own sanity for even thinking this was a worthy idea.
But for some hellish reason, I still wake up, do the cooking, jewelcrafting, and explorer's league daily; and head back to that spot at the frozen lake near Valk for the day, until raid time. I'm not sure if I'm as hardcore as you all, but 12 hours a day (2pm-8pm|12am-6am) is pretty insane for me. I'm also in a guild capable of completing Heroic: Glory to the Ulduar Raider, but as an insurance policy, I still camp this drake. Everytime I feel like I want to quit, I watch a video of the drake being used, and it's "sneaking around" animation on land is priceless. I've killed Vyragosa 4 times. To me, she's a tease. You have _NPCScan's ring of blood horn when you're alt tabbed and you heart stops, until you see a blue dragon avator. That's my experience as a hunter so far.
P.S. I'm seriously considering pushing this creature on the Cryptozoology list of the world. Next to Big Foot and Nessie, you'll see Time-Lost Proto Drake. Just you watch!
-Gile, 80 Lock
Moon Guard Alliance (US)
评论来自
410280
Hello fellow Time-Lost seekers!
I have been camping this guy for 3 months now, and for over 200 hours. I have killed Vyragosa 18 times and seen the Time-Lost Proto Drake dead 3 times. The most recent time he spawned just north of where I was and was on his way toward me, until a level 79 killed him. D: I like to camp at Bor's Breath and do some patrols every few minutes.
But anyway, I thought I'd post some tips for you TLPD hunters!
First and foremost, download _NPCscan or SilverDragon. They are completely legal addons that will make your search so much easier. I like to make it so _NPCscan will only alert me when the TLPD comes by and plays that loud noise so I know who it is. SilverDragon tells me when Vyragosa comes by and plays a different noise, so I don't get my hopes up when I hear it.
Once you have _NPCscan or SilverDragon, go to "Sound and Voice" and check "Sound in Background". This way you can be tabbed out surfing the web but still hear anything that goes on in WoW.
Find something to do while you camp and don't just sit there staring at your character! Watch movies, look up funny videos on youtube, read, talk to friends or family... anything to keep yourself sane while you whittle away the hours waiting for the TLPD to come by.
DON'T LEAVE STORM PEAKS! The second TLPD I found dead was killed right where I was camping after I left to do a quick Vault of Archavon. I regret doing it!
Don't follow the 6/11/23 hour theories. While it is possible to have one of the drakes spawn at this time, their timers are completely random, and in my opinion can spawn anywhere from 6-24 hours.
Pace yourself. While you'll probably get your drake faster by doing 24 hour camps, it really isn't good for your health or sanity! Plus if you don't find the drake fast enough, you will probably get burned out and want to give up. Set aside 6-12 hours a day to camp.
Finally, DON'T use auto-clickers! You can get banned for using them. There are a lot of people camping this drake, and if they notice that you are on 24/7, they are going to get suspicious and probably report you to eliminate the competition. This mount is not worth the hours you put in to leveling your characters, so it's not a great idea.
All in all, there is no easy way to get this mount. It's all about being in the right place at the right time, being patient, and being lucky. Don't give up everyone, your Time-Lost Proto Drake is out there! And hopefully mine is too...
EDIT: July 1st, 2009. FINALLY GOT MY DRAKE! I was just sitting at Bor's Breath when _NPCscan goes off. Sure enough, there the beautiful beast is! I can't believe it, he's flying down from the hill to the left. I try to fly up and tag him, popping a Snowfall Lager, but miss it. Luckily there was nobody else around, so I just flew up again and dragged him to the ground. He was mine! ^^ This drake holds a special place in my heart, because it was my 100th mount.
Thank you so much for your tips, everyone. Good luck to the rest of you who are trying to get him. Take it from me-- the mount is worth it.
Kaku, Tauren Druid (Formerly known as Brenna)
Wyrmrest Accord (US)
评论来自
268675
Just got this after around 15 minutes of waiting (Yes, I'm a lucky bastard). Was waiting in Bor's Breath with my freshly downloaded SilverDragon addon waiting, then I heard a "WHAM" sound, and then got it, with no competition, perhaps because it was 5am server time, or just because I got lucky, but either way I'm shocked and Happy.
Burning Steppes EU.
评论来自
411651
So about 3 days ago I bought my artisan riding after 5 days of gathering gold for the skill. I decided pretty fast that I wanted to search for this creature.
So I started flying around in The Storm Peaks, 2 hours and I got tired. Decided to call it. After reading abit about the creature here I came back the day after and after 1 hour I spotted this mob while spamming my macro.
I came as it SPAWNED and the location was 31,69 near Valkyrion. The clock was around 00:15 in-game time EU servers. Killed on Tarren Mill EU.
Good luck hunting peeps :)
评论来自
playhard
I die a little inside every time I see a gold dragon off in the distance only to find out that it's a Bronze Drake. Even though I have NPCscan and it should notify me with a sound, I always get fooled.
评论来自
400098
A thanks astr0mance, on the tip about the "Sound in Backround" I'd been trying to figure it out for a while when guys were posting, "Watching Youtube vids and my addon went off.." as hardcore a WoW player I am..sad to say I never knew this thanks much! Definetly a plus to the time hunting! (Spent 90 Hrs so far....in 4 days..talk about crazy) Will come w/ time...everything does. Pce.
评论来自
Gile
Does anyone know the speed he travels? Is it slower or faster than a 60% Flying Mount?
评论来自
fooka
i've been wondering if someone would post the link where to get this NPCscan or whatever (go ahead and downgrade me i don't care)
评论来自
Gile
Also for your own good, all.
Practice, practice, practice! - bagging things in the sky with Snowfall Lager, like the blue protos outside Brunnhilder. When you find the TLPD, it will be heart racing and 1/2 of the things you normally do, you'll wind up forgetting simply because of the heat of the moment. Important Info: Snowfall Lager has a global cooldown with your spells. If you press the Lager hotkey directly after an instant spell to tag it, you won't notice it fail to work until it's too late. I did this on Vyragosa, which spawned outside Frost Hold heading toward Valkyrion. Thankfully, it was just Vyragosa (which I've already killed 6 times) and not the TLPD.
评论来自
Aexo
Found today at 8:27 P.M. ST at 27,52 heading south towards Valkyrion. Screenshot was taken a few minutes later.
http://i39.tinypic.com/1zl5b2q.jpg
This dog had his day.
评论来自
Gile
Ok. Something
very weird
happened tonight for me.
Now in alot of heavily supported posts, the minimum spawn timer for Vyragosa (or TLPD) is 6 hrs. This has been shown by logs and personal experience. I have also noticed that Vyra is likely to spawn between 6-12 hrs from her last death. Here's my story tonight:
I log in for a day of camping for the TLPD. I kill Vyragosa at 5:45 PM. Her corpse is skinned 10 mins later by a wanderer. I use the "query server for item" macro every 30 mins (The macro that shows any news of the TLPD reins being looted since the last maintenance.. which was Tuesday ). At 11:00 PM tonight I go to query and and the Time-Lost Reins no longer shows "retrieving item data" and shows its full descript. I panic and start looking for its corpse. No luck. I ask alliance trade and horde trade in dal on my lvl 1 horde socializer.. and neither faction recently heard of someone coming and yelling "I killed it!" So no corpse, no discovery hysteria. I go back to the camp spot near Valk and Vyragosa spawns at 12:00 AM (6 hrs and 15 mins after last death) which I kill again.
What baffles me is, if the Time-Lost Proto Drake was presumably killed and looted and the Reins hits the newly wiped server cache at 11:00 PM.. then the 6 hr min spawn timer is no longer valid... OR, they don't
share
a spawn timer to begin with!
Anyone witness this weirdness? Is the macro a reliable source?
评论来自
grewe02
I heard in Gen chat today that someone killed it, and I camped the corpse until it despawned. It took ~28 mins to despawn from the time it was mentioned in Gen chat. Coords were 47.1 64.4
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l297/grewe02/WoWScrnShot_070109_184302.jpg
评论来自
365743
Found him at 07:20 server time at Bor's Fall 37,77
评论来自
415959
Picked it up today above bouldercrag's refuge, at the top of that peak. I almost didnt even check the name because I was so used to disappointment, but sure enough, it was the TLPD. I then proceded to /afk in dalaran and see how many people stopped to stare
评论来自
Weeny
OMG
aight guys, i just killed vyragosa. but... WHAT SHOULD I DO NOW ? omg i'm so excited
camping since 2 weeks and the first time i killed vyra (or even saw). should i camp at bor's breath or fly in circles or what
ahhhhhhhhhhh
what should i do ? halp meh
评论来自
417162
Just downed at 1:30 am PST on Blackhand, right over K3 at 40.6,83.2
评论来自
Gile
Here's a decent question for you guys.
Now there are lots of people who got this drake with pure luck while doing dailies or farming ore/herbs. There's also lots of people that camped and still wound up with the drake due to luck/knowledge, etc.
What would you guys consider the best tactic on a high population server like Moon Guard? On average, there's 20+ people online in Storm Peaks, and that's just Alliance. Who knows how many are on Horde. Would you patrol, as shown in Donnovan's video on Youtube (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuK__L_1D3A
)? Or would you camp at a place with multiple routes like Bor's Breath, like most say as a way to avoid burning out? Which option would prove to be the most successful or recommended?
NOTE: I posted this in the front of the page as well. So don't get confused :P
评论来自
393077
I tried the macro to see if the drake had dropped since realm maintaince.
I logged in in Storm Peaks about two minutes after my realm came up. I checked the /who list, and I was the only one in Storm Peaks. Next second I clicked the macro, and I got the link to the mount in my chat window. If I get the link it means it has dropped, right? Its just like a normal /w otherwise?
Can someone really kill it, skinn it and then log off again in less than two minutes? I know there could be alliance in the zone without me knowing it, but I still got the link right after I logged in.
Am I doing it wrong? This is what I wrote in my macro:
/script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage "\124cffa335ee\124Hitem:44168:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0\124h\124h\124r"
/tell Caen
评论来自
338204
If that what happend to you it means Someone who logged in had Time lost in the bag but could not use it because he dont have The skill for flying it. That's why It's better to farm it at 80 or at 77 if u have Epic fly. So u can use it than ruening others but if it just spawn randomly why not kill it :)?
But Caen that's the problem it's not wrong with your macro it works 100% and nothing can go wrong if u dont Write anything else on it
评论来自
119272
Well, been camping the same spot for about 8-12 hours a day since Monday (June 29th). I've seen Vyragosa twice, killed her once for the achievement. No TLPD sightings yet, and when I log in I always ask /1 if anyone has heard anything about either spawning/being killed (of course I always get a bunch of crap for asking - not sure why that is).
Even though I haven't got TLPD yet, or even seen him for that matter - it's been a memorable experience. My computer is located right by our living room where the TV is - so my partner and I watch shows recorded on the DVR with my computer volume turned all the way up, and I randomly come back and hit a button to keep me from afk'ing out. However, last night, an alliance rogue thought it'd be funny to get on his Red Drake and let his dragon have a wing flapping seizure in front of me. Being that it is almost the 4th of July, I thought at first that someone was outside shooting off some firework fountains - but nope. Just a random alliance being annoying. I /shoo'd him away, he left, came back later and decided to get off his mount, stab me, and then fall to his death.
I've also been camped by a Warlock and Priest, and after they killed me and repeatedly teabagged my corpse - the priest got on his TLPD mount just to rub it in my face.... AND JUST AS I TYPED THIS.... NPCScan went off - Vyragosa again. So make that 3 times I've seen her. Was heading towards Valkyrion from Bor's Breath. 2:04pm Server Time. Not sure if that helps anymore.
评论来自
393071
Been camping since late May on BDF Server. Timers logged:
05/25 7:58PM Vyra
05/26 5:49PM Vyra
05/27 2:22PM TLPD
05/28 4:30PM TLPD (General Chat Claim)
05/30 12:30PM Vyra
05/31 2:11PM Vyra
06/01 1:47PM Vyra
06/01 8:20PM Vyra
06/03 6:30PM Vyra
06/05 11:13PM Vyra
06/08 12:42PM Vyra
06/09 9:01AM Vyra
06/09 6:14PM Vyra
06/11 2:04PM Vyra
06/15 2:00AM Vyra
06/15 4:30PM Vyra
06/16 3:00AM Vyra
06/17 4:10AM Vyra
06/17 2:50PM Vyra(General Chat Claim)
06/18 2:00AM Vyra
06/19 4:00AM Vyra
06/20 10:50PM Vyra
06/24 9:59PM Vyra
06/28 12:30PM TLPD
07/02 5:56PM Vyra
Still camping her. -_-
评论来自
Bosch
Been camping him for about a week and a half, total about 80+ hours so far. Killed Vyra about 7 or 8 times. I still have most of the shoulders in my inventory that she drops LOL.
My camp story is this, I was watching tv in the other room. NPCscan goess off. I RUN to my laptop and excitedly see it's TLPD over Valkyrion. I race over and hit the "5" key which is Icy Touch. I know I'm going to get bumped off my mount, but something goes a little wrong, I don't know what I did but somehow my actionbar got messed up and instead of doing Icy Touch, I did "Eat Food" and also my lager isn't on my bar. I fall to my death. Crap crap crap, I res and quickly go back only to miss the tag by a second or two while a Hordie tags and bags. I felt lower than low and mad at myself. Oh well, back to camping. This has become a personal vendetta, I have to see this through, I've spent too much time already to give up.
Hang in there fellow campers.
Kosch
评论来自
367752
OMG i am so @#$%ed with myself right now, been camping for the past 3 months now missed him 3 times as far as im aware, then tonight after camping half the day, got an inv to voa thought meh probably be vyra again. BUT IT WASNT and it was exactly where i was camping. Actully though id get back for the spawn as the voa grp were a herd of sheep one left so they all left, now im raidless and drakeless :'(
评论来自
419266
spawned on July 5th / Thunderhorn / at 3:00pm ish. killed at 26.3, 65.9
评论来自
350214
16:53 - Vyragosa found dead.
Me and my mate goes farming after 6 hours.
23:56 Time lost found dead..
评论来自
Gile
Today's been pretty lucky and my hunt has been going on 2 weeks right now (I know it's nothing compared to the veteran campers).
Now I have some screens showing the luck of Vyra spawning exactly 6 hrs from her corpse disappearing.
Kill 1: Jul 5, 2009 - 3:56 PM - (My Kill) Corpse Despawn - Witnessed Frost Hold spawn point from camping 28, 65.
http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r10/tigasnake/WoWScrnShot_070509_155645.jpg
(Do you notice Vyra's corpse start becoming transparent? It'd to SS exactly when she disappeared)
Kill 2: Jul 5, 2009 - 9:58 PM - (My Kill) Kill shot - Witnessed Frozen Waterfall spawn point from patrolling through Brunnhildar to the waterfall.
http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r10/tigasnake/WoWScrnShot_070509_215832.jpg
I did a patrol a few minutes before the kill 2 patrol.. so she HAD to have spawned at that point, otherwise I would have found her prior. What she did was a weird U turn toward the frozen river, as if to start heading to the Foot Steppes. At first when I saw her (judging from the pic), it looked like she was taking the Brunnhildar path and would presumably lower toward K3. But I followed her for about 30 secs and she did, indeed, make her way as if to hit Foot Steppes.
Hope this helps anyone!
Now to only have Time-Lost spawn, because I feel like I have Vyragosa's number pretty well.
-Gile
评论来自
Gile
With my post above saying that today was my lucky day. I stand by it with every ounce of me after today.
So here was the recap. I am slowly drifting to sleep. "Men of Honor" was on, which was always a favorite to me. (I know this will be corny to others but:)
Carl Brashear
: Forgive me sir, but to me, the Navy isn't a business. It's an organization of people who represent the finest aspects of our nation. We have many traditions. In my career, I have encountered most of them. Some are good, some not so good. I would, however not be here today were it not for our greatest tradition of all.
Captain Hanks
: And what would that be, Chief Brashear?"
Carl Brashear
: " Honor, sir"
Right after the end of that quote.. I heard it. The epic horn of the Amplitheatre of Anguish, which I've heard many times with disheartening results. There was the golden dragon itself. He was heading out of Valkyrion and going east toward where I was, at 28.65. My heart was on a rollercoast ride, with A.) waking up to loud noise.. and B.) seeing what I've wanted to see for weeks. Without a beat I dismounted with the Lager, and threw up a corruption.
http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r10/tigasnake/WoWScrnShot_070609_070602.jpg
Within seconds of a conflag and chaos bolt crit, this mythic beast was defeated.
http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r10/tigasnake/WoWScrnShot_070609_070620.jpg
I started on June 24th, with a random kill of Vyragosa one day heading to do a Storm Peaks daily. After that, it sparked a goal inside me that I underestimated. A goal of extreme patience, which required colossal ambition.
I would like to thank the wowhead posters of this huge thread for all of the theories, facts, and guides. 28,65 paid off tremedously. Secondly, I'd like to personally thank Brenna (astr0mancer) for coming on Moon Guard and wishing my luck. It was very sweet and selfless.
Lastly, Victory shot:
http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r10/tigasnake/WoWScrnShot_070609_082508.jpg
P.S. This drake came to me at 7:06 AM.. on 7/06/09. Coincedence? Most likely.
评论来自
HamBurger
i've been farming for it since end of november, missed it by two minutes on x-mas day when i left valkyrion area to turn in daily. over 700 hours and still counting
评论来自
Shadow4ce
vBeen camping since late May on BDF Server. Timers logged:
05/25 7:58PM Vyra
05/26 5:49PM Vyra
05/27 2:22PM TLPD
05/28 4:30PM TLPD (General Chat Claim)
05/30 12:30PM Vyra
05/31 2:11PM Vyra
06/01 1:47PM Vyra
06/01 8:20PM Vyra
06/03 6:30PM Vyra
06/05 11:13PM Vyra
06/08 12:42PM Vyra
06/09 9:01AM Vyra
06/09 6:14PM Vyra
06/11 2:04PM Vyra
06/15 2:00AM Vyra
06/15 4:30PM Vyra
06/16 3:00AM Vyra
06/17 4:10AM Vyra
06/17 2:50PM Vyra(General Chat Claim)
06/18 2:00AM Vyra
06/19 4:00AM Vyra
06/20 10:50PM Vyra
06/24 9:59PM Vyra
06/28 12:30PM TLPD
07/02 5:56PM Vyra
Still camping her. -_-
m8 its s shame that you havnt got her yet but remember someof us have been farming her for more then 2 months :P
评论来自
Gile
Keep your faith guys.
I know my 2 weeks of camping success story isn't nearly as epic as yours will be with over 2 months under your belts. Just remember. Camping most of the time and patrolling sometimes is infinitely better than patrolling all the time.. or camping all the time. Gotta do both. I'd love to say that 28,65 is a great spot.. but there's always a 25% chance that Vyra or TLPD will spawn on the Brunnhildar patrol, which 28,65 does not cover. That is why doing.. say.. 3 patrols an hr is recommended. In fact. I've killed Vyra heading north of Brunnhildar at an odd time of the hour.. like 11:13.
I know random spawn is random but this was my log:
----------------------
VYRAGOSA/TIME-LOST LOG
----------------------
Started: Wed, June 24, 2009
Ended: Mon, July 6, 2009
(?) = No evidence
Date Time(Despawn) Creature Location Path Status
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Wed 6/24/09 5:25 PM Vyragosa SW of FH FH Kill
Thu 6/25/09 8:45 AM TLPD W of Brunn FH DOA
Sun 6/28/09 7:45 PM Vyragosa Snowdrift Uld DOA
Sun 6/28/09 7:50 PM Dirkee Grom'arsh N/A Kill
Mon 6/29/09 1:15 PM Dirkee Grom'arsh N/A DOA
Mon 6/29/09 2:10 PM Vyragosa N of Valk Temple DOA
Mon 6/29/09 11:15PM Vyragosa N of Brunn Brunn Kill
Tue 6/30/09 5:45 PM Vyragosa Valkyrion Temple Kill
Tue 6/30/09 10:36PM Dirkee EotM N/A DOA
Wed 7/01/09 12:00AM Vyragosa SW of FH FH DOA
Wed 7/01/09 6:50 PM Vyragosa S of Uld Uld DOA
Thu 7/02/09 3:03 PM Vyragosa Bor's B Temple DOA
Thu 7/02/09 7:20 PM Dirkee N of Engine N/A Kill
Thu 7/02/09 11:13PM (?) Vyragosa SW of Uld Uld DOA
Sat 7/04/09 9:14 PM Vyragosa Bor's B FH Kill
Sun 7/05/09 3:56 PM Vyragosa Bor's B Temple Kill
Sun 7/05/09 10:29PM Vyragosa W of Brunn FH Kill
Mon 7/06/09 7:06 AM TLPD Valkyrion Uld Kill
Alil messy, but readable.
Status abbrev:
Kill = My kill
DOA = Dead on Arrival
Spawn route abbrev:
Uld = Ulduar/Snowdrift/Valkyrion/Terrance route
Temple = Bor's Breath/Valkyrion/Library/Engine route
FH = Frost Hold wrap around route
Brunn = Brunnhildar/K3 route
评论来自
367752
surprise surprise, i do part camp part other stuffs two days it spawns both days i miss both days, i camp full day until server shut down one spawn around 3 in the afternoon of vyra that was it ( trust me there was another 5 horde in the area looking for it, we had a natter we asked each other if we'd found any corpses) there was nout
评论来自
blacklamb
A warning for those of you on a PvP server...
I've put in 80+ hours searching for this Drake. I've poured over these comments on a continual basis. I've never wanted anything more in this game then this mount.
So, I did my usual camping for around 7 hours this morning at my usual spot, Bor's Breath. I've left previous posts on here with dates and times of Vyragosa sightings, if anyone is interested. Anyway, after having no luck, I logged onto some alts for a while, then finally back onto my main to settle in for an hour or two more of camping.
Much to my absolute shock, NPCScan goes off immediately, and I see Time Lost in all his glory, NOT dead (always hurts when it goes off and he's dead), untagged. IIRC, he was about to path down the frozen lake either towards the Engine of the Makers or the Waterfall/K3. I couldn't be sure because I didn't let him get that far. I maintained a clear enough head to moonfire him and drink my logar.
I saw his health going down rapidly and my heart sank as I saw an Alliance Shaman attacking him. I thought I had lost the tag somehow, only to realize in great joy that when the mob was finally dead, it was sparkling! I did tag him first!
The Shaman was not pleased, and just as I reached for those elusive reigns, he killed me. Big surprise there, but in my joy I didn't let it bother me that much.
I quickly rezzed again only to discover that I could no longer loot Time-Lost! The Shaman killed me yet again, and then a third time. He finally tired of it and flew off in a rage, I would imagine.
Rezzing again, I found that whenever I tried to loot him I got stuck in the looting position, and if I flew directly over the body my character would freeze. For literally half an hour I tried, distraught, to de-bug him somehow and loot it, to no avail.
I put in a ticket, hoping to God I wouldn't be told "tough luck" by the GMs. The ticket queue was large (I'm still waiting), so, impatient, I decided to ask on the official customer service forums what would happen.
I was told that it would have to be researched, but as long as it was verified the kill really was mine, the reigns would be returned to me. A big relief, but much more hassle then it should have been.
So, if you are on a PvP server, and are being attacked after your kill, I would advise you
not
to loot until you're out of combat. I can't say for sure what made it bug out, but I wouldn't risk it. Let the offenders take out their anger first, and then grab your loot in peace so you can do some victory laps around Storm Peaks, instead of having to wait even longer for a mount you've already waited so patiently for.
Anyway, onto the info you all want:
Server: Haomarush US
Time: He was right in front of me when I logged and I didn't bother to look at the clock in my excitement, but he did despawn at 7:31 AM, so it's safe to assume a spawn time of 7:01 AM. As I mentioned he was probably heading towards the Engine or waterfall, so even though he has a reported spawn area over Valkyrion, I'm going to guess he really spawned near the Mountains north of it, as that's where I've seen Vyragosa spawn before, and that's where I've found him dead before. Of course he could have been on his Frosthold path as well.
Unfortunately I can't give you any more specifics then that, needless to say that camping at Bor's Breath was what worked for me.
Good luck guys
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评论来自
301723
I found it easier to camp on the rock sticking out of the mountain near Valkyrion, just above the frozen lake, was using "_NPCScan" addon, just sat on the rock, had WoW in windowed mode, minimized it and watched a movie/read forums/played another game/afk'd, whatever, with the volume turned up, so the addon would beep when a rare was near.
This way will take a while depending on your luck but if Vyra or TLPD are in the area then you'll know and don't have to fly about looking all the time. Saw and killed Vyra about 5 times this way, she came from over the frosthold area, pretty high, so I just flew up, flame shocked and parachute cloaked down. In spare time I'd just log on, park my char there and go afk till I heard a beep or logged to do something else.
Eventually one of those beeps was TLPD, he was flying out of Valkyrion and towards frosthold, tagged him at the gate and brought him down. This was my second TLPD, have one on my druid too but then changed mains so wanted one on my shaman. (didn't use an addon for my druid, just good old macro spam) Took about 3 months on shaman just camping in spare time, and a few weeks on druid flying about non stop - got it near the blue proto field. Vyra and TLPD do share patrol routes from my experiences, or very similar paths if not the same.
I think the camping was the easier way, even though it took longer, because I could go away and do other stuff too, and it was pretty much my guaranteed kill as long as it flew in the range of my addon, so maybe this is worth trying in your spare time, GL.
评论来自
392247
When are they going to remove this to give it more value? like what they did with the
Black Proto Drake
?
Would be kinda cool, flying around on a mount no longer available.
评论来自
422247
Ok, I know that the most of you have camped for a long time for this beauty and thereby - You got more experience and knowledge about TLPD. I got mine this morning at 6.40 am.
At 10.10 pm the before this kill, I killed Vyragosa right where she spawned - On the mountain (on the edge) between Bor's and Frosthold. The corpse despawned 30 mins later, at 10.40.
So - It took 8 hours from the Vyragosa despawn until the TLPD spawned. I definately think there's a connection between those two rare mobs. And as far as I know, 6 am - 7 am, is a set spawn time. Everytime I've went there and camped that hour, I've got a Vyragosa kill (six kills).
I've only hardcore camped TLPD for two days, so I guess I was really lucky, but still, I tried this 6 am - 7 am spawn again. I camped Bor's Breath to 6.30 am. Found nothing. Started flying around, and thought of trying the Brunnhildar spawn point. Nothing there. I flew pass Brunnhildar and down the mountain (to Garm) and the NPCScan goes crazy. It was the TLPD. So I thought it had to be the Brunnhildar spawn. Flew there and found nothing, so I was looking for this monster for at least 5 mins before I got him tagged between the blue proto drake field and the Engine.
So the info I've got for you hunters is to try to camp/patrol at 6 am - 7 am. For me, I've always got a spawn. For me it was, as I said, EXACTLY 8 hours between the Vyragosa copse despawn to the TLPD spawn.
When I read the comments about the adrenaline rush you get, and that the heart goes wild when you target TLPD, I just laughed. But o'boy. I almost passed out tbh. It's such a great feeling, so don't give up people! You will get it :)
Screenie
http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/7065/wowscrnshot070909062757.jpg
Got myself an Ice Stepp Bull to go as well haha.
And please don't flame me because of my "theory". It worked for me, so I'm just telling you guys about it. Think you should try it out :)
Good luck and happy hunting! Feel free to ask me anything in-game as well.
Katris - Bladefist EU
Alliance
评论来自
119272
I think we need some sort of support group for those of us camping this thing. I'll be at 130-140ish hours total by the end of today.
评论来自
Unluckyme
I thought I'd share my experience. I was just bored today and I thought "o what the heck I'll just camp a TLPD spot (29,67) and check on its wowhead comments in the meantime." So I thought I could always start using NpcScan like many do. So I downloaded and installed it and before I restarted WoW I cleared the cache. So I log in at that camping spot and go check out the NpcScan options. Then it showed TLPD was cached. And RIGHT at that moment it just flew right past me. I had no idea about any previous spawn or anything. So I guess I need a name change.
Unluckyme, Azjol-NerubEU 4:26am
This was the first time after a 6 week TLPD-search break. I have only seen Vyragosa dead twice and killed Dirkee once.(That was only an hour before TLPD flew into me).
Good luck to you all!
评论来自
Sindeara
Just got this baby after a solid 2 months of farming casually.
After I did my dailys I was ready to go to bed, but I went to check Bor's Breath first. There was nothing untill, out of the blue, NPC_scan hits with the message that TLPD has been spotted.
Chaos starts, and just when I turned around there was this wonderful golden dragon flying above the frozen lake. I target it, BoP myself and take it down within 10 seconds.
Picture 1
Picture 2
Don't lose faith, I'm sure one day it will come, and all you *Time-Lost* has been worth it :)
-Sind
评论来自
367752
noticed this on the npc version of the tlpd thread :) find it quite useful though you may have seen it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRbOssnGZ9s
评论来自
411023
in the next patch are they removing all of the protodrake mounts or just some of them?
评论来自
367752
i actully hate these people that find him by luck and then try to tell you how to find it, when they found it out of pure luck, that boils my blood
评论来自
406165
I have some information for you,drakehunters.TLPD don't despawns if not attacked.He'll fly until smb kill him.This info is confirmed by the gamemaster on ruRU realm.
And also I can confirm,that TLPD may not spawn at all at the period from one maintenance to another.Good luck ^)
评论来自
syrro
5 days have pased since the last maintenance and TLPD didn't spawned not even once.Damn we are cursed, me and all the TLPD hunters from Balnazzar EU.
评论来自
BHLimbslicer
There needs to be an achievement; "So Much Time-Lost," or something of that nature, so players will have something to show for killing it if they don't want to use the mount. Seeing as how this mob is a rare, there's no reason not to have such a thing besides, y'know... The mount.
评论来自
hannibalektr
Vyragosa spawned right before my eyes at 37.73 (big frozen waterfall). 5:47 am on blackrock.
评论来自
therulerofhell
Found Time-lost dead after about 18+ hours a day for the past couple days, which I know to some isn't much but man oh man.. guess where I found him? the ONLY other route not involving Bor's Breath, Here's a pic this is so disheartening.
http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/5049/timelost.jpg
评论来自
vtecjunkie81
What may have happened in your case is the drake was killed by someone in the same phase as your friend. My guess is that when a mob is killed by someone, the corpse enters the killer's phase.
评论来自
pan0phobik
I found vyragosa today after installing npcscan and deciding to camp instead of following the paths randomly. What's the theory about its death time vs. the spawn time of a time-lost proto? Is it 6 hours after Vyra's death that the time-lost shows up? Either way I'm testing it tonight. It's been almost 6 hours since I got it... We'll see.
Here's the shot of Vyra when I found her.
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/9207/wowscrnshot071309174517.jpg
评论来自
syrro
Killing(finding) Vyragosa its damn simple.I've killed her like 3 times and saw her dead 4 times.But in 140+ hours spend on camping TLPD ive never saw him dead or heard on my server that he even spawned in that time(also the macro confirm).GL to all TLPD hunters!
评论来自
367752
is it plausable that tlpd can spawn the same night once per week or twice, cos thats happend two week in a row according to general chat, do you guys believe this. cos i aint sure if i should just come back that time next week or camp it out the whole week again
评论来自
332911
who has tlpd or is camping tlpd in Area 52 ?
Horde side i guess....
评论来自
syrro
Yesterday I've got my TLPD after 8 days spend on camping with like 18-20 hours/day. I was mad that after spending 7 days of camping I've never heared that some1 got it(macro confirm that) or saw him dead. I've started to camp him between the last 2 maintenances. A few hours after the last maintenance was over I've got it.
When I've started to camp for him, I've chosed the camping spot to be the frozen lake at Bor's Breath between the right house from Valkyrion and the mountain from Bor's Breath where he usualy spawns. If u realy wanna get a TLPD use that camp spot and dont move from it (28,64) cuz in that area there are 3/4 routes of the TLPD. Another thing is that u realy need to get the NPCScan addon. Go to the game settings, to Sound&Voice and active the Sound in background so u dont have to stay in game all day.
U also can use this macro if u wanna know if some1 looted him: /script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Shift-click this to place a link into a chat message: \124cffa335ee\124Hitem:44168:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0\124h\124h\124r") but u have to delete the Cache folder from your wow folder every time when some1 looted him.
Tips:Deactivate Frostbitten(thats for Vyragosa) from NPCScan. U realy dont need to know when Vyragosa spawn cuz that wont help u, just if u wanna have a heart attack when the sound will play.
Here is the place where I've killed him.(Bor's Breath frozen lake/waterfall at 28,64 aprox):
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/3145/timelostprotodrake.jpg
He flyes not very high(30-40 yards).
So if u realy wanna get this mount u realy need to be prepared to spend a lot of "Lost-Time". I was a lucky guy that I've got him in 1 week and a few hours.But if u use all the infos that I give u (a lot of them where from the previous players that got him before me) in like max 3-4 weeks u will have him. Remember that a TLPD waits u to kill him, u just have to be at the right time and the right place to do that. Gl to all TLPD hunters.
PS:Thx a lot for the usefull infos that I found on this site and sry for my bad english:P
评论来自
347067
Finally got mine, been wating on him since December.
Details:
Server: Bleeding Hollow US
Spawn time: 2:30 am Eastern Time / Server Time
Spawn Location: Lake spawn point north of Frosthold (not hillside spawn point)
Kill Location: 30, 65
Loot: Reins, Satchel with ~19 gold, 20 Frostweave, Time-Forward Talisman of the Marksman
Story: I hadn't logged onto my main for about 48 hours. Was parked at hillside spawn point north of Frosthold. Started flying towards Bor's Breath and absently tapped at my Storm Peaks rares macro, when it gave me the raid warning.
The Drake was low to my left over the lake, seemed to just have spawned over the frozen lake. I intercepted him and dragged him down to 30, 65, where I dismounted... I happened to have my spider with me, and he was momentarily web trapped in midair. Despite that, and my spider being on aggressive, he kept coming after me until I feigned death. He warped to me a couple of times during the fight.
So ends my longest ever camp in WoW.
评论来自
427055
Just got this today outta pure luck.. Was farming some Relic of Ulduar and flew through Valkyrion when i saw a big shadow on the ground, as i looked up i almost crapped my pants, there he was, the most rare of all rares. Knowing how ppl for it for days and days straight i feel damn lucky. Ill still use it all the time, even if im a druid :)
Maelstrom server (EU) @ about 10.30 server time.
评论来自
pan0phobik
I've gotten vyragosa 3 times in the past 4 days of farming the TLPD. All 3 times have been early morning between 4:30 and 6:30. If this keeps up... I'm bound for one of these early morning spawns to end up being a TLPD.
评论来自
Gratzner
Just got the time lost.
Server: Kazzak
Time: 13.50 PM
Location: 40.64, in the foot stepps
He was coming from Brunnhildar village and was flying towards south, towards the other village right next to the waterfall.
I intercepted him between the mountain tops, thats like a path to and from the village, you'll find it in the coords and remember... he was flying south.
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m9/Gratzner/WoWScrnShot_071909_141725.jpg
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m9/Gratzner/WoWScrnShot_071909_141754.jpg
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m9/Gratzner/WoWScrnShot_071909_141913.jpg
评论来自
428403
Congrats to all that have managed to find this rare Drake!
Im currently on my own hunt for the TLPD on the Nagrand server, have been searching now for 4 days, spent 12 hours yesterday + countless hours over the last 4 days, have only managed to see a dead one. Can I ask that you all please provide server details of your findings so we can track down what server's have the TLPD spawned on. That will be a massive help to all TLPD Hunters out there.
So far these are my findings
Spotted TLPD @ 7:06pm on 17th July - body vanished exactly 24 mins later, assuming it must have spawned at 7pm exactly as the body vanished at 7:30pm on the dot.
Have not spotted anything else since!
C'mon Blizz throw me a bone here !
Dieavlo
评论来自
428403
Anvernus, keep us updated, im hoping to also find out what the pattern is and use it to our advantage.
My above post states I saw TLPD at 7:06pm, was at the Engine of Makers area heading down the cliff. Just saw the body so assuming it was heading down the cliff (south).
评论来自
403751
Logged on this morning at around 12 and stumbled across dirkee, my npcscan addon went off and I though it was the tlpd.
I then went on to camp longer at the frozen lake south of valkyrion. After a long wait I went to mine a rock in the near by cave and then went out to mount up and I had a feeling a rare would spawn and it did and I panicked and thought it was the tlpd but it was just Vygrosa or what ever she is called. I killed her at 3:20.
I am going to camp further until 6 hours have passed to see if either rare spawns again, 6 hours being the superposed timer for tlpd / vyragosa. I will then update if anything spawns.
评论来自
393077
Meh... you wont know if someone else find one of them and kills them that wont fit in your patterns, so I think itll be hard to tell what their spawn patterns really are.
Even if you find one of them, lets say 06:47, you wont know if it spawned 06:00, 06:30 or whatever.
"But I was camping all night and didnt find any corpses blah blah" Well, theres something called 'skinning'.
The reason so many report they find it during night or early morning is prob. because there are a lot less people online. During the day there are a lot more casuals that might get lucky running in to one of them and wont report it on a website like wowhead. Most farmers/campers are looking for them during the night, and theyre the ones reporting on sites like this one.
评论来自
428403
I dont think the TLPD is skinnable.
Vyragosa on the other hand could be, but im pretty certain TLPD is not.
评论来自
casedistorted
Well if you want to talk about spawn times regarding Vyragosa and the Drake...I think I may be the last person to have found the Time-Lost Proto Drake on the Demon Soul PVP (US) Server. It occured on 7.13.2009 very near to 8:50am server time. It was a strange situation because I had spent 1 week and 4 days straight camping Storm Peaks (on a non epic flying mount mind you) trying to wait for this time thing pop...
So on 7.13's early morning I had spent 6-8 hours in another Black Temple council fight fail group (trying to get the off-hand Warglaive of Azzinoth to compliment my Main-Hand one) and was all frusterated with WoW again. I decided to cool off some steam and just relax in Storm Peaks for a little bit chatting with people before I fell asleep for the morning and after almost a half an hour of camping Bors Breath valley...my NPCscanner went off. Almost Instantaneously I believed it would be Vyragosa but both ESN_Rare and NPCscan said "Time-Lost Proto Drake"...you can imagine my reaction. Couldn't type, couldn't breath, was convinced someone on an epic flyer would get it before me (because I hadn't even seen the thing yet since it was a cachescan detection) but looking down the bors breath valley away from the frozen waterfall guess who I see flying at 60 percent flight speed directly at me. Oh yeah..I was happy...
But the point of the story is that my friend Rachelle showed up nearly 2 minutes after I killed the Drake and looted its Reins, Satchel, and Time Forward Talisman (that I still can't sell on the AH...kindof useless to my level 80 Arms Warrior), Rachelle was a little angry...but understanding because I had been there for 10-14 hours a day talking in general chat in Storm Peaks for nearly 2 weeks hunting that thing down with no luck. But she told me she had killed Vyragosa almost exactly 24 hours before I had just killed the Time-Lost Proto Drake. Said she killed him at about 9am yesterday and almost 24 hours later I'm killing Time-Lost at 8:50am?
评论来自
casedistorted
A little strange...But I don't believe theres a connection in all honesty, I heard about a man who sweet-talked a GM into revealing more about the Time-Lost Proto Drake than the GM should have, saying that it was very possible that the Drakes spawn timer was actually less than every hour (and this 6+ hours is all just speculation) BUT say 95 percent of the time nothing spawns every hour...probably 4 percent of the time vyragosa would spawn and 1 percent time lost proto drake spawns. THIS is probably why everyone thinks the spawn timer is 6+ hours to 12 hours to 24 to a week...because I'm guessing the thing actually can spawn every hour like the GM said its just most of the time nothing spawns at all.
Someone also told me not too long ago about how they read a blue post on some forums about how Time-Lost Proto Drake shares a spawn with 2 other drakes..I immediately said no no no not true but then realized that there IS another rare spawn blue drake/dragon in Storm Peaks that spawns in its little nest very near to Bors Breath...its name starts with a V (I always forget its name) but I saw it once with my own eyes and can definitely say that it is NOT Vyragosa. I don't believe though that Time Lost and Vyragosa share a spawn with this other elite blue rare spawn because I think it is part of a quest chain but I can't know for sure as I have not done very many quests at all there. But that is my 2 cents of the Time-Lost Proto Drake, been wanting to post these things for awhile here up on wowhead to hopefully give you guys some new ideas and possibly shed some more light on this very sweet rare spawn...that is also very annoying. :-O
Also if you see someone say in Storm Peaks General chat "zomg its dead!" demand to see its body otherwise don't believe them. The body stays around like anvernus or someone said for 24 mins or so and is NOT SKINNABLE! I have 450 skinning and after I looted the drake I could not skin it at all so I just posted coordinates in general for its dead body and only had a few people show up. I got lucky that morning because no one was around.
p.s. I tried posting this yesterday but fell asleep waiting for wowhead to update with my posted comment...Guess it doesn't want to tell you when you've typed over 7500 characters and will just sit there for hours.
评论来自
casedistorted
To Caen (Since wowheads "reply" button doesn't want to post underneath where I want to reply): it is unfortunate but twilightsky is right. as I said in my ridiculously long post that the Time-Lost Proto Drake is unskinnable. Don't know if thats a conscious effort on Blizzards part or not but I know I HAVE skinned Vyragosa (shes greedy and only gave me 2 Borean Leather =( ) so yeah, if someone says I killed the TLPD! OMGZ! don't believe them until you see its body because it will sit around for quite awhile before disappearing. Dirkee you can't skin but you can use Engineering on to get some parts or w/e
评论来自
428989
Found Time-Lost Proto Drake 1:06 AM Server time. 49,66 right in Brunnhildar Village. Flying about 100-150 yards up. Used Snowfall Lager to get him safely.
Here is the SS. Gorefiend 7-21-09 1:06AM Server
http://img12.imageshack.us/i/wowscrnshot072109000802.jpg/
评论来自
406695
Killed Vyra last night for the first time (Gilneas server @ 9:15pm). Nothing very exciting, just wanted to verify the Bor's Breath spawn point. I was camped on the frozen river near the entrance to Valkyrion when Vyra spawned right above me on the side of the mountain near Frosthold. It was odd because she wasn't moving at all. It took her a couple of seconds to start flying, and she flew north past Valkyrion then made the right hand turn at the big statue dude at Snowdrift Plains (following the green route on our now famous route map). I killed her in the narrow valley below the crash site. (A very slow flyer but does hit hard.)
Thanks to all that post their info here. I enjoy the screenshots of tlpd since I have yet to see it... dead or alive. (I hear he did spawn at 2pm on Saturday July 18th, however I was out of town. Grrrrrrrr.) I can't complain because I have tamed Loque and Gondria in the last month so hopefully tlpd will be next for me. :)
评论来自
429196
Ok i have been bugged for a week by a mate too put my bit also regarding this guy.
Server shutdown last week I came on here too read all the info I could about him.Went away thinking I have just about no chance of ever getting him,after reading about those whom have camped for hours/days/weeks..
The next night 19.00(sydney) time I logged in,jumped on my flier and went upto Bor's Breath.I went along the gorge too the end where the frozen waterfall is,I sat there for a little while and then turned around and flew back along the same gorge,and at the camp I decided too turn and fly towards the engine of the makers.
Just north of the camp,I flew straight into the T.L.P.D...I landed and brought him down.
Upon looking at my ingame clock it was 19.06(02.06am server).
Yes I agree with what most of you would be thinking,pure and utter LUCK...
Server...The Scryers
Cheers
评论来自
393077
I have two questions:
First: Can they follow their four knows routes both ways or is it always the same direction?
Second: Do you think its better to camp near the Abandoned Camp(in the air in the middle of the valley so I "hit" all three routes), or in the "crossroads" between Valkyrion, Frosthold and that engine thingy on the side of the mountain?
评论来自
pan0phobik
I'm not sure if this has been discussed... but I got GM confirmation the other night that the time-lost proto drake does not teleport between his different flight paths while he is pathing.
评论来自
429850
Just a question: I'm using the loot macro to see if it's been looted yet after a maintenance. Last 2 times I've been able to see the loot just after a few hours of maintenances. Me and a buddy looked for a corpse but couldn't find it at all. This happened 2 times. I wonder why this happens...
Does any body know that if a player mounts his tlpd , does server cache the loot and show it like it's been looted or not?
This really #$%^es me off. I haven't seen a corpse for months but see the loot all the time.
评论来自
429850
Yea, 4 hours after restart the link started to show the loot just now, a few mins ago.
评论来自
251557
After camping for numerous months, I finally obtained mine.
Right as I was talking to a friend about quitting this insanity.
Never give up.
- Aphiske, Kael'thas, Horde @ 3:30 AM server (Drake was coming from abandoned camp).
评论来自
406695
Found the corpse of tlpd yesterday at 4:30pm Gilneas server on the ridge between the blue drakes and Brunnhildar. I was camped on Bor's Breath at the entrance to Valkyrion at the time, so Time Lost spawned on the one route that I wasn't covering. Extremely depressed....
评论来自
Harson
Just lost him for the fifth time. /cutwrists
Was camping Bor's Breath, and guess what- he's coming from the other side of Valkyrion, over the mountains. I don't notice him because I'm OOR so NPCscan didn't pick him up.
At exactly 20:00 PM, I see the dreaded thing in General chat:
/1 OMG I GOT TIME LOST PROTO DRAKE WOOT
At the point I'm already saying FU, but meh. So I decide to fly around SP to see where he was.
500 yards away from me. Christ. I almost *!@#ing
screamed.
Nearly.
I console myself with the fact that I nearly have my Red-Proto drake, tho.
评论来自
430876
is there a sure point of respawn?
评论来自
430876
if there is a zone where i spawn everytimes
评论来自
430876
ok ty ty ty ty.....and now i know the direction of his flight path ^^....unluckily i found him 8 time dead =(
评论来自
431231
Found him and downed him on Alleria US server at 4:30pm server time on 7-24-2009 with my lvl 79 DK alt named Dimize. I landed in K3 and seen him just north of there flying overhead. I followed him for a while thinking for sure someone was gonna come by and snag him from me, but my slow chicken mount caught up to him eventually. Easily soloable.
Too bad I gotta be lvl 80 and have 300 riding Lol. Maybe now I got a reason to make some money and learn Artisan riding. Good luck everyone.
评论来自
431262
i dont belive it. decided id have a go at trying for him 5 hours ago. read all the comments/maps/tips on here, downloaded the addons. was hovering in the air just above the waterfall in bor's breath. tabbed into here to read more, when the npcscan addon sounds off. quickly tab into WoW and there he is!
i panic. heart starts racing. i see him, and tag him. balls up my slowfall (im a priest) so take fall damage. i also wasnt buffed as been in the air so long. im fighting him. notice my health is low. he's down to just a third of his health left. i panic again. try to get penance on me (why didnt i just drink a pot?) and he kills me. i quickly corpse run back (matter of seconds), rez, see him....and a druid has got him.
i am so, so annoyed with myself. schoolboy errors.
this was at 00:20 realm time, Killrogg, EU.
评论来自
421207
Like many others, I sat at Bor's Breath with NPCScan and 5 seasons of House MD.
Heard the sound, panicked, and saw him. A DK was heading for him ahead of me. DK gets there and tags him, then Snowfall Lagers himself safely to the ground. However, the fall was too long, and the drake reset.
I come in, dismount slightly above the drake and hit Killing Spree. Drake died before killing spree was done. I snowfall lagered myself safely down to a dead drake and an upset DK.
I honestly felt bad for him.
Stythe - US Dragonmaw - Horde
评论来自
347293
Ok this is what I've got at this moment.
You know as much as I do but hee are my kills of Vyra & TLPD (seen dead, killed self, saw spawn and killed by others):
- 15-7-'09 -> Vyragosa @ 3.35AM (spawned at the Frosthold route or up the hill between Frosthold & Temple of storms, Coordinates not known)
- 18-7-'09 -> Vyragosa @ 12.15PM (Spawned and killed around 29,69)
- 20-7-'09 -> Vyragosa @ 3.50PM (Spawned and killed around 27,62)
- 22-7-'09 -> Time-Lost-Proto-Drake @ 12.15AM (Spawned and killed around 46,64)
- 22-7-'09 -> Vyragosa @ 6.45PM (Spawned at the Frosthold route, killed @ Bor's Breath)
- 24-7-'09 -> Vyragosa @5.00AM (Spawned at 29,69, killed at 27,55)
- 25-7-'09 -> Vyragosa @ 2.35AM (Spawned at 47,73, killed at 45,61)
here you go :) That's all i've seen atm. More posts to follow soon (hopefully not too much xD)
Handuriël,
Blood Elf Paladin - Trollbane
评论来自
208611
I made a macro as I fly around SP from time to time
/target Dirkee
/target Vyra
/target Time
/target Loque
/target King Krush
/target Aotona
/target dalaran spellscribe
/stopmacro
/tell NAMEHERE > %T <
First 3 are rares in Storm Peaks
Next 3 are rares in Sholazar Basin
Last one is a rare in Silverpine Forest(Drops Black Tabby non-combat pet)
I've found Loque(rare spirit beast that hunters like to tame) 3x, and found the corpse of Vyra once using this macro.
So, it's a nice macro you can spam click as your going around farming herbs or ore.
评论来自
392507
Camped Bor's Breath for the night and didn't find anything, then fell asleep and woke up at this hour. Logged in to check if i'd missed it or so and find vyragosa acctually spawn almost on me. I've found vyragosa 7 times now in a short notice, three times in last 2 days, everytime but one vyragosa has spawned at Bors breath. I've even removed vyragosa from my NPCSCAN cause it's killing me to find it instead of tlpd ;f
评论来自
431426
Found it! :D
about 4:16 Servertime on Turalyon US
Funny thing was there were only 3 people in Storm peaks when i killed it..idk bout the others who killed it but maybe it also spawns on low player population
http://i732.photobucket.com/albums/ww327/kubria00/WoWScrnShot_072509_031018.jpg
评论来自
392507
Found this beauty today about 18.05 servertime at Bor's Breath on Skullcrusher EU! Been camping (29.65) for like a week and seen vyragosa 7 times. Now when i was about to leave my comp my NPC scanner went crazy and there it was :) Downed him before anyone came into my screen!
http://www.speedyshare.com/227144512.html
:)
cheers! has been a pleasure!
评论来自
415748
After Months of looking for him I finally see him, I fly over, and BAM, 3 horde flying over spotted me and killed me
&*!@ sux, but I'm not gonna give up.
评论来自
432228
Bagged him just now (01.50 wow time) @ Lightning's Blade (eu) at 30,68 the frozen lake in Bor's Breath, he spawned high up in the southern mountains.
After 1hour camping yesterday and 5hours camping/patroling today, I almost feel bad for the dudes that have been hunting it for months.
And I like so many of u said, almost fell of my chair when Silverdragon went crazy! just flew straight at him, hit killing spree and fell like 3 feet to the gound. Than he was almost dead so he died in like 2 more hits. Was over so fast i didn't really understood what jsut happened.
Well happy hunting dudes! -if i can get it so can u (im up till now the most unlucky bastard in the world)
评论来自
432387
Very nice mount, I ve just killed Vyragosa (btw death knights should use death grip, it's realy usefull) ,by the time killing her some warlock came and started killing me I was spaming like hell /laugh /laugh xD he was so @#$%ed droped the thief helm... Now waiting for Lost Time in 6 hours to spawn !
Here's the screen
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/9225/sasz.jpg
评论来自
nolervik
Been camping since thuesday 21 july. Got Vyragosa july 22th. She spawned over my head at the ice lake (30,67).
http://pici.se/pictures/large/hUrRsDiEp.png
Havent seen TLPD yet,
评论来自
432845
Do any of the rares fly in the valley or just above it, by bor's breath? like lets say even with the broken bridge or the hole in the side of the mountain?
评论来自
367752
found this site while looking for any other confirmed spawn points, anyone know if this guy was lucky or if it could actully work?
http://ipwnewbz.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/exploiting-time-lost-proto-drake/
评论来自
433479
Just got mine on Dreadmaul - US. Npcscan picked him up when i was over the crevasse separating Ulduar from the rest of Storm Peaks at about 9-9.30pm ST. Was travelling counter-clockwise. That mod is really good I would have missed him otherwise.
评论来自
Atomicbridie
Realm: Darkmoon Faire
Realm Time: 16:15
Had just completed a quest and was stood in Frosthold, when my NPCscanner started screaming at me. Then it come up with what it had dectected. I bolted on my non epic flying mount towards bors breath and just moving out of my vision was the Drake, heading west towards valykrion at around 16:10 realm time. I gave chase, and remembered someone had said this would be a race and half to try and catch up with out epic flying. Boy were they right, i chassed him down, cutting corners, following roughly the flight path i had seen on here, He seemed to be following the Green path.
First attempt got made at the opening just after Valkykrion. Tried to tag him but missed, hit the ground and had to remount to try again. By this point i was panicing someone was gonna sweap in and steal him.
Second attempt got made at Grommarsh crash site. Pretty much flyed right into him, so he dropped abit as he gave chase. Tagged him pulled him with Death Grip, and starting beating mary hell out of him. Finaly downed him and looted at 16:15 there or there about. Pic attached after much celebration on guild chat.
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/2959/wowscrnshot072909151940.jpg
评论来自
415748
Been a long 6 months but I'm still looking, never give up.
评论来自
Cakeislie
I've been camping for 2 weeks so far. Sometimes I've even stayed up all night. I've seen/killed Vyragosa 7 times now. I was clicking my macro to see if anyone got the reins yet. As I clicked it a second time, the macro showed that someone got the reins. I was camping in Bor's Breath. It spawned in Brunhilder. T.T
I'm still getting over the grief. :P
评论来自
434272
Got myself one of these last month... never got round to posting it on Wowhead but thought I would anyway.
I first heard about the Time-Lost Proto Drake about 6 months ago because in January, and since then I've wanted to get it. After hearing about it, I went to the area where he was supposed to be, straight away as I get to Bor's Breath my macro picks up Time-Lost Proto Drake, only he's dead on the floor... not bad seeing it dead at least as soon as I've started my hunt. So from then for a few days I go to this area a lot hoping it will spawn, but nope no luck. From here I kind of give up camping it, but instead just hit the area he flies around whenever I need herbs to get some money or for flasks to raid (having a profession like herbalism or mining kills
a lot
of time if you are hoping to get the drake.
Anyway, 6 months go by, and the only time I've seen Time Lost dead or alive was the first time I go hunting for him. Since then I must've killed Vyragosa about 10 times, and Dirkee quite a few times. All of my Vyragosa kills were in Bor's Breath, so I stayed faithful to this spot and spent most of my herbing time around here.
So I'm having a day off college due to a teacher's training day, and at about 12 AM I decide to gather some herbs for money and to make flasks for the raid I had later. I herb for about an hour, get bored, and decide to go and watch a movie. This movie is 2 hours long, and after watching it I decide to log back into Wow. I logged out in Bor's Breath, and a minute after I log in I think I see Time-Lost Proto Drake... but it's only someone else already riding the drake, which makes me think maybe I've just missed a spawn. So anyway, I get back to herbing, spamming my macro anyway incase that guy has had the Drake for a long time. 2 mins after the guy flies past me on his Proto Drake, my macro starts spam whispering me, so I look up to see I'm targetting the Time-Lost Proto Drake, and he is flying right towards me, flying south out of Valkyrion towards Bor's Breath. Heart racing, I fly up to him, tag him, and finally get this Drake I've been longing for. Moments later, a few other drake hunters turn up and mourn their loss.
To think, if that movie I was watching had been 5 minutes longer I probably would not have my Time-Lost Proto Drake.
http://img75.imageshack.us/i/wowscrnshot062409155114.jpg/
评论来自
434301
I created an account just to post my experience here. I just got this beautiful mount at 2208 (1008pm for the non military time users) server time on Firetree server. I was sitting over the frozen waterfall when my npcscanner went nuts. Hey flew up towards bors breath and started rounding the bend to go up over Frosthold. Good luck to the rest of you hunting him. I was extremely lucky and caught him after roughly 7 days of camping for about 6-7 hrs a day.
评论来自
435083
Well I finally managed to nab this elusive drake after off and on camping of 5 months. Up until the last month I hadn't see him once dead or alive, yet had killed and seen vyragosa countless times. My closest encounter came after 9hrs straight of camping only to go afk for 5 minutes to make a sandwich... Come back to find Time-lost dead about 20 yards from where I was camping at my usual spot, Bor's Breath. So this week I went back to some serious camping and took a vyra kill from 3 hordes chasing it. My friend almost got it 4 days prior but missed tag by 5 seconds :( (He's been camping 7 months).
At 11:45 Server Time last night I killed vyragosa again while doing a patrol near the waterfall. So i decided I would head back later on in the morning. Rest of the night me and a few friends went looking for rare elites; I'm only 2 away from Frostbitten :). Anyways after finishing that up around 6:30 AM with no luck, I headed back to IF to sell stuff. I originally planned on heading out to Bor's at 7:30 because that would be nearing the 8 hr mark, which I find is normally the minimum spawn time between Vyra/Time spawns. But, for some reason, I felt like heading out early so I flew out to Bor's and got there around 7:05 Am. Didn't want to wake up the parents, so I parked myself at Bor's, made sure Npcscan was working, and popped a headphone in my ear while I lied down. Literally 10 seconds after lieing down, NPC Scan goes off. Like usual, I freak out and start shaking like crazy. I look at the screen and it was Time-Lost! I had turned up my view distance higher than usual for better sight, and I looked over towards Valkryion and see Time-Lost flying towards Bor's Breath. Flew over, ran into him, dropped off my red drake, popped a snowfall lagger, and hit him with Chimera shot for tag. He was mine a few seconds later! Finally after 5 months I got him. Of course, I took some celebratory screenshots that I will have to upload later. Obviously spammed storm peaks chat like crazy, and then proceeded to show off my drake in Dal.
-Darklumiya 80 Hunter
US Durotan
Boondok Saints
评论来自
272357
Got it yesterday by pure luck. On my way to sons of hodir to do dailies and just thought I'd look around for the drake, I rotate the camera a bit and there it is :)
Fly over it, all nervous and shaking, tag it and dismount and pop on levitate. The drake did some damage to me and levitate breaks and I fall to my death :O
FAIL
Flies like a maniac to my corpse and rez, see the drake disappear in the distance and I chase after it. See a druid in normal fllight form, don't know if he/she has seen the drake or not. Fly by him and aggro the drake just above K3 and take him down to the ground and then tagged him. Drake goes down very fast.
GREAT SUCCESS!
Really happy to have got the drake and I start to think how incredibly lucky I am :)
(Got it on EU-Terokkar 090801 around 12.00-ish)
评论来自
435336
Finally got the drake. I must be one of the most lucky people out there. I read about the drake a week ago on wowhead and I thought I should give it a try and get me a nice mount. I also read about the spawn times and routes, so I knew it would propably take me a lot of time to find the drake, boy was i wrong :P
The drake spawned right above the frost drakes, then it flew atleast 100 feet above the engine of the makers, heading towards The Foot Steppes. I tagged him and got him to the ground, from there it was easy.
I would like to give people some advice to how they might get this mount:
Read the comments and memorize the flightpath so you know where you are most likely to find it
Use all your idle time on the spots where hi might spawn or fly by
Get the
_NPCScan
addon from curse.com
Buy yourself some
Snowfall Lager
Be patient, you will most likely not find the drake as fast as i did. Me finding it after a week was pure luck.
评论来自
367752
just a thought, when people have found him have there been vyra spawns around that time or has it been nothing for a few days, happend twice on my server auchindoun eu there'll have been no spawns of either for two days then BAM it spawns. So if it has happend on other servers it may be a sign
评论来自
ringelos
Hello, i have created an account to share my experience.
I just got my proto drake today and i was very happy. It was freakin awesome! After 3 months of farming i got it. From my experience of killing Vyragosa many times I confirmed that they share patrol points. I killed Vyragosa in the snowdrift plains one time, and spotted and killed the time lost proto drake in roughly the same area. Most of my time farming, I was camping in one place waiting for it to pass me or spawn near to me. He was flying about 60 yards(in game) from the ground.The direction the proto drake was flying was flying over gromash crash site or whatever its called and it was probably going to the engine of the makers. Also, i think i couldn't have found it if i didn't have my SilverDragon addon because it detected it from pretty far away.
Blackrock USA
killed at 6:25 ST
Thats all, and good luck to all of you farming it.
评论来自
435782
Killed it Yesterday at about 6.00 server time (Nordrassil Eu) :)
Dropped Mount, Time Forward Talisman of the Champion and A Bag with Cloth, 20g and some Eternal Fire
He was Very close to the Engine of Makers and flying quite high up abouve the ground and going towards Bors Breath.
Make sure you have some Snowfall lager as i fell and lost half my HP but was still able to kill him :)
Good Luck to everyone camping :D
评论来自
406695
Keep the posts coming, it's encouraging for us campers to hear that others are still finding the drake! However, can you give a little more info if possible, like your server name, server time, location of kill, what direction was he flying, and a screenshot would be nice too.
Thanks, and keep up the good work!
评论来自
435826
Camped at 27, 65 as I'd seen mentioned on here near the frozen lake for the last 2 days on my server Scilla, though I've been looking for him for the last 4months. Today at 7:15am server time NPCscan went off for the TLPD. Looked ahead and all over with out seeing it, turned around and looked down and there he was just a little ways above the ground. Managed to tag him and get my mount. For those of you using NPCscan have fun and be aware it seems to go off a few seconds before he actually appears. good luck guys
评论来自
vengy
Time Lost was killed yesterday on Stormscale @ 29 , 65. My theory is that it must of spawned just a couple feet away because my add-on had not picked it up while i was there and when i went to go get some chips and came back less than 1 min later he was getting killed and my add on went off. Really bad luck on my part but at least it gave comfort that ive been campin in a good spot, woulda had it if i didnt go get chips lol. (been standing @ ~ 30,66 for campin it)
评论来自
435996
Finally got mine this morning on the Ysera server at 08:44am California time/11:44am server time at 47,64.
He was flying low (lower than Vyragosa)and in a northbound direction coming from over Brunhildar Village (I might have spelled that wrong). I was flying southbound coming from right around the bend from Bors Breath. My NPCscan add-on went off and my heartrate went up when I saw it flying almost next to me. I aggroed it and brought it down to the ground at 47,64 where I had no problem killing it (I'm a lvl 80 hunter with a devilsaur pet). My only concern at that point was whether I was going to get attacked by one of those enemy rhinos that walk in groups with the passive rhinos. Nothing happened.
Advice: I have read all the comments on all the different sites and I have to say the best two tools I used that helped me, besides just plain dumb-luck, were the NPCscan add-on as well as the map provided by tellmeyouloveme in one of the posts on the Thotbot site. I set up a flight plan everytime (and this was a daily commitment) I visited the Storm Peaks where I covered (with my epic flyer) each path in the map. It only took a few minutes to cover the whole area. I tried not to limit myself to camping out at one spot because I felt it ignored all the other locations he could be at. With so many people looking for tlpd waiting for it to show up at one spot can be a bit risky. Yes, it seems Bors Breath is the intersecting point for many of the paths in the map above but he has to get there first from somewhere else unless, of course, he actually spawns in Bors Breath. This may work for others but I was concerned about it.
I did try the 6 hour rule once I saw the dead corpse of Vyragosa a few times, coming back in 6 hours and patrolling for an hour or so, and that didnt work for me. I am not saying its wrong - it just didnt work for me.
All I can say is to keep at it. I am like all of you in that I have read the posts, been envious, invested the time (too much of it) and been disapppointed many a day for the last 3-4 months wondering when my time was going to come when I could post a post like this one. Luckily (emphasize "luckily") my strategy worked for me this morning.
Good luck to all of you - keep trying :) and don't give up.
评论来自
Ixblar
Today i saw the TLPD for the first time ever, silverdragon popped up and I saw the name and my heartbeat raced. A second later I noticed it was dead already :( I flew over to its corpse and a nightelf priest was doing flips on it. My heart was broken but at least now I know it exists! :P it was just west of the temple of storms (27.2, 58.5)
Edit: By the way it was on spirestone server and 2:03 P.M. (arizona time)
评论来自
199624
So far this is the info that I have gathered from my search for the TLPD on the Lightning's Blade server.
Vyragosa - 4:49 P.M. - 7/13/09 Frosthold Path
TLPD - 11:06 P.M. - 7/13/09 Around Grom'Arsh
Vyragosa - 12:36 A.M. - 7/15/09 Ulduar Path
Vyragosa - 9:04 P.M. - 7/15/09 (My kill) K3 Path
Vyragosa - 8:23 P.M. - 7/20/09 (My kill) Around Grom'Arsh
Vyragosa - 5:27 A.M. - 7/21/09 (My kill) Frosthold Path
TLPD - 11:46 A.M. - 8/2/09 Ulduar Path
Vyragosa - 7:45 P.M. 8/2/09 K3 Path
This is all of the info I have gathered so far. I plan on camping the TLPD until I get a spawn, and intend to keep this post updated with each new Vyragosa/TLPD spawn that I find until I get a TLPD of my own.
评论来自
Zamereon
i was camping this guys spawn around Bor's breath and the frostwyrm camp.. at 10:04 i saw Vyragosa at 38.8, 62.5.. i camped there for about an hour and was about to log when i looked at the time and it was around 9:50.. and i had read the comment about them spawning at the top of the hour so i decided to try it out just to see.. it appears they do spawn at the top of the hour and apparently vyra and this guy share spawn points/times.
评论来自
31889
does anyone know what direction he pats on the 4 paths he has? most all my other questions were answered by reading most of the stuff here and on thottbot. but no one seems to mention anything about spawn locations or pat directions.
评论来自
Wakako
So i've gotten this mount finally after giving up almost 10 months ago after having killed him and not getting the mount. I didn't get the mount because the person who was fighting it didnt release after i let them die to the horde, even though i tapped the Time-Lost Proto Drake immediatly after he died and should have gotten it. since then i have switched mains and now i have it on my new main so i'm very happy. I was having convulsions while i killed it and for about 15 minutes afterwards.
Good luck to all trying to find this darn mount. It takes a while.
评论来自
fooka
gonna keep track of all killings/sightings i've seen on the realm skullcrusher
Vyragosa - Not by me august 07 2009 at 5:46 pm (approx waited till body despawned) near valkyrion
Vyragosa - not by me (would have been by me if i hadn't freaked out when my npcscan went off) August 08 2009 at 3:01 am (approx waited till body despawned) northeast of crash site
Vyragosa- not by me...got ninja'd from me august 09 at 3:31 pm watched it go down...over the snowy plains...ulduar route i believe
评论来自
lenzcrafter
SO all you farmers are going to HATE me... After losing a roll on the drake in CoT I came on here and read some of the posts about the TLPD and figured I had nothin better to do so why not go farm it. So I DLed NPCScan off curse and headed out to Storm Peaks to give it a whirl.
As soon as I cross into the Peaks I get a flashing message Time Lost Proto Drake Found... IT WAS RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME... I honestly think my heart stopped for a second.... So I flew up to him and got aggro and slowly flew towards a mountain makin sure it was still hitting me... I lost aggro a few times but was able to kite it so I could land and grip it to me... after a few whacks it was dead and I have its reigns...
Now to go get it on my other 2 80s on this server.
Fezzik, Detheroc US
评论来自
Spinkert
This morning I camped for Vyragosa at 36, 63 and got her just after 6am server time. Dirkee showed up and killed me four times while I attempted to take him down. Gave up. Read about the theory that TLPD may spawn 6+ hours after Vyragosa is down and logged in at noon today. Got the TLPD at 2.00pm server time on NPC scan and took him down at 37, 63.
Today was the day I decided to find them and I got them both. I feel badly for those of you who have been hunting for months and wish you the best of luck.
EU Trollbane.
Edited to correct time.
评论来自
438827
So i just catched this baby tonight 02:35 Bloodhoof - EU - PvE.
And i have been looking for this baby for like 50 hours+ and it was horrible not to even see the corpse or Vyragosa's corpse or anything rare. So i'd almost gave up but tonight i told myself to camp it for like 1 hour, and after like 20 minutes he spawns, and my Silverdragon addon pops up and i am totally paniced cause i didnt expect it to just pop up xD. But theese addons help me alot to find that drake.
Silverdragon = You can make the Silverdragon addon do a noise everytime there pops a rare NPC up. And it will tell you when there is a rare NPC close to you.
Overlay = Shows you the route of almost every rare mob in WoW. And the place where it can pop.
And i wont be writing all the date from how long time the respawn timer is and stuff, cause there are so many threads about that and about routes and time spawn sharing so i wont write all theese.
And i killed it just beside Halefnir the Windborn. (Sorry don't have the coords :p).
P.S sorry for none killshot, but i don't know how to upload one in here (i'm a noob at this point though).
评论来自
438846
There are nearly 400 comments here...
Does that tell you something?
评论来自
438879
I decided to write and post a complete guide to the Time-Lost Proto Drake on the MMOwned.com website. It took me almost 8 straight hours to write, and I'm hoping that with this post I can get more people to get some benefit from my hard work.
The guide is pretty much a compilation of all the information you see in guides and comments in this site, with plenty of screenshots and maps for all those people who hate reading. The link is
http://www.mmowned.com/forums/wow-guides/252061-ultimate-guide-farming-time-lost-proto-drake.html
, and if you actually enjoy the post, please don't hesitate to sign up for an account and post on the thread. It'd make my day....it really would. >.>
评论来自
438865
How to find Timelost-Vyragosa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF9b7o29KOE&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fmy_videos_edit&feature=player_embedded
Good Luck!
评论来自
blazerblaze
Uhhhh... Anybody mind translating that video for me..? I've been hunting the drakes for month. I have tried every single theory and non of it has worked out for me for 7 months. Got close once but a stupid druid got it! Anyways if someone could translate the video above for me that would be great. Thanks
评论来自
393077
Is guitargod218's link really safe?
评论来自
248916
Today at 2am, i was flying over to the Sons of hodir daily area when i saw the time lost proto drake below me, at
Brunhildar
village
or however that is called. I wasnt using my macro, and i had never actually camped for it before,i failied to pull it, and then i lost it. Later on i found its corpse at that
frozen lake
evertyone seems to spot him at. Well, that sucks.
评论来自
440219
Camped this bad boy 20 hours before i finally encountered him. Got him to 2k health until i was feared and ganked by a warlock. It was the most frustrating experience ever i endured during any time through out this game. I did not lose hope. With the release of 3.2 i set out to tame skoll knowing it was on the same path. 10 hours at most waiting for skoll i finally tamed him and it was a sign of relief but then 10 secs after, my npcscan goes off again. spawning right on top of me was the time lost proto drake as i @#$% my pants. i didnt let this encounter get away. with skoll by my side i took him down in seconds and got myself a new pet and mount.
评论来自
440304
When someone finds it and kills it....how long till it respawns?
评论来自
440304
they both loot the time lost proto drake?
评论来自
440304
and where should i camp to find it?
评论来自
438865
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF9b7o29KOE&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fmy_videos_edit&feature=player_embedded
Here can be seen are all the spawn points and Vyragosa+TLPD share exat all the spawnpoint and flightpaths!
评论来自
438865
writes the text in google translator :) and now he spawn not in the air, nothing, he spawn always consists of a mountain. Look at the Video. and
looks precisely and you will see the coords!
评论来自
393077
Ok, so basically what youre saying in your video is that:
Vyragosa and TLPD share spawnpoints and routes, one of them clockwise, the rest not. Dirkee does not share spawn timer with them.
Spawn time is between 6-24 hours.
6 hours is their nomal/most common respawn time, and 24 hours very uncommon/the worst there is.
They can never be up at the same time.
Something about a chance that there are two timers going on at the same time...
No idea what "
sobald einer der beiden nierdergestrckt wurde läuft der Timer wieder von vorn.
" means.
Same with "
man sollt sich bei der jeweiligen fraktion ein mittel holen was den fall verlangsamt denn die drachen haben unterschiedliche flughöhen wobei manche nicht zu überleben sind
"
haha, what it translated to for me was quite weird, but its something about different hight they fly by I think...
Something about despawn of their bodies and loot. Dont know if youre saying the timer starts going when theyre looted or when the corpses despawn.
Think youre saying Vyragosa is skinnable and TLPD not, or that it is not 100% prof that the timer starts ticking when TLPD is looted or the corpse despawns.
Vyragosa is flying her route until someone finds her. TLPD is only flying his route for a certain time but can still fly his route more than once.
You mention what they drop.
Paladins shouldnt use bubble when pulling them?
You can track them as dragonkin.
You also say that TLPD does not teleport from one route to another.
Then you show when they "teleport". Youre saying its not actually teleports tho and that it is always on the same place in that one route.
Then youre saying that since you have killed Vyragosa about 100 times you can say that some spawnpoints and certain times during the day theres a bigger chance youll find one of them.
- Id guess one of these places is west of Bor's Breath? :P
- I have to say Im surprised you can kite them so far as you show in your video without losing aggro.
As you can see google isnt that easy to use to translate. Some words arent possible to translate. Why did you post this video if you didnt translate it? Not much help tbh.
I thought some of the text would be about how they fly through the mountains. How often do they do this and how "much" can they fly through them?
评论来自
438865
I try to translate the Video!
And NO its 100% not an Privat Server! 100% its the EU Realm Die silberne Hand (The Silver Hand)
The short scene of Vyragosa. This are the exactly Spawnpoints. The 4 spawnpoints for the 4 Routes!
Simple,when you are not alone and you have friends or Guildmembers they are camped to of this Dragon, then camped exact by this points where you can see in the Video they spawn Vyragosa and you will see in time of 6-24hours they is to 100% a spawn on one of the points. Vyragosa or the TLPD. Have you kill the dragon, the next spawn it can only be after exact 6h or 8h,... 11h ...16... 24h!
see you later
评论来自
338204
Abraxusta, you´re wrong about the spawn timers. Dont confuse people. I´ve seen Vyragosa killed at 12:34 and then 19:20. Wich is 7h . So it's completly random.
评论来自
441694
found TLPD
day: 08/14/09
Time 5:40 ST
Server: Ragnaros
Area: Bors Breath
Cords: 36/67.7 (spawned and killed)
Time lost hunting: 5-6 hours
Spoted: 1st time
TLPD was flying quite near to the ground (i dont know the range but it was like the tree height so so) it wasnt a problem to pull him down, im a warrior, so heroic throw and thats all, and yep my head allmost explote when i saw it
yesterday around 7:30 ST found Dirkee around 41/40
评论来自
406695
So depressed right now.... I was camped at Bor's Breath today on the Gilneas server at 3:35pm when my NPCscan goes off for the TLPD. I spin around and see the drake down near the ground, and still alive! I flew down closer and noticed that there was another player already attacking the drake. I winged a few shots at the dying drake just in case there was any hope of me stealing the victory but it was not my time... again.
However, there is something to note in this encounter: as soon as the Time Lost drake died, another rare spawn Skoll appeared right next to the drake's corpse. One rare dies, another rare spawns at the exact same time. It might be helpful to note.
On a sad note, as other hunters I was chatting with were on their way to tame Skoll someone killed him. I'll try to attach the depressing screenshot.
评论来自
393077
Hm. I wondering something: if Vyragosa and TLPD dont spawn after a server restart, does that mean theyll only spawn after atleast six hours after the realm came up or can they spawn after fifteen mins, two hours and three minutes, etc?
评论来自
rubyloc
ive killed or seen a corpse of vyragosa countless times. ive encountered dead tlpds like twelve times. today, my npcscan went off at engine of the makers, and finally, after camping for a double digit amount of hours every day for a month - after having taken a break for a couple of months, before which I flew around looking for drakes all the time after hitting 80 - the tlpd was flying northwest of brunnhildar. got the craziest adrenaline rush. fly up to it, almost in range, it gets pulled by some friggin warlock. just absolutely broke my morale just now T_T
if only he had been horde..
评论来自
438865
after a kill from vyra or tlpd is 6hour nothing, nothing a spawn. he can spawn directly after a kill >6h<(is the minimum), 7h, 8h 5min. ... .. .. etc..
up to 24h (is the Maximum). in this period of time is at least a spawn!
At least once a day is a spawn to 100%, it can be the tlpd or vyragosa.
Look at my Video you will see in the short scene the 4 Spawnpoints from alle the 4routes. This are to 100% only the spawnpoint. There comes Vyra or TLPD from a mountain! You can camping directly at this point and pull. :) You still 3freaky Guildmembers or friends they are camping only for the Dragon you con position all the 4 spawnpoints and wait for the spawn :)
Sorry for my spelling. I´am German and my English is not so good :)
But the information from me and my Video is to 100% correct.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF9b7o29KOE&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fmy_videos_edit&feature=player_embedded
评论来自
434272
Got this mount on my Shaman as I posted a little while back, now going for it on my Warrior.
Was playing Peggle with the NPC Scan Add On, went for dinner and logged out, came back on to find it dead at the same point I had killed it on my Shaman... which was right behind me. Bad timing for me, as I asked about the kill and it was a few minutes before I logged back in.
评论来自
deathhlock
so much time lost waiting and camping, well at least it has a high drop rate of the mount.
and thanks for the macros they are really helpful
评论来自
cheesepizza
Today was a good day for me, I spotted the time-lost proto drake at 42,56 to which after I got the polar bear mount and then the blue dragonhawk! :D
评论来自
393077
Ok, so according to Abraxusta's video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF9b7o29KOE&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fmy_videos_edit&feature=player_embedded
only three of these spawn points are actually spawnpoints(+ another point he has found):
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j42/Boingy420/900px-Storm_Peaks_Map.jpg
and
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v477/Blood_Vixen/wowmaps/stormpeaksmap.jpg
评论来自
SSJ5Gogetenks
I have been camping this thing since I became 80 at the start of the year. STILL no luck finding it.
I think the only way I'll find this is if I camp it 24/7...which would be rather inconvienient.
评论来自
gabrimcr
... he drop himself!
评论来自
443794
01: Theory.
02: Info Sheet
03: Story for any who care.
04: Image Links
I've read about these TWO spawn spots for Vyragosa. I've read about theories that TLPD is a chance to spawn in the place of Vyragosa. I've read about other theoretical "Spawn Spots." After my experiences farming this, I believe there are only two spawn spots. The frozen lake and Brunn. Why I believe this is explained towards the last section of the story.
Time-Lost Proto-Drake Camping Info Sheet:
Server: Undermine
Kill Time: August 18th, 5:42am (Didn't despawn 'till 6:20 hahaha awesome.)
2009.08.13 . 17:30 . Vyragosa Corpse Spotted
Info: On the frozen river just east of the small frozen waterfall at 33, 65.
2009.08.14 . 05:21 . Vyragosa Killed (bor's breath, frozen lake 29, 65)
Info: This was creepy as hell. I was just over the middle of the lake about 50 yards up in the air. I heard a roar, huge wings flapping. I looked at the screen and was looking around and couldn't figure out what the hell, then it appeared right above me. I don't know if my hard drive was taking it's time loading the graphics into the video card or what, but jesus it was cool.
2009.08.15 . 06:43 . Vyragosa Killed (brunnhildar village 48, 68)
Info: Flew down the mountain at 50, 71 into the middle of Brunn. Tapped it and downed it as it was flying into the Foot Steppes to the north.
2009.08.15 . 09:58 . server goes down for reset
2009.08.16 . 10:06 . Vyragosa Killed (bor's breath, Frozen Lake 29, 65 -- brunnhildar village 48, 68
Info: Same as on 5:21, complete with hearing the roar and flapping before it appeared over my camp spot. This time it was pointed towards the river and headed east.
2009.08.17 . 06:55 . Vyragosa Killed (brunnhildar village 48, 68)
Info: Same exact scenerio as on 8.15.
2009.08.18 . 05:42 . Time-Lost Proto-Drake Killed (brunnhildar village 50, 70)
Info: Same exact scenerio as on 8.15, but I was sitting on the edge of the hill where Vyragosa had come down from and it spawned no more than a dozen yards above me, well within visual range so I'm assuming that's the exact spawn spot there. Not on top as people had speculated.
Story:
First, I would like to mention how I first learned about the Time-Lost Proto-Drake (TLPD, as we know it.) Back in a previous guild I had a 4 hour nax run with a bunch of first timers and a couple of us who had done it and only did 3 bosses, wiping a few times before quitting against the four horsemen. I wasn't happy. When I'm stressed out, from work or whatever, I will get on my pally and run an ore mining loop I worked out over time that takes me over Valkyrion. Having done the Brunnhildar dailies I was well aware of all the mobs in that particular area. I don't mess around with mobs when I'm farming to calm down, so any time there are ores impossible to get to I just pass them. And if something aggros on me before I dismount trying to get within range of one I just fly away.
So I was flying over Valkryon doing the basin/icecrown/peaks path for titanium and was flying over the blighted pool and through town. I fly out of the gate into frozen lake because I see titanium around that lake all the time. Just passing through the gate a drake aggros on me and I think, seriously? I wasn't near those bastards and keep clicking off of it and kept flying. Was really @#$%ed still about naxx, and ket going down the river. It followed me a good distance before going away. Then some drama picked up again from someone who asked how we were full clearing naxx10 weeks before and we couldn't even.. blah blah...
Next morning I was on vent telling an officer who couldn't make the raid how it went and venting about it, mentioned the farming including the bit about the drake chasing me and was starting to talk about the convo in whispers and he said wait wait WAIT. Back up. Tell me about this drake.
So I said "it was just one of those ^&*!ers on the ground and I have no idea how it aggrod on me that far away and chased me for as long as it did but I don't care" and tried to go on with my story. He stopped me again and said maybe it wasn't one of those and told me about the TLPD. I looked it up, and realized instantly after looking at it, that in retrospect it surely was a rare. Part of me inside opened up pretty wide and was yelling for a long time.
I closed it thismorning.
That day I started studying the spawn theories and so on, which sucked back then. I camped it a lot, spending more and more time each day over a few days flying around and sitting in spots, etc. It culminated in me sitting in a supposed hot spot, hoping my addon would find it. The point where I realized I was taking it too far was when I had my speakers up all the way and was sleeping on the floor next to the sub so I would be sure to wake up if anything was found.
I backed off and only as much as mined the path I mined before, did some runs on the paths it was reported to take from more and more sources as time passed, and never camped again.
Months passed, still reading about TLPD, still trying to get an idea for it. Sometime towards the end of the summer before wrath came out I started multiboxing. I had 2 toons and my girlfriend only had one. But she quit playing some months before this whim started, so I had transferred her toon and a toon I built on it over to my own account (QQ about account sharing, we've lived together for years. Eat it.)
Happened to be flying through Storm Peaks last Thursday doing crusade dailies and saw Vyragosa's corpse laying on the ground (5:30pm as marked) and that's when I decided it was time for the planned last stand against TLPD.
Ok, as mentioned, I have two toons. A geared lock and a not-so geared pally .healer.) I had seen that without question Brunn and the Ice Lake were two of the hottest spots by far. I parked my mains in those two spots. I used my girlfriend's 80 to patrol areas I wasn't sitting in, otherwise I would sit her in various spots (27,50 .. 27,39 .. The hill at 35,44 .. posts at 41,39 and 45,36 .. around engine at 43,54 and 39,53 .. also parked on the waterfall at 37,75) I also used my roommate's Ret pally while he was asleep and at work. He would watch my toons and keep them from going idle while I slept for 2-3 hours a day. (5 in the middle of the day Monday, way more than I meant to but nothing spawned so it didn't matter.)
I know for sure (was tired Thursday when I started) the 100% coverage of the frozen lake started at 12:05am friday morning. am, not noon, for those of you who have trouble with that...hehe.. I parked my warlock at the Frozen Lake, directly over the mark that looks like the center where you can see evenly in all 3 directions. (coordinates above.) I parked the pally at Brunn, directly over the center of the put about 50 yards up. Was high enough at the frozen lake to see straight in line over the hills heading to the south.
After two kills in Brunn where I saw it coming off that mountain I actually parked on the edge of the mountain on an outcropping of rock JUST a yard inside the blue chick morph range (to have fun watching the bears.) (....Fun being as much fun as you can have sitting staring at the came crap when you're looking at the screen.)
When the TLPD spawned it was no more than 12 or 16 yards above me, well within sight range as I believe I mentioned in the kill notes. Didn't hear the
评论来自
443794
Didn't hear the roar like I did a few times when Vyragosa spawned originally.
Now, this whole time I was watching the /who storm peaks list to see who the regulars were. I started conversations and shared information with several of them. I also used my roommate's ret pally account to log onto the laptop and took his lvl 59DK to K3 to keep an eye on General and do the same observing of /who storm peaks and also talked with campers / seekers there.
Nobody saw any rares spawn other than my Vyragosa kills. There were a couple Dirkee kills, but I don't believe (As many don't) that he is related at all to TLPD beyond being rare. This was from information from at least 12 people on each side of Horde and Alliance. So I believe without much of a question that I had 100% of the kills starting Friday morning and ending with the TLPD on Tuesday morning.
This is why after this experience of having so many square yards covered, so many people in communication with and the fact I only ever saw anything spawn in those two locations, I believe those are the only two spots Vyragosa spawns. And having said that, I seriously doubt claims of him spawning over the waterfall or any of the other places that he actually has been recorded on videos patroling through, are actual spawn spots. Unless of course, you count him coming into view as a "spawn." And that would fully, without any questions, explain why the path that goes through Brunnhildar is by itself, and all the other paths intersect at the frozen lake. Because that's his second spawn spot.
::KILL SHOT::
http://symphonyofnoise.com/binv2/TLPDKillShot.jpg
::VICTORY DANCE::
http://symphonyofnoise.com/binv2/TLPDVictoryDance.jpg
::VISUAL MAP:: (for showing friends who kept asking questions this would be easier to answer with)
http://symphonyofnoise.com/binv2/TLPDJpegNotes.jpg
评论来自
438865
THIS ARE TO 100% the SPAWNPOINTS FROM THE DRAGONS! FROM VYRAGOSA AND TLPD!
31/70
35/76
51/71
52/34
mostly he comes flying from 52/34 and 35/76
and mostly kills are then by Boars Atem on the crossroads!
Are you Multibox :D then you will camping exact at the Spawnpoints Coords and you will see it´s right and true what i say!
He spawns out auf the Mountain! Look at my Videolink. This is the Moment of a spawn.
When he spawns you hear the sound of her flying (wing-beat)
Thanks and good Luck
评论来自
443980
Killed Vyra in bor's breath 337 PM realm time on rivendare, Tuesday. Was flying north from the frozen waterfall when i tagged. unfortunately my pally bubble was on cd but i found out that damage from the fall was 66% of my hp, which means the fall is survivable at that height on that path. I think it was patting counter-clockwise around frosthold since where i found it matched where it should be on that path.
Screen:
http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/natural/d47cf5f30baae1847c8fd509272116915460ad87.png
I'm trying to figure out if these rares are on a timer or on a set spawn schedule. it seems that a lot of the times that the drakes are killed are within 5-15 minutes of either the top of the hour or the half past mark, which leads me to believe that EVERY realm had this happen on the first kill, or there may be a schedule rather than a timer.
All of the information is here to do the math except for 1 thing... Are the times AM or PM, and what day of the week are they on. Since vyra and tlpd share spawn times a post on either would be helpful.
Edit: Typos
评论来自
393077
Ponderane:
How do you know that these campers where telling you the truth? Why would they tell you if they killed Vyragosa? Do you think they wanted more competition?
Look at Abraxusta's video. What do you have to say about them coming out of the mountains? Id rather believe his spawn points are correct than any others. It looks weird when they come out of the mountains and he used his friends to camp all paths.
Styria:
Many europeans write here. I know that in many countries you write like this:
03:44 is in the morning(or night)
15:44 in the middle of the day
07:00 is in the morning
19:00 in the evening
etc, you get the point
&*!@ PM and AM :P I always mix them anyway. Would be easier if everyone wrote like I suggested above ^
评论来自
393077
Adding a map of Abraxusta's spawn points for the lazy ones :P
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:310700351761510699520341
评论来自
444909
Killed Vyragosa today, was following the speculated red route from the first post on this thread. So I'd say its safe to assume that those routes are correct, if you're looking to farm yourself a proto drake, it will still be a pain in the ass.
Good Luck!
评论来自
212861
Ive been camping for the Time-Lost Proto Drake for about a week now on the realm "Feathermoon". Ive seen Vyragosa spawn at multiple points:
08/15/2009 - 9:37 PM Realm Time - 30, 68 (Time-Lost Proto Drake Spawn)
08/16/2009 - 7:35 PM Real Time - 27,60 over Valkyrion (Vyragosa)
08/17/2009 - 1:47 PM Realm Time - 46,64 on the ground at The Foot Steppes (Vyragosa)
08/18/2009 - 1:36 PM Realm Time - 36,65 over Bor's Breath (Vyragosa)
08/20/2009 - 11:10 AM Realm Time - 30,68 over Bor's Breath (Vyragosa)
评论来自
369519
After several weeks and several near-misses, I finally bagged this one.
My NPCscan addon found it flying toward the northeast, just north of Frost Hold, on the southeastern side of Bor's Breath.
I'll update with the coords as soon as I can (forgot to write em down in the excitement >_> ).
Edit: The coords were 30,66
评论来自
445288
hey twilightsky im also on auchindoun and farming time-lost proto drake. not sure if you know me but im that nightelf warrior you always seen around xD. ive seen you standing still in the same place waiting for the drake im guessing , trust me dont do the same mistake i did wen i stayed in the same place and a undead mage flew past me and killed it :(
LewisZX auchindoun
评论来自
445335
LMAO I JUST FOUND IT DURING MY DAILY! at first a month ago i decided to farm for it but that never happened cause i was too lazy. so yestrday during my brunnhildar daylie it flew right over me and i was like HOLY HELL! i mounted flew up arrgoed it and drew it over to a hill, to my demise tho another person was flying by on his mount didnt even see it! haha downed it with ease, melee dps DK blood spec, easily soloable for anyclass.
spotted right by the brunnhildar lady who gives the daily FYI where the bear pit is you gotta look up he flies just barely out of sight of your screen if your looking from birds eye view
-faithshero level 80 death knight shadowmoon-
评论来自
445288
just got downed by undead mage on auchindounwhilst it managed to slip past 3 of my guild memebers. was amongst all the blue drakes when my NPCscan addon went mad but sadly clicked on it to find it was dead. 23.00 server time was the time of the kill so gna put swaggahs thoery into test and go back there at 22.00 tomorow :)
评论来自
332911
LMAO I JUST FOUND IT DURING MY DAILY! at first a month ago i decided to farm for it but that never happened cause i was too lazy. so yestrday during my brunnhildar daylie it flew right over me and i was like HOLY HELL! i mounted flew up arrgoed it and drew it over to a hill, to my demise tho another person was flying by on his mount didnt even see it! haha downed it with ease, melee dps DK blood spec, easily soloable for anyclass.
spotted right by the brunnhildar lady who gives the daily FYI where the bear pit is you gotta look up he flies just barely out of sight of your screen if your looking from birds eye view
-faithshero level 80 death knight shadowmoon-
Last edited by faithshero22 7 hr 23 min ago (Patch 3.2.0)
why was that given bad rep? its good info, a solid location, and idea of how to look. ?
评论来自
Alteir
Spoke with a GM about rare spawns in general:
http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/9232/wowscrnshot082209204537.jpg
http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/5331/wowscrnshot082209204542.jpg
Seems like it's yet another loss for theorycrafting.
评论来自
445836
I wrote a guide for finding him here:
http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Catch-the-Time-Lost-Proto-Drake
Let me know if I have anything wrong or you think I should add anything and I will try to update it.
评论来自
415748
Finally got this girl the other day, I wasn't even looking for him this time, I was following some random horde who was on a flight path from Dalaran and she flew into me and dismounted me, Luckily I had a Snowfall Lagar on hand and pop'd that and started to slap her around until she was like "OH THAT ROTINAJ IS THE BEST DK ON DREADMAUL, I BETTER GIVE UP AND BECOME HIS SLAVE".
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/3241/wowscrnshot082109162039.jpg
The moral of this story: You don't find the Time-Lost Proto-Drake, she finds
you
.
评论来自
333756
whats the name of the addon for targeting the drake?
评论来自
Alteir
In Soviet Russia, Time-Lost Proto Drake cannot find
you
.
评论来自
438865
THIS ARE TO 100% the SPAWNPOINTS FROM THE DRAGONS! FROM VYRAGOSA AND TLPD!
31/70
35/76
51/71
52/34
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF9b7o29KOE&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fmy_videos_edit&feature=player_embedded
Good Luck.
评论来自
272081
Been camping for just over a week, I keep getting Varygosa, and no TLPD so far. I would ask if seen TLPD or Varygosa, no one says anything which I am not surprised. The players are tight-lipped on my server, and for obvious reasons, they're competitive and looking for either one as well. I still have not seen a corpse of TLPD yet... The camping and waiting is... mind-numbing and boring. I'll get it... eventually.
评论来自
294199
had nothing to do after dailys completed, so i took 2 laps around the Storm peaks.
and found the dragon
http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/4899/wowscrnshot082409171642.jpg
评论来自
445288
After the time-lost proto drake was killed on 23.00 server time on friday on auchindoun eu , the following events have happend.
sunday: at 14.23 i stumbled across a vyragosa corpse at valkryion
tuesday (today): vyragosa spawned over brunhildar village at 14.00 when i tagged it to the side and killed it. i killed it straight away compared to the valkryion so thats the 23 minuite gap i guess.
LOOK AT THE TIMES. possibly could be a coincidence but its too strange tbh. so im gonna go back in to days ( on thursday) at 14.00 to see what happens.
LewisZX auchindoun
p.s rehgarl and demothicone where also there and saw the same things. this would also explain why in my above post that i didnt see it for 29 hours. I also believe that if time lost protodrake does spawn from vyragosa than it is a random timer compared to vyragosas 2 day timer.
评论来自
Alteir
Holy &*!@ guys, i finally found it! At 00.33 the 26th of August after two weeks of camping and a psyche on the verge of meltdown, i finally spotted him. Targeted, aimed shot, tagged and killed! And those guys here who said he didn't exist! What fools they were! He did exist, under the frozen lake in Bor's Breath! He just moved onto green... ahem,
whiter
pastures from the idyllic yet dolefully static (given his lifespan, not so surprising!) lakeview of Loch Ness!
Then only five minutes later i find Saint Patrick McDirkee's gold treasure at the end of the rainbow, Bigfoot lurking around the entrance to the ice revenant cave, a four-leaf clover on his corpse, and inside the cave is the semi-decayed corpse of Jimmy Hoffa cradling the Holy Grail, a map to El Dorado in pristine condition and a Gibson Flying V signed by Jesus Christ himself. Imagine my luck!
No drake though...
No... drake...
/cry
评论来自
272081
Hmmm I dont know, I'm considering once my two weeks is up at bor's breath I might consider moving my camping spot to Brunn Village. I only have a few more days left till it will be two weeks since camping 16 hours a day. I havent decided if I should stick with my current camping location or just move on to Brunn Village, maybe have better luck there...
评论来自
367752
im thinking of taking a new approach to this drake, instead of spending most of time waiting for him begging to wonder if i should try camping 1 hour a day at the same time of day in the same area for as long as it takes to find him cos if he is random then surely he'll appear some time without me wasting my entire days
评论来自
212861
Update from feathermoon:
TLPD Dead this morning at 2:29 AM this morning at coordinates 27, 57 in Valkyrion. Kill was NOT made by me unfortunately. I was parked over in bor's breath, I was spamming my target macro and he spawned, and within 4 seconds he was already dead. I didnt even get to see who killed him or looted the corpse.
Checked general chat on both horde and alliance, but to no avail. 12 days of camping down the drain.
评论来自
380599
Thats the thing... even if he does spawn theres basicly no chance I'll get it.
Not sure about you guys, but theres atleast 30 guys just sitting there at Bors Breath waiting for him to spawn.
So far ive seen about 10 Vyragosa kills, and every one of them has been killed within seconds.
High population servers ftl.. I feel like transfering to a ghost town server then moving back when I get the tlpd.
评论来自
127255
I got this mount on my hunter early this morning (Emerald Dream EU server).
At around 6:30am server time I was doing a quick round of Storm Peaks to check if Skoll had spawned. As I was flying towards Valkyrion, just past Bor's Breath and in the small valleyish area which leads to the Snowdrift Plains, Silverdragon flashed up the TLPD picture. This happened to me once before, in exactly the same place, and it was just a corpse, but on spamming the button I saw it was alive. A brief moment of panic until I found it - it was flying North towards the Snowdrift Plains - then I flew into and and gently guided it down to earth. As I wasn't farming it, I didn't have any lagers etc. I probably could have shot it from the ground, it wasn't too high up, but I didn't want to take that risk.
Anyway it hits very lightly, I didn't have a pet out as I was pet farming and ended up almost meleeing down as I lacked the weapon skill to wing clip it properly.
A quick /who revealed there were eight alliance in the region at the time, and probably less than half that of horde as we are a very alliance-heavy server.
Keep in there everyone, I know it's disheartening when people who aren't even farming it get lucky, but don't give up! It looks awesome and I've already had a few people emoting me (thankfully with nice emotes!) as I fly around.
Good luck.
评论来自
445288
i cant remeber where i read this but some guy had a theory on a spawn timer that really stuck with me,and also some guy squeezed some info out a GM that linked with his theory , so ill try and explain it. Every 5 miniutes there is a chance that vyragosa or timlost can spawn( vyragosa being more likely). this could be a 1 in 10000 chance , but there is a CHANCE it can spawn every 5 miniutes , its just very very unlikely. gradually each time 5 mins passes the chance for it to spawn gets GREATER , but not by alot. so in other words it is a random timer , but in a lucky circumstance you could predict when it spawns.
评论来自
272800
So after three weeks of camping this sucker, I finally got him last night (Eonar EU, Alliance). At 00:10 (GMT+1) my NPC scan went off. It was a sheer moment of panic as I was severel meters from my computer. Quickly I ran back, targetted him, took a lager, and shot him. My hands were shaking badly when I finally looted him. He was found directly over the frozen lake and he had presumably spawned on the little ledge at the mountain. It was a true test on my patience and I was about to give up last night when he spawned. It's not a question about if you will get it, just when.
Good luck to all you fellow campers!
评论来自
Alteir
I got mine too today, almost exactly 48 hours after the maintenance server reset.
The time was 10.55 AM GMT+1 on the Bloodfeather server when i decided to aimlessly fly over to the spawnpoint south of Brunnhildar Village. I could to that, I mean, since he wasn't going to spawn, right?
WRONG!
NPCScan goes crazy. My first thought is, "Great, i finally found him and he's probably already dead." That's how it happens, right?
WRONG AGAIN, BUCKY!
"Scorch" has just spawned above the village, alive, well and completely untapped. My brain shuts down for about half a second from sheer shock while my body fires a gigantic dose of adrenaline right into my veins. I literally go into overclock mode. When my brain comes back online, I fly near him, bodypull him to a ledge below the Stormpeak Wyrm roosts on the mountain above and start to kill him. Naturally, i mess up. My hands are shaking like hell, and I misclick ability after ability as the possibility dawns upon me; "What if a horde comes and kills me right now?" I don't have superb gear, and I don't last long in PvP. But all that is irrelevant. I found him.
I FOUND HIM!
Before I know it, I am standing over his corpse, beautifully draped over the snowy ledge. I am still shaking. Is it a dream? Is this just some cruel imagery of the mind? I wait for a few moments and realize... that it is not. It is the real deal.
The rest, my friends, is history.
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/8051/wowscrnshot082809105434.jpg
(freaking out in general chat)
http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/9497/wowscrnshot082809105636.jpg
(more freaking out, low on HP because a horde druid got angry at me :()
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/2491/wowscrnshot082809110211.jpg
(returned to the scene of the crime. More than just a little confused)
http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/9386/wowscrnshot082809111119.jpg
(me being completely mind$%^&ed over the fact i just found the TLPD)
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/2441/wowscrnshot082809112357.jpg
(still mind^&*!ed. Wanted to see him despawn for some reason)
Epilogue~
Well, what to say... I consider myself extremely lucky. I did not find him in the first three minutes of my hunt like some of the schmucks who've posted here. I've spent a sizeable amount of my online time to find this drake. Almost three entire weeks. Three weeks is roughly 500 hours. And 500 hours spent to find this drake is
NOTHING
.
First of all, a tip to you all. I honestly believe the 6-24 hour spawn rule is the real deal.
Vyragosa
spawned
+5h50min
after reset at 11.00 Wednesday. Her next spawn was
+29h55min
, 16.55 Thursday afternoon. TLPD spawned
+47h55min
after the maintenance. This was 10.55 AM this morning, almost
EXACTLY
2 days since reset and 18 hours after Vyragosa's last spawn.
My few words of wisdom to you is that the perseverent are rewarded. Exactly like Spago said;
Getting this mount is not a question of "
if
". It is a question of "
when
".
Good luck to you all. I have enjoyed the hunt.
评论来自
406695
AFTER FOUR MONTHS, I FINALLY GOT HIM!
I was flying near Ulduar this morning at about 7:50am on the Gilneas server when my NPCScan went off and I saw the Time Lost drake flying right for me! PANIC! I flew into him to draw aggro and he knocked me off my mount. I fell forever into the deep ravine out in front of Ulduar, luckily I remembered to drink one of my Snowfall Lagers so that I wouldn't die from the fall. I remounted and took off towards him again. I caught back up to him and I pulled him towards some flat area near the small outpost near Ulduar. Luckily it was early in the morning as there was no one around, especially in a high traffic area like Ulduar. I dismounted and quickly winged a shot at him as he flew overhead. He dropped down to where I was standing and the rest was easy. Killed him at coords 44 / 30.
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/8032/wowscrnshot082809075312.jpg
OMG THERE HE IS!
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/1747/wowscrnshot082809075335.jpg
THE FIGHT
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/4250/wowscrnshot082809075750.jpg
THE MOUNT
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/6123/wowscrnshot082809075929.jpg
VICTORY LAP
评论来自
445288
wow this is weird , at exactly 23.00 server time , timelost was downed last friday. just came back to exactly the same spot i saw its corspe at at this friday 23.00 servertime... and guess what vyragosa spawned :O
评论来自
435182
I have to share my TLPD story. First of all, thanks to everyone in this thread for all the helpful information, particularly recommendation of the NPC Scan addon.
I've been after TLPD since Lich King came out. In fact, one day early this year I actually had her in my sights with no one else around. I got close and right-clicked to initiate the fight. For some reason my shot didn't fire and all I did was fall. I quickly re-mounted and chased her down but since my Snowfall Lager was on cooldown I now had to try and drag her to the ground. I died a couple of times but still managed to catch back up. Finally I got aggro and started toward the ground.....only to find a DK sitting nearby who immediately attacked and took aggro. OMG! I was so upset that I nearly quit WoW. A once in a lifetime chance and I blew it!
Well, last night around 9:37pm eastern time (Uldum realm) I was waiting on a raid to start and parked myself just above the ledge above Brunhildar Village. I was actually looking for the new Spirit Beast, Skoll. Lo and behold NPC Scan went off. IT WAS TLPD! She spawned literally right behind me in the village. I raced over, fired an arcane shot but somehow I hit the ground before I could get Snowfall Lager down. OMG I died again!
Fortunately, the spawn point was just a few yards away so I quickly rezzed and chased her down. The battle took place right in the middle of Foot Steppes and now SHE'S MINE!
Best of luck to you all. :-)
评论来自
rebbel
i looked on curse .com for an addon for this whats the addons name if there is one or if it on curse
评论来自
367752
god dammit it happend again i am so bloody #$%^ed off, i was farming in the drake field for artic fur for a mate go fly back round to valk think i could go and keep farming fly back round and there he is dead, 17.15 st for anyon on auchindoun.
I am epicly !@#$ed
评论来自
448778
I certainly can't understand how this ppl doing this? I was passing bor's breath yesterday at 7pm at magtheridon. I passed Bor's Fall and went to K3 for 2 minutes, not more, 2 minutes. Then i go by the fall again and i saw Vyragosa's corpse, dead already! My addon start noticed me almost immediately i fly off K3, then i started to search and find her dead on a clif, stucked under a house! Anoying!
评论来自
blazerblaze
Today, I lost the Time-Lost Proto Drake for the second time! lol. I have been hunting him exclusively for 9 months. In the early 9 months I saw him spawn but a druid beat me to it. Both of us we're ally so I couldn't kill him. Today, after I called it quits and was about to go to my friends house the unexpected happened, it spawned! I tagged it pulled it down but a hunter attacked and killed me. Now as I was fighting him I realized for some reason he wasn't dieing fast. Maybe it was just the heat of the moment and I screwed up. Now.... the first time I lost him I was really $%^&ed. The second not so much... I didn't care much at all, I actually made a horde character just to congratulate him.
So out of all my experience hunting this drake I have to say it is about timing. All the timing theories are wrong. I have tried them all for myself and nothing. I can honestly say from my experience that it's just random. I believe you can't predict it because he is Time-LOST and not Time- 6 hours/12hours/24hours/ or 23hours. So the best advice I can give anyone is just to hope and hope you are the one who is there when he spawns and honestly he isn't worth spending 24hours trying to get. Make sure to moderate the time you spend hunting it. 9 months have gone by and I still don't have mine. Even though I was there it was my error that caused to problems. So if any of you run into the TLPD just be prepared for the unexpected don't assume it's yours automatically just because you tagged. I learned the hard way.
So good luck and have a good time hunting him.
Raicon, 80 Death Knight, Tichondrius.
Screenshot for those who want it. I didn't kill it but I did get to tag it.
http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n260/Shinningwolf282/?action=view¤t=WoWScrnShot_082909_175438.jpg
评论来自
272081
I have been camping for it since 8/16/09 on Saurfang realm keep in mind I live in the USA on the east coast and to consider the wonderful time differences, and determined to keep trying even though seeing other players in the area and it can be quite discouraging and annoying. Since Saurfang is seemingly possibly Alliance population dominated, which doesnt help either lol. I scowl at anyone I see that is flying by or camping nearby me, tired... weary eyed. I refused to bot this hunt, knowing more than half the players that have gotten it, have botted for it. Pretty much cheating, but I rather do it the hard way and earn it myself without cheating to get it. I have more respect for players that have the mount and did not bot while camping.
I had been camping just above the Frozen Lake in Bor's Breath, since I picked that location to camp since three patrol routes merge closely.
I have picked up the NPC scanner from Curse.com, I have tested it out and it works greatly. I still make a good habit of clearing out cache every time I start up WOW which is every morning when I wake up. I camp for it 16-18 hours a day, basically insane to do but yet like I said determined to get it and I know I will get it, eventually.
I occasionally pat around checking for corpses and recording in notebook, time/date/location and what it is Varygosa/TLPD then I come back to my original camping spot. NPC scanner add on and notekeeping is a no-brainer. I recommend it. I had my video effects all turned all the way down except for view distance, that was maxed, in hopes it will buy me a few precious seconds in framerate to get it.
Since I have been camping. I've only seen Varygosa few times. Including just spotting it dead or my killing it. These are my notebook entries below-
8/16/09 Saurfang server 11am server time- Varygosa spotted dead at the Engine of the Makers, just right next to the area with the blue drakes.
8/20/09 11:50pm server time- Varygosa spotted dead at Bor's Fall near the Frozen Waterfall.
8/21/09 server time 10:51 am, my time- 8:51pm- Spotted and killed Varygosa in Bor's Breath just at Frozen Lake.
8/22/09 server time 10:00 pm/my time 8:00pm- Varygosa spotted and killed in Bor's Breath by me near the frozen cliff near the bend to Bor's Fall.
8/23/09 server time 11:37 am/my time 9:36pm- Spotted and killed Varygosa myself in Bor's Breath at the bend near Camp in Foot Steps.
8/24/09 server time 2:40am/my time 12:40pm- Varygosa spotted and killed by myself Bor's Breath Frozen Lake, heading for Valkyrion.
8/27/09 server time 8:08am/my time 6:08pm- Varygosa spotted and killed by me in Bor's Breath Frozen Lake.
8/29/09 server time 2:23am/my time 12:23pm TLPD spotted by Crumpets and killed by me in Brunnhildar Village. The hunt is over. Sweet victory! Finally tagged and bagged this baby. *will explain story below*
I'll try not to write a big book over this. I was camping in Bor's Breath as usual and occasionally patroling around the known flightpaths it took. From what I remember what happened was I had WOW minimized to look up more information and updates on this website right here, reading all the updates and thinking "Wow, she/he finally got it, awesome. I wonder when I will get mine? Maybe I should start camping Brunnhildar Village now after I finish my patroling the area since they have been getting it from that area." I open back up my WOW and here I see Crumpets screaming at me in caps in guild chat spamming it, along the lines like "OMG ITS HERE ITS HERE BLACKSTARR HURRY!" and I honestly remember thinking "Yeah right.. sif." and yet, Crumpets kept spamming caps and invited me into a group with him. I thought "Oh *!@#, he might actually be serious." and he continues to spam telling me to hurry asap, I saw his health bar occasionally get hit like something was attacking him and I freaked out and flew all the way from Bor's Breath by Valkyrion to Brunnhildar Village which felt like I was flying on 60% flying mount when I actually was on the 280% with Crusader Aura on. I'm sweating like crazy, I started shaking really bad, hands shaking so bad had trouble holding the mouse while trying to get to Brunn. Village asap and I turned and approached the area my NPC Scanner went crazy, flashing red and the Time Lost icon popped up, I thought "Omg he was serious! He was actually serious and not joking! Oh my god! Oh my god! It's here oh my god!" I panicked, my heart beating like crazy, that rush kicked in...There, I see Crumpets kiting down the Time Lost to the ground and he's telling me to hurry and tag it and kill it asap. I'm hurrying over to them and we land and I start attacking the Time Lost and finally killed him. I killed him. I started crying, yes I admit it, I started crying like "Oh my god, it's finally over! I actually killed him and it's mine! Oh my god!" I was crying and shaking so bad, I could barely type straight, and failed with lots of typos. LOL. He congrat'd me and announced it by /yell in general chat in Storm Peaks. We mounted up, flew to Dalaran and he made the announcement in trade chat and of course, I got whispers with along the lines of "Congrats/lucky/when/where?" ect.
From what I remember, Crumpets I think was just on his way to do Son of Hodir dailies and was passing through Brunnhildar Village and he happened to have the NPC Scan add-on on, since I mentioned it to him and it went off so he I'm assuming freaked out and spammed it to me. It was one of the longest, fastest two minutes of my life. I was so shocked, it was insane and overwhelming for me. And it's true what they say, when you see it, kill it and loot it that rush really does stay with you. I still have that rush.
Basically, I got lucky. I would have not gotten it if it weren't for Crumpets, and I owe it all to him. The credit goes to him for finding it, being in the right place right time. I told him if he ever by chance wants to try it for himself, he can count on me to help him and camp for it.
I had been getting a lot of words of discouragement such as "It's just a mount. You'll never get it. It's just a stupid ugly mount, why bother? You wont get any achievements out of it" , "Hunting for TLPD is one of the dumbest things someone or a player can ever do. I would never do stupid !@#$ like that.", "It's an ugly ugly mount.", "Quit while you are ahead. Just quit now." ect ect. I know that they were just saying that because they didn't want me to get it or see me get it probably, knowing they most likely wanted it themselves and were jealous. I also got jokes over it by other guildies, teasing me like "I saw the time lost! I killed it!" , "I saw the Time Lost ballroom dancing with KT in Naxx!", and other guildies that would be in Storm Peaks for farming mine nodes would joke in general chat and say something along the lines of "Can someone help me? I have this brown dragon named Time Lost something attacking me! I'm at *insert coords* I dont have a flying mount, can someone come kill it for it?" ect ect. Just to make me miserable and pull my chain.
In short- I got to rub it in their faces and it felt pretty good to do so. :P
To the other tired weary campers, dont give up. DO NOT GIVE UP. I didn't, I have already invested days/hours into this, but I did know my time will come eventually. And it did with luck and because of Crumpets. Just like your time will come as well. :D
---continued in next post----
评论来自
272081
Thank you to all those who posted information here, and their encouraging stories and most of all- BIG Thank You and much much love to Crumpets for making this happen. <3 <3
Basically I would say my own personal advice
- Try camping in Brunnhildar Village, it seems to be spawning/spotted a lot there lately so campers, start camping in Brunn. Village instead of anywhere else.
Here are the screenshots, forgive me for crappy pictures since I had no add ons on except NPC Scan, and ugly basic UI.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v468/EchosideCemetery/WoWScrnShot_082809_122204.jpg
Right after I just killed it and looting it.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v468/EchosideCemetery/WoWScrnShot_082809_122313.jpg
as you can see I'm still freaking out in chat. LOL.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v468/EchosideCemetery/WoWScrnShot_082809_122531.jpg
This was when players started showing up. In this pic, I think might have been an Alliance human warlock.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v468/EchosideCemetery/WoWScrnShot_082809_125223.jpg
In Dalaran basking in my glory.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v468/EchosideCemetery/WoWScrnShot_083009_130509.jpg
In Dalaran, on top of the world with Maxed video effects, back to normal as usual!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v468/EchosideCemetery/WoWScrnShot_083009_130530.jpg
another view.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v468/EchosideCemetery/WoWScrnShot_083009_130652.jpg
perfect.
Good luck to you guys who are still camping and hunting, I repeat- DO NOT GIVE UP. YOU WILL GET IT.
Edit add-in- I dont know why this was downrated when I had included a good tip, to camp in Brunn. Village instead. LOL@ the haters.
评论来自
309534
Man... I absolutely want to cry right now. I'm the biggest mount collector on our server, and I've got, hands down, the worst luck with all mounts. I've been unfortunate enough to see this drake dead 4 times. Now, 3 of those times killed in front of my own eyes. Here's my story today....
So a fellow achievement #$%^& in my guild, happens to have the most on our server, needs vyragosa for his Frostbitten achievement. So while we're doing AV premades for other achieves, a bunch of us are sitting in storm peaks just waiting to see Vyragosa... imagine that, camping vyragosa, not time lost.... anyways. The last game we leave, and we're all talking about it, just got a frostwolf perfection, and he says "time lost proto drake found". He's looking around franticly, says he can't find it, can't target it. So I immediately open my map, look where he's at, and think what route the drake could be flying on. I was up by Ulduar, and he was in bor's breath.
I close my map and race to the center of storm peaks, with the huge hole in the ground below the temple of storms. Last I saw his dot on the map was that valley there that links bor's breath to the place where the blue proto drakes are. So I race there. Now I hear him on vent, I found him, I'm following him. I'm just amazed at this point because it sounded like he was alive! So now my heart is really beating hard. When I get to where his dot used to be, I find that it's another guildee, not the person following the drake. My heart sinks............ I hear him in vent say he's got aggro, now I re open my map and see he's no longer near bor's breath, but in the middle of where the blue proto drakes are. I wish my mount could have gone faster than epic flying, but just as I pull into view, the time lost proto drake dies and is a grey portrait to me... unlootable.... I've been on the hunt for this creature since last november.....
I havn't searched for him as hard as some people, but I do have 114 mounts and I have some serious dedication for mount farming. I just can't put into words how that made me feel to watch the time lost proto drake die in front of my eyes for a 3rd time, except this time it was someone in my party and I couldn't loot it or even roll on it...... I'm sure this will get marked down, but for those that get to read my story before it disappears, feel my pain. And to those who've gotten this magnificent mount, congrats.
Manbearpíg
Us-Horde Akama
评论来自
212861
So after 17 days of camping, it FINALLY spawned directly at Valkyrion.
It spawned directly at 27, 57 over Valkyrion. I missed tagging it 17 days ago at the same location, so Ive been camping that same spot since.
Tonight at 6:06 PM Feathermoon Realm Time, it spawned at those exact same coordinates. I was using the targetting macro that is listed previously. As soon as I had it targetted and in range, I dismounted, hit arcane barrage for the tag, then popped Ice Block. Once I was on the ground I popped out of the iceblock and began Ice Lancing it till it was on the ground.
The entire time I was killing it I was ecstatic. Good luck to everyone who is trying for it! You will get it if you put enough time into it.
Kill Shot:
http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/8153/wowscrnshot083009200826.jpg
评论来自
Dimagus
On the Bloodhoof server this week:
2:30PM Tuesday - Server came up from Extended Maintenance
2:45PM Friday - First TLPD Killed @ Ulduar
3:45PM Monday - Second TLPD Killed @ K3
2:30AM Tuesday - Third TLPD Killed (Unknown Loc)
~72 hours between each spawn with unknown number of Vyragosa kills in between. Bloodhoof is a high pop server with more than enough campers to kill her within minutes, so the spawn timer must be 24 hours or a multiple thereof (6, 8, 12)
Vyra like most rares are likely a block window spawn. If the timer is 12 hours, then she can spawn in every 12 hour block. If she spawns in the first minute then it still has to wait for the remaining 11:59 of the block to finish and then it starts a new one. TLPD on the other hand seems to spawn near the beginning/end of a block whenever the roll comes up for it.
Update
: A third TLPD spawned for the week, almost 11 hours after the 2nd and less than an hour before downtime. Two guildies on the kill, the 78 alt won the roll. Go figure.
评论来自
Dressah
Hello fellow Time-Lost hunters :>
I've had great use of the information on this blog, i haven't caught one as of yet tho myself.
- I've been camping at the frozen lake for 4-5 days now, not going offline at all except for the maintenence. I've spotted Varygosa only once, and that was when i had collapsed from exhaustion on my computerdesk, lol. My NPCscan addon had spotted her tho, and when i woke up i was like, hmm damn! it had spotted her at : 07:24 in the morning. I've even made a small antiafk machine composed of a fanthing and a remote taped onto it so it presses the space button like 7-8 sec apart, quite fun and very geeky iknow ;p
Well, I'm just sitting here at the lake and wanted to share this with you, i'll post a picture of my eventuel finds of Varygosa and TLPD, if i do find them, lol!
Cya Dressah Aka. Trikz on Twisting Nether
评论来自
338204
Tbh, When I didnt know about Npcscan I had to actually spamm all day the macro. But after I found time lost I found about NPCScan. It's so much eaiser now with it you can watch tv or play ps2,ps3 or xbox while camping. I mean it's not hard at all just choose a place and camp it like it's your home. And also move your char one time in a while to avoid to auto loggout.
If you patient you will get it I swear. Just use this addon Called NPCScan. If you dont have any TV or something close to the computer then go watch it and max the volume so you can hear when you find it.
I already have it and got it of begining of april but still I am reading comments because It's so nice to see how ppl get it.
EDIT: This is not kind of info about time lost just a tip.
评论来自
110767
Well I'm going to share a story.
I had given up looking for him a long time ago but today I decided I really needed gold so I would go do dailies in Stroms peaks after AT dalies.
I round the corner past frost hold and NPC_scan flashes TIME LOST PROTO DRAKE! right near the entrance to the temple of stroms. (sorry no cord mod installed at the time)
wouldn't you know it right there in my face there he was I freak and hit any shot, auto dismounting figuring I was on top of the frozen water fall. I take damage oh well FD let the pet tank pop a potion. In my gear it won't be much of a fight I can afford the HP loss.
Well I miss judged and was infront of the water fall. My slow fall laguer was in the bank cause like I said I gave up on hunting him.
I cratered. Rezed and I was still able to target him he wasn't tagged I flew towards Valkyron and lost him.
Apprently I must have bumped into him as he was turnign around.
By the time I figured he must have turned around a rogue who was just framing nodes got him.
so...
Stay calm, unlike me
always make sure you can slow fall some how
and yes he doubles back he doesn't go all the way around Stroms peaks.
GL
评论来自
292227
Here is a link to the mail I got from a GM I asked about hte spawn location and time of the time-lost proto-drake
http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n334/hrocky101/WoWScrnShot_090309_155901.jpg
评论来自
451805
I was just looking for some Relic of Uluars and i saw it...
I was with a friend and I got the first hit, so i thought i had it.
But i found out that loot was on need before greed, and he got it...
评论来自
452019
Hello TLPD Hunters :)
Here is my story.
I decided randomly (like they way I usually am with many things) to get this mount, as I have set myself to go for the 100 mounts.
But I wanted this mount for the challenge, the prize mount being hard to obtain, and of course an extra amount in the collection of mounts.
My home realm is large, active 24/7, competition to great, to many people, to much time lost and effort to get this mount on a 24/7 alive active server.
so randomly 3 days ago I said to my boyfriend, only way I think to get this mount would be, we transfer to a low pop realm, and I be very aggressive in my stance for this mount, and keep my main which is a Pally that is used all the time for Tanking and pvp geared and specced as Ret, Dual Spec. Keep the toon idle on a low pop realm get the drake and go back to our home realm.
He said, yeah makes sense, so i said OK, empty your bags, mail take what you want and let's go!
His response was "what now" LOL I said, well why delay, we do it, we do it now (we have xfered too other realms in the past so no big deal) and it was only going to be for 30 days.
So 3 days ago around midnight, his main a Pally dps and my main dual Spec pally both transfered to a low dense populated realm. its a horible realm, we been there once before, we get our toons over within 20 minutes of going through the transfer page, I take my pally straight too storm peaks and begin the process i decided too do... Idle as much as possible *around 18 hrs per day for a while then reduce the idle time from ebeing too tired* LOL.
Well, idling at Bor's Breathe for nearly 2 hrs, bored out of my mind, as I cannot use my main and i knew this would be the deal and this is what I said i would sacrifice to do for 30 days if it takes that long..... my boyfriend using his main, poking fun at how dead the realm is especially come midnight onwards ( we are used too a 24/7 alive realm) and that swhy the low pop realm was selected. So i said, stuff it, Im bringing over my ally account as well, just my DK to use too mine while i idle on my Pally for the TLPD. Dk was handy with mining + engie for clouds, ended up with around 240 Stacks of saronite, around 13 stacks of titanium and oh noidea how many full stacks of 20 of eternals but was ALOT within 3 days. which is fine as it got transfered via the neutral AH< back to my Main account Horde Pally which is a JC as well and seeking the TLPD.
We are financial enough too have multiple Horde and Ally accounts on the same home realm we belong too, and plan too faction change ally toons too Horde once viable.
So around 1-2 am my ally DK is on the realm now too, mining, within 4 hrs of transfering the horde Pally for TLPD and idling at Bor's the scanner goes off, I nearly fall off my chair and so excited, my boyfriend on the pc to the right of me runs over and im like oh its not TLPD it's Vyragosa that was around 4:40AM, we went to sleep around 7am that morning for a few hrs. Later that day think around early afternoon scanner goes off its Vyragosa again. Killed him again, coming into evening I said, hey lets get the recliners from the loungeroom and stay here, we can snooze off and on and be so comfy while camping for this TLPD LOL. Which was a great idea, great for the back and rear end too sit in comfort, recline back and snooze when need hehehe, was funny actually/
Killed Vyragosa again later that night think was around 6-8 hrs later.
I killed Vyragosa AGAIN last night well was at 1:20AM and a Horde lock pst me who was patrolling off and on but Never in the area for long periods of time, unlike me with my Pally that was stationed there almost 24/7 and he pst me and said, 'scum" ......................... err... gee.. what the hell... I am idle right where Vyragosa spawned at Bor's target and kill it and get called scum, what the hell... talk about sore loser, sheesh.
I question his comment and he has the audacity to tell me he has been after the kill for a few days and is barely seen in the area for long periods of time. I told him too QQ More and basically get inline, so is everyone else who hangs around here usually. He cries more and then tells me he is reporting me for camping, and tell him to do whatever he wants and /ignore and left it at that.
he logged off..... lol.
up all night getting so sick and tired of mining on my ally toon for soooooooooooo many many hrs, but refuse too use the DK for instances/raids or whatever on this dead realm we xfered too and just used it for mining and also scouting off and on for TLPD for my Horde Pally. My boyfriend getting annoyed not at me, but the realms lack of player skill for basic heroics yet alone pug raids, but he remained very supportive of what I set out to do, which he also became apart of.
Come early hours of the morning 6am im getting sleepy but awake, I fell asleep off and on infront of the pc in the recliner around 8am or so for short bursts waking up moving my pally so it doesnt get booted for AFK, drifiting in and out of sleep found myself logged out, log back in, go back to sleep that kind of thing went on for a few hours off and on.
Woke up around 1:15pm noticed I waas logged out, logged back in, saw a druid Horde idling right where my pally is, and I lay back in the recliner and drifted and next thing scanner goes off, I jump up thinking Vyragosa but hell NO, TLPD, im half asleep, where, where is he.... look up he right there just went past me, i turn around chase him, tag him, land ontop of the building first one i could at valk, get an excorcism into him, his mine...... heart racing thinking ally will come by any second possibly but no downed him in seconds, stunned, overwhelmed half dazed and was soooo Thankful the druid who was there too was actually idle and gave me time too get my tag ! looted mounted my TLPD spammed /1 about it and also brought my ally toon and did the same with /1 and co-ords and people coming over congratulating me heheheh.
The mount itself is ugly i think the same thing with them all, the one I want the most is the blueish 1 from 25 OS+ 3 drakes which i have the title but it isnt done enough and so many too roll for against. Will get it oneday i hope.
So the plan, and effort to transfer off our home realm to a dead realm to get this drake with hoping it be fast and within 30 days of basically rendering my main toon useless during the hunt for the drake, paid off!
now I can use my pally for whateve rI feel like on this dead realm for another 27 days before we can go back home lol.
Tip: posibly xfer to a dead realm, low pop and do a similar thing if your serious and dedicated in wanting this mount and are financial to do so. Worked for me really well, + i had another account xfered to amuse me in the mean time.
I know people are camping hell of alot longer then me, but i got mine and at a cost of transfering 3 accounts in total and stuck for 27 days or so on a dead realm but its worth it :)
My boyfriend is a fantstic man, did not whinge or complain about being bored even though he could use his main freely, just not enough players early hrs that we are used too for farming heroics/pig raids for fun etc etc.
Luckily he isnt interested in mount collecting lol
All did was stay at Bor's Breathe and NEVER moved away not even too patrol. That was my plan from the start, TLPD WILL spawn its a question of "when"
评论来自
367752
one thing i hate about camping is when you ask if anyones seen anything, as we cant be everywhere at once, and all you get in return is abuse or immature answers and all they really have to do is say "yes" or "no"
评论来自
151901
Well i just killed it. the upper left hand corner is the cords and the time in the upper right hand is the server time. It happened today 9/5/2009. I have been camping for 3 months. i almost didnt get him but a horde tried and was way off the ground when his mount dissapered and he fell and died. I attacked and got it. i was so happy. the cords were 37,69 it was 5:00pm server time.
评论来自
Blackriver
Hour 200 (as of September 12th, 2009) of several weeks... I lost track. Probably four or five. 10 Vyragosa sightings; 7 at Bor's Breath lake and 3 elsewhere. 0 Time-Lost Proto Drake sightings. She doesn't always spawn at logical intervals; i.e. at one point she spawned at 13 minutes past. I can also guarantee that these were spawns and not just her coming into view, as I'm certain I'm at a
spawn point
(one of the hills in that area). I've also seen her spawn
here
before. She appears to be capable of spawning directly above Val'kyrion. Perhaps it was just her coming into view as I was camping the Bor's Breath lake, but I've heard other people say she's spawned above them in Val'kyrion, so it's likely that those are two of the three possible spawn points. She
flew
from Val'kyrion over through Bor's Breath, around the Engine of the Makers and near Gimorak's Den before she was killed.
评论来自
aburkey123
aaaaargh,damn its enoying to see all the posts on how forunate you where to find it after not giving up from wasted time....how the hell to do you manage to get thorugh it?
i mean,i've been at it now for 3days now,and i havent even seen a rare-spawned during the whole time i've been there, camping at engine of the makers and right out side of valkyr...
skarling,runetotem EU
评论来自
445288
i believe my theory to be correct about timelost/vyra spawing whenever the server time ends in a 5 e.g 10:55 or ends in a 0 e.g 10:00.
this morning i logged on and did the brunhildar daily before i search for timelost/vyra. it was the 'defending your title' quest which is nice coz its quick n easy. as i handed the quest in i looked at the server time and it was 11:58. so going on my theory i rushed to bors breath. i looked at the time waiting for it to turn to 12:00. then BAM as soon as it hit 12:00 vyra spawned in front of me. she was neutral in the air for about 3 secs then went hostile.
so just a little tip for you guys to try =P
GL on your hunt
评论来自
453427
Time Lost Proto Drake - Found
Time: 7:45 PM
Date: Sept 6, 2009
Coordinates: (46,62)
Server: Dragonmaw
Other information: The Time Lost Proto Drake was flying low enough to the ground to hit it easily if your a spell caster. Tagged it and killed it. Was freaked out because I was so amazed I found it.
Tip: NPC Scanner was a great help. I probably would not have found it otherwise.
评论来自
Brainsnack
Just killed TLPD on Alonsus (EU) at 39,73 close to 12.00 server time.
I have tried semi-camping the drake on my hunter, which is my main char and only char with the level of flying needed to actually learn it. Hours changed into days, days into weeks and months. Most of you know what I mean by now. In that time I have killed Vyra once, months ago, above the big stairs at the Terrace of the Makers.
Today, I started mining on my gatherer char in Icecrown and decided to move to the Storm Peaks for the Hodir dailies. After mining another 2 saronite nodes as I entered the Storm Peaks through the place with the harpies just south of Valkyrion, I flew over the frozen water (where I have camped for the most time with my main) and followed it east to Brunnhildar Village. I took a left through the opening with the dwarfs walking about, towards the Enging of the Makers. But just as the big hole came into visual range, NPCscan made the sound I have been wanting to here in this location for so long. After clicking and targeting it, I was looking around desperately for visual confirmation, though I wasn't in range at the moment. I spotted it to my right as it was making its way above Sifreldar Village. It looked like it was taking the path from Brunnhildar Village towards the Engine of the Makers, bending towards Sifreldar.
It still took me a couple of anxious seconds to get into range with my 150% mount with Crusader Aura. I first tried to tag it with Hand of Reckoning, bubbling to the ground, but it was too much as I left combat as I hit the snow. With due haste I got back on my mount, followed it and just decided to fly through it to catch it's attention. This worked and I could take him with me to the ground, where I released my frustration upon it's face.
What I like to believe, is that it found me and not the other way around ;)
http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/3791/wowscrnshot090809120108.jpg
评论来自
347293
Hello everyone,
It has been a while since I lost posted here to update my TLPD search.
Alas, I had no time anymore since my last post due to work & exams. Now I do have some time again (2 more weeks) and I'll be camping tlpd again as much as I can.
Today I saw Vyragosa again, wich confirms my "theory".
I strongly suspect that Vyragosa or TLPD do spawn every night before the weekly maintenance.
As you can see under this sentence: 3 kills have been on the very same night when the server resets. Anyway will keep updating my search for tlpd.
- 15-7-'09 -> Vyragosa @ 3.35AM (spawned at the Frosthold route or up the hill between Frosthold & Temple of storms, Coordinates not known)
- 18-7-'09 -> Vyragosa @ 12.15PM (Spawned and killed around 29,69)
- 20-7-'09 -> Vyragosa @ 3.50PM (Spawned and killed around 27,62)
- 22-7-'09 -> Time-Lost-Proto-Drake @ 12.15AM (Spawned and killed around 46,64)
- 22-7-'09 -> Vyragosa @ 6.45PM (Spawned at the Frosthold route, killed @ Bor's Breath)
- 24-7-'09 -> Vyragosa @5.00AM (Spawned at 29,69, killed at 27,55)
- 25-7-'09 -> Vyragosa @ 2.35AM (Spawned at 47,73, killed at 45,61)
- 09-9-'09 -> Vyragosa @1.32AM (Possible spawn location: 40,60 or 33,80. Killed @ 29,65)
Kind regards,
Handuriël, Trollbane Europe.
评论来自
Draylynn
Decided to try and get this today, 98 mounts aiming for achievement.
I installed NPCscan addon; removes the need to a button mashing rare finding macro. It allows WoW to loudly announce a rare spawn ID has been located inside your cache (i.e has just appeared near you). The cache folder needs deleting after/before you install so that it's ID isn't in there, if it is, it won't work properly.
European server's came up at 13:00, I flew around (Silvermoon) and camped for 8 hours 56 mins before this baby spawned next to me at Bor's Breath - frozen lake. 1 more mount to go for my 100 mount achievement.
评论来自
martyn470
Was Farming him from 11 Am ( Uk time) till roughly 5pm Uk time
at about 12 a draenei shaman logged in and was staying there so i thought id have some competition for this thing
sure enough, at 5pm when i left for 2 hours to do other things ( like play on gears 2 =P ) The time lost spawned at Bor's breath and the shaman got him
Never been so gutted in my life
Seems to me though that he has spawned on the hour the past few times ive Saw him
So gonna leave Pc on overnight with npcscan and see if anything comes up, Realm is Silvermoon EU and im Alliance, Human paladin called Turaylon
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Stayed up all night hoping for TLPD/Vyra to spawn
its 19:40 server time ( almost 24 hours after inital kill)
and no sign of time lost or Vyra / Dirkee, not sure if if missed it but seems not
Getting Desperate >>
评论来自
367752
may i just update to anyone on auchindoun eu that (as far as im aware and 2 others are aware) there have been no spawns of either drakes for the past 72 hours unless something spawned during maintenence
ignore the above - vyra spawned 00.20 st - 9.9.09
Update - vyra spawned 15.57 st 10.9.09
Update - vyra spawned 11.40st 11.9.09
Update - vyra spawned 01.48st 13.9.09
Update - vyra spawned 20.45st 13.9.09
Update - vyra (apparently) spawned 10.00 aprox 15.9.09
Update - vyra spawned 22.20st 15.9.09 - So far from 3 diffirent people camping (2 horde 1 alliance) no sightings of time-lost :(
Update - vyra spawned 02.24st 19.9.09 - can people stop downrating me cos im doing this to try and find how many vyra spawns are found on my server til a tlpd shows, this is to a few campers on my server
Update - vyra spawned 23.15 19.9.09
Update - tlpd spawned 12 aprox 20.9.09
Update - vyra spawned 21.44st 21.9.09
update - vyra spawned 11.40st 25.9.09
update - vyra spawned 20-21st 27.9.09
update - tlpd spawned morning some point 29.9.09
评论来自
454875
1 month pass by, i have seen many vyrarose (live or dead), 3 dead time lost and helped a guildee captured skoll after 3 fail incident. and bam !, my time is up.
Today, I went to my lucky spot (bor breath) for my usual camping, and there is a horde druid there. OK, that's fine, I try to @#$% him off by dot up in the air couple time, but he is still not leaving. I said fine, dont think i have a chance against a druid as warlock. I'll go brun. village (seem wowhead ppl said is better chance)
5 min. after at brun. village, i got bored and went back to bor breath, and good stuff, no more horde. and i begin my camping and farming cloth. another 5min gone by, and all of sudden, my NPC Scan pop up after a trash kill. I said *!@#, better not be late this time. I quickly mount up and search over the sky ...... nothing, so i quickly look down and bam! a drake is flying down 100 yard away from me. I knew it has been aggro. now in my mind, i cross my finger, this is better be a horde's aggro and I'm not too late for a fight (pvp server).
I dont care anyhow by casting a curse of tongues on the drake, and starting to tap my target and hopefully i get a horde. dahda, a horde boomkin is doing his ^&*! on drake. so i fear, immolate, chaos bolt, conflag, bam bam bam, crit crit crit. 22k druid is down. I quickly turn my target to drake and yes! is red icon to me now, i was so freak out cause i knew a rez spot is really close, so i quickly killed it even tho i forgot which spell to use. TIME LOST down before the horde rez up. I knew druid is @#$%ed so i let him killed me for 62honor pt in return. not feeling sry for him cause i hear many story vis versa.
I'm a proud onwer of TLPT now.
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/4302/timelostr.jpg
FYI : i have seen total 3 time lost at bor breath and 1 time lost at brun village.
评论来自
454969
I got mine tonight on Jaedenar at about 12:05AM. I was about to log when my NPCScaner went crazy(didn't think it would really work). She was heading North right over Valkyrion. Got her to follow me to a cliff and took her down on my Holly Pally.
I've only been back on the game for a few weeks, and only looked for her for like 30-40minutes for the past three days. I dont have the ability to stay in that area for hours on end just looking for a Rare that may not show. But tonight was my night..also ended up taking down some Robot Rare in that area as well right after her. So AWESOME night!
So to all of you that posted where to look and what to use, THANK YOU ALL!
评论来自
Cucuy
I was questing down by K3 and spotted him. I happened to turn around and catch him right before he disappared from view.
http://pici.se/pictures/omjmOitQw.jpg
评论来自
455182
Saw it flying over the frozen waterfall over Bor's Fall, im a druid, but just in case i used snowfall logger so i could moonfire and insect swarm tag while falling. Luckily I was alone as it seemed to spawn, perfect place to camp imo around Bor's Fall btw. Took me about a week of on and off camping, just played the waiting game and got it :)
评论来自
Rumi88
Been farming this since i hit 80, 5 days after release. Pretty epic finish if you ask me.
http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/434/wowscrnshot091109204305.jpg
评论来自
363309
was just doing my brunhildar daily when out of the blue, my npc scan alerted me of the drake and i nearly fell off my chair. i targeted it but it had been tagged and bagged already but it had been killed in Valkyron next to the Bonfire. i am posting a screeni of the dead drake and my position....EDIT: i was alerted at precisely 11:31AM realm time on Wildhammer
评论来自
385589
How do I check when TLPD has spawned on my server?
评论来自
380599
Lame. Ive been camping tlpd for weeks now on my pally with epic flying, Went to do the frosthold daily on my DK and saw a TLPD corpse.
His corpse was right at the bon fire in valkyrion.
http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/750/fwtfrfgrfggggggg.jpg
评论来自
456106
Found this bugger when out herbing today!
My heart kinda stopped for a few seconds, and then it went up to like 1000000 bpm!
Got the kill tho, just south of valkyrion (27,64).
It came from bor's breath and was heading towards valkyrion.
Screen of me on mount alongside the corpse;
http://h.imagehost.org/0632/time_lost_indeed.jpg
评论来自
Dimagus
I had been camping over Bor's Breath since before the weekend at least 18 hours a day. Vyra was supposedly killed Thursday, I personally killed another Vyra 6:50pm EST Saturday, and I got my TLPD at 11:16pm EST Sunday on the Bloodhoof server. The Vyra I killed was pathing from the east towards me along the frozen river, but the TLPD actually spawned up the hill by Frosthold and was coming down when NPCScan went off. Actually I had my monitor turned off and was afk camping by hitting a macro every few minutes on a wireless keyboard, but I had a /tar Time-Lost + raid warning sound macro which I spammed and heard to my enjoyment as I knocked over my computer chair while frantically turning on the monitor. Living bomb for the 41yd instant tap + slow fall, and I had my drake shortly after.
The timer appears to be the 5-8 hour variety, but with 3 outcomes: 1) Skip spawn, 2) Vyragosa, 3) Time-Lost. Obviously it's weighted to either skip or have Vyra show up most of the time, and combined with 4 different flight routes it will require some luck to catch the drake no matter how much persistence you have for camping it.
Good luck to us all :)
评论来自
Blackriver
Judging by the total information gathered thus far, some of which has been confirmed by game masters, this is my current theory:
When a Time-Lost Proto Drake or Vyragosa is killed or despawns, a 6 hour timer begins. After this timer is up, one of three events can be triggered: nothing spawns, Vyragosa spawns, or Time-Lost Proto Drake spawns. Around this time one of three spawn points can be selected, and then the creature is spawned to patrol until it is killed or despawns, at which point the 6 hour timer resets and becomes active again. (If nothing spawns, the 6 hour timer resets and becomes active again immediately.)
This would be the same scenario as most rare creatures, except normally only one creature has a chance to spawn per timer instead of two sharing the same timer. From data I have acquired here are some confirmed statements to take note of.
The Time-Lost Proto Drake may spawn at one of 3 points. One of these is almost certainly near the Bor's Breath lake. The other two have not been completely confirmed yet.
The timer for most, if not all, rare creatures is 6 hours. There is a chance that either a creature spawns or the spawn is skipped. It is unprecedented (to my knowledge) that a rare creature shares a timer with another rare creature.
The Time-Lost Proto Drake has been spotted flying near Ulduar, K3, Bor's Breath, Engine of the Makers, Val'kyrion, Sifreldar Village, and Brunnhildar Village. Vyragosa has also been spotted flying in each of these locations.
Contrary to some statements, the Time-Lost Proto Drake cannot teleport around the zone. However, it does have a time lapse skill that will allow it to teleport behind its target during combat.
Edit:
I also thought it would be helpful to mention that a game master mentioned the maximum amount of time that a Time-Lost Proto Drake would not spawn is 72 hours (I may be wrong about that, but I'm almost positive). In this case, it's only a matter of math to determine the spawn chance of the Time-Lost Proto Drake. My math is probably off, but 72/6=12, so therefore there are 12 spawn triggers that occur within that 72-hour period, and 100/12=8.333 (repeating, of course) so therefore in any given trigger there would be
approximately an 8%-9% chance to spawn
.
Edit 2:
It should also be useful to note that the Time-Lost Proto Drake doesn't appear to be biased towards any one of its 3 spawn points, which is to say whenever the spawn trigger does decide to spawn the Time-Lost Proto Drake there is likely a 33% chance to spawn at any given one of its 3 spawn points.
Edit 3:
Apparently, according to a friend, yesterday I got on 10 minutes after the drake spawned and was killed. This after appx. 230 hours of camping over about 1 month. Here's to another 230.....
评论来自
457081
Here is my question, if you are using the addon NPCscan will it go off if the TLPD get near you, or will it only work if Vyragosa happens to get near you? Or do you have to set the addon up a certian way to get to go off when the TLPD gets near? Now I'm sure that this question had already been answered but im just trying to make sure this addon will work before i download it. If some ppl whom have used this addon for this can give me a clear yes it works, i want to try to use it. Or if anyone can confirm this it would just make me feel better about using the addon.
Thanks for the answers,
Valdearg
评论来自
457081
Thank you both for the advice :) i got the addon and i really like it.
GL with the farming everyone
评论来自
393077
Sad when people start using anti-afk app's like HunterZhain.
评论来自
393077
Ok. Ive now gone through all pages except the first one here on wowhead, collecting cords.
Link:
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:391730462621370691270580291691270621461640270551470730450611290650270640441300300681270600461681360650300660310691351761511710520341360677420561500700330650480681471640270568389625371631400640490660370730281640270520406831262658250660440621309650510691450590281500281431300491270658291671411700281520310491430258410601370770430561440551470254291500351671440601281654
Note that these dots are where they have been killed or "spawned".
So some of these dots can be places people have kited them to to kill them, so they can be a bit off their path/route.
No dots are from where people said they have camped. Ive only taken where theyve been killed or seen "spawn", as I said.
Ive also only been looking for actual coords, not things like "Killed TLPD southeast of Engine of the Makers 42 yards northwest of that weird-looking tree". I have not been trying to figure out coords by looking at screenshots and fly there myself in-game either.
Personally I wish I had the patient to camp the 52,34-spot. In the "crazy german's" video Vyragosa is shown to come out from the mountain here, so would be interesting to know if this is an actual spawn point.
I mean... look at the map. Most spots are where you fly back and forth to do dailies, and these spots are also popular because most people get the drakes here(since theyre doing dailies). Maybe they spawn in less-crowded-places but arent discovered until they reach a more popular part of their route.
Yes, probably unlikely, but you never know for sure.
评论来自
457466
Well, I wasn't really looking for this persay, but I was camping to tame Skoll on the ledge above the village by the blue protodrakes. After many hours of staring at blank snow my NPC Scan went off and he flew right over me. He probably wasn't more than 20-30 feet off the ground so there wasn't a problem with tagging him and bringing him down.
Time was about 4:25 Bloodscalp.
Good luck to everyone looking for him!
评论来自
159316
FINALLY after farming this thing fairly consistantly since expansion released back late last year.
http://i847.photobucket.com/albums/ab38/NeverfearWoWpics/WoWScrnShot_091709_032048.jpg
I was sitting there reading about Premonition getting the world first Tribute to Insanity just minding my own business at around 3:20 a.m. today my NPC_Scan starts going crazy and sure enough, this guy finally decides to make an appearance for me.
After countless days of waiting around Bor's Breath i can say that this mount was worth every second spent out there.
EDIT: just to confirm all the spawn timers and all that jazz....Another TLPD was killed at around 3:30am. Almost exactly 24 hours after i got mine a Druid on my realm Stormrage US got it. Amazing luck i think on both our parts.
评论来自
457748
I got this mount on DragonMaw 08/17/2009. I got it by actually camping it for over 3 weeks. Everyday when I got back from college i would do my homework and park my toon directly on top of the lake at Bor's Breath. 3 weeks went by and no luck, not even a dead one. Well last night around 1am when i was finally ready to give up i decided to give one more round before I logged off. Well to my surprise right when i passed the lake it spawned right in front of me. =) I was extremely happy since this is one of the hardest mounts to obtain. Just wanted to let you guys know to not give up hope and you WILL find it.
评论来自
457850
Hey guys, i need help with this.
I just killed vyragosa ( 10 mins ago ) is there anything i need to know about this ?
评论来自
393077
FINALLY I found Vyragosa alive so I could get my Frostbitten achievement! Its not TLPD, but its atleast something. Have only found Vyra two times, one of those times before I even knew about those two. After months of camping... maybe will take some more months before I get TLPD :P
Will go back in six hours and see if one of them spawn.
Ive found all three Vyragosa's between Valkyrion and Snowdrift Plains.
Now Im not sure if I should camp there, Brunnhildar Village or Bor's Breath, so I just fly between them all the time :>
Edit: Went back six hours later, no spawn(what I could see). Im so tired...
评论来自
137500
Yippie!
I Conqured The Infamous Time-Lost Proto Drake!
She Was Flying In From Valkyrion When I Tagged Her With A Quick Heroic Throw + Snowfall Lager
Screenshots:
The Pull
(Not Sure How I Opened Reputation Tab...)
The Loot
The Kill Shot
Woot!
My Personal Kills While Farming The TLPD:
5:57 PM - 9/17/09 - My TLPD Kill (Bor's Breath - See Screenshots)
11:21 AM - 9/13/09 - Vyragosa
10:48 PM - 9/12/09 - Vyragosa
1:25 AM - 9/12/09 - Vyragosa
12:43 PM - 9/11/09 - Vyragosa
11:33 PM - 9/9/09 - Dead TLPD (
Ezpoint's
Kill - Bor's Breath)
8:38 AM - 9/7/09 - Dead TLPD (Bor's Breath)
10:29 PM - 9/4/09 - Vyragosa
4:00 PM - 8/29/09 - Vyragosa
6:09 PM - 4/27/09 - Vyragosa
12:31 AM - 4/12/09 - Vyragosa
6:20 PM - 3/25/09 - Vyragosa
(Sever Times, EST)
Good Luck To Everyone!
Its Worth The Struggle And Mind-Numbing Boredom!
Also, Thank God For YouTube!
-Dlarissan, Executus US
评论来自
456304
Camped this guy for only 2 hours and got him. I used NPCscan. He was over Bor's Breath when I got him. I also saw him spawn 2 days earlier in the same spot. Good luck guys.
评论来自
Imatree
Hey, I've got a really quick question. Are there any confirmed reports of the Spawn timer being less than 6 hours? Kinda curious about that.
评论来自
312797
My friend has this mount... then again he also has the "Insane" title.
评论来自
jayboy
im just curious 1 person said they tested there npcs scan addon can any 1 explain to me how i test it? i have cleared the cache data etc but not sure how to test in game
评论来自
459073
I've been camping this drake for 12 days on a medium population server, putting in roughly 5-12 hours a day camping and patrolling. My camping times are not in one bulk - they can range from one hour to several hours, and my time tends to be a relatively even split between camping and patrolling.
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08/09/2009 7:56pm (GMT: 09/09/2009 1:56am)
34,66 - Vyragosa killed. She approached low from the east, flying west along Bor's Breath. On this occasion it is highly probable that Vyra spawned from 35,76.
10/09/2009 1:15pm (GMT: 10/09/2009 6:15pm)
28,48 - Vyragosa found dead. Found on the Snowdrift Plains.
10/09/2009 9:05pm (GMT: 11/09/2009 2:05am)
27,60 - Vyragosa found dead. Found in Valkyrion. Most likely spawn location: 31,70.
13/09/2009 9:00am (GMT: 13/09/2009 2:00pm)
29,67 - Vyragosa killed. Saw Vyra approach the lake at Bor's Breath while camping above it. She was flying diagonally out of the mountain directly from spawn location 31,70.
15/09/2009 7:45am (GMT: 15/09/2009 12:45pm)
34,66 - Vyragosa killed. She approached low from the east, flying west along Bor's Breath as I was camping above the lake. Decided to follow her on her flight path before killing her, and she flew anti-clockwise around Frosthold. On this occasion Vyra spawned from 35,76.
15/09/2009 10:50pm (GMT: 16/09/2009 3:50am)
41,64 - Time-Lost Proto Drake found dead. Based on his corpse location, his spawn point was most likely 51,71, possibly 52,34. Time-To Stop Camping. Camped less from this point. :D
18/09/2009 12:30am (GMT: 18/09/2009 5:30am)
28,79 - Vyragosa killed. She approached low from the east, flying west along Bor's Breath as I was camping above the lake. Tagged her and let her attack me for a bit while my gf flew over and got the kill for her Northern Exposure / Frost Bitten achievement. On this occasion Vyra spawned from 35,76.
19/09/2009 11:34am (GMT: 19/09/2009 4:34pm)
31,69 - Vyragosa killed. Saw Vyra approach me while camping closely to spawn 31,70. She flew directly out of the mountain from spawn location 31,70, killed at 29,67.
20/09/2009 12:04am (GMT: 20/09/2009 5:04am)
31,66 - Vyragosa killed. She approached low from the east, flying west along Bor's Breath. On this occasion Vyra spawned from 35,76.
20/09/2009 1:33pm (GMT:20/09/2009 6:33pm)
36,76 - Time-Lost Proto Drake killed. After buying an item with a few Conquest Emblems, I decided to continue past my Bor's Breath camp spot for a moment, and instead checked the spawn point in Bor's Fall. As I approached, the TLPD came out of the mountain at spawn point 35,76.
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I'd like to make it very clear that from my first hand visual experience, the spawn point 31,70 is 100% confirmed for Vyragosa, and spawn point 35,76 is 100% confirmed for the Time-Lost Proto Drake. Logically I can probably assume both creatures emerge from both spawn points. I think it's highly highly probable that all the points depicted in the video link below are entirely 100% accurate for both Vyragosa and the Time-Lost Proto Drake.
If you camp one/some/all of these spots, you will 100% acquire the reins of this mount, eventually.
Also, if you're on a busy server with a lot of competition, I suggest instead of camping directly above the lake, you camp at 31,67. This is because you'll be closer to covering both 31,70 and 35,76 spawns, and you have a higher chance of NPC Scan going off first and thus reaching the Time-Lost Proto Drake or Vyragosa before anyone else.
The most important TLPD video for TLPD campers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF9b7o29KOE
Good luck everyone! As the other posters have suggested, you WILL get this, if you put in the time and research.
Screenshots:
Death:
http://www.nightintoday.com/1WoW.jpg
Loot:
http://www.nightintoday.com/2WoW.jpg
Victory!:
http://www.nightintoday.com/3WoW.jpg
(excuse the QH error on the bottom right of each shot, NPC and QH don't like eachother)
评论来自
Imatree
My camping time has ended. No TLPD though...For the past two weeks or so, I've been camping Bor's Breath at least 8-10 hours a day / night, but I guess I'm just an unlucky guy. The time before that, though I camped roughly 3-5 hours a day (not a whole lot). My game time ended this morning, and I'm not renewing it for School / College reasons. I just wanted to post to show the list of kills that I logged.
Vyragosa / TLPD / Skoll / Dirkee sightings:
5/17: Vyra sighted: Killed by me, witnessed spawn. Spawned at 4:58 over waterfall at Bor's Breath. Skinned by me.
5/21: Vyra Sighted: Killed by me. Spawned at waterfall? 2:40-2:42 AM
*Went away for Camp / Vacation*
7/31: Vyra spawned at frozen lake over Waterfall. Another's Kill, My skin. 9:10 PM spawn? Killed at 9:12.
8/02: Vyra spawned at frozen lake over Waterfall. My Kill, My skin. 4:39 PM spawn. Killed at 4:40.
8/16: Vyra spawned at Valk. at most likely 7:45PM. Killed / Skinned her at 7:50PM.
8/29: Vyra Spawned and killed at frozen Waterfall at 12:02 AM (2 Minutes after midnight). My kill, my skin.
9/06: Vyra Spawned at middle of Frosthold mountain near Frozen Lake at 1:40AM. Killed and Skinned.
9/07: Vyra spawned at frozen lake waterfall at Bor's Breath at 10:44PM. Killed and skinned.
9/15: Vyra spawned and killed at frozen lake waterfall at Bor's Breath. 6:08 PM Spawn.
9/16: Vyra spawned and killed at frozen lake, but spawned at Valk / Snowdrift. 4:25AM spawn.
9/16: Vyra sighted east of Bor's Breath (Ruined path chasm with harpies, supposed Bor's Fall spawn (35, 76)) and killed and skinned by me. Sighted and killed at 8:48PM.
9/19: Vyra sighted over Brun. Village at 7:34AM. Killed and skinned by me.
9/20: Vyra
and
Skoll spotted at Frozen lake. Skoll spawned there, but Vyra patrolled from Bor's Fall. Both must have spawned at roughly the same time. Both Killed and skinned at 4:05AM. Dirkee also Spotted today at 4:15AM, roughly 10 min later, north of Camp Tunka'lo. Killed by me. Skoll spotted later today at 4:55PM. Helped another Hunter tame it.
These are my times. As I've said, I'm not the luckiest of guys. I mostly camped Bor's Breath (frozen Lake) and saw something spawn there every few days.
I'm on the server Elune, which is a High-Pop server, so there were always a few people in the Storm Peaks at some point, not to mention either camping or patrolling. Very competitive too, no one would want to share information, so it was hard to get all the information together.
Well, this has been my TLPD experience. Although I didn't camp a whole lot, I have to say it was a very disappointing experience. I never even saw the TLPD, dead or alive, and the thought about it nearly drove me insane by the end of it. I definitely enjoyed the rushes when you heard that NPC_Scan alert go off, and on my good days it was kinda fun, and I would probably still camp if I could. I would change my camping spot, though, the Frozen lake seems to be cursed for me.
Anyway, hopefully the rest of you have better luck than I did.
评论来自
393077
Today, when flying from K3 to the Argent Tournament after doing the daily quest capturing snowbolds, I discover Vyragosa's corpse at 37.1,69.7.
A warlock killed it, and we chat a bit about Vyragosa and TLPD when a hunter comes and skin the corpse. I said it wasnt a good idea as some of us like to know when it despawns to keep track of her and TLPDs spawntimers and such.
He then says he missed TLPD ten minutes after he killed Vyragosa, meaning they dont share spawn timer.
I dont know... its hard to believe him, espeically when he misspelled Vyragosa's name.
I told him he shouldve frapsed it since most people think they share spawntimer, and that he could prove all of us wrong. He told me he didnt have frapsed installed and will fraps it "next time"(haha).
ss:
http://www.pici.se/475744/?size=fullsize
评论来自
458878
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/9691/gmtlpdresponse.jpg
It is confirmed that TLPD does share a timer with Vyragosa.
评论来自
460671
I was bored and looking through mounts and found out about this one. I flew around for about an hour, then i used NpcScan..i got it within 3min of downloading it...this is a fantastic addon!
评论来自
R4ndomizer
Yes, its confirmed several times that Vyra and TLPD share the timer. I personally wouldnt trust any GM that says something about it. I have seen so much wrong stuff on screenshots so guys be careful ;-).
And why ask GM's ? All is said. Watch that vid and you know all you can. Spawnpoints, routes, everything.
There are just 2 little things left to say:
1. Vyra(so i think the TLPD will do this too) definitively can fly the "red" and the "green" path in both directions. Of course no big thing if u camp the Spawnpoints ^^.
2. The only(and last ^^) thing i want to know is if their respawntimer resets after a server-reset.
评论来自
461028
Just killed the TLPD out by Ulduar on US-Crushridge. Never even would have seen it had I not installed NPCScan to farm the raptor pets.
I got so frantic trying to catch and kill it that I nearly dismounted and fell to my death, haha.
评论来自
Enuo
I got mine a few months ago, I even posted here...Took me 2 and a half weeks of 15+ hours a day very very little sleep...missed it twice and then finally around 1 am I finally got it.
I can CONFIRM it spawns in Bor's breath, I was looking at my screen in 2 occasions where it spawned right infront of the valkyr village.
评论来自
338204
http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/299/pulltx.jpg
huh? is it a lvl 79 elite?
评论来自
338204
oh rofl thanks
评论来自
427998
Is this a 280% or 310% mount?
评论来自
R4ndomizer
280 %-mount :-(.
评论来自
462157
After some scattered weeks of searching for the Time lost, I have seen Vyragosa three times in the exact same spot....Bors breath. Today it was at 11:38. Good luck! C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\Screenshots\WoWScrnShot_092709_114220.jpg.
first comment so if the screenshots dont work well QQ
评论来自
462157
fuzz it didnt lol
评论来自
462308
I killed tlpd today at 8:15 central on US Colifang. I was looking for him for about 3 weeks, 4-5 hrs a day, usually patrolling Bor's breath area. So today i left my toon camping above frozen lake in breath and went to watch Colts beating up on Arizona on Sunday night football. Suddenly mu npc scan went off as i went to the computer drake was flying below me, fairly close to the ground. I aggro'd him and killed him really quick, before other people showed up.
评论来自
453650
I saw Vyragosa killed right in front of me Saturday morning at 3:30am so I went to sleep for 5.5 hours and woke up to camp over the lake at Bor's Breath. I camped allllll day until around 11:30pm that evening only to have a horde(i'm alliance) motion for me to follow him and pointed to where the time lost had just been killed just down a ways in bor's breath by the engine of makers and brunnhildar village.
this is the second time now where i've camped all day expecting the time lost to show up at some point and just missed him because he probably spawned over brunnhildar village instead of at the bor's breath lake. hmmmf.
评论来自
bigfoot1291
Killed Vyragosa last night. Spawned right below me over the frozen lake in Bor's breath (Where all the harpies are, between the canyon and Val) around 3:27 AM on Stonemaul (PST time). Followed her for about 5 minutes before killing her. She flew through the canyon, turned left at the end of the canyon to head through the frost wyrms up there, went to the north wall of the wyrms, went through the watchers area (where Loken's minions are) and eventually started to loop around to head to the front of Ulduar. That's where I killed her, in front of Ulduar.
I have a question regarding NPCscan. Obviously if a rare mob comes in range of your view it goes off, alerts you etc. However, if the mob actually spawns in front of you, already in viewing distance, will it go off?
评论来自
Iamhere
Just killed Vyragosa for the first time today at 3:23pm after a week of broken up camping in various places in Storm Peaks. Downed her on Bor's Breath almost right next to where the harpies are at. What made me wonder after I killed her was: how did no one else see her? I saw a ton of horde flying around the Bor's Breath area, and from what it looks like, Vyra spawned down by the waterfall and then flew up and around towards me. Just got lucky with that I guess.
Anyways, now that Vyra is down, time to look for the TLPD... Not sure if I should stay in the same spot I am now, where I found Vyra, or try elsewhere?
评论来自
R4ndomizer
As you all surely know, both dragons have the same,static spawnpoints. They where already written in this thread and i now can confirm 3 of that 4 points to be 100% true after camping that points with 3 chars at the same time. Im convinced all 4 are true.
I just write this, because some guys here wonder why no one else saw the dragon while a lot of other guys flew around.
Thats because you saw them shortly after their spawn. So you were close to one of their spawnpoints ^^.
评论来自
445288
well my time lost protodrake hunt is finally over, after searching nearly 3 months for this son of a ^&*!@ i finally got my chance, and this time, i took my chance.
i was in bors breathe this morning at my usuall camping spot but unfortunately i was not alone. undead warlock had parked his ass right in my spot, although he was afk. But me being me i started attacking with heroic throw as a way of saying ' get out of my spot'. i could see he wouldnt move so i just let him be. i then looked at server time which was 13:58 so going on my hour theory i waited at my spot. it ticked 14:00 and BAMMM NPCscan goes crazy. i then looked at what it had found, as i saw the picture my heart rate increased by 100%. IT WAS TIME LOST. i then flew further down bors breathe.....and there he was,untagged. my first thought was' OH NOES TEH HORDE' but lucky for me he was still afk. so i tagged to the side and nuked it down. my heart still pumping as a see a glittering protodrake infront of me. i the looted it and felt so happy.
评论来自
445288
i posted my last post from my PS3 and the text box is too small LOL so this is a contiuation from my last post as i couldnt fit it all in =P
i then mounted up on my new protodrake. as i then proceeded to just stare at its corpse till it despawned lol. just wanna say a big thanks to everyone that posted here, but espicially to twilightsky for posting all the vyra/timelost kills for our server (auchindoun) <3.and this guy deserves more than anyone as he has camped for ages, dnt worry mate ull get it im sure. im not just saying this coz i have it but just as some of the other posts have stated, if you put enough time and effort in it then its not a matter of IF but a matter of WHEN.
p.s will post the SS later.
评论来自
381600
Let me tell you these guys. I started looking for him about 2 weeks ago. For two days I searched endlessly, I finally had given up. Today I was questing for Sons of the Hodir Near K3. I fly a little north because some one had search that was a titanium vein near. Make a long story short. I never found the vein. Flew back Saw him Right in front of me, I quickly demount and cast judgement of the wise on him, (I'm so excited a this point I forgot to bubble) died on the ground(I almost cried). Went back to my body, spammed my macro to target him, no avail. I ask in general chat if anyone has seen him, no luck. I fly around his patrol area, I see a Drenai paladin on a bronze drake. I fly a little north of her, Here he comes the Timed-Lost flying towards us. I quickly judgement him and Bubble this time. Get the kill and she cheers for me. Sorry, Better luck nice time. Happy hunting.
评论来自
463759
what is the id to tome lost proto drake?
评论来自
R4ndomizer
For what you need the ID ? Is there any need of it for the use with "Silverdragon" ? I never needed that id.
评论来自
hockeytownrox
Hi everyone, since I'm a fan of detailed posts to help other people out, here's my contribution. I just downed TLPD about an hour ago on Blackwater Raiders
Time: 6:50am Pacific time (Server time)
Coords: 30,65 at Bor's Breath (always facing east)
About two weeks ago I decided to renew my motivation to get this mount. I scrapped the old 'spam the macro' approach because I wanted something hands off where I didn't have to mash buttons all day. So I found a few add ons that most of you are probably using...to help sound an event when rare spawns are near. This was INCREDIBLY useful.
During some weekend afternoons (and occassional mornings while at work) when I wasn't actively playing I camped at the SAME spot. Right at Bor's Breath, 30,65 basically the same point. I rarely flew around, because I am convinced, as others, that one of Vyragosa's and TLPDs spawn points are near there. I simply had WoW minimized but sound up so I could hear any events. I can report that in about two weeks of mildly aggressive camping (maybe 30 hours total sitting at this spot), I killed Vyragosa four times and TLPD once. Each time they flew the exact same path right over my head. They came into view at Bor's Breath flying west bound toward Valkyrion village. I've never seen Vyragosa or TLPD outside of this spot, personally...but that's probably because I camped and never actively flew around that much.
I never saw TLPD after killing Vryagosa....and inversely my TLPD kill was an isolated incident, I never saw Vyragosa that morning.
The nice thing about both of them, is they take their time...and stop to kill NPCs on their route...so they are easy to chase down if they fly above or below you without aggro. Just obtain some sort of audible event when they're near you and you should get it. Not to mention I've encountered a few other rare spawns around northrend and outlands too...the add-ons scare the crap out of you when they go off and you're not expecting those alerts...but its very helpful!
评论来自
463877
Been hunting for two weeks and haven't spotted it yet... it's something to do while waiting for an egg out of the Oracles to hatch :P
I don't camp, but I probably should. And clear my cache to be safe, os NPCScan works...
评论来自
R4ndomizer
YES ^^, got my TLPD Nr 3 Yesterday at 11:53 PM. Directly spawned at the mountain near the frozen lake at BB. Had 2 other chars placed at 2 of the 3 other spawnpoints. Had no char at the brunnhildar-spawnpoint, cuz i knew Vyra last spawned there(killed her right after her spawn there at same day at 5:30 PM). And i just had 3 CHars for camping cuz a friend had other plans^^. Nearly 1,5 Weeks camped for my third TLPD.
When my next char reaches 80 i will farm TLPD again but for now im glad and will enjoy the last days of the brewfest ^^.
评论来自
445288
does anyone else here think that this mount will no longer be obtainable in cataclysm? i hope they remove this NPC as it needs to stay rare.
评论来自
R4ndomizer
I may be wrong but normally "spawn" means that the dragon suddenly appears at a spawnpoint, or not ? Much people here say that he "spawned"(for example) right in front of them. This means they suddenly saw him but he already flew around. This is a little bit irritating. Or am i wrong ? Normally you have to say "i saw im at...." and not "he spawned at....", right ?
(sorry for my bad english ^^)
评论来自
R4ndomizer
True, 31/70 is the spawnpoint for the "green" route. The spot where he flies out of the mountain i call "angry eye" cuz it looks like one ^^. Got my 3 TLPD last wednesday at exact that point ^^. He had a short live ^^.
评论来自
464859
For a compilation of a lot of the information found here, you can visit
http://tlpd.info
. If there is information missing, please don't hesitate to contact us.
评论来自
R4ndomizer
@ tlpd:
When you have gathered most of your information from this comments, why in the world(!) you didnt mind the 4 spawnponis and the video postet by Abraxusta ? ^^ OO This is the most important stuff that you can find here ^^. Search for his posts, all he says is 100 % true. I had the chance to camp that spawnpoints with 4 chars for some weeks now and can 100 % confirm them. The video is an absolute MUST SEE for every tlpd-hunter.
评论来自
g0dslay3r
I'm currently camping between both Bor's Breath spawn points (The frozen waterfall and the west side of the Frosthold mountain. I'm flying a bit above the ground at 30,67).
At 15:00 exactly, I both received my chance to kill Vyragosa, and a massive heart attack from how loudly my NPCscan alarm went off, when she spawned out of the mountain by Frosthold.
21 hours spent here now, and I don't plan on moving anytime soon.
Edit 1: At 00:00, I found Vyragosa flying down the valley towards me. Of course, I began to fly towards her, and found that my laptop is so terrible that moving put me down to (apparently) less than 1 FPS. I managed to tag her and kill her (almost dying in the process due to the FPS).
评论来自
367752
Well for the time being, my search for Time-Lost is over, i havent yet got him but all i ever wanted was a proto drake and today out of my egg hatched the green one. I'll probably end up searching for him again but for now IM FREE
评论来自
465352
To start things out... my friends hate me for being lucky. :P I previously got the blue protodrake on my first H UP run, and Raven Lord on my fourth.
I've on-off camped Time Lost for the past couple of months. I usually got bored after an hour or two, though, so nothing hardcore. Recently i decided I needed to have Skoll, so I've spent a few hours here and there camping that. Tonight, after getting rejected from a guild run of TOC (QQ for fps issues) I figured i'd do my usual run for Skoll. Kept an empty slot, switched to BM, and went to my usual camp spot. For some reason, I alt-tabbed out and ended up on this page. Figured what the hell, I'd switch my camp spot to the Bor's Breath one for Skoll, in hopes of finding TLPD.
Imagine my sheer shock as, flying up Bor's Breath, my NPCscan goes off... and it's the drake! I freaked out, since I have low graphic settings and am flying in "fog" usually, so I frantically tabbed around... managed to target it, flew into it, and aggro'd it to the ground. I had no pet cos I was camping Skoll, was in BM spec, and my "summon stabled pet" was on CD... so I melee'd him to death! Good thing he's an easy fight!
My guild now hates me... especially my best friend who's been camping this bad boy for months! This makes mount number 83, so I'm getting close... :)
Théos
Onyxia-US server
Killed TLPD @ 9:40 server time
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg190/zackish/WoWScrnShot_100609_014628.jpg?t=1254805005
评论来自
465414
Just killed it about an hour ago on EU-Azuremyst.
Have camped it off and on the last 6 weeks. A lot of hours time-lost and different tactics tried. Became obsessed in the process :D
Finally (first tlpd witnessed) It appeared flying down the trench at roughly 50-70 yards height when it came over the frozen lake.
This was roughly 13 hrs after the last Vyra spawn I saw in BB, so pretty consistent with the Vyra spawns I've seen before.
The Vyra spawns Ive seen almost always follow 6hrs plus minus an hour or a multiple of that after Vyra was last killed . So 5-7hrs, 11-13hrs, or 23-25hrs after last seen. I don't say that this is the facts, but it is as Ive have experienced it.
I guess my TLPD spawned at the spawnspot 36,73 then flew counter-clockwise down the trench until it found me. All Vyra spawns Ive seen coming down the trench was counter-clockwise.
Finally Im free, no more turning down raids, no more "just checking if the sounds turned up"...
评论来自
465279
Just killed vyragosa. 16:56 AM
TLPD Was killed 04:55 today. A dude told me he killed it one week ago so it spawned one week later, Hope it goes from 12-24 spawn. Gonna try to camp Bor's Breath tomorow at 16.45.
Can anyone confirm 24 hour's spawn?
Ghostlands EU
评论来自
R4ndomizer
Theres a 6-24 hour spawntimer. If one of the dragons is killed the timer resetts and there will be 6 hours with no spawn. After this 6 hours up to 24 hours after that kill there WILL BE a spawn of Vyragosa OR tlpd. It can spawn in this time every minute or second, theres no rule. Its absolutely random.
And there are 4 STATIC spawnpoints, one for every route. Every spawn happens in one of these points. This means if you have 4 Chars(4 Accs ^^) you can camp all 4 spownpoints and will get 100 % of the kills, Vyragosa AND tlpd-kills.
Its all in this thread, so why are there so many questions left ? ^^
评论来自
jazman84
Just got mine about 10 mins ago.
I camped Bor's Breath at the bend that head's to the Engine for about 1.5 hours. NPC scan picked him up, he was coming from Bar's Fall.
I tagged him with Heroic Throw and used Snowfall Lager, but I must have lagged cause I died, with the Lager on CD... Go figure.
Lucky the Gyard is close and I managed to re-tag at the Valkyrion intersection.
Heart was racing, that's for sure!
评论来自
465279
Finnaly i got it. Was trying to see if it spawned 12 hours after the Weekly Maintance, It diden't spawn at 23.00 so i was minning and suddenly Npc scanner was flashing: Time Lost Proto-Drake. Im sure my hearth stopped:P It was flying Towards the waterfall from Valyrikon, Used Judgement and Snowfall Lager and killed it:)
It spawned two day's after it was killed at Ulduar Path.
It spawned at 23.10 am.
Ghostlands EU
评论来自
451532
I recommend a mod called RareSpawnOverlay to anyone hunting this or any other rare mob in Northrend or Outland. It shows the routes they take or spawn areas on the map.
评论来自
MuzZ
If I have posted anything that helps you please +1 rate me. Thank you!
Update 10/10/09 2:41am Server Time
Killed Time-Lost at the frozen lake in Bor's Breath. He was coming from the waterfall area towards Valkyrion. I was camping normal spot at 30,71.
Kill
Victory
Well I am just glad it is over heh. Now I can relax a bit and work on Heroic Daily quests and finish my
Mechano-Hog
. Next I will be working on
Insane in the Membrane
.
I was really on the verge of giving up. I had spent about 16 hours a day for a bit over a week. Yes, I am crazy but at the same time I wasn't sitting in front of my PC the whole time. Anyway, good luck to everyone and I hope my tips/advice helps someone bag their new Drake.
Route & Spawn Points
Here is the video that everyone should watch if they are hardcore camping.
Kill shots from this thread!
The albums can be found to the left. I tried to sort the screenshots the best I could. Seems like Bor's Breath is the place to be:)
Screenshot
This is where I saw Vyragosa Spawn from on the 4th. Also the first day when I saw Time-Lost, I said I saw him spawn lower down the mountain but I am convinced it is higher as shown here.
Update 6:00pm Server time 10/01/09
Time-Lost
Killed at Bor's Breath/Fozen Lake<--------Not My Kill!
Update 10:12am Server time 10/03/09
Killed
Vyragosa
in Bor's Breath/Frozen Lake
Update 9:28pm Server time 10/04/09
Killed
Vyragosa
in Bor's Breath/Frozen Lake
Update 2:32am Server time 10/07/09
Killed
Vyragosa
in Bor's Breath/Frozen River
Update 1:59pm Server time 10/08/09
Killed
Vyragosa
in Bor's Breath @ 30, 70 Spawned right on top of me from a confirmed spawn location.
Tips I have gathered from various places!
Snowfall Lager
is a must! It only costs 2
Relic of Ulduar
so I would get about 10+
There are a few ways you can camp Time-Lost. You can camp in a spot every chance you get till you get your mount. You can do circles around Storm Peaks every chance you get till you get your mount. You can occasionally do a fly through Storm Peaks in hopes that before you get put in a nursing home you will get your mount.
I have read through many websites and
Bor's Breath
is statistically the best spot to find Time-Lost. This is due to 3 flight paths intersecting here and there is a spawn point near
Frosthold @31,70
.
Download
NPCScan
and find something you can do besides stare at your monitor. Don't forget to clear your Cache Folder after you find Vyra/Time
Download the
Peggle/Bejeweled
addons
If you have
Dual Spec
and have speed increasing talents-
USE THEM
. I fly at 356% with talents and Unholy Presence.
If you wish to fly the
Time/Vyragosa
routes just remember that you are lowering your chances of tagging Time-Lost because the drake rarely gets far from where it spawns.
If you plan on doing this hardcore the best idea is to camp a known spawn point. I prefer
here
Don't spend a whole lot of time trying to figure out the secret formula to the spawn time. Trust me, I have written down on a note pad every confirmed kill time (server times only) from Wowhead and Thottbot. Nothing adds up except that it will spawn........eventually.
Don't listen to anything from any website unless it is supported with a screenshot or a video. You don't have time to listen to assumptions. People saying they have seen Time/Vyra within minutes of each other are full of poo unless they have a screenshot.
Here is the macro I use. I removed Dirkee for obvious reasons. I added Skoll so I can help a hunter if he spawns in Bor's Breath.
/tar Vyra
/tar Skoll
/tar Time
/stopmacro
/w "yournamehere" %t Is watching you!
/run RaidNotice_AddMessage(RaidBossEmoteFrame,"THERE IT IS! KILL IT!", ChatTypeInfo)
/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\interface\\RaidWarning.wav")
评论来自
R4ndomizer
Most of this above is true ^^ BUT:
The spots shown on your picture are NO spawnpoints ! On that waterfall there is no spawnpoint, and 30/68 is NO spawnpoint. Maybe you have that information from a picture i saw too ^^. It shows a tlpd-spawnpoint(in ocre ^^) a little bit below Vyragosa's(in red). My 3 tlpd spawned 8 days ago from EXACT the same place above that is shown as only Vyragosas spawnpoint.
评论来自
R4ndomizer
THATs it ;-). All 4 points where posted here some time ago and that is one of them. I call it "the angry eye" ^^.
评论来自
Saro
I was standing at the ramp in front of Bouldercrag's Refuge for quite a while, having a long and serious talk in whisper with a friend, when suddenly my "NPCscanner" addon went berserk - it had spotted the Time-Lost Proto Drake.
Before I had realised what was happening it was gone, but I caught up with it fairly easy. I think my friend said something like "Lucky bastard" when I excused my minute of distraction and told him why - and I guess he is right ;-)
Someone probably did it before me, but I can most definately confirm that it comes flying past Bouldercrag's Refuge from the East, and then heads a litlle to the South West and continues along the mountainside west of Snowdrift Plains.
Good luck to all the Time-Lost hunters outthere :-)
评论来自
exterminad
just got mine like 20 min ago. in bleeding hollow server... i was in bor's breath flying to the frozen waterfall but i landed cause i saw a titanium vein. lol. then when i mount and fly away my screen turn red and it was him.. it was a easy and fast fight. loot him. and got the mount. =)..
good look for those who are looking for it
评论来自
MuzZ
Finally got him @ 2:41am Server Time in Bor's Breath. More info and screenshots above in my big post incoming.
评论来自
467212
Grats to all who have their drake, i envy you, been looking for around 100 hrs now still havent seen him :(( i still feel positive though every dog has its day. i have been camping bors breath and patrolling around. Good luck to all who are stll looking 1 day he will come and we will be there to pwn him in the face :))
评论来自
406939
Found him this morning flying north over brunn. village to engine of the makers
评论来自
455643
30 days / 744 hours of 24h/per day camping and here are my results:
Server: Grim Batol, EU, PVP, Fully Populated - Horde - Rogue
..Date...Time...Cords...Info...
10/Sep 00.15 - 51/71 - Vyra: Spawn
(Kill)
10/Sep 14.06 - 31/70 - Vyra: Spawn
11/Sep 04.01 - 34/76 - Vyra: Dead - (thought this maybe a 35/76 Spawn - but am unsure)
13/Sep 00.55 - 50/69 - Vyra: Dead - (Definite 51/71 Spawn - Uncertain of ToD Skinned by Alliance)
14/Sep 13.32 - 31/70 - Vyra: Spawn
15/Sep 18.37 - 45/57 - TLPD: Dead ( :11/Oct 00.20 - 31/70 – TLPD: SPAWN (KILLED HIM – THE HUNT IS OVER! I’M FREE!) (Kill)
(all times are Server Time - GMT+1)
_NPCscan is a must, Silver Dragon helps by leaving markers on your map showing you where you’ve killed certain rares, and also keeps track of amount of times seen and time since last sighted. A cords addon is also recommended.
Some sort of slow fall; I personally used a parachute cloak (engineering) which works perfectly well but if you have other proffessions Snowfall Lager works a treat too.
I camped either 51/71 or 31/70 alternately for a week after the first TLPD spawn (although the first Vyra I saw after the TLPD was on the 35/76 route. After this I camped exclusively at 31/66 which I found worked well, as I got all of the spawns from 31/70 and most of the spawns from 35/76. I camped quite high, so not to be seen by every alliance that flew past. For those that want to know exactly It was underneath the weird symbol in the mountain ((31/70) where incidentally they spawn from) directly below this is a white patch in the mountain I lined myself up with this.
The two spawn sites I have witnessed definite spawns from (i.e. Vyragosa or Time-Lost coming directly out of the rock face) are 51/71 in Brunnhildar Village and 31/70 in Bor’s Breath (Frozen Lake). I regularly killed Vyragosa spawning from 35/76 although I never camped there so can’t confirm the actual spawn location.
I have tried camping at 52/34 and nothing has spawned there, which I’m pretty annoyed about, as I was on my way from a camping session there to start one at 51/71 when I found the TLPD dead. Had I been just 20 minutes earlier my hunt would have been over 5 days in.
There have been rumors/theories that the Time-Lost Proto-Drake and Vyragosa have slightly different spawn points – I can say from my experience this was not the case – the Time-Lost that I saw spawned from the exact same spot as Vyragosa had done.
The theory about it being on a 6 hours spawn cycle can’t be completely correct as, although I know I’ve missed some spawns, each spawn that I’ve seen has NOT happened at a bang on 6 hour interval. I’ve also read that it could be a mix of 6, 8 or 12 hour spawns with an option for the rare to not spawn, which for a while I thought might be correct, as a number of my spawns have happened at 14 hours (6h+8h) after a Vyra kill. But then I’ve had a 13 hour interval and a 17 hour interval. The smallest spawn time I’ve witnessed was an 8 hour spawn. The way I see it is that the spawn timer is between 6 and 24 hours – beyond that I can only offer suggestions.
Probably the most helpful thing I can suggest for those not wanting to camp 24/7 is that from most of the spawns I’ve seen both Vyragosa and Time-Lost Proto-Drake like to spawn roughly the same time within an hour from the time they were last killed (generally give or take 5 minutes either side). For example: on the 24/Sep I killed Vyra at 16.44 and then on the 25/Sep I killed her at 00.46. This wasn’t true all the time but as a rough rule it helped. I also found that when it broke this theory/rule it seemed to spawn at either **.30 or **.00 as a sort of reset – at least sometimes. This seemed to happen when it strayed too much from the **.30 or **.00 times.
Melee Classes do not worry! Yes, Vyragosa can be a pain to pull down as she loves her ranged attack. But the TLPD is not the same he will come within melee range after you agro him. (I have confirmed this by testing it on the PTR, multiple attacks on a TLPD with the same result every time.)
I tried speaking to 3 GMs and although they all seemed determined not to tell me anything of importance or even confirm anything, I did get one slightly interesting comment from one GM:
the Time-Lost Proto-Drake has a “maximum spawn timer”
– i.e. he will definately spawn within a certain amount of time – all I can confirm is that it is a month or more – my guess would be a month, as it would be a nice round number and is a reasonably long time.
Be friendly to other rare hunters; if Skoll pops up try selling his location before just killing him, he’s not an achievement rare and a lot of Hunters are looking for him. Whisper people you think might be looking for the TLPD don’t share details obviously but it’s nice to know who else is looking, add them as friends and this way you can see who is actively looking for the Time-Lost.
It is particularly difficult to camp this without the support of guild members/wow friends/multiple accounts/nice housemates. If you do want to definitely get this within a reasonable amount of time - I would suggest bribing, blackmailing or downright demanding the assistance of another wow player who you can trust. Saying that I camped this pretty much by myself with my kind housemates keeping me from logging out when I was afk and listening out for _NPCscan going off.
*Edit* One last thing - after posting this and reading the last 24 hours of posts here there have been 5 TLPD kills across different servers within 24 hours,
评论来自
450326
whats the speed of this mount 280% or 310% ?
评论来自
Lawlstud
We need to put in all these hints together. I also had a GM drop me a very interesting bit of info last night. I made a joke about him spawning time lost for me and he goes "Ha i would
but only 2 rare spawns can be up in Northrend at a time,
" So that is another factor to take into account about spawn times.
评论来自
467212
Ok so i have been looking for Tlpd for around 200hrs now, so far i have killed vyra 3 times dirkee 4 times and skoll once. everytime i have killed dirkee it has been on the hour ie:5pm/3pm etc same with skoll. but vyra has been different 2/3 times i have killed her i saw her spawn from the mountains 1 at 51/71 and 1 at 31/70 but each time i have killed her it has been 7.34pm then 5.34pm then 4.34pm. The only 1 left is Tlpd and i strongly believe as most have said here its all about timing if you crave this drake and really know ur stuff you will get it! Keep ur faith and just believe that round that corner is aTlpd.
评论来自
367752
Okay people, believe me if you want or don't, but i think/believe that i have found a theory as to when Time-Lost will spawn. So far i have not been proved wrong on my server, and dont say "its just luck" because whenever its happend i've just seen a corpse. I believe that there is a pattern on the days he spawns. That it drops 2 days between each interval of days ( That probably doesnt help) but i mean like on my server its gone "11days til a spawn 9days till spawn 7days till spawn 5days till spawn" it'll then go 3days 1day and then round to 16 days and go down in even numbers. Personally i can see this explaining other players theorys when they've gone wrong. I still dont know when during the day it'll spawn and to find what the pattern is you gotta record its death a few times. By the way the last two spawns i have predicted and low and behold they have spawned. I hope this helps. :)
评论来自
467212
This morning after the reset there was only 5 ppl in storm peaks so flew around looking but no luck, i had just finished a 12 hr shift so i fell asleep for over 2hrs at my comp but when i quered the server on whether Tlpd had dropped it said it had even though 2hrs b4 it wudnt give me the info. Does it cache the item as soon as a player who has it still in their bags come online or just straight after reset?
评论来自
469223
I would like to thank all the people who have posted "good" information on here. I got my TLPD at 2:25pm 10/14/2009 on Shattered Hand just as it got to Brunnhildar Village, coming up from K3. It took me almost 5 full days before I saw my first TLPD, which I got. To anyone trying for this mount, it will come if you just keep at it. Best of luck
*To the two posters below me* I camped for 5 full days, meaning 24hrs a day, it's just a matter of when it will spawn in place of Vyragosa. I posted the same information that helped me get mine (I devised a plan based off the the same type of information I gave, nothing else) The server will be irrelevant in a matter of hours, so that's not really going to help anyone. In my 5 day camp I killed Vyragosa 7 times and I can tell you that her spawn time and place is RANDOM, so besides the flight paths all this information is worthless.
If I was inconsiderate I wouldn't of posted at all... The entire point of my post was to inspire those whose morale might be low (like mine was) and also to thank the people who took time out of their day to post this information for others to see, even though it wouldn't benefit them in any way. Sorry if you guys have a problem with my post... but the type of post I made was the type that helped me... I can't help it if you guys need more information to accomplish the same feat.
评论来自
257812
Bloodskuld - Garona (EU)
Thanks to the addon _NPCScan, I finaly got mine.
This addon is really amazing and help a lot!
评论来自
nekorion
I just found it moments ago. He flew very close to K3, (a few seconds away from the flight master) albeit kind of high in the air.
Solo'd as a 77 shaman, but just barely. I don't know what he did, but kiting him down to the ground took about 7k hp out of me alone. After hes on the ground he fights like a wet paper bag though.
Maybe I'm lucky but I found him the day I started looking for him. Took about 4 hours though.
Bright side for me, Free mount :P
评论来自
469659
So I just bagged my TLPD, and gotta say that NPCScan was a big help. Spawned directly under me at 31/66 on Shu' Halo 7:30 eastern, and had him down before we hit the ground. Good luck to all who are hunting him.
评论来自
mrdumplings
im searching for him now, i started in june so i hope i get him soon. itd be great just to see him alive just once lol
评论来自
467212
Can any1 please tell me how to stop my character from going afk and logging out?
There is always the same 6 ppl in storm peaks on my realm they are on 24hrs a day and when i whisper them to see how they are doin it there is no response from any of them ever. if i knew how to stop myself from afkin out and logging off it would help me a lot as i could snooze by my pc.
评论来自
mrdumplings
Well i been sitting here on my wind rider in storm peaks by bor's breath for goin on 9 hours now. not afk not reading a book. talking to guildies yeah but mainly just sitting here lol. i hope he spawns soon
评论来自
469250
Got mine last night 3:50am server time (Quel'Thalas EU) in Valkyrion, after pretty much two weeks of camping. Don't have that much statistics to offer you, but the place where I camped was 30.5, 66. Height was pretty much on the lower part of the hole on the mountain wall. Was sleeping and the NPCScan went off, ran to the computer and tagged it quickly with blurred vision, no problems after that.
At this point everybody should know all the needed facts'n strats (the kill is extremely easy, I didn't have any buffs on and I had 3 other guys on me at the same time). I got Vyragosa pretty much once a day on that spot, it being on the junction of 3 of the routes makes it a statistically probably the best place to be. I personally didn't got any logic on the spawn times, but they all fell in the category of "at least once a day" plus I'm not sure how many times it had spawned on the K3-route during that time.
At this point somebody might think, how it's possible that I wasn't AFK while I was sleeping. Since this isn't the right place to share details of such information (no, it's not a bot, it's something your computer just... does, with a tiny bit of code) and I would personally hate to see people using that e.g. on PvP, so I'm not gonna reveal it. All I can say, that if you Google long enough, you will find the answer. Keep the hunt up, and when you get yours, let the other hunters know (politely!) so they can have their break.
评论来自
R4ndomizer
No program that u can use for not becoming afk is allowed. Its all bannable.
评论来自
393077
I feel sad for you people that feel you have accomplished something by using some program or "something your computer just... does, with a tiny bit of code".
"oh em geeee gaiys, me npc scan finally went off while I was sleeping so I could get my mount after three months of camping! now i will show it off in dalaran! donnt give up guyz u will get it eventyali after many hours of
very hard work
!1"
评论来自
mrdumplings
see thats where i agree and slightly disagree, i use npcscan but i donot use it while i sleep. i only use it if im flying thru or sitting in an area right at the pc with full atention. if i get TLPD i wanna be able tosay i sat and put in the time, i use npcscan yea but i also was here and when / if i get it i can say I did it. :P
评论来自
Synthis
Skywall - US PVE - Medium Pop
9/9 - 9:58am server - Vyra - 29,65 Bors Breath
9/10 - 9:27am server - Vyra - 31.0,49.2 Snowdrift Plains
9/11 - 8:09am server - vyra - 28.9,66 Bors Breaths
*Skoll*
9/11 - 6:57pm server - 30.2,65.0 Bor's Breath
9/12 - 6:55am server - vyra - 27.5, 54.0 inbetween snowdrift plains and valkyrion
9/13 - approx 1:58am server - vyra - bor's breath
9/13 - 6:15pm server - vyra - bor's breath
9/14 - approx 5:20pm server - vyra - near Brunn Village
9/15 - 11:45am server - vyra - no coords supplied
9/16 - approx 4am server - vyra - no coords supplied
*Skoll*
9/16 - 7:10pm server - no coords provided
(possible tlpd?) 9/17 - approx 1:45am server - no coords supplied
9/17 - 3:20am server - vyra - bors breath
9/17 - 6:10pm server - vyra - 44.7, 58.3 foot steppes (near engine)
9/19 - 9:57am server - vyra - 28.0, 64.3 - bors breath
*skoll*
- 9/20 - 12:41am server - 46.4, 65.2 foot steppes
9/20 - 2:35pm server - vyra - 30.2, 68.0 bors breath
10/7 - 7:50am server - vyra - 27.7, 57.5 bors breath
10/12 - approx 9:00pm server - vyra - approx north of valkyrion
**Dirkee**
10/13 - 9:45pm server - 41.3, 40.7 - terrace of the makers
10/16 - 6:30am server - 29.7, 67.7 - bors breath
***TLPD**
10/18 - 9:02pm server - 31.1, 65.9 - bors breath (tagged/killed)
Finally after hours upon hours, days upon days I found and killed this handsome drake while making my circuit around checking the spawnpoints. If you are unfamiliar with the flight areas and/or like a visual with where the rare pops up I would suggest npcscan overlay along with npcscan & silverdragon addons. The only thing with the overlay is the color can interfere with parts of your map so its one of those youll either like it or hate it for camping the rares. It helps if you have any guildies/friends or people in the general channel to help with finding out spawn times/locations. I was lucky enough to have a guildie who was looking for vyra to help me for a few days with locations before he finally got her for his achievement. I pretty much camped nonstop from the getgo with the exception of when I needed breaks before raids and as im sure there arent that many that want to go to that length just find out last spawn time and check around 6+ hours later.
Note of advice though, if you can get a good amount of info on the most popular kill spot (i.e. - place vyra/tlpd has been killed the most), camp at or near that spot. As you can see on my server the most popular was the bors breath area so I pretty much camped there with doing a circuits around at the top of the hour. All the other helpful information here is pretty much dead on so if this post doesnt help you then the others should. Dont give up hope, dont lose sanity and itll all be worth it in the end. ^^ Happy Hunting!
Screenshots:
http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/6717/wowscrnshot101809230601.jpg
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/1848/wowscrnshot101809230847.jpg
http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/5421/wowscrnshot101809230647k.jpg
http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/821/wowscrnshot101809230719.jpg
*Edit*: Added a video to show information -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCpcfcKO5S4
评论来自
227440
Keep in mind that this guy doesnt have a 100% droprate on the mount. Its 97%. Even though you most likely will get this if you kill him you are not 100% guaranteed it will. One of my guildmates, found the mob, killed him, and the mount didnt drop :/. Talk about bad luck..
评论来自
227440
Well then they must have changed it since then. My guildmate didnt get it on his kill, why would he lie about it :S ?
评论来自
473710
While searching for Skoll, I found him pathing south of the frozen lake enroute to the pass below Frosthold in Rohemdal Pass. He was nearly below frost hold and amongst the harpies.
the listed macro I call 'Illidan's wake up call' worked like a charm. It spots the target from miles away.
I almost fell to my death in the fall in my rush to tag the mob, so wear all the stamina gear you can (so you don't do anything bone headed as me)
He was found 2:34 am 10/20/09 on Velen server.
dropped satchel w/ 50 gold a blue 'of the champion' neck piece, 5 crystalized air, 20 frostweave
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/9324/screenshot102009023428.jpg
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/6050/screenshot102009024933.jpg
good luck
additionally, some one killed Dirkee roughly 2 hours before my TLPD kill. Maybe it helps for theories.
edit: the body remains for some time. kill was at 2:34 and second screen shot much later.
still tracking skoll.
sorry i don't have a good map, the mini map should help a bit.
评论来自
455643
The reason for the 97% drop rate listed is because Wowhead records the people who were able to loot it - this includes groups loots etc.. so obviously not everyone in a group is going to recieve the reins of the time-lost proto-drake. But the mob always drops it 100%.
评论来自
Silvertale
By the way guys, I'm also hunting for this mount, but I'm just wondering: how far away can you see this mob? Is it like Vyragosa which you can see from really far away or just like the regular proto-drakes at the Foot Steppes? Just wondering since I'm camping at the Frozen Lake and I'm wondering if I can see it spawning above Valkyrion from there.
评论来自
R4ndomizer
He would fly in your direction anyway ;-). Just stay 20-30 meters in the air. You can not miss him.
评论来自
393071
Camping this damn dragon is similar to South Park's Heroine Hero video game..... >:(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBVkk5rW0lw
评论来自
238164
Got it lastnight in Brunhilde Village after searching on and off for a year. Some days I would circle for 2 hours. Once I spent a whole week, 6 hours a day, watching TV waiting for the addon alarm to go off.
I was helping my girlfriend kill that harpy in Storm Peaks with my Lock. My main is a Warrior which I use for my achievements and such. So I told her I was bored and was going to switch toons and look for TLPD. I logged into my warrior at Dalaran and started to fly to Frosthold while my GF continued to quest in Storm Peaks.
Then over Vent she says, "What's this brown dragon flying around?" Before I could register the ramifications of what she said, she screams, "Oh its that time lost proto drake you are always talking about!"
I told her to tap it but she couldn't because she was on some eagle for a quest or something, and I was mid flight to frost hold. So I told her to keep an eye on it and don't lose sight of it! She managed to keep it in sight and I got to the flight point and headed over there. It was the longest 30 seoncds of my life. Every second I feared someone would tap it first.
So I got there and flew right through her to draw aggro. I looked for a place to land but it was a shear cliff near Brun. I decided to risk losing aggro and flew to the south edge of Brun. I dismounted midair and took 25% damage. I turned around and did heroic throw to pull her down to me at tap her at that point.
After that it was an easy kill, even without my GF healing me with her priest.
I'll post my picture later.
EDIT: I submitted a picture to screen shots or you can see it
here...
评论来自
478320
Looted this evening on ELUNE-EU @ 17h30
I was not farming it, I was doing the daily quest with the jorumgar for the Argent Tournament and then NPCScan alerted me... The Proto-Drake was just upside me lol... I mounted on my flying-mount, aggroed and then I killed it :)
Screenshot:
http://www.monsterup.com/upload/1256667530363.png
Big Kiss !
评论来自
216278
Guys, I just got it. I was looking for this mount for few weeks back in January. Then I stopped playing the game for about 7months till last week.
A friend of mine told me that there is an addon NPCScan and it can find rare mobs. So today I remembered about this and installed the addon knowing that this is just useless and I will never find it.
I was at the Argent Grounds and got on the bird to Dalaran just a min after the flight i see the alert. My heart started pounding like crazy knowning that i am mounted and flying to Dalaran. But immediately i logged out and relog again. That happened just between Argent Grounds and Ulduar.
So after the relog the bird dropped me at Ulduar. I went back to the place and nothing damit. I was devastated :(.
Then I went on my old well known hunting path to the big hole in the centre of Icecrown coming from north directly from Ulduar. Just when I was near the hole i saw a strange looking drake on the other side of the hole (the south side) and he immediately disappeared because my video settings are low. So I went to him and there he was in all its beauty. I went to him he aggroed immediately.
I went on the ground and he followed me. I killed him for about few sec. And there he is :).
Here is the shot. EU Agamaggan !
http://surr3a1.org/pics/time-lost.png
评论来自
351196
After a full night of camping Bor's Breath, my NPC scan went crazy a few hours ago so I jumped out of bed hoping it was TLPD, but it was only Vyragosa.
Assuming that the next spawn time is about 6 hours from then, I am still sitting at Bors Breath hoping for the best. :/
评论来自
mixter
700th comment on this topic
Time=lost proto drake wins
Many have wasted their time
Many got their drake
and many got downrated
win for the longest topic on wowhead
评论来自
479259
Well after countless hours of flying bor's breath and check for the TLPD i Finally Find Him... i got off work this morning and thought id give it a look before i went to bed.. at 5:30am PST on Ner'Zhul my NpcScan went nuts and there he was.. droped him and got my mount... i caught him flying out of the village and into bor's breath ( 28,65) GL to everyone and thanks for all the post
heres a screen shot of where i got him.
http://www.monsterup.com/upload/125683781062.jpg
评论来自
393071
Posted kills earlier in the thread but these are recent:
09/08 11:38PM(9:38serv) Vyra(me)
09/11 11:15PM(9:15serv) Vyra(unk)
09/14 7:45PM(5:45serv) Vyra(ally)
09/15 11:56AM(9:56serv) Vyra(unk)
09/17 10:33PM(8:33serv) Vyra(me)
09/23 5:43PM(3:43serv) Vyra(me)
10/02 1:55PM(11:55serv) Vyra(me)
quit, came back
10/19 4:52AM(2:52serv) Vyra(me) valk
10/19 11:39PM(9:39serv) Vyra(tauren) lake
10/20 7:40PM(5:40serv) Vyra(Lir) brunn
10/21 7:09PM(5:09serv) Vyra(unk) north of valk
10/23 9:09PM (7:09pm) Vyra(MIA)
10/24 5:45am(3:45serv) Vyra(me)hill spawn
10/25 6:28am(4:28serv) Vyra(me) hill spawn
10/25 5:48pm(3:48serv) Vyra(me)Bor's breath,entry, spawn, Frosthold deep
10/26 8:48am(6:48serv) Vyra(me)Bor's breath, entry, spawn, Frosthold deep
10/27 6:26am(4:26serv) Vyra(me)coming from Valk towards lake
Quit on Vyra(refreshing cache)
10/29 12:40am(10:45serv) Vyra(me)Brunn path, quit on her but still ran into her @#$%
10/30 9am(7:00serv) TLPD(me) Valk towards lake
Took about 6 months, on and off, 400+ camping hours but:
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j42/Boingy420/WoWScrnShot_103009_085954.jpg
Fina-@#$%-lee, I can close this chapter of my life. I even waited out the 20minutes for TLPD's corpse to despawn: figured, camped so long, another 20min to see him off won't kill me.
Edit: Also, got Skoll for 3 hunters. Woulda been 4 but the hunter ended up killing him...
评论来自
480025
wooot wooot got it today at morning. funny story thou. friend of mine camped it for a week and got the mount yesterday and saw it once more like 2 days ago. he teached me where to go and where he got it yesterday. It was late and I logged out inthere thinking I will start camping it too. at morning when I logged in - BANG - npcscan goes off showing time lost drake . cliked like crazy at the npcscan thingi no targeting . started flying around searching clicking like crazy and thinking maybe its proken and I cant target him by clickyng or the drake was dead and the corpse just dissapeared giving me a warning or what. at boars breath there he was. I was suprised that npcscan took him soo far away. tryied to tag him - too far away jumped off cliff and died trying to tag him. that was like the longest walking back to corpse ever even thou it was rly close it seemed like farest ever. got to corpse and followed the drake trying to find a spot to tag him but he was just too far in the air. at last found spot and moonfire - great tagged. then I discovered my healt was like below half becouse I died . bear form and frenzyed regeneration or whatever. killed it - heart still pumping like hell and still not beleiving my luck.
estproo@eonar eu
评论来自
480743
Hello folks, time to make my contribution on the hunt so far.
I started hunting this elusive mythic beast exactly one week ago. First I read up an all available info so far and concluded that best spot to camp it is indeed Bor's Breath, just above frozen lake. It is very near of two confirmed spawn points and it is on path of three of four possible flight paths. NPC addon is very much a must as well as loads of time available to spend in Storm Peaks. With that in mind I started this, well some say crazy, adventure. My first tactics was stay still above frozen lake then take short patrols to determine if there was a kill every 30min of both TLPD or Vyragosa. Later on when I saw that Vyragosa got killed in exactly my camping spot while on my 3 minute long patrol by another camper I decided that I'll leave my spot only when frozen lake is clear of other hunters.
This is my result over one week period time camping in excess of +12h per day : 3 Skoll kills by me, 1 Vyragosa kill by me, 2 Vyragosa dead on arrival, 0 Dirkee.
Now, I don't know if I'm really unlucky with Vyragosa/TLPD spawns or there is something else behind only 3 sightings in 7 days but from my experience it could be that on my realm (low populace) rare spawns are killed at lesser rate than on higher populace ones. I read somewhere that GM confirmed that only two rare spawns my be up on Northrend at any time. So if no one kills some poor rare for more than a few hours it will take more time for Vyragosa's turn to come and by the way I think there are 27 rare spawns in Northrend. Math here don't play into out hands. Now, this is only a speculation and I'm not sure on it.
One other thing. Despite my realm being low on populace there are on average +20 people in Storm Peaks at prime time and around +10 on average during the day.
Well, I'll not give up. The hunt goes on. I'll try to give my report next week too. Good luck to us all.
评论来自
351196
Just tagged and killed Vyragosa at around 8:30 server time. NPC scan went off and I was hoping it was the TLPD but was disappoointed again. It took a few seconds, then Vyragosa appeared by Frosthold and was flying towards Valkyrion. Funny thing is that when I was trying to tag Vyra, I see Skoll 10 feet away. Needless to say, killed both of them in a row, and got an angry message from a hunter saying they have been trying to tame him for 2 days, lol!
I will log back in in about 6 hours and wait for the drake to hopefully come.
评论来自
R4ndomizer
@ boingy420
LOL, that is NOT true ^^. There can be DEFINITIVELY more rares in northend then only 2 at the same time. Only 1 in one area at the same time(stormpeaks are 2 possible at the same time).
The respawntimer of a rare has NOTHING to do with rares in other areas !
评论来自
Jauque
Got mine today at 01:45 on Frostwolf-US...over the frozen lake with the help of _NPCScan!..camped for 7 days, off and on, but for hours on end...caught up on all my house MD and Hero's episodes on Hulu....thanks for all the great advice on here, it was a ton of help!
Kill Shot:
http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/8544/killsshot.jpg
And the beauty shot:
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/2126/mountshot.jpg
评论来自
R4ndomizer
@ boingy
That CAN not be true. I did the similar thing a few weeks ago, every day, for more then 2 weeks and found up to 5(!) rares on one flight across northend. Most times there were 2-4 rares. In all probability there can be more than 2 rares in northend at the same time.
评论来自
slashman17
This Sunday 11-01-09 I decided after reading about this mount to farm for it.That day I spent 12 hours learning his spawn points and paths.I had no luck that night with him or Vyragosa.
11-02-09 I got off work and spent 6 hrs farming.By the time I was fixing to log off,NPC alert went off and found a rarespawn near Brunnhilda village.It was Vyragosa.I body pulled her and flew her to the top of a near by hut.I easly burned her down.
http://i992.photobucket.com/albums/af44/slashman17/WoWScrnShot_110309_000908.jpg
11-3-09 Today was maint. day.After work I logged in and began my 3rd day of farming.After finding Vyragosa,I had hope I could one day find TLPD.I fell asleep at the keyboard near 2:20am server time.My wife comes in and asks if I am coming to bed.I said sure and reached for the esc key.Just than I hear the NPCscan alert.Having just killed Vyragosa,I knew it was not her as she was still in my cache.I frantically hit tab until I targeted the TLPD .There he was in all his glory waiting for me to kill him.Just as I tagged another horde guy tried and missed by a mila-second.
http://i992.photobucket.com/albums/af44/slashman17/WoWScrnShot_110409_003717.jpg
http://i992.photobucket.com/albums/af44/slashman17/WoWScrnShot_110409_003722.jpg
http://i992.photobucket.com/albums/af44/slashman17/WoWScrnShot_110409_003803.jpg
http://i992.photobucket.com/albums/af44/slashman17/WoWScrnShot_110409_005423.jpg
http://i992.photobucket.com/albums/af44/slashman17/WoWScrnShot_110509_192713.jpg
To all trying for him,Don't give up.The path I took was quick and easy.I would start at bors breath just south of valkyrion. Than follow the frozen river to bors fall.I would than cut east and fly over the other city there(can't remember name,Begins with a S) and go through the path to the north in between mountains.From there I would fly east towards the area in makers terrace with the blue drakes and fly south to Brunnilda village. The dragons have a chance of spawning right over there.(see screen shot of my Vyragosa kill) than circle back.This loop covers 3 of the 4 known spawn spots.I didn't realy fly towards the Uldar spawn point as it seems far away from other 3 spawns and less kills have been reported there.
I hope this info helps.Good luck all!
Max
Illidan server-US
评论来自
Aracela
Lok'tar my brothers and sisters! I have finally obtained my drake after months upon months of camping.
I've had the most terrible luck with, Glory, new beloved new drake, finding him dead in the wild not once, not twice, but SEVEN separate times. I've killed Vyragosa 18+ times and tonight, this wonderful night, I slid off the mountain at Bor's Breath, and tagged him!
Server: Detheroc
Time: 11...who %^&*ing knows I got it!
Location: Frozen Lake! HOLY GOD I GOT IT! :D
I'm so very happy. My hunt is not over yet. I've obtained both Frostbitten and Bloody Rare, but in this hunt for Time Lost, I met another worthy and dedicated camper. I have vowed to assist him in acquiring his drake as well.
Thank you all, from the bottom of my heart for all the insight and data. It feels like a dream.
Only true hunters can really understand this feeling. I tell you, the hunt is worth it. Your trophy is as beautiful as you always imagined it would be! Lok'tar, my friends!
http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/5049/timelost.jpg
评论来自
425866
This isn't meant to be a brag post but I figured any information could help all the potential drake hunters out there. I watched Time Lost Proto Drake spawn directly above me in Brunnhildar Village. I had been flying around doing quests and he spawned right into my camera.
His flight path took him toward the engine of the makers. When he got toward the valley where the blue protodrakes are he was low to the ground.
Good luck!
评论来自
483227
Well i guess im going to become the most hated person on this topic. Today i decided to find this very rare mount. I read up on the internet flight paths and spawn rates and decided to give it a shot. No more than 3 laps around the "green" route posted on the first comment there he was. I was so suprised. So i officaly got my TLPD in about 20 mins of decideing to try and find it. It was right on the west side of the crash site where all the dots are on the path. GL to anyone who decides to try and find this. I know i had a horseshoe up my ass when i found this.
http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/9151/wowscrnshot110809045541.jpg
评论来自
Sashiria
I finally got him today on the Drenden server, on 11/9/09 at 9:30 am pst, or 12:30 server, in the Snow Drift Plains. I had been camping in primarily in the Bors Breath area by Valkyrion, but all I ever found there was Vyragosa, several days in a row. I decided to move to the Plains, as TLPD (unfortunately) killed me a few months ago there when I was camping for Skoll, and I was petless, fell and... needless to say, did not get the reins that time.
I was doing a pat around the area, heading north toward the Plains, by the Iron Giant, when both Silver Dragon and NPC scan went off. TLPD was heading toward me, coming from the east, heading west. I downed him in front of the cave by the stormriders. Easy kill, thank goodness, as I had the drake and 2 stormriders trying to take out my pet and me at the same time. Coords about 27.64, 47.46. Good luck to all fellow hunters, he is worth the wait!
http://img258.imageshack.us/i/wowscrnshot110909093604.jpg/
http://img230.imageshack.us/i/wowscrnshot110909093604e.jpg/
评论来自
453650
At long last, I finally got this beauty tonight. After 2.5 months of hunting, my npc_scan went off at about 11:00pm server time - Bleeding Hollow. I had seen and killed Vyragosa about 5 times and had just missed the TLPD twice, finding his corpse. This is with only being able to camp after work for a few hours each night during the week and then whenever I'm not sleeping during the weekend and not away from my computer.
I spotted him just over the lake at Bor's Breath. He was heading over towards Valkyrion and downed him just at the entrance of Valkyrion. I thought for sure someone would tag him before I'd catch up to him since Bleeding Hollow is quite populated with TLPD hunters. I was halfway through Bor's Breath at the time by the rez point where I was camping. But now he is MINE! muahahahahaha
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a129/flowersfade/WoWScrnShot_110909_223155.jpg
11:00pm server time
Bleeding Hollow
26.61 - Valkyrion
评论来自
483341
Got him about a week ago using Npcscan, YOU NEED TO DL THIS ADDON IF YOU DONT HAVE IT. spent about 3 months camping on and off. seen him 2 times. my first time i was afk when my npcscan went off and it really !@#$ed me off. my kill spot is exactly (35.01 65) and thats is where i spent all of my time camping. happy hunting
评论来自
484640
Alright, I know this doesn't help anyone much, but I had to right it down. A couple days ago I was farming some herbs in The Storm Peaks waiting for my raid to start. I had heard of this bad boy flying around before, but never actually seen em. Well, I was just west of Temple Of Storms, when all of a sudden I seen a proto drake fly by me. I was like, what the crap? Hi-lighted em and seen that it had roughly 18k hp, elite, and rare. So instantly, being the American that I am I had to kill it lol. I killed the thing not realizing what it was and low and behold it drops this epic mount! It was the most random thing that has ever happened to me in WoW. I know people have camped him for days, and I just happened across him by pure luck. Another great day in WoW :D
评论来自
lock101
I've now gotten this Drake on 4 of my 80's. After camping for for him/her for quite a bit of time the first time on my paladin. I eventually gave up : |. Leveling a druid and hunter since. I find myself in storm peaks again on my Death knight this time hunting, its the afternoon, storm peaks loaded with alliance(not sure how many horde) and all the sudden, my addon goes off and sure enough it was the elusive Tlpd, I immediatly tag it and get the kill, couldn't believe, after all the time spent on my paladin looking and coming up with nothing, I finally found it on my death knight and get the kill. So I decide to break off of looking for it on my other 80's for a couple weeks. Now, I'm on my hunter had just tamed Skoll the previous night(making that all the spirit beasts tamed), decide I'm going to camp for the tlpd, its late night, 15-20 alliance on at the time, took me a couple days of camping to tame skoll, which i didn't see neither Vyragosa or Tlpd during that time, which I found odd, normally when I'm camping in the zone, I'll at least see Vyragosa at some point, killed her countless times. Anyways, as I said its late night and sure enough my addon goes off again and to my amazement, its the Tlpd again, I again get the tag/kill and fly off on this beaty again. Now its time for my paladin to get his, he's the one I originally wanted him/her for, but with over a month of camping the first time, killing vyragosa countless times, seeing the corpse of the Tlpd 2 times during that time(one of those times got tagged right before I could get to it). A few days of camping have gone past since the kill on my hunter, again its late night, I'm in my normal spot, again the drake spawns and I tagged it ASAP, he/she couldnt of been up for more than a few seconds, none the less, my paladin now has this beautiful mount. Last kill was on my Druid, same story. All the time I've spent, there is no formula really other than being in the zone and having some major luck, hanging around the Fp's. I stayed in one spot mainly, occasionally flying around an fp to see if he/she spawned in another area. I'm still in a bit of shock, its a rush when you do finally find him/her. Got some screenies.
评论来自
Kiela
I would like to confirm a flightpath for the Time-Lost. Today I was flying from Dalaran to Stormpeaks and I was flying over Brunnhildar Village when I saw it. It was slightly against the mountain. At first I didn't believe it was the Time-Lost, but I checked it and it had the silver dragon over it picture which meant it was rare. Of course being in a complete stake of shock and a massive adrenaline rush I tagged it with an arcane barrage. But, of course I was too stunned to function and I fell off my mount and died. (yes, even though I am a mage and have slowfall -_- I was in too much shock)
I quickly respawned and flew to my corpse, mounted up and tried to find it again. It had begun to fly over the small mountains into the field with the blue frost wyrms and the Engine of the Makers. I found him, tagged him, and shot that puppy down :)
I would just like to say that it appears that the Time-Lost has a flight path over Brunnhildar and does indeed fly into the field where the Engine of the Makers is. I can double confirm this as I have seen the Time-Lost corpse lying next to the Engine before, and I have heard from a friend that he spotted the Time Lost in the same field (only flying VERY high up). Besides from now, before I had only once seen it (only on my target macro - never actually seeing it in person) when I was extremely high up (so that I could barely see the ground). It appears that he flies high and low.
And do you want to know something ironic? I had been camping this mount for 2 months. And only ever detected its presence once. I then gave up on it after those 2 months. I then began hard work on my red proto. Today I got my red proto after a year of wanting it. I fly on my 10 minute old red proto towards Stormpeaks and spot the Time-Lost. Of course, after finally getting the red proto, it is replaced after 10 minutes. Isn't that just WTF worthy? My guild isn't too happy with me :P And it makes me a little sad that my red proto was tossed to the side to easily after all the hard work.
I hope that I have helped someone slightly with the information I could provice :)
Good luck on trying to find it! It's worth the trouble.
评论来自
revvr
Took me about 20 seconds farming, saw him when I was farming herbs :) Spotted him near that big hole in the ground.
评论来自
sync133
Found after many many many hours camping!
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/757/wowheadupload.jpg
GL!
评论来自
412591
Camped Time-Lost for 18 days and finally got it yesterday at 5pm on Lothar Server. It spawned right infront of me while I was camping the Frozen Lake. Tagged and finally got the mount. Killed Vyra multiple times at same spot aswell. It seems to be able to spawn by the mini waterfall by the frozen lake. Anyways gl to all time lost hunters, don't give up and you'll eventually get the mount as well.
http://imgur.com/YHppH.jpg
评论来自
341901
I believe Dirkee and one of the two dragons can spawn at the same time. I killed Vyragosa a little south of Valkyrion at 5:32AM ST, and killed Dirkee a little later at 6:03AM ST (he was standing next to Khaliisi at the engine of the makers).
评论来自
R4ndomizer
It can NOT spawn at the little waterfall ! He flies over it on his "orange" route.
Every of the 4 spawnpoints were postet, every of the 4 rotes where postet several times.
No confirmation of the spawnpoints or routes is needed. Simply write your server, killtime or your little "story" how you got it ^^.
评论来自
486179
I can not believe my luck. I use an addon to spot rares and have been hoping to finally catch an 80 rare of some sort. My addon alerts me (the four others in my group also got alerts from their addons. I was the only one outside of the Halls of Lightening, by the summoning stone. I scanned the skies and there it was. My excited screams probably deafened my friends on vent. We raced out there to it. It was tagged by an alliance player, but it knocked him off his mount and for some reason he lost the tag. We lured it to the ground with some fancy teamwork. Then came the suspense of rolling. We agreed to greed it (and all the good people in the group respected that!) and I won it. I sort of feel bad, in that I have never camped the spawn hoping for it. In fact, I have never heard of it, before looting it. But I do promise to treasure this rare mount in the fashion it deserves.
评论来自
463835
TLPD does spawn at the Terrace of the Makers. I was there, at the summoning stone, when npcscan went off. I turned around, and he was flying at about the level of the broken road/bridge. I tagged him while falling, almost died, put my water ele on him and prayed I would not die while fighting him. I was able to mount back up and get him onto the bridge fragment, where I was able to kill him.
Just another confirmation of the Terrace spawn point. I had been there for around 5 minutes before npcscan detected him, so I am guessing it just spawned. I want to thank the horde group that killed/ganked me - they delayed me enough from entering the instance that I was around when it spawned. Thanks guys. heh.
Time was around noon, apologies that I can't recall exactly what the time was.
评论来自
R4ndomizer
I might be wrong, but deosnt "spawnponit" mean that a mob "respawns" at exactly that point ?
It is not a point where it was simply seen, right ?
评论来自
jakepauly
Just got mine on Azgalor about 15 min ago at 46, 60
评论来自
Majeed
So here's my contribution, server: Ravencrest (EU)
Date/Time Location
started out 27/10
29/10 05:23 brunnhildar (saw first) Vyragosa
1/11 01:10 Frozen Lake (found dead) Vyragosa
2/11 01:14 brunnhildar (me kill) Vyragosa
3/11 22:58 vattenfall (faris kill) Vyragosa
Server maintenance
4/11 18:00 Valkyrion (unconfirmed spawn) Vyragosa
5/11 13:05 Bor's Fall (Found dead) Vyragosa
7/11 02:55 Valkyrion going bors breath (me kill) this is the ulduar path Vyragosa
7/11 20:40 Frozen lake (me kill) Vyragosa
8/11 17:50 Frozen Lake (me kill) Vyragosa
9/11 15:20 Brunnhildar (me kill) Vyragosa
10/11 14:20 Bor's Fall (found dead) Vyragosa
servermainenance
12/11 23:48 Bor's Fall (Me kill) at Frozen lake Vyragosa
17/11 9:55 Spawned above brunnhildar TLPD (my kill) corpse was left there for around 30mins until despawn, not skinnable.
Hey, I just saw and killed the TLPD, for the first time ever. And I just want to give my special thanks to Abraxusta and Ponderance for their factual theories, ESPECIALLY Abraxusta's four-spawnspot fact that they spawn out of the mountains as u can see in his youtube video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF9b7o29KOE&feature=related
. Trust me these guys know their *!@#.
http://symphonyofnoise.com/tlpd/index.html
proved to be helpful, the one spawnspot I have yet to see something come out of is the one at terrace of the makers, but the other three I have seen with my own eyes. THERE ARE FOUR SPAWNSPOTS one for each of the four patrol paths - simple logic, if someone tells you differently its BS.
All in all this was by far the worst farm I ever did, but in the end it was worth it, was 3weeks exactly. BUT the third week was the one week the was kinda strange, I was used to seeing a vyra almost every day, but as u can see from the 10th, there was nothing for 2 days, then from 12th to my TLPD the 17th a whole 5days without finding anything, which I find weird as I was camping 20hours of the day with 3toons parked at the different spawnlocations. Anyway he came flying out from the mouintain at 50.71 above brunnhildar where I had my bros shaman parked, I almost got a heartattack expecting to see vyragosa when I heard the npcscan addon go off, but there he was in all his beauty so I tagged it with the shaman and rushed my warrior over there (he was camping the Frozen Lake, to cover that spawn and the bor’s fall one) – it was the longest 2minutes ever the fight was. Just a tip for you hunters out there, don’t give up, yours is coming eventually but there will be a lot of timelost as this is a hardcore farm, but fact is, if your dedicated enough for a period of time yours is coming.
评论来自
IceHawk79
I was leaving Ulduar, when he spawned right in front of the flight path near HOL/HOS/Ulduar. I clicked on my mod, and asumed he was dead.(He always is) and sure enough he was alive and well.
5 Mins later, he was dead. =)
Im sooo happy!
Killed at 10pm EST on Llane Server.
评论来自
487534
I figured I'd make a wowhead account to tell people this. I've never heard of this until today, never cared, and would never ever in my life even think of farming it. I was questing in the brunnhildar area, just getting some gold, and I get ganked by an alliance warrior, Skeggox, while I'm killing quest mobs. So I finished my quest and turned it in, picked up the next one and started flying. I stopped mid-flight to go to the bathroom, figuring better now than in the quest area to get ganked again while I'm afk. I come back, I'm in combat with some random ass rare spawn, some time lost thing. I kill it and get the reins and a 76 rogue blue I believe. Just happened twenty minutes ago. Now I should get back to questing so I can get enough gold for epic flying =P
Irium, hordeside, shadowmoon.
评论来自
R4ndomizer
hmmm why i think that theorie CAN not be true:
OK ^^, you think that there can only be a specific number of rares at the same time in northend, right ?
And I know, that Vyraosa and TLPD have a 6-24 hour respawntimer. If my theorie is right( me and ALOT other guys think it is ^^) yours CAN not be true.
Why ? K ^^, lets have an example: Lets say its 4:00 AM and not much people are roaming around in northend. Lets say all of your rares are out there and it is no more rare possible. But what if that 6-24-hour respawntimer runs out now ? If i see your theorie there is no Vyra/TLPD-spawn possibble.
THAT is why i not believe that.
评论来自
Acquiesce
Got mine right under the Temple of Storms, spawned right in front of me, NPCScan went crazy, 2nd time checking for it.
评论来自
456507
I finally got the TLPD on Maiev at 8:05 pm. After camping him for quite a while, I had a near catch 3 days ago after camping for 14 hours and missed him by one bloody minute! X_X Today I was just sitting in one of my regualr spots hoping for Vyra to spawn so I could start my track like the last few times and BANG! My NPC scanner goes nuts and I damn near break my leg on the coffee table as I was on the phone when he popped. Got him right at the head of the falls; he spawned right on me so when I got to the screen he had knocked me off my mount and my pet was going after him already. WOO! Well, after all the camping and countless hours I put in, it paid off with a kill, and a really good tracking system that has been pretty accurate ( I have 4 sheets of paper with Vyra's and TLPD's spawn points, places of kill, dates, times, and direction of travel, along with a map I have of all spawn points etc. that I did up)). He does share 2 spawn points with Vyragosa, and the same flight paths. The timer's been pretty close as well every time I've managed to be on when there's been a kill. This time it was me who got it.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v116/LittleStaffie/WoW%20Kano/TLPD2.jpg
评论来自
dexterslab
Here's all the information you'll ever need quick and concise:
At each spawnpoint TLPD or vyragosa (which do share spawnpoints aswell as paths) flies directly out of a rock wall or mountain.
Spawnpoints:
30,70 (flies out of the mountain at frosthold)
52,63 (flies out of the mountain directly south of Brunn)
36,78 (flies directly out of the mountain at the edge of the frozen waterfall)
55,32 (flies out of the rock wall at the big casm, its high up level with the buildings)
I have individually verified each of these
Here is a video I made that shows them in visual form:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh2BE9emxXg
The one that flies out of frost hold goes North and makes a clockwise loop around the crash site, down to the engine and back by temple of storms
the one that spawns at the frozen waterfall (at Boar's Breath) just loops around the Mountain containing frosthold
The one that spawns up across from Ulduar pats all the way in front of Ulduar, down to temple of storms and around to the engine in a large counterclockwise circle
The one that Spawns at Brunn goes down to K3 and back up to the engine
I camped the time lost protodrake for 308 hours before getting it. I killed vyragosa 16 times and have the drops to prove it. I camped at 30, 65 because it is right next to two spawns and the one that spawns up by ulduar pats by aswell. The day I got my drake I killed vyragosa at 3am and TLPD at 11:30 pm. The next day TLPD spawned again at 11:10 am. Unbelievable...2 weeks of no drakes when Im camping and then when I get mine 2 spawn back to back.
评论来自
lock101
For the above poster, I have this drake on my 4 80s and I know for a fact that the drake won't always spawn and head in the same direction, I've killed him/her both flying clockwise and counter clockwise on its paths. As I said in a above post, there really is now guaranteed formula to finding him/her. Its a matter of luck.
评论来自
456507
All I can say is, watch Vyra's spawn timer REAL CLOSE. That alone will give you an immense heads up when TLPD will show himself (at least on my server, it's been bang on every time).
评论来自
R4ndomizer
@ lock101: Oo i never saw them fly in other directions. I do not say that your lying, but do you have any proof ?
@SheWuff: What exactly do you mean ? (im german ^^ and my english is....na ^^) The timer is 6-24 hours in we've had spawns(last 6 kills were ours ^^) 8 up to 18 hours after the last kills, absolutely random hour and minutes, so what do you mean ?
评论来自
117968
I got mine while I was 69, not even looking for her lol I remember it being three in the morning and she was right above the frozen lake area. I was really j/w though, I've heard rumors on my server going around about this mount being changed into a 310% speed in the upcoming patch, can anyone confirm that?
评论来自
R4ndomizer
310 % ? THAT would be cool ^^. Never heared about that.
评论来自
483254
Well..after solid 280hours camping i still didnt find him..i am losing hope..killed vyra/skoll/dirkee many times but wanna finally get that bastard..if it happens ill post my vid. later..Good Luck to every1
评论来自
R4ndomizer
Just got my 4 TLPD 1 hour ago, the hunt is over now ^^....again...but for how long ^^.
Good luck everybody.
评论来自
467212
600 hrs plus atm killed vyragosa 27 times, still never seen Time lost. I think you shud only be able to get this mount on 1 character per realm to stop ppl like Randomizer farming 4 for themselves, give some other players a chance ffs. will post again when i get him.
评论来自
491465
I started camping 28.65 with occassional short flights up and down the valley at the frozen lake. My first day camping (8 hours) started on November 18th 2009, I killed the TLPD on November 27th 2009....9 days. Was it worth it? YES!
I missed many guild invites for raids, didn't do any dailies, farming, AH'ing, etc, I was determined to catch the TLPD before the end of November.
Anyway, I was sitting in my spot (28.65) and was tabbed out watching some Youtube videos, I sat my laptop down and went to the kitchen to make some tea and heard my _npcscan pop. I figured it was another Vyragosa sighting. I went back to my computer and tabbed back into WoW and had the TLPD on the radar. I targeted, flew into it, dropped Judgement of Justice, Snowfall, Taunt, blew my CD's and the TLPD was well below 50% before I hit the ground.
Just then I was stunned! I turned an had an 80 Human Rogue LOL'ing at me, I broke the stun and landed another hit on the TLPD....stunned again! I bubbled and finished off the TLPD, auto-loot done its job and it was safely in my bag. Instead of sharing in my joy, the stupid rogue decided it was PvP time. I used Lay on Hands and got the rogue to well below 10%, he vanished and took off.
Anyways, here's some advise that helped me (two words) STAY PUT. It's tempting to fly around the routes looking for the TLPD, but soon as you do, it will spawn. Park your toon and leave it - turn your speakers up and go do something around the house, surf the net, watch a movie, etc. But leave your toon in one spot (I strongly recommend 28.65) as Vyragos spawned at least 7 times during my camp at that location. Plus, at 28.65, you have perfect views of the vally to the right, thesmall waterfall valley, the hill leading to Snowdrift Plains and Valkyrion. Also, I stayed just below the vent thing on the side of the mountain (maybe 50 feet high?) IMO, this is the perfect spot and produced the prize for me.
I'm on Spinebreaker (PvP) Realm and the TLPD is camped by lots of people, but they normally sit for a few minutes, then fly away.
评论来自
483254
Well..wanna hear my *!@#ING luck? okay..was camping this bastard atleast 300hours..today was special..was camping all day as usually..but..20.20 got wow errored so i went take shower..when i came back i logged in..there he was..tagged him and found him dead..i am %^&*ed up...it spawned right there as i was camping..killed vyragosa about 18 times dirkee/skoll 5times and finally found tlpd..but dead..well i still dont give up and my searching continues..I hope ill be luckier than this time..if ill get him, ill post my "rare vid" later..Good Luck, Hunters
评论来自
491667
I can't confirm that Vyragosa shares the same path/spawn point as the Time-Lost Proto-Drake, but I am sure that there are many similarities between the paths.
On the realm that I play on, my Tauren Warrior main has this and so does my Undead Death Knight alt. The first time I got it was on my main, while flying through the Storm Peaks. I saw Vyragosa for the first time in my life, and I tagged her with Snowfall Lager and killed her easily. Looked at her profile image and saw she was not only elite, but rare too. I thought, "Ooo, gotta check this one out." So I looked it up on WoWwiki, and it mentioned this Time-Lost proto thingy. I looked it up on Thottbot and Wowhead, and found that it was UBER rare. So I read up on the rumored spawn points, and paths, and so on and so forth and did some in-game research.
I did not make a map of my path, but I decided to look for Vyragosa after a few days of off-and-on research on the Intrarwebz. I found her awhile ago and followed her and asked in general to please not attack her. Of course, the @$$holes of my realm were all like, "OMG Vyra's up?" "Wow, what coords?" and such, but never tagged her except for once. So I got angry, and decided to spend my anger looking up the Time-Lost Proto-Drake. I found a tidbit of information that mentioned how it can spawn in as little time as 30 minutes after Vyragosa is killed. So I logged back on, kept toggling the macro that I made (I'll say what it is later), and lo and behold I targeted the Time-Lost Proto-Drake a little southwest of the Terrace of the Makers. Anxious for a new flying mount, I flew over to him and tagged him with Snowfall Lager... or so I thought. Turns out that a fellow Horde member and an Alliance saw him at the same time, and the Alliance ended up tagging him first. I got VERY angry at this. So I logged for a few days to leave on vacation, and when I came back, the fellow Horde member had sent me an in-game mail explaining how he would help me look for the Time-Lost Proto-Drake and that we would roll on it once the drake was felled. I agreed, and over the next three days of non-stop camping, we finally found him about 180 yards north of the frozen waterfall. We downed him in a little less than 20 seconds (pwned in the face) and rolled. I got 65/100, and he got 63/100. We LoL'd and I looted it. But I decided to keep helping him get it too, since I figured it was only fair.
Whaddaya know, 12 hours later the Time-Lost Proto-Drake spawns again. I am fast asleep at my keyboard, when all of a sudden I hear a *ding* and I bolt upright. I spam my macro, and there he is right above me, once again a little ways southwest of the Terrace of the Makers. I told him, which I guess woke him up, and I tagged the drake and downed him. By the time he got to where I killed it, it was ready to loot. We both added each other onto our friends lists and parted ways. We still are friends to this day, proud owners of the Reins of the Time-Lost Proto-Drake.
The macro that I used:
/cleartarget
/target Vyragosa
/target Time-Lost Proto-Drake
/stopmacro ,
/run RaidNotice_AddMessage(RaidBossEmoteFrame,"Time-Lost OR Vyra IS OUT THERE!", ChatTypeInfo)
/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\interface\\RaidWarning.wav")
/t YOURNAMEHERE >>> %t <<< HOLY MONKEY BALLS
( I hope that you all can tell that you need to replace "YOURNAMEHERE" with your name... there :P)
Hope this helps,
-lawl
评论来自
492298
Just downed Vyragosa after a good 7 hours of stalking and patrolling...
Several screenshots below.
I found her between the pass of Bor's Breath and Engine of the Makers, making it perfectly in the middle of a patrol route - I believe it was probablt the one that follows Bor's Breath through Valkyrion.
I didn't wait to see what route it was, of course. I killed her on site. I'm still kind of shaking; gladly, I was the first to jump on it.
http://s654.photobucket.com/albums/uu265/link409-/?action=view¤t=WoWScrnShot_120309_073026.jpg
http://s654.photobucket.com/albums/uu265/link409-/?action=view¤t=WoWScrnShot_120309_073039.jpg
To show the kill and distance, respectively. Don't mind my comments in guild chat. I was spazzing.
EDIT: If anyone is interested in the specifics -
Kill Coords 37.1 , 62.5
Kill Time 7:30 AM EST
EDIT2: Confirmed kill of the Time Lost Proto Drake at or around 2 PM Server Time. So there was at least 6 hours between spawns.
EDIT3: Speculated Vyragosa kill around 2:30 AM EST.
Also - Server: Smolderthorn
EDIT4: Vyragosa kill 6:30 AM EST, Dec. 6th Spawned directly over Bor's Breath
评论来自
302110
I feel like a complete jackass for posting this but: I just found and killed TLPD while herbing, just north of K3
It's totally the ugliest proto drake mount :D
评论来自
Conser
Funny thing happened to me. I got it about 5 mins into storm peaks for a quest and just happened to spot it flying over the one of the nests of the protodrakes at the engine of the makers. This was about a month or so ago, by the way. Server: Staghelm
评论来自
baowlimber
I got one this morning on Tarren Mill EU! Just north-west of k3 where the mountains start.
I consider myself very lucky... =)
My friend searched for it late last night so it probably spawned some time during the night or this morning
评论来自
493179
OMFG
1st time posting on WOWhead but had to tell my story and add in some, hopefully, useful information.
Started searching for this (SO MUCH) time lost proto drake around the 18th of November. After reading literally all 600 comments here, I Installed NPCSCAN, rarespawn overlay, Silver Dragon.... the works. Camped Frozen Lake with my wife's main, Camped Brunn with my main.
For 5 straight days, at least 8 hours a day, I camped and didn't see Vyra or the TLPD even one time. No bodies, nothing.
Then on Monday 23rd at about 230PM Server (Kalecgos) time, the TLPD slammed face 1st into my wife's main on the Frozen Lake. I panicked, but had enough control to dismount her main and put her on auto attack. Jumped to my main and began the LONG flight from Brunn... I was at the waterfall when I heard the TLPD die....... Even though we were grouped, I wasn't close enough and regardless of my begging Blizz to allow a trade, she had a brand new beautifully gift-wrapped TLPD.
Needless to say, I was gutted.
In the end, though, it only added to my determination to get this guy.
SOOOO.... from Monday 23rd on, heres my tally, keep in mind I camped the frozen lake with MY MAIN now lol, and Brunn with my wifes main occassionally patrolling the paths in rarespawn overlay:
11/26/09 230AM --- Vyra flew over my head coming west through Bors Breathl - KILLED
11/27/09 1130AM --Found Vyra's corpse Engine of Makers
11/29/09 230AM --- Vyra flew over my head in Brunn - KILLED
11/29/09 930PM --- Found the TLPD corpse in the Snowdrift plains (missed by 5min) - GUTTED
12/1/09 230PM ---- Vyra flew over my head again on the Frozen Lake, followed her around the entire Uldy route starting from Valk all the way around counter clock wise back to the Snowdrift plains where a priest killed her (this 230AM or 230PM pattern is intriguing)
12/4/09 700AM ---- Vyra flew at me coming West through Bors Breath -- KILLED
12/4/09 330PM ---- Vyra flew over my head in Brunn again -- KILLED
Then finally, after what adds up to be about 120 Game Hours just camping with both mains, I had my wife (yes bad-ass wife) camping for me while I was at work today, 12PM the TLPD flies over my mains head from Valkryion, she panic's, falls off mount and dies. Rezzes, can't find him, oh NO, this can't be, frantically searching all the routes, its 12PM Saturday, prime time, someone has got to have tagged it... but no, flying through Snowdrift, there she is, still untagged. My wife pulled the beauty down and killed the TLPD for its prize..... PHEW!
What did I learn from all of this?
1. Your are going to panic, period
2. This is going to be a long camp, period
3. NPC Scan is 100% essential if you want this drake, period
4. Macro's don't work and auto clickers will get you banned, so don't try it..... period :)
5. Spawn times are completely random, but very odd that the spawns happened at 230AM or 230PM so many times. (closest time between spawns that I confirmed myself was 8 1/2 hours. The 6 hour theory never once helped me, and believe me I tried to time it)
Hope this helps all of you hunters out there, I know I came back to WowHead time and time again to get some inspiration and some hope.
My best advice, camp a spot (OR TWO if you can) and patrol every once in a while (2x an hour?) and watch tv or something with warcraft music/ambiance muted while having the sound turned WAY up. That "dum-diddy-dum" drum sound that NPC Scan makes is the scariest but sweetest sound in the world!
Good luck, you are going to need it!
My mains : Synose or Smite
My wifes main: Dravenrain
Realm : Kalecgos
评论来自
483254
phew..just found second TLPD..both were dead..ofc..i am really $%^&ed..firstly i found dead dirkee and 2mins after found dead tlpd..searching continues..
评论来自
492842
Found mine on Shu'halo a few Months ago, (dont have Coords) found it at the Frozen waterfall as i was flying across to do the Daily for The abberations Must Die , ran smack into it 20 feed above the ground, Hadnt Found Dirkee or Vyragosa in any of my previous Searches, cant confirm a spawn time from what ive seen its been pretty random. 5 Hours later a friend Found Vyragosa, From what ive seen, Bors breath and the area with all the blues drakes, are the most common sightings,
评论来自
493608
Found him around 8pm on realm Scilla at cord: 28.45. Dropped him on my 79 unholy death knight. Easy fight.
评论来自
czakhem
I started farming the Time lost proto about a year ago and have had no luck since about 2 weeks ago. I killed this bad boy in under 10 seconds. Now earlier today i was helping a friend look for Dirkee for the Rare achievemtn, and on my way i found another Time Lost proto drake. I killed it again and gave it to my friend.. totally !@#$ing sweet
评论来自
494047
After about 3 weeks of farming I finally got my TLPD at around 28:65 ,Hydraxis, around Noon; it was coming from the direction of Valkyrion going toward the Waterfall, I was at the Frosthold spawnpoint. I was actually surprised that no one tagged him yet because there were plenty of people in the area. Two things surprised me: one is that I think he was flying faster than Vyragosa and the other is that he came to melee range (being a warrior it was a BIG relief) ,I struggled with Vyragosa before.
here is my log I kept, may it helps someone, times are server times:
Dirkee 11/19/09 6:15 - Killed
Dirkee 11/20/09 1:50 - Killed
Dirkee 11/21/09 9:48 - Killed
Dirkee 11/22/09 3:55 - Killed
Dirkee 11/29/09 2:11am - Killed
Dirkee 12/03/09 5:50 - Killed
Vyragosa 11/24/09 1:30pm - missed it, too far = ranged problem - Frosthold spawn
Vyragosa 11/28/09 11:58am - killed her ! - Frosthold spawn
Vyragosa 11/29/09 2:18am - did not kill, too far- Frosthold spawn
Vyragosa 11/30/09 12Noon - guildie killed her - Brunnhildar village
Vyragosa 12/01/09 9am - too far problem again...grr - at Frosthold
Vyragosa 12/02/09 3:02am - Killed at Ulduar, pulled to the overhangs just front of Ulduar - Spawned at the Ulduar spawn point
Vyragosa 12/04/09 2:20am - did not kill, let other guy kill it, spawned at Boar's breath Waterfall - probably because she came from that way, but did NOT spawn at Frosthold, I was there
Vyragosa 12/05/09 7:12am - Dead -probably spawned at the Waterfall, dead in the corner
TLPD 12/07/09 -NOON - KILLED! - Boar's Breath, close to Frosthold, coming from Valkyrion
Thomee, Hydraxis
评论来自
494904
Farming this beuaty for 6 months now saw him 6 times T_T but no luck...meh
评论来自
495392
Hello we have working 7 months to find the mistery of this fantastic mob
all that we have find is here ===>
http://timelostprotodrake.webrpg.info/index.php
you can read this in the english part
See you soon and good luck !
(Med killed him 6 times. I killed him 5 times and I possess him for my 4 characters 80 and (got him whith a DK76). I saw him alive 8 times and died a lot of times.)
______________________________________________
When you come too early, you can waiting. If you come too late, you can always wait ...........................................................
评论来自
496071
Got him after a weeks hunting. 6am Detheroc server flying up from Garm's Bane towards Brunnhildar Village.
评论来自
498352
i know you can't use it but for some dumb reason did blizzard make it that people without artisan riding skill cant pick it up either?
评论来自
156237
I found this mob with the frozen river over K3. When i found him i almost went in a coma, i had not been farming after this mob, i
TOTALY
found this mob by random luck. Just when i killed him, a Human Warrior came by. So unlucky...
评论来自
476659
i was flying around the stormpeaks 8:45 just going to do some dailys and my npc scan went off. it was vyragos... someone had beat me to him but i found him dead at 40.3 60.2 so possible spawn time and area for timelost proto drake
评论来自
Harson
As a Shaman, you can use the spell "Far Sight" to camp two spots at the same time. One with your character, the other through the eyes of the spell.
Good luck finding your drakes!
评论来自
sTyLnK
12:20am Friday morning. Got home from work and had just finished the daily at Brunnhildar Village in hopes of the white polar bear, no luck and was flying back to Dalaran when NPC_Scan went off. I've never farmed it, I've never cared. If I got it one day that would be great.
What's funny is someone in general chat was asking about this literally 10 seconds earlier. Poor guy said he has been farming for weeks. You get it when you least expect it I suppose.
评论来自
483849
https://www.cuckhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:397840386819376788369741366700354662334660312654295654278634270603270568274528296500316479339473367479379500380537379572386596402596433601457605468629474652477683472714465735459765446790431827414854
is a approxomate path that covers most of the patteren TLPD follows
评论来自
501231
Here is a video i made today after following Vyragosa around its route and printing. When i did this i busted two old myths:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYLyYcZnV1g
1. Dirkee don't have anything to do with Time-lost/Vyragosa (killed him when i when i was flying behind Vyra)
2. When it has flown its route, it doesnt de-spawn, it starts over!
And the print at the end of the video shows me standing next to a dead time-lost. I was flying behind an alliance mage, and the npc scan went off. there it was! after all these weeks! he was faster than me to tag it, and i strafed away with snofall lager... ofc i didnt have time to think, i paniced! i started to nuke the mage, went fast but the second before i got him, he killed tlpd.
Well my hunt continues and best luck to all of you :)
评论来自
501231
I just found out that TLPD was killed about 7 hours ago on my realm, feels like a waste of time sitting there camping it now.
Is there anyone who have seen/heard that it was killed twice under 24 hours? would give me some hope..
Thanks
评论来自
501936
Currently farming the drake with about 6 other people camping in the same spot. Im scared i'll either 1) not tag it or 2) get ganked.
评论来自
pagandenma
I must be the luckiest newbie player in the whole game.
I've been playing my druid Kiobhan (Steamwheedle Cartel) for about 4 1/2 months now. I do a lot of herb farming in the Storm Peaks and I've also been farming rep with the Sons of Hodir. One day last week, I'm out hunting herbs in the Storm Peaks when
NPCscan
shrills at me. I look at it and go "Oh, the Time-Lost Protodrake. I wonder if i can kill that? 18K hit points? Oh, OK. Maybe this counts for one of the "Rare" achievements? Let's go for it!"
I follow the critter around for about 5 minutes as it loops over Bor's Breath and the valley with all the harpies, keeping it in sight via my flight form. Finally, I dive bomb it above some hills where I can safely land and go Boomkin. A Moonfire and a few Starfires and Wraths later and he's dead. I loot him and shrug it off as another mount I need to earn 5k gold to ride (I still need my cold weather flying).
You can imagine the utter uproar among my friends and guildmates when I told them what I'd done! I had absolutely
no
idea about the rarity of the TLPD, because I hadn't read all the comments here yet. The joys of being a luck magnet . . . .
评论来自
Chadord
I finally got it after almost 2 months of camping! Best Christmas gift ever!
It was funny because yesterday a warlock got to it right before I did and now I got it today. I was camping in Bors breath by the waterfall when npcscan went off and I saw it flying towards engine of the makers which is where I killed it. I really appreciate it after all the time I spent hunting it, was completely worth it.
Here is my log.
vyragosa-3:30 pm 12-15-09
vyragosa-10:10pm 12-20-09
Time Lost-2:15pm 12-23-09(saw corpse)
vyragosa-12:05 pm 12-23-09
Time Lost- 6:25 pm 12-24-09(Mine!)
I was not a serious camper till after my first Vyragosa kill.
DO NOT GIVE UP, and stick to a camping spot!
评论来自
504907
i heard some people say that the Time-lost proto drake is removed i patch 3.3.0 is it true ?
评论来自
505264
Started camping day and night three nights ago. Yesterday I went to bed around 2 am, only for TLPD to pop up and get killed at 3:20 am. I got back to camping today and some mage decided to camp right on top of me at Bor's Breath lake. So, I decided to camp right on top TLPD's spawn point on the Frosthold mountain at the lake. Being a priest, I wouldn't have much of a chance against the mage, so being at the spawn point gave me better odds to get the drake before he did, I wouldn't have to fall off my mount, and I could see if he was coming up from the falls. Well, the mage left and not ten minutes later at 5:46 pm server time, TLPD spawns right on top of me and I kill the drake.
So, competitive camping is out there, and it can get very frustrating and make you want to quit, but just stick with a spot, have a plan, and just sit. Oh, and NPCscan was a lifesaver, so get it if you don't have it.
Good luck and happy hunting everyone. Stick with it.
-Apollionys, Steamwheedle Cartel
评论来自
380050
Isn't it possible that you just happened to be on the same phaze as the person who got him? I mean, I dunno for sure, but I'm just wondering...
评论来自
251701
Killed Varygosa less than 1 hour ago. Popped in BB's Frozen lake, intercepted it (AUGHAAAAAAA! _NPCscan) while coming back from a tour. She was taking the biggest route around the middle map.
Tbh I paniced a bit since I landed over the frozen fall (with the frozen dwarves) after lolstepping on her to tag.
But she simply didn't like the idea to land with me, so I CloSed to resist some spits, killed 2 annoying dwarves and drinked a pot (lost 4k in the fall).
Then stood there unable to do anything. Vanished, saw a hunter's mark on her then a hunter FDing somewhere. It was a "friend" of chat. Turned back on flight, lolstepped again, some hits and vanished again.
Then the funny thing happened. Ever heard of the dragons "teleporting"? Well I think I got the explanation. I kept chasing Varygosa looking for a spot to shoot at her in someway. I grouped the hunter of mine
http://i46.tinypic.com/2my6adt.jpg
<-- As you see the dragon is following the largest route to the Terrace of Makers --> Ulduar --> Back. The hunter is behind me BUT HE CAN'T SEE EITHER ME OR HER!
He kept saying he was in a diff. phase shift of the map. I guess he is somehow true.
http://i49.tinypic.com/21ova6g.jpg
From the chat you see the whisper "Dove cazzo è andata" which means "Where the Fu*k is she gone?".
I couldn't see him too (see blank standard icon on portrait even if he is behind me).
http://i49.tinypic.com/117tfr6.jpg
As he reached the zone where I was, he exited the center map zone and became visibile to me too and started nuking her. From the chat "se almeno vi vedessi" which means "if I could at least see you (both)".
So this could end in explaining: he didn't had the quests of SP done. To someone like him (he can't see even the dragons on the ground!) such rares could look like disappearing and reappearing on the other side of the zone.. like a teleport!
评论来自
gni3w
It would be nice to have people posting times, dates, server...
I decided to jump and camp this really Time-Lost Proto: since sunday afternoon! Achv are hard to get and hatching eggs, which i probably hatched about 20, which ever mount comes first i will keep it. just love the design of the mount....well
server: kaz'mordan, us
Monday dec 28: 513am Dirke
Monday dec 28: 1030am Vergossa
Tue: dec 29: 5:00am TLPD! - (i died)
I woke up before 5am not sure why, weird, and 5min after my alarm went off, im wearing headphones when im playing, heart beat was crazy, well I DIDNT get it i tagged, and tried to pull him down and hit spell button by mistake and died when i resed quickly, alliance toon was allready on it and killing it..- (tell me about it, i was half way awake) - well i wont give up - i will keep you guys posted... this is really time-lost lol..
评论来自
351196
So I have been camping this beauty for the last several months (4-5), with a total estimated time of upwards of 500 hours. I am sitting at Bor's Breath over the Frozen Lake and have been here this entire time.
I have not seen the Time-Lost Proto Drake dead or alive yet. Not even once. I've tagged and killed Skoll and Vyragosa plenty of times but I'm still waiting for my dragon...
I'm ready to pull my hair out.
评论来自
Bandah
Looted this one on my level 79 alt while flying to the platform just below Ulduar with the big root on it.
At approximately 1:00 AM 12/31/2009 on Defias Brotherhood - EU
评论来自
Chundermark
Sigh, my heart dies a little every time i see this mount on a Dk. Such a pity that a DK who farms for a mount like this for a day gets it over a person playing a proper class who camps for months.
评论来自
507420
As a D.K I have been farming for this mount for a while so it really is a roll of a dice, I still don't give up the only thing that annoys me about this mount is the amount of nubs who think its funny to gank you while you are camping.
GOOD on you I am sure you feel real STRONG when I am afk.
But aside from that it does take time, I mean I don't raid any more don't A.H, farm or anything just sit here and wait :P
评论来自
512905
Can the time lost protodrake spawn less than 6 hours after Vyragosa has been killed? Cuz apparantly Time Lost was killed someone said in general. But ive recently killed Vyragosa around about 3 hours ago. I have also used the loot macro to see query that server if it has dropped . Nothing was showing up and was stuck on search. But after that guy he found it dead the query/macro started working and displayed info about time lost. This is less than 6 hours after Vyragosa was killed. Is this possible. Key I did not see the time lost dead. But since the query/macro started working then im not sure :S
评论来自
326532
I would love to see some posts from some pro farmers. Most of the posts i read come from people who tag Vyragosa once or maybe twice and dirkee once. I've killed dirkee on 6 level 80 alts of mine, i have no more alts above the level 70 so i dont even bother adding him into macros and crap anymore. The BoE items are almost worthless on my server now that ICC is out, they sell for right around a dream shard. Which means they are just disenchant blues, i have enough dream shards k thanx.
So here it is, I tape down my arrow key to keep me going afk while i grab a couple hours sleep, with NPCScan & Silver dragon live and hot with fresh caches, here is what has happend on uldum US.
12/20/2009 - Vyragosa @ 09:25 AM Bors Breath 31,66
12/21/2009 - Vyragosa @ 09:38 PM Bors Breath 30,68
12/22/2009 - Vyragosa @ 11:53 AM Bors Breath DEAD
12/23/2009 - Vyragosa @ 02:55 PM Valkyrion 27,55
12/25/2009 - Vyragosa @ 07:20 AM Bors Breath 30,70
12/27/2009 - Vyragosa @ 01:14 AM Bors Breath 30,66
12/27/2009 - Vyragosa @ 11:46 PM Bors Breath 30,66
12/29/2009 - Vyragosa @ 04:20 AM Bors Breath 30,70
12/31/2009 - Vyragosa @ 04:30 PM SnowDrift Plains DEAD
12/31/2009 - Skoll @ 10:16 PM Bors Breath 30,64
01/02/2010 - Skoll @ 06:00 AM Bors Breath 30,64
01/02/2010 - Vyragosa @ 03:25 PM Bors Breath 30,66
11 days of camping / farming and still nothing. 12/30 there was a server reset, i use the script macro lookin for the reigns. The server went live at about 9 am, and around 3 pm the reigns were found. But nothing in general chat, no corpse, nobody new flying in dalaran on this glorious mount. Also note i saw a Vyragosa kill approximately one hour after the reigns were cached. Keep in mind, the script item macros only tells you if the item been seen since the last reset. That means if someone kills him and is unable to learn the mount given his riding skill, when he logs in the server has seen this item. Everytime it pulls up in the server cache DOES NOT necessarily mean he has been killed. 3 Days left before going back to my 9-5 job. Hopefully i will be riding on this glorious beast before monday.
评论来自
351196
Well it seems my quest is now over.
I log in and my NPC Scan goes nuts, and there is the dead Time-Lost, right in my camping spot, the spot I've been camping for the last 4 months. And who is the luck winner!
Some noob-ass Death Knight that has started camping in my spot the last day and a half.
I hate my life, I am done with this hunt.
评论来自
ThunderSoul
To slashman17, you never once told us where you were stationed... Why?
评论来自
ThunderSoul
What the heck are the co-ordinates you guys are camping at!
评论来自
Chundermark
Something i've also noticed from patch 3.3, it seams that Blizzard have decreased this mobs spawn rate by a helluva lot. Been asking in general and nobody has seen it lately...Gief TLPD spawn on Tarren Mill plx >.>
评论来自
86360
My farming time:)
Date Time NPC Coordinates
2010-01-01 12.42 Vyragosa 27.54
2010-01-02 09.37 Vyragosa 28.66
2010-01-02 16.46 TLPD 28.54
评论来自
gni3w
I got mine today, finally at 4:20PM jan 2nd yeah 420 lol, (very nice gift after holidays) work starting monday, my time is done, i can sleep now. Be patient and get yours, dont give up, i was camping him since Sunday 27th, not bad took me almost a week, some people say i got lucky, well ive been camping him day and night, I parked myself near the nest, where big opening is in the ground, people know what iam talking about, I THINK this is the best spot out there, do not fly around trying to look for him, just stand in one place- I i would get it earlier DEC 29th at 5:24AM but i died to my stupidity, and alliance guy grab the TLPD
Today i got lucky, very lucky, i was in the kitches grabbing something to eat, when i returned and put my food down, alarm went off! alliance hunter tried to tag him but i used my death grip and i got it.
good luck@
评论来自
Chundermark
Well well well....after 3 weeks of farming i finally recieved my Time-Lost when all my hope was officially drained. I had killed Vyra this morning at 9:10am server time(Tarren Mill EU), she had spawned on the side of Frosthold's mountain facing B'sB. Then, after quite a few hours, at roughly 9pm server time when i was half watching Naruto, half looking for TLPD; out of the corner of my eye i see the _NPCscan box pop up with - What do u know? - The Time-lost! So i go frantic, have a few failed pulls and then finally get it to aggro me by flying into it then landing. He was flying north to Valkyrion from Rohemdal pass, and then ofc i nuke him. Was incredibly easy fight, maybe 15sec or less to kill him, the time-warp ability did nothing at all to me, he just ported behind my pet and i continued shooting him as normal - am a Hunter - and then i loot the Mount and trash etc, then call my best friend who logged on as i got the kill-shot. And luckily for me, there was no interferance at all, a Draenei paladin came just as i got the kill shot, and then a few ppl started gathering around the corpse a lil' later. Got exceptionally lucky that nobody tried ganking me. Thankyou to all the ppl who posted the great info on TLPD, would not have gotten this far with out ya! ;) Clownfish, Tarren Mill
评论来自
516032
Ok I have found 2 TLPD for both my 80's
Heres what i can tell you. Down load Silver Dragon and NPC_Scan addons.
When i found him I had killed one of the rares from the zone and so I just flew around a path i made out and bam there he was. first one 2 hours after rare kill.
(80 hunter) Oct 09
second rare 1 day. (80 pally) 4 Jan 2010
so if you kill a rare. take some time and stay in storm peaks and keep looking for those rares. 1 will be the TLPD!
I submitted my path along with this post.
Hope this helps.....
Stonemual- US
评论来自
391151
Just doing quests in storm peaks and all of a sudden my npc scan goes off. TIME-LOST PROTO DRAKE!
got it finally, took me 2 yrs.
mydniterose velen server
评论来自
487572
Just saw vyragosa when I was out herbing. Though I lost her due to being a rogue and vyragosa is a spellcaster : /
Seriously how the $%^& am I supposed to kill her? Mutilate specced.
评论来自
516032
you shouldn't have any trouble killing her. She just a rare spawn. If you think you may have trouble just care a pot :P
评论来自
351196
Something I have noticed over the last several months that I felt like sharing...
More times than not, I have noticed that Vyra (and TLPD?) both spawn very closely to the beginning of the hour. This could be on the dot exactly, or 5-6 minutes afterwards. I sit at Bor's Breath, and have been here for about 5 months now as I have said in earlier comments. Many times I have killed Vyragosa, probably about 10+ in this spot, and she sometimes spawns off of Frosthold.
Just a trend I've been seeing, can anyone else confirm this as well?
评论来自
351196
^^
If you had it tagged and someone was doing damage to it, they would only be doing you a favor.
评论来自
493392
Theo nly way to obtain this is to create an alternate dimension where you already have it.
评论来自
531360
/script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("\124cffa335ee\124Hitem:44168:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0\124h\124h\124r");
评论来自
Poremm
Easiest way to calculate the time spent obtaining this mount.
Time lost (Minutes) ∕ Proto drake.
评论来自
494197
The outline you created sort of looks like a man in a robe... and OMFGWTF THERES A FACE.
评论来自
550302
Seriously, guys, wth is it with your server query macro?
I can log in and it won't be postable, 5 min later it's working, if I delete my cache and relog, same again.
I think that macro is pretty unreliable, as I can reproduce the behaviour at any time.
评论来自
526071
some pointers for you
1 minimum of 6 hours between spawns maximum of 12
2 there is a 1 in 16 chance of time lost spawning instead of vyragosa
3 camp at bor's breath on the lake or engine of the makers (preferably the one it wasn't at last)
4 patrol the 4 flight paths at least twice a hour
5 vyragosa can be skinned and time lost cannot be skinned
6 if you can use prowl while camping to avoid others
7 have some serious luck on your side
评论来自
Harson
This mount now only requires that you are level 70 instead of 80.
70 twinks rejoice! All you have to do is convince a level 80 to camp and kill it with you ;)
However much money they ask for it, the o.O factor of a 70 with TLPD will be worth it.
评论来自
PhineEredar
Video of the Orange route (Bor's Breath):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3XYcGDymPE&fmt=22
评论来自
Alteir
I am Commander Shepard and this is my favorite mount in the game.
评论来自
myman1111
thing is gms tell u theres a low chance but there obviously isent and if vyra soawns a few times a gm probly knows ur camping and wont give u it
评论来自
Draewind
I have studied this for a long time. I made this page for the TLPD hunt, and thought I would place the link here. It has been updated, and was made originally in NOV09.
Drae's Time-Lost Proto Drake
评论来自
Heinrichh
I don't think the Vyragos is rare, at all, I see it all the time. BUT the Time-Lost Proto-Drake... ! JUST COME OUT AND LEMME KILL YOU! =)
评论来自
255799
This marco thing.. im new to that. do i have to put it all in one icon thing ore one line for each bottem.?
评论来自
386403
Get the Silverdragon add-on. It will auto-scan the area for you constantly as well as for other rares throughout the entire world.
评论来自
381058
can someone tell me how to add the time-lost proto drake back into my npc scan and overlay
评论来自
317280
can someone confirm/deny if this macro really shows if someone looted the Proto Drake after maintenance or realm reset?:
/script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Shift-click this to place a link into a chat message: \124cffa335ee\124Hitem:44168:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0\124h\124h\124r");
Because today i failed login when the realm started but i was told by guild mates that i miss it for like 40mins and when i did the macro i could retrieve the item info and read it was the TLPD and i didnt found any body around.
Somehow i hoped the macro would work so i could control his drop after every maintenance/restart and stop farming when i could retrieve info and start on next week, its been 6days now without seen her dead or alive. im camping about 16 to 18 hours per day sitting most of the time in Bor's Breath but every now and then i fly around her paths.
I found Vyragosa alot of times (i dont call it rare anymore :p), never spawned in less then 8hours i found a few not many Skoll's and only 1 Dirkee on the last 6 days, but i never check his spawn point near "Camp Tunkalo" and rarely check for him in "Terrace of the Markers"..
评论来自
Rhazz
Save the button Mashing and the complicated macros....just get these addons:
_NPCScan
_NPCScan.Overlay
Continually scans for The time-Lost Drake and ALL other rare mobs in game.
Bagged 12 rares in one day...collected all of the rares in under 1 month.
Happy Hunting...
Rhazz
评论来自
584652
I'm not sure if this is of any value, but I found it to be quite strange. About 5 minutes ago, I just killed Vyragosa. Not too weird -- right? Well..., my friend killed her about 50 minutes before I did. I also killed Dirkee about 30 minutes before I killed Vyragosa myself. So, within 49 minutes (to be specific), my friend killed Vyragosa, I then killed Dirkee, and then
I
killed Vyragosa.
I found her, and killed her at around 30.7, 49.2, and as did my friend.
评论来自
443794
http://symphonyofnoise.com/tlpd/index.html
have updated a ton of information on there since last i posted that in this thread. Still think there's another spawn spot I'm not aware of besides the 2 on the mountain frost hold is on, brunnhildar and east end of the ulduar ravine......
either that or sometimes it really just doesn't spawn for 12-14 hours (vyra or tlpd)
and for those who don't go and see the data, yes, to back people up, tlpd can in fact spawn pretty close to the last time it spawned. time wise. i observed it spawning twice in just about a 2 day span.
评论来自
OnlyPlaysHealers
I do have a question for those who have seen the TLPD mutilple times.
Have you ever seen it on the same spawn path consecutively? Like if someone reported it on one path should I stay at my post or move to a different spot? Input is welcomed!
评论来自
599003
Ahh, I've been camping this guy for the past couple weeks now at the end of Bor's Breath (the frozen lake end). For those of you familiar with this spot, do you suggest a certain place to sit? I've been perched on a tree and am terrified I'll be an inch or two too far away for my NPC Scan to pick this elusive dragon up.
评论来自
351196
I sit usually in the front half of the lake, and nearly as high as the thing in the wall as you face East.
This is my main spot as well, and I have seen Vyragosa spawn on the Frosthold hill
atleast
15 times. It really frustrates me too because it seems as an awesome spot and I've had a lot of luck with it, but Time Lost never spawns instead of Vyra >.<
评论来自
OnlyPlaysHealers
UPDATE! It's 8:58AM Shattered Hand. Killed near the top of Bor's Fall. Had my fiancee's mage posted there and barely noticed the warning since I was watching streaming video lol. Best thing you can do is keep at it! 2 days with 4 hours of sleep total will possibly get it for you!
评论来自
kekslul
Iam hunting him because he drops BLUE GEAR! who gives a sh*t about the mount
jks =P
评论来自
rayn101
only i think that it was a really super mount? :O :)
评论来自
293593
If your class or profession does not have a slowfall ability, I suggest you buy some Snowfall Lagers. It is sold by an NPC (Olut Alegut for the Horde and Rork Sharpchin for the Alliance) for 2 Relics of Ulduar. There is a pre-requisite quest where you have to turn in 10 Relics of Ulduar (and you can receive 2 Snowfall Lagers as reward).
TLPD can 1 shot you off your flying mount and if you're high up in the air (which is where it tends to be very often), you'll die and could miss an opportunity to nab this mount.
评论来自
351196
Something I have just realized in the hundreds of hours I've been camping for TLPD....
Why does the frozen lake above Bor's Breath look like a weiner?
评论来自
393077
Hello.
I am wondering if it matters if I have my pvp gear on or not(more stamina)? Since so many have posted how nervous there were when they finally got to meet the TLPD and forgot to use Snowfall, I was thinking that maybe I should use more pvp for more stamina, to lower the risk that I die in case I fall too.
If it is a set % of your hp it doesn't matter if I have more stamina tho, as 100% is 100%. Anyone know how fall damage works?
Thanks.
评论来自
Camthra
Here's a few little tips I've picked up.
1. Use the Sound in Background option. It'll save you a bit of grief when you need to AFK or alt tab while camping
2.If you have one, use a Nether Ray mount, flying carpet, or even a flying machine. They don't have wings, so they make a different sound as they fly, letting you hear the drake a little better.
3. Use NPC Scan. It is a godsend.
4. If you're on a PvP server, try and find a way to make yourself untrackable. Enemy campers can be a bit vindictive, and this is just one way to help stop some Elf hunter in full PvP gear from blasting your brains out because he wants his camping spot all to himself.
评论来自
mavrick747
just dl npc scan :) no need for a marco no clicking plays a sound when rare is close thats it :P
评论来自
Allakhazam
I found him circling the mountain by Bor's breath. Ended up getting him to attack me and killing him at 31,66, right by all the harpies. Dropped Abandoned Adventurer's Satchel which contained 20g 36s 42c, 20 frostweave cloth and 4 crystallized air, also dropped Time-Forward Talisman of the Invoker (blue neck piece), and the Reins of the Time-Lost Proto-Drake (epic flying mount). I can confirm that he flies as fast or just barely faster than my 60% flying mount. Had a hard time keeping up with him =P
评论来自
Allakhazam
I can confirm I downed him this morning at 6:16 UK time, Screenshot included. After 3 days of constant camping he did not show at the Engine of Makers 42,58, only Vyragosa was there, I got him at 30,65.
Hope my screenshots give your more info, I took it while I was fighting him so HP is confirmed as well as how easy it is since I am a level 78. I used all the info on wowhead, wow.allakhazam and thottbot, I even used the pathing and made myself the pats using Cartographer and the Notes System as you can see on my minimap.
Good luck guys.
P.S.
To update my notes, Vyra spawned at the eaxact same tim 17:27 UK time, besides Vyra no other spawn showed up at 42,58 I camped the Engine place for 2 days straight both days only Vyra. I started camping at 23:30 on Wednesday night, on Thursday at 17:27 Vyra sight, on Friday Vyra sighted again at 17:27 so I decided to move to 30,65. I logged back into the game before bed at about 00:00 Friday night and at 6:16 Saturday monring I woke up by the Dinging:)
From what I see they don't share any spawn points or timers... that's my conclusion from the outcome.
Edited, Jan 17th 2009 3:55am by Drei
评论来自
Allakhazam
I recently saw someone with this mount. They told me it dropped off Time-Lost Photo-Drake, a rare spawn in Storm Peaks. It drops a mount version of itself, however, I do not know spawn locations or drop percentage :( Good luck if you plan to find this mount.
评论来自
Allakhazam
Killed Vyragosa twice still haven't seen Time-Lost Proto-Drake. Waiting for him to spawn. Staying at 29.5, 65.8 for him to pop up.
评论来自
Allakhazam
Right now spawn times are atleast 6 hours, I want to say based on other rarer spawns it is goin to be a 4 to 8 hour window, but not confirmed yet.
------Taken from thottbot not my data---
Confirmed locations found
Edited, Dec 6th 2008 7:54am by ScDizzy
评论来自
Allakhazam
I and two guildies have made it our obsession in wow to get this mount for ourselves. We started yesterday and somehow managed to find the Time-Lost Proto Drake within 30 minutes of starting our search. Killed it and one of us got the mount. We don't know where the spawn point was, but we killed it on the hill just south of the Engine of the Maker in Storm Peaks.
Every hour after that we went searching, just to do some research. At the 6 hour mark, Vyragosa (another rare mob that apparently shares the spawn timer with TLPD) spawned right near where we'd killed TLPD. Vyragosa's skinnable body stayed where we killed her for exactly 30 minutes before it disappeared, and we didn't find another spawn for the rest of the evening. Then again, the server did come down before the next 6 hour mark was up. Hopefully we'll get to do more research after the server is up again today.
I just hope the rumor isn't true that they will be reducing the drop rate of the mount down from 100%.
Edited, Dec 16th 2008 10:29am by salym
评论来自
Crieve
Only one of these mounts drop when the rare is killed in Wrath Classic. Any guide you read that states otherwise was written with Retail reference material.
评论来自
catpokemon
Wrath Classic footnotes:
6-22 hour respawn timer. Yes it has actually spawned exactly at 6 hours, and exactly at 22 hours in my personal experience. Yes, it really sucks when you have to track it overnight.
Respawn timer starts when the previous mob despawns, skinning or naturally.
Layers do not correlate at all with timers, each layer spawns with its own
For your targeting/moonfire macros: The mob it drops from is technically different from the mount itself. The *mob* does not have a hyphen in Proto Drake. I lost a tag that way, learn from me D:
评论来自
Mudassar4766
"Embarking on the exhilarating quest for the Reins of the Time-Lost Proto-Drake was an absolute thrill! The journey not only tested my patience but also led me to explore the vast and stunning landscapes of Azeroth. The feeling of finally obtaining this majestic mount was nothing short of magical. For fellow adventurers seeking this rare and coveted beauty, the quest is well worth the effort. Dive into the excitement, embrace the challenge, and savor the sweet victory when those reins are finally in your hands! Check out the quest details and join the adventure here:
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