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Commentaire de 321849

Trouvé a haute altitude ou pas?
Si quelqu'un pourrai me dire :D

Commentaire de 483830

Tué ce matin, j'ai eu pas mal de chance. J'ai commencé à le farmer il y a seulement deux semaines, posté à la croisée du souffle de Bor, Valkyrion et la Passe de Rohemdale.
Voici mon historique:

Vyragosa tué au Souffle de Bor
le 10/11/2009 02h30 AM

Time Lost Proto-Drake tué à la Passe de Rohemdale
le 17/11/2009 08h47 AM

Bonne chance à tous les farmers

Commentaire de 315430

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Commentaires

Commentaire de Erishkigal

I've been looking for this mob for about 2 days now. I haven't seen it or the other one spawn at all and have been following the paths / cords listed. I've camped it for an entire day and still haven't seen it spawn as well.

If you get the chance follow the mob around and copy down it's pathing + spawn location if you happen to get so lucky.

Commentaire de 13166

Storm Peaks, between Bor's Breath and the Foot Steppes

Commentaire de Spl4sh3r

Can anyone tell me how much health he has and if it's possible to solo him?

Commentaire de xundk

At what altitude should we be looking?

Commentaire de 250667

I killed Vyragos and 12 hours later Dirkee spawned (killed him too).

No sign of the proto-drake for 4 days now though :S

Dirkee was wandering around the machine of the makers thingy and Vyragos spawned quite abit west (in the village where you have to kill proto eggs for the daily quest).

I'm patrolling there every hour, but no sign of him.
If the server cache knows this item, I guess he has been killed before?

Commentaire de Lexar

Yes, if the server cache knows the mount the item has been seen since the last server reset.

Commentaire de orla

got him the other day, was flying around the other blue drakes east of the engine of the creators

Commentaire de Hoboonaparkbench

After camping the spawn location for at least 4 hours, out of the blue, while near the blue proto-drakes, my /target macro hits gold. I franticly looked for him to no avail, and eventually lost the target, so a guy I helped 30 mins earlier rushes over to help me find him. He finds him, tags him, and even was cool enough to pass since I had been camping the spawn for 4 hours.

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/6984/wowscrnshot112308070310hp1.jpg

He spawned exactly where everyone else reported him to spawn, right near the Engine of the Makers and the blue proto-drakes. He patrolled over to the harpies before being tagged.

Edit (11/5/10): Just realized I got my drake on the wow anniversary and on the anniversary of when I created my account... Pretty neat.

Commentaire de 90072

This mob Patrolled for me just outside Valkyrion and was about to fly over it.

I decided to tag it quickly and kill it before anyone else did.

This is were I killed it https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:277642

Dropped the proto drake for me and some blue item + bag with gold and cloth

edit: It was flying towards Valkyrion from the south just outside the gate.

Commentaire de 253214

Spotted at about 35,79, coming around the mountain and heading towards Bor's Fall. He dropped the mount, Time-Forward Talisman of the Invoker and a satchel with 17G 23C and 20 Frostweave.
The Sha'tar EU @ 06:40 GMT, Nov 24th

Commentaire de 5326

Found the corpse of the Time-Lost at approx (27.5, 70.5) practically on top of a harpy spawn on a small hill. After some inquiry of nearby players (many of whom were mourning their loss on the kill) it was eventually revealed who looted it (a 79 D=). A little badgering and they told me basically they had simply seen it there and brought it down, so no additional information on flight paths unfortunately.

At this time, neither Vyragosa nor Dirkee were up. The last time I had seen Vyragosa before this was about a day ago.

Hope this information helps a little. Happy drake hunting.

Commentaire de Numsu

Dirkee is not linked with this rare spawn, he just spawns on the same area.

But, Time-Lost Proto Drake and Vyragosa are possibly sharing the patrol path which is discussed on the Reins of the Time-Lost Proto Drake comments. No sure information yet.

Commentaire de 183447

I just killed Dirkee at 38 58, it looked like he was basically patting around the engine. EXACTLY 48 hours ago, my friend killed Time-Lost at 48 55, right above the worm cave.

Commentaire de 139137

so if i wanted to spam target which one is correct,
time-lost proto drake or
time-lost proto-drake ?

Commentaire de Maha

Found his dead body at 40,60 11:49 am (game time).And it happend while i was afk for few mins. :< Hope next time i wont miss him.

Commentaire de Hydromel

I'm camping his spawn since last reset server (1 week now ..) and no timed-lost proto-drake :(

The reins aren't in the server cache ..

I killed Vyra 4 times and Dirkee 3 times

No rare elites since 48h ..

Damn it ..

Commentaire de 218965

Does anyone have an idea as to what the spawn percentage is between the three mobs? I've personally been killing Dirkee and Vyragosa at six-hour intervals for days, with no Time-Lost spawns. Seems like Vyragosa pops the most, also. Anyone having similar experiences?

Commentaire de Devidose

Corpse, (sadly), spotted at 41, 61, just near where the Elementals are at a cave entrance.

Commentaire de 94614

Found the mob dead at 36,66. http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/9155/wowscrnshot112608015731oz0.jpg

Commentaire de Zabel

can someone copy and paste a code for auto hot key for my /tar time macro my fingers are starting to hurt after about 2 days searching for this guy =[

Commentaire de 121208

Does this mob show up on track dragonkin? I can't think of a reason it wouldn't I'm just asking for a bit of clarification.

Commentaire de 257390

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b16/Yugaiba/Proto-Drake-Route.jpg
I created this route from various sites information from comments, screenshots and questions.
It's not 100% correct, but it's a start if you're wanting to look for this.

Commentaire de AssailantChogall

does anyone know if this guy spawns high in the air, or close to the ground? not sure how high up i should be i dont wanna go under or over him

Commentaire de 45951

Considering that the mount hasn't been seen yet on our server, I contacted a GM about this. What I got from the GM when I said this was:

I can confirm that this is one of the most rare mobs in the game. It does not have a set spawn time, or location. Anyone who has found it and killed it has been extremely lucky.

Given the reports here, and other places, I'm not too sure about the spawn location, but I'm willing to believe it doesn't have a set timer. I don't know if this is a boiler-plate response, though.

But this sucks, gonna be a long, boring wait for it. :(

Commentaire de 134033

It maybe soloable, but just how soloable is it? anyone knows how hard it hits on cloth? and is it CC/Fearable? or are we clothies at a disadvantage.

It wouldn't do for my priest to be looking for it, finally find it, then get killed by it after looking for it for weeks.

(At level 80 of course)

Commentaire de Elodie

Finally found him alive just to see it being tagged 1 second before I could...
He was right north of Frosthold, high above the harpies

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/3303/wowscrnshot112908021801ex3.jpg
30.0 - 67.4

I'm flying right where he was before being pulled, he was heading north.

Commentaire de 251557

I have just spoken to a GM about this possible bug of this drake not spawning.

I asked her (I'm assuming it was a she) about the bug, and she said there was no reports of my server, Kael'Thas, being bugged for the spawn. I explained that I have been farming this guy for about 5 days now, and two friends have been camping the spawn locations when I am not around. None of us - for five days, and one friend has been farming two days before I started - have seen any bodies, or the drakes (Vyragosa, Time-Lost) themselves on my server. Two people have the mount (that I have personally saw) and one reports to have gotten it a week ago.

From the hints of the conversation, the six hour spawn timer is not true. The GM said, exactly her words, that the spawn was 'very, very rare' indeed. Given the last spawn was a week ago, and another person that had it first close to the release of XPac, I think the spawn timer may actually be at most a week.

The GM I got was very helpful, but kept ignoring a key question - if Vyragosa and Time-Lost have the same timers. I asked this about three times, and mentioned it more. It was ignored everytime, therefore I am hoping that this was a hint in the direction that there is possibly a connection between the two. I'm not taking it as being true, but from what I've read, there may be a connection. I'm hoping to see one eventually.

Good luck camping this guy.

Commentaire de Lelouche

Time lost protodrake dropped for me Nov. 29 early morning found him actually sort of outside his travel range up in the Snowdrift Plains so might consider adding that to his path that he takes .... not to mention figured out that when it dropped ask'd around and i was apparently server first for Medivh to get it =)

Commentaire de Lelouche

also wanted to add that ... the 6 hour spawn rate is false ... while you can get it to spawn twice withing 20 hours .... the spawn is also very sporatic and may not even spawn for hours or days

Commentaire de Ruless

i'm travelling between all spots that wowhead ppl said for 10 hours, still no sign from any of that 3 mob.

// Been 17 hours still no sign from any of them.. no /target no corpse no anything... 6hr respawn is fully laughable and i just understood why they called it "time-lost"...

Now it's my 3rd day non-stop camping, at second day i killed Dirkee, and last night saw Vyragosa but an ally tagged it 1 milisecond before me, so today i'm hoping at least see it alive or dead today... And then i can sleep :)

Commentaire de 259829

I have been looking for this guy for the past couple of days with no luck. The mob hasn't been killed since the start of the expansion, because when I look at it in my atlas loot( the mount) it is stuck at finding it, which tells me that no one on the server has it yet, and I know for a fact I'm not the only one on the server that knows/wants the mount. But, when I ask a gm about it he/she says the mob is fine, but when I asked him/she why his loot is not in the server cache he/she said he/she is not allowed to tell me why. I really want this mount, this gm must be lying or something. I read that other people on different servers have a similar problem(I',m on the Uldaman server). I am at my wits end at what to do, so, can someone give me any ideas as to what to do?

Commentaire de zekryn

Today is my third day hunting the Time-lost Proto Drake.. Yesterday I found Dirkee, and today I found Vyragosa.. Can only hope tomorrow I'll find the drake I need :/

Commentaire de 236385

hmm... does these three rare mobs in Storm Peak share same respawn timer?

Commentaire de 146819

There are several Elite mobs in Northrend with MORE health than that who can be soloed; this guy is pretty much just a "Find me, win a prize" kind of thing.

Commentaire de 255728

is artisan flying training required to loot the drake?

Commentaire de 261622

i know someone already posted a way to find out if its in the cache but what does that exactly mean? im sorry i dont understand :P. And is there a way to know if it has spawned while your camping the proto drake and you just dont see it where you're waiting for it at, or is there only a way to know if its in the cache?
thx :D

Commentaire de 261622

oh and i just read sl0puffman's comment and i would like to know the macro on how to target him specifically. sorry if i wasnt clear in what i needed on my last comment. :P

Commentaire de Imerse

As of December 1st. There has been no sightings of this drake on Tichondrius, no dead bodies, no one has the mount, nothing. I have been flying around for 7 hours, using some of the maps that others have provided and information others have provided. The mount is not in the server cache either. I have not seen either of the other two, Vyragosa or Dirkee either. Things are not lookin so good for me.

Edit 1: I found and killed Dirkee. There may still be some hope for Tich!

Commentaire de 110767

On Cairne, I killed Vyragosa as soon as I started camping. I logged here and there and one Heroic HoL but 7 and half hours later and nothing. I started talking to a shaman who was there all day and nothing. no one with the mount, no corpses just a lot of nothing. It also wasn't in the server cache.

Does the server cache work if someone on the opposing faction gets it?

ah well pewp.

Commentaire de 262452

I found him dead at 29,70 after 1day of searching....5min l8er, I saw a dranei female with the darn mount. He told me he found it when he was out herbing for like 1h -.- Beginners luck ......

Commentaire de xxkinetikxx

Just found it dead at 28,67 on Terenas. This is a good thing because I thought the thing was bugged on our server.

Commentaire de NeoBlackheart

I know for a fact this will be soloable.

I was able to solo the End Beasts in Nagrad at lvl 66 as a Death Knight. They had roughly ranging from 21k the Talbuk to 35k the Final Eleck boss. I was able to solo them all. Hard but doable at that lvl so 18k should be one of those this is easy fights.

Commentaire de Siiggee

just saw vyragosa getting tagged when i targeted her.... bad luck. this was just north of valkyrion at around 27,0 56,0

so far, after 3 days watching this is the only time ive seen any of them. still no mount on my server (Draenor) so maybe any time soon i will see him and kill that drake

Commentaire de Imerse

Well I have been searching for the mysterious one for 3 days now on Tichondrius, with no sightings of the Time-lost or Vyragosa, but I did tag and kill Dirkee. I feel as though its a lost hope :/ I will keep on searching though until I have given up all hope.

Commentaire de lofblad

37,61 Nordrassil EU 07.30AM

http://lofblad.com/mattias/Time-Lost.Proto.Drake.JPG

Being a paladin, I did as recommended - aggro, dismount, bubble, fall and fight. He is indeed very easy, did just a couple of annoying stuns during the fight. He is stunnable himself, so you can give it right back hehe.

I can recommend going there as a herbalist, by the time he spawned I had collected a total of:
8 stacks of Lichbloom
9 stacks of Icethorn
9 Frost Lotus and
46 Crystallized Life

Oh, and this is the macro I used to find him easier:
/target Time-Lost Proto Drake
/stopmacro
/tell mycharacternamehere > %t <

Commentaire de Harson

Currently camping Engine of the Makers on Lightbringer EU.

To my knowledge it has been around 10 and a half hours since the last TLPD was killed. Ive missed one by an hour to a blood elf who just randomly saw and killed it.

Will of course upload a pic of him spawning/being killed by myself or by others when he does appear.

Commentaire de 110767

This is probably as useful as saying if you spin in your chair 3 times while touching your nose and your butt while singing Puff the magic dragon he spawns but..

3 days ago I killed vyragosa coming south eastish from the Engine of makers, near the hole in the cliffs that looks like a camera shutter.

since then the cache had nothing on the mount, this morning when I checked the mount was in the server cache. I flew around looking for a corpse maybe I just missed it.

Nope.

So between 1 am - 7 am server time it spawned. I have yet to see The Robo-Gnome (forgot his name).

Maybe it's a 3 day spawn timer shared between vyragosa and tlpd? Probably just a random sawn time?

Also I keep reading 4 spawn points but no specific location of said spawn points just people see it around the engine of makers or pathing away from the engine...does anyone have an idea where these 4 spawn points may be?

Commentaire de Imerse

This morning at 6:36 am server time on Tichondrious I found and killed Vyragosa in the Snowdrift plains. He/She was patting from Valkyrion to the Snowdrift plains. He was Flying Low. Maybe my luck is turning around after all.

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h199/rastabuz7/WoWScrnShot_120408_093551.jpg

Commentaire de 262145

Here is a map with all of the locations that were mentioned here about this rare mob's location when he was either killed or found dead.

Map Link

Good Luck all! I know I will need it!

Commentaire de 140066

as a warlock i dont have freefall or anything like that. could somebody tell me how to attack these mobs?

Commentaire de 110767

Ok, so I missed it by like 10 mins It was killed at about 6:15 am Cairne (US) Server Time. Which would explain it being in the server cache.

Pewp...so close, but at least now I know it exsists

also I call Shenanigans on the GM and the 1 month spawn time either they were pulling your leg, the poster is reading into something that's not there (said the GM insinuated) or it's all Bs

How can it be a one month spawn if

nov 13th - WotLK Released
Dec 4th - today
Time lapsed 22 days
length of a month - on average 30 days

I KNOW there's AT LEAST two as of today on Cairne (US), reading the comments here and on the page for the mount just in Wowhead (not including loltottbot, WoW forums, Realm forums, WOWEU forums, WoWinsider etc.) you'll see that in UNDER a months time multiple servers have seen multiple mounts.

SHENANIGANS!

Oh yeah and something helpful...

He was killed around..

Around the Dwarfs in The Storm Peaks @ Coords 54,50.

I didn't see the corpse or the kill but thats what the guy who got the mount this morning said.

Commentaire de 211597

Noone has seen him on US Kirin Tor even the server doesn't have the mount cached

Commentaire de 110767

Dirkee spawned at 68 47 exactly 12 hours and 3 minuets after TLPD was killed on my server. IF..IF they are on a shared spawn timer and spawn spot then this is a good clue.

and yes I saw him spawn. He hits harder the the blue dragon. Ouch.

Commentaire de 265466

I have been camping for 10 days now. i have killed vyra twice. 5min after i was done checking it spawned a druid came and killed it. There's like 5 ppl on my server who have it (Duskwood). I have never seen his corpse but my friend does have it. If you get any more info plz post, so tired of camping.

Commentaire de 110767

k went back to the same spawn point I saw Dirkee spawn 6 hours later and nothing.

: /

So I went around to all the points any of the 3 rares have been spotted and nothing, hung around for an hour doing laps, still nothing.

Hell at this point I don't care about the mount I just want to see the damn mob.

Commentaire de eminent

It's safe to say by now, after reading all these comments and hearing peoples stories on sighting TLPD, that this is a very rare spawn with no set timer. I would guess that it maybe does share a timer with Vyra, but it's just a much lower chance that when it DOES spawn that it will be Time-Lost. The reports of "6hr respawn" etc might very well be true but is very unlikely and these realms have been very lucky. A reason that we have not seen it on some realms is that it probably hasn't spawned at all yet. It's just that rare, rollin' those dice!

Goodluck to all my fellow dragon hunters out there, we'll need it!

PS. RUN THOSE WOWHEAD CLIENTS! We need all the accurate data we can collect on this one.

Commentaire de nightshifter

Camped suspected spawn point this morning for server restart and could not locate the mob or body, along with several others camping the location. So much for that strategy.

Commentaire de 110767

I was thinking... looking at the sightings, and spots killed.

Could it be possible that he spawns on the lip of the cliff at 66 47 flies towards the engine through the fighting earthen and mecho dwarves semi circle around the big hole at the engine, past the abandoned camp towards the Valkryu town turns around head up through the snowdrift towards HoL then despawns?

Commentaire de 176935

Hello guys i would just like to ask 1 question im camping it for 3 days now and i would like to ask you is he beast or a dragonkin im a hunter i was using track dragonkins.If someone can tell me is he dragonkin or beast.thanks^^

Commentaire de 266238

Been looking for this guy on and off for about a week. Found Dirkee today. Coords were 41, 51 for you people keeping track. Dropped 18g, a bag with another 18g and 20 frostweave cloth in it, and a spellcaster blue ring.

Another thing. I'm not sure if Dirkee is just different than Vyra and Time-Lost. But he had 50,400 hp, and hit leather (I'm a rogue) for about 2.5k. Just saying he's not as easy as Time-Lost and Vyra for you people out there looking.

Commentaire de 265466

I can surely confirm that vrya and the time-lost drake share the same spawn time and cannot both be up. i have been camping for 10 days now and killed vyra twice. post any info if you can plz. Hope this helps =D

Commentaire de 263604

Ok I got some new information which I accidentally stumbled upon. This may be obvious to some, I just found out myself and therefore I haven't really thought through what this really means. However, I've seen Vyragosa dead 3 times - never managed to get the kill myself but I have seen her go down.

To help myself and others here that might want some flying routes and location information I have printed every kill spot. For some reason I decided to open my wow folder and check my screenshots, all the Vyragosa kills were there of course.

What I did not think of when I took these screenshots was the time. I found Vyragosa dead just a few minutes ago and saw that it was almost exactly 3 pm. I think this is why I checked my previous screenshots.

It's all there.

Kill number one: 7 PM
Kill number two: 1 AM
Kill number three: 3 PM

Not exactly of course but always plus 4-5 minutes.

This may of course be an extremely coincidence, that the first kill ever was exactly number x on the clock and it has continued like this. Or, it could also mean that blizzard where so certain that the dragon would be killed soon after it was spawned so they decided to make up a complete spawn schedule?

However if the dragon was still alive when it was supposed to spawn again, it would not.

This of course are pure speculations from my side. But if this is true, the best time to look for the dragon is exact numbers on the clock. I checked some of the kill prints in this thread, guess what I found out?

Info taken from this very thread:

Kill number one by "swisscheese": 12:05
Kill number two by "spacecowboy": 7:02
Kill number three, comment by "Lexar" "Vyra again at around 5 in the afternoon today."
Kill number four print by "restored" 12:07
Kill number five, comment by "adaelus" "Found and killed Vyragosa at about 1:10 server time"

Can anyone explain to me why people on complete different realms always seem get killshots or killprints at these specific times?

You can find more but I think this is enough to see my point. I'm not pro at calculating but could this by any chance mean that the dragons do in fact NOT have a certain respawn timer, but a complete spawn schedule created by blizzard themselves?

To get some more information about this, each time you see Vyragosa or TLPD dead or killed one of them yourself, check what time it is and put a comment in this thread.

Commentaire de 110767

I killed Dirkee 12 hours after the TLPD was killed.
last night at 3am I saw Vyragosa.

meh.

One thing but I doubt it has anything to do with any thing. But at Camp Tunka'lo there are a few quest dealing with saving a time line and a cave with little time rifts.

This is also the area where I saw Dirkee spawn.

just saying....

sorry now I'm grasping at straws I know.

Funny thing about Cairne is people will look for the TLPD at the top of the hour 10 after the paths are clear. lol

Commentaire de Maha

Found dead body of Vyragosa at 40.30.Dunno if it was mentioned before that she flyes there too.03:00 server time.

Commentaire de 242781

While flying around it's handy to have this macro keybound somewhere.

/target Time
/target Dirkee
/target Vyragosa

Commentaire de z3n0mal4

I guess hunters can track them down with dragonkin right ?

Commentaire de sstan

I heard, that model editing is not forbidden if you know, how to do it...so just imagine, you would change the model of this drake into something very HUUUUUGE so you could see it from miles away?
Just an idea though.

Commentaire de 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

Commentaire de 268399

I have a really bad computer, and was wondering if that will put me at a disadvantage. Basically, is not having view distance at max going to make it difficult for me to find or target the TLPD? Will my view distance limit my target macro?

Commentaire de abadyss

can vyra and TLPD be alive at same time or do they take turns?

Commentaire de g0dslay3r

Do all the three rare mobs (The Time-Lost Drake, Vyragosa and Drikee) all share the same respawn timer? As I'd spotted a shaman killing Drikee about 100yds west of the Engine of the Makers about 30-45 minutes ago.

Commentaire de 223121

Just more spawn time information here.

As of Monday evening, there has been a whopping THREE Time-Lost Protodrakes appear on Wildhammer (EU) in only 8 days.

Commentaire de 269590

According to Bobsod's comment, the cords for this rare elite should be somewhere around (43,58) in Storm's Peak

Commentaire de fords

Found dead at 32,67 (up by the harpies on Bor's Breath)

Commentaire de Otacon

Looked around the engine of the makers as soon i found out this drop and to my great surprise, there it was, flying among the blue dragons. So i flew up to it to get it's aggro, and then i flew straight down to the ground so i could start dpsing it. It doesnt do much damage at all and went down very fast. Very happy with the mount, although i now need 4K gold to be able to ride it xD

Commentaire de 269085

just wanted 2 know the macro for targeting him never made any and never bothered to find out how until now

Commentaire de PhineEredar

Logged in and found him this morning (killed by somebody else :/ ) south of the mountain that's south of Bor's Breath. The approximate location of the body was <27.4, 77.3>:

http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/6797/tlpd1gz0.jpg

(I'm facing roughly east in this shot)

So if there was any doubt that he circles around the south side of this mountain, it can probably be put to rest.

Commentaire de 155175

I saw the corpse of the TLPD at 27, 77 today at 10:30am (12/11/08) on the Eredar server. I know this isn't much help but I figure the more information on here the better.

Commentaire de 205544

If you know where the foot steppes is, then you only need to wait.

Why do I need to wait?
The respawn time is around six hours.

This info is from myself. If he isen't there, hes somewhere around.

Commentaire de Jangalian

Bagged him at 48, 62 today at 3 pm server, on Frostmane. I accidentally stole him from a friend who was also spawn camping him. I didn't know! XD Good thing we're tight like that.

It looks like he just spawned on the hour, imo. He's pretty noticable amongst his light blue colored cousins, so don't be afraid you're going to miss seeing him. He flies a good distance above the ground, but not out of rifle range.

Commentaire de playhard

so i tried the script from Page 1. i got a popup that said 'retrieiving item information' or something like that.

what does that mean? does it mean the drake has never been killed on my server before? i find that hard to believe, i've been searching for a few days now and still nothing...........!

ps. this is the script i entered.

/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");

Commentaire de 130895

Can this guy and Vyragosa be tracked by a hunter? The tooltip doesn't say they are dragonkin, but it seems they haven't been detected by wowhead as there are no locations shown.

Commentaire de 153953

Killed Vyragosa at 12:08 p.m. Logged out at 1:00 p.m. and the Reins of the Time-Lost Proto Drake were not in the cache. When I logged back in at 3:10 p.m. the macro showed that the mount was in the cache.

This may be some kind of issue with the macro itself (I am using the one from the first page of this thread) or it may mean Vyragosa and TLPD can, at least, spawn within three hours of each other.

I'm not entirely convinced the spawns can happen so close together, because today (Friday) the macro indicated that TLPD had not spawned once since the Tuesday server reset. The probability of TLPD not spawning for 3 full days is not outrageous, but weighed against the alternate scenario of Vyra and TLPD spawning so close together makes me somewhat skeptical.

EDIT: It seems TLPD may have appeared, as so many have reported, at 3:00 p.m.

Commentaire de 275685

Vyragosa killed at 46,62 caught him at 48,62 at 4:26am on frostmane server on Dec 13th.

http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/8468/wowscrnshot121308042620hm3.jpg

Earlier Vyragosa kill in the Valkyrion area on top of a roof ill try to find coords and edit (coords were 27,62) on Dec 6th at 12:27am.

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/1060/wowscrnshot120708002702gm8.jpg

Both times harrassed by alliance and still kept the kill GG resto druid lol! /flex no sight of Time-Lost :( but will keep looking!

Goodtry to those alliance players ^_^ on frostmane <3 moo lol

Commentaire de 256767

I've been trying to find this fellow for a while, without success, although, (Edit: I hope.. ) I might get to see him soonish,

Yesterday I heard from someone that he saw TLPD despawn at 7 am, and the cache was still empty.. now, at 11 am the next morning, the cache still is. It could be that it spawned somewhere in between, but I see so many people fly about and sit at the point mentioned by lami, that I think it hasn't been spawning. I'll check each hour if the cache has it, or if I can find it myself.

Edit: in the comments of the actual item, on the screenshots I see different times, most posted times are around the exact hour, but a screenie had .53, or .32, maybe it was attacked by something so it didn't phase out? Or does he stick around longer.. Or are the spawns ROUGHLY around the hour, but can be earlier or later?

Update: Checked at 7 PM and still nothing in cache or a sign of it.

Commentaire de 251922

Well, I was camping this rare drake for about 9 hours and I didnt found any those drakes. This Proto drake have a spawn time on 6hours_+_... Which can be 15hours or something.. And hes sharing a spawntimer with another rare spawn called "Vyragosa"!

For those that wanna camp this drake, Here's a tip!
1. /macro
2. Make a macro that says /target Time-lost
3. Bind it to the scroll and fly around and start scrolling.

Heres the map where I was flying around. The blue is where I flew and the red is where I have heard he spawns.

Happy hunting

Commentaire de 277032

Actually guys, I was wondering if I would be able to solo him with my 80 frost mage ?

Commentaire de 252190

I may have missed it on one of the posts, but neither vyragosa nor TLPD have to be up ever right? There can be a point where neither are up even if they haven't been killed?

Commentaire de tlanwarrior

Killed him today, slightly north of Valkyrion, noticed him flying north towards the valley beyond it. Dunno where he spawned or anything, but he does fly north over Valk.

EDIT- Despite him being elite, I managed to kill him with half health (After falling to death grip him). Hes got about 18k health points, and is a total pushover, I think the fight lasted maybe 10 seconds at the most.

Commentaire de 274192

I've been checking every day since the server reset on Tuesday, and he hasn't been in the cache on any of the days. I might give up soon. =/

Commentaire de 278094

HI all,

Can someone please answer me this?

When I run the script and it just says "retrieving information" should that be a good thing, meaning that for that day he has yet to spawn and there is a chance i could get him.

if it actually finds it, and returns the info on the mount, does that reset each day or does that just mean someone on the server actually has it now?

Also, I am going now by Penguins response and going to try to farm the 30, 68 spot. anyone else tried this and had any luck?

also, Is this "time" confirmed as in, does it only spawm "on the hour" and is it always server time when you guys are posting times?

Thanks all Good Luck

Commentaire de 279771

Basically just like everyone is saying.

I saw Vyragosa at 4am, and was camping since 6pm the previous day. The Time-lost Proto Drake was killed at 10:24pm and then of course respawned at 4am.

They're respawn time is so odd, but I'm pretty sure it's a 6 hour spawn time.

Commentaire de Vetis

I received this mount last night much to my joy, and I haven't seen any writings of it being where I found it so:
https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:391423 flying due east
http://i37.tinypic.com/1zpnura.jpg proof

Commentaire de 200036

I see many people are commenting on the fact that the Time-Lost Proto-Drake is not in the server cache on their server. But you all seem to be overlooking an important fact: The server cache is cleared every Wednesday at the maintenance! So the script only tells you wether the the proto-drake has been killed since Wednesday.

I hope this little bit of information will help you in your hunting :)

Commentaire de Susa

I have been using this:
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/3279/stormpeakssg0.jpg
flight path, the red is the path i follow, the blue circles is where i'll occasionally search, but, i have literrally, done this flight path every day for AT LEAST 6-8 hours a day for the past 2 weeks or so, and i have YET to see ANY of the 3 rare spawns, Dirkee, Vyragosa, or TLPD, i think it's just my bad luck, i've put in tickets, and i even asked about the "retrieving item info" and they said that doesnt technically mean that it hasn't been aquired, i don't remember the BS answer they gave me, but, for the LONGEST time, it said "retrieving item info" til i put in a ticket, then i have yet to see that, even right after tues maint. keep searching guys, he's out there.....somewhere......

Commentaire de Llotus

Here is what I was able to gather from reading everyones information about the Time-Lost Proto Drake. I have tried to put the information into an image that some of you might find interesting...or not. In either case, this is just information for the time-lost proto drake. I did not put Vyra's or Dirkee's information into this image. Enjoy and I hope it helps you catch the drake.

Time-Lost Proto Drake Info Pic

Commentaire de 68822

Killed Dec. 19th at 10:11pm server time. Tagged and killed around 40,47.

Commentaire de n8ymk2

Spotted and killed him @ 35,67 on Gilneas after 10 hours flying around. *happy*

Commentaire de 197520

Ok, I've found out his 2 posible spawn location. One is at 33.66 and the other is at 40.50. You don't even want to know how hard it was to get this info out of ppl.

Heres a map https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:331660400502

the only thing i need to know now is his re-spawn time.

Commentaire de nublok

Vyragosa spawned for me this wednesday 13:23, today at 01:23 TLPD spawned (didn't get it though :( ). That's 60 hours apart. There might have been more Vyras inbetween that I've missed.
My server got up at 11:23. I'm 99% certain now that the spawn is a chance every hour from when the server has gone up. So in this case that means that it can be any xx:23.

Another thing I thought about is that there might be a "cooldown" to the spawn. Say if one of them spawns, then there isn't a chance for any of them to spawn until X amount of hours has gone. After that it returns to the normal random chance every hour.

Commentaire de 261615

Im just gunna go to test server and follow the rares around and record their pats i dunno why someone hasnt done this already. It is test but still thats not gunna change anything with its spawn.

Commentaire de BigfootGolem

Those 2 spawn points are also where I've spotted and killed the other rare-elites, Dirkee at the north one and Vyragosa at the south one.

Commentaire de 284754

Unfortunately I found Vyragosa and not time-lost on the cords 27.55
hope it helps you in the search.

Commentaire de Devidose

Finally managed to spot and kill this after over 3 weeks of searching. Eventual kill was on the south side of the mountain Frosthold is located on top of. The Drake was circling the mountain at the height of Bor's Breath, in an anti clockwise direction. Body pulled and killed at 24, 77.

Commentaire de martyn470

He spawns where bor's breath starts outside of valkyrie place, if you look at the map its southwest of temple of storms, on the map its a dark blue colour, he spawns there ( 1 in 3 chance of him spawning) and he has 2 possible routes then despawns after he has followed his route, he can either go north around the temple of storms and then he goes down a path back to the terrace of the makers, on the link ive got, i have indicated the spawn point with the red circle, then in a lesser font ive shown the way he goes northwards ( in the red colour) , the blue path is the second path he can take, the orange spot i have placed is the end point where he de-spawns, he has a 28 hour spawn timer regardless of the 6 hours people have said.

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii285/martyn470/stormpeaks_map_original.jpg

good luck finding him, ive been at it for some time

If you need to contact me more, i have a character named martynrocks on dentarg EU server
=D

Commentaire de 285358

Ok here is a question... It might seem noobish but do you need the epic flying training for the Proto drake to Drop? or will he drop anyways?

Commentaire de 285948

Finally found my very own Time-Lost Proto-Drake at 12:30am EST on Executus-US flying above the harpies and below the mountain line around coordinates 37, 70. He does not fly at an absurd height out of view or anything but it would be a nasty fall.

http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/3094/wowscrnshot122208004011bz2.jpg <--me, my new mount, and my recent kill.

Some advice: trying to camp him is frustratingly time-consuming. I never spent more than 30 minutes and it boggles my mind hearing people say they camped him for 6+ hours. Most people it seems find him by luck and so did I. I went to storm peaks for some herbing and decided to check the more common sighting locations and low and behold there he was. I might have had advance knowledge of where he can be but it was stil dumb luck that i stumbled across him.

Good luck on your own, and I'm so glad I don't have to look at these comments ever again for any fresh clues!

Commentaire de ducttapewarrior

has anybody on kalecgos server seen this rare spawn yet?...i dont want to waste my time sitting here if it wont even spawn.

Commentaire de 287236

it appears in track dragonkin for hunter?

Commentaire de zexz

totallysane: well a little humour, i have heard all the 1-3 weeks of camping this mob so i was EXTREMELY lucky.

Commentaire de Solann

Spotted a corpse today at 39.1, 72.7 at 4:15 AM EST (also server time).

Commentaire de flaotinging

Just got him (12/24), looked maybe 4 times yesterday for 30 min each time, gave up. Flew straight line from Dalaran to Brunnhildar Village and found him right in between somewhere, don't have coords. I literally flew into him and he was pretty high in the air (enough to die from fall damage). I was indeed spamming my "/tar time" macro set to middle mouse button, but the way I ran into him I didn't even need it.

I had to make him follow me to the side of a mountain as we were way too high and I was waiting for a rogue to gank me the whole time.

Good luck.

P.S. people get really mad at you for having it!

Commentaire de 233804

i just camped for a month in hope to find him but just found vyra dead to day after reset server at 4:30 server time (kazzak server)
coords 27.0 56.9 and as they said he spawns after an hour i checked nothing was there. i dont think he spawns in our but 30 min left for 6 hours spawn hope ill see him . :)

EDIT: after 6 hours from vyra death still no spawn for time lost which means he doesn't have a regular time spawn which means he can spawn at any time or day depends on the server..

Commentaire de 212422

i think he spawns, then is there for only 15 minutes or so, then he despawns again, so from the point when he spawns you have 15 mins to kill, if you dont he despawns. he also shares spawntimer with another dragon
im not fully sure though

also a tip if you see him and hes too high up in the air, you can buy at Grom'arsh Crash site (horde) for 2 Uludar relics, it gives you a slowfall when consumed. same vendor as the iron boot flask.

Commentaire de 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 ;)

Commentaire de Monechetti

Saw it dead today at 45, 61 on Crushridge server.

Earlier I'd killed Dirkee, by about 4 hours. Unless the spawn time on Time-Lost is under 4 hours, it's unlikely they share a spawn time, and probably aren't connected in any way.

Commentaire de Kooremiks

If Any1 here Make a map link i can tag i tag the Spawn point.. I got it :D

Commentaire de 290117

I just found the TLPD today at 1:55 Chromaggus Server. I found him at 33,65 when I was herbing. I have been looking for this drake for the last week about a couple hours a day. I eventually gave up and stopped looking. I was just herbing and I saw it spawn right in front of my face, It was about a good 50 yards in the sky and I had to pull it down and tag it. Easy to solo as a warrior with 28K health.

I guess this is a pretty cool X'mas present, and Merry Xmas to you guys too! Good Luck on finding it.

Commentaire de 193776

Collection of coords from All comments
Map

Commentaire de 48984

Have just got confirmation from a GM - the TLPD does spawn in multiple locations, So unless you're lucky and camp the right spot, theres still a low chance that you're getting the mob.

http://img187.imageshack.us/my.php?image=timelostdrakewd3.jpg

Also, on the note. The majority of the time i have heard it's been killed from spawn, it has been at the foot steppes. It's patrol moves west, towards bor's breath and stops under valkyrion.

I am planning on following it when i eventually do find it to check it's patrol. If anybody has more information on spawn points. I've seen the corpse at 45.9,61.0

Commentaire de Darkprodigy

Now I know why they call in "Time-Lost", all the time lost people spend camping this guy

Commentaire de 123050

I just found Vyra at 12:15 server. Found flying over Harpys and below mountain line. Don't know exact coordinates but dropped usual drop. Exactly 6hrs 10min from last kill.

Hope this helps with TLPD

Commentaire de 204919

And, if you are herbalist, searching for the TLPD. There are a lots of herbs along the stated flight path. I have probably earned about 500 g by now.

Commentaire de 291517

Ok i don't know about all the information here, i'm going to base mine from experience.

Here's what i know as far as MY server goes and as far as i've researched this:

First of i'd like to say my studies began around 12:00 AM Christmas day, i began small by scouting the area several times to see if there was sightings from him i asked local players.
It was literally nearly 10 min. before i came upon the corpse of TLPD, now mabye it's been stated mabye it hasnt but he has several spawn points and where he died i can't confirm as a spawn point but i think it's where he paths, b/c he died just north of Valkyrion on the mountain side, my assumption is either that he spawned their or is flight pattern led him that direction and someone picked em up.

Judging by what i've seen with Vyragosa so far and the info disclosed here i think i'm 99% sure that they share a VERY similiar flight pattern and a respawn timer (other wise TLPD is just has a ridiculously annoying respawn timer). if nothing else they fly the same direction, it should be noted they're NOT insanely high off the ground like everyone keeps stating Vyragosa remained like mabye 40 feet from ground i probably could have been within range of a death grip.

alas let me skip to the important part the times and locations, i decided i'm just gonan keep a diary of all the CONFIRMED killes as in the ones I've been there to witness, I know ppl think i'm BSing if i dont have pictures but trust me... i've been at this mount non stop for 4 (going on 5 days) so my goal is to make the rest of the world's job as easy as i can by steering you all in the right direction anyways feel free to read or not either way here we go!

12:13 AM - Decemeber 25 - Time- Lost Proto Drake is spotted dead by the mountains north of Valkyrion .

December 26 - nothing it was a long cold, empty day of searching that day not one spawn as far as my knowledge went that day.

10:13ish AM - December 27 - I log in to find Dirkee over on the west side of the Engine of the Makers beating me in the face, may not have been what i wanted but it was still a treat!

11:13ish AM - December 28 - VYRAGOSA spawns! She was flying into towards the Bor's Breath valley. i panicced franitically to reach her but as usual damn alliance somehow killed her a millisecond before i tagged body.

it's about 5:18 PM now (6 hours after kill of Vyragosa) hopefully i'll see TLPD soon will keep you all posted and add info when i do see something

11:20ish AM - December 28 - Dirke killed again

*EDIT* 3:13 AM - December 29 - Vyragosa AGAIN she spawned over by the Nidavelir Cave was about to fly over Valkyrion she's pretty low to the ground f.y.i. (starting to lose hope at this point but nonetheless i press on).

*EDIT* 2:19 AM - December 29 - Vyragosa Spawns once more this time near frost hold heading around the outer side down near the harpies. (very clear at this point that TLPD and her share a spawn)

I think the spawn rate on these two seems to pick up as it draws closer and closer to Tuesday ... each time i've killed them they've spawned faster than usual just a theory tho. Continuing the Hunt

*EDIT* 11:22 PM - December 29 - Vyragosa yet again spawned.... (wtf...) Spawned by Nidevalir Cave again about to fly over valkyrion i'm almost 100% sure that this is a definite spawn location for her. Gives me chance to test out the server reset rumor: so i'll keep you all posted.

*EDIT* 8:00 AM was a server reset so I'm not sure if this screwed the Respawn timer of everything up but I'm assuming it reset it so starting over from here as far as timer goes.

*EDIT* 9:20 PM - December 30 - Vyragosa refuses to stop spawning >< this time tho she spawned almost directly in between the engine of the makers and that cave called the Frozen Tomb. I can confirm this as one of her spawn spots b/c she jumped me out of no where at that location.

Commentaire de 280942

Confirmed Death at 42, 60-

I didn't get the kill :(

Server- Tich

Saw it killed at 12:30pm PST

Commentaire de 233804

ive just read that aparantly he needs a q to be visible hope it helps dnt no if its true or not tho http://forgottenprophets.com/index.php?showtopic=12928&mode=linear
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how come a pre tbc quest can make u get a WOTLK mount which is way far away from time phase thing

edit found his corpse at 1:27 am server time ( kazzak ) ... coord : 31.6 65.6

Commentaire de 269680

Why is Blizzard saying it is a rare spawn in Ice Crown ?
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/basics/mounts/flying.html

Commentaire de 292061

saw his body for the first time tonight:

http://img291.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot122808214807ro2.jpg

*edit:

just missed him today after being up all night again...

http://img212.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot122908085228ym7.jpg

needless to say, this search has been a total letdown for me

Commentaire de 292084

Would be awsome if everyone who gets the kill (or sees someone kill it) could write down the time too. It would be nice to pinpoint the time he spawns. From the comments already posted it seems like he spawns on the hour but its kinda hard to confirm this. I dont think a GM would answer that question.

Personally Ive been at it for 5 days now. Never seen any of the rares.

Commentaire de 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.wowhead.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. :)

Commentaire de 292084

I have a problem with how my mobs disappear from my screen very fast, for example I can see like 1-2 wyrms flying around when Im on the edge of the engine of the makers. Is there a command to extend the radius if which mobs appear, or maybe the amount of mobs on screen? Thanks for your help!

Commentaire de 292762

I was camping the gnome at the Engine of the Makers, and waaay south of me, near the brood-mother's nest, i saw gold and brown. I posted in guild that it was weird, being that all the drakes were blue, as i made a beeline for it- Everyone was screaming GO KILL IT! and about 2 minutes later a buddy in the area informed me he had just seen it go down to a warrior near K3

While the locations vary from server to server, his speed is average- not super fast. he got from just south of the engine to K3 in about 100 seconds or so

Professional Sightseer <--

Commentaire de 292798

Found him flying South towards the Forlorn mine, aggroed him and pull him straight down to the top of the Forlorn mine and killed him, posted a screen shot also. If you are on the cave, looking north, you see a big gap between the mountains, thats where he was flying from, which is the Engine of the Makers. Dropped the necklace "of the soldier" and a satchel that had 18g, 17 frostweave, and 4 crystallized air. My guildie that had gotten him about a week ago had seen him when he was on the flight path to Gromarsh Crash site, we went to Bor's Breath and waited for about 5 minutes since that is where my guildie killed him last time. He wasn't coming around, so my other guildie flew around and spotted him above the Forlorn Mine. Actually had a group of 5 people(4 of us were guildies, one was a very very good friend) Lucky me, they all let me have him :D Found him at 8:43 am Central time.

Commentaire de Shoji

Hey guys, this is the information I've found so far. Me and a few guildies have found 3 spawn points. At first we didn't care about Dirkee or when he spawned as we thought it didn't have any weight on TLPD/Vyra's spawn timer. After a while, we found that it seems it does.

Since December 25, here are the spawn times on Shattered Hand, US. Times are server time (EST)

12/25/2008 - 11:15AM - TLPD
12/26/2008 - 12:00AM - Vyra
12/26/2008 - 7:15AM - TLPD
12/26/2008 - 5:59PM - Vyra
12/27/2008 - ~11:00AM - Vyra <-- 30 minute pvp ensued after our kill here, we *think* it was killed at 11:00am on the dot.
12/27/2008 - 9:27PM - Vyra
((12/28/2008 - 9:00AM - Vyra)) <-- Supposed kill, wasn't verified. spawned at a 3rd spawnpoint we didn't have yet
12/28/2008 - 4:53PM - Vyra
12/29/2008 - 3:14AM - Vyra
12/29/2008 - ~10:00AM - Dirkee
12/29/2008 - 5:23PM - Vyra
12/30/2008 - 3:58AM - Dirkee
12/30/2008 - 8:12AM - Vyra
- missed a spawn, raiding - (TLPD has not spawned/been looted since 26Dec kill, must have been another Vyra)
12/31/2008 - 10:20AM - Vyra
01/01/2009 - 02:20AM - Vyra
- missed a spawn
01/02/2009 - 10:20AM - TLPD (Druid came up and 2shot me after I tagged the mob and brought it to the ground. Yet I lost the tag on him?)

All of these above named times were from us killing the mob unless otherwise stated. Hopefully with more research we can find out if Vyra/TLPD share the exact same spawn points. If so, we have them all =D

Commentaire de 294332

hmm i was just patrolling for the time lost cause the 24 hours have passed since some1 killed him and at the exact same time dirkee shows up kinda strange maby their is a connection with dirkee too

Commentaire de 268190

Ok, Over a 2 day span I come up with this. (Day #1) 10:21 pm - Dead Vyragosa.
(Day #2) Time-lost Proto Drake - 12:00 PM (Someone killed it the second I got there).
Now I am currently searching for it, in hopes of finding it, if I do I will post.
**EDIT** Just killed Dirkee - South east of the Grom'arsh Crash site, 8:45PM...(This is 2 days after i saw TLPD)
Edit..Kiled Dirkee again. same spot as before. (Also why is this downranked?)

Commentaire de Kemni

It will, but, it might not be TLPD, one of other 3.

Commentaire de 256123

Despite being a rare mob, he does not fulfill the requirements of Northern Exposure.

Commentaire de Shoji

It will not. we've camped the rare spawns in Storm Peaks for 2 weeks, and even though the server resets, the mobs do NOT spawn when the servers come back up. The timers DO NOT reset when the servers come back up. The mobs still followed their 8-12hr spawn timers.

Commentaire de 295747

Yeah this is exactly what we should be doing is getting the flight path for these things, so thanks to everyone who is doing that.

Also, I just wanted to point out that while specific patrol patterns may very on the server level (I have no idea if they do) any info concerning the flight patterns on any server would be extremely appreciated

Commentaire de Coolqwazves

Just got mine at 46.1, 58.8.

Had been farming for a few days, went to play CSS and within 5 minutes of coming back it had spawned somewhere near Brunnhildar village, patting towards the engine.

Had been using the macro:

/tar Time
/tar Vyragosa
/stopmacro
/tell NAME > %t <

Which someone had pasted before, It's a good script so i suggest using it :)

GL

Commentaire de Kazeijin

Although the macros given are good, I've been hunting the TLPD in Bor's and Valkyrion the past few nights and only seen Vyragosa. Regardless, the macro that gives a personal raid warn triggers if you have something already targetted and start it, so I think it should be more along the lines of

/cleartarget
/target time
/target Vyragosa
/target dirkee
/stopmacro
/run RaidNotice_AddMessage(RaidBossEmoteFrame,"THERE IT IS! KILL IT!", ChatTypeInfo)
/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\interface\\RaidWarning.wav")

That macro will clear any target you have, and it'll only spam you if its the real deal. Good luck hunting everyone, one day he'll be mine >:D

Commentaire de 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).

Commentaire de llamafarm

I guess i was one of the lucky few that had gotten this mount, i had taken a different route to do my dailies and what do ya know, i see the TLPD creeping up on me, solo'd him as holy, bubbled while a DK tried to kill me and killed the drake while bubbled, im sure he was angry :)

idk where he came from, but he was very close to valkyrion

http://i40.tinypic.com/4tmvbk.jpg

Happy Hunting, hope you all are as lucky as me :)

Commentaire de 289962

Found Him on the icy area on Bor's Breath.
Where the Schreechers are.
Look from there.
Unlucky for me, some guy was just killing it there :(

Commentaire de 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?

Commentaire de 298546

Damn.. I have been looking for him for 2 days now.. and i havent seen any chorpse or seen him once :S do any of u guys have any idea what to do wile camping this extreme rare mob? :D

Commentaire de JimmyGrudgie

Hello, can anyone please help me with this?

Now that it is a server restart (at least it is for EU servers) is the Time-Lost Proto-Drake still there or is he gone then along with the 2 others rare? Can anyone please help me with this asap?

(Btw, many thinks "asap" is a mean word, so i can spell what it says: As soon as possible)

Thank you, and I will be pleased if you tell me it. =D

Commentaire de Laurens

An excellent way to pull him down without any slow-fall abilities is using the Snowfall lager.
You can buy it for 2 Relics of Ulduar at Olut Alegut (horde) and Rork Sharpchin (alliance).

Commentaire de Slibfs

Found his corpse at 28.9, 66.4.

Commentaire de mikethered

So far I've found Vyragosa 18 times.

They were ALL around xx:10, xx:30 and xx:50.

Perhaps these are the intervals on which she MAY spawn?

I've never seen her spawn less than 6 hours apart.

Mostly she spawns on the cliff in the frozen lake between Bor's Breath and Valk, but I also saw her spawn a few inches to the East of the Maker's Engine.

It's my belief that she DOESN'T share a spawn timer with the TLPD, but I cannot confirm it.

My evidence for this is that earlier today I killed her at 10:34am, then the TLPD was found (by someone else) at 1:11pm. That's not 6 hours, so they may be independent of one another...

Good luck!

Commentaire de Morgwath

I found the mob yesterday on Thursday the 8.01.09 around 13:00.
I killed him at 36.54 : 72.90.
He flyed down the pass fulled with harpys and cames from the north, flying to the South.

4 Hours later one of the other rare mobs was spotted and killed.

Commentaire de 300466

So, been farming this for like 4-5 hours now, found vyragosa dead once.

But how high does TLPD fly ?

Commentaire de Rept

Sorry if this post does not contain new helpful info, but still gotta ask.
Do you need to have the zone shiftet to Sons of Hodir in order to find the spawn?
If so, that would possible explain why some people have been camping him for days and weeks without seeing him.
I haven't seen any evidence of this myself, just a thought while camping the spawn

Commentaire de Oafmwl

I was at the summoning stone for Halls of Lighting waiting for my party and I saw it flew by. It was going east to west. So I found it all by luck. Happy Hunting

Commentaire de 267678

I think I saw a post either here or elsewhere that said Dirkee was on a separate timer than TLPD and Vyragosa. Listening to the chatter on Jaedenar though I'm pretty sure all three of the spawns are linked. So if one is up the other two shouldn't be. The 6 hour timer, thus far, has been working like clockwork on our server. Within ten minutes of the last kill at least.

Even on my small server it's been hard to find TLPD though so I haven't been able to turn up any other info than that.

Commentaire de Arthagon

I searched already 6 hours now for this, from the morning till afternoon.
At first I thought it would be easy mod, and it wouldn't take me more then 2 hours, but now I'm still searching.
I'm beginning to doubt of the spawn times. I mean, if it spawns one time every 6 hours, why didn't it spawn yet? Or am I wrong? Does it have another spawn time?

Can anyone explain me how the spawning works? And what kind of route it takes? Because I'm beginning to lose the faith to search it. Maybe I'm doing everything wrong?
Posted the same message at the drop.

(P.S) I already read all the comments, and it's really confusing, the one says it's 1 month spawn time, the other says each 6 hours.

-Mensah

Commentaire de 301872

I finally got my Time Lost Drake this morning after camping him for a few weeks.
Things I noticed ...

I do not believe he shares a spawn timer.
I do believe he shares the path of Vyragosa though.
I saw him killed at Engine of Makers around 5:03pm on Jan. 10th. So I figured he would spawn 16-18 hours later. I was wrong.

I logged in around 7am. He flew over Engine of Makers at around 8:19am on Jan. 11th. So it was around 15 hour respawn. He flew above my head at a high altitude. My macro hit gold and I frantically looked for him. I saw him heading south out across Engine of Makers and used a Slow Fall Lager to tag him in mid air. (I feel this is the only way to be sure you'll get the tag if others are around)

I dismounted, used slow fall, then tagged him with Mark of Blood(I'm a blood DK btw) He came right down with me. No Death Grip needed. I used Army of the Dead to kill him in seconds once he was low enough.

No one else was around, so I got lucky.

I feel as though his spawn is seperate and random from the other rares in the area. I have seen him on Xmas eve at around 9:21pm and missed him by seconds. He came into view around Bor's Breath that day.

I had killed Vyra about 8 times during my camping sessions. Haven't seen Dirkee at all.

Hope this helps others. It was a pain staking process to say the least. Long nights and missed raid runs. Thank god it's over. Phew!

This was on US - Bloodhoof and my game name is Zof. Best of luck to you all!

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/6027/wowscrnshot011109082006dc1.jpg

Commentaire de 292172

Just seen Viragosa just south of Temple Of Storms in that canyon there. Guessing they do use that canyon to go around in. Just wounder when the Time-Lost would spawn after, I'm guessing 6 hours later now, guess I'll keep you posted if I find out. Happy Hunting.

Commentaire de 292172

Ok.. so once I got back to the game 2 min later, the body dissapeared, and someone said they just killed Dirkee (or whatever other spawn name is) RIGHT after I saw the body dissapear. I am assuming he has nothing to do with the dragon rare spawn timers or anything. Still researching the matter, if anything please reply to give me heads up. Ty gl

Commentaire de 197453

i have been camping it for 3 days, 4-5 hours a day and never seen it dead or alive.
i'm at europe burning legion realm. the server cache is not available. i'm still camping. i'll write here if i find it..

Commentaire de 153790

would this mean that he would respawn right after on server restarts on tuesday?

Commentaire de 141739

Found mine today after about 2 hours. Just remember; he flys pretty high up, just fly into, &*!@ him off, land and kill. Don't try what my brother did, moonfire and drop to your death.

Commentaire de Thrizie

I think the name of this guy might be taking on a rather unfortunate sense of irony for some people...

Commentaire de 304129

Downed Vyrgosa she seemed to have spawned at 3:15 - 3:20 downed her shortly afterwards, flying north over Valkyrion.

EDIT,

11 Hours later Vyrgosa spawned same place, opposite direction of travel it seemed. I just found the corpse and the ally who killed em.

Commentaire de tyrok

I've found this ^&*!ty Vyragosa 5 times now. Still no sight of the proto-drake. Seen over 4 stupid alliance bastards with Time-Lost Proto-Drake, not one single hordie. Think the allys and me ar as time-lost as the Time-Lost Proto-Drake

Commentaire de 159686

I dont have experience with hunting rare mobs... but is it even remotely possible that blizz made this mob have really long spawn times... and for making it more troubelsome, have different spawn locations around NORTHREND! just for the rarety of the mount

Commentaire de 58803

I was in the area scoping for TLPD.
I'd noticed a few ore spawns so I was getting ready to drop on them when an ally and a fellow horde dropped in on them. With a slight grumble beneath my breath I turned back up to fly away just in time to see a huge white dragon fighting something in front of me.

I was right at the tip of Bor's Breath (https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:274638) when I realized it was Vyragosa. Vyra was actually fighting the winged viking woman NPC's there and while he was winning the fight against the 2 he was fighting 2 more spawned nearly as soon as I realized what was going on.

Before I could think of a better plan I flew near him and popped him with a frost shock dropping me onto the roof of the leftmost building. There I cast 1 lightning bolt after another till he dropped. From him I received https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=44732 (..of the marksman), 17 gold and a stack of frostweave.

So if he does indeed share a spawn point and the behaviors are indeed the same then I confirm that the NPC's at least in this area DO aggro the mob and will seemingly kill it.

Commentaire de JustMashu

After a minimum of 30 days of sitting night and day, finally got the TLPD to spawn mid-poop.

I am on Drak'Tharon(US), where several others have also found the drake.

I was camping at the end of Bor's Breath (29, 66)
It spawned at 4:45 am ST (Central) and was flying toward Valkyrion from Frosthold, the same exact way I've seen Vyragosa go 8+ times.

After aggroing the TLPD, as a warrior, I let him hit me from behind, in order for Damage Shield to deal him a little damage to tap him. Then I landed on a little hill near Frosthold. Fortunately, unlike his girly, pansy friend Vyragosa, he prefers to stab faces with his fists, so it was no problem fighting him as a melee class. The little hill where I pulled him to is at (30.5, 68.3).

Screenshot of where I fought/killed him: http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/7586/wowscrnshot011709055401rd0.jpg

Additionally, he seems to have quite a large hitbox to appear on-screen. These two screen shots show how far away you can be before he disappears from the screen:
(27.7, 63.9) http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/551/wowscrnshot011709060428hf3.jpg
(33.9, 65.3) http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/2889/wowscrnshot011709060614jr6.jpg

Even though he spawned at 4:45 in the morning, a friendly druid stopped to say congrats two minutes after the kill, so if you want to prevent others from tapping it before you, I strongly advise you to sit at a spawn point and wait.

Good luck, happy hunting.

Shu, Drak'Tharon

Commentaire de irishfrog82

i found dead body here hope it helps
http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x34/irishfrog82/timelostdrakedeath.jpg
http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x34/irishfrog82/deathspotTLPD.jpg

Commentaire de 274293

wells ince my screenshots weren't allowed at WoWhead for whatever reason you can see more here:

http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/8679/wowscrnshot011709061731xp8.jpg
http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/1017/wowscrnshot011709062348lp7.jpg

Commentaire de 303645

ok.. umm how high should we be flying when looking for him?

Commentaire de 138288

Ok Ive been farming this for 2 weeks now. No sign on anyone as of yet,

I have a few questions

Are there any known ACTUAL spawn points of TLPD? If so where? (coords plz)

The spawn timer is still a mystery or is it figured out?

Best wishes a soon to be braindead farmer

Commentaire de 72070

I think that this is it's flying route! I hope that I'm correct...

Commentaire de 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

Commentaire de redfenix

how high up does he patrol?

is he targetable from the ground, or much higher, or?

Commentaire de 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.

Commentaire de Slisher

Just Killed Vyragosa AND Dirkee.

Killed Vyragosa at Engine of the Makers,right outside the elemental cave.@ 23:15

Then killed Dirkee @ Engine of the Makers 01:50.

Been farming TLPD for like a month and a half now. 3 sec's to slow on 5 spawns >.<

this was on Doomhammer EU btw.

Commentaire de 307010

Someone who have killed TLPD ,know tell me if him have just range atks, or have melee atks too?

Please, someone awnser this question for me =]

I have spoted Vyragosa 3 times, and i have much dificulty to kill him, because him just stay away from me casting frostbolts, and i'm a rogue =S

Kiske - Ragnaros (US)

Commentaire de 309388

Hrm, so um, whereabouts should I be looking, altitude wise, does he fly up and down or stick to the same height all the time?

And do I fly low or do I hang around up with the Blue Drakes?

Any ideas?

Commentaire de ability

Something fun and perverse to do once you have this mount is to take it out for a spin in the spawn area every now and then. Some guy on my server likes to do this, and my heart always skips a beat when his tauren-sized drake comes into view.

Commentaire de 245076

/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");Copy this piece of code and stick it in a macro, once you used the macro, click on the link in your chat-log, if the item-link gets stuck on 'retrieving item information' (or something similar) the item is not in the server-cache

ok i think i understand this but can someone type exactly what it is because the shift click thing half way through is messing me up... i think

Commentaire de Bizarre

the shift click thing half way through is messing me up... i think

No need to make a macro. Paste the code into chat and press enter. You should see the item link in your chat window now. Click on the item link.

Commentaire de 160370

Found him yesterday while randomly flying around Bor's Breath, when my macro got him, he flies about 30-40 yards above ground,

Commentaire de 312673

Item showed up in the server cache today about 3-3.5hrs after a server reset (I had checked it many times earlier). I wasn't in the zone at the time -- I went back to find out whom, time & coords but they either refused to reply, or legged it pretty quickly. All the info I have, sorry.

Commentaire de 312777

Ok ladies and Gents, i got mine tonight! :D

Server: Aerie Peak EU Location of kill: 30.65 (Where a LOT have taken place if i read these forums)

Ok here's the deal, i was on a horde alt and maintenance was about to kick in so when i got the 15 minute warning i decided to go have another look. Logged in at the foot steppes, near the blue drakes, and saw that i had mail from the ah. So i went to frosthold and got it, well some of it.

After this i returned down to bors breath, just as i was flying over the cliff from frosthold to bors breath WHAM my macro struck the Gold. The time was 2.48Am on wednesday Jan28. However i dont think times will matter much cause elt's say vyragoza is on a 6 hour timer, and she spawns at 2 am, if she isnt killed till 2.30am her next spawn wont be at 8 am but 8.30. So even if it did share the timer with vyragoza the times would be random and very hard to keep track of, unless you know what time the previous kill took place.

I however am still not convinced he shares a spawntimer with her, BUT if he does its much smaller than a 33% chance that i saw in this forum somwhere. MuCH smaller. It is indeed the rarest spawn in the game, and you can go for days without seeing it, but to all you people hunting out there, stick to it and you will be rewarded for it!

Myself i farmed this for 1 week almost non stop, and this was the first time i spotted it, dead or alive. I saw vyra dead only twice, and no sign of dirkee at all.

anyway heres some screenies, first one shows me on my mount hovering over the corpse, you can see the location:

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/5039/proto1sr5.jpg

Here you see it with coords at the top, and as you see 45 secs till server shutdown

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/8352/proto2ry2.jpg

Good Luck all and stick to it :) Happy farming!

Commentaire de 305086

I am currently farming and still havent found him... wish me luck, its tough!

Commentaire de 312866

After having read many of these comments, and not reading many others, I have thought up an idea that may or may not work.

When you use the Link feature on the actual item, Reins of the Time-Lost Proto-Drake, in-game, you will NOT be able to see its description because the actual item is not "online". What I propose you can do, is to make a macro of the script link and have that particular item description constantly open while waiting for a spawn. When the Time-Lost Proto-Drake does spawn, the item will spawn on it's loot table, making the item information accessible to the server and visible to you.

Again, I have not tested this, but hopefully somebody can successfully test this to either prove or disprove the idea.

Commentaire de kabukikitsune

Talking with someone on my server (Arygos) about him, and I found something curious. Apparently TLPD may NOT share a respawn timer with Vyr. Apparently, this person (who also has the drake) dropped TLPD while the other dragon was still up. If they shared a spawn, that wouldn't be possible.

I have seen the drake myself before, though at the time I didn't know its significance. Then, it was flying somewhat close to the ground between the frozen falls, and K3.

Commentaire de 301162

Bumped into him right above Brunnhildar, he was moving towards engine of the makers. As soon as he reached the terrace and a little bit more comfortable height, i landed and took him down.
Nothing special about the fight (as has been said earlier).

Commentaire de 314198

I'll post my findings here, hope they help. During the holiday I had some spare time, camped him for 4 days (not full time just checking after 6 hours of finding a rare spawn). I have not seen him at all yet, dead nor alive. But here goes, some information about the other two rares.

31 dec - Vyragosa 14:30
31 dec - Vyragosa 22:05
1 Jan - Vyragosa 5:30
1 Jan - Vyragosa 13:58
1 Jan - Dirkee 22:40

As you can see, not quite a 6 hour timer for Vyragosa, but even different spawning interfals.
After that I kinda didn't care about it anymore and decided to just check when I had some spare time. I know it had been killed after every server reset because the link always showed up.
I still keep on finding the wrong rares:

7 Jan - Dirkee 15:00
7 Jan - Vyragosa 21:47
25 Jan - Drikee 10:27
30 Jan - Vyragosa 14:10

So I guess you just need a lot of luck to find him. That's why I gave up, no luck for me. But to all those still hunting: good luck!

Commentaire de Chronalis

Just a little info on Vyragosa, as i just killed her.

"Vyragosa spotted at 27,63 on 30 January 2009 at 14:15. Approx 50 yards high (Body height above top of the Valkyrion houses)."

That's what i typed and then i screenshotted it. She was patrolling anti-clockwise around the Temple of Storms, but was over Valkyrion when i saw her. She may have spawned there, she may have patrolled by at the point (i'd just logged on so it could have been either).

At ground level, she was out of range of Hand of Reckoning, about 20 yards up and she was in range. If TLPD flies higher as some have suggested, then you'd need to use some sort of immunity (Bubble, Iceblock) or slow fall, and a ranged attack to bring him down. I simply got in range, bubbled, and cast Hand of Reckoning. I got to her just as some Night Elf Druid was heading round. Shortly after looting, either he or a Draenei Death Knight that had just "joined" us skinned the corpse. I'm a Blood Elf Paladin, and did see a "Makes some strange gestures" emote, but couldn't communicate with them about any info i'd found or gathered.

I know this doesn't give much information about TLPD itself, but if you look into it a little, you'll see where i was headed and what i meant by posting this.

Commentaire de 160370

They call it a time-lost proto drake because you've lost so much time looking for it ;P

Commentaire de 314808

Hello everyone. Every day i check this website for more info to help me get my drake. So i got an INTERESTING info to post.

I killed Dirkee at the engine of the makers at 10:05 am server time and thought "oh well i hav some time now at least 6h till the next spawn" then went to dalaran to clean bags and put things in my bank sell tailoring stuff... then i thought "humm better come back to storm peaks and log my char near boar's breath". when i got there SURPRISE! vyragosa dead right at the frozen waterfall the small one. she despawned at 11:15 am server time and considering the body takes 30min to despawn she was killed around 10:45. so its only 40 minutes between a dirkee kill and a vyra kill...

So far iv seen 2 screen shots of GMs saying that tlpd shares respawn timer with at least 2 more mobs but they didnt say what mobs. if they are fake i dont know... Honestly im even more confused now LOL! Their respawn timers and if they share or not its still a mistery!

Commentaire de 314808

i didnt say 40min to despawn... i said 40 min between the kills and yes vyra despawns in around 30 min for sure if not skinned. im not the first to post or see this. the one who despwans very quick is dirkee around 2-3 min. maybe someone skinned her and u didnt notice. unless something changed after last patch.

Commentaire de BrokeNL

I'm a lucky little bugger.

Decided to wait for this, with the macro at the location posted earlier ; to the SE of Valkyrion and S of Temple of Storms, the west end of the frozen river. Me and about 10 other people were camping the spot, decided to group up with a paladin who'd been there for roughly 10 hours ; we would then roll on the resulting drake.

Well, within 2 hours of me being there the drake spawned, and we managed to tag it. I rolled a 85 and the paladin who'd sat there for 8 hours rolled a...1.

I realise it takes a far longer amount of time for most people, so I went crazy when I managed to get hold of this, VERY lucky I know! If anyone's intending to farm I strongly suggest that place, co-ords of 28,65

Good luck guys, DEFINETELY worth the wait! (though a short one in my case)

Edit : Submitted my pics.

Edit : I have yet to see Vyra or her corpse, during my 2 hours hunting + all my time in Storm Peaks.

Commentaire de 315641

so there i was, trying to blow myself up in the mine field near K3 when my macro went nuts. i look up and theres TLPD flying directly over K3 at 41,85. i get out of the minefield (heart racing) and tag him right over the flightmaster.

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d39/o0otriciao0o/WoWScrnShot_020109_223922.jpg
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d39/o0otriciao0o/WoWScrnShot_020109_224016.jpg

Commentaire de 315641

Kul Tiras server in case anyone is wondering as well and he was traveling West to East

Commentaire de 315661

The research I been doing, going by Thottbots coordinates location of kills, spawns, including WOWDB and other sites, which all seem to suggest he spawns and paths around Temple of Storms, well after a week of searching through these areas in Storm Peak, I happen to be around Temple of the Storms and low and behold, Proto-Drake spawns NO WHERE NEAR there, he had to of spawned in Brunnhildar Village seeing as he was killed there, I was using the

\124h\124r");]

Macro quite often to see if this drake would show up in the servers cache for this week as being looted, I hit it 3-4 times within 5 min period when it located it in the server cache, a shaman killed it in that village.

Also note in searching for the Drake and Vyragosa as they both share spawn timers, I have not see either one all week until today (Sunday). This leaves me to believe that this is either some random GM spawned event, it could be each server has different spawns and paths for it (which is a possibility), or the server is setup to spawn these rare spawns in locations away from where people are gathering (which is another possibility from my analysis).

While looking through most of the kills, even pics of the kills, and coordinates, what I found on my server today was the first I ever seen or heard of the time-lost drake being killed in Brunnhildar Village, all the sites including this one indicates that it dont even path into that village.

I am not exactly sure whats actually going on with Vyragosa or TLPD. So far this week I seen the corpse of TLPD once, never ever seen Vyragosa or Dirk.

Also I found it quite strange the Shaman who killed it, stated he killed it on an alt in Snowdrift Plains, which btw is one of the paths taken according to thott and wowdb, but during the convo which was in general chat, I mentioning how these sites kept point at Vyragosa and TLPD spawning around Temple of Storms, Shaman never really responded after that point, those 2 things kind of wanted me to put my Tin Foil hat on, still does right now just for the fact a Level 80 happen to be in a place TLPD dont normally spawn or path. I also think the Shaman was quite surprised when I asked in general who killed it literally a minute after the kill while I was still at temple of the storms.

Commentaire de 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

Commentaire de Corehunter

Approximately how high should we fly to check for him?

Commentaire de 316095

How fast does he fly?

If i were to search for him with my regular flying mount and saw him infront of me would i be able to catch up or?

Commentaire de 315661

Same issue I have had as well on my server, but ironically someone knows something to where they have gotten it 2-3 times on alts and they are going to the exact place it spawns at the exact time.

Which explains why I have not seen anyone on my server with it except 1 mage who got it right after the Expansion.

Looks like the people who is getting the drake is ones who are probably exploiting some how.

Commentaire de hakael

I nabbed my Time-Lost late night/early morning flying above the chasm near Ulduar. She was up very high, so high that it took me a few tries to bring her down for a tag.

Everyone seems to camp the Engine and Bors Breath, remember to hit up Ulduar, you might get lucky and take her down without anyone to fend off.

Commentaire de 264822

i'd like to thank Kazeljin for his record on all the kills and screenshots i appreciate it. i've been looking for him for months now and just can't seem tof ind my luck but this helps thanks again

Commentaire de 316951

So i've been camping this drake for months, but the past 3 days, I have stepped it up and been close to killing him twice, and stuck to one location or two. I have seen it alive once (Oops, hole in the ground, and no slow fall!). Another time, was just a few hundred yards away from it spawning again (I was telling a friend where I saw its body, and BAM, spawns ontop of him). Its not as rare as one would think. Either that, or I have just been very lucky (Or unlucky).

I'll post its location, when I get the drake =D
Just don't go too crazy, stay in one small area.

Commentaire de 65101

Not entirely sure if anyone has posted this since I was last here in November and it's too early to read through 255 posts, but I'd like to confirm that without a doubt Dirkee and the dragons DO NOT share a timer as previously thought back then.

While sitting on Dirkee for 5-10 minutes waiting for a buddy to come get credit for him, someone killed Vyragosa a few hundred yards away while we watched.

We were midway through killing him when Vyragosa popped up on the horizon with about 70% hp.

Commentaire de Oomie

If that death knight was smart he would have used Icy Touch and popped a Snowfall Lager :) his fault for not being prepared!

Commentaire de 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 (January 31) 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!

P.s: Hai Kaze! <3

Commentaire de 316209

I had been reading the comments and helpful tips here, and decided to give it a try (Note that I got mine a few weeks ago, just decided to post the coords and time)

I started at the top of the frozen waterfall, and began to loop around, following the frozen river. I got around to Valkyrion (Sp. Error?) and saw a bit of gold before it disappeared. I kept going, and sure enough, there he was! My heart pounding, I wasn't sure if he was flying faster than me, me going at the 60% speed mount I had. I can now assure you he does NOT fly faster than a 60% flyer. He kept going around towards the engine of the makers, I finally downed him after one unsuccesful pull (Being a prot pally, I used avenger's shield... but he got out of range too soon...) at 39.76, 45.33
On January 14th, 2009. Hope this helps!

Downside is I only have half of 5k >.<

------EDIT------
I do have a screenshot of the times, it in my bag, the coords and the date, waiting for approval.

Commentaire de 316209

I can tell you he for sure flies slowly than a 60% flying mount.

Commentaire de Hollyfield

Have been hunting TLPD for a few days now avarage 14 hours per day ( I know i have to much freetime).

Anyway was spamming my macro when i almost !@#$ my pants when raid warning sounds started to spam. I got target of Vyragosa at Egine of the makers. As i dont really care about the loot that he/she drops i decided it could be useful for both me and probably others to see what path it flyes.

So here is a screenshot of Storm peaks, the black square is where i spotted it. And i guess it newly spawned there also as i had been patroling around there area atleast 1 min before i came back to that place. The red dots are the path she is flying and the yellow dots are where she is somewhere closer to the ground if that is useful to know. From egine of the makers towards the frozen water fall continuing towards K3, i dont think i need to explain more about that. Where im spotted on the map is where i eventually killed it after two laps of that path on the screenshot.

http://img410.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vyra2ft6.jpg

Hope this was useful for atleast some ppl. And yes its not TLPD but they use the same path when they are flying and this is just one of the many paths they fly.

Commentaire de 317850

ok one thing i've been wondering ( since i'm a hunter) is does the TLPD show up on dragonkin tracking?

Commentaire de Slisher

So, Finally got it today after 2 months of hell camping.

Through this time iv experienced alot of Frustration,Regret and Allmoast suicidal.

Anyway. this is where i killed it
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/4329/wowscrnshot020609015043zv7.jpg

It was killed 01:49 at Bor's Breath (Sorry dont have Cords but you can tell from the Image.)

HAPPY DAY. Good luck to all you TLPD Hunters out there.

Ps. I DO think he shares respawn timer with Vyragosa.

Commentaire de 312863

I've been looking for the drake for about 2 weeks now. I've killed Vyragosa 6 times, seen her killed a few more, killed DIrkee once, and have never seen TLPD or had the server query show anything. To help us find this rare spawn we need to collect what we know about spawn points, paths, and spawn timers.

From reading through the comments I'm certain we know a lot about Vyragosa and have some guesses about TLPD. There is solid info on Vyragosa's spawn locations, paths, and that she has a spawn timer between 6 and 24 hours. I think we can also say that Dirkee shares nothing in common with either dragon.

What we do know about TLPD mirrors what we know about Vyragosa a lot. I don't think anyone has posted a kill of TLPD anywhere that Vyragosa hasn't been seen. And I don't think anyone has found or suspected a spawn location for TLPD that isn't a Vyragosa spawn point. So let's say that they probably share spawn locations and paths.

As for the timer, I have two running theories about how the TLPD spawn timer works.

As has been suggested, TLPD is a very rare spawn of Vyragosa. When the Vyragosa spawn timer fires, there is a very small chance TLPD will spawn instead. If this is true, then there is no need to look for the TLPD for 6 hours after a Vyra kill (if you assume Vyra can't spawn within 6 hours either).
Vyragosa and TLPD maybe share spawn locations and paths but their spawn timers are not linked at all. Where Vyragosa has a spawn timer of 6-24 hours, TLPD has a spawn timer in the order of days that runs separately. (If this is the case, frequent server resets that clear the timer could greatly affect the chances of a spawn.)

To see if we can find a pattern, I mined all the times between a Vyra kill and a TLPD kill from the comments of both threads here:

For good measure here are the sightings of Vyra after TLPD has been killed

The three reports of TLPD sighted in less than 6 hours of Vyra are all second hand reports, while the rest are recorded times by Drake hunters that were carefully keeping track of their kills. If you throw those three out, it seems to me that Vyra and TLPD do share a spawn timer and there is a very small chance that it will be TLPD.

Now, I have a few more questions:
Can anyone confirm that the server query script only showed the Reigns after a confirmed TLPD kill?
How about if the server query script worked when the opposing faction got the kill?
Any thoughts on whether the frequency of TLPD spawns has anything to do with server population? I'm on a very low pop server, and as I said there has been no sightings in 2 weeks.
Are spawn timers affected by server resets? If the timer is counting down and one of them is going to spawn in an hour, but the server restarts, and the timers saved and restarted, or are they reset to a new random time (6-24 hours)?

There are definitely some assumptions in there, so we really don't know anything for certain, but I hope this helps save some time. If anyone sees any mistakes or has anymore info that helps, I'll try to update this.

Commentaire de 315661

Now, I have a few more questions:
Can anyone confirm that the server query script only showed the Reigns after a confirmed TLPD kill?
How about if the server query script worked when the opposing faction got the kill?
Any thoughts on whether the frequency of TLPD spawns has anything to do with server population? I'm on a very low pop server, and as I said there has been no sightings in 2 weeks.
Are spawn timers affected by server resets? If the timer is counting down and one of them is going to spawn in an hour, but the server restarts, and the timers saved and restarted, or are they reset to a new random time (6-24 hours)?

There are definitely some assumptions in there, so we really don't know anything for certain, but I hope this helps save some time. If anyone sees any mistakes or has anymore info that helps, I'll try to update this.
Last edited by hav0cist 10 minutes ago (Patch 3.0.8) – edited 5 t

From what I know, the query script only works once the servers cache I assume has been reset which would be the long maint. hours when the servers are down on Tuesday. I had the script last week and it was always retrieving information until someone found the TLPD (very fishy kill I may add) but at this point since then the script has shown its information including this week in which the servers were only restarted and was not down for long maint. hours.

On my realm however I have camped for hours out in Stormpeak for nearly 2 weeks, I dont know if TLPD and Vyragosa is deciding to spawn in the morning times so early that no one is around, or what it is, but in the 2 weeks of camping, I have only come across TLPD once, and Vyragosa once. If the servers did restart earlier this morning, I could of probably kept a timer on it. I did wait till the 6 hours plus mark today once server restart was finished and did not come across any rare spawn nor heard reports of it. It seems my server has a !@#$ty time spawning anything and it seems like its upwards to 3-4 or more days before any of the 2 are ever sighted. The only record I got this week of Vyragosa so far has been 2 kills, one which was at 4 in the morning of all times and one last night around 6 pm.

I was told earlier that Vyragosa or TLPD could spawn anywhere between 6-72 hours. Thats one hell of a time window to have to wait for, but it does seem to make sense seeing that these rare spawns are rarely ever sighted more then once in a 3 day period.

I am really under the impression though these 2 spawn at the most odd times which anywhere from 2-6 in the morning, a lot of the information I have gathered of 2nd hand sources, a lot of them talk about killing either of the 2 in the morning times around that time frame.

I think in the end theirs no certain timer to really count down to in which one of these two will spawn, server resets dont help none either.

For my daily rant, I wish non alts and people who actually log on for more then 10 mins a day would be the ones to actually obtain this mount, on my server its people who dont log on, bunch of alts, or idiots who kill it after getting the mount, seems to be quite common thing going on.

Commentaire de 317521

Does the drake show up on a hunter's tracking map?

Commentaire de HamBurger

yes it can be tracked by tracking dragonkin.

Commentaire de 318444

So what exactly does in the server cache mean? I made this script into a macro and for a while it was stuck on retrieving item info...right now though its showing up as an actual item...does this mean it's spawned?

Commentaire de 315661

We are led to believe Vyra and TLPD both share spawn timers, theirs a possibility they dont.

I have seen also at some points where TLPD and Vyra would spawn within 2 hours of each other, 2nd party information though.

I am not certain on 0-24 hr timer, it seems like its 0-72 hours, I also have a strong belief something within the zone can trigger its spawn also, of all the reports of TLPD and Vyragosa kills have been by people doing dailies, mining, herbing, farming mobs in locations near Valkyrion and Bunnhildar village, this seems like when these 2 spawn the most, the people who camp and people who aint killing or doing anything seems like the time they refuse to spawn. I am lead to believe theirs a mob kill count that needs to be reached to spawn them, theirs alot of evidence that could support this theory to.

I dont know if these rare spawns differ from earlier ones in Classic or TBC, but I can easily tell you I dont think any rare spawns prior to this expansion has ever shared spawn timers, they use to have a whole group of rare spawns out in Badlands, all of them at times were all up at once, as well as rare spawns in the TBC more specific out in Blades Edge mountain.

Commentaire de 318732

Ok, yesterday since 14:00 I've been camping boar's Breath 24h straight until now. The only thing I saw was Vyragosa dead (13:50) north from Valkyrion when I did my spawn route.

And now I think about it and I feel kinda stupid for camping a dragon, that is just made of polygons and pixels. What have I become? :(

Anyway, I will start camping it again from 19:00. I will report back, and try to be more active (By moving around Storm Peaks, not by slacking on Boar's Breath)

Have fun camping and good luck!

I'll be back and report when I see another rare (Hopefully the TLPD)

Commentaire de Shankz

Camping this "time lost" proto drake is exactly as the name suggests: time lost.

Commentaire de 93336

So exactly how DO you engage him? Do I need to drop out of the sky with Noggenfogger and toss off an instant attack? The comments above say 20-50 yards. As a warrior, I'm not particularly gifted in the art of the ranged attack.

Any tips?

Commentaire de 241397

Killed him today around 28, 56. Seemed to be flying towards Valkyrion

Commentaire de 320321

I'm hunting for this drake since early January, and last night, I used an autoclicker on the macro and increased sound, so if the macro will proc, I will wake up.
Suddenly it did proc, and I almost had an heart attack.
I was at the frozen lake, and was looking for him like mad, went to the frozen waterfall(large one) and it wasn't there, went to snowdrift and who do I find? The time-lost proto-drake, lying dead, under nobody but my friend's(who has a black, azure, blue proto-drake, and red proto-drake) sucidical sword (Slayer of the Lifeless).
Then he started whispering me how lucky he is and how unlucky I am.
I should have taken it seriously when he whispered me before "I'm coming to ninja it from you"(though I was sleep so I've read it in delay. (for the protocol, he never did look for the drake, he always did dailies with his hunter friend)
I learned 2 lessons from that crappy occurance:
1.Never trust hardcores, or dwarves.
2.DO NOT hunt for the proto-drake, he comes ONLY when you don't think about it (go to hol and hos every day and remove the macro D: )...Although I can't stop.
Good luck guys-I hope that you will find it through hunting, and not through lucky hol runs.

P.s-Downraters, don't downrate this because I don't have the drake...

Commentaire de Atranox

Not sure if this will help anyone with determining the spawn time, but on Mannoroth, the TLPD has actually spawned now 3 times in the past 24 hours, all of which I've missed.

I was camping it for a few hours on Sunday & kept checking the cache fairly often, and of course the item was stuck at "retrieving info". After a while, I saw someone spamming general chat about killing, so I checked the server cache macro, and sure enough it was killed. (around 2 AM, Sunday night). Yesterday, it was again killed around 3 PM right as I logged on. Saw the corpse & the dude on the mount...he must've killed it literally 5-10 seconds before I logged on. I went back out to Storm Peaks later last night after our raid at about 12:30, and again saw the TLPD corpse. Both corpses that I saw were around the Engine of the Makers.

Its pretty frustrating considering I've been camping it fairly regularly now for about a month, and haven't even seen it prior to yesterday. Bad timing I suppose.

Commentaire de HamBurger

i started camping for it around the end of november. i've killed Vyragosa idk how many times(stopped counting after 12), killed Dirkee once. seen TLPD once.i did my daily in Valkyrion and flew to turn it in. didnt realize it was so close to a possible spawn time. got back to my spot near valkyrion and my macro hit on its corpse. i was gone less than 2 minutes. this was on x-mas day so needless to say my holiday was ruined. since then i have not seen it dead or alive. i've got nearly 500 hours spent in storm peaks. it is definately a matter of just getting lucky.

Commentaire de 321042

Been looking this on/off about a bit over a month now, and no sign of anything until this week when I've seen Vyragosa twice, both times just south of Valkyrion.
Not even the corpse of the Time-Lost though.

Commentaire de Halfjackal

Vyragosa drops TLPD to?

Story;

upon doing some camping in Storm Peaks, I been out there most of the last 2 days looking for or hoping to find any signs of TLPD.

Well as luck would have it since I got the;

/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");

Which I hit quite often and it struck as being found, so off looking around, what do I find?

The corpse of VYRAGOSA.

What else do I find? Undead DK named Hellwidcha who Ive never seen on the server before has it with a guildie of his around also, they not even talking about how or why the script is showing this mount as being looted and used if TLPD has not spawned this week. They went on to say its 100% luck or if Blizz likes you they let you have it..............................really.

I beginning to smell a huge BLUE rat tangled up with this mess of these 2 spawns.

Thats complete horse crap.

The TLPD is the ONLY mob that drops the Reins of the TLPD.

Either they killed the TLPD in one of his less common spawns, or some noob who hasn't got epic flying yet has the mount sitting in his inventory and logged in.

Vyra does NOT drop the mount, thats just rediculous.

Commentaire de ramen

/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");

Using this macro the TLPD wasn't killed on Korgath since server restart on Feb 10th til around 6pm server time Feb 12th. It seems he can have up to a 48hr spawn time.

Commentaire de ramen

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.

https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=44168#comments:id=527777

Commentaire de 251557

I camped this guy religiously for two weeks after I hit 80. In those two weeks, I saw nothing: No Vyragosa, no Time-Lost, nothing.

Tonight I felt lucky, so about five hours ago, I logged onto my main and dragged her to the spawn point over the frozen lake and parked her there. I randomly surfed the web, switching windows to spam my macro a few times, doing a fly over once every thirty minutes.

In short, I came out empty handed until 5:40 AM EST. Sadly, it was not Time-Lost, but Vyragosa: the first time I've spotted her spawn on my server, Kael'thas. She was flying from Valkyrion, over the frozen lake: I had decided shortly before my macro hit home to start my rounds, so I had begun flying away. Thus, I lost her as I crossed over the the little waterfall. I turned around, spammed it a few more times, picked her up again as she was JUST leaving the village (she had NOT showed on my screen yet, but my macro hit home; she showed up as I was flying back towards the village). She was roughly a few feet above the tallest building there (as in, she was nearly touching said building) - she was not high up at all.

To aggro her, I simply flew into her, got her locked on me, and landed onto the lake. She stays thirty-five yards from you, give or take: my judgments can hit her (I'm a holy pally) but my holy shock could not. I tried jumping to hit her with holy shock, and thus could, so I'm assuming it's around thirty-five yards exactly. With no resistance, her frost breath hit me for 1.2k, and with Frost Aura, for about 900. It took me about five minutes to kill her.

I know this is under Time-Lost's thread, but given all the speculation that they share a timer, I am hoping this proves useful. I am heading to bed now with my clock set for exactly six hours in hope I can catch Time-Lost. Also, Vyragosa's corpse JUST despawned, exactly thirty minutes (6:16).

Good luck, fellow campers!

Commentaire de Explosive

Can anyone tell me at what speed he flies? Atm I got a 60% mount on the char I'd like to get it on, just wanna know if im able to catch him with that.

Commentaire de doomdoom

lol, this is a tough mob to find. I have sat up looking for it for most of the day... and night, with little success, ive managed to get quite a few rare items from farming but this is definatley the most difficult, if somebody finds the exact respawn timer please notify :P

Commentaire de 323949

Guys, is he flying high up in the air or about at the same height as the Stormpeak wyrms?

Commentaire de 325048

I just got the Time Lost Drake finally! my macro hit at Bors Breath.. I killed him at 30, 65.
He was flying west from the little valley to Bors Breath.... high up in the air.
He must have spawned right there, because there are tons of people looking for it on the server im on.
It was a couple hours ago.. Korgath(US) Server... Tuesday, Feb 17th.. at 5:35pm (PacificTime)

I have been searching off and on for 2 months.. and I finally got it.

I have killed Vyragosa 10 times, Dirkee twice

All Vyragosa kills were at Bors Breath... Dirkee kills were at Engine of Makers.

I saw the corpse of Time lost last week, at the same exact time 5:35pm (PST).. but it was on Friday. And the corpse was in the area north of Valkyrion, west of Grom'arsh crash site

Best way to find it is to circle around the temple of storms.. going through Bors Breath, Valkyrion, up through the northern area, then go east through crash site, down into engine of makers, then down in the valley, back to Bors Breath.

Never give up! You will find it eventually! I went nuts when my macro hit..
I'm a rogue so i made sure i had auto dismount enabled... just tagged him in the air while mounted, then used slowfall
and landed safely on the ground
Then gave him everything I had.. trying to kill before I got ganked.

Well worth the time spent searching.. It is awesome showing it off!

Commentaire de 316951

As promised, seen twice in a period of less than two weeks, in the same location (Give or take 30 yards).

http://i40.tinypic.com/16hkv2c.jpg

Now, Please remember, if you're the jumpy type. have pots available and blow every 'cheat' you can. Fire elemental totems, Glyphed evocation etc. Like other drakes, he loves to stand ontop of you, so you have trouble attacking him. He also teleports behind you too. While an 'easy' kill its very easy to get flustered and forget how to do anything.

I have camped this drake for a very long time, and I can tell you, stay in the western half of stormpeaks. Eastern half is not worth your time. 4 drake sightings (2 alive, 2 dead-- one killed by a friend) all in the western half

Commentaire de 325663

I finally managed to get my hands on this baby.

I've been following this thread and did some math myself, heres what I think.

I killed Varygosa yesterday around 10pm. This morning I killed the proto drake at 8am. For me this sounds like some linked 10h respawn timer. But, I think a steady respawn timer would be too easy to farm so heres what I guess:

I found a dead proto drake at 7pm one evening, exactly 27h later I killed Varygosa. Now... 27 seems kind of an odd number, but it's actually equal to 3 * 9.

Giving the 9 h average respawn and the 10h confirmed respawn I would suggest, that Varygosa and de Proto Drake share a 8-10 hour respawn timer.
I will actually try to check my hypothesis this evening, seeing if I can find Varygosa or the protodrake between 8 and 10h after I killed him this morning.

If my work doesn't interfere, I will post you some further results.

ORC SMASH!

Ushtarak

Commentaire de 149520

Is he flying or walking?

Commentaire de 315661

Apparently you ran into the same little incident I did, Vyragosa being killed at the blue proto drakes and then finding someone with the TLPD as if Vyragosa dropped it.

But you do not find a TLPD Corpse no where.

Its very fishy indeed.

I am finding more and more TLPD owners are people you never seen before, do not know, and such including seeing alot of people not even level 80 and on alts searching for this thing which is very odd.

Commentaire de 316951

You know, there is an alliance DAILY quest to kill those blue proto drakes. The thought that they are a placeholder for them is absurd. Sitting in the middle of blue drakes on a TLPD was intentional (IMO) to make your heart jump-- and to continue the myth of Vyrgosa dropping it. Such a high profile area would have attracted much attention. The Drake was obviously looted in hours/days previous.

It would have been spammed in chat if anyone had found the body or anything. Even as my drake hit the ground (dead), within 30 seconds I had 3-4 people in general saying that it had spawned.

Commentaire de Gnomemandude

It isn't called a TIME LOST Proto-Drake for nothing
be prepared to LOSE some TIME

Commentaire de silverd

Just wanna ask since I haven't seen any discussion on this. How does this thing fight? I'm only asking because I managed to tag Vyragosa a few minutes ago but unfortunately (I'm a warrior) he just stayed at range and kept using frost breath on me. Does the Time-Lost come down once you tag it? Or are there any tricks to get it to go to you if you're melee?

Commentaire de 160685

It is 1/16 that it spawns at vyragosa's spawn every 6 hour, so if you see varygosa's or time-lost's corpse, come back 6 hours later and hope for a time-lost proto drake :D

Commentaire de 325671

Food for thought:

Scanned the server caches with the macro of two large EU servers for almost two weeks, and the TLPD didn't show up on either. Today, the macro reported the first mount drop on one server, and a short time later on the other.

It might well be that the TLPD spawns on selected servers, and then for longer period not. It could be an anti-camping measure to frustrate the nerds.

Commentaire de 195647

The proto-drake mob moves pretty quickly, took 2 or more minutes to catch up with crusader aura on when riding a slow flying mount. If you're riding a 60% speed mount, try aiming ahead of the drake.

Commentaire de nockz

Caught TLPD flying around Frosthold to the south as I was flying into Storm Peaks from Dalaran. Been camping for him for a few days now and was on my way back out to continue camping and my macro went off, tagged him and down he went. Kill was 2/21/09 ~5:15pm Server.

Commentaire de Hrethric

So, I've seen the corpse of the Time-Lost Proto-Drake twice, and both SECONDS after it had just been killed (Saw the killer leave the scene, and the second time it was a rogue on a NON-EPIC flying mount :( ), and here is a map of where I saw them:

https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:277524378582

With that said, I theorize that this Vyragosa flight path is at least one of the Time-Lost Proto-Drake's flight paths (if it even has more than one):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8xd-ddCySE&feature=related

Commentaire de thrallsmellsfuny

does anyone thinks a 71-72 balance druid could solo him? i have taken out things that are elite and are pretty tough, but i think i need a confidence boost on this one, should i wait a few levels? i have only seen the TLPD once on my server (sentinels) BE was riding him, does anyone think it could be hard to get on my server, its RP.

Commentaire de 327571

Well I got this mount after a about 8 hours of looking. There is a little trick I would like to share. I have read everyones comments, and filtered out what I thought was crap.

First, there can only be two rare elites up at any given time in Northrend. What you got to do is set your hearth in storm peaks, get locations of the known spawns of all rare elites in northrend, and make sure you kill them, or that someone does.

After you kill one or you know for sure one has been killed hearth back and camp for the time lost. Even if you find Vyra dead, a time lost could show up on the next spawn. The spawn time for rare elites seems to be 30 min, hence how long the body stays there for.

Could I have just gotten lucky? I don't think so because I just helped a friend get it also. Now I will share my info since I'm done looking for this thing.

Commentaire de 325671

First, there can only be two rare elites up at any given time in Northrend.

Sounds good, but where is that info from? Any source?

Commentaire de 245804

Just killed him, just unde Temple Of storms, in the canyon. When i saw him, he was pretty high in the air, and i thought he will never follow me till the ground, but around that canyon, there is like little spots where mobs are, somekinda dwarves, and i just kited him till that spot. It was about 2.35 AM server time.

Commentaire de 327603

First of all, sorry about my english.

I`m the only level 80 of my server (it`s a fresh one) so i felt that getting this was going to be easy, and i were right. I have never seen Vyragosa/TLPD up togheter. You can say "hey, they share spawn times" but i think the only fact is that they share paths.

Why do i say this? I asked a gm about this dragon and he told me "he does have an extreme low respawn time" meaning that he is not up for much time. He spawns, does his rute or whatever and just despawn if no one kills him. I have also followed him and he did not aggro with blue dragons/harpy/etc. Dirkdee was up at the same time i killed him, so they do not share nothing.

I`m not sure about the 6 hours spawn whithin the death of Vyragosa, maybe it`s coincidence, but i killed Vyr at 18:35PM and since i read a lot about the 6 hours i went back at 00:35 looking for the time lost. I did some of the paths for like 1 hour and at 01:33 my macro tagged him. He was coming from Valkyrion flying really slow, killed him at the frozen lake in Bor`s Breath.

I have to say that i`m killing all the rares of northrend everyday and some of them (for example Griegen in Zul`Drak) does have 6 hours of respawn (respawned in 6 hours for 3 consecutive days) and other of they do have 6+spawn time, not sure about how much is it for them (for example Terror Spinner).

I hope this help you guys trying to get this mount. I`ll also try to get him tomorrow and just follow him to see how much time he does take to despawn.

Commentaire de 329139

I agree I have camped him for 42 straight hours without leaving Storm Peaks and didnt see anything. I have camped in total about 125 hours and have yet to see a corpse

I am going to guess that it is a GM spawn and casual players tend to get it a lot more than people camping it

This whole "GM's spawn it cause I haven't gotten it yet" idea is paranoia.

You camped for 42 hours straight once and didn't get it? Meh.

Consider some numbers instead of paranoid rantings: There are many reports that suggest the TLPD spawns once or twice a week. Let's be insanely optimistic and say the TLPD spawns four times in a given week and that he is alive and untagged for ten minutes each spawn (which I think is generous considering the number of people camping/looking for it).

That makes the TLPD obtainable for 40 minutes in the given week.
7 days/wk * 24 hrs/day * 60 min/hr = 10080 minutes per week.
So, 40/10080 = ~.4% of the given week that the TLPD is obtainable.

Your 42 hour camping spree accounts for only 25% of a week's time. And your 125 hours in total camping time is just under 75% of one week's time. Quite frankly, your camp times look rather small considering the rarity of the mob.

Conclusion: The mob is just super rare. Even if it spawned ten times each week and was untagged for ten minutes each time, that's still only 100/10080 minutes in a week or ~1% of a week's time. Yikes.
The reason it looks as though campers never get the mob is because the Time-Lost Proto Drake is not up for the VAST majority of the time.
In contrast, there is almost ALWAYS someone in the Storm Peaks; which means, on the very rare occasion that the TLPD spawns, some "casual player," camper or otherwise will most likely be around to stab it in the face and loot its golden-mounty goodness.

Commentaire de Ungr

I agree with Shaas. I've spent as much time and not even seen a single of the rare elites in SP. Between the number of people camping the TLPD and the low spawn rates, I'd be shocked to see the TLPD anytime within the next 6 months.

The trick is to be patient and keep researching spawn locations and spawn times.

If it wasn't so rare the drop wouldn't be a flying mount, guaranteed.

Commentaire de Ungr

"I knew the timer in which TLPD was going to spawn last week "

That's the problem right there. You think you know but you really don't. Trust me Mulder, just be patient and you will get it :)

Commentaire de Sashiria

My macro went off for the TLPD at about 12:30 ish pm server time, Drenden server, coords were 37,42, by the library. Unfortunately, someone else killed it, but at I did see it's dead corpse. The macro actually went off when I was in Bor's by the harpies, which surprised me, I flew around looking for it, never guessing it was by the Terrace.
The macro for the dropped reins, above, works, cuz as soon as it was looted, the item description came up, instead of the "retrieving item info" box.

Commentaire de 322938

so i found this drake and when i started killing him and like 40 horde people surrounded me and killed me and i never saw it again.

Commentaire de 325671

Folks, forget the TLPD ... In patch 3.1, there's the first armored proto-drake mount which drops off the Ulduar boss 'Razorscale'. The hunt for the cooler stuff goes on, as always ^^

Pic: http://wow.gamona.de/wp-content/gallery/wotlk-ptr-310/ptr_310_ulduar_razorscale_mount_01.jpg

Commentaire de rpmarens

Gratz. What is your inventory addon?

Commentaire de 330177

I'm pretty sure you're wrong about the 2 rares at a time thing. From what I've read from people working on the Frostbitten achievement, which is to kill every rare spawn, 5 rares spawn when the server resets, and more spawn at set intervals after that. I can also say that I've found 4 rares in 20 minutes, making it highly unlikely that only 2 are up at a time.

Commentaire de 330310

Quick question for anyone...

I copied the link to the reins of TLPD here from Wowhead, and pasted them in chat in WoW. I get the message, "Shift click this to place a link into a chat message:

Now, when I click on this, it shows up, saying, "This is a very fast mount, yada yada."

However, when I whisper myself, or just do a /s, and shift click the item, it doesn't show up as a link.....just as text.

Now, when I log onto my laptop, and do this same thing, when I paste and get the message, ""Shift click this to place a link into a chat message: ", and actually click on the link...it says, in red, "Retrieving info."

1. Why is it different between my two computers?
2. Do both of these indicate that the mount hasn't dropped (and thus TLPD hasn't spawned) since the server came back up on Tuesday?

Thanks in advance, and good luck in your hunt.

Commentaire de 305152

I do belive that Vyragosa and Time-lost shares spawn timers.

Because:
1. It would add to the randomness.
2. They share paths and spawnpoints.
3. I have no report of them being alive at the same time.
4. They are both dragons.
5. One of them is blue, the other one is yellow... opposites, eh, eh!
6. ?
7. Profit.

I also think that the ratio of TLPD/Vyra would be about 1/10 just based on Vyra having a 6-8hour respawn timer, and 2 TLPDs have been killed in a week on our server.

Camping one of the three spawnpoints nonstop would therefor give an avarage time of 252 hours (10,5 days) camping before a TLPD would spawn at your spot. Not too shabby numbers tbh. The first calculation I did on this I came up with an optimistic 100 hours(1/4 ratio, riddiculus I know (; )... and I still feel these numbers are a bit too good to be true.

The only thing you can really say about this mount, is that either the lottery-lucky or the donkey-stubborn will get it.

Up to... maybe 150 hours and counting, seen one Time-lost dead last week, and was in the zone while one spawned and was killed at the lake today (I stealth-camp at the dragons). Lucky Hunting all, and keep sharing ideas and information, we all want to get out of this addiction ASAP I guess ^^

Commentaire de 72070

Good news guys! I found this map from Wowwiki! Happy hunting!
http://www.wowwiki.com/Image:Timelostprotodrakepaths.jpg

Commentaire de Dariosarimento

Is he flying clockwise or counter-clockwise?

Commentaire de zzsdkzz

I doubt this is relevant in any way, but while doing my normal sounds of TLPD hunting, I noticed that there are brown discs along his patrol.

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c324/zzsdkzz/TLPDDisk.jpg

As far as i've seen, these discs ONLY appear directly in the patrol of the TLPD. There is one @ Bor's Breath, coords 34,67 .. There is one by the Blue drakes , close to Brun.Village, and there is one up in the Ulduar area.. All very far apart, all apart of seperate patrols that the drake has been known to have.

Can anyone confirm or disprove that other discs exist in other areas? Again, I'm sure this is nothing, but I just found it odd.

Commentaire de relias

its kinda interesting this ... since these discs are really close to the spawn points ... but if they were really connected to the TLPD we wouldnt find more than 3 ... as we can actually find... i think you missed one in 27.38 ... near the snowdrift plans...

Commentaire de 315661

I would think it is since its similar to botting, especially if you logged in all night without being kicked due to inactivity.

Commentaire de 115269

I don't know about the G11, but on the n52te, under the macro editor, you set the key to repeat. In this case, I had it repeat until another key is pressed, with a 1000ms delay. You could do pretty much the same thing by using speedkeys in windows and taping a key down.

No, I have not been banned, and from my understanding, it is not a bannable offense. This is a hardware feature, not third party program that controls your character for you. I still had to do the work, and did not influence anyone else's game experience, nor gain any unfair advantage. If it were moving you, tracking the mob, killing and looting it for you without you sitting at the keyboard, that would be a bannable offense. Reference the EULA section 2B.

Of course, this is just my experience and interpretation. Take it however you will.

Commentaire de 320827

I never knew Mankrik's wife had a pet. O_o

Commentaire de 331973

this macro is very nice to find time-lost proto drake

make a macro and put in it this

/target time
/target Vyragosa
/target dirkee
/stopmacro
/run RaidNotice_AddMessage(RaidBossEmoteFrame,"THERE IT IS! KILL IT!", ChatTypeInfo)
/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\interface\\RaidWarning.wav")

you can test if the raid warnig is working just target a mob and klick on the macro

hope you enjoy your macro have fun

Commentaire de 145174

I use this as a Warlock

/target Time
/script if UnitName("target")=="Time-Lost Proto Drake" then SendChatMessage("Target Found - %t", "WHISPER", "COMMON", "yournamegoeshere"); end
/castsequence curse of agony, corruption, 3 4
/cast Sacrifice

I use Autohotkey to spam this all day and night without me sitting at the computer
I have changed the /w sound to a alarm sound and the 3 4 in /castsequence refer to Snowfall lager in my bag.
I'm casting 2 instant dots so that I tag it when I target it (if I'm close enough) and sacrifice VW so that I have time to get to my computer and turn off Autohotkey without the proto drake killing me.

I have tried this on other mobs and it works.

Hope this helps

Edit:
I use this script in Autohotkey (www.autohotkey.com)

h::
Loop, 1000000000
{
Send, 3
Sleep, 100
}
Return

Where h activates the script, Loop=run it 1000000000 and Send 3 is the button it presses down for me all the time.
This means that I have put my macro at actionbutton 3. You can put your macro anywhere just bind the key and change the Send in Autohotkey. And you can also change the activation button to whatever you what. I use h since I never use that when I play.

Using Autohotkey is not ok according to Blizzards EUL so use it at your own risk.

Hope this made some sense anyway.. :P

Commentaire de 332435

Found and killed at Bor's Breath flying toward Valkyrion. It's an extremely easy kill, with one round of dots and one shadow bold the mob was dead. It dropped the mount, 18 gold and a blue neck piece.

Commentaire de DarkSamus6

Started camping the other day, the first day I killed Vyragosa at 11:50 am 3/2 , and then I killed her again at 5:20 am this morning 3/6 I am sure there have been spawns in between, but it really seems holding true to 20 and 50 minute marks. So I keep check back around those times often I hope to get TLPD some day.

Commentaire de 115269

It's been posted in many different versions, but here's the one I used:

/tar Time-Lost Proto Drake
/tar Vyragosa
/tar caliente
/stopmacro
/train
/t mortisbs %t is here.
/p %t! Over here! Quickly!

I was searching for Vyra, so I was grouped pretty often. Caliente is a mage that kept sneaking up from time to time to knock people off their mounts, so I added him to the macro. Came in handy...we camped him for about 15 mins, and he ran off in shame about 5 mins before Vyra spawned and I finally got the kill.

Commentaire de Kolaholisti

Game master told me that according to its name it really is "Time-Lost" and isn't always in current time. Also it does have long spawn time (Heard someone saying it has low spawn time). So I guess it's 6+ hours to spawn, disappears after some time and shares atleast spawn with Vyragosa.

Commentaire de pipodeclown

I've been camping the Drake from halfway in december.
At first I just herbed/mined while hitting my macro now and then.
after two weeks my macro hit gold and I failed miserably by falling to death. off course it got tagged after that. I decided to get my revenge no mather what.

A few weeks went by using the same routine and I realised I was incredibly lucky the first time.
So I tried assingning a macro button to my nostromo to make it more easy.
Soon after that I had my laptop hitting my macro while asleep.

Even with my nostromo I have camped/gathered for nearly two months not camping only when I was at work or raiding.
Finaly my girlfriend woke me up because of the noise my laptop made.
I killed it at 5 in the morning at bor's breath...

I can say that this drake is almost not campable without using the nostromo/g11 strategy.
I think that if you got it the normal way you are extremely lucky.

Commentaire de Trusler

I started casually looking for him today. I spend time idling while I'm in LFG, and now I spend it sitting at the frozen lake around 30,65 based on what folks have posted. Every now and then I do a loop around the mountain, past the engine, past Ulduar, back to frozen lake. I made a macro to target TLPD.

I was flying from Dalaran to Grom'arsh to do HoS. While we're waiting for a group member I do a loop around the mountain. As I come up on the blue drakes by the engine my macro fires off the RW, but alas, someone else already had him tagged.

Good luck and happy hunting!

Commentaire de Fritz363

i met a guy who was attempting to spawn-camp this thing. at first i didnt rly know wat he was doing and didnt really notice him until i passed by the same spot about 9 hours after the first time. He said he had waited for 4 days without logging waiting for it O_O. He also told me that he only slept when the dragon with its shared CD died. i dunno why anyone would waste 4 days of their life away for a mount in a game that gets u nowhere in life, but i salute him for his dedication /salute

Commentaire de 315661

More info, Killed Vyragosa 3 times today.

3:44 am
2:26 pm
9:50 pm
7:59 am next morning (not my kill but most likely was a 7:50 spawn, not sure where he spawned at but would guess it was south of the waterfall)
all server time
7:54 PM, my kill.

So its like this;

2:20 and 9:50 was 7 1/2 hour spawn
9:50 and 7:50 was 10 hour spawn
7:50 and 7:50 was 12 Hour Spawn

So 7 1/2, 10, 12, perhaps the next will be 14? maybe back to 7?

I have not quite understood the 3:44 kill though since it was far from 20 and 50 minute mark. I can only assume he was roaming around SP for 24 mins.

Could of possibly been a spawn in between 344 and 226 mark since it was server maint day.

What I need to research further on is the 3rd and possible 4th spawn points, I know Bors Breath and Brunnhildar village is 2, but I am certain one exist some where around Ulduar or north of Valkyrion, and one possibly exist south of the water fall leading into Bors breath or might be be a spawn path near K3, uncertain of the exact spawn point.

Commentaire de Neves

This is just pure theory, i wanna stress that, but could the spawns be based on random generators? for example after Vyragosa is killed could there be a random selector to spawn TLPD, Dirkee or herself (after 6 hours or so)? also i heard someone (maybe not on this site) say that they saw TLPD and dirkee within a short time of each other (15 min-30 min) so could dirkee have something similar but spawns only Vyragosa or TLPD?

Commentaire de 335973

Just be prepared to spend a VERY long time. I would consider myself unlucky at this point. I have about 150 hours into this camp over the last 1.5 weeks. All of my waking time, sleeping right after Vyr kills. I have 13 Vyr kills in a row without a TLPD spawn.

I have a partner roaming making sure we don't miss a kill as well.

Commentaire de 327901

I need to ask about something... I havent NEVER try to use Macro to targ mob :P but is it like this? :"/Tar Time-lost Proto Drake"? and can i even catch it if i got 60%? -.- dos it fly faster than that? :S and what is best to farm to get morer gold? Mining? Herb? I hobe you guys can give me a answere becaus i really want that drake :)!

Commentaire de 336216

From reliable sources ive heard that the TLPD have a shared spawn rate with another rarespawn(Vyragosa), but the TLPD only spawns 1/6 times when Vyra spawns.

Commentaire de 336216

The timed-lost proto-drake has a spawn rate shared with the rare spawn Vyragosa. But the time-lost only spawns 1/6 times og Vyra's spawns. The drake has a 100% chance to drop it self(A cool 280% proto-drake). it also drops a rare leather helmet and a pouch containing some gold and a stack of frostweave cloth. The mob has about 18K health and can be easily soloed. If you wanna go on lookout for him i suggest you patrol certain points, start in the footsteps, fly to engine of the makers, fly down through brunnhildar village. then head of to K3. when u reach K3 fly north, follow the frozen lake/waterfalls up to Valkyron. circle the temple of storms, get back into the footsteps. while patrolling this area spam this macro:
/target time-lost
/target vyragosa
/stopmacro
/tell Yournamehere >%t<

with that you will be able to target one of the drakes, and at the same time it will whisper your character. remember to put your name into the macro, and dont make the same mistake as i did. as i was spamming my button i suddenly got a "The player "yournamehere" cannot be found" in my chatbox. wich told me that one of the rarespawns was in the area. but it got away from me, as i was too frustradet with the macro saying that,
i still havent found one

Happy hunting...

Commentaire de 217534

Haha, yeah they share a spawn with rude kids :(

4 hours is nothing to camp this drake though, I've been at it 12~ hours per day for the past week, seen it once tagged, and killed Vyragosa a couple of times.

From my experience it's definately 6+ hours, Dirkee is unrelated, and Vyragosa has a much higher spawn chance than TLPD. Seen/killed Vyra 7 times over the week, TLPD has only been up once I know of, and hasn't spawned for the last 3 days according to the macro.

Commentaire de 315661

Anyone know if TLPD can be skinned?

Does the corpse despawn after 30 mins much like Vyragosa?

Commentaire de Sashiria

Can you re-post the macro that is supposed to link the reins? I'm thinking something changed in WOW, as the Retrieving Information box has been up constantly for me since last Tuesday, and now I am not able to place the reins into a chat window. Is anyone else having this problem?

Commentaire de 315661

Well my experience with this drake is, I question why does it get killed the moment it spawns in early morning hours when it does spawn but Vyragosa can be up for 20 mins at a time?

It seems the last 10 weeks of looking into this with extensive research and camping has yielded with my link script going off as being used or looted (however the script works) with no tall tale signs of TLPD corpse ever being found, one instance TLPD link showed up after a vyragosa kill.

I have only seen a TLPD corpse once and it seems everyone who does obtain this mount vanishes from the face of the game. I know this because I have kept track of who has gotten it, seems it either a bunch of alts or people who vanish from the game entirely.

Latest incident in which TLPD was killed yielded no corpse, no one around SP flying around with the mount, nor anyone in Dalaran coming in with it.

Commentaire de Shinryoku

Okay, I figure for the benefit of everyone I'll keep a daily update about my adventures into finding this drake. I started officially looking on Thursday March 12.

Since then I've only seen Vyra 2 times, Dirkee and TLPD I haven't seen yet.

Each time I saw Vyra and was then downed at around 28,67. Also, according to that macro that retrieves item information, the mount has not dropped.

Combined I'd say I spent atleast 16 hours looking...no luck yet though. I'll keep this updated.

UPDATE: At 4:21 server time on March 15, I used the macro, and the link worked. If it goes by what has been previously stated he has been killed and looted, but I have no idea where his corpse is.

Commentaire de 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).

Commentaire de 179247

I have a question, does one of the drakes spawn after server resets like the books do?

Commentaire de 331645

While this may possibly be true, it just seems way, way, way out there. It would be ridiculous that Blizzard would have an npc that drops a mount purposely spawn to players who don't log on much, for no reason other than an incentive to be a less than casual player. But in any case, I know of two people on my server that have TLPD and they're on all the time (like literally), they're also in the same guild. Just yesterday I saw another player sitting in Dalaran with the drake, not sure if he just got it that day though.

I do agree that the 20 and 50 minute time seems fishy, as some people have mentioned this before - many people have found TLPD around these times too. I'll try to take note of when people log on at spawn points as of now.
I've been looking for more info on TLPD and found this on the MMO Champ forums, not sure if it's been posted here or if it's old news: http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/9691/gmtlpdresponse.jpg
Perhaps the two values he's mentioning are the 20 and 50 minute intervals?

I've personally killed Vyragosa once at the blue drakes field and seen him dead at 28,68 (exactly on this hill where this guy got his TLPD: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v336/SilverTsunami/TimeLostKillandLoot.jpg). The only thing I do know is 9 hours after I killed Vyragosa, TLPD was killed during that time. I didn't check the macro during the 9 hours if TLPD was looted (forgot to spam it!), but when I checked after killing Vyra, it showed "Retrieving information...". So he really could have been killed any time in those 9 hours. I know that doesn't say much or anything new, but it's something. I've seen Dirkee and Vyragosa, but have never seen a TLPD corpse even with the amount of time I spend looking.

Commentaire de 315661

Well its not like every less then casual player will obtain it, if it will spawn nearest to one and they may miss it or someone who is hardcore may end up tagging it first. I just find this Drake too coincidentally spawning near people like this almost every spawn only for it to be killed, no corpse left behind, then you see no one on the drake in SP or in Dalaran, I mean if I had gotten TLPD I would be in Dalaran showing it off, 80% of the time this is not the case of any of it. I was @#$%ed off Thursday Morning when this had happened, camping SP for about 3 days, macro which I spawn quite often for server query to see if the dragon was looted yielded results around 5:23 AM in the morning, only to look in all possible locations and not see a corpse or no person on the mount, this has happened many times already.

As for that 2nd pic you got the TLPD kill, I question does TLPD fly the same height as Vyragosa? I know at that very location Vyragosa flies pretty low to the ground, in which case you will usually fight it on the ground or on one of the much lower elevated mtn/hill areas. That particular SS kind of tells me that maybe TLPD flies really high around there and not Vyragosa?

Commentaire de 331645

I believe they both fly that high, see this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzWXfelXd7E.

You'd assume they would show it off, but that's just not the case it seems. Maybe they have other things to do than sit in Dalaran. I know I wouldn't sit there to show it off because I don't care about other people seeing it - I find those that do it just want their 15 seconds of fame because they have something "special." I want it because I want a proto drake and TLPD seems "easier" than the rest to get (working on the Red/Violet and running UP for the RNG to like me for the Blue and same with the Green, Plagued and Black are out of reach for me) not to show it off.

Though I can't explain why you don't find the corpse, since it's been said it despawns in 30 minutes (I know Vyragosa does, watched it despawn) and cannot be skinned apparently - not sure if that's true (unlike Vyragosa), you should be able to find it somewhere in those 30 minutes. For the reason you can't find anyone on it, Storm Peaks is huge.

Commentaire de 232895

You would be showing it off only until you got constant whispers from players all over your server and level 1's from alternate faction players (assuming you are on a PvE server).. Personally I'd tell a few guildies and tell them to not tell anyone else, cause I don't want to have to get a character name change.

Commentaire de 338429

Just one question.. What does this script do...

/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");

When it says "Retriving Item Information" and nothing happens does it meen that the Drake is out there or does it meen that it already have been killed/looted?

And when the item information is listed? (never happend me)
what does that meen?

Commentaire de 94939

There seem to be like four different patrol paths, what's the exact points? Wowhead only shows 1.

And for clarification, the "Retrieving Item Information" means he's not been killed and looted since the Maintence, right?

Commentaire de Skyfire

There is a bunch of info listed at the item page that people will probably find useful, insofar as a lot of stuff not on this comments page can be found there.

Commentaire de ragex

15 mins ago i tried that script to see if it had been looted , i wasnt able to click it or link it in guild or any kind of chant, but i tried 5 mins ago and it works. i ran around looking for it, but i could not see it, no one claimed to have found it in /1 general, i dont know what the story is, im like hoping to see it if it does a second pass,
Not sure what its meant to do, if someone loot it, or if it spawn, i def dont think someone kill it, and i cant find it,

anyone have mych luck with that script?

Commentaire de 314541

you can wait for hours on end trying to get this mount, or you can do heroics with the wyrmrest accord to get exalted and buy the red drake, or you can run CoS to get the bronze drake. Both of them get you rep. and emblems of heroism, as in it is not a complete waste. BTW I have this mount :P

Commentaire de 300466

So, if i saw tlpd get killed 11.20... http://img6.imageshack.us/my.php?image=321qkc.jpg

Then, can i trust that tlpd or an of the other drakes will spawn 9hours after kill ? Or how does the respawntimer work?

Commentaire de 338204

I was camping TLPD. I took a break to eat because I was hungry I came back my friends told me that they saw Time lost dead... Q_Q That was the first time I ever seen Time lost dead or alive. Here is a Screenshoot

http://data.fuskbugg.se/skalman01/WoWScrnShot_032309_173329.jpg

I killed Vyragosa 1 day before I saw the proto dead. It was only 2h diffrence. The day I killed time lost I killed Hildana deathstealer on morning 8:47PM then Then Griegen 16:42 AM. Then saw time lost dead 17:33 Q_Q If I just didnt eat I would have it :(((((((((((((((((((((

Commentaire de 146840

I can't remember offhand where I found this, I believe it was on one of the wowhead pages and possibly even in this thread (yet I missed it when looking it over) so I take no credit for this:
/tar Dirke
/tar Vyra
/tar Time
/run y="Vyragosa";z="Time-Lost Proto-Drake";t="target";p="SAY";if(UnitName(t)==y or UnitName(t)==z)then if(UnitIsDead(t))then x="DEAD ";else x="";end SendChatMessage("-> "..x.."RARE DRAKE <-",p);Minimap:PingLocation(0,0);end

Commentaire de 132568

What macros is everyone using to spam while camping for it?

Is it possible to make a macro to /target all 3 of the rare spawns? Then it just selects whatever is finds/is closest to you? IE:

/target Time-Lost
/target Vyragosa
/target Dirkee

Commentaire de 326601

Ok
So let's break this down to some simple facts now that we know so much.

TLPD is a rare spawn of Vyragosa,
TLPD therefore is a rare spawn of another rare spawn.
They spawn in up to 10 different location such as the 2 frozen waterfalls in Bor's Breath, multiple places in the field of blue protos near Engine of the Makers, and a spot Northwest of Valkyrion.
They both follow around 5 different paths, some going as far north as Ulduar, south as K3/Garm, west as Brunnhildar, and East as Valkyrion.
TLPD will ALWAYS drop the mount.

Now with all that said..
Who's getting the mount?
The stationary camper at one spawn point, the person following the paths on a wild goose chase all voer Storm Peaks, or the random lucky person who doesn't even know what the that yellow thing is in the air?

I think this depends on activity on the server.
Higher population servers are more likely to have the random person come across while doing one of the many dailies in SP. I think next would be the camper but that's all about patience and luck of the spawn point. The person on the chase is just going to waste his time as while you are moving someone else is going to grab him across the zone.
Lower population is a whole different story though. A chaser that knows all the exact spawn points probably has the best chance here as you are always watching your screen and have a better chance of the spawn escaping the exact spawn area and getting on his path. The camper is again about luck and hoping your either in a good cross section for multiple paths (ie Bor's Breath) or he spawns on top of you. And of course with less people you have less unknown people coming across him.

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Commentaire de 326601

Ok well I have personally seen the TLPD corpse 4 times and it will stay there for a half hour and cannot be skinned.

My theory on spawning after server reset is basically the server was down for more than the spawn timer, nothing was able ro spawn, so it will spawn randomly after server restart, I too have noticed corpses within hours of most restarts, not immediatly after though.

Commentaire de 341433

I finally got it! took me about 4 days of checking but my /target macro finally did the trick. funny though, i found him flying the exact opposite way as everyone else. I targetted him over Valkyrion as he was flying through a little passage heading for Snowdrift Plains and finally down him around 27, 54. Hope that helps!

Commentaire de Rayner

Is this guy solo-able?

I'm currently questing in the zone and If I see the guy I would want to kill him to get the mount based on how rare the spawn is... But I'm not a group person :p

Commentaire de 315661

I am going to start questioning if Dirkee shares a spawn with Vyra and TLPD, from what researching I have done when its about time for Vyra or TLPD to spawn, Dirkee will spawn, including with it being on the 20 and 50 min points as well. once dead, I never see a sign of either drake spawn until another 7-10+ hours.

Commentaire de 115269

So, let's break this down into some real facts.

In classic WoW content, rare spawns are more random.

There are anywhere from 1 to 30 per zone.
They have different minimum and maximum times in which they spawn, starting from the time of kill. However, the spawn timer is set for each mob, and it is guaranteed to spawn some time within its range.
There are 1 to 4 spawn points per rare spawn.
While each spawn point will have a specific patrol route (if it isn't stationary), no two spawn points share a path.
Some rares are regular mobs, some are elite, and some are boss level.
All classic instances had rare spawns except Ragefire Chasm, Blackfathom Deeps, and Scholomance.

With TBC content, the rules were simplified a good bit.

All Outlands zones have 3 rare spawns.
All Outlands rares have similar spawn timers, usually 6 to 12 hours.
There are usually 3 spawn points per rare spawn. A couple have 2 spawn points, and a couple have 4.
Again, each spawn point has a specific and unique patrol route if it isn't stationary.
All Outlands rares were originally elite, but they are all regular mobs now and can easily be soloed.
None of TBC instances have rare spawns. There were some seasonal bosses that may or may not appear again.

WotLK rares tend to follow this trend.

All Northrend zones have 3 rare spawns.
All Northrend rares have similar spawn timers, usually 6 to 12 hours.
Spawn points are a little more random. Some seem to have only one spawn point, while some have up to 7.
It still seems as though each spawn point still has a specific and unique patrol route if it isn't stationary.
There are 2 types of Northrend rares. Non-elites have about 12-18k hps. Elites have about 50k hps.
None of Northrend instances have rare spawns.

This being said, TLPD is a special case. TLPD is a rare spawn of a rare spawn. This is the only one in the game. Dirkee is totally unrelated, having nothing to do with TLPD or Vyragosa.

There are only 4 known spawn points (not 10): Brunnhildar Village, Bor's Fall, Bor's Breath, and Frosthold. 3/4 are very close to the frozen lake by Valkyrion.

There are only 4 known paths that they patrol. One going counterclockwise through Brunnhildar village, Sifreldar Village, and K3. One going counterclockwise around the mountain that Frosthold is on. One large one going from Bor's Breath, up the west side to Ulduar, south through the Engine of the Makers, and back to Bor's Breath. The last is a smaller variation around the Temple of Storms.

Who's getting the mount? Simple answer: The campers. I'm on a high population server. I've killed TLPD twice, and helped 3 other people get it. Every time TLPD or Vyra spawns, it is up for a maximum of 10 minutes. If you aren't there, you aren't getting it. Period.

People on a low pop server will still have a better chance if they camp. If you don't really care, feel free to just check the paths on occasion, but if you are determined to get it, you'd better be prepared to camp.

Commentaire de relias

hey bro can you post exactly where are these spawn points?
cause the way you said, the spawn points arent definetaly "points" but regions, areas ... can you post out coords for each of the 4 spawn points? Im also in a high pop server and I wonder where were you camping to kill the TLPD 2 times...

btw... whats up with those gm's screenshots?
1 - 3 spawn points only
2 - no connection with vyragosa
3 - spawn timer that could exceed 6-12 hours
4 - despawns if not tagged..

which of these informations arent true? cause im still believing in them...
right now i do know the spawn points for vyragosa, but i think the TLPD doesnt share these spawn points with vyragosa, cause from what i read among aaaaaaaall the comments, it seems that the tlpd paths a different path...

anyways, for now, if you post exactly with coords what are these 4 spawn points, i would be super glad.

Commentaire de relias

another thing... ive seen the time lost proto drake 2 times dead...

1st time - in front of frigid tomb south of engine of makers
Path: brunnildar > engine > etc etc > k3 etc etc
Spawn point: probably blue drake field or over brunnildar ...

2nd time - he was passing by 35.66 and going north to the engine of makers
Path: i dont know ... maybe the bigger one around the temple of storms of the smaller one...
Spawn point: according to your informations, it would be bor's fall 100% sure ... BUT ... the way i saw it passing in front of me seemed more that he was descending from those ruins ... and ive seen a lot of ppl talking about this spawn point behind that "mountain dock" structure... seems like the tlpd spawns there, descends to the east to bors breath and then head north ...

can you confirm any of these informations ?

Commentaire de 338204

hello guys I´ve killed Vyragosa so many times and she always spawns after around 10-12h. The point is that there is more chance vyragosa spawns after 12 or 10 hours. Small chance that it spawns 6-8h :S

Commentaire de 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 ...

Commentaire de zilkoset

This is where i found Time-lost protot drake. I have killed him/she 2 times, once was 7:03 am
and then i go to work and when i come home ( 2:05 pm ) i go to storm-peaks again and guess what... Tlpd was on the same place i killed him/she before i go to work.

This is a link where my friends and i have seen him dead or where we killed it. https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:371749290660398621485532547477598429680458689572676646576646525667458634402532380660

Hope we get more info. here :)
i realy wanna help here.

Commentaire de 343951

Ok so I just logged on, its Tuesday a bit after maintenance, i was parked right between valkyran and the frozen lakes intersection thingy, and i hit my macro, and target him i looked everywhere and coulnt see him , then i looked up and he was there. he was going fast, i only have a 60% mount which is the speed i think he was going, because i was chasing him for a long time, almost the other end of valkyron before i got 40yard range to judge him (holy Pally) when i did dismount and judge him, i hit my key for bubble but it didn't work for some reason, and i died, rushed back revived myself and barely got a glimpse of him before he disappeared, he was going around temple of storms mountain, towards the big hole, and headed back towards the frozen lake, when i finaly got him, this time bubble worked, i was killing him, an 80 horde rogue came that could EASILY have killed me and taken it for him/her self, but he helped me kill it instead.

hope this helps :P

*edit, i added a link to a SS but for some reason its not coming up, im new to wowhead posting, this is my first one.

Commentaire de CaptNice

I swear this is not an April Fools Joke! I just killed TLPD and got the mount. First I want to thank everyone who posted info here that helped me find him. ThankYouThankYouThankYouThankYou!

Ok adding my own info here. Sorry I dont have co-ords, but I was at the south end of the frozen Bor's Breath river when he appeared there. He was flying north along the river heading toward Valkarion. He flew north until just short of Valkarion, and then flew south again retracing his route.

He was flying fairly high (about the same height as the camp where you find the burlap wrapped note). He was flying high enough and far enough from the sides of the canyon that my 'Lock couldn't tag him from the ground or convenient ledges nearby. So I flew my drake past his nose and dove for the ground and he followed me to his doom.

I was so excited just to have tagged him, that he very nearly killed me as two other players stood nearby no doubt hoping for just such an outcome. Hope this helps you get your spiffy new ride!

Commentaire de 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 ...

Commentaire de 344368

My boyfriend and I both got ours this week. Well. He wasn't even trying >_< I've been camping it since January, ever since school started back up and I could sit in one spot for long periods of time. All I ever saw was Vyragosa. Sunday I was working on my homework again before a raid when I see in guild my own boyfriend posting the mounts link. I was like "wait... what? but... what?" Yeah. He'd come across it while herbing, freaked out, and killed it... without thinking to call me. He had to fight off a lock who was also dotting it up, so I guess I understand his freaking but I was still rather upset, since he was on an alt at the time. Insult to injury! But he made up for it by being a rare spawn magnet the next night... Monday night after our raid I went to my normal camping spot and said "you found my drake, now go do circles and find it again!" ... and he did, right outside of K3. I flew over as fast as I could and now we are one of the only couples on Bonechewer with matching Time Lost mounts :)

I made a map showing the direction he was flying and where we killed him:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v201/magical_fox/proto.jpg

Commentaire de jonmultimedia

I've been farming TLPD for 5 days now but i hadn't luck to kill him yet. I've been writting down the possible spwan timers, maybe i missed some spwans while sleeping but maybe this can help.
I found Vyragosa on 31/3/08 at 4.50 AM, killed her. I waited 10 hours to see if TLPD would spwan but exatly on those 10 hours Dirkee spwaned right next to the quest npc in near the engine of makers. Some say Dirkee doesn't share the spwan time but can be possible...
Didn't find any of them since, maybe missed them while sleeping.
1/4/2008 i was there all morning and at 19.45 PM i found TLPD dead. I left for 20 min before i find him, came back and found him dead, it was really unlucky for me but i keep looking later.
2/4/2008 i found Vyragosa dead at 13.27, she was killed between 13.20 - 25.
Hope something helped, GL.

Here are some possible locations for Vyragosa and TLPD since they share spawn time and patrols:
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/3617/wowscrnshot033109035707.jpg

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/2905/wowscrnshot040209122708.jpg

Godd luck everyone...

Commentaire de Judgefudgez

I got most my information off this site Really good marcos and I made a little trick of my own

/tar Time
/stopmacro
/w Judgefudgez %t Quickly Get it!
/run RaidNotice_AddMessage(RaidBossEmoteFrame,"THERE IT IS! KILL IT!", ChatTypeInfo)
/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\interface\\RaidWarning.wav")

Credit for the guy who gave it too me !

I was only after The Time Lost Proto Drake Not Vyra and Dirkee

I Made this marco my Number 1 in my cast bars I got a auto clicker known as "Rsclient" it meant for runescape but prefect for putting it over my marco to spam it see it doesnt work unless it targets the drake then it makes nosie to basically alert you that it is there . I parked my guy in Bor's Breath basically and got my marco still getting spammed at 7:40 Sever time , Local time 6:40 I got my Time-Lost Proto-Drake I was in my bed and It went of I instanty jumped up it was locked on and going off it's head you hit F2 the second you get up you will have it locked and go in for the kill

Good Lucks on your search for this Drake I dont have times for it But I can tell you right now not easy it all on luck I hope what I said early does assist you.

( Sorry about my spelling and stuff :) only 15 and a complete retard )

Commentaire de 345148

I was flying over the Paths that These 2 dragons are taking and a actually found the Time-Lost Proto drake, but dead :(. He was found North of valkyrion and East of Nidavelir. Cords are 28.4 , 49.2. (confirmed with later comments about their patrol area) Player who killed him was named Släintepåmig. Playing on Shattered Hand.

PS. if i didn't took that 2 min toilet brake after my naxx raid i would have been able to kill him :'(

Commentaire de 338204

Thedarkmage - You will get it soon m8. I found time lost dead too. I could have killed him if I did not take something to drink (5 mins). :(. But 4 days later found him and killed him. :)
It always spawn when you are afk :S.

Commentaire de Shadowtion

http://img16.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gmtlpdresponse.jpg

Confirmed that he is -not- linked with Dirkee.

Commentaire de 345720

Call me paranoid but can Vyragosa and TLPD be skinned? I'm afraid of skinners finding them, killing them, skinning them, and dissapearing before i can see its corpse.

Commentaire de 216984

In addition to that macro, you can also use the addon _NPScan to search for the TLPD for you. It does the work of old "/target Time-Lost Proto Drake" macros, but requires no clicking or button mashing. You could even go AFK over a spawn point and let the addon get your attention when it finds something.

It searches for other rares including Dirkee and Vyragosa at the same time, in case you plan to catch 'em all!

Commentaire de 266777

yes they can be skinned.

Commentaire de 338204

Vyragosa can be skinned but not Time-lost Proto-drake

Commentaire de 347200

Got it slightly past the 6hr respawn timer from the last Vyragosa spawn. TLPD spawned from the peak of this high mountain beside Frosthold. Killed it less than a minute after its spawn.

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/3866/wowscrnshot040809214115.jpg

Commentaire de 338204

Yepp I can confirm that. I have killed Time lost and couldt skinn him. Even if you saw drake dead why wouldt he/she loot it XD. Well anyway It's clearly that you cant Skinn Time lost. The question is why :S? Does Blizzard want to let ppl see and getting hurt? :S. Well it's good for one thing you know when it have been skinned :)

Commentaire de 347454

just my luck to farm it unsuccesfully 4 six weeks, even having an alliance kill it RIGHT in front of my eyes. and then of course a few months later randomly logging in in storm peaks, its there. I THINK I @#$%ED MAI PANTS.
location was above the pit in valkyrion so even tho many people dont mention it being there, IT IS.
killed it at 27,61 on top of the building.

my adivce to all u farmers is this:
be ready for lots of farming and almost no results

it is probably the coolest mount in game so far (other than possibly the phoenix).
DONT GIVE UP

Commentaire de 147348

If you'r a herbalist and farming herbs in storm peaks simply just tap this macro all the time =)

/target Vyragosa
/target Time-Lost
/target Dirkee

I just found Dirkee and killed him, it was a tough fight though with my 1k spellpower as holy paladin

Commentaire de 222832

just a random question...
If you dont have epic flight mount training, will the mount drop?

Commentaire de 338204

It will dropp, but you cant use it. But still If u dont have Epic fily skill dont farm it let the ppl with the skill have it :).

Commentaire de 348104

Can anyone tell wat is a good addon to use to find the TLPD or the macro i use to find him?

Commentaire de 338204

Dont know if there is addons for it but there is alot of macro's. You can look them up if u read the comments.
But if u want a normal macro for it just
/cleartarget
/tar time lost
/tar vyra
/tar dirkee

Or if u want a special with sound you can look that up.

Commentaire de 345328

man, ive been searching for this baby for days, i think i found it, my heart was beating, next thing i no its a Stormpeak Wyrm >.<

Commentaire de 298886

It doesn't.
Rare spawns do not spawn at a certain time of day, they are on a timer.

6-12 hours from the death of Time-Lost or it's placeholder, it *could* spawn again.

Commentaire de sammi75

OMFG i was trying to get the drake for 5 hours.. than i went offline to lvl a alt for 10 mins thaan when i came back on main he was dead OMFG! I'M $%^&ED!:O

Commentaire de 249100

What speed does he fly at? Walking speed or fast flight speed like the Stormpeak Wyrm's?

Commentaire de lawbringer1990

Well, this is my first wowhead post and i thought i would make an account to share my experiences, and the triumph of finally getting this guy at 9am server time on Kazzak EU.
After a long hard farming campaign, aprox a month and a half of 10 hours a day atleast camping bors breath, and then doing a trip around his most common paths(through bors breath into valkyrion, up into snowdrift plains and then enter engine of the makers and back down to bors breath) with every 5-10 mins taking the ulduar path. I was convinced i would never get this mount due to the fact i have very little good luck, but that was to change. I was on my char, spamming my macro at the top of bors breath, and decided i was gonna get to sleep, but first, to log my bank to check my auctions, and i post the server cache macro and nothing was there..so i was about to log off, when i thought..1 last check can never hurt, so i log back to my main positioned over bors breath..i log in, and 1 push of my macro and BAM im locked on the Time-lost proto drake, was pretty shocked, wasnt sure what to do, lol. but i flew into him and hit him rite in ze face, and then bubbled on my way down, then bashed all of my buttons to make sure i killed this guy before anyone else..he was dead at my feet, what a relief! well worth the wait i must say..but people saying that if vyragosa spawns, and is then killed, if tlpd spawns next, he will take the same path, or spawn at the same spot..was certainly the case for me, vyragosa spawned just above my head a little closer to frosthold, and flew to valkyrion and into the snowdrift plains where a horde killed her..that was at exactly 12:00 server time. then 9 hours later, tlpd spawned in the exact same spot, but didnt fly in the same direction, he was flying towards the end of the lake, possibly was going to fly into the foot stepps..so in my experience they maybe do share paths with eachother if they spawn directly after eachother, but possible not the same route,,coincidence, most likely, but just an experience of mine that i had. iv not once killed vyragosa in my time here but have followed her several times, as vyragosa means nothing to me, all happening to be 24 hours apart, most definately spawns in between that, but u get what i mean..anyways, thanks for all the information iv picked up from here, couldnt have done it without u!
and GL to all the other hunters out there, i was close to giving up, and then when i didnt expect it, hes there..it really does just happen like that, keep at it! the satisfaction after obtaining this beast after such a long time of doing nothing else but pressing a macro, is quite supreme..Catchya later guys!

Commentaire de 269085

i wonder if u have a better chance of getting this mount than u would the Rivendare mount in the same amount of time

Commentaire de 355485

Okay :) mi first post on wowhead just to help you guyz
i farmed this beast for 7 days of 10 hour atleast camping frozen lake near valkyrion
i saw vyragosa many times ofc
21/4 killed vyragosa at 29.66 at 22:07 came from borths breath
22/4 killed TLPD on exactly same spot at 23:18 came from SAME direction

my theories...
since i killed vyra i havent seen any and i was online for 12 hours so this made me think that timer is very variable shortest vyra respawn i get was exactly 6 hours not even minute less but this one was 25 hour... so its very move able

note: Server restart dont spawn him... proven

next one i believe that tlpd makes same route as vyragosa killed before him but its only my theory

I wish you all hunters the best of luck
Dont give it up.. i wanted to give up after 6 days but dont do it! Mount is worth it :)

Durnakan - Orc Warrior - The Sha'tar EU

Commentaire de 338204

Idd w´tih Durnake´n,m The day b4 I killed Time lost. I killed Vyragosa and both had the same route. So I really belive that if u know or if u have killed Vyragosa and then killed Time lost check if they had same route. Because you dont pay attention about this you are just happy about your mount :).

Andrre - Tauren hunter- Outland

Commentaire de Astinus

I located him the same place as shown on the map (29.3,65.7). He was flying west on the map, and then proceeded south down towards Frost Hold. So if you're searching for him, you may also want to path down south, otherwise you may miss him.

I didn't want to let him roam too far since I still didn't have the mount, so I lured him onto the moutain edge and killed him with my DK, it's a pretty easy fight, Army of the Dead probably could have finished it off on their own.

I'm glad I happend to be camping out at that spot while watching a show on my secondary monitor!

Commentaire de 346632

PROTIP:

Get Snowfall Lager (sold for two relics of Ulduar from a guy in Gromarsh crash site or the alliance one in Frosthold). That's pretty much a no-brainer

BUT: Also get some focusing gems. The things that make the lazor looking thing at your target? That would be invaluable if you want to find him fast once you have him targetted, especially if you have view distance down :)

Commentaire de hellsslayer

can anyone tell me the npc id of this guy? i accidentally deleted it from my _npcscan

Commentaire de 318444

Just got mine at complete random today. Found him flying around the snowdrift plains area, so if you have a patrol path that you follow, you may want to include this area in it.

Commentaire de Dongolev

Lorewise, based on the color, abilities, name, and the its drop: "Time Forward Talisman of the...", it would seem to be the Bronze Proto-drake.

Commentaire de azahel

Well, just killed vyragosa a minute ago after camping for like 1 hour, so if I got it right some1 else will spaw in no less than 6 hours right?

Commentaire de Abura

Quick and simple question, how high, give or take, does she fly? (Yes it's a she to me, don't all women play hard to get) :P

Commentaire de azahel

'She' fhy at the same altitude as the blue proto drakes, the ones that fly higher in the pack, but it also depends of where 'she' is, sometimes she'll fly very high to get access to other places high above, so it's no use to stay on the ground level.

Commentaire de 358459

The day after the wrath opening, I was 72 exploring the Storm Peaks hoping to get the server first World Explorer achievment (Which I missed by 2 hours). I was butting my head against the harpy area near frosthold and the ice waterfall when a big dragon flew by. I saw it was an 80 elite called "Time-Lost Proto Drake". Being 72, I stood away from it and let it pass.

Then later I learn it drops a mount and is one of the rarest mobs in the game. I might have been the first person on the server (Azgalor) to see it, if not all of WoW. Seeing now that it only has 18k health, I probably could have taken it down :(

Commentaire de wasniahC

Actually, rarespawns have been known in MANY cases to have a chance to spawn at certain times of the day. Practically every rarespawn in outland has a % chance to spawn at certain intervals, and that is the case with many in northrend too. I do not know if that is the case with this one, though, and doubt anyone can confirm it.

Edit: Further down the page, someone seems to have confirmed it. ;>

Rating down? This is useful information. Someone down there is collecting data and its showing that all kills are within 10 minutes or so from the top of the hour. This suggests that it only spawns at the top of the hour. Anyone seeing the pattern here? This is how the outland mobs worked.

Commentaire de 361337

Anyone know if it can spawn less than 6 hours after the death of Vyragosa or TLPD. Or will it always spawn atleast 6 hours after its former death?

Commentaire de 361590

Got this last night! Waiting at the Hall of Stone and Hall of Lightning Summon Stone it was flying above the rift between Uludar and the rest of Storm Peaks. Saw it before about 20 other people and killed it. Needless to say it was the best piece of loot I got all night.

Commentaire de 361885

Killed Vyragosa twice 2day first kill at 16:00 server time and second time around 22:45.....
I will try just before server shuts down today around 4:45...think TLPD will spawn this time ?

Commentaire de 213260

Saw it, i went to go get its aggro to bring its down has a 60% speed so i had to go exactly precise ways and finally i take it down to the ground and kill it and right when i loot it my friend who was in the party comes out of nowhere and ninjas it. he is pretty much my B**** for life now.

Commentaire de 252256

Okay, after reading every single one of these post it is a shame that not one Person Mention NPCScan Add on. Ya it makes getting this mount a milllion times easier and every other Rare spawn in the Game. NPCScan is located on www.wowinterface.com website, you can search it on Google. Download it go to Menu on your screen and then to interface click on add on section adn you can test Rare spawn alert. Once you get it you can send me cash on Doomhammer Server hehe, Happy Hunting!

Commentaire de 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

Commentaire de 168307

Found him flying near the Harpies between Temple of Storms and Frosthold at 10:20 am as I was heading up to do Hyldnir daily. Hoo-wah!

Commentaire de Oomie

Created a new, detailed map of all of Vyragosa/Tlpd spawn points and paths.

Uber map

Commentaire de 332502

now, im not positive on this, but someone on trade chat killed this the today, and he said that his health has been dramatically heightened from 18900 to at least almost 30k health now

personally, i dont believe that, and why would blizz do that anyways

lets see, lvl 80 elite that does not hit hard with only 30k health, u see more than twice that in a heroic instance

even if the health is increased like he said, still, now he will only spawn in one location, and 30k is easy, and i guess it must be spawning more too, ive seen 3 more people with it lately, and with a mount this rare, u know who and who doesnt have it

if u wanna see that location, wowhead has already marked it on the map above

Commentaire de 303238

i've looked for this drake for weeks, ive spent hours by the waterfall and the icy path that leads up to the blue drakes, and i've yet to even see the dragon's dead body,
from what ive read so far on the other comments, i'm gonna go back with a little bit more cinfidence on finding the TLPD :) <ty> korilstraz of greymane

Commentaire de 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

Commentaire de 28278

Can anyone comment on his altitude? Does he ever fly close the ground or always way up?

Commentaire de Imatree

He will ALWAYS fly high up, about 60-100 yards if previous posts and videos of him are anything to go by.

However, I believe that Blizz would've designed it so that only people who have flying can get him and drag him to the ground. It also would mean that only people who have the intent to catch and kill him would have the chance, since you would have to fly up to tag him and you wouldn't be able to see him from the ground unless you had the targeting macro.

Commentaire de 366618

I have given up on ever seeing or getting this drake. Yes, I've seen players with him... but seeing as I've camped for weeks on end, and I've never seen Time Lost, Dirkee, OR Vyragosa... not even their dead bodies... That's a sign. Using macros and scanners... never seen any of them.

Commentaire de Shadowtion

Yep, he truly is Time-Lost.

Commentaire de praze

Must-see video of one of the Time-Lost Proto Drake's complete paths (not after the fact, this guy follows the live NPC!)...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRbOssnGZ9s

It doesn't get much more "confirmed" than that. Though there's definitely more than this one potential path, of course, at least you now have a grasp of how high/fast it flies...

I've created a map with the path plotted out as confirmed by the video footage...

http://www.geocities.com/prazejc/TLPD_Video_Path.jpg

The person capturing the video was on a PTR for 3.1 at the time, but if you look at the many kill screenshots posted here and elsewhere, this path seems to check out nicely... good luck!

*video is not mine, I just came across it by chance*

Commentaire de ash23

I just have a couple of questions, is there any way to find out how high i am flying? and as for TLPD, how high would i have to be flying to be able to see him, i'm worried i might have passed him a couple of times but i am too low / high.

Commentaire de 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!

Commentaire de neotaeo

The Time-Lost Proto-Drake, atleast when I found it, flys closer to the ground, but not close enough to hit with a spell. I had to flip in to flight form and fly through it to get its attention. Then I just landed, flipped in to bear form and owned it. Took only a few hits to kill it and got my sweet mount at location 51, 50. I used the addon silverdragon.

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/silver-dragon.aspx

Sets off an alert when it (or any rare) is near and puts a nice Portrait of the mob on your screen you can click on to target it, then just figure out exactly where it is. You can only target the mob if it is in range so this gives you a good idea of about where it is. Works like a charm!

Commentaire de 296243

I was flying back to Dalaran after finishing dailies with Sons and I thought I'll make 1 round and then continue. At 11.09 AM I targetted TLPD flying from Snowdrift Plains, heading towards Valkyrion. Here's where I basically targetted and pulled to the ground https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:288481 and here's picture O:

Commentaire de lolmagic

Spawned for me a moment ago. Appeared just south east of Valkyrion and flew over Valkyrion and into the valley heading towards snowdrift plains.

In terms of how high it was flying - best description would be at a height of around 1.5 times that of the first hut you see as you enter Valkyrion from the South East entrance.

Hope the below screenshot is clear - it shows me in flight form following behind him;

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/42/wowscrnshot052309014657.jpg

Commentaire de 371747

Got mine this morning. I camped him for about 2 or 3 hours yesterday with no luck, then took a "for the hell of it" run after finishing up the Jewelcrafting Daily and caught him just outside of Valkyrion.

Commentaire de Imatree

Well, I'm not really sure about this...

Basically, Far Sight lets your sight jump instantly anywhere you can SEE on the horizon. If it were blocked by a mountain or something like that, you can't see around it, because you can't target the ground around it.

I just know this because I play a huntard. Hunters have a spell that is EXACTLY like Far Sight, Eagle Eye (except that it costs less mana and is instant XD).

However, with the help of a Macro, you can use Eagle Eye / Far Sight as much as you want.

The Shaman spell "Far Sight" works the same way as Eagle Eye does, and gives the same visual effect. In PvP, the foe has no way of knowing whether it is a Shaman or Hunter watching them.

Also, despite what soultwister says, you can indeed "chain cast" Eagle Eye, but not without a macro. Normally, if you cast Eagle Eye and try to recast it, it instead cancels it. But if you make the following simple macro, it will work:

/cast !Eagle Eye

It's the "!" that does it. Instead of toggling the spell, it forces it to recast it. This work with Aspects, too. Anyway, try it. Cast Eagle Eye on something, maybe a mountain at a zone's edge, and then hit the button for this macro and click somewhere that normally is out of sight - your vision changes to that spot. It still does seem have a range limit, but it allows you to see areas that were previously impossible to see (or are simply really far away).

It's amazing what very strange things Blizzard hides just out of view. I'd imagine that one could use this trick to get a peek at places like Hyjal. It also makes it quite easy to look at the opposing faction's spawn before a BG starts to get an idea of what you're up against.

Have some fun with it!

Thanks to Brighid for that insight. Now those pesky mountains can be avoided. :D
I'm assuming this works with Far Sight, too. But I won't post it, because if you can't figure out how to edit that macro to customize it to Far Sight, you shouldn't be able to use macros in the first place (intuition, people!)

As for the:

My main question is for other Npcscan users and that are also shaman. After nearly 120 hours of camping at the frozen lake ( mostly 8h+ camps ) it came to me that shamans have a spell called "far sight". Now I wonder as this has an unlimited range and can be casted over and over it allows you to see nearly anywhere in Storms Peak, can you target TLPD ( or any other rare spawn tbh ) when useing a macro or in my case NPCscan. Both at the characters current location AND the location of the far sight spell at the SAME moment that is ofcourse.

I don't know the answer to that question, but you can try it out...(if you are a Shammy / Hunter that is...)

Also, for you non-Shammies / Huntards, you can use Ornate Spyglass. It doesn't work the same way as Far Sight / Eagle Eye, in which those two actually send your sight to the place you target, but it basically "Lets you look far into the distance", which means you stay in place with your boring old Character Viewpoint, but your "Sight" Range is DRAMATICALLY increased. This means, if you were standing in the middle of the frozen lake in Bor's Breath, but couldn't see Valkyrion (typo?), you would be able to at least be able to see the Two Guards, if not more people inside. However, just like Eagle Eye / Far Sight, you have to be grounded for this to work.

Enough information? :)

EDIT: Sorry, use these items / spells at your own lagging risk. By that, I mean they may cause lag to your computer when you attempt to load everything in the area at once...

Commentaire de 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

Commentaire de 376340

As silly as it may sound, the video posted earlier in this thread actually helped me score TLPD:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRbOssnGZ9s

Actually seeing the thing alive for someone else kinda restored my faith that I would find it too. I caught him randomly, after I'd given up some 200 hours of camping (and only one corpse) and had gone to only a few loops a day, including completing the "Overstock" quest at K3.

My macro hit gold at 10:54 pm server time, and I found the TLPD as he flew past the waterfall at Bor's Fall, just about to make that sharp turn back down to K3 (I was flying up towards Bor's Breath) having just completed my daily. He literally seemed to come out of thin air, and I was so shocked to see him, I sat there for a moment dumbfounded, expecting him to gray out at any second. Once I realized WHAT I was seeing I easily kited him down over the waterfall and killed him.

One of the things worth mentioning is Vyragosa has a mana bar and TLPD does not. As soon as my macro hit, I honestly expected Vyragosa and before I even looked at my purple whisper text or the mob's name I saw the lack of a mana bar. He's got 18,900 health, same as Vyragosa, although he seems to fly faster (probably has to do with Vyra's huge size as compared to TLPD). He goes down so fast, it's honestly hard imo to steal him if someone else has the tap. Chances are he'll be dead before you kill the opposing faction player.

Also, I'd strongly recommend NOT using the Snowfall Lager unless you are positioned exactly over him or someone else is trying to kite him down and you're trying to steal. I tried the Lager as a test on Vyragosa and fluttered right past her, she was suddenly out of range to damage, so I had to remount and kite her down manually. Especially don't use it if you catch him in FRONT of the waterfall as I'm pretty sure you'll float all the way down to the bottom of the falls and it'll cause him to reset.

Also, approximately 26 hours after my kill, a guildmate tagged the TLPD in the same spot and scored the mount. He isn't skinnable, probably like a trophy sort of thing like hanging Onyxia's head, or at least a way of making others in the zone /facepalm for being in the right place at the wrong time. Good Luck!

Commentaire de 338204

Hello I got a question about the addon Npcscan. Do you use it while you´re asleed? if u are. then I have a question how do u make your charr stats long without getting DC. I really need to know or maybe u cant stay online :p. Well if u know anything it would be awsome if u could help.

Thanks

Commentaire de 115714

Vyragosa found dead on Runetotem: Sunday May 31, 2009 at 10:53am. Keep posting kill times/dates on every server so we can get this spawn schedule figured out!

Commentaire de blacklamb

Just so you are all aware (since this seems to have come up a lot recently in TLPD posts), auto clicking is breaking the ToS, even if you're using a keyboard that has this sort of function built into it. I've seen blue posts on the issue as I looked it up myself, I can probably dig it up again if needed.

This is why you automatically D/C after 20-30 minutes of being idle. Blizz has stated time and time again they do not want automation in the game, as it gives an unfair advantage to players using it. Auto macros are very simply a basic form of botting.

Sucks I know, spending hours upon hours by your computer to manually prevent going AFK is a pain. However, you need to be aware you're risking a ban if you get caught. Use at your own risk.

Commentaire de mikethered

Uh, the Time Lost Proto Drake cannot be skinned.

Vyragosa can, but not the TLPD.

Commentaire de akkon

It means no one with the mount has logged on after the maint if it doesn't show it.

If they actually learned the mount this is not the case, the script generaly tells you if it has dropped since the last server downtime.

Commentaire de 115714

Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good! After spending endless hours reading the TLD information here and other sites, camping the various spawn points and flight intersection points it happened! Since the TLD macro had shown the Reigns of the TLD were not in the server cache since Tuesday after the "abnormal" weekly maintenance, I was preparing to pull an all nighter and camp the TLD, figuring it had to be close to a spawn time. So I logged on to get situated and do a few quick quests in the zone.

There I was, simply doing my daily quest in Brunnhildar Village "Back to the Pit", had killed 2 riders and was fighting the third when my TLD alarm (scannpc) went off - the Time Lost Proto Drake had spawned right above me! I quickly dismounted, ran out of the pit, mounted and flew up to see the TLD just heading toward the Maker's Engine. So, I flew through him to gain aggro, found a close safe spot, dismounted and killed him within a short distance from his spawn point. My data indicated he spawned exactly at 48,66. I killed him at 46,65.

So, here is my advice/information to seekers of the TLD:

You need an alarm addon. Either scannpc or SilverDragon. I had both, both went off. I like scannpc best because it has a really loud alarm - can't miss it.

Location 48,66 is a confirmed spawn point.

Get the TLD macro - it tells you if the Reigns of the Time Lost Proto-Drake are in the server cache. If it can't retrieve the item information - he has not spawned and been killed. That basically means he's going to spawn - in my case it was between 10PM Tuesday night and 8:50am on Thursday morning (Central Time US). This was also on Runetotem server. Almost two days from server re-start. So, visit the zone often.

The more time you spend in the zone, obviously the better chance you have - so visit and be persistent.

If you see Dirkee or Vyragosa, jot down the times (even if you didn't kill them) and dates. Since they share timers (in my opinion) those times are a good guide to when a next spawn might occur - it's the best information you can get.

Most of all keep the faith. I've tamed 4 rares with my hunter, including King Krush (one of the hardest tames in the game) and multiple rare mobs - patience and consistency are the keys. You will probably try and fail, but keep trying and good hunting!

Commentaire de Sajakain

I'd just like to point out one fact that has already been stated but most still, somehow, seem to be overlooking.

Time-Lost Proto Drake
Vyragosa

These two mobs share spawns. Dirkee does not share a spawn with either of these two dragons. He has his own, separate, spawn. (Side note: This guy is not a dragon, btw, he is a robot.)

Realm: Fenris
Player: Myself (Sajakain)

In this moment I killed Dirkee. (For a second time). You see the loot that dropped off of him in the chat window where I picked it up. You will notice the time of 5:00 AM server time of me picking up this loot.

Dirkee Kill

Then, just over an hour later you see that my addon has found Vyragosa, already dead. I congratulate whoever killed her, but the important aspect is the time. It was less than 6 hours that the two dragons, Time-Lost Proto Drake and Vyragosa, share. The time was 6:09 AM that my addon found her.

Vyragosa Found Dead

I have seen the Time-Lost Proto Drake dead, twice, in the 3 months I have been looking for it. One of these days I will run across him.

For those of you who are wondering, the addon that I use, as you can tell from the Vyragosa kill, is called "NPCScan". You can find it here: Download NPCScan.

This addon simply scans your targeting area for you. No macro needed. Just go about your regular buisness (dailies, farming, what have you), and if a rare comes up in your targeting area this nice little addon will let you know. Please, however, make sure you read the description on this addon before using it as it has important information on how to properly reset it once you have found a rare in case you decide to you want to find it again. (For instance if you found a rare, but found it dead.)

I hope this helps. If you have any questions, look me up on Fenris, (US Realms).

- Sajakain

Commentaire de 231610

Does anyone know if this guys shows on the minimap if u use Track Dragonkin?

Commentaire de 100763

I have been searching for this guy for awhile now and I am starting to realize I may have to murder someone for it. In RL.

Commentaire de 390368

2 days ago I killed Vyragosa at about 4:41 pst time, then yesterday Dirke spawned at 3:30 ish. Much to my surprise Vyrasgosa spawned just 1 hour after that.
I have yet to see the TLPD spawn or even a corpse after being here 3 days with just taking a break sleeping or quick hodir daily's. No one else in the area has reported seeing it either when i ask.
Realm: Dalaran

Vyr spawned 1st on the mountain immeaditly next to Frosthold, 2nd time was at the abandoned camp where i saw the corpse, and Dirke was NE of Engine of the Makers

Commentaire de 391381

I saw him flying south in Bor's Breath right when it turns south at 36.7, 68.1, look at the screenshot i submitted to see where it was. When i saw it, i got so pumped up, and flew as fast as I could after it, It must have been going fast though, as I lost it on my 60% speed flyer =(
Grizzly Hills US

Commentaire de 349634

Bored? In Storm Peaks? Then here's your remedy...

Fly around the suspected spawn areas of the Time-Lost Proto Drake, preferably where there are many players, and type the following:

/e points at Time-Lost Proto Drake

Hilarity ensues.

Commentaire de 391381

saw Vyragosa again, it spawned right above me at around 27, 65, flew north to valkyiron, turned northeast over that little gap, when I killed it, This was all about 24 hours after I saw it last, Looking at the numbers, it may have spawned exactly 24 hours after I saw someone else kill it

Commentaire de 395068

https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:262372251376244392253407266415270431275444279462282485281502278520272541270568268594272607275627278646290683279706279666288656296656304656374792373768371745370730365710365699363681357666343654331654312658319654278685272370

From what i have gathered from all these comments, that is roughly where he flys. His spawn timer is between 5-8 hours from when he last died/despawned, but his placeholder; Vyragosa can spawn instead.

These are just facts gathered from here, I havnt actually seen this in game.

Happy camping/raging over the Time-Lost Proto Drake's corpse!

PS- I found his corpse, not a pretty sight :(

Commentaire de 341380

Hello can I ask you to tell the people on what server you spotted or killed Vyra or TLPD like the mate from the above comments.Please do that to make camping easier :) for everyone 10x in advance

Commentaire de triggz

I'd just like to add it's a royal pain to get her to follow you down to the ground. I was camping her while asleep and she woke me up, got her to look at me, but wouldnt not follow me down. I'd let her hit me to half health, or even dismount me with her frost bolt, and I'd just go OOC. I FINALLY got her on the ground, while me being still half-asleep and half health aggro'd two of the icebound revenants which killed me (I should've been in combat spec..). I ressed, got back to /targetting her and it found her, but I couldn't see her anywhere. I flew ALL OVER storm peaks trying to match her flight path and find her again, coming back to where I originally targetted her over the bear pit and she was just sitting there hovering, like she was watching the bear fights. It seems like she may stay there for a long time. Two allis (pally/rogue) and another horde were now working on getting her to come down now- I got her to look at me again, where she just frostbolted me off my flyer and would've sent me to my death again had I not had some Snowfall Lager. Two allis managed to finally drag her over to the cliff, took her to half health where I dove in and killed both of them in a blind rage, but she wouldn't untag. They repopped on me together, killed me, and finished their kill as the graveyard was RIGHT there :/

So, lesson learned. Im glad it wasn't TLPD.
1) Be ready to spend some time kiting her down to the ground
2) She dismounts you- go buy some Snowfall Lager
3) Be mindful of nearby mobs that will ruin your otherwise easy kill
4) You can keep your tag on her if you die, for a short while
5) She seems to like to park at Brunnhildar Village and watch the bear fights

Commentaire de 336814

I decided to start camping her. Started this morning, went to raid this evening, came back the guy I was sitting there with had it :( Spawn at 36.1, 68.2

Also even though I didn't see the body, will I need to delete my cache folder?

Commentaire de 279793

Holy poo! After over 80 hours of continuous camping and questioning my sanity, I finally gots me a Time-Lost Proto Drake! The first day I followed the drake's patrol paths and got nothing. After doing more research, I decided to just sit at 29,66 and hope for the best. I installed _NPCscan and just sat there. I slept with headphones on just in case he showed up.

At around 5:50pm ST on Scilla, the alarm sounded. I got so scared, because I didn't see him. I mounted and flew up into the air in a panic and lost my target on him. Freaking out I flew back to my original spot, and it turned out the _NPCscan alarm sounded before he actually spawned. So, there he was waiting patiently for me on the ground. Good boy!

Still flustered, and scared someone in the area would tag him, I took a shot at him while still in flight. At the last second, I remembered to activate my parachute (would have definitely squashed myself from that height). Anyhoo.. long story short: I found him, killed him, and now he's my friend.

Don't give up the dream! Your drake is out there too!

Commentaire de Enuo

Hey guys enuo here!

Yeah so I was like half %^&*in asleep was like 9 AM pacific when my NPCscan went bonkers I didn't believe it at first but I saw TLPD right over me.so I dot him up without thinking and start to fall to my death and as I scurry to search for my snowfall lager it was too late, my pixelated little midget was already dead..I started screaming my balls off when I come back he was gone I flew all over then flew into the Bor's Breath he was dead some gay druid willshattnr killed him...I found him at 29,66 a week and a half into my search for the TLPD GGOFWOW!

Commentaire de 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?

Commentaire de Enuo

I think I'll post a socially acceptable comment now that I'm not %^&*ed off.

It's been about 2 and a half weeks now since I became interested in this mount and wanted to try and get it. I've been sitting at Bor's Breath for 15 hours a day for the 2 and a half weeks I've been here...I've seen Vyragosa about 3-4 times and it was just 3-4 days ago when I saw my TLPD and thought my search was over..being that it was 9 AM I rushed over there half tired not knowing what to do..and threw a dot on him without thinking and I fell to my death and a druid got him.

The next night we did ulduar but the raid was called early so I go outside the instance log off turn on NPCscan come back went afk for literally 30 seconds to get a drink..come back..NPC FOUND TLPD and my hunter friend who has been helping me for the past week now was calling for me on vent so I could kill it but a horde was going to tag it so finally he just decided to kill it..now that I think about it I'm glad he did.

Because it's now July 1st 1 am pacific as I was watching videos mindlessly not expecting much NPCscan went off and I see TLPD across from me..there is a bloodelf mage right next to me ready to get him aswell..this time I dot him I got the tag and I snowfall lagered my way down..the mage helped me kill it to half then switched to me when he realized it was my tag.

needless to say..2 and a half weeks and I got my drake. Don't give up hope guys and you will get yours too! :D

Kill shot
http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj300/dardarizpyro/709694ce0cfcaa547b9287e3b07e615bc6b.jpg

Victory shot
http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj300/dardarizpyro/16e9535f0d1f51d0dd0113c8363b9b30f6b.jpg (I edited the victory shot, I failed at posting a screenshot :( but there you guys go!)

Commentaire de Dukotar

My Target macro looks something like this:

/cleartarget
/tar Time
/stopmacro ,
/script PlaySound("ReadyCheck");
/run RaidNotice_AddMessage(RaidBossEmoteFrame,"Found Target!", ChatTypeInfo)

It will target the TLPD if he's in range, and if he's alive, it will play the Ready Check Sound and display a raid warning saying "Found Target".

I've yet to be successful in even seeing his corpse thus far, but this macro has helped me in pursuit of other rare mobs. It lets you know rather unsubtly that you have found your target.

If you want to change the sound played on target location, change the "ReadyCheck" (leave the quotation marks) in the fourth line to something in the big list (in the box) on this page.

Commentaire de 415959

I got him today as I was flying straight up from the outside of Bouldercrag's Refuge.

I have this habit of flying up and over the mountains in storm peaks instead of around, and thank god for that, cause as I was going to the top of the mountain (the mountain that contains bouldercrag's refuge) I saw him. I was so used to clicking on proto drakes and being disappointed that I sat there for a moment in disbelief, I actually almost didn't even bother to check the name.

anyway I kited him to the peak, killed him and that was that, 0 previous hours of camping

Commentaire de TheKraZe

I've been camping this thing about as long as I've been camping the Authenticators on the website... I sure hope it doesn't take this drake as long to re-spawn as the Authenticators do.

Commentaire de 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?

Commentaire de ninjadriver

I've caught the TLPD on each of my 3 80s. If you are serious about tagging and killing this rare, then i recommend NPCScan and camping the small lake north of Frosthold. I can verify that there are 2 different spawn points there. One is right over the lake, and flies down the river. The second is against the hill Frosthold is on and flies north over Valkyrion. The hill spawn is higher, while the lake spawn is lower in altitude. 1 of my kills was luck while i was checking the known flight routes right before a server maintenance, and TLPD spawned SE of the engine of the makers, flying with the blue protos.

My suggestion would be to camp the lake for the 2 spawn points, and periodically to the engine and check the blue protos, then fly back.

The routes above I mentioned are not full routes, because of quick tags and kills, but they are personally witnessed routes.

EDIT --

Just read the above comment, TLPD can spawn more than once a week and not just after a maintenance. I caught my first one on a sunday morning, and caught my 2nd one 48 hours later just before morning maintenance on a Tuesday.

Commentaire de 421601

any 1 here can help me ?

where time lost... respawn ?

plz answer

and give cordinates

Commentaire de 421788

it would really help if people would get the screen shot of it before they kill it.... just so we can get a general idea of where it spawns. just saying you found in in a specific location doesnt help and maps help a bit more but it would be nice if we had pictures of it flying before kill

Commentaire de 349084

can someone please tell me about how high he flys and how fast he flys so i know if i need to cut him off or chase after him so i can get him

Commentaire de 347293

Started camping again since yesterday @6PM. Waited 'till 3AM and the decided to quit.
When I logged in again at 10AM I heard Vyrogosa was killed at 7AM. Been camping again since 6PM 'till now (5AM) will post when I got it!

Commentaire de Blackriver

Does anyone have any information on the creature's two abilities?

Commentaire de PhineEredar

Just got my third TLPD kill on Eredar (second went to my girlfriend, this one to my alt Healadin).

Logged in to fly the usual routes, and quickly I spotted him on the red Ulduar route flying north towards the Engine of the Makers. Gogo Crusader Aura!

The moment I get close enough to tap him, his name goes grey. A horde paladin had gotten the tap!

Amazingly, my holy paladin was able to kill this horde ret before he was able to kill the TLPD. He even used his bubble.

http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/1970/tlpdpen.jpg

Commentaire de 426418

Well i was camping bors breath i went afk for a minute or two when i got back npc scan picked up vyragosa. I didnt see it so i flew forward and there was the big ol dragon i tried to pull it down but i lost it cause i went to far then i saw a horde so i started to panic i dismounted and fire blasted it but i didnt hit ice block fast enought and fell to my death. i got back and saw the blood elf dk killing it. being in a good mood i helped him kill it since i saw it dead 3 times and killed it twice. gradulated the horde and left.

so far 2 vyra kills 3 dead vyra

havent seen tpld yet

Oswin Alliance
Velen

Commentaire de 400458

Today i tagged this only to have a warrior come up behind me and gank me. Maddest ive ever been while playing this game.

Commentaire de Haylzorz

I've been camping the TLPD for about 8 days. So far I've killed Vyragosa about 8 times, on two ocassions I killed her twice in one day. I haven't come across the TLPD dead or alive as of yet. I'm not religiously camping it, I do need my sleep afterall. Apparently someone killed it at about 11:30pm yesterday, but I was suspicious as they wouldn't show me the body.

I kept track of some of my Vyra kills, but not all (I forgot xP). The times I have are:
8:45pm
11:15pm
11:45pm
11:45pm

And today it was about 11:30am? Something like that.
I'm pretty sure the times don't really mean anything. But no harm in keeping notes on it, may turn out useful.

Edit: Forgot to mention that I camp at Bor's Breath (the frozen lake, the 27.9, 65.0 mark on the map)

Commentaire de Krateros

Vyragosa spawned over my head, literally over my head so a confirmed spawn spoint is 31.69 it cannot be more confirmed than that, i almost had a heart attack when NPCscan popped up...before Vyragosa spawned 1-2 seconds before actually

Commentaire de Alterraia

This is interesting information that I heard and have confirmed myself.

I've read somewhere that there are only or at least or about 5 rare elites up at once, in Northrend. Many times I have had 2/3 rares up at once in one zone. I've yet to have all 3 be up at once. I'm not sure if this is fact, but if it was, then there might be a limit on how many rares are up at once in order to reduce them being farmed. So, if you kill one, another will spawn, if we go along w/ the 5 up at once theory.

I've completed Frostbitten almost twice now, with killing many rares I didn't need, numerous times just because it's stupid to leave them up. I've noticed that rares tend to spawn on the hour maybe a few min over, and sometimes around the half hour. Mostly on the hour though. When I was hunting for the last few on Frostbitten, the ones I was looking for had been spotted just after the hour had struck. It could be a somewhat late spawn, or just it was found a few minutes later.

Then we also have the spawn timers that rares tend to follow which is on average 6 to 8 hours. That's also a safe bet to go by.

With my experience in this achievement, rares tend to follow all three rules. I've had many rares spawn on the hour, I've had a streak of rare kills just in patting around Northrend. Luckily it was along my patrol, but I did not go back to ones that weren't previously there after killing others. I've also had rares spawn on a 6 to 8 hour timer.

Today, I was just about to log out, and NPCScan picked up Putridus the Ancient in Icecrown, while I was sitting in Dalaran. I got a group (I was on my mage) and killed him in minutes, and then chatted for a bit. It was a bit after 11 PM ST. I then decided to head to Storm Peaks. I found Vyragosa about 5 minutes after Putridus died, flying about, from her Brunhildar spawn point. Most realms heavily farm TLPD, so Vyra rarely will be flying about freely unless just had spawned. Vyra just spawned on my realm and I was the first to see her.

I didn't check for any rares after that though.

So, after all of that, I think all rares are connected to one another by the kill one and another will spawn rule. However, in the random lottery of who's going to spawn next, the one that just died will not respawn for another 6 to 8 hours. The lower level zones, can have rares patting around for idk how long. So, they can either depsawn, triggering another to spawn, or another "could" spawn on the hour.

Most of us have seen/killed Vyra on the hour. Oddly enough, I've seen TLPD at like 8:48 PM ST. Some obscure and random time. It HAD to have just spawned because on my realm there is always 30+ players in that zone, that time of night. So, for the rares that obviously don't live very long, spawn due to another rare dying.

It was just luck that I thought of checking Storm Peaks after killing Putridus. It was before 11:30 PM when I found Vyra, so it wasn't a peak spawn time. It was a random lottery spawn.

I was after Loque'nahak in Sholazar, and I just happened to fly right into him at some obscure time. The rares in Sholazar are hard to find w/ hunters always trying to tame them. So, Loque'nahak had just spawned in one of it's more popular areas (near the gorillas), and it was just after another rare was killed. In fact, I had just killed Crazed Indu'le Survivor and decided to head to Sholazar for a chance at the cat. My friend had killed another rare before Crazed so Crazed probably spawned due to his kill.

I have not been able to test this yet, but there might be a way to force a spawn of TLPD.

Get 24 players in a raid group. Put 3 in each zone w/ a rare. In the zones that have rares spawn in specific areas, keep 1 player on that rare. For the rares w/ large patrols, have the 3 players in that zone keep an eye out for all three there. A rare will ALWAYS be up, unless of course all 24 (including TLPD) were killed, then they are all on the 6-8 hour spawn timer, then you've no idea where the next one(s) will be. Assuming everyone is tracking the correct areas and using NPCScan (which I believe is the best mod for rare tracking), they should find each rare as it spawns due to the death of another rare.

If it works out, it could force TLPD to spawn due to the fact it's technically 1/24 Northrend rares.

So, rares do spawn on the hour. Rares also do spawn every 6 to 8 hours (or at least the one that dies will respawn then and that's probably including Vyragosa and TLPD for obvious reasons), and rares to spawn minutes after another rare is killed.

Make of it what you will, but this is what I've seen in farming for TLPD and completing Frostbitten 1.96 times.

Commentaire de 429339

How High Is he flying at does anyone know?

Commentaire de Taurone

3 hours wasted today trying to find him with a guild friend. No success, maybe tomorrow =/

someone killed Vyragosa at 9pm~9:20pm, cuz i asked on general and one person said me that killed her around on hour ago (it was almost 10:20pm), the server was Warsong

Commentaire de 181166

I would take comments in general with a heavy pinch of salt, especially when it comes to asking if they've seen a rare spawn of recently. A lot of people "will" lie just to try get rid of competition. Has happened in Sholazar when I was intending to tame Loque'Nahak. A player asked in general in which another hunter replied that it was killed recently, except that I tamed it about half an hour later.

Commentaire de Zaroxen

Found it in the passage between Snowdrift Plains and Valkyrion. I was on a flightpath, so I couldn't jump of immediately to kill it. When I came back, I found it flying around in Snowdrift Plains.

Edit: Here's were I first saw it: https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:266563 , and here's where I killed it: https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:277454

Commentaire de Mandarin

Actually when i watched my friend killing the TLPD, #$%^ed of as i was, he dropped 2x of the mounts, i am not sure if this is a bug or not.

Commentaire de 9361

i seriously pity anyone tryin to get this
3 months+ 6 hrs a day and ive still to see it dead or alive
rare is okay but this is a complete and utter joke

Zuljin

Commentaire de Adraunn

A macro I found cruising the WoW forums:

/cleartarget
/tar Time
/tar Dirkee
/tar Vyra
/stopmacro
/tell YOURNAMEHERE > %t <
/run RaidNotice_AddMessage(RaidBossEmoteFrame, "RARE SPAWN! WAKE UP!", ChatTypeInfo)
/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\interface\\RaidWarning.wav")

Not sure if it works but seems to be okay.

EDIT: Tested and it does work, sound and all.

Commentaire de gehri

Also found a good addon called NPCSCAN. dont have to make macros and keep spamming it while flying.if it spots a rare elite. it tells you ina large message with the picture of the said npc.

Commentaire de dinonid

I'm on hour 5 now on my hunt, so far, only found Dirkee.

The hunt continues.

Commentaire de 144170

I was alt tabbed getting a minigame addon for my girlfriend and i came back with the Time-Lost Proto drake attacking me midair at the intersection of Bor's Breath, Valkyron & Frost Hold. I came back dropped down and snagged it just as people swarmed me to get it :D

Commentaire de Pigl33t

I was waiting around for a Ulduar raid to begin, and as I've had a habit of doing lately I was sitting on my flying mount just south of the big hole in Storm Peaks. And behold! TLPD spawned right in my face. I killed him and got it :) Really easy... Spent maybe 2 hours total "camping" it before I got it. It's as simple as that. Also killed Vyragosa a few days before that while doing the Tournament daily where you get the stone blocks from Storm Peaks. She also spawned in the same place, but on a diffrent patrol route.

And on a side note, that thing about rares spawning at or around new hour or half hour, might be true. I only took a screenshot of my TLPD kill and that was shortly after 20:00 server time.

Commentaire de 340634

This, my friends, is most certainly Hogger's long lost flying mount.

Commentaire de whitehusky

I'm going on five days of camping for the TLPD. I've been keeping an Excel spreadsheet going of the times I've seen/killed Vyragosa.

2-Aug Vyragosa Valkyrion 2:41 AM
2-Aug Vyragosa* Bor's Breath pass 11:21 PM
3-Aug Vyragosa Mountain north of Frosthold 12:33 PM
4-Aug Vyragosa Valkyrion 1:12 AM
5-Aug Vyragosa Mountain north of Frosthold 4:58 AM
6-Aug Vyragosa Mountain north of Frosthold 12:58 AM
7-Aug Vyragosa Valkyrion 4:06 AM
10-Aug Vyragosa* Mountain north of Frosthold 1:21 PM
11-Aug Vyragosa Mountain north of Frosthold 3:20 AM
12-Aug Vyragosa Mountain north of Frosthold 5:47 AM
14-Aug Vyragosa Valkyrion 5:05 PM
15-Aug Vyragosa Valkyrion 5:54 AM
16-Aug Vyragosa Mountain north of Frosthold 6:57 AM
16-Aug Vyragosa* Snowdrift Plains 6:10 PM
17-Aug Vyragosa* Bor's Fall 1:53 PM
18-Aug Vyragosa* Valkyrion 4:29 PM
19-Aug Vyragosa Mountain north of Frosthold 1:24 AM

* Not my kill.

Hopefully the TLPD spawns next time instead of Vyragosa, but I'm not expecting it. I do hope I find him, though.

Edit: I'm no longer updating the times and locations I've seen Vyragosa. It doesn't give any pertinent information about the TLPD. They don't share a spawn timer, just locations.

Update I: Almost four weeks of camping this mob. Two days ago, I missed him by two hours. I found out another person got him three days ago in the afternoon. Someone I helped get Skoll for saw his corpse two weeks ago in my usual camping location around 2 in the morning. I keep missing this mob! I am praying he spawns over the weekend and I get him.

Update II: He didn't spawn over the weekend, but I'm continuing to camp this location. I'm trying not to get discouraged, but it's hard.

Commentaire de 436588

Killed Vyra at exactly 4:30 PM today.
Going to check the same spawn point around 10:30... They seem to spawn right on the :30 or :45 or on the hour.
GL everyone.

Commentaire de 336588

Found Vyragosa at 3:55PM on the Terenas Realm. I went to do my JC daily and she spawned right infront of me. Brought her down, killed her and she dropped a rogue headpiece and a bag of gold and frostweave cloth. This was the third rare i killed that day as the other two were Skoll and Old Crystalbark.

Commentaire de 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.

in addition lower on this page someone put where they saw him and where they killed him suggesting he pats in a clockwise direction on the large path in the north west going up near ulduar.

Commentaire de 347984

TomTom loc's

/way Storm Peaks 50.2 69.2 Time-Lost Proto Drake
/way Storm Peaks 40.6 50.0 Time-Lost Proto Drake
/way Storm Peaks 28.2 51.0 Time-Lost Proto Drake
/way Storm Peaks 48.0 54.5 Time-Lost Proto Drake
/way Storm Peaks 48.5 62.5 Time-Lost Proto Drake

/way Storm Peaks 39.3 42.1 Time-Lost Proto Drake
/way Storm Peaks 27.4 64.4 Time-Lost Proto Drake
/way Storm Peaks 27.2 70.6 Time-Lost Proto Drake
/way Storm Peaks 24.2 77.0 Time-Lost Proto Drake

/way Storm Peaks 27.2 77.4 Time-Lost Proto Drake
/way Storm Peaks 35.7 79.4 Time-Lost Proto Drake
/way Storm Peaks 45.0 62.7 Time-Lost Proto Drake
======================================
New Spirit Wolf as of patch 3.2

/way Storm Peaks 46 65 Skoll
/way Storm Peaks 45 62 Skoll
/way Storm Peaks 29 50 Skoll

Commentaire de 398862

Killed vyragosa 4 times so far and seen timelost dead once. With vyragosa spawns ive noticed that my kills have been very close to a 15-30-45 interval.

Maelstrom
vyragosa
Dead 5:31 AM

7 HOUR CAMP FOR NOTHING FUUU

Commentaire de 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. >.>

Commentaire de 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!

Commentaire de 438538

I have quiet a story with this rare..

At the launch of wotlk, I made a dk, leveled him to 80, and started camping. I must've camped for weeks but with no luck. I killed vyragosa atleast 6 times and dirke 4 times or so. I woke up one day at 10 am, logged in, to see the drake's dead corpse :(. I only saw him once. So, I gave up. I started playing on my shaman after atleast 6 months. My brother started a warlock alt. He was level 77, with normal flying mount - and all of sudden, I hear him arguing with my other brother in the next room and saying "Hit him fast". Ofcourse, when I went to their room, I saw the time lost attacking them..they had him tagged and was going for the kill :_:. They killed him exactly at Engines of the maker, near the big circle.

After he killed him, he looted, and got on his 60% and flew away -_-. Needless to say I was more than !@#$ed ;p.

So i decided to camp him again, I camped him for 4 days or so, till I remembered all the time lost on trying to kill this rare and decided that getting the green drake from the egg has better odds. So i got my rep up with the oracles and got the egg. I decided today would be the last day of farming the time-lost. I started at 10 pm, thought i would wait for a couple of hours and then stop. at about 11:30 pm, I was flying north of Nidavelir, going on the path to ulduar, when ofcourse, NPSCan caught him. it looked as if he just spawned, going south.

Goodluck to everyone camping him! :D

Commentaire de 403650

saw it spawn at 47.1, 63.9 at 5:45 Server and rushed to it only to see a warrior and another druid tag it right before i got in range. that's my luck for ya. hope the coords help everyone else in their search. :D will upload screenie later.

Commentaire de 250467

Macro works. Got Vyragosa with it. Adraunn's that is.

Commentaire de 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

Commentaire de 439227

So I've been camping 24/7 for 3 weeks at the Frozen Lake... I only log off when I'm driving to/from work.

I've seen Vyragosa numerous times, never Dirkee (but that's probably because I haven't moved).

I left today for about an hour to go pick my girlfriend up from work, and when I got home, NPCScan had found the TLPD, and when I targetted him, he was already dead. His limp body draped over a roof's edge in Valkyrion.

I want to cry...

Commentaire de Twista

I just killed him, new drake for me...lol. I was farming herbs and npc scan went off, I was looking everywhere then he flew over me. Followed him for about 2 min, I landed on a cliff and tagged him. I must say that I was extremely lucky because I was not even looking for him or knew he would be in the area I was in. For a level 80 elite my level 77 pet that I was leveling was handling him quite well. Is this Drake one of the hardest mounts to Obtain?

Screenshots

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2534/3826695330_d65f3979fb_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2439/3825923307_cae8af1bd5_o.jpg

Commentaire de 311950

Does anyone know how high it flys at ?

Commentaire de 439227

It depends on the location. Over K3, its quite a height.

However in Bor's Breath, its not bad. If you head just East of the Frozen Lake/Valkyrion location, there is a large round metal opening in the northern rock face... he flies slightly below this opening in Bor's Breath.

In the Engine Of The Makers area, its about the same height as the Bor's Breath area.

Farther North, near Ulduar, I'm not certain...

If you check some of the video's on YouTube, they give you a pretty good idea how high you'll need to be... be safe, and carry some Snowfall Lager so you don't plummet to your untimely demise.

Spicedmeats.

Commentaire de whytecloud

Just been killed over at Bor's Breath on Vashj, between 12:58-12:59

Commentaire de 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.

Commentaire de 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

Commentaire de 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
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Commentaire de ryanimay

Got it at Grom'arsh crash site.
@ Boulderfist //6:30 server time//
Camping him for first time and took me about 30-40 min before my NPC scan addon flashed and targeted the time-lost proto drake

Commentaire de 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)

Commentaire de 410265

OMG! He never come. Me and my frind has camp now in 7 days... How many has get it if some1 know

Commentaire de 128072

Just download NPC Scan addon and you will see a picture of any rare elite when you get in its range.

LINK: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info12995-NPCScan.html

Commentaire de 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.

Commentaire de 236685

..which you can actually use to target the mob in question.
Great addon, thanks. :)

Commentaire de datundra

Just an add/update form the Azjol-Nerub server.

Have been camping Skoll at loc 46,65 for about 4 days now and log on now and then to see if he's up. Last night I loged in and just as I got control NPC Scan was going crazy. Thought for sure it was Skoll so dismounted and hit the auto target. To my suprise, it wasn't Skoll but was the Time-Lost Proto Drake. As for how high he was, I couldnt' shoot him from the ground. Mounted back up and made him agro, flew straight down from where he was in the sky and landed at loc 46.3, 62.2 and killed him there. Time was aprox 9:05pm CST, and 8:05 servertime.

Commentaire de bared

how do you use that?

Commentaire de dJe781

Mob: Vyragosa
Realm: EU-Kael'Thas
Time: 07:16pm (19:16)
Date: 29 August 2009
Coordinates: 28, 66

Commentaire de 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

Commentaire de 450150

Ok, you people will probably hate me, but I farmed and killed Time-Lost in under 5 hours total. I used some of the logic discussed here and formed my own plan based off of what I observed. The short of it is that I used the flight path here:

https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:466411475427488444489469480497461524441549427568406598392615371646369671369714

I downloaded Silverdragon from curse. I highly recommend using it - as it will make your screen flash red when a rare is in the area and give you a rush of excitement!

Now to the good part. Here are my notes to myself:

The ridge between Temple of Storms and Brunnhhildar Village has mobs that are named Storm Tracker, etc. What are they tracking! Well, I am not sure what the quest/story line says, but there is a field with Wyrms flying over top that grab Mammoths and I believe that is what they are tracking. Since they are dragonkin, it makes since that the Lost-Time Drake has some connection. Going off of other's notes I was farming herbs in Bor's Breath area and flying across that ridge, across the field, and back. Time-Lost appeared just over that ridge near the big circle thing on the ground (40.7/60.5) at 5:15AM server time September 1, 2009. Note that the server was shutting down for maintenance at 6AM (not sure if that has an effect). Some say that the rare spawns often after server maintenance as well... Check into it!

lol I can't wait to log on after the maintenance today and see how many people are in that area. Save one for my son, I need to farm him up an rare epic mount too!

Commentaire de wazzick

After some empty handed Timed CoS runs i decided to pursue another flying mount.

Time-Lost Proto Drake then became my obsession. I spoke with a guild mate who pointed me in the right direction and I read most everything i could find on said drake. I do believe TLPD is a rare spawn of Vyragosa, although i don't think this has officially been confirmed by Blizz. In my experience Vyra's spawn rate is as stated on this string - at least 6 hours between spawns.

Here is my adventure -

I decided to camp above the frozen river north of frost hold - 3 reasons - some decent mining, skoll also spawns in this area, and maps on this string indicate three of TLPD's flight paths overlap in this area.

Aug 6th 2009 - Midnight - Vyragosa was killed by me heading East along the river.

Aug 7th 2009 - 2:50 PM - Vyragosa killed by me heading West along the river.

Aug 8th 2009 - 8:50 AM - Vyragosa killed by me same location as Aug 6th.

Aug 9th 2009 - 6:38 AM - Vyragosa killed by me heading towards the river from frosthold

Aug 9th 2009 - 9:52 PM - Vyragosa killed by my on the frozen lake coming from the frozen river

Aug 11th 2009 - 10:00 PM - Vyragosa killed by my same location as Aug 9th but flying opposite direction

Aug 12th 2009 - 2:57 PM - Vyragosa killed by me same FP as Aug 9th

Aug 14th 2009 - 7:00 AM - Same as 12th

Aug 15th 2009 - 3:57 PM - Vyragosa killed by me Snowdrift Planes

Aug 16th 2009 - 2:58 PM - Vyragosa killed by me above the frozen lake north of frosthold

Aug 17th 2009 - While camping Vyragosa i get word that a woman who left our guild one day prior killed Time Lost Proto Drake without knowing what it was or what it dropped. The drake was heading south over Valkyrion - If she had overlooked this drake it would have flown directly into my camp site. Finally got annoyed a decided to do something more productive with my time and made an alt shammy.

Time passes with the occasionally flight around Storm Peaks when i have minutes to spare while waiting for groups to form for heroics.

Aug 31st 2009 - 11:29 PM - While flying "the engine" waiting for a H ToC group to finalize itself i found myself mining - rare finder still running, but i lost interest in spamming the macro on the 17th - I see an orangish drake flying with the blue drakes in the north east region of this area. The drake is flying along the northern wall heading west. My heart beats fast. Rare finder goes bananas. I fly into it TLPD to get aggro and slowly move to the ground - Throw some heals on myself and drop all the dps i've got.

She is now mine!

Commentaire de 89393

i found Vyragosa right next to K3 tried to bring her down but WoW lag got me. i was dead on return and she was dead on the mountains heading to Brunnhildar village.

Commentaire de 439227

I posted a couple weeks ago about my misfortune of missing the TLPD while I was out picking my girlfriend up from work.

Well last week things got desperate and I started camping BOTH major hot spots (engine/frozen lake) with 2 laptops.

Last Wednesday, I was busy getting ready for work and NPCScan went off and I didn't hear it. I came in to TLPD dead AGAIN.

This makes it twice in 5 weeks that I have seen TLPD and also let it slip between my fingers.

Today I'm slightly over 6 weeks camping; at about 16 hours a day online. Well tonight was different....

I was busy with work, and NPCScan went off. I thought, as always 'It's just Vyragosa' -- but when I tabbed back into WOW, there he was, flying down the mountain in front of my camp! I quickly raced at him and drew aggro (I'm a Prot Warrior, so he took damage attacking me) and the tag was mine... I wanted to be sure I had him, so I used a Heroic Throw from 3 inches away, and fell to the cliff below me... I was so crazy with trying to assure I had him that I forgot to drink my snowfall lager... but I lived. I was down to 1/4 health, and immediately hit Enraged Regeneration when it proc'd for me. I sat in my chair screaming, and beating the TLPD within an inch of his life.

Ahh sweeeet victory! What a sweet mount.

For anyone interested, I started recording my sightings after a week or two of camping. Here is my log. These are all confirmed kills/sightings, with the last sighting being my final entry :) MY KILL. The delta is the time difference since the last entry/sighting. All times are in EST. I was camped at 29,66 at the Frozen Lake. My 2nd PC was at 39.6,60 at the Engine of the Maker.

Date & Time / NPC / Location / Delta
8/14/09 11:00 AM / Vyragosa / Frozen Lake
8/15/09 1:00 AM / Vyragosa / Frozen Lake / 14:00:00
8/15/09 3:30 PM / Time-Lost Proto-Drake / Frozen Lake / 14:30:00
8/16/09 11:15 AM / Vyragosa / Frozen Lake / 19:45:00
8/17/09 6:30 AM / Vyragosa / Frozen Lake / 19:15:00
8/20/09 12:00 AM / Vyragosa / Frozen Lake / 65:30:00
8/23/09 2:45 PM / Vyragosa / Frozen Lake / 86:45:00
8/24/09 8:00 PM / Vyragosa / Frozen Lake / 29:15:00
-- Start of Dual PC Camping --
8/25/09 8:15 PM / Vyragosa / Engine Of The Maker / 24:15:00
8/26/09 8:15 AM / Time-Lost Proto-Drake / Frozen Lake / 12:00:00
8/27/09 5:15 AM / Vyragosa / Frozen Lake / 21:00:00
8/28/09 4:15 AM / Vyragosa / Engine Of The Maker / 23:00:00
8/29/09 2:00 AM / Vyragosa / Frozen Lake / 21:45:00
8/29/09 10:30 PM / Vyragosa / Frozen Lake / 20:30:00
8/30/09 4:45 AM / Vyragosa / Frozen Lake / 6:15:00
8/30/09 1:00 PM / Vyragosa / Valkyrion / 8:15:00
8/31/09 9:28 AM / Vyragosa / Engine Of The Maker / 20:28:00
9/1/09 8:58 PM / Vyragosa / Frozen Lake / 35:30:00
9/2/09 8:30 AM / Vyragosa / Frozen Lake / 11:32:00
9/2/09 9:30 PM / Time-Lost Proto-Drake / Frozen Lake / 13:00:00

And now... since my girlfriend has seen me on my Time Lost... she wants one.

FML.

Happy hunting!

Spicedmeats!

Commentaire de 90652

lol that is eviiil :)

Commentaire de 451605

*sigh* I have to say that some people when it comes to hunting this wonderful mount, can be nothing more then cruel and very annoying people. I've had in the last 3 weeks that I've been hunting this dragon, everything under the sun thrown at me.

I've had insults, people apparently reporting me for camping and being being general jerks. Though I've come across Vrya plenty of times I have yet to see the TLPD. Even with all the advice from the people here in the posts I'm hard pressed to find a place that being camped by 3 or 4 going after the same thing.

Now I'm under a large confusion here, despite the posts that I've read about Vrya and the TLPD not sharing timers, but paths and spawn points. Everyone that I've talked to on my server Dragonblight and outside of it tell me that he spawns after 16 hours. Can some one tell me what the spawn times are? And even reassure me that Vrya and TLPD do not share a timer?

Commentaire de 9646

Short of a screenshot showing TLPD and Vyra together we will never know 100% if they don't share a timer.

Times of spawn and shared spawn are all speculation. Short of a a developer coming out and spilling all the beans we'll never be 100%.

We do know some things:
Vyra and TLPD share paths:
1) Does this mean TLPD is to Vyra as Trusilver to Tin?
2) Does this mean some developer was just lazy, and didn't want to plot out new paths?
3) Was this intentional to get people to find the TLPD by accidentally discovering it looking for Vyra?
4) Multiple of the above?

The time spawn:
1) X% every hour?
2) Set spawn timer from last death/spawn?
3) Set exact time?
4) one of the above, by Y% chance of spawning instead of Vyra?

Too many variables to ever be 100%. Even if you made a bot, preferably four, to scout out each of the four paths there is always a chance of the RNG laughing at you.

Each person will believe their own version.

Commentaire de Blackriver

I can confirm that Vyragosa spawns directly on the hill on the Frosthold mountain facing the Bor's Breath lake, and also directly above Val'kyrion. This may or may not mean that the Time-Lost Proto Drake does as well.

Commentaire de 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

Commentaire de 311950

How fast does he fly at 280% when hes not mounted when hes just a plane npc?

Commentaire de 277848

Just tagged TLPD on Nordassil at 2am server. 36,69 Good luck to all :D

It was flying North.

Commentaire de inyu

Killed Dirk at 68.1,46.3 and Vyragosa two times, one at 32.48 and the other at 33.37.

Commentaire de 313574

Killed Vyragosa 37.3 today @ 1200 Draka servertime

Commentaire de Krimmst

After 3 weeks of camping about 5 hours per day i finaly find him DEAD ! Cords 27 65.Looks like a horde got it 1 min befor i got there was really disappointed

Commentaire de 195165

Vyragosa killed at 10:50 AM on The Maelstrom EU.
She spawned right in front of me at the frozen lake, coords: 29.00, 67.00.

Just before this, I found a death knight flying on his TLPD mount over a TLPD corpse. This wasn't more than 5 minutes from when I killed Vyragosa. Not sure what to believe regarding the freaking spawn timers.

I'm throwing 2 screenshots up of the Vyragosa kill, didn't take any of the TLPD. The TLPD corpse was just over Brunnhildar together with the other blue proto drakes there.

Kill shot:
http://i35.tinypic.com/23iaxzd.jpg

Map shot to show where:
http://i34.tinypic.com/oid79d.jpg

- Rhiren @ The Maelstrom EU Horde.

EDIT: Vyragosa's corpse despawned at 11:26 AM.

Commentaire de 457623

i get this mount from my first kill but it was so hard only rouge can kill him and maybe pala
if the mob attack you first you well die cause he stun a lot with big dmg

Commentaire de R4ndomizer

VINOS, at what lvl did you kill it ? I dont think that you killed it with lvl 80, because with every class it is very easy to kill(if u are 80).

Commentaire de 427998

How do i find the npc ID #'s for npcs like this one for addons like Npcscan? can i find it on this site? If so where?

Commentaire de goreblade

found him at 27.55 in storm peaks at around 30 meters above the ground. time was 00:30 GMT+1. was questing around to get the quest achievement when npcscan went off and scared me out of my skin=) spent a frenzied 10 seconds locating it on my screen, pulled it off towards a cliff and downed it. general chat went off like a grenade and both "i totally hate you" whispers and "freaking grats man" whispers started rolling in. was really easy to kill. pure luck.

Commentaire de 434659

Major fail killed him 3 times in a row he didn't drop the reins until the 4th time. i suck took me few hours with a group looking for him.

Commentaire de R4ndomizer

I killed him 3 times ang got the mount 3 times. When you didnt get the mount it wasnt your kill. Write a GM. He will see if you have that talisman that only the Drake drops. So he could believe you.

Commentaire de 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.

Commentaire de 466396

Got it today :D. Yesterday I found Scorn or Skoll whatever, Killed him and got 25g and, 20 frostweave and a cool dagger. I thought, OO this would be cool to go hunting rare spawns! So I did. I researched it a bit, read up on alot of stuff and read Ponderance's theorys etc, which helped me alot!

Yesterday I got the addon called NPCscan, which was a real help, I advise all to get it. Heres my full story:

Yesterday (the 6th of October, 5 days after my birthday), I was randomly doing quests in storm peaks, I found Skoll, killed him got some phat lewtz. Thought, wow awsome, I should do this more often. So I went around, searching rare spawn paths. After having no luck I stumble across the Time-Lost Proto Drake in Wowhead (here). I read about it and in particular I read Ponderance's article, it was a great help. About the areas to camp, I camped facing south, just south of temple of storms over the Ice lake where the harpies are located. Camped there for 4 hours yesterday, no sign.

I woke up thesmorning feeling hard-done by but compared to others, what i felt was nothing. I got up, turned the computer on, started wow, got to the camp location and muted wow so if I saw something I could only hear the alert for the NPCscan. Got up to show my brother what noise it would make if something showed up, did the test then turned my screen off. Started to get up and then the alert went off again, I thought WTF is this broken? Turned the screen back on and saw the Time-Lost Proto-Drake flying in from my right (the West, which i believe it spawned very soon before I had seen it as there were about 10 others patroling the area). I believe it spawned at about (28,63.7). I was camped at about (30.4, 62.9) in Stormpeaks. I saw the Drake flying in, got onto my carpet, flew over, slow falled and ice lanced it. After bringing it to the ground I proceeded to kill it which i did at exactly 7:40pm Realm time at the frozen lake. If this is relevant im on a US realm, Darkspear, Horde, Geeshan.

Unfortunantaly My screenshot thing screwed itself up big time and I can't find my screenies, does any1 know why this happened?

Anyway, As I was saying, I killed him at the start of the Harpie area, he is relatively easy to get down, you can just fly into it and it will agro onto you and then you can fly to the ground. He was flying about my height on the ledge I was camping, unfortunantaly I can't get you a screenshot because it's screwed...

If you need anymore info whisper me in game, I hope my data helped you to find a more accurate measure of how and where it spawns etc. Not every1 will be as lucky as me (I got it the 1st day I started looking seriously), it may take weeks, even months to bag this baby. But all you can do is hope, hope you are as lucky as me.

Commentaire de 469230

Finally found my Time-Lost proto after nearly 3 months of casual farming. After reading reports on spawn locations and flight paths, I decided on the western end of Bor's Breath, near Valkyrion.

Today (10/14) at 12:28 PM I was flying towards my camp spot and NPCscan erupted. Lo and behold, there he was, flying westward towards Valkyrion about 20 yards above the ground. If this is at all similar to his normal elevation, slow fall potions and the like are not needed, I took maybe 2,000 fall damage maximum. I killed him and looted my drake.
Literally no less than 15 seconds later, 3 or 4 people were hovering over the body. I'm including this just to stress how many people are casually (or not so casually) looking out for the TLPD and how quickly you need to tag him.
(I will add screenshots of my camp spot, the TLPD flying, his death and a victory shot soon.)

Hope this helps, happy hunting! :D

Commentaire de 251272

I have been camping this area for the past 14+ hours and nothing!

Commentaire de lock101

Wow, after camping this Sweet rare for awhile and eventually giving up on my paladin months back. I recently started camping for him/her again off and on on my paly/druid/dk and today I was kinda tired and bout ready to head for bed, so I'm sitting in storm peaks with my Dk and I go and grab a drink and a bite to eat, come back and put on a college football game to watch, so I'm sitting on the couch and all the sudden my rare addon starts going off and I jump up and look at the screen and sure enough it was the Tlpd, OMG!. I thought for sure, it would be tagged before I got to him, took me a second to get to him and get the tag, but sure enough I got him/her as a mount now. I'm still in shock, I did /who after I killed it and there was 42 alliance on atm. Seen people swarming its corpse after ward. Got screenies if anyone wants a look. Still in shock, wow! Couldn't be happier I got it on my Dk, seems to fit her better than my paly or druid. But now the hunt continues for my paly and druid also. :D

Commentaire de mixter

I lol'd when i saw the comment saying they used auto-clicker and got the mount....and also said their server and all character names xD

Blizzard Casts Hunter's Mark on You
Blizzard Crits you with Ban for 1000000 damage (3000 overkill)

the lesson here is....euhm.....well.... Dont use cheats (or get caught)
and farm like normal people do....by waiting , and waiting, and waiting...

and waiting....and waiting...and waiting...*goes insane*

Commentaire de 471207

Does anyone have any confirmed spawn points for this guy? We know he has three for sure, but has anyone ever actually seen him spawn in front of him

Also, does anyone know if he is guaranteed to spawn after server resets? Because in the past two days, we've had rolling restarts and he appeared both times. How do I know this? Via caching.

Commentaire de viega

I finally got time-lost after seeing his corpse consistently once a week the past 3 weeks on random days. I camped one night and never saw him, and monday I was just doing a regular fly through storm peaks without thinking i'd see him and he was flying on the path around frosthold counter-clockwise. Killed him over frozen lake and got the mount.

Commentaire de 471207

DOES THIS MOB MAKE A DISTINCT NOISE WHEN HE IS AROUND OR SPAWNING?

Commentaire de 140351

This may seem like a silly question, but for melee classes I think it is important: does the TLPD behave like Vyragosa? I downed Vyragosa once and it was a pain in the ass because she doesn't get into melee range unless you are in a very specific location. I saw her again today and she killed me twice because she stayed out of melee range and kept blasting her frost attack.

Does the TLPD come into range for melee or do you have to position her like Vyragosa?

Commentaire de 338204

Nope time lost is the opposite fo Vyragosa. Insteed of being in range he teleport himself behind you wich makes it then easier for melees. He wont teleport back into range so dont worry ;)

Commentaire de 230118

Got my Time lost today at 12:58 after Farming since 4 am.
Got really lucky i was really farming after Vyragosa.
Timelost ftw!

Commentaire de 458300

Friend who was camping gave me her kill time for you nice folks at WoWhead.

10:34 PM server time, Cenarion Circle.

Commentaire de 481640

if the previous comments are true (about vyragosa and time-lost proto-drake sharing a spawn timer) then i just missed them both. i had decided that i wanted that mount and gone and downloaded the addon, NPCscan. After camping for about 15 minutes, it went crazt about vyragosa. After about 15 more minutes, i went to check this website and look at some comments. some either state or imply that they share a timer. if this is true, i just missed my achievement AND my Time-Lost Proto- Drake.

Commentaire de 440032

Darn! I didn't know that he dropped a Proto-Drake! While I was questing my npcscan addon found him, I just let him go... I'm going to hunt him 24/7 now.

PS: Expecting downrating on this comment.

Commentaire de rob22

I was headed to do the heroic daily and happened to bump into him.
He was flying below me and had a bunch of people chasing after him on slow mounts. Luckily i had just got my fast flying and picked him up. He was coming from Bor's Breath and heading for Valkyrion

Commentaire de lock101

peterjohansen , thats an honest mistake. Anyways, figured I post again, I previously got the tlpd on my Death knight after over a month of searching on my paladin first, I didn't get him. I actually gave up at one point and since have lvled a druid and hunter to 80 also. Now I have my hunter and I've tamed all the spirit beasts with her, such a thrill. I decided I'll hang out in storm peaks and farm herbs occasionally and camp a spot for the tlpd again. Camping Skoll for about 2-3 days before I managed to find him, I never seen Vyra or the tlpd. After taming skoll, the last of the spirit beasts I needed, got Loque'Nahak and Gondria in consecutive nights both being the first night of camping for them. I then goto my spot to camp for the elusive Time-Lost Proto Drake, the second night of search my macro goes OFF! and I can't believe my eyes again, the Tlpd is in my presence un-tagged. I quickly get aggro drop to the ground and tag him/her with a arcane shot, me and Loque proceeded to get our mount and fly away on the beauty, was so happy! Simple fight as melee or ranged as I've now gotten this Rare on 2 different characters. I can say, there really is no formula to getting him/her other than being in the zone and having some major luck go your way. My paladin still sits wondering where the tlpd is, :D. But my death knight and hunter I just consider got extremely lucky, especially my death knight, it was 3:00pm server time and the zone was loaded with 50 alliance(not to mention how ever many horde was on), couldnt tell you how many swarmed as I was taking him/her down. I've spent quite a bit of time looking for this rare, don't regret a bit of the search, makes it that much sweeter when you do find and get the tag. Also made a killing off of herbs, got my Schematic: Jeeves for my hunter. Wouldn't replace this mount for any of the other Proto's, don't get me wrong, some of them are pretty nice looking also. But there is just something about the tlpd.

Commentaire de 483341

Just got mine today. Very first time i was camping this drake, about 2 mounts ago, i was afk when my npcscanner found it. #$%^ed me off enough to keep trying and trying and trying.Killed vyra about 8 times. Then saw TLPD about 2 mounts AFTER my first encounter and killed it in the same exact spot. 35.1 65 (cords) 6:48am ST after camping for about 5 or 6 hours. You want advise? ok ill give you 1 tip. you have to camp for long periods of time. you probably wont get it if you camp for 30 minutes at a time. But i guess you gotta get lucky either way! happy hunting

Commentaire de 452653

Anyone know the direction of his flightpath?
Would rather fly in the opposite direction than fly in the same direction, more chance to see him

Commentaire de cattracks

The macro

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How do you use it?

Commentaire de Duxy

Server: Firetree (US)
Name: Rëdux
Server Time: 2:30pm on October 28th
Coords: 77, 80
How you spotted it: Was running a herbing route, spamming my target macro.
Height: Rather high up. When I dismounted to tag it I was even with its height and if I had not Levitated down I dont believe I would have lived (Priest, 19k hp).
Direction of travel: Heading north, coming from the frozen lake, I was headed south.
Did you kill Vyragosa prior or know of the kill prior?: None that I know of.

Details: For a long time after hitting 80 I was camping the T-L. After like a week of 6-7 hours camping each day I started slacking off until it was a the point where I was only spamming my macro while running herbing routes. The day I found the T-L, I had just run my counter-clockwise circle around the "Engine of the Makers" where the blue protos fly around, and decided instead of doubling back though "Bor's "Breath" where I had just come from, that I'd go up over the mountains by the "Grom'arsh Crash Site" and head west and then south around the "Temple of Storms" (I usually cross back though Bor's and north from the frozen lake for a better chance at the drake).

When I came around though the middle of Valkyrion I found him. He was heading north straight over the circle that's in the middle of the town. I tagged him while he was directly above the circle, and brought him down on the east snow pile. The drake will teleport to you if he does not reach you fast enough. (Which scared me because I thought an alliance mage had shown up, who could probably have easily killed me in my spastic state.)

He put up a lot less of a fight then I had expected against a Discipline priest, and luckily for me, no Alliance or Valkyries pulled during the fight. One thing I would like to add for other people looking for him is the fact that he's huge. I can't tell you how many times I've passed other people riding the T-L and thought that it was the mob, but even if a Tauren had ridden one past me, it would not come close to the size of the actual npc. He's roughly the same size as the blue protos found near The Engine of the Makers, (if not bigger), and his flying animation is the same.

GL, and happy hunting. :]
(edited for spelling)

Commentaire de 215149

Unbelievable. I was sitting in storm peaks reading comments here, and just as I finish reading Pintos amazing descriptive comment I tab back and there it is flying in front of my face. I panick, taunting it, and bubbeling to not die from the fall. 3 seconds after engaging four other horde players swoop in an attack it. I think im the luckiest guy ever.

Commentaire de 313574

I got the Time Lost Proto Drake Nov 17th at 6:15 Draka Server time.

SilverDragon addon picked him up as he was flying up the frozen river near the Harpies

Commentaire de Lolseeker

Best way to find it is finding it by accident.

Commentaire de 488550

Can anyone tell me the name of this addon which tells you if theres a rare mob near by or something simular? or whatever you guys seem to be using ^^

Commentaire de 313574

Silverdragon

Npcscan

Both are used to scan for rare spawns

Commentaire de 344999

I witnessed a Vyragosa kill at 1:49am central, and myself killed Dirkee exactly one hour later.
From that point, I camped above Bor's Breath for another two hours before passing out, lol.
I feel the Dirkee kill being exactly one hour later is mere coincidence, but maybe that info will help fund some further research into rare spawn methodology. :3

Commentaire de 427998

I am currently searching for the time-lost proto drake and i have the addon npcscan. I was wondering if there is any difference between the addon npcscan and silverdragon? Like any noticable/ functionable difference?

Commentaire de 490382

Ok! Will try to give as much tips as I can.

Tips:

1. Get NPCscan.
2. Believe in luck.
3. 5:00 am

I started camping the Time lost proto drake 3 days ago, and got him today.

But guess what - I got him by chance.
You will NOT get him WAITING or CAMPING or FOLLOWING his routes. He spawns at ANY point of ANY of 4 routes. And he spawns when you are not there, believe me. If you dont believe me, you will understand that yourself in next several weeks. It is totally random whether he spawns, and when he spawns. There is bottom limit of time for Vygarosa ~6 hours, but it can go up to 1 day. Russian servers say TLPD respawn time is ~48-72 hours - apart from Vygarosa.

I was camping him at - Bor's Breath and Makers Engine area, - because they are 2 points that cover all routes. I camped total of 20-25 hours in these 3 days. And yesterday said: F..ck it! And went about my business - daily quests, tournament, heroics, raids, mining.

But there was a russian website (i know russian), one guy said - magical time is 5:00 am, not earlier, not later - 5:00 am go to Bor's Breath.

All my guildies went to sleep, and only one left. I asked him if he has time at 5:00 am to come with me to get the mount, he said its too late and went to sleep.
Anyways, at 4:50-4:55 by chance - I was going from Sholazar to Argent Tournament for dailies - my NPCscan goes off - Time lost proto drake. Right at the Bor's Fall entrance he flies - very slow in the air. I first flew to catch his aggro - in front of his face, he got aggroed, and I shot an arrow, dismounted - tried to drink Snowfall lager (i still had it on my bar) and died.
Released - found my body ~10 seconds - drank potion and mounted, he was in the middle of Bor's Breath. Now i decided to reach the higher point - in the beginning of Bors Breath, but hit him too early - dismount - death - release - find body ~ 30 seconds. I couldnt see him, first went towards Makers engine route - he wasnt there, I turned back to Frosthold route - the smallest one - to the left, and got to him at Bor's Fall again - he already made a circle. At this time I aggroed him in front of his face, then slowly, keeping the short distance - landed on Bor's Fall edge and killed him.
My heart beatrate was like ~200. In the middle of killing him another player flew over and was sadly looking at that action. I think he was camping him at Bor's Fall - I think I saw him, thats why was in too hurry. But he overslept or something. He was horde, Im alliance - I waved and cheered at him. He cheered at me as I was already mounting the drake. I made several turn around on drake - and he flew away.

I think it a lot has to do with luck. Because the earlier that day I found 4 RARE mobs for Frostbitten achievement - in Zuldrak and in Sholazar Basin, while mining. Also I got an awesome crossbow 232 lvl from TotC 25. Eventhough i rolled less than the other hunter girl, she said I would benefit from it more (it was PUG and my first TotC raid). Then immediately I get inv for OS 10 - get 2 achievements, immediately get inv for OS 25 - get a Fury of the Five Fights trinket, immediately get inv for Ony10 and get Onyxias head and necklace. After that I go mining and find Gondria - a rare pet for hunter - tame it (dual spec), find 2 more rare mobs, go to Sholazar - find 1 more rare, go to Storm peaks - get TLPD.

Notice that all of the above could be spread to a month or more. So to get TLPD you need to feel, need to be in luck streak. This might sound weird, but yes, thats the best way to get him.
He is RANDOM program roll. Read posts that say - "I was camping, looking, seeking for him for 2 months now..., 3 months, still didnt get him.. i doubt he exists..." and think. Think deep - he is RANDOM program. He can be at ANY point at ANY time for only 15 minutes.... its like to roll 1000 from 0-1000...

Go about your business, just try to be lucky. And when you feel it - go there but dont camp - just pass the routes twice and fly away. Go mining to Sholazar - Cobalt sells good. Go get herbs in Storm Peaks - plenty. Never camp!

What else... well... GOOD LUCK!

Place: Bor's Fall (Frosthold route)
Time: 5:00 am.
Time spent camping total: ~20 hours
Time spent before catch: 0 hours 0 minutes

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/1478/wowscrnshot112809055348.jpg
http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/7634/wowscrnshot112809055326.jpg

Commentaire de 339994

Wow... The sad part. I was on my level 78 Troll Shaman and he flew by. I actually targeted him and my paladin was nearby,

Frantic i hopped onto my paladin. and never found him.

I dont know if he despawned, but no one said anything about it in General chat so i'm assuming he did. My advice to everyone, If you see him, no matter if you have epic flying or no flying, Take him down! dont let this happen to you!

Oh, Edit: I found him in Sifreldar Village

Commentaire de 491350

I compiled a list of things.. from what i've seen. Kind of long, heh. I hope this helps!

What we DO know:

There is a Time-Lost Proto-Drake, and he does drop a mount. He also shares a timer with Vyragosa.
--> They share the same pat areas and possibly spawn points.

He is Vyragosa's rare spawn. When she is down, a number is rolled, and the odds of the TLPD Spawning in Vyragosa's place is about 4%.
--> The timer is believed to be around 6-18 hours.

Time lost and Vyragosa are dragonkin, and can be tracked by hunters. Also, Dirkee has nothing to do with their spawns.

He fights in melee range, no casts like Vyragosa. Hits for around 400 damage depending on your gear and armor.
--> He has 18,900 health.

What we do NOT know:

The exact spawn timer. (And why Dirkee is associated with two flying dragons)

If server resets spawn Vyragosa or the TLPD, Or if their timer is on an exact schedule.
The "Roll" that has the 4% TLPD Vyragosa switch, and if we can track it.

If there actually is a slim chance of TLPD's roll winning after 5-60 minutes of Vyra's death.

Sightings:

Bor's Breath and Valkyrion. The two spawn points where he has been seen the most.

Engine of the makers, and the field with the blue proto-drakes near Brunnhildar.

Depending on where he is determines his altitude. Reports state he's been ground level, 20-40 yards and even 60 yards. (But we're not 100% on that). Also, we're told he flies high over Valkyrion.

Desirable addons:

_NPCScan: Tracks rarespawns, Screen pulses red, sound goes off. Not illegal to have.

Rare Spawn Overlay: Map mod, Shows pat paths of all Northrend and Outlands rarespawns with their picture.

So is it really luck? Or timing?:

I believe it's not luck that helps you find this mount, but knowing where to be when he does show up. He will find you eventully. Trust me. When you least expect it. I was on my shaman and he came out of nowhere. I switched to my paladin and he was gone. This morning at 9:49AM Server time, I bagged Vyragosa. She spawned just under 24 hours of the last recorded kill on my server. Maybe it is luck, but it could be just knowing where to find your prey.

Places of great note:

Bor's Breath: Seems to have 90% of the kills. Plus it's where two of his pat areas connect. Also where a very alive untagged Vyragosa flew into me.

Engine of the makers, and the blue drake field

When the TLPD flew above me, I was in Sifreldar. Take note, He can be targeted from far away.

As for one hit wonders...
Dont camp him. It really is aggrivating to spend 12+ Hours flying around and have the person that has the mount kill him, and tell you "lol i promised myself i'd stop after 5". My drake was taken from me by the person on my server that has it, and thinks it's fun to farm it. Just take your free drake and leave us be :).

Final advice:

Keep track of when Vyra and TLPD have been killed.
If you want the drake bad enough, you WILL find him. Or.. He'll find you.
He really does appear when you least expect it. And while your heart's in your throat and your brain draws a blank, I offer you two words.

Get him.

Happy hunting all! Wishing you (And myself!) the best of luck! If i find any new information i'll update this. And + me if it helps you at all. :)

P.S, Included some screenshots.

First is this morning when I killed Vyra, Bor's breath
Coords: 33.8, 66.1

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h76/SKMRU/vyragosa.jpg

This is when I was on my shaman, and the TLPD flew by. The mod I have on is NPCScan, and for those of you that dont believe he's real, Here's your proof.

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h76/SKMRU/Protofound.jpg

EDIT:::

I've found and killed Vyra once again. Twice in one day, first time was 9:49am server, second was 7:30pm server. If this helps at all. She spawned once again by Bor's Breath, was flying to Valkyrion when i stopped her... Again.

Coords: 28.5, 65.1

Screenshot: http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h76/SKMRU/vyragosa2.jpg

Commentaire de Duxy

Redux again~

TIME-LOST WILL DESPAWN!

I'm not 100% sure if he actually despawned, or if he went into a phased zone, but it did dissapear right before my eyes in "Bor's Breath".

I already have my Time lost mount, and was frantically trying to tell a guildie I found him when he vanished in front of me. I was nearly right on top of him so he didn't go out of range and I'm pretty sure there's no phasing in Bor's Breath. Even if there was, from what people say so far the T-L is visable to all phases.

Of course I dont have actual proof like video or anything like that. I had just spotted him and had started typing when it happened.

Commentaire de 341933

Finally, finally, finally! Months of searching... hours upon hours of "Time Lost" ;D

Finally got him! Funny thing was, I was waiting around for Skoll (another rare spawn) instead! Totally caught me off guard. _NPCScan picked up on him right away. Hopped on my mount and spun around to find him.

Took him down on The Foot Steppes, just above Brunnhildar Village.
Coordinates were (47, 64) The Storm Peaks.
Time was 12:49 am Khadgar sever time...
I had killed Vyragosa at 3:56 pm server time on Bor's Breath.
Saw no other rare spawns between then.
No sign of Skoll yet... lol

He didn't use his stunning attack on me. Though he did Time Shift twice (teleport behind me).

Drops:

*

*Satchel had: 20g, 50s, 10c; Frostweave Cloth x 20; Crystalized Life x 4

His corpse stuck around for a while - 30 minutes. Not complaining though... It took long enough to find him. I enjoyed seeing him for at least a little bit. (In addition to when I was flipping out and spamming attacks to take him down.)

I was a bit upset today and this totally turned things around for me. :) I'm so glad I finally found him and am working my way towards ending my rare spawn camping. xP

Pictures!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v440/I_Dont_Exist/WoWie/tlpd1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v440/I_Dont_Exist/WoWie/tlpd2.jpg

Commentaire de 492842

Got mine a few months ago on Shu'halo, at Bor's Breath right at the spot where the frozen waterfall is, from what ive seen it seems to be the most frequent location where people find him.

Commentaire de Angryraz

5th December, i saw this mob while waiting for an ulduar 10 group. I immediately flew towards the ledge and asked the Raidleader for assist so i could mark TLPD and follow it. It took me roughly 5 seconds to see him fade from target, and about 10 more to fly the other direction. By the time i had found him and got to a surface i could land on, a druid had pulled him with moonfire and i missed TLPD. Terrible Luck ?

Commentaire de dmccullough

Got him tonight using the NPC add-on and the AFK add-on. Camped the spot right before the waterfall where the harpies are in Bor's Breath right about 30,65. Was about to head off for the night when the alert popped up. spun around on my mount didn't see anything and then looked up and saw him about 30 yards above me on the hill. flew up and argo'd him and took him down easy. I took him down in a clump of trees so the screenshot of the kill isnt good so I am attaching the shot of me flying over Northrend.

Commentaire de icexxx

I have been on the hunt for this guy for over 72 hours straight, as I am typing this I am located right above the frozen waterfall closest to Valkyrion in Bor's Breath.

So far I have only been able to down Vyragosa, 4 times might I add. Every time I killed her at Bor's Breath, I do believe she in fact spawns right over top of it. I did remember the times of the kills...they are:

11:15 am on 12/23/2009
9:27 am on 12/24/2009
7:45 pm on 12/24/2009
1:20 pm on 12/25/2009

Now, judging by the times, I believe that Vyragosa's spawn time is around 6-24 hours. I have not seen or heard of TLPD being killed during this time either, I have done random searches around the spawn points at various times after the Vyragosa kills with no luck. From this I believe that Vyragosa and TLPD do in fact share spawn times, and the chance of TLPD spawning is a low percentage compared to Vyragosa. I say this because, in the over 72 hours I have been searching he has NOT spawned. His spawn time would have to be greater than 3 days for this to work with both having different spawn times. Judging by the reports from other people, seeing him spawn twice in less than 48 hours and never seeing Vyragosa at all, I believe sharing spawn times is true.

Hopefully I will have my chance to down TLPD soon. By the way, i do leave WoW up throughout the night just in case he come's by. I use NPCScan and turn my speakers up very loudly so that it will wake me (sad I know). I keep myself from going afk by taping my arrow key down to make me spin in circles throughout the night (clever I think).

Hope this information helps someone and Happy Hunting!

Commentaire de 330214

just found vy's corpse >:O but you're right, it was at about midnight server. Not sure how long the corpse stays there though

Commentaire de 442706

got minde today :D:D:D so happy, i only spent 1.5 hours camping, im pretty lucky i guess

Commentaire de 380505

I happened to find the Time-Lost today while herb farming oh my druid going a route I hadn't heard about before. He was flying Counter Clockwise over K-3 and toward Garm about 50-60 yards in the air.

I relogged onto my Hunter alt who doesn't have a cool mount yet and spent about 3-4 minutes looking for him via my tracking. I'm not exactly sure what route he took but I found him at the same spot I originally saw him in when I found him again. (I almost gave up since I figured someone nailed him already.) I tagged and killed him at around 45,82 by just flying in front of him and going toward the mountain near by. He likes coming into melee so if you're a class with no way to slow yourself he isn't hard to control, and with him up pretty high on this route it was the best way to go about it.

I did a little reading on this guy a long time ago when I saw someone else with it and got curious on the hype over it, so I thought I'd add this odd spot. Good luck to those that are hunting it down, I just got lucky. ;)

Commentaire de 152041

I have spent a lot of time in Storm Peaks on various toons, particularly herbing/mining and hunting around the Engine of the Makers, and I never once saw this mob, or his corpse, or even heard anyone in chat sighting him, and only once saw anyone else on the mount.

I killed him today around 7.45am server time (Nagrand US). I wasn't looking for him in particular, but was just flying on my own mount from K3 to the Tourney rather than take the gryphon, following the frozen river. Around 36, 74, about halfway between the frozen waterfall and the sharp bend in the river, I stopped to chat to a friend and saw the drake fly below me quite low and seemingly pretty slow. I aggroed him in midair, and bubbled to the ground.

The few times that I've seen Vyragosa or her corpse, it's been on this same stretch of the frozen river.

Commentaire de Mecha

Got this guy today on the Sargeras PvP - US server.

Was flying through Storm Peaks on my way to get snowbalds for the Argent Tournament daily and bumped into him flying over the lake towards Val'kyrion from Bor's Breath.

He flies a little to high off the ground for melee to taunt or anything, so I flew into him and he aggroed, then followed me down to the ground where I nuked him.

Edit: It was at 2:37pm CST

Commentaire de crusader2222

Where abouts were you though? Cause you say south from Bors Breath to Valk but its north from bors breath? Im desperate to find this hahaha, and whats this auto clicker stuff your talking about?

Commentaire de 381677

Found him dead at 47, 64 was SOOOOOOOOOOOO *!@#ed but he was also found dead at around 5 server time, any1 got any idea when he might spawn again? and does he spawn more than once in a day?

Commentaire de eli2112

Sorry to spoil it, I would get a bit exited about this piece of info, if it wasn't because I just skinned vyragosa before checking this page and seeing your post and it was 12:42am on my server and I'm pretty sure that the body can't stay there for half an hour and even if it could someone else would have skinned it.

For what is worth, it was 2:12am local time, though I don't really think it matters

Commentaire de 245450

I always fly through Bor's Breath on my way to turn in my Snobolds Argent Tourney daily, but today... the one day I go around the other way. I find the TLPD dead not ten minutes later... just outside Bor's Breath. If only I had just continued camping... OY!

TLPD, killed near 9:30 pm (server time) on Argent Dawn.

Commentaire de ThreePipes

For those of you spending endless hours day and night looking for TLPD, like myself, here is a great song to fly around with ;) Sounds like it was written to the protodrake lol. enjoy!

http://www.songlyrics.com/steve-earle/to-live-is-to-fly-lyrics/ over to the right click on Play This Song Now.

Asyouwish, Thunderhorn

Commentaire de 90078

How depressing, i downloaded _npc scan only to find out the Time-Lost Proto Drake was already cached...

I guess i have been around it at some point in time but didn't know it. Id really like to see him! I'd never ride any other drake again!

Commentaire de Bubbli

If you're pulling TLPD when you already have one, you deserve a /rude...

Commentaire de 480160

You can delete your cache to reset _npcscan. Details are on the page you downloaded it from, but essentially you need to exit the game, delete the cache folder in your World of Warcraft application folder, restart the game.

Commentaire de 528096

I have killed vyragosa twice myself and have waited around until her corpse despawned which was exactly 30 minutes after i had killed her each time. I have also seen her killed a few times with the same despawn time each and once with the time lost as well... all 30 minute corpse despawn times.

Commentaire de 528788

Hey does any body know the respawn time is b4 the time lost proto drake will spawn between deaths?

Commentaire de 245450

Argent Dawn realm

Exactly 12 hours after the realm resets, the Time-Lost Pro Drake spawned.

And Gondria, the tiger-skinned spirit beast.

Best of luck to the rest of you TLPD hunters out there.

I've been keeping track of my Vyra/TLPD kills, and it seems to be on a continuous rotating schedule... I'm probably wrong, but before the reset the spawn times seemed to be on a 4-5 day rotation on my realm.

Commentaire de Paroxysmus

Got mine today at 38.50, 60.80, just south of the Engine of the Makers. Very sweet mount. I also had about 4-5 people show up less than a minute after taking him down. He was flying about 40-50 yards up, so I popped him once in midair and used my parachute to land safely. This is not a kill you wanna risk losing to someone better prepared, so keep that in mind when you're flying around Storm Peaks. Time of kill was about 1:20 pm, and I caught him right when I was coming out of a random heroic, so it was pretty much pure luck on my part. Good luck on yours!

Commentaire de 271839

I spotted and killed Vyragosa at 2:50 AM ST.

Commentaire de 538053

How fast does he fly? does he fly with any speed? or just regular mob movement speed?

Commentaire de perfect342

Just killed him on Mal'Ganis in the blue proto drake field

Commentaire de 526071

Here is a tip for mac users trying to find this one create a applescript to keep you from logging out this totally makes camping a passive thing and all you need do is listen for npc scan to go off here is what i use copy and paste into script editor it will make character jump every 3 min for 12 hours
repeat 240 times
tell application "System Events"
tell application "World of Warcraft" to activate
key code 49
end tell
delay 180
end repeat

Commentaire de Cantona

On saturday, my server-query macro found the TLPD item-link when I logged in, so I assume it was killed sometime on Saturday.

What is this, how does it work, and how do I do it?

Commentaire de 543408

Got mine today. Anetheron-US 6:15PM Server Time.

After reading on here I decided the best place to camp was right outside Bor's Breath. I had been camping for about a week seeing Vyragosa twice during this time, both times right outside Bor's Breath. TLPD spawned right bellow Bor's Breath heading away from Valkyrion toward K3 quite low above the ice. Good luck everyone else going for this mount, it's a pain in the ass but worth it :)

For those wondering about getting aggro on him. You could hit him from his initial height then slow fall or bubble to the ground. I just chose to fly right in front of him, getting aggro, then flying to the ground. He followed me half way down then ported to the ground (think mage blink). 18K health & does little damage.

Commentaire de 544230

POLISH VERSION

Ja go znalazłem tutaj https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/maps=67:212582 na serwerze Sin Dorei

Commentaire de 544501

So the Server went down unexpectedly due to emergency maintenence..... around 4 am cst and wouldnt be back up till 9 am cst... i told myself im going to stay up and see if it spawns right after server up......

8:33 Server up.

8:35 Vyragosa was slain.

I cried and i set about 8 alarms to wake up me at 2:20 pm ( basically 6 hours later )

I logged in and started to fly around.. and my NPCscan went off.. it was Skoll the stupid lightning dog, i destroyed him in a fit of rage because i thought it was the TLPD...

I flew from Brunhilldar village to engine of makers.. down thru bors fall back up to bors breath.. over valkyrion.. around temple of makers.. back south clockwise around engine of makers.. and i was like WTF i hate this game.. on my way back to Bor breath

BAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM * NPCscan * TIME-LOST PROTO DRAKE at bors breath

IT WASENT DEAD! i flew as fast as my 280% mount could go and i pyro rocketed him from far away.. i was so full of anxiety and worry i forgot to use my parachute cloak which i had been planning to use JUST for that situation for DAYS. I got to 1% health popped a potion, hit evasion and killed the infamous drake. It wasent long before a swarm of horde/ alliance got there as well and it was.. amazing... i finally got it.. don't give up people it can happen.

Goodluck everyone

Commentaire de Cantona

What is this server query macro I keep reading about, and how does it work? Someone enlighten me please.

Commentaire de 174773

http://imgur.com/n1Cmx.jpg i finally did it. i got him! everything on the right side of the bank is a blue item from vyragosa.

all my kills of vyragosa and my only time-lost kill were when i was camping the spawns at 29, 66

good luck to you guys. onto the zulian tiger mount for me.

Commentaire de Buffalo

Question!

Is his attack melee or range? I killed vyre last night, and she stayed like 20 yards above me all the time.. and I am a rogue, couldn't even touch her. Had a mage help me though. So does this guy hit close or far range?

Commentaire de 543408

When you engage he will port down to you at melee range. You can make vyra come to you by kiting away from her, she moves forward and down.

Commentaire de Stigmata

It's always possible that the mob was not killed mere minutes after it spawned. A dead vyragosa at 1:50 could mean it was kill at 1:30, but left alive from spawn till death for 30 minutes. Always a possibility, so seeing it that late doesn't simply mean it doesn't spawn on the hour.

Commentaire de 549356

Just got this after reading about it here two weeks ago, started casually flying by the path specified by npcscan every day or so for about 10mins, got her on jubie'thos just near k3 at 4:30 server time. Oh found vyragosa about one week before this too.

Commentaire de 549609

got mine at 1:10 am 2/22/2010 recommend NPCScan&NPCOverlay and make sure you stay over bor's breath right in the path of engine of makers you are sure to kill him. we will spwan right under you

Commentaire de 549609

*he* sorry bot that

Commentaire de 549756

Killed the Time-Lost Proto-Drake on my shaman after my fifth day of consistent farming. Although, I've always kept an eye out for it since the day I heard about it months and months ago. =)

Here are my kill times:
2/17/10 Vyragosa 8:15 PM
2/18/10 Vyragosa 12:36 PM
2/19/10 Vyragosa 10:57 AM
2/20/10 Vyragosa 9:15 AM
2/21/10 Time-Lost Proto-Drake 6:17 PM

I thought it was interesting that on the day I found the TLPD I hadn't seen Vyragosa all day. Sat at 37.71 Bor's Breath and randomly would fly the four spawn paths.
Addons used: _npcscan and npcscan overlay.

This was only my second time seeing the TLPD. The first time was a corpse on 2/2/10 probably killed around 8:11 AM. Good luck to all farming!

Commentaire de odayaka

Killed him today at about 6:20pm server time on Lightning's Blade. I was AFK-camping him around 29, 65 (the lake just SE of Valkyrion) and was coloring with my daughter when the NPC scan went off. I figured it was just Vyragosa, but I dashed in anyway. I saw him heading toward Valkyrion, and flew after him. Flew past him to get him to attack me, got closer to the ground and shot him (I'm a hunter). I was shaking the whole time just SURE that someone would come along and kill me. No one did. I killed him, looted him, and got my 50 mount achievement as well. I'm SUPER excited, but no one was on in my guild to brag to! Oh well.

To all those looking for him, good luck (and get NPC scan and NPC overlay. They are your friends).

Commentaire de 550797

Hi ive been in the spawn spot (
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/6984/wowscrnshot112308070310hp1.jpg) for like 3 hours right now and i havent seen him

i really want some help i have the add-on NPC SCAN and it havnt alarmed me.

Commentaire de 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

Commentaire de 538053

Just bagges my very own TLPD. There I was, doin my daily in Brunnhildar village, and BAM. NPCsan erupts. I look up, and there he is in all his glory. Pull-Snowfall lager-Attack-Kill-Loot ;) Upload of him dead will be coming soon (I planned to take screenshots of him flying, me killing him, and finaly him dead, put i was a little distracted to remember >.<). Now I just need artisan flying to RIDE him >.<

Commentaire de 526071

i finally got my 3rd time lost drake tonight 540pm server at bor's breath Zuluhed server now all 3 of my toons have one thank god all the camping is over

Commentaire de 194463

I found him flying past Valkyrion. I was there doing one of the daily Hyldnir quests when NPC scan announces that it found a rare elite. Immediately I started searching frantically for it. Luckily no one was around and I killed it on the small snow path above Valkyrion.

Commentaire de 453847

Here's a tip. Don't kill Vyra. Of course you can't guarantee someone else wont kill her but it's worth a try. GMs have confirmed that TLPD and Vyra are linked and that there is NO fixed timer but that it is between two values. A few GMs have also let it slip that there is a way to trigger TLPD to spawn.

My guess is that the trigger is letting Vyra do her round and despawn. If you kill her it will obviously reset the timer. If you leave her, she will despawn at a certain point and trigger the TLPD instead.

Ofc I could be wrong but it's worth a guess. :/

Commentaire de 321957

What phase of areas does he fly in? Does progressing questlines in storm peaks in any way affect your ability to see him?

Commentaire de 557735

Honestly, I think its a conspiracy, I dont think it exists. Months of Camping...not 1 sight

Commentaire de guntitan

_NPCscan / silverdragon went off while inside Forlorn Mines. I ran out as fast as I could. Flew around clockwise(the opposite direction of the dragon's flight) around the flight path around Brunnhildar Village. Found it. Took a while to grab aggro but now I have my own proto-drake mount.

It was around 3:30 am server time on Dalvengyr.

http://guntitan.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/it-does-exist-part-ii/

Commentaire de 534105

Route on map

Commentaire de 560074

Just killed Vyragosa at ~18:30 server time (Stormscale-EU). I`m camping at 29,65 from ~16:00 - just staying at the on place all the time. I have _NPCScaner - it`s very good addon for NPC searching. I hope, that i`ll get Time-Lost Proto-Drake down today... :S

Commentaire de 562578

I got couple questions:
1) Is the spawning spot near "the bloodmother's nest" since it's right between foot steppes and bor's breath?
2) Does anyone know how often does the npc spawn?

Commentaire de 110498_

20/03/2010

8:00AM

Silvermoon-EU

yay :)

Commentaire de 327803

at 20.33 i saw Vyragosa at coords 26 56. i killed him by myself. he is flying slowely and low (there i saw him, but not that low you can hit him with sword), so you should see him, when you are flying. tip, download http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info12995-_NPCScan.html (Hypersystem`s link)
have fun :D

Commentaire de Shadowbathed

Just got mine today at 4:45pm. PST. on the Coilfang realm. I was hangin around the Engine of the Makers area just lvling unarmed when NPCScan went off. He was a lil too high off the ground for you to pull aggro and Dismount but i was lucky because I was with a friend right next to the spawn point when i died. ( I noticed that 12hrs. ago Vryagosa went down around the same time at around the same spot. I thought about this and i nearly had a heart attack when NPCScan went off.) I wish u fellow Time-Lost Proto-Drake hunters luck!
-Mage

Commentaire de 535553

Was able to snag it this morning around 8 am on Elune. It was just a bit out from the frozen waterfall after Bors Breath. Was coming over the big woman town next to the waterfall and turning towards the waterfall. :)

Commentaire de Scoundrill

Killed him at coords (27, 56) between Valkyrion and the Snowdrift Plains

My lucky rogue got to kill him when i went herbing.....my main still has to see it
:\

Commentaire de 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

Commentaire de 564333

First i just wana say that Dirkee is NOT a dragon as some peoples seems to think it is. Its a robot gnome.
Vyragosa and Time-lost shares patroll routes and the most common places where they have been sigthed or got killd is at either Bor's breath and at Engine of the Makers.
I talked to a GM who said that this is a extremely very very very very rare mob.
I asked him if time-lost has any special spawn places but he said that it dont have any special places it can spawn anytime and anywhere in stormpeaks.
I have killd Vyragosa 12 times and i have found Time-lost dead 1 time so its a very annoying rare mob if u ask me -_-

Commentaire de 565609

ive been on the search now for this TLPD for a few days now.. no sight yet but LOTS of vyragosa. I believe they have to be on some kind of a time spawner because today was the second day i saw vyragosa spawn and kill at 210pm server time (Spinebreaker) same location by bors breath. Whats weird is i only seen her once a day which is either because ppl have killed n skinned be4 i could c or only she only pops up once a day... Hope i found him soon =(

Commentaire de Heinrichh

I can't find this Proto-Drake I really want it as my mount, I suggest that you either Slowfall and Fireblast, or Levi and DoT or Get on a plat form and Death Grip. You can also drive into the Proto-Drake fly to the land and it'll some how teleport to you, then attack it loot it mount it =) XD

-Heinrichh

Commentaire de 255941

i just decieded to start looking for him and as soon as i started i found him at 31, 66 heading west. where i found him he was 15-20 yards in the air, when i droped i had no fall damage.
when my npc scan when off i almost had a heart attack.
its a cool 280% mount.

Commentaire de sapphireplusle

was flying time lost's flight path, came across a dead vyndragosa that was just despawning at 2pm server, so it spawned at 130 server... just trying to add to statistics. :)

Commentaire de Gargananana

If _NPCScan finds a rare mob, you can /tar it and with the new patch you can put a raid icon on it to make it easier to find.

Edit: _NPCScan does it automatically now. Schweet.

Commentaire de 189205

Based on the evidence, regardless of the nay-sayers, it seems that the TLPD spawns at most once per 4/5 day rotation. If we assume it replaces Vyragosa on her spawn schedule which appears to be comfortably around a 22hr circular rotation, I predict the next TLPD spawn will be on April 2nd sometime between 3am-7am.

Commentaire de 401855

I've hunted this beastie twice now, so I know a mite about catchin' him.

The drake is a rare spawn of Vyragosa; that much can be inferred from the fact they share spawn points, patrol routes, and that they've never been seen together. Although the odds of it happening would be phenomenally low, if it were possible I bet it would have happened at least once in a year and a half.

Vyragosa has a 6-24 hour respawn timer, and in that window, there is a possibility of the drake spawning in her stead. I don't know the exact ratio, but I would estimate it to be about 1:8, or a 12.5% chance of the drake spawning (or a 3.125% chance at a given spawn point). There is, however, no guarantee the Drake will spawn after X Vyragosa spawns. There's also no guarantee that just because the Drake spawned yesterday he won't spawn again today. It's random chance.

Best thing to do, if you're hunting this rare monster, is to get an NPC alerting addon (NPCscan/SilverDragon) and sit above the frozen lake at Bor's Breath. Three of his patrol routes pass by there and two are not far from that location, so it's a wise place to wait. Stay logged in and just wait it out. Do not do anything else and, if you see other people around, stay alert. I once missed this guy because I was dozing off at my keyboard, and a second time because I went to go get some food.

Remember, patience is a virtue.

Commentaire de 505058

I just got him at 10:22 severtime now at 10:42 his dead body is still there.

His dead body stays for 30 min.

Commentaire de 570422

Yeah he spawned for me 3 times, first was 16 hours after last spawn, then 18, then 24
Fortunatly for me a got the second one as everyone else had given up *dodges flaming balls of toilet paper* i was helping my friend get it the 3rd time.

So basically keep camping even if it spawns once or even twice in a row. And if some Alliance level 78 noob gets it while leveling (happened to me) make sure you gank him for about 2 hours to make him regret getting it :)

Commentaire de Deathturtle

Got him on Thursday April 1st (no this is not an April Fools joke), at about 6:40 PM server time (Darkspear), my Silver Dragon sounded off while i was in the valley just west of Frosthold, while I was herbing. This is consistent with the orange projected flight path shown on wowwiki.

Silver Dragon for the win. Even if you aren't truly hunting this Elite (I was not), simply installing an NPC scanner such as Silver Dragon greatly enhances your chance of finding it randomly.

I had been herbing and if not for the add-on, there is a good chance it would have simply flown above me and I would not have seen it.

Also, it is worth hanging around in Storm Peaks after the kill to listen to people wail in /1 as they stumble across her corpse.

I had multiple people commiserate that they had been hunting the Drake for as long as 2 months...

Commentaire de 570422

When I got mine there was no better feeling than hovering over the corpse as people QQ'd about how they didnt get it, I know how it felt when i didn't havnt it and fortunatly I know how it feels to be the one hovering over the corpse :)

Commentaire de 571532

Killed the TLPD on Trollbane last night (just after 2am server time). Bor's Breath lake area.

Commentaire de Lorewatcher

Note that not all names mean Gender, this confusion was granted to us by Chromie.

"Those darned dragons and their confusing names!"

Commentaire de Reaperoftime

good mod to use is _NPC scan... works great for finding mobs like these

Commentaire de 570988

We where flying around the path of the time-lost proto drake (with wowscan, and jumped into Vygrosa 15 minutes into the farming, hopefully the luck will continue!

Commentaire de 570988

I killed Vy at 9:00 am

Commentaire de 575025

Realm: Crushridge EU
Server time: 14.32
Coords: 47,63 - Foot Steppes near Brunnhildar Village
Tools: _NPCScan & _NPCScan.Overlay

Been camping TLPD for a while, occasionally flying his routes but stopped hunting him actively.

Last sunday after doing my 2nd daily in Brunnhildar and heading SW my _NPCScan went off. Flew into him and drew him to a nearby plateau, 10 seconds later TLPD was down. Still was positioning for a screenshot when again 10 secs after the kill the first player arrived to congratulate me for my insane luck. The same luck to you!

Commentaire de k00smo

I`am looking for him for weeks. I have NPCScan and NPCOverlay. No luck ;_;

Commentaire de Kryel

You just fly into him to get aggro and then fly to the ground, no need to dismount and try to attack.

Commentaire de 520633

For pallys, taunt then bubble upon reacing the ground.

Commentaire de 579752

Just found this super rare mount after about 4 days camping at bor's breath in between raids and sleeping/eating. I guess I got pretty lucky as I probably only spent about 30 hours or so camping. I camped at the bend in the little valley with the harpies. At about 8:30 am server time on Warson my NPCscan went nuts and the time-lost proto drake showed up right in front of me. There was a shaman camping him as well but he was farther down the route and I was able to spot the drake, kill it, loot it, and then fly over to him to tell him what I found.

I recommend just camping one spot to look for him. I would occasionally fly around his patrol paths but I never found anything that way. Camping his spawn points and just not moving guarantees that you will eventually see him. The other nice part about this plan is that you can do something else like watch tv while you wait. Seeing as his most common spawn point is at the top of the frozen waterfall it seemed like a logical place to wait and it paid off!

Exact coords where I killed him: 36.7, 68.7

Commentaire de 301506

How high, does he fly?

Commentaire de 459115

I have a question:

Do these rare mobs (especially Vyragosa and TLPD) have a special agro radius. Most mobs will de-agro and return to their last position after a set distance. Do these have theirs increased?

I'm always worried that when I do find the TLPD, I'll kite him to the nearest place to attack, but it might be to far out of his agro range :(

Commentaire de 343516

killed viragosa at exactly 03:27 server time at 29.66 right in the center of bor's breath lake.
was flying pretty high and just kitted her down and death griped. no one was near so no problem.

i must be pretty lucky...was searching for just 30-35mins around this area, passing from the spawn place every 2-3 mins.

Commentaire de pewpewx

Alright, so what do you mean by saying "the mount wouldn't show"? Do u mean that:
A) The player got ANOTHER reins of the TLPD, but the mount "wouldn't show" because he/she doesnt have epic flying, so the reins cannot be used?
B) After the player got the first reins of the TLPD, he/she learned epic flying and used the first reins, and then the player got a second one, but is unable to use it again since the mount was already known?
C) The second time the player killed the TLPD, the reins just simply DID NOT drop because the system wont allow him/her to have a second one(lol)?

Secondly, the mount drops out of EVERY SINGLE KILL, there has been no confirmed reports saying that the TLPD was killed (be it the first time or second time or watever) but the mount did not drop. Therefore the drop rate of the mount should be 100%.

Commentaire de 349112

Here's what i can add as far as the spawn time theories go. I just got this sucker after about a year of checking randomly, flying around for an hour here and there. I've seen him killed in front of me twice, but here's how i got him. I killed Vyragosa at 3:30am EST, logged back in literally 12 hours later, at 3:30pm, NPC scan alerted me that TLPD was spotted, /target, couldn't see where he was exactly, decided i'd fly around a bit but came to the conclusion waiting for him to path back around engine of the makers would be best rather than chase him in possibly the wrong direction. All of a sudden, mage and druid are hanging around the engine...i figured i was screwed, next thing you know, i see him flying in, immediately head over, aggro and finally, he's mine. Time was approx. 3:42pm, but like i said, i saw him first at 3:30pm, exactly 12 hours after i had killed Vyragosa. Good luck, happy hunting.

P.S: he chases you down, just fly through him, shouldn't be a problem.

Commentaire de 559053

dosnt it exsists any pacth 3,3? cuz i cant find it

Commentaire de 559053

ive sent a ticket to a gm about Time-Lost Proto-Drake so i cross my fingers

Commentaire de Spazmoose

Definitely still around in 3.3. Just had a guild-mate that picked him up as the last mount he needed for the Mountain o' Mounts achievement.

Commentaire de 93865

I've hinted for quite some time at my "original" TLPD strategy which was "on the verge" of paying off, and finally, at last, it has, and I'm at liberty to divulge the details!

I dubbed this unique approach, "protbotting".

In Bor's Breath, near the noted intersection where three of the TLPD's patrol routes intersect, is the Abandoned Camp, and beneath it, is a broken bridge.

Now, you'll notice there's a harpy flying above the bridge. You can pull it and line of sight it underneath the bridge.

This will put you out of view of passerbys.

What you want to do - and this is the key part - is equip double Shards of the Flame, the 232 and 245 versions from 10- and 26-man Onyxia. Land a single, first, initial swing on the mob.
turn your back to the mob, and begin your autoattack.

With these equipped, your character will regenerate over 1000 health per five seconds - more than the mob will be able to dish out in damage. The game engine will see your character as actively autoattacking even though you are not landing a single swing, and not dealing any damage to the mob - and therefore, neither you nor the mob will ever die, nor will you be knocked offline.

I use USB speakers besides my analog headset connected directly to my soundcard. Set sound output to speakers. DISABLE Game Sound, turn off music, and set volume to 100% - high enough you can hear it while dead asleep, and the NPC Scan mod will wake you up.

And so, I went to bed each night, having set up in this way. About half a dozen times, NPC Scan went off when Vyragosa patted by - but just tonight, I got fabulously lucky and nabbed the TLPD!

Hence, "protbotting" - use of high mitigation and health regeneration gear to keep your character online and in active combat.

The entire benefit of this approach is that it does not require you to be at the keyboard, but neither it is truly botting - no third-party software is controlling your character, you are merely kept online by autoattack, and kept alive by the HP5 from the trinkets.

Commentaire de 589292

Downed TLPD yesterday morning at 3:50am us server time as she was flying though Brommhilda near the eastern mountain. I flew though her and landed on the hillside for the kill.
She was with a bunch of blue wyrms.
She came right after me and my pet(Skroll) had no problem attacking her.

Commentaire de cnielsen8

Found and killed him as he was coming up around the very edge of the waterfall. Got very lucky as I was actually out there to mine Saronite and I ended up being the only one out there.

Now I just need to get enough money to get my epic flying...

Commentaire de 465544

Umm guys I know I am gonna be downrated but plz read this.
TIME-LOST Proto drake

CLEARLY indicating that it doesn't have a specific spawn timer or time. So plz stop trying to waste your time on looking for its spawn time.
Just cross you fingers and spam your /taget Time-Lost macro on a public holiday so there is not much population out there....

Commentaire de 577862

i just got one yey! my first time getting one

Commentaire de 605873

I found it flying over K3 basically, I've also seen it's corpse next the the Goblin by the flying machine next to K3.

Commentaire de FeornothofTB

I found this post. It explains many things: http://www.mmo-champion.com/general-discussions-22/time-lost-proto-drake-spawn-time/msg719892/#msg719892
As far as spawn times on a low pop server: Worshaka's theory covers this as lower pop servers would mean a slower rate of Northrend rare kills; thus slower spawn of TLPD.
This theory also covers what everyone believes as a link between Vyragosa and TLPD: it basically states that TLPD has a small chance of spawning in place of ANY Northrend rare; thus its spawn rate is related to all as a function of 'when'. Few doubt that the flight path(s) of Vyragosa are shared by TLPD, which covers the 'where' aspect.
I have seen Utube videos of TLPD moving clock-wise and counter, by the way.
I have killed Vyragosa 3 times( all Bor's Breath as it turns to Valkyrion), got ganked on TLPD once (eastern edge of The Foot Steppes he was flying in from Brunnhildar) and seen the corpse of both at least 3 more times. I have read all the forums on Wowhead, Wowwiki, and Thottbot. The above theory seems the most savvy, imho.
My Conclusion: 1) Camp upon or follow the flight path of Vyragosa while 2) your guild goes all over Northrend and poaches every other rare in all other zones, forcing the spawn cycle or 3) you fly to as many non-Storm Peaks rare spawn areas as possible after a Vyragosa kill (effectively doing the same as #2) and return about 5 and a half hours after that mark to Storm Peaks.

Commentaire de 591637

Just got this beauty about 20 minutes ago at Bor's Breath. Was just heading via storm peaks to do a daily when NPCscan went off. guess it was just my lucky day

Commentaire de 611708

Just snagged this guy... 6:20am realm time.

https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/maps?data=67:299664

Commentaire de 592281

killed it and it didnt drop the mount cuase there is a small percentage it may not drop i was so ^&*!ing @#$%ed 5 hours of camping for nothing im gonna kill blizz

Commentaire de Darkomicron

Is this mob respawned after a maintenance server reset? (Like on Wendsdays?)

edit: Why rate this down? Legit question >.<

edit 2: I suppose he doesn't respawn, or he does, but he also despawns... anyone?

Commentaire de 614666

Most likely it isn't that they respawn always on the hour, but more likely that the farmers have killed them on the hour because most farmers log in in that manner. I just kill Vyragosa and she had just spawned. The time was 11:54am. Keep in mind that the time from death to respawn is most likely based on exact hours from death... be it 6 hours or 20 hours.

Happy Hunting! I know I'll still be out there farming.

Commentaire de 614889

I just bagged him yesterday on Maelstrom at about 3:15 PM server time. I've only been looking for him for a few weeks off and on so I feel very lucky to have found him.

To confirm a few things from my encounter:

1. He moves very fast, he actually agroed me at the same time my SilverDragon addon dinged.
2. Snowfall Lager works great, I killed him while I was slowfalling after he dismounted me.
3. He does teleport right behind you.
4. You do need to be ready when you loot him to click to bind quickly as it is rare and you may be pressed for time since others will try to kill you and take your hard earned mount (I had to kill a horde mage who was a little late for the looting but was upset I beat him to it).
5. I found him just East of Valkyion on the frozen lake, he was just high enough that a fall from that height would be fatal without a slowfall of some kind.

That said, happy hunting all.

Commentaire de 571246

"Vyragosa", must be a play on the current MAyor of Los Angeles.

Commentaire de 616540

TLPD Macro Scrpit

I've written a helpful little macro script to help you when camping TLPD. It'll target him if he's around - if it does, it'll put the skull icon on him, play a sound, and print a red warning message to your screen:

/target Time-Lost Proto Drake

/script if UnitName("target") == "Time-Lost Proto Drake" then SetRaidTarget("target", 8); PlaySound("LEVELUPSOUND"); UIErrorsFrame:AddMessage("You've found the Time-Lost Proto Drake!", 1.0, 0, 0, 10.0); end

Just create a new macro - I recommend using the blue proto-drake icon - copy and paste the above into it, drag it to an action bar, and key-bind it. Spam to your heart's content.

Enjoy!

Maldarius of Arathor
<Random violence>

Commentaire de 435546

I think blizzard has given people a bigger chance to get this pretty drake. They MUST have made the chance that TLPD will spawn instead of Vyragosa, since I saw it dead 3 times yesterday, however I did only take a screenshot of it once. I really cba to upload it but trust me, blizzard is making life easier :)
Good luck to all of the farmers out there
Cheers

Commentaire de Marimalino

After a While of Farming I have finaly found out how the rares MAY spawn! Note : Only 3 rares may be alive in WHOLE northrend at a time (Same with outlands for "Bloody Rare")

http://img706.imageshack.us/i/rarespawnorder.jpg/]

Started at Brunnhildar in Storm Peaks, Went off to search for possible rares that may make TLPD spawn. Flew around searching . Found terror spinner ("T" on map)
. Continued my flight down to grizzly , as soon as I came there Syrean Bonecarver poped up("S" on map)
. Flew towards Conquest hold , Found Seething hate in Vordrassils Heart (Miss marked on map with a "G" lol) .
Was about to leave when npc scan randomly poped up Grocklar "SH" on map missmarked also). Flew towards the spawn point of Perobas by camp winterhoof in howling fjord when my npc scan found Perobas ("P" on map).
Continued to look for possible spawns and as I flew east of kamagua King Ping poped up (saw it before NPC scan saw it , Marked "KP" on Map)
Flew towards Nifflevar and where Vigdis the War maiden should spawn (killed her before and I knew the spawn routes) When She poped up right infront of my eyes (before npcscan also. Marked with "V" on Map).
EDIT: Flew to new hearthglen . Found Scarlet Highlord(Not marked on map).
Flew To Stars rest Found "The Indu'Le Suvrivor".
Went to borean Found Icehorn at the border of dragonblight.
Flew to Geyser Fields where I found Fublumb Gearwind.
Flew towards the nexus and found Old Crystalbark.
Went to Zul'Drak once again. Where I Found Griegen under Zeremas.
Flew straight to Jotunheim(Icecrown) and found Hildana Deathstealer by Valhallas (icecrown ring of blood).
Went to Scholzar Basin after looking for any other possible rares in Icecrown, Then I found Aotona just Weast of Rivers Heart.

So as I See it , The rares spawn in a order. After the last one is killed . They start all over from the lowest lvl ones (place where you go lvl first) up to the high level ones. Happy Hunting!

Addons used ; npc scan . SilverDragon . Rare spawn overlay

Commentaire de 617496

Marimalino, I have just one question for you - How long did this trip take you?

Commentaire de judahcris

how much hp does he have?

Commentaire de 590275

how high does he fly?

Commentaire de Marimalino

It took me around 3-5 Hours. Found the first 3 mobs in 10 min of eachother. (Can only be 3 alive at same time in northrend, and its 10 min untill the next one spawns. This has been confirmed by other ppl with the same experiance) then flying round finding the rets of them. Searching for more alternative mobs that could spawn took me around 3 hours. But its defiently worth it since you don't ever need to hunt them afterwards (exept the TLPD wich everyone's after and the spawn rate is ... curently almost unknown)

Commentaire de Marimalino

If you stand on the frozen lake north of frosthold you see a engine like area called "Uldis" to your left . About the same height as that one.

Commentaire de MichaelMacabre

been camping this for a few weeks on my hunter with no luck.
randomly checked tonight on my pally and he is up. found him right in the middle of where all the blue drakes are flying.
killed him at 10:45pm server time on blackrock.

Commentaire de 542406

Killed twice in two days. I am never going to get Vyragosa am I?

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Commentaire de executable

I Found Vyragosa dead at about 21:57 heading into Valkyrion not from the Bor's Breath Pass.
Today i found and personally killed Vyragosa again, this time outside Valkyrion heading into Bor's Breath at 12:59.
Its safe to say that it took her 2 minutes to reach Bor's breath from Valkyrion's exit.
Which would mean that, at anytime from (X):50 to (X+1):10 in a certain hour time, she spawns with a chance to spawn this mob.
Which so far, it means the theory that blizzard has created a schedule could be true.
So, In my opinion, the best way to find this mob is would to be (If you have no competition) wait for him outside Valkyrion and patrol between bor's breath for 20 minute at each given hour like :
20:50 - 21:10
21:50 - 22:10
And so on, hopefully you'll have made enough gold from killing Vyragosa to buy yourself enough eggs to create a proto-drake mutation.

Commentaire de 621205

got him this morning just after 5:30am server time. found him just east of the Temple of Storms, on Emerald Dream

Commentaire de bruenir

I got him yesterday, Saturday, 1:40 PM EST on Lothar-US. I was doing the Hodir questline on my priest. Who is NOT my mount collector. Sigh. Anyway he was pathing RIGHT over the Abandoned Camp where the dwarves are, just north of Bor's. He was headed right for me on my carpet, so I dropped in, aggroed, jumped off the carpet, dotted him up, and stopped trembling about 30 minutes later. LOL! Anyway I am still on the search for him on my mount collector.

Commentaire de Marimalino

According to what most ppl have experianced . He is always close to Bor's. OR the area over brunnhildar (With blue dragons). I don't belive someone has seen him over ulduar where his spawn routes may also be ? :O
Also he is a Rare spawn of a Rare Spawn. Wich could be a bit hard to understand lol. I asked a GM about this guy and they gave me some "info". They said "Yes Indeed , this is the rarest mob there is in the game and the ones who has seen him or slayed him has been lucky. This creature has no spawn timer , nor has he an exactly spawn point." Then we stopped talking since I loged :O

Commentaire de 240410

I got him today at 13:53 AM on Skullcrusher EU.I camped him for 3 days. He has spawned somewhere near frosthold but i was afk when NPCscan played the sound. I came to computer after 2 minutes or so and saw TLPD was found and i hoped he is still alive and he was. I killed him on cords 32 65.
At 22:53 PM i was flying to K3 and i found another one dead lying on cords 27 65. So he can spawn two (or more) times during one day and if he was killed immediately he has respawned after exact 9 hours

Commentaire de Allakhazam

is he soloable?

Commentaire de Allakhazam

is he soloable

Commentaire de 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

He is a level 80 "rare", but isn't part of the achievement to get a rare mob in Northrend.

Commentaire de Octy49

Time-Lost Proto-Drake :
It has 4 possible spawn points in The Storm Peaks at : 51.7 33.9 , 51.3 70.4 , 35.5 76.4 , 31.1 69.4
Shares respawn time with Vyragosa , and it can be anything between 4 to 12 hours. Vyragosa and Time-Lost Proto-Drake CAN'T BE ALIVE AT THE SAME TIME ! So,if you seen Vyragosa around or dead,that means the drake is not around.
The shared respawn time has a chance of 80% to spawn Vyragosa and only 20% to spawn the TLPD.

Proto-drake perdu dans le temps

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