As I am sitting here in the lonely Storm Peaks of Northrend camping the Time Lost Prototype Drake (sigh), in honor of
Caesar the No-Drama Lllama I thought I would comment on the three new BFA alpaca mounts, each acquired via different means.
The alpaca mounts are what I'd consider "cute" mounts. They are each a different color. When you take a running bound with them, their legs splay out ridiculously but endearingly. Their special move (which is when you are stationary and hit the jump/spacebar command with a land mount OR a flying mount in a no-fly zone) is that they bound around in a circle bleating. It's kind of endearing, and I had fun the other night with an Alliance drone (I'm Horde) each of us on different alpaca mounts doing this in tandem with each other, despite being unable to communicate due to the faction language barrier. Silliness crosses the cultural boundary?
1.
Mollie: Mollie is a brown alpaca and is simple to get but pure RDN. It's a drop from the Dunegorger Kraulok (in the middle of Vol'dun zone, Horde area), who is one of six BFA worldbosses who rotate weekly, so it's only up periodically. I heard the drop rate is abysmal as of early in 2020 but I do not know if it was changed. Fortunately, I got super-lucky, I guess: I did not even realize the dunegorger had a mount drop, heard about this late in BFA, and the first week he was up after that I ran all ten of my 120's against him and picked up the drop on my tenth (and last) try. Happy trails.
Photo Courtesy of Brysse, my BE Disc priest
2.
The Elusive Quickhoof: This second alpaca is black/grey and also is found in Vol'dun, but it's on a 2-8 hour timer I believe, and also needs greens (just 1 -- the Seaside Leafy Greens Mix) that you can most easily buy from the innkeeper at the Tortollan area in northern Vol'dun, right near the "Make Lo Go" occasional WQ, although you apparently can buy it elsewhere as well. Take the flight path up, then turn left and run right over the campfire where the innkeeper is. The greens you need also serve as food for PCs. Carry the greens with you so you are always ready, considering at most you only have ten minutes and you might not know how long the alpaca has been up and the zone takes two minutes to fly across.
While an add-on will show you the typical spawn points of the QH (who is only up for exactly ten minutes at a time), the easiest way aside from a lucky break is to search for a group with one of the words "elusive" or "quick" or "alpaca" in it, while in Vol'dun. Typically groups will provide one-person coverage for as many camp points as possible, and then when it appears, the lucky winner will announce it and everyone will immediately flock to that spawn point. When you arrive and pick your way through the crowd of new alpacas that others have already gotten (because everyone is testing out their new mount), simply click on the NPC, click the response to "feed it the greens" or whatever the gist is, and the mount drop appears in your backpack.
I lucked out with this one the other night. I joined a group who I thought had it up already, they didn't and they hadn't even announced their WM status; I quit that group but they were still around 2.5 hours later, so I joined and spent about 25 minutes with them doing a few other things, then camping a spot... and the darn thing appeared right before I quit for bed, so I got the mount with only a 25 minute camp. I also had moved my hearthstone location to a spot right in the middle of Vol'dun, so I could go there immediately if I saw a "Quickhoof up" quest when I was somewhere else, but here my planning had been unnecessary.
Note: War Mode matters for this one. Typically I set War Mode to on, and then if I see a quest in the Group panel saying it is up with WM Off, I can easily drop WM at any inn (usually where I am sitting at the time) and go. If you are in the wrong WM setting, you might see the raid members on your map, but you will not see the mount nor other raid members when you reach the location. You
have to be in the right WM status.
Photo Courtesy of Auewa, my Tauren Marksman Hunter
3.
Springfur Alpaca: This is the most annoying of the three. You can spend 1 minute killing an Elite and if it fails, it fails. Meanwhile #2 is just a one-time thing and only takes one green. The Friendly Alpaca NPC that gives you daily quest appears in Uldum, WM still matters (and note there are weekly quests for PvP people who might be out killing folks in WM On), and you not only have to find 7 greens out in the wild (you can pick them without Herb skill but they're hard to see without it) but you have to essentially do the quest for 7 days (aka 7 times, since it is a daily-style quest) before you get the mount.
So it's like the other times. Get your 7 (or maybe more, to be safe) Gersahl Greens up front -- I think the best location to look is the southern central delta area at the bottom of your map, the plant is a water-edge plant -- then watch for and/or join a stakeout Raid, and feed the llama when it finally appears. Each time it will give you a little heart to let you know it likes you, but it won't give up the reins until the 7th time. I had been hoping I could just jam all 7 down its throat on one attempt, but se la vie...
I am three days in on this and have been fortunate enough to get those three feedings in with very little camping time spent. But it's still annoying as hell and I have four to go. Trying to get this before SL hits and people lose interest, as it is SO much easier with a raid of folks.
Note that this quest was fixed in Jan 2020 to allow the dailies to count in a Raid, unlike the majority of Daily WQs. So you can feed the alpaca while in a raid and still get credit now. (Check out their hotfix notes for Jan 22 if you are concerned.)
Mollie is more brown. The springfur alpaca is more blonde-ish.
update: I finished this on tuesday, after doing it 7 straight days. It must be on a short timer OR it is triggered to appear when enough spawn points are covered, because I really didn't have to wait more than 10 minutes in a raid group covering spawn points, typically, once a group was set up in Group Finder.
Photo Courtesy of Saelki, my BE Ret Pally
Three alpaca mounts, designer colors, cute specials, and 3 closer to the desired "Lord of the Reins" achievement of 300 mounts once you get them. Whee.
Meanwhile, I'm still just sitting here on a ghostly moose in a small grove of trees in the Storm Peaks, right between two TLPD spawn points and where the four flight paths intersect. Haven't seen other players, but I wanted to hide in case someone else is trying to camp as well... so they won't be on their guard, lol. Luckily I have a lot of things to do on my laptop, so it's not a big deal to sit here in-game on my desktop computer in case something spawns... I don't think I could waste this much time on a REAL camp alone. (plus it's kind of amusing, this iron dwarf guard keeps walking up and peeking into the trees looking for trespassers, but I'm 120 level so he doesn't aggro. I prefer it to mean I'm being a sneaky elf and he's a dumb Gimli dwarf whose eye could be knocked out at 50 paces.)
The only long camp I have done before was for my Phosphorescent Stone Drake, over in Deepholm central. I did it maybe 12-18 months ago, long after most people were doing it, and had NPCScan loaded. I would just sit in the game while doing other things for about three days (only about 90-120 minutes a day) and got it on the third day. I don't know how people who do super-long camps fighting off other raids for a spawn do it, it just seems nuts to me.