Hunting Time-Lost Proto Drake

[TriNitY706]

@trinity Maybe you count 1 hour after you killed Vyra/TLPD you must count 1 hour after the body disappeared

I have killed TLPD/Vyragosa back to back before and sometimes it took MORE than 1 hour for either of them to spawn again, I'm NOT talking about 1 hour and some odd number of minutes (like 1 hour, 13 minutes), I'm talking about HOURS (more than 1) for a respawn.

The respawn time IS 1-4 hours, sometimes it's 1 hour, sometimes it MORE than 1 hour

[Itwasurfault]

@trinity Assuming that they didnt get killed? .

You dont know maybe while your flying someone killed them

[rausrh]

I have killed TLPD/Vyragosa back to back before and sometimes it took MORE than 1 hour for either of them to spawn again, I'm NOT talking about 1 hour and some odd number of minutes (like 1 hour, 13 minutes), I'm talking about HOURS (more than 1) for a respawn.

The respawn time IS 1-4 hours, sometimes it's 1 hour, sometimes it MORE than 1 hour

Isn't it possible that you just missed the spawn, someone else killed it and the corpse rotted before you came around?

I was hunting TLPD back when he wasn't flying, just spawned on the ground. They may have changed the spawn time, but I can say with some certainty that the spawn time was 1 hour(ish). I multibox and I was able to camp characters around in such a way that I could check each spawn location within a minute. I could always find T or V in the expected time range.

But as I said they may have changed the spawn timer.

[Itwasurfault]

@ Rausrh . You multibox 14 spawn points? . We need to confirm it that the spawn time may have been changed we cant jump into conclusions and misinform our fellow hunter's.

Oh maybe your saying this so less people would farm because from what they read. The respawn time is not 1 hour :P

[TriNitY706]

@trinity Assuming that they didnt get killed? .

You dont know maybe while your flying someone killed them

Actually I do know, I will explain later in this post.

Isn't it possible that you just missed the spawn, someone else killed it and the corpse rotted before you came around?

Not in the case I will explain.

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Among the facets of my techniques such as it taking me less than 5 minutes to visit ALL of the spawn locations (amongst other things), chances are pretty solid that when either TLPD or Vyragosa spawns, I can/will know it if I am in The Stormpeaks.

Here are some examples of more than 1 hour TLPD/Vyragosa respawn times:

After killing TLPD/Vyragosa myself, it took 72 minutes for the next spawn to occur, then after killing the next TLPD/Vyragosa respawn myself, it took 83 minutes for the next spawn to occur, after killing the next TLPD/Vyragosa myself, it took 63 minutes for the next spawn to occur. The cases were BACK TO BACK and I was in the exact spot where the next spawn occurred each time so I'm pretty sure that the times are accurate. Also in each case I killed the spawn immediately.

If the time for the next spawn to occur was EXACTLY 1 hour as has been previously stated, it would have taken a total of 180 minutes for all 3 spawns to occur, in my case it took a total of 218 minutes. Let's just say I was off by 5 minutes each spawn, that would drop the total down to 213 minutes. Now let's say I was off by 10 minutes, that would drop the total down to 188 minutes, that's still 8 minutes OVER the alleged 180 minute for 3 respawns (a person being in the exact spawn spot 3 times consecutively and immediately killing the spawn).

But as I said they may have changed the spawn timer.

I won't say the spawn time has changed, I would say that the alleged spawn time wasn't accurate in the first place.

[rausrh]

@ItwasurfaultAlt
I box 5 at a time, but this is enough to cover the spawn points. Each character covered two or three spawn points. I didn't experience the respawn timer to be exactly 1 hour as solakar says, more like 1 hour 10 minutes on average. It didn't seem to be constant.

I'm not trying to dissuade anyone from farming. I got mine, let them get theirs.

I have killed TLPD/Vyragosa back to back before and sometimes it took MORE than 1 hour for either of them to spawn again, I'm NOT talking about 1 hour and some odd number of minutes (like 1 hour, 13 minutes), I'm talking about HOURS (more than 1) for a respawn.

The respawn time IS 1-4 hours, sometimes it's 1 hour, sometimes it MORE than 1 hour

If you saw him spawn 83 minutes after the last corpse disappeared then I guess we have a maximum. That's longer than I've seen. Do you have anything supporting the multiple hour spawn?

Among the facets of my techniques such as it taking me less than 5 minutes to visit ALL of the spawn locations (amongst other things), chances are pretty solid that when either TLPD or Vyragosa spawns, I can/will know it if I am in The Stormpeaks.

Checking every spawn every 5 minutes is pretty good, but how long does it take for a looted corpse to rot away? I don't know but I know it's not 5 minutes. It's is entirely possible for you to fly by a spawn, have it spawn, get killed, looted and disappear before you get back. If you're in NPC scan range for a minute, and it takes a minute to kill/loot/decompose once you're out of range, you are missing 3/5 of the spawns as a worst case.

I didn't keep track of how many times I killed Vyragosa or saw a corpse of Vyragosa/TLPD. I lost a few TLPD through the ice. I have 9 TLPD mounts. My experience was a respawn of an hour(ish). maybe I was just lucky and didn't see a multi-hour spawn, who knows. Also, as I said before they have at least changed one thing (flying) and I wouldn't be surprised to have them change the spawn time as well.

[Audioslave]

Well how is situation on wotlk servers is it same?????

[TriNitY706]

Checking every spawn every 5 minutes is pretty good, but how long does it take for a looted corpse to rot away? I don't know but I know it's not 5 minutes. It's is entirely possible for you to fly by a spawn, have it spawn, get killed, looted and disappear before you get back. If you're in NPC scan range for a minute, and it takes a minute to kill/loot/decompose once you're out of range, you are missing 3/5 of the spawns as a worst case.

Actually it takes a couple of minutes for a corpse (in this case TLPD/Vyragosa) to despawn and it takes me less than that to "service" the spawn points.

Well how is situation on wotlk servers is it same?????

I'm sorry, I thought this was the "Frostwolf" (Cataclysm) section of the forums

/joke

[Audioslave]

Well everythin is true in this guide,respawn is 1 hour,and drakes are respawnin immediatly after server crash....I saw 7 vyragosa today( 2 was after server crash,and others were about 1 hour ),cause neltharion had crashes every 1 min. I killed one,almost killed second but server crashed,and i found proto drake dead at engine of makers 1 hour after last vyragosa is killed...Its much easier to find it then in wotlk :)


EDIT:
I finally got him :D yay,he was at valkyrion near bors breath...Tnx. on this guide it helped me alot :D

[Tednugg]

U are using some addon, am i right ? For finding those rare npcs ?

There are 3 addons for that.

_NPCScan
_NPCScan.Overlay
RarespawnOverlay

[Narcoticx]

i killed time lost proto drake in february on greymane after few days when i was lvl 76 :D

[Audioslave]

There are 3 addons for that.

_NPCScan
_NPCScan.Overlay
RarespawnOverlay

Npc scan is enough :P

[Xcyte]

I have found him 3 times and every time he spawned at Ulduar.

[Dark32Killer]

I failed 2.:(

[MyPatrick]

http://i.imgur.com/S1DjV.jpg

enjoy or 2k gold and i catch him