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Commento di 664440

Supposedly creates Vial of the Sands which transforms you into a drake, and allows you to carry an ally on your back. Don't know much about it now, but if it's half as cool as it sounds I'm going after this soon as Cataclysm hits.

Commento di 143749

Is anyone else dreaming of flying up high and then dedragonafying and then casting slow fall? With an unsuspecting rider of course...

Commento di 660395

The way I'm reading it makes it sound like the potion is equivalent to reins. You don't drink the potion to transform, you drink it to learn the transformation and then you can transform forever. I was wondering how the riding work though. Is it going to follow the same rules as the Rocket mount?

Commento di Slartibartfast

Alchemy crafted mount 2 person.

According to Ghostcrawler during BlizzCon 2010; this recipe will be very difficult to get and it should be considered a massive achievement. Probably after release someone will get this right away. Also hinted that every major profession should have a craft-able mount.

Commento di 195182

***Updated for patch 4.06***

Pyrium-Laced Crystalline Vial (1x5000g)
Vendor Item - "Sold only by Yasmin in Uldum"
Sands of Time (8x3000g)
Vendor Item
Truegold (12)

Pyrium Bar (3)
Pyrite Ore (2) OR {Elementium Bar (4) + Volitile Earth (4) }

Volitile Fire (10)
Volitile Air (10)
Volitile Water (10)

Flask of the Winds (8)

Flask of Titanic Strength (8)

Deepstone Oil (8)

Albino Cavefish (4-8)

~~~ TOTALS ~~~
Pyrium-Laced Crystalline Vial x1
Sands of Time x8
Albino Cavefish x6
Crystal Vial x16
Whiptail x128
Cinder Bloom x64
Azshara's Veil x64
Volatile Life x128
Volitile Fire x120
Volitile Air x120
Volitile Water x120
Pyrite Ore x72 OR {Elementium Bar x144 + Volitile Earth x144}

29,000 Gold for vendor mats (Goblin discount confirmed to work 23200G)
I am guessing another 20-30k for other mats.

*NOTE:
You need 450 Archeology to obtain the recipe, and it is extremely RNG. I have heard it was obtained with an alchemy skill as low as 225, though it requires 525 to make.
(Approximate odds)
13% Chance to get a Tol'Vir digsite in Uldum (you need 3-4 to complete a Canopic Jar)
12% Chance to be working on a Canopic Jar
10% Drop rate of the recipe out of a Canopic Jar
So assuming you get 1 Tol'Vir digsite every 30 min and about a 1.5%* chance of getting this for every 3-4 digsites.
We are talking about an average 1200** hours of archeology. This does seem a bit high, so I am hoping the rates I have are wrong. Please post if you have better data on the rates.

*.13x.12x.1=.00156
**30x3.5/.0015/60 =1166

Commento di Ramsay

The vial costs 5000 gold on the same vendor that sells the Sands of Time, upping the total cost to 29k for vendor materials only.

E: Here's a screenshot of the vendor.

Commento di 143959

So this basically combines aspects of the profession-only-flying-mounts we've seen thus far and the massively-expensive-vendor-mats that the bikes have, but sticks to the former in terms of availability.

This sort of sucks. Comparatively, this mount is ten times as badass as any other Profession-created mount. Hell, it's more badass than most mounts in the game period. It could just be my personal bias, but I'd hate to see this stay BoP. Give Alchemists their own mount, sure, but if you're gonna go to the trouble of making it a gold sink, let others invest in it as well, I say.

Commento di 442201

YEEEEAAAAHHH!

This sounds amazing!

Who doesn't want to mount their friends! :D

Commento di 94213

Maybe the recipe drops from Tiny Treasure Chest which you get from killing mobs while under the effect of Potion of Treasure Finding. And it only drops for Alchemists at 525.

Im only speculating and im sure it has been said before.

Commento di 166037

According to MMO champion and a GM, this recipe is received through archeology. NOT through some kind of alchemy discovery proc.

Source post with GM screenshot

Get diggin!

Commento di 165243

Is this recipe only going to drop if you have Alchemy? the sheer mass of "BoP" between the recipe AND the actual craft item makes it seem a colossal waste of time if you happen to pick it up as anything but an alchemist. Not to mention the amount of cry's you'd recieve from your guilds alchemy pro's.

Commento di Latias

Yes the recipe drops for Alchemists only, but in fact you might think that it's discovery of some sort via alchemy... Nope.

This recipe drops (Dunno if guaranteed) From Canopic Jar Vaso Canopo
Which again is from Archaeology. So those who have desperately been looking for this recipe, happy hunting!

Commento di 730014

Alright to get everything for this lovely Sandstone Drake you will need:

- 450+ Archaeology = To acquire the Recipe, it is from the Tol'vir Artifacts called the Canopic Jar
- 525 Alchemy = To Create the Vial of Sands and also you will need it for Transmute: Truegold

To start off you will need 29,000g for the Vendor materials. Just like the Mechano Hog or Chopper.
- 5,000g for the Pyrium-Laced Crystalline Vial (Sold only by Yasmin in Uldum)
- 3,000g each, for the Sands of Time (Also only sold by Yasmin in Uldum)
You need 8 of these Sands so thats 24,000g.

Thats 29,000g in total for Vendor Materials Alone. Yasmin is the Innkeeper of the small camp near the Oasis of Vir'sar. At the very top of Uldum.

Now onto the Materials... Yay!

First off is the Hardest of them all. Truegold. For this you will need:

-Either a lot of money to buy it from the A.H. or 525 Alchemists can Transmute some other materials into it.
-Those materials are, Pyrium Bar x3, Volatile Fire x10, Volatile Air x10, and Volatile Water x10.

In total that is:
Pyrium Bar x36,
Volatile Fire x120
Volatile Air x120
Volatile Water x120

TIP: You can get Pyrium either by buying from a miner / A.H. Or Alchemists can Transmute: Pyrium Bar Which requires 4 Elementium Bars and 4 Volatile Earth.

Moving on...

Now you need Flask of the Winds x8
In total for all 8 Flasks you will need. (Elixir Masters might get more by chance.)
- Volatile Life x48 (Can drop from all Herbs)
- Azshara's Veil x96 (Only spawns are in Vashj'ir)
- Whiptail x96 (Spawns along the River only in Uldum)
- Crystal Vial x8 (Can of course be bought from your Local Alchemy Supply Store, for about 80 copper)

Now advancing to Flask of Titanic Strength x8
You will need all this for all 8: (Elixir Masters might not need as much)
- Volatile Life x48 (Can drop from all Herbs)
- Cinderbloom x96 (Spawns near Fire: Twilight Highlands and Deepholm would be best)
- Whiptail x96 (Spawns along the River only in Uldum)
- Crystal Vial x8 (Can of course be bought from your Local Alchemy Supply Store, for about 80 copper)

Getting simple now...

Last thing we need is Deepstone Oil
This is by far the easiest you could buy the Albino Cavefish x8 or if they are over-priced or you want to save money they are easily fished from Lakes in Deepholm, A good spot is called Silvermash and it is South-East of the Temple of Earth.
- Deepstone Oil x8

Now everything together to make the Vial of Sands:

- 450+ Archology
- 525 Alchemy
- 29,000g
- 36 Pyrium Bar
^^^ (Or 144 Elementium Bars + 144 Volatile Earth)
- 120 of each Volatile Fire, Volatile Air, and Volatile Water
- 96 Volatile Life
- 96 Azshara's Veil
- 96 Cinderbloom
- 192 Whiptail
- 16 Crystal Vial
- 8 Albino Cavefish

And thats everything... Reminder that you can exclude all 120 of each Volatile Fire, Water and Air, and the Pyrium Bars if you in fact wish to buy the Truegold from the A.H.

Its quite a feat to get all this stuff, having a maxed mining, Herbing, and Alchemist would really help here.

Thats all and Happy farming!

.....About a week after I put this up Blizzard changed it to BoE... but it is still very expensive.

Edit: I got mine last week... The /mount special is the regular Drake Roar for some reason it is glitched and no sound comes out.. So it does the animation, but no roar. Also... The passenger seat is glitched and if you have a passenger they will be seated underneath your mount in a mounted Animation, This is obviously another bug. Treat this more of a mount then a shapeshift, Its just a mount without a rider.

Commento di Jamiejakov

The Alchemy mount Vial of the Sands is no longer Bind-on-Pickup.

Commento di filip83

As from the December 14 hotfix, this is no longer bind on pick up.

Original post: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/1232869#blog

Ability to be mounted by friends, now available on select auction houses near you!

Commento di Atrea

This item is no longer Bind on Pickup, and no longer requires Alchemy (of any skill level) to be used.

Commento di 496512

So this awsm kickass mount aint BoP anymore.... And im a alchemist with missing gold.... Hmmmmm

Commento di 733257

Random question, when people say it drops from archeo if you have alchemy, what level alchemy is required?

Commento di 625643

This Arch is a PITA.Cba to level yp Arh too...didnt know it till lately that it was a must.Good thiing is it made me gather tons of g for the mats.Now i have 40k+g but no intention to lvl Arch too.
At least it didnt hurt.I love how i can manipulate AH on items i prefer.
BTW blizz should make the RECIPIE BoE and the mount BoP.So it will stay Alchemists mount only instead of EVERYONEs...Plus more pppl would make some good g

Commento di Tirasmol

I was given this today, as a Christmas gift. I do not have Alchemy, and my Archaeology skill is currently 350. I was able to use it, and have been flying people around all day. It's fantastic! So you don't need Alchemy or anything else to get/use it (if you have extremely generous friends). However, you DO need Alchemy in order to discover the pattern. The good news is that you can simply gather the materials and find an alchemist that has already learned the recipe and have him or her make it for you. I'd start looking for it on the auction house soon, as well.

Commento di 347401

roughly 60k on Khaz Modan.

Commento di 543619

Right, now that we are fully aware that the Mount is very, very hard to come by, I have some genuine questions. Not silly, genuine.

-Does this mount have some form of unique casting animation?

-Are emotes such as /sleep and /roar effective?

-Failing that does /mountspecial work?

-Does it have an eject passenger option?

-Does being struck in combat dismount you or does it count as a shapeshift?

Okay, questions over. Anyone feel free to answer, please do not downrate, I hope some other people are asking the same thing.

Commento di 266144

Could someone who has this mount answer a question for me? Are you able to herb/use clickable items while shapeshifted into a dragon, like a druid in flight form?

Commento di Dungeon

Mats are not BOP, are tradeable.

Goblins can make cash off this.

Commento di Nikeyeia

Our guild master (<Steel Talons>, Burning Blade) was the first person on the realm to get this. Right now, two persons have the mount on that server.
Needless to say, she managed to afford the mount by mining. She got 30k gold in three nights (Do not try this at home, seriously). She also says that the only way to get it is to be very patient.

I'm also trying to get it, by mining and doing loremaster of Cataclysm. Right now, the parts I need is around 45k on AH. So I guess I'll just wait 10-12 days, and try to get at least 1k/day (I'm at 22k right now). The action house prices should be significantly decreased by then.

One of the easier ways to get this is by either being miner or alchemist. While I'm farming the money by mining, I also manage to get some Volatile elements. I'll later have some alchemists make the truegold bars for me.

I've got one thing left to say: Good luck in your farming, out there. :)

Commento di Archijslv

Got one of the first Vials on Talnivarr EU
Buyable mats from vendor: 23200G with help of Goblin guildy
Everything else around 15k from AH
Total: 38k as of 22.12.10.

Should become cheaper in the next weeks.

The mount is a bit buggy, yet looks and feels awesome. Good luck with yours!

Commento di bringingchaos

Pretty smooth mount for the cost. Just made mine. Fairly happy with it. The animation is a bit odd though. At one time, it had my guildie clipping through the model.

Commento di pandastar

anyone sold one of these yet?
im farming mats to make a 2nd one and was wonder how much you think is reasonable price for this mount

Commento di 421626

Mount is bugged as well like the new drakes. When a player mounts on you they sit on your two front claws. Doesn't look too bad, almost as if you've picked them up.
The mount isn't registered as a vehicle either, so if someone mounts on you, they can't get off unless you dismount or they log off.

Commento di 746071

Druids have been doing that for ever since the new refer a friend rocket mount came out. Pffft old news.

Commento di mewmewface

ok so do i have to be max level archaeology to have a chance in finding it? or any level?

Commento di 726930

I have just receive my Sandstone Drake about 15 minutes ago and i can not umount because im so friken excited this is the coolest thing ive ever had and i beleive im the first person with it on my realm. Totally worth the 50k haha

Commento di HollowIchigo

Asked a guild mate to craft this. Well now i have a Sandstone drake. Also i've seen a person on my realm that sold 9 of those mounts. I guess he is rich now)

Commento di ThaLunatik

I see no mention of it in other comments, but... why does "carry an ally on your back" actually turn out to be "have them mysteriously float in a sitting position near your feet"? Is this a bug? It would be nice to see the rider actually sitting in the saddle on the drake's back.

Commento di 245830

Can you not trade this item ?

Commento di 756133

Nice the cost REALLY hits home when you buy "The Sands of Time" from the Yasmin chick, the recipe requires 8 of them therefore 8x3000...you gotta love it, 24,000 gold

Commento di 259914

Does this fella fly at 310% if you've earned it?

Commento di Giantgirl

My question is: Is this considered a mount spell only and not a potion and therefore excluded from a multi-proc from Potion Mastery?

Commento di 327056

Is this instant transform like druid?

Commento di 53196

In my server this mount sells for 45k-50k .
And it has nothing to do with transformation or anything its just a dragon mount
Twilights Hammer

Click to see image
https://www.wowhead.com/cata/item=67538#screenshots:id=199774

Commento di KnightProwler

Important questions:
1. Does this allow you to create things, such as enchanting scrolls, while transformed?
2. Does it allow to gather herbs/loot while transformed?
3. Is it instant cast?
4. Why did it have to be a drake?

Commento di c0h3n

I have created a thread on the forums to collect the drop rate of Recipe: Vial of the Sands from Canopic Jar for alchemists. Alchemists interested in contributing data can visit it here.

Commento di 781537

I bought the mount in early days, now I would like to farm the recipe. Atlas Loot shows that I "already know" this recipe, even though i do not have the recipe. Any idea whether Blizzard would still let me find the recipe?

Currently logged 4 days farming X!

Commento di 543619

The drake now functions properly in the terms of other characters sitting on you properly as of 4.0.6. They will now appropriately ride you (Giggity) whilst sat in your saddle, however it is worth noting that you will not -scale- in size when someone mounts you (Giggity) and in the case of some races, their head simply pokes out of the saddle.

Commento di shadra

Still have a bug.
If u get Lok'lira's Bargain buff at stormpeaks, u will transform a female vyrkul, swimming, running %100 etc.

Commento di 806183

5th jar opened! wooo! now i just gotta find one of the 2 swords.

Commento di shackisadruid

i have any easy way to get the gold for the mats. all you gotta do is go into SW or org depending on faction then say wts vial of the sands your mats. ( for however much gold you want). i havent tried it yet but its worth a shot

Commento di Persesdagda

I assume that this recipe cannot proc with any of the alchemy specs?

Commento di darkphoenixs

I wonder, ... if this mount is casted instantly.
I would go for this mount only if its instant cast.

Oh boy, do I hate those annoying druid-herbfarmers, who cross me /lol "I took this herb in frond of your face, /lol I m faster than you,because I dont even have to dismount!"
In other words, NERF THIS FLYING FORM!

Commento di Thortok2000

Thortok's guide to getting a Vial of the Sands!

Sandstone Drake. Two passenger flying mount. You actually transform into a dragon that has nobody sitting on your back, and can fly around that way or offer someone in your group a ride on your back. Don't have to be an Alchemist to become a dragon. Do have to be an Alchemist (and an Archaeologist) to make a vial. Don't have to own one to ride on someone else. Gives an achievement to have it: Vial of the Sands.

(Alchemists Only) Get to (at least) 450 Archaeology, and 525 Alchemy.
(Alchemists Only) Continue to do Archaelogy on the Kalimdor continent, specifically Tol'vir digsites if possible, until you get Canopic Jar. Good luck!
(Alchemists Only) Open your Canopic Jar and hope it contains a Recipe: Vial of the Sands, and if so, then learn it. Good luck! Repeat Steps 2 and 3 as necessary. While it is possible for the recipe to appear even if you are not yet at 525 Alchemy, it will only appear to Alchemists of a certain level of skill; so I recommend staying on the safe side and getting to 525 Alchemy first. You'll need it anyway to actually learn the recipe!
Gather 12x Truegold, 8x Flask of the Winds, 8x Flask of Titanic Strength, and 8x Deepstone Oil. Hopefully you can figure out how to do this on your own.
Save up 29000 gold or the following items: Pyrium-Laced Crystalline Vial will cost 5000 gold. 8x Sands of Time will cost 3000 gold each for a total of 24000 gold. These mats can only be bought from in the far northwest of Uldum. Finding any of these mats for cheaper than the listed price on the Auction House is unlikely, but possible*, so make sure you check because it could save you money. Obviously, don't buy them for more than the listed price. Duh.
The mats from Steps 4 and 5 will be used to make the vial. If you are not an Alchemist, you will need to find one that has completed Step 3 and you'll have to give them the mats to make it.**

*The mats in Step 5 are bought from a vendor so the guild perk Bartering can be used for a discount. No other forms of discounts are currently known. If you do not have this perk, you can check the Auction House to see if someone who does is selling at a discount. Since it could potentially save you money, why not check?

**Make sure you protect yourself! If you get scammed, GM's can and will take action to get your gold and/or mats back, just open a ticket. In order for them to confirm it was a scam, make sure the entire transaction is negotiated using in-game text chat so the GM can read the chat log and confirm that you have been scammed. (Hopefully this won't happen anyway, but 29k+ in mats is a respectable chunk of money, so make sure to cover your bases.) This 'scam protection' is provided for all forms of scams, including the 'give you the mats to make an item and you keep them and give me nothing' scam, as scamming is against the ToS!

I recommend, for Alchemists making this for yourself, after you make your first one, check your realm to see if there's anyone willing to buy this for extremely high prices (like, 60k or higher, perhaps even 80k). If you get enough profit, make another one and attempt to sell it. Keep going until you don't get any buyers for awhile, making and selling one by one, and then if you go a long time and can't sell your current one for a profit, THEN learn it yourself.

Commento di Isiwien

I reckon crafting fees to be around 500-1500g nowadays. Provided that the customer provides all materials.
There is no cooldown when creating the vials. You can spam your gold away!
~~I can confirm that with Bartering and Best Deals Anywhere the vendor materials cost 16800 + 3500 = 20300g. (Patch 4.1).~~
Blizzard did not like the goblin racial affecting the price of this so they set the minimum price to: 21600 + 4500 = 26100g.
Putting the vendor materials on the AH/Neutral AH costs LOADS.
This is probably one of the best ways of transfering gold between servers.
As of 4.1 there is an achievement for obtaining and learning the dragon (Vial of the Sands). Keeping it in your inventory won't work.
Recipe: Vial of the Sands for learning to create this mount this is thought to have around 9.5% drop chance from Canopic Jar (Tol'vir Archeology) according to this wowhead survey. RNG is however RNG, and only RNGesus can control it.
Putting the finished mount on AH costs 7.5g per 24 hours.
The craft can NOT procc. It doesn't matter whether your elixir/potion/transmution. All alchemists with the required skill can learn and craft it.
As of 4.0.6 you can no longer use shapeshift items while in 'drake-form'.
To eject a passenger, use the following macro:

/run EjectPassengerFromSeat(1)

Commento di Isiwien

As of this mornings rolling resets the Pyrium-Laced Crystalline Vial and Sands of Time does NOT work with Best Deals Anywhere. Seems like a hotfix. I'm now a sad panda. The prices are now set at 4500 and 2700, even for goblins.
http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/8979/goblindiscount.jpg

Commento di 837331

As of Tuesday 05/31/2011 the items need to make the Vial of the Sands, DO NOT get the Goblin racial discount bonus. For those saying it does, it was before the date stated above, which you could stack guild discount + goblin discount for a total of 20300 gold for the mats. However you can still get the guild discount bonus for a total of 26100 gold for the mats.

Lets hope Blizz wont take that too.

Commento di 784189

The Goblin Discount does not work for the Vendoritems anymore from now on. Only the 10% Guildperk works now and makes the lowest price to be 26'100 Gold.

Commento di Isiwien

The passenger does not need any kind of skill or level. You can fly with whoever you want as long as they are in your party :)

Commento di Jalanorian

So assuming you get 1 Tol'Vir digsite every 30 min and about a 1.5%* chance of getting this for every 3-4 digsites.
We are talking about an average 1200** hours of archeology. This does seem a bit high, so I am hoping the rates I have are wrong. Please post if you have better data on the rates.

*.13x.12x.1=.00156
**30x3.5/.0015/60 =1166

I don't personally know about the rates of proc, drop, etc, but going off of your math, the chance is .156% not 1.56%. Just a misplaced decimal point.

Also, the goblin vendor discount has been altered to no longer work on vendors with no faction affiliation, so it no longer works here.

Commento di 866702

Another notable thing about this mount is, that you can't use it in no fly zones, such as instances, battlegrounds, arenas, etc.
You get the idea.

Commento di 880704

it didnt drop for me D: plz help what to do? QQ

Commento di 805932

dropped this from 2nd canopic jar nearly a year ago. made a fortune out of them since. :D

Commento di 984420

I have good, not exalted, rep with the Uldum faction, vials are 4500, sands are 2700. I checked on the beta server, and the prices were 5000/3000.

I got the recipe out of my first canopic jar.

Collegamenti

Vial of the Sands

Vial of the Sands
10 s di lancio

Reagenti:

Pyrium-Laced Crystalline Vial, Sands of Time (8), Truegold (12), Flask of the Winds (8), Flask of Titanic Strength (8), Deepstone Oil (8)

Vial of the Sands (2)
Livello dell’oggetto 85
Cavalcatura
Richiede il livello 80
Richiede Expert Riding
Usa: Teaches you how to transform into a dragon, allowing you to carry an ally on your back. This is a flying mount.
Transforms you into a Sandstone Drake, allowing you to fly very fast and carry an ally on your back. This is a flying mount.

Prezzo di vendita: 25

Reagenti

	Pyrium-Laced Crystalline Vial (1)
	Sands of Time (8)
	Truegold (12)
	Transmute: Truegold (6)
	Pyrium Bar (18)
	Smelt Pyrite (9)
	Pyrite Ore (18)
	Transmute: Pyrium Bar (4)
	Elementium Bar (4)
	Smelt Elementium (2)
	Elementium Ore (4)
	Volatile Earth (4)
	Volatile Fire (60)
	Volatile Air (60)
	Volatile Water (60)
	Flask of the Winds (8)
	Flask of the Winds (4)
	Volatile Life (32)
	Azshara's Veil (32)
	Whiptail (32)
	Crystal Vial (4)
	Flask of Titanic Strength (8)
	Flask of Titanic Strength (4)
	Volatile Life (32)
	Cinderbloom (32)
	Whiptail (32)
	Crystal Vial (4)
	Deepstone Oil (8)
	Deepstone Oil (8)
	Albino Cavefish (8)

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Categoria GCD

n/d

Costo

Nessuno

Portata

0 metri (Self)

Tempo di lancio

10 secondi

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n/d

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0 secondi

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