Raising the Shadowbarb Drone - Mount, Pet and Toy Information

Por Neryssa Actualizado: 10/02/2020

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This questline is available for both Alliance and Horde characters.

You must have unlocked Uldum assaults on your character to start this questline - Refer to the Visions of N'Zoth Introduction Questline Guide for more information.

Once started, this questline will require approximately 30 days of daily quests to earn all rewards. These do not need to be done in consecutive days, and depending on your Stage 3 quest progression, it might take a little less time to complete it.

Shadowbarb Rewards

Egg Stage: Pila de huevos aqir, a toy that will cover a target in bugs for a few seconds.

Larva Stage: Cría puasombría, a Flying Battle Pet with a plethora of void-themed Magic attacks.

Hatchling Stage: Zángano puasombría, an Aqir flying mount.

The Shadowbarb Drone portion starts at 4:48.Shadowbarb Quests and Daily QuestsHuevo tocado por el Vacío20.8 62.0El huevo increíbleH'partho ArdorosEclosión con parangónStage 1: Nurturing the Egg

Incubación del Vacío

Unique

Requires you to collect 10 Cristal de Vacío; these can be found on the ground near void fissures or on the foot of eye tentacle objects in areas under Black Empire assaults.

Encerrado en ámbar

Unique

Requires you to locate an Incubadora de ámbar and have it airlifted to Ramkahen. These can be found during Mantid assaults in Vale of Eternal Blossoms on the western portion of the zone and all you need to do is locate one and interact with it.

La calidez del sol

Unique

Requires you to locate a Emanador solar for H'Partho. These can be found during Amathet assaults in Uldum on the underground portion of the Obelisk of the Stars.

Estrategia envolvente

Unique

Requires you to obtain 30 Telaraña aqir from Aqir casters. These can be found during Aqir assaults in Uldum everywhere across the zone, and you will need to kill aqir casters such as Taumaturgo del Vacío aqir to retrieve them.

Incubación continua

Daily

Daily version of Incubación del Vacío, goes exactly the same as that quest.

Stage 1.5: It's a... Something? Do Aqir Have Genders?Salir del cascarón

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Reginald

Spike

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Pila de huevos aqirStage 2: Diets For Your LarvaUna dieta equilibradaTrozo de carne

Sustitutos de la carne

Unique

Requires you to gather 12 Carne de insectoide from Mantid assaults in Vale of Eternal Blossoms or Aqir assaults in Uldum. Your larva does not like this either, but hey, we tried.

Filetes fétidos

Unique

Requires you to collect 12 Carne corrupta from minions of N'Zoth in Black Empire assaults. The aqir larva seems to like this one, so now we solved two problems with one baby!

Una delicia sangrienta

Unique

Requires you to collect 8 Vial de ánima purificada to feed your larva with. These can be looted from Corresombras dokanis or Modelasangre dokanis during Mogu assaults in Vale of Eternal Blossoms.

Figuras de acción

Unique

Requires you to collect 6 Figurilla amathet for your larva to play with. These can be looted from Amathet enemies during Amathet invasion in Uldum.

Bichos buenos

Unique

Requires you to collect 5 Cría de arenisca dócil to act as friends for your larva. These can be found around the upper portions of the Temple of Uldum during Aqir assaults in Uldum.

Superjalea

Unique

Requires you to collect 8 Jalea real concentrada to help your larva grow faster. These can be found during the Mantid assaults in Vale of Eternal Blossoms, in little jars on the ground sprinkled between the mantid mobs.

Más filetes fétidos

Daily

Daily version of Filetes fétidos, goes exactly the same as that quest.

Stage 2.5: It Grows Wings!¡Crecen tan rápido!Cría puasombríaStage 3: How to Train Your Hatchling

A daily quest that will involve you to invoke your hatchling via Silbato de H'partho and fight alongside it for 10 minutes in invasions. Enemies defeated during these 10 minutes will be directly added to your hatchling's experience bar, so plan your route accordingly! If you or your hatchling die during these 10 minutes, you will no longer be able to summon it for the day.
Lower health enemies in groups grant 5 experience each; Normal enemies grant 20 experience; Elites and rares can grant 30 to 50 experience. Your best bet is to encounter an area where you are able to grind enemies and pay attention in chat for any rare spawns.

For more information on these legendary pets and strategies to defend them, check our Visions of N'Zoth Legendary Pet Battle Strategies Guide!

Instintos aqir

Unique

Requires you to summon your hatchling via Silbato de H'partho and fight alongside it for 10 minutes in invasion zones. The more enemies you kill during this time, the more experience your hatchling will acquire.

Alfazaque duro de pelar

Unique

Requires you to defeat the Reptador de arena aqir in a pet battle with the Shadowbarb Hatchling in your party. The Aqir Sandcrawler can be found by the Temple of Uldum in Uldum during Aqir assaults.

Alguien de su tamaño

Unique

Requires you to defeat Retinus el Buscador in a pet battle with the Shadowbarb Hatchling in your party. Retinus the Seeker can be found by the Obelisk of the Stars in Uldum during Amathet assaults.

El valor de un mántide

Unique

Requires you to defeat the Prole Vil'thik in a pet battle with the Shadowbarb Hatchling in your party. The Vil'thik Hatchling can be found on the northern portion of the Serpent's Spine in Vale of Eternal Blossoms during Mantid assaults.

El pequeño defensor

Unique

Requires you to defeat the Defensor de piedra baruk in a pet battle with the Shadowbarb Hatchling in your party. The Baruk Stone Defender can be found to the north of the Ruins of Guo-Lai in Vale of Eternal Blossoms during Mogu assaults.

Afinar los instintos

Daily

Daily version of Instintos aqir, goes exactly the same as that quest.

Final Stage: Mounting Your AqirUn pedido personalizadoHerrero AbasiArmamento de otro mundoMi propio zánganoZángano puasombría

Comentarios

Comentario de rodalpho

The human +10% rep racial does work with all of these quests.

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Original post: Does the human racial +10% rep work with "experience" in this quest? It did work for the bee.

Comentario de Kaelani

I'm either blind or an add-on is blocking the experience bar -- but where is it located?

Comentario de Cryz8210

I have just noticed, that it appears the human Deplomacy racial actually adds to the experience of the egg.
I have done only 2 unique quests and 2 dailies, which according to the guide equates 2400 experience, but my currently egg-perience is on 2640, which can only be explained by 10% additional experience from somewhere, which I suspect can only be credited to the fact I'm human.

It might be a bug, however, but as others have pointed out in other comments, the Stormsong bee also gained additional experience from the human racial.

Comentario de Kyshar

Yu'gaz

Haven't seen this mentioned anywhere, but in case that you kept the Gift of N'zoth from the Crucible of Storms questline, this name gets translated to Fluffy. :)

Comentario de Despero24

For those who are not fans of pet battling but would still like to get this awesome mount...

Check https://www.wowhead.com/guides/visions-of-nzoth-legendary-pet-battle-strategies#vilthik-hatchling-pet-battle-strategy for strategies. You literally only need two pets, Val'kyr nonata and Gurrumino Zandalari to do each and every pet battle in Uldum and Vale successfully. Moreover, if you have a level 3 Garrison on at least two characters, you can get two Piedra de entrenamiento de duelo definitiva to level both of those pets up to max instantaneously from the quest Magia desenterrada or Magia desenterrada given by Lio la Leona in your garrison. No buying, loaning, or leveling involved.

Comentario de Firestar1111

i am not amused seeing pet battles as part of this, looks like i will be delayed a month or more probably, waiting for battle enemies quest

Comentario de AlicePrime

After failing to get credit for the Honing Instincts (after 10 minutes of killing rares), I gave up. I will now only do the Battle Pet quests, even if it takes me longer. With so many things that can go wrong (from War Mode jerks to _accidentally_ forgetting to leave the raid group before activating the whistle), if I never see this "training" again it will be too soon. At least pet battles cannot be failed in any way.

Comentario de Rocchio

remeber that if you summon your little brodrone and then you enter the minor vision (like i did yesterday in uldum) the quest of keeping it with you for 10 minutes will be autocompleted immediatly BUT you will get 1 experience point only.

Comentario de dchriest25

Mine has been stuck at 4999/5000 for quite a while now even though I'm doing the quest on a daily basis.

Why is it stuck?

Comentario de emmsnake

Personally, I find the "final quest" that still follows the convention of "ok, come back tomorrow" to be really tedious. My personal opinion, but yeeeeeeeeesh.

Comentario de ChessieTiger

Does anyone have a rough timeline for how long this "should" take? In perfect conditions and such)

Comentario de EsmilaHyjal

Don't do the daily quest of killing mobs with your pet and Warmode on
Or else you're gonna end up like me being at 4500, killing one mob and then being destroyed by a random guy who decided it was fun making people wait longer to get their mount

Comentario de jtcullifer1

Great guide, thank you for putting it together.

A few points that might be added, as I think they were mentioned in the comments, and that I have learned the hard way:

1. Be careful if doing the training quest (Bug out in combat) with War Mode on. If you die (Ally / Horde), or your Battle Pet dies; you will be done for the day
2. Do not enter the Minor Vision with your Batte Pet enabled. I have found that it will essentially end your daily accumulation total and the quest for the day. I assume this is due to it being instanced?
3. Plan your dailies around starting in Uldum, as sometimes the daily can / will send you the Vale for the collection item or the pet battle required that day. I have a few times had to go back and forth between the zones just to turn this in once completed.
4. Be patient. This questline made up of dailies can appear drawn out, and there are no reputation / visions / mementos gained by doing it. It is purely for the toy, pet, and mount. You only get the one quest per day, so just be sure when picking up Uldum dailies, to swing by and knock this one out too!

Comentario de alpanhell

Is there any advantage or reason to do this on multiple toons?

This isn't very informative. On the first phase(Stage 1: Nurturing the Egg) you say the quests are random but they aren't, they're based on what invasions are up (i.e. you can't get a Encased in Amber quest unless the Mantid invasion is up, quite simply because you can't do it if the Mantid invasion isn't up).

Also, you're missing one of the quests Una técnica electrizante (this is for the Mogu invasion in Vale).

To get past "Stage 1: Nurturing the Egg" you have to do all the quests in all the invasions.

Comentario de Incandio

If it wasn't for this quest and this quest alone, we could just do dailies in one zone, go to the next, do the dailies then log out, next day reverse. Thanks to this quest, we have to do the dailies in Uldum, pick up this daily, go to Vale, do the dailies, then come back to Uldum, hand in daily. OR, if we are starting in the Vale, do the dailies there, go to Uldum, do the dailies, pick up this daily, go back to Vale, do the daily, and then come back to Uldum to hand in this daily.

Comentario de S4m0th

Worst quest line ever. It has been a complete pain in the ass, especially in the end when we have to farm (AGAIN) and give the items for the NPC who crafts the saddle. WAS IT IMPOSSIBLE TO BLIZZARD TO DO NOT FORCE US TO WAIT ONE DAY MORE AFTER WE GIVE THE REAGENTS ?
Listen to me if a Blizzard employee reads me : phok you and your quest line.

Comentario de Xendren

Ok. I have to be missing something obvious. I've been checking for weeks now, and I find the "voidtouched eggs" just fine, but there is no quest or any way to interact with them. I've checked during the Aqir invasion and all the others. So is it only available sometimes?

Comentario de ArticSkoll

anyone know if this questline is staying post pre patch or SL launch? im still on the larva stage.

Comentario de SlimJimma

I came here looking for ways to do the pet battles, without having to do the pet battles (lol, i really HATE pet battles) and was extremely happy to see two comments underneath a guide, which both said that the legendary pets scale your pets levels to max as long as you have one pet on your team who's level 25...
Then i was extremely disappointed, when i tried it and found out it's not true anymore.
Either Blizzard patched it, or the two comments were lying. I'm gonna go ahead and guess that blizzard might have patched it in 8.3.7.

If anyone has any ideas on how to do the pet battle quests without having to pet battle as much, is greatly appreciated.

Comentario de HPFIC

Locking this mount behind Battle Pet BS is an A*shole move.. I dont play wow to play pokemon.... Lamest thing ever!

Comentario de Memento1960

One thing on this guide, with regards to the Aqir Instincts quest - rare (named, star on map) mobs don't give any experience at all.

Comentario de yagyu79

trash pet battles now trick you into doing them when you thought u were growing a mount i hate this ALOT pet battles is the worst addition to the game but i didnt mind them as long as there was no mount rewards for it.

Comentario de Zarinja

I am on the last portion of this quest series (Otherworldly Armaments) and am very excited to get the drone! The dailies are a bit tedious, even though they are trivial at 60. This process took twice as long because I simply kept forgetting to come do the dailies!

A couple tips for select parts of the quests that I discovered along the way. The pet battle, if you absolutely hate them or don't have good pets to fight, just determine the strongest creature type against the enemy pet, and find three level ONE pets of that kind, preferably with hard hitting moves. The boss pet should be squished down to level 1 as well, and becomes incredibly easy for any player to beat!

For the Aqir instincts quests, if you come prepared you can get him to adult in two, or even ONE of these dailies if you are particularly savvy with the mobs where you are fighting. I did it twice, not realizing how it worked the first time and not taking full advantage of the allotted time. I have done this on a feral druid, and did this daily in feral. Lots of mobility, speed, and heavy AoE but also good single target for elites. Round up as many mobs in an area that you think you can without any of them resetting, focusing on areas heavy with elites. Hunters with barrage, this is your time to shine! Kill them as fast as you can, and as quickly as you can mount up and head to the closest area with a good concentration of mobs, and repeat.

My second time doing this daily, I went from somewhere between 1,500 - 2,000 and capped him at 4999/5000. I am now on Otherworldly armaments after only three days (First day Aqir instincts, second day was Mantid Mettle, third day capping his exp out via the daily version of Aqir instincts).

Hopefully this helps those of you nearing this point or who are at this point, it definitely made my life easier!

Comentario de Calliecaps

Will Aqir Instincts/Honing Instincts eventually spawn as a daily if I just skip the pet battle ones? It's been a pet battle daily every time I've checked and I'm not sure if it's just bad RNG or if I'm locked to that. My hatchling reached level 2 after one pet battle victory and now I can't beat them anymore.

Raising the Shadowbarb Drone - Mount, Pet and Toy Information

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