Cloud Serpent Hunter Pet Guide

By BendakWoW Updated: 2025/12/13

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The Ivory Cloud Serpent in Vale of Eternal Blossoms (Mogu Assault phase only) is a rare spawn that "drops" a mount when you use the Zan-Tien Lasso on it. However, it can also be tamed if you are both in war mode and have the N'lyeth, Sliver of N'Zoth toy active, making the creature hostile to you. Since you must be standing on solid ground for taming, a good spot is on top of the gate at /way 4.1, 56.9. This cloud serpent flies very quickly, so you must cast tame beast as soon as you see it. Keep in mind that this Serpent is in very high demand for the mount it drops, so you may have some competition for it.

Red Cloud SerpentReins of the Crimson Cloud Serpent

Crimsonscale Firestorm are the common cloud serpents you'll find all over the Timeless Isle. There are several up at a time, and they respawn quickly after being killed, so you should have no trouble finding or taming them.

Dark Cloud SerpentReins of the Onyx Cloud Serpent

Onyx Stormclaws can be found on the northernmost island of Townlong Steppes, accompanied by Shan'ze Serpentbinders.

Wild Onyx Serpent flies high around Mount Neverest in Kun-Lai Summit. This one can be difficult to tame because there are few places to stand where you'll be in range to pull it, and at max level, you will easily one-shot it with any gear on.

Dark Cloud Serpent with Blue Accents

Haofeng appears during Mogu Assaults in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms and only when theSerpent Binding world event is up.

Onyx Warserpent is available during Mogu Assaults in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms and can be found all over the western half of the zone.

Thundering Cloud SerpentsThundering White Cloud SerpentRajani Warserpent

Normally, the Rajani Warserpents are friendly, but you can make them unfriendly by being in Warmode and using the N'lyeth, Sliver of N'Zoth toy. Then it's just a matter of walking up and taming one of them! You'll find them near the flight master at Mistfall Village.

Thundering Black Cloud SerpentReins of the Thundering Onyx Cloud Serpent

Huolon on the Timeless Isle is going to be a little difficult to tame as you'll be competing with all of the players killing it for the matching mount it drops, Reins of the Thundering Onyx Cloud Serpent. Huolon spawns every 30-60 minutes, and you may have better luck during the wee hours.

Thundering Blue Cloud SerpentReins of the Thundering Cobalt Cloud Serpent

Nalak on the Isle of Thunder is another difficult tame because it's a World Boss that is constantly camped for the ultra rare mount it drops, Reins of the Thundering Cobalt Cloud Serpent. Nalak respawns every 15 minutes or so. Good luck!

Thundering Red Cloud SerpentReins of the Thundering Ruby Cloud Serpent

Milau in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms (original Mists of Pandaria phase) will prove to be a much simpler tame than the other thundering serpents. You'll find this one at the bottom of the Guo-Lai Halls in the north of the zone. You may need to speak to Zidormi in order to phase back to the old version of the zone.

Heavenly Cloud SerpentsHeavenly Onyx Cloud SerpentReins of the Heavenly Onyx Cloud Serpent

Azure Serpent spawns during the first boss encounter in the Shado-Pan Monastery dungeon. Make sure you don't have any gear equipped that can proc direct damage, as it could proc from casting Tame Beast and one-shot the serpent. If the serpent says untameable, try going into the dungeon in Normal mode.

Zhao-Ren can only be tamed by brand new Pandaren Hunters who haven't yet chosen a faction, as it spawns in the The Wandering Isle starting zone.

Tsulong, the raid boss from Terrace of Endless Spring.

Heavenly Blue Cloud SerpentReins of the Heavenly Azure Cloud Serpent

Rei Lun spawns during Mogu Assaults in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms, at the bottom of Guo-Lai Halls. This is the same rare that drops the Pristine Cloud Serpent Scale.

Astral Cloud SerpentsAstral Cloud SerpentReins of the Astral Cloud Serpent

Elegon is the second-to-last boss in the Mogu'shan Vaults raid, and it differs from other cloud serpents because it's a member of the Spirit Beast family instead of the Serpent family, which means it's only available to Beast Mastery Hunters. This raid can easily be soloed by a level 50+ Hunter at any difficulty. Note that Elegon does not require the How to School Your Serpent tome.

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Comment by tmilhomens

Thank u Bendak! marvelous

Comment by RhazzahDoom

I was unable to tame Tsulong or the one in Shado-Pan Monastery. Not sure what the deal is. I did manage to get Milau though.

Comment by RaukoLord

Thundering White Cloud Serpents(Rajani Warserpent) are really tameable (or at least were) but Tsulong is not tameable right now, hope it will be fixed soon

UPD: Azure Serpent from Shado-Pan Monestry(Heavenly Onyx Cloud Serpent) is tameable in Normal
UPD2: Ivory Cloud Serpent is also confermed as tameable with N'lyeth, Sliver of N'Zoth

Comment by Rowain

Learned how to tame Cloud Serpents from the book last night, which my huntress Meliisande purchased on her own, as she is exalted with the faction.

Tamed Nalak and Elegon the night of prepatch, and a Crimsonscale on the Timeless Isle today.

Traveled back in time to tame Milau a little later, and am being told that I don't know how to tame Cloud Serpents. Yet I still have Nalak and Elegon with me.

I'm sending my druid Rowain to buy the book and mail it to Meliisande, hoping that she'll be able to re learn this ability and tame Milau. Submitted a bug report for this. Anyone else having this issue?

I'll update soon as I can.

-- UPDATE --

Meliisande re-learned the Cloud Serpent taming ability from another copy of the book and was able to successfully tame Milau. Hoping to hear back from Blizzard with a fix on this.

Comment by ajmhornet

It's working fine for me. I now have one hunter with 2 x Tsulong. Went into Terrace on normal and tamed it. Backed out, changed to heroic then went back in and tamed it again. Did the same with Elegon on another hunter.

Comment by Rowain

In case you were wondering. Yu'lon will not be tamed, not on the Timeless Isle nor in the Temple of the Jade Serpent.

Comment by skid25

Is it possible to learn the skill via buying the Tome with my Exalted Main and learning it through him instead of having to exalt my hunter to buy the book and learn it?

Comment by TwiztidLotus

I am having a hard time taming Nalak because everyone keeps killing him. It's funny how before he was tameable no one really wanted anything to do with him. I think that Blizz/Activison should remove his aggro table.

Comment by Char

Its bad enough fighting over tames, even worse when we feel we need to get two of them for our animal companion talent. The talent uses whatever is in the first slot of the stable as the second pet. Blizzard really needs to make it so that if that first slot is blank, it will use our currently summoned beast as our second pet. 20 pages of stable slots is a nice upgrade from what we had unless we feel we have 2 of every unique beast. I would like to eventually see the stable as a tab in our collections, similar to the appearance tab, and still use the stable masters to pick the pets from our stable collection.

Comment by CommanderAmaro

Easiest way to get Rajani Warserpents join a PvP group in the vale kill other plays till the N'Zoth toy quest pops accept the quest but dont use the toy yet. Go land right next to the Rajani Warserpents by the flight master then use the toy and tame you 2 fresh White WarSerpents.

Comment by LavaMoose1

For double taming Elegon, here is what you will need to do. First, make sure raid is set to normal difficulty. Make your way to Elegon, tame, and hearth. Then you need to fly to the Vale of Eternal Blossoms, talk to Zidormi and time hop back to the old Pandaria. Once that is done, enter the seat of Knowledge and speak to Lorewalker Han and ask him to tell you about the vault of mysteries. This will queue you for the LFR version of the appropriate section of Mogu'shan Vaults to tame your second Elegon. Work your way back down to Elegon once again, tame, and viola! You are now the proud new owner of not one, but TWO sparkle dragons!

Comment by panosk

So I have managed to tame Elegon , I can't tame the Wild Onyx Serpent in Kun-lai nor can I tape the Azure Serpent in Shadow-pan monastery

Comment by Zesterx

When i use the Sliver of N'zoth and try to tame the Rajani Watersperpent it says I don't know how to tame Cloud Serpents, even though I've already tamed cloud serpents before this. Did they try to hotfix the Sliver work around?

Comment by elkagorasa

Note How to School Your Serpent is BOA, so don't fly out there with your new max level hunter to learn this. Fly out with your exalted toon and have them buy it!

Comment by Garnth

Thanks to Petopia I found another of likely tamable versions of Dark Serpent which should have Golden accents Shan'ze Cloudrider. Sadly I completed quest Surprise Attack! during which this version spawn on my hunter 6 years ago.
Currently I'm thinking about "Party Sync", but it would be great if someone who knows more about this could share their experience.

Comment by Gwiez

ironic that the normal looking ones are mostly untameable, but the heavenly onyx one is fairly easy to get.

Comment by pikamaster

I hope one day, that htey will make the yellow/orange'ish one available to tame.

Comment by Evhappybunny

All you have to do is feign death after taming the cloud serpents in a raid or dungeon. Just have your newly tamed cloud serpent play dead and then feign death and the bosses will reset. Dismiss the current pet. You will be able to tame a second pet immediately. Just did this on Elegon and the cloud serpent in shada-pan monastery. You’re welcome!

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