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Commento di 1044568

Now I can have a little green Proto-Drake baby flying with my green Proto-Drake mount! :D

Commento di Goddessa39

This is one I am really excited to get. The normal proto-drake pet looks a lot like it but the green should stick out more.

Commento di Feliciamarie

Found a couple in the Savage Thicket. The north east part of Sholazar Basin.

Commento di Saikusu

Found one in The Savage Thicket. Only one appeared though, and it was a Poor quality one.. but I'm happy to at least have one!

Commento di killswitch23456

Here is what I found:

Common
Level: 21
Health: 978
Attack: 196
Speed:165

Coordinates:
45.70 24.62
47.85 23.02

Commento di jensketch

Just tried to see if the spawns were affected by a server reset. One today 11/28/12 at 10:00 am EST Logged in so fast (first few tries the Northrend World Server was still down) and there was no spawns at all. Flew around for a good 15 minutes to see if any would spawn and none did.

I do not think they are set up like the Scourged Whelplings at all.

Edit:

News from a Blue on the Pet Battles forum:

Posted by Bashiok
The new pets are on fairly long spawn timers, and are randomized (i.e. will not spawn on server restart). We've confirmed they have been spawning on some realms, so just keep an eye out!

They're random, so they're not going to spawn on every realm at the same time. So yeah, working as intended.

Commento di gnorkthedark

One of the coolest parts of this pet is the icon.

Commento di 1041641

Most likely one of the stronger dragonling pets you can have. His Emerald Dream spell combined with Emerald presence makes this wonderful little proto to one of the toughest pets to break. He can take an enormous amount of damage and still heal almost full health with the dream.

If you like tanky pets who can self sustain then this one is a easy pick. The spawn is abit slow but if you manage to catch one that isn't rare then a upgrade gem that you can loot is well spent on him!

After the accuracy change on abilities he became even stronger, making his two basic damage attacks very powerful. If you use a P/P build of this one he'll have 341 Power and 1400 HP. His Breath/Emerald bite will do 400 damage. Making him both good tank and very good dps.

Commento di hevgirl

threw together a macro for finding this guy, (or any of his new pet buddies)
it will target the closest one to you, and put an "X" over their head.

/tar Fluxfire
/tar Anodized R
/tar Cogblade R
/tar Arcane E
/tar Lofty L
/tar Emerald P
/tar Infinite Wh
/tar Nexus Wh
/tar Harpy Yo
/tar Kun-Lai R
/tar Stunted Y
/tar Sumprush R
/stopmacro
/run SetRaidTarget("target", 7)
233 / 255 characters,
so if any names need to be lengthened to get the correct mob ya have a little room to do so.

my luck is bad, as usual. so haven't found any of the new pets yet,
but hope this helps everyone else! Happy Hunting! - Zyklonß - Stonemaul (A)

if any modifications need to be made, please comment & I'll modify this post.

Commento di applebear

So far, can't see anything real special to make these spawn...watched people run around killing the big dragons and this doesn't seem to have an effect. Waited around an hour when I finally seen one but someone else was near it. Sent him a whisper asking if he was going to take it and he was, so I left him to it. He then whispered back asking if I cared about the quality. I didn't, so he logged out for me and let me have it .

Please consider others when the pet has a low spawn rate and log out after you engage and find out the pet isn't a rare, so the pet doesn't despawn and someone else can have it.

The quality I got was poor, and I left after that. I personally can not stand the headache that goes with these rare spawns. I will make it rare later if it means that much to me.

Commento di owlloveyou

OK! This I had to alt-f4 out twice because i kept killing it even though it was only level 22. It was common and it's perfect :) I caught this baby at 4:19 am with noone around, near the bottom of the Thicket. Good luck, it goes perfectly with the Green Proto-Drake mount!

Commento di Kittytreets

So, I don't know if this actually had anything to do with the whelps spawning for me or not, but I felt like it did. So, I spent about an hour looking around for these guys on two different days. Not much, sure, but you would think at least ONE would spawn within that time (even if I saw someone else grab it).

I was bored waiting around so I started killing all the big drakes and the eggs and then the whelps (neutral) that come out of those eggs. An emerald whelp spawned shortly after I downed about 5 or so of the eggs and their neutral whelps. I was unmounted so some other guy got it. I was torn up! But whatever. I continued to take out revenge on the surrounding creatures as I had been...another one spawned. I got him! Sure, he was POOR but still. I'm sort of just happy to have one considering how many people were/still are camping that tiny spawn point (and shared realms make it tough).

I am sure this tactic will be proven wrong but I thought it was interesting how the two spawned with in minutes of each other after I started murdering drakes, eggs and their neutral whelps out of boredom. Before I'd started doing that myself AND the other campers had not seen one spawn at all. Something to try at least if you're bored! ;o) You get a few mats you can sell on the AH from the drakes too (and great if you're a skinner).

Commento di Apolloshot

Been out here for 8 hours straight, not a single spawn (not even one I've lost to someone else).

Tried killing mobs, did nothing, even set up NPCscan for times I had to use the restroom...

Getting pretty tired of the grindfest this game has become, it puts TBC to shame at this point.

Commento di thecatsmeow

I started killing the big dragons and within a minute one spawned. Only white quality but I'll keep em (and pray for a dragon upgrade stone!)

Commento di 1061553

Found mine in just a few short minutes. Flew in, saw nothing just a couple of other campers so I was just hovering in the middle of the Savage Thicket. I went off to start the dishes came back and saw him there right beneath me :) swooped down engaged him and he was a rare! Already loving him!

Commento di 775137

I don't normally believe in the "kill all the stuff around" business, but since I've not seen any in the last several days I've hunted, I figured what the heck. I started killing eggs and neutral whelps, and lo and behold, two emerald proto-drakes spawned. The one I got was a poor, and someone else got the other. So... I was going to be content with it, but thought why not try once more.... and guess what? Another spawned, this time an uncommon. Got him and happy. Just thought I'd share.

Commento di PilsnerDk

"found across the shores of Northrend" my butt.

Commento di mek002

flew to the Savage Thicket and only one paw was in the area .. i got the little guy he was a white one .. pretty happy i got him

Commento di 264322

Definitely this was the hardest and longest capture fight I have had. The whelp's healing abilities are so strong it was difficult to keep him under 35% health. Wish I had taken my Flayer Youngling along, his kick would have been useful against the whelp's Emerald Dream.

Commento di sunsun2k

Found a paw at 46,33 and catch one when I useGeneratore di Tunnel Spaziotemporali: Nordania to reach Sholazar Basin.

This engineering item is very convenient. The landing place is near 45,24.

Commento di igooana

I can confirm that killing dragons and their eggs will usually result in a couple of these little guys spawning. Normally when I get there there are 1-2 people just hanging out waiting for their NPC scan to alarm so I go to work and within 15 minutes there are 2 of them flying around. If it's not rare I'll announce to the zone and /camp out.
Unfortunately, whenever I run around killing stuff there are a couple scrubs just watching me ready to jump on the next whelp that pops up so I have no idea if a rare has spawned that I missed out on.
edit: I think the eggs and hatchlings are linked to the whelp spawns because I noticed that when 2 spawned the eggs that were normally there weren't. Killing the adults can't hurt, though.

Commento di Midaria

I can also confirm that killing the mobs around where the Emerald Proto-Whelps spawn helps. Sat around for about half an hour with no spawns, started killing things and within a minute one popped up. Happy hunting!

Commento di lphomiej

If you have NPCscan and are having a tough time finding rare pets, use their NPC ID from wowhead and add it to NPCScan. It's a nice little buzz when you've been circling around somewhere looking for these.

Some I added for Northrend were:

Nexus Whelpling: 68845
Emerald Proto-Whelp: 68850
Scourged Whelpling: 62854
Stunted Shardhorn: 62816
Oily Slimeling: 62697

Don't forget to clear your cache if you've already cached it... and chances are, it'll only work once... but it's nice to hear the sound anyway.

Hope this helps you and your sanity, especially if you are on a heavily populated server, full of people who like to collect battle pets like mine.

Commento di ukjl

Just been farming the Emerald Proto, i tried just camping and waiting, i did this for two days on and off, no luck! then tried killing everything in the area, after 10 mins had three Emerald Proto's to collect, two common then left the third for someone else to collect. Good luck

Commento di ganjabanshee

Level 23 at the moment,rare :

Health : 1356
Attack : 281
Speed: 236

All i can say...awesome pet for long fights...incredible healing...oh yeah and a great looking pet icon too :)

Commento di indyfan1202

These guys seem to respawn every ten minutes or so, regardless of whether you kill other things in The Savage Thicket or not. I spent 90 minutes killing Uovo di Draco Primordiale, Prole Primordiale, and Draco Primordiale in the area and 5 total Proto-Draghetto di Smeraldos (1 Rare, 1 Uncommon, 2 Common, and 1 Poor) spawned, with the Rare spawning 90 minutes after I first entered The Savage Thicket and began slaughtering mobs. I then waited 40 minutes without killing any mobs in the area and found that 2 Uncommon and 1 Common Proto-Draghetto di Smeraldo had spawned.

However, to pass the time between spawns, you may want to slaughter Draco Primordiale for their Carne Nordica, and Skinners can get Cuoio Boreale and Scaglie di Drago del Gelo from them as well.

Commento di 1068618

My wife and I have been farming for a rare. It seems they spawn one at a time, with a 5 minute or so respawn timer. We've found most of them in the northern part of The Savage Thicket.

Edit: After a few more, they have consistently spawn every five minutes, but the one-at-a-time theory was debunked.
A few poor, a common, and a few uncommons. Still no rares xD

Commento di Bowler92

Just found 2 Proto-Whelps in Savage Thicket within 5 mins of each other, i wiped out everything in the area seemed to work for me. Also didnt have to deal with Emerald Dream :D

Commento di 1069610

Found an uncommon in the thicket after 20 mins of killing eggs, hatchlings and drakes. :)

Commento di 1023644

The two spawns that I have seen have both spawned at 48,28 Savage Thicket. Both uncommon qualities

Commento di Znaleziatko

I came to the Savage Thicket and there were seven whelps available to battle with.
I fought four of them - uncommon, poor, uncommon and rare.
So I caught the last one for myself and let the rest wait there for the next pet-battler :)

Good luck everyone!

Commento di 29887

Pro Tip: Use a Terrible Turnip to lower it to 1 HP
If your pet get low on HP use Inspiring Song.
Don't use Sunlight because it will boost the dragons heals.

Or, if you don't have a Terrible Turnip, use flying attacks (weak against dragonkin) so you don't accidentally kill it, as I did. Twice -_-

Commento di 29719

If it's an important pet to you I would suggest farming some of the battle pets in the area trying to force spawn, with the exception of the minfernal and the whelp in coldarra almost every pet seems to be tied as a rarespawn with all of the other battle pets in the zone.

That being said this is one of my favorite pets, it is capable of killing the wind pandaren elemental all on it's own.

Commento di 1074679

After a bad day of trying to get the mini infernal and the harpy youngling, I landed and saw it straight away. Thank you WoW Gods XD

Commento di 1072085

I have managed to bag myself one of these, I flew over the area on the off chance there might be one available and to my surprise I saw one. I managed to swoop down just before an Orc got there and snatch it up! I used my anodized robo bear who not only got me through the fight with the whelpling but also the two snake companions that came with it!

I got a Common with 980 Hp, 231 Power & 165 speed.

It spawned at 48.98, 25.24

Good Luck!

Commento di valkiria

Just found one (poor quality) near Broodmother Slivina. I killed more drakes around and then pet showed up so maybe is somehow related.
(Wildhammer, 9PM)

Commento di r8dj

Single uncommon spawn in the centre of Savage Thicket appox. 8:30pm server.

Commento di 183948

For the person who said kill all the eggs and protodrakes, tried that, didn't work. What did work for me was going around and killing or capturing other battle pets in the zone, as soon as I did that and went back to the thicket there were several up.

Commento di 1088658

killing the drakes help in the spwan =)

Commento di 1078883

Just caught one. Server time ~4:30 am. Flew by doing my rounds and saw a whole heap (at least 10 or so) all flying in the charred area. Took about 8 or so fights to snag a rare.

Hope this helps. Happy hunting.

Edit ** 4:30am Server Black Dragonflight, eastern server time

Commento di 1078495

I did this and a hunter successfully did this after me to cause a spawn. Kill the broodmother. I got a 22 uncommon, and the other hunter got a common. Didn't even take a minute to spawn for either of us, so has to be related somehow.

Commento di gelf

Emerald Proto-drake is an excellent pet for many of the MoP tamer dailies. While he shares some abilities with Emerald Whelpling it is much easier to find (or upgrade to using a battle-stone) a rare Emerald Proto-drake.

As a Dragonkin he takes reduced damage from Flying type attacks, and with Emerald Bite (a Magic type attack) he deals extra damage against Flying type battle pets, which makes him perfect against most Flying battle-pets.

Also the combination of damage reduction ( Emerald Presence) and powerful healing (Emerald Dream) means he is capable of soloing most other battle pet types (pretty much any that cannot heal themselves).

Commento di misscalinne

I wait 2 min and a spawn apears ! I'm lucky I got rare spawn on first try :)

Commento di Nuena

There was like 30 of these things spawned and i sifted through them and caught 3 uncommon.

I then just druid swiped all poor, common and uncommon whilst on my search for a rare.

Now i have sat here killing mobs for an hour and none have spawned.
So i guess they have a random spawn time and spawn limit.

Commento di 1110072

does it spawn commonly

Commento di foodgoddess

Boy do I feel lucky, was in a pet battle and my opponent had one of these lovelies. Immediately head to SB and see nothing but folks waiting for one too. I watched a 75 hunter killing a lot of stuff and I waited a while, nothing, I qued for a pet battle and when I came out one was literately under my feet and it was a blue. What a honey this pet is . Hope all of you that want one gets one. thanks for all your tips that made me hang out and wait ...was so worth it

Commento di 997306

Anyone notice that this pet doesn't count towards the achievement Safari di Nordania? Maybe it's just too good for it, considering the achievement requires that you catch all of Northrend's battle pets, but the whelp isn't on the list.

Commento di 1117983

Draghetto della Piaga is extremely good to counter Emerald Proto-Whelp. Start with Call Darkness which mostly take 50-100% his life and follow with Shadowflame/Plagued Blood.

Commento di 1117638

I waited there for about 30 min with no spawn, so I killed 2 eggs and a dragon and one spawned IMMEDIATELY! So, kill everything in the zone :)

Commento di sziszi2000

no problem with spawns these days, maybe they buffed the rate, but... I leveled 75-80 battleing these and so far no rare, its possible than no rare from them?

Commento di di3di3di3

One of my favourite pets, his shield ability reduces damage 100% from most dots and other small attacks such as the ones from rats/critters .
When low hp>emerald dream and he's up 100% ;)
Found a rare after about 30 kills, don't give up.

Commento di 503532

The spawn time is not long like some have said here.

Here are my observations:

When hunting this pet I ALWAYS saw someone capturing it every time I flew through. The fact that someone was always battling one told me that the issue is not spawn times; the issue is that it is being heavily camped by many players (CRZ doesn't help), and the whelps are being taken down by someone as soon as a whelp spawn.

I decided to test this theory.

I left a character stationed there, logged in every 20 to 30 minutes, did a circle around the area, and almost every time I logged in there was a whelp, some were rare. I logged in on day two of my hunt at about 3AM server time and there where eight of them—one was a rare, but not the P/P breed I was after. I wiped out all of them except for the rares. (I called out locally for other pet hunters to get them so I could weed out the competition). The spawn of about one to three every thirty or fourty minutes was constant. I got my breed P/P in two and a half days of camping, logging in and out.

I went through a hundred Whelps in a little under three days in order to get the rare I wanted. So no, they are not that rare; they are just heavily hunted.

My tip is this: There is hardly ever any competition in the very early morning. I got mine about 6AM server time (but not because they spawn at 6AM, time had nothing to do with it). No one else was in the area that early, and no one ever is (except us crazy pet breed hunters), and not even someone to take the rare I didn't need that morning.

(Note: Killing dragons, eggs, and other things didn't help. I killed several eggs, whelps, and whatnot, and one solitary whelp spawned. Killing things was just giving me something to do as the time passed. When ALL the other ones spawned there was no one at all killing in the area. I didn't get mine from killing eggs and whelps; they just spawned like most other battle-pets do. If you have skinning, then killing dragons is useful. Otherwise, just log in every 30 minutes and you'll get your Emerald Proto Whelp.)

I hope this is helpful. :)

Commento di Oblique

I've been camping this for about 2 hours, clearing everything in the thicket, and a little east of it. No spawns. There's no competition either. Like most things in this game, the spawn rate seems to be tied to the amount of players in the area.

Commento di 912204

After killing every other battle pet in the zone for an hour or so, I finally got incredibly lucky and ended up with an uncommon P/P whelp, which upgraded with a stone to an absolute powerhouse that solos everything it encounters. Don't underestimate this little guy.

Commento di 657368

First time I went to get one of these.. there were two up.. first one was rare..I was so excited forgot to check the level of the equipped pets.. and since there were so many people camping I decided to just try to get it with my 25s.. I killed it in battle.. WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Commento di duh1989

Do you get angry when the enemy comes up with 3 flying and you cant even hit them? So, get your Emerald Whelpling and your troubles are gone. He is Weak (takes less damage) against Flying pets and have a Magic Strike which is strong (higher damage) against Falying pets. And also reduces like 90 dmg EACH attack with Emerald Presence, so those triple hits are going to do like 60 dmg each... and you can ALSO recover 1125 in like 3 rounds... almost impossible for a Flying pet to kill you.

Commento di 931975

I was patiently waiting for the Emerald Proto-Whelp to appear when I saw two low-level horde in the area on "Stampy" the mammoth. The first was a Blood Elf, the second was a Tauren (I'm a Draenei Priest). I flew over to check them out and emoted them as I waited as I had waited for the whelp to appear, and I saw they were out to kill the large dragon for the quest in the area. I waited until their mammoth tagged it before I took it out with one shot. The Tauren stood there, targeted me, and thanked me. I did a quick /wave /yw and /smile back.

I mounted up, flew back into the middle of the savage thicket, and there was a single Emerald Proto-Whelp undisturbed. When I had started waiting, there were two other 90's surveying the area. It turned out to be an uncommon!

Thank you, karma!

Commento di 716334

Since this is now one of the top rated battle pets it would be useful to know what breed users prefer and the reasons why. I've seen tables for other pets in their comments section and something similar or failing that some feedback from users on the relative value of the various breeds wold be very helpful.

Commento di 973430

Can confirm with 100% certainty that clearing the mobs--agro and non-agro--makes no difference to spawn times.

I work from home and can pretty much run around there non-stop when I'm on calls all day, so trust me on this.

Commento di Deien

I have been checking The Savage Thicket for months in hopes of getting an additional whelp to add to my pets; I like to have at least 2 of each for the Celestial Tournament teams since you cannot heal. I have not seen any level Emerald Proto-Whelp spawn in quite some time and decided to come read the comments here for any ideas. When I read AvernaKM's comment about killing eggs and the neutral Primordial Hatchlings I decided I would give it a try.

30 minutes later I found a Proto-Whelp BUT in such a manner that I felt I should come post this news for others.

I was killing eggs and saw a whelp that did not have the usual name plate above its head. I passed my cursor over the whelp and it turned into the green paw! I targeted it and it said it was an Emerald Proto-Whelp! Good Grief! I went to the whelp and right-clicked - yeppers, a battle pet with no name plate and no green paw on it OR on my mini-map!

Now I am thinking about all the times I have flown over The Savage Thicket, never seeing a single green paw on my mini-map or on the ground, and I am wondering if there had always been at least one whelp down there; unmarked, being totally ignored. Guess if I want more than one I will have to walk The Savage Thicket instead of investigating from above.

Commento di PhaseSix

Figured I'd chime in because it seemed like this pet was bugged for me as it hadn't spawned for days.

For several days straight I would sit at this camp for around 2-3 hours with NOT A SINGLE spawn of the Proto-Whelp. I tried clearing everything like some posts suggested and doing nothing as some posts suggested. Nothing worked, it just would not spawn.

I am on a high population server but there was never another person in the area, not even people leveling. It was all to myself every time and the pet just never spawned no matter what I did... for hours.

I decided today to take a nap since I work nights, logged back in about 8 hours later, and the area was absolutely littered with Proto-Whelps. Green Paws were EVERYWHERE on my minimap. They even seemed to be spawn behind me as I plowed through them trying to find a P/P or a rare. And guess what, my patience paid off. The 10th or so whelp that I fought was a Rare P/P - I couldn't believe it. I caught it and left the other 10 or so that were still up for the next guy, hopefully he's not as unlucky/lucky as me!

Everyone here had one motto that they kept sticking with - Patience. It really does take patience. If they aren't up, try again later. I figured I'd only see one when it finally spawned, there had to be 20. I took the liberty of taking a screenshot -AFTER- catching my rare (that's after killing about 10) of there being 5 on my minimap still.

Emerald Proto-Whelp Minimap

Just be patient, 7/15/14 was when I got mine.

Commento di StarFire2686

Just found this beauty around 9pm while doing a quick loop for him or Unborn while circling for Aotona on my hunter. He is poor quality but does not matter to me because I will just use a stone. I horde came down and grabbed him first because he dropped right next to me and got in my way. Either he could not capture him for some reason or realized that I was here for the companion and left battle since I was their first. Either way he was an easy capture with my regular 25s.

Commento di dsiacono

I was able to find a pet today in The Savage Thicket of Sholazar Basin at coordinates (56-54) after waiting around for approx. 10 or so mins. I got a little bored so I started flying around & killing all the pet squirrels & snakes. Also, I started to kill the NPCs plus breaking the eggs. It didn't seem to immediately spawn the pet but after I flew around a little, I found 1 on my MiniMap, fought it w/ my pets including a Scourged Whelping and Flayer Youngling with 1 pet that was 5 levels higher for backup & was able to capture it. The Proto-Drake Whelp is of poor rarity but once I use a Flawless Battle-Stone, it'll maximize the rarity on it. You can get a Flawless Battle-Stone from battling the pet masters all around Pandaria. Note, the battle-pet stone is a very low percentage drop from a pet battle win.

Update: Now you can purchase a Flawless Battle-Stone or Mythical Battle-Pet Stone in either Orgrimmar or Stormwind by Pet Battletaur. The Mythical Battle-Pet Stone instantly upgrades your battle pet to level 25.

Commento di Ghouls

I found one but then when I tried to catch it my pet got a crit and killed it.
Life isn't worth living...

Commento di Gordolfo

I waited 1:45 minutes for this pet a Saturday morning. I arrived there at 9:00.

Commento di altopelirrojo

I was looking for a stronger dragonkin to take on difficult magic pets. Checked the Savage Thicket during peak hours, found nothing. Flew back and forth, tried killing other pets in the zone. Still found nothing so I left. Checked back early in the morning before work (3 AM server time) and these guys were all over the place. I got lucky and the first one was a rare. Now I'll see how he does in the Darkmoon Faire pet tamer fights.

Commento di matoh

Looking for a rare breed may kill your sanity because of the few number this pet spawns.

So catch what you can and use your battle-stone for a quicker result.

Commento di Drudan

If you are on a high-pop realm and these guys aren't spawning for you, open up your LFG window and join an apexis daily group that's happening on a different realm (preferably one that's near full so they won't notice your absence). Once you join the group, the zone will phase to the new realm and hopefully you'll see a few spawns ready to battle.

Commento di Celellach

Proto-Draghetto di Smeraldo is one of three Battle Pets that can be caught in Northrend and are NOT a requirement for the achievement Safari di Nordania.

Proto-Draghetto di Smeraldo can be found in The Savage Thicket area of Bacino di Sholazar.

The other Battle Pets are:

Draghetto del Nexus can be found in the Coldarra area of Tundra Boreale.
Val'kyr Impura can be found at a few specific spots all over Northrend.

There are a few other Battle Pets that can be caught and are not part of a Safari achievement.

Battle Pets that can be caught in Kalimdor and are NOT a requirement for the achievement Safari di Kalimdor:

Arvicola delle Grotte can be found in the Hyjal Barrow Dens in Monte Hyjal.

Battle Pets that can be caught in Rocciafonda and are not part of a Safari achievement:

Geode Cremisi can be found mostly in the Crimson Expanse area of Rocciafonda.
Ragnetto Roccioso Cremisi can be found mostly in the Crimson Expanse area of Rocciafonda.
Scarabeo di Cristallo can be found all over Rocciafonda.
Scarafaggio di Rocciafonda can be found all over Rocciafonda.
Ragnetto Roccioso di Smeraldo can be found mostly in the Quaking Fields area of Rocciafonda.
Falena Fungina can be found mostly in the Needlerock Chasm, Needlerock Slag, Silvermarsh and Verlok Stand areas of Rocciafonda.

Commento di Xeroe

This is by far the best pet I have and works well against many different opponents because of it's strong emerald bite attack and ability to heal so well. Only some of the epic and legendary pets of master trainers were able to kill it before I could heal it fully, but that was only twice out of a lot of battles.

I just wanted to add my experience now that I've gotten two of them in the past few days.

The first time, I went to savage thicket, killed everything I could and no dice. So I flew east, did one pet battle, came back, killed a few more proto drakes (large ones and whelps from eggs) and then the battle pet spawned right near me. Total time was about 10-15 minutes.

The second time I went back was in the middle of the day and too many people were there questing and trying to get the pet to spawn, and some were just hovering overhead waiting to swoop down. I hung around for 5 or 10 minutes and left.

Just now I decided to swing through before going to the darkmoon faire. No other players were in the area (it was around 4:45 AM here) and there was an emerald proto whelp just sitting there for the taking and it was in the southern part of the savage thicket near no enemies, just a few critters, while the first I got spawned in the north.

I'm beginning to doubt if the killing of enemies has anything to do with the spawning, but I'm just happy I now have 2 of these awesome pets. Will definitely be coming back for a third. Based on my experience, camping them is probably a waste of time. Try a few short trips here and there. In any case, it's much better than trying to farm whelps in feralas for that retardedly low drop rate, and these emerald proto whelps are worth it.

One more note about how powerful they are, I can level 2 other pets in draenor with the emerald proto whelp in the third battle pet slot fighting level 25 enemies—this is very easy in shadowmoon valley where you get level 23-25 and lots of moths. The whelp will sometimes 1-shot the moths! I just always have it use Emerald Presence shield, and maybe heal 1-3 times during the battle. If you use one of those training biscuits you can quickly level 2 pets—and don't worry about the rarity. You can easily buy an upgrade stone from your garrison menagerie to make it rare for a measly 15 charms, and I was lucky enough to win a dragonkin upgrade stone while doing the daily battles.

Anyway, just my thoughts. Badass battle pet worth the time to get.

EDIT: After I wrote this another one had spawned on the middle east side, which I battled and captured. Then I went up to the north part and another one was there. Not sure what the spawn times are related to now, they may be random timers, or timers that change based on time of day and number of players. There was one other player there and neither of us had killed anything, so these spawns had nothing to do with killing the mobs.

Commento di Aquaria

After making a few loops around the thicket, I went on to check spawn points for the Val'kyr, with no luck, came back to do a few more circles and there one was! She's a common, but i can always boost her up. :)

Commento di 858305

After reading all the comments and trying different suggestions I found this to be true

-shooting the eggs and neutral whelps gives me bupkis
-killing 5-6 mobs in the area has 3 new proto-whelps within 15 minutes.

There were no other players farming so just a heads up.

Commento di 662974

As of 6.2 these are no longer rare. Have 6 of them around me right now and the more I kill the more spawn.

Commento di Intrnetguy

I've gone through well over 100 Emerald Proto-Whelp battles and haven't seen a single P/P breed of any quality. Three rares have spawned in that time (2x P/B, 1x P/S). Poor luck or has something happened to the fabled P/P breed in WoD?

Commento di fredrikkarlsson

No pet there?
Go and do 4-6 pet battle's on other pets around the savage thicket (snake etc). Then fly back and it should be 1-2 proto whelps waiting for you!

I have try this 2 times and worked both times 100%.
Vote this post up!

Commento di animal446155

I just did this on me mage because of eng. gets me around town with wormhole ! I was reading these few newest post tried it sameway as post said 1 thru 5 and it worked but got spanked by other toons rakeing in my efferts to spawn these drakes ! after 5 empty attempts 1 instant kill because had wrong pet in slot to battle it ! So i used the mob fight first downed 8 to 15 in area went and
found a pet battle close to area finished it off went back to thicket .Drake is there waiting to be had! So the 8-15 mobs of drakes/eggs and 1 pet battle all it took too spawn emerald proto-drake for me ! have fun be patient you will get yours !

Commento di thebl4ckd0g

Took about 15-20 mins., but was able to grab 2. 1 Poor & 1 Uncommon. Nobody else was around farming, so figured best to stock up - in case I need to use them in the Celestial Tournament (which I still have not completed).

Commento di Thrope

Abuse mechanics! This pet will help you.

With so many critters out in the world, a survivable beast attacker for your farming/leveling team is a must. But this leaves one weakness: fliers, the 3rd most common pet you'll encounter. Frequently, you'll want a dragonkin (resistant to flying abilities) with magic attacks (strong against fliers) and plenty of sustain.

A p/p Emerald Proto-Whelp is your best friend!

Everyone knows power improves your damage from Emerald Bite. But power does a lot more, and this pet exploits the hidden strengths of power TWICE! Emerald Presence blocks more per attack the more power you have. It's not based on health, or speed, and it's not arbitrary. It's based on power. The higher your power, the less damage you take. Emerald Dream (your only available heal if you choose Emerald Presence, thus giving you sustain) also heals more based on POWER!

Your p/p whelp will only have 1400 health, which might lead people to believe it isn't tanky. Its health is not its strength. This pet has the mitigation & heals to make that health go further than any dragonkin in the game! It's even better than the Emerald Whelpling. Whelpling sacrifices fewer turns to heal, but it just doesn't have the power to compete with this pet. Not only will its lower power result in less DPS, it will also ensure the whelpling sacrifices more time to mitigation & healing, because both of these are based on your power.

Many dragonkin pets have some pretty amazing uses, but if you're looking for a pet to fill out your farming/leveling team, the p/p Emerald Proto-Whelp is exactly what you're looking for. If Legion has a pet which will usurp it... Well, we'll see...

Commento di SiliconX

If you're just getting started into pet battling, the P/P breed of this pet should be the first pet you level. I use this pet at least 2-3x as much as any other pet in my stable because it hits like a truck and has insane survivability. If you can't find a rare, stone it. It's worth it.

Commento di RockstarSuicide

So I come here and read about the pet and figured I'd go look for fun.

Flew into River's Heart, then mounted up towards Savage Thicket, the second I get there, one spawns and happens to be a rare quality one. Couldn't believe it. Almost one shotted it with Anubisath Idol but luckily it survived and I am now the proud owner of this one.

Having camped pets forever, I know this is unheard of, so keep trying folks, it does exist!

Commento di Turof

This pet seems to be as rare as an unborn valk! Good luck finding one...

Commento di Aranx

When I first got to Sholozar Basin to get an Emerald Proto-Whelp, there were plenty. Like a lot. So I got one, and called it a day.
Later, I found out about different breeds, and I wanted a P/P one. So I got on my mage alt and teleported to Dalaran and went to find one, only this time there were NONE! I flew around for 15-20 minutes, and I was baffled, because last time I was here there were plenty. I decided to server hop, to see if I could find any doing that. I did, I joined a random group in the group finder and bam, there were lots again. I don't know why they appear in abundance, only to completely disappear, but try and jump servers and see if that will help you.

Good luck!

Commento di Phischhaha

As of 6.2 I decided to get one, here is how:

- found in "The Savage Thicket" in the "Sholazar Basin" in "Northrend"
- if none are present:
1) Server Hop
2) Come back another time
3) resort to superstitious methods
- be happy about getting a cool green Proto Drake, even if you can't ride it! (Drop the mount Egg, do it!)

Commento di TevishSzat

As of this writing, the Emerald Proto-Whelp is one of the most important battle pets you can obtain in order to face harder PvE challenges, given its unmatched ability to both sustain and recover. In particular, the Tiny Terrors can all be bested by two pets specific to the lead enemy and the Proto-Whelp as a third pet to deal with whatever they had in the back line. What's more, the Emerald Proto-Whelp does not appear to be particularly difficult to locate at this time. This means you can have your choice of breed: I prefer P/P but any breed will do.

The key to a happy Proto-Whelp lies in the combination of Emerald Presence and Emerald Dream. Emerald Presence, having 100% uptime, is what makes the Proto-Whelp good at sustaining itself against attrition damage: Average attacks will be blunted while multiple weaker strikes such as Swarm may be negated entirely. Emerald Dream, on the other hand, will erase what damage does get through presence -- very few foes, at least in the wild, are capable of doing enough damage over Emerald Presence to keep you from topping off entirely with Emerald Dream. Whether you take Breath or Emerald Bite is a matter of taste, but I generally favor Emerald Bite as Flying pets are far more common than Magical in the wild and Undead and Mechanical are similarly rare.

While the bane of the Tiny Terrors and significantly hostile to the elite Pandaria pets, the Proto-Whelp's utility falls off in PvP where forced-swap, stuns, humanoids, and high-damage combos are the order of the day. However, since the side dish of the day is the multi-hit-extra-damage team, which Emerald Presence nerfs almost entirely out of existence, the Proto-Whelp can still find some purchase on PvP teams that aren't setting up for any particular combo (or are doing it in two pets) as a counter play. The Anubisath Idol may be more tanky while its out, but the Proto-Whelp can actually come back from taking burst damage on its own while the Anubisath will need some help if anything meaningful gets through the sandstorm wall. Taking both, possibly with another extremely durable pet like the Ruby Droplet or Magical Crawdad, is a way to have a good win-rate in PvP Pet battles, though I hesitate to say it's a good way owing that the battles will take an awfully long time as all mentioned pets are, naturally, lacking in the offense department.

Commento di ChristinePi

I can confirm that killing the primordial drakes makes it spawn. It worked twice for me. It probably would have worked more than twice but I got lucky with getting a rare whelp on my second try.

Commento di cynalise

I was looking around for a few minutes and killed drakes, etc, and nothing spawned. I left myself afk for a bit to go finish some stuff and when I came back the area was full of them. I mean there were at least 6-7 flying around. That was all between about 7-7:30am server. Not sure what caused it, but it wasn't just 1 or 2 that spawned at a time. No rares, but I did get to pick up 2 P/P and 1 uncommon P/S. Not bad.

Commento di Lv100Shuckle

Am I doing something wrong? I've come here for no less than 2 hours a day every day for over a week. I have yet to see a single one. I've flown in a circle, I've sat and camped, I've killed dragon mobs, I've killed other bpets, I've killed critters. Nothing works. I am on Stormrage and have never even seen so much as a whisper of this thing.

Commento di MEzecs

After trying to capture one of these for the past week and not seeing a single one (murdering all the dragons/eggs nearby didn't help and I don't see why it would, nor did killing the other pets in the zone) I logged in at 5:30am and there were about 10 of these dotted around the thicket. 4 of them were P/P so it doesn't seem to be a rare breed, no blues though.

If you're trying to catch one of these try logging on super early!

Commento di Asere

Trying to catch on of these guys was a pain but finally, one sunny Wednesday morning I was lucky to fly in and find a bunch had spawned. Got a rare within the first 3 - 4 attempts.

Commento di ThePKX

If you're trying to catch this for the new Wailing Caverns pet dungeon, instead of waiting for these to spawn you can simply join Rift of Aln in LFR Emerald Nightmare and catch Draghetto del Sogno instead: has the same 3 core abilities but is a guaranteed spawn after you kill the boss.

Commento di avatarofshadow

I just grabbed some of these today. There were a LOT of them in The Savage Thicket area of Sholazar Basin. I hopped onto an engineer and ported right there, early this morning.
Some info I'm not sure if anyone shared is that they're level 21, and are usually accompanied by a pair of snakes, though it can be other things. When you catch them, they'll go down to level 19. So, be prepared to level them up a bit before you use them. There were two other people catching them while I was, but we were all nice enough to stay out of each others' way. This is another piece of good advice. Treat other pet collectors the way you want them to treat you. It doesn't ALWAYS work out, but it always feels better than the alternative.

Commento di Cangrejoloco207

Found tons of these at 9:00 a.m. Had no luck at night.

Commento di Kyrgune

No need to wait until morning hours.

I saw two of them close together at night (Argent Dawn server) so not sure if Blizzard changed something, but I had no problems capturing one.

Commento di ChadCloman

An update for 2018:

I tried the "kill everything in the area" method. Didn't work.

I tried the "kill all the pets in the zone" method. Didn't work.

I finally decided to try server-hopping via groupfinder, and when I got to the location, there were a ton of Emerald Proto-whelps spawned. So I got lucky.

I'm still not sure what actually causes these to spawn, but I can state the following:

It's not killing the NPCs.
It's not killing the other pets in the zone.
It's not a single spawn, like another comment stated. There were at least 10 of them, possibly more.
The time of day was approximately 11pm Eastern.

I believe that server-hopping via groupfinder will probably be the best method of finding these pets.

Commento di Bgbngtheory

Was about to quit (of course, like any good hunter does) and decided to kill a bunch of stuff. Came back here to read about the latest catches and looked back at my map to find one sitting at (47,23) He was a poor quality P/P. Captured it and mounted up, going to Flight Path and saw ANOTHER at (46,33) and was also poor quality P/P. Was thrilled with this that I decided to make one more quick pass and found another (somewhere between the other two that I already captured but forgot to write coordinates down) and it was poor quality P/S.

Needless to say, THRILLED to death that I decided to kill a bunch of stuff around.
Total time spent farming was probably less than an hour. VERY lucky!

Commento di MichelleLisa

I went to the spawn area today, 2.30 pm ST (US Frostmourne). There were between 8-12, none of which were rare quality; however, I did manage to catch 3 x P/P breeds. The rest were P and P/S.

Thanks to the BFA world quests, I have been stock-piling the Marked Flawless Battle-Stones which now means I have a rare P/P Emerald Proto-Whelp! Easy!

Commento di Gladly

After sitting in the area a bit, logging over to toons on other servers to no avail, then coming back an hour or so later after doing some chores around home, found and captured the only spawn at 49.08, 26.70 in Sholazar (Savage Thicket area) at 4:58pm EST/server time. I didn't kill any mobs or critters, since most comments here suggested that didn't work, I just waited around for a spawn more or less.

Commento di Daemordrath

i got PP after about 10 PB breeds in a row. Go for breed and ignore the rarity

Commento di kyukket

there were a ton of them out today...most common breed was definitely P/S, with P a distant 2nd and P/P definitely the rarest (have never seen balance, are they real? LOL)! no rares, but that what pet charms and stones are for

Commento di shoutingboy

For what it's worth, as of now (late 2020) there's no shortage of them in the Savage Thicket. Flew there and I found like 5 waiting to be caught.

Commento di Nordbunny

Arrived at spawning area to find many whelps, then as midday (server time) arrived they all despawned. I guess there's a time dependency.

Commento di Greenlit88

I went to get my first one yesterday and there were 3 or 4 flying around so I figured they must not be that hard to get so I got one and logged off for the day. Now today I'm trying to get a better quality and can't find one haha lame.

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