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Comment by arhqirah

Torrential Runekey is part of a secret quest to obtain Thrayir, Eyes of the Siren

Thrayir, Eyes of the Siren is a secret mount obtained at the isle of Siren, added in patch 11.0.7

Video Guide: https://youtu.be/Vlrwpc4oDTE

She is lying unconcious in the Forgotten vault, surrounded by 5 runestones: Whirling, Cyclonic, Turbulent, Torrential & Thunderous.
/way 38.19, 51.78 Forgotten Vault Cave Entrance
/way 50.31, 15.36 Singing Crystal (Teleporter to Forgotten Vault)
/way 72.70, 61.32 Thrayir

To bring her back to life & obtain her as a mount, you have to collect 5 runekeys, 1 for each rune stone.

Whirling Runekey - Drops from KSVIR the forgotten. This rare can be found in the forbidden vault during the storm.
/way 38.19, 51.78 Forgotten Vault Cave Entrance
/way 50.31, 15.36 Singing Crystal (Teleporter to Forgotten Vault)
/way 38.02, 76.25 Ksvir the Forgotten

How to enter a storm: Complete the weekly activity quest for Siren Isle Serpent's Wrath by doing WQ's, events & killing mobs. Once complete you can enter and exit the storm by talking to Suzie Boltwrench
/way 68.99, 49.14 Suzie Boltwrench

Torrential Runekey - Drops from ANY mob in a storm.
Best spot is the skeletons on the shore just outside the forgotten vault cave, as they hyperspawn. Got mine in about 5 minutes of solofarming.
/way 41.92, 25.78 Shore with skeletons

Thunderous Runekey
For this runekey you’ll need to assemble five Thunderous Fragment. The fragments drop from treasures and chests both inside and outside of the storm. So there is two ways to go about it. First is the big chests that are spread around the zone, sometimes your character will emit a wind, that guides you to these chests and you’ll make em appear with an extra action button. These chests can be found both inside and outside the storm. The other way is by farming seafarer’s caches. To unlock seafarer’s caches, you have to had completed the quest Dipping a Toe, given by Apprentice Tanmar, after completing a few of the introductory quests at the island, so if you’ve done most quests you should’ve completed it already. Anyway, completing it will give you Blessing of the Seadweller, allowing you to walk on the seafloor and find treasure. In general just exploring underwater. And this is where you find the seafarer’s caches, so circle the island underwater to search for caches. Theres quite a lot more seafarer’s caches than normal treasures, so this i what i recommend if you want to farm it as fast as you can. But you can definitely also just pick up treasures that you come across as you do other content in the zone. The caches only appear outside of the storm. And the dropchance for the fragments seem to be around 5% from Seafarers caches and 20% from regular treasure, but ofc RNG be RNG, and this is just my assumption from what i experienced.
When you have all 5 Thunderous Fragment, click them to combine into the Thunderous Runekey

Cyclonic Runekey - Drops from Zek'ul the Shipbreaker located in the storm
/way 33.18, 73.62

Turbulent Runekey
For this runekey you'll need to assemble 3 Turbulent Fragment
They are all found in the storm version of the isle.

First fragment is gathered from a dirtpile, next to a kul tiran Ghost
/way 38.19, 51.78
Second Fragment in front of a ghost inside a cave
/way 67.07, 78.44
Third Fragment is found in the hands of a ghost in another cave
/way 52.39, 38.59
Combine all fragments to get the final runekey Turbulent Runekey

When all runekeys are gathered, go to Thrayir and activate all the runestones.
/way 38.19, 51.78 Forgotten Vault Cave Entrance
/way 50.31, 15.36 Singing Crystal (Teleporter to Forgotten Vault)
/way 72.70, 61.32 Thrayir

When all runestones are activated, you'll simply get a quest from Thrayir that awards the mount. Congratulations!

Comment by kpiaum

Low drop rate, even from rares

Comment by Roija

Been farming for 3 hours now and have only looted 1, off of Zek'ul on the 11th kill.

This is not fun.

EDIT: 5.5 hours now. Still only the 1....

EDIT2: 6 hours. Now have 3. And have gained 5,000 Flame-Blessed Iron so far.

EDIT3: 7hours and 35 minutes and I got all 7. Along with a total of 6,556 Flame-Blessed Iron currency,

Comment by Darkmanning

Just in my experience it is best to to straight farm Zek, i have had no luck with any other rare or mob on the entire island, even after clearing it multiple times. I am at 6 of 7 with this being the last thing i need and still farming!

Comment by Cobblars

As of 22nd December 2024, these fragments have to be one of the rarest items in the game.

I've been farming mobs most of the evening in the Storm and got one of these to drop. I've done all the other fragments and killed many, many rare bosses.... yet I'm stuck on one of these fragments.

I'm happy to grind things out, but this is utter madness.

Comment by AlexisJay

Video guide on how to get Thrayir, Eyes of the Siren: https://youtu.be/I_EQMWb1qTg

Step by step how to get the mount:
Ways to get to Siren Isle: Use the Zepplin in Dornogal (coordinates 72, 5) or the Mole Machine in the Ringing Deeps at coordinates 46, 30.
Speak to Suzie Boltwrench at coordinates 69, 49 on Isle of Siren to go into the storm phase.

You need a total of 5 runekeys:
1. Whirling Runekey: Go into the cave at coordinates 44, 24 on Isle of Siren, enter the tunnel and click on the Singing Tablet to enter the Forgotten Vault. Run down the corridor to the last room, defeat Ksvir the Forgotten to loot the Whirling Runekey.
2. Torrential Runekey: This runekey is made by combining 7 Torrential Fragment. These have a low chance to drop from any rares, elites and normal mobs found on Isle of Siren. Best place to farm is near the entrance of the cave mentioned above at 44, 24 as the spawn rate is quite fast. It takes 2-3 hours to get all 7 when farming in a group.
3. Thunderous Runekey: This runekey is made by combining 5 Thunderous Fragment which drop from treasure chests in the Isle of Siren. The easiest to find are Seafarer's Caches, you will notice gusts of wind blowing from your character to the direction of the cache. Make sure you completed the quest Dipping a Toe in order to see the caches.
4. Cyclonic Runekey: This drops from either Zek'ul the Shipbreaker found at coordinates 33, 73, or by fishing in the waters close to were Zek'ul spawns.
5. Turbulent Runekey: This runekey is made up of 3 turbulent fragments that are scattered around Isle of Siren.
- First fragment is at coordinates 38, 51 in a dirtpile next to a Kul Tiran Ghost
- Second fragment is at coordinates 67, 78 inside a cave infront of a ghost on the ground.
- Third fragment is another cave at coordinates 52, 38 in the hands of a ghost.

When you have all the runekeys, head back to the Forgotten Vault (entrance at coordinates 44, 24) head to the room at coordinates 72, 61, go up the staircase where you will see Thrayir on the ground surrounded by 5 inactive runestones. Activate each one, Thrayir will then give you a quest that gives you the mount.

Comment by KimberLion

These are by far the most time consuming and tedious of the required runes.

Here's my experience: 1/7 dropped randomly from mobs before I'd even started farming, 2 and 3/7 came from joining a fragment farming group after maybe an hour or two of farming. Then for the next 4-5 hours of farming I watched as fragment after fragment dropped for others in the groups, probably 16-20 total, with none ever dropping for me, so I decided to try a different approach (like fishing up the Cyclonic Runekey in under 50 casts rather than killing Zek a million times...which I ended up doing anyway but I digress).

I decided to try getting my last 4 killing Zek a million times...or 75 to be exact. 4/7 was on kill 5, 5/7 kill 8, 6/7 took 50 more kills and finally 7 of 7 dropped on my 75th consecutive kill of squid daddy. It's really easy to get back to back kills if you realm hop via premade groups.

After killing hundreds upon hundreds of skeletons outside the Forgotten Vault with no drops I personally feel like this was a faster more reliable method - and you'll get 2 crests with every kill and at least a dozen warbound veteran drops for your alts, some blues for the AH and some greens for disenchanting/selling.

Good Luck.

Comment by specurial

nice nerf! :/

I farmed for more than an hour and only got 1x Torrential Fragment. It seems Blizzard hasn't learned their lesson.
I'll skip this until the next patch. My time is more valuable to spend 1-2 days on this.

Grinding like this is not what people want from games in 2024! Please stop! Most WoW players like me are 30+ and we don't have time to waste on a single mount.

Comment by zauriak

This farm is bs, blizzard can go suck it. Normally i would expect 1 torrential drop per week if i just do the dailies and grind out the mobs but holy s%$5 who ever decided to nerf these spawn rates needs to be flogged fr. This isn't funny how you kill so many mobs and nothing drops.

Comment by SrDezi

I'd even take just bumping the drop-rate on boss mobs or making them Warband currency at this point -- that way I'm actually chasing bosses or playing alts instead of mindlessly grinding trash for .0000001% drop-rate. At this rate, I'll be lucky to get Thrayir midway through 11.1...

0/10 grind is not enjoyable.

Comment by Jandaar

After 20 years, you'd think Blizz would understand that we are sick to death of extremely long BS grinding, reasonable grinding sure, but this is just a time sink.

Comment by miauzinha

After reading the posts in here, I had 2 fragments from the first day I started the quest chain. Then read here that farming Zek was better and been farming him for the past 2 days. Got nothing. Not even one fragment drop. So got frustrated and
then I went back to the front of the cave to do the normal farm on a group of 5. Storm mode - got 5 torrentials dropping for me in less than 2h farming. And seen many dropping to those in the group too - 2 people completed their 7/7 before me (I went 2/7 when I joined the group), so my RNG gods definitely like farming the many mob spawns in front of the cave more than farming Zek.

Comment by skyline33

Farmed Brinebound Wraith in a group of 5 at /way 44, 22 Brinebound Wraith
In the Storm Phase - Seafury Tempest
After ~1.5 hours I got all 7 fragments:
1: 148 attempts
2: 513
3: 90
4: 244
5: 624
6: 357
7: 247
or 2,221 total (~317 per fragment)

Comment by Dockie

Does anyone know if these are limited to 7 per account? I have had 3 on my main for 5+ hours, and not getting any more. I have 2 each on 2 alts for a total of 7 account-wide.

Comment by CheesyDad

So after spending 4 days soloing and only getting 2 fragments, I went into a group of 5 and got the remaining ones in 1/2 hour (30 minutes). Do not bother with rares especially Zek. Just farm the coastline outside the Forbidden Vault in storm mode in a group. Remember to take Crawler Mines as these are best out of the lot.

Comment by arisen1

I usually don't do grinds like this anymore. But I was extremely bored today and decided to give it a go. After several hours, I have zero of these torrential runekeys. I'm done. Was a stark reminder exactly why I don't bother with this kind of nonsense anymore. These grinds just aren't for me. Good luck to all farming as the drop rate seems very low.

Comment by Woodymakespizza

Farmed up six in about 90 mins today, already had one and it gave me my key, relatively painlessly. We killed Brinebound Wraith and Kvaldir Tidewalker in the area between 40, 16 and 42, 28. The key is to stay in a group of five or less, NOT A RAID GROUP, and while we could not confirm this we also believe that continuing to talk about it in group chat helped, because whenever someone started talking about them, one seemed to get one to drop. We found it helpful to bounce between both sides so we got each other's loot in large amounts.

/way #2369 40, 16 Beach Farm Northern Point
/way #2369 42, 28 Beach Farm Southern Point

Comment by LordSothicus

Yes, the nerf sucks. Yes, it is painful. However, the drop rate is way higher in a group. I was able to get 5/7 in less than an hour and a half of grinding outside the entrance to the vault in a group. Join a group or start one.

Comment by Kiyiyi

Farmed on the skellies on the beach for 2 hours. Received 1 fragment, you need 7. There were no groups up for this, I set one up but only a few people joined, after a while they got disheartened and left too.

This grind sucks, the rest of the keys aren't fantastic but they're not terrible. Some lucky rare spawns, a bunch of fishing, some breadcrumbing. Then you get to this key and you wonder what year was this designed in, cause someone at Blizz seems to think it's 2004 again.

Comment by Mindsoothe

I got all 6 out of my 7 out of the skeletons in front of Zek in about 7-8 respawns, although it took me longer because I thought I should "switch it up" and go kill the wraiths in front of the Forgotten Vault as most people suggested, but after almost an hour of farming I got nothing. The last fragment dropped from the group of crabs which chased me back to the camp as I was trying to grab another mine crawler.

I posted in another thread that I got the Cyclonic key off fishing in a spot right behind Zek, no pools, at the 5th cast. My Khaz fishing was level 10.

Comment by Cellendril

Three hours while in HR training. ZERO fragments. Zip.

Training over so I am done with this. BTW, I notice if you filter mounts for store-bought, the storm raven shows up. Interesting, neh?

Comment by AjamBootySlam

All seven fragments took me about 2.5 hours of farming the Wraith skeletons over by the vault. I think that is a much better area to farm now instead of the skeletons by Zek'ul, which I got nothing from in the 30 or so minutes I was there. I was in group finder the whole time, group fluctuated from 2-5 people as folks finished their grinds. It felt like I was having bad luck and some other people lapped me so 2-3 hours is probably a safe time estimate depending on your luck. Farmed in 11.1

Comment by Shashos

I'm seriously kicking myself for not doing this before the massive nerf to the droprates. I have 2 fragments that I got way back in the beginning. I have yet to get a third. Several hours of skeleton killing tonight has given nothing but frustration and the desire to give up until the next expansion when the mobs are less of a pain to deal with.

Edit: I took a break to grab the Cyclonic rune via fishing and the runes held by the ghosts, then returned. It took another couple of hours to get the remaining runes. Mount acquired, finally. Good luck everyone.

Comment by Uzumi

Someone suggested the Drain in the TR-06 Pummeler. The Congealed and Volatiles respawn very fast. I had to get into the suit and went to the bubbling water hole at 57,67. I had to try to jump in a few times each time but I ended up getting my last 5 in about 2 hours. it was roughly 1 every 15 minutes, give or take.

Comment by SongOfTheVoid

You need 7x Torrential Fragment on the same character to create Torrential Runekey.
Torrential Fragment are soulbound (currently while writing this), not warbound.
There doesn't seem to be account-wide limitation to get this - as some have pondered this. Just the droprate sucks.

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As you probably have already read that the RNG/low drop rate is absolute horrid for Torrential Fragment.
So for reals just prepare to be doing this for a while - get snacks, drinks and have some YT videos ready to watch, and/or watch whole LotR extended versions.

What I did:

I played as Windwalker Monk, ilevel 641, and without a goup.
At the beginning I also used TR-06 Pummeler before by the end switched to Crawler Mine
At first I killed Congealed Kul Tiran, Volatile Juice and Congealed Cat in Storm phase as it was recommended, and I got around 1 fragments within 2-3 hours, and then 1 fragment after 1-2 hours. So, heads up, while these spawn fast, they also have the lowest drop rate.
In between I tried going around killing the rares like Zek'ul the Shipbreaker, Slaughtershell, Brinebough and Tempest Talon, and even though some had highest drop rate, I got 1 fragment in total.
I tried killing Kvaldir Tidewalker, Kvaldir Tidewalker, Storm-Touched Clawfiend, Shadowtide Watcher, Deepwater Matriarch, Shadowtide Horror and many more around the isle in Storm phase and got 1 fragment.
Eventually I just headed inside The Forgotten Vault and killed Ksvir the Forgotten, Tide-Champion Korval, Crystalsworn Memory, Crystalsworn Memory and Kvaldir Tidewalker for about 1-2 hours and I got the rest 3 fragments.
In total this took me maybe about 7-8 hours, and I also took breaks and worked on these in two days.

Best of luck farming these. Set timers to remember to take breaks and stretch your legs!

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If TR-06 Pummeler or Crawler Mine are unavailable for you, make sure to complete this quest Juicing Up and Storming Out which is available outside of the storm, and before you can get that one, make sure to complete Dipping a Toe!

Comment by axel17

storm mode
take robot (doesent work with other storm-mode weapons)
move to blue hole on 58 67
jump down
if u teleported to entrance, check gate - if its open now move to cave, if not, jump down again
all mobs have low spawn time
now u need 1 hour free time and u got your runekey
https://imgur.com/gwARzxa

Comment by Billzar69

Just wanted to leave this as a helpful note as not too many resent comments are here. But as of 9/5/2025 the easiest way I found after trying almost all of the suggestions below is the following:

- Enter the storm
- Jump into the TR-07 Pummeler (the robot next to you when you enter the storm)
- Walk over to the blue hole in between where all the crabs are (at roughly 58, 67) and jump down
- If you are unable to jump down and are teleported to the entrence of the cave then just run into the caves barrier using the mechs 3rd ability (the charge ability) on the left side (basically ram yourself into the left wall and youll glitch through the barrier of the cave)
- Once inside just spam your first ability (the bullet shot) while in the middle of the cave (at about 58.8 and 67.6) and you'll hit everything in there

This seems to be the quickest farm as of current and should yield about 1 fragment per 15-25 minutes. It's still a grind but within about an hour and a half I had all 7.

Useful notes:
1) The bot has a "fuel" tank so only use the 1st ability as it uses the least amount of fuel
2) The only 2 mobs you wont be able to reach from the middle is the one guy behind the rock (can ignore him) and one slime infront of the skeleton - if you notice the mob rate slowing down use your 4th ability to kill the slime guy and the spawn rate goes back up
3) Just so you dont have to move around to collect loot you can hit the humanoid ooze guys once and they will walk up to you allowing you to collect without moving

Hope this helps :)

Comment by OcToPuSeD

Don't know if anything changed, but I've farmed Torrential Runekeyfor a total of 2 hours.
Go get the mount guys.

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