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Comment by Ooshraxa

Once you have completed the Legend of Aln'sharan storyline, mobs in Harandar will start dropping Mysterious Skyshards rarely.
The version of Kuri that wants the 500 Mysterious Skyshards is located at /way #2413 66.15 25.47 Kuri for skyshard hand-in.

This leads to completion of the Herald of the Goddess achievement and this mount.

Comment by Mowse

You can find Aln'sharan flying around the edge of the zone near the roots. If you get too close to the windstream, you'll take significant damage from Alnstorm.

Comment by Pauel

Farmed 500 shards in delves and then hurried to hand them over to Kuri
I flew up to her and pressed the extra action button, but nothing happened, no emotions, nothing.
Decided it was a bug, but then I saw a comment that Aln'sharan flies around the area and decided to check if there was any interaction.
Hovered my mouse over the NPC and he remained in place in the air (although he took away about 80% of my health), but it gave an error saying that you cannot interact while on a mount.
I had to dismount, and the next click added the mount to my bag.
P.S. Bring a goblin glider with you if you're not a mage or priest.

https://imgur.com/0c9rTSz

Comment by Lpaynee

Has anyone checked if these drop on all toons after you have finished the quest line on your main?

Comment by Ramoon

Rare flies high, around Har'kuai, Village of Rain

TomTom coordinates: /way 60 20

Comment by Effectrix

I wasn't able to find any exact instructions on how to get this mount, and nothing within the game really guides you towards it, so I was a little confused after collecting all the shards. Here's a step-by-step guide to the entire process:

Make sure you have an empty bag slot and some method of slow fall (see step 6 for some suggestions).

Go to Kuri at /way Harandar 67.8 27.4; pick up Tales of the Sky and Ugh, Chores!. Complete the entire quest chain up to and including The Legend of Aln'sharan. This will enable you to collect Mysterious Skyshards and award you 5 to start your farm.
Collect 500 Mysterious Skyshards. After having completed the questline from Kuri, these will occasionally drop from mobs around Harandar. The droprate is quite low as you can imagine, so expect either to slowly gather them over a long time, or to invest a few hours into farming them.
Once you have 500 shards, go back to Kuri at /way Harandar 66.2 25.4. You will get an extra action button to toss your 500 Shards into the water - do it. When I did this there was no reaction from any of the NPCs or any signal that anything has happened - hopefully Blizzard patches something in, but either way, as long as you have tossed in the shards, move onto the next step.
Find Aln'sharan who will be flying in the north-west part of Harandar. He moves around so I can't provide exact coordinates, but he's hard to miss. Your cursor should turn into the gear icon when you mouse over him, meaning he can be interacted with.
You will take damage when near him, so do step 5 quickly before you die. While in close range to Aln'sharan, dismount in the air and interact with him (right-click). From my experience, you cannot interact with him while mounted. Using steady flying instead of skyriding may help you position.
If you have any means of slowfall (priest, mage, demon hunter, glider, druid, parachute, Skyguard's drape, Fangs of the Father, etc) or ways to clip your fall (warrior, hunter, goblin, etc) use it now or you will probably fall to your death!
The mount Echo of Aln'sharan will be in your bags. Once you learn it, you will receive the associated Feat of Strength Herald of the Goddess.

Comment by Acology

Using Investi-gator's Pocketwatch while on this mount turns it into Rajani Warserpent without the electrical effects

Comment by Woodymakespizza

Another "catch 'em in the air" mount with a Skyshard farm like Alunira in Dorn and Alani from MoP. Interesting that the "al" name pattern continues too.

Comment by sh0z

Cloud serpents animation are jerky right now ? feel laggy when i move

Comment by Spydor01

Pretty sad that this is merely a reskin Pandaran mount, instead of something current.

Comment by NessieMo

To obtain the Echo of Aln'sharan mount, you need to collect 500 No Mysterious Skyshards, with which you can cast Skyshard Entreaty and obtain the achievement Herald of the Goddess.

To unlock these you need to do the questline starting with Tales of the Sky, which is given by Kuri, at /way 67.78 24.79. She is not inside a building or cave.

Kuri won't offer you the quest until you've completed the brief quest chain starting with The Blooming Lattice which is offered by Su'meera.

TomTom Coordinates:

/way #2413 67.78 24.79 Kuri - questgiver for Tales of the Sky

Note that when doing the next quest chain, which starts with The Blooming Lattice, when you reach Behind the Falls, the NPC Su'meera is in a cave behind a waterfall - it's not easy to find the correct entrance, but as SteadyFlight is now enabled for all it's rather easier - it's at 55.82 26.08.

/way #2413 55.82 26.08 Entrance to Su'Meera's cave for quest "Behind The Falls"

Comment by TheCheat54

I actually really like the coloration on this, matching that used in the Rift of Aln for the "spirit" enemies and NPCs. It would have been even more interesting if they had chosen to use the heavenly cloud serpent model instead of the regular.

Comment by ScreamOutTears

I dont know why but i give kuri alle my shards with the extra button, i got the buff. Then ich got a inv in a group. When i leave the group and fly to Aln'sharan i recognice that my buff was gone... i cant interact with Aln'sharan and Kuri give me no rebuff option. I dont now what to do and i dont wanna farm again 500 shards. i open a ticket and hopefully they give me my shards back or my buff..

Comment by Esinar

I just obtained this mount on live, and wanted to share and write a bit of a comprehensive comment, so everything is all in one place.

The basics:
- The mount Echo of Aln'sharan is obtained by clicking on/interacting with Aln'sharan.
- Aln'sharan is a cloud serpent who flies clockwise, high around the outside edge of the Harandar zone.
- In order to interact with Aln'sharan however, you must have the buff Aln'sharan's Blessing.
- Aln'sharan's Blessing is obtained by collecting 500 Mysterious Skyshards and using them near the NPC Kuri (via an extra action button).
- Mysterious Skyshards drop from any mob in the Harandar zone, including in dungeons and delves, and there is a much higher chance from rare mobs.
- In order to start collecting Mysterious Skyshards however, you must complete a short quest chain starting from Kuri in the northeast of the zone.
- The shards are warbound, and after a hotfix on April 27th, only one character on your account needs to complete this for them to start dropping on alts.
- If you choose to grind the shards, expect several hours of grinding, with time varying depending on how you grind.
- Obtaining the mount also rewards the Feat of Strength achievement Herald of the Goddess.

The details:
In order to begin your journey for the mount, you need to 'unlock' the Mysterious Skyshards so they start dropping in the zone. This requires completing two quest chains. The first quest chain starts from The Blooming Lattice, which you can pick up from Su'meera at /way #2413 65.4 22.6. This then allows you to start the second quest chain beginning with Tales of the Sky from Kuri at /way #2413 67.8 24.8. Completing The Legend of Aln'sharan ends the second quest chain will award you with 5x Mysterious Skyshards, and the shards will now start dropping in the zone. The shards are warbound, and only one character on your account needs to complete this for them to start dropping on alts.

Mysterious Skyshards drop from any mob in the Harandar zone, including the dungeons and delves in the zone. They seem to have a low chance of dropping from random mobs, so you will passively pick them up whilst completing activities such as bountiful delves or world quests. Rare mobs however have a high chance of dropping them. It's not 100%, but it's high enough you should see a drop almost every rare kill. If you're not interested in purely grinding the shards, you could unlock the shards and may pick up enough over the expansion for the mount.

If you want to grind out the shards as quickly as possible, my recommendation is to go to The Grudge Pit delve on Tier 1 difficulty, run straight to the rare mob that always spawns, kill it (plus anything else you pulled), loot, click 'Leave Delve' from your character frame, repeat again. Each run takes approximately 30-45 seconds. As rares have a high chance of dropping shards, you will get a shard almost every run. Rarely you will get 2 due to the additional mobs you pull also dropping one. It doesn't matter if the delve is bountiful, what the story is, or the tier level - it's all the same. Before i started the grind, I had 71 shards and it took me approximately 5.5 hours to gather the remaining shards with this method. It's not the most fun grind, but it's reliable.

Once you have the 500 Mysterious Skyshards, head to Kuri at /way #2413 66.2 25.5, and an extra action button called Skyshard Entreaty will appear. Once clicked, you will gain the buff Aln'sharan's Blessing and are now able to freely click Aln'sharan for your mount.

Aln'sharan flies clockwise, high above the outside edge of Harandar. I'd recommend looking for it before using your shards/extra action button, just so you know approximately where it is/what you're looking for. You won't be able to interact with it without the buff, and you will take ticking damage if you fly too close, but it's good to know what it looks like and where you need to fly to after using your shards. Aln'sharan flies fairly fast, but not fast enough that you can't catch it.

When clicking Aln'sharan with Aln'sharan's Blessing, you will immediately be dismounted, earn the Feat of Strength achievement Herald of the Goddess and the mount Echo of Aln'sharan will go straight into your bag. Feel free to use a goblin glider if you're not a class with slow fall, or the drop will kill you.

That's it! Good luck with the grind!

Comment by AmaltheaGaming

A little side note for Druids: If you mount the Echo of Aln'sharan mount in Moonkin form and then switch back to your regular form, your character will have the same color and effect as the mount.

Comment by Olejcio

Entering battleground blitz removes thie buff from you and and you no longer are able to get the mount- therefore you lose all 500 shards you were farming.

Sent over 20 tickets to Blizz about that but they just claim they do not know this bug so therefore it does not exists so they won't refund me. After 20 tickets they stopped replying and close my tickets automatically

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Echo of Aln'sharan

Item Level 10
Binds when picked up
Mount (Account-wide)

Use: Teaches you how to summon this mount.
Summons and dismisses this mount.
Requires level 1 to 90 (90)
Requires Apprentice Riding

"Heed well the song of the Goddess."
Drop: Aln'Sharan
Zone: Harandar

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