Honestly don't worry about these Shards until after you finish getting the Nerubian Chitin and Nerubian Venom for the Siesbarg quest. You can get both of those items on the Isle of Dorn and you should be able to get a huge amount of the 10 needed while grinding for those quest items. You can also get the 900 Sizzling Cinderpollen for the Soaring Meaderbee mount while trying for these shards.
Better grind it out asap because blizzard is stealth nerfing spots...
Got this when I was farmin Siesbarg. 2 mounts in a day :)
I got 1 and figured this was for a mount like the cloud serpent back in mop. Guess gotta do the farm myself though
at least alani was tradeable this is all you, I did siesburg and only got 4 shards
This seems like an all-expansion get-them-as-I-do-other-stuff kind of grind
Just like that mount in Pandaria. "Pepperidge Farms Remembers"
alani 2.0
Horrific drop rate, just like the crystals for Alani. Killed countless reg mobs and several special encounters. And am only now learning about these things.
Its more like the Nazjatar Blood Serpent from BFA than Alani, I dont recall the blood serpent being tradable, you also needed 10 shards and it was a personal drop right? I guess Alani is just more well known. Still really cool mount.
Good thing these shards are common as hell.6 in a couple hours in the area where you land right after dalaran. This was on an alt.
A quick farm of the shards is to use a lvl. 70 alt, skip the TWW campaign quests in Dalaran and you will be teleported to Dorn. Go to the coast where the campaign quest shows up, don't do any quest , just farm the huge amount of spiders spawn on that coast. I got my last 3 shards there in just 30 mins.
Grinded for Siesbarg, got in total TWO crystals. Then I did the bee farming, got another 3. Point being: pick up skinning, at least you can make some money while doing brainless farming for this mount.
I've killed it six times now having used the vessel and I get nothing but an ionized feather. the vessel doesn't disappear and she does respawn, but so far for me there was certainly no 100% drop on the mount!