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Comment by Lazey

The completion of Campaign Chapter 4 (so, Week 2 of the 11.2 patch) is required to access the "Ecological Succession" activities, where we build a functioning ecosystem in the Oasis biodome in the northeastern part of K'aresh.

When we complete the first The Bees Knees storyline for the Oasis, we get access to general Weekly Quests, species-related Semi-Weekly Quests, and a Weekly WQ Ecological Succession where we fill a bar with the mentioned quests and other activities. When the bar is filled, the Weekly WQ auto-completes and rewards the Wriggling Pinnacle Cache, and from what I saw, our first cache of the week always has one of 12 pets listed with this source OR this Curious Slateback mount, and it seems to take the slot of a pet when it drops, so make sure you learn the mount immediately to not accidentally get mount duplicates while missing pets.

Comment by WestCrow

Does anyone knows if the mount can only drop on the first cache of the week?

Comment by ShurqElalle

Sigh, I already hate this crappy event. The quests suck. Last week, I got a duplicate pet, but GUESS WHAT, you can also get a duplicate mount! 4 weeks total, and I have gotten the same pet twice and the only mount twice. I really hope blizzard is actively trying to undermine their players' sanity. At least that way I don't feel gaslit into thinking they QA their content.

Edit: also, the achievements for this event are all bugged to hell. It really does feel like everything I do in this game is met with what may be a bug, or may be just blizz being super oblivious. Hard to tell..

Comment by Oxyia

Has anyone confirmed if a pet can drop once you have 3/3 of that specific one already? a solution could be to get spare pets in the AH to force the mount to drop if that's the case....

Comment by Sunwood

By the way, fastest way to finish the weekly: buy Watering Jug from the Auction House. Each gives 3% or 4% I think, and you can just stand at one plant and consume them all in one go.

In fact, there exists 2 identically named watering jug items and one of them have infinite uses so you can just spam that until you are done with the quest.

Comment by Violeafs

This mount dropped after already owning it. Seems there's no dupe protection

Comment by Zendorin

I care about this and not the pets, especially since I can just buy those on the auction house. Every week I keep getting a pet though sigh :/

Comment by Nyxob24

I can confirm that it may take more than 13 weeks, since I got the same pets 2 times already. Not beeing able to farm this on alt is a pure bad move from blizzard. GG

Comment by Kareai

I'm not sure if it's just a coincidence, but I've opened the first box of every week always on my main and never received a duplicate pet or mount, until one week I opened the first box of the week on an alt, and next week again on main and received the same pet my alt had received the previous week. I'm wondering if there's a protection against duplicates if you open the boxes always on the same character?

Comment by Sorcerer

I finally got this - many many weeks of attempts. Finally I can abandon the Oasis chores.

Comment by HoHa

As of 2025/11/29, I got the cache every single week. Still no mount.

Yet another mount in this expansion with a way too low droprate. Also I didn't get the Mechsuit from Stonevault (despite endless tries) or the Prototype ASMR mount from King Gallywax (despite 550+ tries by now).

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Curious Slateback

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 80 (80)
Requires Apprentice Riding

"This curious slateback somehow managed to get itself stuck in a box. How it fit inside is still up in the air."
Drop: Wriggling Pinnacle Cache
Zone: K'aresh

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