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Poseidus

February 11, 2012

by Cymre in Mounts

Poseidus is a rare elite seahorse which drops the unique epic mount Reins of Poseidus.

He remains a very hard mount to own due to his long respawn rate, said to range from 72-120 hours. However, the mount itself is BoE and has been seen from time to time in the AH at ridiculous prices.

There are five spawn spots, one in Abyssal Depths and four in Shimmering Expanse.

Underlight Canyon, Abyssal Depths

Biel’aran Ridge, Shimmering Expanse

Quel’Domir Gardens, Shimmering Expanse

Glimmerdeep Gorge, Shimmering Expanse

Ruins of Thelserai Temple, Shimmering Expanse

If it wasn’t enough that I managed to get my Grey camel from Dormus late last night, I was gob smacked to see Poesidus pop up on my screen today. Before today I had never seen him, not even his corpse. My first thought was, is he dead or already in combat? When I targeted him he was full health and coming straight for me. So I quickly engaged him in combat trying to take a few screenshots before I killed him. For those wondering, I managed to spot him at this last location. Not surprisingly, he’s an easy kill for an 85.

Poseidus has three abilities:

Bubble Charge – Charge the target in a shower of bubbles, dealing Frost damage.
Bubblebeam – Shoot bubbles in a cone in front of the caster, dealing Frost damage.
Seascape – Attempt to escape from combat and regenerate health. Damage taken will remove the heal effect.

I didn’t notice any attempt to escape on his part since I killed him so fast but his Bubblebeam you can see in the first picture.

In addition to 89G, this is what he dropped

Subdued Seahorses – side by side

Kissing Cousins, perhaps?

Unlike the Vashj’ir seahorse you get from questing in the zone, the Poseidus mount can be used in any body of water. In addition to the 300% swimming speed (at Artisan Riding skill), it offers something different to the Sea Turtle fished up from the Northrend fishing pools.

Two rare mounts in 12 hours!! I seem to be having the same type of luck as Roshii today :D Hmm, I wonder if Aeonaxx or Time Lost are up ;P Maybe I should invest in a lottery ticket…

Cymre the Camel-Hoarder

February 11, 2012

by Cymre in Mounts

Tonight I had a happy ending to my Mysterious Camel Figurine story. It took a total of 10 or so figurines before I found the right one. However this was over many, many months.

As I quickly scanned the area in an attempt to figure out where this latest location was, I was pleased to find it was pretty easy to spot being a new co-ordinate for me. I decided to kill a couple of mobs immediately surrounding the figurine before I felt comfortable about testing the camel. You know, makes for a better shot when you’re not fighting several things, etc. Mind you, expect to be almost standing on top of it before it activates, either turning to dust or summoning a mini sandstorm for ~6 seconds which teleports you to a phased version of the steam pools in Feralas. Unfortunately, before I realised what was happening, partially due to feeling stunned for a couple of seconds, I was already being sucked up into the sandstorm, so there’s no pic to show for it ;P

Falling down into the water after being teleported

Here you’ll find a bunch of docile camels and the elite named Dormus the Camel Hoarder with ~225k HP. From the buff you get, you’ll have around 15mins to kill Dormus or else he despawns meaning you’ll have to find another camel to come here. Don’t worry though he’s an easy fight. Once defeated, he’ll drop the Reins of the Grey Riding Camel. Looting the mount will earn you a feat of strength – Scourer of the Eternal Sands + Title: < Name > “the Camel-Hoarder” (see first pic).