Hi all,
I was enchanted by Bat's alpaca mount yesterday evening in the raid (It prances! It jumps! It's adorable!), and I decided I had to get one too.
There are many guides online, but the upshot is that for the Uldum alpaca mount (the Springfur Alpaca), you need to collect Gersahl Greens, which grow along the river and in the delta of the river in Uldum. Then you need to feed one Gersahl Green per day to a Friendly Alpaca, which spawns in various locations in Uldum. After seven feedings (which need not be on consecutive days), the mount is yours!
Some challenges:
1. The Gersahl Shrubs are hard to see.
If you have herbalism, no problem, they show up as herb nodes. But if you aren't an herbalist, they're pretty hard to find. Here's what I found to be helpful:
* Turn your "Ground Clutter" setting (System--> Graphics) to 1. This flattens out all the vegetation except for the trees and nodes, which helps tremendously. Before doing this, I found only one shrub in multiple circuits of the river system. After setting it to 1, I found all the shrubs I needed within a couple circuits.
* The plants have little red flowers. Looking for a bit of red helped to locate them (unless you're colorblind).
2. Finding a Friendly Alpaca to feed.
The Friendly Alpaca can spawn at 13 different spawn points scattered all over Uldum. Once it spawns, it only stays up for 5-10 minutes. It appears to have a long respawn timer. Which means it's possible to fly a circuit around all the spawn points and STILL miss it because it despawns so quickly.
I found it very helpful to join a custom raid group which was seeking the alpaca. One person camped each spawn point. When the alpaca spawned, the person camping that spot notified the raid, which converged on that point, and everyone fed the alpaca. The time I tried it, it took about 20 minutes for it to spawn. Feeding done for the day!
Note that when it's up, the alpaca is easy to see, because it has a blue exclamation point which shows up on your minimap. So you'll know it when you see it.
If anybody else has some tips or suggestions, please share!
Happy hunting!
I was enchanted by Bat's alpaca mount yesterday evening in the raid (It prances! It jumps! It's adorable!), and I decided I had to get one too.
There are many guides online, but the upshot is that for the Uldum alpaca mount (the Springfur Alpaca), you need to collect Gersahl Greens, which grow along the river and in the delta of the river in Uldum. Then you need to feed one Gersahl Green per day to a Friendly Alpaca, which spawns in various locations in Uldum. After seven feedings (which need not be on consecutive days), the mount is yours!
Some challenges:
1. The Gersahl Shrubs are hard to see.
If you have herbalism, no problem, they show up as herb nodes. But if you aren't an herbalist, they're pretty hard to find. Here's what I found to be helpful:
* Turn your "Ground Clutter" setting (System--> Graphics) to 1. This flattens out all the vegetation except for the trees and nodes, which helps tremendously. Before doing this, I found only one shrub in multiple circuits of the river system. After setting it to 1, I found all the shrubs I needed within a couple circuits.
* The plants have little red flowers. Looking for a bit of red helped to locate them (unless you're colorblind).
2. Finding a Friendly Alpaca to feed.
The Friendly Alpaca can spawn at 13 different spawn points scattered all over Uldum. Once it spawns, it only stays up for 5-10 minutes. It appears to have a long respawn timer. Which means it's possible to fly a circuit around all the spawn points and STILL miss it because it despawns so quickly.
I found it very helpful to join a custom raid group which was seeking the alpaca. One person camped each spawn point. When the alpaca spawned, the person camping that spot notified the raid, which converged on that point, and everyone fed the alpaca. The time I tried it, it took about 20 minutes for it to spawn. Feeding done for the day!
Note that when it's up, the alpaca is easy to see, because it has a blue exclamation point which shows up on your minimap. So you'll know it when you see it.
If anybody else has some tips or suggestions, please share!
Happy hunting!