I found the best place to reset the timer of [item=193906] for the achievement within up to 6 minutes is in the Ohn'Ahran Plains at /way 52.67, 49.68.
Just kill the Thunder Lizards all the way around the small hill. Once you made it back to the point of your arrival the ones there will have re spawned.
Achievement
Elusive Beasts of the Dragon Isles
Slay 15 of the following elusive beasts hiding on the Dragon Isles as a skinner.
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Big thanks to Selbink-Area52, Sayerel-Area52, Jurvicious-WyrmestAccord and Trauk-Blackrock for helping find the spawn locations of all these mobs and massively cut down on skinning time by grouping up.
The Elusive mobs needed for this achieve can be spawned by using [item=193906]. In order to get the non-rare version of mobs to spawn you must have at least 20 knowledge spent in [profession-trait=34758]. If you go up to 40 then you'll be able to spawn rare mobs in certain specific locations as well so if you intend to drop bait in those spots for this achieve then you should wait to put in your 40th point but since you can spawn the non-rare versions in many locations there's no real reason to wait. If you need to know where the rare version spawn you can check the comment on Elusive Legend of the Dragon Isles.
As for which mobs spawn where, there seemed to be no real rhyme or reason to it. We expected the same rules as the rare mobs (placing a bait near a crystalspine would spawn an Elusive Crystalspine) but it seemed to pick any mob type native to that zone for the non-rare versions needed for this achieve. We got plenty of duplicates in the process and I can't give better advice then to just keep using bait and hope for good RNG. If you're close to having 15 and haven;t been to Zaralek I would try going there since there are 10 Elusive types native to Zaralek so your chances of getting one will be good.
Below I've included a list of the 15 we killed. It should be noted that these are not the only locations for these mobs to spawn, and other mobs can spawn in their places as well. Including coordinates just so people can try the areas that worked for us. Also keep in mind you only need 15, not all of them.
Do not use bait at the crossed out coordinates if you have 40 points in [profession-trait=34758]. Anywhere nearby (or anywhere in the zone) should be good enough to get these mobs to spawn, but if you drop bait at the bolded locations you'll get the rare version and waste a bait/put it on CD. Thanks to Bambiprsi for pointing that out. If you have between 20 and 39 knowledge in that trait you can drop the bait there without issue and can still copy the command normally.
/way #2022 54.69 58.59 Salamanther/way #2022 44.75 78.17 Snapdragon
/way #2023 60.59 24.36 Thunder Lizard
/way #2023 52.30 44.17 Hornstrider
/way #2023 53.41 33.55 Bull
/way #2024 58.70 53.95 Vorquin/way #2024 64.21 30.05 Feral Bakar
/way #2024 66.47 56.94 Elder Armoredon
/way #2025 48.15 50.73 Rockfang
/way #2025 56.15 70.63 Elder Rockfang/way #2151 40.75 60.68 Slyvern/way #2151 44.72 40.02 Argali/way #2133 59.60 39.53 Deepflayer
/way #2133 44.07 47.22 Magmammoth
/way #2133 43.78 48.07 Magmammoth BullYou don't have to be the one to spawn the Elusive to get credit, but do need to be on a skinner. If you have friends working on these achieves I'd recommend grouping up since you can do multiple summons before having to skin if you do so.
I'd recommend if you have enough knowledge to spare you put 40 points in [profession-trait=34759] as well at least 35 in [profession-trait=34758] to reduce the CD of the bait by 20 minutes each time you skin a mob. To reduce the CD we would do mass skinning after all our baits were on CD. Any mob that isn't the "baby version" of a mob type will give the CDR but those lesser mobs won't so you can skip them if you like. For efficient mass-skinning we used the WowProfs guides (credit to them) so use this link for Waking Shores and Thaldrazus and this link for Ohn'ahran and Azure Span.
Locations for the Elusive Beasts:-
(1) Elusive Vorquin - Thaldraszus @ Eclipse Lake, 53.81, 39.03, Azure Span @ 43.68, 45.51
Elusive Prime Salamanther - Thaldraszus @ Eclipse Lake, 53.81, 39.03 (tried this at the same spot and got different elusive beast this time)
(2) Elusive Ottuk - Ohn'ahran Plains @ 74.66, 47.01
(3) Elusive Elder Slyvern - Azure Span @ 69.24, 52.62
(4) Elusive Feral Bakar - Ohn'ahran Plains @ 60.58, 24.65 / 42.32, 36.46
(5) Elusive Salamanther - Waking Shores @ Wild Coast, 78.02, 29.70
(6) Elusive Magmammoth Bull - Zaralek Cavern @ Elders' Gift, 45.14, 39.42
(7) Elusive Deepflayer - Zaralek Cavern @ Cascades Column, 43.56, 75.14
(8) Elusive Viper (Lava) - Zaralek Cavern @ Sulfur Wastes, 49.99, 62.51
(9) Elusive Bull - Azure Span, 33.10, 41.29
(10) Elusive Prime Proto Dragon - Forbidden Reach, 58.44, 54.93
(11) Elusive Sulfurstrider - Zaralek Cavern @ 41.29, 54.85
(12) Elusive Viper (Rock) - Zaralek Cavern @ 56.53, 64.01
(13) Elusive Slyvern - Azure Span @ 66.33, 56.96
Details
- Category
- Professions › Skinning
- Points
- 10
- Faction
- Both factions
- Requirements
- 36 criteria lines
Criteria
What this achievement requires, from the current game data.
- Elusive Salamanther
- Elusive Vorquin
- Elusive Proto Dragon
- Elusive Thunder Lizard
- Elusive Lava Phoenix
- Elusive Magmammoth
- Elusive Fiery Dreadsquall
- Elusive Snapdragon
- Elusive Rockfang
- Elusive Feral Bakar
- Elusive Hornstrider
- Elusive Crystalspine
- Elusive Bull
- Elusive Stonegazer
- Elusive Ottuk
- Elusive Slyvern
- Elusive Magmammoth Bull
- Elusive Prime Salamanther
- Elusive Prime Proto Dragon
- Elusive Storm Lizard
- Elusive Elder Rockfang
- Elusive Elder Slyvern
- Elusive Rimeclaw Bear
- Elusive Elder Armoredon
- Elusive Argali
- Elusive Elder Argali
- Elusive Deepflayer
- Elusive Stoneclaw
- Elusive Viper (Lava)
- Elusive Lavafang
- Elusive Deepstrider
- Elusive Colossal Deepstrider
- Elusive Viper (Rock)
- Elusive Shalefang
- Elusive Sulfurstrider
- Elusive Colossal Sulfurstrider
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