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Rare Elite
Elderspawn Nalaada
The Writhing
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respawn time around 45 minutes
Elderspawn Nalaada rare mob can be found in Nazjatar.
- Coordinates: 51.75 74.87
- Part of: I Thought You Said They'd Be Rare?
- World Quest: Elderspawn of Nalaada
- Rare drop: [item=169359]
This one is easy to locate, it's just at the east part of Spears of Azshara area.
Better clear all of the mobs around the rare as it spawns [npc=156118] during the fight.TomTom:
/way Nazjatar 51.75 74.87 Elderspawn Nalaada Rare MobElderspawn Nalaada - www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3zeJpzLdu4
Details
This roster comes from the current game client's data files, so it is not a complete list of every NPC in the game - older world NPCs that are no longer in the modern client are absent.
Hunter Pet: Serpent
Elderspawn Nalaada belongs to the Serpent creature family, which Hunters can tame; its pet specialization is Cunning. The Serpent diet in the client data: Meat. The Serpent family’s own pet skill line (Pet - Serpent) teaches 2 abilities:
Achievement: I Thought You Said They'd Be Rare?
Killing Elderspawn Nalaada counts toward I Thought You Said They'd Be Rare?, a 10-point achievement. Its in-game description: “Slay all of the rare and powerful creatures of Nazjatar listed below.” I Thought You Said They'd Be Rare? tracks 35 creatures; the other 34:
- Alga the Eyeless
- Allseer Oma'kil
- Amethyst Spireshell
- Banescale the Packfather
- Blindlight
- Caverndark Terror
- Chasm-Haunter
- Daggertooth Terror
- Deepglider
- Elder Unu
- Garnetscale
- Iridescent Glimmershell
- Kelpwillow
- King Gakula
- Mirecrawler
- Needlespine
- Oronu
- Prince Typhonus
- Prince Vortran
- Sandcastle
- Sandclaw Stoneshell
- Scale Matriarch Gratinax
- Scale Matriarch Vynara
- Scale Matriarch Zodia
- Shassera
- Shiz'narasz the Consumer
- Siltstalker the Packmother
- Soundless
- Tidelord Aquatus
- Tidelord Dispersius
- Tidemistress Leth'sindra
- Toxigore the Alpha
- Urduu
- Voice in the Deeps
More Serpent
Other creatures in the Serpent family. See the whole family.
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Achievements whose criteria involve Elderspawn Nalaada, from the current game data.
Collectibles Elderspawn Nalaada Drops
- Spawn of Nalaada (battle pet): its in-game source line reads “Drop: Elderspawn Nalaada”.
Level and Map Tracking
The game data tunes Elderspawn Nalaada for level 50, Battle for Azeroth content.
The map marks it with vignette 3,717, which the client hides once hidden tracking quest 56285 is complete. In game, /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(56285)) prints true when that quest is flagged for your character.