Innovation Investigator

[b][hr]With 3 days into the Patch, the best way to farm [item=234741] seems to be continuous kills of any of the Cartel-specific Rares (e.g. [npc=233472], [npc=233471], [npc=234480], [npc=234499]), especially when you are Renown 6 and can start their spawn events. The chance to drop Mechanica doesn't seem to be removed after the first kill of the day.[hr][/b]These are the currency for 3 mount and 6 battle pet purchases on the vendors [npc=228286] and [npc=236411] in [zone=15347]:[code]/way #2346 43.25 82.84 Skedgit Cinderbangs (Mounts) /way #2346 35.40 41.40 Ditty Fuzeboy (Battle Pets)[/code] [br] [table border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=2] [tr][td width=45% align=right][b]Battle Pet[/b][/td][td width=20px][/td][td width=5%][b]Cost[/b][/td][td width=40px][/td][td align=right width=5%][b]Cost[/b][/td][td width=20px][/td][td width=45% align=left][b]Mount (tradable!)[/b][/td][/tr] [tr][td align=right][item=232840][/td][td][/td][td]5[/td][td][/td][td align=right]25[/td][td][/td][td][item=229941][/td][/tr] [tr][td align=right][item=232841][/td][td][/td][td]8[/td][td][/td][td align=right]25[/td][td][/td][td][item=229952][/td][/tr] [tr][td align=right][item=232842][/td][td][/td][td]10[/td][td][/td][td align=right]25[/td][td][/td][td][item=229954][/td][/tr] [tr][td align=right][item=232846][/td][td][/td][td]5[/td][td][/td][td][/td][td][/td][td][/td][/tr] [tr][td align=right][item=232849][/td][td][/td][td]5[/td][td][/td][td][/td][td][/td][td][/td][/tr] [tr][td align=right][item=232850][/td][td][/td][td]5[/td][td][/td][td][/td][td][/td][td][/td][/tr] [/table] [br] So far, I found these 3 sources: [ul] [li]They are a random drop from most (if not all) Rares in Undermine.[/li] [li]I got 1-2 from every Goblin Cartel Paragon reward (e.g. [item=237133]).[/li] [li]I also found them in [object=469857]s when I learned how to dumpster dive by reaching Renown 13 with [faction=2653].[/li] [/ul]

Mounts sharing this model: Yellow: [item=229946] Buy for 11375 [currency=2815] from [npc=231407]. Requires exalted reputation with the [faction=2671]. Purple: [item=229944] Buy for 11375 [currency=2815] from [npc=231409]. Requires renown rank 19 with the [faction=2653]. Green: [item=229943] Contained in [item=237134]. Requires exalted reputation with [faction=2677]. Red: [item=229945] Buy for 500 gold from [npc=235621]. Requires renown rank 8 with [faction=2685]. Black: [item=229941] Buy for 25 [item=234741] from [npc=228286].

This is a long grind and there is no easy way.

I didn't loot very many Miscellaneous Mechanica from bosses at all, there just aren't enough of them. I found far more in the overflowing dumpsters. The only reliable way to find them is joining a group that is farming Darkfuse troves after reaching exalted with the faction. Which is a long painful grind all by itself.

A good Market Research farming group will earn you 700-1000 per hour giving you a Darkfuse trove with 1-2 Miscellaneous Mechanica every 2-3 hours. The only boost you can get is the 10% reputation boost from Darkmoon Faire.

It's about a 30 hour grind to farm 25 mechanica for the mount with this method.

100 hours for 3 ugly mounts seems a bit too much, even for extreme collectionists xd

Yeah, I might grind one of these as I already have 11. but there's no way I'm going for all 3 :/ I'll just get paragon troves for the other cartel factions for a few months until I get enough to buy one