Whenever I fly to a flying-only area to explore or herbalize, I find elites that no one ever talks about, with no drop tables listed on thottbot, and no quests I've ever seen to kill, but they look like they should be there for a reason. There's a skyscraper-sized demon in far western Nagrand. There's an elite tiger in a cave in Skettis, as well as a giant water elemental under the lake there. I'm sure there's many more I haven't even seen yet. I assume all these things can't be raid bosses with phat l3wts or I'd have heard about them. I also figure they can't be party bosses with worthwhile blues either or they'd probably have drop tables on thott. Are they just for flavor?

If the Nagrand elite you're talking about is Durn <Son of Gruul>, he's a quest mob.

The Cat in the skettis cave drops no loot whatsoever, not even vendor items. I assumed it's a flavor-of-the-month pet for hunters to tame. It's got a god awful large amount of hit points.

I believe the demon he's speaking of is at Twilight Ridge behind the Forge camps. I can only speculate that they are either flavor mobs or for quests that have not been implemented yet.

nah, I killed him for that quest - this guy is in a flying-only area farther west. I wish I remembered his name but I'm not at home and can't load up the game.

It feels like the flying-only areas didn't get done in time for release. I tried mining some of the elite Vortex Giants at Vortex Pinnacle in Blade's, didn't get anyhing but vendor trash.

That's Reth'hedron the Subduer, a 73 elite eredar who doesn't seem to be part of any currently available quest lines.

There are flying mobs as well that seem hard to pull. I was flying over the bone wastes the other day and saw a level 65 eilite dragon. He was flying far to high for anyone level 65 to be able to pull him and short of a dismount/slow fall pull I can't see how you would get him down.

The bone dragon is for a quest... you summon him to land, then you fight him. He patrols up in the air until someone calls him.

As for the water elemental, I duo'd him with a paladin (go go frost resist gear) and got nothing for it... no idea what the mob's there for.

He's a quest mob. It's the same for the elite bird that flies over the Bone Wastes. I think it's pretty neat they took the time to code this in.

I've seen a level 71 Rare Elite dragon spawn (the name fails me at the moment) in Blade's Edge Mountains in the western "fly-only" zone. Anyone killed him at all (he's in the area between the Burning Legion areas with the level 71 Fel Sworns/scorpions/lizards)?

The flying dragon is a quest mob. This thread is about elite mobs in flying only areas, talking about quest mobs that every level 67 and his brother has seen is not the topic of discussion.


There seems to be quite a few loose ends, both in strangely hard mobs with seemingly no purpose and quests and NPCs that clearly should lead to something. My guess is that they are quest lines for instances or future server events that were originally planned for release (ie the Demon could be a mob you must kill in the quest line for the Black Temple key or something like that) that didnt make it into the final release and will be patched later.

http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=18692

Hemathion is the rare elite dragon that paths in the Western Blade's Edge area. He's not too bad with a good tank a 4-5 people. Drops random suffix chestpieces. We got a plate "of Arcane Resistance" the one time we killed him.

nice, one of these mobs is actually worth at least a blue :D I should go looking for that one.

This isn't 100% related to the topic, but there are actually five rare elites each dropping a different "Random Enchantment" blue.

Boots - http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=18696 - Kraator - Shadowmoon Valley
Legs - http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=20932 - Nuramoc - Netherstorm
Chest - http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=18692 - Hemathion - Blade's Edge (Flying Mount)
Shoulder - http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=18690 - Morcrush - Blade's Edge
Head - http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=18694 - Collidus the Warp-Watcher - Shadowmoon Valley

Drops are really a crapshoot. I've seen a lot of "of Spirit" and "of the Boar" kind of drops. Most of the stuff we saw was actually sharded rather than attempted to be sold due to it's total lack of resale value.

I would recommend 4+ people before taking on these mobs. They can be done with less by kiting, but I'd suggest that as more of challenge instead of a pratical approach.

Here is a small summary of their abilites.

Kraator - Summons Infernals and will conflagrate the higest aggro target. Also has a fire aura.
Nuramoc - Poison spit and a lightning breath.
Hemathion - Flame breath and fairly heavy melee
Morcrush - Splits into shardlings (I haven't actually fought him)
Collidus - Beam attack that ticks for 12 seconds (Spell reflect owns this). Single Target fear.

There's more than just 5, I ran into a rare elite in that fortress you fight Zuluhed at for the Netherdrake line who appeared to drop blue bracers... he was the weakest of all the rare elites I've fought, seemed soloable.

EDIT: Found him and his Illidari Vambraces on wowhead

Bracers - http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=18695 - Ambassador Jerrikar - Shadowmoon Valley

There is a green and black striped fen strider (goofy tripod monster) named Trigul (72 elite) that wanders the crystal area of the fly-only part of Blade's Edge. I've tried killing him a couple times with no luck and I can't find any info on him. Anybody killed him or know what he's about?

Killed him once too, didn't drop anything. Probably yet another target for a quest that's not in the game yet.

Jeez it took like 6 of you guys to all post the same thing about the flying elites for quests. Read the thread.

http://www.wowhead.com/?npcs&filter=...13;crs=1;crv=0 is the list of all the rare mobs in TBC. Each one drops a rare item in a specific slot. (Couldn't filter out the Karazhan mobs).

The Ambassador you fought wasn't an elite. :P

The random suffix rare elites can drop the TBC suffixes too - we got a blue mail "of the Bandit" chest.

Whilst we are on the subject of random mobs... has anyone else done the quest in blades edge with the nether dragons eggs and had a skull level (I was 68 at the time) dragon spawn. He called me a fool for freeing him and announced he was off to take over the world. Sadly I have completely forgotten his name, but it was pretty cool to see. I’m not sure if it was a random thing or whether everyone gets to see this?

I think you are referring to Terron Gorefiend in Shadowmoon Valley?