Warcraft Pet Tricks

Warcraft Pet Tricks

03 July 2014

Farming Your Unborn Val'kyr: The Best Northrend Route!


Pet farmers know how to camp spawns, but sometimes you it takes a few minutes on a flight path or some wandering around a zone to find a pet. The super-cool Unborn Val'kyr doesn't just spawn in one zone: it spawns all over Northrend, which means that you'll need to do some serious flying to catch a lucky spawn!

If you've got loads of flying alts, you might try parking them in each zone across Northrend, but if you've just got one or two high-level toons, you can still make a full circuit of Northrend in about 30 minutes (maybe less if you just focus on the circuit instead of watching TV at the same time or something).

Getting Ready for Your Circuit:


Conveniently, you can start from Dalaran and Crystalsong Forest, which means all it takes is a quick port to Dalaran (you can use your ring or one of the portals to Dalaran in Pandara's capital cities). I'd suggest that you also have epic flight speed, because flying on a slow mount or actually using flight paths for this circuit will take too long!

Your Val'kyr Northrend Farming Route


When you land in Dalaran, you'll want to fly out toward the east and cover the spawn points in Crystalsong Forest, and then you'll want to cover the zones in this order:

  1. Zul'Drak
  2. The Storm Peaks
  3. Icecrown
  4. Sholazar Basin
  5. Borean Tundra
  6. Dragonblight
  7. Grizzly Hills
  8. Howling Fjord

Tip: You'll usually want to fly in a counter-clockwise circle around the zone to hit all of the spawn points. Usually, at the end of your time in the zone, you'll be close to the border of the next zone where you need to fly.

Helpful Val'kyr Location Maps:


I was going to create maps of the spawn points for this little creature, but a user at Wowhead already did a terrific job of pegging the maps. Here are the links for each of those helpful maps so you'll know where to fly each time you enter a new zone.

Note that I have these links set up to open in a new window so you'll be able to open up all the windows in a row and click onto each new map as you fly around Northrend.




Where I Found My Val'kyr


Interestingly, I completed my entire Val'kyr circuit and was ready to turn in for the night when I got a wild hair to fly back to a nearby spawn point in Howling Fjord. Incredibly, a little Val'kyr was sitting just south of Giant's Run, waiting for me to catch her! I'm not at all surprised that my spawn was at the very end of my route. That's how it always goes, right?



Tips for a Successful Catch


Since the Val'kyr isn't a legendary pet or special pet from a trainer, you shouldn't have trouble catching one with almost any pet lineup. She's an Undead pet, so the best pets to weaken her are critters, and you might want to avoid using Humanoids since Undead pets do more damage to Humanoids.

In my zeal to catch my Val'kyr, I actually had a Flayer Youngling in my lineup and the little Humanoid bugger lasted until the third pet before he expired...

Have you already found your Unborn Val'kyr? How long did it take you to find one?

7 comments:

  1. You should mention that she has an ability that kills herself, making her very difficult to capture if you do not do it quickly.

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  2. Thank you for this guide. I'd been driving myself insane flying all over Scholazar off and on for a couple of days after a friend insisted that she only spawned there. I followed this guide tonight and found my Val'kyr in Grizzly Hills on my first circuit. Poor quality, sadly, but I'll be upgrading her ASAP.

    Thanks again!

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  3. Just got mine (grey) in Zul'Drak at approx. 8:56am server time. She was at the Gundrak (75,22) location.

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  4. Thanks so much for the guide. Caught mine the day after reading it at the spawn point closest to Dalaran...5:30 am server time. I've been told going at odd hours does help.

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  5. I brought up this page to find one, started at Dal and there one was on the first point listed for Crystalsong Forest. Then I got another at the second point, just after that. levels 20 and 21 respectively. thanks

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  6. My first try was just outside Amberpine Lodge in Grizzlies Hills and she was just there waiting for me. Thanks for your help!! :)

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  7. Really a great addition. I have read this marvelous post. Thanks for sharing information about it. I really like that. Thanks so lot for your convene. wow farming

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