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Sprite Darter Hatchling

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Sprite Darter Hatchling
Sprite Darter Hatchling
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Drop: World Drop

Zone: Feralas [40-50]

Approximate Drop Rate: 1 in 8,000

Sprite Darter Egg
Sprite Darter Egg
Binds when picked up
Use: Teaches you how to summon this companion.
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These adorable critters love snuggling with their owners after a long day of brutal, bloody battle.
Rare
Yes
Neutral Neutral
Air (flies alongside flying mount)

Flutters about.

Wing flutter (constant); vocalizations (on-click)

None
3 allowed
April 1, 2007

Before patch 4.0.3, alliance characters could obtain this pet from the quest [48]Becoming a Parent.

Now the pet may only be farmed by both factions as a zone drop in Feralas.

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Quality
Breed:Learn about breeds 
Level 0: Health 0Power 0Speed 0
Slicing Wind
Requires Pet Level: 1

100% Hit Chance 

 

Attacks the enemy with 1-3 blades of wind, dealing 197 Flying damage per attack.

Vs. Aquatic
Vs. Dragonkin
Arcane Blast
Requires Pet Level: 10

100% Hit Chance 

 

Blasts the enemy with a surge of arcane power, dealing 295 Magic damage.

 

Damage increases by 98 each time it hits. Max 492 Magic damage.

Vs. Flying
Vs. Mechanical
Evanescence
4 Round Cooldown
Requires Pet Level: 2

Fade into a cloud of mist, increasing your chance to dodge by 100%.

 

Lasts 1 round.

Life Exchange
5 Round Cooldown
Requires Pet Level: 15

100% Hit Chance 

 

Equalizes the health between the user and his enemy.

 

Health gained cannot exceed the caster's maximum health.

Moonfire
3 Round Cooldown
Requires Pet Level: 4

100% Hit Chance 

 

Deals 492 Magic damage and turns the weather into Moonlight for 9 rounds.

 

During Moonlight, all pets receive 25% additional healing and Magic abilities deal 10% additional damage.

Vs. Flying
Vs. Mechanical
Cyclone
5 Round Cooldown
Requires Pet Level: 20

Creates a cyclone which has a 35% chance to deal 137 Flying damage to the enemy team each round.

 

Lasts 5 rounds.

Vs. Aquatic
Vs. Dragonkin
Dragonkin

Passive:

Dragons deal 50% additional damage on the next round after bringing a target's health below 25%

Damage Taken:

50% from Humanoid abilites.
33% from Flying abilites.
Feralas — Kalimdor
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Site MVPJeyl 
Rating: +57   [Report]
ALLIANCE: Recover an orphaned egg from a nest, encase the egg with a protective substance, travel across the globe to ensure that the pet is in the best possible hands, collect food for the pet when it first hatches, and finally, welcome the pet into the world when it hatches and become it's mother.

HORDE: Kill an endless amount of Sprite Darters and rip the un-hatched egg from a dead mother's rotting corpse.

Well, motherhood isn't for everyone.
Oct 2, 2009 at 2:19pm | Edits: 0 | Dunemaul-US | Pets: 149 Compare collections | Score: 0
Site MVPSapphiria 
Rating: +6   [Report]
My favorite Pet of them all.
As a Night Elf she gives me Pride for she is one of our own and full of the Elven Magic. She reminds me of the splendor of our race and a Crowning Jewel to our Mother Elune. Her Wings glorify Elune in their Beauty. As a Druid I am happy to make sure her kind still thrive to astound us all in our walk with Nature. She never fails to bring a smile upon my face.
Sep 27, 2009 at 10:18am | Edits: 0 | Scarlet Crusade-US | Pets: 536 Compare collections | Score: 2409
Contre 
Rating: +5   [Report]
I felt just awful farming this. I mumbled an apology to myself after each kill. The 126th darter dropped mine. I'm envious of alliance: not only do you not have to slaughter the little fellas, but you actively work to free them!
Nov 26, 2009 at 6:22pm | Edits: 0 | Kil'jaeden-US | Pets: 517 Compare collections | Score: 2505
Site MVPGwenn 
Rating: +4   [Report]
This is the main reason my pet obsession became what it is. After doing the horribly boring chain to uptain this pet, she was the first "Wow! Where did you get that little cutie?" comment I got. That was it: I'd sold my soul to the pet community. As a warlock, that might be fitting though.
Sep 28, 2009 at 7:32am | Edits: 0 | Draenor-EU | Pets: 512 Compare collections | Score: 2332
Timzheir 
Rating: +2   [Report]

I only started playing a year ago. At first I just wandered around exploring and ended up in farals. I was such a new player that I didnt even know companion pets existed! and I was low level so mobs kept attacking me. I remember dying, a bunch. But I obviously killed the right one becuse, as I was vendoring I saw it. I SERIOUSLY almost vendored it. I had never seen somthing with the option to right click to do anything.  So thats what I did, and got my first and favorite pet.

Jan 28, 2013 at 2:10pm | Edits: 0 | Blackwater Raiders-US | Pets: 343 Compare collections | Score: 1286
Uraa 
Rating: +2   [Report]
After ten days, two dozen cups of coffee, thousands of kills and looting enough tiny fangs that I'm sure I'm pooping them out of my booty-cheeks, this pet finally dropped for me. This dragonlet is fabulous, in every way imaginable. Very striking; people do double-takes when you have this out in a city. If you're going to farm for this, I highly recommend farming the Noxious Whelplings in northern Feralas, around the lake. I got eight whelps to drop in the time it took me to grab a sprite.
Jul 24, 2012 at 11:24pm | Edits: 0 | Draka-US | Pets: 268 Compare collections | Score: 1220
Harassment 
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Got him today after 1,3K noxious whelplings, while earning 3 tiny emerald whelplings, I was about to give up hope, took a small break and bang, on the first kill on my return.
May 3, 2012 at 7:21pm | Edits: 0 | Sylvanas-EU | Pets: 507 Compare collections | Score: 2120
Bigsleepy 
Rating: +2   [Report]
OMG!! i finally got it about 5 min ago. i farmed the Noxious Whelp first for about 8000 kills and got a bunch of emerald whelps but no sprite darter so i looked on wowhead and they said kill Grimtotem Marauders b/c they were so many and fast respond time so off i went. it took me 17786 kills and it finaly dropped. i was so happy! this was the longest i ever farmed for a pet even longer than the Parrot Cage (Hyacinth Macaw) that took only 9k kills!It still drops just takes a long time. GOOD LUCK!
Jan 11, 2012 at 9:35pm | Edits: 0 | Arthas-US | Pets: 389 Compare collections | Score: 0
Jarr21 
Rating: +2   [Report]
The Alliance quest chain for the Sprite Darter is a bit of a globe trot, so be prepared from some travel time. The plus side is that in addition to having one of the more colorful pets, the chain also gives you a nice chunk of Darnassus and Alliance rep.
Sep 30, 2009 at 3:48pm | Edits: 0 | Wildhammer-US | Pets: 122 Compare collections | Score: 0
Suzi 
Rating: +2   [Report]
For any Horde with auto-loot on trying to get this please bear in mind that, as it's common and BoP, you won't be alerted when you pick this up. I spent hours farming for it only to realise it was already in my bags and I just hadn't noticed (it's easy to miss along with all the other common items you'll end up picking up at the same time).
Sep 27, 2009 at 9:48am | Edits: 0 | Nesingwary-US | Pets: 284 Compare collections | Score: 1163
Akeleie 
Rating: +1   [Report]

Got this back in the day when it was awarded in the end of a quest chain. The chain and the fact that you would get this adorable pet from it was not well known back then, and we were not so big on checking every little thing online yet either. It was a well kept secret by a few of us for a good while. I have never been so happy to recive a pet before.. "Congrats, Akeleie. You're a parent... kinda"

Dec 10, 2012 at 10:11pm | Edits: 0 | Frostwhisper-EU | Pets: 421 Compare collections | Score: 0
Greenrowan 
Rating: +1   [Report]

I wasn't even looking for this pet when I found it. I was levelling archeology and was killing to clear the zone I was surveying. I generally loot everything, then sell all the junk on my way to the next site. As I was going through my bags, selling my greys I found this pet. I was so excited, but feel bad for anyone that spent hours trying to get it. It makes a pretty great battle pet too. 

Oct 8, 2012 at 4:24pm | Edits: 0 | Quel'dorei-US | Pets: 340 Compare collections | Score: 1417
Site MVPLithiumleeds 
Rating: +1   [Report]
All I can say I got it today after 2 years farming and mean many hours so don't give up it out there and good luck :-)
Aug 30, 2012 at 3:29am | Edits: 0 | Argent Dawn-EU | Pets: 545 Compare collections | Score: 2526
Pawcat73 
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I killed just over 4k before this cute bugger dropped off of the Grimtotems. I was on the phone at work when it happened almost screamed aloud.
Jun 28, 2012 at 2:41pm | Edits: 0 | Draenor-US | Pets: 417 Compare collections | Score: 1873
Wowmama78 
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Does this really still drop? Me, my husband, my son, and my brother have all taken turns farming this on my main, and so far we've been going for almost 24 hours straight and NO SPRITE!!! We're farming the sprites in Feralas and NOTHING. Its really annoying.
Jan 7, 2012 at 3:13pm | Edits: 0 | Realm unavailable | Pets: 94 Compare collections | Score: 0
Shadowem 
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Are they still available to this day with the new patch? Ive been farming for one for a while now and still have not gotten one.
Dec 29, 2011 at 3:18am | Edits: 0 | Undermine-US | Pets: 53 Compare collections | Score: 0
Gímli 
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For everyone who did not get this pet pre-cata (including me>_<). Prepare for a challenge.

Chance- 1in10000.
Bind-on-pickup.

This is now the hardest pet to get in the game. Obviously you met get lucky and get it while leveling or farming for your Emerald Whelping. If you don't the best thing to do is farm the grimtotem marauders because they have a very fast respawn rate and are close together.
May the RNG be with you.
Dec 19, 2011 at 1:50pm | Edits: 0 | Azjol-Nerub-EU | Pets: 139 Compare collections | Score: 0
Top RaterLivingdeath 
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Been farming this for months... Around 7000 kills and no luck... All I can say if you're having a hard time farming this like me is to keep trying, eventually it will happen. :)
Dec 11, 2011 at 2:47am | Edits: 3 | Lightninghoof-US | Pets: 537 Compare collections | Score: 2734
Ninetales 
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Dropped for me from a Grimtotem Raider after only about 7 kills, nice and easy. But maybe I was just lucky?
Jan 25, 2011 at 6:58pm | Edits: 0 | Hellfire-EU | Pets: 431 Compare collections | Score: 1858
Karavanth 
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I'm a longtime fan of this site, and therefore want to make a contribution towards accurate information.

I have killed over 600 of these over 4 hours, and had no drop. I've quadruple checked that I'm in the right area, beating on the correct, poor mob. I've also put in the world's most embarrassing ticket, thinking it might be glitched. I don't know what the result of that will be.

At any rate, unless I'm a mega-outlier, the drop rate is definitely not 1 in 100.
Dec 20, 2010 at 1:49pm | Edits: 0 | Aggramar-US | Pets: 485 Compare collections | Score: 1954
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Until recently, only us alliance folk were able to obtain this pet. I used to feel sorry for all you Hordies out there who didn't know the joy of owning your very own faerie dragon. I even suggested defecting to the alliance to get this little guy. In fact, I still do! Why? Because you'd be able to fight alongside adorable gnomes like me! Wait... why are you looking at me like that? *gulp* C'mon, put down that battle axe... *points* Hey, isn't that Thrall!? *blinks away*

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