Darting Hatchling

I've now farmed this little mini-pet 3 times so far, each time with very minimal camping time. A couple tricks:

On my server, it's a fairly active raiding server, that means a vast majority of the server population is in raiding instances from 6pm - 10pm server. That makes it an ideal time period to farm this and other rare spawn mobs.

Either that, or you could always just burn the midnight oil one night, and snag it at 2am during one of your insomnia sessions... but I wouldn't know *inno*

Darting Hatchlings hate enclosed and tiny areas... they start bouncing around like pinballs. Landed on one of the pedestals outside Ulduar and he went hyper for like 15 minutes non-stop.

His darting speed is affected by your current speed, so mount up for hyper speed.

This little hatchling is probably my favorite of all the raptors, with the Ravasaur hatchling coming in a close second.

Since Dart is such a quick devil, I used the macro:

/target Dart
/cast Curse of Exhaustion

Not only is CoE my spell with the furthest distance, but it's instant and slows Dart down significantly, while also aggroing him. This is definitely not necessary, but to any 'locks out there, this is a nice little macro to use. I'm sure other classes could do something similar. ^_^

Dart spawns at 47.5,14.3 and immediately starts running south. For high-level characters (45+ on PVE servers, 80 on PVP), you can place a camper near the quest giver just to the south of the spawn point. Dart will run right past you when he pops. For lower level campers, I found a spot on a hill just to the east of the spawn point where no mobs path, but you need to be paying attention so Dart doesn't get too far ahead of you before you can catch/tag him.

I pwn this one.
1. Get the addon NPCscan for alerting you to a rare in the area.
2. Make a target macro: /targetexact Dart
/stopmacro [noexists]
/script
playsoundfile("sound\\Interface\\raidwarning.wav)

He spawns at 47.14, in the hills in back of the wreaked camp. On a 6 hr, 21 min respawn. Got him at 11:51am and 11:32am, EST. Weekdays are best, try to get close to the spawn point to avoid ninjas. Fly into Brackenwall and go west to 47.14!

Hello,
This pet is part of the new special vanity pets tracking achievement which has been data mined from the 3.3 PTR
As Sateena said, "It tracks several of the rarer pets including whelplings, raptor hatchlings, crocolisks and more".

This lil guy has won me over as my favorite pet for one important reason........ZOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMM

3.3 Patch notes

Hatchlings: Leaping, Darting, Razormaw, and Ravasaur Hatchlings no longer drop from their associated rare creatures. Instead, there are now rare nests that spawn which contain these hatchlings. For example, the Leaping Hatchling can now be found in Takk’s Nest rather than as a drop from Takk the Leaper.

Caught mine today. I parked my death knight under a tree on the raptor area and logged on every now and then to check, and today Dart was there. I've found that the best tactic with these rare spawns.

Hello all! Was making rounds collecting the raptor set. After reading some tips in the posts, I decided to check on Dart in Dustwallow Marsh, NPCscan rang and found Dart running ( more like sprinting) at 47, 15. Time found was 12:00p.m. EU server time. Thanks a bunch for those who posted, was very helpful! Glad i did not give in to the AH! PHEW. Good luck to those who still are looking for Dart, he is a fine pet!

I've been camping for Dart the last few days, but giving up cause I was so tired. I finally waited tonight and got him around 12:50 server time. totally worth it, my favorite of the raptor pets. even though I havent gotten the ravasaur or deviate one yet :/

I was pretty lucky. :) I went today to the location which was given in Dustwallow Marsh and my SilverDragon addon spotted him immediately. It was hard to notice at first where exactly he is cos' the mob is sprinting all around the place but finally I caught him at 10:05am server time (48.9; 18.4).
The pet is adorable and it is my 5th one so only 3 to go. :)
GL all.

Got this and the other 3 hatchling, love 3.3.0, after the restart, nobody was camping and easily got these 4 new wonderful pets ^^, there are nest in the region, as stated in the patch notes, best luck to all of you!
PD: Btw, I also have the deviate, so I think I'm kind of a raptor raiser :D

I forgot about the new changes to finding these little guys, until after I killed Dart and said, "Where the heck is it?!" Thus begins my quest in finding out more about said nests. I did eventually found one, Takk's nest. So for those not in the known here's a quickie about them; These nests can't be "targeted". Your pointer turns into a action cog, when you move it over the nest. So spamming /target macros while running around won't help. What they look like is a few eggs inside a grass bed. GL

I dunno when this happened (i think it was in the latest patch) but to get this guy you need to work with the nest. This makes it easier cause you dont have to wait for him to wait for it to run around...

Found the nest next to a tree at about 47, 15.

As of 3.3 this and the other ones that drop from rare NPC no longer do, you find them from rare nest near them.

Found him last night at coords 48.0,19.2, snuggled up next to a tree.

though not as cool as the leaping hatchlings unique animation, this lil' guy has one too. like the raptor he used to drop off of, this guy sometimes runs like 10 feet, skids up some dust, then runs back XD

I just went to the pins that were on WoWheads map and first thing I saw was Dart's nest, got my Darting Hatchling super easy!

I got this one tonight. I'd read the info on this site, found the location on the map and boom...one nest found and one pet gained.

Seriously, This evening I decided to go farm the nests. I got all 4 of the nest within 1 hour. I just flew and walked to every nest place, and found them all instantly. Guess im lucky, or there aren't alot of pet collectors on my server ^^

95 pets now!

cenarion circle again 11pm real time I saw dart & the nest spawn at the same time sory I havent got any photo cause i was rushing to get it there are 3 nest there but thats not it I got fooled by it and almost got killed trying hard to click it LoL the nest looks the same as the false one but hiding in the tree the nest has a specific spawn timer when you loot it the timer starts back to zero when you already have it you can still get it but you cant use it cause it will say "already learned"

I had just gotten my razormaw hatchling so i went to dustwallow to find that there was a peculiar nest like the one i found in wetlands. opened it up and get my second and so far coolest hatchling, though i didnt notice a difference in color

wow I had been waiting by the 3 nests that are togather for days and today I went just a little ways up the hill to kill something, out of boredom.... Bang there was another nest and got this pet!!! It is so cool how he "darts" all around..... happy gathering.

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