So you're saying there's a chance!

My primal egg finally hatched, and much to my delight I got the color I wanted!

Of course, now that I have the green one, I kind of really want the red one. Oh what a lovely skinner box, Blizzard!

Meanwhile, the hunt for a triceratops has been looking pretty bleak. Wednesday I only managed to stumble across one of the spawns, and Thursday not a single one. Well, that's not entirely accurate - I just parked myself next to one of the spawn points and checked it every few minutes while getting ready. After about 20 minutes, I actually saw that one had spawned! Success!! And as I went to attack it, some Alliance hunter tagged it right as I hit my opener. Sigh. This morning? No spawns up. Honestly at that point I started to wonder if I should just give up on the rare spawns and focus on the one from rep.

But I figured what the heck, I'd try the sitting around and waiting for a spawn trick again and, lo and behold ... it worked! This time there was no hunter around to steal my spawn, and upon looting him I found this:

The Amber Primordial Direhorn

I hadn't been auto-looting those rare spawns, mostly because it seems rather anti-climatic to not even realize what you got until it's in your backpack. As soon as the loot bag came up, I held my breath; usually there are just 3 things that it drops and nothing scrolls off the screen - this time, there was a scroll bar! Thank goodness it was actually the mount and not just an extra grey item.

While there are two other colors that drop from those same rare spawns, I think I will be taking a break from farming them. There are a lot of other really cool mounts that are much easier (and less frustrating) to get! Up next? The flying saucer!