Timeless Isle Mounts ... also known as sometimes you should do a little research first!

I had the day off on Friday so I had plenty of time to play over the weekend. In between bouts of PvP, I continued mount farming. I started off farming for dino bones and quickly got my third Primal Egg. Since Primal Eggs are unique and I know my brother is interested in farming for dino bones, I decided to turn my sights toward some of the flying dragon mounts from Pandaria.

There are two in particular which I think look really awesome. The first is a very rare drop from a rare spawn, Huolon. Huolon spawns every 30-60 minutes and every time I've gone past his spawn point there have been 2-4 people waiting for him to spawn. Fortunately, everyone can tag him regardless of whether or not you are grouped. The mount is a 1% drop and looks like this:

Thundering Onyx Cloud Serpent

Huolon spawns on the Timeless Isle, the same island where you are able to farm Shaohao rep for the Heavenly Golden Cloud Serpent:

These are, in my opinion, the two best looking Cloud Serpent mounts. You need to be exalted with Shaohao and have 100,000 Timeless Coins to get the Golden Serpent. There is only a single daily quest for Shaohao, that provides 250 reputation, but some of the monsters on the island provide reputation when you kill them. The ones that I was killing were about 15-20 a pop. Needless to say, this is a reputation that will seemingly take a looooong time.

One fun twist about this island is that it was designed to foment world PvP. The way they went about doing this is that there is an item called the Censer of Eternal Agony that you can get for just 1,000 Timeless Coins that essentially makes you hostile to every player you see (regardless of faction). If you kill them (they need to be flagged, I believe), you get a Bloody Coin. For 500 Bloody Coins you can purchase the Ashhide Mushan Beast:

He's kind of a fun, goofy looking mount, eh? Of course, while looking at pictures of him on Wowhead I saw a comment stating that for just 100 Timeless Coin (they drop in abundance, the cost is rather immaterial) you can buy Fire-Watchers Oath which allows you to collect Bloody Coins in battlegrounds, not just the Timeless Isle.

Of course, after spending a fair amount of time farming mobs (and players!) on the Timeless Isle, last night I read that in order to ride any wind serpent ... you need to be exalted with Order of the Cloud Serpent. Sigh. Fortunately that grind should be fairly quick. There are multiple dailies and, similar to the questline for the Venomhide Ravasaur mount, you get to pick an egg and then raise your very own Serpent from baby to adult. There are three different mounts you can pick: Jade, Azure, or Golden. The egg you pick corresponds to one of those colors and you get that mount for free. You can purchase the others once you are exalted.