Blackpaw

Guide

The Blackpaw mount has a chance of dropping from the rare Blackpaw for Horde or Agathe Wyrmwood for Alliance in the BFA phasing of Darkshore. The mount is on roughly a 5% drop rate.

To access the correct Darkshore phasing you need to be at least level 50+ and may need to do the introductory quest at your Warfront Table in Port of Zandalar for Horde or Boralus docks for Alliance.

You can find Blackpaw for Horde and Agathe Wyrmwood for Alliance just below Lor’danel. Although your faction will need to be in control of Darkshore for you to be able to kill your factions rare otherwise they won’t be attackable.

The rare resets once per cycle when Darkshore goes from Patrolling to Patrolling (explained in more detail below).

Darkshore Rares and Warfront System explained

Darkshore rares work differently from the normal ones, they don’t reset daily or weekly but instead reset based on the Warfront system that was introduced in BFA. You can find the Warfront table within the Port of Zandalar for Horde or Boralus docks for Alliance.

This will tell you the current status of Darkshore. It has 3 phases Patrol, Contribute and Siege.

Patrol:

• You have access to world bosses and world quests in the warfront zone, with a portal to the zone from your faction hub
• You cannot contribute profession items, gold, and War Resources via quests in your faction hub
• You cannot queue for the instanced warfront via the war table

Contribute:

• You do not have access to zone specific world bosses, world quests, or a portal to the warfront zone
• You can contribute profession items, gold, and War Resources via quests in your faction hub to help your faction build up enough strength to attack
• You cannot queue for the instanced warfront via the war table

Siege:

• You do not have access to zone specific world bosses, world quests, or a portal to the warfront zone
• You cannot contribute profession items, gold, and War Resources via quests in your faction hub
• You can queue for the instanced warfront from the war table in your faction hub

So if you kill a rare within Darkshore during Patrol, Contribute or Siege. You’ll need to wait for your faction to regain control of Darkshore once more which is when it cycles to the Patrol state again. For example you kill X rare during the Contribute state, you’ll need to wait for it to cycle through Contribute and Siege and then return to Patrol once again before you can kill the rare again for loot.

Depending on who is in control of Darkshore will also change the available rares and their locations. If your faction is in control, you will also find a helpful portal near your Warfront table that will take you to Darkshore.