Gooey Snailemental
Family: Snail
Type: Grind / World Drop
Zone: Forbidden Reach
Faction: Both
Recommended Level: Level 70
Skill Level: 3/10
Guide
The Gooey Snailemental mount is obtained by combining 50 Leftover Elemental Slime. Leftover Elemental Slime drop off of the final boss of Froststone Vault Primal Storm event in the Forbidden Reach. This event is available every 2 hours at about a minute past the hour e.g. 9:01 am, 11:01 am, etc.
How to get there
I want to start by saying that if you’re new to or unfamiliar with the Dragonflight expansion, it may be worthwhile to start the quest Hidden Legacies which you should get upon entering Valdrakken. The second quest in the chain will offer you a flightpath from Valdrakken right to the Forbidden Reach. It is not mandatory to do the questline to get this mount. I only suggest it if you’re planning to spend more time in the Reach for whatever reason as the questline will get to Helping Hand and Claw, which will lead to unlocking the Zskera Vaults, and Plunder Siege, which will lead to unlocking world quests, dailies and weeklies in the zone.
Now with that aside, you can also simply dragonride to the Forbidden Reach. Start from the northernmost point in either Waking Shores or Thaldraszus. Keep flying north until you make it to the Reach.
You will get fatigue when crossing the ocean between the zones, which is why I would not recommend doing so on a normal flying mount. You can make it there without dying but you’ll have to be much more careful!
Once you’ve made it to the Forbidden Reach, head to the Froststone Vault subsection on your map.
How to complete the event
You’ll know the event is up if you see a little elemental skull in the Froststone Vault area. It will be one of the four elements: air, earth, fire, or water. It may rotate elements every time or you could get water three times in a row. Fun fact: completing all four types will net you the achievement Under the Weather.
In the first phase, the elite main boss is unattackable. You will need to kill five mini boss elementals that are spread out around the Froststone Vault area to be able to attack them. I had one elemental on the main boss’s level, three on the level below with the dragon statue and the final one on the stairs leading up to the dragon statue level. It may not be the same configuration every time.
Once you’ve killed the five elementals, you will enter the second phase where you kill the final elite boss. This may be challenging if you’re low geared as some of their abilities hit pretty hard.
Upon killing the final boss, you will get between 0 and 5 of Leftover Elemental Slime. There is no daily lockout so the boss can be farmed over and over again. You can even hop shards to kill the boss to get the most possible Slime per event. One way to do this is by searching Forbidden Reach rares in the Custom section of the group finder, though groups are not always available. Once you get 50 Slime, right click them in your inventory and it will transform into the Gooey Snailemental mount!