Skyskin Hornstrider
Family: Plainstider
Type: Vendor
Zone: Thaldraszus, The Primalist Future
Event: Storm’s Fury
Faction: Both
Sold By: Brendormi
Recommended Level: Level 70
Skill Level: 2/10
The Skyskin Hornstrider is sold by Brendormi in the Primalist Future area inside Thaldraszus for 150 Essence of the Storm and 3000 elemental overflow.
Essence of the Storm is rewarded for completing the Storm’s Fury event, whilst elemental overflow can be farmed from any storm event or from the Forbidden Reach.
Unlocking Storm’s Fury event
To unlock the Storm’s fury event and begin working towards the mount, pick up the quest Storm Warning from Zawarudu within Valdrakken, who will send you to the Primalist Future where the event takes place.
Simply follow the quest to the Temporal conflux in Thaldraszus and enter the portal to The Primalist Future to hand it in and unlock the event.
Completing Storm’s Fury
The Storm’s Fury event spawns every 3 hours and is up on the map as a world quest for two hours, which is how long you have to complete the event.
To complete the Storm’s Fury event you have to first close four portals by defeating enemies near them and remaining near the portal until it is disabled as indicated by the bar on underneath the event.
It should be noted that if you leave a portal after it is disabled mobs will attempt to reactive them, so doing this with other people is necessary to speed up the process and disable all four portals.
Once all four portals are disabled then fly to the boss of the event and kill him to end the event.
Whilst doing the event you will gain stacks of Freezing, which is a stacking debuff that will inflict damage. To remove this you can use Field Deployable Heat Sources sold by Tarnomu next to Brendormi whilst the event is up to remove your stacks.
You can also fly into the air away from the event to remove the stacks or fly to the friendly npc area where Brendormi and Tarnomu are.
Essence of the Storm
Completing the Storm’s Fury event for the first time each week will reward the Glowing Primalist Cache which rewards 9 essence of the storm.
Subsequent completions of the event will reward the Primalist Cache which gives 3 essence of the storm.
The event can be completed once every time it is up for the cache.
You also get 6 essence of the storm from looting the event boss, so it is important to always tag and loot the boss.
There is also a quest that gives 10 Essence of the Storm called Coalesced Storm Remnants which drops from mobs in the area during the event. The quest appears to be one time but is still worth getting.
Elemental overflow
By the time you have the 150 essence of the storm that is needed you will likely have enough elemental overflow as some of the mobs will drop it during the event, so it is recommended not to farm this first.
However, if you still need some elemental overflow then follow the tips below:
The best way to farm elemental overflow is by killing rares and completing quests on the Forbidden Reach added in 10.0.7.
To gain access to the zone you need to first complete the intro to the Forbidden Reach, which starts with the quest Hidden Legacies in Valdrakken, which is automatically picked up when entering Valdrakken after 10.0.7.
After handing in this quest you will then be able to fly to the Forbidden Reach.
Follow the campaign quests from Return to the Reach until the quest Emberthal awaits at which point various weekly quests should be unlocked in Morqut Village.
Completing those quests or following the main campaign will give you more than enough elemental overflow for the mount as each quest gives between 150-450 elemental overflow.
Alternatively to doing the quests you can simply kill rares on the Forbidden Reach as you receive a bonus of 500 for killing a rare and 500-550 from looting each rare, meaning you can simply kill 2 rares rather than questing.
Simply open your map and look for the rare icon to see what rares are up, each rare has between 10-15 million hp so it is recommended to do this in a group.
Extra Tips
After you have killed and looted the boss during the Storm’s Fury event you can join another group to kill the boss again if there is any groups doing the event in the group finder.
You will not receive the cache but should still be able to loot another 6 essence from the boss which will speed up the process.