Reins of the Thundering Cobalt Cloud Serpent
Family: Dragon
Type: Rare Drop
Faction: Both
Zone: Isle of Thunder
Drops From: Nalak
Recommended Level: Level 90
Skill Level: 2/10
Average Time to Attempt: 15 Minutes
Drop Chance: 0.03%
The Reins of the Thundering Cobalt Cloud Serpent is a mount that drops from Nalak on the Isle of Thunder and is roughly a 0.03% drop rate. Nalak is one of four mount bosses that can be bonus rolled for an additional chance at the mount each week.
Fastest way to Pandaria is to the the portal to Jade Forest from your factions portal room in either Stormwind or Orgrimmar.
To get to the Isle of Thunder you need to complete the quest The Storm Gathers at the Shadow-Pan Garrison in Townlong Stepps which you pick up from Vereesa Windrunner if you are Alliance and Scout Captain Elsia if you are Horde. Once you complete the quest you then have a portal at the Shadow-Pan Garrison to use the next time you need to head out there.
Nalak spawns in front of the raid entrance to Throne of Thunder and has a respawn timer between 10-20 minutes and dies fast, so be alert as he spawns higher up and can be a bit of a hassle to target.
Nalak is a world boss on a weekly lockout, so you are only able to kill it once per week per character. Once defeated the loot will automatically be awarded to you, no need to loot.
Additional Tips
Bonus Rolls
As mentioned earlier you can use bonus rolls for an additional chance at this mount. The item you will need to bonus roll Nalak are Mogu Runes of Fate and you can buy them from Mistweaver Ai.
The currency you need to buy these are Timeless Coins which you can easily farm from Gulp Frogs on the Timeless Isle. You can carry 20 Mogu Runes of Fate at a time and they cost 1000 Timeless Coins each so you will need 20000 Timeless Coins to buy them all. Although you can only use one per week.
Useful addons for Nalak
There are three I would recommend:
Rarity – Rarity is a good addon to have for any mount farms, it keeps tabs on how many tries you have on the mount.
Worldboss Timers – This is another really great addon as it is a timer for all of the world bosses in case you plan on killing Nalak on multiple characters on the same server
Saved Instances – This addon will keep track of which characters have completed raids, world bosses and various other things. Great for knowing which characters you can still attempt the worldboss with.
Misc
As Nalak is on a weekly lockout, defeating it on your alts also each week will give you more attempts at the mount each week.