Purple Riding Nether Ray
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Look it up on WowheadHow to get it
Sold by Grella, the Skyguard quartermaster at Blackwind Landing above Skettis, for 200 gold, to characters who are Exalted with the Sha'tari Skyguard.
Time there about 2 min a visit
Guides Wowhead: Nether Ray in a Day · wow.gg: Silver Riding Nether Ray (the same reputation and vendor)
Before you go
- Exalted with the Sha'tari Skyguard: 42,000 reputation from Neutral. Threat From Above from Yuula, beside the flight master in Shattrath, leads to Blackwind Landing (Wowhead's guide says the lead-in is no longer required). From there: the quests of the Terokk's Downfall chain, the arakkoa of Skettis (5 to 30 a kill by the wiki's table), the four bosses called up with Time-Lost Scrolls (100 each, 350 more for Adversarial Blood) and Terokk (500), the repeatable World of Shadows (150 for 6 Shadow Dust), and the dailies Fires Over Skettis (350) and Escape from Skettis (150). The Skyguard Outpost in the Blade's Edge Mountains adds the dailies Bomb Them Again! (500) and Wrangle More Aether Rays! (350) · about 6 h
- 200 gold
In all: about 6 h of play, 200 gold, starting from nothing.
Getting there
/way Terokkar Forest 64.2 66.2 - Take the portal from Wizard's Sanctum to Shattrath*
- Fly the rest of the way
- Take the portal from Pathfinder's Den to Shattrath*
- Fly the rest of the way
/way is for the TomTom addon. Travel times are estimates: flying at 55 yards a second in a straight
line and 30 seconds for a portal. A star marks a portal that needs a quest or other unlock done first.
Notes and sources
Grella sells all five riding nether rays at Exalted: blue, green, purple, red and silver; one climb through the reputation serves all five. Skettis is reached by air.
The journal, Wowhead's tooltip for the item (32316) and the wiki's page for it (edited 2025, as read in 2026) agree on Grella in Terokkar Forest, 200 gold and 'Requires Sha'tari Skyguard - Exalted', with nothing else asked. Everything about the reputation is taken from the Silver and Blue Riding Nether Rays and was not checked again for this one.
Price: by those, the wiki's vendor table has 160 and explains it as the 20% discount at Exalted, in place since patch 2.3. Which of the two a buyer pays today was not confirmed in the game.
The hours are the weak figure, and the sources are far apart:
- the other nether rays in this guide: 6 hours
- wow.gg: 13-15
- the wiki and Wowhead's guide: 37 days with the dailies alone
Wowhead's guide (user-submitted, updated 2019) gives the quick way at the level cap:
- skip the lead-in quests and the dailies
- take the quests at Blackwind Landing
- finish the Terokk's Downfall chain
- kill arakkoa for Shadow Dust and Time-Lost Scrolls
- call up the 100-point bosses and summon Terokk for 500, over and over
The Time-Lost arakkoa are only visible under an Elixir of Shadows (wiki). The two Blade's Edge dailies need the Ogri'la quests The Crystals and Our Boy Wants To Be A Skyguard Ranger first (wiki).
The wiki's page for the mount says level 27 since patch 9.0.1 and Apprentice Riding since 9.0.2 (was Artisan), and that the item binds when picked up. Whether the standing is shared across the Warband was not established.
Grella's coordinates are Wowhead's tooltip (NPC 23367: 64.2, 66.2), as given for the Blue Riding Nether Ray; the wiki gives none. Wowhead's page for the item was not read, as the tooltip and the wiki agree.
Confidence in this entry: medium. Looked up in 2026.
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