Rootstalker Grimlynx
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Look it up on WowheadHow to get it
Rare drop from any of the 15 rare creatures of Harandar. Each rare can be looted once a day per character, so one visit is a circuit of all 15.
Chance 2.2% once a day, so about 45 tries on average — Wowhead: 122 mounts in 80,746 recorded loots over the 15 rares (5 to 15 mounts in 2,508 to 6,790 loots each), 0.15% per kill; 2.2% is that figure worked out for one daily circuit of all 15, 1 - (1 - 122/80,746)^15
Time there about 40 min a visit
Guides Wowhead: Harandar Rares and Treasures - Locations, Tips, and Rewards · wow.gg: Rootstalker Grimlynx · Method: Rootstalker Grimlynx & Vibrant Petalwing
Before you go
Nothing to unlock first: go there and take your chance.
Getting there
/way Harandar 51.2 45.3 - Take the portal from Wizard's Sanctum to Silvermoon*
- Take the portal from Silvermoon to Harandar*
- Fly the rest of the way
- Take the portal from Orgrimmar to Silvermoon*
- Take the portal from Silvermoon to Harandar*
- 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
About 660 kills are expected at Wowhead's rate, around 44 daily circuits; players on Wowhead's item page report 184, 345, 757, 800, 1,207 and 2,381 kills. wow.gg gives only 'less than 1%'.
The lockout is per rare, per character and per day, so more characters mean more circuits a day; that comes from guides and comments (a 2026 Wowhead comment rated +15: daily, not weekly; wow.gg: 'once per day on each character'), not from an official statement. Characters below level 90 can loot it (2026 comments: level 80, 84 and 85). The same rares drop the Vibrant Petalwing, on the same circuit.
Rares, from Wowhead's guide (edited 2026):
- Rhazul 51.4 44.4
- Queen Lashtongue 59.8 47.0
- Chlorokyll 64.6 48.0
- Chironex 69.2 40.6
- Stumpy 65.5 32.2 (rare elite)
- Serrasa 57.0 33.7
- Mindrot 45.9 31.4
- Annulus the Worldshaker 43.5 17.5 (rare elite)
- Dracaena 40.6 43.0
- Ahl'ua'huhi 39.6 60.2
- Treetop 36.6 75.0
- Pterrock 27.4 70.4 (in a cave)
- Oro'ohna 28.2 81.4 (rare elite)
- Ha'kalawe 70.0 61.0 (patrols)
- Tallcap the Truthspreader 72.6 69.2
The sources differ by a point or two on some spots (Rhazul 51.2 45.3 in a Wowhead comment and at Method, 51.6 45.2 at wow.gg; Ha'kalawe 67.5 61.9 in the comment). The place given uses the same Rhazul coordinates as the Vibrant Petalwing so the two mounts share it.
The 40 minutes for a circuit is an estimate; respawn times were not established (the comment and wow.gg both say 15-30 minutes or more). Each rare also gives 50 Hara'ti reputation on its first kill of the week (Wowhead's guide). The wiki says only that it has a chance to drop from rare mobs in Harandar; added in patch 12.0.1.
Confidence in this entry: medium. Looked up in 2026.
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