Ruby Writhe
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Look it up on WowheadHow to get it
Low-chance drop from any of the 12 rares on The Coiled Isle, the island off the east coast of Zul'Aman added in patch 12.1; each rare can be looted once a day per character. Ten of them are out in the open, Nar'zira is inside the Tomb of the Lost Priest and Szarith the Fanged in the Underbelly of the Vaults of Atal'Utek. The same rares drop the Topaz Skyfang.
Chance 1.1% once a day, so about 91 tries on average — Worked out, not read as such: Wowhead's item page (read 2026-10-11) records 33 mounts in 35,533 loots over 10 of the 12 rares of the Coiled to Strike achievement, 0.093% a kill (it lists no drop from Farthik the Plunderer or Szarith the Fanged); 1.1% is that figure for one daily circuit of all 12 (1 - 0.99907^12), 0.9% if those two do not drop it. Over all 14 creatures Wowhead lists it is 46 in 43,781, 0.105%. Never published; guides guessed well below 1% per rare
Time there about 40 min a visit
Guides Wowhead: The Coiled Isle Zone Guide - Patch 12.1 The Curse of Ula'tek · Method: Coiled To Strike: Coiled Isle Rares and Locations in WoW Midnight
Before you go
- The Coiled Isle opened: The Curse of Ula'tek campaign, chapter 1 and chapter 2 as far as What Lies Beyond the Fog. After that every character of the warband can fly over · about 3 h
In all: about 3 h of play, starting from nothing.
Getting there
/way The Coiled Isle 43.82 50.82 - Take the portal from Wizard's Sanctum to Silvermoon*
- Fly the rest of the way
- Take the portal from Orgrimmar to Silvermoon*
- 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
The rares and the place are those of the Topaz Skyfang, and so is the time on the spot: one circuit of all 12 rares. The daily rule, once a day per rare and again on other characters, is Method's (its patch 12.1 mount list, 2026); its rares guide gives a respawn of 10-15 minutes from testing.
About 90 daily circuits are expected at 1.1% a circuit (some 1,100 kills). Wowhead comments report the mount after 2, 50, 63, 85, 146, about 580, 550-650, 1,097 and 1,754 kills, and players still without it after 1,900 and after more than 6,000.
Wowhead's loots per rare:
- Lockjaw 1 in 2,650
- Kari'zah the Forgotten 1 in 1,893
- Siltmouth 2 in 3,279
- Destra 3 in 1,740
- Hisstara 3 in 2,831
- Coin-Eye Skully 4 in 1,817
- Nar'zira 4 in 6,327
- Big Mon 5 in 4,442
- Garsecg 5 in 5,944
- Sss'alik 5 in 4,610
Besides the achievement's rares, Wowhead lists four more creatures that drop it:
- Venom Lancer Ori'kassi, 6 in 3,454
- Vassti, the Exalted Broodmother, 3 in 2,527
- Looming Mutagenitor, 3 in 2,084 (comments place it in the isle's Curse Surge events)
- Malformed Leviathan, 1 in 183
Where the rares are, on the isle's map by Wowhead's guide:
- Farthik the Plunderer 53.8, 72.0: he flies overhead and cannot be attacked until the Unguarded Chest there is clicked
- Kari'zah the Forgotten 24.8, 73.5
- Hisstara 43.9, 50.8, inside a building in Venom Rise
- Garsecg 69.5, 45.0
- Coin-Eye Skully 55.8, 67.9, swimming in a circle (Method: 58.3, 65.2)
- Sss'alik 60.0, 40.0, patrolling a path
- Siltmouth 50.1, 69.0
- Lockjaw 31.7, 56.7
- Big Mon 70.1, 63.5
- Destra 52.0, 32.3
- Nar'zira inside the Tomb of the Lost Priest, whose entrance is at 52.4, 43.1
- Szarith the Fanged in the Underbelly at the north end of the Vaults of Atal'Utek (38.8, 13.4 on the Vaults' map, the Underbelly's entrance at 47.1, 6.4), where flying is off
Getting there: Wowhead's guide says the isle opens with the chapter 2 quest What Lies Beyond the Fog and that flying works on the isle at once. Method (2026, the day before the patch) has the isle open from the patch's launch with the campaign only recommended, but a 2026 comment on Wowhead's guide describes being turned back to Zul'Aman in mid-flight until that chapter 2 quest was ready to hand in. A portal from Astalor's Sanctum in Silvermoon City comes with the Season 2 Prey quests (Wowhead's guide).
The wiki has no page for the mount.
Confidence in this entry: medium. Looked up in 2026.
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