There are a number of new proto drake mounts in WotLK.  As you can see these impressive flyers are large and in charge.  They are also pretty difficult to get.  There are four flavors, Red, Blue, Green, and Bronze.

The Red Drake will be next to impossible for most players.  It’s a reward for one of the more difficult meta achievements in the game – Glory of the Hero.  I mean, look at that list.  39 heroic dungeon special achievements.  And believe us, some of them are no piece of cake.  In the last month we’ve been able to nab 10-15 of them each, so not nearly half.  Getting a red drake is going to be quite an accomplishment.

The Blue Proto Drake is a bit easier, but pretty rare as well.  Skadi the Ruthless drops this one in heroic Utgard Pinnacle.  It’s a little over a 1% drop rate, so if you and five of your buddies ran UP every time it reset, you could all pretty much count on all of you getting one by summer 2010.

Next comes the Time-Lost Drake.  this one is a 100% drop from a Rare spawn elite in Storm Peaks.  Good luck camping this guy.  No one seems to be able to confirm his spawn timer, and he seems to share a spawn timer with two other mobs – maybe.  Anyway, if you camped him solid for a week in just the right spot you might get lucky enough to see him dead.

But then there is the Green Proto Drake.  Now, I won’t tell you that this is going to be quick, but it sure is easier than the other ones.  heck, it might still take you a year, but even the most casual of WoW players could end up with one of these over time.

The Green Proto Drake can only be spawned from a Mysterious Egg.  And you can only get them from Geen, the Oracles Quartermaster in Sholazar Basin. Geen will only sell you one of these eggs if you are Revered with the Oracles, so you still have some work to do, but it should only take you about a week.  The rest is just a waiting game.

Begin your journey by killing the black lion southeast of River’s Heart around 51,77.  There are a  few Frenzyheart dudes nearby who will give the quest “Playing Along” once you’ve bagged their kill.  We’re not going to walk you through every little detail of how to get to revered with the Oracles.  But you can download this fantastic PDF from www.giddygamer.com – Frenzyheart/Oracles Rep Guide.  The Giddy Gamer has Rep guides like this on every faction in the game and their PDF guides are so good we don’t mind giving them a little publicity.

Once you get to the Honored stage with the Oracles, from there it’s just a matter of about 7 days worth of doing all three dailies to hit Revered.  As soon as you hit revered, you can buy the Mysterious Egg.  After that, just hold the egg in your bag for 7 days when it will become a Cracked Egg.

The cracked egg is ready to open and can contain the following items:

Now, like we said – this may not be all that fast.  If you hatch one egg per week, it might take you up to six months to get lucky enough to hatch the mount drake.  But that should be about as long as it takes anyone.  You might get lucky and get one on your second or third egg.  The mount has about a 4% drop rate, so 1 out of every 25 eggs is virtually a guarantee.

Long before most people get geared enough or lucky enough to earn the Red, Blue or Time Lost drakes, they can be ripping through Northrend on this awesome mount.  So while you are pounding away to Dominate everything else, spend a few days getting a little Oracles rep and then sit back and hatch a few eggs.  Then you can really dominate and collect all four of the Proto-Drake mounts!