When I woke up this morning, I happened to see an article about a limited-time World of Warcraft mount. The post detailed how the “Spirit of Eche’ro” spectral moose mount will become temporarily unobtainable after today, Feb 19th, 2024 — but will return sometime later.
I’m not usually one to FOMO into mount grinding, but a few things caught my eye here. One, I liked the mount’s look — an azure moose spectre in the Highmountain style. And two, the post said the requisite Archeology profession grind would take about two-to-three hours.
Now that I can respect. I was already feeling good about today being a holiday and day off work. But the prospect of making away with a sweet time-limited mount in WoW for a few hour’s work raised my spirits that much more.
It had been years since I last set foot in Legion’s Broken Isles zones. And now that Blizzard enabled worldwide dragonriding, it was fun revisiting the land of Highmountain and beyond from a truly airborne perspective. I even chose to grind this on my Highmountain character for extra immersion and sentimentality. I think Neltharion’s lair still remains my most-played instance since back in the day — I wanted to unlock Highmountain Tauren badly for whatever reason!
The grind itself was simple enough. Scan, run to, and dig up archeology sites until you’ve collected a whopping six hundred bones. Then turn them in and the mount is yours.
Unfortunately, as is typical for the race, the Eche’ro mount is a little small for my Highmountain Tauren character. It still looks cool, and I’ve seen worse. But there’s definitely some character clipping happening here.
That said, the mount is account wide and looks much better with my Dracthyr Evoker. Size ain’t everything!
If you’re reading this on February 19th, the mount is still available — but not for much longer! According to the original post, you’ll have until tomorrow, Tuesday, February 20th to bust this ghost for yourself.
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