How to Get the Echo of Aln’sharan Mount SOLO! (Full Guide)

This video provides a guide on how to obtain the new Echo of Aleron mount in Midnight, a cloud serpent with an Azerai style skin. While the process is described as a bit annoying and involving a lot of grinding, it's considered worthwhile for mount collectors. The journey to acquiring this mount begins in Harindor, where players might have seen a giant cloud serpent flying high in the sky. This rare creature is the final step in obtaining the mount. Before attempting to interact with it, players need to unlock the "mysterious sky shard" system. This is done by completing a short side quest line that starts with Curi, a harer child NPC found in Harindor. The quest line, which should take about 10 minutes, offers some lore about rare Ancharan and concludes with "The Legend of Aleron," granting five mysterious sky shards and unlocking the sky shard system. Sky shards are not a currency but actual items that drop from mobs in Harindor and go directly into the player's bags. They are warbound, meaning they can be farmed on any character and sent to a main character. However, characters will only see shards drop if they have completed Curi's quest line. While finishing the quest line on alt characters grants five bonus shards, it's not recommended to repeat the entire chain on every alt. The most challenging part is the grind: players need a total of 500 sky shards. Mobs are not generous with their drops, offering two primary farming methods. The first is hunting rares around the zone. Rares have a decent chance of dropping shards, and this method can also contribute to obtaining two other mounts that drop from rares, making it efficient for multi-mount farming. The downside is the long respawn times for rares and the massive size of the zone, requiring extensive flying around. The second, and much quicker, method is running the Grunch Pelf delve. Although it's an indoor activity, it's located in Haronor, so mobs inside drop sky shards. It's highly recommended to do this on Tier 1, as higher tiers do not yield extra shards. The delve is an arena filled with Fangorians. The most efficient strategy is to kill the first wave of mobs, defeat the rare elite (which has the highest chance of dropping a shard), then leave the delve through the character's portrait and re-enter. No reset is needed. Each run takes about a minute, yielding approximately 50 to 70 shards per hour, potentially faster for classes with strong AoE abilities. This can also be farmed on lower-level characters, but all shards should be sent to a max-level character who has completed Curi's quest line to ensure the next step works smoothly. There is a cap of 500 mysterious sky shards per character, so players must be aware not to exceed this amount when sending them between characters. The entire grind took around 8 to 9 hours when running the Grunch Pelf delve, not in one sitting, due to its tedious nature. Once 500 shards are collected, players return to Curi. Approaching her platform will make an extra action button appear. Clicking it grants a special buff called "Blessing of Almiran." This buff is crucial as it allows interaction with the rare cloud serpent and calms the storm around it. Without it, players cannot approach the rare and will be shredded by the storm, making them ineligible for the mount. Before finding the rare, players should switch to steady flight for better control, ensure bag space for the mount, and bring a slow fall ability or a Goblin Glider. The rare flies in a clockwise path around the edges of the map, starting from the southwest, going up towards the Amidasil routes, and passing through the middle cradle. Players should stick to the edges to avoid being teleported out of the cradle. The rare moves quickly but slows down at certain points, allowing interaction. A targeting macro can also be used to find her quickly. Once located, fly close enough until the cogwheel icon turns gold, then dismount and click her. This grants the mount directly into the bags and a Feat of Strength. The Blessing buff disappears upon clicking, causing immediate damage from the storm. However, as long as the interaction is successful, the mount can still be learned even if the character dies afterward. This is the moment to use slow fall or a goblin glider to prevent death from the fall. The process has no RNG or weekly lockout, relying solely on determination.