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Comment by Adaire

This bird hits around 50K with its melee, and casts an ability called Skycall, which deals about 200K nature damage to anything in a cone in front of it. It's a very wide cone, so to avoid it, you have to strafe while rotating towards the direction you're strafing- just running through it didn't seem to work.

It dropped 15 Giant Dinosaur Bone.

Comment by Pinkiepieisfly

I've been using these to farm for my bones with a friend. He's a Blood DK and I'm a Windwalker Monk.

He will usually pull several of these mobs, and I'll Fists of Fury them when available, while making sure to Chi burst when they get off Skycall so that it heals him. The DPS should stand behind these mobs while your friend tanks so that you will not get hit at all, and that's why Chi Wave is very effective with it, since it mostly (if not all) heals him.
While FoF works on them, Leg Sweep doesn't. They can be CC'd with Paralysis but we haven't needed to do that yet. Furthermore, we don't have to really use any cooldowns with this. When we pull several, I'll still use some of mine, but it's not necessary :)

We managed to get about 700 bones in an hour by doing this, so if you have a friend willing to help, these seem to be good mobs to farm. Of course, we're melee, so I'm not sure if it's easier or harder with casters/other class combos.
A warrior with a healer had A LOT of trouble killing these with our method, so perhaps it's strictly for a tank spec with a geared DPS?

We also kill the baby dinosaurs, they seem much easier than this mob but drop less bones (9). We can live against the bigger dinosaurs, but since I'm our only DPS, I just don't kill them as fast as I would like. So this mob is ideally the best for us, and probably anyone else looking to grind in a decent amount of time, whom is lacking a full group.

I'm sure there's other ways even more simpler than mine to kill these. But this is just what we're doing and it works for us. Hope it helps!

Comment by Hashupa

These seem to have a high crit chance, so if you're a pet class, be ready to revive your pet a lot.

Comment by Stok3d

Isle of Giants Elite Info:

Zandalari Dinomancer - 2 million health, 1-2x Bones, also drops 4x pets
Primal Direhorn Hatchling - 3.1 million health, 7-9x Bones, Growl,Triple Puncture,Trihorn Charge
Primal Direhorn - 8.1 million health, 18-22x Bones, Double Swipe,Triple Puncture,Trihorn Charge
Pterrorwing Skyscreamer - 6.3 million health, 15-17x Bones, Skycall
Young Primal Devilsaur - 4.7 million health, 11-13x Bones, Crush
Primal Devilsaur - 13 million health, 40-44x Bones, Piercing Roar

Giant Dinosaur Bone Info:

Drop from Elites in Isle of Giants which is the island north of Kun'Lai Summit
Each Elite has 2-13 million health and drops 1x-44x Bones.
Currently stack to 999 (that's still 10x stacks of bag space reserved for this)
Currency for Spectral Porcupette x1000, Spirit of Harmony x100, Mote of Harmony x10, or about 2gold x1
Primal Egg also drops while gathering bones. This gives a shot at additional mounts.
Full 5.2 Review with rare spawns and maps provided.

Reins of the Bone-White Primal Raptor

Attained from A Mountain of Giant Dinosaur Bones
3D Model
Similar coloring (yet still unique) to Whistle of the Ivory Raptor removed in patch 1.4
Added in Patch 5.2

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See all 350+ Mounts in the game: Mount Collecting: The Completionist Guide

Comment by Ardinur

These mobs are found on the Isle of Giants, and does drop from 15 - 18 Giant Dinosaur Bones. They have an ability named Skycall which hits really hard, but is easily avoided.

Farming these for bones is pretty viable, as long as you are paying enough attention to dodge Skycall.

Comment by Azrile

In my opinion, these are the easiest of the big ones to solo. As a druid cat, it is a very easy fight, just run through it on skycall. Very similar to fighting the Mogu Warrior rare spawns. One frontal cone attack that you can easily avoid, even a little self-healing will take care of the rest.

Comment by GreySage

This mob crits stupidly often, I can fight them and take one down to 10% with 50% health left, and then he gets 3 crits in a row and I die instantly.

Comment by 1136300

Wouldn't it be awesome if these beasts are tameable for hunters? I hope they will make this posible in one of the following patches

Comment by 75673

As a warrior these are quite easy to handle.
Start in battlestance, and fire your wombo-combo. When you start to drop low, switch to defensive, and pop your Die By the Sword. Your Second Wind should be able to hold you up, and you will get a easy 14-16 bones + 1.2% chance for Egg.

It seems that they attack 5-6 times and then uses Skycall. The skycall charge time will give your HP a chance to get up to 35%+.

Have fun farming these, I would recommend item level 490+ farming these. :)

Comment by 162664

A protwar in defstance can solo pairs with second wind. Drag them out a bit (use mount) then circlestrafe around the for the entire fight's duration. A million laps later you've got a pile of bones.

If your gear isn't fancy, tap shieldbarrier when you dip. Better gear, use demo/trinket, or nothing at all. Enjoy soaking the damage, you get free vengeance.

I swap to the healthy foe when first one's a bit under 50%. I normally spec storm bolt+shockwave for utility, but go bloodbath+bladestorm and use a killmode macro.

I favor a rotation through the three pairs nearest Agrant Sharpshot, who will take potshots at your passing if you're horde.

Ranged DPS is welcome, melee buddies are on their own. Bring Drums of Forgotten Kings, elixirs, foodbuff, whatever runescroll of fortitude you want, then battleshout. Then grind forever.

I suppose afflicted players may actually become physically dizzy after holding down strafe so long; you should stop and reconsider this strat if so.

Comment by Shoddythetroll

While it hits my hunter for ~50k, it somehow hits by pet for ~150k, causing me to resort to direhorns for bone farming. Unsure if this applies to non-BM hunters and other pet classes.

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