What the achievement asks
Kill thirty-five rare creatures across Nazjatar. Ten points, account-wide, both factions.
It is the longest rare list in Battle for Azeroth, and unusually few of them are simply standing there waiting. Eight have to be summoned or provoked, three share a single spawn between them, one has no fixed location at all, and several roam over half a subzone.
The full lap
Thirty-four points for thirty-five rares. The missing one is Sandcastle, which has no location to give.
The thirty-five
| Rare | Where and what to know | Video |
|---|---|---|
| Shassera | Inside the cave, entrance around 63.2 11.9 | Watch |
| Caverndark Terror | Inside the cave | Watch |
| Shiz'narasz the Consumer | Elite, several spawn points in Chitterspine Caverns | Watch |
| Mirecrawler | Several spawn points, ranges widely | Watch |
| Tidemistress Leth'sindra | Destroy five Undisturbed Specimen eggs to summon her | Watch |
| Needlespine | Several spawn points near the water | Watch |
| Oronu | Bring a Drowned Hatchling to him | |
| Amethyst Spireshell | Several spawn points, ranges widely | Watch |
| Tidelord Dispersius | Kill an Azsh'ari Invoker to summon him | Watch |
| King Gakula | Click a Bloodfin Tadpole to draw him out | Watch |
| Tidelord Aquatus | Kill an Azsh'ari Invoker to summon him | Watch |
| Urduu | Kill a Staghorn Reefwalker standing on top of him | Watch |
| Elder Unu | Standing in the open | Watch |
| Voice in the Deeps | Use a molted shell to break the stones covering it | Watch |
| Garnetscale | Several spawn points in the Ashen Strand water | Watch |
| Scale Matriarch Vynara | One of three matriarchs sharing a spawn | Watch |
| Allseer Oma'kil | Standing in the open | Watch |
| Daggertooth Terror | Several spawn points in the open water | Watch |
| Scale Matriarch Gratinax | One of three matriarchs sharing a spawn | Watch |
| Alga the Eyeless | Standing in the open | Watch |
| Scale Matriarch Zodia | One of three matriarchs sharing a spawn | Watch |
| Toxigore the Alpha | Several spawn points around Nar'anan | Watch |
| Sandclaw Stoneshell | Several spawn points | Watch |
| Deepglider | Ranges widely through the water | Watch |
| Banescale the Packfather | Only appears after Siltstalker the Packmother dies, and not every time | |
| Iridescent Glimmershell | Several spawn points | Watch |
| Siltstalker the Packmother | Kill her first if you want Banescale | Watch |
| Soundless | Up on the coral reefs, reached with a Deepcoral Pod | Watch |
| Kelpwillow | Use a Prismatic Crystal on a Muck Slug and bring it to him | Watch |
| Prince Vortran | Standing in the open | Watch |
| Elderspawn Nalaada | Standing in the open | Watch |
| Blindlight | Inside the cave, entrance around 39.9 77.2 | Watch |
| Prince Typhonus | Elite | Watch |
| Chasm-Haunter | Inside the cave under the waterfall | Watch |
| Sandcastle | No fixed spot: it appears by chance when you open a Scrying Stone treasure | Watch |
Sandcastle is the one that will hold you up
Every other rare on this list can be gone to. Sandcastle cannot: it has a chance to appear when you open one of the buried treasures found with a Scrying Stone, anywhere in the zone.
There is no waypoint that helps and no way to make it more likely. The only approach is volume, which is why this criterion tends to be the last one standing.
That volume is not wasted. Opening scrying treasures is exactly what Nothing To Scry About asks for, a hundred of them, so the two achievements are the same activity and are worth chasing together.
Eight of them will not appear on their own
Standing on the coordinate and waiting does nothing for these.
- Tidelord Aquatus and Tidelord Dispersius each appear when you kill an Azsh'ari Invoker nearby.
- Tidemistress Leth'sindra needs five Undisturbed Specimen eggs destroyed.
- King Gakula comes out when you click a Bloodfin Tadpole.
- Urduu is underneath a Staghorn Reefwalker: kill the reefwalker standing on him.
- Kelpwillow wants a Muck Slug, turned with a Prismatic Crystal and led to him.
- Oronu wants a Drowned Hatchling brought to him.
- Voice in the Deeps is buried under stones that a molted shell will break.
And Banescale the Packfather is a chance spawn after Siltstalker the Packmother dies, so kill her whenever you pass and check back.
The three matriarchs share one spawn
Scale Matriarch Gratinax, Scale Matriarch Vynara and Scale Matriarch Zodia are three separate criteria occupying a single spawn between them. Only one is up at a time.
When the active one is killed and its body fades, roughly an hour later one of the three returns, chosen at random. Any of them can come back on any day, so this is not a daily rotation you can plan around: it is patience and a one in three chance each time.
Check all three coordinates whenever you are nearby, because the one that is up may not be the one you still need.