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Comment by Boxofbeer

Here's the list of Protoform Synthesis crafting materials and how to get them (drops is not 100%) (under constriction)
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Uncommon Protoform Synthesis crafting materials (Can be bought at AH except Genesis Mote)
Material Source Reagent For
Genesis Mote Small and Minor mobs all around ZM Every Mount & Pet
Ambystan Lattice Ambystan Mobs Ambystan Darter Archetype of Metamorphosis

Aurelid Lattice Aurelid Mobs Archetype of Renewal Prototickles Terror Jelly

Bufonid Lattice Bufonid Mobs Archetype of Serenity Goldplate Bufonid Gloves of the Hypnotic Flame Prototype Leaper Russet Bufonid

Cervid Lattice Cervid Mobs Deathrunner Pale Regal Cervid Reins of the Sundered Zerethsteed

Helicid Lattice Helicid Mobs Archetype of Vigilance Bronze Helicid Microlicid Scarlet Helicid Serenade Shelly Unsuccessful Prototype Fleetpod

Geomental Lattice Geomental Mobs Archetype of Animation Stabilized Geomental

Leporid Lattice Leporid Mobs Archetype of Multiplicity Leaping Leporid

Poultrid Lattice Contained in nests Archetype of Satisfaction Multichicken Violent Poultrid

Proto Avian Lattice Avian Mobs Archetype of Motion

Raptora Lattice Raptora Mobs Desertwing Hunter Mawdapted Raptora Raptora Swooper

Scarabid Lattice Scarabid Mobs Archetype of Survival Fierce Scarabid

Tarachnid Lattice Tarachnid Mobs Archetype of Predation Genesis Crawler Ineffable Skitterer Tarachnid Creeper

Unformed Lattice Core Mobs Archetype of Focus Omnipotential Core Resonant Echo

Vespoid Lattice Vespoid Mobs Archetype of Malice Bronzewing Vespoid Buzz Forged Spiteflyer Vespoid Flutterer

Viperid Lattice Viperid Mobs Archetype of Cunning Viperid Menace

Vombata Lattice Vombata Mobs Adorned Vombata Archetype of Discovery Curious Crystalsniffer Darkened Vombata Tunneling Vombata

Rare Protoform Synthesis crafting materials
Bauble of Pure Innovation Mawdapted Raptora Goldplate Bufonid

Glimmer of Malice Dreadlords Archetype of Malice Violent Poultrid

Glimmer of Metamorphosis Mawsworn Archetype of Metamorphosis Stabilized Geomental

Glimmer of Serenity Glimmer of Serenity Archetype of Serenity Shelly

Glimmer of Animation Elite Mobs Archetype of Animation Omnipotential Core

Glimmer of Cunning Archetype of Cunning Tunneling Vombata

Glimmer of Predation Archetype of Predation Terror Jelly

Glimmer of Vigilance Archetype of Vigilance Viperid Menace

Glimmer of Discovery Annelid Mobs Archetype of Discovery Prototickles

Glimmer of Multiplicity Sentient Overgrowth Archetype of Multiplicity Multichicken

Glimmer of Motion Raptora Mobs Archetype of Motion Fierce Scarabid

Glimmer of Satisfaction Archetype of Satisfaction Microlicid

Glimmer of Survival Archetype of Survival Resonant Echo

Glimmer of Renewal Archetype of Renewal Leaping Leporid

Crystallized Echo of the First Song Crystallized Echo of the First Song Curious Crystalsniffer Heartbond Lupine Patient Bufonid Serenade

Eternal Ragepearl Elite Mobs Forged Spiteflyer Raptora Swooper

Glimmer of Focus Ambystan Darter Archetype of Focus

Lens of Focused Intention Sold by Vilo for 300 Gold - The Enlightened revered Adorned Vombata Russet Bufonid

Mawforged Bridle Darkened Vombata Mawdapted Raptora Reins of the Sundered Zerethsteed

Protoform Sentience Crown Elite Mobs Buzz Ineffable Skitterer Pale Regal Cervid

Revelation Key Rare Mob Scarlet Helicid Tarachnid Creeper

Tools of Incomprehensible Experimentation Deathrunner Prototype Leaper Unsuccessful Prototype Fleetpod

Unalloyed Bronze Ingot Bronze Helicid Bronzewing Vespoid

Wind's Infinite Call Avian Mobs Desertwing Hunter Vespoid Flutterer

Comment by Thedd

Not sure just how much help this will be... but someone in a raid group (rare farming) got this killing/looting mobs between Garudeon and Otaris the Provoked. He was not sure what... so it could have been the small/large annalids, the scarab mobs, or the spiders.... or possibly even something else that might be in-between.

Comment by RoseQuest

I just got this from the Tarachnid Eggs treasure in Mother Phestis' room

Comment by krabbenfang

Has anyone ever got a drop from the Tarachnids themselves? I'm at 1000+ kills while farming them for Genesis motes and I've never seen one..
UPDATE: Finally got 2 within like an hour after using realm hop method. If you want them quick, it's probably the way-to-go.

Comment by bakhtarrh

Right now it seems safe for me to assume:

To be able to see and loot Glimmer of Cunning, you must have Dealic Understanding researched. Keep that in mind if you utilize alts.
The only confirmed sources for Glimmer of Cunning are Olea Cache and Tarachnid Eggs. Since the wowhead data guys have not even one confirmed drop in the Tarachnid loot table - or any other mob's, for that matter, chances for a drop are either incredibly tiny or zero. Insert math joke about delta and epsilon here..
Loot chance is not tied to an internal cooldown. If you loot two Tarachnid Eggs within two minutes, the second has a chance to yield a Glimmer of Cunning for you, too. This has happened to me.

Comment by Narvil

I know this sounds weird, but I just looted this from the dreadlord that was channeling something to keep Antros in place.

Comment by JeackTL

These are probably the most difficult "Glimmer..." items to obtain unless you win the Olea Cache lottery. They come from Tarachnid Eggs near Mother Phestis. One spawns every ~15 minutes in 1 of 4 possible locations. The drop rate is 3%.

Here are some helpful tips while you farm:

- Farm Glimmer of Satisfaction while you wait around for these (obtained by eating feasts, but have a 15 minute hidden cooldown).
- Use realm-hopping via the Atros world boss groups.
- Since Antros groups only farm so often, you can use your downtime to farm Mawsworn Hulks for Schematic: Mawdapted Raptora or Dematerializing Worldeaters for Glimmer of Predation. There are only a few of these mobs up at a time so jumping between these and the eggs was a nice way to avoid downtime waiting for respawns.

Comment by Melandroso

I looted a ton of eggs for these - the only times I managed to get the Glimmer, I was not the first person looting the egg... coincidence? Or just me being cunning enough to wait for someone else to get their fingers icky from spider eggs first? You tell me...

Comment by Bambiprsi

If youre aiming for the 50 crafts achievement, you dont need to farm those, as there are 52 mounts and pets in total, and those two with this glimmer you can easily buy form AH.

Comment by Surgens

Farmed this today, best way seems to be to wait for a Tuesday and use the Antros groups to shard hop. Just check the 4 possible spawns and then shard hop again until you get it. Took me ~10 openings of the eggs or so to get 2.

Comment by nisx

This is PAIN to farm after Shadowlands... respawn time is really long and there are no grps to realm hop.

Comment by MeDrA

I got 2 with the same move: in Mother Phestis's room, with the rare present and looting the Tarachnid Eggs.

It makes sense that this is the case since it is "cunning".

Comment by Kisses

Absolutely horrendous drop for me, looted about 200 tarachnid eggs, opened about 10 Olea caches. Olea Cache 0, all were from eggs, but it took a while... :D Wish u all gl.

Comment by Jeolene

Gonna copy/paste my comment from the Tarachnid Eggs

At this point, I can safely assume one of the following statements to be true (also, when I say 'chest', I mean all manner of lootable chest-like objects in the zone):

1: The spawns are broken.
2: The eggs spawn much like the OG Time Lost Proto Drake, that is, it's not a set timer, it's a random time on a random day.
3: Eggs replace a spawned chest. When chests spawn in for the first time of the day, eggs might spawn in instead. I think I've ruled this one out.
3A: Eggs are a weekly, random spawn.
4: There is a phasing issue that makes it impossible to loot eggs.

Here are other things I've noticed:

Once you loot the chests in Endless Sands, they do not respawn. I have flown around the entirety of Zereth Mortis for hours, looting chests everywhere and most often looting chests that I had already looted just a few mins prior. However, in the desert area, chests do NOT respawn (update: I will mention one did respawn, but I'll detail that below).

Killing spiders over and over did not result in eggs spawning, likewise, killing spooder mommy did not make any spawn.

Looting all the chests in the zone did not cause eggs to spawn in.

I have not seen eggs in nearly two weeks since I went back to farm the glimmer they drop. I went there one day, found a spawned egg, looted it and have not seen any since.

As I'm writing this, I have spent four hours in Zereth Mortis, far longer than I ever have, not a single egg spawned.

-Update-

Shortly after I wrote this, I took a break. I went back about two hours later to see if any of this info still held up. I found two of them, but here's the circumstances involved:

I arrived in Endless Sands and flew around looking for chests. I found two of them, one was a respawn (the first I have seen since I started cataloguing this) and another was one I had not looted yet.

I then made my way around the zone twice looking for more chests and flying over the egg spawn locations.

I found one egg that spawns above the entrance to spooder mommy.

I then paused my search and watched a 5+ min video on Youtube and once finished, I resumed my search and found another one spawned at 57, 27 (the one next to the pedestal with the lone spider looking over the zone).

I did not kill any spiders.

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That's about all I can figure out at this point. I've been hanging around for about an hour after I found the second egg and have yet to find another one or other chests to spawn.

Please do not downvote this just because you don't agree with the information, I have been doing this on and off for a couple weeks and have spent nearly six hours today, so I'm confident my info at least holds some weight. If you have specific info that can help with this, just leave a comment so I can update, don't be a jerk, I'm simply doing this to hopefully make it easier for others to find them or someone else that wants to do more research (but who would this late when we're about to head into 'The War Within'?).

There is the possibility that chests do respawn after you loot them, but I have yet to see more than just the one I found on my second trip back. If they do respawn (and I mean in great numbers), please just comment so I can update my info.

Comment by huldu

I can confirm that there is no spawn rate for these eggs. There might be a "cooldown" once an egg spawn, but the only thing that seems to spawn these eggs for me are killing mobs. The mobs in question are the spiders themselves, maybe the wasps but it's too hard to say with only me doing this. At times I can go there kill some spiders and eggs start appearing almost instantly then nothing at all for a long time. I've had eggs spawn with the "rare" up and not, I've even had an egg spawn while fighting the rare. Seems like the rare itself has nothing to do with the eggs. I've yet to see a glimmer.

The annoying thing with this is the name but it might be very misleading with the "cunning" part. Almost hints that there is something to this but it could be nothing. Who knows. If you have a lot of people in the zone you can be certain someone is doing whatever it is to spawn the eggs. When you're there by yourself it's going to be really hard to figure things out. Unless someone really knows the magic trick.

Comment by dr7swag

More like "Glimmer of Wasted Time". Eggs nowhere to be found and horrible drop rate. The item is untradable too. I'd buy it already to save my sanity.

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