Vial of the Sands

• Vial of the Sands
• Mount
• Use: Teaches you how to transform into a dragon, allowing you to carry an ally on your back. This is a flying mount.
• Requires Level 30
• Requires Apprentice Riding
• Sell Price: 25

Sandstone Drake

Vial of the Sands is a mount that allows characters to transform into a Sandstone Drake flying mount capable of carrying another player. Learning this gives the achievement  [Vial of the Sands].

Source

This item is created with Alchemy (525); taught by  [Recipe: Vial of the Sands].

Materials required:

	1x [Pyrium-Laced Crystalline Vial]			8x [Sands of Time]
	12x [Truegold]			8x [Flask of the Winds]
	8x [Flask of Titanic Strength]			8x [Deepstone Oil]

Mount Journal

Sandstone Drakes were studied in great detail long ago by the famed alchemist Walleye Sprysprocket. It has even been said that Walleye developed potions to mimic the drakes' physiology.

Raw materials

• 1x [Pyrium-Laced Crystalline Vial] 5,000

Sold by Yasmin at the Oasis of Vir'sar in Uldum

• 8x [Sands of Time] 24,000

Sold by Yasmin, and Big Keech in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms for 3,000 each

• 12x [Truegold]

72x [Pyrite Ore] to make 36x [Pyrium Bar]

OR

24x [Elementium Ore] or 12x [Elementium Bar], 12x [Volatile Earth] and 12 daily transmutaion cooldowns to make 36x [Pyrium Bar].

AND

120x [Volatile Fire], 120x [Volatile Air], and 120x [Volatile Water].

• 8x [Flask of the Winds]

64x [Volatile Life], 64x [Azshara's Veil], 64x [Whiptail] and 8x [Crystal Vial].

• 8x [Flask of Titanic Strength]

64x [Volatile Life], 64x [Cinderbloom], 64x [Whiptail] and 8x [Crystal Vial].

OR ALTOGETHER:

128x [Volatile Life], 128x [Whiptail], 16x [Crystal Vial], 64x [Azshara's Veil] and 64x [Cinderbloom].

• 8x [Deepstone Oil]

8x [Albino Cavefish] fished from mercury in Deepholm.

Notes

• This mount can be bought and sold on the Auction House, usually at considerable prices. After the removal of  [Heart of the Nightwing] as a Recruit-A-Friend reward, this is the only mount which can transform the player into a flying mount capable of carrying another player on their back.
•  [Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest] has a similar effect, although it is generally considered more difficult to obtain.
• The player who has transformed into a drake does not have a button to eject the rider, but can cancel the transformation. In order to protect the rider from harm in this case, he is given a parachute buff. The former drake must find another way to survive the fall. It is assumed that the parachute will not protect the rider from the void between Outland zones.

Patch changes

• Patch 4.2.2 (2011-08-30): Use description changed slightly.

  Previous description: Teaches you how to transform into a dragon, allowing you to fly very fast and carry an ally on your back.
  

• Hotfix (2010-12-14): The Alchemy mount Vial of the Sands is no longer Bind-on-Pickup.
  
• Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): Added.
  

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB