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Comment by Rosemansion222

I found lava pool in Zaralek Cavern at /way 44.05 47.87

I used a Elusive Creature Bait in this lava pool, so a Elusive Magma Cobra respawned. I skinned a Elusive Magma Cobra but didn't get Obsidian Cobraskin.

Comment by Sacred2309

I spawned & skinned said Cobra (Zaralek Cavern 44.05 47.87) for 6 days in a row now, and got the skin once. I have max skill and max knowledge in baits and mastery, not sure if that plays any role.

EDIT: 4 skins out of 15 attempts now.

Comment by R8rRen

Well well well. Isn't this the old C.B. 170,00 each on my server.
Totally awesome for crafting.
Much wow.
Big dps.

Comment by conman657

Began skinning this regularly three days ago. Appears the magma cobra only spawns for the first attempt daily, doesnt always drop the cobraskin. any bait used will bring the cobra, doesnt appear to affect the loot whichever one is used. Skin recieved 1 of 4 attempts so far. sold for 70k my initial, now its worth 300k.

Comment by braunwynn

I currently have 11 attempts with 1 cobraskin to show for it so far and this is what i know

you must be maxed out(40pts) in the mastery talent to have your bait summon the correct mob, you only need 10 points into bait crafter.
you do not need to be level 70, my skinner who looted it was level 60
if someone else summons it you can skin and loot the cobraskin regardless of your profession knowledge, 1 point in DF skinning is all you need
it is a daily lockout attempt, any subsequent attempts will only reward gray quality items
if you try to summon them back to back too quickly, you will not get the correct mob. give it a buffer of about 10min if youre bringing alts to do this and they are on the same shard.

Comment by arabus80

i tried on a fresh toon, learned skinning, bought the 3 knowledge books from the artisan's consortium. skinned 25 random mobs to unlock specialisation. bought green profession Items T5 on the AH.
leveled bait crafting to 10, mastery to max.

I used the bait and the cobra spawned, did not not drop anything, Skinning granted some leather and some scales, no cobra skin.

EDIT: on my second try I got a skin from the Cobra!
somewhere between 25- Skining
all 3 profession gear pieces in Green t5
10 Points in bait crafting
40 in Mastery

The skillpoints are eaily reached by using the profession knowledge books sold by the artisan's Consortium npcs (For Mettle)

that's it you need nothing else!

2nd Edit: I did the same thing on another character, and got another corba skin.

Comment by Silverized

FYI when you craft adapative dracothyst armguards with this cobraskin any recraft will require a new cobraskin.
Don't craft those without an aspect's crest if you can.
Any failure to proc r5 will also require more cobraskin.
Likely the same with other crafts.

Also you need maxed out mastery to skin this. The cobra only spawns like once a day, and you are not guaranteed to get a skin. I got one on my first try though.
Also the cobra is kind of tough to kill, so don't pull it on a low geared character, like under 400 ilvl.

Comment by Allindriss

Was able to solo the rare on my 65 lvl hunter. Got the skin on first try.

Comment by Liwstar

Guys is this snake a daily find? as well when i tried first time yesterday that cobra appeared killed no Obsidian Cobraskin, then i tried again with bait did not get the cobra several times with bait so i went to bed and next day i used bait again cobra appears but still no Obsidian Cobraskin i dont get it O_O

Comment by blau1977

All the guides say you need to have 10 knowledge in bait, and maxed out mastery, after that, is it better to put points into scale specialization or trophy hunter? Does anyone know?

Comment by Rubinova

To summon Elusive Magma Cobra you need to use Elusive Creature Bait near lava pool in Zaralek Cavern at /way 44.05 47.87 .
You have to be maxed out Bait Mastery (40pts). You only need 10 points into bait crafter to unlock this tree.

Some facts:

Elusive Magma Cobra can be summoned by one person couple of times.
After summoning first Elusive Magma Cobra, there is ~10min global cooldown. Using Elusive Creature Bait too quickly will spawn other Elusive mob.
You can skin Elusive Magma Cobra as any lvl 60+.
You dont have to be Bait Master to loot Obsidian Cobraskin from already summoned Elusive Magma Cobra . 1 point into Dragonflight Skinning is enough.
Elusive Magma Cobra can be skinned by others at once. Everyone will have a chance to get Obsidian Cobraskin.
Looting Obsidian Cobraskin from Elusive Magma Cobra is a daily lockout on the character.

Comment by Troelsy

This does not seem like a 23% chance on skinning to get. I have the criteria, I have summoned the elusive magma cobra at least 7 times now and zero cobraskin.

Comment by arisen1

I see a lot of confusion about this in the comment, so just to clarify: The Elusive Magma Cobra can only be summoned with bait ONCE per day.

Comment by Flashoffight

The droprate was heavily nerfed with the last patch. I was getting 4-5 a week now I'm lucky to get two a week.

Comment by CLOOONEE

Guys, can someone confirm if this is once per day for each character or for account?

Comment by Beccstah

People seem to be a little confused about the skin drops

The Cobra can be summoned once per person, per day.

The skin however can only be given on your first skin attempt THAT DAY, so even if you skin someone else's Cobra and then summon your own, you've already had 1 attempt and summoning your own Cobra will not change that.

Skinning it multiple times after your first attempt of the day will only yield grey items, so sitting at the lava pool farming the snake is only wasting your own time.

Comment by OldWolf2

I tried summoning it with a Titan-infused Bait, and it summoned a magma elephant instead, that wasn't even skinnable when killed.

So, don't do that :D

Comment by wertui007

Anyone tried or tested, if perception helps with drop rate here? Some people in game claims they have 30% chance of dropping with maxed perception.

Comment by Lunarpaw

You might want to be decently geared before summoning the Elusive Magma Cobra, be a hunter, or have some friends, because even at ~440 this thing was hitting me for like 1/4 of my HP. This snek ain't messing around!

Comment by polarbearus

Looting Obsidian Cobraskin from Elusive Magma Cobra is a daily lockout on the character.

Comment by Golgie

tried with my alt army of 45 alts for 3 days
character lv 60 , skinning skill lv 25 , 10 knowledge points into bait crafter ( cant summon, a friend would summon for me ) , green knife & skinner cap (~13% perception )
found only 6 cobra skins in all the 135 kills ~4% drop chance
don't know why so low drop chance , but either character level / skill level / perception chance could be a factor here

Comment by drakhri

I suspect they nerfed this drop in some way. I was getting about a 20% drop chance on my alts up until November 30th.
I have not seen it drop since then. Based on the number of alts I have and seeing 0 drops since then, the chance of getting at least one from 32 attempts at 20% drop rate is %99.92077184 1-(1-0.2)^32

Update #1
I'm going to get their skill up to 100 and run another 8 days to see if the rate changes.
32 more attempts at 106 skill level and 14% perception. Only 1 drop. ~3% drop rate.

Update #2
I specialized 1 character into max perception, and another to have the bait specialization.
perception 1 drop (1/8) 12.5%
bait 2 drops (2/8) 25%
Not really enough samples to be statistically significant, but getting the 2 drops in a row if it was a 3% drop rate is about 1/1000 chance (aka the drop rate is likely higher than 3% with bait spec).

Will continue to run these 2 and update. It's very easy to get an alt to either of these specializations using artisan's consortium rep (npc named Rabul in Valdraken) if you have the rep on a main, but much more time consuming to get both.

Comment by SirDinosaur

Does anyone have info on what's best to invest points into after maxing Mastery? I've been able to loot the drop every now and again but wondering if I can improve my odds via additional points and/or specific profession equipment.

Today for example I looted the Obsidian Cobraskin as part of a "your Finesse helped you gather additional items", which makes me think it could help for the extra roll? Or perception for a higher base chance?

Comment by Bobin20

I'm confused how the "daily lockout" on this works. I spawned the Cobra at 8pm Friday, killed and skinned it and got the skin. I killed it again at 12:45PM the next day and skinned it and didn't get a cobraskin so is this actually a 24-hour lockout on that character? I'm going to try again around midnight tonight to check but that was somewhat disappointing.

Comment by SirDinosaur

Looks like prices just shot up on my server after the recent buff to the legendary axe's drop rate. Anecdotally, I've managed to skin it multiple times since this week's reset despite a much lower drop rate in the past.

Anyone know if they've buffed the drop rate of the Cobraskin alongside the axe? Or am I just lucky?

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Obsidian Cobraskin

Item Level 60

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"Extremely durable scales that shimmer when exposed to light. Found rarely when skinning an Elusive Magma Cobra."

Max Stack: 1000

Sell Price: 15

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