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Comment by Cielos

There are some of these moths up on top of the high rocks and cliffs on the Timeless Isle. Since you cannot fly on the Timeless Isle, you will have to get a Highwind Albatross to pick you up and fly you around the island.

What I did to grab the attention of the albatross was to stand on the outside edge of the Celestial Court and smack it with a ranged spell. Once you hit the albatross, it will pick you up and if you do not attack it again, it will continue to fly. When you want the albatross to stop over a cliff, you attack it in order to make it drop you. This is also a great way to see the island as well as pick up treasure chests. :)

(I understand there are different areas around the Timeless Isle where you can attack the albatross. This is merely my experience with it.)

Comment by alfonzzo

found one as a backup to a Flamering Moth, so looks like it's not mandatory to catch a Highwind Albatros to capture one.

Comment by Whiterock

Moth family:Normal abilities: Thunder moths abilities:
Slicing Wind Cocoon Strike Moth Balls Slicing Wind Cocoon Strike Moth Dust
Alpha Strike Adrenaline Rush Moth Dust Reckless Strike Counterspell Call Lightning

Imperial Moth abilities: Flamering Moth abilities:
Slicing Wind Cocoon Strike Moth Dust Burn Cocoon Strike Nimbus
Wild Winds Moth Balls Cyclone Alpha Strike Healing Flame Moth Dust

Ashwing Moth abilities: Royal Moth abilities:
Alpha Strike Nimbus Moth Balls Slicing Wind Counterspell Moth Dust
Wild Winds Cocoon Strike Moth Dust Alpha Strike Hawk Eye Predatory Strike Base stats at rare 25 level: 1400 260 260
Name\Breed: H/H P/P S/S H/P P/S H/S H/B P/B S/B B/B HiPo PWR SPD
White Moth @ + * -81 -16 +33
Silky Moth @ * * -81 -16 +33
Red Moth + * + -81 +16
Garden Moth * @ -81 +16
Grey Moth @ + *
Luyu Moth + + *
Yellow Moth @ + + +16 -16
Gilded Moth @ + + + + + * + +16 -16
Amber Moth + + +16 -16
Crimson Moth + + + +16 -16
Fungal Moth + + * +81 -32 +16
Blue Moth * @ +81 -16
Tainted Moth @ + + +81 -16
Forest Moth + + * + +81 -16
Swamp Moth + + + +81 -16
Oasis Moth @ + + +81 +16 -32

Vale Flitter @ + + +
Skywisp Moth + + +
Dusty Sporewing + + +
Crimsonwing Moth + + +
Cerulean Moth + + +

Flamering Moth + + +
Imperial Moth @ -81 -16 +33
Ashwing Moth + + + +
Royal Moth + + +

@ - mandatory, + - recommended. For shared ones get at least one of a kind.
*H/H White Moth have +81/0/0 more stats than B/B Fungal Moth
*S/S Grey Moth have +16/+3/+3 more stats than S/B Silky Moth
*S/S Grey Moth have 0/0/+16 more stats than B/B Silky Moth and White Moth
*S/S Gilded Moth have 0/+16/0 more stats than B/B Silky Moth and White Moth
*H/S Amber Moth, Crimson Moth, Gilded Moth have 0/+3/0 more stats than S/B Forest Moth
*P/S Tainted Moth have +16/0/0 more stats than H/B Red Moth and S/B Gilded Moth
*H/S Forest Moth, Swamp Moth, Tainted Moth have 0/+3/0 more stats than H/B Blue Moth
*S/S Oasis Moth have +16/0/+4 more stats than H/S Garden Moth
*S/S Oasis Moth have 0/0/+17 more stats than B/B Grey Moth and Luyu Moth

Comment by ilostmahbucket

Much easier to obtain if you fly from Time Lost Waters fatigue area, then slow fall down or use a glider after you are auto-dismounted for zoning into Timeless Isle. Got mine after 1.5 laps around the island, ~40 kills.

Comment by Maywen

One of the best pets for taking out beasts. Beasts do less damage to flying, and this is one of the few that has an Mechanical attack which is strong against beasts.

Comment by bastler

I used the rat at the arena to level some pets, as it has a stable master right beside it to heal pets.
I tamed all moth types in blue quality, which added in rat fights. So if you are patient, you can do it right there using the SM to heal your pets cheap.

Comment by MyLifeIsBrillian

I have tried several suggestions from the postings but what worked best for me:

Parked my Alts on top of the Hills (some with Albatros some with Gliders) and simply rotated when I had nothing else to do :P .
Much easier and faster then to hope for a P/S rare as second or hopping from top to top with Albatross :)

Good luck

Comment by Enthorn

Skywisp Moth is a powerhouse. It's one of two Flying battle pets with the Call Lightning ability, the other being Dragon Kite, a promotional pet from the trading card game. It's the only pet with Counterspell, similar to Interrupting Gaze, used by a number of Magic pets. Although Counterspell deals less damage, its cooldown is a turn shorter. In almost every situation, it's better to buy yourself a turn more often than deal slightly more damage less often.

It's also the only pet that has both Reckless Strike and Moth Dust, allowing it to hit very hard with Reckless Strike on the first turn, followed by Moth Dust on the second, then return to Reckless Strike. Following, Cocoon Strike or Counterspell can be used allowing for Reckless Strike and Moth Dust to come off cooldowns, and any immunities (such as immunity to sleep effects) to have worn off.

This makes it an ideal pet versus aquatic creatures and for setting up mechanical creatures versus beasts, using Call Lightning as its last ability before it dies and a mechanical pet comes in. Call Lightning is a great ability when combined with multi-hit abilities, such as Batter and Toxic Smoke.

Comment by Naxius112358

A much easier way of catching these guys is as follows.

Get yourself one of those handy gliders then clicking on the Gleaming Crane Statue, the one that shoots you straight up into the air so you can grab the Mist Covered Chests.

While up there, you get a slow fall buff. Now use a glider. You will start flying off in whatever direction you face, and you are so high in the air, you can get all the way across the island with the glider if you so please.

IMPORTANT: If you are aiming for a bluff that has the moths on it, remember that right clicking off the glider buff will still make you fly forward from momentum. But if you THEN right click off the slow fall buff that the crane statue gave you, your character will ignore the momentum and fall straight down.

Time this right and you will land on whatever bluff you want. Enjoy catching these little critters :)

Comment by LTygress

No need to do any of this to get one of these guys. Simply fight some of the many ashwing moths you find on the ground level of Timeless Isle. The Skywisp Moth is very likely to be a part of one of those battles. Simply kill off the other two pets, and cap the Skywisp. I got myself a rare-level P/S from this method.

This is also my new favorite pet. I typically take captured pets to the Vale of Eternal Blossoms to a particular place with heavy battle pet spawns. There, I level the new captures BACK up to 25 with no mobs to deal with in between battles.

But the Skywisp moth just ate through these guys with ease. I never had to switch to another pet during battle most of the time. And because of that, he got all of the experience gains, and leveled up from 23 back to 25 in just 8 or 9 fights! I only had to heal him about every 3 or 4 fights.

Comment by 973430

Don't do what I did for a while and just automatically try to farm on your main - use the best alt for the job. Me Engineering Shaman can water walk out to fatigue, fly up then goblin cloak to the next cliff. No down time.

Now I just need some luck. Levelled up 3 pets looking for a rare so far.

Comment by Vindictae

If you're hunting garnia, there are usually two skymoths up there. Can get up there with an albatross (or by fatigue/flying/slowfall).
I got both of my rares up there.
But don't do what I did, and kill your albatross too soon lol.

Comment by Ocyla

The respawn rate on these seems rather poor. I was camping the hill east of the ruby lake, and cleared all the battle pets. Around 20 minutes later, new ones spawned, but the level 1 versions you cannot capture. I gave up after around 40 minutes of not finding capturable pets in that particular area.

Comment by blus10

I went after a Ashwing Moth and the Skywisp Moth showed up in the tertiary slot

Comment by DrThruster

In shadowlands was able to get Skywisp Moth on my Mage.

Buy an ilvl 5 "Lesser Magic Wand" from the AH and use it to get picked up by Albatross without killing it.
Stand in the entrance path to the Celestial Tournament and they fly overhead like planes.

(When you're overleveled for the Timeless Isle, most ranged attacks kill Seagulls instantly. Soft Foam Sword doesn't work here because you have to hit the Seagull at range.)

Dunno why all these people are talking about grinding secondary battle adds. In 2022 there were Skywisp Moths on every peak. You get a nice bit of scenery as the Albatross flies you around the Isle.

Comment by Achmelvich

As of 03/02/24, Using dragon-riding as you approach the Isle, use Whirling Surge at as high a point as possible and then when you are dismounted, use a Goblin Glider (or Moonkin Flap) and you should be able to land on top of one of the mountains :P

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Skywisp Moth

This NPC can be found in Timeless Isle (26).

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This curious moth is sometimes found interrupting the spells of a wandering mage or warlock.

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