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WoW Mount Guide: This is how you get “Otto” – the otter with awesome sunglasses

 Do you want to have the coolest otter in World of Warcraft? We'll tell you how to get Otto, probably the most brilliant mount in Azeroth.


With World of Warcraft Dragonflight, Blizzard has once again made a real effort to hide a lot in the game world of the Dragon Islands. The “Secret Finding” community is working on more than a dozen mysteries – and some of them have already been solved.


We'll tell you to step by step how you can get the ingenious mount “Otto the Otter”.


Get your fishing rod ready because it's going to be a long, fishy journey!


Step 1: The Water Schemes Toy

The first step is to earn the “Water Schemes” toy. You can buy this in the Plains of Ohn'ahra, from "The Great Flunk" - a huge frog sitting in a cave at coordinates 82 / 72.


However, the toy is not available for gold, but in exchange for a “Gold Coin of the Islands”. A Gold Coin is a super-rare drop that you can get from fishing anywhere on the Dragon Islands.


But don't worry, you can also farm the coin much more reliably. A little more often you will find the “Silver Coin of the Islands” and even more often the “Copper Coin of the Islands” while fishing.


  • You can exchange 15 “Copper Coin of the Islands” for 1 “Silver Coin of the Islands”.
  • You can exchange 5 “Silver Coin of the Islands” for 1 “Gold Coin of the Islands”.
If in doubt, you will need 75 copper coins from the islands in order to be able to buy a gold coin at the end. That should mean a few hours of fishing work.

“The Big Flunk” wants your coins and exchanges them for various loot.
“The Big Flunk” wants your coins and exchanges them for various loot.

If you have the gold coin, use it to buy the “Flawless Flunk Treasure Bag” bag from “The Great Flunk”. The first of these is guaranteed to contain the Water Schemes toy, which you can immediately add to your collection.

Step 2: Dance until you die!

Now travel to the Coast of Awakening, into the sea “behind” the Obsidian Citadel. At coordinates 20 / 36 you will find a small pub underwater. This is an underwater bar. Use the “water schemes” and then go to the dance mat in the bar.

Your character will now automatically start dancing and will receive the “Dance, dance until death” debuff.

You have to dance for 5 minutes before you faint.
You have to dance for 5 minutes before you faint.

Now you have to be patient. Wait for the debuff to expire on the dance mat to cause your character to faint. Your character then wakes up in safety above the bar and is right next to a barrel.

Click on the barrel to get an “Empty Fish Barrel”.

Step 3: More fishing

With the fish barrel in your inventory, you can start fishing again. You have to catch a total of 3 different types of fish, which you can find from now on.

  • 100 Icy Floes – You can get these from all open waters in the Azure Mountains. It may take a while to get the fish together, so you'll need some patience. Once you have 100 of these fish, use the barrel to get a “Half-Filled Fish Barrel.”
  • 25 Disaster Carp – You can fish these from the lava around the Obsidian Citadel. Use the fish barrel again to get a “Full to the Brim Fish Barrel”.
  • 1 Kingfin, the wise purr catfish - You can fish this in the water near the Academy of Alg'ethar, preferably at the small jetty. Use the barrel again to get an Overflowing Fish Barrel

Step 4: Otto the Otter

In the final step, you travel back to the Coast of Awakening and enter the place where you woke up after your dance escapades (Coast of Awakening, 20 / 40). Here you can put the full barrel back in its original location.

Otto is almost as cool as his rider. But only almost.
Otto is almost as cool as his rider. But only almost.

Now “Otto” appears and offers you a quest. Accept the quest, complete it and you'll have probably the coolest otter in World of Warcraft - because he wears sunglasses just like you!

Have you already got the “Otto”? What do you think of such “secret mounts”?

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