Infested Necroray

Infested Necroray is an epic flying mount added in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands (patch 9.0.1). It is one of the three necrorays of the Necrolords covenant of Maldraxxus: a large manaray with dark mottled hide whose body is covered in a bioluminescent layer of fungal spores. The egg's description reads: "Necrorays lay their eggs in small clusters within the folds and cavities of decaying fungal blooms."

The mount drops randomly from the Oozing Necroray Egg, which is produced from the Necroray Egg after three real-time days. The egg itself has a small chance to drop from two reward containers for a call of Maldraxxus: Tribute of the Ambitious and Tribute of the Duty-Bound. In patch 10.2.7 the egg's drop chance was noticeably increased, which made farming considerably more comfortable at the Midnight max level.

• Flying in all old zones — the Infested Necroray is a flying mount and immediately gains a +150% or +310% movement speed bonus depending on your riding skill
• One of the few manarays in the collection — the skeletonized manaray model with spores is unique to Maldraxxus and visually differs from the classic naga manarays of Nazjatar
• A shared source for three mounts at once — a single oozing necroray egg randomly drops either the Infested, the Bulbous Necroray, or the Pestilent Necroray, so you close out the whole series in parallel
• No Necrolords membership required — the egg drops regardless of your chosen covenant, as long as you complete a call for Maldraxxus
• Increased chance in modern expansions — after patch 10.2.7 the necroray egg's drop chance is significantly higher than in the original Shadowlands
• Account-wide availability — once learned, the mount is added to the collection of all your characters regardless of faction and class

The path to the Infested Necroray is split into three mandatory steps: get a call to Maldraxxus, knock the necroray egg out of a reward container, wait three days and open the oozing necroray egg.

1. Complete the Shadowlands introductory campaign and gain access to Oribos and Maldraxxus. Joining the Necrolords is not required — calls to Maldraxxus come to players of any covenant
2. Check the bulletin board in your covenant sanctum daily. When a call specifically to Maldraxxus appears, take it and complete it — the reward is given as a Tribute of the Ambitious or a Tribute of the Duty-Bound depending on the call type
3. Open the reward container. With a small chance it will contain a necroray egg
4. Put the egg in your bag and wait three real-time days. When the timer expires it will turn into an oozing necroray egg
5. Right-click the oozing egg. It is guaranteed to grant one of the three mounts — the Infested, the Bulbous or the Pestilent Necroray
6. If a different necroray dropped this time, keep farming Maldraxxus calls on the same character until you get the Infested Necroray

• A character of level 45 or higher. By the time of Midnight this threshold is reached automatically while completing the base campaign
• Access to Oribos and Maldraxxus. To get this it is enough to complete the Shadowlands introductory line with Bolvar Fordragon
• Any Shadowlands covenant: Kyrian, Venthyr, Night Fae or Necrolords. Calls to Maldraxxus come to everyone, although for the Necrolords they are statistically more frequent due to the tie to their home zone
• A free bag slot for the Necroray Egg for three days — the egg occupies one slot and cannot be placed in the bank without interrupting the timer

Maldraxxus is the zone of the Necrolords covenant, which players reach as part of the Shadowlands story. For calls to it to start arriving, you need to fully complete the expansion's starting campaign.

1. Go through the Shadowlands introductory corridor: the Shadowlands, the covenant choice, visiting all four zones. The quest line brings you to Maldraxxus among the first four
2. Complete the local story line and unlock the covenant bulletin board
3. Return to the covenant sanctum daily and check the available calls. Calls to Maldraxxus appear roughly once every four to five days on a single character
4. For fast travel use the Necrolord Hearthstone or a regular hearthstone set to Theater of Pain
5. If needed, fly to Maldraxxus directly from Oribos via the Path Through the Veil

What kinds of calls there are

In Shadowlands there are three types of daily calls, each with its own reward container and completion condition. For farming the necroray egg, the two that grant a Tribute of the Ambitious and a Tribute of the Duty-Bound are exactly the ones you want.

Daily cycle

Calls refresh once per day. A single character gets one call per day, but only some of them fall on Maldraxxus. That is why the key trick is farming across multiple characters.

1. Check the bulletin board in the covenant sanctum every day on all your prepared characters
2. If a call to Maldraxxus appears, complete it first
3. Open the reward container (Tribute of the Ambitious or Tribute of the Duty-Bound) and check whether a necroray egg dropped
4. Put the egg in your bag and set a reminder for three days later — that is exactly when it turns into an oozing necroray egg

Multi-farming on alts

• Prepare several characters of level 45 and higher, each with its own covenant and access to the bulletin board
• Synchronize your schedule: log in and check calls daily, ideally at the same time
• Store every egg with its exact acquisition date. If you have three eggs from different characters at once, you get three independent mount rolls in three days
• Do not destroy spare eggs — every next oozing necroray egg may turn out to be the Infested one you need

Speeding up the timer

The three-day timer only runs while the egg sits in the character's bags or bank. You cannot move it to the guild vault and back — doing so resets the timer. So there is one rule: put it away and wait.