So this morning I finally got the alternative Artifact form for my Feral Druid. Behold the glorious Moonspirit form!

The form itself is not hard to get in practice. There is a time gate to it that drags it out, but the most annoying thing was filtering through all the lose guides and comments on various sites that try to lead you to the artifact item.

Don’t get me wrong, there was a lot of helpful information online, the problem is that a lot of it is not found in one place. So that’s what I’m attempting to do here.

How to get the Moonspirit form

So the first thing you have to do is get your Artifact research to level 4. This has been confirmed by many posts and comments.

Now you want to make your way to the Emerald Dreamway. As a Druid you can use Dreamwalk to get there. When you’re there, once a day you will be eligible to to hear a screech that will send you through one of three portals: Either the Hinterlands, Duskwood, or Feralas portal.

The screech will be accompanied by an emote that reads: You hear a strange feral screech coming from the Portal.

The Screech is set to happen for you once per day. So if you log or port into the Emerald Dreamway and don’t hear it. there is no point hanging around. You’ll just have to come back the next day. The screech acts as an event roll and to find out if you are eligible for the event or if the roll has happened, simply type the following into your chatbox and hit enter: /dump IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(44326)

This should give you a reply of: True – meaning the event had been rolled for, but the RNG gods decided that you won’t be getting it. If you do hear the screech that means the roll was in your favor. so Yay!

You do not need to be in Feral Spec to hear the screech or get the emote.

Once you do get the screech and have entered whatever portal it had directed you to, you want to be looking for an Owlcat Stone.

A single Owlcat Stone will appear in the area you’ve been sent to. It will be somewhere around the portal, normally found under a tree or near ruins. The stone is self can’t be selected, so you can’t make a target macro for it. You’ll have to find it by flying around and eventually interacting with.

Here are the co-ordinates for some of the possible spawn locations for the stone in the three different areas:

Hinterlands: (64,24), (68,36), (60,33), (60,29), (58,32), (60,28), (68,24), (67,31), (66, 37.4), (57, 34)

Duskwood: (45,45), (43,38), (42,38), (45,36), (48,44), (44,35), (48.93, 38.75), (48.93, 38.75)

Feralas: (48,6), (54,6), (51,11), (52,6), (50,15), (52,15), (52,10), (51,8), (53,14), (51,10), (53.81 14.93), (54.34, 10.30), (54, 15), (48, 10)

Please note that these coordinates are not definitive, so just keep an eye out while flying around. If you’re having trouble finding the Owlcat stone and what to check of it is actually active in the area you have gone to, use one of the following dump commands that should give back TRUE if the stone is up.

Feralas: /dump IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(44327)

Duskwood: /dump IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(44329)

Hinterlands: /dump IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(44328)

Once you have interacted with the Owlcat stone, you will get a 20sec buff called Mark of the Moonspirit, which will be accompanied by the emote: A strange power passes through you and then subsides…

There is nothing about what to do while you have the buff on. Like I said; it lasts 20secs and you really can’t do much in that time anyway, but when the buff finishes you should get the emote: You hear something dart away behind you… and then just silence.

Once all this happens you’re done for the day and now you have to return to the Emerald Dreamway to wait for another screech. Now here’s one thing that’s important to note. The game keeps sort of an internal log of you touching each of those Owlcat stones. I like to think of it as a buff you don’t see. To check if the game remembers that you have touched the stone, use one of these dump commands:

Duskwood owlcat stone touched: /dump IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(44330)

Feralas owlcat stone touched: /dump IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(44331)

Hinterlands owlcat stone touched: /dump IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(44332)

If the game remembers that you have touched these stones, upon entering the above commands you should get back a “TRUE”

From my personal experience, the buff will last about 24 hours before the game doesn’t remember that you’ve touched the stone. I didn’t know about the dump commands until AFTER I had touched my second owlcat stone, and upon checking with the command, I found that the first stone I had touched was forgotten, because the dump command brought back a “False”. Since these screeches occur at random and can have long wait times between them, you just can’t afford to lose your progress.

The easiest way to ensure that the stones you’ve touched are not forgotten is to log off in the Emerald Dreamway. If you log in and out in the Emerald Dreamway, you’ll find that after checking with the dump command, it will always come back “True” for whatever stone you have already touched.

I wish I had known this sooner, as it would have saved me a lot of time.

Once all three stones have been touched, Ela’lothen “The Moonspirit” will be waiting for you in the Emerald Dreamway.

Simply shift into Cat Form and /sit next to him. This will place the Feather of the moonspirit into your inventory. I was in Feral spec when I sat next to him and mentioned in the comments below that it didn’t work for him while in Guardian, so though you don’t need to be in Feral to hear the screech, I suggest switching to Feral before venturing through the portals.

You also need to be in Feral to actually use the Feather.

Once you have the item, Right-click on the item in your bag and boom! You’re a Moonkincat 🙂

Again, all of this information is gathered from sources such as Wowhead, the Druid Battlenet forums and other blogs and posts scattered online.

The comments section of Wowhead was the most helpful so you should check that out if you still need more on this. I just wanted to have something straightforward and neat, and all in one place to make it easier. All of this worked for me and I hope it helps and works for you too.