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*Snapshot of Mount article as of March 22, 2016

	Riding (Profession)
	Trainers • Mounts

See mount (disambig) for a less gigantic list with specific lists.

An undead riding his giant mammoth.

Mounts are a much sought after form of transportation in which players ride atop the backs of various more or less exotic beasts (or machinations). They can be accessed via the Mounts and Pets window. Warlocks, paladins and death knights can learn to summon mounts as a class perk. The Alliance Worgen have a race skill Running Wild that they will get at level 20. Druids can shape shift into multiple forms that improve their speed. Mounted travel is almost always faster than walking/running (some vanity mounts such as Sea Turtle provide no speed benefit on the ground). World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade introduced flying mounts in select areas, which further increased the maximum possible player movement speed. World of Warcraft: Cataclysm opened up much of Azeroth to flying mounts.

Mounts were generally expensive in the past, but their prices have been reduced while the training to ride them increased in order to compensate. However, some mounts do not cost any gold or other currencies (such as honor points) and will drop at very low drop rates from bosses in instances such as Stratholme, Zul'Gurub, Tempest Keep, Magisters' Terrace, Sethekk Halls, Karazhan, and Utgarde Pinnacle. There are numerous other methods to obtain mounts as well, such as class quests, completing achievements, and even a select few rare spawns drop mounts.

Mounts have a 1.5 second cast time, which will be interrupted by taking any damage, moving, or entering combat. Mounts also have a special emote that can be seen by either jumping (the Space key by default) while not moving or performing the /mountspecial slash command. For example hawkstriders will shriek and horses will rear up on their hind legs.

Riding skills and abilities

edit Riding/Skills and abilities

NOTE: After Cataclysm, speed is not based on mount class but only on riding skill!

A Human Mage riding a Swift White Steed, an Alliance Epic Mount.

Blood Knights riding their Horde paladin mounts.

There are a total of five classes of mounts:

Class	Quality	Ground	Air	Water
Ground mounts	Rare/Epic	60%	—	0%
Flying mounts	Rare/Epic	100%	150%	—
Amphibious mounts	Rare/Epic	0%	—	250%
Aquatic mounts	Rare/Epic	—	—	100%/350%
Vanity mounts	Rare/Epic	0%	—	0%

Ground mounts cannot fly, but flying mounts are able to run (or fly) along the ground in areas where flight is prohibited. Both flying and ground mounts can swim (but not any faster than swimming without a mount). Aquatic mounts can walk on land (but not any faster than walking without the mount). Vanity mounts confer no benefits (and thus, require no riding skill or character level).

General Riding Skill

There are five general tiers of riding which can be learned from trainers as a character increases in level. These become available for characters to train once they meet the particular level requirements. The speed of a character's mounts generally increases with each tier of riding skill, while some tiers of riding grant the ability to ride flying mounts. The general riding skills are:

• Apprentice: Level 20
• Journeyman: Level 40
• Expert: Level 60
• Artisan: Level 70
• Master: Level 80

Class-Specific Riding Skills

At level 40, paladins and warlocks can learn [Summon Charger] and [Dreadsteed] from their class trainers after learning the Journeyman riding skill from the riding trainer. There is no need to purchase a new mount. Death knights receive their epic ground mount, the [Acherus Deathcharger], after the completion of the quests Grand Theft Palomino and Into the Realm of Shadows at level 55. Druids can learn [Flight Form] from any flight trainer at level 58.

Unlocking Flight in Specific Areas

In areas where flying is allowed, a character typically needs to train a specific riding skill in order to unlock the ability to fly in that region. These types of skills and their requirements can be found in the table below.

Riding Skills

Proficiency		Cost		+Speed	Required for	Requires
		Skill	Mounts	Air
75	Apprentice	4	1	60%	Rare land mounts	Level 20
150	Journeyman	50	10	100%	Epic land mounts	Level 40
225	Expert	250	50	150%	Rare flying mounts	Level 60
300	Artisan	5000	100	280%	Epic flying mounts	Level 70
375	Master	5000	—	310%	Extremely fast speed	Level 80
[Flight Master's License]		250	—	—	Flying in Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor and Deepholm	Level 60 & 225 skill
[Cold Weather Flying]		500	—	—	Flying in Northrend	Level 68 & 225 skill
[Wisdom of the Four Winds]		2500	—	—	Flying in Pandaria	Level 90 & 225 skill
[Cloud Serpent Riding]			—	—	Flying Cloud Serpent mounts (requirement removed in Patch 6.0.2)	Level 90 & 225 skill
[Draenor Flying]			—	—	Flying in Draenor	Draenor Pathfinder

Increasing your speed

Through guild advancement

The guild perk [Mount Up] will increase your riding speed by 10%.

Through class abilities and talents

Two trolls riding raptors.

Shaman and Druids acquire shapeshift forms ([Ghost Wolf] for shaman and [Travel Form] for druids) that increase their movement speed (not as much as a mount, but it is trainable at an earlier level), while Hunters get aspects to boost their own movement speed and that of their party. Rogues and druids (in [Cat Form]) have an ability to temporarily increase movement speed. Here are the skills and abilities that provide some classes with a bit of a faster mount movement speed, either passively or by the activation of an ability.

•  Death Knight
  • [Unholy Presence] as of "Mists of Pandaria", Unholy Presence now grants an additional 15% movement speed, regardless of specialization.
•  Hunter
  • [Pathfinding] in the Beast Mastery talent tree (tier 3). Increases your speed while mounted by 5%/10%. The mounted movement speed increase does not stack with other effects.
•  Paladin
  • [Pursuit of Justice] in the Retribution talent tree (tier 3). Increases your movement speed (and mounted movement speed) by 8%/15%. This does not stack with other speed increasing effects.
  • [Crusader Aura] at level 62. Movement speed while mounted is increased by 20%. The mounted movement speed increase does not stack with other effects.
  • [Aura Mastery] in the Holy tree (tier 3) does not directly increase mounted movement speed, but it does boost Crusader Aura. With these two abilities combined, it is possible to increase mounted movement speed by 40% for 6 seconds every 2 minutes.

Through items and enchants

A Thundering Jade Cloud Serpent.

There are five other methods for increasing your mounted speed, with no effects beyond level 70:

• [Enchant Gloves - Riding Skill]: +2% (stacking), world drop Enchanting recipe
• [Mithril Spurs]: +4% (stacking), world drop Blacksmithing plans
• [Riding Crop]: +10% (non-stacking), Leatherworking pattern sold in Old Hillsbrad Foothills.
• [Skybreaker Whip]: +10% (non-stacking), quest reward from  [70] Dragonmaw Race: Captain Skyshatter, must be Honored with Netherwing.

These last two items effectively increase a mount's speed by 10%. However, they do not stack with the previously mentioned methods, so they are approximately (see below) a 1% improvement over using the above 3 items combined. It should be also noted that for players of WotLK the Riding Crop is only usable for two levels (69 and 70), and the Skybreaker Whip only for one level (70).

All speed improvement items work on both normal and flying mounts (with the exception of npc controlled point-to-point flight).

Characters higher than level 70 will not benefit from mount speed improvement items and enchants. With Cataclysm, the following are no longer available:

• [Carrot on a Stick]: +3% (stacking), reward from the Gahz'rilla quest in Zul'Farrak.

Available mounts

The face of a Grey Riding Yak.

The tables below are separated based on mount source, such as purchase requirements, killing specific creatures, participating in world events, completing achievements or more.

Racial mounts

	Riding (Profession)
	Trainers • Mounts

See mount (disambig) for a less gigantic list with specific lists.

An undead riding his giant mammoth.

Mounts are a much sought after form of transportation in which players ride atop the backs of various more or less exotic beasts (or machines). They can be accessed via the Mounts and Pets window. Warlocks, paladins and death knights can learn to summon mounts as a class perk. The Alliance Worgen have a race skill Running Wild that they will get at level 20. Druids can shape shift into multiple forms that improve their speed. Mounted travel is almost always faster than walking/running (some vanity mounts such as Sea Turtle provide no speed benefit on the ground). The Burning Crusade introduced flying mounts in select areas, which further increased the maximum possible player movement speed. Cataclysm opened up much of Azeroth to flying mounts.

Mounts were generally expensive in the past, but their prices have been reduced while the training to ride them increased in order to compensate. However, some mounts do not cost any gold or other currencies (such as honor points) and will drop at very low drop rates from bosses in instances such as Stratholme, Zul'Gurub, Tempest Keep, Magisters' Terrace, Sethekk Halls, Karazhan, and Utgarde Pinnacle. There are numerous other methods to obtain mounts as well, such as class quests, completing achievements, and even a select few rare spawns drop mounts.

Mounts have a 1.5 second cast time, which will be interrupted by taking any damage, moving, or entering combat. Mounts also have a special emote that can be seen by either jumping (the Space key by default) while not moving or performing the /mountspecial slash command. For example hawkstriders will shriek and horses will rear up on their hind legs.

Riding skills and abilities

See Also: Riding
NOTE: After Cataclysm, speed is not based on mount class but only on riding skill.

A Human Mage riding a Swift White Steed, an Alliance Epic Mount.

Blood Knights riding their Horde paladin mounts.

There are a total of five classes of mounts:

Class	Quality	Ground	Air	Water
Ground mounts	Rare/Epic	60%	—	0%
Flying mounts	Rare/Epic	100%	150%	—
Amphibious mounts	Rare/Epic	0%	—	250%
Aquatic mounts	Rare/Epic	—	—	100%/350%
Vanity mounts	Rare/Epic	0%	—	0%

Ground mounts cannot fly, but flying mounts are able to run (or fly) along the ground in areas where flight is prohibited. Both flying and ground mounts can swim (but not any faster than swimming without a mount). Aquatic mounts can walk on land (but not any faster than walking without the mount). Vanity mounts confer no benefits (and thus, require no riding skill or character level).}}

General Riding Skill

There are five general tiers of riding which can be learned from trainers as a character increases in level. These become available for characters to train once they meet the particular level requirements. The speed of a character's mounts generally increases with each tier of riding skill, while some tiers of riding grant the ability to ride flying mounts. The general riding skills are:

• Apprentice: Level 20
• Journeyman: Level 40
• Expert: Level 60
• Artisan: Level 70
• Master: Level 80

Class-Specific Riding Skills

At level 40, paladins and warlocks can learn [Summon Charger] and [Dreadsteed] from their class trainers after learning the Journeyman riding skill from the riding trainer. There is no need to purchase a new mount. Death knights receive their epic ground mount, the [Acherus Deathcharger], after the completion of the quests Grand Theft Palomino and Into the Realm of Shadows at level 55. Druids can learn [Flight Form] from any flight trainer at level 58.

Unlocking flight in specific areas

In areas where flying is allowed, a character typically needs to train a specific skill in order to unlock the ability to fly in that region. These types of skills and their requirements can be found in the table below.

Riding Skills

Proficiency		Cost		+Speed	Required for	Requires
		Skill	Mounts	Air
75	Apprentice	4	1	60%	Rare land mounts	Level 20
150	Journeyman	50	10	100%	Epic land mounts	Level 40
225	Expert	250	50	150%	Rare flying mounts	Level 60
300	Artisan	5000	100	280%	Epic flying mounts	Level 70
375	Master	5000	—	310%	Extremely fast speed	Level 80
[Flight Master's License]		250	—	—	Flying in Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor and Deepholm	Level 60 & 225 skill
[Cold Weather Flying]		500	—	—	Flying in Northrend	Level 68 & 225 skill
[Wisdom of the Four Winds]		2500	—	—	Flying in Pandaria	Level 90 & 225 skill
[Cloud Serpent Riding]			—	—	Flying Cloud Serpent mounts (requirement removed in Patch 6.0.2)	Level 90 & 225 skill
[Draenor Flying]			—	—	Flying in Draenor	Draenor Pathfinder
[Broken Isles Flying]			—	—	Flying in the Broken Isles	Broken Isles Pathfinder, Part One  Broken Isles Pathfinder, Part Two (Patch 7.2)

Increasing your speed

Through guild advancement

The guild perk [Mount Up] will increase your riding speed by 10%.

Through class abilities and talents

Two trolls riding raptors.

Shaman and Druids acquire shapeshift forms ([Ghost Wolf] for shaman and [Travel Form] for druids) that increase their movement speed (not as much as a mount, but it is trainable at an earlier level), while Hunters get aspects to boost their own movement speed and that of their party. Rogues and druids (in [Cat Form]) have an ability to temporarily increase movement speed. Here are the skills and abilities that provide some classes with a bit of a faster mount movement speed, either passively or by the activation of an ability.

•  Death Knight
  • [Unholy Presence] as of "Mists of Pandaria", Unholy Presence now grants an additional 15% movement speed, regardless of specialization.
•  Hunter
  • [Pathfinding] in the Beast Mastery talent tree (tier 3). Increases your speed while mounted by 5%/10%. The mounted movement speed increase does not stack with other effects.
•  Paladin
  • [Pursuit of Justice] in the Retribution talent tree (tier 3). Increases your movement speed (and mounted movement speed) by 8%/15%. This does not stack with other speed increasing effects.
  • [Crusader Aura] at level 62. Movement speed while mounted is increased by 20%. The mounted movement speed increase does not stack with other effects.
  • [Aura Mastery] in the Holy tree (tier 3) does not directly increase mounted movement speed, but it does boost Crusader Aura. With these two abilities combined, it is possible to increase mounted movement speed by 40% for 6 seconds every 2 minutes.

Through items and enchants

A Thundering Jade Cloud Serpent.

There are five other methods for increasing your mounted speed, with no effects beyond level 70:

• [Enchant Gloves - Riding Skill]: +2% (stacking), world drop Enchanting recipe
• [Mithril Spurs]: +4% (stacking), world drop Blacksmithing plans
• [Riding Crop]: +10% (non-stacking), Leatherworking pattern sold in Old Hillsbrad Foothills.
• [Skybreaker Whip]: +10% (non-stacking), quest reward from  [70] Dragonmaw Race: Captain Skyshatter, must be Honored with Netherwing.

These last two items effectively increase a mount's speed by 10%. However, they do not stack with the previously mentioned methods, so they are approximately (see below) a 1% improvement over using the above 3 items combined. It should be also noted that for players of WotLK the Riding Crop is only usable for two levels (69 and 70), and the Skybreaker Whip only for one level (70).

All speed improvement items work on both normal and flying mounts (with the exception of npc controlled point-to-point flight).

Characters higher than level 70 will not benefit from mount speed improvement items and enchants. With Cataclysm, the following are no longer available:

• [Carrot on a Stick]: +3% (stacking), reward from the Gahz'rilla quest in Zul'Farrak.

Available mounts

The tables below are separated based on mount source, such as purchase requirements, killing specific creatures, participating in world events, completing achievements or more.

Racial mounts

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The face of a Grey Riding Yak.

Racial land mounts are typically the first mounts players will acquire. To purchase a racial land mount, players must either purchase their race's mount (such as horses for humans, or wolves for orcs), or gain exalted standing with that race's representative faction (such as exalted with Darnassus to purchase sabers). Flying mounts do not require any reputation rating.

In the initial release of Cataclysm, the worgen did not get a racial mount, but instead used the ability [Running Wild] to achieve mount-like speeds. However, a mountain horse mount (regular and swift) was added in Patch 4.3 as the worgen racial mount.

Class-specific mounts

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An Azure Cloud Serpent.

There are four classes in the game that can acquire special mounts and abilities linked to their own class through lore: death knights, druids, paladins, and warlocks. The original quests to gain the paladin charger, warlock dreadsteed, and druid's swift flight form are all still in-game and reward feats of strength if they are completed. The aforementioned quests are not required to learn the ability, however, and are on the class trainers at the level listed in the table.

Druid and paladin abilities are slightly different based on race and faction. For example, the Alliance charger is blue and golden, while the Horde version is red and bronze. Similarly, night elf druids are black in flight form, while tauren are tan. With Cataclysm, it seems that tauren and draenei paladins will not be getting chargers, but special types of Kodo and Elekk mounts, respectively.

PvP mounts

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PvP mounts can be obtained by exchanging honor points or other world PvP currency. For Arena rewards, see the Arena section.

Quest reward mounts

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Some laborious or involved quest chains reward mounts.

Faction reward mounts

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As a reward for gaining high reputation standing with various factions, players can purchase mounts. Such high reputation is a function of large quantities of time.

Rare drop mounts

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Rarely, specific creatures will drop a mount as a reward. If the mount drops, only one mount will appear per kill, no matter the size of the party or raid killing the creature. Also, mounts may rarely be inside other containers rewarded for doing other objectives.

Guaranteed drop mounts

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The Time-lost Proto Drake.

A guaranteed drop mount will result in one mount being awarded upon killing the specified creature under the condition listed, regardless of the size of the party or raid. For mounts rewarded such that everyone who completes the achievement gets the mount, see the "Achievements" section. There is no direct achievement for killing the Time-Lost Proto-Drake; the hard part is actually finding the drake alive.

Crafted mounts

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Mounts can also be created by players via professions. Typically such mounts are a perk of the profession and are not available to other players, but a few are.

Purchasable mounts

These mounts are available to all players, with no requirements outside of gold or emblems.

General mounts

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Argent Tournament mounts

This section concerns content exclusive to Wrath of the Lich King.

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A major draw of the Argent Tournament is the large quantity of mounts rewarded in exchange for [Champion's Seal]s.

Amphibious mounts

Main article: Amphibious mount

Amphibious mounts confer a slight increase in swim speed, but move no faster than walking while on land. Amphibious mounts do not give their riders the ability to breathe underwater, so plan accordingly with one of appropriate items or abilities.

Mount		+Speed		Source	Riding skill
		Water	Land
	[Sea Turtle]	250%	0%	Fishing in Northrend fishing pools and quest rewards	Apprentice (75)

Aquatic mounts

Main article: Aquatic mount

For the Subdued Abyssal Seahorse, see quest rewards.

For the Subdued Seahorse, see Guaranteed drop mounts.

Aquatic mounts confer an increase in swim speed, but cannot be used at all on land. Aquatic mounts do not give their riders the ability to breathe underwater, so plan accordingly with one of appropriate items or abilities.

Mount		+Speed		Source	Riding skill
		Water	Land
	Brinedeep Bottom-Feeder	250%?	—	Purchased from Conjurer Margoss on The Broken Shore	Expert (225)
	[Darkwater Skate]	250%?	—	Purchased from Galissa Sundew <Fishing Prizes> on Darkmoon Island	Expert (225)
	Fathom Dweller	250%?	—	Drop from Kosumoth the Hungering	Expert (225)
	[Subdued Abyssal Seahorse]	350% only in Vashj'ir	—	Reward from  [81] The Abyssal Ride	Expert (225)
	[Subdued Seahorse]	250%	—	Drop from Poseidus	Expert (225)

Achievement system mounts

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These mounts are obtainable by completing certain achievements. As part of completing the achievement, the mount will be mailed directly to the player, or available for purchase at select locations.

Holiday mounts

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There are several disguises and time-limited items that are available during holidays. Disguises simply turn the player's mount into something "more festive" like a kodo or a reindeer but do not otherwise affect mount mechanics. Time-limited items exist only during the duration of the holiday itself. Previously, time-limited items had a set time such as seven or 14 days, but were changed to be directly tied to the holiday.

Back during Brewfest 2007, an ["Honorary Brewer" Hand Stamp] was available for purchase and granted access to the [Brewfest Ram] and [Swift Brewfest Ram] vendors. Coren Direbrew (the holiday boss in the Grim Guzzler of Blackrock Depths) had not yet been implemented, so completing the quest was the only way to get the mounts. The hand stamp was removed for the 2008 Brewfest and the Swift Brewfest Ram added to Coren Direbrew's loot table (along with the new [Great Brewfest Kodo]), but the 60%-speed Brewfest Ram can no longer be purchased except by players who completed the Hand Stamp quest.

Outside of game mounts

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A Tauren riding a Heart of the Aspects

A Blazing Hippogryph mount

The mounts in previous sections are acquired using solely in-game means. The mounts that follow require some real-world interactions, such as getting a rare loot card in the TCG, going to BlizzCon, the Recruit-A-Friend program, sending a Scroll of Resurrection, or purchasing mounts from the Blizzard Store.

Passenger mounts

Main article: World of Warcraft passenger mounts category

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•  [Grand Black War Mammoth]
•  [Grand Black War Mammoth]
•  [Grand Expedition Yak]
•  [Grand Ice Mammoth]
•  [Grand Ice Mammoth]
•  [Mechano-hog]
•  [Mekgineer's Chopper]
•  [Obsidian Nightwing]
•  [Sandstone Drake]
•  [Traveler's Tundra Mammoth]
•  [Traveler's Tundra Mammoth]
•  [X-53 Touring Rocket]

Retired mounts

Arena System reward mounts

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At the end of each Arena season, the top 0.5% of teams in the 3v3 and 5v5 bracket each battlegroup are rewarded with a 310% speed flying mount. Such mounts are inherently time-limited and are not currently available.

Removed from game mounts

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These mounts are no longer obtainable in the game.

Flying mounts in Kalimdor & Eastern Kingdoms

With careful use of Eagle Eye or Far Sight, it is possible to see why Flying Mounts were not allowed in the old world until the Cataclysm expansion.

At BlizzCon 2009 it was revealed that flying mounts would be available in some form to use in Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms with the release of the next expansion, titled "Cataclysm". Blizzard officials had previously stated that it was unlikely that they would allow flying mounts in these continents, since doing so would require them to re-design the continents with flying mounts in mind.

Throughout the first few years of World of Warcraft (up to and including Wrath of the Lich King), the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor were unsuitable for flying mounts; there were visual glitches like mountains and high buildings whose tops could not be seen from ground-level, and places where the terrain abruptly changed from one tileset to another, creating a grossly unrealistic appearance in some areas. There were also zones which should have existed lore-wise, but were empty and unfinished.

With the release of Cataclysm, rebuilding the continents is precisely what zone developers did, allowing players to finally see the world of Azeroth from above.

Vanity mounts

Main article: Vanity mount

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Vanity mounts only exist to put the player on a mount. They confer generally no bonuses to movement speed, and thus require no riding skill. The two non-temporary, vanity mounts are the [Rickety Magic Broom], a fairly common reward for completing daily quests during Hallow's End, and the [Riding Turtle], available from the TCG.

Media

Videos

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Although created by BellularGaming, these videos were posted on the official WorldofWarcraft channel.

Leveling up & Mounts - New & Returning Player Guides by Bellular

Aug 28, 2018

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How To Get Every WoW Legion Patch 7.0 Mount! Guide

Notes

• Mounts have a special emote they can do: This can be invoked while motionless on the ground, either by the /mountspecial slash command, or by pressing the Space key
• Flying mounts can perform a loop! Press Pitch Up or Pitch Down (normally Ins and Del) while in flight to perform a loop. On a Mac, the Help key, or the Fn+Del combination (on the laptop) will start it.
  • Additionally, while in a loop, you can use your strafe keys.

Patch history

Legion

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Warlords of Draenor

This section concerns content exclusive to Warlords of Draenor.

• Patch 6.2.2 (1-Sep-2015): Flying has been enabled on Draenor for characters that have attained the account-wide achievement,  Draenor Pathfinder
  

Mists of Pandaria

This section concerns content exclusive to Mists of Pandaria.

• Patch 5.2.0 (5-Mar-2013): Upon reaching level 20 and level 60, characters will automatically receive a new quest directing them to visit the racial riding trainer and mount vendors.
  
• β Patch 5.0.1 (Beta): Most mounts will be Account-wide mounts.
  

Cataclysm

This section concerns content exclusive to Cataclysm.

• Patch 4.2.0 (2011-06-28): [Vicious War Steed] or [Vicious War Wolf] awarded for winning 75, 150, or 300 rated battlegrounds.
  
• / Patch 4.0.1 (12-Oct-2010): All mounts now scale to the appropriate riding skill. This means that all 310% speed mounts earned from achievements or were awarded from this patch onward are 280% in order to match the current max riding skill, Artisan. Players who already have a 310% mount are grandfathered into the system.
              PvP mounts now cost 2,000
  
• / Patch 4.0.1 (12-Oct-2010): Mounts that are both ground and flying will no longer need to be dismounted and then re-mounted to switch between types. This will now be automatic.
  

Wrath of the Lich King

This section concerns content exclusive to Wrath of the Lich King.

• Patch 3.3.3 (2010-03-23): Battlegrounds will no longer award Marks of Honor. Items which previously required Marks of Honor will have their costs adjusted to remove these requirements.
              PvP mounts now cost 50,000
  
• Patch 3.3.0 (08-Dec-2009): Knockbacks no longer dismount players. If on a flying mount, you will be knocked back a short distance before being able to resume flying.
  
• Patch 3.2.2 (2009-09-22): Undocumented change
              The riding trainers in Thrallmar and Honor Hold are now part of the Orgrimmar and Stormwind factions respectively. Note also that this change doesn't apply to trainers in Northrend.
  
• Patch 3.2.0 (04-Aug-2009):
  • The cast time for summoning any ground or flying mount is now 1.5 seconds, down from 3 seconds.
  • Apprentice Riding (Skill 75): Can now be learned at level 20 for 4. Mail will be sent to players who reach level 20 directing them to the riding trainer.
  • Journeyman Riding (Skill 150): Can now be learned at level 40 for 50. Mail will be sent to players who reach level 40 directing them back to the riding trainer.
  • Expert Riding (Skill 225): Can now be learned at level 60 for 600 from trainers in Honor Hold or Thrallmar. Faction discounts now apply (Honor Hold for Alliance; Thrallmar for Horde). Flight speed at this skill level has been increased to 150% of run speed, up from 60%.
  • Artisan Riding (Skill 300): Faction discounts now apply (Honor Hold or Valiance Expedition for Alliance; Thrallmar or Warsong Offensive for Horde).
  • Flying over Dalaran and Wintergrasp is now possible so long as players keep a healthy distance above the ground.
    
  • The ravasaur trainer Mor'vek has returned to Un'Goro and will offer to help Horde players raise and train a [Venomhide Ravasaur] as a mount... if they can survive the creature's deadly poison.
• Patch 3.1.0 (14-Apr-2009): All Ground Mounts may now swim without dismounting the rider. Flying Mounts still may NOT, and will dismount the rider upon entering water.
  
• Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): Racial restrictions on mounts have now been lifted. Night elves on mechanostriders? Tauren on raptors? You're not seeing things.
  
• / Patch 3.0.2 (14-Oct-2008):
  • Mounting is now permitted in Ahn'Qiraj.
  • New Vanity Pet and Mount changes: Players will now be able to access their non-combat pets and mounts by clicking on the pets tab in the Character Info panel. These pets and mounts will be now learnable much like spells or abilities. Once a vanity pet or mount is learned, the icon will disappear from within a player's inventory and reappear in the appropriate tab under the pet tab under Character Info. Say goodbye to your vanity pets and mounts taking up bag and bank slots! Lost pets and mounts (one time quest rewards) can be recovered by visiting a stablemaster.
    

Burning Crusade

This section concerns content exclusive to The Burning Crusade.

• Patch 2.4.3 (2008-07-15): Mounts at 30?! Yes, it's true: Apprentice Riding and mounts are now available at level 30. Training costs 35.
  
• Patch 2.3.0 (13-Nov-2007): Nutral, the flight master in Shattrath City, now has a quest for characters who are level 70 and do not yet have a riding skill of 225. The quest will direct a character to visit the appropriate riding instructor in Shadowmoon Valley so that the player will know where they can purchase the skill necessary to use a flying mount.
  
• Patch 2.1.0 (22-May-2007):
  • Swift Flying Mounts: All the swift flying mounts will now display as epic items, rather than superior-quality items.
  • Using abilities and casting spells that cannot be used while mounted will now auto-dismount players as needed. This can be disabled by turning off the auto-dismount option in the UI options.
  • New Lua conditional [flyable] which is true if you're in a location where you could use a flying mount.
    
• Patch 2.0.3 (09-Jan-2007): New macro command: /dismount
  
• / Patch 2.0.1 (05-Dec-2006): Honor system revamp
              PvP mounts no longer limited to rank 11s, now available for 30 30 30 each.
  

Classic

This section concerns content exclusive to World of Warcraft.

• Patch 1.12.1 (26-Sep-2006): The riding skill has been changed. A riding skill of 75 is now needed to ride level 40 mounts and a skill of 150 for level 60 mounts. Those that already have mounts will automatically be granted the appropriate level skill.
  
• Patch 1.12.0 (22-Aug-2006): The Items that summon mounts have been changed in their color/quality. Items that summon normal mounts are now blue (superior) items and items that summon swift mounts are now purple (epic) items.
  
• Patch 1.6.0 (12-Jul-2005): Clarified the error message when trying to attack while mounted.
  
• Patch 1.5.0 (2005-06-07): Many of the Swift Mounts have gained eye glows and some have had other tweaks made to them to improve their looks.
  
• Patch 1.4.0 (2005-05-05): Level 60 mounts purchased at vendors now have a whole new look. Faster undead mounts already have a different look and so have not changed. The new mounts can be seen standing near the mount vendors. If you have one of the old fast mounts, you can exchange it for one with a new look at the mount vendor.
  
• Patch 1.3.0 (07-Mar-2005): Mounts now are Horde or Alliance restricted in the tooltip. We do not intend to allow Horde players to ride Alliance vendor-purchased mounts and vice versa.
  
• Patch 1.2.0 (18-Dec-2004): Players will now be able to purchase and train mounts from other races in their faction. However, you will first need to obtain "Exalted" reputation status with that race in order to do so. Mounts of the opposing faction are not available for purchase.
  
• Patch 1.1.0 (07-Nov-2004): Tauren players will no longer have the [Plainsrunning] ability, due to the availability of Kodo mounts! Tauren players can purchase the Kodo mount at Bloodhoof village.
  

See also

• If you want to get a head start, read a Guide for Preparing to Buy a Mount.
• Locations of fixed devices throughout Azeroth, including where to purchase mounts.
• Mounts and Pets window
• skill
• Transportation category for a detailed list of methods of transportation in WoW.

External links

WoW Official Game Site (US) Pets & Mounts → Mounts tab

WoW Official Game Site (EU) Pets & Mounts → Mounts tab

Info

Wowhead All mount spells

WarcraftMounts.com Images of all the currently available mounts!

Legion news

Polygon.com How to acquire every new mount in World of Warcraft: Legion by Philip Kollar Oct 3, 2016, 6:00p

News

Wowhead News 5.4 PTR: New Mounts, Pet Limit Increased and Pet Ability Scaling on Wowhead by perculia 2013/08/09 1:07 PM

WoW Official Game Site (US) Game Guide Updates: Pets and Mounts, Scenarios by Blizzard Entertainment, Nov 29, 2012 6:00 PM PST

WoW Official Game Site (EU) Game Guide Updates: Pets and Mounts, Scenarios by Blizzard Entertainment, 30 Nov 2012 13:59 GMT

Wowhead News Patch 5.0.4: Account-Wide Achievements, Tier 13 Bonuses by perculia 2012/08/29 1:17 PM

Wowhead News Mists of Pandaria: New Mounts by perculia 2012/07/16 11:38 AM

WoW Insider Mists of Pandaria Beta: New mounts in the latest build (build 15799) by Robin Torres Jun 29th 2012 at 9:00AM

WoW Insider Mists of Pandaria: Gold sink mounts will be account-wide by Robin Torres Jun 25th 2012 at 7:00PM

WoW Insider All you need to know about account-wide mounts (so far) by Anne Stickney May 7th 2012 at 5:00PM

MMO-Champion Account-wide Mounts on Beta, Pandaren Voices, Blue Posts by Boubouille 2012-05-04 07:26 AM

WoW Insider Mists of Pandaria beta: Account-wide mounts are a go by Anne Stickney May 4th 2012 at 2:07AM

Apple Cider Mage Mists of Pandaria Beta: Account-Wide Mounts by Apple Cider May 4, 2012

WoW Insider Meet the new million-gold jewelcrafting mounts by Fox Van Allen Apr 10th 2012 at 7:00PM

WoW Official Game Site (US) Patch 4.2: New PvP Mounts for Rated Battlegrounds by Zarhym, Jun 20, 2011 9:00 AM PDT

WoW Official Game Site (EU) Patch 4.2: New PvP Mounts for Rated Battlegrounds by Zarhym, 20 Jun 2011 16:00 UTC

WoW Insider Blizzard previews new rated battlegrounds PVP mounts by Mathew McCurley Jun 20th 2011 at 3:00PM

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Wowhead News Mountain o' Mounts: A Guide to Collecting Mounts by perculia 20011/06/19 9:17 AM

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Class-specific mounts

An Azure Cloud Serpent.

	Riding (Profession)
	Trainers • Mounts

See mount (disambig) for a less gigantic list with specific lists.

An undead riding his giant mammoth.

Mounts are a much sought after form of transportation in which players ride atop the backs of various more or less exotic beasts (or machines). They can be accessed via the Mounts and Pets window. Warlocks, paladins and death knights can learn to summon mounts as a class perk. The Alliance Worgen have a race skill Running Wild that they will get at level 20. Druids can shape shift into multiple forms that improve their speed. Mounted travel is almost always faster than walking/running (some vanity mounts such as Sea Turtle provide no speed benefit on the ground). The Burning Crusade introduced flying mounts in select areas, which further increased the maximum possible player movement speed. Cataclysm opened up much of Azeroth to flying mounts.

Mounts were generally expensive in the past, but their prices have been reduced while the training to ride them increased in order to compensate. However, some mounts do not cost any gold or other currencies (such as honor points) and will drop at very low drop rates from bosses in instances such as Stratholme, Zul'Gurub, Tempest Keep, Magisters' Terrace, Sethekk Halls, Karazhan, and Utgarde Pinnacle. There are numerous other methods to obtain mounts as well, such as class quests, completing achievements, and even a select few rare spawns drop mounts.

Mounts have a 1.5 second cast time, which will be interrupted by taking any damage, moving, or entering combat. Mounts also have a special emote that can be seen by either jumping (the Space key by default) while not moving or performing the /mountspecial slash command. For example hawkstriders will shriek and horses will rear up on their hind legs.

Riding skills and abilities

See Also: Riding
NOTE: After Cataclysm, speed is not based on mount class but only on riding skill.

A Human Mage riding a Swift White Steed, an Alliance Epic Mount.

Blood Knights riding their Horde paladin mounts.

There are a total of five classes of mounts:

Class	Quality	Ground	Air	Water
Ground mounts	Rare/Epic	60%	—	0%
Flying mounts	Rare/Epic	100%	150%	—
Amphibious mounts	Rare/Epic	0%	—	250%
Aquatic mounts	Rare/Epic	—	—	100%/350%
Vanity mounts	Rare/Epic	0%	—	0%

Ground mounts cannot fly, but flying mounts are able to run (or fly) along the ground in areas where flight is prohibited. Both flying and ground mounts can swim (but not any faster than swimming without a mount). Aquatic mounts can walk on land (but not any faster than walking without the mount). Vanity mounts confer no benefits (and thus, require no riding skill or character level).}}

General Riding Skill

There are five general tiers of riding which can be learned from trainers as a character increases in level. These become available for characters to train once they meet the particular level requirements. The speed of a character's mounts generally increases with each tier of riding skill, while some tiers of riding grant the ability to ride flying mounts. The general riding skills are:

• Apprentice: Level 20
• Journeyman: Level 40
• Expert: Level 60
• Artisan: Level 70
• Master: Level 80

Class-Specific Riding Skills

At level 40, paladins and warlocks can learn [Summon Charger] and [Dreadsteed] from their class trainers after learning the Journeyman riding skill from the riding trainer. There is no need to purchase a new mount. Death knights receive their epic ground mount, the [Acherus Deathcharger], after the completion of the quests Grand Theft Palomino and Into the Realm of Shadows at level 55. Druids can learn [Flight Form] from any flight trainer at level 58.

Unlocking flight in specific areas

In areas where flying is allowed, a character typically needs to train a specific skill in order to unlock the ability to fly in that region. These types of skills and their requirements can be found in the table below.

Riding Skills

Proficiency		Cost		+Speed	Required for	Requires
		Skill	Mounts	Air
75	Apprentice	4	1	60%	Rare land mounts	Level 20
150	Journeyman	50	10	100%	Epic land mounts	Level 40
225	Expert	250	50	150%	Rare flying mounts	Level 60
300	Artisan	5000	100	280%	Epic flying mounts	Level 70
375	Master	5000	—	310%	Extremely fast speed	Level 80
[Flight Master's License]		250	—	—	Flying in Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor and Deepholm	Level 60 & 225 skill
[Cold Weather Flying]		500	—	—	Flying in Northrend	Level 68 & 225 skill
[Wisdom of the Four Winds]		2500	—	—	Flying in Pandaria	Level 90 & 225 skill
[Cloud Serpent Riding]			—	—	Flying Cloud Serpent mounts (requirement removed in Patch 6.0.2)	Level 90 & 225 skill
[Draenor Flying]			—	—	Flying in Draenor	Draenor Pathfinder
[Broken Isles Flying]			—	—	Flying in the Broken Isles	Broken Isles Pathfinder, Part One  Broken Isles Pathfinder, Part Two (Patch 7.2)

Increasing your speed

Through guild advancement

The guild perk [Mount Up] will increase your riding speed by 10%.

Through class abilities and talents

Two trolls riding raptors.

Shaman and Druids acquire shapeshift forms ([Ghost Wolf] for shaman and [Travel Form] for druids) that increase their movement speed (not as much as a mount, but it is trainable at an earlier level), while Hunters get aspects to boost their own movement speed and that of their party. Rogues and druids (in [Cat Form]) have an ability to temporarily increase movement speed. Here are the skills and abilities that provide some classes with a bit of a faster mount movement speed, either passively or by the activation of an ability.

•  Death Knight
  • [Unholy Presence] as of "Mists of Pandaria", Unholy Presence now grants an additional 15% movement speed, regardless of specialization.
•  Hunter
  • [Pathfinding] in the Beast Mastery talent tree (tier 3). Increases your speed while mounted by 5%/10%. The mounted movement speed increase does not stack with other effects.
•  Paladin
  • [Pursuit of Justice] in the Retribution talent tree (tier 3). Increases your movement speed (and mounted movement speed) by 8%/15%. This does not stack with other speed increasing effects.
  • [Crusader Aura] at level 62. Movement speed while mounted is increased by 20%. The mounted movement speed increase does not stack with other effects.
  • [Aura Mastery] in the Holy tree (tier 3) does not directly increase mounted movement speed, but it does boost Crusader Aura. With these two abilities combined, it is possible to increase mounted movement speed by 40% for 6 seconds every 2 minutes.

Through items and enchants

A Thundering Jade Cloud Serpent.

There are five other methods for increasing your mounted speed, with no effects beyond level 70:

• [Enchant Gloves - Riding Skill]: +2% (stacking), world drop Enchanting recipe
• [Mithril Spurs]: +4% (stacking), world drop Blacksmithing plans
• [Riding Crop]: +10% (non-stacking), Leatherworking pattern sold in Old Hillsbrad Foothills.
• [Skybreaker Whip]: +10% (non-stacking), quest reward from  [70] Dragonmaw Race: Captain Skyshatter, must be Honored with Netherwing.

These last two items effectively increase a mount's speed by 10%. However, they do not stack with the previously mentioned methods, so they are approximately (see below) a 1% improvement over using the above 3 items combined. It should be also noted that for players of WotLK the Riding Crop is only usable for two levels (69 and 70), and the Skybreaker Whip only for one level (70).

All speed improvement items work on both normal and flying mounts (with the exception of npc controlled point-to-point flight).

Characters higher than level 70 will not benefit from mount speed improvement items and enchants. With Cataclysm, the following are no longer available:

• [Carrot on a Stick]: +3% (stacking), reward from the Gahz'rilla quest in Zul'Farrak.

Available mounts

The tables below are separated based on mount source, such as purchase requirements, killing specific creatures, participating in world events, completing achievements or more.

Racial mounts

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The face of a Grey Riding Yak.

Racial land mounts are typically the first mounts players will acquire. To purchase a racial land mount, players must either purchase their race's mount (such as horses for humans, or wolves for orcs), or gain exalted standing with that race's representative faction (such as exalted with Darnassus to purchase sabers). Flying mounts do not require any reputation rating.

In the initial release of Cataclysm, the worgen did not get a racial mount, but instead used the ability [Running Wild] to achieve mount-like speeds. However, a mountain horse mount (regular and swift) was added in Patch 4.3 as the worgen racial mount.

Class-specific mounts

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An Azure Cloud Serpent.

There are four classes in the game that can acquire special mounts and abilities linked to their own class through lore: death knights, druids, paladins, and warlocks. The original quests to gain the paladin charger, warlock dreadsteed, and druid's swift flight form are all still in-game and reward feats of strength if they are completed. The aforementioned quests are not required to learn the ability, however, and are on the class trainers at the level listed in the table.

Druid and paladin abilities are slightly different based on race and faction. For example, the Alliance charger is blue and golden, while the Horde version is red and bronze. Similarly, night elf druids are black in flight form, while tauren are tan. With Cataclysm, it seems that tauren and draenei paladins will not be getting chargers, but special types of Kodo and Elekk mounts, respectively.

PvP mounts

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PvP mounts can be obtained by exchanging honor points or other world PvP currency. For Arena rewards, see the Arena section.

Quest reward mounts

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Some laborious or involved quest chains reward mounts.

Faction reward mounts

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As a reward for gaining high reputation standing with various factions, players can purchase mounts. Such high reputation is a function of large quantities of time.

Rare drop mounts

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Rarely, specific creatures will drop a mount as a reward. If the mount drops, only one mount will appear per kill, no matter the size of the party or raid killing the creature. Also, mounts may rarely be inside other containers rewarded for doing other objectives.

Guaranteed drop mounts

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The Time-lost Proto Drake.

A guaranteed drop mount will result in one mount being awarded upon killing the specified creature under the condition listed, regardless of the size of the party or raid. For mounts rewarded such that everyone who completes the achievement gets the mount, see the "Achievements" section. There is no direct achievement for killing the Time-Lost Proto-Drake; the hard part is actually finding the drake alive.

Crafted mounts

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Mounts can also be created by players via professions. Typically such mounts are a perk of the profession and are not available to other players, but a few are.

Purchasable mounts

These mounts are available to all players, with no requirements outside of gold or emblems.

General mounts

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Argent Tournament mounts

This section concerns content exclusive to Wrath of the Lich King.

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A major draw of the Argent Tournament is the large quantity of mounts rewarded in exchange for [Champion's Seal]s.

Amphibious mounts

Main article: Amphibious mount

Amphibious mounts confer a slight increase in swim speed, but move no faster than walking while on land. Amphibious mounts do not give their riders the ability to breathe underwater, so plan accordingly with one of appropriate items or abilities.

Mount		+Speed		Source	Riding skill
		Water	Land
	[Sea Turtle]	250%	0%	Fishing in Northrend fishing pools and quest rewards	Apprentice (75)

Aquatic mounts

Main article: Aquatic mount

For the Subdued Abyssal Seahorse, see quest rewards.

For the Subdued Seahorse, see Guaranteed drop mounts.

Aquatic mounts confer an increase in swim speed, but cannot be used at all on land. Aquatic mounts do not give their riders the ability to breathe underwater, so plan accordingly with one of appropriate items or abilities.

Mount		+Speed		Source	Riding skill
		Water	Land
	Brinedeep Bottom-Feeder	250%?	—	Purchased from Conjurer Margoss on The Broken Shore	Expert (225)
	[Darkwater Skate]	250%?	—	Purchased from Galissa Sundew <Fishing Prizes> on Darkmoon Island	Expert (225)
	Fathom Dweller	250%?	—	Drop from Kosumoth the Hungering	Expert (225)
	[Subdued Abyssal Seahorse]	350% only in Vashj'ir	—	Reward from  [81] The Abyssal Ride	Expert (225)
	[Subdued Seahorse]	250%	—	Drop from Poseidus	Expert (225)

Achievement system mounts

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These mounts are obtainable by completing certain achievements. As part of completing the achievement, the mount will be mailed directly to the player, or available for purchase at select locations.

Holiday mounts

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There are several disguises and time-limited items that are available during holidays. Disguises simply turn the player's mount into something "more festive" like a kodo or a reindeer but do not otherwise affect mount mechanics. Time-limited items exist only during the duration of the holiday itself. Previously, time-limited items had a set time such as seven or 14 days, but were changed to be directly tied to the holiday.

Back during Brewfest 2007, an ["Honorary Brewer" Hand Stamp] was available for purchase and granted access to the [Brewfest Ram] and [Swift Brewfest Ram] vendors. Coren Direbrew (the holiday boss in the Grim Guzzler of Blackrock Depths) had not yet been implemented, so completing the quest was the only way to get the mounts. The hand stamp was removed for the 2008 Brewfest and the Swift Brewfest Ram added to Coren Direbrew's loot table (along with the new [Great Brewfest Kodo]), but the 60%-speed Brewfest Ram can no longer be purchased except by players who completed the Hand Stamp quest.

Outside of game mounts

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A Tauren riding a Heart of the Aspects

A Blazing Hippogryph mount

The mounts in previous sections are acquired using solely in-game means. The mounts that follow require some real-world interactions, such as getting a rare loot card in the TCG, going to BlizzCon, the Recruit-A-Friend program, sending a Scroll of Resurrection, or purchasing mounts from the Blizzard Store.

Passenger mounts

Main article: World of Warcraft passenger mounts category

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•  [Grand Black War Mammoth]
•  [Grand Black War Mammoth]
•  [Grand Expedition Yak]
•  [Grand Ice Mammoth]
•  [Grand Ice Mammoth]
•  [Mechano-hog]
•  [Mekgineer's Chopper]
•  [Obsidian Nightwing]
•  [Sandstone Drake]
•  [Traveler's Tundra Mammoth]
•  [Traveler's Tundra Mammoth]
•  [X-53 Touring Rocket]

Retired mounts

Arena System reward mounts

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At the end of each Arena season, the top 0.5% of teams in the 3v3 and 5v5 bracket each battlegroup are rewarded with a 310% speed flying mount. Such mounts are inherently time-limited and are not currently available.

Removed from game mounts

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These mounts are no longer obtainable in the game.

Flying mounts in Kalimdor & Eastern Kingdoms

With careful use of Eagle Eye or Far Sight, it is possible to see why Flying Mounts were not allowed in the old world until the Cataclysm expansion.

At BlizzCon 2009 it was revealed that flying mounts would be available in some form to use in Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms with the release of the next expansion, titled "Cataclysm". Blizzard officials had previously stated that it was unlikely that they would allow flying mounts in these continents, since doing so would require them to re-design the continents with flying mounts in mind.

Throughout the first few years of World of Warcraft (up to and including Wrath of the Lich King), the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor were unsuitable for flying mounts; there were visual glitches like mountains and high buildings whose tops could not be seen from ground-level, and places where the terrain abruptly changed from one tileset to another, creating a grossly unrealistic appearance in some areas. There were also zones which should have existed lore-wise, but were empty and unfinished.

With the release of Cataclysm, rebuilding the continents is precisely what zone developers did, allowing players to finally see the world of Azeroth from above.

Vanity mounts

Main article: Vanity mount

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Vanity mounts only exist to put the player on a mount. They confer generally no bonuses to movement speed, and thus require no riding skill. The two non-temporary, vanity mounts are the [Rickety Magic Broom], a fairly common reward for completing daily quests during Hallow's End, and the [Riding Turtle], available from the TCG.

Media

Videos

Circa

Although created by BellularGaming, these videos were posted on the official WorldofWarcraft channel.

Leveling up & Mounts - New & Returning Player Guides by Bellular

Aug 28, 2018

Circa

How To Get Every WoW Legion Patch 7.0 Mount! Guide

Notes

• Mounts have a special emote they can do: This can be invoked while motionless on the ground, either by the /mountspecial slash command, or by pressing the Space key
• Flying mounts can perform a loop! Press Pitch Up or Pitch Down (normally Ins and Del) while in flight to perform a loop. On a Mac, the Help key, or the Fn+Del combination (on the laptop) will start it.
  • Additionally, while in a loop, you can use your strafe keys.

Patch history

Legion

This section concerns content exclusive to Legion.

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Warlords of Draenor

This section concerns content exclusive to Warlords of Draenor.

• Patch 6.2.2 (1-Sep-2015): Flying has been enabled on Draenor for characters that have attained the account-wide achievement,  Draenor Pathfinder
  

Mists of Pandaria

This section concerns content exclusive to Mists of Pandaria.

• Patch 5.2.0 (5-Mar-2013): Upon reaching level 20 and level 60, characters will automatically receive a new quest directing them to visit the racial riding trainer and mount vendors.
  
• β Patch 5.0.1 (Beta): Most mounts will be Account-wide mounts.
  

Cataclysm

This section concerns content exclusive to Cataclysm.

• Patch 4.2.0 (2011-06-28): [Vicious War Steed] or [Vicious War Wolf] awarded for winning 75, 150, or 300 rated battlegrounds.
  
• / Patch 4.0.1 (12-Oct-2010): All mounts now scale to the appropriate riding skill. This means that all 310% speed mounts earned from achievements or were awarded from this patch onward are 280% in order to match the current max riding skill, Artisan. Players who already have a 310% mount are grandfathered into the system.
              PvP mounts now cost 2,000
  
• / Patch 4.0.1 (12-Oct-2010): Mounts that are both ground and flying will no longer need to be dismounted and then re-mounted to switch between types. This will now be automatic.
  

Wrath of the Lich King

This section concerns content exclusive to Wrath of the Lich King.

• Patch 3.3.3 (2010-03-23): Battlegrounds will no longer award Marks of Honor. Items which previously required Marks of Honor will have their costs adjusted to remove these requirements.
              PvP mounts now cost 50,000
  
• Patch 3.3.0 (08-Dec-2009): Knockbacks no longer dismount players. If on a flying mount, you will be knocked back a short distance before being able to resume flying.
  
• Patch 3.2.2 (2009-09-22): Undocumented change
              The riding trainers in Thrallmar and Honor Hold are now part of the Orgrimmar and Stormwind factions respectively. Note also that this change doesn't apply to trainers in Northrend.
  
• Patch 3.2.0 (04-Aug-2009):
  • The cast time for summoning any ground or flying mount is now 1.5 seconds, down from 3 seconds.
  • Apprentice Riding (Skill 75): Can now be learned at level 20 for 4. Mail will be sent to players who reach level 20 directing them to the riding trainer.
  • Journeyman Riding (Skill 150): Can now be learned at level 40 for 50. Mail will be sent to players who reach level 40 directing them back to the riding trainer.
  • Expert Riding (Skill 225): Can now be learned at level 60 for 600 from trainers in Honor Hold or Thrallmar. Faction discounts now apply (Honor Hold for Alliance; Thrallmar for Horde). Flight speed at this skill level has been increased to 150% of run speed, up from 60%.
  • Artisan Riding (Skill 300): Faction discounts now apply (Honor Hold or Valiance Expedition for Alliance; Thrallmar or Warsong Offensive for Horde).
  • Flying over Dalaran and Wintergrasp is now possible so long as players keep a healthy distance above the ground.
    
  • The ravasaur trainer Mor'vek has returned to Un'Goro and will offer to help Horde players raise and train a [Venomhide Ravasaur] as a mount... if they can survive the creature's deadly poison.
• Patch 3.1.0 (14-Apr-2009): All Ground Mounts may now swim without dismounting the rider. Flying Mounts still may NOT, and will dismount the rider upon entering water.
  
• Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): Racial restrictions on mounts have now been lifted. Night elves on mechanostriders? Tauren on raptors? You're not seeing things.
  
• / Patch 3.0.2 (14-Oct-2008):
  • Mounting is now permitted in Ahn'Qiraj.
  • New Vanity Pet and Mount changes: Players will now be able to access their non-combat pets and mounts by clicking on the pets tab in the Character Info panel. These pets and mounts will be now learnable much like spells or abilities. Once a vanity pet or mount is learned, the icon will disappear from within a player's inventory and reappear in the appropriate tab under the pet tab under Character Info. Say goodbye to your vanity pets and mounts taking up bag and bank slots! Lost pets and mounts (one time quest rewards) can be recovered by visiting a stablemaster.
    

Burning Crusade

This section concerns content exclusive to The Burning Crusade.

• Patch 2.4.3 (2008-07-15): Mounts at 30?! Yes, it's true: Apprentice Riding and mounts are now available at level 30. Training costs 35.
  
• Patch 2.3.0 (13-Nov-2007): Nutral, the flight master in Shattrath City, now has a quest for characters who are level 70 and do not yet have a riding skill of 225. The quest will direct a character to visit the appropriate riding instructor in Shadowmoon Valley so that the player will know where they can purchase the skill necessary to use a flying mount.
  
• Patch 2.1.0 (22-May-2007):
  • Swift Flying Mounts: All the swift flying mounts will now display as epic items, rather than superior-quality items.
  • Using abilities and casting spells that cannot be used while mounted will now auto-dismount players as needed. This can be disabled by turning off the auto-dismount option in the UI options.
  • New Lua conditional [flyable] which is true if you're in a location where you could use a flying mount.
    
• Patch 2.0.3 (09-Jan-2007): New macro command: /dismount
  
• / Patch 2.0.1 (05-Dec-2006): Honor system revamp
              PvP mounts no longer limited to rank 11s, now available for 30 30 30 each.
  

Classic

This section concerns content exclusive to World of Warcraft.

• Patch 1.12.1 (26-Sep-2006): The riding skill has been changed. A riding skill of 75 is now needed to ride level 40 mounts and a skill of 150 for level 60 mounts. Those that already have mounts will automatically be granted the appropriate level skill.
  
• Patch 1.12.0 (22-Aug-2006): The Items that summon mounts have been changed in their color/quality. Items that summon normal mounts are now blue (superior) items and items that summon swift mounts are now purple (epic) items.
  
• Patch 1.6.0 (12-Jul-2005): Clarified the error message when trying to attack while mounted.
  
• Patch 1.5.0 (2005-06-07): Many of the Swift Mounts have gained eye glows and some have had other tweaks made to them to improve their looks.
  
• Patch 1.4.0 (2005-05-05): Level 60 mounts purchased at vendors now have a whole new look. Faster undead mounts already have a different look and so have not changed. The new mounts can be seen standing near the mount vendors. If you have one of the old fast mounts, you can exchange it for one with a new look at the mount vendor.
  
• Patch 1.3.0 (07-Mar-2005): Mounts now are Horde or Alliance restricted in the tooltip. We do not intend to allow Horde players to ride Alliance vendor-purchased mounts and vice versa.
  
• Patch 1.2.0 (18-Dec-2004): Players will now be able to purchase and train mounts from other races in their faction. However, you will first need to obtain "Exalted" reputation status with that race in order to do so. Mounts of the opposing faction are not available for purchase.
  
• Patch 1.1.0 (07-Nov-2004): Tauren players will no longer have the [Plainsrunning] ability, due to the availability of Kodo mounts! Tauren players can purchase the Kodo mount at Bloodhoof village.
  

See also

• If you want to get a head start, read a Guide for Preparing to Buy a Mount.
• Locations of fixed devices throughout Azeroth, including where to purchase mounts.
• Mounts and Pets window
• skill
• Transportation category for a detailed list of methods of transportation in WoW.

External links

WoW Official Game Site (US) Pets & Mounts → Mounts tab

WoW Official Game Site (EU) Pets & Mounts → Mounts tab

Info

Wowhead All mount spells

WarcraftMounts.com Images of all the currently available mounts!

Legion news

Polygon.com How to acquire every new mount in World of Warcraft: Legion by Philip Kollar Oct 3, 2016, 6:00p

News

Wowhead News 5.4 PTR: New Mounts, Pet Limit Increased and Pet Ability Scaling on Wowhead by perculia 2013/08/09 1:07 PM

WoW Official Game Site (US) Game Guide Updates: Pets and Mounts, Scenarios by Blizzard Entertainment, Nov 29, 2012 6:00 PM PST

WoW Official Game Site (EU) Game Guide Updates: Pets and Mounts, Scenarios by Blizzard Entertainment, 30 Nov 2012 13:59 GMT

Wowhead News Patch 5.0.4: Account-Wide Achievements, Tier 13 Bonuses by perculia 2012/08/29 1:17 PM

Wowhead News Mists of Pandaria: New Mounts by perculia 2012/07/16 11:38 AM

WoW Insider Mists of Pandaria Beta: New mounts in the latest build (build 15799) by Robin Torres Jun 29th 2012 at 9:00AM

WoW Insider Mists of Pandaria: Gold sink mounts will be account-wide by Robin Torres Jun 25th 2012 at 7:00PM

WoW Insider All you need to know about account-wide mounts (so far) by Anne Stickney May 7th 2012 at 5:00PM

MMO-Champion Account-wide Mounts on Beta, Pandaren Voices, Blue Posts by Boubouille 2012-05-04 07:26 AM

WoW Insider Mists of Pandaria beta: Account-wide mounts are a go by Anne Stickney May 4th 2012 at 2:07AM

Apple Cider Mage Mists of Pandaria Beta: Account-Wide Mounts by Apple Cider May 4, 2012

WoW Insider Meet the new million-gold jewelcrafting mounts by Fox Van Allen Apr 10th 2012 at 7:00PM

WoW Official Game Site (US) Patch 4.2: New PvP Mounts for Rated Battlegrounds by Zarhym, Jun 20, 2011 9:00 AM PDT

WoW Official Game Site (EU) Patch 4.2: New PvP Mounts for Rated Battlegrounds by Zarhym, 20 Jun 2011 16:00 UTC

WoW Insider Blizzard previews new rated battlegrounds PVP mounts by Mathew McCurley Jun 20th 2011 at 3:00PM

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Wowhead News Mountain o' Mounts: A Guide to Collecting Mounts by perculia 20011/06/19 9:17 AM

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PvP mounts

PvP mounts can be obtained by exchanging honor points or other world PvP currency. For Arena rewards, see the Arena section.

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Quest reward mounts

Some laborious or involved quest chains reward mounts.

Mount		Type	Quest	Riding skill
	[Grand Gryphon]	Flying	[90] The Silence	Artisan (300)
	[Venomhide Ravasaur]	Ground	[53] They Grow Up So Fast	Apprentice (75)
	[Grand Wyvern]	Flying	[90] Breath of Darkest Shadow	Artisan (300)
	[Crimson Deathcharger]	Ground	[80] Mograine's Reunion	Apprentice (75)
	[Subdued Abyssal Seahorse]	Aquatic	[81] The Abyssal Ride	Expert (225)
	[Tarecgosa's Visage]	Flying	[85] The Stuff of Legends	Apprentice (75?)
	[Bone White Primal Raptor]	Ground	[90] A Mountain of Giant Dinosaur Bones	Artisan (300)

Faction reward mounts

As a reward for gaining high reputation standing with various factions, players can purchase mounts. Such high reputation is a function of large quantities of time.

Mount		Type	Cost	Faction	Riding skill
	[Winterspring Frostsaber]	Ground	100	Wintersaber Trainers exalted	Apprentice (75)
	[Spectral Steed]	Ground	165	Baradin's Wardens exalted	Apprentice (75)
	[Drake of the West Wind]	Flying	200	Baradin's Wardens exalted	Artisan (300)
	[Grand Armored Gryphon]	Flying	2000	Operation: Shieldwall exalted	Artisan (300)
	[Spectral Wolf]	Ground	165	Hellscream's Reach exalted	Apprentice (75)
	[Drake of the West Wind]	Flying	200	Hellscream's Reach exalted	Artisan (300)
	[Grand Armored Wyvern]	Flying	2000	Dominance Offensive exalted	Artisan (300)
	[Cenarion War Hippogryph]	Flying	2,000	Cenarion Expedition exalted	Artisan (300)
	Talbuk mounts  [Cobalt Riding Talbuk] [Silver Riding Talbuk] [Tan Riding Talbuk] [White Riding Talbuk]	Ground	70	Kurenai/Mag'har exalted	Journeyman (150)
	War talbuk mounts  [Cobalt War Talbuk] [Silver War Talbuk] [Tan War Talbuk] [White War Talbuk]	Ground	100	Kurenai/Mag'har exalted	Journeyman (150)
	Netherwing drake mounts  [Azure Netherwing Drake] [Cobalt Netherwing Drake] [Onyx Netherwing Drake] [Purple Netherwing Drake] [Veridian Netherwing Drake] [Violet Netherwing Drake]	Flying	200	Netherwing exalted	Artisan (300)
	Nether ray mounts  [Blue Riding Nether Ray] [Green Riding Nether Ray] [Purple Riding Nether Ray] [Red Riding Nether Ray] [Silver Riding Nether Ray]	Flying	200	Sha'tari Skyguard exalted	Artisan (300)
	[Ice Mammoth]	Ground	1,000	Sons of Hodir revered	Journeyman (150)
	[Grand Ice Mammoth]	Ground	10,000	Sons of Hodir exalted	Journeyman (150)
	[Red Drake]	Flying	1,600	Wyrmrest Accord exalted	Artisan (300)
	[Brown Riding Camel]	Ground	80	Ramkahen exalted	Journeyman (150)
	[Tan Riding Camel]	Ground	80	Ramkahen exalted	Journeyman (150)
	[Azure Water Strider]	Ground	5000	Anglers exalted	Journeyman (150)
	[Disc of the Red Flying Cloud]	Flying	600	The Lorewalkers exalted	Expert (225)
	Riding Goat mounts  [Brown Riding Goat] [Black Riding Goat] [White Riding Goat]	Ground	500/3250	The Tillers exalted	Artisan (300)
	[Thundering August Cloud Serpent]	Flying	10000	The August Celestials exalted	Artisan (300)
	[Thundering Ruby Cloud Serpent]	Flying	Drop	The August Celestials exalted	Artisan (300)
	Cloud Serpent mounts  [Azure Cloud Serpent] [Golden Cloud Serpent] [Jade Cloud Serpent]	Flying	2500	Order of the Cloud Serpent exalted	Artisan (300)
	Riding Crane mounts  [Azure Riding Crane] [Golden Riding Crane] [Regal Riding Crane]	Ground	3,000	Golden Lotus exalted	Journeyman (150)
	[Amber Scorpion]	Ground	10000	The Klaxxi exalted	Journeyman (150)
	[Onyx Cloud Serpent]	Flying		Shado-Pan exalted	Artisan (300)
	[Corrupted Dreadwing]	Flying	150,000	Order of the Awakened friendly	Apprentice (75)

Rare drop mounts

Rarely, specific creatures will drop a mount as a reward. If the mount drops, only one mount will appear per kill, no matter the size of the party or raid killing the creature. Also, mounts may rarely be inside other containers rewarded for doing other objectives.

Mount		Type	Source	Riding skill
	Qiraji battle tank mounts	Ground	AQ40 Drop	Apprentice (75)
	[Deathcharger's Reins]	Ground	Baron Rivendare, Stratholme	Journeyman (150)
	[Fiery Warhorse]	Ground	Attumen the Huntsman, Karazhan	Journeyman (150)
	[Raven Lord]	Ground	Anzu, Heroic Sethekk Halls	Journeyman (150)
	[White Hawkstrider]	Ground	Kael'thas Sunstrider, Heroic Magisters' Terrace	Journeyman (150)
	[White Polar Bear]	Ground	[Hyldnir Spoils], Gretta the Arbiter	Journeyman (150)
	[Grand Black War Mammoth]	Ground	Vault of Archavon, any boss, 10- or 25-player	Journeyman (150)
	[Ashes of Al'ar]	Flying	Kael'thas Sunstrider, The Eye	Artisan (300)
	[Azure Drake]	Flying	Malygos 25-player, Eye of Eternity	Artisan (300)
	[Blue Drake]	Flying	Malygos 10-player, Eye of Eternity	Artisan (300)
	[Blue Proto-Drake]	Flying	Skadi the Ruthless, Heroic Utgarde Pinnacle	Artisan (300)
	[Green Proto-Drake]	Flying	[Mysterious Egg], Oracles revered	Artisan (300)
	[Onyxian Drake]	Flying	Onyxia 10- or 25-player, Onyxia's Lair	Artisan (300)
	Swift Zulian Panther	Ground	High Priestess Kilnara in Zul'Gurub	Journeyman (150)
	[Armored Razzashi Raptor]	Ground	Bloodlord Mandokir in Zul'Gurub	Journeyman (150)
	[Drake of the North Wind]	Flying	Altairus, Vortex Pinnacle	Artisan (300)
	[Drake of the South Wind]	Flying	Heart of Wind 10- or 25-player, Throne of the Four Winds	Artisan (300)
	[Vitreous Stone Drake]	Flying	Slabhide, The Stonecore	Artisan (300)
	[Grey Riding Camel]	Ground	Dormus the Camel-Hoarder in Steam Pools	Journeyman (150)
	[Flametalon of Alysrazor]	Ground	Alysrazor in Firelands	Journeyman (150)
	[Smoldering Egg of Millagazor]	Flying	Ragnaros (tactics) in Firelands	Artisan (300)
	[Experiment 12-B]	Flying	Ultraxion in Dragon Soul	Artisan (300)
	[Blazing Drake]	Flying	Madness of Deathwing in Dragon Soul(normal)	Artisan (300)
	[Life-Binder's Handmaiden]	Flying	Madness of Deathwing in Dragon Soul(heroic)	Artisan (300)
	[Astral Cloud Serpent]	Flying	Elegon, Mogu'shan Vaults	Artisan (300)
	[Thundering Cobalt Cloud Serpent]	Flying	Nalak <The Storm Lord> on the Isle of Thunder	Artisan (300)
	Cobalt Primordial Direhorn	Ground	Oondasta on the Isle of Thunder	Journeyman (150)
	Amber Primordial Direhorn Jade Primordial Direhorn Slate Primordial Direhorn	Ground	Zandalari Warbringers throughout Pandaria	Journeyman (150)
	[Heavenly Onyx Cloud Serpent]	Flying	Sha of Anger	Artisan (300)
	[Black Primal Raptor] [Red Primal Raptor] [Green Primal Raptor]	Ground	Hatches from [Primal Egg], a rare drop from elite dinosaurs on the Isle of Giants, or bosses within the Throne of Thunder.	Artisan (300)
	[Infinite Timereaver]	Flying	Slight chance to drop from any Timewalking boss.	Artisan (300)

Guaranteed drop mounts

A guaranteed drop mount will result in one mount being awarded upon killing the specified creature under the condition listed, regardless of the size of the party or raid. For mounts rewarded such that everyone who completes the achievement gets the mount, see the "Achievements" section. There is no direct achievement for killing the Time-Lost Proto-Drake; the hard part is actually finding the drake alive.

Mount		Type	Achievement	Creature	Riding skill
	[Swift Alliance Steed] [Swift Horde Wolf]	Ground	A Tribute to Insanity (10)	Argent Crusade Tribute Chest	Journeyman (150)
	[Crusader's White Warhorse] [Crusader's Black Warhorse]	Ground	A Tribute to Immortality	Anub'arak	Journeyman (150)
	[Bronze Drake]	Flying	Culling of Time	Infinite Corruptor	Artisan (300)
	[Black Drake]	Flying	Twilight Zone (10)	Sartharion	Artisan (300)
	[Time-Lost Proto-Drake]	Flying		Time-Lost Proto Drake	Artisan (300)
	[Twilight Drake]	Flying	Twilight Zone (25)	Sartharion	Artisan (300)
	[Subdued Seahorse]	Aquatic		Poseidus	Expert (225)
	[Phosphorescent Stone Drake]	Flying		Aeonaxx, Deepholm	Artisan (300)
	[Thundering Ruby Cloud Serpent]	Flying		Alani	Artisan (300)
	[Grove Warden]	Flying		Quest item looted from Archimonde in Hellfire Citadel (Heroic or Mythic)	Apprentice (75)

Crafted mounts

	Riding (Profession)
	Trainers • Mounts

See mount (disambig) for a less gigantic list with specific lists.

An undead riding his giant mammoth.

Mounts are a much sought after form of transportation in which players ride atop the backs of various more or less exotic beasts (or machines). They can be accessed via the Mounts and Pets window. Warlocks, paladins and death knights can learn to summon mounts as a class perk. The Alliance Worgen have a race skill Running Wild that they will get at level 20. Druids can shape shift into multiple forms that improve their speed. Mounted travel is almost always faster than walking/running (some vanity mounts such as Sea Turtle provide no speed benefit on the ground). The Burning Crusade introduced flying mounts in select areas, which further increased the maximum possible player movement speed. Cataclysm opened up much of Azeroth to flying mounts.

Mounts were generally expensive in the past, but their prices have been reduced while the training to ride them increased in order to compensate. However, some mounts do not cost any gold or other currencies (such as honor points) and will drop at very low drop rates from bosses in instances such as Stratholme, Zul'Gurub, Tempest Keep, Magisters' Terrace, Sethekk Halls, Karazhan, and Utgarde Pinnacle. There are numerous other methods to obtain mounts as well, such as class quests, completing achievements, and even a select few rare spawns drop mounts.

Mounts have a 1.5 second cast time, which will be interrupted by taking any damage, moving, or entering combat. Mounts also have a special emote that can be seen by either jumping (the Space key by default) while not moving or performing the /mountspecial slash command. For example hawkstriders will shriek and horses will rear up on their hind legs.

Riding skills and abilities

See Also: Riding
NOTE: After Cataclysm, speed is not based on mount class but only on riding skill.

A Human Mage riding a Swift White Steed, an Alliance Epic Mount.

Blood Knights riding their Horde paladin mounts.

There are a total of five classes of mounts:

Class	Quality	Ground	Air	Water
Ground mounts	Rare/Epic	60%	—	0%
Flying mounts	Rare/Epic	100%	150%	—
Amphibious mounts	Rare/Epic	0%	—	250%
Aquatic mounts	Rare/Epic	—	—	100%/350%
Vanity mounts	Rare/Epic	0%	—	0%

Ground mounts cannot fly, but flying mounts are able to run (or fly) along the ground in areas where flight is prohibited. Both flying and ground mounts can swim (but not any faster than swimming without a mount). Aquatic mounts can walk on land (but not any faster than walking without the mount). Vanity mounts confer no benefits (and thus, require no riding skill or character level).}}

General Riding Skill

There are five general tiers of riding which can be learned from trainers as a character increases in level. These become available for characters to train once they meet the particular level requirements. The speed of a character's mounts generally increases with each tier of riding skill, while some tiers of riding grant the ability to ride flying mounts. The general riding skills are:

• Apprentice: Level 20
• Journeyman: Level 40
• Expert: Level 60
• Artisan: Level 70
• Master: Level 80

Class-Specific Riding Skills

At level 40, paladins and warlocks can learn [Summon Charger] and [Dreadsteed] from their class trainers after learning the Journeyman riding skill from the riding trainer. There is no need to purchase a new mount. Death knights receive their epic ground mount, the [Acherus Deathcharger], after the completion of the quests Grand Theft Palomino and Into the Realm of Shadows at level 55. Druids can learn [Flight Form] from any flight trainer at level 58.

Unlocking flight in specific areas

In areas where flying is allowed, a character typically needs to train a specific skill in order to unlock the ability to fly in that region. These types of skills and their requirements can be found in the table below.

Riding Skills

Proficiency		Cost		+Speed	Required for	Requires
		Skill	Mounts	Air
75	Apprentice	4	1	60%	Rare land mounts	Level 20
150	Journeyman	50	10	100%	Epic land mounts	Level 40
225	Expert	250	50	150%	Rare flying mounts	Level 60
300	Artisan	5000	100	280%	Epic flying mounts	Level 70
375	Master	5000	—	310%	Extremely fast speed	Level 80
[Flight Master's License]		250	—	—	Flying in Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor and Deepholm	Level 60 & 225 skill
[Cold Weather Flying]		500	—	—	Flying in Northrend	Level 68 & 225 skill
[Wisdom of the Four Winds]		2500	—	—	Flying in Pandaria	Level 90 & 225 skill
[Cloud Serpent Riding]			—	—	Flying Cloud Serpent mounts (requirement removed in Patch 6.0.2)	Level 90 & 225 skill
[Draenor Flying]			—	—	Flying in Draenor	Draenor Pathfinder
[Broken Isles Flying]			—	—	Flying in the Broken Isles	Broken Isles Pathfinder, Part One  Broken Isles Pathfinder, Part Two (Patch 7.2)

Increasing your speed

Through guild advancement

The guild perk [Mount Up] will increase your riding speed by 10%.

Through class abilities and talents

Two trolls riding raptors.

Shaman and Druids acquire shapeshift forms ([Ghost Wolf] for shaman and [Travel Form] for druids) that increase their movement speed (not as much as a mount, but it is trainable at an earlier level), while Hunters get aspects to boost their own movement speed and that of their party. Rogues and druids (in [Cat Form]) have an ability to temporarily increase movement speed. Here are the skills and abilities that provide some classes with a bit of a faster mount movement speed, either passively or by the activation of an ability.

•  Death Knight
  • [Unholy Presence] as of "Mists of Pandaria", Unholy Presence now grants an additional 15% movement speed, regardless of specialization.
•  Hunter
  • [Pathfinding] in the Beast Mastery talent tree (tier 3). Increases your speed while mounted by 5%/10%. The mounted movement speed increase does not stack with other effects.
•  Paladin
  • [Pursuit of Justice] in the Retribution talent tree (tier 3). Increases your movement speed (and mounted movement speed) by 8%/15%. This does not stack with other speed increasing effects.
  • [Crusader Aura] at level 62. Movement speed while mounted is increased by 20%. The mounted movement speed increase does not stack with other effects.
  • [Aura Mastery] in the Holy tree (tier 3) does not directly increase mounted movement speed, but it does boost Crusader Aura. With these two abilities combined, it is possible to increase mounted movement speed by 40% for 6 seconds every 2 minutes.

Through items and enchants

A Thundering Jade Cloud Serpent.

There are five other methods for increasing your mounted speed, with no effects beyond level 70:

• [Enchant Gloves - Riding Skill]: +2% (stacking), world drop Enchanting recipe
• [Mithril Spurs]: +4% (stacking), world drop Blacksmithing plans
• [Riding Crop]: +10% (non-stacking), Leatherworking pattern sold in Old Hillsbrad Foothills.
• [Skybreaker Whip]: +10% (non-stacking), quest reward from  [70] Dragonmaw Race: Captain Skyshatter, must be Honored with Netherwing.

These last two items effectively increase a mount's speed by 10%. However, they do not stack with the previously mentioned methods, so they are approximately (see below) a 1% improvement over using the above 3 items combined. It should be also noted that for players of WotLK the Riding Crop is only usable for two levels (69 and 70), and the Skybreaker Whip only for one level (70).

All speed improvement items work on both normal and flying mounts (with the exception of npc controlled point-to-point flight).

Characters higher than level 70 will not benefit from mount speed improvement items and enchants. With Cataclysm, the following are no longer available:

• [Carrot on a Stick]: +3% (stacking), reward from the Gahz'rilla quest in Zul'Farrak.

Available mounts

The tables below are separated based on mount source, such as purchase requirements, killing specific creatures, participating in world events, completing achievements or more.

Racial mounts

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The face of a Grey Riding Yak.

Racial land mounts are typically the first mounts players will acquire. To purchase a racial land mount, players must either purchase their race's mount (such as horses for humans, or wolves for orcs), or gain exalted standing with that race's representative faction (such as exalted with Darnassus to purchase sabers). Flying mounts do not require any reputation rating.

In the initial release of Cataclysm, the worgen did not get a racial mount, but instead used the ability [Running Wild] to achieve mount-like speeds. However, a mountain horse mount (regular and swift) was added in Patch 4.3 as the worgen racial mount.

Class-specific mounts

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An Azure Cloud Serpent.

There are four classes in the game that can acquire special mounts and abilities linked to their own class through lore: death knights, druids, paladins, and warlocks. The original quests to gain the paladin charger, warlock dreadsteed, and druid's swift flight form are all still in-game and reward feats of strength if they are completed. The aforementioned quests are not required to learn the ability, however, and are on the class trainers at the level listed in the table.

Druid and paladin abilities are slightly different based on race and faction. For example, the Alliance charger is blue and golden, while the Horde version is red and bronze. Similarly, night elf druids are black in flight form, while tauren are tan. With Cataclysm, it seems that tauren and draenei paladins will not be getting chargers, but special types of Kodo and Elekk mounts, respectively.

PvP mounts

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PvP mounts can be obtained by exchanging honor points or other world PvP currency. For Arena rewards, see the Arena section.

Quest reward mounts

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Some laborious or involved quest chains reward mounts.

Faction reward mounts

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As a reward for gaining high reputation standing with various factions, players can purchase mounts. Such high reputation is a function of large quantities of time.

Rare drop mounts

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Rarely, specific creatures will drop a mount as a reward. If the mount drops, only one mount will appear per kill, no matter the size of the party or raid killing the creature. Also, mounts may rarely be inside other containers rewarded for doing other objectives.

Guaranteed drop mounts

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The Time-lost Proto Drake.

A guaranteed drop mount will result in one mount being awarded upon killing the specified creature under the condition listed, regardless of the size of the party or raid. For mounts rewarded such that everyone who completes the achievement gets the mount, see the "Achievements" section. There is no direct achievement for killing the Time-Lost Proto-Drake; the hard part is actually finding the drake alive.

Crafted mounts

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Mounts can also be created by players via professions. Typically such mounts are a perk of the profession and are not available to other players, but a few are.

Purchasable mounts

These mounts are available to all players, with no requirements outside of gold or emblems.

General mounts

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Argent Tournament mounts

This section concerns content exclusive to Wrath of the Lich King.

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A major draw of the Argent Tournament is the large quantity of mounts rewarded in exchange for [Champion's Seal]s.

Amphibious mounts

Main article: Amphibious mount

Amphibious mounts confer a slight increase in swim speed, but move no faster than walking while on land. Amphibious mounts do not give their riders the ability to breathe underwater, so plan accordingly with one of appropriate items or abilities.

Mount		+Speed		Source	Riding skill
		Water	Land
	[Sea Turtle]	250%	0%	Fishing in Northrend fishing pools and quest rewards	Apprentice (75)

Aquatic mounts

Main article: Aquatic mount

For the Subdued Abyssal Seahorse, see quest rewards.

For the Subdued Seahorse, see Guaranteed drop mounts.

Aquatic mounts confer an increase in swim speed, but cannot be used at all on land. Aquatic mounts do not give their riders the ability to breathe underwater, so plan accordingly with one of appropriate items or abilities.

Mount		+Speed		Source	Riding skill
		Water	Land
	Brinedeep Bottom-Feeder	250%?	—	Purchased from Conjurer Margoss on The Broken Shore	Expert (225)
	[Darkwater Skate]	250%?	—	Purchased from Galissa Sundew <Fishing Prizes> on Darkmoon Island	Expert (225)
	Fathom Dweller	250%?	—	Drop from Kosumoth the Hungering	Expert (225)
	[Subdued Abyssal Seahorse]	350% only in Vashj'ir	—	Reward from  [81] The Abyssal Ride	Expert (225)
	[Subdued Seahorse]	250%	—	Drop from Poseidus	Expert (225)

Achievement system mounts

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These mounts are obtainable by completing certain achievements. As part of completing the achievement, the mount will be mailed directly to the player, or available for purchase at select locations.

Holiday mounts

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There are several disguises and time-limited items that are available during holidays. Disguises simply turn the player's mount into something "more festive" like a kodo or a reindeer but do not otherwise affect mount mechanics. Time-limited items exist only during the duration of the holiday itself. Previously, time-limited items had a set time such as seven or 14 days, but were changed to be directly tied to the holiday.

Back during Brewfest 2007, an ["Honorary Brewer" Hand Stamp] was available for purchase and granted access to the [Brewfest Ram] and [Swift Brewfest Ram] vendors. Coren Direbrew (the holiday boss in the Grim Guzzler of Blackrock Depths) had not yet been implemented, so completing the quest was the only way to get the mounts. The hand stamp was removed for the 2008 Brewfest and the Swift Brewfest Ram added to Coren Direbrew's loot table (along with the new [Great Brewfest Kodo]), but the 60%-speed Brewfest Ram can no longer be purchased except by players who completed the Hand Stamp quest.

Outside of game mounts

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A Tauren riding a Heart of the Aspects

A Blazing Hippogryph mount

The mounts in previous sections are acquired using solely in-game means. The mounts that follow require some real-world interactions, such as getting a rare loot card in the TCG, going to BlizzCon, the Recruit-A-Friend program, sending a Scroll of Resurrection, or purchasing mounts from the Blizzard Store.

Passenger mounts

Main article: World of Warcraft passenger mounts category

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•  [Grand Black War Mammoth]
•  [Grand Black War Mammoth]
•  [Grand Expedition Yak]
•  [Grand Ice Mammoth]
•  [Grand Ice Mammoth]
•  [Mechano-hog]
•  [Mekgineer's Chopper]
•  [Obsidian Nightwing]
•  [Sandstone Drake]
•  [Traveler's Tundra Mammoth]
•  [Traveler's Tundra Mammoth]
•  [X-53 Touring Rocket]

Retired mounts

Arena System reward mounts

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At the end of each Arena season, the top 0.5% of teams in the 3v3 and 5v5 bracket each battlegroup are rewarded with a 310% speed flying mount. Such mounts are inherently time-limited and are not currently available.

Removed from game mounts

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These mounts are no longer obtainable in the game.

Flying mounts in Kalimdor & Eastern Kingdoms

With careful use of Eagle Eye or Far Sight, it is possible to see why Flying Mounts were not allowed in the old world until the Cataclysm expansion.

At BlizzCon 2009 it was revealed that flying mounts would be available in some form to use in Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms with the release of the next expansion, titled "Cataclysm". Blizzard officials had previously stated that it was unlikely that they would allow flying mounts in these continents, since doing so would require them to re-design the continents with flying mounts in mind.

Throughout the first few years of World of Warcraft (up to and including Wrath of the Lich King), the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor were unsuitable for flying mounts; there were visual glitches like mountains and high buildings whose tops could not be seen from ground-level, and places where the terrain abruptly changed from one tileset to another, creating a grossly unrealistic appearance in some areas. There were also zones which should have existed lore-wise, but were empty and unfinished.

With the release of Cataclysm, rebuilding the continents is precisely what zone developers did, allowing players to finally see the world of Azeroth from above.

Vanity mounts

Main article: Vanity mount

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Vanity mounts only exist to put the player on a mount. They confer generally no bonuses to movement speed, and thus require no riding skill. The two non-temporary, vanity mounts are the [Rickety Magic Broom], a fairly common reward for completing daily quests during Hallow's End, and the [Riding Turtle], available from the TCG.

Media

Videos

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Leveling up & Mounts - New & Returning Player Guides by Bellular

Aug 28, 2018

Circa

How To Get Every WoW Legion Patch 7.0 Mount! Guide

Notes

• Mounts have a special emote they can do: This can be invoked while motionless on the ground, either by the /mountspecial slash command, or by pressing the Space key
• Flying mounts can perform a loop! Press Pitch Up or Pitch Down (normally Ins and Del) while in flight to perform a loop. On a Mac, the Help key, or the Fn+Del combination (on the laptop) will start it.
  • Additionally, while in a loop, you can use your strafe keys.

Patch history

Legion

This section concerns content exclusive to Legion.

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Warlords of Draenor

This section concerns content exclusive to Warlords of Draenor.

• Patch 6.2.2 (1-Sep-2015): Flying has been enabled on Draenor for characters that have attained the account-wide achievement,  Draenor Pathfinder
  

Mists of Pandaria

This section concerns content exclusive to Mists of Pandaria.

• Patch 5.2.0 (5-Mar-2013): Upon reaching level 20 and level 60, characters will automatically receive a new quest directing them to visit the racial riding trainer and mount vendors.
  
• β Patch 5.0.1 (Beta): Most mounts will be Account-wide mounts.
  

Cataclysm

This section concerns content exclusive to Cataclysm.

• Patch 4.2.0 (2011-06-28): [Vicious War Steed] or [Vicious War Wolf] awarded for winning 75, 150, or 300 rated battlegrounds.
  
• / Patch 4.0.1 (12-Oct-2010): All mounts now scale to the appropriate riding skill. This means that all 310% speed mounts earned from achievements or were awarded from this patch onward are 280% in order to match the current max riding skill, Artisan. Players who already have a 310% mount are grandfathered into the system.
              PvP mounts now cost 2,000
  
• / Patch 4.0.1 (12-Oct-2010): Mounts that are both ground and flying will no longer need to be dismounted and then re-mounted to switch between types. This will now be automatic.
  

Wrath of the Lich King

This section concerns content exclusive to Wrath of the Lich King.

• Patch 3.3.3 (2010-03-23): Battlegrounds will no longer award Marks of Honor. Items which previously required Marks of Honor will have their costs adjusted to remove these requirements.
              PvP mounts now cost 50,000
  
• Patch 3.3.0 (08-Dec-2009): Knockbacks no longer dismount players. If on a flying mount, you will be knocked back a short distance before being able to resume flying.
  
• Patch 3.2.2 (2009-09-22): Undocumented change
              The riding trainers in Thrallmar and Honor Hold are now part of the Orgrimmar and Stormwind factions respectively. Note also that this change doesn't apply to trainers in Northrend.
  
• Patch 3.2.0 (04-Aug-2009):
  • The cast time for summoning any ground or flying mount is now 1.5 seconds, down from 3 seconds.
  • Apprentice Riding (Skill 75): Can now be learned at level 20 for 4. Mail will be sent to players who reach level 20 directing them to the riding trainer.
  • Journeyman Riding (Skill 150): Can now be learned at level 40 for 50. Mail will be sent to players who reach level 40 directing them back to the riding trainer.
  • Expert Riding (Skill 225): Can now be learned at level 60 for 600 from trainers in Honor Hold or Thrallmar. Faction discounts now apply (Honor Hold for Alliance; Thrallmar for Horde). Flight speed at this skill level has been increased to 150% of run speed, up from 60%.
  • Artisan Riding (Skill 300): Faction discounts now apply (Honor Hold or Valiance Expedition for Alliance; Thrallmar or Warsong Offensive for Horde).
  • Flying over Dalaran and Wintergrasp is now possible so long as players keep a healthy distance above the ground.
    
  • The ravasaur trainer Mor'vek has returned to Un'Goro and will offer to help Horde players raise and train a [Venomhide Ravasaur] as a mount... if they can survive the creature's deadly poison.
• Patch 3.1.0 (14-Apr-2009): All Ground Mounts may now swim without dismounting the rider. Flying Mounts still may NOT, and will dismount the rider upon entering water.
  
• Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): Racial restrictions on mounts have now been lifted. Night elves on mechanostriders? Tauren on raptors? You're not seeing things.
  
• / Patch 3.0.2 (14-Oct-2008):
  • Mounting is now permitted in Ahn'Qiraj.
  • New Vanity Pet and Mount changes: Players will now be able to access their non-combat pets and mounts by clicking on the pets tab in the Character Info panel. These pets and mounts will be now learnable much like spells or abilities. Once a vanity pet or mount is learned, the icon will disappear from within a player's inventory and reappear in the appropriate tab under the pet tab under Character Info. Say goodbye to your vanity pets and mounts taking up bag and bank slots! Lost pets and mounts (one time quest rewards) can be recovered by visiting a stablemaster.
    

Burning Crusade

This section concerns content exclusive to The Burning Crusade.

• Patch 2.4.3 (2008-07-15): Mounts at 30?! Yes, it's true: Apprentice Riding and mounts are now available at level 30. Training costs 35.
  
• Patch 2.3.0 (13-Nov-2007): Nutral, the flight master in Shattrath City, now has a quest for characters who are level 70 and do not yet have a riding skill of 225. The quest will direct a character to visit the appropriate riding instructor in Shadowmoon Valley so that the player will know where they can purchase the skill necessary to use a flying mount.
  
• Patch 2.1.0 (22-May-2007):
  • Swift Flying Mounts: All the swift flying mounts will now display as epic items, rather than superior-quality items.
  • Using abilities and casting spells that cannot be used while mounted will now auto-dismount players as needed. This can be disabled by turning off the auto-dismount option in the UI options.
  • New Lua conditional [flyable] which is true if you're in a location where you could use a flying mount.
    
• Patch 2.0.3 (09-Jan-2007): New macro command: /dismount
  
• / Patch 2.0.1 (05-Dec-2006): Honor system revamp
              PvP mounts no longer limited to rank 11s, now available for 30 30 30 each.
  

Classic

This section concerns content exclusive to World of Warcraft.

• Patch 1.12.1 (26-Sep-2006): The riding skill has been changed. A riding skill of 75 is now needed to ride level 40 mounts and a skill of 150 for level 60 mounts. Those that already have mounts will automatically be granted the appropriate level skill.
  
• Patch 1.12.0 (22-Aug-2006): The Items that summon mounts have been changed in their color/quality. Items that summon normal mounts are now blue (superior) items and items that summon swift mounts are now purple (epic) items.
  
• Patch 1.6.0 (12-Jul-2005): Clarified the error message when trying to attack while mounted.
  
• Patch 1.5.0 (2005-06-07): Many of the Swift Mounts have gained eye glows and some have had other tweaks made to them to improve their looks.
  
• Patch 1.4.0 (2005-05-05): Level 60 mounts purchased at vendors now have a whole new look. Faster undead mounts already have a different look and so have not changed. The new mounts can be seen standing near the mount vendors. If you have one of the old fast mounts, you can exchange it for one with a new look at the mount vendor.
  
• Patch 1.3.0 (07-Mar-2005): Mounts now are Horde or Alliance restricted in the tooltip. We do not intend to allow Horde players to ride Alliance vendor-purchased mounts and vice versa.
  
• Patch 1.2.0 (18-Dec-2004): Players will now be able to purchase and train mounts from other races in their faction. However, you will first need to obtain "Exalted" reputation status with that race in order to do so. Mounts of the opposing faction are not available for purchase.
  
• Patch 1.1.0 (07-Nov-2004): Tauren players will no longer have the [Plainsrunning] ability, due to the availability of Kodo mounts! Tauren players can purchase the Kodo mount at Bloodhoof village.
  

See also

• If you want to get a head start, read a Guide for Preparing to Buy a Mount.
• Locations of fixed devices throughout Azeroth, including where to purchase mounts.
• Mounts and Pets window
• skill
• Transportation category for a detailed list of methods of transportation in WoW.

External links

WoW Official Game Site (US) Pets & Mounts → Mounts tab

WoW Official Game Site (EU) Pets & Mounts → Mounts tab

Info

Wowhead All mount spells

WarcraftMounts.com Images of all the currently available mounts!

Legion news

Polygon.com How to acquire every new mount in World of Warcraft: Legion by Philip Kollar Oct 3, 2016, 6:00p

News

Wowhead News 5.4 PTR: New Mounts, Pet Limit Increased and Pet Ability Scaling on Wowhead by perculia 2013/08/09 1:07 PM

WoW Official Game Site (US) Game Guide Updates: Pets and Mounts, Scenarios by Blizzard Entertainment, Nov 29, 2012 6:00 PM PST

WoW Official Game Site (EU) Game Guide Updates: Pets and Mounts, Scenarios by Blizzard Entertainment, 30 Nov 2012 13:59 GMT

Wowhead News Patch 5.0.4: Account-Wide Achievements, Tier 13 Bonuses by perculia 2012/08/29 1:17 PM

Wowhead News Mists of Pandaria: New Mounts by perculia 2012/07/16 11:38 AM

WoW Insider Mists of Pandaria Beta: New mounts in the latest build (build 15799) by Robin Torres Jun 29th 2012 at 9:00AM

WoW Insider Mists of Pandaria: Gold sink mounts will be account-wide by Robin Torres Jun 25th 2012 at 7:00PM

WoW Insider All you need to know about account-wide mounts (so far) by Anne Stickney May 7th 2012 at 5:00PM

MMO-Champion Account-wide Mounts on Beta, Pandaren Voices, Blue Posts by Boubouille 2012-05-04 07:26 AM

WoW Insider Mists of Pandaria beta: Account-wide mounts are a go by Anne Stickney May 4th 2012 at 2:07AM

Apple Cider Mage Mists of Pandaria Beta: Account-Wide Mounts by Apple Cider May 4, 2012

WoW Insider Meet the new million-gold jewelcrafting mounts by Fox Van Allen Apr 10th 2012 at 7:00PM

WoW Official Game Site (US) Patch 4.2: New PvP Mounts for Rated Battlegrounds by Zarhym, Jun 20, 2011 9:00 AM PDT

WoW Official Game Site (EU) Patch 4.2: New PvP Mounts for Rated Battlegrounds by Zarhym, 20 Jun 2011 16:00 UTC

WoW Insider Blizzard previews new rated battlegrounds PVP mounts by Mathew McCurley Jun 20th 2011 at 3:00PM

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Wowhead News Mountain o' Mounts: A Guide to Collecting Mounts by perculia 20011/06/19 9:17 AM

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Purchasable mounts

These mounts are available to all players, with no requirements outside of gold or emblems.

General mounts

Mount		Type	Cost	Source	Riding skill
	[Armored Brown Bear]	Ground	750	Mei Francis in Dalaran	Journeyman (150)
	[Armored Snowy Gryphon]	Flying	2,000	Mei Francis in Dalaran	Artisan (300)
	[Armored Brown Bear]	Ground	750	Mei Francis in Dalaran	Journeyman (150)
	[Armored Blue Wind Rider]	Flying	2,000	Mei Francis in Dalaran	Artisan (300)
	[Wooly Mammoth]	Ground	10,000	Mei Francis in Dalaran	Journeyman (150)
	[Traveler's Tundra Mammoth]	Ground	20,000	Mei Francis in Dalaran	Journeyman (150)
	Yak mounts  [Blonde Riding Yak] [Grey Riding Yak]	Ground	3,000	Uncle Bigpocket in Kun-Lai Summit	Journeyman (150)
	[Grand Expedition Yak]	Ground	120,000	Uncle Bigpocket in Kun-Lai Summit	Journeyman (150)

Argent Tournament mounts

This section concerns content exclusive to Wrath of the Lich King.

A major draw of the Argent Tournament is the large quantity of mounts rewarded in exchange for [Champion's Seal]s.

Mount		Type	Cost	Requirement	Riding skill
	[Exodar Elekk]	Ground	100	Champion of the Exodar	Journeyman (150)
	[Darnassian Nightsaber]	Ground	100	Champion of Darnassus	Journeyman (150)
	[Ironforge Ram]	Ground	100	Champion of Ironforge	Journeyman (150)
	[Stormwind Steed]	Ground	100	Champion of Stormwind	Journeyman (150)
	[Gnomeregan Mechanostrider]	Ground	100	Champion of Gnomeregan	Journeyman (150)
	[Great Red Elekk]	Ground	5005	Champion of the Exodar	Journeyman (150)
	[Swift Moonsaber]	Ground	5005	Champion of Darnassus	Journeyman (150)
	[Swift Violet Ram]	Ground	5005	Champion of Ironforge	Journeyman (150)
	[Swift Gray Steed]	Ground	5005	Champion of Stormwind	Journeyman (150)
	[Turbostrider]	Ground	5005	Champion of Gnomeregan	Journeyman (150)
	[Quel'dorei Steed]	Ground	100	Silver Covenant exalted	Journeyman (150)
	[Silver Covenant Hippogryph]	Flying	150	Silver Covenant exalted	Artisan (300)
	[Forsaken Warhorse]	Ground	100	Champion of the Undercity	Journeyman (150)
	[Thunder Bluff Kodo]	Ground	100	Champion of Thunder Bluff	Journeyman (150)
	[Orgrimmar Wolf]	Ground	100	Champion of Orgrimmar	Journeyman (150)
	[Darkspear Raptor]	Ground	100	Champion of Sen'jin	Journeyman (150)
	[Silvermoon Hawkstrider]	Ground	100	Champion of Silvermoon City	Journeyman (150)
	White Skeletal Warhorse	Ground	5005	Champion of the Undercity	Journeyman (150)
	Great Golden Kodo	Ground	5005	Champion of Thunder Bluff	Journeyman (150)
	Swift Burgundy Wolf	Ground	5005	Champion of Orgrimmar	Journeyman (150)
	Swift Purple Raptor	Ground	5005	Champion of Sen'jin	Journeyman (150)
	Swift Red Hawkstrider	Ground	5005	Champion of Silvermoon City	Journeyman (150)
	Sunreaver Hawkstrider	Ground	100	Sunreavers exalted	Journeyman (150)
	[Sunreaver Dragonhawk]	Flying	150	Sunreavers exalted	Artisan (300)
	Argent Warhorse	Ground	100	<Crusader>	Journeyman (150)
	Argent Hippogryph	Flying	150		Artisan (300)

Amphibious mounts

Main article: Amphibious mount

Amphibious mounts confer a slight increase in swim speed, but move no faster than walking while on land. Amphibious mounts do not give their riders the ability to breathe underwater, so plan accordingly with one of appropriate items or abilities.

Mount		+Speed		Source	Riding skill
		Water	Land
	[Sea Turtle]	250%	0%	Fishing in Northrend fishing pools and quest rewards	Apprentice (75)

Aquatic mounts

Main article: Aquatic mount

For the Subdued Abyssal Seahorse, see quest rewards.

For the Subdued Seahorse, see Guaranteed drop mounts.

Aquatic mounts confer an increase in swim speed, but cannot be used at all on land. Aquatic mounts do not give their riders the ability to breathe underwater, so plan accordingly with one of appropriate items or abilities.

Mount		+Speed		Source	Riding skill
		Water	Land
	[Subdued Abyssal Seahorse]	350% only in Vashj'ir	—	Reward from  [81] The Abyssal Ride	Expert (225)
	[Subdued Seahorse]	250%	—	Drop from Poseidus	Expert (225)

Achievement system mounts

These mounts are obtainable by completing certain achievements. As part of completing the achievement, the mount will be mailed directly to the player, or available for purchase at select locations.

Mount		Type	Required achievement	Riding skill
	Blue Dragonhawk	Flying	Mountain o' Mounts	Artisan (300)
	Golden King	Ground	Guild Level 25	Journeyman (150)
	Pandaren Kite String	Flying	Pandaren Ambassador	Artisan (300)
	Armored Blue Dragonhawk	Flying	Mount Parade	Artisan (300)
	Red Dragonhawk	Flying	Mountain o' Mounts	Artisan (300)
	Kor'kron Annihilator	Ground	Guild Level 25	Journeyman (150)
	Pandaren Kite String	Flying	Pandaren Ambassador	Artisan (300)
	Armored Red Dragonhawk	Flying	Mount Parade	Artisan (300)
	Warlords Deathwheel	Ground	Warlords Deathwheel	Journeyman (150)
	Black War Bear	Ground	For The Alliance! /  For The Horde!	Journeyman (150)
	Albino Drake	Flying	Leading the Cavalry	Artisan (300)
	Red Proto-Drake	Flying	Glory of the Hero	Artisan (300)
	Violet Proto-Drake	Flying	What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been	Artisan (300)
	Rusted Proto-Drake	Flying	Glory of the Ulduar Raider (10)	Artisan (300)
	Ironbound Proto-Drake	Flying	Glory of the Ulduar Raider (25)	Artisan (300)
	Bloodbathed Frostbrood Vanquisher	Flying	Glory of the Icecrown Raider (10)	Artisan (300)
	Icebound Frostbrood Vanquisher	Flying	Glory of the Icecrown Raider (25)	Artisan (300)
	Volcanic Stone Drake	Flying	Glory of the Cataclysm Hero	Artisan (300)
	Drake of the East Wind	Flying	Glory of the Cataclysm Raider	Artisan (300)
	Dark Phoenix	Flying	Guild Glory of the Cataclysm Raider + 3000	Artisan (300)
	Flameward Hippogryph	Flying	The Molten Front Offensive	Artisan (300)
	Twilight Harbinger	Flying	Glory of the Dragon Soul Raider	Artisan (300)
	Corrupted Egg of Millagazor	Flying	Glory of the Firelands Raider	Artisan (300)
	Jade Pandaren Kite	Flying	We're Going to Need More Saddles	Journeyman (150)
	Crimson Cloud Serpent	Flying	Glory of the Pandaria Hero	Artisan (300)
	Heavenly Crimson Cloud Serpent	Flying	Glory of the Pandaria Raider	Artisan (300)
	Thundering Jade Cloud Serpent	Flying	Guild Glory of the Pandaria Raider + 3000	Artisan (300)
	Spawn of Galakras	Flying	Glory of the Orgrimmar Raider	Artisan (300)
	Pandaren Phoenix mounts  [Crimson Pandaren Phoenix] [Ashen Pandaren Phoenix] [Violet Pandaren Phoenix] [Emerald Pandaren Phoenix]	Flying	Challenge Conqueror: Silver + 1	Artisan (300)
	Armored Frostboar	Ground	Advanced Husbandry	Journeyman (150)
	Armored Frostwolf	Ground	The Stable Master	Journeyman (150)
	Felfire Hawk	Flying	Mountacular	Artisan (300)
	Emerald Drake	Flying	Awake the Drakes	Artisan (300)
	Gorestrider Gronnling	Ground	Glory of the Draenor Raider	Journeyman (150)
	Blacksteel Battleboar	Ground	Guild Glory of the Draenor Raider	Journeyman (150)
	Frostplains Battleboar	Ground	Glory of the Draenor Hero	Journeyman (150)
	Challenger's War Yeti	Ground	Challenge Warlord: Silver	Journeyman (150)
	Chauffeured Chopper	Ground	Heirloom Hoarder
	Infernal Direwolf	Ground	Glory of the Hellfire Raider	Journeyman (150)
	Soaring Skyterror	Flying	Draenor Pathfinder	Apprentice (75)
	Heavenly Azure Cloud Serpent	Flying	Lord of the Reins	Artisan 300)

Holiday mounts

The Time-lost Proto Drake.

	Riding (Profession)
	Trainers • Mounts

See mount (disambig) for a less gigantic list with specific lists.

An undead riding his giant mammoth.

Mounts are a much sought after form of transportation in which players ride atop the backs of various more or less exotic beasts (or machines). They can be accessed via the Mounts and Pets window. Warlocks, paladins and death knights can learn to summon mounts as a class perk. The Alliance Worgen have a race skill Running Wild that they will get at level 20. Druids can shape shift into multiple forms that improve their speed. Mounted travel is almost always faster than walking/running (some vanity mounts such as Sea Turtle provide no speed benefit on the ground). The Burning Crusade introduced flying mounts in select areas, which further increased the maximum possible player movement speed. Cataclysm opened up much of Azeroth to flying mounts.

Mounts were generally expensive in the past, but their prices have been reduced while the training to ride them increased in order to compensate. However, some mounts do not cost any gold or other currencies (such as honor points) and will drop at very low drop rates from bosses in instances such as Stratholme, Zul'Gurub, Tempest Keep, Magisters' Terrace, Sethekk Halls, Karazhan, and Utgarde Pinnacle. There are numerous other methods to obtain mounts as well, such as class quests, completing achievements, and even a select few rare spawns drop mounts.

Mounts have a 1.5 second cast time, which will be interrupted by taking any damage, moving, or entering combat. Mounts also have a special emote that can be seen by either jumping (the Space key by default) while not moving or performing the /mountspecial slash command. For example hawkstriders will shriek and horses will rear up on their hind legs.

Riding skills and abilities

See Also: Riding
NOTE: After Cataclysm, speed is not based on mount class but only on riding skill.

A Human Mage riding a Swift White Steed, an Alliance Epic Mount.

Blood Knights riding their Horde paladin mounts.

There are a total of five classes of mounts:

Class	Quality	Ground	Air	Water
Ground mounts	Rare/Epic	60%	—	0%
Flying mounts	Rare/Epic	100%	150%	—
Amphibious mounts	Rare/Epic	0%	—	250%
Aquatic mounts	Rare/Epic	—	—	100%/350%
Vanity mounts	Rare/Epic	0%	—	0%

Ground mounts cannot fly, but flying mounts are able to run (or fly) along the ground in areas where flight is prohibited. Both flying and ground mounts can swim (but not any faster than swimming without a mount). Aquatic mounts can walk on land (but not any faster than walking without the mount). Vanity mounts confer no benefits (and thus, require no riding skill or character level).}}

General Riding Skill

There are five general tiers of riding which can be learned from trainers as a character increases in level. These become available for characters to train once they meet the particular level requirements. The speed of a character's mounts generally increases with each tier of riding skill, while some tiers of riding grant the ability to ride flying mounts. The general riding skills are:

• Apprentice: Level 20
• Journeyman: Level 40
• Expert: Level 60
• Artisan: Level 70
• Master: Level 80

Class-Specific Riding Skills

At level 40, paladins and warlocks can learn [Summon Charger] and [Dreadsteed] from their class trainers after learning the Journeyman riding skill from the riding trainer. There is no need to purchase a new mount. Death knights receive their epic ground mount, the [Acherus Deathcharger], after the completion of the quests Grand Theft Palomino and Into the Realm of Shadows at level 55. Druids can learn [Flight Form] from any flight trainer at level 58.

Unlocking flight in specific areas

In areas where flying is allowed, a character typically needs to train a specific skill in order to unlock the ability to fly in that region. These types of skills and their requirements can be found in the table below.

Riding Skills

Proficiency		Cost		+Speed	Required for	Requires
		Skill	Mounts	Air
75	Apprentice	4	1	60%	Rare land mounts	Level 20
150	Journeyman	50	10	100%	Epic land mounts	Level 40
225	Expert	250	50	150%	Rare flying mounts	Level 60
300	Artisan	5000	100	280%	Epic flying mounts	Level 70
375	Master	5000	—	310%	Extremely fast speed	Level 80
[Flight Master's License]		250	—	—	Flying in Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor and Deepholm	Level 60 & 225 skill
[Cold Weather Flying]		500	—	—	Flying in Northrend	Level 68 & 225 skill
[Wisdom of the Four Winds]		2500	—	—	Flying in Pandaria	Level 90 & 225 skill
[Cloud Serpent Riding]			—	—	Flying Cloud Serpent mounts (requirement removed in Patch 6.0.2)	Level 90 & 225 skill
[Draenor Flying]			—	—	Flying in Draenor	Draenor Pathfinder
[Broken Isles Flying]			—	—	Flying in the Broken Isles	Broken Isles Pathfinder, Part One  Broken Isles Pathfinder, Part Two (Patch 7.2)

Increasing your speed

Through guild advancement

The guild perk [Mount Up] will increase your riding speed by 10%.

Through class abilities and talents

Two trolls riding raptors.

Shaman and Druids acquire shapeshift forms ([Ghost Wolf] for shaman and [Travel Form] for druids) that increase their movement speed (not as much as a mount, but it is trainable at an earlier level), while Hunters get aspects to boost their own movement speed and that of their party. Rogues and druids (in [Cat Form]) have an ability to temporarily increase movement speed. Here are the skills and abilities that provide some classes with a bit of a faster mount movement speed, either passively or by the activation of an ability.

•  Death Knight
  • [Unholy Presence] as of "Mists of Pandaria", Unholy Presence now grants an additional 15% movement speed, regardless of specialization.
•  Hunter
  • [Pathfinding] in the Beast Mastery talent tree (tier 3). Increases your speed while mounted by 5%/10%. The mounted movement speed increase does not stack with other effects.
•  Paladin
  • [Pursuit of Justice] in the Retribution talent tree (tier 3). Increases your movement speed (and mounted movement speed) by 8%/15%. This does not stack with other speed increasing effects.
  • [Crusader Aura] at level 62. Movement speed while mounted is increased by 20%. The mounted movement speed increase does not stack with other effects.
  • [Aura Mastery] in the Holy tree (tier 3) does not directly increase mounted movement speed, but it does boost Crusader Aura. With these two abilities combined, it is possible to increase mounted movement speed by 40% for 6 seconds every 2 minutes.

Through items and enchants

A Thundering Jade Cloud Serpent.

There are five other methods for increasing your mounted speed, with no effects beyond level 70:

• [Enchant Gloves - Riding Skill]: +2% (stacking), world drop Enchanting recipe
• [Mithril Spurs]: +4% (stacking), world drop Blacksmithing plans
• [Riding Crop]: +10% (non-stacking), Leatherworking pattern sold in Old Hillsbrad Foothills.
• [Skybreaker Whip]: +10% (non-stacking), quest reward from  [70] Dragonmaw Race: Captain Skyshatter, must be Honored with Netherwing.

These last two items effectively increase a mount's speed by 10%. However, they do not stack with the previously mentioned methods, so they are approximately (see below) a 1% improvement over using the above 3 items combined. It should be also noted that for players of WotLK the Riding Crop is only usable for two levels (69 and 70), and the Skybreaker Whip only for one level (70).

All speed improvement items work on both normal and flying mounts (with the exception of npc controlled point-to-point flight).

Characters higher than level 70 will not benefit from mount speed improvement items and enchants. With Cataclysm, the following are no longer available:

• [Carrot on a Stick]: +3% (stacking), reward from the Gahz'rilla quest in Zul'Farrak.

Available mounts

The tables below are separated based on mount source, such as purchase requirements, killing specific creatures, participating in world events, completing achievements or more.

Racial mounts

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The face of a Grey Riding Yak.

Racial land mounts are typically the first mounts players will acquire. To purchase a racial land mount, players must either purchase their race's mount (such as horses for humans, or wolves for orcs), or gain exalted standing with that race's representative faction (such as exalted with Darnassus to purchase sabers). Flying mounts do not require any reputation rating.

In the initial release of Cataclysm, the worgen did not get a racial mount, but instead used the ability [Running Wild] to achieve mount-like speeds. However, a mountain horse mount (regular and swift) was added in Patch 4.3 as the worgen racial mount.

Class-specific mounts

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An Azure Cloud Serpent.

There are four classes in the game that can acquire special mounts and abilities linked to their own class through lore: death knights, druids, paladins, and warlocks. The original quests to gain the paladin charger, warlock dreadsteed, and druid's swift flight form are all still in-game and reward feats of strength if they are completed. The aforementioned quests are not required to learn the ability, however, and are on the class trainers at the level listed in the table.

Druid and paladin abilities are slightly different based on race and faction. For example, the Alliance charger is blue and golden, while the Horde version is red and bronze. Similarly, night elf druids are black in flight form, while tauren are tan. With Cataclysm, it seems that tauren and draenei paladins will not be getting chargers, but special types of Kodo and Elekk mounts, respectively.

PvP mounts

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PvP mounts can be obtained by exchanging honor points or other world PvP currency. For Arena rewards, see the Arena section.

Quest reward mounts

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Some laborious or involved quest chains reward mounts.

Faction reward mounts

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As a reward for gaining high reputation standing with various factions, players can purchase mounts. Such high reputation is a function of large quantities of time.

Rare drop mounts

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Rarely, specific creatures will drop a mount as a reward. If the mount drops, only one mount will appear per kill, no matter the size of the party or raid killing the creature. Also, mounts may rarely be inside other containers rewarded for doing other objectives.

Guaranteed drop mounts

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The Time-lost Proto Drake.

A guaranteed drop mount will result in one mount being awarded upon killing the specified creature under the condition listed, regardless of the size of the party or raid. For mounts rewarded such that everyone who completes the achievement gets the mount, see the "Achievements" section. There is no direct achievement for killing the Time-Lost Proto-Drake; the hard part is actually finding the drake alive.

Crafted mounts

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Mounts can also be created by players via professions. Typically such mounts are a perk of the profession and are not available to other players, but a few are.

Purchasable mounts

These mounts are available to all players, with no requirements outside of gold or emblems.

General mounts

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Argent Tournament mounts

This section concerns content exclusive to Wrath of the Lich King.

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A major draw of the Argent Tournament is the large quantity of mounts rewarded in exchange for [Champion's Seal]s.

Amphibious mounts

Main article: Amphibious mount

Amphibious mounts confer a slight increase in swim speed, but move no faster than walking while on land. Amphibious mounts do not give their riders the ability to breathe underwater, so plan accordingly with one of appropriate items or abilities.

Mount		+Speed		Source	Riding skill
		Water	Land
	[Sea Turtle]	250%	0%	Fishing in Northrend fishing pools and quest rewards	Apprentice (75)

Aquatic mounts

Main article: Aquatic mount

For the Subdued Abyssal Seahorse, see quest rewards.

For the Subdued Seahorse, see Guaranteed drop mounts.

Aquatic mounts confer an increase in swim speed, but cannot be used at all on land. Aquatic mounts do not give their riders the ability to breathe underwater, so plan accordingly with one of appropriate items or abilities.

Mount		+Speed		Source	Riding skill
		Water	Land
	Brinedeep Bottom-Feeder	250%?	—	Purchased from Conjurer Margoss on The Broken Shore	Expert (225)
	[Darkwater Skate]	250%?	—	Purchased from Galissa Sundew <Fishing Prizes> on Darkmoon Island	Expert (225)
	Fathom Dweller	250%?	—	Drop from Kosumoth the Hungering	Expert (225)
	[Subdued Abyssal Seahorse]	350% only in Vashj'ir	—	Reward from  [81] The Abyssal Ride	Expert (225)
	[Subdued Seahorse]	250%	—	Drop from Poseidus	Expert (225)

Achievement system mounts

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These mounts are obtainable by completing certain achievements. As part of completing the achievement, the mount will be mailed directly to the player, or available for purchase at select locations.

Holiday mounts

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There are several disguises and time-limited items that are available during holidays. Disguises simply turn the player's mount into something "more festive" like a kodo or a reindeer but do not otherwise affect mount mechanics. Time-limited items exist only during the duration of the holiday itself. Previously, time-limited items had a set time such as seven or 14 days, but were changed to be directly tied to the holiday.

Back during Brewfest 2007, an ["Honorary Brewer" Hand Stamp] was available for purchase and granted access to the [Brewfest Ram] and [Swift Brewfest Ram] vendors. Coren Direbrew (the holiday boss in the Grim Guzzler of Blackrock Depths) had not yet been implemented, so completing the quest was the only way to get the mounts. The hand stamp was removed for the 2008 Brewfest and the Swift Brewfest Ram added to Coren Direbrew's loot table (along with the new [Great Brewfest Kodo]), but the 60%-speed Brewfest Ram can no longer be purchased except by players who completed the Hand Stamp quest.

Outside of game mounts

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A Tauren riding a Heart of the Aspects

A Blazing Hippogryph mount

The mounts in previous sections are acquired using solely in-game means. The mounts that follow require some real-world interactions, such as getting a rare loot card in the TCG, going to BlizzCon, the Recruit-A-Friend program, sending a Scroll of Resurrection, or purchasing mounts from the Blizzard Store.

Passenger mounts

Main article: World of Warcraft passenger mounts category

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•  [Grand Black War Mammoth]
•  [Grand Black War Mammoth]
•  [Grand Expedition Yak]
•  [Grand Ice Mammoth]
•  [Grand Ice Mammoth]
•  [Mechano-hog]
•  [Mekgineer's Chopper]
•  [Obsidian Nightwing]
•  [Sandstone Drake]
•  [Traveler's Tundra Mammoth]
•  [Traveler's Tundra Mammoth]
•  [X-53 Touring Rocket]

Retired mounts

Arena System reward mounts

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At the end of each Arena season, the top 0.5% of teams in the 3v3 and 5v5 bracket each battlegroup are rewarded with a 310% speed flying mount. Such mounts are inherently time-limited and are not currently available.

Removed from game mounts

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These mounts are no longer obtainable in the game.

Flying mounts in Kalimdor & Eastern Kingdoms

With careful use of Eagle Eye or Far Sight, it is possible to see why Flying Mounts were not allowed in the old world until the Cataclysm expansion.

At BlizzCon 2009 it was revealed that flying mounts would be available in some form to use in Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms with the release of the next expansion, titled "Cataclysm". Blizzard officials had previously stated that it was unlikely that they would allow flying mounts in these continents, since doing so would require them to re-design the continents with flying mounts in mind.

Throughout the first few years of World of Warcraft (up to and including Wrath of the Lich King), the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor were unsuitable for flying mounts; there were visual glitches like mountains and high buildings whose tops could not be seen from ground-level, and places where the terrain abruptly changed from one tileset to another, creating a grossly unrealistic appearance in some areas. There were also zones which should have existed lore-wise, but were empty and unfinished.

With the release of Cataclysm, rebuilding the continents is precisely what zone developers did, allowing players to finally see the world of Azeroth from above.

Vanity mounts

Main article: Vanity mount

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Vanity mounts only exist to put the player on a mount. They confer generally no bonuses to movement speed, and thus require no riding skill. The two non-temporary, vanity mounts are the [Rickety Magic Broom], a fairly common reward for completing daily quests during Hallow's End, and the [Riding Turtle], available from the TCG.

Media

Videos

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Leveling up & Mounts - New & Returning Player Guides by Bellular

Aug 28, 2018

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How To Get Every WoW Legion Patch 7.0 Mount! Guide

Notes

• Mounts have a special emote they can do: This can be invoked while motionless on the ground, either by the /mountspecial slash command, or by pressing the Space key
• Flying mounts can perform a loop! Press Pitch Up or Pitch Down (normally Ins and Del) while in flight to perform a loop. On a Mac, the Help key, or the Fn+Del combination (on the laptop) will start it.
  • Additionally, while in a loop, you can use your strafe keys.

Patch history

Legion

This section concerns content exclusive to Legion.

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Warlords of Draenor

This section concerns content exclusive to Warlords of Draenor.

• Patch 6.2.2 (1-Sep-2015): Flying has been enabled on Draenor for characters that have attained the account-wide achievement,  Draenor Pathfinder
  

Mists of Pandaria

This section concerns content exclusive to Mists of Pandaria.

• Patch 5.2.0 (5-Mar-2013): Upon reaching level 20 and level 60, characters will automatically receive a new quest directing them to visit the racial riding trainer and mount vendors.
  
• β Patch 5.0.1 (Beta): Most mounts will be Account-wide mounts.
  

Cataclysm

This section concerns content exclusive to Cataclysm.

• Patch 4.2.0 (2011-06-28): [Vicious War Steed] or [Vicious War Wolf] awarded for winning 75, 150, or 300 rated battlegrounds.
  
• / Patch 4.0.1 (12-Oct-2010): All mounts now scale to the appropriate riding skill. This means that all 310% speed mounts earned from achievements or were awarded from this patch onward are 280% in order to match the current max riding skill, Artisan. Players who already have a 310% mount are grandfathered into the system.
              PvP mounts now cost 2,000
  
• / Patch 4.0.1 (12-Oct-2010): Mounts that are both ground and flying will no longer need to be dismounted and then re-mounted to switch between types. This will now be automatic.
  

Wrath of the Lich King

This section concerns content exclusive to Wrath of the Lich King.

• Patch 3.3.3 (2010-03-23): Battlegrounds will no longer award Marks of Honor. Items which previously required Marks of Honor will have their costs adjusted to remove these requirements.
              PvP mounts now cost 50,000
  
• Patch 3.3.0 (08-Dec-2009): Knockbacks no longer dismount players. If on a flying mount, you will be knocked back a short distance before being able to resume flying.
  
• Patch 3.2.2 (2009-09-22): Undocumented change
              The riding trainers in Thrallmar and Honor Hold are now part of the Orgrimmar and Stormwind factions respectively. Note also that this change doesn't apply to trainers in Northrend.
  
• Patch 3.2.0 (04-Aug-2009):
  • The cast time for summoning any ground or flying mount is now 1.5 seconds, down from 3 seconds.
  • Apprentice Riding (Skill 75): Can now be learned at level 20 for 4. Mail will be sent to players who reach level 20 directing them to the riding trainer.
  • Journeyman Riding (Skill 150): Can now be learned at level 40 for 50. Mail will be sent to players who reach level 40 directing them back to the riding trainer.
  • Expert Riding (Skill 225): Can now be learned at level 60 for 600 from trainers in Honor Hold or Thrallmar. Faction discounts now apply (Honor Hold for Alliance; Thrallmar for Horde). Flight speed at this skill level has been increased to 150% of run speed, up from 60%.
  • Artisan Riding (Skill 300): Faction discounts now apply (Honor Hold or Valiance Expedition for Alliance; Thrallmar or Warsong Offensive for Horde).
  • Flying over Dalaran and Wintergrasp is now possible so long as players keep a healthy distance above the ground.
    
  • The ravasaur trainer Mor'vek has returned to Un'Goro and will offer to help Horde players raise and train a [Venomhide Ravasaur] as a mount... if they can survive the creature's deadly poison.
• Patch 3.1.0 (14-Apr-2009): All Ground Mounts may now swim without dismounting the rider. Flying Mounts still may NOT, and will dismount the rider upon entering water.
  
• Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): Racial restrictions on mounts have now been lifted. Night elves on mechanostriders? Tauren on raptors? You're not seeing things.
  
• / Patch 3.0.2 (14-Oct-2008):
  • Mounting is now permitted in Ahn'Qiraj.
  • New Vanity Pet and Mount changes: Players will now be able to access their non-combat pets and mounts by clicking on the pets tab in the Character Info panel. These pets and mounts will be now learnable much like spells or abilities. Once a vanity pet or mount is learned, the icon will disappear from within a player's inventory and reappear in the appropriate tab under the pet tab under Character Info. Say goodbye to your vanity pets and mounts taking up bag and bank slots! Lost pets and mounts (one time quest rewards) can be recovered by visiting a stablemaster.
    

Burning Crusade

This section concerns content exclusive to The Burning Crusade.

• Patch 2.4.3 (2008-07-15): Mounts at 30?! Yes, it's true: Apprentice Riding and mounts are now available at level 30. Training costs 35.
  
• Patch 2.3.0 (13-Nov-2007): Nutral, the flight master in Shattrath City, now has a quest for characters who are level 70 and do not yet have a riding skill of 225. The quest will direct a character to visit the appropriate riding instructor in Shadowmoon Valley so that the player will know where they can purchase the skill necessary to use a flying mount.
  
• Patch 2.1.0 (22-May-2007):
  • Swift Flying Mounts: All the swift flying mounts will now display as epic items, rather than superior-quality items.
  • Using abilities and casting spells that cannot be used while mounted will now auto-dismount players as needed. This can be disabled by turning off the auto-dismount option in the UI options.
  • New Lua conditional [flyable] which is true if you're in a location where you could use a flying mount.
    
• Patch 2.0.3 (09-Jan-2007): New macro command: /dismount
  
• / Patch 2.0.1 (05-Dec-2006): Honor system revamp
              PvP mounts no longer limited to rank 11s, now available for 30 30 30 each.
  

Classic

This section concerns content exclusive to World of Warcraft.

• Patch 1.12.1 (26-Sep-2006): The riding skill has been changed. A riding skill of 75 is now needed to ride level 40 mounts and a skill of 150 for level 60 mounts. Those that already have mounts will automatically be granted the appropriate level skill.
  
• Patch 1.12.0 (22-Aug-2006): The Items that summon mounts have been changed in their color/quality. Items that summon normal mounts are now blue (superior) items and items that summon swift mounts are now purple (epic) items.
  
• Patch 1.6.0 (12-Jul-2005): Clarified the error message when trying to attack while mounted.
  
• Patch 1.5.0 (2005-06-07): Many of the Swift Mounts have gained eye glows and some have had other tweaks made to them to improve their looks.
  
• Patch 1.4.0 (2005-05-05): Level 60 mounts purchased at vendors now have a whole new look. Faster undead mounts already have a different look and so have not changed. The new mounts can be seen standing near the mount vendors. If you have one of the old fast mounts, you can exchange it for one with a new look at the mount vendor.
  
• Patch 1.3.0 (07-Mar-2005): Mounts now are Horde or Alliance restricted in the tooltip. We do not intend to allow Horde players to ride Alliance vendor-purchased mounts and vice versa.
  
• Patch 1.2.0 (18-Dec-2004): Players will now be able to purchase and train mounts from other races in their faction. However, you will first need to obtain "Exalted" reputation status with that race in order to do so. Mounts of the opposing faction are not available for purchase.
  
• Patch 1.1.0 (07-Nov-2004): Tauren players will no longer have the [Plainsrunning] ability, due to the availability of Kodo mounts! Tauren players can purchase the Kodo mount at Bloodhoof village.
  

See also

• If you want to get a head start, read a Guide for Preparing to Buy a Mount.
• Locations of fixed devices throughout Azeroth, including where to purchase mounts.
• Mounts and Pets window
• skill
• Transportation category for a detailed list of methods of transportation in WoW.

External links

WoW Official Game Site (US) Pets & Mounts → Mounts tab

WoW Official Game Site (EU) Pets & Mounts → Mounts tab

Info

Wowhead All mount spells

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Wowhead News 5.4 PTR: New Mounts, Pet Limit Increased and Pet Ability Scaling on Wowhead by perculia 2013/08/09 1:07 PM

WoW Official Game Site (US) Game Guide Updates: Pets and Mounts, Scenarios by Blizzard Entertainment, Nov 29, 2012 6:00 PM PST

WoW Official Game Site (EU) Game Guide Updates: Pets and Mounts, Scenarios by Blizzard Entertainment, 30 Nov 2012 13:59 GMT

Wowhead News Patch 5.0.4: Account-Wide Achievements, Tier 13 Bonuses by perculia 2012/08/29 1:17 PM

Wowhead News Mists of Pandaria: New Mounts by perculia 2012/07/16 11:38 AM

WoW Insider Mists of Pandaria Beta: New mounts in the latest build (build 15799) by Robin Torres Jun 29th 2012 at 9:00AM

WoW Insider Mists of Pandaria: Gold sink mounts will be account-wide by Robin Torres Jun 25th 2012 at 7:00PM

WoW Insider All you need to know about account-wide mounts (so far) by Anne Stickney May 7th 2012 at 5:00PM

MMO-Champion Account-wide Mounts on Beta, Pandaren Voices, Blue Posts by Boubouille 2012-05-04 07:26 AM

WoW Insider Mists of Pandaria beta: Account-wide mounts are a go by Anne Stickney May 4th 2012 at 2:07AM

Apple Cider Mage Mists of Pandaria Beta: Account-Wide Mounts by Apple Cider May 4, 2012

WoW Insider Meet the new million-gold jewelcrafting mounts by Fox Van Allen Apr 10th 2012 at 7:00PM

WoW Official Game Site (US) Patch 4.2: New PvP Mounts for Rated Battlegrounds by Zarhym, Jun 20, 2011 9:00 AM PDT

WoW Official Game Site (EU) Patch 4.2: New PvP Mounts for Rated Battlegrounds by Zarhym, 20 Jun 2011 16:00 UTC

WoW Insider Blizzard previews new rated battlegrounds PVP mounts by Mathew McCurley Jun 20th 2011 at 3:00PM

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Outside of game mounts

A Tauren riding a Heart of the Aspects

A Blazing Hippogryph mount

The mounts in previous sections are acquired using solely in-game means. The mounts that follow require some real-world interactions, such as getting a rare loot card in the TCG, going to BlizzCon, the Recruit-A-Friend program, sending a Scroll of Resurrection, or purchasing mounts from the Blizzard Store.

Mount		Type	Requirements	Riding skill
	Big Blizzard Bear	Ground	BlizzCon	Apprentice (75)
	Celestial Steed	Flying	Blizzard Store mount	Apprentice (75)
	Winged Guardian	Flying	Blizzard Store mount	Apprentice (75)
	Heart of the Aspects	Flying	Blizzard Store mount	Apprentice (75)
	Swift Windsteed	Flying	Blizzard Store mount	Apprentice (75)
	Armored Bloodwing	Flying	Blizzard Store mount	Apprentice (75)
	Enchanted Fey Dragon	Flying	Blizzard Store mount	Apprentice (75)
	Warforged Nightmare	Ground	Blizzard Store mount	Apprentice (75)
	Iron Skyreaver	Flying	Blizzard Store mount	Apprentice (75)
	Imperial Quilen	Flying	Special Edition mount	Apprentice (75)
	Illidari Felstalker	Ground	World of Warcraft: Legion Collector's Edition	Apprentice (75)
	[Obsidian Nightwing]	Flying	Recruit-A-Friend program	Apprentice (75)
	[X-53 Touring Rocket]	Flying	Recruit-A-Friend program	Expert (225)
	[Swift Zhevra]	Ground	Recruit-A-Friend program	Journeyman (150)
	[Cindermane Charger]	Ground	Recruit-A-Friend program	Journeyman (150)
	[Emerald Hippogryph]	Ground	Recruit-A-Friend program	Apprentice (75)
	Amani Dragonhawk	Flying	Trading Card Game	Artisan (300)
	Blazing Hippogryph	Flying	Trading Card Game	Apprentice (75)
	Corrupted Hippogryph	Flying	Trading Card Game	Apprentice (75)
	Feldrake	Flying	Trading Card Game	Apprentice (75)
	X-51 Nether-Rocket X-51 Nether-Rocket X-TREME	Flying	Trading Card Game	Apprentice (75)
	Mottled Drake	Flying	Trading Card Game	Artisan (300)
	Magic Rooster	Ground	Trading Card Game	Journeyman (150)
	Swift Shorestrider	Ground	Trading Card Game	Apprentice (75)
	Riding Turtle	Ground	Trading Card Game	Apprentice (75)
	White Riding Camel	Ground	Trading Card Game	Apprentice (75)
	Wooly White Rhino	Ground	Trading Card Game	Journeyman (150)
	Spectral Tiger Swift Spectral Tiger	Ground	Trading Card Game	Apprentice (75)
	Big Battle Bear	Ground	Trading Card Game	Journeyman (150)
	Savage Raptor	Ground	Trading Card Game	Apprentice (75)
	Spectral Gryphon	Flying	Scroll of Resurrection	Apprentice (75)
	Little White Stallion Bridle	Ground	Trading Card Game	Apprentice (75)
	Spectral Wind Rider	Flying	Scroll of Resurrection
	Little Ivory Raptor Whistle	Ground	Trading Card Game	Apprentice (75)

Retired mounts

Arena System reward mounts

At the end of each Arena season, the top 0.5% of teams in the 3v3 and 5v5 bracket each battlegroup are rewarded with a 310% speed flying mount.

Such mounts are inherently time-limited and are not currently available.

Mount		Season	Riding skill
	[Swift Nether Drake]	Season 1	Artisan (300)
	[Merciless Nether Drake]	Season 2	Artisan (300)
	[Vengeful Nether Drake]	Season 3	Artisan (300)
	[Brutal Nether Drake]	Season 4	Artisan (300)
	[Deadly Gladiator's Frost Wyrm]	Season 5	Artisan (300)
	[Furious Gladiator's Frost Wyrm]	Season 6	Artisan (300)
	[Relentless Gladiator's Frost Wyrm]	Season 7	Artisan (300)
	[Wrathful Gladiator's Frost Wyrm]	Season 8	Artisan (300)
	[Vicious Gladiator's Twilight Drake]	Season 9	Artisan (300)
	[Ruthless Gladiator's Twilight Drake]	Season 10	Artisan (300)
	[Cataclysmic Gladiator's Twilight Drake]	Season 11	Artisan (300)

Removed from game mounts

These mounts are no longer obtainable in the game.

Mount		Type	Original availability	Removed	Riding skill
	[Palomino], [White Stallion]	Ground	1000	Patch 1.4.0	Journeyman (150)
	[Black Ram], [Frost Ram]	Ground	1000	Patch 1.4.0	Journeyman (150)
	[Icy Blue Mechanostrider Mod A], [White Mechanostrider Mod B]	Ground	1000	Patch 1.4.0	Journeyman (150)
	[Ancient Frostsaber], [Nightsaber]	Ground	1000	Patch 1.4.0	Journeyman (150)
	Crusader's White Warhorse	Ground	A Tribute to Immortality	Patch 4.0.3	Journeyman (150)
	[Arctic Wolf], [Red Wolf]	Ground	1000	Patch 1.4.0	Journeyman (150)
	[Green Kodo], [Teal Kodo]	Ground	1000	Patch 1.4.0	Journeyman (150)
	[Ivory Raptor], [Mottled Red Raptor]	Ground	1000	Patch 1.4.0	Journeyman (150)
	Crusader's Black Warhorse	Ground	A Tribute to Immortality	Patch 4.0.3	Journeyman (150)
	[Amani War Bear]	Ground	Ashli's Bag, Zul'Aman	Patch 3.0.2	Journeyman (150)
	[Plagued Proto-Drake]	Flying	Glory of the Raider (10)	Patch 3.1.0	Artisan (300)
	[Black Proto-Drake]	Flying	Glory of the Raider (25)	Patch 3.1.0	Artisan (300)
	Black Qiraji Battle Tank	Ground	Bang a Gong!	Patch 3.2.0	Journeyman (150)
	Razzashi Raptor	Ground	Bloodlord Mandokir, Zul'Gurub	Patch 4.0.3	Journeyman (150)
	Swift Zulian Tiger	Ground	High Priest Thekal, Zul'Gurub	Patch 4.0.3	Journeyman (150)
	Core Hound	Ground	Boldly, You Sought the Power of Ragnaros	January 13, 2015	Journeyman (150)

Flying mounts in Kalimdor & Eastern Kingdoms

With careful use of Eagle Eye or Far Sight, it is possible to see why Flying Mounts are not allowed in the old world until the Cataclysm expansion hits.

At BlizzCon 2009 it was revealed that flying mounts will be available in some form to use in Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms with the release of the next expansion, titled Cataclysm. Blizzard officials had previously stated that it was unlikely that they would allow flying mounts in these continents since doing so would require them to redesign the continents with flying mounts in mind.

Prior to Cataclysm, the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor were unsuitable for flying mounts; there were visual glitches like mountains and high buildings whose tops cannot be seen, and places where the terrain abruptly changes from one tileset to another, creating a grossly unrealistic appearance in some areas. There are also zones which should have been there lore-wise but were empty and unfinished.

With the expansion, rebuilding the continents is precisely what zone developers did, which explains why flying in those continents became possible.

Vanity mounts

Main article: Vanity mount

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Vanity mounts only exist to put the player on a mount. They confer generally no bonuses to movement speed, and thus require no riding skill. The two non-temporary, vanity mounts are the [Rickety Magic Broom], a fairly common reward for completing daily quests during Hallow's End, and the [Riding Turtle], available from the TCG.

See also

• Riding skill
• List of mounts for a full list of mounts
• Transportation category for a detailed list of methods of transportation in WoW.
• If you want to get a head start, read a Guide for Preparing to Buy a Mount.
• Locations of fixed devices throughout Azeroth, including where to purchase mounts.

Patch history

Legion

This section concerns content exclusive to Legion.

This section concerns content that is not yet released.

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Warlords of Draenor

This section concerns content exclusive to Warlords of Draenor.

• Patch 6.2.2 (1-Sep-2015): Flying has been enabled on Draenor for characters that have attained the account-wide achievement,  Draenor Pathfinder
  

Mists of Pandaria

This section concerns content exclusive to Mists of Pandaria.

• Patch 5.2.0 (5-Mar-2013): Upon reaching level 20 and level 60, characters will automatically receive a new quest directing them to visit the racial riding trainer and mount vendors.
  
• β Patch 5.0.1 (Beta): Most mounts will be Account-wide mounts.
  

Cataclysm

This section concerns content exclusive to Cataclysm.

• Patch 4.2.0 (2011-06-28): [Vicious War Steed] or [Vicious War Wolf] awarded for winning 75, 150, or 300 rated battlegrounds.
  
• / Patch 4.0.1 (12-Oct-2010): All mounts now scale to the appropriate riding skill. This means that all 310% speed mounts earned from achievements or were awarded from this patch onward are 280% in order to match the current max riding skill, Artisan. Players who already have a 310% mount are grandfathered into the system.
              PvP mounts now cost 2,000
  
• / Patch 4.0.1 (12-Oct-2010): Mounts that are both ground and flying will no longer need to be dismounted and then re-mounted to switch between types. This will now be automatic.
  

Wrath of the Lich King

This section concerns content exclusive to Wrath of the Lich King.

• Patch 3.3.3 (2010-03-23): Battlegrounds will no longer award Marks of Honor. Items which previously required Marks of Honor will have their costs adjusted to remove these requirements.
              PvP mounts now cost 50,000
  
• Patch 3.3.0 (08-Dec-2009): Knockbacks no longer dismount players. If on a flying mount, you will be knocked back a short distance before being able to resume flying.
  
• Patch 3.2.2 (2009-09-22): Undocumented change
              The riding trainers in Thrallmar and Honor Hold are now part of the Orgrimmar and Stormwind factions respectively. Note also that this change doesn't apply to trainers in Northrend.
  
• Patch 3.2.0 (04-Aug-2009):
  • The cast time for summoning any ground or flying mount is now 1.5 seconds, down from 3 seconds.
  • Apprentice Riding (Skill 75): Can now be learned at level 20 for 4. Mail will be sent to players who reach level 20 directing them to the riding trainer.
  • Journeyman Riding (Skill 150): Can now be learned at level 40 for 50. Mail will be sent to players who reach level 40 directing them back to the riding trainer.
  • Expert Riding (Skill 225): Can now be learned at level 60 for 600 from trainers in Honor Hold or Thrallmar. Faction discounts now apply (Honor Hold for Alliance; Thrallmar for Horde). Flight speed at this skill level has been increased to 150% of run speed, up from 60%.
  • Artisan Riding (Skill 300): Faction discounts now apply (Honor Hold or Valiance Expedition for Alliance; Thrallmar or Warsong Offensive for Horde).
  • Flying over Dalaran and Wintergrasp is now possible so long as players keep a healthy distance above the ground.
    
  • The ravasaur trainer Mor'vek has returned to Un'Goro and will offer to help Horde players raise and train a [Venomhide Ravasaur] as a mount... if they can survive the creature's deadly poison.
• Patch 3.1.0 (14-Apr-2009): All Ground Mounts may now swim without dismounting the rider. Flying Mounts still may NOT, and will dismount the rider upon entering water.
  
• Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): Racial restrictions on mounts have now been lifted. Night elves on mechanostriders? Tauren on raptors? You're not seeing things.
  
• / Patch 3.0.2 (14-Oct-2008):
  • Mounting is now permitted in Ahn'Qiraj.
  • New Vanity Pet and Mount changes: Players will now be able to access their non-combat pets and mounts by clicking on the pets tab in the Character Info panel. These pets and mounts will be now learnable much like spells or abilities. Once a vanity pet or mount is learned, the icon will disappear from within a player's inventory and reappear in the appropriate tab under the pet tab under Character Info. Say goodbye to your vanity pets and mounts taking up bag and bank slots! Lost pets and mounts (one time quest rewards) can be recovered by visiting a stablemaster.
    

Burning Crusade

This section concerns content exclusive to The Burning Crusade.

• Patch 2.4.3 (2008-07-15): Mounts at 30?! Yes, it's true: Apprentice Riding and mounts are now available at level 30. Training costs 35.
  
• Patch 2.3.0 (13-Nov-2007): Nutral, the flight master in Shattrath City, now has a quest for characters who are level 70 and do not yet have a riding skill of 225. The quest will direct a character to visit the appropriate riding instructor in Shadowmoon Valley so that the player will know where they can purchase the skill necessary to use a flying mount.
  
• Patch 2.1.0 (22-May-2007):
  • Swift Flying Mounts: All the swift flying mounts will now display as epic items, rather than superior-quality items.
  • Using abilities and casting spells that cannot be used while mounted will now auto-dismount players as needed. This can be disabled by turning off the auto-dismount option in the UI options.
  • New Lua conditional [flyable] which is true if you're in a location where you could use a flying mount.
    
• Patch 2.0.3 (09-Jan-2007): New macro command: /dismount
  
• / Patch 2.0.1 (05-Dec-2006): Honor system revamp
              PvP mounts no longer limited to rank 11s, now available for 30 30 30 each.
  

Classic

This section concerns content exclusive to World of Warcraft.

• Patch 1.12.1 (26-Sep-2006): The riding skill has been changed. A riding skill of 75 is now needed to ride level 40 mounts and a skill of 150 for level 60 mounts. Those that already have mounts will automatically be granted the appropriate level skill.
  
• Patch 1.12.0 (22-Aug-2006): The Items that summon mounts have been changed in their color/quality. Items that summon normal mounts are now blue (superior) items and items that summon swift mounts are now purple (epic) items.
  
• Patch 1.6.0 (12-Jul-2005): Clarified the error message when trying to attack while mounted.
  
• Patch 1.5.0 (2005-06-07): Many of the Swift Mounts have gained eye glows and some have had other tweaks made to them to improve their looks.
  
• Patch 1.4.0 (2005-05-05): Level 60 mounts purchased at vendors now have a whole new look. Faster undead mounts already have a different look and so have not changed. The new mounts can be seen standing near the mount vendors. If you have one of the old fast mounts, you can exchange it for one with a new look at the mount vendor.
  
• Patch 1.3.0 (07-Mar-2005): Mounts now are Horde or Alliance restricted in the tooltip. We do not intend to allow Horde players to ride Alliance vendor-purchased mounts and vice versa.
  
• Patch 1.2.0 (18-Dec-2004): Players will now be able to purchase and train mounts from other races in their faction. However, you will first need to obtain "Exalted" reputation status with that race in order to do so. Mounts of the opposing faction are not available for purchase.
  
• Patch 1.1.0 (07-Nov-2004): Tauren players will no longer have the [Plainsrunning] ability, due to the availability of Kodo mounts! Tauren players can purchase the Kodo mount at Bloodhoof village.
  

Notes

• Mounts have a special emote they can do: This can be invoked while motionless on the ground, either by the /mountspecial slash command, or by pressing the Space key
• Flying mounts can perform a loop! Press Pitch Up or Pitch Down (normally Ins and Del) while in flight to perform a loop. On a macintosh, the Help key, or the Fn+Del combination (on the laptop) will start it.
• Additionally, while in a loop, you can use your strafe keys.
• Mounts that allow passengers (the two choppers, the [Grand Ice Mammoth], the [Traveler's Tundra Mammoth] and [Grand Black War Mammoth]) allow other characters to ride as passengers. Currently, the only flying mount that allows passengers is the Recruit-A-Friend mount, the [X-53 Touring Rocket‎‎].

See also

• Mounts and Pets window

External links

WoW Official Game Site (US) Pets & Mounts → Mounts tab

WoW Official Game Site (EU) Pets & Mounts → Mounts tab

Info

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News

Wowhead News 5.4 PTR: New Mounts, Pet Limit Increased and Pet Ability Scaling on Wowhead by perculia 2013/08/09 1:07 PM

WoW Official Game Site (US) Game Guide Updates: Pets and Mounts, Scenarios by Blizzard Entertainment, Nov 29, 2012 6:00 PM PST

WoW Official Game Site (EU) Game Guide Updates: Pets and Mounts, Scenarios by Blizzard Entertainment, 30 Nov 2012 13:59 GMT

Wowhead News Patch 5.0.4: Account-Wide Achievements, Tier 13 Bonuses by perculia 2012/08/29 1:17 PM

Wowhead News Mists of Pandaria: New Mounts by perculia 2012/07/16 11:38 AM

WoW Insider Mists of Pandaria Beta: New mounts in the latest build (build 15799) by Robin Torres Jun 29th 2012 at 9:00AM

WoW Insider Mists of Pandaria: Gold sink mounts will be account-wide by Robin Torres Jun 25th 2012 at 7:00PM

WoW Insider All you need to know about account-wide mounts (so far) by Anne Stickney May 7th 2012 at 5:00PM

MMO-Champion Account-wide Mounts on Beta, Pandaren Voices, Blue Posts by Boubouille 2012-05-04 07:26 AM

WoW Insider Mists of Pandaria beta: Account-wide mounts are a go by Anne Stickney May 4th 2012 at 2:07AM

Apple Cider Mage Mists of Pandaria Beta: Account-Wide Mounts by Apple Cider May 4, 2012

WoW Insider Meet the new million-gold jewelcrafting mounts by Fox Van Allen Apr 10th 2012 at 7:00PM

WoW Official Game Site (US) Patch 4.2: New PvP Mounts for Rated Battlegrounds by Zarhym, Jun 20, 2011 9:00 AM PDT

WoW Official Game Site (EU) Patch 4.2: New PvP Mounts for Rated Battlegrounds by Zarhym, 20 Jun 2011 16:00 UTC

WoW Insider Blizzard previews new rated battlegrounds PVP mounts by Mathew McCurley Jun 20th 2011 at 3:00PM

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Wowhead News Mountain o' Mounts: A Guide to Collecting Mounts by perculia 20011/06/19 9:17 AM

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