Riding

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	Riding (Profession)
	Trainers • Mounts

Riding is a secondary profession in which characters may learn to ride mounts. Every mount has a minimum skill level required for riding.

In general, a normal mount will require Apprentice riding skill, and a swift mount will require Journeyman skill, but there are exceptions.

More detail on the requirements for each mount can be found on the mounts page.

Contents 1 Skill levels 2 Free Riding Skills 3 Riding Trainers 4 Flying 5 Patch changes 6 References 7 External links

Skill levels

The following table lists the skill levels available and the cost to train the skill. Due to the high cost of training, the price with discount is also listed in the table. The only discounts available are faction discounts, which vary depending on where you train in the riding skill:

• Apprentice and Journeyman riding are discounted based on your standing with whatever race you buy them from. All playable races have trainers.
• Expert riding can be discounted by buying it in Honor Hold or Thrallmar, which will apply a Stormwind or Orgrimmar discount, respectively.
• Artisan can be discounted in the same fashion as Expert, or it can be discounted with Valiance Expedition and Warsong Offensive rep by going to Valiance Keep and Warsong Hold, respectively.
• Be aware that there are some trainers who give no discounts at all, such as the one in Dalaran.

Also, note that the prices listed for the mount itself refer to the basic mounts available to each race, usually purchasable from a vendor near the riding trainer. Special, reputation reward, or vanity mounts may cost more or require special currency to purchase. To save space, faction discounts on the mounts themselves are not included in the table.

Skill	Proficiency	Mount	Riding	Friendly	Honored	Revered	Exalted	Required for	Necessary level
75	Apprentice	1	4	3 80	3 60	3 40	3 20	Regular land mount	20
150	Journeyman	10	50	47 50	45	42 50	40	Epic land mount	40
225	Expert	50	250	237 50	225	212 50	200	Regular flying mount	60
300	Artisan	100	5000	4750	4500	4250	4000	Epic flying mount	70
225 +	Cold Weather Flying		1,000	No discount available				Flying in Northrend	77 (68 [†]) with riding skill 225
Total Price		161	6304	6038 80	5773 60	5508 40	5243 20
[†] Available to characters with the new heirloom [Tome of Cold Weather Flying] purchasable by a level 80 character on the same account.

This is a summary of the class mounts. Associated quests for the mounts will not be removed.

Class	Ability	Level
Death Knight	Acherus Deathcharger	55
Paladin	Warhorse	20
Paladin	Charger	40
Warlock	Felsteed	20
Warlock	Dreadsteed	40

Free Riding Skills

• Death Knights receive the 150 skill at character creation (level 55); they learn to summon an Acherus Deathcharger, a swift land mount, as a quest in the Acherus starting zone.

• Druids receive the 225 skill (if they already have 150) with flight form at level 60.

• Paladins receive the 75 skill as part of buying their level 20 mount from their trainer. At level 60 they can complete the Charger quest chain which rewards the Journeyman riding skill (and a Feat of Strength). (Training the Charger at level 40 does not provide Journeyman riding skill.)

• Warlocks also receive the 75 skill as part of buying their level 20 mount from their trainer. At level 60 they can complete a quest to learn their Dreadsteed summon and get Journeyman riding skill (and a Feat of Strength). (Like paladins, training to summon the fast mount at level 40 does not reward the riding skill.)

Note that like all professions, all lower ranked skill levels must be learned before training further (e.g. Expert skill is required to train Artisan skill).

Riding Trainers

Alliance Mount Trainers and Vendors
Type	Location	Faction	Trainer
Horse	Eastvale Logging Camp Menethil Harbor Southshore Theramore Isle	Stormwind	Randal Hunter
Saber	Cenarion Enclave	Darnassus	Jartsam
Ram	Amberstill Ranch	Ironforge	Ultham Ironhorn
Mechanostrider	Steelgrill's Depot	Gnomeregan Exiles	Binjy Featherwhistle
Elekk	The Exodar (front entrance)	Exodar	Aalun
Gryphon	Honor Hold Wildhammer Stronghold Valiance Keep	Stormwind Honor Hold Valiance Expedition	Hargen Bronzewing Ilsa Blusterbrew Maigra Keenfeather

Horde Mount Trainers and Vendors
Type	Location	Faction	Trainer
Wolf	Valley of Honor	Orgrimmar	Kildar
Raptor	Sen'jin Village	Darkspear Trolls	Xar'Ti
Kodo	Bloodhoof Village	Thunder Bluff	Kar Stormsinger
Skeletal Horse	Brill	Undercity	Velma Warnam
Hawkstrider	Thuron's Livery	Silvermoon City	Perascamin
Wyvern	Thrallmar Shadowmoon Village Warsong Hold	Orgrimmar Thrallmar Warsong Offensive	Wind Rider Jahubo Olrokk Wind Rider Sabamba

Flying

Disambiguation:

• Flying mounts
• Content exclusive to flying mounts
• Flight master
• Flight path
• Movement → Transportation
• Flight Form (The Druid's flight form)
• Swift Flight Form (The Druid's epic flight form)
• Flying Machine

Patch changes

Patch 3.2.2 (2009-09-22): Mount Changes

• Reduced the expert riding skill price to 250 .
• Changed the faction discounts for the riding skill vendors in Honor Hold and Thrallmar to use Stormwind and Orgrimmar faction, respectively. This is because newly-arrived 60s in Outland are unlikely to have any Honor Hold or Thrallmar rep.[1]
  

Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): Mount Changes

• The cast time for summoning any ground 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).
• In order to further equalize the number of purchasable mounts available to each race, a new 60% speed ground mount has been added for night elves, and a new 100% speed ground mount has been added for the undead.
• Flying over Dalaran and Wintergrasp is now possible so long as players keep a healthy distance above the ground.
• For 1,000 level 80 Main characters can purchase the Heirloom [Tome of Cold Weather Flying] and give it to their alts level 68+ that have a flying skill of 225+ (not 150 as previously stated) to learn Cold Weather Flying.
  

Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Cold Weather Flying added at level 77 at a cost of 1,000 .
Patch 2.4.3 (2008-07-15): The level requirement for Apprentice Riding was lowered from 40 to 30. It also reduces the cost from 90 to 35 , and its respective reputation discounts.
Patch 2.0.1 (2006-12-05): PvP rankings also no longer grant the player an additional 10% discount

Before TBC, the cost of Journeyman riding was 900 , so the total cost of getting an epic mount was the same as before. It has since been reduced to 600 to make it easier to buy Expert riding skill.

Patch 1.12.1 (2006-09-26): The cost structure and functionality of Riding and Mounts was changed.

Prior to that patch, Riding was an ability rather than a secondary Profession, and had only one rank. Each faction had its own riding skill (tiger riding, horse riding, mechanostrider piloting, ram riding) and the cost was 20 , available at level 40. Exalted reputation was required to learn cross-faction riding skill, but mounts were Bind on Use and purchasable by anyone for 80 . This meant that characters who were PvP rank 3 or higher could pass on the 10% discount directly to other characters by buying the mount for them. This is no longer possible because all mounts are now Bind on Pickup, and the majority of the cost is built into the riding skill training (which is no longer faction-specific) rather than the cost of the mount.

References

External links

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