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Revision as of 23:40, 4 February 2008
Riding (Profession) | |
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Mounts are a much sought after form of transportation in which players ride atop the backs of various Bind on Pickup creatures (or machines for gnomes and engineers). Warlocks and paladins can summon their mounts with special spells. Mounted travel is faster than walking, and the Burning Crusade expansion introduced both new mounts and flying mounts.
Mounts were generally expensive in the past, but their prices have been reduced with the training to ride them increased to compensate. There are however some mounts which do not cost any gold or Marks of Honor, and will drop at very low rates from bosses in instances such as Stratholme, Zul'Gurub, Zul'Aman, Tempest Keep, and Karazhan.
Riding skills and abilities
There are several types of mounts, all which correspond to one of the four different riding skills (Apprentice, Journeyman, Expert, and Artisan).
At level 40, players may learn the Apprentice riding skill (at a base cost of 100, subject to faction discount) and may purchase Apprentice mounts, which have a 60% movement speed increase.
At level 60, epic Journeyman mounts become available with a standard 100% movement increase, but require additional training (600, also subject to a faction discount). The character gets an epic item to summon their mount.
At level 70, a player can learn both the expert and artisan riding skills. The expert riding skill costs 800 for training and 100 for the mount. The artisan riding skill costs 5000 for training and 200 for an epic flying mount. There is no way to gain a discount for the Expert and Artisan flying skill. The flying mounts are only usable with these skills and may only be summoned in Outland.
Faction specific mounts
Mounts by race
Each race has their own mount and other races can ride these mounts if they have the appropriate faction and physical abilities, although before patch 1.1 the tauren had no mount, and learned an ability called [Plainsrunning].
Mounts by race | |
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Alliance | |
Template:Race Icon NightElf Male SmallTemplate:Race Icon NightElf Female Small Night elves | Template:Mount Icon Saber Small Nightsaber |
Template:Race Icon Human Male SmallTemplate:Race Icon Human Female Small Humans | Template:Mount Icon Horse Small Horse |
Template:Race Icon Dwarf Male SmallTemplate:Race Icon Dwarf Female Small Dwarves | Template:Mount Icon Ram Small Ram |
Template:Race Icon Gnome Male SmallTemplate:Race Icon Gnome Female Small Gnomes | Template:Mount Icon Mechanostrider SmallMechanostrider |
Template:Race Icon Draenei Male SmallTemplate:Race Icon Draenei Female Small Draenei | Template:Mount Icon Elekk Small Elekk |
Horde | |
Template:Race Icon Tauren Male SmallTemplate:Race Icon Tauren Female Small Tauren | Template:Mount Icon Kodo Small Kodo |
Template:Race Icon Orc Male SmallTemplate:Race Icon Orc Female Small Orcs | Template:Mount Icon Wolf Small Wolf |
Template:Race Icon Troll Male SmallTemplate:Race Icon Troll Female Small Trolls | Template:Mount Icon Raptor Small Raptor |
Template:Race Icon Undead Male SmallTemplate:Race Icon Undead Female Small Forsaken | Template:Mount Icon SkeletalHorse Small Skeletal Horse |
Template:Race Icon BloodElf Male SmallTemplate:Race Icon BloodElf Female Small Blood elves | Template:Mount Icon Hawkstrider Small Hawkstrider |
Flying Mounts | |
Alliance | Template:Mount Icon Gryphon Small Gryphon |
Horde | Template:Mount Icon Wyvern Small Wyvern |
Purchasing other mounts
You can purchase your own race's mount regardless of your reputation provided you have enough gold stockpiled. However, to purchase another race's mount, your reputation with that race's faction must be "Exalted". Before Patch 1.12.1, it was required to get additional training to ride that race's mounts. After Patch 1.12.1, a universal riding skill was introduced that superseded all the mount-specific riding skills. Do keep in mind that mount vendors of cities owned by races other than your own will not show you what they have to offer unless you are exalted with them.
There are two exceptions:
- Tauren can only ride kodo beasts, wolves, talbuks, and the rare epic mounts, as they are just too large to ride anything else.
- The [Black War Raptor] is also ridable by tauren, but none of the other raptors are ridable.
- Mechanostriders can only be ridden by gnomes and dwarves, as they are the only races small enough.
Mount Type | Template:Grc | Template:Grc | Template:Grc | Template:Grc | Template:Grc |
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Elekk | File:Check.png | File:Check.png | File:Check.png | File:Check.png | File:Check.png |
Rams | File:Check.png | File:Check.png | File:Check.png | File:Check.png | File:Check.png |
Mechanostriders | N/A | File:Check.png | File:Check.png | N/A | N/A |
Horses | File:Check.png | File:Check.png | File:Check.png | File:Check.png | File:Check.png |
Sabre Cats | File:Check.png | File:Check.png | File:Check.png | File:Check.png | File:Check.png |
Mount Type | Template:Grc | Template:Grc | Template:Grc | Template:Grc | Template:Grc |
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Hawkstriders | File:Check.png | File:Check.png | N/A | File:Check.png | File:Check.png |
Wolves | File:Check.png | File:Check.png | File:Check.png | File:Check.png | File:Check.png |
Kodos | File:Check.png | File:Check.png | File:Check.png | File:Check.png | File:Check.png |
Raptors | File:Check.png | File:Check.png | PVP | File:Check.png | File:Check.png |
Skeletal Horses | File:Check.png | File:Check.png | N/A | File:Check.png | File:Check.png |
Discount
Faction discount
Because of the large expense of mounts, and the way Blizzard implements the discount system, it will be often seen that people refer to prices which are 10% less than the prices listed here. There was only one discount available for training riding skill and purchasing mounts:
- 10% Honored faction discount.
As of patch 2.3, Blizzard included discounts for all levels of a faction beyond neutral; the discounts are as follows:
- 5% Friendly faction discount.
- 10% Honored faction discount.
- 15% Revered faction discount.
- 20% Exalted faction discount.
Class discount
Technically not a discount, warlocks, and paladins can get class-specific mounts (via quests Warlocks pay 1 gold and 10 silver to learn the Felsteed spell). They are equivalent to standard mounts, but require a small amount of mana to summon. When the summoning spells are learned, the player will automatically receive the requisite riding skill to ride that particular mount. As of patch 2.1, when a warlock receives their felsteed, they automatically receive the Apprentice riding skill that applies to "normal" mounts. This is also true for paladins. While some say these mounts are free, Warlocks pay the difference while buying their spells, as all their spells cost 10% more at all levels, as well as having to buy Pet skills.
Mounts by class | |
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Template:Class Icon Paladin Small Paladin | Template:Mount Icon Warhorse Small Warhorse (blue and silver colored) at level 40. |
Template:Class Icon Paladin Small Paladin | Template:Mount Icon Warhorse Small Charger (blue and golden colored) level 60. |
Template:Class Icon Paladin Small Paladin | Template:Mount Icon Warhorse Small Warhorse (red and bronze colored) at level 40. |
Template:Class Icon Paladin Small Paladin | Template:Mount Icon Warhorse Small Charger (red and bronze colored) at level 60. |
Template:Class Icon Warlock Small Warlock | Template:Mount Icon Felsteed Small Felsteed at level 40. |
Template:Class Icon Warlock Small Warlock | Template:Mount Icon Felsteed Small [Dreadsteed] at level 60. |
Class Abilities
Druids and Shamans get shapeshift forms 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 movement speed and that of their party. Rogues get a self-buff to temporarily increase movement speed.
- Template:Class Icon Druid Small Druid
- File:Ability Druid AquaticForm.png [Aquatic Form] from a Druid quest that starts at level 16. Aquatic form increases swim speed by 50%.
- With a Talent, [Feral Swiftness], it is possible to increase [Cat Form] movement speed by 15% (one talent point) or 30% (two talent points).
- Dash first obtained at level 24, increases [Cat Form] movement speed by 50% (rank 1 - level 24), 60% (rank 2 - level 46), and 70% (rank 3 - level 65) for 15 seconds. However, it does not stack with Feral Swiftness's movement speed increase.
- File:Ability Druid TravelForm.png [Travel Form] at level 30. Movement speed increased by 40%. Can shapeshift in combat. Only usable outdoors.
- [Flight Form] at level 68. Usable in Outland-only. Movement speed (flying) increased by 60%. Instant cast, cannot shapeshift in combat. Learning the ability also gives Druids the Riding Skill 225 for free. Requires Riding skill 150 to learn.
- [Swift Flight Form] at level 70. Usable in Outland-only. Movement speed (flying) increased by 280%. Instant cast, cannot shapeshift in combat. Learning the ability requires the Riding Skill 300.
- Template:Class Icon Shaman Small Shaman
- [Ghost Wolf] at level 20. Movement speed increased by 40%. Only usable outdoors.
- Template:Class Icon Hunter Small Hunter
- [Aspect of the Cheetah] at level 20. Movement speed increased by 30%. Able to boost to 38% through talent spending.
- [Aspect of the Pack] at level 40. Movement speed of the party increased by 30%. Able to boost to 38% through talent spending.
- Template:Class Icon Rogue Small Rogue
- [Sprint] at level 10. Movement speed is increased by 50% for 15 seconds (rank 1 – level 10), 60% for 15 seconds (rank 2 – level 34), and 70% for 15 seconds (rank 3 – level 58). Sprint can also have a 50%/100% chance to remove all movement impairing effects via Improved Sprint in the Combat (Changed in a patch) talent tree.
- [Fleet Footed] (Assassination tree talent tier 5) Increase chance to avoid movement imparing effects by 5/10% and movement speed by 8/16% (2 ranks)
- Template:Class Icon Paladin Small Paladin
- [Crusader Aura] at level 62. Movement speed while mounted is increased by 20% this does not stack with anything else which increases mount speed such as [Carrot on a Stick], [Mithril Spurs], [Riding Skill], or [Riding Crop].
- Pursuit of Justice in the retribution talent tree (tier 3). This increases your movement speed (and mounted movement speed) by 5% (10%, 15%). This does not stack with other speed increasing effects.
Mounts tables
Rare ground mounts
Mount type | Speed increase | Availability | Required riding skill | |
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Template:Race Icon Human Male SmallTemplate:Race Icon Human Female Small Humans : Template:Mount Icon Horse Small Horse Mounts |
60% | 10 | Apprentice (75) | |
Template:Race Icon Orc Male SmallTemplate:Race Icon Orc Female Small Orcs : Template:Mount Icon Wolf Small Wolf Mounts |
60% | 10 | Apprentice (75) | |
Ahn'Qiraj | Template:Mount Icon QirajiTank Small Qiraji Battle Tanks | 100% | AQ40 Drop | Apprentice (75) |
Epic ground mounts
Swift mounts have been available since Patch 1.4, making pre 1.4 mounts no longer purchasable. Pre 1.4 mounts have rare epic mount styles but different colors. Players with old epic mounts can exchange their mount for the newer mounts but since old epic mounts can no longer be purchased, people keep their old epic mount as a novelty.
Mount type | Speed increase | Availability | Required riding skill | |
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Template:Race Icon Human Male SmallTemplate:Race Icon Human Female Small Humans : Template:Mount Icon Horse Small Swift Horse Mounts |
100% | 100 | Journeyman (150) | |
Template:Race Icon Orc Male Small Template:Race Icon Orc Female Small Orcs : Template:Mount Icon Wolf Small Swift Wolf Mounts |
100% | 100 | Journeyman (150) | |
PvP Mounts |
Template:Mount Icon Mechanostrider Small [Black Battlestrider] from the gnomes |
100% | 30 30 30 | Journeyman (150) |
PvP Mounts |
Template:Mount Icon Wolf Small [Black War Wolf] from the orcs |
100% | 30 30 30 | Journeyman (150) |
PvP Mounts |
Template:Mount Icon Talbuk Small [Dark War Talbuk] from Halaa blade merchant |
100% |
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Journeyman (150) |
Rare faction | : Template:Mount Icon Saber Small [Winterspring Frostsaber] : Template:Mount Icon Talbuk Small Riding Talbuk |
100% | 100 |
Apprentice (75)
Journeyman (150) |
Alterac Valley Mounts | : Template:Mount Icon Ram Small [Stormpike Battle Charger] : Template:Mount Icon Wolf Small [Frostwolf Howler] |
100% | 50 | Journeyman (150) |
Rare drop mounts |
: Template:Mount Icon SkeletalHorse Small [Deathcharger's Reins] |
100% |
Baron Rivendare, Stratholme |
Journeyman (150) |
TCG Mounts
All the TCG mounts must first be unlocked using a code found on a loot card, before they can be purchased from Landro Longshot in Booty Bay.
Mount type | Speed increase | Availability | Required riding skill | |
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TCG Mounts | ||||
Template:Race Icon Turtle Small: [Riding Turtle] | 0% | 0 | None | |
Template:Mount Icon Saber Small: [Reins of the Spectral Tiger] | 60% | 10 | Apprentice (75) | |
Template:Mount Icon Saber Small: [Reins of the Swift Spectral Tiger] | 100% | 100 | Journeyman (150) | |
Template:Mount Icon Rocket Small: [X-51 Nether-Rocket] | 60% | 100 | Expert (225) | |
Template:Mount Icon Rocket Small: [X-51 Nether-Rocket] | 280% | 200 | Artisan (300) |
Legendary ground mounts
Mount type | Speed increase | Availability | Required riding skill | |
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Legendary mount | Template:Mount Icon QirajiTank Small: [Black Qiraji Battle Tank] | 100% | No longer attainable on current servers, long quest chain | Journeyman (150) |
Flying mounts
Mount type | Speed increase | Availability | Required riding skill | |
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Flying mounts (expert) |
: Template:Mount Icon Gryphon Small Gryphon Mounts |
60% on land, 60% in air | 100 | Expert (225) |
Cenarion Hippogryphs[1] |
: Template:Mount Icon Hippogryph Small [Cenarion War Hippogryph] |
100% on land, 280% in air | 2000 Exalted with Cenarion Expedition | Artisan (300) |
Flying mounts (artisan) |
: Template:Mount Icon Gryphon Small Swift Gryphon Mounts |
100% on land, 280% in air | 200 | Artisan (300) |
Sha'tari Skyguard Mounts |
: Template:Mount Icon Netherray Small Nether ray |
100% on land, 280% in air | 200 Exalted with Sha'tari Skyguard | Artisan (300) |
Netherwing Drakes | 100% on land, 280% in air [2] | Questline / Exalted with Netherwing | Artisan (300)
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Arena Rewards |
: Template:Race Icon Netherwing Small [Swift Nether Drake] |
100% on land, 310% in air [3] | Seasonal Arena reward | Artisan (300) |
Tempest Keep Phoenix |
: Template:Mount Icon Phoenix Small [Ashes of Al'ar] |
100% on land, 310% in air | Kael'thas Sunstrider, The Eye | Artisan (300) |
Engineering Mounts (expert) |
: Template:Mount Icon Flyingmachine Small [Flying Machine Control] |
60% on land, 60% in air | 350 Engineering | Expert (225) |
Engineering Mounts (artisan) |
: Template:Mount Icon Flyingmachine Small [Turbo-Charged Flying Machine Control] |
100% on land, 280% in air | 375 Engineering | Artisan (300) |
Holiday mounts
Mount type | Speed increase | Availability | Prerequisites | |
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Festive mount changer | Template:Race Icon Stag Small [Fresh Holly] | N/A | Feast of Winter Veil | Requires level 40 |
Template:Race Icon Stag Small [Preserved Holly] | N/A | Feast of Winter Veil | Requires level 40; [60] Metzen the Reindeer or [60] The Hero of the Day | |
Brewfest Rams | Template:Mount Icon Ram Small [Brewfest Ram] | 60% | Brewfest | Requires level 40; 10 and 600 [Brewfest Prize Ticket]s |
Template:Mount Icon Ram Small [Swift Brewfest Ram] | 100% | Brewfest | Requires level 60; 100 and 600 [Brewfest Prize Ticket]s | |
Brooms | Template:Mount Icon Broom Small [Magic Broom] | 60% | Hallow's End | Requires level 40 and Riding skill Apprentice (75) |
Template:Mount Icon Broom Small [Swift Magic Broom] | 100% | Hallow's End | Requires level 60 Riding skill Journeyman (150) | |
Template:Mount Icon Broom Small [Flying Broom] | 60% on land, 60% in air | Hallow's End | Requires level 70 Riding skill Expert (225) | |
Template:Mount Icon Broom Small [Swift Flying Broom] | 100% on land, 280% in air | Hallow's End | Requires level 70 Riding skill Artisan (300) | |
Template:Mount Icon Broom Small [Rickety Magic Broom] | 0% | Hallow's End | Requires level 1 and no Riding Skill. |
Mount speed
There are five methods for increasing your mounted speed which are available to all players:
- [Enchant Gloves - Riding Skill]: +2% (stacking), world drop Enchanting recipe
- [Carrot on a Stick]: +3% (stacking), reward from the Gahz'rilla quest in Zul'Farrak
- [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.
All speed improvement items work on both normal, as well as flying mounts (with the exception of npc controlled point-point flight)
Totals
The first three effects act as percent multipliers of your total mounted speed, stacking with previous multipliers. Thus, if you have spurs but nothing else, your normal mount speed will be increased to about 166.4% ((100% + 60%) * 1.04 = 166.4%). These numbers were obtained experimentally using a position-tracking addon written specifically for this purpose.
Using the highest speed-enhancing effect produces a total movement speed of about:
- 110% for [Riding Turtle] — (100%) * (1.1)
- 176% for normal land and air mounts — (100% + 60%) * (1.1)
- 220% for epic land mounts — (100% + 100%) * (1.1)
- 418% for swift gryphons and wyverns — (100% + 280%) * (1.1)
- 451% for [Swift Nether Drake] — (100% + 310%) * (1.1)
Additionally, paladins have a talent called Pursuit of Justice which increases mount speed by 5/10/15% (non-stacking) and hunters have a talent called [Animal Handler] which increases your mount speed by 4%/8% (non-stacking). Since the speed bonus from this talent is non-stacking, it increases the Warhorse's total speed to 166.4%/172.8% and the Charger's to 208%/216%.
Paladins also get [Crusader Aura], available at level 62, which increases mount speed for all members in the party by 20% (non-stacking). This does not stack with Pursuit of Justice. This also affects flying mounts.
Total movement speed while using [Crusader Aura]
- 192% for Warhorse/Non-Epic — (160%) * (1.2)
- 240% for Charger/Epic — (200%) * (1.2)
- 456% for swift gryphons and wyverns — (380%) * (1.2)
- 492% for [Swift Nether Drake] — (410%) * (1.2)
Flying mounts in Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms
Blizzard officials have stated that it would be possible to "rebuild" the existing continents to accommodate for flying mounts, but this would take enormous amounts of time as Kalimdor and the Eastern continents combined are more than four times the size of Outland.
Comment from Drysc, a Blizzard representative:
2006, November 13
Unfortunately our designers and developers are not a limitless sea of people; there are decisions that have to be made as to where we should appropriately direct the development efforts. It's our feeling that providing new content, new places to explore and progress your character, new races and professions, all equal a very worthwhile expenditure of our resources. We're definitely committed to ensuring parts of the game already developed continue to be refined, but in this case delaying an expansion for a potentially "very long time" just wouldn't make sense, and wouldn't be very fair to our fans and players who would rather keep progressing their character than flying through places they've already been.
Let's say that we did allow flying mounts in Azeroth and chose to redesign it at some point, it would be no small task. We would need to correct all of the terrain outside of the 'walkable' areas, including building out zones that currently don't exist but through lore are known to exist in those areas. We would also have to rework most outdoor areas as content not intended to be bypassed could be, as well as any possible terrain exploitation potential (ie lots of time testing and refining). We would need to think about what happens when the edge of the map is reached. Since Outland is flat, a bounding wall makes sense, but for a planet that starts to break down. Do players zone in to the other continent while flying or do we make it seamless? If it's seamless we have to rebuild our server architecture, not to mention any further technical issues, etc. etc. While summed up in a sentence or two each of these things would require teams of people working together for a long time to pull off well.
It really all comes down to making the game fun to play for everyone, and allocating resources and time to do that as efficiently as possible. Right now spending time reworking Azeroth so that flying mounts can simply exist, for some ease of travel and sight seeing, doesn't seem like an appropriate use of our time or efforts. In the future though, who knows?
Comment from Nethaera, another Blizzard representative:
2007, February 14
As much as people keep trying to convince us we need to do this there are reasons for things being the way they are. For one, Outland was created specifically with flying mounts in mind. From the ground up to the sky, we worked on the technology involved to make this happen. For another, by keeping them a part of Outland, it makes them unique to the new land and relays a sense of 'ooh and ahh' that they aren't commonplace all around Azeroth too. Also, to retro-fit Azeroth to allow for them would take a lot of time and it's time we'd much rather dedicate to moving forward towards new content than trying to rework something.
Time and resources are two things we are very careful about and as you can see from reading the forums, a lot of people believe we should be doing more with it no matter how much we actually do. We do the best we can to put out fixes and content as quickly as possible but we have a constraint we've put on ourselves as well that if we are going to put something out there, that we should do it well and with Blizzard quality in mind. This is something that will always be at the top of our list to strive for.
See also
- Riding skill
- Transportation category for a detailed list of methods of transportation in WoW.
- Mounts category for a list of articles on mounts.
- If you want to get a head start, read a Guide for Preparing to Buy a Mount.
- [Fresh Holly], a way to transform your mount into a reindeer for half an hour
Notes
- Flying mounts can perform a loop! Make sure you have you [Num Lock] turned off, then press the 0 (zero) button on your numeric pad while in flight to perform a loop.
- You can also make loops using the Pitch Up and Pitch Down keys (normally [Ins] and [Del]). Additionally, while in a loop, you can use your strafe keys to do a Barrel Roll manoeuvre.
References
External links
- World of Warcraft Community Site Mounts (official guide page)
- World of Warcraft Europe (en) Mounts (official guide page)