Riding

	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.

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.

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 flying 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	225	213 75	202 50	191 25	180	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	6279	6015 05	5751 10	5487 15	5223 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	Stormwind	Ilsa Blusterbrew

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	Orgrimmar	Olrokk

The following trainers were added for Expert Riding skill:

Hargen Bronzewing in Honor Hold

Wind Rider Jahubo in Thrallmar

The following trainers were added for Artisan Riding skill:

Maigra Keenfeather in Valiance Keep

Wind Rider Sabamba in Warsong Hold

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

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External links

World of Warcraft Community Site Flying Mounts (official page)

World of Warcraft Europe (en) Flying Mounts (official page)