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Riding Horse Icon WoW Icon update Riding (Profession)
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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 each 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:

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 granted Proficiency Mount Riding Friendly Honored Revered Exalted Required for Necessary level
75 Apprentice 1g 4g 3g 80s 3g 60s 3g 40s 3g 20s Regular land mount 20
150 Journeyman 10g 50g 47g 50s 45g 42g 50s 40g Epic land mount 40
225 Expert Bc icon 50g 250g 237g 50s 225g 212g 50s 200g Regular flying mount 60
n/a Inv scroll 11 [Flight Master's License] Icon Cataclysm 18x18 250g 237g 50s 225g 212g 50s 200g Allows flying in Kalimdor, the Eastern Kingdoms and Deepholm 60 with riding skill 225
300 Artisan Bc icon 100g 5000g 4750g 4500g 4250g 4000g Epic flying mount 70
n/a Spell frost arcticwinds [Cold Weather Flying] Wrath-Logo-Small 1000g 950g Icon Cataclysm 18x18 900g Icon Cataclysm 18x18 850g Icon Cataclysm 18x18 800g Icon Cataclysm 18x18 Allows Flying in Northrend 77 (68 [†]) with riding skill 225
375 Master Icon Cataclysm 18x18 5000g 4750g 4500g 4250g 4000g 310% flight speed 80[1]
Total Price 161g 11554g 5988g 80s 5673g 60s 5458g 40s 5043g 20s
[†] Available to characters with the heirloom [Tome of Cold Weather Flight] purchasable by a level 80 character on the same account.

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.
  • Paladins receive the 75 skill as part of buying their level 20 mount spell 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 spell from their trainer. At level 60 they can complete a quest to learn their Ability mount dreadsteed [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.)
  • Any character that owns a 310% speed flying mount (such as Ability mount drake proto [Reins of the Violet Proto-Drake]) automatically learns Master Riding Skill at no cost, making all other mounts 310% speed.


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).

This is a summary of the class mounts. Associated quests for the paladin and warlock mounts, while obsolete in the sense that they are no longer required, have not been removed from the game.

Class Ability Level
Death Knight Spell deathknight summondeathcharger [Acherus Deathcharger] 55
Paladin Warhorse 20
Paladin Charger 40
Warlock Felsteed 20
Warlock Ability mount dreadsteed [Dreadsteed] 40

Riding trainers

Alliance 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) Bc icon Exodar Aalun
Gryphon Honor Hold Bc icon
Wildhammer Stronghold Bc icon
Valiance Keep Wrath-Logo-Small
Stormwind
Honor Hold
Valiance Expedition
Hargen Bronzewing
Ilsa Blusterbrew
Maigra Keenfeather
Horde 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 Bc icon Silvermoon City Perascamin
Wyvern Thrallmar Bc icon
Shadowmoon Village Bc icon
Warsong Hold Wrath-Logo-Small
Orgrimmar
Thrallmar
Warsong Offensive
Wind Rider Jahubo
Olrokk
Wind Rider Sabamba
Neutral Neutral Mount/Cold Weather Flying Trainers
Location Faction Trainer
Krasus' Landing Wrath-Logo-Small
Inv misc gem x4 rare uncut blue [River's Heart] Wrath-Logo-Small
K3 Wrath-Logo-Small
Neutral
Neutral
Neutral
Hira Snowdawn
Pilot Vic
Roxi Ramrocket

Flying

Disambiguation:

Patch changes

{{Patch 4.0.1|note=Mount Changes

  • Master Flying Skill is now available from riding trailers in Dalaran, Valiance Expedition, [[Warsong Offensive] at a cost of 5,0000 gold
  • Characters that have a 310% mount ar given this skill free of charge

Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.2.2 (2009-09-22): Mount Changes

  • Reduced the expert riding skill price to 250g.
  • 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.[2]

Wrath-Logo-Small 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 4g. 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 50g. 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 600g 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 1,000g level 80 Main characters can purchase the Heirloom [Tome of Cold Weather Flight] 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.

Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Cold Weather Flying added at level 77 at a cost of 1,000g.
Bc icon 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 90g to 35g, and its respective reputation discounts.
Bc icon 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 900g, so the total cost of getting an epic mount was the same as before. It has since been reduced to 600g to make it easier to buy Expert riding skill.

WoW Icon update 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 20g, 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 80g. 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

 
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