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 discount available is a Faction Discount.

The expert and artisan riding masters are not part of any faction, and therefore do not offer a discount on their respective riding skills.

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 68.

• Paladins receive the 75 skill as part of buying their level 30 mount from their trainer. At level 60 they can either buy the journeyman skill and learn the epic mount from the trainer at level 61 or do the original level 60 quest to get the Charger and get the journeyman riding skill (and a feat in 3.1) for free.

• Warlocks can also train their mounts at a class trainer. At level 60 they have an option of waiting until level 61, buying Journeyman Skill, and then learning their mount from their trainer, or going through the level 60 quest for their [Dreadsteed] and get Journeyman riding skill (and a feat in 3.1) for free.

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).

Skill	Proficiency	Cost	Friendly	Honored	Revered	Exalted	Required for	Necessary level
75	Apprentice	35	33 25	31 50	29 75	28	Regular land mount	30
150	Journeyman	600	570	540	510	480	Epic land mount	60
225	Expert	800	No discount available				Regular flying mount	70 (68 for Druids with [Flight Form])
300	Artisan	5000	No discount available				Epic flying mount	70
150 +	[Cold Weather Flying]	1000	No discount available				Flying in Northrend	77 (with riding skill 150)
Total Price		7435	7403 25	7371 50	7339 75	7308

The level requirement for apprentice riding was reduced from 40 to 30 on July 15, 2008 by patch 2.4.3.

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 (entrance)	Exodar	Aalun
Gryphon	Wildhammer Stronghold	-	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	Shadowmoon Village	-	Olrokk

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]

Historical note

The cost structure and functionality of Riding and Mounts was changed in Patch 1.12.1.

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. Template: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.

PvP rankings also no longer grant the player an additional 10% discount as of Patch 2.0.1.

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 2.4.3 lowers the Apprentice Riding level requirement from 40 to 30. It also reduces the cost from 90 to 35.

External links

World of Warcraft Community Site Flying Mounts (official page)

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