Mounts 🐎
v0.32 adds rideable ground mounts — a stable of seven, from a vendor-bought starter to two rift-only epics. A mount is a flat move-speed boost while you ride it; there's no flying, so the bonus only ever scales normal ground and swim locomotion. Mounts became usable reins items this patch (the old mount picker is retired): you own a mount by holding its reins.
🐎 The basics: hit level 20, buy the Valorsteed reins from the stablemaster, and learn to ride. Faster and fancier mounts drop from heroic dungeons, the raid, and rifts. Hold a mount's reins to own it; mount up for the speed bonus.
Getting your first mount
- Level 20. Every mount is gated to the cap — reins carry no level requirement themselves, but the vendor has a level-20 buy gate and every drop source is level-20 content.
- The stablemaster in Thornpeak Heights (Zone 3) sells the riding training and the Valorsteed reins — the only purchasable mount. You take a short riding lesson (riding an unowned Valorsteed) before the reins are yours.
The stable
| Mount | Rarity | Speed | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valorsteed | Common | +60% | Stablemaster (vendor) |
| Sky-Reach Stormfeather | Uncommon | +70% | Heroic five-man drop |
| Kama-Kage the Shadow-Jump Toad | Uncommon | +70% | Heroic five-man drop |
| Goliath Grag-Bear | Rare | +75% | Heroic five-man / raid drop |
| Moss-Shell Stalk-Glider | Rare | +75% | Heroic five-man / raid drop |
| Aether-Jouster Hover-Cycle | Epic | +80% | Rift-only |
| Thunderstrut the Grand Gobbler | Epic | +80% | Rift-only |
The two uncommon mounts drop most readily from heroic dungeons, so they're the first specials most players collect. The rares come from heroic and raid bosses. The two epics have no static drop — the only source is [[rifts]] (their odds improve at higher ranks).
Riding
- Reins = ownership. Holding a mount's reins item means you own that mount; there's no separate collection window to manage.
- Ground only. The bonus scales your normal ground and swim speed through the movement system — no flight, so it never changes vertical traversal or the parkour ladder.
- Speed stacks by rarity, from +60% on the Valorsteed up to +80% on the two epic mounts.
See also: [[rifts]] for the rift-only epic mounts, [[heroic-dungeons]] for the drop mounts, and [[heroic-nythraxis]] for the raid.