Mounts, Riding Costs & Unlocks

Mounts are a major travel upgrade in WoW Forever because the game has no flying mounts. Your first purchase decision comes at level 40: save for Apprentice Riding before spending freely on gear that can wait. Journeyman Riding is a separate level 60 goal, so keep building your mount fund after you buy the first ground mount.

Budget for riding training first

At level 40, Apprentice Riding costs 100 gold and increases ground speed by 60%. The trainer provides your first racial mount with the skill. Extra colors cost 20 gold each. At level 60, Journeyman Riding costs 1,000 gold and grants a swift racial mount with 100% ground speed; additional swift colors cost 200 gold each.

Honored reputation with your home faction reduces riding and racial mount prices by 10%. If you are close to Honored, delay the purchase until you reach that standing. Otherwise, buy the skill when you hit the required level and avoid spending the full savings on optional colors.

For a compact cost table and mount requirements, check the WoW Forever riding and mount guide. The mount cost and requirements guide also covers the level 40 milestone.

Choose a mount by race and reputation

Your race determines the usual mount family: Humans ride horses, Dwarves use rams, Night Elves use sabers, Gnomes use mechanostriders, Orcs use wolves, Undead use skeletal horses, Tauren use kodos, Trolls use raptors, and Skyborne characters use Galestriders. To buy another race’s mount, build Exalted reputation with that race’s capital faction. This makes cross-race mount collecting a longer reputation project, not an early leveling purchase.

Work toward special mounts

Some mounts use progression beyond riding training. The Pack Kodo requires 6,000 Merchant’s Favor and is sold through faction supply progression. Waylaid Crates are a main way to earn that currency: fill them with requested profession materials and turn them in to your faction’s supply organization. The Spectral Bear is tied to the Legacy system and requires 55 Legacy Points. Black War Mounts require PvP Rank 11. These goals can run alongside leveling or endgame play, so pick one route instead of trying to progress every currency at once.

Undead Paladins also have a class mount questline for the Forsaken Charger. If you are playing that combination, treat the class mount as its own quest goal alongside riding training. There are no flying mounts, so a ground mount remains useful across the whole journey; save your gold around the training milestones and choose special collections based on the content you already enjoy.