How to train for a flying mount in wow
How to Learn Riding and Flying in WoW [World of Warcraft Guide]
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let's talk about how to unlock the
different riding options in world of
warcraft
basically there are four different
levels of riding firstly you have
apprentice writing which increases your
speed by 60
and it's unlocked at level 10. you have
journeyman riding which increases your
speed by 100
and it's unlocked level 20 then you have
expert riding which
allows you to fly and it increases your
speed by 150
whilst in the air bear in mind you'll
still only go 100
speed whilst you're on the ground this
is unlocked at level 30
and then finally you have master riding
which ups your
flying speeds to 310 which is
significant and that's unlocked at level
40.
so that's the different types of riding
that are available but how do you unlock
them
well that's really going to depend on
the leveling journey you pick
your race and even sometimes your class
if you're a new player you're going to
be going to exile's reach for the new
player experience it's as simple as that
however if you're a returning player
you're going to get a choice between
exile's reach and the more traditional
starting zones
now if you do opt to do exiles reach
which i would highly recommend it's a
really good starting experience
then once you've finished there you're
going to be taken to your faction's
capital city and you're going to get a
quest that takes you on a city tour
as part of that tour you're going to
learn the first rank of riding
apprentice riding and you're actually
going to get that for free as well as
getting given your first
mount for free it's as simple as that
and do remember that if you're a
returning player and you had heirlooms
previously that there is an
heirloom mount that's unlocked for i
believe having 35 different heirlooms
and that mount's actually usable from
level one including in exile's reach
now if you choose not to level via
exiles reach then you're automatically
going to get a quest when you hit level
10 and that's going to tell you to go to
a ride in trainer that's going to be
specific to your race you'll then be
able to learn apprentice riding
however this is gonna cost you a little
bit of gold it's only four gold so don't
worry you should have that
amount of gold already just request him
and then there'll be a vendor
nearby who will sell you a mount for one
gold now the type of mount is going to
depend
on your race again so humans get horses
orcs get wolves and dwarves get rams
etc etc there are a couple of exceptions
to this
for example the worgen race don't have
to do this as they automatically get a
racial ability called running wild at
level 10
and this is basically equivalent to a
mount and as part of that you'll
automatically be granted the apprentice
riding skill
there are also two classes that don't
have to worry about apprentice riding
and this is paladins and warlocks
they get a spell at level 10 that allows
them to summon amount and
much like the worgens they get the
apprentice riding skill for free
alongside this skill
one final thing to note about level 10
rising is that if you're playing an
allied race then you've already started
at level 10 and you're actually going to
have apprentice riding unlocked
automatically
chances are you're not going to have
allied races because you're going to be
a new player or a returning player that
probably hasn't unlocked them
but there is the chance that you might
be trying the game out on your partner's
account or something and you've picked
an allied race so i thought i'd just
mention it
when it comes to learning the next level
of riding which is journeyman riding
then all you need to do is return to
your trainer when you hit level 20.
they'll allow you to buy this skill you
won't have to buy a new mount though
because this is automatically going to
take all of your existing mounts and
allow you to travel at 100
speed with them it used to be that you
had to buy a different mount and you
might have heard of this
it used to be called an epic mount or
that's how it was known anyway
but this isn't the case anymore also
it's worth noting that you don't have to
go back to the same trainer to
learn journeyman riding personally i
usually just go to the trainer in either
stormwind or ogrammar which are the
faction capital cities
as they're usually the convenient ones
to get to as you can see on the map the
trainers are located right next to the
flight points for either city the actual
cost of journeyman riding is 50 gold
might be slightly cheaper because you
can get certain discounts if you have
certain faction reputations
but again you should easily have 50 gold
from having just done quests up to this
point
at level 30 you're then going to be able
to go back to the same trainers to an
expert writing which is going to allow
you to fly and you're going to be able
to fly at 150 percent
speed i think i already mentioned this
but you will still only be able to get
100 speed on your crank now that doesn't
change once again the price isn't
particularly steep it's at 250 gold
which again you should
have just from having played the game to
this point but do note you will also
have to buy a flying man
again from a nearby vendor you should
easily be able to see one for 50 gold
druids are lucky in this sense as they
get a free flying mount from flight form
but they're still going to have to
unlock the expert riding skill to use it
that might change in the future i don't
know but at present i believe you still
need to unlock that skill
the final level of riding is master
riding and you can
unlock it when you hit level 40. this is
actually going to cost you 5000 gold
which you might not
have by that point so it's worth bearing
in mind that if you want to get the 310
flying mount which i would definitely
recommend doing that's a massive upgrade
and 150
and you want to get it as soon as you
hit level 40 you need to make sure that
you've got 500 gold in the in your
inventory ready
you could probably get this simply from
selling the items you find while
questing and doing dungeons on the
auction house rather than
than just selling them to the vendor or
you might do it through professions
you know using herbalism or mining to
gather
herbs or ore and selling those on the
auction house there are a bunch of
different ways to do it and this isn't a
gold making guide so i'm not going to
get too deep
into it but bear it in mind you need
5000 gold it's not a huge amount
but you might not have it organically as
soon as you hit level 40 depending on
what you've done in your leveling
experience
it's the same with the ground mount as
well by the way you won't have to buy a
new fly-in mount to
utilize 310 speed any flying mount you
already have will
automatically be able to travel at 300
speed 310 speed sorry
as soon as you unlock master riding now
the final thing you need to know about
is pathfinder this is an achievement
that you need to get if you want to fly
in the zones that came with a battle for
azeroth expansion
so these are kulturas zandalar najtar
and
mechagon this is why you might notice if
you're level 30 and going around the
battle for azeroth zones
you actually can't fly even if you have
the flying skill unlocked
now until very recently there were
actually pathfinder achievements for
warlords of adrenal and legion so the
previous expansions before bfa as well
but these have been removed now expect
that once flying becomes unlockable in
shadow land which will happen later in
the shadowlands expansion
then the pathfinder requirements for bfa
might be taken away
of course that's just my own speculation
basically i'm just bringing this up for
your awareness
i'm not going to run through all of the
pathfinder stuff you'll have to look at
that yourself you know bring up the
achievement in game or maybe just google
battle for azeroth pathfinder but
essentially that's why you're going to
realize when you unlock
flying at level 30 you're going to be
able to fly in some zones
basically all of the older zones but
you're not going to be able to fly in
the zones that came with the battle for
azeroth expansion
anyway that's pretty much it i hope
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