Do Warlocks/Paladins receive free Apprentice Riding Skill when they buy the mount? I know that the spell allows them to ride a mount for essentially free. But if I want to ride a mount that doesn’t cost mana, do I have to pay the 100ish gold to do so?
Thanks in advance!
Theres a quest chain to get the mount. Apprentice riding is included for free/cheap.
once you finish the quest and get the free skill upgrade -and if you dont want to ride it- you can purchase your racial mount and ride that one.
same deal at lvl 60. Do the quest chain, buy/craft the items needed to complete the quest, and then you’ll have lvl 60 epic riding skill.
for the level 40 mount I can’t remember paying for training.
For the level 60 one you definitely paid for training, the mount was “free”
There is no such thing as riding skill in classic. You get the mounts and the mounts have the speed attached to them.
Yup.
For the Paladin:
Look for wow-archivist-classics-paladin-mount-quests. 40 mount you got at your trainer; 60 mount cost a BUNCH (a pristine black diamond was one of the items you needed @ 1,000 gold each back in the day, and you were up against warlocks who also needed one) and you were all over Azeroth doing quests for the mount. Including a couple of dungeons that you DEFINITELY couldn’t solo.
level 40 mounts cost like 1g from your trainer
level 60 require a quest chain thats not easy and costs you a lot of gold(around 500 i think)
and yes they give u the riding skill required for the level of mount you get
If you YouTube or even Google this, you could save yourself time.
Normally, by 1.12, the training cost is 90%, mount is 10%. This means that the 1 time training cost is most of the money spent, and switching mounts later is quite cheap. Blizzard has gone on record here however to say that they are NOT doing this, even though it was changed by 1.12.
So… because Blizzard went cu cu for co co puffs, the training will now be 10%, mounts 90%. Switching mounts will almost equal paying for a whole 2nd character. If you’re a warlock/paladin that does the epic quest chain, but decides not to keep the fancy class mount… G G.
I don’t know what warlocks do, but for paladins it’s a very short don’t leave the room quest chain that gives you the mount spell and riding skill for free.
So if you want another mount you only have to pay the 10 gold.
…Should some one tell them or let them find out what happens when they try to use their mount without the skill?
Yes you can so buy a mount that doesn’t cost mana after you learn the levle 40 from class trainer I believe.
mounts are cheaper in 1.12 when I first started playing the price for mounts and training were opposite and I could of gotten training because it was cheaper. But it was swapped before 1.12 sometime so the mounts are around 10 gold which would probably be discounted because of race or rep with race mount vendor.
Yes there is. You had to buy the riding skill and the mount. It was a 2 part purchase to ride at 40. 60 I’m not too sure about.
I know this is right.
Apprentice/Journeyman riding was in preparation of BC so they are going back to Racial Mount Training. So if you’re a Tauren who wants a wolf you need to purchase the wolf mount and the associated wolf riding.
And on top of that like Drain said they also reverted the gold costs so training at level 40 will cost 10g while the mounts themselves will be 90g not accounting for rep discounts
I can see why you wouldn’t want to use the class mounts. The Paladin and Warlock mounts count as spells. Casting one of them stops your mana regen for 5 seconds. The 2 mounts may look cool but that is awfully annoying.
The bag space they save is quite a boon.
there isn’t.
If you got Deathcharger, ZG mounts, or Bug mounts, you could use them immediately as long as you were level 60. Since they didn’t require any kind of training in the old system. It was only when they switched to the riding skill system that they required the skill to use.
There is race specific training though. If you want to use normal horses, you need horse training. If you want to use Rams you need ram training (also tauren can only use Kodo and Dire Wolves (and dropped mounts) and only dwarves/gnomes can use MechStriders, so don’t waste your time getting trolls/UD to exalted as a Tauren, there’s literally no reason to do so, same deal with ignoring gnomeregan rep for humans/elves).
The paladin/lock class mounts have no training requirement and do not give you anything else besides the mount. (this was only changed when they introduced the new riding skill system).
This is completely incorrect. There is a riding skill, and as long as you have it then you can purchase mounts from vendors for the other races in your faction provided you have the required reputation.
The paladin and warlock mounts also do provide the required riding skill.
Edit: Wording.
He got them backwards. In 1.12 mounts were 10g and the training is 90g.
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.
Except he was right, and that’s not how riding skills will work in Classic. There’s not Apprentice and…whatever the next one is. There’s Wolf Riding, or Raptor Riding, or Kodo Riding. You learn each riding skill for each race’s mounts. And the mount ITEMS are what dictates your mount’s speed.
By the way, to the above poster: that’s 1.12.1, which the devs said they’re NOT using. They’re going with the original mount system. High cost mounts, low cost riding skill.
Where did they say that specifically?