I recently became exalted with Darkspear Tribe on my Tauren and tried purchasing a Raptor Mount. The NPCs won’t sell me mounts, as if I weren’t exalted but I am. I spent a lot of gold on rune cloth and it’s just not working.
I’ve tried reloading Ui, turning off addons, zoning in and out, waiting for weekly reset and nothing.
The NPC just says something along the lines of “I can’t be teachin’ a Tauren to ride a raptor mon”. But I am exalted MON!
Edit:
Forgot to mention I purchased and used rune cloth from Friendly reputation until 18,000 reputation into Revered. Afterwards I quested in Sen’jin Village and Valley of trials for the remaining 3,000 rep. First Sen’jin Village and then Valley of Trials.
I’ve written a ticket thinking I’d get help there, but I was just sent here.
Tauren cant ride other mounts other than Kodo, or special mounts from boss drops and the like.
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When you reach exalted you can ride other race mounts from your faction.
Tauren’s are only allowed to ride wolves (if they are exalted with Org) or Kodos. This is just a racial limitation because Tauren are too big. To be clear, you cannot ride raptors even if you are exalted with trolls.
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Well I constantly see Taurens with raptor mounts, though they’re usually the black war raptor (pvp one)
As Charax said Tauren are, unfortunately, unable to ride racial raptor mounts. All those Tauren you see are indeed riding on War Raptors and are only attained for Tauren through pvp mounts.
Well it is odd my ticket went through 2 GM’s one being a ‘specialist’, and neither mentioned me that, just to report it onto here.
Its a weird racial thing, like i believe humans and elves are unable to purchase and use mechanostriders, being to big for them. I personally miss beta vanilla Tauren which was the Tauren themselves. They used to have an ability called Plainstriding before kodos were added as their mounts. Just imagine a big boi sprinting 100% at you lol
Keep in mind said “specialists” tell you to post here for us to answer, or they give you the answer of “Heres a WoWhead link, read it.” before rapidly closing.
In Classic-TBC-WOTLK, Tauren can only use their racial mounts (Kodos), PVP and Raid/dungeon/event mount drops (ex: ZG raptor/tiger , Brewfest mounts, Scarablord mount…etc) They cannot ride UD, Troll or Orc racial mounts until much later in Cata.
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