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New PvP Mounts for Rated Battlegrounds – How You Get Them

New PvP Mounts for Rated Battlegrounds – How You Get Them

The majority of PvP mounts are rewards for PvPers that have collected a minimum of 2,000 Honor. They are the same speed as Level 40 Epic Mounts and require a riding skill of a journeyman in order to ride. You can purchase the mounts in Champions Hall in Stormwind or Hall of Legends in Orgrimmar.

There are five reward mount choices that represent the available races of each faction’s side. Your chosen mount is not dependent on the reputation within the city. For example, if you are a human with adequate Marks of Honor you can decide to ride a Reins of the Black War Tiger no matter what your reputation is with Darnassus. Another example – If you are a Forsaken with adequate Marks of Honor you can ride a Horn of the Black War Wolf if you like no matter what our reputation is with Orgrimmar.

In Patch 2.4 hawkstriders  and elekks were added. In the past there had been no PvP mounts representing the blood elves and the draenei. If you obtain any of the mounts you will automatically be given the Call in the Cavalry achievement.

Some World of Warcraft players refer to the PvP mounts as “welfare mounts,” or “welfare epics,” because they are basically free. The marks of honor you need to purchase a mount are obtained by being in a battleground match no matter whether you are victorious or defeated.

Other PvP mounts are rewarded when you turn in a specific amount of tokens to a specific vendor. Generally you earn tokens by controlling a critical PvP zone(s), or by killing players in certain areas.

You earn PvP mounts through player vs. player game play. You can also by honor mounts with honor points. The Wintergrasp and Halaa mounts require you to use tokens to purchase, and the Arena mounts can only be earned if you are extremely good at the 3 or 5 person Arena team competitions. The following are mounts you can earn.

• Spectral Steed
• Spectral Wolf
• Drake of the West Wind – Alliance
• Drake of the West Wind – Horde
• Black War Steed
• Black War Tiger
• Black War Ram
• Stormpike Battle Charger
• Black War Elekk
• Black Battlestrider
• Red Skeletal Warhorse
• Black War Wolf
• Frostwolf Howler
• Black War Kodo
• Black War Raptor
• Swift Warstrider
• Dark Riding Talbuk
• Dark War Talbuk
• Tol Barad
• Level 70
• Spectral Steed
• Spectral Wolf
• Drake of the West Wind – Alliance
• Drake of the West Wind – Horde
• Wintergrasp
• Level 40
• Black War Mammoth – Alliance
• Black War Mammoth – Horde
• Brutal Nether Drake
• Deadly Gladiator’s Frostwyrm
• Furious Gladiator’s Frostwyrm
• Merciless Nether Drake
• Relentless Gladiator’s Frostwyrm
• Swift Nether Drake
• Vengeful Nether Drake
• Wrathful Gladiator’s Frostwyrm

In patch 4.2, Rage of the Firelands, if you want to sit your derriere on these new rides you will have to earn achievements for winning either 75, 150, or 300 Rated Battlegrounds.

One account bound mount is awarded for every achievement earned, so if you win 300 Rated Battlegrounds with a character, you’ll be given the opportunity to give that character and two of your alts each a wolf or steed.

Because the mounts are tied to each achievement and not to your placement on the competitive ladder, they are instantly awarded rather than having to wait until the end of each season as you do with Arena mounts.

For those of you who storm the front lines, and keep your teammates alive good luck obtaining awards that suit your bravery!

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