Easiest Mounts to get in WoW – 52 Quick Mounts Guide
Looking to expand your World of Warcraft mount collection without grinding rare drops for months? You’re in the right place. This guide covers 52 of the easiest mounts to obtain in 2025, including quest rewards, vendor purchases, guaranteed drops, and achievement unlocks.
Whether you’re chasing the Albino Drake achievement (50 mounts) or just want cool rides without the RNG frustration, these mounts require minimal time investment and zero luck.
What you’ll find here:
- Current expansion mounts from The War Within and Dragonflight
- Cheap vendor mounts (1-20,000 gold)
- 100% guaranteed drops from legacy content
- Free quest reward mounts
- Cross-game promotional mounts
All information verified for November 2025.
Quick Reference: Fastest Mounts by Time Investment
| Time Required | Mount Examples | Method |
| 5 minutes | Racial mounts, vendor purchases | Buy from capital cities |
| 15-30 minutes | Bronze Drake, Sarge’s Tale | Guaranteed drops, Hearthstone tutorial |
| 30-60 minutes | Delver’s Dirigible, Flourishing Whimsydrake | War Within & Dragonflight quests |
| 1-2 hours | Renewed Proto-Drake | Dragonflight campaign |
| Varies | Albino Drake | Collect 50 mounts total |
Recent Expansions: War Within & Dragonflight Mounts
Renewed Proto-Drake (Dragonflight)
Your first dragonriding mount – completely free and guaranteed through the Dragonflight storyline.
Complete the opening questline in The Waking Shores and you’ll receive this customizable proto-drake as a reward from the quest “Dragonriding.” This unlocks the entire dragonriding system with its talent tree, making it one of the most important early mounts to obtain.
How to get it:
- Start Dragonflight campaign in The Waking Shores
- Complete “For the Benefit of the Queen” (speak with Majordomo Selistra at 55, 30.9)
- Get taken to Queen Alexstrasza (62.3, 72.9)
- Complete “The Mandate of the Red” – speak with 4 NPCs in order:
- Xius (60.7, 74)
- Akxall (59.4, 72.4)
- Mother Elion (61.5, 68.7)
- Zahkrana (62.7, 70.4)
- Accept quest “Dragonriding” and speak with Lord Andestrasz
- Receive your Renewed Proto-Drake mount
Time: 1-2 hours
Difficulty: Easiest
Requirements: Level 10+, Dragonflight expansion
Cost: Free
Why it’s great: Account-wide unlock, fully customizable appearance, introduces you to dragonriding mechanics.
Flourishing Whimsydrake (Dragonflight – Patch 10.2)
A nature-themed dragonriding mount from the Emerald Dream storyline.
Complete the second quest in Patch 10.2’s main campaign (“Emerald Welcome”) and this green whimsydrake is yours. Another guaranteed reward with zero RNG.
Time: 30-60 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Requirements: Level 70, Patch 10.2 access
Cost: Free
Delver’s Dirigible (The War Within)
A steampunk-style balloon mount from the latest expansion.
Complete the quest “Ship It!” after unlocking Bountiful Delves in The War Within. This questline becomes available at max level and rewards both the mount and the achievement “I’ve Got a Flying Machine!”
Location: Isle of Dorn
Time: 30-60 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Requirements: Max level in The War Within, Bountiful Delves unlocked
Cost: Free
Achievement Mount: Albino Drake
The Albino Drake is your reward for collecting 50 mounts usable by a single character. This white dragon is the first major mount collection milestone and serves as an excellent goal for new collectors.
How it works:
- Collect any 50 mounts usable by one character
- Achievement “Leading the Cavalry” completes automatically
- Mount is mailed to you from the Dalaran mount vendor
- Check your mailbox to claim it
Important notes:
- Mounts must be usable by ONE character (faction-specific restrictions apply)
- Alliance-only mounts don’t count for Horde characters and vice versa
- Class-specific mounts typically don’t count
- Mounts that only work in specific locations (like Qiraji Battle Tanks) still count
Fastest path to 50 mounts:
- Buy all 6 racial mounts from your race’s capital (6 mounts)
- Grind reputation to Exalted with other allied races, buy their mounts (30+ more)
- Get the 2 guaranteed Obsidian Sanctum drakes (2 mounts)
- Farm Qiraji Battle Tanks from AQ40 (4 mounts)
- Complete easy quest rewards (Bronze Drake, Vashj’ir Seahorse, etc.)
Time: Varies (depending on starting point)
Difficulty: Medium (requires planning but no difficult content)
Cost: Free (achievement reward)
Racial & Capital City Mounts (36 Total)
The cheapest mounts in the game – perfect for padding your collection toward the Albino Drake achievement.
Most playable races has 6 ground mounts available from vendors in their capital city: 3 slow versions (1 gold each) and 3 fast versions (10 gold each). Additionally, each faction has flying mounts available for 50-100 gold.
Alliance Mounts (18 ground + 6 flying = 24 total)
Draenei (Exodar): 6 Elekk mounts (1-10g each)
Dwarf (Ironforge): 6 Ram mounts (1-10g each)
Gnome (Gnomeregan): 6 Mechanostrider mounts (1-10g each)
Human (Stormwind): 6 Horse mounts (1-10g each)
Night Elf (Darnassus): 6 Saber mounts (1-10g each)
Worgen (Gilneas): 6 Mountain Horse mounts (1-10g each)
Alliance Flying: 6 Gryphon mounts (50-100g each)
Horde Mounts (18 ground + 6 flying = 24 total)
Blood Elf (Silvermoon City): 6 Hawkstrider mounts (1-10g each)
Goblin (Bilgewater Cartel): 6 Trike mounts (1-10g each)
Orc (Orgrimmar): 6 Wolf mounts (1-10g each)
Tauren (Thunder Bluff): 6 Kodo mounts (1-10g each)
Troll (Darkspear): 6 Raptor mounts (1-10g each)
Undead (Undercity): 6 Skeletal Horse mounts (1-10g each)
Horde Flying: 6 Wyvern mounts (50-100g each)
Pandaren (Both Factions)
Pandaren: 6 Dragon Turtle mounts (1-10g each)
Total racial mounts available: 36 across all races
How to get other races’ mounts:
- Reach Exalted reputation with that race’s faction
- Purchase from their capital city vendor
- Humans get +10% reputation gain (best for mount farming)
Pro tip: Create a new character of each race, farm gold quickly, buy their mounts. This is often faster than grinding reputation on your main.
Time: 5 minutes per mount
Difficulty: Easiest
Requirements: Level 10+, gold
Cost: 1-100 gold per mount
Guaranteed Drop Mounts (Zero RNG)
Bronze Drake (100% Drop)
The easiest guaranteed raid mount – kill one mob, get the mount every time.
Hidden in Heroic Culling of Stratholme is the Infinite Corruptor, who drops the Bronze Drake with 100% certainty. This isn’t RNG – every single player who kills this NPC gets the mount.
Exact location:
- Queue for Heroic: The Culling of Stratholme (Caverns of Time)
- Clear through the dungeon normally
- Before entering the final boss chamber (Mal’Ganis), turn RIGHT into Market Row
- Look for the bars – an NPC is controlling a bronze drake nearby
- Kill the NPC, loot your guaranteed Bronze Drake
At max level, you can solo this entire dungeon in 10-15 minutes.
Time: 10-15 minutes
Difficulty: Easy (solo-able)
Requirements: Level 80 recommended
Cost: Free
Drop Rate: 100% guaranteed
Black Drake & Twilight Drake (100% Drop Each)
Two guaranteed drake mounts from one raid – and you can get both in the same week.
Obsidian Sanctum in Dragonblight offers two 100% guaranteed mount drops if you follow one simple rule: don’t kill the three mini-bosses.
How it works:
- Sartharion (the main boss) is surrounded by three drakes: Tenebron, Shadron, and Vesperon
- If you kill Sartharion WITHOUT killing these three drakes first, you get a guaranteed mount
- 10-man difficulty drops Black Drake (100%)
- 25-man difficulty drops Twilight Drake (100%)
- You can run both difficulties in the same week
Strategy:
- Enter Obsidian Sanctum (beneath Wyrmrest Temple in Dragonblight)
- Run past all three mini-bosses – DO NOT attack them
- Go straight to Sartharion
- Kill Sartharion while all three drakes are still alive
- Loot your guaranteed mount
- Exit, switch raid difficulty, repeat for second mount
At max level, Sartharion dies in seconds even with three drakes alive.
Time: 5-10 minutes per mount
Difficulty: Easy (solo-able)
Requirements: Level 80 recommended
Cost: Free
Drop Rate: 100% guaranteed (if 3 drakes alive)
Location tip: Fly to Wyrmrest Temple in Dragonblight, look for the crack in the ice at the base. Enter and the Obsidian Sanctum portal is straight ahead.
Vendor Mounts (Gold Purchases)
Mei Francis – Dalaran Mount Vendor
The one-stop shop for instant mount gratification. Mei Francis in Dalaran (Northrend) sells 20+ unique mounts for gold with no reputation requirements.
Notable mounts:
Traveler’s Tundra Mammoth (20,000 gold)
The most useful mount in the game. Comes with TWO vendors strapped to its back – a repair vendor and a regular vendor. Never worry about bag space or broken gear in the middle of content again. Worth every gold piece.
Armored Brown Bear (750 gold)
One of the cheapest non-racial vendor mounts. Simple, affordable, instant gratification.
Other options:
Mei Francis sells various mammoth recolors, armored bears, and other Northrend-themed mounts ranging from 750-10,000 gold each. Players with Kirin Tor Exalted reputation get a discount.
Location: Dalaran (Northrend version), Krasus’ Landing
Time: Instant purchase
Difficulty: Easiest (just need gold)
Coalfist Gronnling (Auction House)
Skip the Warlords of Draenor garrison mission and just buy this mount cheap from the Auction House.
Technically a reward from the garrison mission “Breaker Two,” the Coalfist Gronnling is a tradeable mount that typically sells for 500-2,000 gold on most servers. This stone giant ground mount is far easier to purchase than to farm.
Time: Instant (if available on AH)
Cost: 500-2,000 gold (varies by server)
Difficulty: Easiest
Quest Reward Mounts
Vashj’ir Seahorse
Complete the Cataclysm zone questline in Vashj’ir to unlock this underwater mount.
The Abyssal Seahorse (also called “Vashj’ir Seahorse”) is rewarded from the quest “The Abyssal Ride” in Kelp’thar Forest. It’s a unique underwater-only mount, but still counts toward your mount collection achievements.
Location: Kelp’thar Forest, Vashj’ir
Time: 30-60 minutes (quest chain)
Difficulty: Easy
Requirements: Level 80-85 content access
Cost: Free
Note: Can only be used underwater, but perfect for any underwater content.
Legacy Raid Farm Mounts
Qiraji Battle Tanks (4 Mounts from AQ40)
Farm trash mobs in Temple of Ahn’Qiraj for four unique battle tank mounts.
These mounts have a quirk: they can ONLY be used inside Temple of Ahn’Qiraj. But here’s the good news – they still count toward mount collection achievements like the Albino Drake’s 50-mount requirement.
Four variants:
- Red Qiraji Battle Tank (Red Qiraji Resonating Crystal)
- Blue Qiraji Battle Tank (Blue Qiraji Resonating Crystal)
- Green Qiraji Battle Tank (Green Qiraji Resonating Crystal)
- Yellow Qiraji Battle Tank (Yellow Qiraji Resonating Crystal)
All four drop from the same trash mob pool in AQ40 with roughly 15% drop rates. You’ll likely get multiple tanks in a single clear.
Strategy:
- Enter Temple of Ahn’Qiraj in Silithus
- Clear trash mobs in the anterooms and corridors
- Don’t bother with bosses unless you want other loot
- Repeat weekly until you have all four
Time: 30-60 minutes(RNG-dependent)
Difficulty: Easy (solo-able)
Drop Rate: ~15% per trash mob
Bonus: Rewards Feat of Strength “Why? Because It’s Red” for the red variant
Cross-Game Promotional Mount
Sarge’s Tale (Hearthstone)
Earn a free WoW mount by playing 30 minutes of Hearthstone.
This cross-promotional mount requires zero WoW gameplay – just complete the Hearthstone Mercenaries tutorial and the mount automatically unlocks for your WoW account.
Step-by-step:
- Download Hearthstone (free to play)
- Login with your Battle.net account
- Click “Mercenaries” mode from the start screen
- Complete “The Prologue Tutorial Bounty” in the Deadmines
- Visit the Mercenaries Village
- Build the following (all FREE):
- Tavern (using Workshop)
- Campfire
- Travel Point
- Go to Travel Point
- Select and complete “Ferocious Quilboar Bounty”
- Achievement “Sarge’s Tale” pops up
- Login to World of Warcraft
- Check your Mount Collection for your new mount
Time: 15-30 minutes
Difficulty: Easiest
Requirements: Hearthstone game (free)
Cost: Free
Why it’s easy: No difficult content, completely free, great mount for zero effort.
Beginner Mount Collection Strategy
If you’re starting from scratch and want to reach 50 mounts (Albino Drake achievement) as quickly as possible, follow this priority order:
Day 1: Foundation (20-25 mounts)
- Buy all 6 racial mounts from your race’s capital city (10 minutes, ~100 gold)
- Run Heroic Culling of Stratholme for Bronze Drake (15 minutes, guaranteed)
- Run Obsidian Sanctum 10-man + 25-man for Black/Twilight Drakes (20 minutes, guaranteed)
- Complete Hearthstone tutorial for Sarge’s Tale (30 minutes, guaranteed)
- Farm AQ40 trash for Qiraji Battle Tanks (1-2 hours, likely get 2-4 tanks)
- Buy cheap flying mounts from your capital (10 minutes, ~300 gold)
Total Day 1: 15-20 mounts
Day 2: Reputation Grinding (15-20 mounts)
- Grind reputation with other racial factions to Exalted
- Purchase their racial mounts (6 mounts per faction)
- OR create new characters of each race and buy their mounts directly
Fastest reputation method:
- Humans get +10% reputation gain
- Complete all starter zone quests for a race (grants significant reputation)
Total Day 2: 30-40 mounts
Day 3: Quest Rewards & Vendors (10-15 mounts)
- Complete Dragonflight campaign for Renewed Proto-Drake (2 hours)
- Complete War Within quest for Delver’s Dirigible (1 hour)
- Complete Vashj’ir for Seahorse (1 hour)
- Buy vendor mounts from Mei Francis in Dalaran (instant, gold-dependent)
- Buy Coalfist Gronnling from Auction House (instant, 500-2k gold)
Total Day 3: 45-55 mounts = Albino Drake unlocked!
Common Mistakes to Avoid
Mistake #1: Farming rare drops first
Don’t waste time on Invincible, Ashes of Al’ar, or other <1% drop mounts when starting out. Focus on guaranteed rewards and high-percentage drops first. Save rare mount farming for after you hit major achievement milestones.
Mistake #2: Ignoring racial mounts
The cheapest 30+ mounts in the game are sitting in capital cities. New players often overlook these because they seem “boring,” but they’re essential for padding collection numbers quickly.
Mistake #3: Not using multiple characters
Legacy raids have weekly lockouts per character. Run daily/weekly lockout instances on 3-5 alts to multiply your mount chances. Create characters of different races to instantly access their racial mounts without reputation grinding.
Mistake #4: Buying expensive vendor mounts too early
Don’t spend 120,000 gold on the Grand Expedition Yak when you’re working toward your first 50 mounts. Focus on cheap and free options first.
Mistake #5: Forgetting faction restrictions
Alliance mounts don’t count toward Horde achievements and vice versa. Check your achievement progress before grinding mounts that won’t help your goal.
FAQ
What’s the absolute easiest mount to get right now?
Racial mounts from your capital city. 1-10 gold, takes 5 minutes, zero difficulty. After that, Bronze Drake from Heroic Culling of Stratholme is guaranteed in 15 minutes.
Can I solo legacy raids for mounts?
Yes! At level 80, you can solo all raids through Shadowlands, Battle for Azeroth, Legion, Warlords of Draenor. Obsidian Sanctum, Temple of Ahn’Qiraj, and Culling of Stratholme all take 5-15 minutes each.
How long does it take to get 50 mounts for Albino Drake?
If you’re efficient: 2-3 weeks of casual play. Hardcore players focusing only on mounts can hit 50 in a single weekend by buying racial mounts, farming guaranteed drops, and completing easy quests.
Do I need specific expansions for these mounts?
Most legacy content (Obsidian Sanctum, AQ40, Bronze Drake) is available to all players. Current expansion mounts (Delver’s Dirigible) require The War Within expansion purchased on your account.
What’s the cheapest path to 50 mounts?
Racial mounts (1-10g each) + guaranteed raid drops (free) + quest rewards (free) + Qiraji Battle Tanks (free) = 50 mounts for under 1,000 gold total.
Which mounts count toward achievements?
Any mount usable by your character counts, including location-restricted mounts like Qiraji Battle Tanks. Class-specific mounts often don’t count. Faction restrictions apply (Alliance mounts don’t count for Horde).
Start Collecting Today
Mount collecting in World of Warcraft doesn’t require months of grinding anymore. With guaranteed quest rewards, cheap vendor purchases, and 100% drop rate legacy content, you can build an impressive collection in days.
Start with racial mounts for dirt-cheap bulk additions, grab the guaranteed Bronze Drake and Obsidian Sanctum drakes, complete easy quest rewards from current expansions, and you’ll hit 50 mounts (Albino Drake) faster than you think.
The best part? Every mount you collect now counts toward future achievement milestones at 100, 150, 200, 300, 400, and 500 mounts. Start with these easy wins and build toward the ultimate collection.
Happy collecting!
Last Updated: November 24, 2025
Current Patch: The War Within (11.0.7)
Verified: All mount sources confirmed current as of November 2025
