Death Knight Mount

Guest article submission on Death Knight mounts.

The mount is used to help the death knight to ride on the backs of exotic beasts. Besides the death knight, the warlocks and paladins can also be used to summon mounts as class perk. By mounting on a beast, the death knight can travel faster than walking. In the burning crusade expansion, the flying mount is introduced.

In the past, mounts are expensive but their prices are now lowered. However, the cost of the training to ride them has increased. Some of the mounts don’t require any gold or Marks of Honor. These types of mounts are usually offered at very low rates from bosses such as stratholme, Sethekk Halls, Karazhan, and Urgarde Pinnacle.

In general, there is a 1.5 second castig time for mounts. During the casting time, it can be interrupted by damage or entering combat. When you are not moving, you can press the space bar on your keyboard to perform a special action such as hawskstriders will shriek.

The death knight can increase their mounting speed through enchantments and skills. Some of the speed increase items include Mithril Spurs, Riding Crop and Crusader Aura. Mithril Spurs, Riding Crop and Crusader Aura will not work with players above the level 70.

In the world of warcraft, there are seven types of mounts including Riding Turtle, Sea Turtle, Felsteed, Great Brown Kodo, Flying Machine, Turbo Charged Flying Machine Control and Ashes of Al’ar. Riding Turtle mount cannot increase speed. Sea Turtle mount can increase 60% of water movement speed. Felsteed mount can increase 60% of ground movement speed. Great Brown Kodo can increase 100% of ground movement speed. The flying machine mount can increase 60% of ground movement speed and 150% of air speed. The turbo charged flying machine control can increase 100% of ground movement speed and 280% of air speed. The Ashes of Al’ar can increase 100% of ground movement speed and 310% of air speed.

There are four riding skills including Apprentice (Level 20), Journeyman (Level 40), Expert (Level 60) and Artisan (Level 70). All the land mounts can swim through bodies of water therefore the death knight will not have to remount after leaving the water.

The cost for the training of Apprentice riding skill is 4 golds and 1 gold for the mount. The rare ground mounts has the ability to increase 60% of movement speed. It was lowered to level 40 and 90 to undergo training in Patch 2.4.3. In Patch 3.2.0, it was reduced to level 30 and 35.

The cost of the training for the journey man riding skill is 50 gold and 10 gold for the mount. The epic ground mount can increase 100% of the movement speed. After completing the quests Grand Theft palomino and Into the Realm of Shadows, the epic ground mount called the Acherus deathchanger will be given to the death knights.

The training cost of the expert riding skill costs 259 golds while the cost of the mount is 50 golds. For Horde players, the expert skill is taught by Wind Rider Jahubo in Tharallmar in Hellfire Peninsula. For Alliance players, the expert skill is learned from Hargen Bronzewing in Honor Hold. The expert riding skill is also learned from llsa Blusterbrew in Wildammer Stronghold and Shadowmoon Valley.

The training cost for the artisan riding skill is 500 golds while the mount will cost 100 golds. The epic flying mounts can increase 100% of the ground movement speed and 280% of the air movement speed.The cold weather flying rising skill will costs 1000 golds. The cold weather flying skill cannot be discounted and requires at least level 77.