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Increasing your speed[]
Through guild advancement[]
The guild perk Mount Up will increase your riding speed by 10%.
Through class abilities and talents[]
Two trolls riding raptors.
Shaman and Druids acquire shapeshift forms ([Ghost Wolf] for shaman and [Travel Form] for druids) that increase their movement speed (not as much as a mount, but it is trainable at an earlier level), while Hunters get aspects to boost their own movement speed and that of their party. Rogues and druids (in [Cat Form]) have an ability to temporarily increase movement speed. Here are the skills and abilities that provide some classes with a bit of a faster mount movement speed, either passively or by the activation of an ability.
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[On a Pale Horse] in the Frost tree (tier 2). Increases your speed while mounted by 10%/20%. The mounted movement speed increase does not stack with other effects.
- Hunter
- [Pathfinding] in the Beast Mastery talent tree (tier 3). Increases your speed while mounted by 5%/10%. The mounted movement speed increase does not stack with other effects.
- Paladin
- [Pursuit of Justice] in the Retribution talent tree (tier 3). Increases your movement speed (and mounted movement speed) by 8%/15%. This does not stack with other speed increasing effects.
- [Crusader Aura] at level 62. Movement speed while mounted is increased by 20%. The mounted movement speed increase does not stack with other effects.
- [Aura Mastery] in the Holy tree (tier 3) does not directly increase mounted movement speed, but it does boost Crusader Aura. With these two abilities combined, it is possible to increase mounted movement speed by 40% for 6 seconds every 2 minutes.
Through items and enchants[]
There are five other methods for increasing your mounted speed, with no effects beyond level 70:
- [Enchant Gloves - Riding Skill]: +2% (stacking), world drop Enchanting recipe
- [Mithril Spurs]: +4% (stacking), world drop Blacksmithing plans
- [Riding Crop]: +10% (non-stacking), Leatherworking pattern sold in Old Hillsbrad Foothills.
- Skybreaker Whip: +10% (non-stacking), quest reward from [70] Dragonmaw Race: Captain Skyshatter, must be Honored with Netherwing.
These last two items effectively increase a mount's speed by 10%. However, they do not stack with the previously mentioned methods, so they are approximately (see below) a 1% improvement over using the above 3 items combined. It should be also noted that for players of WotLK the Riding Crop is only usable for two levels (69 and 70), and the Skybreaker Whip only for one level (70).
All speed improvement items work on both normal and flying mounts (with the exception of npc controlled point-to-point flight).
Characters higher than level 70 will not benefit from mount speed improvement items and enchants.
With Cataclysm, the following are no longer available:
- [Carrot on a Stick]: +3% (stacking), reward from the Gahz'rilla quest in Zul'Farrak.
Statistics[]
The first three effects act as percent multipliers of your total mounted speed, stacking with previous multipliers. Thus, if you have spurs but nothing else, your normal mount speed will be increased to about 166.4% ((100% + 60%) * 1.04 = 166.4%). These numbers were obtained experimentally using a position-tracking addon written specifically for this purpose.
| Mount | Base Speed | [Crop] / Skybreaker Whip | [Crusader Aura] |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Rickety Magic Broom] or [Riding Turtle] | 0% | 10% | 20% |
| Regular land mounts | 60% | 76% | 92% |
| Epic land mounts | 100% | 120% | 140% |
| Regular flying mounts | 150% | 175% | 200% |
| Epic flying mounts | 280% | 318% | 356% |
| Swift Nether Drake or Ashes of Al'ar | 310% | 351% | 392% |