Grinding Reputation For A Mount In Warcraft

Playing the race of your choice can lead to some issues later in the game. At level 20 you will receive a letter from your mount trainer, and that's the time to pay your first few gold pieces and learn to ride your faction's basic mount.

The apprentice level mount in Warcraft makes travelling 60% faster, speeding up leveling and questing as a result. But what if you don't like your races' mount?

Well, it will only be an appearance issue. All mounts perform identically, initially giving you the 60% speed increase. But you do have the choice of working towards another racial mount if that's what you prefer. Want a Mechostrider or a Nightsabre?

Firstly, you can't own a mount from the other faction. Alliance characters cannot have a Horde mount and vice versa. The good news is you can have any mount from your own faction.

To buy a different mount from your own faction, you first need to be exalted with the race to which the mount belongs. There are two ways of achieving this.

The cheapest way is to do all the quests you can find for that faction. If you are level 20 or higher, go to the starting zone for the faction whose mount you want and complete all the easy quests. They won't give you a lot of experience (if any) but they will yield plenty of faction reputation.

The other method is available from level 40 onwards. Every race has a quartermaster who collects cloth. Wool, silk etc. By buying or grinding sufficient quantities of this cloth you can hand this in repeatedly for reputation points. Be warned though it takes thousands of individual pieces of cloth to go from friendly to exalted.

If getting a cross race mount is what you are really after it is possible. Doing any quest for a race in your faction will add to your reputation for all races. A mixture of questing and a little cloth at the end to boost yourself, and you will soon have the mount you want.