WoW: Forever Mount Guide
Learning your mount is a big deal in WoW: Forever, as it significantly cuts down travel time. However, there's both a level requirement and a hefty Gold cost to learn your Riding Skill.
Riding SkillLevel RequiredMount SpeedTraining CostMount Cost
Apprentice Riding4060% (first is free)
Journeyman Riding60100%
You can learn Riding Skill at your racial Riding Trainer. Other races' Riding Trainers will not offer you training until you hit Exalted reputation with them. Your racial Riding Trainer also offers you a 10% discount when you hit Honored with them, which can save you a lot of Gold. However, there's a problem with this for Skyborne, the new race in WoW: Forever.
Gaining Reputation for Skyborne Factions
The Skyborne are split into two factions: one for the Alliance and one for the Horde. The Alliance have High Order and the Horde have Windshapers. The problem is that after you leave the starting area of Zephras Isle, there are no further quests that increase your reputation with the Skyborne factions. On the Wowhead database pages for each faction, there are 70-80 quests total that give reputation with these factions. If you compare this to Darkspear Trolls, there are over 140 reputation sources and many give over double the reputation. Once most players hit the mid-40s in levels, they should probably have Honored with the existing four factions if they've done some questing.
On the flip side, the only way to gain Skyborne reputation is through repeatable turn-in quests such as A Donation of Runecloth from Oura Stormspinner, which grants 150 reputation for 60 Runecloth. This is a significant investment to get a discount for another big purchase... if it actually worked.
Skyborne Reputation Discount Doesn't Work
Maybe you farmed a lot of Runecloth or maybe you bought cloth off the Auction House and you get Honored. Players have discovered that the reputation discount doesn't work for Skyborne. Reddit user Cecross posted a picture of them having Honored reputation with the Alliance Skyborne faction, High Order, and the cost for Journeyman Riding, which still showed 1,000 Gold.
This is likely because the Skyborne Riding Trainer Genn Fairweather has no faction affiliation, possibly because this vendor serves two factions. Meanwhile, every other riding trainer, such as Binjy Featherwhistle and Velma Warnam, belongs to a faction and this is likely where the faction discount comes from.
Hopefully this is a bug that will be resolved soon, as many players have rolled a Skyborne Elf. Currently, if Skyborne want a mount, they will pay more gold for it than other races in WoW: Forever.
