WoW PvP Mounts: Every Mount and How To Earn It

Every mount you can earn through PvP right now

PvP has four live mount routes, and they sit at very different bars: one needs no rating at all, one needs a modest 1000, one needs Elite rank, and a whole back catalogue is bought with a currency you win in battlegrounds. Here is each route, exactly how it is earned, and which ones are on a clock.

The four routes at a glance

The four bars line up against the live 3v3 rating cutoffs, which show where the top of the ladder is sitting this week and how far off the one rating-gated mount, the Goredrake, really is:

The season's Gladiator mount

The top prize is the Venomous Gladiator's Goredrake, awarded by Gladiator: Midnight Season 2 for winning 50 rated 3v3 games while at Elite rank, which is 2300 rating. It is the one PvP mount that does not come back: once the season ends it is gone for good, and partway progress does not carry over. It is also the only one of the four that is arena-locked, since Solo Shuffle and Blitz wins do not count toward it. Our Gladiator mount guide walks through the requirement in full, including why the mount is not the same as the Gladiator title.

Here is the Venomous Gladiator's Goredrake as it appears in game:

The rated mount almost anyone can get

The Vicious Lightbloom Boar is this season's Vicious reward, and its bar is far lower: win rated matches while at 1000 rating or higher and the account-wide progress fills toward the mount. At 1000 rating it is within reach of almost any player who queues rated with intent, and because the progress is account-wide, wins across your characters all count toward the same bar. It also takes wins in any rated bracket, so Solo Shuffle and Blitz both feed it, unlike the Goredrake. Our Vicious Saddle mounts guide covers the progress bar and the vendors in detail.

Here is the Vicious Lightbloom Boar as it appears in game:

Past seasons: the Vicious Saddle

Fill the account-wide bar again after you already own this season's boar and you earn a Vicious Saddle, which the Combatant Mount Quartermasters exchange for any past season's Vicious mount you missed. This is how the Vicious line stays collectable: a mount you could not reach in its own season returns to the quartermaster in a later expansion, and a saddle buys it outright with no rating check beyond the 1000 you needed to earn the saddle. The Vicious Saddle does not expire, so you can bank one and spend it whenever. The full back catalogue and which season each mount came from are in our Vicious Saddle mounts guide.

Mounts with no rating: the Marks of Honor route

The largest pool of PvP mounts asks for no rating at all. Marks of Honor, won from battlegrounds, buy the classic faction war mounts from past expansions, the old Horde and Alliance PvP mounts that are otherwise gone. Every win is a chance at Marks, the mounts themselves cost only around fifteen Marks each with no rating gate, and Marks are Warband-bound, so you can farm them on one character and spend them on another. That makes them the go-to for collectors who would rather not climb the ladder. Our Marks of Honor farming guide covers the fastest ways to earn them and everything they buy.

Which one to chase first

If you are new to rated PvP, the Vicious Lightbloom Boar at 1000 rating is the natural first goal, and the Marks mounts are pure battleground time with no rating pressure. The Goredrake is the long game for arena players who can hold Elite, and it is the one with a deadline, so prioritise it if you have the rating in you. To gauge how busy the rated ladder is before you commit, the 3v3 activity shows how fast games are firing:

To measure your own rating against the field, open the 3v3 leaderboard for your region: EU 3v3 leaderboard and US 3v3 leaderboard.