How Much Is Epic Riding in TBC Classic?

Epic riding in TBC Classic costs 600 gold for Journeyman Riding (skill 150) plus 100 gold for the epic ground mount, 700 gold total at full price. You need to be level 60 and already own Apprentice Riding. Reputation with the mount vendor's home faction discounts both the training and the mount, so an Exalted character pays 560 gold for the whole package.

TBC Classic epic riding: the numbers

• Level requirement: 60. You can start saving earlier, but the trainer will not teach you the skill before that.
• Prerequisite: Apprentice Riding (skill 75), the level 30 skill you bought for your first 60% mount.
• Where to buy: your race's riding trainer, who stands next to the mount vendor in the racial starting zone or capital. Any race's trainer works if you are Exalted with that race, which is how humans end up on Swift Rams and night elves on Swift Palominos.
• What you get: 100% ground speed, up from 60%. In Outland this is what carries you until flying opens at 70.
• Speed of purchase: instant. Walk up, pay, learn the skill, buy the mount, done. No quest chain.

Why is epic riding cheaper in TBC than in Classic Era?

Blizzard restructured mount pricing with The Burning Crusade. In vanilla the epic mount was the expensive part, roughly 1,000 gold all in with the bulk on the mount itself. TBC flipped that: the skill became the big ticket at 600g and every racial epic mount dropped to a flat 100g. The practical upside is that once you own Journeyman Riding, collecting extra epic mounts from other races' vendors only costs 100g each.

The other reason it feels cheaper is that Outland quests pay far more gold than Azeroth ever did. Most players hit 60 during the Hellfire Peninsula quest line with enough coin to buy epic riding on the spot, something that took weeks of farming in Classic Era.

Is epic riding worth buying at 60 if flying comes at 70?

Yes, for almost everyone. The ten levels from 60 to 70 span all of Outland's ground zones, and 100% speed cuts the running between quest hubs, dungeon entrances and flight paths noticeably. Those hours add up over a full leveling run, and you will keep using the ground mount inside Outland's no-fly areas and back on Azeroth, where flying does not work in TBC at all.

The one case to skip it: you are 60 with under 900 gold and plan to buy Expert Riding (the 800g basic flying skill) the moment you hit 70. Even then, most people find the 700g is recouped from Outland quest rewards before they reach Nagrand.

How much does flying cost in TBC Classic?

Basic flying is Expert Riding (skill 225) at 800 gold plus 100 gold for a 60% speed flying mount, 900 gold total at level 70. Epic flying is Artisan Riding (skill 300) at 5,000 gold plus 200 gold for a 280% flying mount, 5,200 gold. Reputation discounts apply to the flying trainers and vendors the same way, so exalted with the vendor faction shaves the epic flying bill to 4,160 gold all in. Epic ground riding is the cheap step in the ladder; epic flying is the one people farm for.

Which epic ground mounts can I buy for 100 gold?

Each race sells its own set at the racial mount vendor: swift horses for humans, swift rams for dwarves and gnomes, swift sabers for night elves, swift elekks for draenei, swift wolves for orcs, swift kodos for tauren, swift raptors for trolls, swift undead horses for the Forsaken and swift hawkstriders for blood elves. Buying a mount from another race requires Exalted reputation with that race, which is where the 80g exalted price also kicks in. PvP, reputation and rare-drop epic mounts still need Journeyman Riding but have their own separate costs or requirements.

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