A Week in Shattrath: Farming Outland Mounts and Pets

By Nirnaeth101 Updated: 2020/11/12

The Littlest MountainA Few Hours in AzerothA Week in ShattrathA Fortnight in DalaranA Month in the MaelstromA Season in the MistsA Graduality in your Garrison26 mounts42 petsMountain o' MountsBattle Pet Collection TrackerMount Collection TrackerYou can read more about how to use this feature here!UPDATE:This guide was originally written in the long-long ago, before Account Wide and the massive power creep over old content we now have. Any lvl110 player will cruise through this guide solo.
Some of the language now seems archaic, but I have tried to update any changes that have happened in the past five years and three expansions:

Added Raiding with Leashes II: Attunement Edition and Raiding with Leashes III: Drinkin' From the Sunwell pets
Updated map pins with icons and better info
Made the Rewards section more prominent
Updated my own stats
Note that most of the pets are now available on the Auction House, and you can use Alts to speed things up and do multiple runs
You can also buy Commendations with Timewarped Badge

Note that throughout this Guide, NPCs will show a map if you hover over the link.In the Rewards section, if you see this icon after a mount/pet name you can click it to see the 3D Model in all its glory!Prep

This guide assumes you are lvl90+ and have a lvl300 flying mount; it can be done much earlier if you are keen (but is so much faster at 90).

Check your Outland rep; it's almost impossible to level to 90 without getting Cenarion Expedition rep. As mounts will be BoA you would want to pick your toon with the highest rep already

You will need Fishing of at least 300 if you are aiming for Mr. Pinchy

Empty your bags; you won't need to buff, bandage, eat or drink at all and you are going to be collecting a heap of trash. Having a Reins of the Traveler's Tundra Mammoth or Jeeves is very useful!

If you have not already reached Exalted with your home Factions you can equip a tabard in Outland Dungeons and gain some more rep while also getting the local rep you need

You are going to collect thousands of Netherweave Cloth so befriend a Tailor!

This is an Alliance based guide; although the The Mag'har are almost identical to the Kurenai to grind

Having Mining or Skinning will help get another 250 Netherwing rep per day. Having Herbalism will also get another 250 rep per day as well as help with Sporeggar and Cenarion Expedition

You will need to have completed City of Light from Khadgar and chosen either the The Aldor or The Scryers for Kill Them All! and The Deadliest Trap Ever Laid with Netherwing. If you have not done this previously I would choose The Scryers as they aren't as far to travel to.

The absolute best toon you could choose would be a Human for Diplomacy

Mage for Teleport: Shattrath and ranged DPS

with Herbalism and Mining of at least lvl350

Netherwing and Flying on Wings of Nether

Sh'tari Skyguard and Nether Ray in a Day

Sporeggar

Cenarion Expedition

Kurenai

And the excellent Mountain o' Mounts and Littlest Pet Shop Guides

Shopping ListNetherwing

10 x Knothide Leather

2 x Felsteel Bar

1 x Adamantite Frame

1 x Khorium Power Core

Herbalism then 5 x 40 Netherdust Pollen

Mining then 5 x 40 Nethercite Ore

Skinning then 5 x 35 Nethermine Flayer Hide

Unidentified Plant PartsBog Lord TendrilSanguine Hibiscus

144 x Bog Lord Tendril to get to Friendly and then:

660 x Sanguine Hibiscus to get straight to Exalted!

You will also need 30 x Glowcap to buy your Tiny Sporebat

Unidentified Plant PartsCenarion ExpeditionSporeggarRewards Drop

Swift White Hawkstrider from Kael'thas in Magisters' Terrace

Reins of the Raven Lord from Anzu in Sethekk Halls

Ashes of Al'ar from Kael'thas (again!) in The Eye

And while not in Outland I have also mentioned Fiery Warhorse's Reins from Attumen the Huntsman in Deadwind Pass

PVP

2 mounts from Aldraan/Coreiel: Reins of the Dark Riding Talbuk, Reins of the Dark War Talbuk

Reputation

5 mounts from Grella : Blue Riding Nether Ray, Green Riding Nether Ray, Purple Riding Nether Ray, Red Riding Nether Ray, Silver Riding Nether Ray

6 mounts from Drake Dealer Hurlunk : Reins of the Azure Netherwing Drake, Reins of the Cobalt Netherwing Drake, Reins of the Onyx Netherwing Drake, Reins of the Purple Netherwing Drake, Reins of the Veridian Netherwing Drake, Reins of the Violet Netherwing Drake

8 mounts from Trader Narasu : Reins of the Cobalt Riding Talbuk, Reins of the Cobalt War Talbuk, Reins of the Silver Riding Talbuk, Reins of the Silver War Talbuk, Reins of the Tan Riding Talbuk, Reins of the Tan War Talbuk, Reins of the White Riding Talbuk, Reins of the White War Talbuk

and last but not least Fedryen Swiftspear sells Cenarion War Hippogryph

Drop

Phoenix Hatchling drops from Kael'thas (our new favourite punching bag) in Magisters' Terrace

Captured Firefly drops from Bogflare Needler; you may want to farm these before doing your Coilfang Resevoir runs

If Old Man Barlo has Crocolisks in the City then you have a chance of finding one of these cute pets on turn in : Chuck's Bucket, Toothy's Bucket, Snarly's Bucket, and Muckbreath's Bucket

Mr. Pinchy can be caught from any Highland Mixed Pool

Raid drops for Raiding with Leashes II: Attunement Edition which rewards Tito's Basket
Spiky Collar, Netherspace Portal-Stone, Instant Arcane Sanctum Security Kit, and Satyr Charm from Karazhan

Shell of Tide-Calling, Tainted Core, and Dripping Strider Egg from Serpentshire Cavern

Tiny Fel Engine Key, Crystal of the Void, and Brilliant Phoenix Hawk Feather from The Eye

Raiding with Leashes III: Drinkin' From the SunwellHoly Chime

Leviathan Egg, Shard of Supremus, Fragment of Anger, Fragment of Suffering, Fragment of Desire, and Sultry Grimoire from Black Temple

Sunblade Rune of Activation, Void Collar, and Servant's Bell from Sunwell Plateau

Grotesque Statue, Smelly Gravestone, and Hyjal Wisp from Hyjal Summit

Reputation

Nether Ray Fry from Grella

Tiny Sporebat from Mycah

Miniwing is a reward for completing Skywing

Vendor

Dealer Rashaad sells the following: Blue Dragonhawk Hatchling , Brown Rabbit Crate , Mana Wyrmling , Red Moth Egg , Undercity Cockroach , Crimson Snake , Cat Carrier (Siamese) , and Parrot Cage (Senegal)

The PlanSethekk HallsMagisters' TerraceNetherwings and Zangamarshes

Pop out the Dark Portal and head straight to Mordenai for Kindness to start your Netherwing grind

Do the quests to get to Neutral and then the dailies; always be on the lookout for Netherwing Egg

If you have Diplomacy you will be 1200 into Friendly once you have done the Kindness set of quests; else you will need 6 Netherwing Egg to unlock the Friendly Quests; do some farming if you haven't found this many already

Do all the Friendly Quests and Dailies and you should need 4 Netherwing Egg to get to Honored

Once at Honored you want to grab the quests but you don't need to do the Skyshatter set today

Fly to Sethekk Halls and do your first Reins of the Raven Lord run

Fly to Sar'this to complete The Soul Cannon of Reth'hedron and then turn it in

Fly to Shattrath City and drop your Hearthstone there

Visit Wind Trader Zhareem and see if he has WANTED: The Warlord's Treatise,WANTED: A Black Stalker Egg, or WANTED: The Heart of Quagmirran. You only want one of these three

Check on Old Man Barlo and see if he has Crocolisks in the City, if he does fly back to Shattrath City and port to your Capital City, do the Quest and Hearth back and turn it in. If he doesn't then ignore any of the other quests he has offered

If you are Alliance then head to Ikuti in The Orebor Harbourage and do the 8 Kurenai Quests to get to Neutral.

Head to Coilfang Resevoir and do two Heroic Dungeons:

The Slave Pens (~2500 Cenarion Rep)
The Steamvault (~2700 Cenarion Rep)
The Underbog should be done on Normal until you hit revered with Sporeggar as you will gain rep for killing a lot of the mobs (~1200 Cenarion Rep and ~3000 Sporeggar rep without Bring Me A Shrubbery! turn ins), you should collect ~20-30 Sanguine Hibiscus per run; or buy them on the Auction House. This also means you can reset the instance and do it over and over again unlike the Heroics which will lock you out.
Starting at Unfriendly you would need to do around 10 runs (30,000 rep) and should have enough Sanguine Hibiscus by then to get another 13,500 rep. This is going to take you all of 90 minutes and is advisable if you have the patience as it frees you up to concentrate on Cenarion rep.
Hearth back
Fly to Nagrand and complete Subdue the Subduer and Disrupting the Twilight Portal take a long flight to turn these in and then Hearth back
Take the Portal inside the centre of Shattrath to Isle of Quel'Danas and do your first Magisters' Terrace run, take the portal behind Kael'thas and you are done for the day!

Netherwing

~~Honored~~1000/12000

Cenarion Expedition

~~Honored~~3000/12000

Sporeggar

~~Exalted~~999/1000

Kurenai

~~Neutral~~100/3000

Sha'tari Skyguard

Map: Total time 5.5 HoursKindnessNetherwingSethekk HallsMap Key= Quests. Vendors. Mobs/Zones. Instances. Factions/Achievements.Netherwing EggDay 2 you will be ReveredDay 3 you will be 6000 into ReveredDay 4 you will be 11000 into ReveredDay 5 you will be 16000 into ReveredDay 6 you will be ExaltedNagrand and Skettis

As we left off in Isle of Quel'Danas do another Magisters' Terrace run and then Hearth back to Shattrath

Check in on Wind Trader Zhareem and Old Man Barlo and grab the correct Dailies if they have them

Go do the 3 Coilfang Resevoir dungeons (see below for an important point on this) and Hearth back to Shattrath

Grab Threat from Above to start your Sha'tari Skyguard grind and push on until you get to World of Shadows and the Dailies. During the back and forth you should swing by Sethekk Halls and do your Reins of the Raven Lord run

Now you have World of Shadows you can start doing "Skettis Runs" which take ~30 minutes and net ~3000 rep per run. A "Skettis Run" should be done like this:

Kill Skettis Arakkoa until you have 6 Shadow Dust, then turn them in to Severin to get an Elixir of Shadows
I normally start on the west side of the lake at the first village. Use your Elixir of Shadows and you will see Time-Lost Arakkoa (they look like ghosts). You have 20 minutes to kill and loot as many of these as possible. Work around the lake counter clock-wise; drop to the ground for the skull piles but stick mainly to the trees. Kill everything you see (especially ents) but only loot Arakkoa; Time-Lost ones have a chance to drop Time-Lost Scroll and the usual ones can drop Shadow Dust so you can go again. Go on a one shot rampage for the full 20 minutes and you should get about one and a half ways around your circuit and should (unless really unlucky) have 40 x Time-Lost Scroll
Once you have 40 x Time-Lost Scroll right click a skull pile, defeat the boss and collect their "token". It doesn't matter which piles you use but is a good idea to do all four in order so you don't get confused. Each one will use up 10 scrolls
Once you have all four tokens go to Hazzik and get your Time-Lost Offering
Go to the skull pile on the island in the middle of the lake; pop a Standard for extra rep and kill Terokk
Go get your reward and turn in any Shadow Dust
Rinse and repeat; this should net you ~3000 rep per run
Either do a run now and/or fish all the Highland Mixed Schools in Skettis for a chance to get Mr. Pinchy
Head straight to Shadowmoon Valley and do the Dailies and farm some more eggs
If you managed to get to Honored on your first day then you should net 2550 rep from the Dailies and at least another 2500 from eggs. After doing the Skyshatter set you should be very close to Revered and it may be worth farming if you think you can push into it to open up the next lot of quests
Hearth back to Shattrath
Alliance should head to Nahuud in Telaar and start doing Kurenai quests until you have completed them all. (Horde should do all the The Mag'har quests instead; but will end up in the same place. Save all your Obsidian Warbeads until you are Revered. The quests will take around 3-4 hours and should see you into Revered. They make a change from the repetitive grind you are doing elsewhere; but if you choose you can purely grind these guys in 5-6 hours anyway (see day 3). You will find time to do these guys later so you can call it quits early if you want.
Complete Disrupting the Twilight Portal while you are in Nagrand and turn it in if you really need the rep; or wait for tomorrow
Hearth back to Shattrath and you've finished Day 2!

Netherwing

~~Revered~~1000/21000

Cenarion Expedition

~~Honored~~10500/12000

Sporeggar

~~Exalted~~999/1000

Kurenai

~~Revered~~100/21000

Sha'tari Skyguard

~~Friendly~~1000/6000

Map: Total time 7-8 HoursMap Key= Quests. Vendors. Mobs/Zones. Instances. Factions/Achievements.The UnderbogSanguine HibiscusSanguine HibiscusThe Grind

Check in on Wind Trader Zhareem and Old Man Barlo and grab the correct Dailies if they have them

Do another Magisters' Terrace run and then Hearth back to Shattrath

Go do the 3 Coilfang Resevoir dungeons and Hearth back to Shattrath

Go to Sethekk Halls and do your Reins of the Raven Lord run

Go find Skywing and get your Miniwing

Go to Skettis and do at least 2 "Skettis Runs" and the Dailies

Fish all the Highland Mixed Schools in Skettis for a chance to get Mr. Pinchy

Head to to Shadowmoon Valley and do the Dailies and farm some more eggs

If you are now Revered you will get 3050 rep from the Dailies and aim for another ~3000 rep from eggs. If you are not Revered then farm until you are.

Hearth back to Shattrath

Fly to the Burning Blade Ruins and start your Kurenai grind:
Start at Lantresor of the Blade, make your way up the ramp and into the cave killing any Boulderfist Mystic and Boulderfist Crusher you come across and loot them for Obsidian Warbeads

Make your way down and to the south until you get to east of Corki and they should all have respawned and you can start again

Each run should take about 5 minutes or so

In an hour you should net around 5000 rep from kills and around 150 Obsidian Warbeads which is another 7500 rep

Either spend a couple of hours here and hit Exalted or grind until you are bored and Hearth back to Shattrath; your 3rd day is done! Don't forget to do Disrupting the Twilight Portal if you need the rep

Netherwing

~~Revered~~6000/21000

Cenarion Expedition

~~Revered~~5000/21000

Sporeggar

~~Exalted~~999/1000

Kurenai

~~Exalted~~999/1000

Sha'tari Skyguard

~~Honored~~1000/12000

Map: Total time 4.5-6 HoursMap Key= Quests. Vendors. Mobs/Zones. Instances. Factions/Achievements.NagrandNagrandReins of the Dark Riding TalbukReins of the Dark War TalbukHalaa Research TokenHalaa Battle TokenHalaa Research TokenOshu'gun Crystal Powder SampleChief Researcher KartosChief Researcher AmereldineOshu'gun Crystal Powder SampleNagrandKurenaiYou will also need 170 x Halaa Battle Token and these can only drop by getting Honorable Kills against other players. The easiest way to do this is organize a cross faction friend to get naked and let you kill them 170 times at the nearby graveyard (after letting them capture Halaa). Note that this could be a bannable offence so don't make it too obvious, and anybody else is free to come along and gank you as you are flagged for PVP.If you have a Garrison in Draenor then you can get Mysteries of Lok-rath which will reward you enough to get one mount, much easier!More Grinding

Check in on Wind Trader Zhareem and Old Man Barlo and grab the correct Dailies if they have them

Do another Magisters' Terrace run and then Hearth back to Shattrath

Go do the 3 Coilfang Resevoir dungeons (they should all be Heroic by now) and Hearth back to Shattrath

Go to Sethekk Halls and do your Reins of the Raven Lord run

Go to Skettis and do at least 2 "Skettis Runs" and the Dailies

Fish all the Highland Mixed Schools in Skettis for a chance to get Mr. Pinchy

Head to to Shadowmoon Valley and do the Dailies and farm some more eggs; if you've managed to get 15 eggs per day you should be Exalted!

Hearth back to Shattrath

If you haven't already finish off Kurenai

Don't forget to do Disrupting the Twilight Portal if you need the rep

Hearth back to Shattrath

Netherwing

~~Revered~~11000/21000

Cenarion Expedition

~~Revered~~12500/21000

Sporeggar

~~Exalted~~999/1000

Kurenai

~~Exalted~~999/1000

Sha'tari Skyguard

~~Honored~~7000/12000

Map: Total time 4.5-5.5 HoursMap Key= Quests. Vendors. Mobs/Zones. Instances. Factions/Achievements.Crocolisks in the CityOld Man BarloKarazhanDeadwind PassFiery Warhorse's ReinsAttumen the HuntsmanOld Man Barlo2 2 Go!

Check in on Wind Trader Zhareem and Old Man Barlo and grab the correct Dailies if they have them

Do another Magisters' Terrace run and then Hearth back to Shattrath

Go do the 3 Coilfang Resevoir dungeons (they should all be Heroic by now) and Hearth back to Shattrath

Go to Sethekk Halls and do your Reins of the Raven Lord run

Go to Skettis and do at least 2 "Skettis Runs" and the Dailies

Fish all the Highland Mixed Schools in Skettis for a chance to get Mr. Pinchy

If you have already completed Kurenei and Netherwing you can keep farming for Mr. Pinchy and if you want a change of scenery you could go back to Zangamarsh and farm Bogflare Needler and maybe do some Cenarion quests to push into Exalted if you aren't already.

If you are not yet Exalted with Netherwing then go do Dailies and farm more eggs. For another change of pace try Black Temple for a number of pets.

You can put Kurenai off by another day; but you should be so close to Exalted as to make them very tempting to complete

Don't forget to do Disrupting the Twilight Portal if you need the rep

Hearth back to Shattrath

Netherwing

~~Revered~~16500/21000

Cenarion Expedition

~~Revered~~20000/21000

Sporeggar

~~Exalted~~999/1000

Kurenai

~~Exalted~~999/1000

Sha'tari Skyguard

~~Revered~~1000/21000

Map: Total time 2.5-5.5 HoursMap Key= Quests. Vendors. Mobs/Zones. Instances. Factions/Achievements.Sethekk HallsSpirit ShardSpirit Sage ZranSpirit Sage GartokFilling in the Edges

Check in on Wind Trader Zhareem (only if you still need Cenarion rep) and Old Man Barlo and grab the correct Dailies if they have them

Do another Magisters' Terrace run and then Hearth back to Shattrath

Go do the 3 Coilfang Resevoir dungeons (only if you aren't Exalted with Cenarion or Sporeggar by now) and Hearth back to Shattrath

Go to Sethekk Halls and do your Reins of the Raven Lord run

Go to Skettis and do at least 3 "Skettis Runs" and the Dailies; or push through and hit Exalted

Fish all the Highland Mixed Schools in Skettis for a chance to get Mr. Pinchy

Finish off Netherwing and/or Kurenai if you haven't already

Hearth back to Shattrath, take the portal to your Main city, port to the Dark Portal and come out in Hellfire Peninsula

Go for a long flight on one of your new mounts and head to Dealer Rashaad and buy all his pets you do not have already. Note that all of these can be bought on the Auction house; but are generally a LOT more expensive there (so grab some extra and make some profit yourself)

Fly to Tempest Keep and The Eye, as this is a raid instance you will need to find someone to group with to get in. While this can be done solo at 85 you probably want a couple a friends to start with to learn what goes on. You are of course hoping to getAshes of Al'ar, but as you are in the hands of the RNG gods this could literally take years to find and I wish you the best of luck!

Hearth back to Shattrath

Lower CitySethekk HallsFriendly-Honored with Shattered Sun Offensive (from doing Magisters' Terrace)

Netherwing

~~Exalted~~500/1000

Cenarion Expedition

~~Exalted~~999/1000

Sporeggar

~~Exalted~~999/1000

Kurenai

~~Exalted~~999/1000

Sha'tari Skyguard

~~Revered~~10000/21000

Map: Total time 2-6 HoursMap Key= Quests. Vendors. Mobs/Zones. Instances. Factions/Achievements.Finishing up

Check in on Old Man Barlo and grab the correct Daily if he has it

Do another Magisters' Terrace run and then Hearth back to Shattrath

Go to Sethekk Halls and do your Reins of the Raven Lord run

Go to Skettis and push through and hit Exalted

Fish all the Highland Mixed Schools in Skettis for a chance to get Mr. Pinchy

Go to Zangamarsh and farm Bogflare Needler until your eyes bleed

Old Man BarloBogflare NeedlerMr. PinchyRaiding with Leashes III: Drinkin' From the SunwellHyjal Summit

Netherwing

~~Exalted~~999/1000

Cenarion Expedition

~~Exalted~~999/1000

Sporeggar

~~Exalted~~999/1000

Kurenai

~~Exalted~~999/1000

Sha'tari Skyguard

~~Exalted~~999/1000

Map: Total time 2.5 HoursMap Key= Quests. Vendors. Mobs/Zones. Instances. Factions/Achievements.Total Plan Time: 36 HoursDalaran HearthstoneMagisters' TerraceSethekk HallsLower CityShattered Sun OffensiveThe DiplomatTimbermaw HoldAwake the DrakesReins of the Emerald DrakeBy Faction

At lvl85 the fastest way to hit Exalted is to run The Underbog on Normal repeatedly 10 times and then hand in all your Sanguine Hibiscus and you should be at Exalted

But if you want to stay on the surface then if you are lower than Friendly with Sporeggar then fly to Zangarmarsh, find Fahssn and pick up The Sporelings' Plight and Natural Enemies and start killing Bog Lords to collect Bog Lord Tendril. You should be able to one shot them and may find it faster to grind rep to Friendly just by killing them. If you farm around The Dead Mire you are also gaining Cenarion rep. You can also find Bog Lord Tendril on the Auction House fairly cheap; but note you can only hand in up to Friendly (although killing Bog Lords will give rep to Honored). Keep an eye out for Glowcap which you will need later (or grab some off the Auction House too).

Once Friendly with Sporeggar then killing Sporebats and Marsh Striders will give Fertile Spores for Fertile Spores and you can do Now That We're Friends... repeatedly which should take all of 3 minutes to complete

At this stage killing and looting pretty much anything in Zangarmarsh is going to give you rep for Sporeggar and/or Cenarion Expedition as well as drop items for turn ins. Do not forget to kill every Bogflare Needler you see for a chance to get Captured Firefly

You will still need to go into The Underbog and do Bring Me A Shrubbery! to get past Revered; so I can't think of a good reason to not just run it from the start

The fastest way is to grind the Coilfang Resevoir Dungeons:

If trying to do Sporeggar at the same time run The Underbog on Normal until Revered and then switch to the The Steamvault to hit Exalted

Each run should take 10 minutes, and you will net around 1300 rep per run

So that's 35 runs in just shy of 6 hours from Neutral that can be done in one day

Or run all 3 Coilfang Dungeons on Heroic daily for 6 days (7500 per all 3) in about 4 hours total

ZangarmarshBlade's Edge MountainsBorean Tundra

If you are less than Honored with Cenarion Expedition then find Lauranna and grab Plants of Zangarmarsh so that Unidentified Plant Parts can drop from almost any mob in Zangarmarsh; and can be "picked" from Bog Lords

Commendation of the Cenarion ExpeditionCupriTimewarped BadgeTimewarped Badge

Kill Boulderfist Warriors/Mages, Boulderfist Crushers/Mystics, Boulderfist Hunters, Warmaul Shaman/Reavers, or Warmaul Brute/Warlock and collect Obsidian Warbeads for around 10000 rep per hour if you are really quick

Should only take 4-6 hours depending on drop rate; don't hand in Obsidian Warbeads until you hit Revered

Or do all the Quests in Orebor Harbourage and Nagrand which will see you to Revered in 4-5 hours and then kill Ogres for the rest

One "Skettis Run" should net at least 3000 rep per 30 minutes

From Neutral that is 12 runs or so and should take 6 hours

Ogri'laSha'tari Skyguard

Assume a run past all the spawns takes 15 minutes and will on average net you 5-10 eggs; which have around a 1-2 hour spawn time

168 eggs to get from Neutral to Exalted

So that is (at best, impossibly good odds and no competition) 4-5 hours of farming total BUT with 16+ hours of "downtime"; 20 hours of farming plus the opening quests and it can be done in a (very long and tiring) day

But in reality that is a massive amount of luck; even with everyone off playing D3 and MoP Beta right now

Don't play hard, play smart, and use the dailies and eggs together (as Dailies will send you past most egg spawn spots anyway)

Do an egg run first, then do all the Dailies, then do another run. If a new Reputation tier of Dailies opens up then do them as you get them and do another egg run

15 eggs per day and the quests will see it done over 4 days but only 8 hours of effort:

Day 1 you will be Honored

Day 2 you will be Revered

Day 3 you will be around half into Revered

Day 4 you will be Exalted

SummaryIf you followed this guide then after 7 days (and 36 hours of game time) you are guaranteed:

22 mounts
11 pets
or roughly 1 vanity item every 65 minutes.

Including random drops (which are possible; just very unlikely in this time frame)

26 mounts
42 pets
or roughly 1 vanity item every 30 minutes.

Magister's Terrace took 7 runs to get Phoenix Hatchling, Swift White Hawkstrider, and Orb of the Sin'dorei (I know this is beyond all luck)

Sethekk Halls took 12 runs to get Reins of the Raven Lord

Old man Barlo coughed up all four cute crocs over 13 days

Mr. Pinchy came through on my 3rd wish after fishing on my 4th day of Skettis Runs

I also scored Time-Lost Figurine on probably my 5th Terokk kill

Got Fiery Warhorse's Reins on my 15th try

I spent way too much gold on Sanguine Hibiscus

I had befriended Reins of the Onyx Netherwing Drake in 3 days

By the time I looked I was already Revered with Cenarion Expedition so a few Coilfang Reservoir runs took care of them (I now have all 6 Hippo mounts)

I will hear the screams of Ogres dying forever in my dreams

Ashes of Al'ar is yet to drop for me after dozens of runs, but I haven't given up hope!

I bought the stupid Captured Firefly in the end for !

Got all the Raiding with Leashes pets as they came out

Comments

Comment by asakawa

Love this guide! ^_^
5 stars from me.

Comment by SquireKel

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Comment by 909882

Good guide Well Thought out

Comment by Sas148

I very much enjoyed this guide. I read it all. I actually have most of the things in here as I've been playing since before BC, but there are a few things that I never did get and this guide may push me eventually to go back for it.

Thank you for your time in creating this for everyone, it is greatly appreciated! :)

Comment by Twanislas

Thanks a lot for this ! It helped me, and most of all, it gave me courage to start gathering all these rep's ! Well done ! Can't wait for your Northrend guide (coming soon ?) !

Comment by Nirnaeth101

Added the two PVP Tabulks I completely forgot about! They are now in Day 3. I do not feel they add a lot of time to the overall guide (as the PVE aspect you are grinding anyway and the PVP aspect should take all of 10 minutes if you have a cross faction friend; if you don't they could take forever so difficult to put a hard number on it).

Comment by 874940

Excellent guide. Thank you so much. Making the toil for these things actually more fun ticking these off as I go along :) 5/5

Comment by thenixie

I love the idea of putting all of this together into a single 'area guide' for all the collectors who are going back and revisiting. What a terrific idea! And thanks for the shout out to my Netherwing and Nether ray guides - glad you found them useful. Like you, I watch my comments for updates/corrections but will now have to keep an eye out here as well! (Darn it - now I am going to have to go back and learn how to do the pictures and progress bars and such - your stuff looks too jazzy ;) </inferiority complex>)

A very nice job - even though I am through all of these ones and won't be using it, I just had to stop and give a public pat on the back! :) An amazing product for your very first guide!

Comment by 783458

I'm not sure if the Sporeggar part of the guide is based on old patches, but currently the mobs in The Underbog only give Sporeggar experience on normal - so unless you're talking about getting Cenarion rep at the same time, it would be quicker to continue levelling your Sporeggar rep in normal runs of The Underbog, as the enemies will give you rep and the Sanguine Hibiscus drop rate is the same as far as I can tell.

Comment by 1017087

Love the guide thank you very much still working on netherwing but cant wait to ride.

Comment by Twizelbang

Really nice Guide, so many of these i would like.... but RNG hates me so much.

To make you feel better (or curse me) here are my own stats:

I say "curse" ..hehe

I haven't had any RNG luck with even half of that list, but i will keep trying ...since if you don't do, you can't get. So if anyone else is in the same vote as me. Keep trying.

Wish list:

Mr. Pinchy
Reins of the Raven Lord

Well perhaps some others...
Ops.. Edit, forgot to add 5stars / corrected

Comment by 673299

excellent guide!thanks

Comment by rvnender

Amazing guide. I have been using it for awhile now (taking my time with the rep grinds). I cannot thank you enough. Definite 5 stars.

Comment by Tisina

I just bumped into this guide by searching for outland x-mog gear.
Eventhough I am a player who started this game in vanilla, it is still applicable to me.
I've always been more focussed on raiding and high-end PvP.
But now my server is bleeding to death by people transfering to PvE-servers to get away from the x-realm ganking, I had to shift interests.
This guide helped me to fill in the gaps of missing pets and mounts.
So, even if it was yr intend to help people starting this game after Outlands, you are also helping gamers of yesteryear.

Kudos

I just remembered one more thing, which could help the progress with the netherwing faction. Netherspite in karazhan drops eggs nowadays as well. Been there with a couple of characters last week and all got eggs. The amount differs though.

But the upside on this is: when you want all 6 mounts from Netherwing, it can help a lot, there you need to get exalted with netherwing on 6 characters.
Running karazhan could be a good alternative for the eggs.

Comment by 1210004

i got the netherwings in 7 days,the nether rays in 3 days, and the Phoenix Hatchling, Swift White Hawkstrider, and Orb of the Sin'dorei in 5 days.

Comment by ckzea52

i have obtained 3 phoenix hatchlings and hawkstrider and 1 orb = 8 runs

Ashes mount i obtained on my :D lucky as hell, on avrage its 5 YEARS! =3 RUNS!

DONE SO MANY RUNS FOR RAVEN LORD AND NO LUCK! :(

good luck to u all! n nice guide, i prefered your WoLK better :)
any luck on ashes yet?

Comment by nyjl

That's actually a very bad guide, it doesn't have the most important part, for which most people will even open it - just a damn mount list, without all TGC and Gladiator mounts crap. Very disappointed. 1/5.

Comment by Hordella

Like he said, 1000's of Netherweave Cloth!

Comment by 1129719

if i have to rate this guide i will go with endless stars. Awesome job!

Comment by solomani

This guide is excellent and its what I used during the MoP expansion lull to get some BC mounts. In fact it was fun visiting BC again 10 years later. I thought people my finds these tools useful for the Skyguard farming:

TomTom Way points for the Skull Piles - usually a good place to kill a combo of normal and spirit raven dudes so I usually fly from one to the next during a farming run:

/way Terokkar Forest 70.83 83.35
/way Terokkar Forest 70.06 79.46
/way Terokkar Forest 69.67 74.71
/way Terokkar Forest 61.99 74.65
/way Terokkar Forest 61.38 78.06

And here is a macro that will tell you how many more Skettis you need to kill to hit exalted:
/run local name; for i=1, GetNumFactions() do name=select(1,GetFactionInfo(i)); if(strfind(name, "Sha'tari Skyguard")) then ChatFrame1:AddMessage( ceil((43000-select(6, GetFactionInfo(i))-(GetItemCount("Shadow Dust")*173/6))/27.85) ); end; end;

One final recommendation - its worth doing the Ogri'la quests to open the northern Skyguard dailies. At 90 it doesn't take long to steam-roller the intro quests and its an extra 1k reputation per day.

Comment by hjelsh

Last I checked, Alliance/Horde city tabards do NOT work for rep in Outland, unless they changed it. :)

Comment by Heridith

I don't know about anyone else, but I found it much easier to farm sporeggar and cenarion expedition rep by going into underbog on heroic and just killing trash while skipping bosses then resetting when you are done. I went from 7811 reputation with sporeggar to 15911 from killing every trash mob up to the first boss and looting all the sanguine hibiscus and turning them in all in one run. Also you can reset trash to do it over. You get 18 cenarion expedition rep per npc up to the boss so skipping bosses and resetting trash on heroic is much more efficient in my eye. If you kill every trash mob and no bosses it rounds out to about 2000 cenarion rep and 6000 sporeggar rep not including the sanguine hibiscus which is on average 4500 more rep for sporeggar each run from sanguine hibiscus.

Comment by drumzross92

Until this guide, I never thought I'd make any effort to go and grind those rep's, but this made it easy to follow and seem achievable. Glad that you did a NR one too!

Thankyou!

Comment by pakteri

Great guide! Thank you!

Comment by Sandkorn

This guide is the best man <3 Even though I didnt do all the steps as in the guide I still used this to check how to do them the easiest way =) It really helped! Thanks alot for this and hope you keep it up! =D

Comment by Mayzen

Before you can do the "Skettis Run" you need to loot Ishaal's Almanac off Talonpriest Ishaal. If you haven't done this quest line, Hazzik will not talk to you and you cannot get the Time-Lost Offering, even if you have the 4 "tokens" from the bosses summoned by scrolls.

Other than that it's a great guide!

Comment by mistymisc

#9 of Day One of this guide is no longer valid: "Visit Wind Trader Zhareem and see if he has Wanted: The Warlord's Treatise, Wanted: A Black Stalker Egg, or Wanted: The Heart of Quagmirran. You only want one of these three"

These three quests are no longer offered in game.

Comment by Zovesta

I love this guide. It's extremely helpful and put together in a nice, clean fashion, and every time I get to

I will hear the screams of Ogres dying forever in my dreams

I nearly die of laughter.

Comment by Nighteyes

A possible addition to the guide, add a list somewhere of what all the mounts/pets are. For some, such as the Netherwing and the Rays it's an obvious, but there are a slew of more obscure pets/mounts tucked away in the raids and quests and drops that do not even get listed on the loot tables.

Comment by Raiya

I just found Spiky Collar from The Big Bad Wolf. It rewards a cute Lil' Bad Wolf. While not in Outland, you mentioned the mount from Karazhan but not this little guy. I think you missed it in your guide.

I also just found Instant Arcane Sanctum Security Kit from The Curator... in the same run. Wow it must be this Talisman of True Treasure Tracking I've been carrying around.

Comment by KryzM

Amazing guide. Definitively using and recommending it.

However, note that the guild perks are all gone, so all this grind will always be 10% slower in WoD.

Comment by 1429829

Great guide. It needs to be updated to the Horde side. I'll post my notes here. Note that I'm a Level 100 coming from WoD. I did the Level 90 Boost, so I didn't have many of these factions in my Reputation screen (hotkey is 'u') ahead of time.

Notes on Day 1 (these apply to the other days as well):

Mordenai is the same for Horde and Alliance; if you're coming from WoD first, don't think that 'Shadowmoon Valley is only for Alliance'. :)
Netherwing Eggs are hard to find. Killing the bigger mobs in the tunnels, you will eventually get a few. I was only able to find two searching; the rest came from killing mobs in and above the mines.
Time-saving tip for the mines: When you see the first raised place with a fence on your left, the one going to the elevated area with all the enemies, you can hug the right side of the large support there and jump your way up and over the fence.
I was at well over 1600 Friendly after doing these initial quests.
The 'Skyshatter' quests he refers to begin at Ja'y Nosliw with Earning Your Wings. You have to earn Captain rank with the Dragonmaw orcs (having completed The Booterang: A Cure For The Common Worthless Peon first).
Sethekk Halls on Heroic - Note that this has a one-day lockout.

Tip: These dungeons will also give you rep for other factions if you have the respective tabard. I got the Orgrimmar tabard (the old one, not the new one you get in WoD) so I could get Orgrimmar rep at the same time.
Sar'this didn't offer me this quest initially because Lord Bal'thas wasn't there. It turns out that you have to complete the entire breadcrumb of quests starting with Overseeing and You: Making the Right Choices, so I couldn't do The Soul Cannon of Reth'hedron the first day. Once you're promoted to Captain, you'll get this quest.
Dropping your Hearthstone - I chose to drop mine in Sanctum of the Stars for a few days before I started my Skettis runs, because it's the closest to Netherwing Ledge, where all the dailies are. Note that you have to join the Scryers to use this flight point.
Per user comments, these quests are no longer in the game. Wind Trader Zhareem won't be there unless you complete the breadcrumb quests--see #7 above.
Old Man Barlo is there, but has yet to offer me that quest.
For The Horde! Instead of the Kurenai quests, you can start working on The Maghar, if you haven't already. Get ready to kill a lot of ogres for Obsidian Warbeads.
For the next few dungeons:

I don't know if you have to have Cenarion Circle and Sporeggar listed in your reputation bar. I didn't. Just to make sure I didn't have any issues, I visited Ysiel Windsinger to become neutral with Cenarion and Fahssn to begin earning rep for Sporeggar.
When you finish grinding for Sporeggar rep, you can purchase the Tiny Sporebat for 30 Glowcap mushrooms from Mycah.
Note that the Slave Pens, The Steamvault, and The Underbog require swimming underwater. Fly to the center of the drainage system at 50.37, 40.87 and dive straight down through the vertical pipe. Follow the pipe. It will curve up north and come up on land at 51.92, 35.97. It's an easy swim on one breath.

Behind the waterfall, straight ahead, is the entrance to the instance 'Serpentshrine Cavern', a raid. You don't want that one. After you exit the water, facing the NPC, you will see a tunnel 90 degrees to your left. This is the entrance to Slave Pens. The tunnel 90 degrees to your right takes you to The Underbog. The Steamvault is slightly to the left, down a small incline and around a corner.

(This info copied from the comments on The Slave Pens.)
See #7.
Also see #7.
Magister's Terrace run should be done on Heroic to get the Swift White Hawkstrider mount. The portal to the Isle of Quel'Danas is behind Exarch Nasuun in the center of Shattrath, at 49.8, 42.6.

The rest of the information is basically correct. As of today, I have already obtained faction mounts for the Sha'tari Skyguard and The Mag'har. I am not having luck finding Netherwing Eggs, so it may take me a while to finish grinding for that rep.

Comment by globalgirl1977

This is an informative, well laid-out guide! Thank you for all your efforts and I will be eagerly searching out your WotLK and Cat. guides.
Even though I'm an old-timer from mid-BC and I have gone back for a few things here and there, it is nice to see this all together so those of us who have piecemealed their way can see what they missed, where, and what they need to get back on track - after all, we can't stay hidden away in our Garrisons forever...

All the best to you going forward and keep producing these guides!

Comment by 1486222

Warning - The merchant in Nagrand isn't available to the horde. You need to go to 'Provisioner Nasela <Mag'har Quartermaster>' in Garadar instead.

Comment by 1386750

Excellent guide! I'm on my 3rd day now. Not only did i just finish shat'ari i decided to hit the fishin' pools one more time before heading to the netherwing grind and you guessed it first pool mr. pinchy and first wish got the pet. This is amazing since in the crusade days i used to grind all my food from here just for the chance of catching that crawdad. Can't wait to get started on your northrend guide. Good luck and good work.

Comment by imtheculprit

This guide is great but the netherwing rep is a bit off considering since the release of CRZ it is almost impossible to find eggs. I've been following this guide for the past 6 days and have probably found 15 eggs in those 6 days. 3 drop in kara btw

Comment by Zovesta

Hey, guys! Just want to say that I finally moved on to Skettis runs and I just feel like I should point out that in an hour I was able to net about 5000 rep. Keep in mind that there were two other players also doing runs, so I didn't have anywhere near as many mobs to get. Did it as a lvl 100 shadow priest, just to let you all know about another rep/hour rate. =)

Comment by anolan

Halaa Research Token and Halaa Battle Token are now in Draenor so its a new old world. :)

Comment by 970454

Fantastic guide. I know it's really late to be asking this and I'm sure I'm missing something, but can anyone list how the guaranteed mounts can total 22?

Comment by ariadnesthread

I really enjoyed using this guide. I'm on week two, still working on most of the faction, (the only pets/mounts I've actually gotten at this point are the sporebat from sporeggar, the white hawkstrider and the phoenix hatchling). I am fairly new to World of Warcraft, and it took me longer than it should mostly because I had never been to Outlands before. So please don't take that as usual for this guide. It helped me a lot though, it was great to have a plan already laid out.

Comment by emeraldfox76

I already had the majority of these reps from when BC was live, and some I waited until Wrath when they were less farmed by everybody else, but I read this guide anyway to see if I was missing anything! It was adorable. I mean that in a good way, lol. I'm still cursing both incarnations of Kael'Thas and Attumen at this point, but I had never really put in effort into farming either until recently. You did remind me to go back and get the lone Croc I'm missing, though! Cheers, and I'll be certain to check out your Wrath guide, as I'm missing far more in that one I'm sure.

Thanks for this!

Comment by sptwombly

One thing I noticed while following this guide is that Netherwing won't be done the way it is mentioned unless you grind out a lot of eggs to hit Honored sooner rather than later. My Human Mage did not receive a 10% bonus to the Neutral rep bump of Netherwing after the initial questline to take you to Netherwing Ledge. This means that I started out at 0/3000 Neutral just like everyone else.

This means you have to take a few extra days to hit Honored, unless you really stick around for hours to egg farm in order to receive the fel cannon questline that takes you to Nagrand for the daily.

Comment by kathran2119

You seem to be extremely lucky in getting mounts from Dungeons and Raids. I ran Kara on multiple toons for at least 3 months before the horse finally dropped. I still don't have the Hawkstrider and I killed those damned Bogflies for months during BC and still run through them every time I go to Zangarmarsh on any toon. I think I need to just buy the Firefly.

I did want to point out an error. You state, "By the time I looked I was already Revered with Cenarion Expedition so a few Coilfang Reservoir runs took care of them (I now have all 6 Hippo mounts)". There is only one Hippogryph from Cenarion Expedition. You can also get rep with them from quests (one is a repeatable turn-in) in Borean Tundra in Northrend. I wouldn't recommend it as a way to truly get rep with them, but if you are going to do something like Loremaster of Northrend, it will get you started.

Also a note. Once you are exalted to buy pets or if you have multiple drops, most (if not all) are cageable, therefore you can sell them on the AH or gift to a friend.

Another note: If you have gotten to Warlords of Draenor, there is a mission that shows up on a regular basis which gives you the tokens needed to buy the 2 PvP Talbuks. Then you only have to make sure Halaa is set for your faction.

Comment by Amgrod

Just a quick note - I was able to do normal Underbog from halfway through Friendly to Exalted with no change once I hit Revered. Make sure you collect the Hibuscus and turn that in each time. I was able to get around 45 with each full clear, and in 4 full clears I was done. Great guide!

A Week in Shattrath: Farming Outland Mounts and Pets

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