Mounts
Earn a ride
Your first mount is a reward for playing.
Keep playing and you will earn your first mount, a reward for how far your character has come. It is saddled, packed and ready to go.
A mount goes in the mount slot on your character. From then on, wherever the ground suits it, you are riding. Press it on your action bar to get on or off, or use Dismount when the prompt offers it.
Riding is quicker than walking, so the trip back to town from the far side of the forest gets a lot shorter.
What riding changes
Worth knowing before you ride into a fight.
Outdoors only
You ride in the open world. Indoors, in a dungeon or down a mine, your mount waits in its slot and you walk.
No fighting from the saddle
Swing a weapon and you get off first, then the swing happens. Skills and emotes wait until you are on foot.
A hit knocks you off
Anything that actually hurts you puts you back on your feet. A miss does not. Getting back on is up to you.
Water and ladders
Ride into deep water and you swim, and climb a ladder and you climb on foot. Either way you are riding again once you are across.
Everybody sees it
A mount is part of how you look, in town and out of it.
A mount breathes when it stands still and gallops when it moves, and other players see exactly what you see. A rider coming through the square is hard to miss.
Every mount moves at the same pace. What sets one apart is how it looks and the ground it can cross, and new ones join the game over time.