World of Warcraft: Midnight Mount Guide — How to Get Every Mount in Patch 12.0 and 12.0.5

Introduction

In World of Warcraft: Midnight, mount hunting once again becomes a full endgame activity of its own. For some players, mounts are a collection goal. For others, they are a visible proof of raid progress, Mythic+ performance, PvP rating, world exploration, or long-term faction dedication. With dynamic flying now being a core part of the game, mounts are no longer just transportation — they are a visual signature of your character’s journey.

Midnight introduces a large mount collection spread across new zones, factions, seasonal systems, and endgame activities. You will be farming Eversong Woods, Zul’Aman, Harandar, Voidstorm, Delves, Prey encounters, Mythic+ dungeons, raids, PvP, Renown tracks, reputation vendors, and world events. Some mounts are simple vendor purchases after enough farming, while others are locked behind high-end content such as Gladiator rating, Mythic raid kills, or Keystone Legend-level performance.

The main mount sources in Midnight are:

• Delves;

• Prey system;

• Mythic+ dungeons;

• raids;

• open-world exploration;

• professions;

• PvP;

• Renown;

• reputation;

• world events;

• pre-patch activities.

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Preparation

Before you start collecting Midnight mounts, prepare both your character and your interface. A large part of the collection is based on repeatable farming: rare mobs, currencies, achievements, seasonal score, Renown progress, and world events. A few simple preparations can save many hours over the course of the season.

Useful Addons

Midnight mount collectors should focus on three addon categories. The first is rare tracking. These addons help you detect rare spawns, display coordinates, and often play audio alerts when a target appears nearby. The second is route planning. With a proper route, you can circle Eversong Woods, Zul’Aman, Harandar, or Voidstorm efficiently instead of flying randomly from point to point. The third is collection tracking, which helps you see which mounts are already collected and which ones still require attention.

If you are farming currencies, keep your currency tab visible and check it often. Midnight has many vendor-based mounts: some cost Undercoin, others require Remnant of Anguish, Voidlight Marl, or event-specific currencies. Watching your currency progress helps you decide whether to keep farming one activity or move to the next one.

Mount Acquisition Strategy

General Farming Logic

The best way to farm Midnight mounts is not by appearance, but by source. Rare-drop mounts require daily discipline. Raid mounts require organized groups and weekly lockouts. Seasonal mounts require progress before the season ends. Vendor mounts look easier, but many of them are locked behind Renown ranks, journey progression, or long currency farms.

Delve Mounts

Delve mounts are one of the most straightforward categories in Midnight. They usually come from two sources: a difficult Delve achievement or Undercoin vendors. The main achievement target is Arcanovoid Construct, while Elven Arcane Guardian and Silvermoon’s Arcane Defender are vendor-based rewards. One of them also requires Delver’s Journey progress before the purchase becomes available.

Visually, this category leans heavily into the Silvermoon fantasy: arcane plating, glowing lines, floating magical structures, and elegant elven engineering. These mounts are especially fitting for Blood Elves, mages, paladins, priests, and characters using gold, purple, or arcane-themed transmog sets.

The main strategy is simple: do not waste Undercoin before buying the mount you want. Cosmetic items can wait. If your priority is collection completion, every Undercoin should go toward mount unlocks first.

Prey Mounts

Prey mounts are tied to the Prey progression system and its unique currency. The main targets are Preyseeker’s Hubris, Preyseeker’s Wrath, and Preyseeker’s Nightmare. The first two are purchased with Remnant of Anguish after reaching the required Preyseeker’s Journey rank, while the third is tied to a harder achievement.

This category is designed for players who enjoy intense solo or small-group challenges. You need to know when to use defensive cooldowns, where to stand, and how to keep damage uptime during movement. A single mistake can ruin an attempt, especially in higher-difficulty versions.

Mythic+ Dungeon Mounts

Dungeon mounts are classic seasonal rewards. Calamitous Carrion is connected to Midnight Keystone Master: Season One, while Convalescent Carrion requires a higher level of seasonal progress. There is also Lucent Hawkstrider, which comes from high-difficulty dungeon content.

These mounts look like true trophies for Mythic+ players: sharp silhouettes, aggressive animations, and a visual style that immediately says “seasonal achievement.” They are not peaceful collector mounts — they are proof that your character survived timers, affixes, interrupts, and coordinated dungeon routes.

The best strategy is to complete all dungeons at a comfortable level first, then improve weak score slots one by one. Do not push only your favorite dungeons. Seasonal rating comes from broad coverage, and upgrading a weak dungeon often gives more progress than repeating a dungeon where you already have a strong score.

Raid Mounts

Midnight raid mounts are among the most prestigious rewards in the expansion. The two main goals are Ashes of Belo’ren and Tenebrous Harrower. The first is tied to Mythic raid progression, while the second comes from the Glory of the Midnight Raider-style meta achievement.

Raid mounts are always valuable because they require coordination. It is not enough to simply join a group. You need to know the tactics, maintain solid damage, survive mechanics, and execute special achievement conditions. For Glory-style achievements, the challenge often comes from unusual restrictions: keeping an add alive, moving an object correctly, avoiding specific mistakes, or defeating a boss while meeting additional encounter rules.

Burst windows should be planned around real damage opportunities. In multi-phase fights, major cooldowns are usually best used on pull, then around 70–60% boss health, and again around 35–30%, unless the encounter requires saving burst for shields, adds, or a dangerous final phase.

Exploration Mounts

Exploration mounts form the largest and most unpredictable category. These mounts come from rare mobs, hidden caches, zone objects, quest chains, and niche vendors. In Eversong Woods, you will be looking for Cerulean Hawkstrider and Cobalt Dragonhawk. In Zul’Aman, key targets include Amani Sharptalon and Escaped Witherbark Pango. In Harandar, collectors should farm Rootstalker Grimlynx and Vibrant Petalwing. In Voidstorm, watch for Augmented Stormray and Sanguine Harrower.

Rare farming is best done in loops. Pick one zone, mark all spawn points, and follow a fixed route. Avoid flying back and forth randomly. If the zone is crowded, use group finder: another player may have already found the rare, and you only need to arrive in time to tag it.

There are also object-based mounts such as Ancestral War Bear, Hexed Vilefeather Eagle, Ruddy Sporeglider, Untainted Grove Crawler, and Echo of Aln’sharan. These rewards often require attention rather than raw power. You may need to find a ritual skull, a strange cauldron, a hidden cache, or a rare object in the world.

PvP Mounts

PvP mounts are some of the hardest rewards in Midnight. Galactic Gladiator’s Goredrake requires high-rated seasonal performance, while Vicious Snaplizard comes from rated PvP progress.

This is not a simple currency grind. You need regular games, knowledge of the meta, cooldown tracking, crowd-control discipline, and a stable team. Most players will progress faster with consistent partners rather than constantly changing teammates after every losing streak.

Renown and Reputation

Renown mounts are long-term but reliable goals. Midnight factions offer high-rank vendor rewards such as Crimson Silvermoon Hawkstrider, Fiery Dragonhawk, Amani Blessed Bear, Amani Windcaller, Fierce Grimlynx, and Cerulean Sporeglider.

Reputation mounts are different because they use traditional reputation progression instead of Renown ranks. Main targets include Frenzied Shredclaw, Prowling Shredclaw, and Duskbrute Harrower. These are not usually mechanically difficult, but they demand patience and repeated activity completion.

Timeline Table

Role Instructions

Tanks

As a tank, your job in Midnight mount farming is not only survival — it is pace control. In Delves, rare encounters, and raid achievements, the tank decides where the boss stands, where frontal attacks go, and how comfortable the fight is for everyone else. Always keep bosses turned away from the group, even if the encounter looks easy. A random frontal animation can kill players who arrived unprepared.

In Mythic+ dungeons, plan your route around stable completion rather than flashy pulls. If your goal is a seasonal mount, the timer matters more than showing off. Pull enemy packs that your group can interrupt and control. Avoid massive pulls if your defensive cooldowns are not ready, because one wipe costs more time than a slightly slower but clean route.

In raids, tanks must understand where additional enemies spawn and how achievement conditions work. If an achievement requires keeping an add alive, moving an object, or preventing the boss from entering a specific area, positioning becomes more important than personal damage. Save movement abilities and taunts for phase transitions or boss movement.

Your cooldown priority should be simple: active mitigation for predictable tank hits, personal defensive cooldowns for dangerous combinations, then external cooldowns from healers. Do not request external cooldowns for every minor hit. Agree in advance which tank buster is yours, which one gets healer support, and which one is covered by a raid cooldown or tank swap.

For open-world rare farming, use a build with self-healing and control. Your goal is to hold the target safely while other players arrive. Do not drag the rare far away from its spawn point. Some players may lose the tag, and in some cases the rare can reset entirely.

Healers

Healers in Midnight mount farming often save players from mistakes rather than constant unavoidable damage. People arrive at rare mobs without food buffs, with broken gear, or while standing in obvious ground effects. Position slightly behind the main group, but not at maximum range. Watch health frames, but also watch the floor: many dangerous mechanics appear as dark cracks, purple circles, pulsing Void stains, or golden-red flashes.

In Delves and Prey encounters, you need to know which mechanics cannot simply be healed through. If a mechanic requires movement, do not stand still trying to save someone who refuses to move. Move first, then use instant healing or a defensive external. A dead healer usually means a failed attempt.

In Mythic+, save major healing cooldowns for predictable damage spikes. Do not spend your strongest cooldown on the first random health drop if a real group-wide damage event is coming ten seconds later. Seasonal mount progress is built through consistent dungeon clears, not one heroic save at the beginning of a run. Coordinate with the tank and know which pulls are planned around your cooldowns.

In raid achievements, healers often become the safety net for unusual strategies. When a group is doing a mount achievement, the fight may last longer than usual and damage patterns may become less comfortable. Manage mana carefully, avoid overhealing early, and save personal defensives for the final phase. Around 35–30% boss health, players often tunnel damage, ignore ground effects, and make panic mistakes.

For world rare farming, use wide coverage and periodic healing effects. Players are often spread out in the open world, so small healing zones and narrow cones can lose value. Broad healing, shields, and fast emergency buttons are usually more reliable.

Melee DPS

Melee DPS players suffer the most from visual encounter mechanics. Many dangerous pools, frontal attacks, and circular explosions begin near the boss model. The first rule of melee farming in Midnight is simple: do not stand inside the boss. Stay behind or to the side, leaving yourself a short escape path. If a purple crack, dark vortex, or pulsing circle appears under the boss, move immediately instead of finishing one more ability.

In Delves and Prey encounters, melee damage should be planned around short uptime windows. Do not use your main burst right before the target jumps away, shields itself, or fills the melee area with danger. It is better to delay cooldowns for a few seconds and use them after repositioning. This matters even more in solo challenges, where a wasted burst can extend the fight and drain your defensive resources.

In Mythic+, melee players are responsible for interrupts. If your group is pushing for seasonal mounts, every stopped cast saves healing and time. Assign interrupts before the pull: first cast goes to one player, second to another, third is covered by crowd control. Do not overlap every stun at once, or the next dangerous cast will go through.

In raids, melee DPS must be disciplined with secondary targets. If an achievement requires leaving an add alive, do not cleave it down accidentally. If the group needs to destroy a shield or object quickly, save resources for that window. Around 70–60% and 35–30% boss health, position early so you can keep uptime during phase transitions.

For open-world rare farming, take talents that improve mobility and survivability. Raw damage matters, but the rare will usually die to the crowd anyway. Your personal job is to survive the first major animation and stay alive long enough to receive loot.

Ranged DPS

Ranged DPS players have the biggest advantage in Midnight mount farming: they can see the battlefield clearly. Use that advantage. Do not stand at maximum range for no reason, because healers may struggle to reach you and you may miss defensive zones. The best position is usually medium range to the side of the boss, where you can see frontal attacks, ground effects, and tank movement.

In Delves and Prey encounters, ranged players can maintain damage more easily during mechanics, but greed is still dangerous. If a dark circle appears under you, do not finish a long cast at any cost. Losing one spell is better than dying and repeating the attempt. Void zones are especially dangerous because they may first look like a soft shadow and then suddenly erupt for heavy damage.

In Mythic+, ranged DPS should help with control and priority targets. Do not spread damage randomly if there is a dangerous caster in the pull. Kill what threatens the timer first: healers, buffers, summoners, or enemies with heavy group damage. If you have a mass interrupt or stop, do not waste it on a weak single cast.

In raids, ranged players are often assigned to mechanics that require dropping zones away from the group. If you receive a marker, move early to the edge of the room instead of cutting through the raid at the last second. A good ranged player may lose a little personal damage but preserves space for the entire group. For mount achievements, this can be the difference between success and a full reset.

During rare farming, ranged players can tag targets quickly and hold a safe position. However, do not pull a rare away from the tank or start the fight while the group is still flying in. Mark the target, announce it in chat, and let people arrive. This reduces the risk of a reset and gives everyone a fair chance at loot.

Loot and Collection Analysis

Hardest Midnight Mounts

The three most demanding Midnight mounts are the PvP Gladiator mount, the Mythic raid mount, and the high-end Mythic+ reward. These require more than time — they require performance. Galactic Gladiator’s Goredrake will likely remain a major arena status symbol. Ashes of Belo’ren is the kind of raid trophy that stays recognizable long after the season ends. Convalescent Carrion shows that the player went beyond casual key completion and reached a much stronger seasonal milestone.

Easiest Midnight Mounts

The most accessible mounts are usually vendor and Renown rewards. They still require time, but they do not demand Gladiator rating, Mythic raid kills, or top-level dungeon execution. Elven Arcane Guardian, Amani Sunfeather, and Crimson Silvermoon Hawkstrider are strong early goals for collectors who want visible progress without entering the hardest content immediately.

Patch 12.0.5 Notes

Patch 12.0.5 adds another layer to the mount collection. New mounts are tied to additional activities, rare sources, and event systems. For collectors, this means the base 12.0 list should not be treated as the full final collection. Always check new event vendors, rare objects, and limited activities when a minor patch goes live.

Final Thoughts

The Midnight mount collection is built to make players engage with almost every side of the expansion. Raiders get prestige trophies, Mythic+ players get seasonal beasts, PvP players get rated rewards, explorers get dozens of rare targets, and long-term collectors get faction and currency-based mounts.

The best approach is to prioritize limited-time rewards first. Start with seasonal Mythic+, PvP, and world-event mounts. Then move into raid achievements, Delves, and Prey challenges. After that, finish rare farming, reputation, and vendor purchases. This way, you avoid losing mounts that may disappear or become harder to obtain after the season ends.