Achievement mounts are the anti-lottery of WoW collecting. No drop rates, no years of weekly prayer: you clear a fixed checklist and the mount is yours, guaranteed. The backbone of the system is the Glory meta-achievements, one for nearly every raid tier and dungeon era since Wrath, plus guild rewards and collection milestones on top. This guide lists every achievement mount in the game with honest notes on how hard each farm is today. Across more than forty guaranteed mounts, it runs from the Tenebrous Harrower you can earn in Midnight right now to the legacy drakes that take one evening at max level. And if you’d rather book the checklist than organize it, our WoW raid boost services run glory clears year-round.
Achievement Mounts at a Glance
The Current Hunt: Glory of the Midnight Raider
The live one. Glory of the Midnight Raider is the Season 1 meta, rewarding the Tenebrous Harrower, a void-touched flyer earned through the current raid’s achievement list. Like every glory before it, the checks reward coordination over gear: kill bosses in specific ways, trigger hidden mechanics, survive things the encounter wants you to avoid. Earning it while the tier is current is the prestige window. In two expansions it becomes another evening farm, but the mount says you did it when it counted.
Coming Next: Glory of the Venomous Raider
Season 2 is on the way, and its meta has already been datamined. Glory of the Venomous Raider will reward the Crimson Venomfang plus the Ula’took companion pet for clearing eight boss-specific challenges across the new Venomous Abyss raid. When Season 2 goes live, this becomes the prestige window and the Midnight Raider glory shifts to an easier legacy farm. For now, the Harrower is still the one to chase.
How Glory Achievements Work
Every glory is a meta-achievement: a list of per-boss challenges inside one raid or one era’s dungeons. Complete the full list on any difficulty that counts, and the mount lands in your collection, account-wide, forever. Two things make glories the best value in mount collecting. First, they never leave — with one Naxxramas-era exception covered below, Blizzard has kept every glory earnable. Second, they age in your favor. Checks designed to challenge a current-tier group become trivial two expansions later, and every old glory turns into a scheduled win instead of a gamble.
Every Glory Mount by Era
Midnight
| Glory | Mount | Content | Farm Today |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glory of the Midnight Raider | Tenebrous Harrower | Midnight Season 1 raid | Current tier — needs a group |
| Glory of the Venomous Raider | Crimson Venomfang | Venomous Abyss (Season 2) | Upcoming — datamined |
That covers the live season. Below is the full history, oldest first — every glory mount from Wrath through The War Within, with an honest read on how hard each one farms today.
Wrath of the Lich King
| Glory | Mount | Content | Farm Today |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glory of the Hero | Reins of the Red Proto-Drake | WotLK heroic dungeons | Solo, one long evening |
| Glory of the Ulduar Raider | Reins of the Ironbound Proto-Drake | Ulduar | Solo at max level |
| Glory of the Icecrown Raider (10 player) | Reins of the Bloodbathed Frostbrood Vanquisher | Icecrown Citadel 10 | Solo/duo |
| Glory of the Icecrown Raider (25 player) | Reins of the Icebound Frostbrood Vanquisher | Icecrown Citadel 25 | Solo/duo |
Cataclysm & Mists of Pandaria
| Glory | Mount | Content | Farm Today |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glory of the Cataclysm Hero | Reins of the Volcanic Stone Drake | Cata heroic dungeons | Solo |
| Glory of the Cataclysm Raider | Reins of the Drake of the East Wind | T11 raids | Solo/duo |
| Glory of the Firelands Raider | Corrupted Fire Hawk | Firelands | Solo — see our full guide below |
| Glory of the Dragon Soul Raider | Reins of the Twilight Harbinger | Dragon Soul | Solo/duo |
| Glory of the Pandaria Hero | Reins of the Crimson Cloud Serpent | MoP heroic dungeons | Solo |
| Glory of the Pandaria Raider | Reins of the Heavenly Crimson Cloud Serpent | T14 raids | Solo |
| Glory of the Thundering Raider | Reins of the Armored Skyscreamer | Throne of Thunder | Solo |
| Glory of the Orgrimmar Raider | Reins of Galakras | Siege of Orgrimmar | Solo |
One Cataclysm entry deserves its own note. The Corrupted Fire Hawk hatches from the Corrupted Egg of Millagazor. We’ve broken down every achievement step by step in our Glory of the Firelands Raider guide — the checklist solos comfortably now.
Warlords, Legion & Battle for Azeroth
| Glory | Mount | Content | Farm Today |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glory of the Draenor Hero | Frostplains Battleboar | WoD heroic dungeons | Solo |
| Glory of the Draenor Raider | Gorestrider Gronnling | Highmaul / BRF | Solo |
| Glory of the Hellfire Raider | Infernal Direwolf | Hellfire Citadel | Solo |
| Glory of the Legion Hero | Reins of the Leyfeather Hippogryph | Legion Mythic dungeons | Solo |
| Glory of the Legion Raider | Defiled Reins | Legion raids | Solo, a couple of mechanics checks |
| Glory of the Tomb Raider | Micronax Controller | Tomb of Sargeras | Solo |
| Glory of the Argus Raider | Antoran Gloomhound | Antorus | Solo |
| Glory of the Wartorn Hero | Reins of the Obsidian Krolusk | BfA dungeons | Solo |
| Glory of the Uldir Raider | Bloodgorged Crawg | Uldir | Solo |
| Glory of the Dazar’alor Raider | Dazar’alor Windreaver | Battle of Dazar’alor | Solo/duo |
| Glory of the Eternal Raider | Azshari Bloatray | Eternal Palace | Solo/duo |
| Glory of the Ny’alotha Raider | Wriggling Parasite | Ny’alotha | Solo/duo |
Shadowlands, Dragonflight & The War Within
| Glory | Mount | Content | Farm Today |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glory of the Shadowlands Hero | Voracious Gorger | SL dungeons | Solo/small group |
| Glory of the Nathria Raider | Rampart Screecher | Castle Nathria | Small group |
| Glory of the Dominant Raider | Bracer of Hrestimorak | Sanctum of Domination | Small group |
| Glory of the Sepulcher Raider | Shimmering Aurelid | Sepulcher of the First Ones | Small group |
| Glory of the Dragonflight Hero | Shellack | DF dungeons | Small group |
| Glory of the Vault Raider | Raging Magmammoth | Vault of the Incarnates | Small group |
| Glory of the Aberrus Raider | Shadowflame Shalewing | Aberrus | Small group |
| Glory of the Dream Raider | Reins of the Shadow Dusk Dreamsaber | Amirdrassil | Small group — full guide below |
| Glory of the Nerub-ar Raider | Reins of the Shadowed Swarmite | Nerub-ar Palace | Group |
| Glory of the Liberation of Undermine Raider | Junkmaestro’s Magnetomech | Liberation of Undermine | Group |
| Glory of the Omega Raider | Umbral K’arroc | TWW final tier | Group |
For the Dragonflight capstone, our Glory of the Dream Raider guide walks the Amirdrassil checklist achievement by achievement. The Shadow Dusk Dreamsaber is one of the best-looking guaranteed mounts of its era.
Guild Achievement Mounts
A few mounts live behind guild progress rather than personal glory lists, all sold by the guild vendor once requirements are met. The Dark Phoenix, still one of the most recognizable mounts in the game, unlocks when your guild completes Guild Glory of the Cataclysm Raider; its Pandaria sibling, the Thundering Jade Cloud Serpent, works the same way through Guild Glory of the Pandaria Raider. The Kor’kron Annihilator (Horde) and Golden King (Alliance) simply require Exalted guild reputation — the old guild-level requirement was removed from the game back in Warlords. The guild achievements themselves are trivial for any active roster today. The real timer is your personal guild reputation, which builds through weekly activity and can’t be rushed, so join a guild you actually plan to stay in.
Mountain o’ Mounts and the Collection Ladder
Collection milestones are achievement mounts too, and every glory above counts toward them. The classic Mountain o’ Mounts pays a dragonhawk at 100 mounts (Red for Horde, Blue for Alliance), and the ladder keeps going at higher counts as your stable grows. This is why glories are the collector’s best friend. Nearly forty guaranteed mounts from this page alone carry you a solid way toward every milestone without rolling a single die. For everything past the guaranteed list — rare drops, shop-nots and holiday chases — our WoW mounts boost catalog covers the mounts luck refuses to hand over.
Achievement Mounts vs the Drop-Rate Lottery
The other half of mount collecting is the famous sub-1% drops: Invincible, the Onyxian Drake, Flametalon. We’ve ranked those odds in our rarest raid and dungeon mounts guide. The honest comparison: a rare drop is a story you might tell in five years, while an achievement mount is a plan you finish this month. Serious collectors run both lanes, glories for guaranteed stable growth and lockout farms for the legends. And for the mythic-tier trophies that need a full organized raid right now, a mythic raid mount boost closes the gap between wanting one and riding it.
Plan It, Clear It, Ride It
Start bottom-up. Solo every glory two or more expansions old — that’s over twenty mounts of pure scheduling. Gather a few friends for the Shadowlands-through-War Within lists, and treat the current Midnight Raider glory as this season’s group project while it still means something. Guild rep ticks toward the Dark Phoenix in the background, Mountain o’ Mounts milestones fall on their own, and the collection grows on a calendar instead of a prayer. Guaranteed beats lucky — every single week.
