Soaring Skyterror

Soaring Skyterror is an epic flying rylak mount with a chromatic color scheme, added in patch 6.2 "Fury of Hellfire." The mount is granted to every character on your account once you earn the Draenor Pathfinder meta-achievement.

It is one of the few Draenor mounts that serves as both a ground and a flying mount: its soaring, gliding flight animation makes it visually unique. It requires Apprentice Riding (a minimum of 80 silver), and its actual speed depends on your flight skills.

• Collection: counts toward the progress of "How Do You Do It?" and the achievements that follow.
• Versatility: a single mount for both ground and air.
• Status: the calling card of players who completed all of Draenor — the meta-achievement has been remembered since the days of Warlords of Draenor.
• Relevance: since patch 9.0.1, flying in Draenor is open to everyone, but the mount itself is still awarded only for Draenor Pathfinder — with no shortcut.
• Free: no tokens or loot boxes, just in-game activity.

• Character level: 90. Draenor content scales and can be soloed in a single hit.
• Access to Draenor: the Garrison quest chain from Orgrimmar or Stormwind.
• Riding: Apprentice (for the mount itself).
• Warlords of Draenor expansion: included in the base subscription, no separate purchase needed.
• Time: 2 to 4 weeks with daily play, due to the reputation cap of 1500 per day.

Step 1. Open your Garrison and gain access to Tanaan

If you have never been to Draenor, pick up the starter quest from the herald in Orgrimmar or Stormwind. Complete the Garrison intro chain (about 30–40 minutes) and build a basic level of your headquarters. Then complete the introductory tasks in the Tanaan Jungle to unlock the faction map.

Step 2. "Draenor Explorer"

Explore the 6 zones of Draenor: Shadowmoon Valley, Nagrand, Gorgrond, Talador, Spires of Arak, and Frostfire Ridge (for the Horde) or Shadowmoon Valley (for the Alliance). Simply uncovering the map is enough — the achievement is completed in one evening on a flying mount from any other expedition.

Step 3. "Loremaster of Draenor"

Complete the story achievements of five zones:

• "Talador Is Ours" / the Talador campaign.
• "Hero of Nagrand."
• "Welcome to the Jungle."
• "Secrets of the Arakkoa."
• Faction-specific: "Defender of Stormshield" or "Frostfire Ridge."

Each chain takes 2–4 hours. At level 90 monsters die in one hit; the key is to follow the main story line at the "!" markers with the red icon.

Step 4. "Master Treasure Hunter"

Find 100 treasures in Draenor (excluding the Tanaan Jungle). The recommended add-on is HandyNotes: Draenor Treasures. Treasures are visible across all your characters, and progress is shared account-wide. The optimal route: Nagrand (lots of easy chests by the water) → Talador → Gorgrond.

Step 5. "Securing Draenor"

Complete one "bonus objective" in each of the 6 main zones. These are large areas marked with a gold icon on the map; dealing damage to a single mob within the area is enough to earn the check.

Step 6. "Tanaan Diplomat" — the longest stage

Earn Revered reputation with three Tanaan Jungle factions:

• Hand of the Prophet (Alliance) / Vol'jin's Headhunters (Horde) — reputation from daily quests at the main camp.
• Order of the Awakened — the daily quest "Eredath" rewards 1500 reputation for collecting 10 tainted apexis fragments from rare mobs and treasures.
• The Saberstalkers — killing saberon and collecting "blood spots" in Fang'rila.

The reputation cap is 1500 per day per faction, so the minimum timeframe is ~14 days with perfect play, usually 3–4 weeks.

Step 7. Obtaining the mount

After completing the fifth sub-task, the Draenor Pathfinder meta-achievement is granted automatically. A letter from the "Garrison Courier" arrives in the mailbox of all your characters with the Soaring Skyterror item. Use it to add the mount to your collection permanently.

• Parallelism: on the very first day, go straight to the Tanaan Jungle and pick up the daily reputation quests — the days count from your first visit, not your last.
• Legion Medallions: dropped by rare Tanaan mobs and grant +1000 reputation to a chosen faction. Stockpile them and use them up to the 1500 cap.
• Apexis Crystals: a currency from rare mobs; spend them on reputation buffs at the camp.
• War Guild: the +10% reputation buff from a guild achievement speeds up farming.
• HandyNotes + TomTom: this add-on combo shows all treasures and rare mobs right on the map.
• Group Finder: use the built-in "Group Finder" (the "Miscellaneous" tab) — rare Tanaan mobs respawn in public groups every 15–20 minutes.
• Garrison missions: send your followers on missions that yield Eldritch Horrors — they reward reputation medallions.