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Ability mount swiftwindsteed
  • Swift Windsteed
  • Binds when picked up
  • Mount
  • Use: Teaches you how to summon this mount. The capabilities of this mount depend on your Riding skill and location.
  • Requires Level 10
  • Requires Apprentice Riding
Swift Windsteed

Swift Windsteed

The Swift Windsteed is one of Pandaria's rarest and most majestic beasts.[1] Darting across the heavens on a silver cloud, it is said that good fortune will follow the rider. Sky-goat cavalry, mount up!

Source[]

This item is available for purchase from the shop or the In-Game Store for $25 or €25. It was released on January 8, 2013.[1]

With the See You Later Bundle on 20 December 2018, this mount was available at a discounted price with other items. The mount is no longer available for purchase as it entered hibernation in the Blizzard Archive as of 19 January 2019.[2]

In 2022, it was given out as a reward to viewers of eligible Twitch streams who watched for at least four hours from December 9-13.[3]

Mount Journal[]

One of Pandaria's most elusive creatures, said to bring good fortune to its rider.

In-Game Store

Cavort among the clouds on this wind-running wonder.

Blizzard Shop

Ride like the wind - Charging from the heavens like a bolt from the blue, the Swift Windsteed gallops high over the battlefield, carrying you to the time and place of your next victory. Airborne cavalry, mount up!

Mail[]

Players are mailed this mount by Mei Francis:

Swift Windsteed

<Name>,

It should come as no surprise that the mist-shrouded lands of Pandaria are host to a wild array of exotic beasts, a rare few of them suitable as mounts.

Behold, one of the very rarest and most majestic...

Mei Francis
Exotic Mounts
Dalaran

Notes and trivia[]

  • The Swift Windsteed's appearance is based off of the qilin (麒麟, qílín), a Chinese mythological creature which somewhat resembles a cross between a horse and a dragon, and which is often referred to as a "Chinese unicorn". The similarly-named quilen in World of Warcraft bear little resemblance to the mythological qilin and are instead based on Chinese guardian lions.
  • During the Shadowlands alpha, the cloudstriders of Bastion originally used the same model as the Windsteed, but later in development they were changed to a unique model.
  • The Windsteed uses the horse skeleton with the /mountspecial twirl.

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