ESO Mount Guide

Riding a Mount in ESO is the best way to travel fast and reach your destination sooner! This ESO Mount Guide will show you all the possible ways to get a Mount in ESO but also how to use them. Mounts are purely cosmetic and cannot participate in combat. They all come with the same stats(Speed, Stamina, Carry capacity) that you can upgrade by visiting the right NPC.

How to Get a Mount in ESO

There are a few ways you can get a Mount in ESO! Some grant you a mount for free via leveling or as an Event Reward while other require you to spend Gold or Crowns(Premium Currency). These are all the possible ways you can earn a Mount in The Elder Scrolls Online!

1. Reach Level 10

For New Players the best way to get their first mount is by simply reaching Level 10 with their first character! When you reach Level 10 you will unlock your first Mount for free for every character in your account.

2. Buy Mounts from Stable

If you can afford their price, you can buy mounts from the Stable! The available mounts offer the same service but have a different look. You can buy a variety of Mounts from Stablemasters and their price varies. Buying mounts from the stable is a nice way to expand your collection early in the game.

3. Earn Mounts from Events

Another way to get Mounts for “free” is to earn them as an in-game Event reward! Events in ESO reward you with Trade Bars. You can use those to purchase fragments for various rewards, such as skins, emotes and of course Mounts. The Quasigriff Mount that is available as a Soulfire Dragon Illusion Pet Morph is a nice example of mounts you can earn with this method! Another example of mounts you can earn like this is the family of Indrik Mounts that are now permanently available via the Indrik Vendor!

4. Buy Indrik Mount from the Indrik Vendor

The Indrik Mounts were first introduced to ESO as an Event reward during the Witches Festival Event in 2018! Players were able to acquire those mounts until the New Life Festival Event in 2020. With the addition of the Indrik Vendor to ESO during the Zeal of Zenithar Event in 2022, Indrik Mounts are now a permanent(available every time an Event is live) option in the game.

Indrik Mounts are seasonal and you can only buy fragments for certain types every season(Spring-Summer-Autumn-Winter). To find out more about Indrik mounts, the Indrik Vendor and which mounts you can buy every season, you can read this ESO Indrik Mount Guide!

5. Buy from Crown Store or earn from Crown Crates

The most common way to get a Mount in ESO is to earn it through Crown Crates or simply buy it directly from the Crown Store! Opening Crown Crates offers the chance to obtain Mounts that are available during the Crown Season. If you do not wish to rely on luck, you can go ahead and buy the Mount of your choice from the store! Obviously this method will cost more, since you will have to first buy Crowns, the Premium Currency of the game. But it is the most reliable way to acquire the mount of your choice.

6. Buy Mounts with Seals

This method offers you the option to buy Mounts available in the Crown Store by simply playing the game! Seals is the currency you earn when you complete activities in Tamriel Tomes, the ESO Battle Pass system. So basically you can earn expensive Crown Mounts for free! Seals may be slow to accumulate but it is a currency you can earn reliably thanks to your Daily Routine in ESO!

7. Special Promotions and other purchases

It is also possible to get a mount from a special ESO promotion or by purchasing a pack in-game. For example you can unlock the Imperial Horse when you buy the Imperial upgrade in-game.

How to Use your Mount in ESO

To use your Mount in ESO, you will need first to equip it! To do this go to Collections(U), then Mounts. Pick the mount you wish to use and double click on it to equip it. To summon and ride it all you have to do is press(H). To unsummon your mount press the same button. ESO has a great variety of Mounts and types of Mounts to choose from!

How to Upgrade your Mount in ESO

When you start the game your Mounts are not that fast. To travel faster with them you will have to upgrade your Riding Skills! There are three available Riding Skills in ESO:

• Speed
• Stamina
• Carry Capacity

Speed will allow you to go faster with your Mount, Stamina will allow you to sprint for more and Carry Capacity will increase your Carry Capacity! To upgrade the skills just talk to the Stable NPC in any town. Each skill has 60 points and you can increase three points every day. The timer resets at 3am UTC for European servers and 10am UTC for North American servers.

The riding skills apply to every mount you own but are not account wide! Which means that you will have to repeat the process with every character you are planning to use often.

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