Vicious War Basilisk
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Look it up on WowheadHow to get it
Sold by Deathguard Netharian, the Combatant Mount Quartermaster in the Valley of Strength, Orgrimmar, for 1 Vicious Saddle. A saddle is earned in rated PvP while a season is running: wins at 1,000 rating (Combatant) or more fill the Season Rewards bar; the first full bar of a season gives that season's own vicious mount, and every further full bar in the same season gives a Vicious Saddle.
Time there about 2 min a visit
Guide wow.gg: Vicious War Raptor (the same saddle and vendor)
Before you go
- This season's vicious mount first: reach 1,000 rating in a rated bracket and fill the Season Rewards bar once (roughly 40 wins in Battleground Blitz or rated battlegrounds, 80 wins in 3v3 or 240 in 2v2) · about 20 h
- 1 Vicious Saddle: fill the Season Rewards bar a second time in the same season · about 20 h
In all: about 40 h of play, starting from nothing.
Getting there
/way Orgrimmar 42 73.8 - Fly there
/way is for the TomTom addon. Travel times are estimates: flying at 55 yards a second in a straight
line and 30 seconds for a portal.
Notes and sources
The journal's 'Cost: 1' is one Vicious Saddle (wiki). The mount was the reward of Battle for Azeroth Season 3, then earned by rated wins at 1,400 rating or more, and is now among the mounts of earlier expansions on Deathguard Netharian's list (wiki, pages edited in 2026).
Saddles can only be earned while a rated PvP season is running: Midnight Season 2 began on 18 August 2026, and the wiki's page for it (edited 2026) gives no end date; its own mount is the Vicious Lightbloom Boar. The win counts are not Blizzard's, and wow.gg gives none for Solo Shuffle; the bar in the Rated tab of the PvP window shows the real progress.
The saddle binds when picked up (wiki), so it goes to the character that fills the bar, and the vendor and this mount's item (163121) are Horde ones; Wowhead's tooltip (as stored for this guide in 2026) has the mount item bind to the warband. It asks for level 17 and Apprentice Riding (wiki, since patch 9.0.1). The coordinates are the wiki's (42.0, 73.8); wow.gg gives 42.0, 72.4.
The Alliance's mount of the same name is a separate one, the other Vicious War Basilisk, sold by Necrolord Sipe in Stormwind. wow.gg's page is about the Vicious War Raptor and does not name this mount, but describes the same saddle and vendor. Its Vicious War Ram page does name the Basilisk, as the Horde counterpart of the Alliance's ram; the wiki does not bear that out (both sides have a Basilisk of their own), and that page is not linked.
Confidence in this entry: medium. Looked up in 2026.
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