Vicious War Clefthoof
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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), and the wiki lists the Clefthoof among the mounts of earlier expansions that Deathguard Netharian sells for a saddle. It was the Horde's reward of Battle for Azeroth Season 1 (wiki; Wowhead's guide). The Alliance's mount of the same season is the Vicious War Riverbeast (Wowhead's guide), a separate mount.
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. The saddle binds when picked up (wiki), so it goes to the character that fills the bar, and the vendor and the mount item are Horde ones.
The win counts are not Blizzard's, and neither guide says what a Solo Shuffle win is worth; the bar in the Rated tab of the PvP window shows the real progress.
The mount 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.
wow.gg's page is about the Vicious War Raptor and does not name this mount, but describes the same saddle and vendor. Wowhead's Vicious Saddle guide (last updated 2020) names the Clefthoof as the Horde's Season 1 mount but still calls it 'not currently obtainable' until Shadowlands and asks for 1,400 rating, where the wiki now gives 1,000 and notes a hotfix of 5 May 2021 to the requirement, so it is not linked.
Confidence in this entry: medium. Looked up in 2026.
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