Ren's Stalwart Hound
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Rare drop from Houndlord Ren, a rare mogu who walks Autumnshade Ridge in the north-west of the Vale of Eternal Blossoms with two quilen. He is only there in the Battle for Azeroth version of the Vale while the mogu assault, The Warring Clans, is the one running. He comes back about every 30 to 60 minutes and gives loot to a character once a day.
Chance 2.97% once a day, so about 34 tries on average — Wowhead (read 2026-10-11): 329 mounts in 11,093 recorded loots of Houndlord Ren (2.97%); the item's tooltip shows the same 2.97%. The count is per looting player and pooled since patch 8.3 (2020)
Time there about 25 min a visit
Guide Wowhead: Visions of N'Zoth Assaults Guide - Uldum and Vale of Eternal Blossoms Invasions
Before you go
- The Vale in its patch 8.3 state: Battle for Azeroth world quests unlocked, the Nazjatar opening as far as the achievement The Heart Forge, then the patch 8.3 chain from An Unwelcome Advisor (the Alliance's opening quest; the Horde has its own) as far as accepting A Titanic Problem. The assaults themselves do not have to be unlocked for the mount to drop · about 3 h
- The Warring Clans (the mogu assault) has to be the assault running in the Vale. Lesser assaults last three and a half days and change at the weekly reset and once mid-week; the Vale's can also be the mantid one or the week-long Black Empire one, and Houndlord Ren is absent during both · 2 weeks
In all: about 3 h of play, spread over 2 weeks, starting from nothing.
Getting there
/way Vale of Eternal Blossoms 13.1 26 - Take the portal from Wizard's Sanctum to Jade Forest*
- Fly the rest of the way
- Take the portal from Pathfinder's Den to Jade Forest*
- Fly the rest of the way
/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. A star marks a portal that needs a quest or other unlock done first.
Notes and sources
He walks the ridge between about 8.9, 35.7 and 12.8, 26.2 (Wowhead's tooltip positions; a 2019 comment has 8.90, 35.73 to 11.61, 29.27) and appears at 13.1, 26.0, the north-east end, where people wait (a 2022 comment, rated +35). These are on the present-day (patch 8.3) map of the Vale. The Vale has to be in its Battle for Azeroth state; Zidormi at the Seat of Knowledge switches it (see the Ivory Cloud Serpent).
Each character can loot him once a day (hidden quest 57345, in tracking macros posted on Wowhead in 2020, 2021 and 2022), and only while the Warring Clans assault is up; the Vale's map shows which assault is active. A 2022 comment says he appears at once when the assault changes to The Warring Clans; another of 2022 found him missing right after a change. About 34 looted kills are expected at 2.97%.
Respawn, by players' timings on Wowhead's page for him: about 40 to 50 minutes in 2020 (rated +98, with replies of 31 to 59 minutes), and a 2026 reply gives 30 to 60 minutes for patch 11.2. Longer waits are reported too: 92 and 100 minutes in 2020, 141 minutes in 2022, and comments of 2023 and 2025 speak of hours without a spawn and suspect a bug. The time on the spot, half a respawn's wait and the kill, is therefore an estimate that can be well off.
A 2025 comment says his two quilen have to be killed with him: when they ran off alive he did not come back at the usual time. Killing the mogu around the ridge does not bring him sooner (comments of 2020 and 2021).
The unlock is the one given for Xinlao and was not checked again for this rare. Wowhead's assaults guide (2020) covers the schedule and the unlock. A ground mount (wiki). The same assault's other rares have mounts of their own: Anh-De the Loyal (Xinlao), Ha-Li (Clutch of Ha-Li) and Rei Lun (Rajani Warserpent).
Confidence in this entry: medium. Looked up in 2026.
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