Shimmermist Runner
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In the Mistveil Tangle in Ardenweald a creature called Shizgher is tormenting a Shimmermist Runner. Go through the maze from its entrance by the Oaken Assembly, taking only the seven arches marked by blue lanterns, kill Shizgher in the clearing at the end, then click the Runner: the mount goes into the bags. Reaching the clearing any other way makes both vanish.
Time there about 10 min a visit
Guides Method: Shimmermist Runner Mount Guide · Wowhead: Shimmermist Runner - Twelve Days of Mounts: Day 9
Before you go
Nothing to unlock first: go there and it is yours.
Getting there
/way Ardenweald 31 54.6 - Take the portal from Wizard's Sanctum to Oribos*
- Take the flight master to Ardenweald
- Take the portal from Pathfinder's Den to Oribos*
- Take the flight master to Ardenweald
/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
Nothing is rolled for: the wiki and every player account read have the mount given on the click, and no source mentions a chance. The journal files it as a drop and names only the area.
The arches in order (wiki):
- 30.97, 54.59
- 29.61, 56.33
- 29.87, 57.84
- 29.36, 58.53
- 28.98, 58.9
- 28.14, 58.16 (its lantern is behind the bird)
- 27.07, 58.24
- then Shizgher and the Runner at 26.31, 59.06
As turns (a 2020 Wowhead comment): after the first arch left, right, left, right, straight on through the right-hand one of two arches, then the left arch into the clearing. Arches with red lanterns or none are wrong; a wrong one makes a sound and the walk starts again at the first arch (a 2022 comment). Dying does not reset progress (wiki). Flying low through the arches works too (comments of 2022 and 2024).
A scroll, the Tale of the Tangle, hangs on a tree at 32.5, 53.1 and explains the maze; the wiki says to read it, Wowhead's top comment says reading it is not required.
Shizgher comes back a couple of minutes after a kill (top comment); a commenter met him at level 20 with 12,000 health in 2024. The item asks for level 45 to learn (wiki; a 2024 comment says the same); no covenant or quest is asked. The ten minutes on the spot are a commenter's figure (2020); another did it in five including the trip from Orgrimmar (2024).
Guides: Method's guide (2024) gives the same route with a screenshot of each turn and is linked first. Wowhead has no guide page for this mount; its walkthrough is a 2021 news post that repeats a commenter's turns as waypoints:
- in at 31.04, 54.51
- left at 29.60, 55.76
- right at 30.02, 57.49
- left at 29.56, 57.91
- right at 29.31, 59.10
- straight on at 28.82, 58.71
- left at 27.56, 57.85
Confidence in this entry: high. Looked up in 2026.
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