Vicious War Snail
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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 1 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 (Combatant) in a rated bracket and fill the Season Rewards bar once (2,400 points: 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
This is the Horde mount (item 205245); the Alliance one of the same name (item 205246) is a separate mount sold by Necrolord Sipe in Stormwind. The coordinates are the wiki's (42.0, 73.8); wow.gg gives 42.0, 72.4.
The journal and Wowhead's tooltip still give only the old source, Dragonflight Season 2, when the mount was earned by rated wins at 1,000 rating or more. That season is long over, but the mount moved to the saddle vendors: the wiki's page for the mount (edited 2026) says it is bought for 1 Vicious Saddle, and its page for Deathguard Netharian has it in his stock of 25 mounts, each at one saddle. Wowhead's full page for the item was not read.
Saddles can only be earned while a rated PvP season is running: the wiki's page for Midnight Season 2 (edited 2026) gives its start as 18 August 2026 and no end date; that season's own mount is the Vicious Lightbloom Boar. The wiki's wording for the saddle: one each time the Rated PvP progress bar is filled to 100% after the current seasonal mount has been earned, several a season since patch 8.0.1. The saddle binds when picked up (wiki) and the vendor is a Horde one, so the bar has to be filled on a Horde character.
The win counts: Wowhead's own guide to the saddle mounts was last updated in 2020, still gives the rating as 1,400 and does not name the Snail, so it is not linked; its points per win are the only figures found and are where wow.gg's 40, 80 and 240 come from. Neither gives a count for Solo Shuffle, and the points a win pays today were not found written by Blizzard; the bar on the Rated tab of the PvP window shows the progress.
The guide linked is written for the Vicious War Raptor and does not name the Snail, but the way to a saddle and the vendor are the same. The page contradicts itself in places: it calls the bar weekly in one section, and says both that saddles are for the current season and that last year's can still be spent. The item binds when picked up and asks for level 10; a ground mount (wiki).
Confidence in this entry: medium. Looked up in 2026.
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