Vicious War Lion
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Sold by Necrolord Sipe, the Combatant Mount Quartermaster in Old Town, Stormwind City, 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
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 (roughly 40 wins in 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 Stormwind City 76.8 65.6 - 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. The wiki (2026) has the mount on sale: its page for the vendor lists the Vicious War Lion in his stock at 1 Vicious Saddle, one of 25 mounts he sells for a saddle, and its page for the mount names Necrolord Sipe in Stormwind City and marks it Alliance only. Coordinates are the wiki's for Necrolord Sipe. The Horde's vendor for saddles is Deathguard Netharian in the Valley of Strength, Orgrimmar.
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 its end as ongoing; that season's own mount is the Vicious Lightbloom Boar.
The requirements, the hours and the guide are the same as for the Vicious War Elekk, which has the same vendor and saddle. As given there, the saddle binds when picked up and asks for level 35 (wiki), so the bar has to be filled on an Alliance character, and wow.gg speaks of 1,400 rating in the season before for saddles outside a season, which the wiki does not say. The mount itself binds to the Warband (Wowhead tooltip, wiki), so once learned the whole account has it.
The guide gives no win count for Solo Shuffle or Battleground Blitz; the bar on the Rated tab of the PvP window shows the progress. The guide linked is written for the Vicious War Ram and was not opened again for this mount.
Added in patch 7.2.0 (wiki); which season it was first given for is not on the wiki's page. It asks for level 17 and Apprentice Riding (wiki).
Confidence in this entry: medium. Looked up in 2026.
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