Vicious War Fox
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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 Warbarbarian (how the Season Rewards bar and the saddles work)
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 Battleground Blitz wins, 80 wins in 3v3, 80-100 in Solo Shuffle or 240 in 2v2 · about 20 h
- 1 Vicious Saddle: fill the Season Rewards bar a second time in the same season (the same number of wins again) · 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 (the wiki's pages for the mount, the saddle and the vendor; the vendor's page, edited 2026, has the Vicious War Fox in his stock). This id is the Horde mount (item 152869, spell 242897); the Alliance one of the same name (item 152870) is a separate mount with its own page, sold by Necrolord Sipe in Stormwind.
The fox was never a season's own reward: the wiki's page for the saddle lists it under patch 7.3.5 (January 2018) by itself, between the seasonal pairs.
Saddles can only be earned while a rated PvP season is running: the wiki's page for Midnight Season 2 gives its start as 18 August 2026 and its end as ongoing, and names the Vicious Lightbloom Boar as the season's own mount. Since patch 8.0.1 a character can earn several saddles in a season (wiki). wow.gg's guide says progress is shared across the brackets and that wins below 1,000 rating add nothing; it gives no figure for rated battlegrounds other than Battleground Blitz, and does not say whether saddles or an unfinished bar outlast the season. The Vicious Warstrider's notes have it from another wow.gg page that earned saddles keep and an unfinished bar is lost.
The saddle binds when picked up and asks for level 35 (wiki), so the character that filled the bar is the one that visits the vendor, and the vendor and the item are Horde ones, so that has to be a Horde character. The mount item binds to the Warband (Wowhead's tooltip, wiki). The wiki has the mount at level 17 with Apprentice Riding since patch 9.0.1.
The coordinates are the wiki's for Deathguard Netharian, 'next to Raider Bork'. Wowhead's tooltip and the wiki agree on this mount. wow.gg's guide is written for another vicious mount and does not name the fox, but the way to a saddle and the vendor are the same.
Confidence in this entry: medium. Looked up in 2026.
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