WoW Midnight Achievement & Puzzle Mounts Guide: Eight Super Easy Mounts to Add to Your Collection

Here's what I like about achievement mounts: they respect your time. You do the thing, you get the mount. No drop rate prayers, no weekly lockout treadmill, no staring at a loot window hoping this is the week RNG remembers you exist.

Midnight has a handful of these and they're some of the best-looking mounts in the expansion. The trade-off is that some of them take weeks of structured progression rather than raw luck, but I'll take a predictable path over "fish until the universe decides to reward you" every single time.

If you're building your Midnight mount collection and want to knock out the guaranteed ones first, start here. 
 

Crimson Dragonhawk - Midnight Glyph Hunter

This is the "do it first, do it early, it takes 20 minutes" mount. Genuinely one of the fastest mounts to acquire in the entire expansion and it looks fantastic. HD dragonhawk model in vivid red. The flavor text says it's "admired across Quel'Thalas" and honestly yeah, it is. It's a good-looking mount.

How to get it: Collect all 42 Skyriding Glyphs across Midnight's four zones. That's it. Fly around, grab glowing things in the sky, receive mount.

The breakdown by zone:

• Eversong Woods — 11 glyphs (earns Eversong Woods Glyph Hunter)
• Zul'Aman — 11 glyphs (earns Zul'Aman Glyph Hunter)
• Harandar — 9 glyphs (earns Harandar Glyph Hunter)
• Voidstorm — 11 glyphs (earns Voidstorm Glyph Hunter)

Complete all four zone achievements and the meta-achievement Midnight Glyph Hunter pops, awarding the Crimson Dragonhawk.

How long it actually takes: Honestly? If you install TomTom and paste in the waypoint coordinates from any guide, you can do all 42 in one session. Some people report finishing in under 20 minutes. The glyphs are generally on top of towers, trees and mountain peaks. You fly to the coordinates, grab the glyph, move to the next one.

The tricky ones: A few are annoying. One glyph in Harandar sits extremely high in the sky above the zone and is easy to miss if you're not looking up. The Amani Pass glyph in Zul'Aman doesn't show on the normal map, you need to fly back to the transition area where you first entered the zone. One in Eversong Woods on the Shining Span bridge had a bug at launch making it invisible, though it should be fixed by now.

Recommended addons: TomTom is the only one you really need. Paste all the /way coordinates at once using /ttpaste and follow the arrows. HandyNotes with a Midnight plugin can also mark them on your map if you prefer a visual approach.

There is no reason not to grab this mount immediately. If you haven't done it yet and you're reading this, go do it. Right now. I'll wait.

Ivory Grimlynx — Allied Race: Haranir

This is the other "you probably already have this or you're very close" mount. It drops automatically when you unlock the Haranir allied race, which happens as part of the main Midnight campaign in Harandar.

How to get it: Complete the three main Harandar storylines, then pick up the final quest "The War Beyond the Roots" (or "Rise of the Haranir," I've seen both names used) from Elder Hagar outside the Harandar Portal in Silvermoon City. Finish that quest chain and the Allied Race: Haranir achievement pops. Mount goes straight into your collection. Account-wide, all characters, supports Skyriding.

How long it takes: However long the Harandar campaign takes you. If you're focused and skipping side content, maybe 4-6 hours of gameplay. If you're the type to read every quest (which, fair, the Haranir lore is actually interesting), longer.

The thing people miss: A lot of players finish the Harandar zone story and assume they're done, but they're not. You MUST go back to Silvermoon and pick up that final quest from Elder Hagar. The game doesn't exactly wave a giant flag about this. If your Allied Race achievement hasn't popped and you've finished all three Harandar storylines, check Silvermoon.

This mount is also, let's be real, a recruitment incentive. Blizzard wants you to unlock the Haranir because they want you to roll a Haranir alt because that's more engagement. The mount is the carrot. It's a very pretty carrot though. Pale grimlynx, looks like a bioluminescent jungle panther. The Haranir customization options are also genuinely excellent so you might end up rolling an alt anyway. They got me. I made a Haranir druid. I'm not proud of how quickly it happened.

Lab-grown Stormray — Staring Into the Void

This is the time-gated one that trips people up because there's no way to speed it up. You earn it by fully unlocking every facet of the Research Console in Voidstorm. The Research Console is a zone-specific progression system that unlocks incrementally as you interact with it over multiple weeks.

How to get it: Progress through the Research Console system in Voidstorm. Each week, you can unlock new facets of the console. Fully completing all available research paths triggers the "Staring Into the Void" achievement, which awards the Lab-grown Stormray.

How long it takes: Reports indicate roughly 7 weeks to fully unlock everything if you're engaging with the console each week. You can't cram it into one session. It's structured as weekly progression, similar to how the Legends of the Haranir event works.

What this means practically: Start early, because every week you skip is a week added to the timeline. If you haven't touched the Research Console yet and you're reading this a month into the expansion, you're already behind. Not critically behind since the mount isn't season-locked, but behind enough that it'll bother you if you're trying to collect everything efficiently.

The consolation (pun intended): This mount is evergreen. It's not going away when Season 2 launches. So unlike the Mythic+ and PvP mounts, there's no panic deadline here. But the 7-week minimum means procrastination has a real cost even without a hard cutoff.

I don't have detailed intel on exactly what each console facet requires since the guides I've found are vague on specifics. The general consensus is "do everything the console offers each week and check back on reset." If someone has a more detailed breakdown, I'd love to see it.

Brilliant Petalwing — Light Up the Night

This is the big one. The zone meta-achievement mount. The one that requires you to complete basically everything across all four Midnight zones.

How to get it: Complete the "Light Up the Night" meta-achievement. This requires finishing the major zone achievement for each of Midnight's four regions:

• Eversong Woods  — zone exploration, treasures, rares, storylines
• Zul'Aman — zone exploration, treasures, rares, storylines
• Harandar — zone exploration, treasures, rares, storylines, plus the Legends of the Haranir event (7-week minimum)
• Voidstorm — zone exploration, treasures, rares, storylines, plus Yelling into the Voidstorm meta (includes the Stormarion Assault event)

Each zone has its own sub-meta. You need to complete ALL of them for Light Up the Night to pop.

How long it takes: This is not a quick mount. Even playing efficiently, you're looking at a minimum of 7 weeks because of the Legends of the Haranir time gate in Harandar. That event rotates one relic story per week and there are 7 relics total. You can speed things up slightly by using alts for the first 5 relics, but the final 2 only unlock after the first 5 are done on a single character.

Beyond the time gates, you also need to find every treasure in every zone (those Treasures of [Zone] achievements), complete all the zone storylines, explore every named area and clear various zone-specific objectives like the Stormarion Assault defense event in Voidstorm.

Is it worth it? The Brilliant Petalwing is a radiant butterfly mount infused with arcane energy. It's one of the most visually distinctive mounts in Midnight. Whether "complete literally everything in four zones over two months" is worth a butterfly depends on how you feel about butterflies. I'm personally at week 5 of the Legends event and questioning several life decisions, but the mount IS beautiful.

Tips: Track your sub-achievements in the achievement panel. It's easy to lose track of which zone you're missing what in. The Chronicler of the Haranir sub-achievement requires interacting with lore objects during each weekly Legend scenario, and they're missable if you rush through the event without looking around. Don't miss them or you'll be waiting an extra week.

Vivacious Chloroceros — Treasures of Harandar

Throwing this one in because it falls under the achievement mount umbrella and people often lump it in with the Brilliant Petalwing. It's not part of Light Up the Night, it's its own thing.

How to get it: Complete the "Treasures of Harandar" achievement by finding all hidden treasures in the Harandar zone. This is a treasure-hunting scavenger run across the underground mushroom jungle.

How long it takes: An afternoon if you have coordinates. Longer if you're exploring blind, which honestly is more fun but nobody does that anymore. HandyNotes with the Midnight plugin marks most of them. A few treasures require short puzzle interactions or spawning enemies before they become lootable.

Quest Reward Mounts (Guaranteed, Just Do the Story)

Three more mounts come directly from completing specific quests during the Midnight campaign. No farming, no tracking, no weekly resets. Just play the story:

• Emerald Hawkstrider — Rewarded from "The Battle of the Bridge" quest
• Peridot Dragonhawk — Rewarded from "From Darkness, Light" quest
• Relinquished Scarlet Charger — Rewarded from "Relinquishing Relics" quest

All three are baked into the campaign flow. If you complete the Midnight story fully you'll get these without trying. They're not the flashiest mounts in the expansion but they're free and they count toward your collection number. At 847 mounts, I'll take every +1 I can get.

The Achievement Mount Checklist

Every single one of these mounts requires zero RNG. Look  at that beautiful column, not a "Yes" in sight. After spending weeks fishing in Void holes for the Nether-Swept Drake, a table full of "No" feels like therapy.

Working Through The List?

The achievement mounts are the backbone of any Midnight collection because they're the ones you can plan around. No drop rate anxiety, no season deadlines (except the Lab-grown Stormray's weekly cadence, which is time-gated but permanent). Start the time-gated ones immediately (Research Console, Legends of the Haranir), knock out the fast ones (Crimson Dragonhawk, campaign quests) and let the zone meta progress naturally.

If you're also chasing the season-locked mounts from Mythic+, raids and PvP alongside these, KingBoost can handle the group content carries while you focus your personal playtime on the achievement grind that nobody can do for you. Efficient division of labor. The spreadsheet approves.