Mounting



Mounting is Runescape's newest and most unique skill. It is a skill that was released in Runescapeon 15 July 2010 that is open to both free players and members.

Mounting features a new area south of Wizard's Tower, Kiphlar, a wide grassland of mythical creatures and inhabitants, which is about the size of Falador. Mounting gives a player the ability to mount an animal or creature, either to reach destinations in a short amount of time using lesser energy, or to enhance combat.

The skill follows a new skill training system called 'Progressive Skill Training'. Trained entirely from the mount itself, the player can do just about anything in runescape with the mount and still gain experience no matter what. For example, for every amount of distance the player and their mount travels, experience is gained. No experience will be gained if the mount is absent during activities such as questing. However you can still earn experience through quests such as those involving the use of your mount. Mounts can be found all over Gielinor. Training mounts can be found on Kiphlar itself and nowhere else on Gielinor, although they don't have an important purpose other than getting used to the basics. Training mounting is lightly dependent on the agility skill. Unlike what players may think at first, a player's agility binds with the mount's agility, giving the player a tremendous increase in run energy and stamina.

The current minimum requirement to be ranked (at approximately rank 450,312) on the hiscores for Mounting is level 30. As of 30 July 2010, there are 8 players that have achieved level 99 in Mounting. However, no one has achieved 200 million experience yet. The closest to achieving 200 million experience is 73,487,097 experience. The current rankings are visible on the Runescape Hiscores page. On 2 August 2010, the skill received a massive upgrade to include, amongst other things, the ability to use Construction to build many useful things around Gielinor and the ability to use mounts in many PvP minigames such as Duel Arena and Clan Wars.

Getting Started
To be able to begin Mounting, you must complete the Transporter quest, which will give you a free Horse, and raise your Mounting level to 4. It has been revealed by Potus, when you reach Level 99 Mounting, that the place where your mounts hail from has never been part of Gielinor, yet is nevertheless part of our lives every day. The Mounting creatures have a strong connection with the Summoning familiars as well as where they both come from, from the Spirit Plane. Other races than the Elves, Spiritual Beings, and now the Humans, appear to possess some knowledge of Mounting; for instance, the Gnome ride Terrorbird into battle, hinting that the Gnome race posesses Mounting skill.