Horse Leveling is one of the most fundamental aspects of the Training Life Skill.
Horses gain experience by running around. After a horse levels, he will require more experience than the last level.
Leveling Horses increases their stats and skills. Max level for a tier 1-7 horse is 30. Max level for a Tier 8, T9 Dream, or T10 Mythical horse is level 100.
Horse Leveling takes longer for higher tier horses. A level 1 tier 8 takes about 40 to 50 hours of AFK Training to reach level 30.
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Horse Leveling at Higher Tiers
The max level of Tier 8 horses, Dream horses, and Mythical horses is level 100. (Source: patch notes June 29, 2021)
- Level 31+ do NOT gain new skills
- Level 31+ do NOT increase the stats of the horse.
- HP, Stamina, Max Weight, Speed, Acceleration, Turn, Brake, etc do NOT increase
- You DO gain Training EXP when the horse levels up.
- Horses that are Lv. 31 or higher can be registered in the Horse Market and Breeding Market.
- Levels over 30 have no impact on their price in the Horse Market, Breeding Market, and Imperial Delivery.
- Horses or players that are 15 levels above the monsters will not be attacked by the monsters.
Horse XP Per Tick
How fast a horse levels is determined by several factors. One of these is “Horse EXP per tick”
Your mount gains EXP every X meters it travels.
You can view this whenever you are traveling on your horse and press the P key to view their EXP bar.
Calculate EXP Per Tick:
- Take note of your current Horse EXP. Jot this down.
- Begin traveling
- Start counting the seconds until the Horse EXP bar moves up. Record the seconds.
- After about 5 to 11 seconds, the number will increase. Jot this down.
- The difference is that horse’s current “EXP per tick”
- Variations in EXP Per Tick is common even if you use the same food/buffs/etc on the same horse and route
- variation is dependant upon several factors, which we will discuss below
- find your average XP per Tick by recording the increase several times

How to Calculate Horse Leveling Time
Using the method above, jot down all of the following:
- Horse Tier
- Current Horse Level
- Desired Horse Level
- EXP Per Tick (usually a number between 400 and 1500)
- Seconds Per Tick (usually a number between 6 to 10 seconds and up to 25 seconds for wagons)
- Current EXP (shown in the Mount EXP bar, aftering pressing P)
The image below is from the wonderful website by Blisschen, which has a Horse Level Time Calculator.
Increasing Horse EXP Per Tick
- Special Events like “Giddy Up”
- Maintain a good internet connection and computer.
- Lag and GPU performance can impact horse travel distance.
- Straight paths of longer distances with less turns
- Every time your horse makes even a slight turn, the speed decreases before it climbs back up again.
- Clear roads (no obtacles like stones, monsters, etc)
- Riding Crops can lower the tick time dramatically for solo and wagon training
- Training Gear that increases Training Mastery and Mount EXP (Be careful, as Mastery gear can get very expensive.)
- Increase Horse Speed (active travel using skills or horse speed gear)
- wagons have a slower and lower exp tick than solo horses (But they also level 4 horses at the same time.)
- wagon wheels help improve speed
- Krogdalo Horse Gear and Granvere give +3% to +8% Movement Speed
- wagons have a slower and lower exp tick than solo horses (But they also level 4 horses at the same time.)
Mount Exp Items for Horse Leveling
These items will help you level your horse faster so it can reach level 30.
Mount Exp Item | Effect |
---|---|
Trainer’s Clothes | Mount EXP +15% (Can use Tailoring Coupon on) |
Silver Embroidered Trainer’s Clothes | Movement Speed +1, Mount EXP +5%. EXP increases with every enhancement. |
Fine Horse Trainer’s Clothes | Movement Speed +1, Mount EXP +7%. Exchange “Golden Seal – [Imperial Training]” EXP increases with every enhancement. |
Venia Riding Attire (Pearl Shop) | Mount EXP +20%. Can be equipped with Trainer’s Clothes. |
Value Pack (Pearl Shop) |
Mount EXP +30% (Pearl Shop) |
Artifacts & Lightstones |
Mount Exp +25% (Horses Over Flowers Combo) |
Mount EXP Consumables
You can also increase the horse’s EXP gain by using the following consumables:
- Elixirs:
- Elixir of Training: +8% Horse EXP, 5 min duration, 10 min for [Party]
- Elixir of Expert Training: 10% Horse EXP: 8 min duration, 15 min for [Party]
- [Mix] Time-Training Elixir: 15% Life EXP, 10% Mount EXP, 8 min duration
- Celerity Draught: Mount EXP +15%, Training EXP +20%, 180 min duration
- Unbridaled Celerity Draught: Mount EXP +15%,Training EXP +20%, 360 min duration
- Fiery Celerity Draught: Mount EXP +30%, Training EXP +30%, 600 min duration
- Food:
- Stonetail Wind’s Meal: Mount EXP +10%, Training EXP +20%, Life Skill Mastery +25 (Grand Prix Reward)
- Carrot Confits: restore 12,500 stamina and 5,500 HP instantly with a 5 minute cool down. (you can use while AFK Training to speed mount leveling time)
Horse Leveling via Wagon or Solo?
You can connect 4 horses to a Merchant Wagon and level 4 horses at the same time.
So which horse leveling method is best?
There are a few things to consider before you level horses.
- Wagons give an overall greater amount of Mount Experience within the same time frame, but the exprience is split between 4 horses.
- Wagons nullify the set effects of horse costumes.
- Riding crops increase the speed of wagons.
- Wagons will take longer to level all 4 horses vs just one horse solo.
- Wagons potentially produce horses with lower skills.
- Enhanced wagon wheels will improve experience.
In other words, use a wagon, if you have 4 horses of low tier.
If the horse is a T9, or a T8 and you’re trying to obtain Courser status, don’t use a wagon.

Forest Path Wagon
Forest Path Wagon with Rush is the top tier wagon for the most mount experience gain.
Forest Rush is a skill like Instant Accel, causing greater speed.
Forest Path Wagon requires 2 short daily quests and materials to obtain. Its greatest benefit is it has an unlimited Lifespan.
Forest Path Wagon
Speed/Accel: 105%
Turn/Brake: 110%
Weight Limit: 5000LT
Inventory Slots: 22
Horses: 4
Special Skill: Forest Rush
Lifespan: Unlimited

All Wagon Stats
Merchant Wagon has the lowest cost and is the easiest wagon to craft for horse leveling. But Forest Path Wagon has the best stats, especially if you obtain and enhance the gear. Noble has 4 spaces for horses as well, but isn’t as fast.
Minature Elephant has the same LT as the Shabby Wagon after he is leveled to 15. Forest Path Wagon is considered BIS and has the largest weight capacity and excels in every stat except for base Speed. (This can be improved with gear.)
Wagon | Speed | Inventory Slots | Weight | Lifespan | Horses | Wheels | Durability | Impact Absorber |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Flimsy | 100% | 6 | 900 LT | 148,501 | 1 | 2 | 9900 | 70 |
Shabby | 110% | 8 | 1200 LT | 247,501 | 1 | 2 | 9900 | 80 |
Mini Elephant (level 15) |
105% | 16 | 1200 LT | infinite | 0 | 0 | 13000 | – |
Strong | 110% | 10 | 1500 LT | 495,001 | 1 | 2 | 11900 | 80 |
White | 110% | 12 | 2200 LT | 990,001 | 1 | 2 | 13900 | 80 |
Farm | 100% | 14 | 2700 LT | 247,501 | 2 | 4 | 15900 | 80 |
Trade | 100% | 16 | 3200 LT | 495,001 | 2 | 4 | 17900 | 80 |
Merchant | 100% | 18 | 3700 LT | 990,001 | 4 | 4 | 19900 | 80 |
Noble | 95% | 20 | 4200 LT | 990,001 | 4 | 4 | 21900 | 80 |
Forest Path | 105% | 22 | 5000 LT | infinite | 4 | 4 | 29900 | 80 |
Example Horse Leveling Report
Training Professional 7
T8B Horse Coat, Level 20, +10 Light Iron Horseshoes
- Speed% 146.4
- Accel% 144.9
- Turn% 141.1
- Brake% 140.4
Merchant Wagon +10 | Solo T8B |
Solo Training Clothes |
Solo Riding Crop |
Solo Riding Crop + Training Clothes |
|
Tick | 21 seconds | 14 seconds | 14 seconds | 9 seconds | 9 seconds |
Experience per Tick | 472.14 | 740.93 | 767.47 | 677.08 | 767.41 |
7 Minute Experience per horse | 9,915 | 22,228 | 23,024 | 31,146 | 35,301 |
Experience total | 39,660 | 22,228 | 23,024 | 31,146 | 35,301 |
Source: Horse vs Wagon Horse Exp doc by Flippington Vain#1554
Horse Leveling Routes
You can save and load navigation routes from the World Map (M).
- RMB on the World Map to set and save 3 routes.
- Select “Set Looped Auto-Path”
- Path will turn green.
- Alt+RMB adds check points.
- Press T to travel the Auto-Path


- The routes are saved locally to your PC, so they won’t be loaded when you play from another PC.

- You can load and delete the saved routes by pressing the button “Retrive Looped Auto-Path” located at the bottom of the World Map.
Horse Leveling Route Best Practices
- Horse leveling routes should be as straight as possible
- You can be knocked off your horse or killed, if you auto-path outside a safe zone
- Optionally designate a level 49 character to be your main trainer to avoid PVP
- Choose routes without rocks, monsters, and other obstacles in the way
- Watch the loop run once to make sure the loop will work well.
- Avoid any lag in your route (Some computers and connections will lag in large cities like Calpheon.)
- Some routes might be really good for solo horses, but awful for wagons.
Here are some example routes:
Route credit to ʝεŋʝıo (míѕѕ_чunα)
Route credit to Jezirea – NA
Route credit to KMD
Route credit to MesaFalcon
Sources & Additional Info
- Solo vs Wagon for best Training Exp by Xemp
- Horse vs Wagon Horse Exp doc by Flippington Vain#1554
Great guide for horsies
Training clothes do affect mount XP on wagons, I tested this myself with and without. It clearly affects them. Mastery also affects them (xp rate). Great article otherwise!
Interesting! Thanks for the tip. 🙂
I tested it too – without any Mount-EXP bonuses and after that with all I got (clothes, artifact combo, etc.) and the difference in exp per tick was pretty huge. I’m too lazy to also test it with mastery but I belive 25totem that it counts too.
Your guides are exceptional GrumpyG, really appreciate your effort! My Tier 8 is currently level 26 and still has 3 courser skills to go, so not looking good (Potato imminent..). Once she reaches 31 , if she has not got all the courser skills, is my only option literally to breed/sell her or pay real money for skill retraining? Is there any other way to get the skills?
Hello 🙂 Thanks for the encouragement! You have two options in the Pearl Shop. For more details and theories, please see this guide: https://grumpygreen.cricket/courser-skills-training/ Congrats on leveling a T8 to 26 and good traveling. 🙂
you can use mount skill change tokens to exchange unwanted skills for *possibly* the ones you need. just because they arent learned by lvl 30 doesnt mean you cant still get them 🙂
Hey Grumpy, when you say “wagons nullify the set effects of horse costumes” you mean the movement speed ,etc right? Or does the 10% chance to gain a skill get nullified too? Testing hasnt given me definitive answers.
Hello 🙂 When you use a wagon to level horses, any horse costume it is wearing doesn’t have an effect. It’s a bit weird. Think of it as you’re actually riding the wagon, and not the horses. Wagons have their own set of rules and buff items. For example, Forest Path Wagon Wheel starts with a +3.5% Movement Speed. I’m not aware of any wagon items that increase skill chance of the horses. Have fun!
shop costume works on each horse in a wagon with 10 percent, so ideally 4 horses with costume so each will have this 10 percent(info how they work from gm)
Just a short question; i recently got my very own Forest Path Wagon (now i know why they never get registered in market, 2B silver is way too low for that time and efford) and i watched my training session because i was curious about the horse and my own training exp. Now the question; I got training exp even if no horse levelled up. It´s approx. 0.01 exp per 5 minutes, but why do i gain exp at all if the horses don´t level up?
You gain training EXP on mount EXP gain now, not on the level up.
i am a returning player, for now i enjoy the game and leveling my horse, but getting courser skills is very difficult
I know the RNG feeling. The easiest way is to purchase skill selection coupons from the Pearl Shop. You can select the skill you want, but it’s not cheap at 3100 Pearls base price. You can sometimes find coupons and sales though.