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 horse is 30.
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 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 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.)
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 crop and training clothes have no impact on a wagon.
- 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.
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 takes many days to obtain, but it has an unlimited Lifespan.
Forest Path Wagon
Speed/Accel: 105%
Turn/Brake: 110%
Weight Limit: 1,565LT
Inventory Slots: 22
Horses: 4
Special Skill: Forest Rush
Lifespan: Unlimited

All Wagon Stats
The most recommended wagon is the Merchant Wagon, due to its lower cost than the Forest Path Wagon. Noble has 4 spaces for horses as well, but isn’t as fast.
Wagon | Speed | Inventory Slots | Weight | Lifespan | Horses | Wheels | Durability | Impact Absorber |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Flimsy | 100% | 6 | 270 LT | 148,501 | 1 | 2 | 3600 | 70 |
Shabby | 110% | 8 | 360 LT | 247,501 | 1 | 2 | 4100 | 80 |
Strong | 110% | 10 | 450 LT | 495,001 | 1 | 2 | 4600 | 80 |
White | 110% | 12 | 540 LT | 990,001 | 1 | 2 | 5100 | 80 |
Farm | 100% | 14 | 630 LT | 247,501 | 2 | 4 | 5600 | 80 |
Trade | 100% | 16 | 720 LT | 495,001 | 2 | 4 | 6100 | 80 |
Merchant | 100% | 18 | 810 LT | 990,001 | 4 | 4 | 6600 | 80 |
Noble | 95% | 20 | 900 LT | 990,001 | 4 | 4 | 7100 | 80 |
Forest Path | 105% | 22 | 1,565 LT | infinite | 4 | 4 | 400,000 | 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