Wintersaber Trainers The Wintersaber Trainers is an Alliance - only faction consisting of only two night elven NPCs that can both be found in Winterspring . Currently , the only questgiver is Rivern Frostwind who is located at the top of Frostsaber Rock in Winterspring . Upon reaching with this faction , Rivern will sell a special mount , the Winterspring Frostsaber . The faction was noted for having the longest and most repetitive reputation grind of the entire game , though the reputation grind was made easier with the addition of , a quest that allows you to do daily quests , along with the ability to fly in Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms . It is slightly faster with the guild perk Mr . Popularity ( 5 % reputation gain from quests and killing monsters , guild level 4 + ) . Currently , the daily quests given by the Winterspring Cub will get you from Neutral to Exalted by running 20 daily quests . Reputation . Players start at with Wintersaber Trainers . In order to reach / get the Reins of the Wintersaber Frostsaber one has to complete a total of 22 Quests . The first stage of questing requires you to complete { questlong | Alliance | 50 | Get Them While They ' re Young } which boosts you to . The second stage requires you to complete the quest { questlong | Alliance | 50 | They Grow Up So Fast ) . To complete this quest , which reward the Reins , you have to have 20 Rugged Leather , 20 Runecloth , 80 Gold and 20 Winterspring Cub Whiskers . Those Whiskers are only available as a quest reward for one of the four dailies ( { questlong | Alliance | A Cub ' s Cravings } { questlong | Alliance | ' Borrowing ' From the Winterfall } { questlong | Alliance | Cub ' s First Toy } { questlong | Alliance | Hunting Practice } ) which are offerd by the Wintersaber Cub you got as a reward for the first quest . Every daily grants 1800 Rep which means you will reach exalted before getting the mount . History . Before The Burning Crusade was released , the first two available quests ( and ) only gave 50 reputation each , and gave 75 reputation . That meant that you were to complete a total of 840 quests ( 746 if you included the quest in each round ) before you could buy this mount ; note that at level 60 the mobs were a lot harder to kill than at level 70 or 80 . With the release of the expansion the reputation gain increased from 50 rep per quest to 75 , and 100 for , lowering the number of quest turn - ins to 560 ( or 546 with the giants ) to reach Exalted . Patch 2 . 3 increased the reputation gained with many pre - Outland factions , including the Wintersaber Trainers , boosting the first two quests to 250 reputation each and to 350 reputation . This lowered the number of turn - ins to 168 ( 153 with the giants ) , making this mount far more obtainable . The existence of the Wintersaber Trainers used to be a cause for complaints for many players on the Horde side , seeing as there was no Horde counterpart for the Trainers and their mount . However , as of Patch 3 . 2 , the Ravasaur trainers in Un ' Goro have been implemented , thus providing such a Horde - only counterpart . This faction ' s mount was the only epic ground mount ( 100 % riding speed ) attainable in the game which only requires 75 Riding Skill , before mounts scaled with riding skill .