Where And When Do You Get Your Horse In 'Diablo 4'?

Diablo 4

As I played through my review copy of Diablo 4 a couple weeks ago, I knew there was one question that everyone was going to be asking as they played through the campaign:

“Where the hell is my horse?”

The horse has been a central feature of Diablo 4, something that did not exist in past games, but is now a feature of this new, sprawling map. But the answer is no, you did not miss some side quest or anything, you do in fact have to wait a while until you get your horse.

There are six Acts in Diablo 4. You will not get your horse until the beginning of Act 4, which comes after the very, very long Act 3.

You will be given a question called Mount: Doran’s Favor, which kicks of Act 4. This will take you to Kyovashad, where you’ll be spending a lot of time, and you will get your horse.

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The good news is that once you do this on one character, you will not need to do it again on other playthroughs, all other characters on your account will have access to the horse from the start.

The horse is a big fixture for microtransaction cosmetics in Diablo 4. So much so that I feel like it was almost concocted for that purpose alone. I also suspect that in time there will be other non-horse mounts you can get, but this is where we’re starting. It’s not just that you can end up getting different kinds of horses (which gameplay-wise, all function the same), you can also get adornments to your horse. Some will indeed be earned, like the Ashava horn that players got for beating the World Boss during the beta. Others, no doubt, will be sold.

The horse was one of the things I found a bit strange in my playthrough. It just felt really odd to sprint past mobs of enemies to get from place to place. Yes, the map is big, but there are quite a few fast-travel points, so I’m not convinced a horse was entirely necessary, if they just could have added a few more waypoints. They also changed the TP system so it’s harder to keep those open. But of course you cannot use a horse inside dungeons or interior quest areas, so you still have to kill everything in those.

But yeah, keep an eye on horse cosmetics, as I bet Blizzard is expecting that to be a big revenue driver. Hopefully there’s a good amount we can earn on our own, too.

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