Boar Training: Riplash

Your initial quests involve filling your Stables with six (6) special mounts. Alliance quests are listed with the Horde quests linked with a '+'.

Taming a Talbuk (+)
Capturing a Clefthoof (+)
Besting a Boar (+)
Requisition a Riverbeast (+)
Entangling an Elekk (+)
Wrangling a Wolf (+)

With each new acquisition, you're then asked to further its training with some / all of the following series of quests.

Quest

Target

Zone

Beast

Talbuk

Clefthoof

Boar

Riverbeast

Elekk

Wolf

Great-Tusk (+)

Great Tusk

Shadowmoon Valley @ (62,38)

X

X

Rakkiri (+)

Rakkiri

Frostfire Ridge @ (72,69)

X

X

Riplash (+)

Riplash

Gorgrond @ (50,38)

X

X

X

Gezz'ran (+)

Gezz'ran

Talador @ (31,54)

X

X

X

X

Bulbapore (+)

Bulbapore

Spires of Arak @ (66,75)

X

X

X

X

Cruel Ogres (+)

Gorian Beast-Lasher

Nagrand @ (79,71)

X

X

X

X

X

X

Darkwing Roc (+)

Darkwing Roc

Nagrand @ (68,20)

X

X

X

X

X

X

Moth of Wrath (+)

Moth of Wrath

Nagrand @ (43,69)

X

X

X

X

X

X

Thundercall (+)

Thundercall

Nagrand @ (90,23)

X

X

X

X

X

X

Ironbore (+)

Ironbore

Nagrand @ (53,77)

X

X

X

X

X

X

Orc Hunters (+)

Karak the Great Hunter

Nagrand @ (69,34)

X

X

X

X

X

X

The Garn (+)

Maimclaw

Nagrand @ (63,80)

X

X

X

X

X

X

Do not summon your demon, hunter pet, or water elemental - you will be dismounted.

As a hunter at a disadvantage without a pet, I found the following are helpful in many of the mount-in-training fights (in particular when you are trying to do the achievements Advanced Husbandry and The Stable Master, which increase damage taken by the mount). Possibly some *slight* overkill, but you can pick and choose which method you prefer:

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2. Using Dual Talent Specialization, choose [spell=155228] as the level 100 talent of one of your two specializations (both Marksmanship and Survival have this talent). [spell=155228] will add 30% to your damage without a pet present, which makes the fights go much faster, especially when you have to do 36 mount-in-training battles in a row for an achievement.
   
   (Note: switching between specs is very quick if you have never done it before. It doesn't cost you anything, and it is always useful to have a second spec set up. There is no need to dismiss your hunter pet to make [spell=155228] activate - it activates when you get on the mount)
   
   
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4. Create a Mend Pet macro to heal the mount-in-training:
   /cast Mend Pet
   Note: the Mend Pet spell in your spellbook won't work because it changes to Revive Pet when you summon the mount.
   
   
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6. The level 45 hunter talent Exhilaration is also very useful (particularly in the case of [npc=87107]), as it heals the mount for 100% (verified).
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