5 Best Rewards in WoW Trading Post (October 2024)

October in WoW has always been a month dominated by its version of Halloween – Hallow's End. This month's Trading Post reflects that with the items it offers! There'll be lots of references to Shadowlands as it's where the spirits of the dead come to visit Azeroth from! Let's see what the top-5 items of this month are, in our opinion!

Brand new models are something we love a lot and here's a whole freshly designed set! While it's obvious that it's meant for Halloween, we'd say that it's quite great in its own right and can be worn all year round. If you're a warlock or a rogue, you'll certainly have some fun adding parts of it to your look.

The priciest part of the set is... the set itself as it comes in one piece packed in an ensemble item – the price is 800 tenders. The claw comes separately and the bad news is that it's a fist weapon which isn't something you'd expect a rogue or a warlock to carry. But it's not a big problem: the classes that do use fist weapons will surely love it.

Luckily for us, getting the Depthstalker by just filling this month's progress bar is much less of an endeavour than obtaining any other translucent jellyfish mount (they are called aurelids in the game). We'll prove it with this handy table:

#	NAME	COLORS	HOW TO GET
1	Cryptic Aurelid	Aurelid: orange Armor: reddish brown	From A to Zereth acheivement (Zereth Mortis' exploration, Shadwlands)
2	Deepstar Aurelid	Aurelid: yellow Armor: gray & gold	Drops from a rare elite NPC called Hirukon (Zereth Mortis, Shadowlands)
3	👑 Depthstalker	Aurelid: pale yellow Armor: purple gray	Fill the Trading Post progress bar in October 2024
4	Shimmering Aurelid	Aurelid: pale orange Armor: gray & bronze	Glory of the Sepulcher Raider (Sepulcher of the First Ones raid, the final raid of the Shadowlands expansion)

If spending hours of your time in Zereth Mortis sounds like a good idea, no problem, you'll have lots of fun hunting for those other aurelids. But if it's not something you'd like to do, getting Depthstalker is your best choice to add a jellyfish like that to your garage!

What is a better opportunity to give us an enlarged version of The Thing from the Addams Family than Halloween? Hand of Reshikgaal of course has armor on it so it's not just a gigantic severed hand - but it won't be a mistake to call it that.

What's great about it is that not only it's fun to ride but also it's by far the easiest hand mount in the game to obtain. Do you remember the other 4? Here's a brief reminder:

#	MOUNT NAME	PRIMARY COLOR	SOURCE
1	Hand of Bahmethra	Brownish	Dops from rare mobs in The Maw known as Tormentors of Torghast
2	Hand of Hrestimorak	Greenish	Glory of the Dominant Raider achievement (Sanctum of Domination raid, Shadowlands)
3	Hand o Nilganihmaht	Gold	Collect 4 rare rings around the Shadowlands by completing numerous quests
4	Hand of Salaranga	Black	Breaking the Chains achievement (Korthia's exploration & progress, Shadowlands)

All those mounts were introduced in update 9.1 back in the Shadowlands days. Not many players are keen on going back to that pale realm so it's best to get this month's mount and call it a day if riding a huge hand is what you want.

If you've spent some time treasure-hunting about the Zeralek Cavern back in Dragonflight or later, the name Deepridger might ring a bell. That pet is notoriously hard to find and some people spent a lot of hours to do so and not all succeed. The horrible Deepridger has a similar model to this month's Trading Post pet: Soot-Stained Shalewing, so it's a great opportunity to get a similarly looking creature to your squad.

It's also a known fact that these skate fish like creates exist in a quantity exceeding 2: there are at least 4 more of them. The one that comes closest to Soot-Stained Shalewing in terms of skills is Ridged Shalewing (drops from a rare NPC in Zeralek Cavern called Karokta). Here's how their skillsets compare:

#	SKILL	TYPE	SOOT-STAINED	RIDGED
1	Creeping Fungus	Undead	✅	✅
2	Dust Cloud	Beast	✅	❌
3	Flurry	Critter	✅	❌
4	Leech Seed	Elemental	❌	✅
5	Mudslide	Critter	❌	✅
6	Sand Bolt	Elemental	❌	✅
7	Slicing Wind	Flying	✅	✅
8	Spore Shrooms	Elemental	✅	✅
9	Stoneskin	Magic	✅	❌

Speaking of stats, these 2 bat-skates have identical max level stats:

This is a second time we get a chance to claim this elusive legacy mount from the Trading Post. Once it was a Recruit-a-Friend mount... No, rather it was THE Recruit-a-Friend mount way before we learned that more mounts would come. The original reward given to people bringing their friends along – behold, here's your opportunity to get it!

It first appeared sometime at the end of the 00s, then it got replaced by other rewards and removed, yet several years after that it had a comeback when the RAF system became more versatile and you could choose your reward yourself. Time passed and Zhevra got removed for the second time. And now it received a third chance to ride across Azeroth: now it's clear that it will be a recurring reward in the Trading Post. But recurring doesn't mean worthless. You never know when this mount comes back if at all, so waste no time and add it to your collection while you can.

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