Warclaw
This article is about the mount. For the ranger pet, see Juvenile Warclaw. For other uses, see Warclaw (disambiguation). 
“Trained for battle and siege warfare, the warclaw knows no fear.
— In-game description
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The Warclaw, known as the Journeykin to the lowland kodan, is a mount available through World versus World and in Janthir Wilds. It is the only mount available for the game mode, although it can also be used in open world PvE. Mount masteries available in PvE are not active in WvW, and vice versa for WvW world abilities.
It is the second new mount released since the launch of Path of Fire.
Upgrades to the warclaw mount allow it to grant a movement speed boost to nearby unmounted players and grant new skills such as the ability to detect nearby enemies, the ability to damage gates, and the ability to dismount enemy players.
Unlocking[edit]
World vs World[edit]
Path of Fire
- Own the Path of Fire expansion.
- Spend 1 World Ability Points in the Warclaw Mastery section per character.
- Enter a WvW map.
- This will not unlock the PvE mastery track, which requires completing the unlock process for Janthir Wilds.
PvE[edit]
Heart of Thorns and Path of Fire
- Enter a WvW map.
- This will not unlock the mastery track, which requires completing the unlock process for Janthir Wilds.
Janthir Wilds
- Progress through the first chapter of the Janthir Wilds story, Unknown Territory.
- Complete the story step objective: Feed Barbed Vale's concoction to the warclaw to help it trust you.
- This unlocks the mount, its mastery track and the Janthir Wilds Warclaw Skin
- The mount unlocked in PvE will be available also in WvW but not usable without Path of Fire
Historical[edit]
- Path of Fire (prior Janthir Wilds release)
- Own the Path of Fire expansion.
- Spend at least 1 World Ability Points in the Warclaw Mastery section to unlock the collection.
- Complete the Warclaw Companion collection.
- Complete the associated Warclaw Reward Track.
- All objectives may be completed in default WvW maps.
- The camp capture objective cannot be completed in Edge of the Mists.
- Purchase
Warclaw from Elvie the Warclaw Tender for 8 
after using the Warclaw Certificate of Ownership.
Mechanics[edit]
WvW[edit]
- Has 8,779 base health in WvW.
- Movement Speed in WvW is 450 u/s, which is a 53% increase over standard movement out of combat or a 15% increase over out of combat movement speed with Swiftness.
- Continuously using the movement ability further increases the effective movement speed to about 590[verification requested].
- Provides the
Warclaw's Blessing effect to nearby unmounted allies after 10 seconds of proximity. - Cannot be remounted while in combat.
- Has a 5 second cooldown to remount always.
- It is unaffected by Crowd Control like every other mount.
- It is immune to stealth. Mounting it while being stealthed removes the stealth, trying to stealth while being mounted will display Immune instead.
- Being forcibly dismounted knocks the player down with full health. Any conditions that have been applied to the mount are then transferred to the player.
- If the warclaw dies to fall damage, the player will be defeated.
- Although the mount can be used in World vs. World, it doesn't work in Edge of the Mists and the Obsidian Sanctum.
- Jump height in WvW is reduced to about 0.8 units as of the August 22, 2024 game update.
PvE[edit]
- Has 10,972 base health in PvE and PvP.
- Movement speed in PvE is 690 u/s, which is a 135% increase over standard movement out of combat or a 76% increase over out of combat movement speed with Swiftness.
- Jump height of about 1.4 units.
- Can be remounted in combat. Doing so will apply the
Warclaw Recharge Increase effect increasing the cooldown to mount warclaw again by 10s. - If the Warclaw mastery, Nine Lives is trained, the Warclaw will not receive any fall damage, much like the Skimmer, Griffon, and Skyscale.
Related masteries[edit]
Warclaw Mount[edit]
Masteries are not available to players without the Janthir Wilds expansion.
| Mastery | XP required | Points | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 Nine Lives
|
508,000 | 2 
|
Learn to reduce falling damage while riding the warclaw. |
 Feline Reflexes
|
762,000 | 3
|
Learn to jump in midair while riding the warclaw. |
 Wild Claws
|
1,016,000 | 4
|
Learn to strike your enemies when dashing through them with the warclaw. |
 Feral Fury
|
1,524,000 | 5
|
Learn to deal extra damage while riding the warclaw, as well as how to stun and deal bonus defiance damage with spear skills. |
 Well Rested
|
2,540,000 | 6
|
Increase endurance regeneration for all mounts by 20%. |
| Total | 6,350,000 | 20
|
Other masteries[edit]
Ravenous Discipline: Increase damage when using an engage skill.
Nimble Benevolence: Gain 
Swiftness (10s) and 
Protection (4s) when using an engage skill or being knocked off from your mount.
Adroit Evasion: Evade when using endurance during a mount movement skill.
- Bond of Life: Unlocks the Bond of Life mount healing skill.
- Bond of Vigor: Unlocks the Bond of Vigor mount utility skill.
- Bond of Faith: Unlocks the Bond of Faith mount utility skill.
Sharing Is Caring: Increase maximum mount health by 50%.
Related world abilities[edit]
| Upgrade | Rank | Ability | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
 Total Cost: 25  Unlock the warclaw mount, its skills, and its abilities. (requires Path of Fire) |
1 | Unlock the Warclaw Companion achievement. | 1
|
| 2 | Unlock a second skill that allows your warclaw to detect enemies and damaged gates or walls. | 4
| |
| 3 | Unlock a third skill that allows your warclaw to pull on gates to damage and weaken them. | 5
| |
| 4 | Unlock a fourth skill that enables you to throw a spear at a mounted player, dismounting you both. | 5
| |
| 5 | Battle Maul deals increased damage to enemies who are in a downed state. | 10
|
Skills[edit]
WvW[edit]
| # | Skill | 
|
|
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warclaw | Summon and mount your warclaw. You cannot contest capture points while mounted. | |||
| 1 |  Battle Maul
|
3 | Pounce on foes. | |
| 1 |  Superior Battle Maul
|
3 | Pounce on foes, dealing increased damage to foes who are in a downed state. (Replaces Battle Maul with rank 5) | |
| 2 | Sniff
|
60 | Detects the scent of nearby enemies and temporarily marks their location on the map. (Unlocked with rank 2) | |
| 3 | Chain Pull
|
½ | 1 | Damage gates by pulling on them with a chain that's attached to your warclaw. (Unlocked with rank 3, activating it replaces skill bar with the following two skills.) |
| 1 | Chain Pull
|
¼ | 4 | Pull on the gate to inflict damage. |
| 2 | Release Chain
|
1 | Release the Chain. | |
| 4 | Lance
|
½ | 30 | Throw a lance at your target. Hitting mounted foes dismount both them and you. (Unlocked with rank 4) |
| 5 | Dash
|
Rapidly dash forward and evade attacks. | ||
| Dismount
|
Dismount your mount |
- Only 3 players can use Chain Pull on a gate. Each pull costs 1 Supply and deals 4,000 damage to gates.
- Each Warclaw currently chained to a gate adds one stack of
Chain Attached.
- Each Warclaw currently chained to a gate adds one stack of
- Chain Pull is affected by the effect Structural Vulnerability (applied by Flame Rams, increasing damage dealt to gates by 1% per stack, up to 10 stacks).
- Chain Pull is not affected by the effect Hardened Gates (Reducing incoming non-siege-weapon attacks by 50%), or the mastery Siege Might (increasing siege damage up to 10%).
PvE[edit]
| # | Skill |
|
|
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warclaw | Summon and mount your warclaw. You cannot contest capture points while mounted. | |||
| 1 | Battle Maul
|
3 | Pounce on foes. Enemies within close range receive a second strike and are stunned. | |
| 2 | Sniff
|
5 | Use your warclaw's strong sense of smell to locate enemies and hunt for treasure. | |
| 2 | Uncover
|
2¾ | Your warclaw uses its mighty paws to dig for treasure. | |
| 3 | Chain Pull
|
½ | 2 | Damage enemies and structures by pulling on them with a chain. |
| 4 | Lance
|
½ | 1 | Throw a lance at your target. |
| 5 | Dash
|
Rapidly dash forward and evade attacks. | ||
| Dismount
|
Dismount your mount |
Lore[edit]
“Discovered by Durmand Priory scholars, warclaws are magical constructs bound to armor of uncertain origin. Assembling the armor will manifest a fierce and loyal mount to ride in the Mists—but you’ll need to join the Mist War to find it.
The Warclaw is a spiritual animal bound to armor found in the Mists. It is theorized that the creature was made years ago for some ancient war in the Mists and abandoned after the war had concluded.[1] Discovered by the Durmand Priory's expeditions into the Mist Wars territories, it is related to other mystical constructs such as the sand jackals, Exalted, and Forged. The creature manifests once the armor set is placed together and imprints on the one who assembled the armor, and will disperse if the armor is disassembled. The armor itself is of Tyrian design, but mirrors styles of multiple cultures throughout Tyria's history, making its exact origin unclear.[2]
The lowland kodan living in the Lowland Shore and Janthir are known to have domesticated a native species of feline, supposedly made of pure magic, which they call journeykin. Lowland kodan see their mounts as their companions and use them in their daily tasks, from hunting to travelling.
As stated in a conversation between two Astral Ward mages, the magical signatures of warclaws and journeykin are mostly identical, leading them to speculate that the souls that bind the warclaws in the Mists may come from the journeykin.[3]
List of Warclaw skins[edit]
- See also: Gallery of Warclaw skins
(*) The mounts in the marked rows either don't appear in API:2/account/mounts/skins and API:2/mounts/skins and/or don't have an ID set. Therefore it cannot be checked if they have been unlocked.
Gallery[edit]
Warclaw in front of red keep
Resting Warclaw
Chain pull at gate
Early design revealed in Guild Chat Ep. 82.
Notes[edit]
- On average, it used to take 8 hours to complete the Warclaw Reward Track without Potion of WvW Rewards or any bonuses.
Version history[edit]
| Patch | Changes |
|---|---|
| August 20, 2024 | Janthir Wilds release:
|
| July 07, 2020 |
|
| February 25, 2020 | Competitive content update:
|
| April 23, 2019 |
|
Trivia[edit]
- Added to the game with the 5th March 2019 update.
- The running/walking animations for the warclaw are identical to those of the griffon mount.[4]
- As of the August 17th, 2021 game update, the reduction in health appears as negative green numbers under the health value, the same way Blight and other reductions are shown.
Related achievements[edit]
External links[edit]
- Tame the Warclaw, Guildwars2.com
- The Warclaw Is Here!, Guildwars2.com
- Warclaw Preview (Meow), Twitch.com
- Guild Chat Episode 82 - The Warclaw, Youtube.com
- Janthir Wilds Unleashed: The Enhanced Warclaw Mount, Guildwars2.com
- The Journey of the Warclaw: From Concept to Game Changer, Guildwars2.com
References[edit]
- ^ Elvie the Warclaw Tender
- ^ The Warclaw
- ^ Moon Camp Covert ambient dialogue
- ^ Comment by Rubi Bayer in "Is the Warclaw just a reskinned Griffon?", Guild Wars 2 Forums
