The Amani Hunting Bear is a brutal-looking Timewalking mount that instantly stands out among older bear models thanks to its tribal armor, heavy plating, and unmistakable Zul'Aman aesthetic. It feels much less like a generic recolor and much more like a true war mount taken straight from the hunting grounds of the Amani trolls, which makes it especially appealing for collectors who enjoy rugged, aggressive mounts with a strong Warcraft identity.
What makes the Amani Hunting Bear particularly attractive is that its acquisition is completely reliable. There is no random drop involved, no weekly lockout to play around, and no need to pray for a lucky chest or boss kill. Once you collect enough Timewarped Badges, you can simply buy the mount outright. The only limitation is that it becomes available only during The Burning Crusade Timewalking event.
The Amani Hunting Bear can be purchased from Cupri in Shattrath City for 5000 Timewarped Badges. Like other vendor mounts tied to rotating Timewalking events, it can only be purchased while The Burning Crusade Timewalking event is active.
Because this is a currency-based reward instead of a random drop, the route is very straightforward. Your entire focus is on generating enough badges during the event, then traveling to Cupri and making the purchase. That makes the process far more predictable than most mount farms, but it also means that inefficient badge farming can slow you down much more than bad luck ever would.
To reach Cupri, head to the portal room in either Stormwind or Orgrimmar and use the portal to Shattrath City.
If you are Alliance, the Shattrath portal is located on the right side of the main portal room, just past the Jade Forest portal. If you are Horde, the path is slightly less intuitive. Before entering the main portal chamber, take the doorway on the left side and go downstairs into the older secondary portal room.
Once you reach the lower Horde portal area, you will see several portals to previous expansions. The portal on the far left leads to Shattrath City in Outland. Enter it and you will arrive directly in the Terrace of Light district.
Shattrath portal Stormwind
Shattrath portal Orgrimmar
After zoning into Shattrath, Cupri will be waiting on the upper ledge in the Terrace of Light, close to where you arrive after using the portal. She is the main Timewalking vendor for The Burning Crusade event and sells the Amani Hunting Bear together with other TBC-themed rewards.
Timewarped Badges are the universal currency behind Timewalking vendor rewards, and the Amani Hunting Bear requires the full 5000. So this is not the type of mount you casually pick up unless you have been building a badge reserve long before the event begins. If you want to get it efficiently, you need to focus on the best-value activities during the limited The Burning Crusade Timewalking week and avoid wasting time on low-impact farming.
The most stable and endlessly repeatable source of badges is the Timewalking dungeon queue. Every run gives currency from bosses and from the dungeon completion reward itself. Since there is no hard weekly cap on pure dungeon farming, repeated clears are what carry most players from a small badge reserve to the full mount cost. For a vendor mount like this, dungeon farming will almost always make up the majority of your total progress.
The 6 dungeons available during The Burning Crusade Timewalking are listed below, together with the usual number of Timewarped Badges you can expect from each run:
The first Timewalking dungeon you complete on a character during the active week will also begin The Swirling Vial, a quest that can be turned in to Cupri. This quest awards 500 Timewarped Badges for the first completion on your account during that event week, while additional completions on other characters reward only 200.
That makes the first completion by far the most valuable early boost you can get. If you are trying to buy the Amani Hunting Bear during the same event cycle, claiming that first reward as soon as possible is one of the smartest steps you can take.
Some Timewalking rotations also feature Timewalking raids, and those raids come with their own large badge quests. The most notable examples are:
Each of these raids has a related quest, such as Disturbance Detected: Black Temple, and the first completion gives a major badge payout. Even though some of these belong to different Timewalking rotations, they still matter for long-term planning because many collectors build a large badge reserve over multiple events and then spend it as soon as the mount they want becomes available.
The Disturbance Detected quests generally require you to kill the final boss of the featured raid. Because of that, many players specifically search the Group Finder for skip groups, partial clears, or end-boss-focused groups rather than committing to a full raid run every time.
Like Timewalking dungeons, a completed Timewalking raid also rewards a special quest item that can be turned in after the final boss dies for 500 Timewarped Badges. To be eligible for that quest item, your character must be at least level 30.
After that first turn-in during the active event, additional turn-ins on the same cycle award only 300 Timewarped Badges. That big difference is exactly why the first completion has the highest value and should always be prioritized if you want to optimize badge gains.
In addition to badges, caches from quests like Disturbance Detected: Black Temple can also include rare expansion-themed rewards. For example, during Wrath of the Lich King Timewalking, players have a chance to receive Invincible as a bonus reward from the cache.
If you are targeting the Amani Hunting Bear specifically, the most efficient method is to secure all large one-time rewards first and only then move into pure repeated dungeon farming.
Players who already maintain a healthy badge reserve from earlier Timewalking cycles may be able to buy this mount almost immediately once TBC Timewalking begins. For players starting from zero, however, the grind becomes much longer, so every early quest reward matters.
It is also important to remember that having the badges is only part of the requirement. You still need to visit Cupri during the active The Burning Crusade Timewalking event. If you miss the event window, you will have to wait for the next rotation.
Because the Amani Hunting Bear is a vendor purchase rather than a random drop, this farm is much more predictable than the usual mount grind. That removes the frustration of bad luck, but it also means poor planning immediately translates into wasted time.
Another useful detail is that Cupri offers more than one collector-friendly TBC-themed reward. If there are other items, toys, or cosmetics you want from the same vendor, it often makes more sense to plan for a larger badge total rather than stopping exactly at 5000.
Since this mount is tied to repeated dungeon clears, routing efficiency, and tracking event rewards across several characters, a few simple addons can make the whole process much smoother.
For players farming badges on multiple characters, SavedInstances is especially useful because it lets you check which alts have already completed their valuable event activities and which ones can still be used for extra progress.
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