WoW Midnight - Ruffious's Bid - How to Get the Raging Cinderbee Mount

WoW Midnight - Ruffious's Bid - How to Get the Raging Cinderbee Mount is a straight checklist guide. The mount is earned from the PvP meta achievement "Ruffious's Bid" in The War Within content, and the only way to get it is to complete every listed requirement under that meta. This article does not guess, does not add extra steps, and does not claim shortcuts that are not part of the achievement itself.

If you want the shortest summary: turn on War Mode, then complete all seven sub-achievements tied to Ruffious's Bid. Those sub-achievements cover World PvP World Quests in Khaz Algar, four "Tour of Duty" honor grinds (one per zone), and completing the Sparks of War weekly quest twenty times. When all seven are done, the meta completes and the mount becomes yours via the achievement reward.

What Ruffious's Bid is and why it awards the mount

Ruffious's Bid is a World PvP focused meta achievement in Khaz Algar. The mount reward is the Raging Cinderbee, which is tied directly to completing the meta. There is no separate vendor purchase step listed as the source for this mount in the normal mount catalog flow. If you want the mount, you complete the meta, period.

The meta is structured to force you through three types of PvP activity: a fixed set of World PvP World Quests, repeat completions of that same set, zone-based honor accumulation while in War Mode, and repeated completion of the Sparks of War quest. That mix is why this mount is mostly a consistency grind rather than a one-night burst farm.

Full checklist: all requirements in one table

This table is the entire achievement in one place. If a row is not complete, you do not have the mount. Use it as a tracker and you will not waste time doing the wrong content. The names and counts below match the listed requirements for the meta achievement.

Important detail for planning: the Sparks of War requirement is twenty completions. For many players, this is the only real calendar gate, because it depends on a repeating weekly quest cadence rather than pure farming speed.

How to finish each part without wasted time

The fastest way to progress Ruffious's Bid is to treat it as two parallel tracks. Track one is World PvP World Quests: you need them once for Unbound Battle and then repeatedly until each required quest reaches five completions for A Champion's Tour. Track two is the four Tour of Duty honor requirements and the Sparks of War twenty-completion requirement. When you align these tracks, you avoid doing extra PvP that does not push an achievement bar.

Start with the World PvP World Quests because they drive the biggest chunk of your checklist early and they create natural overlap with earning Honor while you are in War Mode. Then build a weekly routine around Sparks of War so the twenty completions are always moving forward. If you ignore Sparks early, it becomes the last wall even after everything else is done.

Unbound Battle and A Champion's Tour: do the right WQs, not random PvP

Unbound Battle and A Champion's Tour are tied to a specific set of eight World PvP World Quests. For Unbound Battle, you complete each quest once. For A Champion's Tour, you complete each of those same quests five times. That means your progress depends on those exact quest names appearing and being completed, not on generic "any world quest" or generic kills.

The listed World PvP World Quests are: Elemental Excavation, Digging into Trouble, Fending off Darkness, Polarized, Along for the Ride, Foggy Faceoff, Bells of the Light, and Serving the Queen. If you are doing a different War Mode activity, it may still give Honor, but it will not move these two requirements unless it is one of the listed quests and you complete it.

Tour of Duty: how to close 4,000 Honor cleanly

You need 1,000 Honor in each of four zones while in War Mode: Isle of Dorn, The Ringing Deeps, Hallowfall, and Azj-Kahet. The key is not the single best farm, because farm options vary by server population and by what is up that day. The key is to stop splitting your Honor across zones unintentionally.

Pick one zone, stay in it until you hit 1,000, then move to the next. If you bounce between zones for convenience, you often end up with four partially finished bars and none completed. If your server has frequent War Mode activity in one zone, it can be smart to start there, but the method stays the same: finish one zone at a time so you actually complete achievements.

Sparking Battle: plan around 20 Sparks of War completions

Sparking Battle requires completing the Sparks of War weekly quest twenty times. This is the part that most often sets your calendar, because it is tied to a recurring weekly quest cycle rather than a pure grind you can finish in one day. If you are aiming for the mount, treat this as a weekly habit and do not skip weeks unless you want the mount to slide out accordingly.

Important: the requirement is the quest completion count, not "do random PvP and hope it counts." If the Sparks of War quest is not available to you in a given week, do not burn time on unrelated War Mode activity expecting progress. As of Feb 2026, players have reported weeks where the Sparks of War quest is not being offered in Dornogal as expected. If you hit this, verify the current status (bug or change) and focus on making the weekly quest available and completable, because the achievement requirement itself remains "complete Sparks of War twenty times."

Common problems and how to avoid false progress

The most common mistake is doing War Mode activity that feels productive but does not move the checklist. Ruffious's Bid is not a generic Honor farm achievement. It is a meta with named components, and two of those components are tied to specific World PvP World Quests. If you spend hours on kills, crates, or unrelated quests, you might gain Honor but still be missing WQ completions and wonder why the meta does not move.

The second common issue is misunderstanding the Sparks requirements because of similarly named achievement steps. Players have discussed that there are two "Sparking Battle" achievements with different completion counts, and that can confuse tracking if you only look at one step and assume it is the meta requirement. The safe approach is to track the meta itself and confirm it is moving toward twenty completions for the Sparks of War requirement.

Conclusion

To get the Raging Cinderbee mount, you complete the Ruffious's Bid meta achievement. That means finishing Unbound Battle, A Champion's Tour: The War Within, four Tour of Duty zone honor requirements (1,000 Honor each while in War Mode), and Sparking Battle by completing the Sparks of War quest twenty times. If you want the cleanest path, focus on the listed World PvP World Quests until their counts are done, finish each zone's Tour of Duty bar one zone at a time, and never let a week pass without pushing your Sparks completion counter.

If you follow the checklist and avoid doing unrelated War Mode activity, this mount is not complicated. It is a structured grind with one real time gate for many players: the twenty Sparks of War completions. Build your routine around that requirement first, and the rest will complete naturally while you stay in War Mode and finish the required quests.