Dream Horses (Tier 9) Guide - BDFoundry (2024)

Introduction

Dream horses (tier 9) are not available through the usual breeding method and take a lot of time and effort to achieve. Tier 9 horses and Tier 10 horses are end-game mounts in BDO and all have unique abilities. There are 3 types of dream horses.

Pegasus (Arduanatt)	Unicorn (Diné)	Doom
This tier 9 horse is a winged horse that uses its large wings to glide from high places safely. They do not “fly”, but can jump off cliffs and safely glide downwards at high speeds.	This tier 9 horse is a friendly mount that can buff targets to give them higher DP/Evasion and can also heal them. The unicorn is a supportive mount that can prove useful in battle and is also the only horse unaffected by the Valencia Desert slow.	This tier 9 horse is the fastest dream horse thanks to its triple Instant Accel skill. It also has more powerful attacks and stronger horse skills which scale with your AP. They use fire and explosions to destroy their enemies in battle.

How to obtain a Dream Horse

There are four ways to obtain a Dream Horse:

Collecting the Vipiko’s Dreaming Horse reward from (Y) challenge rewards allows you to select a FREE T9 horse (once per family)
Awakening a T8 Courser horse
Buying the horse from the Horse Market. (costing approx 10-12 billion silver) – recommended option if you have already obtained your Free T9 Horse
Very low RNG chance from a Shakatu’s Shiny Box (Life)

To obtain a FREE Tier 9 horse, you simply need to collect the items from your (Y) Challenge rewards. All players obtain these rewards simply by logging in for the first time, and there are no other requirements to obtain them.

Now that you have the Vipiko’s Dreaming Horse item, you can right-click it to select your reward.

Free T9 Horse – Vipiko’s Dreaming Horse Guide

Obtaining a “Courser” horse

To begin awakening a Dream horse yourself, you will need a level 30 Tier 8 horse with the following skills:

Charge
Drift
Sprint
Instant Accel
Sideways
S: Instant Accel
S: Sideways

This is also known as a Courser horse and it will have a gold horse symbol in the top right corner of it’s icon.

For advanced tips on how to get a Tier 8 Courser, check out our Training guide which explains how to increase your chances of getting the skills you need using the “Forechop method”.

How to start Courser Training

Once you have a Tier 8 Couser at level 30, you can start “training” the horse. This involves feeding different materials into the horse until you have enough to do an “awakening attempt”.

Skill Training

Leveling this will increase your chances of obtaining Pegasus

Farming
Stonetail Fodder
Exchange Blush Leaf x20
(farming byproduct).

Once you reach Artisan 1 in Farming, use Magical Seeds on your farm and breed them to get high amounts of farming byproducts.

Trading
Rainbow Gem Fruit
Exchange Shiny Golden Seal – [Imperial Delivery] x10.

You can also obtain these by exchanging Perdiot Petal x10, which are a reward from the Narc Magic Sealing Stone bundles.

Events
Fruit of Yianaros
Obtained from events only

(Increases Skill training by 2% instead of 1% per item)

Elegance Training

Leveling this will increase your chances of obtaining Unicorn

Hunting
Spirit Pouch of Ferocious Beast
Has a rare chance of being looted when butchering Khalk or Blue Whale.

You can also obtain these by exchanging Perdiot Petal x10, which is a reward from the Narc Magic Sealing Stone bundles, or exchanging Hunter’s Tokens x25.

Fishing
Breezy Conch Seaweed
Has a rare chance of being obtained when fishing.

You can also obtain these by exchanging Perdiot Petal x10, which is a reward from the Narc Magic Sealing Stone bundles.

Events
Mysterious Blue Conch
Obtained from events only

(Increases Elegance training by 2% instead of 1% per item)

Strength Training

Leveling this will increase your chances of obtaining Doom

Gathering/Dailies
Deep Blue Hoof Root
Has a rare chance of being obtained when gathering.

You can also exchange Peridot Leaves x7 for Deep Blue Hoof Root.
These are collected in the Peridot Leaf daily quests (video) and as a rare drop from monsters in Kamaslyvia.

Awakening the horse

Once your horse has a total of 200% exp or higher in training, it can be awakened.

You will need one final material to awaken the horse:

Krogdalo’s Origin Stone

Use simple alchemy to combine:
- Swaying Wind Fragment x25
  - (exchange Shiny Golden Seal – [Imperial Training] OR Horse Race Seal x2)
- Rumbling Earth Fragment x25
  - (exchange Shiny Golden Seal – [Imperial Training] x2 OR Horse Race Seal)

You can also gain a small amount of Swaying Wind Fragments and Rumbling Earth Fragments from the Peridot Leaf daily quests (video) and can exchange Peridot Leaf x15 for a Swaying Wind Fragment or Rumbling Earth Fragment at Old Wisdom Tree.

If the awakening fails, the training percentage (%) will be reduced back to 0% and you will need to train the horse again. You will gain +1 Awakening failstack, which increases your chance of success on your next attempt.

The formula for working out your chance of success is (1% + (o.2% * failstacks)). This means that every failed attempt increases your chance by 0.2%.

You can also choose to use 100 Cron Stones when awakening. Using Cron Stones will reduce the training percentage to 100% instead if it fails.

If the awakening succeeds, the horse will become a Pegasus OR Unicorn OR Doom (the result is random but can be influenced by the materials you use to train it).

The horse will become a T9 with the same name. The horse will go back to level 1 and will have new stats and skills. It’s also important to note that T9 horses cannot breed. The base chance of success is only 1% so you are very lucky if it succeeds the first time.

Dream Horse Skills

The horse can learn any of the skills that a normal horse can learn (except Two Seater skill which can only be learned by Doom).

As well as the T8 horse skills, they can also learn special dream horse skills. Learning skills works exactly the same as with normal horses and is completely random, but dream horses tend to be “smarter” and have a higher chance of learning skills.

Courser’s Spirit Method

In order to get as many skills as possible on your Dream Horse, you should use the “Courser’s Spirit” method.

The Courser’s Spirit skill has a very high chance of being learned. You have a 100% chance of learning it at level 1, so you use a Mount Change Skill Coupon to swap it for another skill with a lower chance. Courser’s Spirit then has a very high chance of it being learned again.
Each time your horse levels, check its skills and if it has learned Courser’s Spirit again then you can swap it for another skill.

Skill Name	Effect	Command	Learned by	Chance of Learning
Courser’s Spirit	Automatically regenerates health and stamina whilst parking	Passive	Arduanatt, Dine, Doom	100%
Double Jump	Jump a second time in the air (can also be used with high jump)	[SPACEBAR] while Jumping	Arduanatt, Dine, Doom	100%
S: Charge	Performs a second charge immediately	[Q] while using Charge (requires Charge skill)	Arduanatt, Dine, Doom	20%
Wings of Wind	Used while Double Jumping to glide into the air. Fall damage is reduced by 100% for a short period of time	[E] while using Double Jump	Arduanatt	100%
Wings of Freedom	Allows Arduanatt to turn whilst gliding	[A] or [D] whilst flying	Arduanatt	10%
Earth of Life	Heals a maximum of 10 friendly targets (+300 HP and +300 MP/WP/SP per 3 seconds for 30 seconds in total)	[E]	Dine	100%
Earth of Protection	Buffs a maximum of 10 friendly targets (+10 DP and +10 Evasion for 30 seconds)	Passive	Dine	10%
Dark Flame Steps	Leaves a trail of fire behind you which damages enemies	[E]	Doom	100%
Dark Sprint	Adds a third thrust to Instant Accel	[F] during S: Instant Accel	Doom	10%

Dream Horse Stats

At level 1, all Dream Horses have the same base stats.

Arduanatt/Pegasus:

Speed: 137.5%
Accel: 137.5%
Turn: 122.5%
Brake: 122.5%

Diné/Unicorn:

Speed: 133%
Accel: 133%
Turn: 127%
Brake: 127%

Doom:

Speed: 130%
Accel: 130%
Turn: 139%
Brake: 139%

Every time the horse levels up, all four stats will increase by +0.1% to +1.3%. The amount it increases by is completely random at every level, meaning that some horses may have better stats than others. Stats aren’t too important but having better stats does have slight benefits to the speed of the horse. The brake stat is the most important, but Doom and Unicorn can usually obtain the maximum brake bracket quite easily.

Check out our Training guide for more details about horse stats.

Dream Horse Appearances

Pegasus (Arduanatt) Horse

Nightmare Pegasus (Arduanatt) Horse

The Nightmare Arduanatt is a limited edition version of the dream horse and there are only 2 Nightmare horses on each region.

The first was sold in 2018 via the Luxury Auction, and the second Nightmare horse was given as a prize to the winner of the Mysteries of Summer 2019 event.

The horse was bought by player “Norweil” on the EU server for 38 billion silver in May 2018, and the EU winner of the Mysteries of Summer 2019 event was the player “Carolyn”.