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WoW Dragonflight patch 10.1 lets you unlock cute hats for your dragons

WoW Dragonflight patch 10.1 lets you unlock dragonriding mount helm customisations with Niffen renown, giving adorable hats to your dragon pals in the MMORPG.

WoW Dragonflight patch 10.1 mount helm customisation - a dragonrider looks up in awe

While there’s plenty in WoW Dragonflight patch 10.1 to explore, including a whole new zone packed with quests and more to uncover, one of its best additions just got even better thanks to the reveal of dragon hats. That’s right, Blizzard’s long-running fantasy MMORPG will now let you unlock dragonriding mount helm customisations by making friends with the adorable new WoW moles, the Niffen.

The Loamm Niffen renown rewards have a lot going for them, giving you plenty of reason to make friends with the scent-based creatures. There’s Snail Racing, a new Morsel Sniffer mount, plenty of item upgrade materials, and even the option to brand yourself with the coveted “smelly” title. However, my personal favourite is the drake helms for your dragonriding buddies.

The option to customise your WoW dragonriding mount’s helm has been visible since the WoW Dragonflight release, but it will now become available in WoW patch 10.1 (via Wowhead). There are various options available to choose between for the different dragonriding mounts that match up nicely to existing armour sets.

WoW Dragonflight patch 10.1 - a Cliffside Wylderdrake in red and gold armour with a spiked helm (image credit: Wowhead)

You can unlock dragonriding mount helm customisations in WoW Dragonflight by reaching renown level 19 with the Niffen faction. Dragonriding is perhaps one of the best parts of Dragonflight, so I’m very glad to see that our faithful companions will be getting a little more robust head protection to ensure nothing untoward slaps them in their beautiful faces as we soar across the Dragon Isles.

If you haven’t yet taken the plunge, check our WoW Dragonflight review to discover what we’ve made of the latest WoW expansion. Those of you who are playing will want to check in on the best WoW addons for Dragonflight in 2023, along with our WoW Dragonflight tier list of the best classes to play in World of Warcraft right now.

Cliffside Wylderdrake photo credit: Wowhead.