#0 - June 10, 2008, 7:43 p.m.
Yah i have 2 epic flyers...didnt get them from farming gold though.....
its called friends quit playing this game cause of lolarena....
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I was after making spellfire/spellstrike sets on my mage.
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Well, maybe those new to the game...WoW still gets genuine new subscribers no?
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Every time someone asks this question the Blizzard responses is basically "It's worth it because we say it is." It's not that I necessarily disagree that it's worth 5,000 gold (I agree with it more now than when TBC first came out, as gold is more available; I still think it's about twice as much money as it should be) but the responses are canned, generic, and arbitrary.
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Uh... no. You do not have a way for players who generally PvP to earn money doing so. Sure there is the daily, and its good for covering the repair bill. But thats about it. People who mostly PvP don't get a lucky roll on a world drop, they cannot use their Arathi Basin tokens to purchase Primal Nethers to sell when they need some spare cash, and they do not get to roll for the shards from loot that wasn't needed. I know that it everyone has to farm (I do, almost every day) but I had to spend far less time farming when I was running instances which I always made a profit from.
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There is always going to be someone who goes the extra mile. It is possible to justify anything that way, but should you? Probably not. If you want more people to experience epic flight it's going to become more accessible. Since it hasn't become more accessible, I can't assume that's the case.
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It's so far from being necessary that it borderlines on worthless, though. It's 5,000 gold and many, many hours of farming's worth of bragging rights.
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It basically creates a situation where you've farmed all of this money just so you can farm faster.
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At least the 900g epic mount in Vanilla WoW had uses outside of farming. Flying mounts are way, way more limited than that.
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Blizzard's opinion that it's worth a lot because you're flying fast and flying fast is worth it and it's worth it to fly fast and etc on and on until the end of the universe is silly and arbitrary and I stand by that.
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Hopefully when WoTLK comes out the flying mount prices will come down like from TBC when epic land mounts got slashed in price and getting gold in WoLTK will become alot easier to get like when the TBC came out, thats when i'll get my epic flying mount...is that going to happen Drysc?
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But isn't that the very point of this? We're talking about whether or not it's worth it. People that buy it thinking it's worth it (why wouldn't they, and again, paraphrasing) is poor justification for a bloated cost.
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You can make the price virtually anything you want, but no matter how much or little it is, judgment based on the satisfaction of those who purchased it is a bad way to decide on fairness of price because these people would obviously buy it for anything.
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Drysc, with the recent changes to quest experience below 60 and reduction of experience needed to level to 60, that means that fewer quests and mobs are killed by the time a player reaches 60. This results in a dramatic reduction on gold earned as well. My priest is 53 and he has maybe 150g. I actually lose money while levelling now because training costs are higher than what I earn in the two levels.
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AH HAH, EARLIER YOU HAD A 62 WITH 1500G! Very evident of level hacking.