Back in the day. Blizzard had 2 real motorcycles made. One in the Horde theme and one in the Alliance theme. Then they put to a vote with the players…“which do you like best?”. The winner got the in-game bike for free while the looser would have to buy the bike from the store.
The Horde Bike won the vote. The Alliance players were up in arms over this.
Today I do not believe the Horde Bike is available anywhere. The Alliance bike, on the other hand is available in -game from a NPC in Old Town inside Stormwind. The cost is 100K. I bought one but my Horde toons cannot use it.
He was talking about the engineer motorcycle, not the contest, and the controversy you’re talking about had nothing to do with mounts that were unwarcraft-like.
I love my chopper and rockets and copters now.
At the time that the chopper came out in WotLK, I was cautious about how far technology had advanced in the world. If hunters had the Nesingwary rifle, would machine guns be far away? Many fantasy books would take their tech up to steam engines and stop with no electricity, not quite a rule but it was typical. Gasoline, pollution, mass deaths from war – trying to get away from all that, y’know?
As someone that seems to ALWAYS find themselves going back and crafting old items for whatever reason, I’ve long since tried to keep a stack/200 of pretty much everything in the game.
Any time I need something, +boom+, hop on the mining alt for Ore and gems; the Tailor alt for cloth, the LW alt for skins, etc etc.
And having a 200-stack of pretty much everything in the game has lead me to the conclusion that KHORIUM is the rarest thing in WoW. At least when it comes to basic crafting mats.
If it would take you (sic) an hour to farm up a stack of any other material, it would take you a MONTH to do the same for Khorium. It’s ABSURDLY rare. To the point, the only PRACTICAL way to farm it is to be in a Khorium-farming group.
You will otherwise spend hours upon hours only to end up with 5-6 of the stuff.
I only recently learned that the mecha-spider mounts from Mechagon can fly now.
They look pretty kewl, except that they do a lop-de-loop like the flying shredder that I can do without. I prefer something that flies nice and steady like the flying discs.
The depleted Kyparium Rocket is also one I wouldn’t mind having, but it’s pretty rare and trillium ore is not easy to farm.
My Flying Machine, Sky Golem, Mechano-hog, Kyparium Rocket, Geosynchronous World Spinner, Junkheap Drifter, and Mecha-Mogal are all eagerly awaiting the announcment of some kind of Tinker/Engineer class.
There’s actually a cheat/exploit/creative-mechanic use for adamantium/khorium
Park a class trial miner outside of one of the auchindoun dungeons (I think it was sethekk halls? and when you’re not using your instance lockouts and have 5 mins to blow have him step into the instance and check if the nodes are up in the first room, loot them or leave if their not, then reset and try again X10.
There are 1-2 “caves” where you can do a similar trick and you don’t have to deal with as many load screens. The spawn rate of Khorium is so low, it doesn’t really feel worth doing.
The best way is to get in a group, Nagrand is a good zone for it.