August Celestials - Thundering Cloud Serpent cost (rant and question)

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First the rant:

I spent how many weeks doing repetitive daily quests for the August Celestials for them to sell me a mount for 5k more than its green version from the guild vendor?!?

For perspective, I’m a new player who started with tailoring, who enjoyed making bags from each level/expansion up to MoP. I learned that MoP Royal Satchels were ridiculously time-gated behind both making the cloth and farming rep for the recipe, so I started August Celestials dailies.

Not long after, being over-leveled and bored, I moved on to WoD where eventually I was cranking out Hexweave Bags pretty regularly while I was STILLLLLL working to get the recipe for Royal Satchels through the time-gated rep grind. But hey, when I hit exalted I can at least get a cool mount right?

Sorta. Again, my guild vendor sells the green thundering serpent for 3k, and the Celestials want 8k for theirs even after the RIDICULOUS rep grind (ps, no rep grind for the guild version).

So here’s the question:

I’ve read elsewhere online that people get the Thundering August Cloud Serpent for 7k instead of 8k. How? I am obviously exalted with the Celestials and I am exalted in my guild. Where is the extra 1k discount coming from?

also, just have to say, IMHO, this game is severely unkind to new players. Old rep grinds need to be seriously sped up.

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It is/was a guild discount for being in a level 25 guild, according to some comments I’ve seen elsewhere. But, 1k is nothing in this game, so I wouldn’t be too worried about it.

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I know 1k isn’t a lot to most players but I just started in early June, so I don’t have a lot of accumulated wealth or any alts making me money

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Took me a few hours to get from nothing to exalted with them.

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Is your mage your highest level toon? I’d recommend getting to 120 before trying to farm cash. Nazjatar will let you make some serious money, and also, if you’re that committed to a profession, you’ll make a lot more making the top end version.

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How in the name of all that is holy did you do that?!?

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Zandalari Warbringer farming. Flew circles around all of Pandaria for a few hours and they drop a ton of reputation tokens.

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Either you’re on a dead server or you get extremely lucky. I’ve done my fair share of panda farming and I’ve only come across 3?

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A quick FYI, Zandalari Warbringers are next to impossible to farm now a days. They are camped heavily. Again, overall for money making purposes, I’d definitely lean towards max level. Also, going back and farming some of the old raids is really solid starting money (Armor pieces from MoP up sell for roughly 30g+, you get 4-6 pieces of gear depending on difficulty, plus a gold drop. About 180g a boss easy, then 8+ a raid, easily 1k a raid for under about 20 mins since you can probably one shot MoP bosses).

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I remember coming across one right near a flight point. Just sitting there by itself in the jade forest. I couldn’t believe it wasn’t being camped by at least 5 toons. Killed it as fast as possible. Dropped buptkis :crazy_face:

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Farm the rares Theon mentioned and then do the time walk dungeons when they are up. Save your tokens until MOP rolls around, go to the Timeless Isle and trade them in for rep tokens.

I forgot how many you need to go from zero to exalted, but that is what I did for the Anglers.

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You could have also waited for MoP time walking and got the rep through tokens…

From Xia… https://www.wowhead.com/npc=118828/mistweaver-xia

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Did I travel back in time?

First off, my main is on a super busy server. Farming Warbringers is not difficult, they spawn every 15 mins. on 5 different locations. You can also fly to oondasta and the rare in the boat also drops a lot of rep tokens.

Making a rant over 9K gold? Boy do I have news for you in regards to other mounts…

But I digress…

WELCOME TO WARCRAFT. Sincerely, I hope you are having a blast.
Please take into account most of the old content is no longer meant to be completed at the appropriate level. The best course of action for completionist is always to cap and get up to date on current content before completing old content.
Making gold on current content for a few weeks will net you more than enough to buy the Celestial Mount and allow you to continue your Pandarian adventures.

EDIT: this was a post to thread not a response to you @Anvilmike, not sure why it posted as reply.

EDIT #2: Little secret, unless you are making the new bags, the best money making old bag you can make for the AH is still Netherweave Bags. Cost v. profit ratio is higher. :slight_smile:

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Thanks everyone, sincerely, for the replies.

Does BFA questing simply reward more gold? Or are we talking mats, professions, etc?

I have repeated the first say… 1/4 of a Pandaria raid… I think it starts with “Dread” for mote farming and did notice there was decent gold involved. I did not know that bosses drop a lot of gold though, I’ll actually fight the bosses next time. Are there particular raids that are recommended for this?

Also, I’m powerful enough to one-shot most things in WoD as well, are there good gold-farming dungeons/raids in Draenor?

I see the wisdom in the advice to hit level cap and then go back. I guess my “problem” was that I liked the ‘world’ of Warcraft and also its characters and lore (big WC3 fan here), and I wanted to experience the stories somewhat chronologically and logically, which as it turns out, is pretty difficult. Haha, I spent weeks questing in Northrend (way over-leveled) trying to figure out how to actually fight the Lich King and I ran into a dead end of zero more quests. sigh.

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Emissaries can give 2000g as a reward for around half an hour of questing. Getting loot chests after exalted can easily give 4-5k as well.

Also once you’re 120 you can farm Warlords raids, like the recently made soloable Hellfire Citadel, where you can easily make 3-5k just from raw gold drops and vendoring the gear.

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I got lucky. There was some other guy farming them too. Luckily, I beat him to the Warbringers.

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Excellent advice, I’ll check it out!

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Clear out your bags. Go to old raids. Sell everything you don’t want to keep. Put green armor weapons on the AH for transmog buyers (except trinkets, rings and off hand). Vendor them if they don’t sell the first time around.

You can make a fair amount of money selling just about anything. Cloth, leather, herbs from old content still sells. Pets, reputation items. There’s a ton of stuff that will make you money.

Hate to tell you the most useful mount in the game - Traveler’s Tundra Mammoth costs 20K. But it comes with a vendor so you can sell your crap and keep on with the next dungeon or raid.

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There are a variety of ways to get 1k gold very fast at your level. You can go back and do old raids, and just sell all the stuff you get. That would take 20-30 minutes and you’d have 2-3k gold.

I agree with the other poster though, gold is way easier to accumulate at max level. Once you get there, you will see how easy 1k is to get.

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Level to 120 and do your caches and get 10k+ per day. Those prices are not meant for “buying while leveling” then were meant to be high for the xpac to be a cool looking, but expensive mount.

Edit: Nobody mention the Lightforged Battle Frame, the spider, or the brutosaur.