I just got to 60 and the dreadsteed quest looks like a huge time sink. Is it worth or I have to pay the gold anyways to get the flying?
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Well it’s a cool looking mount so yes if that’s what you care about.
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I just want the 100% mount speed for now to quest faster in outland. I paused my leveling thinking that I’m saving some gold if I go with the dreadsteed but I’m not so sure anymore.
It’s cheaper now than it was in vanilla classic, which saves a lot of gold when saving up for flying so I would say yes it’s worth it
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Do you want to use a slow mount all the way to 70?
The riding skill alone costs like 600g it’s totally worth it to just get the dreadsteed. Outlands feels pretty awful with a 60% speed rider while leveling.
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I see. I thought I’ll have to pay for the 100% riding skill before I can buy the flying skill but if I can skip it it’s definitely worth it.
Might be harder to find now, but the week leading up to tbc release there was usually warlocks letting people complete their dreadsteed quest for 75-100g for the instance lockout. 100%er is worth getting regardless tho
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Yeah I hope I can find someone. Might be tough with TBC out but will see.
If you get Exalted with one of the four main factions it’ll reduce the epic ground mount training cost to 480g. It may be worth your while if you’re close to Exalted for one of them. The mount itself from an Exalted faction is reduced to 80g. 560g ain’t so bad.
Why would you not want the coolest mount in the game?
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any lock/pala without their 60 mount is a joke
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Well, definitely. Not only is it the coolest mount in the game and it’s cheap, but it’ll get you around faster than regular mounts, it’s kinda obvious stuff, it’s better to spend your gold on this than anything else if you don’t have it.
The final part of the quests is kinda annoying and can be expensive, but… I got lucky, and joined a full warlock group, one guy had completed the dungeon and got the items to reveal the dreadsteed turn-in quest, some people charge 100g+ for this, but this guy was only asking for tips, so I tipped him 30g.
At the time I got my pally mount, in phase 3, I remember thinking that I would have just gone with a regular mount had I known how much of a hassle it turned out to be, and for not much of a gold savings…
But that was when mounts were expensive and riding skill was cheap. Now, riding skill is cheap and mounts are expensive, and level 60 mats are a lot cheaper, so…
If you can find a group of people who are willing to do the dungeon parts of the quests with you, then it might be worth it. But I’m not sure if you’ll still get 150 riding for free as a result, like we did if we learned that before TBC.
My guess is it’s probably a nice novelty to have, and if you really like its look then go for it, but it’s probably not worth the time, effort, hassle, gold if you don’t care about having it.
Absolutely not. Not necessary. Especially now that we are out of that content, it’s not even some relatively fun end-game (ish) content to run.
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My fourth Paladin just hit 60.
I have the Charger on only 1 Paladin.
it costs 150 mana.
Can be Counterspelled, Silenced, ES’d, etc. and its a Holy Spell.
Its a complete waste of time to save a few hundred gold at best for an inferior mount.
On top of that racial class mounts won’t mean much when we now have other options.
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I’d say its worth it but if getting a group together to do the handful of dungeon quests seems like too much for you then I guess the gold sink for a regular epic mount is always there.
The ritual boss fight to get the mount is pretty cool imo you really get to feel like a ritual master keeping everything in order but in TBC when everyone’s level 70 its probably going to be such a cake walk that it kind of loses the charm.
Not everyone is on a pvp server. It’s an rp mount and is most appealing to rpg minded players.
I fully admit this is about to sound sweaty but…
Yea I played pally since actual vanilla. I did my dues and got it. I boosted a paladin and hell no im not doing the quest again just to get a mount that interrupts my mp5. I warned you lol but that’s how I honestly feel on that.
Yes it’s worth it, no it’s not a huge time sink. There’s usually one warlock on each server selling the service of simply talking to the spirit. Find out who that warlock is and then get your mats together (minus the last 3 items that you don’t need). The mats were reduced so the quest is even easier than before.
If you don’t care about aesthetics or high cost of other mounts you can just ignore it completely though. One of the best if not the best looking way to travel in game though.
k u wanna look lazy, enjoy it
I’m a pragmatist…I don’t really care about people opinions when they haven’t though things out.
Devokk brought up a point about those that follow an RPG perspective or have vanity preferences.
Even if you don’t PVP, TBC involves a great deal of questing. You will do alot of it and you will mount and dismount quite frequently and repeatedly. At 150 mana per cast that adds up to alot of mana.
Moreover many Paladins level up as Ret…which has a pretty horrible mana pool. It takes level 61 for a Ret Paladin to top 2500 mana unless your in Tier 2 or 2.5.
Rets also have ZERO innate regen outside of Spirit, nor timers to utilize to gain it back.
I had 1 level 60 charger…out of 4. Money wasn’t an issue, and its soloable at level 70 if I had wanted it. For any practical purpose it’s a waste of time.