I just want a big skellington where I can ride on his neck, and if I /dance he does the undead dance
I wonder if you’ll even buy the mount when you manage to amass 5m. It’s just a mount. 5m gold is A LOT OF GOLD. Gold has far more value than any mount in the game.
It’s literally millions of gold. I’d really like to know if you end up buying it before it is removed, I’d really like to see the statistic of people who manage to end up saving 5m gold in time, but don’t end up wasting it on the mount. It is a huge waste of gold, that much is undeniable.
The real question is, if they released another gold-sink utility mount like the yak or brutosaur, how many people are now going to be prioritizing that new mount to get it immediately before the fear of it getting taken away, that otherwise wouldn’t have been in such a hurry?
What effect will it have on things like the in-game economy, which already goes through wild changes at the release of every expansion (or raid tier) and what are people going to be doing in regard to WoW tokens?
I’m personally less inclined to care about any shiny new 5m mount as opposed to falling prey to FOMO. The Brutosaur news didn’t incentivize me to hurry and get that mount, it only incentivized me to care less.
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No because if they kept both people could choose which one they wanted and serious collectors would get both.
Yes, because people kept crying about it because they wanted to do it when they could solo the fight for the title. Also Kil’Jaeden being the hardest boss in the game’s history is because of the knockbacks on the soak phase. That’s not really difficulty, that’s just somewhat arguably unfair game design.
You must be new here. That’s been the biggest recurring complaint about WoW throughout its lifespan
is that everything feels utterly meaningless with the next patch and that it doesn’t feel worth it to actually try to achieve anything.
Like what? Ahead of the Curve? Not really an accomplishment. Heroic isn’t that much of a challenge. I got mine for Antorus after resubbing for the game for a month in 7.3 and most of that time was just collecting fodder gear to pad my ilvl to get into Antorus. Had heroic down my first week setting foot in the place after the third week.
That’s not the driving point but have fun assembling that straw man. The point is there is nothing permanent that gives you pride in the current game anymore. You downed a raid boss on Mythic? Give it a few months and people will steamroll it with easier gear.
Nothing matters, there are no status symbols in a game within a genre that was largely shaped by doing things just for the prestige of it. You think I got into raiding so I could get good items statwise? Hell no, I got into raiding because there’s something exciting about being able to flaunt your status just visually. Be that a title that can’t easily be attained, a mount that’s hard to get like the Wintersaber, or just sitting in Shattrath with my full season 3 gear with people saying “Wow that gear is so cool.” or season 4 where it looked bad but 2200 for the s4 shoulders garnering a level of pride because it wasn’t something everybody had.
This is also why I transmogged into my pvp gear from Vanilla before they made it available for like 1800 rbg rating which is nothing, and why now I use my elite set from Legion, which 2k is really nothing and hasn’t been for a while, it’s a set of armor with a unique coloration that most people do not have. It allowed me to stand out from the rogues wearing the generic red set you got from mindlessly doing bgs.
Yes, because of people like you crying that it was “unfair”. Honestly I wish they would remove a lot more of these things from the game. Remove titles when the raid tier is no longer relevant. Outright remove the mounts too instead of making them a rare drop.
Yes really.
Rewarding people for having lives that match Blizzards release schedule is … kind of strange. Removing things to do, see, and experience does not somehow automatically generate more things to do. It just creates BUY-IT-NOW silliness.
It’s total horsecrap.
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You got your Breaker title a single month before WoD released. I wouldn’t really consider that earning anything when it’s relevant.
Armory peering shows me you got your AOTC seven months into Antorus.
I don’t think you’ve earned a damn thing when it was actually difficult. Sure maybe relevant because Antorus lasted like 10 months but did you actually earn it? Not really, you steamrolled it when everyone was so geared it was impossible to die to the fight.
Your mage tower? 11 months after it came out. You beat a challenge designed around 900-910 ilvl when you probably had like a 945 at the time. Woah, we got a badass over here.
No. If they’re getting rid of it because say they’re concerned about the constant availability of an AH or something, then fine. They have a reason. But if they are ok with all its functions, then that would mean there is truly no reason for removing the brutosaur. They’d just be needlessly removing an amazing looking mount.
If 5m is all someone has at the end of the year and it is choice to spend it on this mount or save it I really can’t see someone buying that mount.
I feel like in the case of the Brutosaur mount, it is not a case of prestige at all, and is straight up a FOMO marketing tactic.
None of the raids are gone. They don’t remove them unless they rework them. Content doesn’t get removed. Things that they designate as being prestigious are. Also let’s be real. If you don’t have the brutosaur by now, you never were going to get it or are at the very least very close to attaining it.
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I would be very surprised if they didn’t add another very-high-cost mount. It doesn’t necessarily have to be another AH mount, it could be a barber mount, or a 3+ person mount, who knows.
But it makes sense (from an economic-stimulation standpoint) for every expansion to have its own VHC mount that is available only during that expansion.
If not, then the people saying that removing the long-boi defeats the gold-sink purpose of it are correct. And since I believe Blizzard is highly motivated to put effective gold-sinks in the game, I strongly believe there will be more VHC mounts.
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For me it’s not. I did the math of what I can realistically do and it’ll be another 61 weeks before I could achieve the goal of 5 million gold with my schedule.
So how long do you guys think you’d take before you could “realistically” achieve the mount.
Are you like me where it’s just not going to happen cause blizz has set a stupidly hard to achieve goal in terms of time and sanity?
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It’s achievable with cold, hard, cash.
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atm I believe $540 to $560. Then as cost of tokens plummets it’s value becomes higher in US dollars.
Can we be real here?
Most of us are never going to be able to afford 5 million for this mount.
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in a 2 to 3 year span you could
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Yeah , but it will either require Brains, time or money
yah time, 3 years of it
I made like 1.2 mill or so in a month just selling m+ carries and a few hundred k off scales at the start of the raid tier. It was pretty easy really. Probably not going to bother with the mount personally but I never was anyway just like most people acting outraged were never planning on getting it anyway /shrug
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