Looks Like the Mighty Caravan Brutosaur might Be Unobtainable In 9.0.1 (Part 1)

Yesuna-wyrmrest-accord · February 23, 2020, 12:57am

I’m sure there will be players buying tokens to get ready for next expansion, not for a mount.

Brahmina-khadgar · February 23, 2020, 1:01am

You could read my entire post, too. At least when you buy that stuff, you still have to do something besides click a vendor. The only thing you need for the Brutosaur is gold. That is literally all you need.

Now, I’m not saying that buying runs from others automatically grants any sort of prestige. It’s really easy to look at people’s achieves and see who bought their rewards and who earned them. I definitely “bought” my AOTC mounts, and it’s obvious to anyone who bothers to look. (They were actually free runs, but it was raising money for charity.) I didn’t do it for any imagined “prestige”, I did it to help the charity and for the mounts.

Yesuna-wyrmrest-accord · February 23, 2020, 1:03am

If you buy a glad mount and they make you do anything besides sit there then you need to find a new carry. If you buy a key run and they make you do something besides sit there and do nothing then you bought a bad carry group. if you bought a mythic raid run and they make you do something besides sit there then you paid a bad group.

Brahmina-khadgar · February 23, 2020, 1:06am

You have to enter the instance and not screw it up. That’s still more “work” than clicking on a vendor. But this is an idiotic argument. It’s NOT prestigious to buy a run, and anyone can tell the bought runs from earned ones just by looking at achieves. If you think bought runs are prestigious, that’s your problem, and it’s got nothing to do with a gold sink mount.

Yesuna-wyrmrest-accord · February 23, 2020, 1:09am

It’s not up to the carry to not screw up. That’s not how carries work.

Yeah, you get summoned and walk inside and instance or click ready for an arena or rbg.

I was just asking you for your thoughts since they can also be bought.

Terranox-stonemaul · February 23, 2020, 1:59am

I have like 200k to my name now. And the market crashed alot of the prices after the mythic raid first.

Raiyyn-area-52 · February 23, 2020, 2:13am

Well, according to worldofwargraphs.com, which tracks every active account, only 1.4% of players have the Mighty Caravan Brutosaur.

So you are correct. That post was entirely false. Significantly fewer than WoWHead claims actually have the mount.

Gosh! With those numbers that dang thing is practically everywhere! I can totally see why Blizz is panicking and removing the mount…we just can’t have nearly no no one running around on all those Brutosaurs!

Voxplaga-ravencrest · February 23, 2020, 2:29am

Buying tokens is prestigious now?

Zarraline-gundrak · February 23, 2020, 3:36am

Are you suggesting it isn’t?

What do you think credit cards are for if not for buying prestige through acquiring things you can’t really afford?

Voxplaga-ravencrest · February 23, 2020, 4:57am

Yes, I’m saying it isn’t. If it was only obtainable through gameplay, then you could at least attempt to say it’s prestigious. The ability to buy it negates that completely. Not only that, now that it’s limited time, it almost encourages that method.

Zarraline-gundrak · February 23, 2020, 5:30am

The fact the bulk of Blizzard’s income now comes from extra purchases of goods and services is no reason to hint they might hope to sell even more tokens this way. Have some faith in corporational integrity! They really do just want a way to pat Yesuna and me on the back for our superior spending skills.

There have even been shameless - or is it shameful - funny how two opposites seem to mean the same thing - suggestions that the extra advantage some azerite traits give is to encourage token sales so players will buy the BoEs on auction at ridiculous prices.

Mind you, if players do and the traits prove advantageous, they will deserve every bit of the prestige their affluence has enabled.

Other folk have gone so far to suggest the imbalance between Alliance and Horde at “elite” levels, further exacerbated by the popularity of Vulpera, is designed to entice more Alliance to pay for faction changes, and next expansion, (these malcontents are predicting,) Alliance will get superior racials and Sethrak, to lucratively seduce the moneyed masses back onto the Alliance side.

Of course everyone who loves this game takes Ion seriously when he states, with a perfectly straight face, that the only metric Blizzard cares about when designing games is the fun metric.

Shirt-wyrmrest-accord · February 23, 2020, 9:35am

Zarraline:

Bwomsambi:

There is nothing prestigious there, change my mind

Okay, I’ll prove exactly how prestigious owning a Mighty Caravan Brutosaur is from my own experience.

I bought the Mighty Caravan Brutosaur as soon as it was available, and use it frequently every day because I have 100 alts spread over 2 dozen realms and all I do on them is quest and collect items to sell. I’d quite like to raid too, but any time I get accepted into a raid they start wiping and blame me for it for "Pulling the boss’ or “Standing in the fire”, whatever those things are supposed to mean. I’ve tried just lying dead throughout boss fights like I do when everyone else is killing the trash, so I can’t get blamed for anything that wipes the group but they always kick me anyway.

It’s really not fair. I’ve explained to raid leaders they have no right to kick me because I’m provably in the top 3%. I’m a highly prestigious player because I own the highly prestigious Mighty Caravan Brutosaur and none of those raid leaders do.
But all that happens is I end up having to report those bullying meanies for telling me to do something horribly painful and physically impossible with my Mighty Caravan Brutosaur.

If you impecunious readers are wondering how I made so much gold, (I keep guild banks on dozens of realms just to hold all my excess gold, along with high value items with which I don’t want to suddenly inundate the market,) it’s perfectly easy, anyone can do it.

A hospital set me on the right track. I went in with a back operation and came out crippled completely and unable to remember my own name. Apparently the anesthetist was too busy sampling his own wares to pay attention and the doctor was a trainee who was not supposed to be working unsupervised.

When I came out (of the hospital, I mean,) my kids bought me a computer and sat me in the corner with it, and over the past 20 years I’ve progressed from minesweeper to Magic Online to Skyrim to WoW. These days I can remember my name again, if not much else.

Painkillers are pretty useless for nerve pain in the back - except for morphine types, and doctors won’t keep prescribing those. So I do the one thing that works, keep my mind off it. On a bad day I play up to 20 hours a day, because it’s better playing on exhausted than lying alone in the dark with nothing to take me out of myself.

I even got banned for botting once, the entire case against me being that it was physically impossible to play such long hours. The decision was luckily reversed when I explained my condition and begged them to check their Warden files. I could never use a bot because I don’t understand how it’s done. Just learning to move my toons and manipulate the camera was really difficult at first. I was level 90 on my first toon, a little gnome, when I learned how to play in third person. At last I could see over the reeds to click on my fishing bobber!

Anyway, not being able to progress much through content other than questing, I kept making new alts all over the place, constantly auctioning stuff I found and flipping items on every realm I spread to.

So you see, anyone can do it. Just don’t sleep, don’t have a “life”, and spend around 20 hours a day collecting, auctioning and flipping. I’m sure everyone will agree Blizzard is Doing the Right Thing by rewarding such behaviour with the prestigious, temporarily available, Mighty Caravan Brutosaur.

Once you purchase your very own Mighty Caravan Brutosaur, and mount it in public, you can expect the acclaim, adulation and applause to which you are entitled. I keep mounting up right in the auction house doorway in order to receive my due and I have actually had 2 players ask where I got it from. The rest of the comments I’ve received are not worth mentioning. The players whispering me obviously clicked my name by mistake instead of some guy they despised and hated and thought they should report.

To sum up - or TLDR as they say - constant, addictive game play, with the time spent flipping auctions because one is too slow and dumb to do end game content, is Highly Meritorious. Everyone will definitely be in awe of you and tell you what they think of you when you mount one in the middle of their gathering.

Blizzard is quite right to reward such behaviour and prove our prestige by discontinuing the mount, just as the loudly lauded Yesuna keeps saying.

It’s not like the buckets of bullion we make and the mouthwatering range of items we can buy with gold is already reward enough for being money makers, is it?

tl;dr:

“mount is prestigious because I don’t have a job and farmed all day.”

I’m disabled too.
This is an insult.

Zarraline-gundrak · February 23, 2020, 9:56am

I’m sorry you feel insulted, but I suspect something has gone right over your head.

Mysfyre-norgannon · February 23, 2020, 10:03am

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Shirt-wyrmrest-accord · February 23, 2020, 10:06am

Considering I linked this post to multiple people and none of us could tell if you’re being sarcastic or not - considering people legitimately have that mindset - I’d suggest not posting wall and being snarky when people literally can’t tell your tone through text.

And I still can’t tell if it’s sarcasm or not, and therefore, will assume it’s not.

Freydo-kiljaeden · February 23, 2020, 10:29am

stop arguing against someones use of an adjective lmao. By definition, the mount is in fact prestigious to some people. Just because you don’t find it prestigious doesnt mean the hundreds of players that send whispers of admiration to a brutosaur owner doesnt. Its just an adjective. To some people, 60 degrees is warm and to others its cold. Its just an adjective.

You don’t have the mount so I understand that you haven’t witnessed the prestigious factors to it yet. Trust me, a lot of people know they will never be able to afford the mount and whisper you telling you so and admire you for having the mount. That in itself proves that there’s some level of prestige to it.

Rankin-shandris · February 23, 2020, 10:32am

You could use this to say any mount is prestigious.

Zarraline-gundrak · February 23, 2020, 11:31am

Telling someone that something has gone over their head, when it obviously has, is not being snarky. It’s just being informative.

Life is going to prove difficult if you look for insults and snarkiness where there is none.

Éngle-saurfang · February 23, 2020, 12:23pm

That’s your personal experience which is pretty sad but not representative of other bruto owners or the playerbase as a whole.

I got free of wow’s monogaming grip back in cata and have husband/father responsibilities nowadays alongside my other games so it’s not accurate to assume all auction goblins are no life farmer/grinders - a fair few of us just use math/spreadsheets/macro market manipulation to make our millions which doesn’t take much time each day at all.

Zarraline-gundrak · February 23, 2020, 12:41pm

What I wrote was truthful about myself, but very much tongue in cheek in the conclusions drawn from that experience.
And it’s not sad; things did go wrong, but I have a happy life and my little family are good to me.

It’s good to hear you are keeping WoW in perspective and making time for your family. Your partner and children can be the very best friends a person could ever have. That friendship overshadows any difficulties and makes life worthwhile.