There is no easy way. It takes focus and mulish determination.
However. the idea that you cannot “play the game” and do this is false. You just have to really, really, commit to getting it in the time they left for you. I went from very little gold (I think I had less than 10k across all my characters) to now being just 166k away from getting that mount.
I set my goal end date to 9/1 for the pre-patch. I’m way ahead, because I’ve chosen to grind harder than I need to. I was going to set my schedule to one hour and a half M-F, and 4 hrs Sat & Sun. I raid 5 hrs a week. Raid prep 2hrs. Cloak upkeep. Mask runs. M+ chest. Log reviews. Brought a few alts up to speed to assist in this endeavor.
Don’t get me wrong - it’s not enjoyable, this task, because of the unexpected time compression. It would be great to just farm lightly on the weekends and play the House lightly through the week. But, I am very grateful towards the data miners who found out about this, because I love the look of this mount, and even if they place another AH mount in SL, the odds are that I won’t want it. I’m not a mount collector. The mount has to be visually appealing to me, and I’m picky.
I will be glad to cut this task out and play WoW in a more relaxed manner. >.<
It’s for a small percentage of the playerbase, it was never intended for the average player to get.
It’s not being removed from the game, this has already been confirmed by Blizzard. It’s also not a slap in the face since it was never meant for the average player.
Quite a few folks have posted that they managed to get the brutosaur since this thread started. Many are really close. Me, I just don’t have time to do much more than post in a thread here and there. Got to get back to practicing. (40 hrs/day)
S.A.TUR.DAY Night! Everyone sing! I should have it in the bag then. Of course, it’s huge, so realistically I’m more likely to be in its bag, but you know what I mean!
Not even a reasonable request of the playerbase, considering the gold value of tokens has gone WAY down since their implementation.
I only know ONE person who shelled out the $600+ that it cost to get the 5M necessary in WoW tokens… they seriously expect the average, run of the mill player to have that much money to fritter on a ground mount that isn’t even TCG?
It’s possible!
