New 8.2 reputation mount Rustbolt Resistor costs 524,288 gold

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Anyone else noticed how the price of vendor mounts started skyrocketing around the same time WoW Tokens were added to the game?

Purely coincidence I’m sure! :rofl:

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They are using the mounts as a gold sink…pretty clear with all the gold mounts this expansion

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Could be or they slap a high price tag to it and want people to farm more. Also, it gives the people with a large amount of gold something else to buy.

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As a guy with the 5M mount … getting tired of super expensive mounts.

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It’s no secret they want us buy tokens. The reason the new rep mounts are 90k a pop lul. 3 tokens for 3 mounts blizz can take that and put it, you can guess.

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Not all of us have a lot of gold. Not all of us use are playing time to make gold. Many of these mounts cost more than all the gold I have and I will never buy a token to get a mount.

It’s kind of discouraging.

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So they want us to buy tokens by introducing… cheaper gold sink mounts?

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You classify 90k for a rep mount as cheap? We must have different definitions. So yes, I would have to buy 3 tokens to have that much gold just to buy 3 rep mounts.

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How much did the trio of Frog mounts before these cost? What about the Auctionsaurus before them?

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10mil in gold sinks to this point, I would say they want us to buy tokens.

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By introducing cheaper and cheaper mounts?

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How is 500k+ a “cheaper and cheaper” mount? These costs are cumulative in an xpac with far lower gold gain then the last 2.

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It’s the excaption so far.

Auctionsaurus was 5,000,000g

Froggies were 333,333g a piece

Rep Mounts (x6) are 90,000g

and now we’re back up to this one with 524,888g. Apparently. That’s an oddly specific price.

Edit: Ah, this was pointed out on Wowhead: “Mildly interesting, and possibly intentional, is that 524,288 is the number of bytes in 512 kibibytes.”

Also they’re not sure yet if Rep discounts apply.

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I want a mount that’ll randomly stop moving and refuse to do anything unless I feed it WoW tokens.

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Like I said these mount costs are cumulative and their total price far exceeds what most of us can do in an xpac. Even doing the gold missions from last xpac on 4 characters didn’t come close to this.

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Total gold sinks 10mil to this point, capish?

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6,764,287g

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i thougt gold was capped at 999,999

how do you buy a 5mil mount?

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Well, consider it something to work towards, if it is a mount that you want.

I would say so, yea. Although it is interesting to note that a regular rep mount now is only 30k less than the Grand Expedition Yak, which comes with a vendor and an xmog.

9,999,999.

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Thanks but I’m already getting two mounts from Mechagon.

A ground mount which comes as a reward for completing a quest line, grinding and handing in mats. The Wheel mount for completing a meta achievement.

Neither fly but I been wanting a new ground mount since bfa launched and I think that wheel one may just be it.

Then theres the Bee mount.

TLDR: You dont have to buy it unless your a hardcore collector in which case you’ve probably already prepared for getting it.

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