It seems to me that more people had epic flight by the end of TBC than didn’t.
All my experience in TBC was constrained to Mannoroth alliance. I know I had epic flight on my main, a hunter, as well, a druid…(somewhat less expensive, I think).
Am I misremembering the state of mounts back then? Was Mannoroth alliance unusually wealthy or was my experience more or less in line with everyone else?
Edit:
For clarity, curious whether you feel that most players were on fast flyers or not, at least on one character.
It is defiantly server dependent, larger servers meant larger economies and lead to inflation across the board as more gold is injected into the economy. Some servers 5000 gold was reasonable, some servers getting 5000g was a lot of work just to get to the point where you could spend that on a mount.
It is much like classic right now, on mega servers 300-350g for a flask is not uncommon, but on smaller servers they are still going for less than 200 gold, and even the smaller servers are inflated to a degree.
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I didn’t. I was always poor. I also really sucked at WoW but god was it fun.
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You’re never going to get accurate results from a post like this, casual players from back in 2007 aren’t going to be reading the wow forums in 2021 for the most part
The type of people that would frequent the forums are going to be the “enthusiasts”, which means you are going to have a much higher skew of people that were “achievers” or “tryhard” at the game
You aren’t going to get any answers from people that quit the game in the last 15 years or just aren’t interested in browsing the official forums, which is a majority of the playerbase
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not true. i’m a casual since vanilla. i farmed motes and sold them on the auction house so i could buy my husband irl, a flying mount and epic flying. in turn, he made me a beautiful epic chest piece, and unfortunately, didnt realize bind on pick up meant as soon as he crafted it, it’d be bound to him. boy was he mad. i didnt personally get epic flying till cataclysm
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gold wasnt that hard to come by and rarely had any usage outside of enchanting your gear and buying your weekly Flask/Food
I had flying on 3 toons by wrath launch
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I didn’t say no casual players are on the forums
I said there is a much higher percentage of “enthusiasts” than there are casuals
And the fact you say you didn’t get epic flying until cataclysm kinda proves my point that the majority of players didn’t have epic flying in TBC
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well i had already bought it in tbc, just not for myself. hehe. and i wasnt interested in farming all those motes again, to get epic flying for myself. just normal flying was sufficient for me at the time. plus i’m a casual altholic, and thats expensive by itself.
The good news is that I don’t plan on publishing any peer-reviewed studies based on the findings here. I’m just curious about the perceptions of those that were around back then…whether they felt that a majority of 70s back then were on epics or not.
As for everything you pointed out about the sample set I’m polling, I completely agree with everything you’re saying; I think you’re spot-on with all of it.
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Not gonna lie. I thought you said you bought your husband with motes.
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i think they were. because their guilds would put friendly pressure on everyone arriving at locations as a team. and epic was faster than normal by quite a bit. also, any casual dumb luck enough to get a’lar or willing to farm for netherwing drakes, would likely buy epic on the principle of the thing - et.al, epic mount requires epic flight. 
haha wow, gotta tell him that. you’ve started a new joke in my house. haha
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think “epic” (fast) flying mounts didn’t come until WotLK.
But to answer your question about TBC flying…
I was in a casual/family guild that raided in TBC. I distinctly remember for most of the raids that required a mount to reach, we would need to summon 3-4 people out of the 25.
Those 3-4 were the people who always were “carried” and would ask for help on easily soloed quests.
If I remember correctly, you made ~2500g or so just completing the outlands zone quests. The rest came from dailies, farming and dungeon lloot. It wasn’t as hard as many made it out to be.
Had it on 3 70s.
I had epic flight form. Every druid i knew did. Some didn’t get it as soon as others. I figure the majority must have.
Edit: I misread and thought you meant epic flight form. In my defense I’ve worked 16 out if the last 24 hours. I’m tired lol. I still think by the end more had it than didn’t.
Id say most people you actually saw around had it. You really only saw fresh levelers and ultra casuals who didn’t play much on the slow mounts.
Huh? I’m not sure why you think that.
I was a major casual then, who read the forums every day. I’m still a casual who reads the forums every day. I didn’t have my epic flyer until some point in Wrath.
Case and point, you were a casual player, you didn’t have epic flying in TBC
There are MANY more casual players that dont frequent the forums
I miss read the title at first, thought it said epic fight, not epic flight. I didn’t have epic flight until I completed “what a long strange trip it’s been” during WotLK.
As for and epic fight, at level 67 I had a fight on my protection pally with a 67 warrior in nagrand that lasted 45 minutes before one of us died, and I was the victor! I will always remember that as the best pvp moment I’ve had in all my years of playing wow.
I suppose epic isn’t a good word to use…whatever anyone might consider them, I’m talking about fast flying…280% speed…swift (gryphon/wind rider) (or flight form for druids).
There were definitely two flight speeds in TBC…the “slow” (normal) was actually slower than a fast ground mount (don’t know % modifier), and fast speed was 280%…and I think pallies could get that higher with crusader aura or something.