Yes, we're sill salty about the Brutosaur

[Eleusia-myzrael]

@Rhumoz-faerlina

It takes me like 20 seconds to get to a Auction House.

Not if you are in the middle of a raid, dungeon, or battleground outdoors, or in a city or outdoor zone that doesn’t have a portal or auction house.

Yes, hearthstones are a thing, but they have a CD and don’t transport you back to where you were originally.

Yes, the mailbox toy is a thing if you have another toon parked at an AH, but the mailbox toy has a long CD, and sometimes it helps to have a certain toon posting or buying items.

@Rhumoz-faerlina

Why people want to spend so much gold on this I will never know.

5 million gold was totally worth it for me personally. It was a convenience and quality of life boost that I can make use of on any toon without a CD, for as long as I play WoW.

It ranks up there with the Katy Stampwhistle toy and transmog mount, and I hope someday another AH mount is introduced for the people that missed out.

@Bilquis-black-dragonflight

By all means, keep complaining. No matter what other players say. It was a bad idea to take it away at all. They did not provide a good enough reasoning for removing it, in my opinion.

The real reason was probably FOMO to get people to buy massive amounts of WoW tokens for gold. (Without the Bruto mount going away, players would have told themselves they would save up over time and buy it sometime in the future.)

The Shadowlands gear gatekeeping issue really did help me to realize that giving players the urge to buy WoW tokens is a core design philosophy of the current devs.

Note how the MoP reforge/transmog mount was never removed, and actually became more accessible over time.

[Humanbeak-drenden]

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[Brahmina-khadgar (Brahmina)]

@Eleusia-myzrael

(Without the Bruto mount going away, players would have told themselves they would save up over time and buy it sometime in the future.)

That was my exact plan. However, Blizzard explicitly stated the reason they were removing the MCB was because they did not want to see an auction house mount become common.

Looks Like the Mighty Caravan Brutosaur might Be Unobtainable In 9.0.1

We want to be perfectly clear on this – we do not intend to remove the AH vendor from this mount, especially when some players put in a great deal of effort to acquire this mount specifically for that functionality. Of course, we remember that we removed the Mystic Birdhat’s Reforging from the Grand Expedition Yak, but that was because we removed Reforging from the game. The Mighty Caravan Brutosaur is something that fundamentally alters players’ flow around the world, and it’s a unique conven…

[Chaosknite-frostmourne]

It’s great that Blizzard agrees that the AH functionality on that mount is considered to be of great benefit for some players.

Also it not being common is understandable but even so the number of people that can actually buy this mount still remains very small percentage.

It would’ve been great if Blizzard left the mount in game letting players who want to work towards this huge milestone or 5m gold in their own time.

[Tidesaga-wyrmrest-accord]

While I completely and absolutely agree with you on the motivation part (I’ve already got my own, so this isn’t about me), I personally believe they should remove the gold cap for items on BMAH and make it absolute wild west.

These chinese companies who come and snipe/instantly gold cap items are pretty cheeze.

[Krutz-bleeding-hollow]

I don’t want them to make the Mighty Caravan Brutosaur available again. It ran its time and fit the theme for BFA.

However.

I would like them to add a new auction house mount to the game in the style/keeping of Shadowlands.

[Chaosknite-frostmourne]

That is also a very Valid Option.

But the mount is still available on the BMAH just has a insanely low drop rate, its been over 7 months since it was last seen on any US realms so if they just fix that much also would suffice.

[Brahmina-khadgar (Brahmina)]

@Humanbeak-drenden

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I hate it when people delete their posts before I had a chance to see what they wrote. It’s like a story without an ending. The Lady or the Tiger? We’ll never know…

[Pixdiff-aegwynn]

Yeah, i mean still 2023 and the feeling is the same. Sometimes i do think at stop playing the game since the biggest realization imo is having a bruto, and i just cant and never had a chance on getting one bc i started playing almost in shadowlands pre patch, so not a chance or idea on how to get one, and also no time since it was removed. And it just get better since you know it was removed on the loot table for a long time on the bmah. Its just discouraging at this point, why this would be unobtainable to cause virtual scarcity? I know we need to be fair at the people that have it, but why not back on a vendor for goldcap? Lots of people dropping it or buying a token, this would be a huge gold sink in the game, and maybe even some people would be back at the game. Bad moves on Blizzard about that one

[Pixdiff-aegwynn]

But you still have a chance on getting one

[Brahmina-khadgar (Brahmina)]

I’m hoping they’ll put one of the other models (without an AH) on the Trading Post. I feel like that would get a LOT of participation from folks.

[Rhane-shadowsong]

Its ridiculous, vendor buyable mount should never have been removed. It should be put back.