[Schwert likes Mounts] - Whelps and Weapons.

[Schwert]

I find it funny how when people see someone with one of these, you get the
"OMG I would have sold it!!! They are worth $XXX amount for RL cash!" quite frequently

Yet everyone has/had a hobby, interest, desire for something that others find not so.

"OMG you brought a $7000 motor cross bike!!! They are so noisy compared to my scooter"
"OMG you paid $450 on a ball gown! I would have just brought something similar from and 2nd hand store for $4.50, what a waste"
etc...

I can understand where people come from due to personal preferences of what is worth what, but Kraai clearly wanted this mount, and it was worth what she paid for it or she would not have got it in the 1st place. I know that I can spend up to $150+ on a big weekend and have nothing to show for it but a hanger over and a few fun, blurry memories....
Do that a few times and BAM! you could have had a spectral tiger that you will always get to use and keep.

It's all about perspective

Oh and GRATZ KRAAI !!!!

I agree with you 100% bro!

This game /is/ my hobby and has been hardcore for the past year. I haven't had a single shred of burnout nor can I see myself having burnout because I literally /always/ have something to do - Thus this $600 was pretty much the equivalent of a vacation in the mountains for me.
Part of the reason I bought this as well is so that I have the gold to put towards getting my final grail. Top 100 guilds are selling Heroic Ragnaros kills for 500kish after their Dragon Soul progression and having not only this - but the one thing I want more than anything in my hands - would actually feel like I worked hard towards something. [[Which is a big deal to me.]]

Also: Cat Mounts have some of the most fluid animations in the game. Why not ghost kitty? :3

[Wassa]

You guys have no idea how squishy I feel to own it~

The rare version is up for sale on my server for 300k to Petopia members.

Damn. Not that I want this mount (I got the only TCG mount I wanted *squees at her shorestrider*) but I wish I had that kind of gold!

Congrats btw! I'll probably see you in Orgrimmar with it soon.

[Snowy]

I find it funny how when people see someone with one of these, you get the
"OMG I would have sold it!!! They are worth $XXX amount for RL cash!" quite frequently[/size]

Since you're obviously directing this comment towards me since I'm the only person who mentioned this kind of thing at all - I know it's a hobby. I don't care what people do with their money, if I had the cash to waste away I would most likely buy a Spectral Tiger as well, given the chance. My comment wasn't intended to be mean or anything along those lines, I just have to wonder sometimes how people can either win this card and not be tempted to sell it or to buy it for that much money. Even for people who have a good bit of spare cash, that can be a lot.

Grats on the tiger, since I didn't say it before, I'm happy for you really, but some people on here really don't know how to take a bit of a joke. >.>

[SpiritBinder]

I find it funny how when people see someone with one of these, you get the
"OMG I would have sold it!!! They are worth $XXX amount for RL cash!" quite frequently[/size]

Since you're obviously directing this comment towards me since I'm the only person who mentioned this kind of thing at all - I know it's a hobby. I don't care what people do with their money, if I had the cash to waste away I would most likely buy a Spectral Tiger as well, given the chance. My comment wasn't intended to be mean or anything along those lines, I just have to wonder sometimes how people can either win this card and not be tempted to sell it or to buy it for that much money. Even for people who have a good bit of spare cash, that can be a lot.

Grats on the tiger, since I didn't say it before, I'm happy for you really, but some people on here really don't know how to take a bit of a joke. >.>

Um if you really want to take credit for my comment, you can, but sadly it was not aimed at you, or anyone in particular. If you really want to know what sparked my interest it was a combination of someone saying the same thing in raid yesterday...again... and the post directly posted above my initial post, I think it was zedxrgal's? But still it was not aimed at her, I was going off my personal experience

And yes, I 1/2 won this card myself. I started buying packing in the hope I would get one. I brought about 4 or 5 packs. Then one day in a crazy fit I brought a whole box $125 worth in one shot. And to my absolute delight ther was one within the box. I knew how much they were worth, but I was buying the dam things for that exact card. I would have not sold it, nor did I.

[Snowy]

Oh god Spiritbinder... I'm sorry. :/ I thought your comment was aimed at me out of spite or something since I jokingly questioned it. Sorry, I feel bad now. D:

I did, for a while, buy card packs in the hopes I would get something cool. Not necessarily the Spectral Tiger, just some fun loot cards, I never found any though apart from the Landro's card which I got in the cards with the Cataclysm CE. The idea of being able to open a pack of cards and finding a loot card inside is pretty exciting, but I don't have the money right now for that. I'll probably do it again one day once I have more money (Christmas totally drained me. xD) but that wouldn't stop it being tempting to sell a loot card if I found one. I probably wouldn't though, especially if I'm still big into WoW.

Again, sorry, I really did think your comment was aimed at me since it seemed kinda random otherwise.

[Loki]

The trouble with the TCG mounts is that one day WoW will end and they will go pop and disappear. Now I can understand that about subscription fees etc as well but for the time spent and entertainment the sub is not that bad value for money. But $500 for a mount that *will* not exist whether you like it or not at some (probably not all that distant) future just seems a little excessive to me. If I won the lottery or something then yeah, what the hell, I'd buy 'em all. But unless I could pay for one with in-game gold I don't think I'll ever get one (used to buy packs to try and get some loot cards, never got a single one), though if they put a Barrens Giraffe mount in through the TCG I'd be sorely tempted.

Alot of them also have in-game parallels (burning hippogryph/blazing hippogryph, spectral tiger/spectral horse/wolf, bear/darkmoon bear etc) as well. I do wish there was a different colored savage raptor or woolly rhino available in-game though.

[Schwert]

Everquest has been going for how many years now? They've never had even close to the amount of support and numbers WoW has.
The game isn't going anywhere for a long time.

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I quit my guild today.
I have never /once/ been late to a raid and I've always pushed myself to my limits for DPS. They've done nothing but treat me like crap, lie about helping me get the Firelands meta and call off raids last minute thus causing me to miss Christmas Parties and family events. Last week I stated I /might/ be late due to going out to my birthday dinner. Nobody said happy birthday. I left the dinner early and got on an hour early.
This week I had to leave early due to a family event. It'd be after Ultraxion which the GM kept calling after anyways without really letting us push any farther - He told me "Are you always going to have to do something on raid nights?" despite the obvious and then decided to bench me because it's "too hard to find a pug."
Yeah no. I'd rather not raid than raid with people demanding they're going to roll on mounts on their alts in group 2 when they're doing Heroic Ragnaros anyyways on their MAIN for the mount and I don't want to put up with people bashing the entirety of my group because we don't do enough DPS compared to the fully heroic firelands group.
Douchebags. The lot of them aside from like...2-3 people.

Sitting around in Orgrimmar with some friends afterwards I was like "wanna do dungins?" - Guess what they went and helped me finish?



Derpr friendship drake.

[Nili]

aww I'm sorry to hear about your guild, they sound like douches.
Yey friendship drake, he's gorgeous.

[Wassa]

Awww Kraai.

I have the same thing happen in my guild. I'm two achievements away from Glory of the Firelands Raider - Bucket List and Do a Barrel Roll! - should be easy to do with my raid guild right? Ya, wrong. They simply will not go back and do these achievements because most of the guild got their shiny purple phoenixes already! Same with the Volcanic Stone Drake. I'm a few achievement away yet no one in the guild will help me finish because they already have theirs. It was the same in Wrath with 10 man Naxx, 10 man ICC, and the red proto. I missed out of the white proto because they wouldn't do Naxx anymore after they got their drakes, same with ICC, and I had to pug for the last achievement for my red proto.

Ugh, we both need new guilds.

Sowwy, guess I started to rant, but feel free to hit me up for dungeons and stuff if I'm on. Congrats on your friendship drake and a very late happy birthday!

[zedxrgal]

Um if you really want to take credit for my comment, you can, but sadly it was not aimed at you, or anyone in particular. If you really want to know what sparked my interest it was a combination of someone saying the same thing in raid yesterday...again... and the post directly posted above my initial post, I think it was zedxrgal's? But still it was not aimed at her, I was going off my personal experience

And yes, I 1/2 won this card myself. I started buying packing in the hope I would get one. I brought about 4 or 5 packs. Then one day in a crazy fit I brought a whole box $125 worth in one shot. And to my absolute delight ther was one within the box. I knew how much they were worth, but I was buying the dam things for that exact card. I would have not sold it, nor did I.

Since you said my name I felt I should respond. And no my comment wasn't meant to be mean or offensive to anyone at all. The issue is, for me, the mounts DO sell for a lot of real life money. Money I could really really use. It's a gorgeous mount and yes I wouldn't turn one away but at the same time I'd be very hard pressed not to sell it for real money if I got the card for it. I've never had that much gold in game in all my years of playing to buy one nor have I seen one for sale. lol
It's a gorgeous mount and huge grats to the OP for getting it!!

[Schwert]

Awww Kraai.

I have the same thing happen in my guild. I'm two achievements away from Glory of the Firelands Raider - Bucket List and Do a Barrel Roll! - should be easy to do with my raid guild right? Ya, wrong. They simply will not go back and do these achievements because most of the guild got their shiny purple phoenixes already! Same with the Volcanic Stone Drake. I'm a few achievement away yet no one in the guild will help me finish because they already have theirs. It was the same in Wrath with 10 man Naxx, 10 man ICC, and the red proto. I missed out of the white proto because they wouldn't do Naxx anymore after they got their drakes, same with ICC, and I had to pug for the last achievement for my red proto.

Ugh, we both need new guilds.

Sowwy, guess I started to rant, but feel free to hit me up for dungeons and stuff if I'm on. Congrats on your friendship drake and a very late happy birthday!

I'm seriously temped to just call a group for a week to knock out as many achievements in there as possible. 2/7H being the minimum requirement to get in to worm out the derp raiders on an RP server. However - Would that actually work? We'd still need a full 10. - _ -

I'm seriously getting sick of "raiding" guilds on this server. Either they treat people like crap, the gm ninja loots mounts or they just /suck/.

[Snowy]

For some reason, a lot of 'the best' raiding guilds seem to be like that. They're too busy being all high and mighty and stuck up their own arses to care about anyone who's not super important to their raiding team and guild. And that's one big reason I've given up on 'hardcore' raiding altogether now, it causes too much stress and it's depressing when you find out no one really cares about you and they're basically just using you for your DPS or whatever. I'll stick to older tier raiding and mount hunting.

[Snowbird]

congratz! i like that drake! ^^ its pretty!

[Schwert]

Good News everybody!

A guild has accepted my offer for a Heroic Ragnaros kill!
I'm getting my holy grail!


Just have to wait 7 days before I can do the transfer and I'll be going over when it's the least out of their way! Expect some awesome stories - I've never been on a PvP server before and I'm stuck there for a week.

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To make the post more less boring have a Time-Lost.
lol@old gear

[Schwert]

DING!
Grats, mon'!



130th mount!
Orgrimmar Wolf!

[Schwert]

Oh god.

Oh god.

Just...

Somebody on Alliance side was wanting a Reins of Posedius. Nothing new - It's very rare on this realm since most people kill it and learn it. [[Way it should be, haha.]]
However she was offering a Blazing Hippogryph for trade for it.

Guess what popped up on the Horde Auction house for 90k later that evening?



Obviously I'm excited and shocked I managed to get it for such a low price.
The wings seem...off to me though. I think I'd like it way more if that yellow weren't such a large chunk. It has my favorite face amonst all the birdhorses though and really is a hell of a lot more beautiful than Flameward.

[Talaridan]

Congratulations! The Blazing Hippogryph really is lovely!

[Lupis]

You and your insane amounts of gold. xD

Seriously, though, congrats! That's one of my very favorite mounts, it's gorgeous. The yellow on the wings just reminds me of superheated metal. That bird be full of magma!

[Snowy]

Wow... You have so much gold! And now a beautiful mount too, congrats!

[Schwert]

Haha. I don't have that much.

I only scrimped to try for my grail and well - Afterwards I'll be poorer than poor.