5000 to 100 in 3 seconds!

...gold that is.

Tonight I finally had enough gold on Zoof to buy the epic flying skill. So once I worked myself up for it, I flew to Shadowmoon Valley and paid the Riding Trainer 5000.

Saving my pennies seems to have had an effect on me because instead of paying the 200 more to get the default epic flying mount to actually starting using the skill I'm thinking I'm going to wait a bit longer and get the Netherdrake mount for free by doing the Netherwing daily quests. Hopefully I can be patient and wait that long.



I remember when I bought Hoof's 1st mount for ~100 a couple years ago. Money was much harder to save up way back then so it was pretty traumatic to spend that kind of money! So it's pretty nuts that the game has us spending 5000 now! Insane...


For the record, here's what I did to save up 5000 ...

• Instead of running to Outlands at 58, I stayed in the old world and did *every* (non-group) level 50-60 quest I could get my hands on to get every ounce of gold I could before heading to Outlands. This kept me in the old world until I was level 63 which was also a good thing. I did every ounce of EPL, WPL, Silithus, Winterspring, Azshara etc.
  
  
• I headed to Outlands at 63 and did every quest available in Hellfire Penninsula, Zangarmarsh, Terrokar and Nagrand.
  
  
• I specifically did NOT start questing in Netherstorm, Blade's Edge and Shadowmoon Valley in order to get the level 70 bonus gold for each quest in those zones.
  
  
• Once I hit 70, I got some guildies to help me unlock the Ogri'la daily quest hub. Once they were unlocked I did 5-8 daily quests every day for about 2 weeks on Zoof. Once I got the hang of them, they only took me 45 minutes each per day - not bad for rakin' in ~50 per run!
  
  
• Other Stuff
• Warlocks are overpowered... and I could do more quests faster/easier than other classes.
  
• Also, being a warlock, my "costs" for leveling/questing were pretty low since:
• I hardly ever was low on HP or Mana (Life Tap, Drain Mana and Drain Life FTW!)
• My "ammo" was free (vs. Hunter, for example, who has to buy bullets/arrows)
• I caught a special break along the way because a friend in my guild helped me save money while getting my lower level riding skill/mount. That probably saved me 300 right there.
• I was very stingy w/my money and only bought a couple things from the Auction House from level 60 to 70.

Another weird aspect to this whole process is that I probably had ~900 spread across all of my other characters but for some reason I refused to use their money! It was important to me that Zoof earn the entire 5000 on his own!