My new goal: Mountain O' Mounts!

I've decided that my new goal in WoW is going to be a combination of my first obsession (Mount collecting) with my newer obsession (Multiboxing). First, a little history:

I've been in an odd place over the last couple of months, as far as WoW and multiboxing go. I had basically hit the 5-man wall quite some time ago. I got all the gear I could with just 5-man content (except for all the Emblem of Frost gear, but getting that 2 emblems at a time [sometimes more if the weekly was easy] got boring), and leveling new teams got stale after about 15 level 80s and way-too-many 60s. I'm still a little weary about Cataclysm, and after finishing "What a long, strange trip ......", I really felt like I had nothing to do but grind out Emblems of Frost. Then I remembered something Supernova told me a while back: Do something that nobody has done!

Right before I started multiboxing, I was an insane Mount Collector on my original Hunter. I was only the 2nd person on my server to get 100 Mounts (I missed being the first by 2 days), and have always had good luck with mounts, and always found it very fun.

I decided to look up the most current list of available mounts, cross-checked with the rares I already have, did some math, and it is most definitely possible to get 100 mounts now without depending much on the really RARE mounts (unlike in the old days, before the Argent Tournament, Celestial Steed and Touring Rocket). Now, it will mostly be grinding. Tons and tons of grinding, but I'm up for the challenge.

What I will do:

-All of the original city reps.
-All of the outlands reps.
-Any mount that you can just buy at a vendor (Bear in Dalaran, Traveller's Mammoth, Motorcycles, etc).
-Ahn-Qiraj bugs
-All Argent tournament mounts
-All PvP Mounts (have 3 of the 6 already)
-Baron's Mount
-Tradeskill Mounts on my non-Paladins to balance out his exclusive Mounts
-White Hawkstrider (already have 4, just need 1 more)
-some other random stuff

What I WONT do:
-Winterspring Frostsaber: I did this once with my Hunter, and will NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER do it again!
-Depend on the mounts from ZG, Kara, UP or Sethik Halls (though I will still farm for them)

Now obviously this goal is going to take me many many months to attain, and probably wont be finished before Cataclysm. Which could be a good thing, because I'm sure there will be more (and easier) mounts to get by then, and I'll be able to train to make all of my Blue Dragonhawks to be 310 speed.

Thoughts? Am I too crazy? And I hope someone has not already done this as a 5-boxer, then I'll be a sad panda.

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Originally Posted by Kalros

-Baron's Mount

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Ouch

A friend is in the process of doing this as well. Only on one toon, not 5 so his experience will be different of course. The things he can't do solo you can easily do 5 boxing.

I went with a 5 person group to see about the phoenix mount in The Eye and well, we weren't equipped for it.

Good luck. I think it is a good way to spend your time before Cata.

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Indeed. However I have gotten 3 in the past (though not on any of my current characters, damnit!)

Speaking as someone who has over 100 mounts on a single toon (never seen baron's mount drop though, nor do I have any other rare drop ones, not even the green proto (not on the char that has over 100 anyway , as far as rare mounts go)) and over 50 on a team of five, I commend you on committing to this task that may seem daunting to many but I personally call very doable.

Don't forget about the brewfest mounts if you don't have it yet already by then, and the celestial horse/recuit a friend mount (or new one if you already have old, but you know what i mean) if you don't mind the extra cash and don't already have.
Cheaper than buying the trading card or blizzcon ones anyway.

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What I WONT do:
-Winterspring Frostsaber: I did this once with my Hunter, and will NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER do it again!

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Aw, but those are my favorite mounts!

I have them on 21 of my level 80s and have started grinding rep for the last four.

Since I 10-box, it really doesn't take that long -
one lock and 2 other toons at the quest giver, one lock and two other toons at the village. Macros for party disband/invites and some quick summons and the travel time is cut down to about a quarter of normal (and that rep grind is all travel time). I even have my village guys kill non-quest mobs while travelling so I never have to wait on quest mobs to spawn.

The mounts are pretty rare and eye-catching since they are white-ish so when I'm gathering up scattered toons in Dalaran they are easy to spot. :o

Anyway, good luck with your mount gathering!

My original toon that I played a ton back in the day was a gnome fury warrior (back when fury warriors were laughed at and I had to fight tooth and nail for 1h drops in MC and BWL... though I still was top 3 in DPS).

Anyhoo, my gnome was the first on the server to get a tiger. I don't know how much time I spent grinding cloth, and turning in cloth, but it was a looong time. I still have that mount. I never traded it in for the new sabers, though I doubt anyone recognizes that I'm a gnome on a first generation epic mount that could have only been received by getting exalted with the elves, which was only possible with an ungodly amount of cloth turn-ins.

Good luck on your goal!!!

First update! Got the 25 Mount Achievement this morning (just bought all the exodar mounts and the outlands griffons).

In addition to doing the Argent dailys every day (for the rest of my life!), my first priorities are going to be things that might change with Cataclysm:

-Ahn-Qiraj Bugs. They may not change the zone, but I'll start here anyway. 4 fairly easy mounts.
-Baron mount from Stratholme. The devs said that they would be changing Strat and Scholo, so I better do this now in case the loot changes
-PvP Mounts: Though I'm sure these wont be taken out, they are introducing the new currency systems which will have weekly caps, and they will be introducing Warsong Gultch 2, which I want no part of, so might as well get them now.

My absolute last priorities will be the Outlands reps. Particularly Netherwing and Kurenai. Those are gonna be brutal.

Thanks for all the words of encouragement, and I'll be dropping regular updates on my progress!

Netherwing is pretty easy and fast. Kurenai/Maghar isn't too bad either. Don't forget Shattari Skyguards (more dailies in BEM after you've opened the Ogrila ones). I've got about 90 mounts on each of my main team toons(bout 60 learned, bout 30 to buy). Been just too lazy to do any tournament dailies the last couple of months, so still quite a bit away from mountain o' mounts. :(

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My original toon that I played a ton back in the day was a gnome fury warrior (back when fury warriors were laughed at and I had to fight tooth and nail for 1h drops in MC and BWL... though I still was top 3 in DPS).

Anyhoo, my gnome was the first on the server to get a tiger. I don't know how much time I spent grinding cloth, and turning in cloth, but it was a looong time. I still have that mount. I never traded it in for the new sabers, though I doubt anyone recognizes that I'm a gnome on a first generation epic mount that could have only been received by getting exalted with the elves, which was only possible with an ungodly amount of cloth turn-ins.

Good luck on your goal!!!

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Can't have been that early if cloth turnins were already out.
I saw a video of a gnome that got the darnassus tiger when the only way was ungodly amounts of ungoro soil for the herb thing.

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Originally Posted by Kalros

First update! Got the 25 Mount Achievement this morning (just bought all the exodar mounts and the outlands griffons).

In addition to doing the Argent dailys every day (for the rest of my life!), my first priorities are going to be things that might change with Cataclysm:

-Ahn-Qiraj Bugs. They may not change the zone, but I'll start here anyway. 4 fairly easy mounts.
-Baron mount from Stratholme. The devs said that they would be changing Strat and Scholo, so I better do this now in case the loot changes
-PvP Mounts: Though I'm sure these wont be taken out, they are introducing the new currency systems which will have weekly caps, and they will be introducing Warsong Gultch 2, which I want no part of, so might as well get them now.

My absolute last priorities will be the Outlands reps. Particularly Netherwing and Kurenai. Those are gonna be brutal.

Thanks for all the words of encouragement, and I'll be dropping regular updates on my progress!

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Netherwing is dailies and random eggs (eggs will not be party wide though, since you pick up one at a time) so you should get those started.
Kurenai is just kills/turnins, easily done in a couple days if you spend a lot of time on it.
Shatt Skyguard is also kills, and supplemented by dailies, so that can be quite easy too.

Another update!

Been grinding city rep by doing old quests, I'm now exalted with everyone but Ironforge, and that should come in the next couple of days. Picked up a few Argent Tournament mounts, and all but the Red AQ Bugs.

And of course, I got my 5x Albino Drakes! Up to about 60 mounts already!

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What I WONT do:
-Winterspring Frostsaber: I did this once with my Hunter, and will NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER do it again!

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this has been nerfed so much the only had part about it is the initial meat quest that you have to run 6 times.

total time from start to finish of the grind is around 28-31 hours (depending on who else is farming the area).

I ran it on 5 different groups of 5 with no problems.
If you want to talk about nightmares, i ran this rep grind on my pally (pre BC) when you only got 75 rep per quest turn in. It took me six months to get the mount (but it was the first one on the server) (something stupid like 560 quest turn ins required)

Minor update today, but I felt it was worth posting. The screenshot says it all!

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Nice work Kalros!

I'm glad you are finding fun ways to spend your time in these pre-expansion days. Seems like a lot of the messages posted these days are all about doom and gloom or boredom instead of what's entertaining and fun within the game.

I've been thinking about mounts a bit as well. Will probably start the Netherwing grind again (I did it for one 5-man team last year), but it takes a long time. Not sure why someone said it is pretty quick now - at least not for 5. Lots of collection quests that must be done to open up the kill quests much later down the rep line.

I agree that the talbuk mounts aren't bad to get - I have them on 40 toons, so have done that grind a few times ;)

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I agree that the talbuk mounts aren't bad to get

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So whats the best way to do it? Just mass slaughter Ogres for several hours?

Yep, just keep killing. There are lots of places to do it, but the best place with most consistent spawns is the first camp that quests take you to - the multi-level camp on the far east side of Nagrand. I just run up and down to the spawn points and if someone else starts killing as well you can always move into the cave in the upper portion for a few minutes to keep the killing going.

Collect Obsidian Warbeads on different toons as you go - I'd collect 100 or so on each toon before looking at the rep left and trying to optimize (esp if you have some humans on your team, then you can warbead starve them to keep them at the same rep level as the others).

Oh, and finish all the quests in Nagrand (and a few in Zangermarsh) that give you rep too - probably a bit faster than the ogres and much more entertaining. That gives you a nice head start.

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Originally Posted by Kalros

I've decided that my new goal in WoW is going to be a combination of my first obsession (Mount collecting) with my newer obsession (Multiboxing). First, a little history:

I've been in an odd place over the last couple of months, as far as WoW and multiboxing go. I had basically hit the 5-man wall quite some time ago. I got all the gear I could with just 5-man content (except for all the Emblem of Frost gear, but getting that 2 emblems at a time [sometimes more if the weekly was easy] got boring), and leveling new teams got stale after about 15 level 80s and way-too-many 60s. I'm still a little weary about Cataclysm, and after finishing "What a long, strange trip ......", I really felt like I had nothing to do but grind out Emblems of Frost. Then I remembered something Supernova told me a while back: Do something that nobody has done!

Right before I started multiboxing, I was an insane Mount Collector on my original Hunter. I was only the 2nd person on my server to get 100 Mounts (I missed being the first by 2 days), and have always had good luck with mounts, and always found it very fun.

I decided to look up the most current list of available mounts, cross-checked with the rares I already have, did some math, and it is most definitely possible to get 100 mounts now without depending much on the really RARE mounts (unlike in the old days, before the Argent Tournament, Celestial Steed and Touring Rocket). Now, it will mostly be grinding. Tons and tons of grinding, but I'm up for the challenge.

What I will do:

-All of the original city reps.
-All of the outlands reps.
-Any mount that you can just buy at a vendor (Bear in Dalaran, Traveller's Mammoth, Motorcycles, etc).
-Ahn-Qiraj bugs
-All Argent tournament mounts
-All PvP Mounts (have 3 of the 6 already)
-Baron's Mount
-Tradeskill Mounts on my non-Paladins to balance out his exclusive Mounts
-White Hawkstrider (already have 4, just need 1 more)
-some other random stuff

What I WONT do:
-Winterspring Frostsaber: I did this once with my Hunter, and will NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER do it again!
-Depend on the mounts from ZG, Kara, UP or Sethik Halls (though I will still farm for them)

Now obviously this goal is going to take me many many months to attain, and probably wont be finished before Cataclysm. Which could be a good thing, because I'm sure there will be more (and easier) mounts to get by then, and I'll be able to train to make all of my Blue Dragonhawks to be 310 speed.

Thoughts? Am I too crazy? And I hope someone has not already done this as a 5-boxer, then I'll be a sad panda.

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This sounds so much like a Shodokan goal :) Are you Shodokan in disguise? :)

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This sounds so much like a Shodokan goal http://www.dual-boxing.com/images/smilies/smile.gif Are you Shodokan in disguise? http://www.dual-boxing.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

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Lol, I'm sorry to say, no. However he sounds like my kind of guy!

Anyway, another update today! Finished Sha'Tari Skyguard, and everyone has 75 Mounts (77 on the Paladin). I'm Revered with Netherwing, about 7 more days of Dailys to go on that one, then its off to grind out some Kurenai!

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Gz, that is some going

congrats so far! that is a LOT of mounts

Big update today! Finally got my 5th White Hawkstrider! Making a total of 7 I have gotten to drop in 121 kills of the last boss in Heroic Magister's.

Unfortunately StarCraft 2 has been occupying most of my time lately, so Netherwing and Kurenai have taken a back seat. I estimate I'll have my 100 by Mid-August, since I'm going on a business trip next week.

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Finished Netherwing today. Not a bad grind. Skipped some of the collection dailys.

So here is the count: Paladin: 90, three Shamen: 89, other one: 88.

The plan from here is:

Kurenai - 8 Talbuks
Another Argent Tournament mount
Snow Griffon (from the Dalaran vendor)
Cenarian Hippogryph

For the guy who is 1 behind, hopefully he can pick up a rare before everything else is done. If not, I'll probably get him the Traveller's Mammoth or a Nagrand PvP Talbuk. Not too hard to get, but grinding the powders sucks.

And thats it! I leave for a week-long business trip on Saturday, and when I get back, I'll start grinding Kurenai like a madman! Hope to be fully done with this achievement by Aug 20th.

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Finished Netherwing today. Not a bad grind. Skipped some of the collection dailys.

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I just reached Revered with Netherwing on the 10 toons I'm doing it on. If you think Netherwing isn't bad, you'll think Kurenai is a breeze.

And if you really need another mount on your guys, another five accounts can get you the ability to get a black drake from 3D Sarth every week (I got my fourth today :o). Of course, leveling up five more guys and gearing them out is a hella grind... but it IS a grind with tons and tons of benefits ;)

Sorry, that was rather off-topic, but I never want to miss the chance to plug ten-ism since I find it so rewarding.

Anyway, glad you are making progress - not far to go now!