I've been playing this game 2-3 years. Multiple 70's, then multipe 80's and I've never, ever, ever had an epic flying mount on any of them.

That 5k gold has always been a bit too far. I'd get to about 2k, then see an epic shiny on the AH, or spend money gearing my paladin up for heroics etc.

I don't tend to get a lot of multiboxing time - 3 days a week playing, a lot of that on raids or guild heroic runs, so I would only run about 6 dailies.

I decided it was time to make some serious money with my alchemy, so I switched to elixir master and so in the past couple of weeks have been making
and selling flasks galore, And last night I finally got Swift flight form on my druid.

I always knew having an epic mount would make gathering easier but it's like my money making is now on steroids. I suspect my other 80's wil
be getting epic flying mounts a heck of a lot quicker now.