Buy epic flyer or save gold for future stuff?

[cmeche]

Getting close to haveing 20,000 gold......which was originally planned on being spent for the flyers. But with the new speeds coming in the next patch, is it worth it? Plus, would /follow be a problem with epic flyers to begin?

[Mercurio]

Blow the money. Speed is really, really important and you'll make the gold up easily by doing dailies on faster flyers.

Plus you don't have to wait.

Follow isn't a problem, even with crusader aura on with my pally. By "isn't a problem" I mean it isn't that big a deal. I lose follow some if I fly erratically or am going through multiple phases in Icecrown or Storm Peaks, but with Jamba to warn me when one of my followers stops following it only cuts a few seconds off the journey.

[Malekyth]

Agreed. Unless your computer is teetering on the edge of running the game, ALWAYS buy the epic flyer.

[Jubber]

As far as I know the epic flyers aren't changing prices anyway. The only thing is you may receive a small faction discount if you were exalted. So the difference is minimal. You might as well get your epics now and make gold faster from doing faster dailies and what not. The only significant cost changes are for those that don't have riding up thru 225. So if you haven't gotten a normal flyer and wanted to wait or an epic ground mount and wanted to wait.

If all your waiting for is epic flying then get it. It will be worth it.

[cmeche]

Thanks for the replys.

Looks like i will be a poor man soon.



lol

[heyaz]

It took me five months to get around to buying my epic flyers. Five months of doing dallies on slow ass mounts, it was painful. Blow the money on the flyers, then farm your 1200g a day on your epics in less than 90 minutes. You'll have all the money you need for enchants and gear, trust me.

[Zal]

I got 12 lv 80s all with epic fliers, yes it was a truck load of gold but wow was it worth it. If i actually wanted too i could get all 25 dailies done and be making 4500g a day in just a few hours from the speed the fliers give me. (I don't do this anymore because i already made my way back to 70k gold)

[Fef]

I don't like dailies, they feel too much like work to me. I only do the Jewelcrafting one. Beside, 90 minutes a day is often as much playtime as I get, and I don't want to use it doing dailies. My money is made in the Auction House (fast) or levelling alt groups (fun, to me).

In patch 3.2, regular flyers will get to 150% speed. That finished to convince me that my gold is better invested in other things than epic flyers.

[Otlecs]

In patch 3.2, regular flyers will get to 150% speed. That finished to convince me that my gold is better invested in other things than epic flyers.

Me too, although it'd be nice to have an idea as to how far off that is!

I have them on my Hunter/Druid team, but mainly because I use them for various gathering skills and I really wouldn't be without the epic flyers for those. Especially the Druid and Herbing.

[Fef]

I noticed background downloading of patch 3.1 -> 3.2 since yesterday. So I guess 3.2 should not be that far off anymore.

I'm also very much looking forward to being able to fly from level 60. Outland will be much more fun for my two last groups that are still there.