man oh man coulda saved tons of gold

[Tonuss]

I second the suggestion that you check out the patch notes for the PTR from time to time. I knew about the mount changes for a while and deliberately waited before buying the 225 flying skill and mount. Saved a pretty decent amount, and the new speed for the slow flyer is good enough for questing and exping and generally getting around, so aside from my gathering toons I intend to save the ~5000 gold per character.

[Simulacra]

I second the suggestion that you check out the patch notes for the PTR from time to time. I knew about the mount changes for a while and deliberately waited before buying the 225 flying skill and mount. Saved a pretty decent amount, and the new speed for the slow flyer is good enough for questing and exping and generally getting around, so aside from my gathering toons I intend to save the ~5000 gold per character.

I was flying around yesterday with the speed boost, very nice. However I had 2 of my 5 chars with fast flyers so I dropped 15k and got the others. Even with the normal mount speed boost I think the fast flyers are way better and worth 5k for training. Of course I'm poor now

[Zal]

Wait for the next expansion, level cap 90, 3 patches after release and bear witness too "ARE YOU KIDDING ME BLIZZARD?!? YOU CAN BUY EPIC FLYING FOR 100G NOW AND I SPENT 5000G BEFORE. REFUND NOW OR I QUIT!"

This is one of those things were i laugh at people, check patch notes.

[Simulacra]

Wait for the next expansion, level cap 90, 3 patches after release and bear witness too "ARE YOU KIDDING ME BLIZZARD?!? YOU CAN BUY EPIC FLYING FOR 100G NOW AND I SPENT 5000G BEFORE. REFUND NOW OR I QUIT!"

This is one of those things were i laugh at people, check patch notes.

meh only took me a week to farm it and there's nothing else I really want to buy. Looking forward to having a daily free couple of weeks and just try the new instance
I too am looking forward to reading the QQ

[Tonuss]

I was flying around yesterday with the speed boost, very nice. However I had 2 of my 5 chars with fast flyers so I dropped 15k and got the others. Even with the normal mount speed boost I think the fast flyers are way better and worth 5k for training. Of course I'm poor now

My group is leveling by questing, and right now (after buying the 225 skill and mount) they each have slightly more than 2000 gold each at level 76.5. Their only expenses going forward are spells, as I use the guild bank for repairs and the guild bank is doing very nicely thanks to Auctioneer. If the group gets to 5000 gold from questing (and let's face it, that's very likely) I may just get them the fast flying mounts. But it's also possible that by that time I'll feel as if they don't need them.

My gatherer toons already have the fast flying mount, so I'm covered if I want to go on herb/mining/mote runs. Then again, I have nothing to spend my gold on, and the guild bank is at 18,000 gold and climbing. It will probably have somewhere between 25,000 and 30,000 gold by the time the group is able to afford the 300 riding skill. So at that point I may get it because there's no reason not to.

[Simulacra]

My group is leveling by questing, and right now (after buying the 225 skill and mount) they each have slightly more than 2000 gold each at level 76.5. Their only expenses going forward are spells, as I use the guild bank for repairs and the guild bank is doing very nicely thanks to Auctioneer. If the group gets to 5000 gold from questing (and let's face it, that's very likely) I may just get them the fast flying mounts. But it's also possible that by that time I'll feel as if they don't need them.

My gatherer toons already have the fast flying mount, so I'm covered if I want to go on herb/mining/mote runs. Then again, I have nothing to spend my gold on, and the guild bank is at 18,000 gold and climbing. It will probably have somewhere between 25,000 and 30,000 gold by the time the group is able to afford the 300 riding skill. So at that point I may get it because there's no reason not to.

great approach. I had a bunch of gold on my team when I hit 80 and went and bought a whole bunch of gear for them, it would have been a lot wiser to get the flying skill sorted out first, farm dailies and then buy gear.