My new goal: Mountain O' Mounts!

[Kalros]

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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[mikekim]

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

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)

[Kalros]

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



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[Mercurio]

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

[Kalros]

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

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

[Mercurio]

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.

[Firstcow]

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.

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

[Kalros]

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

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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[mikekim]

Gz, that is some going

[DLoweinc]

congrats so far! that is a LOT of mounts