*Sigh* My guide to spending 26,000 Gold (Epic Mounts)

[zanthor]

So, Upon reaching 70th with my paladin I discovered that there were situations that my alts just wouldn't keep up on the 60% flying mounts, and I had a great deal of disbelief that it would be feasible to run them on epic's... My initial thoughts were "Yay, no need to spend 26,000G!" but my stubborn self went and found a way.

I got my first epic mount for my 5 box team last night, so I put my main character on follow to my lead 5 box character in shattrah (great place for testing lag and autofollow) and started doing laps.

With both riding epic mounts I had few problems with them keeping up, but once I introduced Crusader Aura I often lost my trailer... I found that if I turned crusader aura off, and equiped my riding crop I didn't have these problems at all.

So the key seems to be, give your followers a little boost in riding speed, make sure your system runs relatively lag free, and you'll be able to drop 26,000g on your five boxers to fly fast!

[Ellay]

Crusader Aura is OP btw I love going ultra fast.

[TMNT]

how....

26,000....

....how....

....dearlord....


....my eyes.....

[Emo?]

have fun grinding

[Zoroaster]

I haven't yet broke down and gotten my mages epic mounts, maybe one day. I know from running around with my war/sham (who have epic mounts) that what works best for me is to have the follower(s) equip riding crops, while the leader has no speed boosts.

[zanthor]

I've currently only got 2 of my 6 toons with epic fliers... I didn't want to grind up 26,000g and blow it to find out they would sit in the bank unused!

I easily earn 250g a day doing my ogrila and skettis dailies, which means in about 90 days I'll have epic's on my other four toons... this is worst case all said and done, I have lots of untouched quests in multiple zones... plus when Sunwell comes out there is a brand spanking new quest hub for me to abuse .

[Xinxo]

I was in the same boat when I got my 5 ladies there epics... 31k later, best desision i'm made in a while.

[Ghallo]

At 61 I had 0 gold on all 5 of my toons - buying the first round of epic mounts drained me dry. I am now 66 and they all have 400+ and I haven't been trying to save money. That also doesn't count the money (about 1k) on my auction alt from the greens that I AH - and I only AH the greens with good attributes (of Spirit plate, for example, gets DE'd). I don't think money is much of an issue for boxers because we have nearly 0 downtime. Often I'll find, 2 hours into play, that I never did conjure water for my guys... I simply never needed to drink - and that's even with AoE grinding etc.

My biggest issue has always been finding mobs to kill... not killing them

[Gallo]

My biggest issue has always been finding mobs to kill... not killing them

That is a keeper of a quote. A multiboxers creed.

[Eteocles]

I was the same Gallo...I had like 10s between my 2druids when they hit 60, after borrowing like 500g from my rogue to boot.

They are now lv65 and have over 850g EACH. Do not buy at the AH kids, but DO sell at the AH ;p All greens & cloth, no blues; the 57-63 greens sell for 10-30g if the modifiers are right(Eagle/monkey/bear/sorc/etc) and dear god loot every gray you can, a stack of useless gray loots from questing on mobs can sell for 1-3g each let alone the 1-3g gray weapons, as well as Meats for stuff like Warp Burgers, Clam Meat from the Naga you'll kill plenty of in Zangar for Clam Bars, a highly-used raid food buff, etc.

And just to rub it in like an asshole...my flight form is almost-free at 68, neener neener boo boo >P Which means when I ding 70 I miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight just be able to afford to start the epic flight form quest right off the bat if I don't go on a spending spree...I had 1100-1300g on my other 70s when they hit 70 so normal flying mount was no prob and the two druids are freaking miles ahead of them moneywise + ahead of the curve questwise SINCE I FUCKING WAITED TILL 60 TO ENTER OUTLANDS UNLIKE SOME PEOPLE ;) Which means I'll have more high-gold quest rewards at-70, making it that much easier to afford the epic flying mounts when I get there, since my rogue made over 800g off SMV alone and he still hasn't even finished it off yet, nor even touched most of Netherstorm.