I wonder if you remember the
Nether Rays, It must be the teeth. post I did back in April. Yeah, April. While this Rogue has bee slightly busy with the Lich King breathing down all of our necks, my visits to the Skyguard have been less frequent. Although 3 days of relentless reputation grinding to the point of almost utter madness has resulted in 5 wonderful Mounts for my collection. 160 Gold each plus Rep!
Later that week I decided to take a break from reputations and just spend a bit of gold for mounts of my list. Yes, I have a rather long and slowly dwindling list of mounts I need for my future 100. The
Armored Snowy Gryphon I bought from Mei Francis in Dalaran for the low price 1600G when exalted with the Kirin'Tor. The
Wooly Mammoth I also bought from her for the price of 200 Emblems of Heroism, which I just converted 200 Triumph Emblems down to cover it. Truth be told the only time I will prolly ever ride these mounts would have been the time I took the pictures, but there is a greater goal to be had here.
I almost screamed like a child on a candy high when the Blue Drake dropped for me in Heroic Oculus! *Happy Dance* Remember it only comes from a Cache of the Ley-Guardian, which you only get access to if you use your dungeon finder to random a dungeon and Oculus just happens to pop up. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with a better chance but I was the first one to dip my hands into the chest to get out the Cache. No rolling for this mount, just a chance drop, about 5% or less. I've watched it go to someone else no less than 5 times. Frustrating! But no longer! I have it now. *insert evil laugh here*
I also took up Engineering during this time and I will admit it was initially just to get two more mounts. Yes, I know, Tailoring will get you 3 but it's just not as fun as all the perks you get with Engineering. Especially for a Rogue. So here you have my
Flying Machine and my
TURBO-Charged Flying Machine. *Tehehe* While the 'Factory' model is your standard fixer upper that never gets fixed, constantly stalling out like a bad manual transmission, your improved Turbo has all the bells and whistles down to custom bad ass paint!
Hula Girl Doll can be bought from Griftah in Shattrath Lower City Market for the price of 100G.
The Temple of Ahn'Qiraj houses tons of creepy crawly bugs. *shivers* But also drops 4 mounts that you can use to battle your way through the raid. You can only use these in the Temple not in the outside world. *poutz* But they do count towards my 100 Mount Goal!!! You will have to roll against other members of your party for these mounts. The
Red Quiraji Battle Tank also gives you an achievement if your an achievement junkie like me. As you will see my collection is not yet complete, however the
Yellow Quiraji Battle Tank will soon be mine.
As far as my progress right now this makes 89 mounts towards my goal. I am feverishly working on the Argent Mounts for seals and I am estimating 2 months until I have all of those if I keep on my toes about it. I also have plans for more reputation grinds with Cenarion Expedition and Wintersaber Trainers. Plus by Halloween this little Rogue will be sporting her Violet Proto-Drake!
