Date: 10/12/08
Item: Amani War Bear (ZA Mount)
Price: 23,000 gold
So I realized at the last min that I did want a bear mount and that I'd need both level 70 and an insane amount of gold. Too bad there was another bidder some guy willing to pay 20k so instead of bidding him up 1k at a time I went and dropped a 23k bid. Good lord i didn't think i'd have to clean out the piggy bank for this but today is sunday and basically the last reset for this as tuesday is patch day and which will take this mount out of the game. Otherwise yes I just dinged 70 on my mage (main on server #2). Luckily i'm good at making wow gold so I could afford the 23k but it's still expensive. Otherwise I got no less than 4 tells asking if this was really my main and if i bought the gold. There's this stigma to being rich in wow it's like everyone who has a lot of gold is a gold buyer.
What I really wanted to say was... well you raid endgame bosses and I raid the AH so what's the problem but that would be rude and would have probably gotten me kicked from the raid on the principal of losing face.
The raid was very smooth and the basically carried me the 10th man through the instance and it was completed in under 20 mins.
How to buy a bear mount 2 days before patch.
Have 30,000 in the bank and be prepared to fork over 25k but dont tell em that just start with the starting bid of 8k
Whisper all the top 3-5 raiding guilds on your server asking very politely if thier guild would consider selling you a bear mount. Take down names and ask if they knew of anyone who is running it if their guild won't or can't do it.
I got 1 guild who said thier guild isn't the type to sell runs. So i whispered 4 other top guilds and they all referred me to the same person. a paladin from the server's top raiding guild.
Luckily as i was about to log off for the day i saw someone from that guild going WTS Amani Bear mount pst. .. so i whispered and got invited into party with the raid leader and the other bidder and we bidded in party.
Anywayz on any given server there is usually 1 guild who is capable and willing to take an extremely undergeared person.
Raid experience: 10/10
lol i've never "bought" a run through before so this was a bit nerve wracking but both parties came out happy as I got my mount and each raider got 1270g and 11.5k to their guild bank.
Lets see their raid leader supplied all my potion needs, i even got heals and rezzes when i died due to low stam, i didn't really dps much so much as trying to stay alive .. even resorted to using mana shield for myself. it was at malakazzar i died as it really was must have 8-9k hp. lol they did remark oh mage is still alive! of course .. i am a former raider and do have some memory of that boss.
Sigh there went my goal of 218k in game gold per character. Well gold is there to make the game more fun so instead of farming to get goldto buy pots to raid I get gold to have fun. I actually prefer to just stare at the nice gold coins coming in than spending it. Its always good to have alot of gold on hand just in case something of interest pops along and it's down to who's got more gold.
Btw the going rate for 23,000g Gold is: $458 USD. Sigh
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