"I often have to run the normal dungeon daily just for cash"

Flat out lie. if you can't make more than 16g in 30 mins without doing dailies you are _doing it wrong_. any class could do that. jesus, most classes could do that with no gear.

don't try and make prot pallies seem like a hard class, they are one of the damn easiest to make money on.

Time that we pay real money for every month.

It all depends on what your free time is worth to you. Those who have less of it will put a higher price on it. Also when you have more available spending money, it's value relative to your free time decreases.

It's about economics, not "lazy".

"It's not even that hard with dailies and such"

That's assuming that you do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ELSE in game. I am the MT of a progressing raiding guild. I routinely spend upwards of 500 gold a week just on repairs, and that's not even counting consumables. I go through every copper I make on my dailies. I often have to run the normal dungeon daily just for cash, which is totally nuts for a T5 prot pally. It takes FOREVER, and costs a fortune in water if there's no mage around.

The new dailies opening up in the patch will help tremendously, but the price is currently too high for any non-dps class, because if you are busy doing anything at all besides farming for your mount, it takes WAY too long.

Why would any regular dungeon take "FOREVER" for a T5 prot paladin? What does it take? 30-40 minutes? That isn't really forever in my opinion, but it does seem like a lot of time for 16g.

In finding mister right
You'll be alright tonight

You've got him in your sight
And driving through the night

0g-5000g take around 25hours if you know how to play, so why is it hard to get one? is it worth it? yeah. why? you can earn money faster from daily q.

'Is the price too high? Yes. Does it encourgage gold buying? Yes. Is the epic flying mount worth it? No."

you are wrong on every single point

Well, you convinced me.

You can get your epic flying mount and full FSW, I know I did on my priest. Sure it took like 2 months of dailies to get the money but I did it and it was worth every copper.

Most agreed with you when BC was new. I posted on this site people making this claim were nuts.

I was right: person gets first epic flight, person kicks self blue for putting it off. I go along to watch it happen.

"Is the price too high? Yes."

Quests completed after hitting 70 give half the required gold.

If you spent minutes to do two dailies, every day, it would take four months for the rest of the gold. That's if the two dailies are your only non-quest source of income. Simply vendoring the unneeded quest rewards bumps it up quite a bit.

I hate dailies with a passion, but they're there. Use 'em.

"Does it encourage gold buying? Yes."

Everything in every MMO does.

"Is the epic flying mount worth it? No."

Saves time*, increases gold production, is fun.

Leveling tailoring and making the FSW set (it's great stuff) shouldn't be costing you gold.


*Seriously. Flight paths are never, ever less time. Sometimes they take twice as long. They also cost money.

@imparush

It's one thing to say "it's easy to..." Prove it. Lay out exactly how to make 5,000 gold in 25 hours. I will be waiting with pen and paper ready, and if you prove to be correct, I will have a flying mount tomorrow.

Some people don't know how, yeah. I know plenty of those kind of people.

My husband and I have bought four epic flying mounts between us and I have 3k gold toward another. Dailies, questing post-70, a bit of primal farming here and there.. it's easy when you set a goal ("I will make 150g today").

However, I do find myself wishing that Blizzard would sell gold themselves. I really dislike farming and daily quests end up seeming like going to work after I get home from work. I won't purchase gold from farmers as it is too risky (both account banning and hacking, though I pride myself on not having had a virus in over 5 years). If I could pay Blizzard $200 (or so) and get 5000 gold, it would be tempting...

200 gold? Crikey!