The Spoils of War

There's tons of information coming out of beta about the new trade skills.  Some if is rather exciting...epic offhands and staves for inscription.  But instead of talking about that, I am going to talk about the spoils of war.   Yes, the spoils.  What do you do with all your money?  I was on my paladin last night and we killed DW again (we are really casual, it was only on normal) and sure enough the Blazing Drake dropped.  I bribed the winner with 150k and took it for myself--ironically I had just sold my last darkmoon deck.

In my very first entry, I show off the Ashes of Al'ar.  I spent 200k for that mount to a guild mate.  In both cases neither really cared about the vanity and essentially, they no longer had to worry about farming stuff anymore to pay for enchants, gems, and the like.  I know Ashes in in theory soloable, but I was really focused on my shaman at the time and thus didn't think I would be able to do it for a very long time.  I have no regrets.

During Wrath I bought the 3 drake Sarth mount on 25 man for 25,000 gold.  I was really afraid it would leave the game, and even though it didn't, it was a relief not to worry about it.
Let's see what else have I bought in the way of mounts.  I bought the

One of the things I started doing was buying card game mounts.  I noticed their price is so high in theory the biggest limitation is the amount of gold people have.  So a mount that went for 40k in wrath is going for 100k now.  Thus they inflate as the gold does.  In some ways they inflate better than gold.  That's why the screenshot shows me peaking at 2.4 million gold in my first entry even though I've much less capital on hand.

I tend to buy card game mounts whenever possible because they are so rare, you might wait literally years before you see another one show up.  I bought a real epic spectral tiger for 300k.  That and the phoenix were my two primary goals.  After that, I have a Blazing Hippogryph, Amani Dragonhawk, Big Battle Bear, and Savage Raptor.

The mount from the Shadowmourne box was bought for 85k.  I got the other two items, the music box and muradin's favor for a mere 15k each.  The reins poseidus was only 40k, about half their usual price.

200 Ashes
150 Blazing Drake
070 Spectral Tiger
300 Swift Spectral Tiger
115 Shadowmourne items
040 Reins of Posedius
080 Blazing Hippogrpyh
080 Amani Dragonhawk
060 Big Battle Bear
090 Savage Raptors
Total=1,215k

If we tally them all up, I've spent quite a bit of gold on card game mounts--over a million gold.  In fact, that's about 40 percent of my total worth.  Most of these mounts are kept as bindable, but I don't see myself selling them really.   In many ways the gold was means to an end and I continue to grind it out for future mounts.   The spoils are certainly one of the most fun things about the game.