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10-09-2008, 07:52 AM
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Drkshadow posted (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=10972018131&sid=1) in the official forums with what he considers a slap in the face for folks looking to use their flying mounts in Northrend (http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/04/06/grounded-in-northrend/). (It's always a slap in the face, isn't it?) The quest to "attune" your mount to Northrend has been removed, and replaced with a simple 1000 gold payout. If you don't pay, you don't fly.
Bornakk confirms the change only a few posts later. He says turning the attunement into a cash payment makes it easier for more players to get. It might suck to pay the 1000G for each hungry alt. But, really, if you consider it -- how hard is it to farm up 1000G (http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/04/30/making-money-along-the-way/) on your main? I think Bornakk makes a fair point -- it's probably easier to just grab cash on your main than take a relatively undergeared alt through a quest over and over.
Of course, we already knew that flying wasn't going to be very expensive (http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/07/07/northrend-mount-mittens-will-not-be-pricey/). I guess someone might argue that 1000 gold can be a lot of cash, but that's really only a few days of dailies, or maybe a quick trip to sell loot at the auction house (http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/08/03/insider-trader-working-the-auction-house/). At level 80, I'm just not going to get intimidated by a single grand.
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Drkshadow posted (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=10972018131&sid=1) in the official forums with what he considers a slap in the face for folks looking to use their flying mounts in Northrend (http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/04/06/grounded-in-northrend/). (It's always a slap in the face, isn't it?) The quest to "attune" your mount to Northrend has been removed, and replaced with a simple 1000 gold payout. If you don't pay, you don't fly.
Bornakk confirms the change only a few posts later. He says turning the attunement into a cash payment makes it easier for more players to get. It might suck to pay the 1000G for each hungry alt. But, really, if you consider it -- how hard is it to farm up 1000G (http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/04/30/making-money-along-the-way/) on your main? I think Bornakk makes a fair point -- it's probably easier to just grab cash on your main than take a relatively undergeared alt through a quest over and over.
Of course, we already knew that flying wasn't going to be very expensive (http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/07/07/northrend-mount-mittens-will-not-be-pricey/). I guess someone might argue that 1000 gold can be a lot of cash, but that's really only a few days of dailies, or maybe a quick trip to sell loot at the auction house (http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/08/03/insider-trader-working-the-auction-house/). At level 80, I'm just not going to get intimidated by a single grand.
Read (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=10972018131&sid=1) | Permalink (http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/10/09/northrend-flying-quest-removed-in-favor-of-cash-payout/) | Email this (http://www.wowinsider.com/forward/1337546/) | Comments (http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/10/09/northrend-flying-quest-removed-in-favor-of-cash-payout/#comments)
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