A WoW post, or: A small understanding with Ann Romney.

[thistlechaser]

The Romneys are rich. Very, very rich. So when Ann Romney said she didn't feel rich, a lot of people raged.

I didn't.

I just bought three Crimson Deathchargers today, and now I feel dirt poor. I currently have 677,458 gold on Horde side. On one level, I know that that is a lot of gold, but to me? I feel broke. I was working so hard to get back up to a million, I was at 940K, then one deathcharger was up cheap (120K), and then two more got listed cheaper (77.5K). It's really interesting how brains work. I walk up to a vendor and wonder if I have enough to buy something (which is really, really silly, I know).

I have quite a herd of them going on in my guild bank:

(Other items are the two TCG rocket mounts, the two TCG hippo mounts, all the Lich King drops (except music box), and the Gift of Arthas scroll that is no longer in the game so was a bitchkitty to get but I wanted it for my LK collection.)

While I love love love the new RAF mount (easily my favorite mount by far), I have buyer's remorse at getting a second account. I'm not making anywhere near the gold I thought I would be (seriously, "pennies"). And how did I forget that I don't like leveling? I love the new mount, but I don't think it was worth $50. Once I can, I'm going to let my second account expire (four months, one free one plus a three month gamecard).

I'm leveling a mage on the second account with a hunter on my main. The mage I wanted over there for portals on my main account (easier archaeology when MoP comes), and I don't mind leveling hunter, so I picked that as the "master" character. The mage is on /follow and does nothing as we level. They're up to 25 or so. The XP is nicely fast with RAF.

I hit 100K HKs on my account, so when MoP comes, I'll have that achievement and my "of the Horde" title. I got it early on Saturday... only to find I couldn't stop TBing. I felt like I HAD to go. This morning I uninstalled the addon, so I don't see the countdown timer on my UI all the time, and now it's really easy to forget it exists. Today was a very nice day without having to queue and wait every two hours. :)

Ha ha, perfect post for this icon! That's supposed to be Thistle in the box, though it's hard to tell.

Comments

[kirbyk.livejournal.com]

We actually sell that Bank. http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/da87/

I have one and it's super cute.

And interesting correlation between your psychology and Ann Romney!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oh wow! That really is SO cute. :D

Thanks for the link!

[quistie.livejournal.com]

A coworker has the white one, I think. I tend to think the brown one is cuter, though.

It's good entertainment. :P

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The white one is nice, but I like the brown one more. :)

[segoryder.livejournal.com]

Oh damn that's a lot of gold (before and after) but I understand where you're coming from. When you save gold (or money) without a goal in mind, you kinda wonder if what you're spending it on is really worth it? I get that way. Good job on your gold making and saving!

Also, another BIG CONGRATS on the 100k HKs!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Thank you! To both parts!

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

Uh oh, now thistle can only afford 3 gold plated zeppelins. The other members of the Posh Top Hats Club are just going to laugh you out at this rate.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha I KNOW RIGHT. So ashamed.

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

I know the feeling myself. When I was gearing up to buy my mount runs, I bought one of the rockets to help pay for it (they told me they'd credit me 140k for it and I got it for 125k). Then I decided I wanted to try to get enough money before the scheduled date of my run so I could keep the rocket and learn it for myself. When the time came, however...the thought of going down to almost 100k was unbearable. 100k is so poor to me now when it used to be the limit I didn't want to go under! Contrast that to most of my guildies who struggle to pay for things like Sands of Time...

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Man, I think I'd cry in real life if I ever went down to 100K. Seriously. It upsets me to imagine having so little. (And yet how often have I heard that the most some 85 has ever had is 10K?)

How did the mount run go?

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I ended up taking the mount so I only went down to 260k. The runs went really well. The guild I went with was amazing, in the top 200 in the whole world. They even let me actually play, though I was such a low healing priority I died on a bunch of the fights. I just wish I had taken an extra 50k so I could have gotten the whole heroic Firelands run instead of just Rag. If there are similar mounts and these guys are still around at the end of Mists, I'll be going back.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Good to hear! Hopefully they will be.