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A Little Survival TLC?
The Troll Hunter — ... sales be going good too because I just be 2,000 gold away from my big Traveler's Tundra Mount and plan on riding in troll style soon complete with vendors. ...

Money Sinks of Wrath of the Litch King
Cenarion Labs — ... Int) Illusion are BoE and are obtained by collecting the Ace, 2,3,4,5,6,7,8 of the requisite decks from the AH or from a friendly scribe and handing them in to the Darkmoon Faire.  Did I mention the requisite cards that compose the decks are made by inscribers?  Oh, and they are expensive- appropriately so.  The Ace sells for 3-5k on my server with the others going between 300-700g and more.  Why would I spend 5,000g on a multi-player, vendoring mount?  Band of the Kirin Tor for 8,500g?  Other frills ...

Been a good day
Baluki's WoWblog — ... Green Proto-Drake mount. You get it from the Mysterious Egg sold by the Oracles at Revered. The egg takes a week to hatch, and WoWhead says it only has a 4% chance of dropping this mount. I got it on my first try. And man, it looks REALLY cool! The texture is beautiful, and the animation is amazing. It may be the best-looking mount in the game, with the X-51 Nether-Rocket X-TREME (which I would kill for) being the one possible exception. Just gotta get me a Traveler's Tundra Mammoth and a Mechano-Hog and I officially win WoW. ...

Around Azeroth: Slay ride
WoW.com — ... of Kael'thas, of course! He'll presumably be joining up with KwanzaaBot and the Chanukah Zombie later on, but for now, it's just him and his reindeer ... hey, it IS just him and his reindeer. Where are the presents? He stole the blasted presents! They're up on the auction house! I guess that's one way to raise the cash for that Tundra Mammoth. ...

New Years Resolutions
Picklemonkey — ... can handle running their own raids, and not let my obessive compulsive disorder force me to level my shaman to help heal on the other 10 man groups. (After running 2 Kara groups every weekend for 6 months, I never want to do that again o.O) Resist the urge to use the new Character Re-Customization tool to give Picklemonkey a sex change. Get my hunter to 80 so I can start mining/skinning my way to a [Traveler's Tundra Mammoth]. Write one post for my blog, every day. ...

The state of the Azerothian economy
WoW.com — ... of gold they had on their characters was, and I thought the amounts were relatively high: between 2,000 and 10,000g for about 40% of those polled. The other big chunk is between 200 and 2,000g (a little under 30% of respondents), which is where I'd expect most of the player base to be, but no: apparently Blizzard's bigger rewards in Wrath of the Lich King (not to mention the higher gold sinks, requiring us to try and raise more gold if we want to fly around or ride a mammoth) have made us richer as a whole. Thermalnoise also asked how much your ...

Been There, Done That
Random Ravings of Warcraft — ... The best way to make money, is to "not" spend it. Don't buy crazy shit like the Traveler's Tundra Mammoth or any other 1600g mounts for that matter. You can buy a simple flyer for 200g and it'll be just as fast to fly as any other epic flyer, and land mounts are only 100g as well. There's even some free rare drop mounts if you're "really" cheap and only buy the skill. But the droprate is fairly low on most of those. The flying mount from ...

Dual Spec Compared to Other Gold Sinks
Spicytuna — ... Would you spend 20,000 gold to be able to carry passengers on your mount? Again it sounds exaggerated but there are quite a few players out there who have already purchased their [Reins of the Traveler's Tundra Mammoth] or spend around the same amount for their ...

Selling Raid Loot
Shields Up! — ... and the mount are be much more attractive than Naxxramas. People DO pay tons of gold for some strange mount. As it stands right now there are still a lot of people who want the drake in my guild, so this might not be realistic to ever happen. ...