Level 60 mount - is it worth it?Follow

Hi all,

my druid is now level 61 (well on the way to level 62). I never bothered to get the level 40 mount since my travel form was fast enough and more convenient than the mount (can go into travel form during combat for example).

I'm now considering if I should get the level 60 mount and pay 600 gold for the riding skill or whether I should wait until level 68. At level 68 I get the flight form and if I'm right I also get riding with skill 225 for free (!) together with the flight form. At least this is what several websites say.

So basically, what would you suggest:
1) Wait for level 68 (and thus save 600 gold) to get the level 60 mount.
2) Spend the 600 gold now to get the level 60 mount.

I'm currently leaning towards option 1) since I see that at level 70 I will need to spend 5000 gold for riding skill 300 in order to get my epic flight form.

What did / would you do?

Many thanks,
Michael

In fact, you have to also get the 75 training that costs about 80g.

So in reality, you've saved nothing at all.

As far as i know, to get the higher riding skills, you must have the ones before it learnt as well.

Additionally, don't forget about Battlegrounds. No flying mounts (or flight form) in there. If you intend to BG (as it seems everyone does these days for the S1 goodies), epic land mount is kinda a must.

It's no more a "must" in AV than any other, in fact I'd argue that having the epic mount in AV is a convenience whereas in AB, WSG, EotS it's a critical piece of executing a winning strategy. "Must" in the sense that anything in WoW is a "must" of course. You could do BGs naked and with run turned off, but you wouldn't be very effective.

In AV, generally, you're offense or defense. If you're O, you roll with the pack southward. If you're D, you stay back and could conceivably never mount up (though everyone does). It isn't all that common to find O or D suddenly needing quick reinforcements. If you are at that point, it's probably a loss anyway.

In AB, quickly moving from one over-defended node to an underdefended one can make all the difference. Recapping before the node switches "ownership" saves a ton of resources.

EotS, as a cross between AB and WSG in terms of overall goals (node/flag concept), favors having an epic mount for similar reasons. The zerg factor (quickly hitting an undefended FR/BE or MT/DR, depending on your faction) makes it slightly more important here.

In WSG, meh, not as huge, though catching that flag-running druid in travel form is alot easier at +100%...not that you can kill the bastid once you get there anyway...

Actually try without even a level 40 mount! The OP never even got that!

/shudder