Maulgak wrote:
It's not about the difficulty of the quest, it's about putting forth the effort to get something that is unique to your class. Every class in the game has the right to buy an epic mount, but only 2 have a unique mount that, until this change, required effort on your part to earn. Now that's being taken away. There is nothing special about these mounts anymore if they can just be bought off the trainer like any other spell. Edited, Nov 6th 2008 5:08am by Maulgak
That's precisely it. I'm at level 62 with my draenei paladin, and I could have used the gold to buy the advanced riding skill and get myself a cool cat (Exalted with Darnassus! Yay!). But I remember questing all of Feralas for the rep with Darnassus, and how cool it felt to get my Frostsaber when I'd finally *earned it*. By the same token, I wanted to do the quest for the charger, because it was something that I had to work for. And that never meant getting a couple of 70s to pull me through Stratholme.
For Strat, we were a highly cool assembly of four paladins (one holy, two ret, and me, the prot) and my friend's shadow priest. Three of us are on the charger quest, one's already done it and loves to help out other paladins in their noble pursuit, my friend brought her priest because she wants to experience this supposedly dead and useless content. It was great fun. Key to finding a group? Get more paladins.
Those who want it easy will always find a way to get it easy. But I'm disappointed they removed this quest. Dedication to the cause should, after all, be the hallmark of a paladin ;)
NOW. I sincerely hope I can still finish the bloody questchain, because we meant to do Dire Maul on Monday. Does it still work? After spending 400g on the quest, I sure don't have any left to just buy the riding skill.