20 Days of Gold Making - Day Nineteen.

Nev from Auction House Addict has created a community project for the gold makers among us 20 Days of Gold Making You can find a list of all of the participants in this blog post at AH addict.
 

The question for today is;


"Have you bought yourself anything really expensive as a reward for earning all that gold? Or do you have a self-present in mind for when you reach your goal?"


Hell yeah! I'm all about the spending! I've not only lavished myself with gifts buy my friends too! My first big purchase after hitting gold cap was my Spectral Tiger - a mount I'd coveted for years. I've bought a great deal of mounts and pets some from the Black Market auction house, some of which I've posted about on the blog.


I've bought my Fiance a Rooster mount, given away about eight Vial of the Sands and multiple Hogs. Geared my Fiance up for raiding on various alt to the sum of about 200k. 

I dread to think how much gold I've actually spend but that's the good thing about making gold! I've never fully understood making it just to sit on it!

Black Market auction house - Fiery Warhorse.

The Black Market Auction House got me again! I blogged two weeks ago about having bought myself an Onyxian Drake from the BMAH. This week a Fiery Warhorse showed up and I just couldn't resist the urge to bid on it. I decided pretty early on that I wasn't going to spend any more than 100k. I started to bid while it was on short (between 30 mins and 2 hours) and someone started to counter my bids! However I did notice that he had to keep running to the mailbox before placing another bid. My idea of limiting myself went out the window. I felt this fierce sense of competition. I wanted to win the auction no matter what. Betting that I likely had more gold than him we both kept bidding. Eventually he stopped and I won the mount for 95k. Boy was it exciting!

Fiery Warhorse.

Headless Horseman's Mount.

 These are pretty much two perfect Warlock mounts which is I think why I've started to level mine. She's currently Eighty Eight but I've just ran out of rested xp so I'm going to take a break and focus on something else for a bit. 

Believing my own lies finally cost me 92k - Onyxian Drake.

For as long as I can remember I've lied to myself about things I'm going to do in WoW. I don't lie on purpose. It's not a lie when I say it. I just get really distracted and I'm pretty forgetful. That right there is also a lie. I know damn well it's a lie when I say it. I know I'll never follow though!

When Blizzard announced account wide mounts and pets I was stoked. I've always had to obtain mounts and pets on my Priest. I was gutted when I got Reins of the blue drake on my Druid from Occulus during Wrath of the Lich King. I hated doing raids or instances that had a chance to drop a mount on any character besides Korla just in case! However once the account wide announcement came it meant I could do those instances on any character and ultimately it wouldn't matter.

Here are some of the mount related lies I've often told myself;

I'll do Onyxia every week on at least three characters - Haven't done it once.
I'll do ZG HC on my Hunter every day for both mounts - Did it for three days then never went back despite loving that Panther!
I'll do Kara on at least five characters per week. (I have around 30 capable of Soloing Attune) - I did it for the first two weeks then stopped.
I'll do Stonecore normal five times until I get locked out every so often - Stone-what? Stone-where? Yeah I've never done that either. 

On Monday night after tending to my crops I ventured over to the Black Market auction house as I often do if I'm in Valley of the four winds. To my surprise there was an Onyxian Drake. I've never seen one of these on the BMAH. As it was on a very long bidding and knowing it'd still be there in the morning I decided to go to bed and check on it when I woke up. By Tuesday morning the price hadn't moved much so I placed a bid and went offline, when I returned I'd been outbid but the auction was now on between thirty minutes and two hours I decided to bid again and spent the next two hours leveling six battle pets to twenty five around the BMAH area.

I won the mount in the end for ninety two thousand.

This gives me something I won't do to cross off of my "I might do" list and I've made the gold back since then. So my Warrior gets to enjoy a new mount!

Onyxian Drake - 92k gold worth of lazy!

Have you bought anything off of the Black Market auction house? Ours rarely seems to have anything of much interest on it. I'd love to see an Ashes of Al'ar but that's another thing I promise to farm every week and then don't! Are you good at sticking to your own plans?