Worgenbait wrote:So... honestly, I'm stumped here, but how do other people NOT have a lot of gold? Even hardcore raiders and PvPers should have enough time to run one Cata raid a week and maintain garrison missions once a day. That alone should get you a game time token every couple weeks and still save a bit, even with just one character.
I don't want to come off as braggy or condescending, but... it honestly baffles me.
For myself, it comes down to a combination of the cost of maintaining my alt army and that I just don't enjoy grinding out gold. Between my two accounts, on my primary realm (Feathermoon), I have 22 characters that range from low 90s to 100. Each one needs gold to pay for garrison upgrades... which come faster than the ability to pay for them. Fortunately, these characters all have already gotten all their flight training paid for. On the realm connected to my main realm (Scarlet Crusade), I have 10 characters between my two accounts. Now, one of those characters is a placeholder for my future gnome hunter and has not been played at all. The others range in level from my gnome warrior (my lowest level played character at 25) to 3 at level 100. Four of these characters are high enough level to go to Draenor (the 3 at 100 plus one at 94), one is 81, one is almost 70 and two are in their low 60s. Even if you figure the cost at 4k each time I have gotten the higher levels of flight... that comes out to over 200k that I have spent on flight alone (and that does
not count the cost of the lower levels of flight). Add in the costs of my garrisons (I have 14 that are at level 3 on these realms). This is on my primary realm (and the realm connected to that realm) alone. Of all the realms where I play, this is where I have the most gold (and since I have a total of 28 characters at level 100, I have 14
more level 3 garrisons on my alt realms).
On top of that, I have several guilds (4 horde side, 3 alliance) on my primary realm for personal storage. Each of these has 7 guild bank tabs. I have also helped friends buy the higher ranks of flight a couple of times.
I expect that if I only played a single character, I would have a LOT more gold than I do. Oh, if I really worked at it, I am sure that I could build up my gold higher than I have, even
with all these expenses, but that is not something that I find fun (I actually prefer to work on my lower level alts than to mess with my max level ones' garrisons), so it is a slow process for me... and whenever I do start to build up my gold to a decent amount, there is generally another expense that pops up. Maybe it's a new pet on the AH. Maybe it is an alt that needs riding training. Maybe it is something else (I spent so much gold buying heirlooms and upgrading them all to level 90, that I have refused to ever spend another copper on heirlooms again).
...and really, once I have paid for the things I want for my characters and account, I don't really NEED a lot of gold, so I am not willing to grind gold just for the sake of having a lot of gold, especially since doing that is not something that I enjoy.
I do recognize that it is a trade off... and those people who enjoy grinding gold will always have more than I do. I just place a greater value on doing things that
I find fun than I do on virtual money. So I figure that I won't be getting this pet, and accept that, as I have accepted that I will never get any of the collector's edition pets from StarCraft or Diablo, etc.