With Love From Darnassus: The Argent Tournament (Mounts)

Hello again! Going to talk a little bit about the Argent Tournament and how it fits into the whole Mountain O' Mounts thing...There are quite a few mounts available through the tournament, some cooler than others, but I think I'm going to need to get some through the tournament in order to finish this Mountain O' Mounts achievement.

Right now, I am at 88 of 100 mounts. There are two I can purchase for 1600 gold each from vendors. The red drake and the armored snowy gryphon.

The Red Drake is available from Wyrmrest Accord with an exalted reputation. It's the exact same model as the Bronze Drake from The Culling of Stratholme...just a different color. It's a cool mount, for sure, and I'll need to get my hands on it for the mount achievement. I'm just never a big fan of parting with the gold I work so hard to earn...really doesn't make me a happy druid.

You know?

The other mount that I can get would be from Mei Francis in Dalaran. She's the exotic mount vendor.

I've actually always had a sort of fondness for the snowy gryphon. Just the fact that it's pure white and just a really pretty mount was awesome. The sad part was that, until Wrath was released, it was only a slow flying mount. I never bothered to purchase one before because I always used Swift Flight Form. Instant cast beats the 3 second mount summon when you're wanting to get moving...and quickly.

But then, Blizz had to go and start this whole "achievement" stuff and with the possibility of getting a dragonhawk for my Alliance toon finally in sight...I started buying up and farming mounts like crazy!

So here I am, sitting at 88 mounts. I could get the drake and the gryphon really soon if I spent some time farming a little gold. (3200 gold for 2 mounts is...something I'm struggling with right now lol) But that would bring me up to 90 mounts, leaving me 10 away from the goal.

So how does the Argent tournament fit in?

For one thing, it is pretty rewarding from a financial standpoint. Between all of the dailies I think you would be earning nearly 200 gold a day, easily. Well, that's how it is for now, since I'm still working on my Crusader title. I still have the valiant dailies for the cities to do. That's about 5 quests a day at 10+ gold per turn in...it's good cash flow for sure.

So, doing the tournament dailies helps to fund the mount achievement grind. But there are so many mounts available from the tournament...I should have no trouble reaching the 100 mount achievement once I get the seals together.

Here's a list of the Argent Tournament mounts that are available to Alliance (sorry hordies...). The catch is that you need to be exalted with each of the factions in order to be able to purchase anything from their quartermasters. Not entirely sure if you have to have already become a champion of that city or not...but I digress.

Here's the list (please let me know in comments if I've missed any):

The Exodar
Exodar Elekk - 100 Champion's Seals
Great Red Elekk - 5 Champion's Seals + 500 Gold
Darnassus
Darnassian Nightsaber - 100 Champion's Seals
Swift Moonsaber - 5 Champion's Seals + 500 Gold
Ironforge
Ironforge Ram - 100 Champion's Seals
Swift Violet Ram - 5 Champion's Seals + 500 Gold
Gnomeregan
Gnomeregan Mechanostrider - 100 Champion's Seals
Turbostrider - 5 Champion's Seals + 500 Gold
Stormwind
Stormwind Steed - 100 Champion's Seals
Swift Gray Steed - 5 Champion's Seals + 500 Gold
Any Quartermaster
Argent Hippogryph - 150 Champion's Seals
Crusader's Quartermaster
Argent Warhorse - 100 Champion's Seals
(Must have earned title: Crusader and achievement: Exalted Champion of The Alliance)
Silver Covenant Quartermaster
Quel'Dorei Steed - 100 Champion's Seals
Silver Covenant Hippogryph - 150 Champion's Seals

Now, I already have my two Darnassian mounts. Had to. How could I call myself a loyal Night Elf without them? hehe

So that leaves 4 mounts that I can get without doing three years worth of dailies for the Tournament. That would bring my total to 94, assuming I bought the drake and snowy gryphon. Not too shabby...still 6 away from the big goal though.

Now, I'm still farming Karazhan every week, along with Zul'Gurub every 3 days and H:Magister's Terrace every day. If any of those mounts end up dropping, that's one step closer to the goal, right? And those are just solo farming drops. I still try to run Vault of Archavon 10m and 25m every week, and I've been trying to get into Onyxia's Lair Groups. I'm not going to rely on any of these drops because...well we all know how the gods of RNG feel about me...

I mean, I used to religiously do the daily quest offered by Gretta the Arbiter in Storm Peaks...every day...for months...and still haven't gotten my polar bear mount. I'm still trying, but not quite as religiously as I once did. I need a break from her sometimes...else when she gives me crappy yeti cheese I might fly into a feral rage and maul Gretta and all of Storm Peaks off the damn map...

And assuming none of them drop...that means I would need a metric fudge-ton of Champion's Seals in order to get to the 100 Mount Mark. I'm running low on options, unfortunately. I "could" try to get one of the engineering mounts, but honestly...they're too noisy for me and I really kind of just don't like them at all. I'll save them as a last resort because of price and annoyance level.

Hmm, I'm starting to really have fun posting pictures of the mounts here...maybe I'll post a wish list! YEAH!