Which would be faster to acquire? Farm for the sea turtle or farm gold to buy the more expensive mounts, 8K plus, for the mount o'mount achievement. I really don't want to farm for it every day for a whole week straight and not get it when I could be farming gold and guarantee to get a mount.

Turn your fishies into gold!

Fish feasts!

Find the most expensive fish food on your server and fish that type of fish. Turn them all into their respective most expensive food and make gold.

I think I made about 4,000 gold farming for my turtle, but it depends on your server and your luck with the turtle drop.

Also, first! Hai Bornakk :P

Believe me, turtle mount is easier.

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Believe me, turtle mount is easier.

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idk,,, depends on how much gold u are trying to farm. What numbers u thinking, Vyn?

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Which would be faster to acquire? Farm for the sea turtle or farm gold to buy the more expensive mounts, 8K plus, for the mount o'mount achievement. I really don't want to farm for it every day for a whole week straight and not get it when I could be farming gold and guarantee to get a mount.

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A week? LMAO

A WEEK?? ROTFLMAO

If that's all you think it's likely to take, farm for gold. Seriously. You'll end up less likely to want to gouge your eyes out.

See I went pool fishing for the first time yesterday since 3.1, figured I'd get some feast mattes and I might get a turtle, cast #17 got me my turtle.

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A week? LMAO

A WEEK?? ROTFLMAO

If that's all you think it's likely to take, farm for gold. Seriously. You'll end up less likely to want to gouge your eyes out.

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Or you will find yourself doing the fishing daily in the wrong area, wonderdering why on earth you'd been fishing for 15 mins and stupid quest item doesn't drop, and suddenly see blue in the loot window.

<--- My case with he turtle.

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idk,,, depends on how much gold u are trying to farm. What numbers u thinking, Vyn?

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Having gone both routes, let me share my story.

It took me approximately 1200-1500 casts for the turtle mount. This was spaced over the period of two weeks or so, intensified only when I got Turtles All The Way Down as my assignment in the Get That Achievement thread. I took it casually and did maybe 100-200 casts every day or two.

The mounts that require extensive gold farming are as follows: Armored Blue Wind Rider/Snowy Gryphon (1600g after Exalted with Kirin Tor), Red Drake (1600g after exalted with Wyrmrest Accord), Grand Ice Mammoth (8000g after Exalted with Sons of Hodir), Mechano-hog/Mekgineer's Chopper (12,500g in vendor parts, assuming you farm other mats), and Traveler's Tundra Mammoth (16,000g after Exalted with Kirin Tor).

I have all of the aforementioned mounts. To get them, I had to drop Engineering, spend 2000g to powerlevel Jewelcrafting, spend days doing the daily for Northrend patterns purchaseable with tokens, download Auctioneer and Auctionator, learn the prices and values of gems and cuts, learn how to play the AH, what times of day, what cuts when, spend roughly 1-2,000g on ore every few days for prospecting...

And Jewelcrafting is the most lucrative profession. It takes work. I can't imagine trying to do it with a gathering profession. Mining for days. Endless days. Gathering herbs over and over and over and over. I mined up adamantite ore and sold it at 15-20g a stack when you could only do ten dailies a day to get my epic flying. I cannot even imagine trying to farm up enough ore to buy a 16,000g mount. I'd kill myself.

Having said all that, while learning how to make gold in WoW is harder than fishing up a turtle mount, I can now say I've spent about 75,000g in the past two months and have another 13,000g on me. So while it was easier to fish up a turtle mount, I'm glad I learned how to farm gold. But it takes work. Someone who's just going for a mount achievement should grab the fishing pole.

Addendum: I know full well I'm probably in the group of people who got the turtle mount much easier than most. Zoltan, the top achievement point earner, doesn't even have it yet. Other people have reported casting over 4,000 times with no luck. So I know it was easier for me. But even if I had to cast 7,000 times for it, it still is easier than farming eight to sixteen thousand gold.

The safer route would be to farm gold. Just do some dailies every day and if you can get some friends together, go run some old raids (its amazing how much gold you can get from those places). Getting the turtle though is pretty cool...especially if you have the companion pet Speedy.

I EASILY made another 10,000g, just doing a few dailies and going about my usual business, in the time it took me to do 8,000 catches at the Turtle mount, with nothing to show for it but a lot fish feasts :|

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I EASILY made another 10,000g, just doing a few dailies and going about my usual business, in the time it took me to do 8,000 catches at the Turtle mount, with nothing to show for it but a lot fish feasts :|

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please tell me you got that pesky turtle.

Vyn, interesting story! *considers dropping herbing*

You could fish in Fangtooth Herring schools to sell the Fangtooth Herring fish on the AH, as well as the chance to fish up a Turtle Mount or a Dark Herring (both for different achievements).

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Believe me, turtle mount is easier.

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My seventeen thousand casts disagree.

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please tell me you got that pesky turtle.

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Nope :|

I'll have to being farming again sooon...down to less than 100 fish feasts.

I dont know, I got my turtle in about 10 casts (I really did) while out doing the fishing daily. Now if I could get that dang white polar bear from the daily!

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Nope :|

I'll have to being farming again sooon...down to less than 100 fish feasts.

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/comforts and crosses fingers for Ritsuka
=)


@ poster above me: we are on the same boat, matey =(

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/comforts and crosses fingers for Ritsuka
=)


@ poster above me: we are on the same boat, matey =(

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Thanku~! X3

And good luck with your Polar Bear~! Those stingy blue women can't hold out on you forever.