I put my Death Knight engineer-alt-b**ch to work in his custom shop. It cost me a grip, but oh man was it worth it…
Mekgineer’s Chopper Schematic = 340G
Elementium-plated Exhaust Pipe = 1500G
8 Goblin-machined Pistons = 8000G
Salvaged Iron Golem Parts = 3000G
12 Titansteel Bars = 880G
2 Arctic Furs = 106G
40 Handfuls of Cobalt Bolts = 70G
Riding my new hog through the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor, on my quest for World Explorer…
Priceless…
A little cliché, I know, but it still seemed fitting. 😉
That was a healthy chunk of gold, but hey… it’s only gold…
No other in-game purchase has filled me with as much satisfaction and delight as my new chopper.
6 months ago I would have never thought this possible. I was the sort of player who had scarcely more than 500G at any given time. So how did I do it..?
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Here’s the story…
How I farmed the gold to buy the mats for my Mekgineer’s Chopper
I have the updated honor system to thank for my vast riches. Well, that and the fact that I quit raiding about 4 months ago. I still participate in the occasional late night VoA farm-fest, but I put a halt to scheduled weekly grinds at the end of last April. Raiding has always been a huge gold-sink for me, so giving that up helped to curb the outflow.
Now don’t get me wrong… I love to raid, it’s just that I have to make choices from time to time, and my huntery intuition told me that I needed to spend less time as “Garwulf” during those prime evening hours. Ya dig..? I also pride myself on making such choices before problems should arise, rather than after. 😉
So anyway… without a weekly raiding commitment, this left me to my own devices. What to do..? The choice was easy… PvP my balls off. 😀
After a good night of BG’ing, provided I have an ample supply of tasty, cold barley pops in the fridge to fuel my play, I can earn about 60-70K honor. This I then redeem for 6-7x Cardinal Rubies, which then get mailed to my wife’s JC, whom I then use to cut said gems into 6-7x Delicate Cardinal Rubies. Those rubies earn me about 150-190G apiece depending upon the current AH surplus.
At times I’ll redeem for other gems, so as not to flood the AH, but I’ve found that Delicate Cardinals are the most lucrative. They sell like hotcakes.
Now I don’t engage in all-night PvP fests all the time, but I’d estimate that on the low end, I can make 1000G per week. If I’ve got the PvP bug, which I’ve had an incurable case of lately, I can earn in upwards of 2,500G for the week. On average, that’s about 7Kgold per month. Not too shabby…
So, as you can see… a battle-scarred, cigar-chomping war pig such as myself, can earn a pretty decent living nowadays. Only catch is, you have to like PvP. No poroblem here. 😉
The other thing I did to supplement my gold stores was to redeem Frost Emblems for Primordial Saronites, then flip them in the AH back when they were going for 1300G apiece. Rather than craft my Rock-Steady Treads right away, I sold my Primordials when the getting was good. 😀
Whimsy
Last night it occurred to me that it would be a fun idea to go for the World Explorer achievement. I hadn’t really been all that concerned with getting that one, but lately I’ve noticed a few of my guildies have been going after it. Then it occurred to me… what better time to explore the further reaches of Azeroth than right now! After all, things as we know them will be changing forever in a few months.
That’s when I decided to pull up the exploration tab in my achievement panel. Much to my surprise, there were dozens and dozens of areas in the old world that I had yet to fully explore. So, I then decided to embark upon a sentimental journey through Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms.
At that point I stopped myself and thought, I’m freaking loaded (i.e., rich, wealthy… fri. and/or sat. nights are when the other definition may apply to me 😉 ) right now… if I’m going to go for World Explorer, I need to do this right! 😀
It was then that I logged onto my 80 Death Knight engineer and saw that he was about 80% of the way through Revered with Alliance Vanguard. Time to dust off the DK and put his ass to work! After about two hours of random Icecrown quests and about 4 heroics, Winds of the North flashed upon my screen. Woo hoo!
I flew over to see Logistics Officer Silverstone and purchased the Mekgineer’s Chopper Schematic as quick as you please, bought all of the needed mats, then crafted a war steed worthy of being graced by my elven tushy.
All told, Mekgineer’s Chopper ended up costing me about 13.9K, including the price of the schematic itself. It’s a good chunk o’ change, but oh so worth it.
Best part is, I still have over 12K left over, meaning I should be able to easily maintain my goal of having 20K G when Cataclysm launches. 🙂
Lastly… I was going to just post a screenshot or two and leave it at that, but damn… I’m excited..! I couldn’t help but add a few details. 😉
How fun is that though..? Not even I had any sort of clue that I’d be logging off last night with a sweet new ride. Impulse at its best. 🙂
I recenty got up to 50K in Gold and was going for the Mammoth mount, but changed my mind and got the chopper first, i am so glad i did i wont be wasting money on the mammoth since this mount can go through doors and i have Jeeves to sell my crap when im away from a town.
Currently doing Loremaster finished Outlands and Northrend now riding my chopper through Kalimdor, it’s awesome nothing like riding in style everywhere.
Evertime i leave a city to head to the next one i advertise anyone wanting a ride, and always get takers from low level peeps, nice to share the privilege of having a bike
Npast, speaking through personal experience do not buy the opposite faction bike. There are race restrictions not allowing horde to ride the chopper and vice versa. I did it for my druid who is my mount collector and lets just say now, that my horde mage has a sweet ride now. 😛 (check the pic of his bike in the mail, it shows it there.)
Grats Gar!
I make gold exactly the same way as you do. Also I have alchemy so I can transmute 1 epic gem a day. I love to PVP and play both hunter and rogue, hunter mostly in battlegrounds, rogue in arena, so I had to max out engineering for both of them, as engineering is a must pvp profession for now. That was expensive 🙁 Getting a chopper is tempting but I am thinking of buying the traveling tundra mammonth since it comes with vendors and is great for farming.
When I get filthy rich I will buy the ally version (I am horde) of the chopper on the neutral AH, just to be different, plus it looks pretty cool on those screenshots of yourse, so I will go for the ally version 🙂
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And this is why I shouldn’t post in the middle of the night ><
An add on to my last post, Congrats on your new bike! Ride in style!
Gratz Gar! Currently working on getting mine done. I keep getting side tracked though, so it’s taking me awhile. I love the Engineering mounts. I still ride around in my “copter”.
I am so bad, I want one, but don’t want to buy it until they let my pet ride shotgun xD
Grats on the Chopper! I hope to be riding in style soon too. 😀
Hey Gar,
Gratz on da CHOPPA!!! I have a gnome warrior who has one and he LOVES it! The crying shame in this whole situation is that you built yours AFTER the chopper was classified as a “mount” and not a “vehicle”.
Back when they were first availabe, choppers were vehicles. It was bad in that you could not act off of your mount (i.e. mine or Charge at a mob as my warrior liked to do). You had to actually click the little dismount arrown. It was AWESOME, though, in that you took NO FALL DAMAGE since you were in a vehicle and not on a mount.
I searched the world for where I could take the longest fall from and my record was to jump off of the Temple of Storms all the way down and DOWN INTO the bottom of the Engine of the Makers in the Storm Peaks (any you had to jump at juuuuuuuust the right point or you would land on the rim of the engine or on one of the pipes inside). THAT, my friend, was some bitchin’ base jumping Azeroth style!
Gratz again and have you noticed that the controls are actually two little joysticks at the base of what would be the gas tank? You don’t actually reach out on big ass handlebars…those are just the mirrors! =P
damm thats expensive man,
gar since you were giving some gold farming cinda tips here i got a question, my main hunter has jc and lw as professions im lvling an alt druid now and wanna make it a farmer he has now skining and herbalism wouldnt it be better and more profitable if i changed herbalism to mining in your opinion????
so it could fit for my hunter to make gems??
ty and gz with your chopper 😉
Yes, definitely… if your hunter has two crafting professions, you should definitely set your druid up with the gathering professions that supply those trades.
I think mining is probably the most lucrative of the gathering professions anyway.
hmm, yeah cinda sucks im now 71 with it and pretty much maxed out with the professions at this point (375) need to go to trainer, i think i will keep these to for now use my leather mats for my hunter and use the herb mats to make pots and flask and put rest on the ah and gather money for mats to power lvl mining 😀
but yet ty again for your tips and gz again on ya nice choppaa 😀 ^^
Congrats! I’ve been going back and forth on whether to get this. I fear that as soon as I do, a newer-super-cooler mount will be announced for Cataclysm that costs just as much if not more. Sigh… did it really, really feel worth it to you? Or is there some cognitive dissonance at play here? Hehe
I’m glad I sprung for it. It’s increased my enjoyment of the game, and that’s all I’m really after.
I like everything about it… from the cool sound effects, including the rev of the engine and the sound of the gears shifting, the smoke coming out of the exhaust, to the low-profile perspective… plus, it can hold a passenger!
It’s possible they’ll introduce a new mount, reduce the cost of the mats, etc… but then again, maybe they won’t. Regardless, I have my spiffy new chopper to enjoy and show off right now.
If it’s not going to break the bank, I say go for it. 🙂 As long as you leave yourself with ample gold once Cata hits, you shouldn’t have any regrets.
I have two of those bad boys. I got one for my pally since he was the one that farmed the ore and prospected the gems that earned the money for the chopper. Plus it seemed right for his character to have one. I got the second one for my hunter since she is the mount collector. She looks pretty hot riding around in one and it is fun to be able to take low level friends around in them.
Hahah! Me and my brothers love WoW and we all had a great laugh thanks to this post! Maybe I’ll see you cruising by sometime! 😀
-Laura