The Queue: Far from home

I’m staying at my Mom’s house while she is taking a big trip. Feeding the fish, watering the lawn, and mowing said watered lawn. Y’know, house stuff. Don’t worry, Bacardi has my roommate looking after him and making sure he gets his soups and feasts most fancy.

It’s not even that far away from my house, but I always like to play it up — which annoys my favorite person a little bit. I know it’s only 25 minutes away, but that’s like forever!

While I figure out what I didn’t pack along with me, it’s time for — The Queue

Congrats! I made the Onyx Panther back in Pandaria and rode the heck out of it basically all the way until Legion. It was big and striking and a little braggy, which is all the hallmarks of a great mount.

As for gold making, that can be tough. If you want to just do PVE content and make gold that way, loot everything, and run your favorite long raid with lots of bosses and trash. Vendor it all, and repeat with alts. You can also keep an eye out for high gold World Quests and work those in.

If you start involving the Auction House, you’re going to have a few options. You can try to get in a BOE farming group and sell current BOE items for big paydays. Those can be worth a few hundred thousand at peak times. You can also sell old BOE items for transmog, as well as any pets you might’ve gotten from dungeons and such. The market on them is going to be pretty long, though. Be prepared for lots of relisting unless you have something super duper rare.

With professions, just figure out what raiders need and make those things — or gather those things. Bonus points if it’s something that can only be summoned and skinned once a day. I made serious bank off the rare cobra scales in Zaralek Caverns.

To truly make a lot of gold, you’ll have to be pretty mercenary with your gameplay. Everything that doesn’t lock to your character is destined for the Auction House first.

Good luck!

Whatever they want to ride! Just like how a gorilla can sit anywhere it wants in a movie theater.

Jokes aside, thematically, I would choose something beefy. Ok, not all jokes aside.

The point still stands, though, something large that reflects the struggles flying things would have at carrying a big cow person. I’m thinking Proto-Drakes, Mechanical Suits, and Elementals. If your Tauren/Highmountain Tauren is a Shaman, the Legion Elemental mount is perfect. If they’re not, the Jaina mount is great, also the various death elementals from Shadowlands also work in a pinch.

I would say if you’re not going to do a Proto-Drake, the Frost Wyrms from ICC also feel very capable of lifting a Tauren in a way that a regular living drake doesn’t.

It didn’t happen to me, but I raided with someone in Dragon Soul who got not just Experiment 12-B but the drake from Deathwing in the same raid lockout. Not only did both of the mounts drop, but the raider /rolled high enough to win them both.

We were all very gracious about them winning both, and it wasn’t a sore spot for a week or anything. Neither was it a sore spot when two months later they stopped playing entirely.

Still, though, the amount of luck needed to not only have both mounts, plus someone to beat every other raider’s roll, is astronomical. Whenever something like that happens, people like to say that it’s time to buy a lottery ticket, but I know the truth. They just wasted all of that good luck on Warcraft mounts and could’ve had millions of dollars instead!

Suckers.

No way, that opens the door to all kinds of other instant spell shenanigans. If you’re going to be invisible and skip things, you’re going to have to accept the downsides of not being able to do anything else to keep your concentration fully on being invisible.

Cat and Rogue stealth are totally different, though. Being able to sprint after hitting stealth is super fair and balanced. It’s even fair and balanced that Cat can use Stampeding Roar while still stealthed. It’s a very quiet roar.

Today’s Bacardi has started to feel the heat. The only answer is to stretch out so that he’s not all wrapped up on himself. It certainly wouldn’t be just going down into the basement, where it’s usually a few degrees cooler than the rest of the house. If you give him a boop to help stay cool, he’ll definitely boost your mount drop chances an extra percent or two. Blizzard won’t notice, I bet.

Would you Rather

Have a flying robot that cleans your house

or

Have a five-star chef robot that cooks you meals

Today’s Anna Earworm: Paranoid

Have a great week, y’all! Leave lots of questions for the other writers this week so they have a great one too! Plus, I hear that people who leave questions get extra mount drop luck…