A rather epic weekend

In the quest for the epic flyer I logged each of my characters on Saturday evening and did a quick calculation to see how much gold I had across them all. Titan Panel gold tracker used to work for this but since transferring Nefaros onto the second account this has stopped updating and I haven't had the inclination to look into it. Anyway, I was rather pleased to see I'd amassed a total in excess of 5400g. Enough for the training and the Swift Gryphon, sweet! So I logged Millymayl (the bank alt) and mailed her 350g to Dax and headed over to Honor Hold to trade with Nefaros (second account) and clean him out of 595g. Over to Shadow Moon Valley and I was the proud owner of epic flight (in fetching purple!).

 

I've had this skill for a few days now and I can honestly say it's worth EVERY "penny". Farming mining nodes and motes is a joy. This comes in as a double win when I fly everywhere rather than use the flight masters which means I can always stop off at those mining nodes I would have otherwise had to watch go sailing by beneath me. Gold is also saved on the daily flights from Shattrath to Area 52 to SMV. Yes I know I'm a mage so I can save some by porting to Shatt but it still adds up.

 

So you'd think that was all, alas no. In my previous post I mentioned the only downside of epic flight was the loss of my Flying Machine as I didn't have the mats to buy the Turbo Charged version. Well that wasn't entirely true. On Sunday after completing the dailies I set about creating as many of the mats as possible and hitting the required 375 engineering. I knew I was woefully short on Khorium for the Repair Bots required to get me to 375 but it suddenly occurred to me that this wasn't a problem. I'm a friggin' Gnome, therefore I get +15 engineering specialisation. This meant White Smoke Flares would get me to 370 albeit green from 360.

 

By the time I hit 375 engineering only one Repair Bot and 4 Hardened Adamantite Tubes were required so another quick totting up of the bank balance meant I could hit the AH for the remaining 3 Khorium Power Cores needed. Although these came in at a rather hefty IIRC 60g each I was able to offset this by selling the Hardened Adamantite Tubes. Auctioneer showed a 14 day mean price on these of 110g each so all for went up at 108g each. The last one sold last night. :-) As if the above spree wasn't bad enough I also picked up a Riding Crop for 170g giving +10% mount speed increase.

 

I really am flying now!