Friday, November 7, 2008

What's a Baron's Mount, Mommy?

There has been a bit of an internal debate around here between myself and Keridwen. What is this debate on, you may ask? How important a Baron's Mount really is.

Let me give you a little background... The Baron's mount drops in Stratholme from the last boss. Prior to this last patch where all hell broke lose in so many ways(more on that another day), it had a drop rate that was akin to winning the lottery. Like .002 or 1 out of 5000. However, Blizzard, feeling sorry for the hundreds of thousands of utter nerds who spend their nights running through Strat(seriously, look at the thotbot article... people ran it like 2k+ times) upped the drop rate to 1/100. What does this mean? Now every Tom, Dick and Harry who had dreams of getting the mount, whether or not they had been farming it for years, had a shot.

And so off to Strat they all went.

I spent a night or so in Strat, of course. I thought it would be immensely funny if I could walk out of there with the first mount in my guild. Think about it-- new chick(relatively) gets the Baron's Mount before all the clamoring men who thought they deserved it more. Pure gold. Truly. However, my desire to annoy the members of Predatory Instinct was not high enough to actually cause me to farm the mount on a regular basis.

Cut to Halloween Eve. Keri sneaks out of bed in the middle of the night to sit on Sinead's computer and do what? Farm the Baron Mount. Now, as much as he'll argue that the room was too hot to sleep, he just wasn't tired, etc etc, he didn't once try to fix THOSE problems. Anyway, whining aside, what should happen at 8am? He gets a Baron's Mount!

Now here is where the debate begins. Would you, kind reader, wake up your dearest blog author to tell her about the mount? Bleary eyed, sans glasses, stumbling? Because that's exactly what Keri did. No shit.

But that's not the end of it... He has now taken to linking the mount in guild chat like... three or four times a day. While there is nothing wrong in being proud of your extremely rare drop mount(AWESOME), is it necessary to rub it in the face of all those trying to get it? I will let you decide, dear reader.

However, in all honesty, the mount is pretty damn cool looking. It's an undead skeletal horse. As Keri has said now, "It was like an undead stork brought it just for me!"

So with that, my friends, I wish you a Happy Halloween. Next time by the lazy author, I'm going to write a bit on All Hallows Eve in Azeroth(and Outlands)!

Ps. Keri, the Headless Horseman mount is cooler. <3

Hear that?

It's the grumbling of may tired workers here at WoW Blog City.

Somebody who shall remain nameless COUGHrhymeswithcannyCOUGH better boost morale around here unless she wants another strike on her hands.

Just saying.