Zaro said:
There was. Then nerfs happened. This applies to the only existing rng 310 (al'ar) too, Kael got his ass fisted back in the day with the nerfbat cause people like handouts, then they removed the full clear requirement, then they didn't remove the mount ZA bear style like they should have.
Now with the 310 mounts are still available from Ulduar 3.2, the Ony mount being rng-tastic and the upcoming Brewfest opening up the first wave of log-in welfare drakes, guess you could say the 'prestige' or rarity has officially gone. That's probably the source of the whining, dunno, reading is hard like this game. Rng isn't fun or rewarding.
Gimme a fucking break, dude. There is no magic "prestige" attached to 310% speed mounts. It doesn't flag a giant "I HAVE A HUGE DICK" flag over your head when your mount is 30% faster than the vendor bought ones. It's a personal decision to be impressed by a specific mount of not.
The problem is, every one of your posts looks like a random amalgamation of the words "nerf" "casual" "lame" "rng" "welfare" etc., but you're simply not getting it; the game isn't designed solely from the perspective of jacking off poopsockers. Read: there's a reason why Blizzard is completely filthy rich and people like you aren't designing the game. Because the terrible design ideas you float out appear to be premised on the idea that the game should be made non-fun for people that don't devote their entire lives to it.
Memo: The reason they didn't remove Ashes of Al'ar is because it's so exceedingly rare it's retarded because you can only run the instance one a week, i.e. 52 times in a given year and the chance of a mount with less than 1% drop rate dropping in 52 runs is still exceedingly low. I've only met one player that even has Ashes of Al'ar, and that's with the level cap being 10 higher. The idea you've got floating around in your head that a bunch of DKs that spam D&D as their primary attack are going to sitting around Krasus's Landing all rocking Onyxia Broodlings is just delusional.
Besides, your argument about the Amani War Bear is so flawed it's ridiculous; the difference between the Amani War Bear and the Ashes of Al'ar is because the AWB was skill based on performing a timed run which would be trivial in WotLK gear. They aren't even remotely the same thing and you know it.
