Then they made the raids so that everybody could see them, but the awesome-looking mounts were still reserved for the top 1% luckiest or most hardcore players.

Now I can have a sparkly mount that leaves a trail of stars behind it without having to be hardcore or lucky!

But honestly, a good portion of my reasoning for buying one is that I would NEVER again have to grind rep on my draenei alts to avoid riding that stupid elephant. A pegasus made out of stars is a much more fitting mount for a holy being from outer space than a stupid elephant.

If this mount was three times it’s current size, it would slay me.

Hahaha, this. If you want to show off and be a “special snowflake” sadly the cash shop purchases won’t earn you that, because they will be very prolific. It will fade a bit after day one “explosion”, but they still will be very popular.

Why don’t I buy that mount? Because available in-game mounts satisfy me in my needs already. All I want is a mount that:

- doesn’t get stuck in doors;
reason why my Draenei changed Elekk for a Cat and when Voa mammoth dropped with me as ML I just handed it to people without even rolling on it myself, hate mammoths;

- isn’t noisy;
no Mechanostriders, no stupid DK horsey;

- and matches my character color theme;
I have a troll with pink hair, so I bought her a Pink Hawkstrider – oh year Raptors get stuck in Undercity lift.

I don’t care if half the wow population has (or is able to get) the same Cat, Ram, Hawkstrider my characters use, I just want it convenient and good looking for me.

If I was to buy a car I would look for similar parameters: get it cheap, small (better for parking and petrol costs), quiet, easy to use and in color / design I like. I wouldn’t really care if my neighbor has the same type of car or the model from competitor’s company, why would I.

Having a similar system in WoW would be fantastic…but I wonder if it would inadvertently cause more work for the already swamped art department. It works in WAR somewhat because you rarely replace a piece of gear without it looking exactly like the one you’re wearing. WoW follows a more Diablo-esque style where upgrades (at least while leveling) are frequent.

We also have to remember that Blizzard loves taking sets of old and recolouring them for future content.

Alas, it appears I’ve totally derailed this post into oblivion.

Simply put, I’d desire one in order to have a unique, hard to acquire, and awesome mount. But I will not settle for one out of three. I dread the moment a sparkly pony mount train is inadvertently spawned in the bowels of Ironforge, but I’ll be there, sporting a Palomino in stark contrast, my fragile desire for uniqueness secure.

P.S. How many Paladins now feel there exists no excuse to not bless the class with a summonable armoured Pegasus?