Get to the Choppa!

Ladies and gentlemen, I am awesome.

Why am I awesome, you ask? Well, by this point you should already know. I am disappointed in each and every one of you.

But in this specific instance, I am awesome because of what I just bought in World of Warcraft. Hold on, you say. How can something in a game make you awesome? It's not even real. Well, fuck you.

It's awesome because it's a goddamn fucking motorcycle. That's right. I now ride around in a motorcycle.

That's stupid, you may say. Well, unfortunately, you are incorrect. The word you were looking for is awesome. Or possibly badass. Or possibly sexy and/or manly. Any of those options works just fine.

Why is this such a big deal, you ask? Because it's fucking expensive. To just buy the parts (which you have to be an engineer to buy), it costs you twelve thousand, five hundred gold. Consider that the epic flyer, the best purchase you can make in the game, costs five thousand. This is twice that. Plus a big. Plus you need to get an engineer with the plans (the plans alone cost three hundred), plus you need to get a handful of other stuff.

The list of items needed:

Twelve Titansteel bars. These bars are made from titanium and various elementals, and you can only make one bar every twenty hours. In the beginning of Wrath of the Lich King, these things were going for a thousand gold a piece. Now they cost eighty gold a piece on the Auction House.

Forty Handfuls of Cobalt Bolts. To be honest, these aren't difficult to get, they're just really irritating. Cobalt spawns a lot less frequently than saronite, making it (though worth less) more time-consuming to farm.

Two Arctic Furs. These can be skinned off of any creature in Northrend, though they have a very low rate of being skinned. Luckily I had six of them in my bank, so this was not an issue.

Then comes the expensive stuff.

Eight Goblin-Machined Pistons. These cost a thousand gold a piece, making them altogether the biggest money-sink. You can only by these from a certain person, you must be an engineer, and there is no way to make it cheaper or make them yourself.

One Elementium-plated Exhaust Pipe. The exhaust has gotta come out somewhere. Apparently somewhere plated with elementium. Whatever the fuck that is. One thousand five hundred gold, also only purchased by engineers from a certain person and impossible to craft on your own.

Then there's the Salvaged Iron Golem Parts. Three thousand gold, same details apply to both of the previous ones.

Also, if you are really quite lucky, you may find one of these pieces when disassembling the Flame Leviathan, the first boss in twenty-five man Ulduar.

I was very fortunate tonight in that I managed to coerce Ravenfury to give me the cobalt bolts as well as the golem parts, because we were lucky enough to get the golem parts from the first boss in Ulduar, and it can literally only be used to create motorcycles.

So that's twelve thousand five hundred gold. Plus three hundred for the plans. Plus a hundred for the arctic fur, who knows how much for the cobalt, let's say a hundred and fifty because I don't want to check auction house prices, a thousand for Titansteel, and whatever tip the engineer wants. That's fourteen thousand gold total, not counting a tip for the engineer. And I got it for three thousand less than that.

...I probably should have tipped Hex, but I will make it up to him. I did, however, the other week donate him large amounts of saronite ore so that he could level his engineering, and did not charge him a copper.

I'll still try to find something nice to do for him for taking the time to make it for me though.

But at any rate, I'm going to drive around for a little while in it, then call it a night.

Until next time,
Fucking badass.
~Kataron