Something funny happened to me in Area 52...

I'm waiting in Area 52 for a few guildies to come help me in Netherstorm.  I was after Dabri's Enigma for Severkill.  So, I'm in the middle of Area 52 sitting on my Swift Red Windrider.  Nothing special since there are WAY better epic flying mounts out there.

Out of the blue I get a whisper, "Do you buy gold?  Because you have a flying mount and from looking at your equipment it do not look like you raid."  At first, I was shocked!  I told him about the endless hours of farming motes/leathers/nodes.  How I decided to finish up left over quests in the various areas.  It took awhile but I earned the 5200g on my own.  He said he raids and earns about 30g for a Kara run and thinks grinding for gold is boring.

Now I do not think the guy was stupid, just a little uninformed.  What he finds boring, I find not so boring.  ;)  Yes, it's hard to stay on track grinding Thick Clefthoof Leathers in Nagrand,  flying around the different zones mining nodes, or doing the remaining quests from zones.  But I did find it rewarding when I was done...even to now I'm still doing the quests for gold/rep.

But I always say, "To each, their own."  If he find raiding the way to earn gold, I say "You can do it!"  I just find grinding/questing to be the way for me.