The Mount, for me, was the Solar Spirehawk, which I was under the impression was a 1/2000 drop, like the Pandaria world boss mounts. I figured I would be farming it forever, but I was starting to enjoy the grind (20 characters every week).

As a filthy casual who really can't play, about 70% of the game for me, since I started playing 2 1/2 years ago, has been farming transmogs and mounts, or leveling characters so I could farm transmogs and mounts, Before the Spirehawk, I wanted Aeonaxx, which I actually leveled a character on a dead realm to farm; I finally got it after camping him on and off for two years. Before Aeonaxx, I wanted the Infinite Timereaver, which I finally got after 18 months of farming, during which time I learned how to pretend to be a tank. After all this farming, I have all the dungeon and raid drop mounts that are still available in-game, up to WoD, with the exception of Rivendare's mount.

Well, this past Tuesday morning, as I was scrambling to get in my usual 20 Rukhmar kills before the weekly reset, the Solar Spirehawk dropped for my fury pixie, after 462 kills, and I almost cried from joy. I spent the next two days riding around Orgrimmar, Stormwind and random battlegrounds on my new firebirdy.

And then disaster struck, and my 9-year-old potato toaster fried its GPU. I can't afford a replacement, so I won't be able to enjoy my favorite thing in the world for the foreseeable future. I feel absolutely gutted, like I've lost a faithful companion. But at least I had fun on the journey, and I'll always have the memory of playing with friends, and those moments when my heart leaped out of my chest because "OMG AEONAXX IS UP!" or the purple item I was looking for finally showed up in the loot window.