Still, I see nothing wrong with providing free will on gathering it yourself "for free" or "paying a lot of money for it". I think people should at least have that choice since not everyone loves to repeat the same process over and over.
MMO's are supposed to be fun, not boring. I believe this is what sets SE apart from the competition. I hate MMO's.. none have ever kept me interested longer then 2 months and yet here I am now almost 5 years later, trying to help SE keep this place great.

See it this way, I doubt most savage players go in to collect mounts… they mainly go in for the gear & to have fun. But not everyone is good enough to actually finish it. I don't think its a good thing to do to use mounts as "status" (a way of saying you are better).
I think the gear does a pretty good job at that by itself. And besides, if you could buy a mount from savage, I doubt it would be affordable to anyone anyway… but at least they'd have the option