Just as an afterthought to my previous comment, would a screenshot of my ah mule’s wealth tab on the achievement screen do? Like I don’t actually have to have the gold cap’s worth of gold on my character? I have a tendency to spend my gold so hording the gold cap on my character is a bit of a chore.

so let me get this clear, We don’t have to have the gold on us to show we’ve hit the cap, we just need to be able to prove we’ve acquired that much gold?

I’m not sure it’s that easy. I’m not quite in the same league as Zamboni, but it took me half a year to “reach” the gold cap and I’m pretty active. Six months is a lot of time, even if I had played on a high population server.

@ Rerun

There is so much gold in the game now it’s ridiculous. I’m up 95K for the week. It’s becoming a joke.

I am a bit confused, is it still that hard to reach the gold limit ?
It seems so easy to me nowadays, with all the gold floating around.

@ Ewber – What is your character name/server. We will add you to the Hall of Fame.

There is a possibility of a multi-passenger flying mount in the next expansion. Maybe this will be the next big gold sink. The gold sink in TBC was 5k for epic flying and in WOTLK, 20k for a mammoth. Just going by the pattern of a increase of 4x, the new gold sink could cost 80K.

The reason they removed wealth information is because of hacking. If they gave out the achievement, it would eventually be obvious to the right person that you had alot of gold, and Blizzard respects your privacy.

I agree though, a truly epic mount that takes a boatload of gold to get would be in order for those of us that are among the Rich and Infamous. 100k mounts, 200k, whatever. Something that stands out that you excel in this game in something besides PvP, PvE, etc. There’s a lot of facets.

They only go negative numbers for a while, then they flip back to positive as you accumulate more gold. The numbers are kind of meaningless once you’ve flipped them back and forth a few times. (Fix this, Blizzard, or take it out.)

also: Why isn’t this an in game achievement?
I guess one reason could be that you could cheat and just pass around the gold to others to get it, but something tells me the gold wouldn’t make it back the owner 99% of the time =P
WTB some type of golden mount for my Goblin I’m gonna roll in Cataclysm.