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I am very disappointed by the fact that they were made so easy to craft and able to be crafted at apprentice level. These are high tech mounts. It does not seem ideal, they should be so easy to craft. I personally think that should have been (at least) 5 sonic springs to craft. In fact 8 sonic springs would be even better because I got so many of these drops. Now I see so many people with these mounts around Wizard101, it seems like their value just is not there. I'd like to request King isle make another version of these mounts that looks much better then make it paid or much harder to craft. Tell me what you think.

It would take me more than a month to just get more than 1 spring. In fact, if you think about it, I haven't been getting any drops of the sonic spring; only one. XD Yeah, the drop rates are not very good for me.

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Four things to be aware of when crafting these mount recipes:

1. This exclusive Mount Recipe is sold by Rose Piper during the Five B.O.X.E.S. Event.
2. You must have the Apprentice Crafter Badge
3. You have to fish - fishing in the game is time consuming
4. The Sonic Spring is only available as a drop during the Five B.O.X.E.S. Event.
Who do you get crafting badges from?
Eudora Tangletree for Novice Crafter; Wul’yahm for Apprentice Crafter

What are the new mount recipes?
Digmoore Station Pogo Stick 'The Steampunk', Ravenwood Pogo Stick 'The Bartleby'

Vendor Rose Piper
Cost: 60,000 Gold
Crafting Rank Required: Apprentice Crafter
Crafting Station Required: Equipment Crafting Station

Digmoore Station Pogo Stick 'The Steampunk'

Ingredients:

10 - Clockwork Spider
10 - Brain Sturgeon
1 - Sonic Spring
10 - Silver Trumpet Vine
25 - Scrap Iron
25 - Spring
15 - Bronze Gear
10 - Leather Straps

Ravenwood Pogo Stick 'The Bartleby'

Ingredients:

15 - Snow Shield
5 - Catfish
1 - Sonic Spring
20 - Trumpet Vine
15 - Sapphire
25 - Scrap Iron
25 - Spring
10 - Leather Straps

Tylerwildpants on Oct 8, 2014 wrote:

Four things to be aware of when crafting these mount recipes:

1. This exclusive Mount Recipe is sold by Rose Piper during the Five B.O.X.E.S. Event.
2. You must have the Apprentice Crafter Badge
3. You have to fish - fishing in the game is time consuming
4. The Sonic Spring is only available as a drop during the Five B.O.X.E.S. Event.
Who do you get crafting badges from?
Eudora Tangletree for Novice Crafter; Wul’yahm for Apprentice Crafter

What are the new mount recipes?
Digmoore Station Pogo Stick 'The Steampunk', Ravenwood Pogo Stick 'The Bartleby'

Vendor Rose Piper
Cost: 60,000 Gold
Crafting Rank Required: Apprentice Crafter
Crafting Station Required: Equipment Crafting Station

Digmoore Station Pogo Stick 'The Steampunk'

Ingredients:

10 - Clockwork Spider
10 - Brain Sturgeon
1 - Sonic Spring
10 - Silver Trumpet Vine
25 - Scrap Iron
25 - Spring
15 - Bronze Gear
10 - Leather Straps

Ravenwood Pogo Stick 'The Bartleby'

Ingredients:

15 - Snow Shield
5 - Catfish
1 - Sonic Spring
20 - Trumpet Vine
15 - Sapphire
25 - Scrap Iron
25 - Spring
10 - Leather Straps

This is a great reply. I'd also like to remind the OP that in order to craft the Digmoore mount, you really need your higher-level fishing spells, which you can only get once you have completed the GH fishing quest. And keep in mind that there are players who do not have access to Marleybone, and will be using quite a bit of gold, trying to purchase both scrap iron and spring in the Bazaar.

Chase DragonRider on Oct 7, 2014 wrote:

First, it took me 3 hours to get one sonic spring. Not to mention the catfish, which seem to be non existant in the commons ponds, which are the only place they spawn. And 25 springs, a rare reagent? They are definitely not cheap, but well worth it for a permanent mount.

Rare reagent? In all honesty I don't think they are rare. I been farming them quite a bit and have 13 sonic springs right now. I once got 2 dropped twice in a row after doing two different bosses. So many other things in this game are so much harder to craft but much less valuable than those mounts. Just saying and fishing? A person can find about 5 catfish in about 30 minutes if they are have the right spells know how to fish good. Brain sturgeons are harder to find though yes, but still.

Like all the other respondents so far, I completely disagree with the OP. Your estimates of both drop rates and fishing ease seem to be way off.

The sonic springs are only available during this event, so people can only get them for a limited time, and not everyone has hours and hours to farm this event over and over. If you got sonic springs that easily, your experience is not the same as most people in the game.

The clockwork spider TC's can only be farmed from Khrysalis level bosses, or harvested from clockwork flowers (which are also rare).

The fish required for the recipes are all rare fish. Your success with catfish is completely out of line with my experience and that of my daughter -- it takes time to get them, especially if you don't have the higher-level fishing spells.

the recipes are not too easy, not by a long shot.

I'll have to respectfully disagree about the "easy" difficulty with the craftable B.O.X.E.S. mounts.
The Marleybone Pogo for instance... this requires 10 Brain Sturgeons - energy and time consuming but easy enough to get - and 1 sonic spring - I suppose it's easy considering the challenge presented by the bosses that drop it. The problem is getting them to drop one. I realize that it's all random chance and I'm sure some folks have had very good luck getting a sonic spring drop. I have not after many, many tries. It gets old very quickly running back and forth and listening to (or rapidly clicking through) all of The Professor's dialogue. And considering the small window in which the events occur, farming for a sonic spring might be all I do for the next week.
But on top of all that, there's the Clockwork Spider TCs. Sure, the recipe only calls for Apprentice rank but the TCs are only available as a drop from bosses in Khrysalis, drops from Clockwork Flowers (which I have yet to see after nearly 8 months of playing), and getting extremely lucky and quick to click in the Bazaar.
I'm not complaining. I agree they should not be easy to craft but I definitely don't think they're too easy the way they are.

On a related, embarrassing side note:
I sent a "bug" report to the KI folks regarding the Marleybone Pogo in which I related the fact that I had purchased the Pogo for $60K gold from Rose in the B.O.X. and could not find it anywhere in my inventory. In fact, I was surprised that I could buy it so cheaply and with gold no less since the item is listed as Crowns Only! Only after sending the report did I re-visit Rose just to make sure I wasn't dreaming all of this and at that point realized I had purchased the "Recipe" - not the actual item. And yes, I did send a follow up to KI to inform them that I was, indeed, an idiot and to disregard my report because the only thing bugged was my attention.

Well it is a minimum of Apprentice Crafter I believe. That being said I believe Kingsisle was trying to make it so EVERYONE can craft them instead of making it extremely hard. Do you want Kingsisle to put 100 Amber? How about 200 Turquoise? Or maybe 250 Sunstone I think 250 sounds like an awesome addition to these recipes! I'm just kidding about those but seriously, why make Apprentice Crafting recipes as hard as Promethean Crafting. It's like a Level 20 in Marleybone crafting an entire set of the Khrysalis Crafted gear. I have to disagree with this just like everybody else, they are at the perfect difficulty for crafting.