Be Careful Who You Trust

They may spend fucking forever giving you shit items before they finally give you what you wanted in the first place. 

I have to admit, though, that I don't regret wanting this mount at all. It is absolutely gorgeous. And I just found out that Goblins can have purple hair in the pre-patch and changed my transmog to match, and then got Sprite Darter wings as a 6-month subscription bonus and they just happen to match my mog perfectly! So I guess it's serendipity that I finally received the mount. It actually was my Gnome that got it, these last couple of weeks I've been running Nightborne and Kirin Tor emissary quest on the four characters that are able to get paragon chests, and I am so glad I don't ever have to see the Withered again now. According to Rarity it was the 62nd run, but I think it missed a few chests during the period after pre-patch when all of my addons were broken.

Helping

51 paragon chests opened, no flying carpet. Thank goodness the rep buff came back, I panicked when I cleared all the WQs in Suramar and barely had any rep gains the other day. It's going to be so much more difficult to make myself quest for the Nightborne after the buff is gone. It will be sad not to see Rehgar anymore when I finally get the damn mount, but I'm getting so much bonding time with him now I feel like we're glued together at the hips. And I think it's going to be a long, long, long time before I start to miss him.