when i heard the news that there were new mount skins, and saw pictures of some of them, my FIRST thought was "kitten anet, why you gotta do this when i'm between paychecks. i am totally buying that..." and then i found out how much it was. i am no longer excited. i think Anet saw the huge sales of the spooky pack and their eyes lit up with dollar signs and they heard KACHING!!! and went overboard with the cash grab. a generous friend has given me 2 skins... but aside from that, i am putting my "buy more gems so i can buy mount skins" plan on hold until a better solution is offered... yes, no matter how ungodly cute the husky is... if it means i miss out on it, so be it. the choice between RNG or absolutely enormous outlay of cash relative to other purely cosmetic things in the game make it not worth it. if... IF... they had offered the skins the same way they do gliders... single or in packs, you know what you're getting, and at a reasonable amount (300-600 gems or so i suppose... NOT 2000 gems for a SINGLE skin...) i would have totally been buying SEVERAL skins come friday. as it is now, i don't even want to exchange gold for some "freebie" dice rolls.. not happy Anet. really screwed up this time in my opinion... mores the pity that some of the skins are really very nice too.