Epic Paladin Mount: Is It Worth Getting?

So I am currently leveling my third paladin. I have a 70 Alliance and a 54 Alliance, and am now working away on a Blood Elf one. I have my epic paladin mount on my 70 Alliance paladin, and am now level 60 with my Blood Elf one. I have always loved how the Blood Elf paladin mounts looked, so I started looking into what the quest was like to get my Blood Elf's Charger.

Basically the quest chain is a lot easier! It's pretty much soloable up until the last step or two which take place in Strathlome, so you would either need a group for there or a nice level 70 to escort you. I was happy to see that the quest looked easier than the alliance one, which has you going to Dire Maul, Strathlome and Scholomance!

I don't have much gold over on the Horde yet however, and so I thought before I started the chain I should add up how much it was going to cost me to make sure I didn't end up half way finished the quest and broke! It looked like it would be about 465g without the cost of farmable mats (6 arcanite bars, 40 runecloth, 10 sungrass, 5 darkrunes, a Pristine Black Diamond and a Azerothian Diamond).

I have done a fair bit of pvping with my Horde paladin, and had quite a few marks saved up, so I decided to look into the available pvp mounts and the cost of training. I ended up getting the Horn of the Frostwolf Howler for 50 Alterac Valley tokens (I had 80 saved up) and I bought the riding skill in Orgrimmar (I was exaulted with them from doing Alterac Valley), so the riding skill only cost me 480g.

So, I ended up spending only 480g and 50 Alterac Valley tokens (I got them all this weekend because it was Alterac's double weekend) to get my epic level 60 mount. That was only 15g more than if I had done the epic paladin mount quest chain (not including the farmed materials, which would be pricey if you had to buy them all). I admit that I am a little sad that I don't get to ride around on one of those cool Blood Elf Chargers, but I'll do the quest for fun later when I am level 70 and have more gold. For now the Frostwolf Howler is good enough and it was super easy to get!