Cost of first mount to a casual player

Never do this! If you are in a leveling dungeon with a PuG and something drops that is an upgrade, you NEED on that drop. No group member should ever have an issue with a NEED roll if said item is an upgrade for that player.

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There are dozens (hundreds?) of things to do in Classic WoW. Many of them make money. More of them don’t make money. Each player is different, so each player chooses different things to do.

I’m an altoholic and a goldmaker, so it was fun for me. I leveled crafters to 10, 20, and 35. By 35 (300 crafting) each had 2 crafts and were making things. I sell in the AH every day. So I have enough gold to get a mount, each time I reach 40 on a character.

But that’s “fun” to me. The trick is finding things that are “fun” for you. Then it won’t feel like work. Then it won’t suck. I hope you got some suggestions in this forum, so you could choose the ones that are fun for you.

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On this toon, I got my mount at 41. How? By using the same suggestions already given here.

  • I took Skinning and Herbalism,
  • Only bought new skills that I needed (no Track beasts, or Eagle Eye, etc.)
  • I stayed away from the urge to go buy upgrades on the AH.
  • Used an addon to display vendor prices for items.
  • When I did not need a quest item, I used addon above to select the highest value one.
  • Loot everything, sell everything. No hoarding stuff because “I might need that later.”
  • Sell your skins and herbs, check the AH and if it is worth it post them, otherwise vendor it.
  • Don’t buy runs
  • Where possible avoid Flights where you could walk with only a little more time.
  • Sell your cloth drops.
  • If you know someone with Tailoring, have them make you bags with your cloth instead of buying bags, or ask in chat if a tailor will make bags with your mats.

And in general, just be frugal

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Your post incites anger in me and is non constructive. I have therefore flagged your post to attempt to clear out some of the trolling on these forums.

If you were paying for dungeon clears there is mistake number 1. Train only abilities that you need to train, sell greens and loot everything. You gain a lot of gold between 30-40, and the forums say you are level 11, which is quite awhile off from level 40.

And Run instances with people on the server, don’t pay someone for a run through it. Enjoy the time you spend leveling and the people you meet, don’t just feel the itch to see the end.

I agree with Luckey that “frugal” makes a big difference. Lots of things are expensive: abilities, food, water, armor, weapons. Some of them I need (food for my pet, Track Beasts). Others I don’t (Eye of Kilroy’s uncle).

But I almost never buy “better” armor or weapons in the AH. Maybe you need to “gear up” at level 60, but not when leveling. If I buy something it is 3g, not 75g. Getting a mount quickly is more important.

On the infinitely most important point, as others have side- you matter, you have worth, you deserve in every way to be alive. Wonderful that you’ve found a guild, but remember that the ups and downs of WoW or guild politics doesn’t change those things in any way. There are many real life counseling resources too- PLEASE use them if you need or want somebody to talk to.

For pre-40 goldmaking, you only need to know two words- Fused Wiring. At least on my server, I’ve never had an auction expire on it when the price was under 4 gold (raiders need this for repair bots). At level 15, I invested all of the copper and linen I had so far and my entire savings (1.5 gold) into this. At level 30 (EDIT: on my alliance druid, for some reason I posted on my abandoned mage), I have 120 gold and am fully geared in the best green stuff (excluding 50g+ blue BG twink stuff) I can get at my level for a DPS cat druid.

The Swamp is certainly better for combining gold and leveling, but the advantage of the Fused Wiring gig is that (unless copper prices happen to be outrageous at a particular moment) the only traveling you need to do is between the AH and forge in Ironforge. At least at my server’s prices, I can usually get the mats for around 12 dummies for 2 gold (sometimes way less, if someone is selling copper for 30 silver a stack or copper modulators for 5 silver each). 12 dummies (plus the extra 2-3 dummies you’ll be able to make when the original dummies explode, minus wool which won’t drop from explosion) will (on average) net you 2 Fused Wiring and somewhere between 6.50-7.50 gold on average.

Also, if you are leveling in the Swamp, make a jaunt up the coast of Durotar to the gnome engineering shop in the southeast corner of Azshara. 60s can get there easily, but in general it is much less convenient for Alliance to get the items sold here. Deepdive helmet schematics can usually be sold for 2g+ (and only cost 36 silver), but the market is spotty and it make take multiple tries to sell each one (although I always eventually sell out). The same gnome shop sells chimeric gloves plans (avoid, a money loser) and the blue dragonscale breastplate plans (costs 2 g, but I can usually sell for 5g+).

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The entire thread is a troll thread. Grow up and stop being a child

“Hey everybody, look at me! I decide who (and what) is a troll or not a troll.”

I just got back from my fourth ban. The last one was 14 days for using an analogy of dunking a ball on somebody as to the state of AV. That to me is very benign and a prodding good natured poke. I was told otherwise.
I am now crusading to report trolling to attempt to free the forums of harmful words that incite negativity.
Btw calling me a “child” makes me feel attacked.

It was kinda funny after I updated my post I was in Thermadore and a 60 ran with me to the flight master. I was super shocked and a 52 that was also on ankle express the mounts are super cool looking. Still love the undead epic mount and the ram the best.

I know its not enjoyable gameplay - but if you grind on the rock elementals in badlands they drop elemental earth. These sell for 2g+ each on my server as they are used in resto pots and elemental sharpening stones - both are basic raid consumes.

The rocks also drop alot of vendor items that sell for quite a lot. Farm/grind your levels there and in no time you will have not only mount gold - but extra bags/bank slots and a decent supply of elemental earths to convert to raid consumes upon enetring raids.

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lol wth its just a game chill, not hard to get a mount anyway

This guy warcrafts!!!

Yep, it’s a lot. That’s the point.

There’s a few things that you can farm for really good money on the AH at a low level. I would look into grinding those out for half a day and you’ll get a ton of gold.

An example would elemental earth farmed in the badlands off the rock guys. Has a 10% drop rate and each sell for 2-3g on my server right now.

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Just do herbing and do laps around east loch modan for swiftthistle. Easy 20g/h

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I did, on my first character (a warrior), I pretty much leveled exclusively through instances. That meant that I didn’t particularly need a mount at 40, and I didn’t actually have enough gold for one when I did hit 40.

I did get my mount at 44 or 45, which seems to be relatively common. Obviously on this character, I got my mount at 40, because it was free. :slight_smile:

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Why should i care about your feelings? You are nobody to me.

i was once banned till 3050