I’m actually way behind for my level cos I don’t wanna spend so much gold
You have to pick and choose what you get as you level. You’ll get them all eventually.
Leveling with limited gold is the better experience. Deciding which abilities you should prioritise can be in a way, more important than most of your talent selections.
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That’s why, when I first started leveling this Character (Piper), I only spent Gold on Frost Spell Abilities. I still purchased Arcane Abilities like Arcane Intellect, Conjuring Food & Water, etc. I just never invested in Abilities like Fireball, Arcane Missles, Arcane Explosion, etc. Gotta tell you, Water Elementals were my Kryptonite 
Worth it, though 'cause I had enough Gold to train for my both my Mounts (Level 40 and 60) 
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Only if you suck.
Farm gold. It’s not hard.
OP. Go kill humanoids or animals that drop grey quality animal parts.
If humanoids, weave the extra cloth into bandages and vendor them. If animals, sell stacks of raptor butts or scorpion genitals (or whatever.)
Then buy your abilities. There is no excuse AT ALL for not training everything at every level.
Seriously. Anyone telling you to not train things as you level is just wrong. it’s really, really easy to get the money.
Just do it.
You’re level 30. Do this. Go to the Wetlands or Darkshire. Do not do any quests. Just kill every single thing you see. Kill everything that moves and sell it’s body parts. Lay waste to all life. Be the living end.
Become Death. Kill. Them. All.
Do this for one full play session.
You will be able to afford all your abilities.
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Honestly, I’d prioritise XP as you farm GP with less effort later. Of course, each player has different needs and wants.
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I wonder how much you’ve spent on avoidable repair bills, then.
Meh, don’t really NEED them. Plus, being on an RP Server gives me a good excuse 
There’s no “wrong” nor “right” way.
I’m sure it is. However, the example you gave:
Is SO boring, to me. I enjoy kill grinding only for Quests. Not specifically for kill grinding to gain XP and sell junk. However, I do hoard every Junk I see and keep the most expensive junk, thanks to the “Vendor Price” Addon and dump the cheapo stuff.
Don’t get it twisted. I do have all of my abilities. After doing dungeon run, after dungeon run, getting gear, attuned, helping other people, etc. Easy money making there. That solo kill grinding stuff…not for me.
However, I’m sure:
Will provide the appropriate gold necessary to purchase your abilities, as you level. It’s not the ONLY method, however. And, I leveled perfectly fine to 60 (despite Water Elementals being Immune to Frost Spells, thankfully they’re not too all over the place) without having to train for more Arcane and Fire Abilities. Especially, since my Talent Tree is more Frost base than Arcane/Fire base. No reason to purchase those abilities, when they’re not my strong suit.
It’s actually part of the charm of the game the first time you level on a server, when you can funnel gold to your alts it ceases to become a big deal, but for your first you need to prioritize what you will actually use
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Even in Vanilla this wasn’t an issue.
Yes you have to pay, yes they have a cost, but I have never had an issue paying for training. Any gathering profession will pay for whatever you need, especially now. So will cloth.
If you gather while you level, and then also sell your cloth, then go back and power level first aid and your crafting prof (or even 2) you can train everything.
Locks have it worse because of pet training but at the end of the day it’s still not enough to make a dent into what you make off selling mats especially with how insanely inflated even peacebloom or light leather are.
You don’t need to buy all your abilities during the leveling process, just those that you will need in order to level in the way you desire.
Something to be said for classically grinding to 60 on mobs, it provides you a lot of gold, this rogue has 50 gold, is level 30 and all his skills. Some may find the old style of leveling tedious but I really enjoy it.
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not hard, BUT BORING.
Once you get to 60 the influx of cash is well enough for all skills. Unless you already have a main it’s best to just get skills that will help you kill things faster and keep questing.
I mean… unless you find grinding fun, I guess.
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Not me. I get them all on all my characters. But I enjoy goldmaking, so I have plenty of gold. If you don’t enjoy goldmaking (professions), then abilities start getting expensive by level 25 or so.
That’s an excellent point. But pure dps sometimes forget that it is not this way necessarily for non-pure dps classes.
OP is a paladin. That class needs to be reasonably able to tank or heal dungeons, but also must be able to deal some kind of damage in order to solo grind and quest.
About the only skills you can reasonably skip while leveling this class are the anti-undead ones, and even that’s not really a good idea, because if you have them, then undead heavy zones such as darkshire and the plaguelands become superior leveling options.
The classes that you see advocating skipping training tend to be mages, hunters, and the like.
Look, I get that grinding is not fun. I don’t like doing it either. But every once in awhile, you just have to do it.
Edit: For example, see Piper’s reply to me a few posts up. S/he’s a mage. Mage abilities are almost irrelevant to leveling.
Mages are a great class, but all 3 specs just do one thing. You can level a mage with only frostbolt, only arcane missiles, or firebolt.
Almost every single mage skill boils down to “push button = damage.” Similarly, you can level a hunter from 1-60 without training any abilities at all, just autoshot and your pet.
You just CANNOT level a paladin or druid or priest in this way. You just can’t.
It really does vary by class.
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It’s completely pointless to train everything. You know how many times I’ve used max rank Frost Nova on my mage?
It is pointless for pure dps, yes.
OP is a paladin. You just proved my point.
You are talking about a mage, and posting from a rogue 
True, but at 40 Non paladins and warlocks need to buy a mount for 100 gold, so that savings can instead be spent on spells and abilities that other classes would need to skip to buy the mount.
Common misconception. Paladin and warlock skills cost about 100g more than the other classes from 1-60. So the mounts are not really free.
there are a ton of skills paladins can skip that are fairly useless compared to other abilities while leveling.
multiple ranks of rez.
multiple ranks of LOH.
all the resist auras.
if youre ret, you dont need to train SoR.
divine protection
thats just off the top of my head.
That’s not necessarily true. You can choose to forsake dungeons, focusing on buying abilities to play solo. The opposite is also true, as well as a mix which you have suggested.