I am hoping on getting others point of views as well as what they did to save up for a level 40 mount back in the day (Paladins, Warlocks, you’re excluded… come back for any level 60 mount discussions). I remember my method on my first chars per server being Skinning/Herb and selling everything I gather. I am just curious on how others did it.
It’s a combination of things. But the majority of it comes down to farming beasts that drop grey items that vendor for a lot, and skinning the beasts for extra money.
Not training every single ability every 2 levels also helps.
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I recommend getting an addon that shows the vendor price for items(so you know what to toss when bags are full), then just loot items and vendor stuff you don’t need while questing. If you don’t waste money on professions/gear/consumables/respecing, by 40/41 you should easily have the 80g you need.
OH and if you don’t need the item off the quest take the one that sells for the most and vendor it. This goes for sidegrades too, if you get a choice for a negligible upgrade and a 2h weapon that vendors for a 1g+ might consider the gold reward instead of the useable item.
Oh yeah, forgot that was also an addon too!
What I did was, at level 30, stopped leveling, and run WC/Deadmines/Ragefire for greens and the occasional blue. By the time I resume leveling, I usually have more than enough to pay for my 40 mount and get caught up on my spells. It’s not efficient use of my time, but then again, I’m never in a hurry to get to level caps anyways.
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Assuming you’re PVP Rank 3 by level 40, even then I think it still totals 81g.
Ended up being about 43 before I could afford mine on PVE server.
I’m in the beta, and I would say, if you aren’t in… Test your farming spots that you have in mind to farm for your 60% mount as soon as you can when the game goes live. Scout it out and check it.
I’m saying this because drop rates and spawn times are different on Classic than they are on private servers… And as someone who knows PServers well, many of the "Really awesome spots to farm in your late 30’s so you’ll have money for your mount at 40" are not as good on ACTUAL classic as they were on Private Servers with their fixed and consistent low respawn times, and brokenly high drop rates on sellable loot.
On the flip side, if you search around you can find OTHER spots that are as good or as better as the traditional spots in Classic because the loot % is much higher and respawns are way better.
No, I’m not giving my new found spots away; but if anyone else out there is planning, I just thought I would give you a heads up.
On this toon and my warrior it took a lot of farming. I had to spend hours farming mining nodes and selling any boe blues I could get.
Step 1. Start a guild.
Step 2. Make a guild bank alt.
Step 3. Collect donations.
Step 4. Profit.
Step 5. Laugh maniacally because no one knows you’re skimming and you now have a free gold stream.
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Lol I remember one of my old guilds doing this. I didnt stay long
This would help but alas.
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Sounds pretty efficient to me…
Too much work.
- Start streaming on twitch.
- Beg from followers.
- Profit.
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If a skill is something like “Incap a target for 2.5 sec and deal 50 dmg” then next rank its “Incap a target for 2.6 sec and deal 100 dmg” don’t rank it. Seriously don’t rank skills you don’t use. If you’re on a PvE server, or just don’t really worry about PvP you can ignore large chunks of your skills that serve no real purpose in PvE.
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arent paladin and warlock mounts a pay over time a little more in skills buying vs the upfront cost of buying a mount for everyone else?
the way i saved and worked everytime every alt…the 75/25 method…made a bank alt and at the end of every day played i would sell everything i didnt need and send 75 percent of the sale to the bank alt and keep 25 percent for everything else…by the time 40 and 60 came around i never have a problem paying for it.
When I played vanilla I know a reasonably good farming spot pre 40 was the undead ravagers in the canyon in south east of Desolace. They dropped a good amount of coin and silk. Difficult for casters as they would kick but as mele I had no issue with them.
Otherwise take gathering profs and sell absolutely everything you collect.
Hitting 100g by 40 isn’t too difficult but on a new server the economy won’t be booming yet and it’ll take some effort.
Economy is going to be relatively fresh.
For rushing: Grey drops are everything. Vendor everything you don’t use (BOEs included). Decent BOEs (of the Bear, of the Monkey, of Eluding) will fetch a decent price. Don’t equip any Rare-quality BOEs unless it’s a weapon (Auction House, bid only, no buyouts.)
If you’re not rushing, then you’ll be sitting pretty with keeping your Mining and Skinning skills capped for income. Mining is the main source of income, but skinning will help a ton at later levels, especially for your epic mount.
If you’re going for maximum income, use specific combinations:
Skinning + Leatherworking
Enchanting + Tailoring
Mining + Blacksmithing
Herbalism + Alchemy
(Never go engineering for income.)
Herbalism + Alchemy will net you the biggest income, especially once you get transmutes.
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There was no secret trick to it.
Don’t buy anything from AH.
Sell as much as you can at AH.
Be smart, be frugal.
I don’t know how many chars I took to at least level 40, I can think of at least a dozen right now offhand, and maybe one (my first) I didn’t quite have enough to buy the mount. It wasn’t that difficult.
This is the same character I had back then and immediately bought a mount at 40 once I ran back to Darnassus. I mined a lot on my journey when i got into Dark Shore. Copper, Tin, etc sold at lower prices but was pretty effective once you have sold a few hundred stacks of each.
I think a lot of players will emphasize on engineering and Alchemy more this time around so I don’t think the gold will be there like it use to be.
So, my plan will be the same as last time. Mining and selling the raw ores. Ores seem to sell easier than bars because people like to just buy the ores to increase their levels.
In the guild I am going to be with, I and other Warlocks/Paladins, plan on helping people get their lvl 40 mounts, it like a loan for the guild kind of thing, not required but encouraged.
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