I am going to roll a human and travel to the Night Elf starting area to begin questing.
Yes, the dreaded run to Darn will be an experience. Especially being about level 5 or under.
I plan to do this because if I quest in the Night Elf area, and gain their reputation, I hope to be able to purchase the tiger mounts.
Did anyone do this in vanilla and did they gain enough reputation in time to obtain the tiger mount at level 40?
I did it after I had my first mount so I can’t speak to having enough at the start of 40. But it’s doable for sure. I LOVED my cat mount!!
At launch, no. On later characters, AFAIK quite a few. You won’t get enough to hit Exalted, but you will be in a much better position. That said, you can also re-complete all those low level quests as a higher level character and get the same Reputation gains.
I feel a comic strip here. Orc casually walks through durotar, enjoys the spring breeze, waves at the trolls, then gets on a zep. “Time to get my undercity rep.” Meanwhile the human is running for his life from an angry croc in the wetlands.
Make sure you roll a Mage.
No no no. You’re doing it wrong. The stress test area of Teldrassil will be like the DMV waiting for a chance to tag anything.
Go to Dun Morough. You can see over the heads of the dwarves and gnomes and find all them troggs faster.
Also, croc world boss. Nah
very doable and as a human, having that bonus 10% rep will only help!
kitteh are cutes 
Let’s see your Orc get Mulgore reputation by running through the Barrens at level 5. While a Human is on the Tram from Stormwind to IF 
Was the zep to thunder bluff not in vanilla?
Lol, nope.
Just like the boat from Rutheran Village only went to Auberdine, not Stormwind.
I remember the boat, I didn’t actually play horde until cata.
I can’t remember if it was Wrath or Cataclysm when they added the Zepplin, but they moved the boat in Wrath when they created the Harbor in Stormwind.
That’s right. I remember wanting to roll a Tauren, as that would make it easier to get the Thunder Bluff RFC quests: since they already had to go to the Crossroads, and the other races had to go to TB from Durotar.
It might sound like an equal distance, but it didn’t feel like it. Ah, Classic.
I can tell you from experience that you won’t be riding a saber for a long time. In the Beta, I only reached 3,715/21,000 revered with Darnassus by level 40, despite completing nearly every single Darnassus quest as well as most Alliance quests that gave spillover Darnassus rep. After Desolace and Feralas quests, you’d have to supplement with Morrowgrain/Un’Goro Soil turn-ins at level 47 and/or Runecloth turn-ins at level 50 to finally achieve exalted.
You can read through my entire quest completionist route here:
https://shadowpanther.net/questing.htmIt doesn’t get you there by 40, not even close. It just saves you a pile of runecloth in the long run.
I just plan on rolling Night ELf warrior anyways, aside from the best starting zone in the world. Front flips while tanking rag makes him miss more
Dwarves always getting neglected i see
Just an Elwynn Girl. Living in a Night elf World!
She took the Deeprun Tram going anywhere!
Just a Darkshore Man, grew up and raised in Loch Modan!
Took a horse down to Goldshire and was never seen again!
That human bonus reputation is going to look mighty frackin’ attractive in your pursuit of a nightsaber mount. I don’t blame you. Horses are lame.
I’m serious, the 10% additional rep will add up like you wouldn’t believe. Will it actually get you a tiger by 40? Or soon after 40? If it’s possible, it will require you to map out your quests in advance to make sure you do them at level appropriate times. But if you can pull it off it’ll be a genuine achievement and I’m sure people will whisper you ingame asking how you did it.
If your heart is set on a tiger and not a horse (I don’t blame you), I would probably avoid even getting a mount until you reach exalted with Darnassus, but only if you have a means of getting exalted before 60. Mounts are much more expensive, and even the cheaper training is mount specific.
Warlocks and Paladins get a leg up on wanting another faction’s mount as they get to at least get a 60% speed mount for free without having to drop money on an unwanted racial mount.
Edit: I plan on making an Orc Warlock but I’m going to get exalted with Darkspear Trolls to get a Swift Orange Raptor at level 60. I’m going to use the money saved from buying a lvl 40 mount (I will forgo buying a wolf or wolf riding training) and it will be used on the Runecloth that will inevitably pile up to get exalted with the quest-starved Darkspear reputation.
I plan on doing the same thing with my Dwarf Hunter but with Gnomeregan Exiles for a Swift Green Mechanostrider. I’ll be using Aspect of the Cheetah to get around a bit faster until I get exalted, since I love Dwarves but hate Ram mounts.