Am I right guys? Right? RIGHT?!?! Cries in poor I was gonna go buy my mount today, but I had big brain idea. What if I trained in learning how to ride the mount, and then farmed to 100g from SM cath and PRESTO! Have 10g left over to throw at my trainer and be completely broke.
Does that sound good fellow warriors? Or am I missing a big investment to my warriors life? I haven’t experienced the better life yet, so I don’t mind running around.
To the warrior in stormwind thats level 40 and has a mount, we all know you avoided your class trainer from 30-40 don’t play dumb. Watchin you foo.
ALSO thank you to the level 57 that gave me 75 silver out of pity, means a lot, may mara bless you.
Okay back to trying to scrape some silver together.
I have a level 44 mage friend who probably won’t be able to afford a mount until 50+, but at least he has all those ranks of flamestrike and amplify magic to take up room on his UI.
Personally I never bought a single multi-rank pet skill until level 60 other than the voidwalker taunt, and even gave up on the voidwalker at around 30 because he holds aggro less effectively than a feigned hunter. Or just a straight up dead hunter, really.
Drain Mana Rank 1? More like Drain My Wallet Rank 1. Get out of here, and take all of your garbage curses and searing pain with you. I don’t even need to pay for a mount, but the very idea of purchasing these is insulting.
First rule. Loot everything, 99% will get vendored untill the AH starts to heat up.
Second rule. If its not a skill you need right now don’t but it, or just buy lv 1.
Third rule. Do not buy gear, just take what you can get from quests and dungeons.
Fourth rule. There is no shame in asking anmage for food, just don’t get mad if they say no. Your the 4,000 person that hour who asked.
Fifth rule. Farm mobs, just because you finished the quest doesnt mean you should stop killing mobs if they have a high drop rate of decently priced items.
Sixth rule. Repair early, repair often. It seems to cost less to repair early then to let all your fear turn red first.
Sent a fellow warrior in my guild 50g last night when he dinged 40 so he could get his mount. It’s a rough life being 40 still running around on foot, and you hate to see it.
Get bigger bags as soon as you can. You can load up on more vendor trash. The price of bags always pays for itself in space. You either make less trips to town or destroy less low value items, which both add up!!!
I try to AH greens once on a 24 hour with buyout. If they don’t sell I vendor them, but they usually sell.
I rolled Druid, mage, warlock, and priest though. The locks get their 40 mount as a skill. Druid has travel form so not rushed to get a mount. Mage can AOE grind and make tons of gold. Basically 3 of my characters won’t have a hard time getting mounts. Those bag spaces matter though!! Get bigger bags!!
Most of the time, barring a lucky drop, a helpful friend, or going out of your way to farm, you’re going to organically get your mount around 43 or 44. Ya you’ll see stories of people who got an underworld band or spent a whole day fishing and get their mount the second they hit 40, but this isn’t the majority.
It really is. The initial purchase hurt a little because you’re like oh man, I’ve worked 12~15 levels just to get some stupid bags? But once you see them full of stacks of grey items, cloth, leather, dungeon greens, etc., You’ve already made your return plus.
I don’t agree with this. I didn’t need to buy a mount but I had about 95g when I hit 40 despite never once selling anything on the AH. When leveling vanilla characters on more established servers with an actual economy, I’d typically have around 200 by the time I needed to buy a mount. And I definitely don’t do stuff like fishing or farming nodes or whatever.
Ya because you probably spent all of 20-40 in a spellcleave group making exponentially more gold than anyone who isn’t a warlock, mage, priest or warrior. I just don’t believe that you “normally” have 200g by level 40 in 1.5-2 days /played without using the auction house, without going out of your way to farm anything and without getting some sort of twink bis item or something.
I think I had 80g by the time I hit 40, but I’ve leveled like 12 characters (maybe more honestly) 1-60 in vanilla between actual vanilla and private servers, usually on freshly released servers, and I have NEVER had anywhere close to 200g when hitting 40, and am usually around the 40-60g range. I don’t buy stuff off the ah, don’t train extraneous skills, vendor basically everything, etc. I guess generally speaking I just chain quests 1-40 rather than grinding stuff, but still, 200g seems like a huge exaggeration unless you’re looking at a 3-4 day /played time to 40
I did not grind or do a single spellcleave group until level 57, where I ran out of quests. Prior to that I did every dungeon once except RFK, Gnomer, and Uldaman which I skipped.
200g is perfectly reasonable if you sell greens and crafting mats you get while leveling normally on the AH. Not right now since the economy is so underdeveloped, but I’ve never had an issue with it later on. Taken 9 characters total to 60 in vanilla, and 3 more to 40+.
Still hard to make some change! Haha. Its all good tho im having fun regardless! Thank you! 