I am getting closer and closer to 40 and would love to be able to get my mount....I have about 1/2 the money saved up and my professions are skinning and LW. What would you guys suggest for raising the mount money? Instance runs and sell loot? Skinning and selling those pieces of leather?

My last mount got partially funded by a guildie quitting the game and asking who needed what from their toon....I jokingly said mount money and he gave me almost 1/2 the money for a mount.

Guild loans are always nice, I helped 2 guildies with theirs. Leather has been good to me on the AH, specially thick leather when not in demand from guildies ( who get it for free ). I sell drops, leatherworking products and leather and that's where I get the bulk of my money.

Far too many instance drops are BOP to count on selling nice things, though sometimes you get lucky.

Well the BOP you can sell to a vendor....and I know I've gotten a few weapons in SM that would sell for a lil over 1g to a vendor. That's why I mentioned that.

I dont play my shaman anymore but when i did I made most of my mount money running SM over and over and over, especially Cathedral.

That's what I was thinking....my bf and I are both close to getting our mount and need the gold....so we were thinking of SM runs. We've got a few guildies that help us out on runs from time to time....so maybe they will help us out some when we need it.

Skinning works great for me. I got my mount money early on (early 30s) with it.

It could be because of my servers prices.
(25s medium leather) (90s for heavy)

I leveled a few levels grinding in the shimmering flats (would be bad if alliance). I could get about 10 stacks of heavy leather per hour which was about 9g an hour in just heavy leather.

I completely dropped mining because I had tons of leather to sell.

Drop Leatherworking and pick up mining or herbalism. Honestly crafting jobs are a dead end when you hit level 60. No one wants to buy gear when they can go raid for it. Which they have to do anyways because...well...there's nothing else to do at level 60. The exception is enchanting. That's always useful high end, though low end you won't make any money off it.

My warlock alt has Mining/Enchanting and I've SPENT at least 100g and he's only level 42. Right now he's still sitting with 60g in his pockets. This is just from mining as I see it. I haven't done any farming runs yet.

Well personally I have not gotten 250+ on any profesion other then alchemy on my main. So unless your guild attually needs another LW two gathering profesions work really well to make money. Though two gathering profesions that require tracking of some time dont mix as well as say Mining/Herbalism and Skinning. Enchanting I hear can be very good for money making but not for the enchants but for the actttual materials. As you can DE anything no matter what level you are. If you deside to drop LW I'ld probley go with enchanting as DE'ing those BoP items when clearing instances with few friends will net you more then what you can get for saleing those BoP's to a vendor. Also you might look to find some place to kill mobs that give both cash & skins like yetis in Tarren Mill area. My wife ussually does quite well saling leather by undercutting everyone else. As you lose money if you put that leather up and no one buys it so its better to make a small profit then to try to gouge people.

Yeah Cat made some good points. Selling enchanting materials can net some good cash. But its also a risk. On one server, I've made a load selling low to mid grade enchanting materials. But then on another server, I haven't made anything and the only reason I haven't lost money was because there is no deposit on selling ench mats in the 8 hours bracket. This is nice until you hit level 50-60 when you can go farm places like SM and get mats for actually doing enchants. Later on you can make some really good money if you're willing to spend some time shouting in IF or Org.

I still think though that crafting jobs are relatively pointless unless you got some really good rep with a lot of hard to get factions. They just lose out when you hit raid levels. Even leveling nothing you can make is really great. It can be easily replaced with a better drop and I can't really say I saved money by making stuff while leveling. Because I probably would have made more simply selling the skin instead.

If you do really want to make stuff. I would highly suggest taking herg/alchemy once you have a nice gold buffer and are in the raiding levels. Specifically if you start hitting MC and such. It will save you sooooooo much money if you can make things like Mana pots, Stoneskin pots, Greater Fire Protection. And you can probably make a pretty penny selling those as well as Mongoose pots to rogues and Titan strength or whatever they are to warriors and such. But yeah those Major Mana pots are killer. 15g per stack on my server.

I really like mining though. I can go out and just killing mobs for a quest I can get a good stack of iron or gold. That's 5g right there, and all I did was grab a few nodes as I see them. I've yet to actually go out to farm specifically.

Another way at higher levels if you can stomach the farming, is killing elementals for essences. But that takes a lot of time and I personally hate it.

Well personally I have not gotten 250+ on any profesion other then alchemy on my main. So unless your guild attually needs another LW two gathering profesions work really well to make money.

My guild is small right now, although we are allied with a few larger guilds for raids and such. As far as I know there are not any LW's in my guild as high as mine is. The only 2 that might've been higher, one took a break and kinda made her mage her main and the other will be specializing in elemental when I want some of the tribal pieces. Plus prices on our server are a lil overpriced with some leather pieces...while other types of items seemed to be fairly priced or even kinda cheap. I've been helping them and some of the friends I made in WSG...the WSG friends usually supply the mats for it.

I still think though that crafting jobs are relatively pointless unless you got some really good rep with a lot of hard to get factions. They just lose out when you hit raid levels. Even leveling nothing you can make is really great. It can be easily replaced with a better drop and I can't really say I saved money by making stuff while leveling. Because I probably would have made more simply selling the skin instead.

Well our guild doesn't seem to do too many raids anyways....and I don't know yet how hard it is to get a spot considering that we are allied with a few pretty large guilds. I will probably keep up with my skinning and LW...although right now everything that I can make to raise it is higher than me in level. I figured I would sell what I can right now because skins are pretty easy to come by. I was just wondering if I would make more money running instances and selling loots or selling my skins/leather pieces. I don't plan on giving up my professions....anyways I can help some of my lowbies with the things I can make too (green items for my enchanter....and leather for my other leather wearing toons).

I think any prof' can make some money if your willing to put time in and are keen' on picking up on what sells and what doesn't. It also helps if you can be patient about it.

I'd suggest somthing like farming STV some, keeping an eye out for treasure chests as you go. Off the top of my head there's a chest that spawns by the stables off that Jungle cult on the north side of the zone and another one by the gobo's fire or inside the lumbermill at the Vent. Company Base camp.

I've always been a treasure chest fiend... most times they only provide a couple of junk items and coins... but I've pulled atleast 4 blue items outta chests... so why the heck not be sure your grinding/farming around one?

Cool. Thanks!

At the risk of sounding like a noob, what is the price range a mount will cost?

90g-100g.

Get honored with your race and it's 90g.

On the topic of getting mount money - Another thing that I have discovered as a huge money maker is fishing. If I had to get my mount money again, I would just fish for oily blackmouths and deviate fish and get my mount money in no time. I can average 12g an hour fishing in the barrens.

Some of the higher level areas (which you wouldn't be able to get to without help less than 40) I can get 25g and hour.

Yea....fishing is a nice way to get some extra money. Thanks for reminding me. My druid will be getting her mount in 6 levels...and she has basically no money.

Skinning works great for me. I got my mount money early on (early 30s) with it.

It could be because of my servers prices.
(25s medium leather) (90s for heavy)

I leveled a few levels grinding in the shimmering flats (would be bad if alliance). I could get about 10 stacks of heavy leather per hour which was about 9g an hour in just heavy leather.

I completely dropped mining because I had tons of leather to sell.

As an addition to skinning, I also had herbalism as a profession. Between the two gathering professions I easily put together enough money for a mount at 40.

Now I'm going to watch all my gold disappear as I've dropped herbalism and I'm learning enchanting .... *sigh*