So, my professions are skinning and herbalism and despite that I find it extremely hard to save for a mount. I sell what I can in the AH, but there is nobody high enough to pay good prices yet. I got 5,5g at the moment, but at the same time 4 or 5 new talents to learn at 75s each. As soon as I get anything it’s gone. I recall I didn’t have a regular mount in classic until level 57. How do you guys do it?
Dont buy all abilities, buy what you need.
You are warrior, you can spam dungeons and get 2 gold per run. Do stockades, find you 3 mages and a healer.
Ditch leveling profession like firstaid and etc, sell everything you get and never buy items from AH until you get a mount and then the level 60 mount and then think about professions.
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I’ll have a lot less time starting next week, so I guess I’ll do more via dungeons, but what you are laying out here is terrifying. But I’ll definitely try running more dungeons.
I’m a fully skilled prot warrior, but I hate playing with others. Weird, eh?
Why did you choose herbalism and skinning?
Beasts in shimmering flats (33-37 level) drop vendor junk that sells nicely (3s-10s ea) and stuff that is sellable on AH as well (e.g. turtle meat). When posting stuff on AH check the post price (deposit) as well as AH tax, since you might be better off vendoring that stuff.
Got herb + skinning myself as well 
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What you should have done as a warrior is level blacksmithing and mining, vendoring the BS gear from 155-165 for example is 1.5g
Like stated above, don’t buy all of your abilities and only the necessary ones.
As for skinning, I sold on my skins to the vendor and all greens I found with decent stats on the AH, got to 90 gold at level 41 by doing that.
Also invest a big in proper bags and just loot eeeeeeeverything and sell it!
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Meanwhile im here at lvl 24 and can afford a mount
Mob grinding ftw … xd
Herbalism and Skinning aren’t going to earn you big bucks just yet. Herbalism comes more into play when BGs come out and people want their PvP potions, and more guilds get into raid content. You can still earn a decent amount with them, but Mining is where the big money is always at no matter what.
You can try farming stone elementals in the Badlands when you’re a higher level. The rocks they drop sell for quite a lot of money. I farmed my fist mount on them 15 years ago. It’s not necessarily the best way to earn cash, but it is a relatively easy and reliable way.
Picked two gathering professions because I can sell everything I get. I just had to decide between mining and herbalism, because I can only use one scanner. Skinning worked out very nicely for twinks back in the days, because most manufacturing professions, can use some here and there, but will often have to buy it. Leveling a manufacturing profession has always been very expensive in my experience, in terms of crap you have to make to skill and the things you’ll never be able to get rid of in the AH.
A better example might have been BS level 210-236 earning 11g from vendoring the gear you make. Thats around lvl 35-40ish in profession terms
I’ve been fishing. A lot of fishing.
Got blue recipe for Mithril Sheld Spike, got few uncommon recipes, some greens to vendor, lots of cloth to make bags from.
Only at level 28 now, but already at 30g + enough materials for lots of Mageweave and Runecloth bags to get me to 100g. Still need honoured rep to get price down to 90g
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Yeah, I do value my life more than WoW and I don’t want to spend my spare time grinding for hours and hours the way I used to do. Plus, I do have obligations and not as much time to begin with as when I was 18 or so.
Oh yeah and fishing is insane gold. Might not be fun for you though.(im planning on spending from midnight to 4am today fishing to level it up, will be watching netflix)
You don’t tend to start getting decent chunks of gold till 30+ i’d say from here on in save every bit of gold you can get and lvl your professions to 150+ and you’ll be making nice gold off of that trust me
I do love fishing - I can do that on the side, but I don’t see how there’s gold in it. I tried Stendle’s Pond but didn’t get a single one of those loot fish that could have the ring in them.
pools of fish bro. Stonescale, firefin, blackmouth. Pretty much all pools are valuable
Edit: Schools, not pools lol
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- Start saving money only after level 30. Earlier income is too little to make any difference.
- Do not waste money on skills or equipment unless ABSOLUTELY have to.
- Pick a nice spot with green npcs (3-5 lvls below you) and farm the hell out of it.
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Its all about fishing pools. Sometimes they spawn floating wreckages. Fishing there gets you trunks that contain bolts of cloth, leather, sometimes green items.
Without those pools its pointless because nobody wants raw fish.
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To be fair you can find valuable fish without schools, I just always struggled with that 