Changes: Guide for preparing to buy a mount

Revision as of 02:12, 17 October 2007

Depending on your class, it might be more useful to run a lot of instances.
Don't buy yourself any equipment; only use drops. This is fairly easy since dropped and reward gear will always outclass vendor gear.
Use your professions to your advantage when you can, but avoid investing hard cash into them.
- Alchemists: Make a lot of Swiftness Potions & sell them at the Auction House for around 3 a stack, or whatever they're going for at that time
- Gatherers (skinners/herbalists/miners without leatherworking/alchemy/blacksmithing): Save your gathered items until you get a stack, then sell them at the Auction House.
Levelling up by doing nothing but grinding is one way to ensure that you have the money to buy your mount when you reach the required level (by selling/auctioning the drops). However, grinding is repetitive, and this method typically requires a good knowledge of grinding spots. You may also have to compete with other players grinding in the same hot-spot. One example of a good spot is an area where there are a lot of humanoids that drop money and various raw cloth, which is always in high demand. Grinding also improves your likelihood of looting rarer drops that are worth large amounts of gold in the auction house.

Even if you choose to level and raise money simply by grinding, be sure to complete enough quests with your home faction to raise your reputation to Honored. This will give another 1 discount on the mount and 9 on Apprentice Riding training. It adds up to 200 for an Epic Mount and Journeyman Riding.
Regular flying mount vendors are not affiliated with a faction and so do not offer mounts at a discount. The discount is still available on vendors affiliated with a faction, though (for example, 20 off a Nether Ray from the Sha'tari Skyguard, to a total cost of 180 for the mount).
Mounts are Bind on Pickup as of Patch 1.12.1. This means you can no longer have a friend with discounts buy a mount on your behalf.

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 ==Take Advantage of Discounts==
 *Even if you choose to level and raise money simply by grinding, be sure to complete enough quests with your home [[faction]] to raise your [[reputation]] to [[Honored]]. This will give another {{cost|1}} discount on the mount and {{cost|9}} on Apprentice [[Riding]] training. It adds up to {{cost|200}} for an [[Epic Mount]] and Journeyman Riding.
+*Regular flying mount vendors are not affiliated with a faction and so do not offer mounts at a discount.  The discount is still available on vendors affiliated with a faction, though (for example, {{cost|20}} off a [[Nether Ray]] from the [[Sha'tari Skyguard]], to a total cost of {{cost|180}} for the mount).
 *Mounts are [[Bind on Pickup]] as of Patch 1.12.1. This means you can no longer have a friend with discounts buy a mount on your behalf.