Ferniel's "How Not to Be a Begger!"

Alrighty, then! My patience is shot from newbs/noobs endlessly begging for gold or asking stupid questions like "Where's Durotar?" For the latter, I have my "How Not to Be a Nub!" guide. For the former, I have this guide! So, henceforth, nobody has any excuse for wanting to know where to get their gold or for begging for gold. My following notes will describe how to earn a lot of money while leveling and have enough to buy every land mount and your blue flying mount without ever farming gold! Please pay attention.

1) First of all, realize that this server drops many times more gold than retail. When mobs in Outland are dropping 1-2g per kill, you can make 100g by simply killing 50 of them. Not bad considering retail's gold drops are more like 50s each.

2) Do the quests! Too many people don't realize just how much experience quests give, and how much extra gold they give. There are plenty of kill quests all over. If you're going to be grinding these mobs anyway, you might as well get a free chunk of experience and a nice purse of gold while you're at it! If killing 20 trolls in the Hinterlands will make you level, why not kill 20 trolls for a kill quest, level from the mobs, and then turn in the quest to get yourself 25% of the way to your next level and get 5g out of it? Hell, there are many quests that only require you to kill a mob or three and return for a huge chunk of exp/gold. Easy levels, easy gold.

3) Don't blow your money on crap! I know it's tempting to buy an item from the AH or upgrade your stuff from a vendor, but you don't need it and it's a waste of your money. You need your money for talents much more than a slight upgrade in gear (which you'll find off random mobs anyway).

4) Don't worry if you can't buy all your talents as soon as they're available. You'll get plenty of gold eventually to buy all your talents, and you'll soon have a surplus to where you've got money to blow. But don't give in to the temptation of having lots of gold!

5) Mounts > All. Being able to have reliable transport to wherever you need to go is one of the most important things you could invest in. Always invest in a mount even if you have to keep from buying new talents for a while.

Okay, so this wasn't the best guide, but these are still valid points! I've leveled four characters to 70, and every one of them I've been fully capable of buying every mount (except the epic flying one) immediately upon hitting the requisite level. Do the quests, don't blow your money on crap, kill lots of humanoids (they give more money than non-humanoids), and keep mounts your highest priority. Now, once you do have your first flying mount and are pining for your epic flying mount, here is what I did to get mine:

In Shadowmoon Valley there is a place near the center of the map called The Deathforge. This is full of orcs, elementals, infernals and imps. There are two caves down an incline filled with the aforementioned creatures. Kill all of them. All the orcs will drop good money, and everything has a chance of dropping green items. Pick up EVERY green item that drops. Keep going even after emptying the caves (you should soon fall into a pattern where you kill one cave and leave to find the other one respawning). When your bags are full and you can no longer pick up the greens, mount up and run to the nearest merchant to sell all the greens you find. Then go back. Rinse and repeat as necessary. While I was doing this when Ferniel first hit lvl 70, I had a rate of 290g per run, and could get two or three runs in per hour. That's a lot of gold. In three or four hours, I hit another 1,000g mark.

Be warned that this method will take several days (as it took me several days), and you'll probably never want to go back to the Deathforge again. But unless you are in a raiding guild and have access to bosses that drop 3,000g per drop (split to about 300g per member of the raid), you probably won't find a better way to grind your money.

If you follow this guide as I've written it, you shouldn't have a single problem getting ALL of your mounts, and your epic flying mount within a week of hitting 70. There really isn't any excuse for begging for gold, so please don't start. This is how I earned my flying mount, and how I suggest to everyone that they do the same.