Gold, Flying mounts, Cold weather flying conundrum:

[Lance]

To the OP, This is why I didn't upgrade my accounts yet. I am doing my dailies at 70 to get my epic flier training (5k) and bank some gold for professions and cold weather training. I know I will be behind other people who are already 80 but I am not racing anyone but myself. I can't wait to go to NorthRend but I want my trip to be as smooth as possible.

I don't think this is a good idea. Just get out there and play wotlk money is alot easier to get there than tbc. You cant even use flyers till 77 anyways.

[Trammel]

The free mounts are 60% (or nearly 60%) movespeed, the same as the 800+100g 60% flying mounts.

With regards to the person still on 60% mounts, that nice, but I'm in a position where I have very, very few quests left that I can do.

[moosejaw]

I don't think this is a good idea. Just get out there and play wotlk money is alot easier to get there than tbc. You cant even use flyers till 77 anyways.

I knew someone would say this. I am not picking a fight here but I disagree. A character that has epic flying and 2k in the bank is ready to go north. My team is not ready. I am not leaving all that Outland gold sitting on the table. I am not in a hurry. Northrend will not be closing anytime soon. There is plenty of time to go north. I have other 70's with epic fliers that are ready to roll but they can wait also.

I am talking like a robot.

[Hachoo]

Wait..are you saying characters aren't "ready" to go north until they have an epic flyer? Honestly thats rather laughable... Like he said, you can't even fly until level 77 and between 70-77 you'll make 2k+ gold per character anyway, maybe more. Sitting in outland to make money is totally gimping yourself - the money you make will be 1/5th what you'll make in the same amount of time in northrend. You get 5-20g per quest in northrend PLUS items to sell - dailies in outland get you what, 7-11g per? LOL.

[Hor]

I made 500g per toon in Howling Fjord alone. Just did all the quests, sold what I didn't use. Never needed water/food. Just burned the quests and repaired when needed.

[Hachoo]

I'm still IN howling fjord and I've already made at least 700g per character. By the time I hit 77 I think I'll have made around 3000g per character if things keep going like this. That means at 77 I will be able to buy the cold weather flying AND epic mounts (my chars already have 60% speed flying mounts).

[Schwarz]

Once you hit 70 you get gold based on the ammount of XP you would have gotten. If you want to go around and get a bunch of gold from old outland quests before you upgrade to wotlk this is the time to do it.

If you leave a bunch of level 70 quests in outlands and level to 80 then come back. Some of these quests will be gray to you thus giving you no xp (or extra gold).

So I think the point is if you want to get the maximum ammount of gold before northrend do the quests before upgrading your accounts.

Also moosejaw will be earning more gold that they can put toward other things besides mounts from leveling 70-80. The real problem with epic mounts is as soon as you get one you can't stand to not have them on all the toons you are playing.

[Trammel]

The real problem is when you buy epic mounts, leaving you not enough money for regular mounts and leaving you SOL to grind ;(

[Terraelf]

I don't really see this as much of a problem for you. If you multibox and run the quests and don't buy anything and sell all the crap you get, from quests and selling crap alone I had 2k gold on each toon when I got to 77. Assuming you already have epic ground mount, that's enough to pay for flying mount and cold weather flying if you didn't have it before.

[Marious]

Currently out of my 5 accounts only 2 have the expansion on them, still need to buy a 5th copy so that all have them. so for the time being I am using my 70 (Almost 71 Pally tank) with my other 3 accounts that do no have it and just do dailies, I get done with them in like 30 minutes or so. So I am making 100g roughly in 30 minutes on each of the 3 shaman and like half that on the pally tank. When I pick up the other copy then I will go North, already have my epic ground mount and my flying mounts on everyone so really only thing I need to worry about once I go north is my Cold Weather Flying mount.

Oh and you cant use the mammoth in old WoW at least that is what they where saying all along I am not sure if this has changed.