How to get enough gold to buy your mount at L40

[Kevin]

I think it's too late for them to be able to 'fit into the flow of the game'

If you want to get a mount by 40 and fit into the flow of the game, you have to try, and you have to start at level 1.

Look at all the other items in the game.  Any item that is "Requires level X" is not easily obtainable at all at level X (unless it's on the Auction House, but you technically didn't obtain it then).  Items that "Requires Level X" drop off mobs level X+2, or even X+5 or higher.  They never drop off equal level mobs.  This is true all the way to 60, where to get an item that requires level 60 you basically have to farm the hell out of a few select locations.

Getting a mount at 40 should be very difficult.  It IS within the flow of the game for it to be near impossible unless you focus a LOT of time and effore on that one goal.
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My tone appears to have conveyed things I didn't mean. I don't disagree that getting a mount at 40 should be hard. I just keep hoping that there is a way that doesn't require focusing on it. :) I want the "I win button".

I think one of the keys is to make the crafting/gathering fit in to the normal flow of things, rather than being an extra. I gained 2 levels last night, and crafted a big bunch of leather, too. I killed, I skinned, I skinned what others left lying about while waiting for the mobs to respawn. I was doing green quests, like Bolty advises, so respawning didn't scare me. I wasn't *re-farming* anything.

Oh, I know. I have only had to do gathering outside of my normal questing a few times. Most of that has involved getting enough iron while in the low 30's to be able to craft stuff that you can wear in the low 30's since iron is not common until the mobs around it are in the upper 30's it seems (the few nodes in Duskwood and wetlands are rare and often camped though thousand needles offers a good amount and you can get it questing in shimmering flats as well). :) I've also done runs to get stuff to make for lower level characters. The gathering and crafting of this type isn't for any skill up though because it's well below my level.

My crafting has always stayed with my level (meaning thst stuff I can craft has a level requirement to use at or above my character level) by starting early and by doing it while questing. If it is skinable, it gets skinned. If I can pick it or mine it, I do so. One of my bags or more is always devoted to crafting goods, and that works for me. However you aren't able to sell the mats like this as you need it all to keep the skill up with your level unless you have another person feeding you. At L34, I can now sell tin, copper, and silver if I want to as it doesn't help with skill ups, but I'm not in areas where you don't see much of that anymore either.


So yeah, I realize it has to be a goal, but I keep hoping there is a way to do it without having to focus on it. I get bored quick doing that, the goal is too nebulous to hold the interest, I need more immediate feedback. The game is very good at covering the grind by giving frequent rewards though. But I don't even want to go into an instance again unless I still need to finish a quest there. One and done is my prefered playstyle. I get no enjoyment out of playing the auction house either. I put stuff up occasionally and usually only do a quick check so that my price is in line with what is out there already. This means I probably won't see a mount unitl L45 or 50. :) But it doesn't mean I can't hope someone will find a way to help a more casual approach to the game get a mount at 40. :)