Originally Posted by
Proplus
I had enough gold when I hit lvl40 that I bought a mount immeditately. Its not too hard, I never sold anything at the time on AH, and I never bought anything from AH before then. The way I see it, lvling up to 40 is real easy, and you 'out grow' your equipment very fast, so no point in buying a new item just because its 1 or 2 lvls above the one you are using already, leave this until later lvls as you lvl up much slower.
As for instances, before lvl40, I only ever did one, so you don't necessarily need to do them for grinding to get extra money.