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He’s running a paladin and I’m a rogue. We didn’t want to mess with anything too heavily magical (though the healing has already proved nice!) and since we knew we’d be just the two of us, we wanted two classes that could fight well.
I think he’s going to take mining and engineering, and I’m going to take skinning and leatherworking.
Thanks again! 
Oh–if anybody has any good advice for how to get money fast (other than doing the quests, which we’ve been doing), that would be greatly appreciated. 
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Rogue and a paladin… you must both be human or dwarf! That’s a good combo, he can do the melee and healing and you can DPS burst to bring the mobs down quick. Your Sap ability will help you take on groups of (humanoid) mobs as well. Pickpocket is also a fun ability to help you get extra moneys and fun things. Don’t overlook developing your Lockpicking skill, either.
Okay, money-making tips… be warned, my guild calls me the Suze Orman of WoW.
Sell everything. Nothing is vendor trash if you’re broke. Even a few coppers will add up.
Something that you’ll be looting off mobs at your level is Light Feathers. They drop off most birds occasionally. Save them and sell them at the Auction House (AH). Mages and Priests use them in spells and they usually sell well. Also, these three “trash” items: Soft Bushy Tails, Torn Bear Pelt, and Small Furry Paw - occasionally drop off mobs. They are used for Darkmoon Faire turn-ins. If you have space in your bank to save them until 12/4 when Darkmoon Faire comes back to Elwynn Forest, the price for them will go up on the AH.
http://gathereraddon.com/ – this addon helped me a lot when I was starting out as a miner. It tracks herb, mineral, and treasure sources in the game. The “treasure” sources include all the chests you find and lots of other items which you haven’t encountered yet in the game. The latest edition also tracks Fishing areas: schools of fish, wreckage, and elemental water. You can also periodically upload your data to their site and download a new file which includes the sites where other Gatherer users have found these items!
Don’t forget to auction off the stone you aren’t using as an engineer. You may want to farm especially for the coarse stone which comes out of tin veins when you get to that level. It’s fairly scarce, and used in lots of crafting items, so it usually is selling high.
Fishing is a “free” gathering skill, and there is a lot of money to be made from it. In lower levels, concentrate on fish needed for alchemy, such as oily blackmouth and firefin snapper, which sell better than food fish. (Fishing is boring as hell, but it’s free money.) If you want to go to The Barrens, deviate fish is a big big seller, and a low level fish to farm. Fish in wreckage on the coasts to get stuff like lockboxes and other neat things.
Cloth always sells. It may not sell at a staggeringly high price, but all it costs is the time to farm it off the mobs. Collect cloth and sell – linen at lower levels, then wool, silk, mageweave, as you progress. (Remember, only humanoids drop cloth.)
Create a “bank alt” – level a character to 5 to learn (dis)enchanting. (I recommend a human because they’re easiest to run to a major city at a low level.) Now, with a disenchanting bank alt, you can disenchant any green or blue Bind on Equip item that you cannot use and which won’t sell on the AH. *Enchanting mats require no deposit at the AH, so you’re essentially auctioning them for all profit. * You can continue putting them up for auction over and over if they don’t sell, and it won’t cost you additional AH fees.
Those tips should help you get started as lower level characters. When you get a bit of gold to your name, you might want to check out the Auctioneer addon (www.auctioneeraddon.com) and start “working the market.”