I've only been playing WoW since September, but I've played about four or five other MMOs (Star Wars Galaxies, Final Fantasy XI, City of Heroes, Everquest II), a couple table tops (D&D, Vampire and Big Eyes Small Mouth) and a ton of console RPGs, so I get all the basic conventions.
That said, for what I do know, I still have a long ways to go. I'm at 43 and have no mount, rather crappy items and am absolutely terrible at earning money (Though grinding and selling armor kits has been helping that lately and I'm at the perfect level for farming Black Dragonkin which is the fucking tits for earning money and leather at the same time).
Which brings me to my next subject. As a skinner, I have an obvious hard on for skinnable humanoids ever since being introduced to Yeti back in the Foothills. I'm getting ass tones of good stuff from Dragonkin, too (Which I did not know were skinnable). Once I'm leveled past Dustwallow, any suggestions for locations for good skinnable humanoids in the future? It's great being able to kill two birds with one stone on them. I'd been doing mostly quests that involved humanoids for a while and just last night I was able to grind my leatherworking up from 210 to 227 last night with the disgusting amount of thick leather I was pulling off the Dragonkin in the Den of Flames.
Edit: Here's my character for point of reference:
Murphus. Though for the sake of recent developments, I'm now up three levels, found a blue ring to replace cobalt ring and upgraded my mace, chest, legs, belt and feet.