Alchemy...drop it ?Follow

Depends what you want to do. You can simply put alchemy on "hold" and just sell your herbs. That would be your best bet as far as making mount money and not throwing away anything that you've invested into alchemy. Mining and herb together can be done, but it's recomended that you only take one of the other as you can only track mineral OR herb nodes on your minimap (1 at a time). Some people are very successful with both, but it's generally players at the high end who have devoted some time into mapping farming routs and know where all the nodes are even without the minimap. Skinning, while sorta profitable, really won't make you that much additional cash. To be honest, you'll make just as much money by farming humanoid/demon mobs for cloth drops as you would by farming beasts to skin (and you have no downtime to loot the cloth... but you do when you have to actually skin).

As a warrior you'll have a huge reliance on pots if you plan on doing end game PvE. It can save you both time and money if you can craft the pots yourself. However, you may see a bigger overall benifit by going mining + blacksmithing depending on what you want to focus on. End game there are some really nice crafted BoP blacksmithing items for armorsmiths and various weapon smith specilizations.

Take into account that herb + alchemy are probably the easiest 2 professions to power level once you hit 70 (for their respective classes anyway - gathering vs crafting). I can honestly say that I'd have no problem powerleveling both to 375 while spending money for only training and vials in a weekend of heavy play. If you want to drop one/both now... you can always level them back up later... that's going to depend on your personal prefrences. The only profession that's really on par with herbalism as far as money making is concerned is mining... atleast while leveling.

Personally you need to look into the potions that earn $$ on the ah, and take an active approach to making these.

IE - make swiftness potions, free action potions, ect. And any extra herbs you get along the way sell.

You should easily be able to afford your mount if you focus on doing these things for a few hours here and there.

I'm an expert Alchemist, and I never made too much money with my potions. I think that was mostly because I gave all my elixirs/potions to the guildies. You can make money, you just have to check the AH and see what's selling good. Shadow Oil, Elixir of Shadow Power, Swiftness Potions for WSG weekends all seem to sell really well.

At your level, I had the same professions on my first character and made money via selling Blindweed and Fadeleaf I got in the Swamp of Sorrows for my mount. I don't know if it works anymore since BC but I know Fadeleaf probably still has some demand because Rogues need it for Blind. Anyway, keep the professions, but focus on selling your herbs for the time being.

I like Alchemy, from a caster's point of view, I liked having Alchemy to make my own mana potions and other needed potions for raids. When it comes to PvP though, it really isn't that useful especially with the Arena not allowing consumables. If you want to focus mostly on raids and PvE functions, Alchemy will serve you and your guild well especially when you have all of the flasks and elixirs they need. Plus, you can make some decent money about level 47-49 by collecting Ghost Mushrooms and making Elixir of Shadow Power that Locks need for their epic mount.