Runecloth. So much runecloth. I became sick to death of runecloth. THAT was the only way you could get rep in vanilla for another race's mounts on your same faction besides doing quests.

I don't know what they'll change or not but do NOT make it a post end game goal. In vanilla, you didn't GET rep OR exp when you outleveled a quest and it turned grey.

You wanted another race's mount? Best way was to run over to their zone ASAP and beginning doing their racial zones, doing every single one and trying not to outlevel them in the process. The higher difficulty level it was to you, the more rep you got (though I think red still gave you very little, but orange/yellow were best). Turns grey? You just wasted your time and should move on.

Quests that gave +faction rep were also good to utilize. They really helped. Then you'd have different cloth turn ins, until the highest cloth - runecloth. Then you farm runecloth like a mad person and constantly turn in stacks of it to watch that bar move.

I spent almost all of my time in vanilla unlocking the faction mounts on all alliance races. I met my husband playing WoW and he devoted all of HIS time to helping me farm and turn in runecloth.

We used to joke my hands were stained PINK from the stuff in game.

We just celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary today, but we met 15 years ago. I still have nightmares about runecloth turn-ins.