The other way around the time sink is to spend about 25-30gp in the AH buying the mats for the trade packs. I spent about 4 hours tonight working the AH and turned 25 gold into 50 and then bought out the mats I needed. Ended up costing about 32G in total for all the mats once I was done.

Follow the above mats (changed from the beta guides). Follow the below posted beta guides on how to get from Point A to B the fastest. The routes haven't changed, only the mats since Beta.

Step 1.
1st Half - Donkey

Step 2.
2nd Half - Large Field

Don't make me have'ta Troll ya Bro!