A Mining Junkie Reveals Five Great Mining Resources

[Idolis]

I love to mine. I'm addicted to it. I spend entire evenings running around looking for minerals. I've smelted for 40 minutes straight multiple times. I trained myself past artisan BEFORE level 25. Suffice it to say, it's my favorite part of the game.

I lost a bet with a co-mining freak and therefore have to reveal five favorite, reliable, and not-so-obvious resources for everyone who cares to look.

Sorry this list is Alliance friendly, my brand new Orc miner is just starting to get his bearings in Durotar.

I have some tried and true places for finding iron, coal and thorium that I'll never reveal, but if you're seriously into mining, here are some tips for finding the good stuff.

1. One of the best places in the game to find truesilver, mithril and gold is The Charred Vale (especially if you don't want to get killed in the process of mining it). Even a player in the high-teens or low-20s can mine here if they concentrate on stealth. Just run laps around the edge of the vale and you'll find heaps of everything from copper to truesilver. It's the single best place I've found in the whole game to increase your mining skill. In general, The Stonetalon Mountains are unbelieveably rich with minerals of all kinds (except thorium). On a strategy note, the harpys in Stonetalon have a HUGE aggro radius and they travel in packs. If you think they're far enough away to run by, they're not. Wait until they're ridiculously far away.

2. Gold can regularly be found north of Raynewood Retreat and near Kal Kor in Desolace.

3. Iron is downright abundant along the borders of The Shimmering Flats.

4. I've found quite a bit of silver along the wall in The Hillsbrad Foothills.

5. If you want to smelt a huge pile of bronze in a hurry, simply mine every node you find along the ENTIRE border of Darkshore. While this run might take you about an hour, you'll easily be able to get enough copper and tin ore to fill five 16-slot bags (hence 40-minute smelt times).

Also, a great strategy for finding minerals is what I call "wallcrawling". Once you have a sense of the layout in any area, walk along the border of that area as tightly as possible, staying as high up as you can. In areas surrounded by cliffs, mountains and foothills, you'll find everything available to you throughout that part of the map. Even if you're in an area where death is certain should you run into a monster or two (or ten), your best chance of survival is to jump off that cliff you're scaling and make a run back in the direction you came from. The head start you get from the jump is usually enough to save your hide. As far as I know, I've never seen a monster "jump" down a wall in pursuit of me.

Caves, pretty much as a rule, have high densities of mineral nodes, too, but be sure you've got the skills to slip past whatever haunts those caves. Again, the caves located in Stonetalon are awesome for finding all manner of minerals. The caves throughout the Wetlands are good, too.

That satisfies the bet. Hope it helps. Now, off to find a cache of Star Rubies and maybe a little Arcanite...

Idolis

[Nickthered]

Wow. thx man. Now i know what i'll be doing tomorrow!

[YoshDawg]

The alterac mountains is the best spot ;)

it's a small area (around the elite ogres and the cave with non-elite ogres) and you can find iron/mithril with the occassional silver/gold/truesilver.

That and you can pvp for a bit since the zone is loaded with alliance and horde trying to quest.

[Darkeggy]

I trained myself past artisan BEFORE level 25. Suffice it to say, it's my favorite part of the game.

Idolis

Quoted from http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/professions/basics.html

Character Level Limits
In order to prevent low level characters from mastering high level skills, a certain character level limit is required for each level of profession. You will need a minimum character level to learn a new level of professions. Apprentice requires level 5, Journeyman level 10, Expert level 20 and Artisan requires level 35.

Wahahaha. I don't mean to rag on you, just don't lie. It makes you sound bad.

[Koetjeka]

hi, thanks for the great info !!! im a fellow miner and im getting addicted to it :P im going to mine bronze @ darkshore asap ^^ i hope there arent too much monsters out there waiting to kill me :lol:

[TheImp]

Quoted from [url]Wahahaha. I don't mean to rag on you, just don't lie. It makes you sound bad.

Well done Darkeggy, you sleauth you.


Oh! I just had a thought. That feature was added after launch wasn't it? I thought that, at launch, skill was the only training restriction. lvl restrictions were added later.

[ZaxGreia]

One other thing to note - mine in the off-hours. Some of the most obvious nodes are left alone during off-hours, since most intelligent people are sleeping (I play from South Korea, so I'm on the flip side from most US players). The density is low enough on most of the servers that you get almost exclusive access to what is normally pretty heavily contested (like those great resources in the Charred Vale, for example).

Never thought mining would be so fun (I'm level 25, 124 mining - now where's some tin so I can get that last skill point!?)

[Darkeggy]

Oh! I just had a thought. That feature was added after launch wasn't it? I thought that, at launch, skill was the only training restriction. lvl restrictions were added later.
Yeah. In beta, i remember having all the tradeskills and making loads of money. And you could have find herbs and find minerals at the same time. Ah..the memories..

[Luna88]

Quoted from http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/professions/basics.html

Character Level Limits
In order to prevent low level characters from mastering high level skills, a certain character level limit is required for each level of profession. You will need a minimum character level to learn a new level of professions. Apprentice requires level 5, Journeyman level 10, Expert level 20 and Artisan requires level 35.

Wahahaha. I don't mean to rag on you, just don't lie. It makes you sound bad.

iirc gathering skills dont have lvl-requirements, so you should be able to train past the artisan-point (225). to become a artisan though, you indeed need to be lvl 35.

Luna

[b4n4n4m4n]

2. Gold can regularly be found north of Raynewood Retreat and near Kal Kor in Desolace.

3. Iron is downright abundant along the borders of The Shimmering Flats.

4. I've found quite a bit of silver along the wall in The Hillsbrad Foothills.

5. If you want to smelt a huge pile of bronze in a hurry, simply mine every node you find along the ENTIRE border of Darkshore. While this run might take you about an hour, you'll easily be able to get enough copper and tin ore to fill five 16-slot bags (hence 40-minute smelt times).

Clearly you dont know what youre talking about. For one, the lvl requirement of 35 for artisan mining.

Secondly, certain minerals spawn at the same place. On spawning the deposit has an X% chance to be the rare mineral, otherwise it ll spawn as the common mineral of the 2. The minerals that spawn on the same place (common/rare):

tin/silver
iron/gold
mithril/truesilver

Copper deposits dont share their spawning points with the other minerals, and I havent achieved a high enough level to know about the minerals that come after truesilver.

Wallcrawling is indeed a good strategy.

[MrGandalf]

Sorry but i had to sign up to post this.

This guy is 100% correct when he says he became artisan at level 25. The level of your mining is not affected at all by the level of your character. Heres a screenshot o me at lvl 33 with artisan which one of you said wasnt even possible.

www.globbits.com/MrDan/wowpic.JPG

[Zroc]

Yes, gathering professions (mining, skinning, herb, etc) do not have those level requirements, only the production ones do (smithing, leatherworking, eng, etc).

"2. Gathering skills (Herbalism, Mining, Skinning) have no character level requirements."

Might actually wanna read up before you flame, eggy...

[Trowned]

as for the horde mining, i am not so sure of higher lvl mining but--
As low lvl mining i always go to durator for the best resources and mine by razor hill. there is that castle infested with humans and you go there for a quest, i got there and always find that the mine are untouched! so i mine i go smelt and by the time you run back there the mines are back! yaaaay! i do that for hours and then im ready to do silver mining (witch i still cant find for lower lvl chars >.< )
hope that helps someone

[Aielman]

There's no level limit for mining. I had a 240 skill by level 30. My only limitation was that I lacked the level to survive in the areas I needed to mine to progress.

peace,
Aielman

[f4t4bbot]

hey i've got a lvl 27 undead rogue and am wondering where i can find some iron veins at? I've only ever came across one and its west of tauren mill and is rarely there. The OP listed the Shimmering Flats as having large amounts of iron but its one hell of a run for me right now as well as a higher level area. I fear that ill be getting ganked alot as well as not being able to mine due to monsters around the veins. Any suggestions?

[GovernerOfCali]

If you're on a PvP server it's gonna be much tougher... on a Non pvp, you should be able to do Shimmering Flats if you RUN as needed... and you may die some too... another really good area is Badlands.... but that is too high 4 U.... lots of beasts in the mid - high 30's.... but loaded with Iron. Sorry if that doesn't help you much.... but for others... my vote is as follows:
Iron - Badlands
Mithril - the Reef behind Stormgarde.... get something to help you stay underwater longer... and reap the Mithril!
True Silver -still looking... found some in Badlands... but not huge amounts.

hey i've got a lvl 27 undead rogue and am wondering where i can find some iron veins at? I've only ever came across one and its west of tauren mill and is rarely there. The OP listed the Shimmering Flats as having large amounts of iron but its one hell of a run for me right now as well as a higher level area. I fear that ill be getting ganked alot as well as not being able to mine due to monsters around the veins. Any suggestions?

[toader]

im going to mine bronze @ darkshore asap ^^
Sorry to quote something from 2 weeks ago, but noone else caught it, so I am catching it. I like to point out errors, what can I say. :)

You cant mine bronze. You make bronze.

[Boogie]

Thousand Needles is the first place where you'll find large amounts of Iron when your horde, it starts around lvl 27-28. They are usually found on regular basis in the Highperch Wyvern area and in the eastern area around the centaur camps. You won't find any just going along the roads.

[Darkeggy]

Sorry but i had to sign up to post this.

This guy is 100% correct when he says he became artisan at level 25. The level of your mining is not affected at all by the level of your character. Heres a screenshot o me at lvl 33 with artisan which one of you said wasnt even possible.

www.globbits.com/MrDan/wowpic.JPG

I stand corrected. Looks like you're a rich boy, with two collecting professions ;).

By the way, what is the name of that ginormous staff you're using? I think i want to carry one around for my up and coming druid (lvl 21).

[Motherlondon]

Mining between 100 - 125?

All that seems to up skill is silver, or am I wrong there? I'm at about 110 and need to get to 125 asap so I can get the next lvl.

I'm a lvl 38 rogue with high skinning (250+), but I dropped leatherworking for mining, so my skill in the latter is rubbish at the moment...

[Gizmo]

Where is the best place to find Malachite. I am a Night Elf Warrior at level 17 in Darkshore. I really neeed it but I only seem to find it once in a blue moon and wondered if there is a good place to find it.
Thank sfor any help!

[Kalos]

Where is the best place to find Malachite. I am a Night Elf Warrior at level 17 in Darkshore. I really neeed it but I only seem to find it once in a blue moon and wondered if there is a good place to find it.
Thank sfor any help!
It's random. It's dropping how it's suppose to. Malachite is rare.

[ZonnyWonny]

I circled the shimmering flats 3 times (with about 30min in between each) and only found 1 iron and 1 mithril vein (w/ 2 tin as well.. but dont want/need). Can you define "abundant"? heh, I have much better luck with that in arathi. Appreciate the help though, just wondering if I'm cursed by the mining gods.

[Naolin]

hmm still having some trouble finding a good tin source for my human warrior, been in darkshore but didn't find that much there.

[Eiger]

hmm still having some trouble finding a good tin source for my human warrior, been in darkshore but didn't find that much there.

I usually go to Redridge for tin. Wetlands and Duskwood should be good for tin too.

[TROGDOR_the_BURNINATOR]

It's random. It's dropping how it's suppose to. Malachite is rare.

Funny, I have malachite overflowing out of my bank. If anything it's pearls that are really rare.. That and some of those stupid upper level essences that you need 6 of to make 1 weapon and they auction for like 6-10g each.
Friggin Truesilver Champion.

[frankz]

hmm still having some trouble finding a good tin source for my human warrior, been in darkshore but didn't find that much there.
the 2 mines in Westfall are good for tin:
Jangolode Mine and Goldcoast Quarry.

[Nethicus]

4 sp per coal chunk is a rip. Where can I go to find coal drops? The only place I've seen it drop is as slime-covered crap from Gnomeregan, and even then you have to spend 3 sp to clean it off an maybe then get a chunk of coal (or a rough stone :mad: ). Any help?

[Eiger]

4 sp per coal chunk is a rip. Where can I go to find coal drops? The only place I've seen it drop is as slime-covered crap from Gnomeregan, and even then you have to spend 3 sp to clean it off an maybe then get a chunk of coal (or a rough stone :mad: ). Any help?

Nope. Coal's an expensive money sink. Way too expensive at that. Wait until you do the armor quests that require a lot of it. You'll really be crying...

[Boogie]

The golems around the Dark Iron mining complex in Searing Gourge drop coal quite frequently.

Another early place to find thorium is in the insect caves south of Camp Mojache in Feralas. The bugs in there are about lvl 46-47.

Anyone know of a place to find rich thorium veins early?

[Grayson Carlyle]

Mithril has a chance to become Gold or Truesilver.
Thorium, Small and Rich can become Truesilver.

Badlands has an equal quantity of Iron and Mithril, however, the Mithril is all in remote mob-dense places like the ogre cave, back of the rock elemental areas, the ravine, etc...

[Boogie]

I think we already agreed that, their are 5 main ore veins where 3 of them have rare spawns:

Copper
Tin/Silver
Iron/Gold
Mithril/Truesilver
Thorium

However rich thorium veins are not the rare version of small thorium veins.

[Konaguyxtr]

i did a few laps of the shimmering flats and i found a few iron and a gold, (and some tin), which isnt bad but i find Alterac much better, its a little high for my level so i couldnt get to everything but in one lap of exploring i found 4 iron, 1gold, 1 silver and a bunch of tin, and this was all seen from hugging the outer walls

[wathombe]

Sorry to perform necromancy, but I was searching yesterday for some clarification on how Silver spawns, and I found this resourceful thread. Might not be stickyworthy, but certainly bumpworthy.

In the interest of adding new information, I did a full circuit of Darkshore last night, across the southern range and all the way up the eastern range. I returned to Auberdine with probably 80-100 copper ore, but only 10 tin ore. Stupidly, I didn't note the location of the three or four tin veins. I know one in particular was not along the wall, but just a bit NW of the Tower of Althalaxx on a rock near the road. I also recall finding a couple of tin veins when questing in the Ruins of Mathystra last week, but I learned last night that they are not visible from the wall and require lots of lizard-slaying to reach.

I'm not that keen on Mods and UIs, mainly for performance reasons, but as I progress in my career as a miner (clvl 23/skill ~120 atm), I'll try to take better notes and post here. I think I'm going to sneak in a lunch hour today and make a circuit of the mines in Westfall (as mentioned by the poster above, but possibly including the non-instanced parts of the Deadmines, as well), so I'll report back if I do. I think my biggest haul of Tin ever was my first (and only) attempt at the Deadmines a few nights ago with two friends, but I didn't note whether most of the tin was inside the instance or outside.

[wathombe]

Update (missed the edit deadline, sorry for double-post):

Did a brief thirty-minute mining run in Westfall over lunch, during which I cleared Jangolode Mine and Goldcoast Quarry. Neither were quite as fruitful as I had expected given Frankz' post above, and at lvl 23 I got no xp out of it, but here are the stats:

Jangolode Mine:
mobs: lvl 12-15 kobolds and Defias
tin veins: 1; 1 just inside entrance
drops: tin ore off kobolds

Goldcoast Quarry:
mobs: lvl 14-18 gnolls and Defias
tin veins: 2; 1 just inside entrance, 1 in last room (1 spawned silver for me)

total haul:
13 copper ore
11 tin ore
2 silver ore
no gems
various rough and coarse stone

total time:
0:30

Hope this is of use.

[Dutch.Malice]

Anyone got some suggestions where to go for Thorium? I am going to need 10 pieces in a hurry =\

[KeeperPL]

Bedlands: [ link ] (http://oceanic.wsisiz.edu.pl/~sowinskg/JG/WOW/zloza/Badlands.jpg).

I saw Thorium in NW Azshera, Burring Stepps (near Horde fly-point)...

[=BDU=Fenris]

I have some ideas for higher level mining that I'll share. I've gotten to 300 mining skill at level 40.

1. My favorite run for Iron and Mithril goes as follows. Fly IF to Loch Modan, and take my mount to the Badlands. From there, ride left around the ridge of the area, wall hugging the entire way. I usually find about 6-9 Mithril deposits. Then, run back to the Loch, fly to Arathi highlands, and then run towards the troll village. Run along the wall again, plenty of iron along there. Follow the wall till you get to the Stromgarde Keep. Go around to the farther side, and run along the wall of the keep. Go towards the ocean. There should be a mithril deposit out there. Run across the back of the Keep (towards the tunnel that leads to the cove) and there should be another deposit as you run out of that area. Go back to RP, and fly to Southshore. Ride to Alterac, and go around the top of the hill, then go in to Crushridge Gorge and explore the two caves. That should net you a lot of iron and mithril.

2. If you're in Tanaris, wall hug towards the ocean, away from Un'Goro crater. Don't go into the Pirate base. Go around, and keep hugging. Lots of mithril out there. If you want Thorium, run around the edge of the Un'Goro crater. It's a rough run for a lvl 42 like me, but I can do it without dying if I'm smart, and each rotation will net you about 8-12 thorium, depending on how many people are doing it.

Hope that helps.

[wathombe]

I did the "Searching for Incendicite" quest last night, which takes you to a cave in the Wetlands just west of the last (lowest) tunnel out of Dun Algaz and into the Wetlands proper (EDIT: this area is called Thelgen Rock).

The cave has evenly spaced lvl 20-22 spiders, very easy aggro management. It seems like a fairly extensive complex. I only needed to go part of the way in to complete the quest (I would estimate about half). Within that first half, I found three tin veins. I would guess there would be at least one more vein deeper in, if not more (I had to hearth out and log, so I couldn't check).

I went back today over lunch (1:00 PDT) to grab more tin and found another player already mining there, so it may be a popular spot. Regardless, though, it seems like an easy place to mine tin and silver.

Incidentally, the cave also contains Incendicite veins, necessary to complete the quest, but I do not know if you need to have the quest for them to spawn.

Hope this helps.

[KoDell]

One other thing to note - mine in the off-hours. Some of the most obvious nodes are left alone during off-hours, since most intelligent people are sleeping (I play from South Korea, so I'm on the flip side from most US players). The density is low enough on most of the servers that you get almost exclusive access to what is normally pretty heavily contested (like those great resources in the Charred Vale, for example).

Never thought mining would be so fun (I'm level 25, 124 mining - now where's some tin so I can get that last skill point!?)

Same thing goes with herbalism. I tend to do most of my gathering around 2am local time and I have very little if any competition.

[innocentlysassy]

You can also get them from killing a lot of the fire elementals. I get them all the time. Used to annoy me when I was trying to get elemental fire and all I got was coal. Didn't know what to do with it and just threw them away. None of the miners in my guild wanted it. heh. I just dumped them. ;) Perhaps I should have asked gen chat, huh?

[Broo]

Tried the running around the Charred Vale suggestion for about 45 mins; mined:

20 Mithril
3 Gold
4 Truesilver
3 Iron
3 Silver
23 Solid Stone
2 Heavy Stone

Not too bad;

oh- and went from 270 mining to 273...

[Llynn]

Drywisker Gorge just east of Hammerfall in Alterac Mountains. You go there for the lesser bloodstone ore, but the place has lots of iron and mithrill to. Then I run south wall hugging and take the troll cave, then I run west wall hugging and take the Ogre cave... If you do this in off-hours theres gonna be lots... Im going to try and proceed to the nodes behind Stromgarde.
Fire elementals in Alterac drop coal (said before). They are tough to beat compared to their level, but they got it...

[Flymo]

I think we already agreed that, their are 5 main ore veins where 3 of them have rare spawns:

Copper
Tin/Silver
Iron/Gold
Mithril/Truesilver
Thorium.

Not always - there is Silver in the Swamp of Sorrows, but never Tin.

[Jimi-]

I had a hard time finding good places to mine tin before, but then i found this beutifull spot in hillsbrad foothills

It's in the west near the entrance to silverpine forest
In the mine where the humans are there is always 3 mines that tend to be tin but sometimes silver. On my server they respawn fast since no one ever mines it. Then you travel to the border of silverpine and find the wizards near the border(humans,gnomes) and go to the hill a bit to the east. There is a path there pretty well hidden, when you find the path it should lead to a cave where there is a loads of undead. In this cave it tends to be 3 tin mines aswell


Im still at lvl 53 and i found the west mountain range of un'goro crater a good place to mine a casual 20 thorium ore or so. I found 3 lesser thorium veins there and 2 rich thorium in two minutes.

For iron i always go to arathi highlands, there tends to a bit of mithril, tin and gold there

Badlands is good for mithril. I find most the of the mines where the greater rock elementals are. But so many mine there that it can be depressing farming there.

For copper thunder ridge and the northeastern parts of durotar. Or the northern mountain range of mulgore

[redkat]

Nope. Coal's an expensive money sink. Way too expensive at that. Wait until you do the armor quests that require a lot of it. You'll really be crying...

Is this coal different from the kind that you can buy from the vendor for super cheap?

[Matriarch]

Is this coal different from the kind that you can buy from the vendor for super cheap?

Super Cheap? 5s per Ironbar to make it steel Isnt Cheap!

Think of having to buy round 100 coal for a quest, thats 5g mr.. if it aint a moneysink i dunno what is.. oh yes.. Enchanting is.. moahaha..

/ Matriarch

"Thats a good way to get yourself killed"

[Trooogdooor]

yeah I have a 276 weaponsmith (lvl 44 warrior) and a 300 enchanter (lvl 41)

:surprise: I'm so proud of myself

and my chanter can do fiery,icy +9 stamina and STR to bracers and all that nice stuff.... I'm saving for crusader though

though if you want moneysinks :lol: try my approach to things and power level all your characters professions !!!!!!! 225 Eng with a 21 hunter FTW :happy14:

[Zarmon]

Hmmmm... you hit 300 and haven't said a word about thorium? How odd...


All you need to know is that...

1k Needles.... great place for Iron
StV.... Iron & Mithril
Tanaris & Searing Gorge.... Mithril
Burning Steppes... for all your Thorium and Arcane Crystal needs

[redkat]

Super Cheap? 5s per Ironbar to make it steel Isnt Cheap!

Compared to other mats, yes, it is.

[QuaTrO]

If your looking for tin then go to desolace. I always find a ton of tin there.

[smjjames]

well, what about silver? you guys haven't said anything about that much.

also, what about more tin ore on the horde side? I'm lvl 42 orc hunter (with mount) and I need to catch up on mining skill which is at 100 currently.

So, smelting tin/copper/bronze is grey to me, but smelting silver is yellow.

[Diruez]

Silver is a rare spawn, i think maybe tin has a change of becoming silver or something. Plus don't worry about skilling up in mining by just smelting stuff, it doesn't work that great. Just find the area that has veins of ore that's still yellow to you.

[Axhill]

Maybe a bit off topic but I'm wondering if you can still make money anymore with mining. If I see the low prices for metal bars in AH then I asking myself if it isn't wise to choose an other profession like herbalism or enchanting for example?

[sanderke]

First of all, thanks for all the tips.
Darkshore was a dream come true for me since Copper tends to fetch 75s a stack on my server. (hey, it's alot for a lvl 34)
And i'll be trying Arathi Highlands later today.

I made a run to charred vale earlier (when I was lvl 31 iirc) but was kind of dissappointed to find out all I could see was Mithril, mostely because I couldn't mine it yet.

Now a question, does anyone know what skilllevel in mining you need to mine the various metals?
Is it the same as the lvl you need to smelt it? :scratch:

[obbity]

I guess it depends on the server but Mithril and Iron have been selling decently on mine. I guess people with alts leveling them up again or those quests for Smiths that require lots of Mithril.

Thorium prices have crashed somewhat but processed thorium (Thorium Widgets, Thorium Shells, etc) seem to be selling decently.

[wathombe]

Now a question, does anyone know what skilllevel in mining you need to mine the various metals?
Is it the same as the lvl you need to smelt it? :scratch:

This issue was discussed somewhere in this forum about two months ago. We don't have it documented, but, yes, we believe the skill level at which you can mine an ore is the same as the skill level at which you can smelt an ore. I did test it for one ore, whichever one you need to be 175 to mine (gold?). It seems to fall into line for the rest.

EDIT: punctuation and spelling. sheesh.

[Alemayehu]

I have been around mining (267 at lvl 49) and mostly go for instances, but I still have time to mine obviously. A good run goes like this:

1. Set Tanaris inn as your home.
2. Go north into 1k needles.
3. Hang on to the wall, near the basiliks to east and west past insects iron spawns.
4. In the crater, there is another iron.
5. There are 2 ooze-covered mithril nodes in the insect place (they always spawn either inside or near the area)
6. Go deeper into 1k needles near horde territory.
7. 1k needles has huge amounts of Copper, Tin, Iron, and occasionaly Gold/Silver.
8. Go northeast a bit into the centaur cave to get Iron, Tin outside, and a random spawning node.
9. Go nw into the wyvern area to also get MORE nodes.
10. After this, you can hearth to wherever or just hearth to Gadgetzan, play an alt, rinse, lather, repeat :)

(tip: mounts/shapeshifting and higher lvls help A LOT here, 40 is a good number)

[Bonegrit]

10. After this, you can hearth to wherever or just hearth to Gadgetzan, play an alt, rinse, lather, repeat :)


How do you lather after you've rinsed? Wait, nevermind: I don't want to know.

[sherrjo]

After copper go to barrens and forgotten pools.

There are some 13-17 Kolar there but you can sneak past them into the pool itself there are 2 nice copper nodes and 1 tin/silver node. It spawned silver once but I was only at lvl 73 :( i couldn't mine it went back after but have never seen it silver again. Also razorfen in barrens near XR has a tin/silver node but they are popular.

Also if you look on Allakhazam for veins you'll see rough maps of spawns it can help you so you don't run around an empty valley.

[wathombe]

Sherrjo: I've just scoured Allakhazam for maps of mineral veins and was unable to find any. Here at WorldofWar.net in the Cartography section, a few of the maps show resource locations, but most don't. Such maps would be very helpful. Could you post a link to the Allakhazam maps you found?

[mesonm]

Sherrjo: I've just scoured Allakhazam for maps of mineral veins and was unable to find any. Here at WorldofWar.net in the Cartography section, a few of the maps show resource locations, but most don't. Such maps would be very helpful. Could you post a link to the Allakhazam maps you found?

If you search on the type of mineral (e.g. thorium) a list of locations will be provided...Click on the map link to one you like...

I hesitate to list one directly, absent permission from mods here, or from Allakhazam...

[wathombe]

Ah. Interesting, thanks. I would have thought it would be linked under interactive maps or something.

I certainly agree with you about linking to outside sites, but this is information that, as of yet, isn't available here (although it's slowly building).

[Elly]

Ah. Interesting, thanks. I would have thought it would be linked under interactive maps or something.

I certainly agree with you about linking to outside sites, but this is information that, as of yet, isn't available here (although it's slowly building).

do you mean like this

Copper Vein (http://wwndata.worldofwar.net/mob.php?name=Copper+Vein)

Rich Thorium Vein (http://wwndata.worldofwar.net/mob.php?name=Rich+Thorium+Vein)

Gold Vien (http://wwndata.worldofwar.net/mob.php?name=Gold+Vein)

Or are you after maps that indicate every single type of vien on each map, bit like the few we have in cartography for herbs?

[wathombe]

Whoops! I did not know those were there, either. :embarrass: Thank you.

I suppose I never thought to search for a vein/node/deposit as an "item" or a "mob" since it's not something you can put in your bag or attack. Every time I had looked for mineral node maps, I had looked under various geography or cartography sections. Now I know better. :happy14:

EDIT: (Incidentally, though, I can't seem to get the map files to load. I thought at first it was because I wasn't logged in, but they still won't load now that I am.) :scratch:

[Elly]

Whoops! I did not know those were there, either. :embarrass: Thank you.

I suppose I never thought to search for a vein/node/deposit as an "item" or a "mob" since it's not something you can put in your bag or attack. Every time I had looked for mineral node maps, I had looked under various geography or cartography sections. Now I know better. :happy14:

EDIT: (Incidentally, though, I can't seem to get the map files to load. I thought at first it was because I wasn't logged in, but they still won't load now that I am.) :scratch:

The guys recompiled Apache today after fixing some things and that stopped the maps loading, Miguel (who was fixing that part) has retired for the night, (it's 2am now). He's going to fix that tomorrow though. So apols for inconvenience.

That said, I'm glad those are what you're needing. :happy05:

[wathombe]

That said, I'm glad those are what you're needing. :happy05:

Yup! I look forward to basking in their glory once they're loading again. :happy34:

[Four Fathers]

Yes, gathering professions (mining, skinning, herb, etc) do not have those level requirements, only the production ones do (smithing, leatherworking, eng, etc).

"2. Gathering skills (Herbalism, Mining, Skinning) have no character level requirements."

Might actually wanna read up before you flame, eggy...

I should be able to confirm that around weekend. My lvl27 Rogue has 213 in skinning. Turning artisan soon and way before 35.

I ditched leatherworking for mining and I had to start from scratch. The easiest area for NE to get to level say 65 is Darkshore indeed. Copper all over the place. And you one needs 65 to dig the tin.

[Four Fathers]

This issue was discussed somewhere in this forum about two months ago. We don't have it documented, but, yes, we believe the skill level at which you can mine an ore is the same as the skill level at which you can smelt an ore. I did test it for one ore, whichever one you need to be 175 to mine (gold?). It seems to fall into line for the rest.

EDIT: punctuation and spelling. sheesh.

That sounds about right. I can mine tin at 65, and so is the requirement for smelting damn thing.