Tailoring, 0-332 in no time; mining...

[Mirinda]

I dumped enchanting for tailoring the other day, seeking some of those leet caster clothes. Enchanting is for raid guilds.

Kept mining, in hopes of printing money in Outland.

As a mage, my problem with mining has been that I leveled out of my current mining zones quickly and never caught up. I am in the mithril phase now.

Last night, I took tailoring from 245 to 332. Mining, I added maybe 15 levels, to 192. Similar time investment.

Yack!

I used the Badlands and Uldaman for mining. Found that indurium ore nodes in Uldaman will give me level points even if the ore's useless. Plus it's fun as a mage to do chain pulls in there.

It's time consuming to find nodes and frustrating to run into four truesilver nodes when I can't get them yet.

I have a lot of other places to try (Hinterlands, Desolace/Stonetalon), but it's frustrating to have mining go sooooooooooo slow.

[Eonblue]

It can be more time consuming indeed. But look at the brightside, with mining you will make money as you level instead of loose money. I power leveled my tailoring friday night and saturday night and went from 0-361 in those two nights, but spent just under 1000g. :(

[rgirty]

How do you spend that kind of $ leveling tailoring?

300-351 should be free for you.

bolts of netherweave, Imbued bolts of netherweave, netherweave bags, and imbued netherweave bags then your first cloth xmute at 350 gives you 351.

Any friendly tailor in your guild will most likely allow you to bolt up their netherweave, imbued netherweave or create the bags they need for free.

At worst you pay someone in the trade channel a small amount to do their work for them.

I dropped herbalism for tailoring on my wife's char and we leveled it to 351 at a cost of about 200g.

[Mirinda]

I spent some gold, particularly in the mageweave phase, but I never had much money on hand (always spending it) and got to 336. Kept a lot of netherweave before I got tailoring. Now out of that stockpile, I need to farm some more. Netherweave is 3g a stack on my server. Mats for 1 bolt imbued netherweave = almost 6g. Mats for netherweave boots = about 6g (the boots auction for about one-half that). Mats for arcanoweave boots = about 33g (the boots sell for about one-third that). Mats for imbued netherweave tunic = 45g (the tunic sells for 11g at auction).

People are giving away their farming time when selling these tailored items. (Dis)Enchanters have a great advantage at this level.

[rgirty]

My point was this:

Tailor X needs to make 5-10 netherweave bags, and 5-10 imbued bags for guildies and for sale.

Tailor Y is a tailor trying to level his/her skill.

Tailor X gladly allows tailor Y to make the items, then pass them back.

Result:

Tailor X has the items made without having to do it himself/herself.

Tailor Y receives free skillups.

This method includes:

Bolts of netherweave
Imbued bolts of netherweave
Netherweave bags
Imbued netherweave bags.

I believe you can go from 300-350 on just those items, 351 after your first cloth xmute.

365-375 is a little tougher depending on what items you have. I bought some rare patterns from the AH that took me to 370. I leveled to 370 at a profit, and continue to make a good bit of money with tailoring.

[Beruen]

Ooh, if you think those skill points were bad, wait till you get to the upper 200s, when even small thorium veins are green at best. I've done that on two characters (on different servers), and I've got two more miners on one of those two servers, and somehow, I just don't think either of them are going to make that journey. Which is sad, since the one high level miner on that server is the one that I planned on dropping mining from when one of the other two reached the outlands.

[Unholy_VI]

ogremounds.

The one in Duskwood is very good for leveling up on nodes of iron, silver, an occasional gold and the like. after that there is a place in the alterac mountains called slaughter hollow. It's a complex of ogre mounds and you'll find plenty of nodes to skill up on. Maybe its because there are so many but they seem to respawn fast too. the mobs around there are level 35ish so its pretty easy for a high level character to do.

best places i've found for thorium were azashara (sp?) and winterspring. Too bad you out-leveled your mining or you'd have had 300 by the early 50's

[Mirinda]

I outleveled my mining way back in Redridge, lol.

It takes so long running around finding nodes of mithril, very tedious.

[wyren]

I ground my skill up at the yeti caves, went to dry whisker gulch, and finished in the kargoth badlands. I am at 245 at 44 level. I can't wait till 47 level so that I can survive thorium mining. The trick is mine at off peak times. Before 9:00 am and immediately after server restarts. Good luck and dont hog my nodes.

[Mirinda]

Mining comes so slowly compared with other professions. With any other profession, one can buy the way to 300+, save for herbs where the spawns are far more numerous than for mining. If you have a slow-leveling toon, mining is great. Take the nodes you encounter while questing, everything's great.

I'm a little over 200 and would really hate to surrender that, as hard as it was to do. I can spend an hour and get 5 skill points. That is nuts. If Bliz would make it possible to get multiple skill points from a node, that would help.