Mining - slowwww development

[Boogie]

Is it just me or is the development in Mining skill just slow as a turtle? I'm not sure it's unbalanced but I know it's so goddamn slow that it's driving me nuts. I hate finding Mithril Deposits and Gold Veins I'm not even allowed to mine, even though they aren't really that scarce, I mean whats the point in having Mithril Deposits in places like Stonetalon Mountains and Thousand Needles other than drive the sense out of poor miners? Noone of the appropiate level can have the sufficient skill to mine these veins that early. My engineering skill craves that gold and mithril goddammit!

137.
You get Iron Ore.
You get Iron Ore.
You get Iron Ore.
You get Heavy Stone.
You get Iron Ore.
138.
You get Iron Ore.
You get Iron Ore.
You get Heavy Stone.
You get Iron Ore.

Aaaargh!!

[GovernerOfCali]

Hmmm.. at character lvl 28, my mining is currently at like 125 or so... never come across a mine I couldnt' use... although, I have never found anything better then a silver.... I don't think i'm in too low an area... i'm currently questing around the wetlands.... which have stuff up to about 36.... they kill me if I try to take them solo... so I don't think it's cause i'm in areas too low for my lvl? Maybe it's different for Horde?

[zkajan]

I don't know about horde, but on alliance side the high-iron (you've been mining iron for some time and soon will be able to do the higher stuff) time takes the longest of all, after that it picks up again. I'm now at 298/300 mining at lvl 55, and only Thorium lvls me

[Fox80]

Originally Posted by GovernerOfCali

Hmmm.. at character lvl 28, my mining is currently at like 125 or so... never come across a mine I couldnt' use... although, I have never found anything better then a silver.... I don't think i'm in too low an area... i'm currently questing around the wetlands.... which have stuff up to about 36.... they kill me if I try to take them solo... so I don't think it's cause i'm in areas too low for my lvl? Maybe it's different for Horde?

if you are playing horde the place "charred vale" in stonetalon mountain has Mithril veins everywhere.(creatures are only lvl 20 - 25)
Im a miner myself, and i have to say, it was a real pain to walk past all those nice veins. xD
Really i found 3 places, just in that small area with mithril veins and noone mined it cause noone(including me) had high enough skills to do it.
I also found 2 iron veins, 1 silver and some cobber veins.
A really really nice place for a miner considering how small the area is. :)

[Moichi]

I maxed in my lower fifties, never had the feeling it was going slow. Just start asap (lvl 5) and get everything you can. Make some mining trips if you find good spots from time to time, great source of income too.

[Pogo]

Yes mining is slow compared to the others. My wife does herbalism and her skill is around 250 while my mining is at 163. I have a skinning Hunter and skill points are very easy.

Iron may be the bottleneck but other gathering professions don't seem to suffer from one.

I don't know about blacksmiths but as an engineer it has seriously gimped my progression. In order to complete the gnomish engineering quest I had to spend 10g on the metals because I can't mine them yet.

[RavenC1aw]

they should increase the cost of items sold to vendors so the actual cost of mining is weighed up with the fact finding minerals is v slow

[toader]

Caves....

Its not that hard...just find a cave that has the right ore you want in it, and make a loop thru the cave from front to back, killing. Spend some time there, it lvls quick.

2 leveling caves I often tell people about are:

Tin/Incedentite (Incedentite is a quest ore that lvls you like Tin)
-Spider Cave in Wetlands (near the passage to Loch Modan)

Iron/Bloodstone (Bloodstone is a quest ore that lvls you like Iron)
-NE Corner of Arathi, up in the mountains, is a cave that holds this stuff

Just spend some time making mining lvling runs in those places and you will easily be to Mithril before you know it. Once you get to Mithril, it lvls a little faster.

[Konaguyxtr]

i didnt find the iron stage really slow, but i do know that once i got mithril it wenty much faster...or i mine much more, im not sure which. i got mithril 2 days ago (mining 175) and im already at 215

[laviticus]

:p I am only a lvl 30 and have my mining at 198. I tend to find most of my iron in thousand needles