Working on leveling my mining at the moment. Got it up to around 70 last night but it took FOREVER. Not sure if someone was right ahead of me or not but I seemed to run a long time before coming across a node.
Im a 60 rogue so I can virtually go anywhere. Thoughts and tips? Best guides?
Mining is fubar. Your best option is to to dungeon level it if you can.
Actually mining the ore is the slow part of leveling mining. Smelting is where you really pick up the levels.
Copper and tin are also super cheap. For 5-10 gold you can likely buy enough copper and tin ore to smelt copper/tin/bronze bars and take your mining from 1 to 100 in a matter of minutes. Or… you could run around elwynn forest for hours looking for nodes. Either works, but time/investment wise, spending a very very modest amount of coin is the best way to level mining imo.
Yeah i got stoned and forgot…so here i am level 60…
I tried to find a list of dungeons to “mine” but no avail.
mining is kind of a scam until u can get rich thorium nodes and even then the likelihood of an arcane crystal to drop is low. i do have some secret spots u could use. go to hearthglen in WPL in and around the cave. there should be 2-3 there if no1 has gotten them. then go to the cave NE in WPL there are more in there. then in EPL go to the drops in the land and look in there where the oozes are. also, in silithus the elite caves have a good bit too and since ur a rogue u can stealth and get them. those are my little spots so i hope that helps. gl!
Some tin in deadmines. Some Iron in RFK. Some iron/mithril in uldaman. Some mithril in mauradon. Some dark iron in BRD. Then rich thorium in Dire Maul.
That is not a complete list, it’s just what I can remember off the top of my head.
do dme jump runs as well. theres 2-3 nodes at the end of the instance. also a great and quick spot
There are no secret rich thorium nodes. Trust, people trying to make money from arcane crystals have googled every route known to man. It’s a warzone for those. I used arcane crystals to afford my epic mount. Now that I can get around faster, I see what’s going on. Lots of people are traversing their path for them. I’ve fought a lot of warriors and rogues for them. Kind of sucks when your own faction is mining them because you can’t do anything to stop them lol.
Higher level you can’t smelt to level up effectively. You really only level up by mining.
Get an add on to either show you where all the nodes are or one that records the ones you have found. Some nights are better than others. Sometimes I get 3 arcane crystals an hour. Some nights I get none. Is what it is.
ill look into this! thanks…have no knowledge of smelting lol seems ive a long way to go
Don’t forget to smelt your ores until it stops giving skillups.
yeah i didnt know about this side of it until i posted, went home on lunch and hit 100!
is there a “mine this many nodes” before going to “smelt all these ore” magical number?
You could look up at what skill level they turn grey but it probably varies exactly how many you need.
But even when the smelting goes grey the actual nodes will still be green for a bit and provide a few more skill ups.
I just smelt until I run out of ore or the skill goes grey.
Wowhead has a pretty concise guide to mining: ^https://classic.wowhead.com/guides/mining-classic-wow-1-300^
+5 Mining Enchant to gloves helps get past annoying sections during leveling if you don’t have it.
Have you looked up any mining profession guides (Wowhead and Barrens chat has some good ones).
Yea, it will take like a day or 2 of just mining if you want it up real fast, you can always solo instances for ore if you are having trouble fighting over nodes in the world.
Mara has mithril and can be soloed, DME had rich thorium and it can be soloed.
Go in Caves most people are to lazy to do so. As a rogue that’s perfect for you
Smelt when it’s worth points, pay for the +5 mining and badlands will be your BFF for the mithril hump. GL
thanks for the help everyone!