Anyone else having any issues mining / finding thorium? I cannot seem to find it very much at all. I’ve found a few RTV but most of them are 2 strikes. Mostly finding STV and even those are far and few between. I spent 2 hours in winterspring a few days ago and netted 6 thorium. I just spent about 45 minutes in EPL and netted 6 more. I’ve played since open beta and while I can’t claim to remember every single spawn point, I do remember some of them, and I remember the general routes I used to take. And this experience I am having is nothing like vanilla. I simply cannot find very much thorium at all.
I read somewhere else someone was having these same issues, we can’t be the only ones.
Having the exact same problem on Rattlegore as are most of my fellow guild miners. This is happening in the world and in Dire Maul East where you are guaranteed at least two nodes. The nodes you do find drop little ore and little to nothing else.
Its over farmed. The only way i have been able to tap veins in the last 4 weeks was when they spawned on me - and usually someone turned up by the second tap. Im not even on a mega pop server.
I heard someone say the servers are way over populated. I agree with #nochanges, and this is NOT how I remember mining to be during vanilla.
2 hours in EPL just now. 11 thorium.
Really wish they would address this. As a hunter, which is what I’m playing atm, not being able to replenish my ammo kind of puts a damper on my playtime.
Your best bet is just farm and do DME runs can get 2-3 nodes
That doesn’t fix the issue of mining being broken. It totally is. I just did 8 runs around Burning Steppes, and while in the first 20 minutes I found about 25 thorium, the next 2 hours I found 7. And I had 6 Rich Thorium Veins in a row that were two tap veins… that’s definitely frustrating but I can deal with the two taps… 2 hours and 7 thorium is so obviously broken it’s ridiculous. I personally think it has something to do with layering, I see a few people here and there like “Oh it’s not broken for me I have an entire bank tab full of arcane crystals blah blah” a little exaggerated but that is definitely NOT my experience thus far, in multiple zones, after over a decade of experience.