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Tips & Tricks For Mining In Warcraft...
Miners pound away in dark places, steep mountains, craggy ravines, and other spaces of immeasurable danger in search of the raw materials that they can use or sell. Long aquainted with the Blacksmithing trade as well as engineering and jewelcrafting, there is a steep market for the wares that come out of these little rocks...
Profession: Mining
Hi-ho! Hi-ho! It's off to mine I go!
Mining 101
Between a rock and a hard space...
Mining is a very important profession in the game as it's materials feed three other major crafting professions: Blacksmithing, Jewelcrafting, and Engineering. Beyond the obvious market this brings about, mining can be fun, dangerous, and occasionally tedious.
It's pretty easy to get started, just find a trainer, buy a mining pick from any trade goods vendor and if you have some extra coin, go ahead and pick up a mining bag (not necessary, but really useful).
Mining is a gathering profession meaning that there is no real crafting going on, though you can smelt ore into bricks for easier selling to crafters. Ore in it's raw form can be prospected by jewelcrafters for gems as well.
Miners also gain an ability known as Toughness which increases the miner's stamina based on their skill level.
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Making Money With Mining
Easy stuff if you know where to go...
Because of how many professions this feeds, it's easy to see that mining and ore is a great market and fluctuates appropriately to the supply and demand. It's well worth knowing what sells in order to get the most out of it.
The auction house is a great place to start getting to know the prices for metals on your server. You're also going to want to grab the Gatherer addon or equivalent to help track nodes for mining runs.
If you're serious about mining, procuring a mining bag is going to be necessary as soon as you can get one. They are extremely handy for organizing what you mine, but the bags can come in larger sizes than normal bags for less money.
Best Sellers:
» Ore
» Bars
» Stone
Latest Patch Notes (3.2.2)
Mining profession changes...
. No changes were made to Mining in 3.2.2, here are the changes from 3.2.0:
. Toughness (Rank 6) provides more stamina.
. In addition to the normal requirements, mining deposits in Northrend now require a minimum character level of 65 to mine.
Full Patch Notes...
Test Realm Patch Notes...
Ore Smelting Skill Levels
A quick rundown of the ore skill levels...
Node Type
Minimum
Green
Gray
Copper
1
47
70
Tin
65
70
75
Bronze
65
90
115
Silver
75
122
130
Iron
125
145
160
Gold
155
177
185
Steel
165
Mithril
175
202
230
Truesilver
230
242
250
Dark Iron
230
305
310
Thorium
250
270
290
Fel Iron
300
307
315
Elementium
300
362
375
Adamantite
325
332
340
Eternium
350
357
365
Felsteel
350
357
375
Cobalt
350
362
375
Khorium
375
Hardened Khorium
375
Hardened Adamantite
375
Saronite
400
Titanium
450
Titansteel
45
How Much Do You Like Mining?
It's a miner's life for me!
Do you like to mine stuff or do you consider it a necessary evil and would rather just get it over with?
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Handy Links
Here are a few WoW and Mining related links to help get you started.
- World of Warcraft - Mining Abilities
- WoWHead.com's list of mining abilities.
- World of Warcraft - Mining Trainers
- WoWHead.com's list of mining trainers.
- WoWWiki - Mining
- Mining on WoWWiki.com
- WoW Mining
- Official introduction to Mining from WorldOfWarcraft.com
- Goblin Joe
- Goblin Joe has tips, tricks, and more info to help you make more gold in World of Warcraft (WoW)
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Tips, tricks, & feedback...
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- greg2213 greg2213 Feb 5, 2008 @ 5:09 pm
- Prices for all these bits vary from time to time and server to server. Sometimes the raw ore sells for a LOT more than the bars, sometimes the bars go for more, so keep a contant eye on AH prices. Get your mining as high as you can as soon as you can, so you can get the iron, silver, amd mithril nodes in the lower level zones.
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