Mining Leveling Guide
Mining in World of Warcraft is a popular profession, as it is a gathering profession that you can do relatively quickly as you level up your character.
When doing a quest, you can take a few extra moments to collect ores and metals, and at later levels, you can farm ores specifically to collect ores to sell on the auction house or to use with other professions that rely on mining farmed ore. . .
Mining is best done with the following professions:
Gathering professions such as herbalism or skinning: If you are using mining to generate income, you can combine it with other gathering professions for this purpose. You do quests and mine nodes at the same time, as well as collect herbs or skin mobs.
Blacksmithing: Use metals to create mail and plate armor, weapons, keys, and rods.
Jewelcrafting: Use metals and gems to create jewelery and gems for socketed items.
Engineering – Use metals and other materials to create guns, bullets, arrows, goggles, gadgets, and mounts.
Here are some tips to help level up your mining:
1. Do your mining training with your mining trainer as you approach the various levels of mining. Mine the nodes when you do quests and then train, when you reach these levels:
Expert Miner – requires level 10/125 mining
Artisanal Miner – requires level 25/200 mining
Master Miner (Burning Crusade) – requires level 40/275 mining
Mining Grandmaster (WOTLK) – requires level 55/375 mining
Illustrious Miner (Cataclysm) – requires 425 mining
2. Use your minimap and collector plugin
While doing your quests or instances, use your find minerals ability to locate mining nodes on your minimap. So when you go on a quest, look for ore deposits and mine them when you can, as you level up your character. The gathering plugin will remember where you have previously mined nodes so that if you return to that area, you can search for those minerals again.
3. Use special equipment and enchantments to speed up and upgrade your mining skill
The first group of equipment is the large slot bags. These include the mining bag, the reinforced mining bag, the gigantic mining bag that can hold 20, 28, and 32 slots respectively.
The second group to consider are enchantments and helmets. These include Enchanted Gloves: Advanced Mining, Enchanted Gloves: Gathering, and Goblin Mining Helmet, which will add a +5 ability to mining or gathering.
4. Here is a list of the top level mineral veins:
Khorium Vein – Isle of Quel’Danas, Nagrand, Terokkar Forest
Rich Cobalt Deposit: Zul’Drak, Howling Fjord, Borean Tundra, Dragonblight, Grizzly Hills, The Storm Peaks, and Crystalsong Forest
Saronite Deposit – Sholazar Basin, Icecrown, The Storm Peaks
Saronite-rich deposit – Icecrown, Sholazar Basin, Wintergrasp
Pure Saronite Deposit – Ulduar
Titanium Deposit – Icecrown, Sholazar Basin, and The Storm Peaks
The higher the mineral’s level and the rarer it is, the more valuable it will be to the Auction House and to other characters whose professions require it.
5. Use your abilities in whatever class you are in to extract them efficiently.
Some of my favorite skills to use for mining include the stealth ability. Hiding past mobs can be easier than killing them and make your mining more efficient. For example, use Stealth as a rogue or Prowl as a druid in cat form. The root and stun ability (for example Hibernate for a druid, Sap for a rogue, Banish for a warlock, Sheep for a mage, or War Stomp for a tauren) can also help you gather minerals faster. You can use any of the abilities to keep busy mobs away from the ore deposit while you collect ore. When you’re done, run out before the effects wear off and continue mining.
So you can use these tips, and more, when you level up your mining.
Whether it’s generating gold on the auction house with other gathering professions as you level up a character, gathering the materials to support a crafting profession, or farming when you’re at higher levels to generate income, the mining can be done efficiently and give great rewards
So go ahead and level up your mining, and be rewarded with great gear and gold!
