MINING HELPFollow

ok im lvl 120 just 5 lvls from being able to mine iron the only problem is i can basically only lvl up on silver and ive only found 1 silver vein in my history of playing WoW.


WHAT SHOULD I DO?????

u got 2 choices here.

1. go to higher level areas like Thousand needles, a heaven for miners.

2. go to the AH and buy ores, and smelt them, assuming they are still atleast a green colored skill.

mining is one of tha hardest skill to lvl. one thing i find funny/irritating about mining is once you get the ability to mine something, smelting it is already grey. like mithril, you only get to mine it at 175, and learn smelting it at 175. BUT, smelting it is already GREY, the only way to lvl up mining is really mining, and not thru smelting.

The mining enchants are easy to get and add +2 or +5 to your skill. Just hang on to a pair of 'mining gloves' and use them any time you are just a few points short of being able to mine a metal type, it allows you to cruise past those little bottlenecks (I've helped out several guild members this way).

He might not have been lieing but misspoken instead. Try for the enchants like they said. If you go to the tradeskills worldofwarcraft forums on their main site there are various guides and one of them is for mining.

I have noticed that often Tin veins and silver veins are the SAME vein. They will typically just alternate which spawns. I don't know if it is to alternate EACH time between or on a more rare schedule, but I do know that at least TWO veins alternate in Duskwood between Tin and silver. And there are others in Lockmoden which do the same. Also, the caves with the Ogres in Lochmoden spawn both tin and silver with at least two alternating between tin and silver.

I decided to drop skinning and take up engineering and researched and was sure that this is what I wanted to do. I was playing one evening, and towards the end I made my way to IF. I decided to do the switch... stupidly when already very sleepy. I clicked on unlearn... and boom unlearned one of my skills...

UNFORTUNATELY, given my less than stellar mental condition and awareness at the time, I unlearned MINING!!! Lost over 175 points in mining with the click of the mouse. So now, I have had to work on releveling that all over again. I did download a mod to help, 'Gatherer' from soulforge, however, it doesn't seem to be working. I got the 2.04 beta version, but I think I should have taken the 2.03 regular version, because NOTHING shows up on my worldmap.

Anyway, there is tin and silver in both Duskwood and Lochmoden and at least SOME of these alternate between what spawns at a given node.

hmmm im a lvl 180 miner and i thought smelting was only good to like lvl 75... correct me if im wrong but you can gain lvls by smelting green ores?

I'm in the same boat. I had a friend take me to Thousand Needles but I couldn't find anything good...just copper and the occasional tin. Even if tin levels me up I found maybe 2. Then I went to the Mo'grosh (Mog'rosh?) Stronghold in Loch Modan and found tons of tin, and when I had gone there once before, I found a silver vein. I reccomend there. Also, is Gatherer safe? My dad is freaky about his computer and his is the only one that runs WoW, and he'll kill me if a miniscule trace of spyware appears on his computer. I don't want to die so...


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woo! i can mine iron now! but like someone said, as soon as i learned how to smelt it, it was grey...

Edited, Sat Jul 16 10:12:24 2005 by Dinokun