Your suggestions on Mining InstancesFollow

Hi,

I got to 70 - and dropped Skinning 375 & Enchanting 265 to take up mining and Blacksmithing. (Don't cry over the Enchanting - my Main has it at 375. I started this toon first - dropped him for a year - and I have now leveled him up).

I would like some suggestions on which instance - or caves - to run to level my mining. I know about the cave in Wetlands - and have just started there.

But I would really appreciate any help with further progression. I know Uldaman has some of Iron ore - but is there a better place to mine Iron? And where to go after that?

I haven't found a quide to mining in Instances - which ones give which ore.
I'd love to be pointed in the right direction.

Thanks All.

I agree with Dil - instances are not very good for mining.

For leveling areas, I have a very similar list too:

Iron - Arathi/Badlands
Mithril - Tanaris/Badlands
Thorium - Burning Steppes/EPL

The key is finding the zone where no one else is farming. Early morning worked great for me.

Then, just run loops on your epic mount and load up on ore :)

Edited, Apr 28th 2008 1:58pm by YJMark

Thank you all - good advice.

Never having been a miner - it just always seemed like there was a tone of ore to be mined in every instance run.
(Maybe because the fight was over - we were ready to move on - and STOP - I gotta mine this!)

I will take your suggestions on where to mine.

I gotta say - I'm starting to hate mining already. Takes forever to level.

And I'm hearing nothing but horror stories about leveling Blacksmithing.

<sigh> Well - I'm not a quitter, so - back to the grind.

(Rate up for all 3 of you).

Thanks,

Mining in instances is just a nice bonus whilst you are there with the group, but I wouldn't do it exclusively.

The areas that I used whilst levelling are:

Arathi Highlands: Iron/Mithril and the odd Gold here and there.
Badlands: Mithril mainly, just ride around the outskirts.
Un'Goro: Small thorium and also some Rich thorium from the southern region (although I have heard that EPL is better for Rich)

As far as Blacksmithing goes, well let's hope that you have deep pockets. In no way do I regret levelling it to 375, but certain stages are a drain on your wallet. The most memorable was 280-300 due to the amount of thorium that you need. I just couldn't mine enough of it, in a short timeframe.

Good luck!!