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[WoW] A Hard Day's Work: The Profession Thread
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What about Mithril? Please don't send me to the Burning Steppes or Tanaris. There must be another way! (that does not involve the AH).
I like to go to the badlands way to the east by the drakes. There are a couple mithril veins that spawn there and you can grab iron in other parts of the zone while waiting for those to come back.
Burning Steppes is the best place for Thorium
for Mithrill your best bet is probably Hinterlands or maybe Badlands
By the end of that run you should have quite a bit of mithril. Remember where the hot spots are and mithril will just fall into your open bag space.
Dude, they did. I just did 200-300 mining today (as an aside, KILL ME!) and I remember it used to be that you stopped getting skillups for smelting at like Iron or something ridiculous. I was getting skillups well through every set of ore - I'd mine a bunch of it, then bring about 40 ore back and smelt it while it was still yellow.
What's so bad about Burning Steppes? There's ore nodes just lying on the ground everywhere. You don't have to do any tunnel bullshit, it's just all out in the open air.
In my experience, Burning Steppes is a great place for both Mithril and Thorium, but if you want more mithril, Searing Gorge and Hinterlands (as other people said) are also good places. My trick to gathering mithril is to convince myself that I'm actually trying to gather Thorium, and then I find it all over the place.
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And I wish people would stop touting Un'Goro as the hotspot for thorium. Un'Goro sucks shit for thorium. I do all my thorium farming in Winterspring.
Winterspring hotspots: blue dragon cave, the crevice with the giants, the demon area, and the yeti cave. Making a circuit of all 4 spots usually nets me 2 stacks on a quiet day.
edit: I would also switch zones a lot. I would mine Un'Goro, then switch to Winterspring after a few circuits and then switch to Azshara, and then head to ironforge smelt my ore get a couple points in Blacksmithing and then fly to Burning Steppes do a few circuits, fly to Blasted Lands do a few circuits then head to ironforge and from there I would head to the West and East Plaguelands.
And, as Seg said, Ungoro is good for small veins. There's just more competition than in Silithus/Winterspring.
Searing Gorge has a Gorge occupying the center of the map. As well as Dark Iron Dwarves. Burning Steppes is where the Orcs, Ogres and Dragonspawn/Dragonkin hang out.
The Ogre caves are fairly decent for skill levels 250+ because you can normally find Small Thorium or Dark Iron in there.
I have nightmares (okay not really but I COULD) about clearing out hives for Field Duty. I hated every silithid quest while leveling up, then you get to Silithus and it's like "Oh hey, here's an entire zone full of this shit, enjoy!"
My druid got CC exalted for his mace and the damn ring from Field Duty but at the cost of my sanity.
(However, yeah, the hives are ace for thorium at 70.)
Hey thats not quite true....I mean there is that one quest there to deal with the undead druids....who turn into Sithilids. :x
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If the aquamarine is cheaper than usual, buy it. Otherwise you're gonna have to prospect that shit. And prospecting is exactly that. Shit.
Its cheap but like 2 pop out in AH, well its the patience game.
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that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
Guild members were bitching about it so much at the time that we grabbed a couple people after summoning one of those really high level guys (epics!) and went and killed that town dead on our raid mains.
Apparently it has a chance of showing up in Mithril or Truesilver veins.
Also shows up in iron veins
I heard black morass used to be good but that place got nerfed I think
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And since you're a feral druid, it feels like you're in a David Attenborough program.
Oh and I guess you get heavy clefthoof and shit too but who cares about that anyway.
Nagrand, by far. By the time my druid alt was done with the zone I had so many stacks of knothide & scraps that I needed three mails to send them all to my LW alt (yes, nearly 40 stacks). This is with only a small amount of farming (we have a guild policy that 'yellow' elephants must be killed for their horns), other than that it's just killing the stuff you need for quests and whatever gets in the way.
And I've said this before with regards to Black Morass and farming -- the ONLY advantage BM gives you is that you don't have to fight other people for the spawns.
They almost always drop knothide, whereas Clefthooves tend to drop scraps if they don't drop clefthoof leather.
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