So very terrible. I don't know why they don't just extend the skillup levels in that at least 10 points or so, so you're not stuck mining 15 or 20 points after it goes green.
For what little it's worth, I think in 2.4 they're extending the range for which you can get skill points via smelting.
So very terrible. I don't know why they don't just extend the skillup levels in that at least 10 points or so, so you're not stuck mining 15 or 20 points after it goes green.
Yeah, that drives me up the wall. I think my shaman's mining is around 270-275ish, which is just out of mithril range, but just in Dark Iron and Small Thorium. Hooray, running around Searing Gorge for a couple skillups!
God, just put me to 300 already. Despite selling reasonably well, I want away from this old world bullshit, and to start collecting fel iron, gems and motes of earth and fire that are actually useful to me.
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So very terrible. I don't know why they don't just extend the skillup levels in that at least 10 points or so, so you're not stuck mining 15 or 20 points after it goes green.
For what little it's worth, I think in 2.4 they're extending the range for which you can get skill points via smelting.
I thought they were extending the range of skill ups you can get from mining the nodes. Being able to continue getting skill ups from copper when you spot it in the 20s areas would go a long way towards making Mining less of a pain to level up.
Buying the stacks and smelting while orange is pretty much the only way to go.
That is why I am hoping Blizzard makes it so that you can mine Copper until you get high enough to mine Iron. Sure make it green for the last 50 points or something, but that would be better then having tin be green and silver being your only yellow.
It would all be good if you could just smelt everything. Problem is (on my server) a stack of Iron Bars goes for 75s while a stack of Iron Ore goes for around 2g75s.
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Buying the stacks and smelting while orange is pretty much the only way to go.
That is why I am hoping Blizzard makes it so that you can mine Copper until you get high enough to mine Iron. Sure make it green for the last 50 points or something, but that would be better then having tin be green and silver being your only yellow.
Well the other thing is that they really need to take a look at what nodes are spawning where, because there are still copper nodes out in 1k Needles and that makes no sense. Meanwhile I'm running circuit after circuit around there trying to find the 1-3 nodes of Tin that spawn between shitloads of Iron that I couldn't mine and the occaisional Gold (which I also couldn't touch). Even some Mithril nodes out there. What the fuck?
Mithril totally shows up in unappropriate places. First time I noticed it on a mining character was in Stonetalon Mountains next to some level 18 mobs. Level 18-20 players can pretty much never mine Mithril.
Herbalism is quick and easy; you just roam around, find an herb, and pick it. There are zones where you can literally have 5+ herbs up on tracking at once (some areas in STV are just fucking PACKED with them, for example).
While I'm sure someone will present counter-anecdotal evidence to the contrary, after levelling no less than five characters to 300 or 375 mining (some have since dropped it) and an equal or greater number to 375 herbalism, I believe that mining is the tougher one to pull off. It's a very frustrating profession with fewer node types, so unlike herbalism which has a new node every 10 or 15 points (at least, that's how it often seems), mining nodes feel like they go on forever.
And ever.
And ever.
And just when you thought you were done with the badlands, and iron is going out of style, now you get to run circuits for mithril! Hooray!
C'mon, no iron no iron no iron no iron... fuck, more iron.
And then you chew through hundreds (exaggerated? Maybe, but not by much) of Mithril and get into the groan inducing dark iron / small thorium range...
C'mon, no mithril no mithril no mithril no... fuck, more mithril.
And each of those nodes is a good 15+ seconds (which might not sound like much, but remember we're talking about HUNDREDS of them), depending on failed attempts and whether it's 2 taps or 4, and as slow and annoying as they are, few ores are worth skipping out on the chance to sell 'em, so you tap and tap and tap and tap.
Also, any class that can wear leather can get herbalists gloves (+5 herbalism) enchanted with +5 herbalism, which makes transitionary periods much, much easier, whereas miners get... +5 mining, and have larger gaps. (edit: isn't there a mining helmet? I tried searching WoWhead a while back, but couldn't find anything at the time)
Basically, mining is good for resource gathering profession (I rarely sell metals; they either get used in projects, spent skilling up, or stored somewhere until I find a use for them or prospect them to build up my gem stockpile), and can be excellent money, but by gods can it be frustrating to skill up.
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Exactly. Conversely, the 300-375 stretch in outlands takes all of an hour or two to complete depending on how quickly you go about it and what routes you fly. 0-300 Took me two evenings (Fri. and Sat.) and one nearly-full day on Sunday.
I haven't been able to bring myself to play in over a month. Give me something to get excited about!
Edit: Also, you people are pussies; mithril is the easiest ore to get through other than copper.
I'm on it now, and it's been harder to get through than any ore that comes before it. I've been just levelling and questing as normal, mining whenever I see a node I can use, and it's brought me to this situation where I was 54 and ready to move on to WPL and then the 55+ zones, and was still at 215 mining.
Edit: Also, you people are pussies; mithril is the easiest ore to get through other than copper.
Hey. You there. Go farm me 150 mithril for grinding engineering.
Give me a mount and two hours in the Hinterlands and you got it.
I still have my this and my that from back in the day, all mats farmed. Running around the edges of the Hinterlands, it's really not hard. Stay out of Jintha'Alor, the low-lying eastern coast, and you're golden. Er, mithril.
Well the other thing is that they really need to take a look at what nodes are spawning where, because there are still copper nodes out in 1k Needles and that makes no sense. Meanwhile I'm running circuit after circuit around there trying to find the 1-3 nodes of Tin that spawn between shitloads of Iron that I couldn't mine and the occaisional Gold (which I also couldn't touch). Even some Mithril nodes out there. What the fuck?
There are also copper nodes in Desolace, in the satyr area.
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Well the other thing is that they really need to take a look at what nodes are spawning where, because there are still copper nodes out in 1k Needles and that makes no sense. Meanwhile I'm running circuit after circuit around there trying to find the 1-3 nodes of Tin that spawn between shitloads of Iron that I couldn't mine and the occaisional Gold (which I also couldn't touch). Even some Mithril nodes out there. What the fuck?
There are also copper nodes in Desolace, in the satyr area.
See, that's retarded. Someone go to Blizzard HQ and have the employees line up for a face punchin'. Even the receptionist.
I haven't been able to bring myself to play in over a month. Give me something to get excited about!
Edit: Also, you people are pussies; mithril is the easiest ore to get through other than copper.
I'm on it now, and it's been harder to get through than any ore that comes before it. I've been just levelling and questing as normal, mining whenever I see a node I can use, and it's brought me to this situation where I was 54 and ready to move on to WPL and then the 55+ zones, and was still at 215 mining.
Wow, I thought I was just sucking. My warlock is lv 54 and has 209 mining. I do NOT look forward to those last 91 points.
So, I'm saving my badges for the 2.4 Claws on my Rogue, sad thing though is they're going to be common as fuck.
Meh, not a big deal. It doesn't matter what anyone else has, and even if it did, you still can't see sheathed fist weapons on your character so you'd never know in the first place, heh.
Seriously, they need to show sheathed fist weapons. Y'know, now that there are more than seven of them in the game.
2 1/3 levels to Outland, 2 1/3 levels to Outland... Oh Frak, I need to grind dailies on my main so the alt can go into HFP with the +100% mount (unlike my poor main, that didn't get it until 66).
Also, word from the PTR is that about 1 of 10 of the reward bags for the Sunwell dailies will have a badge of justice. I may get my 3 nethers yet...
Well the other thing is that they really need to take a look at what nodes are spawning where, because there are still copper nodes out in 1k Needles and that makes no sense. Meanwhile I'm running circuit after circuit around there trying to find the 1-3 nodes of Tin that spawn between shitloads of Iron that I couldn't mine and the occaisional Gold (which I also couldn't touch). Even some Mithril nodes out there. What the fuck?
There are also copper nodes in Desolace, in the satyr area.
See, that's retarded. Someone go to Blizzard HQ and have the employees line up for a face punchin'. Even the receptionist.
Especially the receptionist.
I'll have to post screenshots sometime of my cartographer with the mineral tracking. Its hilarious the number of places where you'll see the odd out of place mithril, copper, etc.
If you really want, try looking up the nodes on wowhead and see where they have them listed at on the maps.
I remember vaguely Badlands was good for that Iron/Mithril stretch, & I think I did Searing Gorge for the Mithril/Dark Iron/Small Thorium Vein stretch. Somewhere before lvl 60, I got stuck. Then there were Rich Thorium Veins taunting me the rest of the way, "J00 can't mine me HAHA". T_T
I haven't been able to bring myself to play in over a month. Give me something to get excited about!
Edit: Also, you people are pussies; mithril is the easiest ore to get through other than copper.
I'm on it now, and it's been harder to get through than any ore that comes before it. I've been just levelling and questing as normal, mining whenever I see a node I can use, and it's brought me to this situation where I was 54 and ready to move on to WPL and then the 55+ zones, and was still at 215 mining.
Wow, I thought I was just sucking. My warlock is lv 54 and has 209 mining. I do NOT look forward to those last 91 points.
So who wants to give me a 'scroll of resurrection'? You know, where I reactivate my account for free for 10 days, and you get a free month if I resubscribe.
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For what little it's worth, I think in 2.4 they're extending the range for which you can get skill points via smelting.
Yeah, that drives me up the wall. I think my shaman's mining is around 270-275ish, which is just out of mithril range, but just in Dark Iron and Small Thorium. Hooray, running around Searing Gorge for a couple skillups!
God, just put me to 300 already. Despite selling reasonably well, I want away from this old world bullshit, and to start collecting fel iron, gems and motes of earth and fire that are actually useful to me.
/wrists
I thought they were extending the range of skill ups you can get from mining the nodes. Being able to continue getting skill ups from copper when you spot it in the 20s areas would go a long way towards making Mining less of a pain to level up.
That is why I am hoping Blizzard makes it so that you can mine Copper until you get high enough to mine Iron. Sure make it green for the last 50 points or something, but that would be better then having tin be green and silver being your only yellow.
That said, the old world is mostly devoid of players these days so my alts run into nodes all over the place.
While I'm sure someone will present counter-anecdotal evidence to the contrary, after levelling no less than five characters to 300 or 375 mining (some have since dropped it) and an equal or greater number to 375 herbalism, I believe that mining is the tougher one to pull off. It's a very frustrating profession with fewer node types, so unlike herbalism which has a new node every 10 or 15 points (at least, that's how it often seems), mining nodes feel like they go on forever.
And ever.
And ever.
And just when you thought you were done with the badlands, and iron is going out of style, now you get to run circuits for mithril! Hooray!
C'mon, no iron no iron no iron no iron... fuck, more iron.
And then you chew through hundreds (exaggerated? Maybe, but not by much) of Mithril and get into the groan inducing dark iron / small thorium range...
C'mon, no mithril no mithril no mithril no... fuck, more mithril.
And each of those nodes is a good 15+ seconds (which might not sound like much, but remember we're talking about HUNDREDS of them), depending on failed attempts and whether it's 2 taps or 4, and as slow and annoying as they are, few ores are worth skipping out on the chance to sell 'em, so you tap and tap and tap and tap.
Also, any class that can wear leather can get herbalists gloves (+5 herbalism) enchanted with +5 herbalism, which makes transitionary periods much, much easier, whereas miners get... +5 mining, and have larger gaps. (edit: isn't there a mining helmet? I tried searching WoWhead a while back, but couldn't find anything at the time)
Basically, mining is good for resource gathering profession (I rarely sell metals; they either get used in projects, spent skilling up, or stored somewhere until I find a use for them or prospect them to build up my gem stockpile), and can be excellent money, but by gods can it be frustrating to skill up.
I haven't been able to bring myself to play in over a month. Give me something to get excited about!
Edit: Also, you people are pussies; mithril is the easiest ore to get through other than copper.
I'm on it now, and it's been harder to get through than any ore that comes before it. I've been just levelling and questing as normal, mining whenever I see a node I can use, and it's brought me to this situation where I was 54 and ready to move on to WPL and then the 55+ zones, and was still at 215 mining.
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=10542
edit: Damn you soundwave! But I had a link at least.
Also, I'm pretty excited about the new badge/craftable loot. That new caster ring? Hotness.
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Hey. You there. Go farm me 150 mithril for grinding engineering.
Thank you Soundwave, Shadowane.
The good news is that my up and coming miner is a shaman.
The bad news is that she's also an herbalist, and I have no interest in dropping herbalism.
I think I'll just enchant her herbalism gloves with +5 mining, making them the best of both worlds.
Which reminds me, I need to find my other gatherer gloves or make some more eventually, but that can wait for the expansion.
Give me a mount and two hours in the Hinterlands and you got it.
I still have my this and my that from back in the day, all mats farmed. Running around the edges of the Hinterlands, it's really not hard. Stay out of Jintha'Alor, the low-lying eastern coast, and you're golden. Er, mithril.
There are also copper nodes in Desolace, in the satyr area.
Especially the receptionist.
Even abandoned as they are, I find Thorium/Dark Iron (like 250+) kind of a pain in the ass.
Oooh, look! Rich Thorium! That'd be great... in 15 more points.
Wow, I thought I was just sucking. My warlock is lv 54 and has 209 mining. I do NOT look forward to those last 91 points.
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Seriously, they need to show sheathed fist weapons. Y'know, now that there are more than seven of them in the game.
Also, word from the PTR is that about 1 of 10 of the reward bags for the Sunwell dailies will have a badge of justice. I may get my 3 nethers yet...
I'll have to post screenshots sometime of my cartographer with the mineral tracking. Its hilarious the number of places where you'll see the odd out of place mithril, copper, etc.
If you really want, try looking up the nodes on wowhead and see where they have them listed at on the maps.
Just kill yourself.
C'mon. C'mon.