Top Mining Tips and Help for WoW WotLK Wrath of The Lich King

The latest expansion to the top online game World of Warcraft has just been released recently and gamers are going wild in WotLK: Wrath of the Lich King; exploring Northrend and other instances. However, this new release doesn’t change the fact that mining remains as one of the primary professions in the game.What is mining?

Mining is a Profession that lets you discover and obtain minerals, ores, and stones from resource nodes that are scattered throughout the world.

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What is so good about mining?

The materials that can be obtained only through mining can be used to create items by means of blacksmithing, engineering, or jewel crafting. Even players who don’t have those Professions can still benefit from mining because they can keep collecting the resources and sell them for gold. Many of the items that are created from the materials obtained from mining are needed for recipes within other professions. It is also believed that mining can yield the highest income of all the collecting professions.

What are some good mining strategies?

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Mining Tip #1 – Leveling Up your Skill

If you are looking to level up your mining skill quickly, head to Durotar. Durotar is an abundant source copper and tin. The canyon lets you go in circles where you run to one end and mining that source and then going towards the other end mining the other source. By the time you backtrack, you will notice the sources have already respawned.

You can even find more tin in the Barrens once you have reached the tin level by circling through the areas where you find Bristleback, Scorpids, and Razormane.

For iron miners, you can circle around the Shimmering Flats located in the Thousand Needles area. The spawn rates of iron are good enough for leveling up, but be properly equipped as it’s a dangerous area.

If you are looking for Thorium, head to the Un’goto Crater and cycle through the Slithering Scar, Fire Plume Ridge, and Burning Steppes. Keep mining that to reach skill 300 and auction some off to earn some decent gold.

Mining Tip #2 – Using the Gatherer Add-on

This is great for starters as this WoW add-on exclusively for miners and other collecting professions tracks nearby ore node locations and plots them in the mini-map. It isn’t a replacement of the tracking ability, but keeps track of the minerals you previously found so that whenever ore grinding is needed, getting it is easy.

Mining Tip #3 – Respawn Rarities

If you are looking for rare metal and wish to bet on chances, you can try heading to respawned nodes of cheap metals and hope to see rarer ones. Tin, Iron, and Mithril nodes can respawn to Silver, Gold, and Trusilver nodes respectively.
Conclusion

Mining is a skill that requires repetitive cycling to get to the high skill levels. Just keep going at it and focus on the abundant sources so you can quickly increase your skill level. It is a highly rewarding task after all the effort because of the money you can make and items you can create from it.

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