Welcome to the 1-450 WoW WotLK free mining leveling guide.   This guide should help you in your endevours of reaching 450 in mining.  Basically this is an overview of what to do, if you are in need of more gold without paying for it, check out the WoW Gold Guide.  Itll teach you every single secret to mining and every other aspect of World of Warcraft.

WotLK Mining is one of the easier professions to master, and can be done while leveling or exploring. Miners can also smelt ores into bars with their skill Smelting.  Many other professions require theire bars which can make a miner rich. Remember, smelting also can increase your mining skill points as well.

Grab the Gatherer Addon for free.  This addon will show you on your minimap where you can find ore that goes great with this 1-450 Mining Leveling Guide!

Ore variations and skill required

Type of Ore Copper Vein Tin Vein Silver Vein Iron Vein Gold Vein Mithril Deposit Truesilver Deposit Thorium Vein Rich Thorium Vein Fel Iron Vein Adamantite Vein Rich Adamantite Vein Cobalt Deposit Khorium Vein Rich Cobalt Deposit Saronite Deposit Rich Saronite Deposit Pure Saronite Deposit Titanium Deposit

Minimum Mining skill 1 65 75 125 155 175 230 245 275 300 325 350 350 375 375 400 425 450 450

Tips

A few tips about mining, remember that ores are usually found along the cliffs or hilly areas of the map.  Keep to the outskirts and delve into caves if you dare to find the best spots for ore.  If you are straight up grinding mining, be sure to own a mount, because running around for the stuff will take forever!

Toughness

Since Wrath of the Lich King, toughness has been added to the game.  This is extra stamina that can be used by miners.  Check out the different benefits you get at the different levels.

• Rank 1, +3 Stam, Mining 75
• Rank 2, +5 Stam, Mining 150
• Rank 3, +7 Stam, Mining 225, requires level 10
• Rank 4, +10 Stam, Mining 300, requires level 25
• Rank 5, +30 Stam, Mining 375, requires level 40
• Rank 6, +60 Stam, Mining 450, requires level 55

Mining 1-75 / Copper

Copper can be found at all of the starting areas.  This section should be no problem.

Once you get enough ore, you can smelt your ore into bars for extra mining skill points.

Alliance:

Humans: Start in Elwynn forest, there is tons of ore here. head on up to goldshire, pass the large lake and keep heading up the path, you will find tons there.  Now check out the logging camp and surrounding areas.  If you still need more ore, head up to the mountains north of the map, you should find enough ore there to complete your levels.

Dwarves and Gnomes: Dun Morogh is the copper capital and is very easy to mine.  Just turn on your mining addon and you will have no problem finding copper wherever you go.

Night Elves: For nightelves, you have to do a bit of traveling.  Run to Darkshore, Auberdine.  Now run East towards the cliffs mining as much as you can along the way.  If you go in the Moonkin caves, you will get about 3-4 deposits.  Once you hit the caves head south until Ashenvale, now run west along the coastline back to Auberdine.  Keep following this loop until 65.

Horde:

Undead: From the starting zone, head south along the cliffs until you reach Undercity mining along the way, Run past the city and head towards plaguelands, but instead head to the Scarlett Monastery.

Pass the monastery and head to the coast , mine along the coast west until you hit the cliffs, you can now head south towards the starting point to end or start your loop.

Orcs and Trolls: Pretty simple area as far as mining is concerned, just fire up your mining addon and stick to cliffs and rocky edges of the map.  You will find copper everywhere.

Tauren: Big boring grassland…  Head to the outskirts and circle the map by the cliffs, you will find ore along the outer ring of mulgore.

Blood Elves Eversong woods is no problem, just turn on your skill and addon and you will have no problem finding copper everywhere.

Mining 75-125 / Incendite Ore/Tin/Silver

Another easy leveling stretch.  There are a few options you can choose here but my favorite is Incendite Ore.

Horde & Alliance:

If you arent level 20, you should be because this cave is full of level 20 mobs.  Head to the cave at Thelgan Rock,found close to the entrance to Dun Algaz.  This is an alliance area but horde can obviously mine it too.

Incendite ore is not needed by anyone and cant be smelted, so just delete it.  The reason for mining it is due to its extremely fast respawn rates equaling fast leveling times.

Lesser Bloodstone:

Corporal Kaleb in Booty Bay starts a quest to mine these. Lesser Bloodstone can be found in a cave east of Hammerfall.  You should be past level 35 to mine this.  Again, this is good to level because of the fast respawn rates.

Mining 125 – 175 / Iron/Gold

Thousand Needles/Shimmering Flats:

Star at the great lift, head west past camp ethok, mine what you see. Continue west along the cliff until you hit the border to the next zone.

Now head south to the other set of cliffs on the map, follow these east until you hit the shimmering flats, you can circle the flats until you come back to the north side of the cliffs of 1k needles.  Head west on the cliffs till you hit the great lift.  That is your loop.

Desolace:

Go to your factions main village here, you will basically making a big loops along the outskirts here.  Pretty simple if you ask me.

Mining 175-250 / Truesilver / Mithril / Dark Iron

At around this level is where you start making money on your ore you mine.  This however, means that it is going to be harder to find and you will have to deal with other people farming this stuff, so be prepared for some pvp.

Blasted lands: Fire up your skill and add on and make big circles around this place.

Searing Gorge: There are two sections here.  You can either go into the cauldron and make loops in there or circle around the other area of SG.  Or alternate.  Dark Iron Ore is found in searing gorge, but a skill of 230 is needed to mine it fyi.

Badlands: To the very east of the map there are very dense areas of ore by the ogre and fairy camps.  Once that runs out the rest of the map is also filled with many different types of ore.  I would suggest this area for the first part of this leveling section as this area turns grey once you come closer to 250 skill lvl.

Western Plaguelands: This is another option, save this till last if you are having trouble mining the other spots.  I would suggest being above level 60 and run through Andorhal for the mining spots here.

Mining 250-300 / Thorium

Winterspring: Thorium becomes more scarce than what we have run into before.  You are going to want to be looking in caves and random spots in Winterspring, check with your addon for known spots.  The owl wing Thicket has some nice spawn areas.  Darkwhisper gorge also has some spawning points.  If you can handle dragonkin elites, head over to Mazthoril for more Thorium.

Blasted Lands, Searing Gorge: I would recommend only mining here if you have to be here anyway.  The spots are scarce and random so not so time efficient.

Un’goro Crater: Pretty nice spot to mine, and its where I usually go.  You can easily aggro a ton of monsters here though, so I would recommend being above level 60.  Run circles around this place, occasionally making your way to the center for more ore.

Mining 300-330 / Fel Iron

This will all be done in the Outlands.  This caaan be done at level 60 through 70 while you level there but as far as speed and grinding is concerned you should be level 70.

Hellfire Penninsula:

Hellfire Penninsula is a little more tricky and large compared to zones in Azeroth, but as far as the overall strategy of circling the map is concerned, you will be doing the same thing here.

Other than pvp, if you are above level 68-70 you will have no problem just running around looking for ore here.

Another advantage in the Outlands is the use of flying mounts.  This way you can just fly around and not run into anything, just mine and grind lol!

Zangamarsh:

Hellfire Peninsula is better for grinding imo, but if you get bored or want to try something new, head over here and do the usual strat.  Do circles around the edge with occasional sweeps through the centre of the map.

Mining 330-355 / Fel Iron / Adamantine

Nagrand:

Nagrand is a better place for mining than the last as it is a bit more consistent as far as the terrain is concerned.  You might find it a bit easier to do.

Get to the entrance to terrokar forest, now journey north to the burning blade ruins and the ring of trials. You will eventually hit moutains, turn west (left).  Once you can turn north, head up to the laughing skull ruins for some more drops.

To finish your loop I would turn south and head past the forge camp: hate and fear, you will reach oshu’gun,  turn right and go past telaar kil’sorrow fortress until you get where you started.

Mining 355-375 / Fel Iron / Adamantine

You can either stay in Nagrand and hit up the same ore you have been, plus some more that turned oj for you or head to the higher level zone Shadowmoon Valley.

Shadowmoon will probably have a higher percentage of oj or yellow spawns and is pretty deserted so if you get bored of Nagrand for sure hit up Shadowmoon.  Just turn on your addons since there isnt a specific location or loop to take.

Mining 375-450 / Cobalt /Saronite / Titanium

You will obviously need WotLK for this section… Head to Northrend and get the appropriate training in town.  Head on over to the hills, and rocky terrain for your cobalt ore.  This section is basically straight forward.  You basically find the ore as you level, or if you are already 80 or 85 (cataclysm) you know how the area works.

Once you hit 400 you can start mining Saronite Ore.  Head on over to Sholazor Basin for the most dense spawning points for Saronite..

At 450  you can mine Titanium ore. You will find titanium in the same locations as saronite.   If you wanna venture into Wintergrasp you will be in PvP zone so be careful, but it is also a good are to grab some Titanium.

Mining For Gold

We hope this guide was sufficient enough to give you a basic guide on how to level mining in wotlk to 450 for free and fast. If you are low on gold and want an extremely detailed guide on mining that gives secrets found nowhere else for the profession, as well as hints, tricks, and secrets to every other profession and other aspects of the game we highly suggest checking out the gold secrets guide. You can find an overview and review for the guide here: Warcraft Gold Guide Review

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