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#1 Jan 30 2007 at 12:04 PM Rating: Default
im lvl 109 miner and im stuck finding silver ore's so can someone plzz help me finding some silver ore's and not to high lvl places cause im lvl 26
#2 Jan 30 2007 at 12:24 PM Rating: Decent
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It is indeed a pain. I remember making many rounds through the barrens to get past that point. You could also try Stonetalon Mts. and thousand needles. Just watch your back.
#3 Jan 30 2007 at 1:01 PM Rating: Decent
thx for ur answer
#4 Jan 30 2007 at 3:22 PM Rating: Good
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Silver is a rare spawn of a tin node. So, anywhere you find tin, you can find silver. It is entirely possible for a zone to have no silver at all at any given time but odds are that there will be a few out there.

You didn't specify Alliance or Horde but pretty much any zone that is for levels from 10-30 should have a fair amount of tin (and sometimes silver). Just pick an area you feel comfortable running around in and work out a route that takes you near most of the tin nodes. I did this with the Barrens when working on tin and later with Stonetalon and Thousand Needles when I worked my way up to iron (and gold).
#5 Feb 01 2007 at 12:09 PM Rating: Decent
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tin will get your your skill points as well man at your level. It was a drag to get to that 125 mark for me also, but I did it just by finding tin and then the occasional silver. Sure it might be green for you, but there is a chance that you get a point (besides, tin sells pretty well for me)
#6 Feb 01 2007 at 1:38 PM Rating: Decent
steeljaxx wrote:
im lvl 109 miner and im stuck finding silver ore's so can someone plzz help me finding some silver ore's and not to high lvl places cause im lvl 26


Have you tried your own advise (since in the other thread, you stated that it couldn't be found anyplace else)?

steeljaxx wrote:
the only place i found a lot of silver ore's was (hillsbrad foothills)
#7 Feb 02 2007 at 7:13 AM Rating: Good
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To answer your original question - mine tin. Keep running through and mining the respawns. Every once in a while they will respawn as silver instead of tin. If you see a number of silver nodes in one area, chances are somebody was mining tin that wasn't high enough to mine silver yet, and when they respawned as silver he just had to pass them by from then on.

To make a few other points that people seem to be hung up on with mining and possibly save us from seeing this question again and again -

1) you don't need to mine any silver to raise your mining to the point where you can mine iron. Although smelting tin and bronze turn grey long before you can smelt iron, if you scroll over the tin nodes, you will notice that they are still green for mining. Skill ups from mining green nodes actually come surprisingly often, compared to what I seem to see from other professions - or maybe it's just that I mined more because the prices for the products were so good anyway. Either way, just smelt your bronze until it turns grey, then keep mining tin. If you happen to find the occassional silver spawn (which you will, if you are mining tin) - you just get a guaranteed skillup instead of the chance you get mining tin.

2) there doesn't seem to be a good place to get consistent silver spawns. The closest I have come is mining the tin in the lowest area that it appears in - apparently these are usually farmed by people with lower mining skills and the chances of them skipping the silver node because they are not high enough skill to mine it are somewhat higher. There isn't any point in trying to look at mapwow or allakhazam for all the places where silver spawns and then running around complaining that you're not finding any silver - the map of silver spawns is the same as the map of tin spawns, because occassionally a tin node will spawn as silver instead. Just mine every tin node you see - when you come back to it, it might be silver the next time, and in the meantime you'll probably end up skilling past silver to iron just from all the tin.

3) The same thing applies to gold (a rare spawn of iron) and truesilver (a rare spawn of mithril). There is no good tactic for farming the rare spawns - just farm the base metal and watch for the rare respawns.

4) very occasionally, higher level nodes will spawn lower level rare spawns - I have found silver where I had previously found iron or mithril (rather than tin), gold where I had found mithril and thorium (rather than iron) and truesilver where I had found thorium (rather than mithril). This seems to make areas of mixed node types particularly rich in rare spawn nodes - the badlands with mithril and iron seems to be fairly good for silver, gold, and truesilver due to mithril miners skipping all the silver nodes, and people who can only mine iron skipping all the gold and truesilver. Thousand Needles and the Charred Vale in Stonetalon mountains also seem to show this disparity to some extent. I don't think the difference is in the spawn rates of the rare spawns, but in the farming patterns and abilities of the miners present in those zones.
#8 Feb 02 2007 at 1:24 PM Rating: Decent
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[quote=fledarmus]you don't need to mine any silver to raise your mining to the point where you can mine iron. If you scroll over the tin nodes, you will notice that they are still green for mining. quote]

I agree, I just hit 125 mining with my toon and only got 1 silver mine. I did it all with tin and it wasn't as tough as I thought it would be.
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