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get the gatherer addon, then see if anyone in your guild has it as well and get them to send you all of their marked nodes. this will display them on your map for you. If not, the just cruise around in durotar and the edges of barrens.

If I remember correctly, gatherer needs Cartograther to work.

Durotar doesn't have any monsters above level ten or so. The Barrens is higher level zone, but at level 30 you should not have any problems. If your paladin is a Blood elf than you can freely roam around. If your paladin is one of the Alliance races than be sure to avoid the various Horde towns as they will not tend to appreciate your presence. Although, if you are Alliance and looking for plentiful copper nodes then I would strongly suggest making circuits of Dun Morogh and Loch Modan as copper is really quite abundant there. Not to mention easy access from Ironforge.

Just as a side note, a very similiar question was asked a few weeks ago. It would probably be a good idea to look through a few pages of the forum first before asking since these sorts of questions get asked frequently. This isn't meant to chastise you, but simply to let you know. Good luck and happy mining!

Edited, Aug 12th 2008 12:45pm by Miskreant

Does it work on the vanilla map?
I mean with the node locations?

Vanilla maps is just the maps from original WoW before the burniing crusade, and yet it should work for that too.

Make sure that you have it installed correctly into your interface/addons folder, and then make sure you have it turned on through your character start screen. There is a button in the corner that says addons where you go to turn it on. Also, make sure you have downloaded the mmost recent versions of the addons or they wont work.

Yes I dowloaded them to the right folder and unzipped them as i asked a player in game what i should do. It's not my first addon (i have healassign, omen and questhelper installed too), but it's only gatherer and cartographer that won't work. I think I downloaded the most recent version...anyone tell me what the name of the most recent version is please?

(( I know they're called cartographer and gatherer but isn't there usually a number after them which tells you the version...? ))

Thanks for your help by the way guys!

i've mined pretty much every type of metal that my skill level can mine since installing it, as I run a copper node path almost every day :)

I use curse.com for my addons. Would they provide the updated versions? or is there a better host you'd recommend?

Agreed with OP, wowmatrix works great and automatically does a lot of the stuff for you as far as installing and updating goes

Not all addons will show up in your character screen addons section. Can't recall if gatherer does or not. You should however find a button by your minimap and you should see nodes on your main map.

If it's still not working, then make sure you took the gatherer folder OUT of the original zip folder. (In other words the unzip will create a file named gathererversionxxx and inside THAT is the folder you need to put into your addons folder.)

If you haven't found the barrens by lvl 30, I'm assuming you're alliance. (It's a lvl 10-20 horde area.) Run down to Stranglethorn and take the boat to Ratchet, or take the boat from Menethil Harbor to Theramore and make your way through or around Duskwallow swamp to get to the barrens. Or if you're in Ashenvale, there's a road that leads to the barrens from there.

But if all you need is copper, run around Elwyn Forest and then into Westfall.

Just noticed the original poster posted that thing back in august....I hope in 4 months he's managed to figure out the problem haha!