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Where do you go for Titanium? Sholazar Basin or Icecrown?

When farming I do a lap of Sholazar then head into Wintergrasp. I try to time it so I'm in Wintergrasp mining for about 30 minutes and then the pvp begins and I join that.

Edited, Dec 17th 2008 12:14am by KradortheDruid

It is definitely found in Sholazar, Icecrown and Wintergrasp. It could theoretically be found anywhere that Saronite spawns (it is a rare spawn off of a Saronite node spawn point).

I have had really weird luck with it so far. On days that I do farm, I usually spend about 3 hours farming. This generally nets me about 400 Saronite Ore and around 12-20 Titanium ore. However, the other night I got my usual 400 Saronite ore, and 49 Titanium Ore, so I attribute that to sheer dumb luck.

I usually just stay in Sholazar (unless it is super-crowded). If you have an epic flyer and fly slightly unusual patterns and know where most of the spawn point are, you can mine a bunch quickly.

If Sholazar is too crowded, I go to Icecrown. I really don't farm Wintergrasp because of the "No-Fly Zone". Ever since I hit 77, I try to use my horse as little as possible. I am a Paladin, so Epic Flyer with Crusader Aura FTW!

Sholazar is fantastic for densely packed nodes...I went out there because I needed some eternal fire (engineer + cinder clouds ftw) and on my way out, I hit 3 titanium nodes back-to-back.

Icecrown is good because, as others have said, it's a very large zone. The main difficulty is that in Icecrown, the nodes are often in less-than-desirable places (ie. parked under an elite skeleton) but that fact alone tends to drive a lot of people back to Sholazar. Sholazar is the WotLK Barrens chat on my realm, whereas in Icecrown all I seem to see are people LFG for the group quests there.

I found my first one yesterday in Sholazar. It was right next to where you become a "slave".

I went back tonight and found another node near the first one in Sholazar. There were a few people flying around looking for them so it's the luck of who finds it first. No biggie. Not like the 5 people camping the rare spawn after a hunter was saying he'll pay 1000 gold for whoever finds it for him.

Edited, Dec 30th 2008 4:18am by Minoran

I like to farm in WG over other places:

nodes tended to be closer together
fewer mobs to deal with
less farmer to fight over nodes since you can't fly there and being PVP only area,
easier to kill opposing faction especially if they haven't tapped a titanium node yet.

I have found an odd trend: there seems to be 2 or 3 level 70 that spends almost the entire time farming there. 70 don't belong to WG because the mobs are 80, and it's almost impossible for a 70 to farm a node next to mob. And when they seems to spend 24/7 I report em to GM and let them sort them out.

On an average 2.5 hours run between battles I've gotten 20-30 titanium ores and upward of 15 stacks of saronite ores.

PS to those who do fight over nodes in WG, try not to chase a druid. I had a ret pally who tried to chase me away from a saronite lode. By luck I was out of combat and into scholazar when I shifted to flight form. The pally who tried to follow me didn't watch his step and his corpse ended up half way down the wall and quite inaccessible for ghost form.

Another time I had a 78 hunter who tried to kill me, at the time resto spec'd. Battle lasted over 30 minutes with his pet dead twice from my thorn =) Since I have sucky dps as resto I quietly got a friend to help me. A boomkin druid came in and thypooned the hunter over the edge from fire into dragonblight. When I checked, all I could find was skeleton half way down so the hunter probably took spirit rez. Just wondering how many arrows can a 78 hunter use up in 30 min nonstop? Not to mention repair from 25% rez durability loss.