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Category:Mining (WoW)
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Mining is a profession for procuring metals out of rocky and subterranean areas.
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What Mining Creates
Mining creates ore. And stone. And occasionally gemstones. But mostly just ore. Fortunately ore is important for three different production skills, blacksmithing, engineering, and jewelcrafting.
To do this, the miner tracks the mineral nodes on his mini-map, and then harvests from it anywhere from 2 to 4 times. (At later levels this number varies more greatly.)
Mining also comes with an associated skill, Smelting. Smelting allows the miner to reduce the ore to metal bars.
The current maximum level for miners is 375.
What Mining Requires
Mining just requires a mining pick in your backpack and a willingness to explore strange places. It does occupy your current tracking skill, which can be a nuisance for certain players like hunters. Smelting can only be performed in front of a forge.
Is Mining For Me?
Mining is a gathering skill, and so it is normally taken by the people who also have a profession that uses mined ores, and by people who want to make money off of the first group.
In terms of making money, mining can be lucrative. High-level ore is more plentiful than it was before Burning Crusade, but also needed in larger quantities. A dedicated miner can make a good amount of money at the auction house. Be warned, though: Blacksmiths and Engineers generally want you to smelt the ore into bars, and Jewelcrafters strictly want the ore to prospect.
There are no special benefits to being a miner.
Specialization
There is no specialization for mining.
Mining Quests
There are no known quests specifically for miners, however there are quite a few for blacksmiths.
Quests that require products from a miner: (other than blacksmithing)
- Components for the Enchanted Gold Bloodrobe] (warlock quest, level 34)
- Gnome Improvement (Gnomeregan/Ironforge, level 35)
- Nogg's Ring Redo (Gnomeregan/Orgrimmar, level 35)
- Lore for a Price (Gnomeregan/Ironforge, level 37)
- The Spectral Chalice (Blackrock Depths, level 55)
- Zinfizzlex's Portable Shredder Unit (Alterac Valley, level 60)
- Favor for Krazek (Stranglethorn Vale/Arathi Highlands, level 32)
- Search for Incendicite (Dun Morogh/Wetlands, level 20)
Leveling and Other Tips
When leveling mining, it pays to think ahead. Though Blizzard has made some changes to make leveling easier, there's at least one you can do to make it feel like it's easier on yourself. This starts when you start mining. It's much easier to level smelting ore than actually mining it. It's more annoying to find a copper node and not get a skill up than to be making yourself a cup of tea while you smelt 60 ore and miss a few skill-ups. Since smelting really only tracks with actual node skill-ups at the level of copper it pays to take advantage of it. When you first start mining, don't smelt any of your ore. Bank it, send it to an alt, whatever you need to do to get it out of your bag. Just don't smelt it and don't sell it.
When you get to a mining skill of about 40, now is the time to smelt. Gather all of your ore from wherever you've stashed it and then go make yourself a sandwich while you smelt it all. This should get you easily into tin, possibly even giving you a nice jump.
From this point on, though, note that when mining a node may be green or even yellow but smelting will no longer give you a skill-up (it will be grey). In other words, you can only use this trick once - and only while you're still on copper.
While smelting can give a skill-up (and it's worth it to take the skill-up over the added value from the Auction House any day) sometimes it won't. In these cases it's worth it to check your Auction House for the prices of both ore and smelted bars to see which are selling for more. Jewelcrafters want ore (except for silver, truesilver and gold) for prospecting gems so sometimes those will sell for significantly more than the smelted bars. But sometimes the bars do sell for more. This fluctuates both depending on what server you're on as well as what the market is doing. Which means while smelted bars sold for more last weekend, this weekend you can't give them away. It's worth it to check frequently as the price gap can be significant.
External links
WoW-professions.com - 1-375 Mining Leveling Guide
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