turpinjosh wrote:
Thanks for the replies. I am going to stick with mining and skinning. One last question concerning mining... To get the most money, do you need to smelt the ore into bars or does ore get alot of money itself? On the mining FAQ, it doesn't mention anything about smelting the copper, etc. into bars? Where are the forges usually located in towns? I am currently near the Exodar.
Two things about mining, and one about selling on the AH in general.
The weekends, and holidays, are the best time for selling on the AH. Make sure you get everything in your bags up on Friday night, and make sure you always set the auctions for 48 hours. A mod like Auctioneer is very helpful for this and for watching pricing trends.
As someone already mentioned, check the prices of ore and bar before smelting. Only smelt at a loss if it gets you skill-ups, but I've never needed to do that.
Also, there is a dry spot in leveling your mining, and it exists between 80 and 120 (125?). This is the tin zone and tin is hard to come by. So, when you get to that point, go into the wetlands and look for the spider cave just near the entrance/exit to/from IronForge. You can't miss it - follow the signs to IF and look for the spiders in the field in front of it.
Inside that cave is a quest ore, incendicite I think its called, and you do not need the quest to mine it. If you want the quest, stop by Steelgrill's Depot and get it from one of the pilots there - its outside Kharanos (sp?). The incendicite will give you skill-ups through 125, and there are tin nodes in that cave also. I skilled up my mining in an hour or so in that cave. The spiders are L18 to L20 I think.
Good Luck.
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