IM SICK OF MINING!Follow

so far mining has been a real pain :(. it has made decent money but has been hard to level. i have encahnting also for d/e. should i unlearn both? unlearn just one? advice appreaciated

Mining is hard to level? I had no trouble leveling my mining. My mining hit 300 while my smithing was still down at 240ish.

You want good money? Just wait till you can mine thorium and you start pulling in arcane crystals. Don't drop mining, you'll be glad you didn't later.

While I agree with this, just be sure you don’t like it. I’ve been grouping with a friend a lot lately. She took mining for the first time on a new hunter character. She too was complaining about mining, but now she likes it. Mining is fairly easy at first. Copper is abundant and we even get points for smelting copper at first. But once mining copper turn gray at 100 skill we hit a real slump. Tin/Silver are not easy to find. Skill gain slows way down. I call it the dry period of mining. But once we can mine iron it picks up again. That’s the point where my friend started enjoying it again. But if you feel you truly don’t enjoy mining, then drop it for something else.

If you want two gathering professions and you decide to drop mining, give skinning and herbalism a try. Skinning is fast and easy. You just skin the mobs you kill. Leather doesn’t sell for a lot per stack, but you can make a good amount in bulk. You still have to hunt for plants with herbalism, but there are a LOT more plants around than mineral nodes so your skill tends to increase faster. And there are several types of plants that sell well in the auction house.

Do whats best for your class... orr... if your cash hungry

Try Skinning and Herbalism

STRANGLEKELP IS EASY MONEY!!!! its low lvl too i think its lvl 85 herbalism

1 stack goes for 4g-8g

takes around 20 min for a stack of 20

From what I've read, it seems the output of a node is determined the first time you try mining it. The outcome of each strike also seems to be determined.

Some things I've seen that bear this out - if you mine a node and it comes up with one thorium ore and 3 dense stones, and you take the thorium but leave the stones, then try mining it again, all you will see is the three stones. Until you've looted those three stone's you will not get anything else from the mine.

If you mine a node and get one thorium ore and three dense stones then step away from the mine without looting and allow someone else to mine the node, they will also see one thorium ore and three dense stones. If you loot the thorium ore leaving the stones and allow someone else to mine it, all they will get is the stones.

This is not the case for fishing, for example, where if you don't loot the fish, you don't pull the same fish on the next cast. It is true for chests, where if you loot only part of the items, the chest still remains and the rest can be looted by someone else.

That combined with some of the other posts I've seen (but unfortunately not bookmarked) from blizzard explaining how their loot tables work gave me the impression (possibly mistaken) that when you first strike a node, the number of times the node can be mined and the loot for each attempt are fixed.

So why not just have all the loot show up in the first attempt, like a chest?

more or less, and sometimes if a node is left long enough another node can spawm inside of it :D

or you can do it my way and buy a stack of thorium ore offa farmers for 1.2g at mass quantities

I have close to 1000 thorium that travels between my 2 mains and I snag some whenever anyone I know needs it or I'm running out of nades, or something to that effect ( I have a hunter that I use a nade everytime the cooldown is over in the BG's and he's almost exalted at lvl 49 with WSG