Mining expert opinion neededFollow

Hello fellas!

I am new to WoW and I have two miners. One is lvl 37, one is lvl 21, which means that one has a significant advance over the other one.

My lvl 37 currently has 210 mining and it has been a pain to reach this level because I was missing green/yellow/orange nods in areas with mobs of my level and I could not level up mining by melting bars as it was all grey.

NOW, MY QUESTION: my lvl 21 has about 130 in mining, which allows him to melt everything up to iron: would it be possible to level up mining on this lvl 21 by just melting what my lvl 37 gets when mining nods... just a way to level up two characters without mining twice as much.

Any ideas on that? My feeling is that it's going to be difficult because melting seems to allow leveling up mining only in a limited way (very quickly, it becomes grey), but I hope I am wrong and it might work...

Thanks for your views,

nostra

Thanks for your prompt reply.

I feared it would be this way, as I just had to go mining some tin in order to be able to melt the next type of ore. I did not check carefully, but I have the feeling that melting is a great way to level up very early on (copper mainly) but then gets really bad. I am wondering if melting an ore that one can mine really brings anything or if it is grey right away (if not, most probably green). Anyway, I'll try to save some mining by melting a bit more with my small toon.

Thanks,
nostra

Edited, Jan 4th 2007 3:24pm by nostraaa

Once again, thank you for that precision.

I agree that mining is very hard to level up, as compared to skinning at least (which is the only other one I have tried). But mining is required to be an engineer... and that is fun, which is all that counts ;)

Cheers,
nostra

No, there are skill levels where all of the smelting is gray and the only way to skill up is to go out and mine.


My mining has advanced pretty much at the same rate as my leveling simply because I have to level to be able to reach the mines in the higher level areas. I was able to mine tin well before I could survive easily in the Barrens. I was able to mine iron well before I saw my first iron vein in Stonetalon. The exception for me was mithril and truesilver since those can be found in the same areas I first encountered iron and it took me a while to find enough iron that I could reach to get my skill level up. Now I have the ability to mine thorium but I have yet to see a thorium vein.

@ the Flatulent Scholar:

Thank YOU.

I am not a native speaker and appreciate every opportunity to learn a new word.

nostra

Edited, Jan 5th 2007 12:24pm by nostraaa