"Best" Place to farm ThoriumFollow

As the title implies I'm looking for a good place to farm thorium. I mainly farm between 5 and 6 am in the morning so in otherwords off-peak. I mined winterspring this morning for about an half hour and got about 2 stacks of thorium, is that a good haul, or should I trie burning steppes, un'goro, or epl?

The character I'm farming with is a 70 Mage (frost spec getting better equiped on the weekends) getting towards 700 frost dmg. So shouldn't have much difficulties with any mobs.

Thanks, as I'm farming this for my future jewelcrafter and minusing the gems which I'll just buy from the ah I will need about 200 thorium bars to help me reach 300 JC, how much over 300 will rtv's take you? How many hps do the elites guarding the tunnels in sithilis have? (in other words with about 7k hp can i just run through it for the nodes poping invisiblity from time to time?)

my guess is invis would be your tatic, I farm with a druid so i Kitty stealth in, shift/mine and sneek out. so fighting is not even in the gameplan for me.

In a update in about 1:30 farming winterspring going in the early morning I've gotten at least 8 stacks of ore, a lot of dense stone, 6 arcane crystalls, 6 huge emeralds, 1 blue sapphire, 5 large opals, and one diamond.

I typically go to winterfall village and there is always one rtv and one small thorium vein in the yeti cave. Then I go south and there is usually one rtv by all the moonkin. Then I hit the motherlode of darkwhisker gorge. I usually get at least 5-6 rtvs there and maybe a couple of small veins and rarely truesilver. After I do one pass there of each of the coves, I drop down in the revine which might have a rtv. Then I go up and stop by the dragon kin along the way there is usually a small vein and there is always a cave in the inside by the entrance. To complete the cycle i hit the ghost lake for a rtv, all in all it seems pretty fruitfull.

I'll have to try out ungoro next week and compare, my mining is now around 330 so I have to decide how much more thorium I will need for my future jewelcrafting verus mining in nagrand for adamintine deposits. Any thoughts, or should I just stay mining thorium for the foreseable future?

My JC will be around 180 as I haven't really started. And since the patch will make things easier (but make the gains from mithril filligree(sp?)reduced) I'm hoarding ores. I think i have about 240 thorium ore and some of the gems required to hit 300. Bar wise I should be fine. I'm hoping that if I get another 10 or so stacks and since each attempt should produce at least 1 gem i may be cool. I suppose i just answered my own question. I am just thinking that if I start mining nagrand if it will be easier to just buy the gems I'm missing thus making more profit that way.

Edited, May 18th 2007 11:05am by southafrica

searing gorge is good too.

I think 345+ was about right for RTV. I recall it going grey in or around that timeframe.

As a bonus though, fel iron ore stays green all the way to 375. My miner was able to get 375 mining just from fel iron. Fel iron is plentiful in hellsfire. Imo this is all you need to get the first few common green gems, which should take you to about 325-330. After that, there are still more recipes using those gems that you could skill up with, but you would need rep gains to get them. Save all your motes of earth...you’ll be needing them.

Adamantium dust is actually the limiting factor after this, so move to other zones asap to start mining that. Accumulating adamantium is a decent rate, too, but getting that dust and primal earth, is what you may spend a longer time collecting.

Bludfury, care to re read the thred?




Come on it was the second freeking post

Without argue the hands-down best thorium farming area is EPL, specifically the north, north-east and east areas of EPL. In an hour's time I will farm app. 10 to 12 stacks of ore, along with the normal amounts of gems and stone. But to be sucessful at farming mines you need to keep a few things in mind. The game software works random mine appearances in not-so random ways. As everyone knows there are specific node locations that mines appear at. There is more to it than that though. First the entire Zone will only have a certain number of active mines at one time. I.e. x-nuimber of RTV's, x-number of STV's, x-number of MV's, and each of those has a small percentage of being a TSV. Respawns of these also cycle in what appears to be ten minute increments. So let's say you run around EPL and mine 7 RTV's in 5 minutes. If you continue searching you will be wasting the next 5 minutes searching in vane. Another part of the game mechanics is that spawn nodes are grouped in specific areas. For instance in EPL there are RTV node groups specific for Noxious Glade, Infectus Scar, Zul Mashar, along with others. Now, each node group consists of appearantly half a dozen spawn nodes, out of which only one vane will be active at any one time from each group. Being that there are 7 RTV node groups in EPL, then only a max of 7 actual vanes will be active at any one time. Of course this is all pending any other players mining at the time.

A couple other notes from expeience;
1 - First and foremost, keep in mind that WoW is a game. This denotes competition and winners & losers. That is what a game is all about. So when you get "ninja'ed" on a thorium vane, suck it up. You lost that one competition. You can win the next. IMHO there is no such thing as ninjaing when it comes to mining, herbing, ect...just a matter of going for a win.

2 - If you happen to be CREATING a character based around farming ore and/or herbs, there is no better class than a hunter. Regardless of the responses I get here to the contrary, keep in mind that those replies are based on people's favorite classes IN GENERAL. For mining and herbing, nothing beat a hunter with feigning death, using a pet to control agro, and freezing trap.

3 - Mount speed is a definite advantage if you plan on farming at length.

4 - Being friendly with Argent Dawn is a plus when farming in EPL. The AD dwarf at LHC is the only vendor in EPL that repairs. And being that he stands right next to a forge, it a convenient spot to repair, smelt, and sell trash loot all at the same time.

Hope this helps...:)