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The top end Azeroth mining nodes are thorium veins and rich thorium veins. I think you need to farm this in places like Un'Goro and Winterspring.

This is from the official website, and the numbers denote minimum skill.




Edited, Jul 12th 2007 10:49am by bkhovde

At 268 you can mine small thorium, and thoriums veins. I have found Un'goro good for this, also I throw on a mining glove enchant on and then with 2 more points you can mine Rich Thorium viens which I have found quite a few in Un'goro. Do that till 300, then outlands it is

Regards,
Jhua

Thanks for that info as soon as i hit 58 and go to OL i think ill try to do that :)

bilbosorc has some great advice.

The crater has some great quest lines, and the mining there is good. Here's a tip, there are two nodes in the ape cave, and two in the insect cave to the south of that. If you go in a straight line from the apes to the insects (sorry about not recalling the exact names of the mobs) you'll find another small thorium node between the two. Due to the distance they'll respawn one right after the other.

Good luck.

Tycon

Just run around in the searing gorge, tons of dark iron ore veins!! I was stopped with mining for a while and then DING 300 in no time, also burning steppes has a lot of thorium. Just my 2c.

I just completed the crawl from 265 mining -> 300, and I have to say I have a new respect for Minters who hit 300 at or before level 59.

I did the last stretch in Silithius, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone unless they were level 70 with an epic mount. At 70, none of the mobs I came across really wanted much to do with me, and I was able to clear any mobs from around any nodes I really wanted. I noticed while riding around that each of the Hives in the zone seems to have at least 2 Ooze Covered Rich Adamantium Veins, but I had no desire to go wade through tunnels filled with bugs to get to them. It took a while to get to 300, but a lot of that time was cruising Burning Steppes, EPL, and Un'Goro for nodes before I finally settled in Silithius.

My entire reason for dropping skinning for mining was because it seemed a waste to have an epic flyer without a node-based gathering profession. That, and skinning has a very limited market that has in no way matured on my server to the point of being able to count on a worthwhile return on the time I spent hopping from one group of Clefthoofs in Nagrand to the next.

As soon as I hit 300 I hearthed to Shattrath and hopped on my flyer. I hit the trainer in HFP and then zipped around the zone. I skipped a fair number of nodes that were guarded too heavily for my liking and I still got from 300-327 in about an hour. In the process, between gems, ore, and motes, I dug up 150-200g worth of product.

By the time I logged out, I had spent 15 minutes zipping around Terrokar and capped off the evening with a couple of Adamantite nodes (just because I could). The first one yielded a gem worth 40g and 6 Mote of Earth (in addition to the ore) and the second one yielded another 9 Mote of Earth. I'd say that within another couple of hours I'll be capped at 375 and able to happily mine the hell out of Outland at breakneck speed any time the mood strikes me, and that just strikes me as incredibly cool.

And so, so much better than skinning.

Once you get to 300, Fel Iron is going to be orange to you. It will likely take you several attempts to pull the entire deposit. Good thing is that a +5 mining to gloves enchant is relatively inexpensive: 3 Vision dust and 3 Truesilver bars. Once you can mine Adamanite, mine as much of that as you possibly can. As long as there are jewelcrafters prospecting, adamanite will likely not drop much in price until the next expansion. It is holding relatively steady between 20-25g a stack of ore. Smiths and engineers will also go through boxcars worth of adamanite.

Good luck with your mining and hopefully it'll make you as much cash as it has for me.

Hehe...it probably seemed like a crawl because that's all I was doing...riding around looking for nodes. Which was made slightly worse being stuck on the ground knowing I had an epic flyer at my disposal if I could just get to 300 to mine Outland...

Once I did hit 300, though, it was about 2.5 hours from 300 -> 375. Beautiful and well worth it :D

Just took my mining from 250 to 300 yesterday. I waited until level 70 to do it.

Ungoro Crater, IMHO is overrated. Not really alot of thorium spawns there, plus it seems like EVERYONE goes there to skill up their mining.

Silithus--zone is huge, and most of the thorium you want will be in the underground bug hives. Don't even bother unless your level 70 with an epic mount, or the mobs will chase you and beat you mercilessly.

Didn't try Azshara.

Burning Steppes--this is where I got most of my skill ups. Lots of small thorium, thorium, rich thorium, and blackrock ore to skill up. Plus it seems like there was alot less people mining there, than say Ungoro.

Now I'm Outland ready!

It seemed so fast while leveling...because leveling takes forever lol. When you're power leveling mining at 70, it definately feels like a grind, at least in the old world where you're interested in nothing but those veins that give you skillups. I found myself pissed quite a few times seeing a mithril vein. When I was 55 I would have been happy, because hey, thats still gold to me! But its like 50s an ore at 70, so I just wanted to get my 300 mining and get out of azeroth.

Rich thorium is a pretty decent moneymaker though, I know alot of 70s go back and mine this alot. I'd still rather mine adamantite instead.

During this week I went from 181 mining to 295, I'm AFK in flight now back to outlands. I have the +5 mining enchant on my gloves, so I'll be able to mine fel iron. I'm not as lucky as Auerelis, I dont have an epic bird, so even the 300-375 grind will take me a while. But at least its in outlands :)

That felt like the longest grind, especially the mithril period. I thought it would never end. I went 175-250 in Hinterlands mainly, targetting Mithril, and eventually (at 230) Truesilver deposits. At 250 I moved to the Burning Steppes, going after Small Thorium Veins (and Dark Iron Deposits, with the odd Mithril Deposit). I stayed there until 275, then headed to Eastern Plaguelands and finished out on Rich Thorium Veins, with the odd small vein.

I used Gatherer (add-on), and Allah's maps. Try searching Allah for 'Rich Thorium Vein' for example, check the map. Using maps to exact known vein spawns saved me alot of time.

This isn't the first time I've leveled mining, though hopefully it will be my last power-leveling attempt at it. I also powerleveled herbalism a few weeks back, let me tell you, herbalism is much faster to level then mining.

Edited, Sep 7th 2007 10:49pm by mikelolol

Edited, Sep 7th 2007 10:51pm by mikelolol