Mining/Blacksmithing QuestionFollow

I can only seem to find Copper Veins in the areas that I can actually solo in. There are a few Tin Veins here and there but the majority are Copper. I'm talking about Westfall, Elwyn, Loch Modan, and parts of Redridge.

This presents a problem for my blacksmithing as I need Bronze or Silver to create anything that will level my BSing not to mention Copper is grey for me as well at this point so I don't get skill ups from that.

My BS is 105 and my mining is 103. I'm a level 17 human paladin on the Thrall server. Of course I can't use some of my BS items for a level or two but I like to have steady progress and not be stagnant like I am currently.

I've made some runs into areas like STV and up north towards Hillsbrad and there seems to be some Tin up there but I can't mine it cause the mobs agrro from about a mile away at that point.

So my questions are;

1. Am I unusally far into BS and mining at this level?
2. Is there anywhere that Tin shows up consistently that I can farm it that is my level?

I wouldn't say you are unusually far into mining, but you are ahead of the curve. Your best bet would be to gain a few levels. The general rule of thumb I go by for profession levels is my character level X 5. This is particularly true for gathering professions such as mining, skinning, and herbing, not to say it can't be done, but it is certainly a lot easier. As for determining where to find various ore nodes, I use this but the search feature here on Alla works pretty well also.

So why would mining or JC be better than BS for a pally? The weaponsmithing that you can specialize is makes some nice weapons

As a pally I would take engineering before blacksmithing. Engineering gives you access to ranged attacks which pally's don't have. The Linken boomerang quest is must for Pally's without engineering.