I just came back to WoW because of the new expansion, and I'm still doing things the old fashioned way, too. I quest, level, see a node and go out of my way for it, including fighting stuff. Didn't realize that smelting can help now. Guess I can do some of that, but the funny thing is, having raised mining for so many characters, I pretty much know which parts of the zones to hit, so here I am, mining very often on almost all nodes I see, because either people are all out in the expansion lands, or I guess people are buying their ores now, since I haven't had as much competition for these ores as it used to be.