Wow Mining Guide

Before getting started with mining, you're going to need:

1) Mining Skill. You get this by going to your local mining trainer to get trained.

2) A mining Pick. It's also useful for you to note that these can also be enchanted, although it makes no difference other than you get to see a glow when you equip it like a normal weapon. Seems pointless to me but some people like this as a cool feature.

3) Optional but recommended - Gloves: Get the lowest cost gloves you can locate and get them enchanted with +5 mining skill, it won't cost more than 2g.

For those who have asked, the +5 mining won't improve your chances of getting a crystal but it will increase the odds that you WON'T have a failed attempt.

Engineers Note: If you make yourself a Goblin Mining helmet this will add +5 to your mining skill.

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Guide Sections:

1 - 65 Copper mining
65 - 125 Copper, Tin, Silver mining
125 - 175 Iron, Tin, Gold mining
175 - 245 Mithril, Truesilver mining
245 - 300 Mithril, Thorium, Rich Thorium mining
300 - 325 Fel Iron mining
325 - 350 Fel Iron, Adamantite mining
350 - 400 Cobalt mining
400 - 450 Saronite mining

First, visit any trainer in the main cities of old Azeroth - just ask a guard, and learn Apprentice Mining.

When you have around 30 copper Ore, go and Smelt them and repeat the cycle, go mine ores then smelt them. Save the Copper Bars, you will need them.

I strongly recommend to download the following addon:

• Gatherer

This addon show you every Mining node locations on your map

 *Click on the locations to see maps*

Learn Mining Journeyman.

[Tin Ore], [Silver Ore], [Copper Ore]

This is a really bad part, in my opinion Tin is the hardest to find, there is not a single zone, where you can only find Tin, there is always Copper or Iron as well. I usually mine Tin until 75, then I smelt all of my Ores. After that, I turn my Copper and Tin Bars into Bronze Bars. This should take you around 90-95 Mining skill.

At 75 you can learn how to smelt Silver Ore. This will help you get your skill to 125. Silver Ore and bars sell for roughly the same, buy the ore and sell the bars at the auction house. However on some high populated servers, Ores are extremely expensive, then you should just mine Tin and Smelt Bronze until 125. If you find any Silver Vein, smelt the ores before you reach 115 in Mining, because it's better to smelt them while they are still yellow or orange and Smelt Silver turns green at 122.

Learn Mining Expert.

[Iron Ore], [Tin Ore], [Gold Ore]

At 155 you can learn how to smelt Gold Ore. Buy 30 Gold Ore and smelt them, that should get you around 175. Same as with Silver Ores, buy them if they are not expensive, smelt them and sell the bars at the Auction House.

[Mithril Ore], [Truesilver Ore]

At 230 you can learn how to smelt Truesilver Ore, this should help you to level up to 245. When you reach 225, don't forget to visit your Mining trainer.

[Thorium Ore]

Get 5 skill by mining Small Thorium Veins, then visit your trainer and learn how to smelt Thorium Bar. You should smelt ores until 270 (you can mine nodes until 270, but it will be a lot slower) , so you will need only 5 points until you can mine Rich Thorium Veins (you can mine them right away, if you have this enchant: [Formula: Enchant Gloves - Advanced Mining]).

I only recommend Winterspring for players level 65 or higher. You can go there at lower levels too, but there is like 2 place where you will have hard time to get in and mine those Rich Thorium Veins. Eastern Plaguelands is better if you are lower than level 65.

Go to Outland and learn Mining Master.

Go to Northrend and learn Mining Grand Master.