Mining 1-450(3.3.3 Updated)

**~~Noblebeastx~~** · 07-03-10, 01:39 PM

WoW Mining Leveling Guide 1 - 450

First, visit any trainer in the main cities of old Azeroth - just ask a guard, and learn Apprentice Mining.
Download the following addon: Gatherer
This addon shows you every Mining node location on your map, like you will see on the pictures in the guide. The addon and the databse can be found here.
I recommend you to get the following enchant: [Formula: Enchant Gloves - Advanced Mining] you can just buy any low level gloves from a vendor and enchant that one with this Enchant, equip the gloves when you level your mining. Check the Auction House and if there is any [Scroll of Enchant Gloves - Advanced Mining] available, buy it.
When you have around 30 copper Ore, go and Smelt them and repeate the cycle, go mine ores then smelt them. Save the Copper Bars, you will need them.

Durotar - [Copper Ore]

Dun Morogh - [Copper Ore]

Alternative Map:
Basically just every starter zone. I won't include mining ways for these, because you can find copper everywhere you go.

65-125

Learn Mining Journeyman.
[Tin Ore], [Silver Ore], [Copper Ore]
This is a really bad part, Tin is the hardest to find there is not a single zone, where you can only find Tin, there is always Copper or Iron aswell. 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 rougly 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.

Thousand Needles

Redridge Mountains

125-175

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.

Arathi Higland

Thousand Needles

175-230

[Mithril Ore], [Truesilver Ore]
When you reach 225, don't forget to visit your Mining trainer.

The Hinterlands

Tanaris

230-300

[Thorium Ore]
Buy Thorium Ores and smelt them until you reach 255 (250 if you have the Mining Enchant on your gloves), the reason for this is that with 255 Mining skill, you will be able to mine Rich Thorium Veins, not just the small ones. You can actually smelt Thorium up to 270 if you want to. Sell the Thorium Bars at the Auction House.

Un'Goro Crater
Un'Goro is the best place to level Mining up to 300, if you can't find Thorium, it is because someone is already farming there.

Silithus
The red areas are the caves. There are usually 2-3 caves in every red area and they are filled with Rich Thorium Veins. You should be using Gatherer by this time already, it really helps you a lot.

Eastern Plaguelands