Once a player has learned mining and bought a mining pick it is time to level their mining skill. The best way to do this is to have reliable places to mine. Here is how a player can level mining while leveling a World of Warcraft (WoW) Horde character.
Mining for Low Level Characters
All racial starting areas have a decent amount of copper but Durotar has the most. If a character is not an orc or troll, the player should head to Durotar as soon as the WoW character is level seven. In Durotar, the player should go to the zeppelin tower and make wide oval circuits in front of Orgrimmar (the Horde capital city). By doing this a gamer can collect a lot of ore while being able to kill mobs on the way. A miner should be sure to curve towards the back of the valleys to find the most ore.
When the WoW character reaches level ten, the player should head to the Barrens. The fastest way to mine here is to make a wide circle around the whole zone, sticking to the edges where the mountains are. At low levels, the player should make smaller circuits, starting at the top of the Barrens and working over to the Crossroads and beyond the toon levels. A player shoulf repeat this method until the toon has reached mining level 125.
Mining for Medium Level Characters
By this time, the character should be in its lower 20's to mid 20's. At this level, a play can head to Thousand Needles by walking to the end of the Barrens and getting on the elevator. Players will be able to mine silver, tin, copper, iron and the few gold nodes here.
The player shoulf start by picking a direction, either left or right and follow the zone edge all the way around until he comes to the Shimmering Flats. Then the players should work his way back up the other side. Though the Shimmering Flats has a lot of iron, unless you are 30+ WoW toons will not be able to mine it since the mobs will overpower them, so it should be avoided until ligher levels.
Once the toon has reached level 40+ it should go to Tanaris. Here, as before, is should make a wide circuit around the map, hitting as many of the small isolated mountains along the way as it can. Players shoulf pay close attention to the cliff that drops off into Ungoro Crater since there is many mithril mines here.
When the toon has reached 230 in mining, it can move to the Hinterlands and mine truesilver as well as mithril.
At mining level 245 a toon can mine small thorium mines. Players should go to the Ungoro Crater and make wide circuits around the edge of the mountains and then move the circle about 15 yards every time a loop is made. Depending on the population of the server, and how many people are mining in the same place, a player should only have to do this three or four times to hit mining level 300.
High Level Mining
At mining level 300 and character level 60 its time to move on to the Outlands.
First, stop is Hellfire Peninsula. By mining here a toon can get all the way to mining level 375, although it may not be the fastest way, it is the easiest area to navigate. The area should be broken down into quarters. The player shoulf start by riding from Thrall Mar to the Dark Portal and then follow the mountains back to Thrall Mar.
From there, he should cross the gorge and do the same (avoid the Alliance city) process on that side. Then, he should repeat this method when riding to the Zangermarsh entrance and back and cross the gorge again to do the same on that side (if below level 68 players should avoid the 63 elite rock shards mobs).
Once the toon hits mining level 325 it can move on to Nargrand and mine both fel iron and adamantite mines. This is best done by riding a flying mount, but can be done on a regular mount, as well. A wide circuit of the zone should be made while staying close to the mountains. This should level your mining all the way to 375.
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