Stormrage - Odd question for Gnolack

[Kevin]

I just did 1-300 mining again on Lianne after powering up tailoring to make Robe of the Void.

It took me about two weeks of mining in my spare time.

Copper -- circle Mulgore (Loch Modan works okay here, but Mulgore has a way to smelt while you're circling it) took me about 2 hours and I saved all the copper
Tin -- bought some at the AH and did some 1k needles mining to level up high enough to smelt bronze and milk that for all it's worth.
Silver -- I had a small stockpile of silver ore that helped here, otherwise this is a real sticking point between tin and Iron
Bloodstone Ore and Iron -- Arathi Highlands. "That Cave" is good for skillups, and once you're done with Bloodstone Ore, there is plenty of iron along the way south into the troll areas and 2 nodes in the cave there.

Mithril -- Southern Tanaris, I didn't hit anything in a hive, just circled between the hive in the far south and the one just north of the path to Un'Goro. Go along the edge, then come back across by the Ogre camp, there are two spawns in the mountains there.

I assume you have a similar luxury to me in that you can leave a char logged out and off in the middle of nowhere for a while, because Tanaris mining Mithril takes a while. I never really had to compete with people in these locations, but I don't know if Stormrage is different.

Be sure to have a set of mining gloves, this get's you up quicker and helps get over the hump on the worst sections (tin --> iron and mithril --> small thorium).

As for the decision, I don't think I could mine with sanity if I only had one miner. The way I mine is to leave Conc and Lianne logged out in different places with RTVs and go back and forth between about 5 or 6 different spawn locations within the respawn timer. I start going crazy if I have only one, since I'll often end up going for some of the more out of the way veins (the ones that mainly rogues get by stealthing past stuff or like the one in Un'goro in the Volcano) and I get off-track and inevitably lose my rhythm with the vein spawn timers.

Copper - I can get just fine in Dun Morogh (the gnome/dwarf start area outside IF and I could smelt it there as well. I think Durotar has a higher node density than Mulgore as well.

Tin - I can get some in Loch Modan while copper is still green for skill-ups as well just have to get up to bloodstone like you said, that cave is simply awesome for pushing the skill.

Iron - Arathi is fine to finisht that up

Mithril - You went to the wrong place for Mithril. You can not beat circling Charred Vale for Mithril. I've done round-ups in there I literally get more than a mithril a minute doing it and there is generally very little competition doing it.


I can leave people logged in remote places, but I generally don't simple because I generally don't mine that much anymore. I've never pushed myself to make money in the game unless I have a specific goal, most of the engineering stuff that my paladin can make has very little use in the raids he mostly goes on, and for the smithing I don't need mats to make anything anymore. I don't have any real use for high level ammo or anything like that. I pretty much just go out now and then to get enough stone to have enough sharpening stones (elemental or dense depending) for my warrior.

So I have two methods of mining, when I want to be a zombie and just doing countless circles is fine. Or when I'm doing it as a side thing to kill farming. So lately I've been primarily focused on killing the elementals in Un'Goro and just getting ore every now and then (and since I know that if a node pops on the Volcano that one or two nodes have popped in Terror Run I can usually hit 4-8 nodes in an hour of killing fire elementals). I don't know how long it takes for a node to repop, I've never bothered to even try to learn it. I don't think I would enjoy your method of mining even though I know I would get more ore per unit of time doing it. It would be just like playing the Auction House. I could do it, and in ways I would be happier in game because I would have all 3 of my epic mounts on Stormrage instead of just two, and I would already have had a Lionheart Helm and Stronghold Gauntlets and anything else I wanted (some of the darkmoon decks for instance) to buy instead of hovering around a certian gold level. But I am very rarely driven to do anything like that. I need to find more enjoyment in the process of getting to the end goal than that provides.

My motivation for doing this now is more for an excuse to play one of my high level toons on Stormrage in a method that allows me time to socialize more often than anything else. There is some motivation to progress the character and to make him better thus making the raids he is in better, but not a lot. I still end up having much of the time I play WoW outside of the raids broken down into 1 to 2 hour chunks which starts to eliminate instance runs (15 - 20 minutes of getting the group ready and traveling doesn't leave enough time to run many places even at the zerg speeds we can push). So running around mining seems like it could be an effective thing to do.

The only other option would be some of the solo grinding for the Darkmoon or CC rep items or some of the solo AD rep grinding I can still do (I've only got 1 of the 3 L60's to revered on Stormrage right now). I'll likely end up doing that at some point too the darkmoon amulet especially would be a big upgrade for the druid in feral form, but I'm still "along for the ride" most of the time when I'm playing recently. I'd have to look.

PvP isn't an option on SR becuase it takes longer than an hour or two to get into a match. If I could get matches like I could on Terenas after at most a 15 minute queue I would do a lot more PvP.

So there is more of the motivation behind this. Remember this is the guy who generally doesn't fixate on gear for any reason. If I did, you would be doing nothing but tribute runs on Terenas or nothing but hearing about them when I was on Marn. :)