World of Warcraft Mining Guide

Mining is one of the many primary professions in World of Warcraft. It allows players to look for and gather a wide variety of earth resources such as ore, minerals, and stones from deposits and veins found throughout the game. While these resources are not valuable in themselves in terms of selling price they are needed by other professions such as the engineering, blacksmithing and jewel crafting professions. This makes mining a very lucrative and useful trade for all sorts of races and classes.

This guide will give you an overview of what the mining profession is about and will give some basic details necessary for every miner in the World of Warcraft.

Mining – Basic Necessities

Mining, just like in real life, requires equipment in order to take out hard valuable materials from their hard sources. And just like in real life, you need a mining pick, which you can buy from various NPC merchants. This pick must be present in the character’s inventory in order for the mining skill to be available.

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Note: There are certain types of weapons that can be used as substitute to the conventional mining pick. Weapons like Brann’s Trusty Pick, Digmaster 5000, and Tunnel Pick, can also be used to mine, which can save you that inventory space that would otherwise be used for the mining pick bought in general stores. The Gnomish Army Knife, though can’t be used as weapons, can be used as an all-in-one alternative tool for all gathering professions, which includes mining.

To use the mining skill, one must be near a mineral node. These nodes are found everywhere in WoW, and they can be found with the Find Minerals spell, which is acquired after gaining the profession. Right click on the resource node and the mining begins. If it is successful, a box will appear, where the minerals can be found.

Note: Special mining bags can be acquired to automatically gather ores.

After gathering resources, miners can choose to go to a forge and have these minerals smelted into melted bars. Smelting is a sub-skill acquired in the mining profession. These melted bars are also useful for other professions.

Leveling the Miner

Like all other professions, constant practice of the profession is what makes the miner’s skill level go up. In the case of mining, the different veins found throughout the game require different skill levels in order for the vein to be mined. These veins are color coded like other crafting plans in other professions:

Red means the miner’s skill level isn’t enough yet to mine that vein.
Orange veins always give the miner a skill level up.
Yellow gives a 75% chance that the miner’s skill level goes up.
Green gives a 50% chance that the miner’s skill level goes up.
Gray never increases a miner’s level, so don’t waste your time with it.

Mining, like all professions, requires patience and perseverance in looking for nodes and mining them to level up. Work your way up the profession and you’ll be earning more and, together with your other crafting professions, make powerful weapons for yourself.

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