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Comment by Alisdair

Highperch in Thousand Needles is a great place to mine Mithril and Iron while working up your mining skill.

Comment by optimates

Badlands offers a few good locations to hit up for mithril. The best place by far is Lethlor Ravine, where all the dragon whelps are at. The entrance to the south almost always has one node there, while the entrance to the north has one or two as well. The center, off to the left (if you're entering from the south) will have one too. You can hit these three, then cruise along the southern border of the Badlands (several spawns near the rock elementals) and then sweep back in time for the respawn in Lethlor Ravine.

Comment by 30572

On what level it becomes grey?

Comment by Arcanium

When I leveled Mining, I did most of my mithril hunting in the south mountains in Tanaris going west to east then back. Not sure how good that place is now since I did my leveling 1year+ ago

Comment by 36214

If you're a higher level looking for skillups and you're in the mithril range, I highly suggest going to Uldaman. Theres several mithril nodes, sometimes some iron as well .. along with the Indurium veins, which may be pretty much useless but you can still skill up on them. Don't have to worry about competition for nodes, and when you mine them all, just reset and go again. If you run out of instances (too many per hour), just run over to Lethlor Ravine and pick up nodes there to wait it out.

Comment by Vetis

Alright, I did alot of reading and alot of research in order to find a perfect mining place for myself and truth be told I only found it because I looked at the wowhead Arathi Highlands map showing mithril nodes. http://i10.tinypic.com/673x8a8.jpg I located 3 seperate spawning mithril nodes that basically nobody touches because the majority of this trek is underwater.
That said, this probably isn't very ideal for you if you don't have a way to breathe underwater or have water walking, this was great for my shaman as the naga in the water drop regeants for both spells, too. On that link I mapped out a path to follow, starting near Stromgarde keep, there is plenty of aggro along this path so don't bother if your trying to be sneaky, its good for leveling mind you. With water breathing and walking I completed this cycle in time for the nodes to respawn just as I arrived, sometimes a little after. That said there is also some iron that you can mine if it gets in your way too, enjoy. :) I made alot of money with this run and powerleveled my guild engineer's skill as well.

Mujah

Comment by 24919

From 7:25 am PST to 8:25 am PST I mined here, I ran around the outside border and ended up with the following:

20 Mithril Deposits
5 Trusilver Deposits
1 Gold Deposit
4 Iron Deposits.

Comment by Wildhorn

If you are lvl 40 with a mount, Tanaris is great for Mithril. Just run around the map follow the mountain edges. You can get an easy 10 nods per turn and it give time to the first nods you mined to respawn, so you can run to infinite. There is also 2-3 small thorium vein on the way

Comment by 45549

If you are going to mine the mithril because you are leveling mining fast, hes the strat I used. Go to hinterlands at whatever level you learn Mithril (175 I think) and then start looking there for it. Here get lots of Mithril, Iron, and Gold. Then at 225 when you max it out, go train to 300, and go to Tanaris. This is becuase by going to Tanaris for the last 5 points, you are closer to Winterspring (Still far I know, but at least same continent) where the Truesilver is. Works great!

Comment by tiwaly

The best place is Blasted Lands and 54.10 around go to mine pick up all and go castle ( for alliance ) smelt and do any thing than go back and farm again.... i think easy

Comment by 2338

I believe most, if not all the nodes around Seradane have been removed. 6-8 circuts around the map and havn't gotten a single node in Seradane.

Comment by 40604

I found 2-3 nodes in Seradane in three circuits of Hinterlands. Hinterlands is very tedious; as said before. I feel Badlands is the same because there are so many small passages between the rocks.

I'm trying to fly through my mining skill, so I'll give Tanaris a shot. I'll do a couple circuits of Searing Gorge once I get >240 skill (230 right now).

Comment by 71722

Looking for mithril in Tanaris is a total waste of time. I did 3 consecutive circuits around this zone. The result is just only 1 node and that was 100 yards away from Gadgetzan. Hinterlands seem to be more productive but the nodes are mostly nearby hostile mobs.

Comment by 71502

Just did a circuit in Badlands. Got 44 Mithril and 18 Iron. This is after I tried Hinterlands. Took about as long and I only found 3 Veins there.

Comment by 74106

Im thinking its just a matter of luck i found a crap load of mithril veins in hinterlands just going around the permimeter and people say they only got one vein so that my opinion

Comment by 58016

If you are after mithril for the mithril order quests in STV, (needs 120 bars at this stage, along with 40 iron, 5 truesilver and 4 citrines) I found a good place to find it is the crystalmine down by the arena and zombie ruins in STV. The outside has 1-2 mithril nodes along with a gold/iron. Inside are 3-4 mithril and 3-4 iron nodes, the mobs in here are lvl 43-44 basilisks and are nicely spaced.

Comment by 74798

i find out that hinterland is a GREAT place for it ( well another reason b/c i was training there 2 lol:P) i usually get around 1.5-2 stacks( most of time more than that though, but just saying lowest chance) per circle... GREAT to farm there... SUPER GREAT while u questing there 2 lol GL with ming

Comment by 95352

I was just in hinterlands, and didn't nearly find as much mithril as the maps says, actually scary how much less....anyone else notice this?

Comment by Benjii

For me, following the mountain edges and the hills in Badlands gives me roughly 40 Mithril bars/ores per full circuit around the zone.

Comment by Benjii

Silithus is IMO much better. Since at lvl 70 you can go down deep into the hives that sometimes contain one or several Oozecovered Rich Thorium Veins. My place to grind

Comment by 79687

the charred vale between desolace and stonetalon mtns is a small area but offers good mithril as well u find around 6-10 nods if this has been mentioned alrdy just saying again then

Comment by Amenn

There are about 4-5 nodes at Lethlor Ravine, just east of Angor Fortress, in Badlands.

Comment by 99801

i would really like to thank Vetis for his post about the circuit in Arathi Highlands. it really worked

Comment by 36214

If you need both Thorium and Mithril, here's what I suggest. Starting in Gadget, head southeast towards Caverns of Time. From there, head south and follow the outside of the country until you get to the path leading into Un'Goro, where you should make a full circuit before heading back into Tanaris. It's a long trip for the whole route, but I personally find it much less boring than running back and forth over the same path every 5-10 minutes.

Comment by 117763

im already maxedat mining so at lvl 69 ican go newhere for this. i just finished using mithril and i found that the best place to go for it was the hinterlands. just circle the area while staying near the mountains. got around 100 mithril in about an hour doing this. of course if thats 2 high lvl tanaris is the next best place. the silithid caves always have veins with thorium as well and the southern mountains are usually stocked with a lot of mithril.

Comment by Strife

For some reason I am not getting much luck at all in the hinterlands. In roughly 2.5 circuits of the hinterlands I only picked up 29 mithril, 3 iron and 2 gold (my skill's only 200 so I couldn't pick up the couple of truesilvers I came upon). I start at raventusk, and I just follow the southern mountain edges until I'm almost to aerie peak, then I just shoot across to the northern mountains and coast along that all the way around seradane and back down the overlook cliffs. Am I doing something wrong or do I just have really bad luck?

Edit - Just did 1 circuit and I got 24 mithril, very good.

Comment by 99012

Is there any add-ons to find nodes?PLS reply i realy need this

Comment by 124807

The Cartographer plugin is really handy for this (as well as other map related things). There are three parts: Cartographer, Cartographer_Data, and Cartographer_Mining. When you have all three installed, the map will be updated to show you spawn points others have found. The deposit may or may not be at the spawn point at that moment, however: it's just where one was found by someone using Cartographer. The mini-map will also show the direction of nearby spawn points.

Cartographer is an ACE plugin, so if you get an ACE updater, you'll be able to easily get all the updates (it's updated frequently... mainly with new data).

Comment by ArgentSun

I've found Tanaris probably the best place to mine those. Just go around in circles around the whole zone. Easily 40+, up to maybe even 60 in one run, +few Small Thoriums. The Hinterlands I assume is good too, but I couldn't find as many. Some of them are well behind hordes of trolls, others - behind oozes, I don't think it's worth the fight. The northernmost part, where the dragon spawns, usually has 1 or 2, because almost nobody mines them and there aren't really any mobs that can't be avoided.

Comment by Schett

http://wow.thenoobschool.com/power-level-mining-guide-1-375

Comment by scyap

im a Horde JC+miner and i think that Arathi Highlands isnt a bad place too cuz i get Mithril Ore at east Hammerfall and then go to hammerfall and Smelt it (there is a forge+anvil there)

Comment by Zeluha

Just a note that I saw just barely touched on in Hinterlands and other areas where the spawns of mithril are in WORLD DRAGON spawning areas:

Don't go in there pre-60 without some way of completely dropping all aggro (eg: Feign Death or Vanish). Even then, the elite dragonkin that pat around the world dragon spawn areas can see through stealth pre-60 and resist a lot of the distracts I attempted to throw at them at level 55.

Comment by 194868

I found one good place to mine Mithril is in the cave in the southeast part of the Arathi Highlands, right where it shows on the map above. It's also a very good source of Iron and has a single Truesilver deposit in the western part of the cave. I suggest only going in if you're at least level 35, maybe as low as 33 if you're strong enough. Just watch out for trolls, they're very feisty.

Comment by Chaserbl

If you wanna farm Mithril ore in hinterlands just start from south, from Horde base, best on 60+ level so you don't aggro mobs they can be so annoying :P, and just go down the whole mountain side where the trolls are and then straight up to north make circles, but most mithril is on southern part of Hinterlands.

Comment by toastmaster7727

As a lvl 61 hunter, I ran around The Hinterlands for approximately an hour and obtained:

x61
x12
x7
x2

If you have better results in Tanaris please inform me for I need alot of Mithril to level my Jewelcrafting. If anyone is going to farm The Hinterlands, I reccomend hitting Hiri'Watha, Shadra'Alor, Jintha'Alor, Skulk Rock, and the Temple of Zul. Seradane also has alot of veins but also has alot of lvl 62 elite mobs running around.

Comment by 200743

The Hinterlands is an amazing place to farm for mithril. I farmed 80 bars in a little over an hour, making 30g per stack on the AH. As long as it is not being farmed by anybody else, you should hit an average of about 20 bars per cycle. On a 60% speed mount, it took me about 15 minutes per cycle. So if you're craving for some fast, easy gold, it doesn't hurt to farm here. :)

Comment by gandalfthegrey

If you're looking for a place with a lot of mithril mines nearby, get to the Armory cave in the Blasted Lands (just west of Nethergarde Keep). There are a 6-9 mithril mines, but they are concentrated in the same place. I've been doing circuits in The Hinterlands, but there are many mobs and it gets a little time-consuming to kill them (I'm lvl 46), so I find this mobless mithril-rich cave a very nice place.

Greetings from Cuba!

Comment by gandalfthegrey

I just came back from doing a full circuit in the above mentioned cave (Garrison Armory) and it's surroundings, here are the results:

Mithril: 10 nodes, 35 ore
Truesilver: 1 node, 4 ore.
Thorium: 4 nodes, 11 ore.

Total time: 13 minutes (expect to improve it as I get to know the cave).

Sounds to me like it's a GREAT place. And no mobs at all (for Alliance players at least: all the miners in there are friendly).

Comment by 234831

Blasted is also a good spot to get mithrill ores

Comment by 266202

Tanaris and Hinterlands for Mithril...easily got 200, quickly.
Amazing for the engineering level i was at...you need alot of Mithril

Comment by 270102

I think Un'Goro Crater and Tanaris is the best place for mining Mithril ores. =)

Comment by 281522

What is the Respawn time of the nodes?
I've always wondered that.

Comment by JamieK

Well, my brother is trying to level up his mining skill on his dk and he went through all Tanaris and found no mithril at all...maybe just bad luck

Comment by 219507

I found like three nodes in Agol'watha in the Hinterlands. Two in the little village itself, one in the waterfall of the nearby lake.

Truly Hinterlands is best for Mithril farming.

Comment by aelisel999

Just for your information, my one hour farm totals from the Hinterlands was:

Mithril Ore x 66
Solid Stone x 54
Iron Ore x 10
Heavy Stone x 4
Thorium Ore x 2
Dense Stone x 3
Gold Ore x 2
Truesilver Ore x 12
Citrine x 1
Aquamarine x 2

Comment by fiote

Does anyone knows how many nodes there are in Uldaman?

Comment by Kalthos

Watch out for high level players on PvP realms, they leave me alone until it looks like i'm gonna get to a vein before them, then they just gank me :(

Makes the Hinterlands and Badlands circuits much more difficult.

However at level 52 I was able to do the area around Seradane in the Hinterlands without aggroing the elites or the boss, so should be doable by someone with a brain in their head :D

Comment by kgurnhill

Camped a Node in Hinterlands in Seradane and the first node i mined regenned after 5mins 31secs (Ingame stop watch)
and it didnt regenerate for a significantly longer time (got bored after 10mins and left) soo theres no exact Repop time in it

http://www.wow-professions.com/wowguides/wow-mining-guide.html

Great Mining gyude :D also has links to other professions in guide :D got my LW on another char to 420 in just 1.5 days (includes Getting mats myself!) :)

Also... howd you do that 1/2 thing? :)

Comment by 12634

I like that there are six pictures of a Mithril deposit uploaded here. I love nerds.

Comment by 242699

Is there a recent map of the nodes since the patch bundles the ores together which is kinda hard to find?

Comment by 319464

On my server, this has become more profitable then the ores from northrend. They go for 40g per stack right now, probably because nobody is taking the time to farm these lower level ores right now. It might be worth looking into if you are short on gold and want some easy money.

Comment by 35800

Be sure to mine any truesilver as well even if you don't need it. It is a rarespawn of mithril and will keep that node from respawning as mithril if you don't mine it.

Comment by Jolster

I went though Hinterlands and had a great run.

I just one trip around the edge of the map and though the bit with the dragons i mined

11xMithril Ore
3 x Iron Ore
3 x Gold Ore

and passed 4-5 Small thorium Veins

This worked well for me as mining i need Mithril and BS i need Iron so i recomend try here.

EDIT!
due to cata this area no longer has mithril ore in it. It is full of iron Deposits. Shame really :(

Comment by Edward13

From what mining lvl can I mining? pls help

Comment by 219269

If you are approximately lvl 30-35 there is a great way of farming 15-20 mithril ores just running around Thousand Needles. My favorite route is just run to the Splithoof Hold (make sure you check the whole cave, there are 1-2 mithril veins pretty much always), then run up to Highperch and check every corner. Usually I can find 3-4 deposits there, then I just run to the rustmaul digsite and find 2-3 ores there. And voila.

Comment by ghost9er9er9

It's quite ridiculous...mithril is selling for 42g (both ore and bar) per stack. That is about 2.2x the amount of saronite ore. The server is Whisperwind Alliance..it's nuts!

Comment by 367253

Just did a round today because i need some Mithril Ore for one of my alts and got all this in one circle:

Mithril x35
Truesilver x9
Iron x2
thorium x2

and as a side note, Mithril Ore is selling 45g per stack and 60g per stack of bars on my server(deathwing). The only other ore/bar that outsells this in my server is Titanium (75g a stack for ore and 160g a stack of bars)

Comment by BethofHearts

Mithril ore and bars sell the best and highest on AH, due to the fact that in professions like Blacksmithing and Engineering, it has more widespread applications than any other mineral in the game. Therefore it is more valuable and usually the most in demand. In my experience as a miner, Mithril is always the first thing most people have asked to buy from me or trade me for.

Comment by 310272

I tried out the Hinterlands route a few times, without going too deep into the hills. The results were as follows:
- first run - 19 mithril, with 3 nodes just in Seradane
- second run - 19 mithril, 4 nodes in Seradane
- third run - a meager 7 mithril, just one in Seradane
- fourth run - 15, with 2 in Seradane and one particularly hard to reach node in Jintha'Alor

Did this as an Unholy DK, with the mount speed increase which adds up to 120%
Along the way i found about 3 truesilver nodes I couldn't mine and 2 small thorium veins.

Comment by Ne0nguy

I just mined a Mithril Deposit and all I got was Solid Stone.

Comment by 434474

Guys dont beleive in the map. Beleive in Spawn rate. Hinterlands is possibly the last place you would go to. Badlands is great. one lap around there and i got about 58 nodes

Comment by Rhelan

According to the WoWhead map showing veins, it tells that Tanaris, in the western side is a great place to mine for Thorium, so I tested it out. I went into the Noxious Lair and found:
A "Small Thorium Vein" (which I couldn't mine)
and that was that. So, really, it wasn't too helpful.
I think i'll move up to Hinterlands, like everyone says.

Comment by Naturell

The Hinterlands is the best place to mine Mithril, no doubt about it.

Comment by 447611

To make a long story short, the best places to farm Mithril include:
- Badlands (found not to be that bad as long as others are not in the area leveling mining as well)
- Hinterlands (at least on my server, this is a really popular place to level mining. Yes, it has good nodes to mine, but potentially bad that everyone usually hits it up first)
- Alterac Mountains (Not bad. The layout of the land makes it odd to make efficient circuits through)
- Tanaris (Not a bad place either)

Comment by 321609

After checking through Stranglethorn Vale, either I have extremely bad luck or there was some confusion with whoever set up the map, because I have checked all the areas where it shows mithril and have found iron which I really have no use for.

I'm hoping Hinterlands fares better.

Comment by Geekbuster

Alright, from my experience badlands / tanaris is my best choice to farm this. in one run in badlands, got about 2 stacks of mithril in one run. in tanaris, got about 3 stacks of mithril in one run..(tanaris is a bigger area though, so it takes longer time to go 1 run here.

Comment by 333732

i would say that Tanaris and the Hinterlands are probably the best places to do mining of mithril. in Tanaris the mithril is often accompanied by iron and sometimes gold, so its great place to go if you need not only mithril but a good boost to the funds.

the Hinterlands is also a great place to mine because you can often dont even need to look for mithril; if you just go into the cliffs your bound to find some.

Comment by Xarlequin

Farming 180 Mithril in Hinterlands took me 3 hours.
Also got: 30 Iron ores, 17 Thorium ores, 10 gold ores, 14 Truesilver ores, around 200 solid stones, and some random stuff.
I followed the map somebody linked above, but also went into the cave to the north once every 2-3 laps.

I did this as a level 80 DK with talent for mountspeed, and unholy pressence.

So I guess you can say that you get aproximatelly 60 mithril per hour doing this circuit. If your alone in the area, that is.

Comment by 456377

tanaris is the wrst place to farm mithril i found one without spending so much time killing monsters just to get to mithril best place i found is hinterlands, just do full circles and u really dont have to fight many creatures and u get alot of mithril in about 15-30 mins

Comment by Poposhka

it is also noteworthy that said elites are not to be trifled with, not even by level 80 characters.

Comment by Gyaris

Try near the shimmering flats for mithril, will often show up as 'ooze-covered' it's in the bug place.

Comment by Numarki

I have seen Mithril Turn into Gold, but its only happened To me personally in the Badlands. All other Mithril i've mined hasn't turned into Gold

Comment by 497929

were is the best place to mine mithril and not have to run all around the zone besides hinterlands?

Comment by 504194

wats the easiest way to get into the hinterlands

Comment by lovelywaz

There's a path way from Hillsbrad (Southshore) at around 84,32 north east corner, it takes you through the mountains into Hinterlands.

Comment by MasakiKudo

I solo'd those dragons easily with my 80 pally tank. :P

Comment by htgome

came from hinterlands to alterac via hilsbrad... got about 20 ores... was easy

Comment by 223389

Just did a lap in Badlands, ZERO mithril nodes. Something is really strange:

- Rare Mobs x 2
- Iron Node x 2
- Gold Node x 1

Comment by 534091

Due to the terrain hackers, i found that badlands is dead for mithril. :( Trying hinterlands.

Edit: Yes Hinterlands is hands down the best spot for mithril.

Comment by 194093

The southern edge of Tanaris has been far better for me than Hinterlands, due primarily to the large number of mobs surrounding each node in Hinterlands. Most of the reliable mithril deposits are inside hostile troll areas or in the Skulk Cave, full of slimes. Often I'd have to kill two to three mobs for each node, at least doing this as a level 50.

Instead, you can run along the edge of Tanaris from the Southbreak Shore to the ramp to Un'goro and get 6-8 mithril nodes with minimal mobs, and you can generally avoid any that aggro fairly easily.

My preferred mining path runs from Southbreak along the edge of Tanaris, down into Un'goro and mine the thorium all the way to Marshal's, then fly to Gadget and start again, this will have given the Tanaris mithril time to respawn, plus you'll have a pack full of thorium that you'll need for your Imperial Armor quests anyway.

Comment by Javasar

STV <----dont follow by that Node Map...i went to check the big cluster Fck there...only found one

Comment by Thottbot

Heres some good places ive found:

Tanaris: Thers some at the noxious lair and gaping chasm, but else its a bit spread out.

Stranglethorn: Heres a good place, but its boring. anyway u get lots of mithril if it dont spawn as iron, which is annoying. Good thing is Stranglethorn has alot of small caverns with many nodes, like the Stockpile. i had alot mithrl when i was done (like 22) and even more iron (40-somthing) which both sells for an ok price at ah.

Comment by Thottbot

i've been reading on many of the places to farm mithril. i tried the badlands, desolance and many other places that a 42 is able to go to. trust me, the BEST place to go is the charred vale in stonetalon mountains. its is a small area to have to patrol but everything up to trusulver spawns there. the best part is, the only mobs in the area are mid to high 20's so its very easy to do the loop without having to fight agro. my usual rate is 20-30 mithril ore per hour on a bad day. on a good day, it can be as high as 45 per hour, and i've even gotten a 20 stack of trusilver during a day long mithril farming trip.

the method is (for alliance anyway), drop off at nejl's point. cross the border and go straight and follow the border clockwise. when you get to the path that leads out of the vale, go up just a bit and check for a mithril point next to two trees, which are right on the border on the left and usually has a copper vein a few feet away from it. you then turn around and go back. now, before continuing clockwise around the border, check the middle hills for spawns, ending at the opening you just left. you then continue your partol of the border. DO NOT go to far up the mountains near the fallen tree, as there are horde gaurds up there and you will agro them. there is no reason to go up there anyway.

Again, this is the BEST area to farm mithril, iron, and during some good days, trusilver.

there are also MULTIPLE solid chests spread around the forst floor ; )

Comment by Thottbot

I tried the bad lands and hated it. I must of went right after someone had allready taken the mitril out of there, but I went all over the place and only got 3 veins in an hour. I tried the scared whatever above desolace and did allright, but didn't want to keep going around in circles. Hinderlands has been the best place so far. Finally got up to 230 so I can get truesilver now.

Comment by Thottbot

Just started mining mithril in Badlands and found a good spot in lethlor ravine, amongst the lvl 40osh elite dragons.
There are three mithril deposits spread across the area, one to the south, one to the north and one in the middle.
The exact spawn locations vary but aslong as you leave time to spawn there will always be three there.
Just watch out for the elites, they are immune to all fre based damage.

Comment by Thottbot

I found much more mithril deposits in Hinterlands than in Badlands although the latter wasn't shabby either

Comment by Thottbot

I was turning in a quest to Nethergarde (the quest was Mazen's Behest (second part) if you're wondering) when I went into the Garrison Armory. I was shocked at how many mithril deposits there were... I mined about 35 mithril in 10 minutes. You might need to wait for the batch to respawn however.

EDIT: there are also some (like maybe 3-4) Small Thorium Veins there.

Comment by Thottbot

After wandering around all of the places tht someone recommended Badlands is the best for farming mithril.

Searing gorge : 23 mithril ores
Hinterlands : 12 mithril ores
Burning steppes : 16 mithril ores
Blasted lands : 17 mithril ores
Badlands : 79 mithril ores

That's insane! I took a trip on 20 mins on every place and this is what i gathered!

Comment by Thottbot

In Arathi Highlands in the hills behind and slightly to the east of Stromgarde Keep, there are ten or so spawn points for Mithril. One of them sometimes spawns as truesilver. It's not a lot, and they are not necessarily the quickest spawning... but there are no hostile mobs near them. At level 31 I've farmed 2 and a half stacks in about maybe 5 hours in game time. It requires patience, but it's great for skill grinding at low levels.

Comment by Thottbot

Does anyone know if the mithril deposits in the Garrison Armory near Nethergarde Keep, Blasted Lands, still spawn? I've been inside a couple of times and haven't seen any, so far...

And, equally to the point, if there is any, is it only Horde that can touch it? I can see what looks like a thorium vein, but can't touch it. Is it because the toon I checked with is Alliance?

~Masque

Comment by Thottbot

Been looking around and i have found ALOT of mithril in the Hinterlands...Peace

Comment by Thottbot

bad lands has been said to be the best place for both iron and mithrill..how ever i feel the area is under the influence of murphy's law, because i went there to find iron and all i could find was a bunch of mithril and a few iron nodes..so i went someplace else for iron and when i was able to farm mithril i came back, and sure enough i found like 2 mithril nodes and a TON of iron... to the hinterlands!

Comment by Thottbot

i swear mining this is like pulling teeth here but it is pretty good if you hit the sweet spots. like i was traveling over the whole place and couldnt find 1 but then i got up north east into Lethlor Ravine and i had a whole stack in less than 10 mins

Comment by Thottbot

i swear mining this stuff in badlands is like pulling teeth. at first everything seems like its truesilver or iron, but no mithril. but the trick is to know exaclty where to go. for example, i was riding around for about an hour and came up with nothing, then i run into the Lethlor Ravine and booyah!i had about 2 stacks of mithril in less then 20 mins. its just knowing where to look

Comment by Thottbot

If you catch badlands on a good day you WILL get more mith then if you do hinterlands, except those good days are few and far between. hinterlands is alot better for mining mithril, one 20 minute run and i had upwards of 30. A good place to go for ores in the area is the complex in the south-east of the zone, where most of the zones quests are situated, it also helps if your running someone threw the area, because it gives the nodes time to respawn. Maybe i was lucky but i mined the same node going up and going down, anyways happy mining:)

Comment by Thottbot

i say hinter lands i got 43 mithril ore in 1 round trip and only 1 iron node and acouple of truesilver def hinterlands imo

Comment by Thottbot

I went through all of badlands aqnd found 1 mithril node and 2 iron nodes -.-

Comment by Thottbot

found plenty of mithril deposits and a few iron ones most of them are around Dustbelch grotto try going in the ogre cave there are about three deposits that spawn there at a time collect them then run around and search for some near the rock elementals they show up in three different places one is near kargath (horde territory) but as long as u don't get to close ur fine. once ur done go back to the ogre cave and the nodes should have respawned again.

Comment by Thottbot

BAdlands is the bast place to mine for iron, searing gorge is pretty good for mithril and dark iron

Comment by Thottbot

i've always went to alterac mountains to farm mithril

Comment by Thottbot

What exactly is a "trip around"? Remember, theres deposits in the middle too!

Comment by Thottbot

Badlands and Tanaris has been best places for me lots of mithril and iron+ some gold veins!

Comment by Thottbot

Hinterlands is the best place for Mithril, imo. Badlands is too damned big, and the spawns are sparse.

Comment by Thottbot

i went round hinterlands twice and got 40 ore, it took me about an hour (i only have 60% mount) i would say hinterlands is much better, also the prices are nice on my server(50g a stack!)Haomarush(alliance side)

EDIT: btw i didnt even go all areas, some deposits around emeriss were too dangerous for me to get to so if you were lvl 80 you could get twice as much!

Comment by Thottbot

i usually go around badlands...i get about 40+mith 30-40 iron and some silver gold and truesilver...i like badlands better

Comment by Thottbot

Searing Gorge is the best in my opinion.
THEN Badlands
and then Hinterlands, if people are farming alot of mithril go Hinterlands, although it has Mithril Deposits, the usualy farmers go SG + Badlands

Comment by Thottbot

there seem to be more mithril in:
Searing gorge
Hinterlands
Tanaris

they have more mithril than Badlands

Comment by Thottbot

The best place for me is Tanaris. In one trip around (and in the middle) I can make about a stack.

Comment by Thottbot

ive been runnin around badlands but ive found like 5 iron nodes and 1 mithril

Comment by Allakhazam

its really really easy to get in badlands got well over 10 stacks in about 2 hours of just going around

Comment by Allakhazam

Good tip on the Charred Vale: 2 Copper, 2 Iron and 2 Mithril in small area, great for jewelcrafters.

Comment by Allakhazam

one of my favourite places to mine mithril is in Shalzaru's lair in Feralas (26,68) Good place to grind if your in the mid 40's also. Make an average of 2stacks/hr :)
Tuskie, Boulderfist

Comment by Allakhazam

Anyone interested in shareing there Mine Farms areas for Mithril?

Thx

Comment by Allakhazam

Ive been looking at the edges of badlands for so long now and i cant find any mithril! where is it?

Comment by Allakhazam

i found black vitriol... i vendored black vitriol... im a pancake O.o

Comment by Allakhazam

Maybe I keep running around the edge after somebody else, but I don't find much Mithril inside Tanaris. I'm gonna try Badlands later.

Comment by Allakhazam

The best places to farm this are Tanaris and Hinterlands. However I think Hinterlands is better, because it's realy easy to do full circuits, and there is only one cave.

Edited, Jun 17th 2008 6:52pm by Lcfr

Comment by Allakhazam

Badlands is the place to be if you want it.. run around where the ogre's are at and where the dragons are. if you go over by uldaman there is not much but on the west side of the map its loaded.

Comment by Allakhazam

at least on Silvermoon..this place is rarely visited.

little iron, but decent mithril. not a large area, but the mobs are level 28 tops, so nice place to start on mithril.

Comment by Allakhazam

Ive been circling the edges of badlands so many times now and i cant find any mithril! badlands is not a good place for mithril

Comment by Allakhazam

actually i've found the hinterlands to be pretty good for mithril usually pulling a stack with just a quick run around the perimiter of the area

Comment by xLunacyx

In badlands I had seen 4 more around Dustbelch Grotto at 15,86, 15,95, 6.4,90, and 8.3,96

Comment by AntPDC

These maps are unreliable guides to the locations of mithril nodes. In both Desolace and Alterac (so far) I've found a number of nodes not shown here. I've added a note below regarding Desolace nodes. I'll add a further note about Alterac once I've finished exploring.

Comment by warmaster101

Mithril Deposits have a respawn timer of 15 minutes. They also have a maximum abundance that is specific to each zone (or perhaps subzone).

For example, the Charred Vale in the Stonetalon Mountains has a maximum abundance of three Mithril Deposits. Upon mining any one of these deposits, it will attempt to respawn in a random empty spawn node after 15 minutes. The pins on the above maps show the possible spawn nodes that have been found by players using the Wowhead Client.

Comment by BLazeddruid

Can start mining Mithril Deposits at 175 mining skill.

Comment by Thaag

Want a reliable although a bit chintzy source of mithril that farmers rarely if ever touch?

Go to Stonetalon--specifically, the Charred Vale. That subzone spawns literally every ore between copper and truesilver (not counting Dark Iron, of course). I mined that on my retail miner when she was still smol rogue. I mined that on my classic miner when she was smol hunter. At normal run speed there is a good likelihood you will find 2 mithril nodes per circuit of the Vale. If you are very lucky (or unlucky, if you lack the mining skill) there will be truesilver instead. Most who go to the Vale are too smol to mine the mithril, or even the iron, unless they are overachieving @$$holes like I am. I still go there in my early 50s to mine for ammunition's sake since most mithril-producing zones either underproduce nodes, or (more likely) are farmed to hell by gold farmers whose coworkers invite you to their gold-spamming chat channel.

Comment by knotjad

Mining Mithril requires level 175 skill.
After level 225, nodes become Green and will rarely level you up.
After level 275 skill, nodes become Gray and you will no longer gain skill level.

Comment by Henderman

The Hinterlands has the most nodes, but many of those are inaccessible being in Seradane (Level 60+) and Jintha'lor (just a lot of mobs to deal with). I prefer Tanaris where the nodes are more accessible and can be farmed looping around the zone.

Comment by Arxroth

I was looking for harvest and rise skill for my upcoming engineer DK and I did find that in open world there is heavy competition on resource nodes so I did go exploring.

I was quite surprised to see that one of best places to gather is actually in Maraudon both prior area of dungeon and within the dungeon since there is little to no other players so no competition either.

Within dungeon if you can do you can also earn some extra gold by killing boss elites and sell their drops.

Comment by Fokaszar

Iron, truesilver, gold, thorium, iron, truesilver, gold, thorium, iron truesilver, gold, thorium..... it's never mithril no matter where I go

Comment by GoozaDecay

classic HC: Alterac mountains for both iron and mithril. rare spawns too

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Mithril Deposit

This object can be found in The Hinterlands (122), Tanaris (90), Azshara (83), Badlands (78), Desolace (78), Searing Gorge (69), Stranglethorn Vale (61), Feralas (56), Arathi Highlands (49), Burning Steppes (43), Western Plaguelands (35), Alterac Mountains (33), Silithus (30), Blasted Lands (29), Dustwallow Marsh (29), Winterspring (28), Un'Goro Crater (23), Swamp of Sorrows (19), Stonetalon Mountains (16), Thousand Needles (12), Hillsbrad Foothills (10), Maraudon , Uldaman , and Alterac Valley .

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