Cata Mining Guide 1-525 Leveling Fast & Easy! How to Level Mining 1-525

What's up guy and girl players of World of Warcraft. Tarou here bringing you a Mining
1-525 Leveling Guide! For more FREE WoW guides, check out my website at tarouwowguides.com
In this video I'm going to show you how to level Mining 1-525 the easiest and fastest
way possible through farming. A good profession to level and farm with Mining is Herbalism
and some good professions to go with Mining are Blacksmithing, Jewelcrafting, and Engineering.
Engineering can help you get extra items when Mining nodes as well. Check my website for
a guide on that as well.
Before you get started, you'll want to download the addon, gatherer and its data. Next, get
a few Mining bags if you plan to Mine a lot when you hit 525. I bought four but you really
should have three and one normal bag since gems will fill up your standard bag quickly.
If you don't have the extra gold, just go with your normal bags but make sure they're
empty. Then, get a glove enchant for +5 to Mining and some crappy gloves. I like the
Gatherer enchant since it's around 10g. If the enchant is some astronomical amount like
on my server, buy the mats for around 10g and get someone to enchant your gloves. Lastly,
be repaired, have some food/water, blare some music, and have fun!
Now that all the prep is out of the way, learn Apprentice Mining for your primary profession.
Ask a guard in any major city to find out where the Mining trainer is. Don't forget
to buy a Mining pick from the supply vendor. Also, make sure your tracking is set to 'Find
Minerals' and your mini-map is zoomed all the way out.
Alright, you can finally start Mining. You can level in any starting zone but I'll be
showing Durotar. Throughout the video you'll have zone choices and I'll put all the maps,
including Alliance maps, on my website at tarouwowguides.com for easy viewing.
After entering Durotar, you'll just follow the route on the screen. Before I forget though,
open your interface options and check 'Auto Loot'. This'll auto loot everything into your
bags without clicking. You'll want to follow this route for two laps or until you have
around 100 Copper Ore and then head to the trainer. Then, smelt all the Copper Ore in
your bags. Next, learn all available skills and Journeyman Miner. Journeyman allows you
to go to level 150 and try not being a noob like me and forgetting it. Whoa, Tarou where
ya going? Aren't you forgetting to actually train Journeyman. There ya go. Turn that Cowtard
around.
For this next section we'll head over to Hillsbrad so hop on the Tirisfal Glades Zep if you're
Horde or fly there if you're Alliance. As you can tell, I got the new air mount boots
called Airhoofs. Pretty cool right. I can also disappear. Wha, bam! Where I be?
Ok, so you've made it to Hillsbrad and basically here just follow the route like I have it
laid out on the map. After you mine up around 50-60 Tin Ore you can smelt it and make some
Bronze bars for skill ups. From what I've found though it's quicker to continue farming
believe it or not.
Continue on until you reach atleast skill level 125 which should only take two laps
or so. Then, head to the closest Mining trainer and learn everything available including Expert
Miner which will let you get to 225 Mining. After that, smelt all the Silver Ore you have.
Next, head out to Western Plaguelands where you'll farm Iron Ore. You may also find Gold
Ore but won't be able to farm it until 150 with the glove enchant or 155 without. No
biggy, there shouldn't be too many. As I say that I run into one ha. Oh and I just want
to mention that being able to fly and level Mining in the old school zones is a huge boost.
If you don't have a flying mount then just level Mining as you level your character.
After two laps or so you should hit 175 so, you'll want to head back to the Mining trainer
and learn everything available. Then, smelt whatever Gold Ore you have. Next, hop on the
zep to Orgrimmar for Horde or the boat to Dustwallow Marsh for Alliance and go to Felwood.
This place is filled with Mithril and has a very easy route. Just follow the route around
and you should find all the Mithril you need plus a Truesilver vein here and there within
a lap or so. After you hit 225, head to the closest Mining trainer and learn everything
plus Artisan Miner. For Horde that'll be Org and Alliance it'll be Darkshore. Next, smelt
all the Mithril you have, train again, and smelt any Truesilver Ore into bars. You want
to have atleast 230 in Mining with the glove enchant or 235 without before you leave the
trainer.
Next, it's off to Winterspring. One of the most under rated Mining spots in my opinion.
It has a very simple route with both Small Thorium Veins and Rich Thorium Veins. You
won't be able to tap the Rich ones until 250 with gloves or 255 without but don't worry
it'll only take half a lap for you to reach that. This corner is especially nice since
it usually has 2 to 4 nodes right next to each other. Continue Mining until you loop
around to Everlook, the neutral town. Inside there, smelt all your Truesilver and then
Thorium Ore. It'll gray out at 290 so continue farming from there until you hit 300. Then,
go back to Org for Horde or Darkshore for Alliance and train Master Miner plus anything
available.
Grats on 300 and as you fly back to Winterspring, go take a break. Get some cookies or Pizza
or both. It's been a little over 2 hours so I think you deserve it.
After your break, continue mining in Winterspring. Things should start to green out and it may
take a few veins to get skill points but it's still faster than going straight to Outlands
and farming Fel Iron. It should also only take a lap or so around the zone so it goes
really quick.
At 325, return to the Mining trainer and learn everything available. Next, grab a port to
Shattrath from a Mage and fly over into Nagrand. In Nagrand, follow the route down through
the bottom of the zone and only enter caves that have normal Adamantite Ore since you
won't be able to mine Rich yet. Once you loop around to Garand, use the little Forge to
smelt some Adamantite Ore and reach Mining 340. Naturally if you already got to 340 you
can just continue on the route until you hit 350 which should take max two laps.
After you hit 350, hearth back to Org or Stormwind and learn Grand Master Miner along with anything
else available. If you have any Eternium, smelt that and then use it to make Felsteel.
You may only get a few points but it's worth it. At this point, you'll also want to empty
your bags. I just send everything off to an alt. Also, make sure to have max three Mining
bags for this next part. If you have four Mining bags, you'll run out of space from
gems and other items as my noob self found out.
Ok, when all your bags are empty and sorted, grab the zep or boat and head over to Borean
Tundra in Northrend. Borean Tundra has a pretty simple route but it may take you 4 or so laps
to get the skill points you need. Nodes are distanced a bit more than you may be use to
especially when there are a few others in the zone farming. I had three 85's leveling
Mining or farming ore in Borean so, it slowed me down a bit. Nevertheless it wasn't too
bad and I ended up grabbing a rare Achievement while I was there. After you hit 395, with
gloves or 400 without, fly up over into Sholazar Basin.
Sholazar Basin is a nice change from Borean Tundra. You'll start to see decent experience
from nodes and they won't be nearly as distanced and the only down side is you'll find Rich
Saronite and Titanium nodes that you won't be able to mine. Shouldn't be much of a probelm
though since within two laps or so you should easily hit 425 and be onto Mount Hyjal anyway.
After hitting 425 or so, head to the Mining trainer, learn everything available and Illustrious
Grand Master Miner. Make sure you wait until 425 even if you have the glove enchant or
you won't be able to train Illustrious GM.
Now that you're all trained up, head over to Mount Hyjal by using the portal in your
faction's major city. Mount Hyjal is a pretty awesome place to mine. Each node is netting
4620 exp which isn't bad at all. I'm only level 80 so a few downsides are the mobs rock
me in my noob gear and I of course have to keep my distance from any 85 or I'll get pwned.
I just make sure I'm careful not to get killed although I almost do right here. On top of
that, someone thought they were gonna steal my node, I don't think so. That reminds me,
always CC the mob, loot the node, and then kill it. That way if you die you get the ore
atleast and also noone can steal it from you while you fight. As for the route of Mount
Hyjal, it's really simple. Just stick to the line on the map and you'll be good. At around
450 you can hearth to Org or Stormwind and smelt the Obsidium into bars for some skill
points. It's a quick portal back but you won't save much time at all so I don't bother with
it. Oh and if you're wondering, Mining these Earth Elementals can drop Volatile Earth but
they won't give skill points or exp from Mining them. As I leveled I noticed I wasn't finding
nearly as many nodes as I should so doing a quick /who gave me my reason, there were
six or more others likely farming along with about the same Alliance. Even with the high
competition, it won't slow you down too much. After reaching 475, you can head to Deepholm
or Uldum. Since there are a lot of Rich nodes and level 85s farming in Uldum, I'll stay
in Mount Hyjal but Uldum can be better for most so I suggest going there for the extra
gold from Elementium Ore and better leveling route. If you stay in Mount Hyjal like me,
the last few points will take a couple nodes but not a big deal really and it goes quick.
My guy really sucks and you can see that refected in the hour it takes to kill a silly Dragonkin.
Well, atleast I hit level 81. Mining contributed to about half the level. My experience per
node has gone up to 5732. Not too bad.
At around lap 3 or 4, you should hit 500 so now it's time to head to Uldum. Hearth back
to Org or Stormwind and learn everything that's available from the Mining trainer. Next, take
the portal to Uldum or fly there if you haven't unlocked it yet. And here is the most important
thing ever to succeed in leveling Mining, get rofl stomped by standing in Deathwing's
fire. Or in this case, flying in it. In case you're wondering, yes people are flying from
all over the zone to stand in the fire, die, and get the Achievement. Awesomeness at its
best. Burn.
Anyway, back to the leveling of Mining. The route I have for Uldum is pretty big but I'm
only doing that because of the competition. This place is packed most of the time. Oh
and I don't think I've said this before but it also pays to have a fast computer. You
will always get the node before someone and be able to fly off without them noticing until
it's too late. Sorry paly, see ya. From time to time you'll find some Pyrite which is the
Titanium of Cata, the highest ore but you won't be able to mine it until 520 with the
glove enchant or 525 without. No biggy, you'll be there in no time. Sometimes you'll get
a node near these elites and if you're 85 it's not really a problem. I'm 81 though so
I cyclone the front guy, loot the node, and book it out of there before I get rocked.
I do the same with level 85 Alliance. If you're a Shaman, hex won't work sorry. Uldum's route
is very simple and has some pretty cool surprises. You can get 4-5 nodes spawning in the same
general location like you see here. This can happen in a few locations but the most common
are the ones I marked on the map. Another thing that can happen while Mining in any
zone is phasing problems with nodes. You'll see the node on the map but when you get to
it, it disappears. Sucks that you can't get the ore from it but you can get the skill
point and experience. You just gotta be quick.
Ok, so after a little over 5 hours, I finally hit 525 in Mining. Grats to everyone who hit
or will hit 525 as well. The last thing you wanna do is list everything you mined up and
see how much gold you made. I'll list everything for 12 hours and only smelt bars when the
price is worth the time.
Alright, it's been a little over a day and most stuff sold. Looks like leveling brought
in 3,654g + the stuff that didn't sell so maybe 4,000g give or take. That's not too
bad since on top of leveling Mining and getting some gold, you're also leveling your character
if you're not 85 yet. Mining is also a really awesome gold maker and if you want to see
the best gold making routes for each zone, check my website for my Mining Gold Making
Series.
Grats again on 525 in Mining and I hope this video was helpful.
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