WoW Mining Guide – Make Gold In World of Warcraft

This WoW Mining guide will show you the fastest way how to level your Mining profession up from 1 to 450.

Skill Levels 1 – 65

For these beginning levels you need copper ore. There are two ways to increase your mining skill at these levels.

- Mining copper nodes
- Smelting copper into copper bars

I recommend buying copper and smelting it into copper bars. This is the way to powerlevel your wow mining skill. However, if you don’t have the gold, then just get out there and mine.

For alliance characters being a dwarf or a gnome is a huge advantage. Dun Morogh is littered with copper nodes. For you you night elves it is a little harder to skill up you mining profession. Darnassus does not have any ore to mine.

Skill Levels 66 – 125

Levels 66 through 125 are very difficult levels to skill up your wow mining skill. The geography of world of warcraft makes mining copper very easy. The copper nodes are very close together. However, the tin nodes for these skill levels are spread much further apart.

Tin will be the primary ore that you need to mine at these levels. However, beginning at level 75 you will also be able to mine silver. You will as many silver nodes as you can find because tin goes green beginning at level 100.

Unlike with mining levels 1 – 65, you will not be able to smelt your way to mining level 125. Smelting becomes a lot less effective once you hit skill level 85.

BEST WAY TO GET TO LEVEL 125: Incendicite Ore

In the Wetlands there is a cave called Thelgan Rock. Inside the cave there is an Alliance quest ore call incendicite. While this is an alliance only quest, Horde players can also mine this ore. These ore nodes spawn very quickly and I think that you can get to level 125 in about 60 minutes if you don’t have competition for the nodes.

So if you are like me, play World of Warcraft early in the morning when the competition is not so fierce. This is also good for you Horde players who are on a PvP server.

Mining Skill Levels 126 – 175

To increase your WoW mining skill from levels 126 to 175 you need to mine lots of iron. You will be mining so much iron that you will be getting tired of mining inworld of warcraft. Increasing your mining skill in world of warcraft is all about persistence and dedication. I hop that this wow mining guide is helping you to get through the mining grind.

The best zones for mining iron in world of warcraft are Arathi Highlands and Alterac Mountains. These two zones should be the fastest way to increase your wow mining skill for these levels.

In addition to mining the iron, remember that you can also smelt the iron. Go buy some iron and start smelting iron bars. This is usually the fastest, but not cheapest, way to increase you wow mining skill.

Starting at level 155 you will be able to mine gold. Mining gold can really help you to increase your mining skill. You can also smelt the gold into gold bars. This gold smelting will help you to powerlevel you mining skill.

At this stage you might be raising your mining skill faster than your character’s overall level. If you would like a great guide for the fastest way to level yourworld of warcraft character, you need to check out this world of warcraft alliance leveling guide or this world of warcraft horde leveling guide.

Mining Skill Levels 176 – 245

For mining skill levels 176 through 245 you need to mine mithril and lots of it. You really need to be at least level 35 to start mining mithril safely. Therefore you need to get yourworld of warcraft level up to at least mid thirties and better yet at least level 40.

If you are having trouble keeping up with leveling, check out these great guides for the fastest way to level your world of warcraft character – WOW alliance leveling guide or this WOW horde leveling guide.

For world of warcraft levels 35 through 44 the Badlands zone is the best zone for mining mithril. In the Badlands zone, the best areas for mining mithril are Dustbelch Grotto and Lethlor Ravine.