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Mining Guide 1-450

This Mining guide is designed to help you level your mining from 1-450 in the fastest way possible.  Unlike other wow professions mining is nearly free to level.  If you are going to become a miner you have made a great choice my friend.

If you choose mining as your profession you are free to pair it with any number of professions.  If you are intending to do a lot of farming then you may even consider picking up Herbalism so you have two gathering professions but keep in mind you will have to constantly swap tracking modes on your minimap.  If you’d like to pick up Herbalism after you finish this Mining guide then you may want to check out my Herbalism guide.

Again, mining is practically free to level other than the cost to train but keep in mind that farming ore nonstop can be very boring.  If you’d like to learn more about exciting ways to earn extra gold you may want to check out a wow gold guide.  NO pressure to buy anything but that is the guide I personally use.  Ok, so let’s get started.

Apprentice Mining Guide

Train Apprentice Mining.  If you can’t locate a trainer you may ask a guard in any major city for directions.

Click Here for a list of trainer locations.

While at the trainer make sure you visit the mining vendor.  You will need to purchase a mining pick to get started.

Mining Guide 1-60

[Copper]

It is important to understand that while I have given you the routes in this mining guide that I personally use the level mining, ore can be found all over World of Warcraft.  There is no one spot that is the “best” but these spots are in my opinion the zones where you will be able to level the fastest.  I have taken into consideration respawn rates as well as overall number of ore deposits.

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Titanium Ore 450

Important Tip!!! Titanium ore is a rare spawn that you may come across once in a while.  When you see one of these stop whatever you are doing and go mine that puppy.  These are the most valuable resource in World of Warcraft.  Stacks of this stuff sell for in the hundreds of gold.  Mostly you will see these in Icecrown and Sholazar Basin but there are no specific routes for it.