WoW Forever Mining Leveling Guide 1–300

Mining leveling route from 1 to 300

Each step names the veins that still give skill-ups and the zones with the most of them, for your faction. An orange vein gives a sure point, a yellow one usually, green ones rarely pay. Tap a vein to see it on the map.

A vein gives at most one point however often you strike it, and smelting gives Mining skill too until about 185. Beta

Skill levels and spawn points Beta dataColors and yield rates Classic

The number next to a zone counts the step's spawn points there, the ooze covered veins included.

When each vein turns grey

Each row shows at which skill a vein is orange, yellow, green and grey. The vertical lines are the limits of the steps above. Classic

• Sure point
• Mostly a point
• Rarely a point
• No points

Mining trainers and ranks

1. ApprenticeUp to 75Your first rank
2. JourneymanUp to 150From skill 50 at level 10
3. ExpertUp to 225From skill 125 at level 20
4. ArtisanUp to 300From skill 200 at level 35

Ranks and levels as in Classic, Forever shows no change so far. What the ranks cost follows once we have checked it at a trainer after launch on November 4.

Where the trainers stand

The new Junior trainers in Dun Morogh, Durotar, Elwynn Forest, Mulgore, Teldrassil and Tirisfal Glades teach the first rank only. Beta data Every trainer on the World Map

What your ore goes into

Ore is smelted into bars first. How often the 9 bars appear in Forever's recipes, by profession. Beta data

1. Blacksmithing403 uses
2. Engineering98 uses
3. Tailoring31 uses
4. Alchemy4 uses
5. Enchanting3 uses
6. Leatherworking1 use

What Forever changes for miners

• A quest in every starting area around level 3 to 4 gives you a free manual. It teaches Mining, Herbalism or Skinning if you have fewer than two professions and adds 2 skill points, up to 15.

  Beta data

• Ore stacks to 20 now, twice the Classic stack, so a bag slot holds twice as much before you smelt.

  Beta data

• Veins can give Scarce extras on top of the ore: Pyrite, Bauxite and Pitchblende. Pyrite goes into Sulfuric Acid for alchemists, Bauxite into Sandpaper for engineers, and miners smelt Pitchblende into an Azerothium Bar at skill 275. Where they dropped in the beta.

  Beta

• Miners build three camp objects: the Lodestone at skill 20, the Rock Garden at 140, which grows a common vein at your camp over time, and the Molten Foundry at 300. A Heavy Thorium Bar can only be smelted at a Molten Foundry, and nobody knows yet where its ore comes from. Every camp object.

  Beta data

• Since the beta notes of October 15 Incendicite Ore in the Wetlands spawns more often and more evenly.

  Confirmed

• Mining pays no Legacy Points, only the six crafting professions do at 150, 225 and 300. What Legacy gives a miner is the perk Bountiful Harvest: 20 percent more Scarce materials per rank, twice as many at rank 5. Plan it in the Legacy calculator.

  Confirmed

• Veins are shared like in Classic: beta players report a vein is gone after one to four miners, whoever comes first. When a loop comes up empty, change zone instead of running it again.

  Player report