What you’re going to need:
The mining skill. Go see your local mining trainer to get trained.
A mining pick. Can't mine without one (these can also be enchanted if you want, makes absolutely no difference, but it's cool to have. Even if you have your mining pick enchanted the standard mining animation remains the same, so you actually see that nice demonslaying glow you got put on there.
You will only see the glow when you equip it like a normal weapon. (A player on my server even had a Crusader enchant put on their mining pick and told me that the proc happens when they mine, can't confirm this for sure, but it does seem really pointless).
Optional, but recommended extras:
Get the cheapest pair of gloves you can find and get them enchanted with +5 mining skill (shouldn't cost you more than 2g, as it takes 3 x Truesilver Bars and 3 x Vision Dust). Don’t bother with the +2 enchant as its not worth it.
If you’re an engineer then make yourself a Goblin Mining Helmet (Goblin Mining Helmet) as this will add +5 to your mining skill.
Also, please remember that mining nodes only appear on the side of hills, cliffs, mountains etc. So your unlikely to find any ores in the great rolling plains, unless there is a small hill there.
Also note that Darnassus has NO ore whatsoever! So if you’re a Night Elf and want to mine, get your booty over to Darkshore ASAP. So with that in mind, always follow the cliff faces or hillsides.
Got all that? Good, then lets get mining!
Mining 1 to 65
Mining Copper
Estimated number of nodes to mine = 30
Mine about 50 copper and smelt. At skill level 50, go back to the mining trainer and learn Journeyman Mining.
That will do it for this part of the WoW Mining Guide. Be sure to look for the next article in this series - Mining 66 to 125.
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