Rift Mining Guide
This Rift Mining guide will show you the fastest way to level mining profession up from 1 to 300. Mining is a gathering profession that goes exceedingly well with Armorsmiths, Artificers, and Weaponsmiths.
You should level up your mining skill along side your leveling. As you level and move into higher level zones you will be able to mine the higher end lodes for materials needed to level up. This guide is a work in progress as better, more efficient routes are found then these maps below will be replaced.
Approximate Materials Gathered:
- 50 Tin Ore
- 50 Copper Ore
- 50 Iron Ore
- 20 Silver Ore
- 70 Chromite Ore
- 70 Cobalt Ore
- 30 Gold Ore
- 80 Titanium Ore
- 70 Carmintium Ore
- 50 Platinum Ore
- 100 Orichalcum Ore
This guide is split up into multiple sections, each to go with the different levels to achieve 300 skill level.
- 1-35 Tin Ore
- 35-75 Tin Ore, Copper Ore
- 75-115 Copper Ore, Iron Ore, Silver Ore
- 115-145 Chromite Ore, Silver Ore, Iron Ore
- 145-185 Cobalt Ore, Gold Ore, Chromite Ore
- 185-225 Titanium Ore, Cobalt Ore, Gold Ore
- 225-260 Carmintium Ore, Platinum Ore
- 260-300 Orichalcum Ore, Carmintium Ore, Platinum Ore
1-75 Novice Mining Guide
Train Novice Mining
1-35: Mine Tin Ore in Silverwood or Freemarch
35-75: Mine Tin Ore and Copper Ore in Silverwood or Freemarch
Silverwood Mining Route
Freemarch Mining Route
75-150 Skilled Mining Guide
Train Skilled Mining
75-115: Mine Copper Ore, Iron Ore, Silver Ore (80 Mining Skill Required) in Gloamwood, Stonefield or Scarlet Gorge
Tin Ore no longer gives skill points after 75 mining skill. Copper no longer gives skill points after 90 mining skill.
Gloamwood Mining Route
Stonefield Mining Route
115-145: Mine Chromite Ore, Iron Ore, Silver Ore in Scarlet Gorge, Scarwood Reach
Scarlet Gorge Mining Route
Scarwood Reach Mining Route
150-225 Expert Mining Guide
145-185: Mine Cobalt Ore, Gold Ore, Chromite Ore in Scarwood Reach and Moonshade Highlands
Train Expert Mining
Moonshade Highlands Mining Route
185-225: Mine Titanium Ore, Cobalt Ore, Gold Ore from Droughtlands and Iron Pine Peak
Droughtlands Mining Route
Iron Pine Peak Mining Route
225-300 Master Mining Guide
Train Master Mining
225-260: Mine Carmintium Ore, Platinum Ore in Stillmoor and Shimmersand
260-300: Mine Orichalcum ORe, Carmintium Ore, Platinum Ore in Stillmoor and Shimmersand
Stillmoor Mining Route
Shimmersand Mining Route
I hope you liked this Mining guide. Leave some comments and congrats to 300 mining!
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Thanks for the maps, friend. Any more locations you can map will be greatly appreciated by us noob miners. Cobalt, for instance?
The maps and the guide are probably 90% done and almost ready to be published. I will have the rest of the locations including Defiant starting zones by the end of the weekend.
I will try to get some of the updates, especially Cobalt, by tonight.
Thanks again for stopping by and using the guide
AWESWOME< thanks!
Great guide! Can you describe the routes in the next update? Maybe use traps and post it on YouTube?
Overall this is pretty accurate
That is a good idea. I will see about making some in the next week or two. Thanks again for stopping by and the suggestion.
Hey, great map, however i feel very lost following it for the first run or two, having dots where the ore is would be a big help
I completely agree and have been working on that this weekend. This guide is always evolving and I really do appreciate your input. I will see about getting the nodes to show up on the map.
Terrific facts! I have been searching for something such as this for a long time now. Bless you!
Anytime! Wait till the next update – it will have the exact locations. We have been busy the past day or two getting the coordinates. Thanks again for the support!
[...] 1 – 35 Tin Ore [...]
you can only get up to 270 on plat and cad, then you have to go into dungeons for ori (ap and cc). about 3-4 nodes a run .
You CAN go into Chamer’s Cauldera or Abyssal Precipice, but they also spawn on the western side of Stillmoor. Each spawn node on the western side has a % chance to also be a 225-250 node. Meaning you might get Platinum at one node, then walk back and notice its Carmintium Ore. Another spot that hasnt been placed in the guide yet but is noted is north eastern Iron Pines. This is also the same for Foraging.
Thank you for the note though!
mmmmm yea, but do those nodes have a chance to be orichalcum? i sat in the back of one camp on the west side of the zone ( all level 50 mobs ) while in wf ques, and hit all 3 nodes in that camp, in multiple respawns i never saw an ori node. also checked all though the endless citidel, but saw no mining nodes there. fun fact, you can scout an area as ghost and still get nodes on radar(your tracking skill are applied while ghost).
Saved as a favorite, I love your site!
Ori does spawn in the NE part of iron pine. I got one there today while doing dailies.
I bought another guide online (megaguides or ultragueides or something like that) and it was completely useless. Thanks to these free excerpts, I am seriously considering buying xerxes. Thank you very much guys. Keep up the good work.