13 Jan
Mining Buffed – Faster Gold Per Hour
Posted on 2009 under Patch Tips, Professions, WotLK | 5 CommentsThe upcoming patch is buffing Mining.
When you mine a deposit, you’ll get all of your ores and any crystallized elements in a single hit. ‘Normal’ deposits seem to provide a minimum of 2 ores and a maximum of 4. As the notes say, overall ore from a single point should be about the same as previously. (It can be assumed that ‘Rich’ deposits will provide 5-8 ores.)
In my experience Mining was slightly ahead of Herbalism in terms of gold per hour due to the presence of blue gems. But one of the thing that Herbalism had in its favor was that you only had to ‘pick’ the herbs one time (and would get multiple herbs)…Mining required you to swing 2 – 8 times per node and get one ore per swing.
In theory this should speed up Mining, pushing its advantage over Herbalism slightly higher.
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by Sav, on January 19 2009 @ 11:00 am
But won’t this make more people become miners? Henceforth increasing the supply which will reduce prices? In the end you will still make the same amount of gold per hour. Just less gold per stack but you will have more stacks?
by Voyeur, on February 25 2009 @ 9:28 am
This one-shot Ore collecting also hurts people training thier Mining Skill. Now only 1 person can get a skill up from a node.
by Kenton, on April 6 2009 @ 3:43 pm
As long as your working cooperativly on ore nodes, you can still get multiple skills ups. Just don’t loot the ore until the last person has gotten the hit. I do this in guild groups and just set up a rotation. So we know who hits in what order, last to hit gets the ore and is the first to hit the next node.
by Andrew, on May 19 2009 @ 5:32 pm
This is a response towards Sav’s comment.
Technically it would lower prices. Like you said the supply would increase and lower price level. However, in wow, unlike the real world, auctions only last for about a day so it doesn’t take much time for it to reach equilibrium, and it also depends of the population on the servers. I dont think it’ll make much difference other than a temporary flood in the market.
by John, on September 26 2009 @ 1:23 pm
SUPPLY AND DEMAND BABY!!!!! If all of the ore is mined then the supply will go down and the demand will go up, Hence the price will go UP!!!!!