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blizzire wrote on 2011-09-12 05:19
So I made a new character to train some other professions, and there happens to be a huge requirement for ores.
I know how boat 6 is the best mining spot, but I'm not anywhere close to it, and mining blood prince is really stale and unrewarding since I'm basically getting iron every single run.
So here's the question, anyone have a list of maps in boat 4 and 5 that have mining spots? And it would be even nicer if you knew where they were in said maps.
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blizzire wrote on 2011-09-14 12:13
Does no one know anything about this?
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bombinator wrote on 2011-09-14 12:37
not sure if there are any in boat 4 or 5, but i'd just mine from blood prince while ur waiting for a response
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Archibald wrote on 2011-09-14 14:08
I'm curious about this too and? When you say boat 6 what do you mean? Hoarfrost depths? Which mission is best in boat 6 for mining?
I am vindi nub to all this and definately would like to know.
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Invertex wrote on 2011-09-14 15:00
Quote from Archibald;587104:
I'm curious about this too and? When you say boat 6 what do you mean? Hoarfrost depths? Which mission is best in boat 6 for mining?
I am vindi nub to all this and definately would like to know.
Boat 1 = Perilous Ruins
Boat 2 = Hoarfrost Hollows
Boat 3 = Ainle
Boat 4 = Ruins of Sanctity / Prarie Entrance
Boat 5 = Hoarfrost Depths
Boat EX1 = Hilder
Boat 6 = Fomorian Base
Boat 7 = Sewers
Boat 8 = Ortel / Catacombs
And I honestly have to say you're probably better off grinding to Boat 6 (despite not being close to it) and then mining. If you're hunting for Iron, farming the first 2 rooms of "Forest Ruins" in Hilder (kill the miniboss and quit) is an easy way to farm Superiors. Most other ores aren't required until you get to the point where you can mine them effeiciently.
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voltar wrote on 2011-09-14 20:24
hidden has 1 spot in the first room (the far back left corner from where you spawn) but if you're looking for 'rewarding' i'd stick with bp since it's pretty much the same ores...just way less of them than the 6-10 you get in bp.
in fomorian base...i think it's fruitful, there's a reliable ore spot in the second room of the second map...did that for superior irons for a while until it bored me to tears.
not sure which expertise you picked but if it's weaponsmithing you can make fine irons (more efficiently than ferghus) and if it's platesmithing you'll still need iron ore for the plates (at least through 199) anyway.
i also tried getting in the habit of bringing mine bombs on dailies with all my characters to make it less of a grind.
some people like (i think it's) forest ruins. one of those hilder forest missions has the hemdrill boss which gives you 3 chances of getting a superior iron as loot (plus there's a ore node in a corner behind stairs that (iirc) is a relatively consistant source of your rares (silver, copper, gold).
sry i don't have a better answer but farming ore is pretty universally not-fun so i've gotten into the habit of buying beyond my daily farms.
edit: almost forgot that exquisite irons come from the ore boxes in ortel missions. not sure which of the 2 is better since they both kinda run together in my head.
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blizzire wrote on 2011-09-15 10:51
That's rather disappointing, but thanks anyways. There's few maps in Ruins of Sanctity with more than one ore veins that I've found, like under the bridge in those maps.