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Kommentar von 7522

Another decent place to farm Rich Thorium Veins is Un'Goro. The insectoid nests underground host a decent amount of ooze-covered veins (still the same thing), and fire plume ridge (area with fire elementals) has a decent number of veins as well. Not to mention that the fire elementals are also good to farm for essences and a possible rare spawn!

Kommentar von 8472_

Any class, if you're careful, can mine the thorium nodes in southern winterspring. There are 2 nodes down there at any given time, with a 5 minute respawn in a different section after you mine one. Simply wait until the tunnels are clear, then go through, mount up, and run along the edges to deaggro.
It is, however, easiest for a rogue; you can mine them much more efficiently. I can usually get about 10-15 nodes an hour, plus some small thorium. If there is competition, a circular route between the northern nodes up to gadgetzan is also productive, although only a stealth class can safely reach the back of mazthoril.

Kommentar von softbeast

Actually you can separate into 6 area and the Rich Thorium Vein will respawn every 15 mins in each area, one area one piece. The area are The fungal vein, The infactis scar, Pestilent scar, The noxious glade, Northdale and Zul'Marshar. Just follow the this route and you can get your Rich Thorium Vein continousely. Just forget about Scarlet Basilica,'cause it's too dangerous for you.

Kommentar von Salus

The screen shot for the Rich Thorium Vein is incorrect. Rich Thorium Veins are larger and are green. They have large crystals growing out from them. I have uploaded an updated picture.

Kommentar von Zone

What level of mining do you require to mine these?
I have 250 skill and can mine small thorium veins but not these

Kommentar von cyborg99

I can usually get 7-9 Rich Veins in one circle of Winterspring, along with a few Small ones that I see on the way from node to node.
I start in Everlook, then I...
1) Head to Ruins of Kel'Theril and get the Rich Vein there(there's always one there, unless it's been mined recently).
2) I head to Mazthoril and pick up the one Rich and one Small in the cave and I port out using the rune at the end.
3) Then I head to Frostwhisper Gorge and get the one Rich Vein there.
4) I then head to Darkwhisper Gorge and get the 2 or 3(sometimes I get 2, sometimes 3) veins there and sometimes a Small vein. Just head clockwise through each little valley, making a detour for the very southern one.
5) I head up towards Owl Wing Thicket and get the Rich Vein there, sometimes it's in a cave, so pay attention to the map because it'll be slightly harder to see because of the terrain on the map + darker color.
6) Up to Winterfall Village and get the Rich Vein there.
7) Northwest up to Frostsaber Rock and grab the Vein there.

Also, when I'm able to do the https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/quest=5201 quest, I'll do that quest while I'm at Winterfall and turn it in while I'm at Frostsaber.
Good luck with your Thorium mining!

Kommentar von jadrianz

Ever since the BC Exp. the nodes for all ores have had expanded spawn times. It also appears that the spawn locations are cyclical in an area. Example: Noxious Glade there are 5 nodes in the glade itself, b ut only 1 will be active at any time, whereas you could normally ride by 3 nodes with ore before BC was released.

Kommentar von 33892

Anyone know the skill required to mine this vein?

Kommentar von 60649

I've recently noticed that rich thorium veins can give upwards of 5 taps compared to the max of 4 that they used to give pre-TBC. I've also noticed small thorium veins giving 2-3 taps instead of the 1-2 they used to. Overall this is good news for us smiths/engineers/JC's. Many of us will be forced to mine a good chunk of the thorium required to hit 300 skill due to the shortage of thorium from everyone being in outland where thorium is not present.

Kommentar von Mister6002

I just found a Small Thorium Vein at 63.25 and 49,20 which aren't on the map above.
The guide of Cyborg99 is very very good!Everybody should use it!!!!

Note : The map dots are the locations where people have mined veins which means that veins at new locations are getting updated soon.

Co-ords of the locations Cyborg99 posted :
Ruins of Kel'theril 56.44 and around.
Mazthoril(cave entrance) 56.50.
Frostwhisper Gorge (entrance) 58.63.
Darkwhisper Gorge(entrance) 59.74(note that mount hyjal entrance is there too!).
Owl Wing Thicket(entrance)63.59.
Winterfall Village(cave entrance)67.42.
Frostsaber Rock 49.10 and around.
Then juist follow the mountain edge to the west until you reach the Ruins of Kel'Theril again.

Note : Winterspring also have Truesilver Veins in case anyone wonders.
Very Important Note : Veins could have been mined recently so luck would be usefull.

Hope this will help you guys!

Kommentar von 120639

If you are in Winterspring leveling mining, it is well worth is to cruise through Darkwhisper. I kept skipping it, but the first time i rode through i found 4 Rich Thoriums and at least 3 the second time. If you skip it you are a fool.

Kommentar von Krynoraxian

An interesting note: Due to the increased drop rate of arcane crystals in all thorium veins. For a very short time(275-280) Arcanite Keys can be a good substitute for Imperial Plate bracers for getting some skill up.

Transmute Arcanite is:
Thorium Bar x1
Arcane Crystal x1

Arcanite Key x2 is:
Arcanite Bar x1
Dense Grinding Stone x1 (4 Dense Stone)

This compared to...

Imperial Plate bracers:
Thorium Bar x12

It should be noted Arcanite keys are of yellow difficulty when you train them at 275, but for those 5 blacksmithing levels its well worth the risk over the orange skill Imperial Plate bracers to save yourself some money/time.

Kommentar von 112723

Just in case you didnt know... Thorium is a real metal...

Atomic Number: 90
Atomic Radius: 179.8 pm
Atomic Symbol: Th
Atomic Weight: 232.0381
Melting Point: 1750 ?C
Boiling Point: 4788 ?C
Electron Configuration: 7s26d2
Oxidation States: 4

When pure, thorium is a silvery-white metal which is air-stable and retains its luster for several months. When contaminated with the oxide, thorium slowly tarnishes in air, becoming gray and finally black. The physical properties of thorium are greatly influenced by the degree of contamination with the oxide. The purest specimens often contain several tenths of a percent of the oxide. High-purity thorium has been made. Pure thorium is soft, very ductile, and can be cold-rolled, swaged, and drawn. Thorium is dimorphic, changing at 1400?C from a cubic to a body-centered cubic structure. Thorium oxide has a melting point of 3300?C, which is the highest of all oxides. Only a few elements, such as tungsten, and a few compounds, such as tantalum carbide, have higher melting points. Thorium is slowly attacked by water, but does not dissolve readily in most common acids, except hydrochloric. Powdered thorium metal is often pyrophoric and should be handled carefully. When heated in air, thorium turnings ignite and burn brilliantly with a white light.

Twenty five isotopes of thorium are known with atomic masses ranging from 212 to 236. All are unstable. 232Th occurs naturally and has a half-life of 1.4 x 1010 years. It is an alpha emitter. 232Th goes through six alpha and four beta decay steps before becoming the stable isotope 208Pb. 232Th is sufficiently radioactive to expose a photographic plate in a few hours. Thorium disintegrates with the production of "thoron" (220Rn [a form of Radon gas, notice the green clouds around ore nodes), which is an alpha emitter and presents a radiation hazard. Good ventilation of areas where thorium is stored or handled is therefore essential.

yada yada yada so on and so forth... for more info check out http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/90.html
I think its cool when they put a bit of truth into a fictional world :)

Kommentar von Thottbot

requires mining 275

Kommentar von Thottbot

these have a respawn of about 5 minites (or at least they do on my server in un goro.

Kommentar von Thottbot

whats the difference between rich thorium veins and small thorium veins ?

Kommentar von Thottbot

Okay well, The other day i was running around looking for Rich Thorium veins and a friend of mine said i should try the Hives in Silithus. So i bumbed off there, and as you might you know, Blizzard nerfed the mobs, they're non elites now. So i could easy stealth around them and grab all the thorium there. Just walk into all of the caves there and when you're done at one hive, continue to another hive. That way you get the Thorium veins to respawn as you get back to the first hive (Theres 3 hives in all Hive'ashi, Hive'regal and Hive'zora.

Happy grinding,

Kind regards
Deyaka 70 Druid
Earthen ring

Kommentar von Thottbot

The best location for rich thorium vein is Darkwhisper gorge (Winterspring). There are a lot of rich thorium veins. The only thing is that there are elite mobs, but that is no problem for rogue. However farm there those veins can anyone. If u carefully walk around it will be no problem. I did it with my hunter didnt even have to use feign death. If u aggro any mob u can still run away.

Kommentar von Thottbot

It seems that tigers get stuck in these veins all the time.

Thottbot tells me there is tiger meat to be found in them...

Kommentar von Thottbot

DARKWHISPER GORGE IS GREAT as long as u dont aggro the elites

Kommentar von Thottbot

Did they nerf DWG or what? been there at 5:00 am server time , no competition at all, ran the entire place like 3 times and bumped into just ONE vein... bad luck? nerfed? i don't know... i'm off to burning steppes.

Kommentar von Thottbot

Ive noticed that one of the most relyable spots to get ahold of a rich vein in un goro is on the mt. in the center of the map. There are about 4-5 key spots yielding one vein every 5 mins or so. serveral of these areas are accessable w/o any confrontations with the local elementals that inhabit it.

Kommentar von Thottbot

By far Silithis is the best place... I've gotten around 60 ores in 1 full circuit (Including the hives)... Very good, I'd suggest this place if your a dr00d or rogue (Stealth) and a higher level...

Kommentar von Thottbot

I also had poor luck with Darkwhisper Gorge after patch 2.4. Finding only three veins in over two hours of circling the entire place at around 3am server time.

I have yet to try Un Goro or Silithus, but have heard others in-game say they are good places to check.

I personally don't mind sticking with Burning Steppes and/or Searing Gorge as there are both small and rich veins there, plus loads of mithril which sells great in the AH even if it does not level your mining.

Kommentar von Thottbot

UnGoro yields a decent amount of Thorium. I also like to pick off power crystals while there - for use in some of the weaponsmith items. Not to mention that the mobs there are lower level and harder to aggro.

Kommentar von Thottbot

I found a LOT of rich/small thorium veins in Eastern Plaguelands so try there.(especially in those little canyon things)

Kommentar von Thottbot

I have been farming Thorium in Burning Steppes and mainly get the small deposits although recently all I seem to be getting is Dark Iron Ore.

The scar area in the centre of EPL is good as i have had only Rich deposits there and I have been getting arcane crystals aswell as other gems from the deposits.

Being a JC this comes in quite handy, all my ores get prospected to gems. I dont think the respawn rates are as good as they could be as I have ran by quite a few lvl 70's running around Burning Steppes and they seem to have farmed all the ore there :(

Kommentar von Thottbot

Go epl there is allot of Rich thorium vein sometime truesilver too if you need to grind it go there :) (it's better u use a 70 becuase then.. you don't need to kill all mobs arround)

Kommentar von Thottbot

You gotta be effin kidding me, EPL is horrible for finding RT. Been here for about an hour, found just 3 veins. The mobs are all over the place too where u need to find em, worst place of all the places Ive needed to find any kind of vein..In the northeast areas where RT is most concentrated its covered with scourge... I guess Im either unlucky or u guys are crazy lucky finding veins.

Kommentar von Thottbot

I've had a lot of luck in both EPL and un goro other places such as burning steppes or searing gorge mostly mithril (sells for a lot in the AH) and SIlithus also has a fair deposit of rich veins there

Twss
Shadowsong

Kommentar von Thottbot

DWG sucks for rich veins now, if you want to mine thorium the place to be is Silithus.

Kommentar von Thottbot

EPL is the best place to find rich thorium veins in my opinion. However just walking around with your head up your ass isn't the best way to find nodes.

There's an add-on, "gatherer", that tells you where the nodes have been found in the past by other users (basically, it tells you which resources spawn where.) Using this I've found 5 rich thorium veins in about 10 minutes, However thats with a 70 running round without aggro. And I've only covered half the map!

With gatherer you can run straight to where they respawn, check them all, and then do another circle to get the ones that have respawned since you last checked. If you want to farm, do it efficiently :P

Kommentar von Thottbot

Steppes has been the best for me. Doesn't appear to be as heavily trafficked as Un'goro or Eastern Plaguelands.

Two circuits around and I went from 270 to 300. It's too bad Engineering doesn't go up this easy (the recipes take several bars of Thorium each proc.)

Goblin Engineers should bring a mining helmet, and all should bring a pair of gloves with Advanced Mining enchantment. This way, you can tap RTV's with 265 skill.

Moderately easy to farm in Burning Steppes because the mobs are relatively spread out or can be tethered.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

wat mining lvl is it

Kommentar von Allakhazam

I am trying to fix the drop rate little by little, one node at a time, run WoW reader while you play kids, it makes stats more accurate

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Interesting that Arcane crystals have a 3% drop while the others are less than 1... All I have been getting lately is blue sapphires, az diamonds, huge emeralds, and opals.... And off the small ones no less...

I haven't seen an arcane crystal in probably 50 straight veins now, but I have 5 or 6 of every other crystal in that time.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

you do realize arcane crystals dont drop off of the small veins, right?...only the rich veins.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

The first time ever mining on of these I got two arcane crystals in the same vein.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

zesty clam meat found in a rich thorium vein... wha?... *raises an eyebrow

Kommentar von Allakhazam

They need to run this database through a script and delete out these junk drops...

If the item dropped once in 439,000... you know it's not supposed to be there. Especially if it's retarded like Morrowgrain or clam meat of all things :)

Kommentar von Allakhazam

maybe the area was once underwater and a clam got stuck to a vein :D

Kommentar von Allakhazam

I feel sorry for the 3405 that mined it and got no Thorium Ore...

Kommentar von Allakhazam

too bad its not like you can find high level epics inside veins, that would be nice^^

Kommentar von Allakhazam

well, someone found a scroll of agility inside a copper vein...

Kommentar von Allakhazam

I wanted to know the exact mining skill required to mine these, i keep getting different answers... someone said 255, others said 275... i just want a straight answer lol

Kommentar von Allakhazam

im just wondering where i can found mass amounts of rich thorium veins or even small ones if you guys dont know
thanks in advance

Kommentar von Allakhazam

yummay

Kommentar von Allakhazam

does anyone know the respawn rate of rich thorium veins?

Kommentar von Allakhazam

of course! didn't you know that rich thorium veins was clams before they ate so much thorium so that they became thorium veins! noob...... ;D

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Rich thorium vein Requires Mining 275 to mine.

I can usually get 7-9 Rich Veins in one circle of Winterspring, along with a few Small ones that I see on the way from node to node.
I start in Everlook, then I...
1) Head to Ruins of Kel'Theril and get the Rich Vein there(there's always one there, unless it's been mined recently).
2) I head to Mazthoril and pick up the one Rich and one Small in the cave and I port out using the rune at the end.
3) Then I head to Frostwhisper Gorge and get the one Rich Vein there.
4) I then head to Darkwhisper Gorge and get the 2 or 3(sometimes I get 2, sometimes 3) veins there and sometimes a Small vein. Just head clockwise through each little valley, making a detour for the very southern one.
5) I head up towards Owl Wing Thicket and get the Rich Vein there, sometimes it's in a cave, so pay attention to the map because it'll be slightly harder to see because of the terrain on the map + darker color.
6) Up to Winterfall Village and get the Rich Vein there.
7) Northwest up to Frostsaber Rock and grab the Vein there.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Wednesday December 6th 2006 I mined an Arcane Crystal out of a small thorium vein.

No im not on crack, and yes i did a double take to make sure it was indeed a Small not Rich.

I was astonished.
: )

First time its happened ever for me and ive been mining for 7 months plus.
I think its an extremely low drop % off small thorium veins.

Kommentar von Didiai

TOM TOM
/way 54,0 46,5
/way 53,8 51,8
/way 51,3 48,1
/way 46,5 44,9
/way 46,0 52,9
/way 41,0 64,9
/way 39,0 70,3
/way 39,0 77,5
/way 34,1 69,5
/way 30,8 74,8
/way 31,1 80,7
/way 28,4 70,5
/way 21,8 61,0
/way 20,8 42,5
/way 25,5 39,8

Kommentar von oresteia

There is not a single vein at dark whisper. Don't move based on this map. Probably 2019 wow classic has a much different and harder vein distribution than vanilla but wowhead use the same data. It is not true.

Kommentar von knotjad

Mining Thoriumerz from Kleines Thoriumvorkommen requires level 245 skill & Reiches Thoriumvorkommen requires a level 275 skill.

Kommentar von piorek

I farmed Rich Thorium in EPL for last two days.

During that time, I've got 221 Thorium Ore and:
3 Arcane Crystals (1,36%)
6 Huge Emeralds (2,71%)
5 Blue Sapphires (2,26%)
1 Star Ruby (0,45%)
2 Large Opal (0,90%)
1 Azerothian Diamond (0,45%)

To sum up, gems droprate seems to be around 8,14%. I think 3% droprate for arcane crystal is too high :)

Kommentar von nykion

Burning Steppes Tom Tom macro
/way 15 30
/way 16 50
/way 22 63
/way 26 54
/way 25 46
/way 30 58
/way 30 70
/way 35 67
/way 36 58
/way 42 60
/way 38 41
/way 38 28
/way 47 33
/way 46 40
/way 48 62
/way 54 60
/way 57 23
/way 61 38
/way 66 21
/way 65 32
/way 69 36
/way 72 30
/way 95 31

Kommentar von INvShika

Winterspring nodes:

Frostsaber Rock
/way 48.2 8.9
/way 51.2, 7.8
/way 54.8, 10.5
/way 49.3, 14.3
/way 50.4, 16.7
/way 55.9, 14.6

Lake Kel'Theril
/way 52.1, 39.5
/way 54, 39
/way 49.1, 44.3
/way 50.3, 43.7
/way 53.3, 44.5
/way 56.7, 43.7

Mazthoril
/way 54.9, 52.9
/way 54.3, 55.4
/way 53.7, 57.3
/way 52.3, 55.6
/way 52.5, 54.3

Frostwhisper Gorge
/way 59.4, 67.7
/way 61.3, 68.9
/way 63.3, 67.7
/way 64.8, 68.1
/way 64.5, 70.5
/way 62.8, 71.1

Darkwhisper Gorge
/way 56.6, 77.5
/way 54.4, 79.7
/way 52.9, 83.4
/way 52, 85.7
/way 50.9, 90.5
/way 53.5, 89.1
/way 56.4, 89.4
/way 56, 86
/way 56.7, 80.9
/way 57.7, 83
/way 58.4, 86
/way 59.7, 88.3
/way 62.1, 85.3
/way 62.5, 82.7
/way 61.3, 79.6
/way 59.5, 77.6
/way 63.5, 77.9
/way 65.5, 79.6

Owl Wing Thicket
/way 66.3, 61.5
/way 64.7, 60.8
/way 65.7, 58.9
/way 66.7, 60.1

Winterfall Village
/way 66.5, 37.5
/way 68, 35.6
/way 67.6, 38.6
/way 68.8, 37.3
/way 69.5, 38.4
/way 69.8, 38.6
/way 70.7, 37.3
/way 71, 37.6
/way 70.8, 39.6
/way 69.6, 41.7

Kommentar von Zaikahal

I mined my very first Rich Thorium Vein today, and an Arcane Crystal came from it.

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