Hello! Today, I’m posting about my mining trip in Deepholm. I went there for Elementium Ore and Obsidian Ore. This area is super craggy/mountainous, so I just flew around everywhere. I didn’t really have a set path. But the red stars are caves that have deposits and the yellow star is where I found several deposits all very close to each other.
I ended up farming for about an hour after taking Darkmoon Firewater. For anyone who doesn’t know, Darkmoon Firewater reduces the amount of time it takes you to gather ore/herbs/skins/etc. I flew from deposit to deposit and here’s what my 60 minutes got me:
101 Obsidian Ore (353.5 Gold)
115 Elementium Ore (172.5 Gold)
9 Volatile Earth (36 Gold)
11 Volatile Water (198 Gold)
The gold amount in parenthesis next to the item is the approximate Auction House value at this time (going from the lowest ‘buy now’ price). Each Volatile Earth was worth 4 gold, and since I got 9 of them, the price next to it says 36 gold.
So during that hour, I gathered about 760 gold worth of ore. But as we all know, AH prices can fluctuate, so this number might not be accurate after the day I checked it (15 Oct 2016). I don’t know if I would gather here again. It’s pretty good for Obsidian, but I can go to Uldum and get more Elementium as well as Pyrite Ore (See my Uldum mining post HERE). Also, I didn’t get any jewels. Not sure if there are no jewels at all to be gathered, or if it was just bad luck. If you have any useful gathering tips or if you have a question, feel free to submit it to the blog or send me a message :) Thanks for reading!