Mining

Recommended for

Good fit

• Paladin (1st choice, for levelling, with Blacksmithing): Blacksmithing makes plate (Steel Plate Helm at 40, Imperial Plate Gauntlets at 52) and a skill-20 Sharpening Wheel that adds Strength to the group.
• Warrior (1st choice, for levelling, with Blacksmithing): Blacksmithing makes plate (Steel Plate Helm at 40) and weapons, and the skill-20 Sharpening Wheel adds Strength to the group.

Works

• Rogue (2nd choice, at the level cap, with Blacksmithing): Blacksmithing makes Sharpening Stones, Weightstones and Skeleton Keys, and Blizzard says poisons now stack with the stones on the same weapon.
• Warrior (2nd choice, at the level cap, with Blacksmithing): Plate and weapon upgrades stay worth making because Blacksmithing recipes run past skill 300.
• Shaman (3rd choice, alt-friendly, with Blacksmithing): Blacksmithing makes chain armor and weapons, though the Sharpening Wheel's Strength overlaps Strength of Earth Totem and gives an Enhancement Shaman little.

What Forever changes

Camp items

Mining places a Lodestone at skill 20 (melee Attack Power for those sitting nearby), a Rock Garden at 140 that spawns a common mining node over time, and a Molten Foundry at 300 that some recipes need. Tier 2 and tier 3 items each need a Blueprint recipe item first.

New abilities

10 of the 33 Mining abilities are new in Forever; the highest yellow threshold is 315.

Fewer starter nodes

Blizzard reduced the number of Poor Copper Vein nodes in starting areas in the 1 October beta notes.

Camp items

Mining camp items

Item	Skill	Reagents	Learned from
Lodestone	20	1 × Rough Stone, 1 × Copper Bar	Not in the client data
Rock Garden	140	2 × Heavy Stone, 1 × Iron Ore, 1 × Silver Bar	Blueprint: Rock Garden
Molten Foundry	300	5 × Thorium Bar, 2 × Dense Stone, 1 × Truesilver Bar	Blueprint: Molten Foundry

Not surveyed yet

Trainers, recipe vendors, where recipes drop, and where to gather come from our own in-game survey, which has not reached Mining yet. Until it does, this page shows only what the game client records and what we have written ourselves.