Mining 383 - where to go now?

[:1]OK, I've got a level 72 Death Knight who took Mining as a profession. Since getting to Northrend a few levels ago, he's managed to train to the top in Mining (Grand Master, I think?), But he doesn't seem able to learn how to mine/smelt anything better than Cobalt. He's been doing that for ages and it long ago turned grey - no amount of gathering it gives him more skill points. I checked with all the trainers so far in Howling Fjord, but no one offers the next mineral, whatever that might be. So what now?|||http://www.wowwiki.com/Mining_proficiencies

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http://www.wowwiki.com/Mining_trainers|||Dalaran is your friend if you can get someone to port you there. thought you could get any mining training anywhere though.

That said, just keep progressing and you'll find enough saronite to finish skilling you up.|||I'd already consulted a few lists of what could be mined where and where the trainers are located. I suppose I just have to wait until I get to an area where there is Saronite.

Trouble is, though, it's my understanding that if it isn't in your list of things you're able to smelt, you can't mine it either, so I'm still stumped by this. Seems like I can't get Saronite mining ability anywhere no matter what, and I'd thought, too, that once an item was grey to smelt that was a sign for sure that you needed more training.|||Quote:








Dalaran is your friend if you can get someone to port you there.




If you can't get a port, there are questgivers that gives you a ring to deliver to Dalaran, a level 74 quest. The thing is the questgiver provides the teleport, so all you need to do is not hand in the quest, it's not worth a great deal, and keep the ring in your inventory and you get a free teleport to Dalaran from the one of the NPCs. Here's the list of NPCs to go to for the quest and the teleport.

Alliance:

Baron Ulrik von Stromhearth (Valgarde, Howling Fjord)

Archmage Modera (Star's Rest, Dragonblight)

Vas the Unstable (Wintergarde, Dragonblight)

Magister Dath'omere (Valiance Keep, Borean Tundra)

Magistrix Haelenai (Amberpine Lodge, Grizzly Hills)

Horde:

Image of Archmage Aethas Sunreaver (Agmar's Hammer, Dragonblight)

Magistrix Kaelana (Warsong Hold, Borean Tundra)

Magister Varenthas (Vengeance Landing, Howling Fjord)

Magistrix Phaelista (Conquest Hold, Grizzly Hills)

Magister Tyr'ganal (Venomspite, Dragonblight).

I can't claim any credit for this I got the tip from wow-pro.|||Quote:








If you can't get a port, there are questgivers that gives you a ring to deliver to Dalaran, a level 74 quest. The thing is the questgiver provides the teleport, so all you need to do is not hand in the quest, it's not worth a great deal, and keep the ring in your inventory and you get a free teleport to Dalaran from the one of the NPCs. Here's the list of NPCs to go to for the quest and the teleport.

I can't claim any credit for this I got the tip from wow-pro.




Thanks, guess I'll wait for that quest, then. In the meantime at least I can sell the cobalt for a decent price.|||I've don e some more reading on this and it just doesn't make sense. He can mine Rich Cobalt nodes and smelt it. Next in line ought to be Saronite, which is red now and therefore he can neither mine nor smelt. Saronite comes at level 400. He's 383 and never gains another point from Cobalt, hasn't gained one in perhaps a month, despite mining and smelting it maybe four times a day. And nothing happens, he doesn't gain a point.|||You should still get skillups from mining cobalt (normal and rich nodes). Normal cobalt nodes don't go grey until 400, rich don't go grey until 450. In fact - both should be yellow for you at 383 (you should be getting a skillup at around 75% of nodes mined).

If you hover the mouse over a node, it should display the text in the colour relevent to your skill level (red means you can't mine it, orange is a definate skillup, yellow is a 75% chance of skillup and green is <50% chance)

See http://www.wowwiki.com/Mining for more info on skillups from mining.

Smelting cobalt goes grey at 375.

See http://www.wowwiki.com/Smelt for more info on skillups from smelting.|||Quote:








You should still get skillups from mining cobalt (normal and rich nodes). Normal cobalt nodes don't go grey until 400, rich don't go grey until 450. In fact - both should be yellow for you at 383 (you should be getting a skillup at around 75% of nodes mined).

If you hover the mouse over a node, it should display the text in the colour relevent to your skill level (red means you can't mine it, orange is a definate skillup, yellow is a 75% chance of skillup and green is <50% chance)

See http://www.wowwiki.com/Mining for more info on skillups from mining.

Smelting cobalt goes grey at 375.

See http://www.wowwiki.com/Smelt for more info on skillups from smelting.




There's definitely something wrong. I did a major mining run through Howling Fjord last evening and ended up with 43 Cobalt, but got no points for doing so. Still at 383. So I bought 20 more on the AH and smelted all 63. No points.

I've read your suggested links. And while I thank you, they didn't really say anything I didn't already know from all my other searches and reading. Whatever's wrong, it's wrong with my character. Think I'll abandon Mining. He's levelling up in his class and soon will be in areas where he can't mine at all, so there's no point really in continuing.|||I think you should open a ticket and speak to a GM.