Leveling Guide - Horde mining tips and tricks

Hello World, you are sort of snowy today, but nevertheless, I managed not to get buried by the snowplows and got back from office just in time to play World Of Warcraft a little bit and share few tips on leveling horde professions - especially, mining.

While many leveling guides will tell you to ignore professions while leveling, I suggest you do not because later on, instead of playing with your friends, you will be forced to come back to low level areas of World Of Warcraft and do this again - boooooooring, and it wont be faster just cause you will have mounts by the time cause you will have to spend all that time travelling back and forth. Since you do all the running now, why not stop and pick up a node or ten *grin* while you are there anyway. Especially, since Cataclysm release you get a bit of experience for gathering materials.

Another good reason to do it - it is a money maker, even if you get to sell low level crafted items to vendors. This probably will not matter if this is your second or third character, but if you are beginner, you will find yourself short on wow gold most of the time.

So, few tips about gathering professions like mining and herbalism. While you are following your leveling guides - int this case, horde, keep in mind, that there are great many competitors for your mining spots. Maybe not in the low level areas, but later on it becomes a real challenge, especially on high population realms. Here is how to make it easier. First of all - get an ad-on called Gatherer - you can download it from curse com and install. What it does? It keeps your mining nodes on the maps. Secondly, search Google for optimal mining routes in your particular area - you will get plenty pictures with nodes and spots - choose one you like and check if its updated. Remember, after Cataclysm release, a lot of things have changed!

So, after you have installed your gatherer add-on and got latest mining routes, think about competition - when is the best time when you can hassle free enjoy leveling horde mining? Obvious answer is - when there are few players playing - during school hours, early morning, very late evening. When it is not a good time to gather herbs and ore - weekends and Friday nights. Your goal is to try leveling your mining or herbalism profession with as little competition as possible while following a decent route. Thats it - only smart thing to do!

There was a very good post about helpful addons for World Of Warcraft on Horde Leveling Guide - I suggest you check it out - can save a lot of grief and mishap.

Well, hope this helps you to be more time efficient when gathering your resources. While you try it out, Im back to reading my leveling guide - horde rocks!