Hey there goldmakers this is Reckles with
WTBGold and today we going to test how to
make gold quickly with Khorium ore. Our todo
list for this three hour test has three zones
in it: first we'll go to Nagrand, then Isle
of Quel'Danas, and finally Netherstorm, and
at the end, we'll know which zone is most
profitable, and which route is best for farming
Khorium ore specifically. So let's head out.
If you want to follow along with any of these
routes, I've got a map in the top left with
my path. Red circles are caves you should
go into, and red Xs are caves to avoid. But,
before I explain this route specifically,
let's talk about why you should be mining
Khorium in the first place.
First off, the ore by itself sells for 20
gold on most Auction Houses, and bars sell
for 50. And if you're the only supplier, you
can charge double because it's required for
some of the best crafted transmog out there,
it's really rare, and honestly, it's a pain
to farm. To know why though, let's look at Burning
Crusade ore spawns.
In BC you had two base nodes. In Hellfire
Peninsula, the easiest zone, only Fel Iron
nodes spawn, and in Isle of Quel'Danas, the
hardest zone, only Adamantium ore spawns.
The zones in between have a mix of the two
according to their difficulty. Khorium nodes
are the rare spawn of adamantium nodes, and
pop up 1 out of every 15 nodes, and yeild
about 2 ore each time, but in all the zones
in between, except for Hellfire Peninsula,
Fel Iron nodes can also spawn as Adamantite
nodes. So, essentially these tests we're doing
are looking at the highest density Adamantite
areas in the game, but we don't want to completely
ignore Fel Iron.
Now that know how Khorium works, let's get
back to the route. For Nagrand, you pretty
much just want to go around the perimeter
of the zone, but there are also 6 main caves.
3 of em have ore and 3 of them don't. You
also want to fly over all the lakes, trenches,
and all the valleys. So, it's kind of like
mining Borean Tundra in that you are flying
mostly around the outside but trying hit the
interior as efficiently as possible. And,
as a bonus, if you don't have the dark war
talbuk or the dark riding talbuk, you'll kill
a few Ogres who drop Oshu'gun Powder and those
mounts require you kill about 4,000 ogres.
While I like this zone for Khorium farming,
and it's great that you get a decent amount
of Fel Iron too, it's easy to get turned around,
and isn't the best for mining while you're
watching a movie or YouTube video on another
monitor. So, for that, let's head over to Isle of Quel'Danas.
To get there, head on over to Shattrath. Go
into the center of the main tower and get
lost checking the edges of each room trying
to find the portal because it's always the
last one you check. The Isle of Quel'danas
is interesting though because there only 17
nodes on the entire Island. It's my favorite
zone to farm though because, there are only
17 nodes to farm on the entire island. You
can easily memorize every spawn location and
just make a big loop.
Whereas the Nagrand farming lap took about
20 minutes to farm for each lap, this one is more
relaxing at about 5 1/2 to 6 minutes each.
It's also nice though because, from my testing
at least, you'll gather about twice as many
BC gems from this route compared to Nagrand.
Now, I know that this is a guide and all,
but honestly, part of the fun of this zone,
at least for me, was finding and learning
where each node is, so I'm not actually going
to put the map on the top left for this one,
although you're welcome to rewind a little
bit and screenshot the node locations I put
up earlier. To run the route, start on the
path where you port in, and head east towards
the water and then just stay in between the
beach and the wall. When you get to the forest,
check for the two ore that are over there,
and then cross the bridge where all the Sunwell
Plateau adds are and there's usually an ore
kind of nestled in the corner there. It's
easy to miss if you aren't looking for it
though.
After that, you're mostly done, head back
through the adds to the path and head east
again towards the beach. The last thing I'd
say about this place is that if there is ever
another person farming here, and you already
whispered them, just leave. There's only really
room for one. But, that's it, we can check
this place off the list and move on to the
next zone.
Ahhh, Netherstorm. I learned about this route
from a friend who regularly earns over 200,000
gold a day, no joke, and he swears that it
is the best khorium farming spot in the game,
so I immediately went out to the caves under
Manaforge Ultris and Manaforge Ara and got
lost until I was crying in the fetal position
and logged out in frustration.
[silly music]
But really, the caves here suck. For Netherstorm
a majority of the adamantite ore, and therefor
khorium ore, is located around the manaforges,
and in the treacherous caves underneath them.
There are three manaforges in the zone but
the one in the southwest corner doesn't have
as many nodes and is out in BFE, so you can
ignore it. Start at Manaforge Ultris, either
in the cave or not, and then grab all the
nodes around it, and then head south towards
the nether pipeline so you can head west towards
the biodome in the center of the map. While
you're mainly grabbing everything at Ultris
and Manaforge Ara, we're trying to efficiently
pick up everything in between them as well.
After you go into the caves at Ara, and loop
around everything there, head around the northern
perimeter of the map back to where you started,
grabbing everything along the way.
Netherstorm is interesting compared to Nagrand
in that it actually has more than twice as
much Adamantite than Fel Iron. This is important
because of the force spawn mechanic. If you
were just focusing on grabbing khorium you
might want to ignore fel iron nodes, but especially
here that would be a really bad idea. The
way force spawn works in World of Warcraft
mining, is that if you have 100 possible mining
nodes, and you don't farm a zone for an hour,
it'll only have say 40 nodes spawned. You
get there and mine 20 of them. When you mine
your 21st node, you've past some threshold
and one of the other 80 possible spawn locations
somewhere on the map instaspawns. So, why
does this matter? Well, in burning crusade,
Fel Iron and Adamantite ore are linked, so in
this zone, where there are twice as many adamantite,
it's actually really important that you clear
out as many of the fel iron as possible so
that you get as many chances of farming up the
adamantite on your laps, and therefor as many
chances of the Khorium. Long story short,
don't skip nodes, it's not faster.
Alright, let's check this off the list too.
That's three tests completed. Three hours
of mining done. One of the really weird things
that I noticed, is that I got about 50 percent
of the gem drops in Nagrand that I got everywhere
else even though my ore yields were similar.
Could be RNG or maybe some long-lost nerf
that everyone forgot about.
For Nagrand we got 16 Khorium, 236 Adamantite,
and 32 Fel Iron.
For Isle of Quel'Danas we got 8 Khorium, 135
Adamantite, and 0 Fel Iron.
And Netherstorm yielded 15 Khorium, 207 Adamantite,
and 66 Fel Iron
Netherstorm and Nagrand each pulled in right
about 1,450 gold per hour. With Quel Danas
in a miserable third place.
I'll be doing a guide on some of the tricks
of selling Khorium next and then I'll be going
back to Warlords Professions, but if 1500
gold doesn't seem like a lot compared to some
of the other guides, remember that if mining
is your main profession you want to be diversifying
the ore that you post up. You want to be posting
up 1500 gold in Khorium and Adamantite. You
want to be posting ghost iron and elementium
and saronite and mithril and thorium. You
want to be posting a lot of different ore
so you're always selling a lot of everything
so you're always making a lot of gold, you're
not just flooding the ghost iron market. Ok?
Anyways, that's it for me. Thanks for watching,
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