Jumping down will give you a ton of fall damage so if you can heal yourself it makes things easier, or if you are a warrior a well timed charge or intercept on one of the mobs below can save all of the fall damage. its not the fastest method but it is stable, noone can mine all your veins out since they are instanced.īasically run in the open instance portal that doesnt require a key, you will be up on a ledge with some small lashers down below. I havent timed myself but I find that i get myself locked out, and each run yields 2-3 rich thorium veins, meaning 10-15 rich veins in an hour. Also, avoid going inside any of the Houses, they usually have priests or mages.Īfter I've checked behind the Town Hall, I would head back to the Lumbermill and start again!Ī couple of important notes here, make sure that you mount up before you make the pull and these mobs DO RUN AWAY IN FEAR, so if you don't have a way of stopping them, Avenger's Shield or Improved Blizzard for example, I don't recommend farming here.Ĭomment by 113359I farm thorium in Dire Maul, as a previous poster had mentioned. Also there is a group near some large ballistas beside the Town Hall, don't pull them because there are sometimes priests that cast and the melee are paladins that heal. There is a Rich Thorium Vein behind the Town Hall, but I DO NOT recommend trying to AoE the Paladins inside as they heal themselves and there are only 3-4. There is a Rich Thorium Vein which spawns behind Mardenholde Keep, so don't forget to check back there. I do not recommend going inside the keep as there are random elites that walk around. On either side of the keep are Sentinels training, you can pull the small group on the northern side (These can also be pulled with the Blacksmith if you're feeling brave) and kill them and then pull the group on the southern side with the workers in the stables. West of the mine is the Mardenholde Keep.
1-2 Rich Thorium spawn inside and 1-2 spawn outside on the rocks of the mine entrance and on the hill to the west of the entrance. After that you can go into the mine and AoE the Workers in there as well.
You can AoE the fairly large group of mobs out front near all the wagons and inside the Blacksmith (This may need to be broken into two separate pulls if you're having trouble). When I did this, there was an Elite that pathed up and down on the road right next to the Lumbermill, so beware of him.Īfter that, I would move to the mine just passed the tower, which had 3-4 Rich Thorium Vein spawns. I would start at the Lumber Mill near the entrance to Hearthglen and AoE down all the workers in there. In the Western Plaguelands, you can AoE grind in Hearthglen on the level 55-57workers and there are 4-5 Rich Thorium veins throughout the area that you can mine on your downtime. The area is much more favorable for leveling then it is for farming thorium, but it is great for doing both. At this rate, a miner with some dedication can make enough for an epic mount without breaking a sweat.Ĭomment by JebomnisTo those Mages, Prot Pallies and whomever else can AoE grind, I know a great place that you can AoE grind and farm this. On a good day, I can make 40g with two stacks after a few hours of mining, easily.
Pros: You won't compete against many other players. These zones are also pretty spread out from one another.
If you don't get a full stack of thorium and don't feel like filling it out, smelt for two, put them up for auction, and see what happens.)Ĭons: You're going to head to some podunk areas with teeth-gnashing travel times. (If nothing else, two thorium bars are part of the quest requirements for That's Asking a Lot. Players not populating these areas = players not farming these areas = thorium not farmed as consistently + still a demand for thorium = profit for you.
So we've reached an intersection with players on their way up with their first characters, moving out of "Old World" and through the portal, and elites who can afford to buy rather than farm.Īnd it just so happens that thorium is best found in areas that are "unpopular" with players since they can hang out in Hellfire at 58, instead of the old 56-60 zones, like Burning Steppes, Winterspring, Eastern Plaguelands, etc. (I checked the census numbers at Warcraft Realms, just to confirm my suspicions, and it does seem to be the case.) My realm Nazgrel opened to transfers a few months ago, and we're starting to see a flood of high-levels.