Dark Iron Mining- This is the gathering technique I routinely use to
make 30-60 gold in an hour.
Dark iron is a very valuable material that is used to craft high-end
items and also for reputation gains with the Thorium Brotherhood. Put
simply, it is worth a lot of gold. It is only found in two places in
the entire game, Blackrock Depths and Molten Core. Obviously, Molten
Core is a 40 main raid instance so you can't sneak in there to get
ore. That leaves us with BRD.
Upon entering the BRD instance there is a door to your left. You will
need to be able to lockpick it or you will need to have the
Shadowforge key to open it (obtained by completing a quest inside
BRD).
Once through there you can either walk straight ahead or turn right
through another door. You want to walk straight ahead to the area
called the Dark Iron Highway. In this area is where you are going to
make tons of gold mining ore.
There are numerous dark iron spawn points in this area and on each run
you should be able to get to one or two of them. Simply mine the ore,
leave and reset the instance to do it all over again. You will need a
couple of people at least for this or if you are a rogue or druid you
can stealth in. Also, hunters can run in and feign death to escape the
mobs around the ore.
Some times you will need to clear some mobs around the ore to mine it.
Sometimes it will all be clear for you. Other times it will be behind
so many mobs you won't be able to reach it and will have to reset the
instance right away.
A word of warning about the mobs in that area-there are bloodhounds in
this area that can see through stealth from very far away for their
level. Also, they hit very hard but fortunately don't have much
health. You may have to fight a few of these to get to the ore, but
they can easily be soloed if you are careful.
I average about 20-40 dark iron ore per hour using this technique.
Considering that dark iron ore sells for anywhere from 1 gold to 4
gold a piece it is easy to see that this is insanely profitable. I had
the money for my epic mount using this technique for just two days.
It's that good!
As an added bonus, the dark iron ore points also have a chance to drop
the Blood of the Mountain, a component for rare recipes. This sells
for around 30-100g. Sometimes I get two of these per day and other
times none. If you see one just consider it an extra bonus.
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