Farmers Market - Thorium

Welcome to Farmers Market, a series I will be trying to run on a Sunday. Within it I shall be posting my tips and observations regarding farming for materials either you need or can then sell. I know, I know it is better to purchase a lot of these from the AH but sometimes it is easy or cheaper to get them yourself. Of course, someone has to farm them to put them on the AH anyway.

So today we are going to discuss Thorium. I used to hate hunting this stuff down but did have a favourite farming spot. I personally would go circling around the outside of Burning Steppes. I had a path I would take that I had developed over time and repetition, a route I knew off by heart. I preferred this location as it wasn't heavily visited, at least certainly not by the Horde.

Now my Brother-in-Law always preferred Silithis as he would run through the hives. Apparently that made for good mining but I hated having to move through there on foot. But he had his favourite and I had mine.

But now there is a new contender. Un'Goro Crater. This is somewhere I used to mine before I got tired of the low numbers of Rich veins. However, there have been some major changes. Rich and Small veins are abundant.

Just ride around the outside of the crater and you can't miss them. A lot of other people know about this location so you may find competition tough but the respawn rate is phenomenal. I have several time rode away from a vein only to find a new one has spawned there immediately or nearby. I have also found at times two or three nodes next to each other. Gatherings are rich along with high end Azeroth gems and Arcane Crystals. You may find nodes that are stripped of everything but dense stone, which is very annoying I know, but I grab everything. You never know when you are going to need large amounts of stone either.

So, happy farming.