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Commento di 15892

Basically to Prospect this ore, you get ~15% chance of getting a blue, and then a 85% chance to get 0, 1, or 2 green gems. Occasionally you will get a blue and green gems, but that's quite rare. The powder should also not be vendored as it is a reagent for making Mercurial Adamantite.

In contrast, fel iron ore gives you the same prospecting rate to get green gems, but less than half the chance to get blue gems. That said, if you can buy fel iron ore for less than half of what adamantite ore cost, then you shoul be ahead gold-wise by prospecting that.

TO APPEND TO MY PREVIOUS POST (Green text above).

Patch 2.1.X changed the drop rates of blue gems, it is now 16.2% (instead of 15%) to get a blue gem. Previously, you would also have a chance to get zero gems in a prospect, that is now not the case, so the "overall" chance to get green gems has increased around 10%, and the chance to get blue gems has increased by 1.2%.

Commento di Wark

(was a comment here before user got dumb... please ignore)

Commento di Grandomega

Can someone explain how Adamantite Ore can be mined from Ogres & Basalisks? You cant even mine the rock elementals.
The drops are wrong too. You cant loot the Withered Corpses in Netherstorm, they turn into the fleshfiends if you get close or attack them.
Hell, I wouldnt mind if you could get the ore from so many things. Means I could use Adamantite Shells more often.

Commento di 44935

what happened to the maps with the vein locations?

Commento di 30211

drop rate is now between 20-25% for blues. i get a blue just about every stack of ada ore now.
i prospected 40 or so stacks today. i got about 38(i think) blue gems.
got unlucky for part and went 6 stacks with no blue gem then immediately after i got 6 in a row. took a SS of it even. its very streaky

Commento di 17911

The actual prospecting rate is more than 18% now.

If you total up all the blue gems, and divide it by the total as of 9/17/07 these are the numbers from Wowhead itself:

Prospecting %
This mineral ore has been prospected 245820 times.

Talasite - 7979
Dawnstone - 7717
Noble Topaz - 7668
Living Ruby - 7490
Star of Elune - 7392
Nightseye - 7376

-----------------------------------
Total - 45622

45622 / 245820 = 18.55% chance to get a blue gem.

If the Wowhead data hasn't been reset with the 2.1.x patch then the actual prospecting rate might is even greater than this since it will average with old data that was at 15%.

Commento di Divyraen

You shouldn't sell these. Get a jewelcrafter friend and let him/her prospect them all for you. From my experience, you will always get one rare gem out of a stack of Adamantite Ore... you will also get 4 powders for making Mercurial Adamantite. Let your friend craft that rare gem if he/she is able(which will sell even more), if not, the gem itself will still worth a hell lot. Turn all the powders into Mercurial Adamantite(which also worth alot)... Primal Earth worth almost nothing.(and extremely easy to obtain as a miner... I didn't farm any, yet I have 3 stack of Primal Earth sitting in my bank eating dust)

After doing that, you should be able to turn a stack of Adamantite Ore(20g) into rare gems and Mercurial Adamantite worth at least 50g.(you get loads of small uncommon gems too~)

Note: This method only works on certain servers... such as mine, in which a stack of Adamantite worth only 15g and any rare gem other than Talasite(which worth 30g) will worth over 40g.... crafted ones all worth over 50g. Primal Earth worth 3g and Mercurial Adamantite worth 20g.

Commento di Gary13579

Prospecting is one of the best and easiest ways to make gold, depending on your servers economy.

Simply hit 350 Jewelcrafting, get a few "in demand" gems, and buy up all the Adamantite Ore you can find. Do not buy recipes for gems that aren't good for a class, eg don't buy recipes for gems like + to spirit...
Undercut everyone. Learn what your gem prices are, and what you need to sell at in order to profit.

Here's an average day's (this morning, actually) run from prospecting for me.

Purchased:
35x stacks of (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=23425), each at 20g, making it a 700g investment.

From prospecting:
7x Talasite (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=23437)
2x Living Ruby (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=23436)
4x Noble Topaz (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=23439)
9x Dawnstone (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=23440)
12x Nightseye (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=23441)
5x Star of Elune (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=23438)

83x miscellaneous green gems.
140x Adamantite Powder.

???
?

Profit!:
7x Talasite, 10g each, 70g
2x Living Ruby, 70g each, 140g
4x Noble Topaz, 40g each, 160g
9x Dawnstone, 30g each, 270g
12x Nightseye, 30g each, 360g
5x Star of Elune, 40g each, 200g

83x uncommon gems, vendor for 25s each: 20.75g
140x Adamantite Powder, vendor 22.5s each: 31.5g

Total time taken: roughly 20 minutes.
Investment: 700g
Profit: 1250g
Total Profits: 550g
Return: ~180%

The lowest return I usually hit is 140%, which is still pretty good profit for how little time this takes. On good days (I've managed to get 4x living rubies from a single stack!), I hit as high as 200%-250%

Commento di 123154

Here's my take on those numbers, regarding probability. I know from personal experience that these are not dependent events or, at least, it's not a rule set in stone that only one blue gem can drop from a single Prospect. I've seen a Talasite and Living Ruby come from a single 5-stack of Adamantite Ore (not mine unfortunately), which leads me to believe that these are independent events.

Using your table above for drop counts of each blue gem from the total prospecting seen, you can work out individual probabilities for each blue gem:

Talasite - 7979/245820 ~= 0.0324587
Dawnstone - 7717/245820 ~= 0.0313928
Noble Topaz - 7668/245820 ~= 0.0311935
Living Ruby - 7490/245820 ~= 0.0304694
Star of Elune - 7392/245820 ~= 0.0300707
Nightseye - 7376/245820 ~= 0.0300056

The chance of any single one of these not dropping is then one minus that respective probability:

Chance of Talasite NOT dropping ~= 1 - 0.0324587 = 0.967541
Chance of Dawnstone NOT dropping ~= 1 - 0.0313928 = 0.968607
Chance of Noble Topaz NOT dropping ~= 1 - 0.0311935 = 0.968806
Chance of Living Ruby NOT dropping ~= 1 - 0.0304694 = 0.969530
Chance of Star of Elune NOT dropping ~= 1 - 0.0300707 = 0.969929
Chance of Nightseye NOT dropping ~= 1 - 0.0300056 = 0.969994

Then the aggregate chance that no blue gems will drop is the product of the above numbers, or approximately 0.828180.

The chance that any blue gems will drop is then one minus the probability that none will drop, or

1 - 0.828180 = 0.171819

This is very close to the 18% you stated but not quite the same thing.

Edit: Also, please note that this number represents the probability that one or more blue gems will be prospected from a given 5-stack of Adamantite Ore. Combined with the average value of uncut blue gems on your server, you can use this to find the expected minimum value of a stack of Adamantite Ore.

For example, with Gary13579's list of prices below, the expected minimum value of a 20 stack of Adamantite Ore would be

4*0.171819*(10+70+40+30+30+40)/6 ~= 25.20g

Commento di Ilovemuffins

Remember that, for Blacksmithers/Engineers/Jewlcrafters buying ore on the auction house, it takes TWO ores to make ONE bar. Make sure the ore you are buying is at least half the price of the bars on the AH (if you do plan using them for your profession), or you're getting ripped-off. Generally you wont find them at half price becuase they can be prospected, but sometimes you can find cheap ore.

Commento di 153465

Where's the best place for this? I have found Zangarmarsh to be pretty good - this mining guide with maps sent me there. Any other places of recommendation?

Commento di 146156

I farm 2 hours every day Adamantite Ore x50 stacks i sell this in ah 28-32g and i take the epic flying mount in 1week

Commento di WebGremlin

A mining skill level of 325 is needed to mine Adamantite veins.

EDIT: And a skill level of 350 for Rich Adamantite veins.

Commento di 129054

The prospecting level at the top of the screen is incorrect. It requires 350 to prospect.

Commento di 96334

It just might be a casuality, but I've noticed that when I mine in Quel'danas and prospect, I rarely get any blue gems(the quality, not the color). However, when I prospect adamantite from other placer (Nagrand above all) I've noticed a much higher droprate for blue gems. Probably It's just bad luck.

Commento di 126032

I know this is going to be marked as a -, but could someone please state the area with the most adamantite nodes? Usually wowhead is all over that. plz and ty

Commento di 204878

Nagrand (125)
Blade's Edge Mountains (118)
Netherstorm (97)
Terokkar Forest (75)
Shadowmoon Valley (73)
Zangarmarsh (47)
Isle of Quel'Danas (6)

Commento di verse

Heres my old mining route I used Pre-LK (With a flying mount ofcourse). You get a fair bit of Fel Iron but if you just skip em its lots of Adamantite to be had.

http://img205.imageshack.us/my.php?image=farmingterokarda2.jpg
http://i39.tinypic.com/jzjjpj.jpg
http://www.imagebam.com/image/c4249422013450

Commento di 148365

The vendor-prospect price of Adamantite Ore is about 23s/ea, comfortably over their vendor price. As I write this, the AH buyout is still about 50s, so selling them on the AH is a better approach - but if you need money fast, prospecting and vendoring the gems is smarter than just vendoring the ore.

Math:
110% chance of a "green drop", giving, on average, 1.5 gems. 41.25s off green gems.
Assuming a 20% chance of a "blue drop", giving one gem. 50s off blue gems.
100% chance of Adamantite Powder, worth 22.5s.

Total of 1g14s per set of 5, or 23s per item.

Commento di 318028

I looked on here hoping to find the best place to mine for adamantite and all i get is a load of posts about prospecting =/
can i pls get some help on the best place to go to mine the ore.Ty.

Commento di 331845

Just fly around the mountain edges of nagrand. Basically all the ogre caves, the deep ravine in the center, and all of the mountain edges.

Also, Blade's Edge is a good second choice, but I've always felt the route to be considerably longer, due to the fact that you need to make a lot of zig-zag passes.

Commento di 86212

When can you start prospecting adamantite ore?

Commento di 434004

Is Adamantite, “Adam Ant ite” an easter egg reference to the 1965 Hanna Barbara Atom Ant cartoon show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIk11Qu_jtk&feature=related or Adam Ant, the 1983 MTV video star http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3g5G0PFuXQ&feature=related or a reference to the word adamant, meaning any impenetrably or unyieldingly hard substance http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/adamant ?

Commento di 230180

especially hard substance

Hurr durr.

Commento di ezechiel

for some strange reason, in the past week Adamantite Ore sells in AH for 400-500g per stack on my server
i don't know how it used to be, as it never interested me the price for this before i started to level up Enchanting
^^

Commento di Thaerun

Now that the days of TBC are gone and no one does anything on Quel'Danas any more, it is pretty much the -best- spot for adamantite farming? Why?

Contains only adamantite, rich adamantite, and khorium veins.

I've heard that the way node spawns work is as such (some of it is guesswork, though some of it was imparted by a friend who was a GM for WoW at one point):

Nodes are gathered into clusters. Clusters are basically a set of nodes that are linked together (usually near each other, but not always). When one node in that cluster is mined, another will spawn in a random spawn point from that group. This is why, if you look at gatherer data, even after sitting in one spot for ages and ages, usually no ore will spawn at spawn points near you actively if no one is mining you. Else you could go to somewhere like Silithus and just see Thorium veins out the wazoo.

The reason Quel'Danas is so great is because there are only six clusters in total. What's more is that every cluster only has one spawn point. From timing, I think I have nailed the cluster respawn rate to be 5 minutes. This means, per 5 minute circuit, you will mine 6 nodes. Between normal and rich veins, this will be an average of 20-24 ore at LEAST per circuit. An hour of farming will net you 240 ore, or 12 stacks. Add in the extra gems you get, and this is an incredible spot to farm once you're at 325 JCing and want to boost it up, or just want to make some quick cash. Adamantite goes for 50g/stack on my server. The TBC uncommon gems go for 2-4 each in some cases, so you could easily net 700g here in an hour depending on server type.

When doing this route, a couple things: First, don't feel like you should skip any ore nodes if you want an easier route or if you find one's not spawned yet. If no one else is mining it'll take you less than 5 mins to do the full circuit and grab all the nodes, skipping any will just mean you wait longer.

If one is not there, it means you've got there too fast. Just wait a few seconds, it should respawn shortly unless someone's jacking your ore.

And here is a map of the nodes on QD: (My paint skillz are leet)

http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/xx292/tertialux/QD_Miningjpg.jpg

EDIT:

With the release of Cataclysm it seems that the same 6 "clusters" remain intact, but Blizzard sneakily added a couple more spawn points for each cluster. Kaputtfurleben has kindly created a new map a couple comments down which shows these points.

Commento di 262213

The best place I found to mine adamantite is in terrokar forest and Nagrand.
Although Terrokar has a lot of Fel iron nodes too. I did one lap of terrokar and found about 50% fel iron, 45% adamantite and 5% khorium. Maybe just lucky with the khorium mind.
One lap of nagrand though going into all the caves netted me aaround 110 bars in one lap plus lots of motes of fire and earth!
Hope this helps

Commento di Monthy

Farming Adamantite, some Khorium and a lot of motes in the superior area for it: Isle of Quel'Danas.

Here are the facts:

There are 18 nodes. Of these 5 to 7 will spawn for each lap you do, and any of them can at any point spawn as a Khorium ore, but two of them seem to do it more often than the others. It´s 2 of the 3 at the top east 61,44 and 60,40.

LOCATIONS:
EAST:
9 along the east coastline all but one along the hillside, not the waterline.
The single one in the water is at 61,44,( one of the top 3 NE spots.) After the top three, it´s all in a straight line from north to south so no point giving coords here, except for the top two =60,40 and 62,40 ( so you know where to start :))

NORTHWEST:
The other 9 is in the NW area between Sunwell Plateau--Dawnstar Village--Sun's Reach Armory.

There is nothing below Sunwell Plateau apart from the two on the horizontal line between 37,51(Just below SP) and 47,50(Sun's Reach Armory), so coming up that coastline on your lap, just go along the waterline up.

Coords for NW nodes:
37,51
36,44
35,35
39,35
43,32
45,37
50,41 = One shelf up NW of " The Dawning Square "
49,46 = One shelf up NW of " The Dawning Square "
47,50 = Sun's Reach Armory. nw spitting distance from arms/weap. vendor.

Well I think that´s all you need to know people.

Good luck with your mining,JC,gathering of wealth or whatever:)
/MonthyPython

Commento di 844001

There is no quick way to farm this but have found Nagrand to have the most. I checked out Isle of Quel'Danas and it does have some but not as many. Oh how I wish I would have leveled my Jewelcrafting as I leveled my toon. Good luck.

P.s. The Adamantite is found all through out Nagrand.. a lot around the other ridges, some in the caves, some on random hills. What a pain.

Commento di bookworm13

For the best resource for determining the Cataclysm adjusted mining levels as well as the best zones to farm them in, browse through the Mineral Veins listing.

This will also give you coordinates for the vein spawns.

Teach an elf to fish...

Commento di Sablerain

BC drop spawn rates are pretty bad. Where I was averaging approximately 100 ore every half hour in Azeroth, I'm averaging 60 adamantite ore every half hour in Outland.

I tried Nagrand first which had a horrible spawn rate for me, only 3 nodes in a 10 minute circuit. Then I tried Shadowmoon Valley which wasn't much better. Surprisingly Terokkar Forest was the best adamantite zone for me. This is where I averaged my 60 ore every half hour.

Mining ore in BC sucks. I can't wait to get the heck out of the horrible 300-375 bracket. :/

Commento di Samander

Here is a picture of the route I run in Nagrand.

I am not claiming Nagrand is the best zone to farm Addy Ore; however, I have farmed every zone in Outlands for one item or another and I have found Nagrand to be the most efficient for Addy Ore simply because of the route I have highlighted in the picture above. If you follow that route, you will clean the zone up of most ore to the point of other players complaining in general (if they so happen to be farming when you are).

A few things to note:

A) You will not hit every node with this route; but that is not the point. This is a very efficient route in that you are constantly moving/constantly mining. If your goal is to hit all of the nooks and crannies of a zone, your goal isn't to be a proficient farmer.

B) The only time you are remotely retracing your steps during a pass is in the Halaa area. However, there are quite a few spawn points in this area, so don't think it a waste of time. Each pass through the zone is taking you over "new" ground. This maximizes node spawns. Also, this route is a complete circle so you never have to "start over." You just keep flying the route and it'll keep repeating itself.

C) Notice I have you passing over multiple caves: Only go inside a cave if there are multiple nodes inside of the cave; and/or there is a rich addy node; and/or there is a khorium node. Otherwise it is a waste of time. If you fly over the cave, your map will tell you how many nodes are in there. Taking 10 seconds to fly over the cave first will save you 3 minutes of running in for one small node. This is especially true up in the Warmaul Hill area as the one cave is quite large.

Commento di DisRuptive1

Quel'Denas is probably the best place to farm as long as you're alone. Nodes respawn every 5 minutes but it takes 4 minutes to do a circuit. So do a full circuit then type "/sw 1:00" without quotes. Wait for the stopwatch to count down to 0 and do the whole thing over again.

I was able to get about 40 Adamantite ore and a bunch of other stuff every circuit.

Commento di 1013194

I just got done farming Isle of Quel'Danas { For you that dont know how to get there You can simply take the portal from Shattrath in the outlands straight to Isle of Quel'Danas. You will find 4 to 5 nodes of Adamantite ore and 1 node of khorium ore (you need to be 375 to mine khorium nodes) After 22 mins of farming i got 60 Adamantite ore. I was not able to farm khorium ore. Seeing that im not at level 375. I went to the outlands and it was taken way to long to find nodes of Adamantite ore even know i was the only one there i got more feliron then Adamantite ore. Farming Isle of Quel'Danas is vary easy there are no hills to go up and down and around. You cant fly but even on a ground mount it takes about 5 mins and the nodes you have farm are back as soon as you get back to them. On top of this i have never seen a rich Adamantite node in the out lands and you will find a few in Isle of Quel'Danas. Pending if they come back as a rich or not. I hope some one out there takes the time to read this. Happy farming guys and if you find this as helpful please upvote thanks.

Commento di pLcs

The best place to farm these are IMO Manaforge Ara in Netherstorm, inside the cave and outside it aswell, they respawn every 2 mins or so. Usually 2-3 rich ones every third respawn. I got 4 stacks in less than 30 mins. Hope this helps

They had respawned in the time it took me to write the first post.

10 stacks now, 22 mins after my second post, which was 1 min after my first one.

Ok, so two more came to my farming spot, guess someone saw this post. Got 15 stacks in 1 hour. Enough for my JC and bit of my BS leveling

Commento di 1096189

Copied over from my comment on Adamantite Node:

The best possible place to mine this is in Netherstorm. There is a the mine with it's entrance at 61.0, 45.7. This mine has an almost instant re-spawn of the nodes. By the time you get to one end of the mine, the nodes at the beginning have re-spawned. Happy Hunting!

Commento di aprildawn567

Based on info from other recent posts, I checked out the two caves in Netherstorm. First I checked out the mine at 61,45 and then went to the mine at 26,44.

The mine at 61,45 is easier to farm, IMO. It covers a much smaller area, so you can see the nodes that have respawned without having to run back and forth between a lot of dead ends. The only thing I dislike is that there are multiple levels within one section of the cave, and it can be tricky to figure out which level the node is on.

Both mines have creatures that respawn just as quick (or quicker) than the nodes, but the guys in the mine at 26,44 drop Marks of Sargeras and other items needed to grind rep with the local faction, if that matters. Both mines have 3 nodes that respawn at about the same rate and yield about the same results. (About 3 stacks of Adamantite ore in 30 minutes, plus a couple of gems, elementium ores, several motes of earth, etc.)

Commento di anhsieh

With the days of standalone realms behind us, it's gotten a bit more difficult to farm for stuff like Fel Iron Ore or Adamantite Ore. It's gotten to the point where it's actually easier for me to stand in one place and wait for respawn than to compete with the however many people flying around on their cloud serpents.

Personally, I like standing in the cave atop Warmaul Hill-- specifically, the middle of the cave at 26.19, 14.40, where a node happens to spawn. There you can see literally every node that spawns in the cave-- there's only about four or so-- and run to one whenever one spawns. That said, there's a bunch of people who come in for ogre kills, but if you stand long enough, you should still be able to get a lot of ore from just those nodes.

There's two major entrances-- one on the bottom floor at 27.10, 18.48, and another at 27.27, 11.47. (There's also one at the very bottom floor at 28.12, 13.37.) There's not really any other way to get back up a floor than to go outside and fly to the entrance, but it still beats flying all over Nagrand.

Commento di Saucery

Best Adamantite farming guide: http://youtu.be/HsWBUxJ9j1M

Commento di Uberphailure

26,44 in Netherstorm has a mine that just spits it out. A few nodes, wait a min or two, more nodes. It's effortless, or at least it was for me. Hope this helps!

Trelleum Mine is the name.

Commento di 1193427

Obtained 120 Adamantite ore and 80 fel iron within 45 minutes at negrand. Used the add on "carbonite". My toon has the skills from a max'd guild along with the highest flying. Kept a slight buzz on alcohol and smoked a tab bit of hookah to make the time go by =)

Commento di kalleralle

Like others have said a good spot to farm this is in Quel'danas. I farmed 200 ores there and here are the waypoints for most of the nodes. Notice there are no nodes on the southeastern coast, went there several times never saw any nodes

Cords

/way 55 85
/way 58 74
/way 59 64
/way 59 57
/way 59 53
/way 61 44
/way 62 40
/way 60 40
/way 50 41
/way 49 41
/way 49 46
/way 46 36
/way 43 32
/way 39 50
/way 39 35
/way 35 35
/way 36 40
/way 37 51
/way 47 50

Commento di squeakypizza

I just went farming for it today at the Isle of Queldanas and it was pretty consistent. The nodes spawned again often enough that I was able to go around in circles over and over at a good pace and get all I had come for. I got 170 ore, plus 8 khorium ore and between 20 to 40 eternium ore (not sure because I don't remember how much I had before that). I also got loads of primal earth.

Just wanted to check in and say yes this place is still good!

Commento di Terrassen

Most probably slightly a reference to Adamantium from the MARVEL universe, which was used to enhance Wolverine's skeleton and give him claws.

Commento di Tamiller

In 7.0, now that cross realm no longer works the way it used to and you can't just hop to a low pop realm and get ore, I'm finding that on my high-pop realm, this ore is heavily farmed, with a terrible respawn rate, and really hard to find. All of the Auchindoun and Coilfang 5-mans have 2 nodes of it, with Steamvaults having an additional 2 nodes of fel iron. However, all Steamvault nodes are normal size, if you want rich nodes (which have increased chance for eternium), my favorite choice is Mana Tombs. This one has 1 rich node. If you're on a stealthy you can get all the way through it without killing anything, and there's a nice loop at the end to get out quickly and start over.

CORRECTION: After doing more runs of this I discovered that rich nodes are not guaranteed, however they are very common in all of the 5-mans except Steamvaults (where they don't seem to spawn at all).

Commento di JustBecause

Today I flew around the Netherwing Fields in Shadowmoon Valley. It's a little island off the bottom of the map. I found about 5 or 6 nodes that respawned pretty fast. I kept flying around and they would respawn as I was flying by. So far for me this has been the best place to farm . Also no competition.

Commento di Zodlike

Mining on the Isle of Quel' Danas is only giving one piece of ore from nodes, even from Rich Adamantite Deposits.

Commento di Kamillah

It is now 10.2.5 and I went back to Outland just for nostalgia. Back then, I used to fly laps around Terokkar Forest and look for ore. Spawn nodes were pretty plentiful back then. Now, I found approximately 7 nodes during two entire laps. None of them "rich" nodes. Also, I was the only player from my faction in the entire zone.

I've experienced the same thing in other old zones. It seems as if they've just erased half of the spawn nodes.

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