Mining in World of Warcraft: Forever
18 recipes in Forever, 5 of them (28%) new since Classic Era, reaching Molten Foundry, Heavy Thorium Bar, Azerothium Bar. What Mining makes, what it buys, the cheapest way through each skill bracket, what of it sells, and every recipe with its reagents.
Mining gathers ore and smelts it into bars, which is where its recipes come from. Ore, bars, and the stones that come out of a node feed Blacksmithing and Engineering.
Bars are one of the largest commodity markets in the game. The spread between ore and the bar it smelts into is a margin anyone with the skill can take, and it closes as more miners level.
What Forever changes about Mining
Mining smelts, and in Forever it smelts further. Forever adds a Heavy Thorium Bar above the Era thorium bar, and a bar it calls Azerothium above that, a metal Classic Era never had. Every smith and engineer at the top of their list will need them, and only miners make them.
Two other recipes, Molten Foundry and Rock Garden, are new and are not bars. The item tables do not say what they are for; their skill and reagents are listed below and this page will say when a build makes their purpose clear.
The highest-skill recipes new to Forever: Molten Foundry (260), Heavy Thorium Bar (260), Azerothium Bar (235), Rock Garden (100), Lodestone (1). Everything new is also listed under New in Forever.
What Mining makes, and what it buys
Makes
15 trade goods (2 new), 3 consumable (3 new). 18 of the results can be listed on the auction house.
- Trade Goods15 · 2 new
- Consumable3 · 3 new
Buys most
The reagents the most recipes call for, with the units those recipes consume between them. 6 of them are made by Mining itself, so a crafter climbs on their own output.
Copper Bar2 recipes · 2 units
Iron Ore2 recipes · 2 units
Coal2 recipes · 2 units
Arcanite Bar1 recipes · 10 units
Dark Iron Ore1 recipes · 8 units
Thorium Bar1 recipes · 5 units
Elemental Flux1 recipes · 3 units
Heavy Stone1 recipes · 2 units
Leveling Mining in Forever
Mining levels itself. The only reason to think about it is the pairing: Blacksmithing or Engineering, both of which turn the ore into something, or neither, if you would rather sell every bar.
Smelting counts for skill, so the ore you carry out of a zone is skill points as well as gold, and the cheapest craft per bracket below is always a bar.
The cheapest craft in each bracket, by reagent units
- Apprentice 1-75Smelt Copperskill 1, 1 × Copper Ore5 recipes
- Journeyman 76-150
Smelt Ironskill 90, 1 × Iron Ore5 recipes - Expert 151-225
Smelt Truesilverskill 190, 1 × Truesilver Ore3 recipes - Artisan 226-300
Smelt Heavy Thoriumskill 260, 1 × Heavy Thorium Ore5 recipes
Fewest reagent units is not always cheapest in gold; it is the measure that holds on every market, scanned or not. The crafting table ranks every recipe by what it costs and what it makes at the current medians.
What a mining sells
Bars are one of the largest commodity markets in the game, because two crafting professions consume them in nearly every bracket. The spread between ore and the bar it becomes is a margin anyone with the skill can take, and it narrows as more miners level.
The new bars are where the margin will hold longest: fewer miners reach the skill to make them, and the smiths and engineers who need them cannot substitute.
Every Mining recipe, lowest skill first
Apprentice · 5 recipesshowhide
| Recipe | Skill | Makes | Reagents | Learned from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Lodestonenew1 × Copper Bar, 1 × Rough Stone | 1 | Lodestone | 1 × Copper Bar, 1 × Rough Stone | trainer |
| Smelt Copper 1 × Copper Ore | 1 | Copper Bar | 1 × Copper Ore | - |
 Smelt Tin1 × Tin Ore | 10 | Tin Bar | 1 × Tin Ore | trainer |
 Smelt Bronze1 × Copper Bar, 1 × Tin Bar | 25 | 2 × Bronze Bar | 1 × Copper Bar, 1 × Tin Bar | trainer |
 Smelt Silver1 × Silver Ore | 60 | Silver Bar | 1 × Silver Ore | trainer |
Journeyman · 5 recipesshowhide
| Recipe | Skill | Makes | Reagents | Learned from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smelt Iron 1 × Iron Ore | 90 | Iron Bar | 1 × Iron Ore | trainer |
 Rock Gardennew | 100 | Rock Garden | 2 × Heavy Stone, 1 × Iron Ore, 1 × Silver Bar | trainer |
 Smelt Steel | 125 | Steel Bar | 1 × Coal, 1 × Iron Bar | trainer |
 Smelt Gold1 × Gold Ore | 130 | Gold Bar | 1 × Gold Ore | trainer |
 Smelt Mithril1 × Mithril Ore | 135 | Mithril Bar | 1 × Mithril Ore | trainer |
Expert · 3 recipesshowhide
| Recipe | Skill | Makes | Reagents | Learned from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Smelt Dark Iron8 × Dark Iron Ore | 190 | Dark Iron Bar | 8 × Dark Iron Ore | trainer |
| Smelt Truesilver 1 × Truesilver Ore | 190 | Truesilver Bar | 1 × Truesilver Ore | trainer |
| Smelt Thorium 1 × Thorium Ore | 210 | Thorium Bar | 1 × Thorium Ore | trainer |
Artisan · 5 recipesshowhide
| Recipe | Skill | Makes | Reagents | Learned from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Smelt Azerothiumnew2 × Pitchblende, 1 × Coal | 235 | Azerothium Bar | 2 × Pitchblende, 1 × Coal | trainer |
 Molten Foundrynew | 260 | Molten Foundry | 5 × Thorium Bar, 2 × Dense Stone, 1 × Truesilver Bar | trainer |
| Smelt Heavy Thoriumnew | 260 | Heavy Thorium Bar | 1 × Heavy Thorium Ore | trainer |
 Smelt Elementium | 270 | Elementium Bar | 10 × Arcanite Bar, 3 × Elemental Flux, 1 × Elementium Ore, 1 × Fiery Core | trainer |
 Smelt Obsidian-Infused Thorium Bar | 275 | Obsidian-Infused Thorium Bar | 2 × Enchanted Thorium Bar, 2 × Large Obsidian Shard | recipe |
Questions
- What new metal is in World of Warcraft: Forever?
- Forever’s Mining recipes include a Heavy Thorium Bar and an Azerothium Bar, both above the thorium bar that topped Classic Era smelting. Their skill requirements and reagents are on this page.
- Which profession goes best with Mining?
- Blacksmithing or Engineering, both of which consume bars in nearly every bracket. Mining with no crafting profession is also a sound choice on a fresh economy, since bars sell continuously.
Source: World of Warcraft: Forever game data, compared with the Classic Era catalog. Counts update with each game build.