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Kommentar von 3118

This is only used as an ore for smelting it into bars (which hardly counts) and
Greater Stoneshield Potions
https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/spell=17570

In terms of AH, it's usually prefered in bars.

Kommentar von 6370

As of patch 2.0.3 this ore stacks to 20.

Kommentar von 47175

In terms of price per ore Thorium seems to be the most valuable, when you take into account the OL ores take 2 to smelt a bar and are heavily farmed by people with epic flyers. I've made more money selling the much less farmed thorium than adamantite.

Kommentar von andywoho01

What a moneymaker.

My realm Nazgrel opened to transfers a few months ago, and we're starting to see a flood of high-levels. (I checked the census numbers at Warcraft Realms, just to confirm my suspicions, and it does seem to be the case.)

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.

And 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. etc.

Players not populating these areas = players not farming these areas = thorium not farmed as consistently + still a demand for thorium = profit for you.

(If nothing else, two thorium bars are part of the quest requirements for That's Asking a Lot. https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/quest=6026 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.)

Cons: You're going to head to some podunk areas with teeth-gnashing travel times. These zones are also pretty spread out from one another.

Pros: You won't compete against many other players.

On a good day, I can make 40g with two stacks after a few hours of mining, easily. At this rate, a miner with some dedication can make enough for an epic mount without breaking a sweat.

Kommentar von Shivacode

Thorium prices are ridiculous on my server. 25G for a stack is undercutting the competition.

I've made well over a grand at 56 off thorium alone.

Kommentar von 79784

Why isn't anyone saying here that it IS used for something?
You can make thorium settings ( https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=21752 ) with it for Jewelcrafting.

Kommentar von 74389

Winterspring is the best place for Rich Thorium. Basically as Zedd said above if you do that pattern you can get easily 50 ore in less then an hour. And i figure out how to Jack prices up on AH. Basically wait till theres no Thorium left on AH and then put up a couple at 30g. And then people will put theres at like 29g and then put all of yours for like 28g.

Kommentar von DoXo

I think In Silithus with the elites, in the caves is the best place as lvl 70 to farm Thorium :) Lots of Ooze Covered Rich Thorium Vein https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/object=177388 inside :)

Good luck

Kommentar von 71619

Just like some guys said if your 70 and want to mine thorium winterspring is the way to go, the elites in the south acts as a very good buffer for most of the server, just 70's can easily get thru it and mine. Very good spot i used to mine in EPL good spot too but proably over farmed

Kommentar von 118501

On a recent Thorium farming session in Wintersrpinds I got a very consistent number of ores (4 - 5) per Rich Thorium Vein.

This is an increase on what I previously remember Rich Thorium Veins previously dropping.

Kommentar von 122112_

A really good amount can be found in Silithus, just do circuts.

Kommentar von 132212

I found that EPL is the optimum zone for leveling mining from 275 to 300. The nodes are spaced in almost a perfect circle around the zone, the mob levels make you invisible at 70, and on a "full" server, I had zero competition. There is a nice blending of small thorium/rich thorium to keep your skill levels climbing.

Also, for you jewelcrafters out there, heres a lil breakdown of the prospecting potential of thorium.

After 200 ore prospected...
Most common gem: Blue Sapphire
2nd most common gem: Azerothian Diamond
3rd most common gem: Huge Emerald
4th most common gem: Large Opal
Least common gem: Arcane Crystal

You are more likely to get an Arcane Crystal from the actual vein than you are to prospect it.

Happy hunting :D

Kommentar von 152497

This mining guide with maps has been really helpful to me all the way to 375.

Kommentar von Veraxidel

I recently spent a while farming Thorium to help my GF level her JC so she could prospect for Huge Emeralds. I found that the best place out of all the ones mentioned above was Silithus.

Darkwhisper Gorge is a pain as the tunnels dismount you and the Plaguelands aren't too great either as the veins are mostly found on the edges of the map.

I farmed about 100 ore in an hour of riding around Silithus and I got a good few gems (mainly Huge Emeralds) while I was mining.

Kommentar von 54840

i know this might not help much but it progressed my mining skill up 30 points for 5 minutes work, i went on AH to see how much thorium ore was then checked it with the bars they were going for the same price so ofc i bought up all the ores on ah and made them into bars skilling up then selling them on for same price.

Kommentar von Lickking

I may be wrong on this, but there seems to be slightly less nodes in Eastern Plaguelands in the Noxious Glade and Tyr's Hand because of the Ruins of the Scarlet Enclave.

Kommentar von 188809

Some have suggested Darkwhisper Gorge, but I do not. To traverse the gorge you need to go through tunnels that dismount you, wasting you time. I'm a paladin with crusader aura, so with all the dismounts I am really disadvantaged. I suggest somewhere that is more open to farm thorium ore, such as EPL or burning steppes.

Kommentar von Jebomnis

To those Mages, Prot Pallies and whomever else can AoE grind, I know a great place that you can AoE grind and farm this. The area is much more favorable for leveling then it is for farming thorium, but it is great for doing both.

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.

I would start at the Lumber Mill near the entrance to Hearthglen and AoE down all the workers in there. 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.

After that, I would move to the mine just passed the tower, which had 3-4 Rich Thorium Vein spawns. 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). After that you can go into the mine and AoE the Workers in there as well. 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.

West of the mine is the Mardenholde Keep. 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. I do not recommend going inside the keep as there are random elites that walk around. There is a Rich Thorium Vein which spawns behind Mardenholde Keep, so don't forget to check back there.

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. 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. Also, avoid going inside any of the Houses, they usually have priests or mages.

After I've checked behind the Town Hall, I would head back to the Lumbermill and start again!

A 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.

Kommentar von 307723

Un'Goro Carter is the best place to farm Thorium ore.

The smaller veigns are located on the edge of the mountains around Un'Goro, The rich veigns are located more in the center and around fire plume ridge.

Kommentar von Thyra

If you want to farm Thorium in Eastern Plaguelands... you better do it early in the morning or after most people went to bed. There are lots of possible spawns, but only few veins. If someone is also farming in Plaguelands, you can almost forget it. I skilled mining with 3 chars in the last months - with every char I almost spent ~1 hour for 5 skillpoints 245+
I also got chain dismounted when I farmed Thorium at lvl 65 in EPL.

Kommentar von 113359

I farm thorium in Dire Maul, as a previous poster had mentioned. 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... its not the fastest method but it is stable, noone can mine all your veins out since they are instanced.
Basically run in the open instance portal that doesnt require a key, you will be up on a ledge with some small lashers down below... 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.
Run straight down the path, past the corrupted tree and into the door at the end, run through this room and cross the pool with the Water Elemental boss (kill him on the way if u like to vendor blues, they can be worth up to 5g) to the door at the other end, up the ramp will be a Satyr boss who is easily killed, and who will release the corrupted tree once killed. Jump down off the balcony and run back through the door you first entered into out into the courtyard and talk to the tree, he will open the door at the other end of the courtyard.
Through the door run straight ahead and again you will have to jump down to the boss, if you can charge, jump straight down and charge the boss to avoid the damage, if not then land on the column first, and then jump down again to avoid dying. When you kill this boss be sure to pull him against the wall you jumped off of and behind one of the pillars, otherwise the plant adds in his room will aggro and cost you some time to kill. Travel through the tunnel that opens up to find your thorium.

Kommentar von 336610

The Garrison Armory in the northern part of the blasted lands has several thorium, mithril and gold veins - in 10-15 min, I had 12 thorium, 11 mithril and 3 gold.

Kommentar von Marcucus

Thorium Ore sells for huge amounts of gold these days, it sells for 3 times the price of saronite (75g+ a stack on my server) and is not heavily farmed like wotlk ores. A good way to make a lot of cash. Even better if you dropped a binding of the windseeker in MC and decide to farm a few arcane crystals instead of buying 100 off the AH.

Kommentar von Ripture

Figured I would put in my results for Winterspring farming:

A relatively thorough circuit, going in the caves with ore and down through Darkwhisper Gorge, took me about 30 minutes and yielded 55 thorium ore, or about 110 ore per hour. This was with Crusader Aura, however.

This was during AM hours and probably with just me in the zone mining, so also relatively optimal conditions.

Kommentar von 122372

/agree with the previous post. I wandered into Silithus with my 80 warlock, in an attempt to find enough thorium to push my paladin's blacksmithing to fel iron (which everyone knows is very easy to mine even without an epic flyer). Well...guess what, Thorium comes from Silithus pretty much, there is that much thorium there.

Like the earlier post said, if the node is in a nest, it is either Rich Thorium (which also has a good chance of dropping azerothian diamonds, huge emeralds, etc.) and Truesilver (very useful and rare metal). Also, note that the minimum amount of ore these drop is like 4.

Now, what I did today was mine the northern area Hive Ashi, one small thorium node south of the city there, then the southern nests (Hive Regal). Note that I did not even go to the western "alliance" nest. Now, I have mined over 200 thorium ore, as well as a wealth of gems and arcane crystals with about maybe 30 mins of playtime. All I do is ride around the southern nest a bit, rid north, logoff. Do dishes, look at some notes, or level my alt. I log on maybe in about 45 mins, etc.

Also, even on large servers, the nests are so massive you can probably still nail a few nodes. Also keep in mind that since rich thorium nodes are so productive, you can end with with a stack+ of ore PER NEST you visit!

Anyways, have fun farming this, I like to make money, but I hate price gouging so I'm glad I found a remedy to this. Also note that this is technically easier to mine than mithril, since you can get such a massive amount of the ore in such a small area. Have fun, and I recommend doing this with a character that is about level 68+, so the aggro radius of the mobs are cut significantly, increasing time mining and decreasing time wasted teaching those silly bugs a lesson.

Kommentar von 342015

wow REALY GOOD area for thorium rich viens is slithius i went mined for about and hr came away with 80 ore and 6 arcaine crystals,2 starr rubys, and 1 huge emerald not to mention all the dense stone. all in all time very well spent thank you all.

Kommentar von 264761

Have to say Silithus is the best. rich ooze covered nodes over the hives. Just run over each hive and find the nodes. Got 89 thorium, 3 truesilver and 3 mithril ore in 40 mins. not to mention ton of dense stone and minor jems along with a blue that dropped. Plus... there was another lvl 66 farming also!Great place since no one is there. pacific time 1030pm was when I went. Maybe I got lucky. (=

Kommentar von 379953

A good place to farm mithril and thorium is blasted lands,especially the alliance mine in the northeastern part of the region.Although there isnt an abundance of nods in the blasted lands,it mostly ally/ miner free so you will be able to farm your thorium with nothing around you.Just you,beautifull nature and nods.

Kommentar von 237003

if your still in your 40´s, ally, and you need thorium and cant make it through e. and w. plaguelands and definatly not the hives in silithus. i suggest burning steppes. the mobs are much more spread apart and several deposites have no mobs anywhere near them and a few even have friendlys nearby. it wont yield as much as silithus but at least its something with a minimal amount of corpse runs. most of the mobs can be outran on an epic mount, and it´s less likely to have more than 2 chasing you at one time.

Kommentar von Alyondria

Expect the price on this stuff to drop tremendously when cata is released, since every farmer will be able to farm it with their flyer.

Kommentar von Saiphon

I find Burning Steppes to be a really nice place to farm thorium. Just run full circuits around the mountainside and take a detour to Dreadmaul Rock inside the caves. A circuit can net you almost a full stack if you're lucky. You'll find some mithril as well, that should also sell nicely. And if you find a dark iron vein, mine it too even if you don't need it, because thorium can spawn in its stead.

Happy farming!

Kommentar von 497929

i farmed in winterspring for a hour and 10 min and got 84 thorium ores about 7 stacks of dense stones and plenty of gems by far the best place to farm got my mining up from 270 to 300 with green nodes

Kommentar von 354350

Mining small Throrium now requires 230 mining instead of 245

Kommentar von Hoticehunter

There is now a veritable (*^&#-ton of Thorium in Un'goro. They must have changed something in 3.3, because.. it's just.. wow. So much easier leveling Mining now. Getting from 270-295 to advance to the Outlands stuff sucked. Now it happens naturally while leveling.

Kommentar von 344957

Since 3.3, both the refresh rate and number of thorium nodes (small and rich) in Un'goro Crater have been HUGELY increased. I've seen nodes with a respawn time of less that 10 seconds, as well as multiple nodes spawning right next to each other. While farming there, I've passed other miners coming from the opposite direction but still found plenty to mine due to the quick refresh. Seriously, there is no better place for farming thorium.

note: the node increase seems to have only been applied to the edges of the zone, not the volcano. so just run circles around the rim and watch your bags fill!

Kommentar von 519550

EDIT: This guide is less accurate now due to the changes of thorium spawning in Un'Goro. Walking around in the caves of Silithus is much more time-consuming then using ur 100% mount in Un'Goro. However, if Un'Goro is crowded by farmers, Silithus is a good second alternative.
Thank you 'spiralingshape' for your info

Thorium, the radioactive metal Engineerers and Blacksmithers would pay a fortune to get their hands on.
Since most Tanks have blacksmithing as profession, which needs a lot of thorium for skills, makes this is an extraordinary item to farm.

At level 80 you could without problem mine 10 stacks of these/hour (+/-). You only need to know where to farm them.
I'm not a big fan of bugs & insects, but my experience tells me that Silithus is by the far best place to farm thorium ore, becuase of the fast spawn rate and the numbers of Rich veins. There are three areas you wanna visit in Silithus to quickly earn thorium ores.

Hive'Ashi - In the North
Hive'Zora - In the West
Hive'Regal - In the South-East

The thorium does not often spawn on the surface in these 3 areas, you'll have to go underground to find the real treasure.
Each area have 3 caves with big tunnel systems, in each cave you will find 1-2 Ooze Covered Rich Thorium Vein which will give you average 5xThorium Ore. So, with simple math you should get 30x Thorium Ores by only visiting all three areas + the ores you may find travelling between the areas. Of course, if there are more players farming them, you'll get less.

After mining from all areas, the ores in the first area you visited have respawned. This makes Silithus a non-stop thorium farming place, no matter if you are level 60 or level 80.
While farming, you will not only make money from the ores, but also from the rocks and gems that may drop.
Dense Stone
Arcane Crystal
Star Ruby
Azerothian Diamond
Blue Sapphire
Huge Emerald
Large Opal

Also, to make some extra money suggest getting Agent of Nozdormu or ask a friend who has it give you Proxy of Nozdormu, these items will make you able to loot these from the Hive-mobs which can be turned in for reputation with Brood of Nozdormu or sold to other players.
IF you don't have the item I recommend you to NOT waste your time looting any Hive-mobs, since they drop no kind of cash nor item worth selling. However, there's a low chance that they will drop Brann Bronzebeard's Lost Letter which gives Brann's Trusty Pick as reward.

(I would love to get some ratings & responses to confirm this "guide")

Enjoy your farming.

Kommentar von 341358

I love the crap out of Un'goro Crater. One loop around (without even touching Fire Plume Ridge or the Silithid cave) yields between 60 and 90 thorium easily.

Kommentar von 43453

Un'Goro has been very good to me since 3.3. One trip around the ring with my 71 paladin without visits to the hive, volcano, or ape tunnels took me about 20 minutes and yielded:

75 thorium ore
97 heavy stone
2 azerothian diamonds
1 star ruby
1 huge emerald
1 large opal

Kommentar von downthesun01

Un'Goro Crater seems to be be packed with Thorium nodes these days. Just run along the mountains and you're bound to find a crapload of nodes. I picked up about 60 pieces of Thorium Ore in about an hour of questing in Un'Goro. This was late at night though, but still, that's a lot of ore. Most nodes are Small Thorium veins, but there are a few Rich ones too.

Kommentar von 296787

I don't know what they did to Un'goro Crater. but just running around the perimeter of the zone, like farming in sholazar basin. I picked up about 18 stacks of thorium ore in roughly an hour or so.

I was astounded.

Edit: At the end for power-leveling BS; after 1.5 hours, and with a few people farming there as well. 23 stacks of Thorium, tons of Dense stone, and some random gems.

Kommentar von 177294

ore has sunk to <20g/stack on my server. *!@# ton of ore around now.

Kommentar von 263872

Agree with all the recent posts, Un'Goro is mental for this stuff now.

Just farmed for little over an hour, running circles around the place and came away with 360 Thorium Ore, whilst I spotted two other people mining too.

Kommentar von zelloxy

This is a great money-maker at the moment since people are leveling their alts etc. and buying this ore of the auction house instead of farming. And it's by far the easiest ore to farm. Just head out to the Un'goro crater and do 1 lap and you'll get approximately 40-80 Thorium Ore depending on your luck with Rich veins.

Then they usually sell for 30-60g per stack. That's 60-240g per lap, which takes roughly 15 min to complete.

Kommentar von Sijen

The very BEST place to farm Thorium, is in Un'Goro Crater!

When you are in Un'Goro Crater, run around the outer edge by the mountains! The veins spawn often, and there are alot of them!

Seriously guys, if you are at lvl 50 or above, you can get around 200 per hour...
I don't know if anyone else posted this, I haven't got the time to read them through. I just thought I would share this with you.

Kommentar von 324140

Farming this in Un'goro as of 3.3 is the purest form of win I have ever seen.
After 1st lap (which took me around 10 minutes) I have found these nodes:
http://img519.imageshack.us/i/wowscrnshot040510190613.jpg/
(the arcane crystal iconed nodes are the rich ones)
With such views being not uncommon:
http://img687.imageshack.us/i/wowscrnshot040510190049.jpg/
Overall in below 45minutes I have gathered 8 stacks of thorium ore worth ~100gold each. And according to the comments above its still not the best Un'Goro can give ;)

Kommentar von 572354

For both Small Thorium and Rich Thorium veins, go to Ungoro Crater (level 48+ zone). Thorium O' Plenty. I found about 10-15 nodes along the mountains there that surround the Ungoro zone. Just do the loop around the zone and you can't help but run into them all. However, there can be a lot of people in the area mining as well during peak hours, but that goes for any type of ore I guess. Best place by far for Thorium though. Get to it.

Kommentar von Nicko91

It seems blizzard added a lot of new spawns in Un'Goro Crater. Just running around the edge will net you a lot of thorium, plus it seemed that half the veins I found were rich thorium.

Kommentar von 527476

Farming these in Un'Goro is exelent. Just run around in the edge of the crater.
I got 320 thorium ores in an hour. Together with it, i got:

418 Dense stones
9 Arcane Crystals
4 Azerothian Diamonds
3 Star Ruby
3 Blue Sapphire
3 Huge Emerald
3 Black Vitriol
1 Large Opal

With some tactics you can take out other farmers!

Kommentar von 165543

I found this wierd glitch in ungoro that i am not getting any ores just dense stones why is that?

Kommentar von dumac

I found this weird glitch in ungoro that i am not getting any ores just dense stones why is that?

Are you sure it is a glitch, it could be a strategy from another miner. Snatch the ore, leave the stone to make other miners be frustrated. It was at least common sometime ago for miner to do this to try to scare other miners off.

It could be as you said a glitch also but you never know:)

Kommentar von 258153

In my opinion, Un'Goro is undoubtedly the best place to farm these ores.

Reached my goal of 300 in under an hour, only made about 5 rounds lol

edit: spelling error

Kommentar von Thottbot

I have found the most consistent source of Thorium to be Un'Goro Crater.

There are 2 or 3 veins to be found inside the cave with the apes (north end).

There are also 1 or 2 that can be found in the volcano area (center) including a rich thorium vein.

There are also a few in the surrounding mountains (try north end and west border). In the west there is also one in Terror Run.

Then there are usually 1 or 2 in the Slithering Scar (south center), some times silver or gold veins too.

There are a number of rock formations that run west to east just south of Tar Pits but north of the river, and there are usually 2-3 veins here too.

There is also a mithril vein on the east side by the waterfall in the Hot Springs area.

Hope that helps.

Gudrag
Master Weaponsmith
Guildmaster of The Hand of Death (rogue only guild)

Kommentar von Thottbot

Heya guys. I got my mining up pretty quick today. By going to Un goro crater and going round and round and round in cirlces on the border. I've encounted about 50 thorium veins. Going round and round in circles.

Truesilver can spawn there and a few mithril depos^&*!. Also in the gorilla cave you might find about 3

and also the hive at the bottom of the map. Try that and see. :) There r times where they won't spawn but u're bound to find one. GL.

Kommentar von Thottbot

Is from Silithus. But not just anywhere. The three hives - Hive'Zora, Hive'Ashi, and Hive'Regal. As the mobs there are lv 60-odd elites, it is best to be lv 70 to avoid aggro. However, I just did 4 laps here gathering ore to level my blacksmithing, and came away with a whopping 240 ore. You get about 6 to 8 ooze covered rich thorium veins in each hive, plus all the small thorium veins you find along the mountains whilst travelling from hive to hive. Truly a great place.

If you're not lv 70... well, I'd suggest Un'goro. Nowhere near as much, but a lot lower lv, and there are quite a few veins in the hive there, around the border mountains, and at fire plume ridge.

Kommentar von Thottbot

You need to have a Mining skill of 245 to mine Thorium Veins.

Kommentar von Thottbot

The best place by far to farm thorium is in Eastern Plaguelands... There are 7 spots where rich thorium veins pop up frequently with minimal aggro (if you're clever). I usually come away with 3+ stacks or more within an hour of farming (if i have the place to myself)

Un'Goro isn't so bad with 3 main areas that pop up frequently. Best for lower lvls.

As for Silithus, it probably has the most areas for mining ooze-covered rich thorium veins, which is in the caves in the hive areas. The only problem is the damn elite bugs that dwell in them. If you're high enough lvl (68+ I'd guess), you can sneak around them about half of the time, stealthers would obviously have a much easier time of it. The elite bugs (lvls 58-60) are real cards... they spit on ya, stun ya, disarm ya, hav a load of hit points... they're generally !@#$%^&s. I usually only go to silithus as a last resort, say, if EPL and Un'Goro is being farmed like crazy.

Most folks tend to forget about Silithus.

Kommentar von Thottbot

I spent about 90 minutes doing three or four circuits of Un Goro this morning. Being a week day and about 10am there was no competition on my fairly average population server (Burning Blade, Horde side.) I got myself about three stacks of thorium ore that I sold on auction for 33g a pop. I've just gotten back from work and they've all sold.

This evening I tried EPLs and got myself about one vein, Burning Steppes and managed two Rich Veins and I'll give Winterspring a go tomorrow. All in all, Un Goro seems like your best bet for this very, very lucrative ore. Good luck!

Hirono, belf rogue, Burning Blade.

Kommentar von Thottbot

Being that I could not easily find this information on thottbot, I found out myself in-game.

I found a good bit of small thorium veins in Silithus, with some in Un'goro as well. They required 250 mining (As usual, on-level with when you learn to smelt thorium) and also ooze-covered thorium veins inside the hives, which are also minable at 250.

The rich thorium veins, and the ooze-covered rich thorium veins, are not minable until 275 mining skill. Some are found in Silithus, many are found in Un'goro.

I've also noticed something else interesting, that may just be my imagination, but before BC came out, I was working on getting exalted with CC in Silithus, and meanwhile did quite a bit of mining there. I had the pattern of thorium spawns logged, and memorized. I noticed when I went back, that most of the thorium spawns that I did hit before BC, were gone, or at least were spawning much less often. Most of the thorium spawns in Silithus are now limited to inside of the hives, more specifically Hive'Ashi. Therefore, I suggest not trying to get those unless you're 70ish.

Hopefully this was helpful, goodluck.

Kommentar von Thottbot

By far the best place I have found for Thorium Ore is the Garrison Armory in The Blasted Lands at 53,12. This is the cave just on the left from the entrance from the Swamp of Sorrows. (It also contains Mithril and Truesilver veins.)

Please note that this appears to be a Horde-only Mining location. The Armory is full of Nethergarde Miners, Foremen, and Engineers, who are all friendly to Alliance. However, judging from the Alliance players I have spoken to, the veins do not appear for them.

I Mined there. A lot. The Nethergarde folks drop tons of Mageweave, and the occasional green and Imperfect Draenethyst Fragment. One time someone dropped a Precisely Calibrated Boomstick, and another time someone else dropped the only Flawless Draenethyst Sphere I have even seen in the game.

When you get to be a higher level, such as 60, you can practically walk around and Mine whatever you want without aggroing the lvl 46-48 Nethergarde folks. If you happen to be a Protection Paladin with Mining, this is the perfect place for you to AoE grind.

The great thing about this Armory is that it's relatively small, so no aimless riding around, no surprise Elites, and the veins respawn fairly quickly. By the time I've reached the end of the Armory, I'll go back to the entrance and start again.

Ninety-five per cent of my Imperial Plate Thorium came from this place. The other location suggestions of EPL, Silithus, etc. are wonderful, but not when you're in your late 40s/early 50s, and trying to find Thorium Ore for the Imperial Plate recipes.

I feel very fortunate to have stumbled across this place. To my knowledge, there is no Alliance equivalent.

Kommentar von Thottbot

The three best zones for farming thorium are Winterspring, Burning Steppes, and Silithus.

In the Burning Steppes most of the thorium is located on the sides of the mountains that surround the zone (in other words, along the border of the map), and inside the caves of Dreadmaul Rock.

In Winterspring the best places to find thorium veins are Winterspring Village, the cave in Ice Thistle Hills, the cave of elite dragonkin south of Lake Kel'Theril, Frostwhisper Gorge (full of lvl 60 elites), and Darkwhisper Gorge (also filled with elites). In addition, you can almost always find a rich thorium vein in the Owl Thicket caves.

Silithus has many rich thorium veins, but they are mostly located inside the three elite silithid hives (Hive Ashi, Hive Zora, and Hive Regal). Several veins can also be found in the Swarming Pillar (more elites).

If you're lvl 60 or lower, it's best to avoid farming in Silithus altogether (unless you have one or two people who are willing to come along). Also, Darkwhisper Gorge, Frostwhisper Gorge, and the elite dragonkin cave in Winterspring are difficult (though not impossible) to navigate alone at these levels. The elite-filled areas are best for players lvl 65+.

Those players who are unable to farm in the elite areas can also find thorium veins in Un'Goro Crater (mostly on the side of the mountains surrounding the zone, on Fire Plume Ridge, inside the caves of the Slithering Scar, in Terror Run, and inside the Fungal Rock cave).

Kommentar von Thottbot

Thorium is tough to farm! If you're looking for Thorium Bars, just head to the blasted lands. This is a grab bag of high level mining rocks. You'll typically find Small Thorium Veins, Truesilver, Mithril, and Gold, scattered about here in large quantities. Check the mountains in the middle, then head to the Warlock and Ogre strongholds in the northwest.

However, if you're looking for Rich Thorium Veins, the best place I've found is Eastern Plaguelands. Check in the Scars around Light's Hope Chapel (75, 62), Corin's Crossing (56, 67), and sometimes around Tyr's Hand (84, 79). Avoid Stratholme and Terrordale, the risks aren't worth the ONE OCCASIONAL vein you'll find. You'll always find at least one or two veins in the scars. Just run back and forth around them. You' might also try the hills around Zul Mashar, but any further west and you're really just wasting time. Arcane Crystals seem to drop failry often here, I've also found a Huge Emerald on more than one occasion.

So in the end, if you just want some bars, try blasted lands, for the Rich veins and the rare jewels, stick with the Eastern Plaguelands!

Kommentar von Thottbot

I see a lot of talk about the BEST place for thorium. I have been mining for 2 years now and the best place to farm any ore is the place that no one has just been through and cleaned it out. The time of day you are farming is far more important than the area you have choosen. I have mined tons of ore out of all the places mentioned in the above posts but the most important thing is to try and schedule your mining times when the area is the least crowded. There is no secret area boiling over with mines waiting for you. Map out your route and start following it over and over at different times of the day and before long you will know the best times for mining on your server.

Kommentar von Thottbot

Thorium - 245
Rich Thorium - 275
Fel Iron - 300

Kommentar von Thottbot

I sweeped Un'goro crater completely and mapped out the coords of every node I saw. the following are the approximate coordinates (+/- 1 or 2 coord pt.) of all the nodes i saw. There may be more, but this is good for leveling 250-300 b/c of all the thorium.

Rich Thorium Veins (req. 275 mining):
(50, 50)
(45, 52)

Small Thorum Veins (req 235 mining) :
(39, 15)
(70, 17) (inside the gorilla cave)
(45, 35)
(52, 32)
(55, 35)

Ooze Covered Thorium Veins: (located underground)
(48, 84)
(43, 81)
The cave entrance is at app. (50, 80) in The Slithering Scar. These are the equivalent of Small Thorium veins.

Mithril Veins:
(50, 71)
(37, 82)

Truesilver Veins:
(40, 77)

My suggestion to make this as efficient as possible is to downlad a map addon such as MetaMap and use any sort of point marking tracker display. Mark all these on your map, and then you can visit them in order from north to south and not waste time running back and forth around the map. I'm not sure about other mods, but for MetaMap it's <Ctrl>+click to set a mark.
Happy Hunting!

Wakka
Tortheldrin Realm

Kommentar von Thottbot

guys, no point in getting so many coords; just download the "gatherer" addon then its database. It works really well,and I should never use any of these posts with numerous coordinates.

best places are definitely wintersprings, eastern plaguelands, and burning steppes

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Kommentar von Thottbot

After going to every spot suggested on thottbott & other wow sites, by far the most consistent place for thorium is sithilis. Plenty of ooze covered veins in the hives. Only other mineral vein i saw there was 1 mithril vein.
Hope this helps!

Kommentar von Thottbot

i just tried every place. Burning Steppes, Un Goro, and Silithus.
if you have a higher level character, i would say 70 is safe, silithus is MUCH better. just hit up the 3 hives, peek in the holes, and each vein will have 4-6 thorium ore, really simple. Also, Silithus is EMPTY on my server. i even did /who and only i came up. If you don't have a character that high, I'd suggest Un goro next, but I didn't have a terrible time in Burning Steppes, so its up to you. Hope this helps somebody.

Aergia, Horde, Malorne

Kommentar von Thottbot

Dont listen to the others saying that places like Eastern Plaguelands and Un'goro crater are the best places to farm these ores, just cuz you dont have to dismount(as in order to go inside the hives in Silithus).

I've tried the crater and EPL and was the only one farming those at the time, anyway, the thing is that i was farming like half a day and only got about 70-80 ores, HALF A DAY? Geez!

Then i decided to jump to Silithus and try there, go against everyone who tells me its a bad place cuz of having to dismount and walk inside the caves, oh and have to kill tons of mobs, i have to say, thats just a load of crap, when it comes to the mobs you have to 2 or 1-shot those insects in tank specc/gear (which i was)and i had to kill them like 15% of the time else i'd just head pass them.

And yeah, the thing about having to dismount is true, still way worth it, its Rich nodes we're after here not those pesky Small ones.

The thing is to make good use of the routes you take, instead of going in a triangle between the hives you can go around the whole area, there is a chance you'll find a small node, and even a few truesilver ones (i choose to mine those cuz after a while there might be a thorium in its place).

Oh, and dont just go inside the caves, might waste your time doing that, i'd advice to make a survey, go around the crater of the hive, then go like an X to check the middle parts, by doing so you'll see if there is any inside the caves yet, else move on and try the next one.

By going like this i collected twice as much in just an evening (even more if i didnt choose to write this down, but i had all the thorium i needed anyways) as in EPL and Un'goro in half a day, still it all depends on if there is anyone else mining, and since everyone gives Silithus a bad reputation then it should be deserted.

Kommentar von Thottbot

wouldn't hurt either to check who is in the area,

for example before you head to silithus, just press 'o' and search for silithus in the 'who-tab', if you see like 5 lvl 80's chances are big they already cleaned the place out,

keep searching the areas the veins are in, when you see that the area is not crowded, thats the time to go and mine..

ps. I know you cant see members of the other faction, at least you know no one from your faction is there.

hope this helped

Souraya
Nagrand

Kommentar von Thottbot

Farmed Thorium Ore for 40mins in Un Goro Crater. Did two laps of the outside and collected 151 Ores. Enough Said

(62 Human Warrior)

Kommentar von Thottbot

For Thorium Ore "Un'Goro Crater" is home :P

Kommentar von Thottbot

To add on about the Crater, (I'm a 73 Mage) I get 400 ore in 2 1/2 hours, deleteing the extra dense stones. Not to mention all the Gems too, that makes a killing in the AH. I go for the quick fast money! I do a stack of 10 for 13 gold and let the Vutures come! Silithus was the hot spot at one time but WOW made it easier since the expansion, and for the Mithril, I go to the Charred Vale and Iron ore, go to Arithi highlands, I got JC and BS on my new toons and helping out friends----were talking serious mining! Trust me Bros. !

Kommentar von Thottbot

Un'Goro Crater was for ,e. the best place to get the ore. In one pass in a BIG circle around the boundary I collected about 100 ore. Plus i got some really good gems too

Kommentar von Thottbot

I'll say this much, anyone who talks about silithus wants you to stay out of ungoro.

Kommentar von Thottbot

FORGET SILITHUS! I went to Un'Goro and leveled from 256 to 300 mining Thorium. Run around the rim..there are veins everywhere, sometimes in groups of 2. Gems are good, too!

Kommentar von Thottbot

Agreed 4/8/2010
Silithus ~= 65 Thorium Ore 1 circuit 'round edge
Un'Goro ~= 95 " " "
Together = 200 Dense stone and nice jewels
The veins respawn by the time you complete the circuit.

Kommentar von Thottbot

Best place is Un'goro Crater (i think that's how you spell it), as long as there is no more than two people farming there, you will be fine.

Kommentar von Thottbot

Maybe it is just my server, but I find Un'goro to be amazing for farming thorium ore. I would say I spent roughly 2 hours and got 223 ore starting from 230 mining. (+5 mining to gloves, highly recommend that you get this enchant, maybe some cheep gloves you never use or something.)

If you just scan the outer brim of Un'goro you will find a lot of nodes. Not sure if it is just my server or if it is like this on all servers. But, while farming on at least 3 different occasions I had thorium re-spawn right before my eyes the very second after I just mined the node. So yeah, very fast re-spawn rate in Un'goro.

Also while mining thorium, you seem to get quite a nice amount of miscellaneous green gems as well.

Hope this helped. :)

Graardor - 80 Druid
Bloodscalp

Kommentar von Thottbot

Blizzard created more veins in Ungoro. U can go around and get over 200 ore. theres a thorium vein every few inches. dont listen to what everyone said below, silithus is good but ungoro is much better

Kommentar von Thottbot

In one hour of farming Thorium Ore @ Un'goro Crater I mined up;

11 Arcane Crystals
2 Opals
2 Huge Emeralds
4 Star Ruby
1 Black Vitriol
1 Blue Sapphire
420 Dense Stone
325 Thorium Ore
22 Solid Stone
1 "A Mangled Journal"
10 Mithril Ore
4 Truesilver Ore
2 Azerothian Diamond
and 1 Green.

Kommentar von Thottbot

1.5 hours I mined:

220 Thorium Ore
8 Mithril Ore
8 Archane Crystal
2 Large Opal
4 Blue Sapphire
1 Huge Emerald

IN UN'GORO CRATER.

Kommentar von Thottbot

Un'goro is the ONLY place you need to go for thorium now! The respawn rate is crazy now for some reason. There could be 20 miners farming thorium there and you would still have no problem finding plenty. I just farmed over 300 in about a half an hour-45 min if that tells you anything. Idk why the respawn rate is so high now. It wasn't always like that, and the result is thorium is now almost worthless as far as selling it on th AH. However, for lvling your mining or for farming mats for a bs or jc, Un'goro is the place to go.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Can someone tell me if there is really thorium ore in undercity? That seems to be a weird place for it.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

With the release of TBC and the addition of jewelcrafting, prices on ore have skyrocketed. I can run around in circles collecting these things and easily sell the ore for 20-30g a stack; dense stone sells for quite a bundle too, and any gems that drop just add to the profit. You don't even need to smelt the ore into bars- more profit if you don't (which is great for Dark Iron Ore).

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Loads around Winterspring :D and yep big $$$ I have 369 in Mining and still getting mining increases from Rich Thorium Veins (which have been green to mine since about 360 i think) !

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Something not many people know, Thorium does exist, and it's radioactive. Probably explains the green colored glow it seems to have in the game...

Kommentar von Allakhazam

For Horde players, Blasted Lands is the best place,but alliance players cant mine the veins inside the nethergard keep armory so dont go here if you need to lvl your mining as an alliance, try WPL or Un'goro instead.

Kommentar von knotjad

Mining Thoriumerz from Kleines Thoriumvorkommen requires level 245 skill & Reiches Thoriumvorkommen requires a level 275 skill.

Kommentar von WokkaD

Un'Goro Crater is the easiest place to farm Thoriumerz in both Classic and Retail.
Simply circle the edge of the crater (ignore the caves) and keep going in the same direction.
If you are using a ground mount, then the nodes will respawn before you return.
If you are using a flying mount (especially a fast one), then they may not have respawned.
It doesn't matter, just keep circling in the same direction and you'll catch up with the respawns.

Kommentar von WokkaD

Krater von Un'Goro is the place to go.
The respawn rate is less it takes a fast ground mount to do a circuit, so you have unlimited Thorium nodes.
If you're in Retail and using a flying mount, then you do a circuit faster than the respan rate.
Flightmaster to Marshal's Refuge then pick a direction and keep going that way until you have all you want or your bags are full.
Vendor trash at Marshal's Refuge.
You will collect so much Verdichteter Stein that you will consider it junk (5 Verdichteter Stein to 4 Thoriumerz)
Don't bother going into caves or trying to get that hard to reach node.
Also mine the other nodes as they may respan as Thorium.
If you can't mine Reiches Thoriumvorkommen, just keep mining the other nodes to get to that level.
Remember to have your bags as empty as possible before you go to Krater von Un'Goro as there's no bank or mailbox.

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