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Comment by 8217

Easyiest way to farm copper if your horde is to just follow the mountain range around in circles, don't bother with trying to find the dots in the middle, a full walk around the mountain range will yield around 40bars of copper

Comment by skitzosmeagol

The razor patches, that have the boar people, scattered through barrens also have a lot of copper mines near them. I found the mountain ridges to contain the most copper. I suggest downloading the mod Gatherer which saves the locations of mined nodes, this will help gathering ore in the future.

Comment by 8004

Along with being easy to farm, copper ore sells very well on the ah. NEVER make the ores into bar (unless you're doing it for skillups). Ores sell much better than bars because higher level players with some gold are too lazy to mine the ore themselves. So, they just go buy ours and make it into bars for skill ups. Both benefit!

Comment by 29206

Underwater is your friend. In the Oasises (on near WC and one near Ratchet) there is usually one copper node and one tin node. The tin node near ratchet will sometimes spawn silver as well.
At lower level they're great because you can also farm snapjaws and most of the things they drop sell for 1s plus and you can get clam meat which makes a tasty snack.

Comment by 4093

Copper veins turn from "orange" to "yellow" at 25 mining skill level.

Comment by 37088

I've found that a good and rewarding place to farm is just around durotar outside of Orgrimmar, which I think is a lot easier that going to the barrens because, 1. there are higher levels in the Barrens, 2. Durotar has a lot more of it, and 3. if you are a just starting blacksmithing or engineering, it is easier than buying it off the auction house. Why waste 1-2 gold when you can farm it easily right outside and pick up a couple gems up while you are at it? You can go into Skull Rock and farm in there for a while, or you can just farm outside. I've farmed about 100+ copper in less than an hour with my level 11 rogue and, with rested, got a good amount of rested experience. Plus, if you are not going to use the copper, you can sell it in auction house or send it to another character to get his or her skill up.

Comment by peetue

As a horde, best way to farm copper is to run circles; barrens - durotar. Climb thru the mountain side of both places, I just did and I have 120 copper atm.

Comment by Ghyndui

How often are the maps updated?
I have the wowhead client and I know I've found a couple copper veins at least a week ago, but the wowhead map doesn't show them.

Comment by knotjad

Mining Copper requires 1 skill level, and is the first ore in the Mining Profession.
After level 50, nodes become Green and will rarely level you up.
After level 100 skill, nodes become Gray and you will no longer gain skill level.

Comment by Ghyndui

While trying to level up my Blacksmithing, I believe the best place for mining copper veins is "The Venture Co. Mine" in east central Mulgore. Assuming you can roam without too much aggro, the place repops nodes continuously.

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Copper Vein

This object can be found in The Barrens (185), Dun Morogh (184), Elwynn Forest (178), Loch Modan (175), Tirisfal Glades (175), Durotar (174), Mulgore (152), Darkshore (135), Westfall (129), Redridge Mountains (109), Silverpine Forest (97), Stonetalon Mountains (63), Duskwood (56), Thousand Needles (47), Ashenvale (44), Hillsbrad Foothills (39), Wetlands (34), Desolace (16), Alterac Mountains (2), Thunder Bluff (2), The Deadmines , and Wailing Caverns .

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