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Commento di Acku

This is the ore you need to acquire after Cobalt, so far it has been found in Sholazar Basin as well as Zul'Drak.

Commento di 95744

Can be found either in Zul'drak or in Sholazar Basin, but in Basin saronite spawn in a ridiculously fast speed, so Basin will be a much better choice if you want to mine saronite(mining speed is around 200 ores per hour with 280% flying mount, 450 maxed mining and 400ms lag).

Rich nodes are just rare replacements of the non-rich ones. Normal nodes can be mined 2-4 times, and rich ones can be mined 5-7 times.

Beware that hardened saronite bar does nothing atm so don't make it till it patches!

Prospecting saronite ore will "spawn" around 20-25% rare gems. No powders drop atm, probably never will. All colors "spawn" with same chance so data here must be somehow distorted.

Background lore of Saronite: Saronite is formed by clotted blood of old god Yogg-Saron who dwell in Northrend and showed up in War3-TFT as the Forgotten One(Old Gods will play a main role in future instances in Storm Peaks; I won't spoil more). That is why you can see army of Ner'thas the Lick King usually wield weapon and armor made of saronite; that is also why you can mine shadow from it.

Edit: In both Storm Peaks and Ice Crown will Saronite/Rich Saronite Nodes spawn. And Ice Crown has even more Saronite Nodes than that of the Basin, and they spawn even closer to each other(referring to the lore above).

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Commento di 248315

This is considered the 'Adamantite' of WotLK, and it is the most desirable ore for prospecting (Titanium cannot be prospected, like with Khorium.)

As a level 73, I've been mining a huge amount of these in Sholazar Basin by putting leveling on hold for a bit and skipping the crowds for pure mining(Sholazar is around level 75-78). In fact I've got 1100 ores in one afternoon/evening, the nodes are as common as copper, and there hasn't been too many people competing with me.

As for my level and the native beasties, the 2 warring factions in Sholazar (Think Aldor/Scryer) are both neutral to you at the start, which allows you free reign to mine in their bases without interruption. Otherwise a lot of mobs can be avoided with a mount.

In terms of where you should mine in the zone, the 'pillars' dotted around the zone usually have a few nodes clinging to them, and pretty much the entire border all the way around the zone (the mountain ridges) are covered in them.

Commento di 255750

Hello all, I enjoy cruising this site from time to time, and thought I could contribute my own findings. Wotlk has been out less than 2 weeks, but tons of info is coming in, some conflicting. I took one (more actually) for the team, and figured I would post my results. YMMV, its all subject to change, but here's what I got.

bloodstone 14.0%
huge citrine 15.3
sun crystal 20.7
dark jade 25.3
chalcedony 22.7
shadow crystal 13.3
scarlet ruby 3.3
monarch topaz 3.3
autumns glow 4.7
forest emerald 4.7
sky sapphire 0.7
twilight opal 5.3

These are percentages based on 150 prospects (750 ore). A couple of interesting points. 1) I got a free gem an average of every 3 prospects, hence the total of 133.3%. 2) Thanks to the free gems (sometimes 2!), the greens alone add up to 111% hehe. 3) My raw data has green gems: blue gems at roughly 5:1, so hope that extra gem every 3 prospects turns blue, it just may.

I hope this info helps, perhaps it will influence your decision on whether you prospect that stack of saronite, or simply AH it. Again, these were my results, ymmv. Happy hunting. Reiluman-Blackhand

Commento di 153465

This ore can be found in Sholazar Basin. The pillars and the edge of the zone are great places to mine. This mining guide has a good map that was useful to me when I was mining.

Commento di Janettie

I've found that the very best place to mine Saronite, even with 280% flying speed, seems to be Wintergrasp. The little zone is loaded with Saronite, and it's also great for titanium.

Commento di 118258

Saronite is a word derive from the clay-like mineral called saponite.

Commento di locriani

Saronite is a word derive from the clay-like mineral called saponite.

Actually, saronite derives its name from Yogg-Saron, one of the old gods of Azeroth who extends a tainting influence over Northrend.

Stating that saronite is derived from saponite is simply wishful speculation; Blizzard has not referenced the mineral saponite in any information that has been made available to players.

Commento di 227752

So, it kind of bothers me that the lore hasn't been expanded about saronite.

Not where it comes from, but how npcs have been driven mad by it, argent dawn has proclaimed it as pure evil, and yet we mine it, smelt it, and wear it like there's nothing wrong with it at all.

Am I the only person that finds that confusing?

I find it rather hard to believe that merely smelting it cleanses Yogg-Saron's essence from it.

Commento di funkymillah

I prospect about 100 stacks (2000 ore) every day and I average out anywhere between 75-125 rare quality gems. 80% of the times, I end up with more Forest Emeralds than any other Gem.

Commento di 121506

One would think wearing armor and weapons crafted of Saronite would cause you to go hopelessly insane.

Commento di 102865

The Mining Game

This is a game for miners, every miner should try it out, at least once.

Here is how it goes:
When you start farming Saronite ore, you can stop farming when one (1) condition is met, which is:
You have 20 Saronite Ores
or
You have 40 Saronite Ores
or
You Have 60 Saronite Ores
and so on, 80/100/120/....
So basically, you can stop farming once every stack is filled, no more no less.

Here are are 2 rules, which makes the whole game funny/annoying:

1) You must mine all the ores from the Saronite node you found, so you can't stop at 20/40/60/... if your Saronite Node still has Ores inside it.
2) You can't Delete your Saronite Ores.

WARNING: This is one helluva' Time sink, if (un)lucky

Commento di jostler

It appears that with the new patch 3.0.8 the Prospectability of Saronite Ore for rare gems has gone significantly down.

After prospecting a great deal, I find that I generally get 1 rare gem out of 2 stacks of Saronite Ore. This puts the rate of finding a rare gem at approximately 12.5%, which is down from the previous 25% average.

My best guess for this change is due to the new JC ability Icy Prism to make multiple rare quality gems out of 9x lower quality Northrend gems and 1x frozen orb.

*edited for link

Commento di 310123

Ahh ty m8,but is it more in the middle of wintergrasp or more in the mountens ?Anyway thanks gonna take a look. ;)

Commento di 119228

That's not what I found. I prospected ~86 Stacks (346 prospects) Saronite Ore post 3.0.8 on EU-Rexxar, and got the following results:

16 Scarlet Ruby (4,62%)
12 Autumn's Glow (3,47%)
16 Sky Sapphire (4,62%)
22 Forest Emerald (6,36%)
15 Twilight Opal (4,34%)
19 Monarch Topaz (5,49%)

That averages in a 4,82% chance to get a specific raregem via prospect. 1,16 raregems per stack overall. I will collect further data, but this already suggests that no changes were made to the prospectability of saronite ore.

Commento di sasexw

Just a little note to these who try to farm saronite in Icecrown
Dont bother searching the upper level of Icecrown citadel , the deposits are on the lower level and there are usually 2 to 3 deposits in there , worth trying a look.

Commento di 269661

i'm farming saronite in wintergrasp for gold...
Should I smelt it or not?

Commento di 320208

All the mobs that this site says drops saronite ore is false I tried every one of them and none of them were lootable><

Commento di 291540

After having farmed (and prospected) over 20,000 Saronite Ore and it seems like these probabilities are usually accurate... usually.

I must point out that there have been a few extremely unlikely occurrences that seem too far off to just be "luck".
Today I had another one of these unlikely occurrences.

Prospecting 1280 Saronite Ore (256 prospects) I got the following results

(15) Scarlet Ruby........................ 5.85%
(0) Monarch Topaz...................... 0.00%
(17) Sky Sapphire....................... 6.64%
(13) Twilight Opal........................ 5.07%
(10) Forest Emerald.................... 3.90%
(12) Autumn's Glow.................... 4.68%

Notice something strange? No Monarch Topaz at all... out of 1280 Saronite Ore, but the rest of the gems seem to occur more frequently. I'm very curious as to why these little "glitches" happen.
All of the Uncommon gems were close to 18% prospect rate as usual.

Commento di Loady

Believe it or not, I got Bloodstone, Scarlet Ruby AND Autumn's Glow from one prospect (5 ore). Didn't know that was possible but I sure like it.

Commento di 302743

Just a question... What makes more money: sell the ores, smelt the ores into bars and sell the bars, or prospect the ores? I just got my mining to 450 and not really into the mining business :) Thanks in advance.

Commento di 358918

Yeah, on Argent Dawn (US) I've been finding that selling the ores has been the most lucrative method lately. Not really sure why, though. By the time you're able to smelt saronite bars, the smelting doesn't give you any skill-ups on your mining, anyway (at least not for me it didn't) and most of the mid-level Lvl.80 BS recipes I've seen have called for the bars and not the ore. Perhaps JC's use it for something?

Commento di Heidi85

Ok, so you wanna know if it is worth prospecting Saronite?
Here you go:
a) Scan the Auction House (maybe use Actuionator + Panda, both excellent Addons)

b) Use this formula: 5x Saronite == 0,24*(MT+SR+SS+FE+AG+TO)/6 + 1,08*(SC+DJ+HC+Ch+SuC+Bl)/6
SR=Scarlet Ruby; MT=Monarch Topaz; AG=Autumn's Glow; FE=Forest Emerald; SS=Sky Sapphire; TO=Twilight Opal; SC=Shadow Crystal; DJ=Dark Jade; HC=Huge Citrine; Ch=Chalcedony; SuC=Sun Crystal; Bl=Bloodstone

c) Average Costs (left Side) lower Average Gains(right Side)? Do it! Else? Save your Gold.

PS: Formula uses the chances given by wowhead. I asume I interpret them right, so the math should be right, too.
To be more clear:
Prospecting 5 Saronite Ore gives you the chance of getting:
Either 1 or 2 random green Gems + the chance of getting 1 random blue Gem.
The chances should be:
108% of getting a random green (aka 92% of getting 1, 8% of getting 2).
24% of getting a random blue.

Commento di vodker

640 Saronite Ore | 128 Prospects

7x Scarlet Ruby 5.4%
9x Monarch Topaz 7.0%
8x Twilight Opal 6.2%
7x Autumns Glow 5.4%
4x Forest Emerald 3.1%
1x Sky Sapphire 0.7%

20x Sun Crstal 15.6%
32x Huge Citrine 25%
20x Chalcedony 15.6%
24x Bloodstone 18.7%
19x Dark Jade 14.8%
19x Shadow Crystal 14.8%

Commento di TCHJ3K

It's worth noting that, since Saronite bars vendor for 1g25s each, the AH price of Saronite ore effectively has a floor of 13g15s per stack. If you're planning on selling it for less than this then, after the AH cut of 5%, it'd be more profitable to smelt them and vendor the bars (20 Saronite ore = 10 bars @ 1g25s each = 12g50s).

If you see people selling the ores for less than this, buy them, smelt them and vendor them - you'd be surprised how many people don't look at vendor prices or don't take the AH cut into account, and just blindly try to undercut whatever's on sale at the moment.

Commento di mixter

i had mined about 250 ores while lvling my mining, tho my JC'ing was still a bit low, so i kept the ores thinking it would be helpfull for jcing later on

but i got bored and even my mining bag got full(despite having 31 slots) so i sold them on AH
made bout 900g in 1 hour

the lesson here? i forgot whats the lesson here but it has something to do with not prospecting and instead selling on AH, not sure tho^^

Commento di 342328

as for the formula, I've made a published webpage that you can tinker with (import your server's prices) and estimate your profit

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tL3aDcRkwUPf1CBPzZlevUg&output=html

good luck

feel free to make any corrections you feel necessary

Commento di 347360

Following this wow-professions mining guide, I mined 80 saronite ore in one trip (with random titanium spawns as well). Took about half an hour with 280% mount.

Edit: On a second trip, my total was 92 ores.

Commento di 387878

Got hacked and the hacker farmed me 986 of these babys :D

Commento di DownCast

if saronite is the blood of the old god Yogg-Saron, and he is imprisoned in Ulduar... would that imply that at least Yogg-Saron is bigger than what we originally thought? perhaps that is the reason he is in a prison rather than killed as maybe the old gods are actually a PART of Azeroth? would certainly make sense if c'thun had an ore named after him. is it possible that the old gods are actually one huge being? and that being was split when the world did? any other speculations that hint to mine or against it feel free =D

Commento di 512270

i find tons of saronite in icecrown but there is 1 problem all of it is either right next to an elite enemy or in the bombardment

Commento di 528157

buying it from AH (16g in my server) and if you are JC and prospect it, it is a nice way to make golds.

Commento di Eilonthay

Don't be an idiot like I was and think that you can smelt your way to 450 mining with a bunch of saronite once you hit 400. (Thankfully, I figured this out quickly.)

Because you can't. Everything's gray at that point. You should be able to, but I guess they figure that if you've got that much experience smelting, you're awesome, and don't need to attend smelting seminars anymore. Booooo. You should still get points for purifying the blood of an evil, evil Old God.

But, on the other hand, my lvl 63 DK has mining 402, so I can't really complain...I got that far, after all. The fun part will be getting the last 48 points by playing Death Frogger with ? mobs! ;3

Commento di 484220

just a little thing when prospecting saronite ore i sometimes find epic gems

Commento di saruu

One of the reasons saronite is god awful cheap now is due to the hackers/gold-farmers that get under zones and mine saronite then put it 10-20 stacks of it on the auction house undercutting massively....

Commento di 562821

So I'm not sure about anyone else, but as of the new patch, I'm getting 4410xp for mining saronite and 4516xp for mining titanium in Icecrown and Sholazar Basin on my 78 DK. Not that I'm complaining, but is this happening to anyone else? It's pretty cool. :)

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 200940

400 -Saronite
425 - Rich Saronite
450 - Titanium Veins
All in Icecrown, a couple Titanium and Rich Saronite, mostly just Saronite.(##RESPBREAK##)8##DELIM##asakawa##DELIM##

Commento di ghost9er9er9

I farmed saronite back in Wrath and Sholazar was the best by far. Now, however, I find Wintergrasp to be better as the veins are more frequent and there are more rich ones than Sholazar. Happy farming!

Commento di Kyeld

post-Cat, Wintergrasp is by far the best zone. it's typically empty, and even as a paladin with epic flying and crusader aura, I was never able to out-farm the respawn times (also, no caves in the zone to worry about and there are only a couple underwater spawn points)

an hour and a half of farming yielded:

220 x Saronite Ore
22 x Titanium Ore
176 x crystalized elements (earth, shadow, fire, air, water)
5 x blue gems
13 x green gems

Commento di Samer

Wintergrasp is a non cross-realm zone so it is the best place to farm these in MoP.

Commento di jonesfamilysinge

Okay, here's a different opinion on farming saronite. Icecrown is an excellent place if you go at the right time. I've found that it's not highly farmed probably because the veins have a low respawn rate in comparison to Sholazar Basin but, if you go through Icecrown and don't have any/much competition you will get tons of saronite and it is every where which is more than I can say for Sholazar. My preferences on farming Icecrown is kind of around the low areas in the middle part of the map (e.g. Aldur'thar, Sindragosa's Fall, Mord'rethar, Corp'rethar, The Fleshwerks, and especially Ymirheim.) I have had times where there were three nodes on my mini-map at a time and plenty of occasions where there were two. And if you've already farmed the hills and mountainous area where I mentioned above you should go down into the low flat area where Putridus the Ancient patrols and there are lots of Rich Saronite Deposits in the ridges and such.

Hope this helps someone out.

Commento di Orcbum

Wintergrasp is THE best area for Saronite Ore, for not only is it NOT a cross-realm zone, it has the highest spawn rates of Rich Saronite Deposits all sequestered into a relatively small zone that is Wintergrasp. You should farm after the WG battle so you can fly.

Depending on realms of course, if you're the lone farmer of the zone, for one hour you can yield AT LEAST 20 stacks of Saronite and 2 stacks of Titanium with lots of Eternal Earths and Eternal Shadows.

I farmed Wintergrasp for 1 hr 40 minutes using the route given by WoW-Professions, with a preloaded Gatherer using Wowhead data to perfect it, my total yield with 280% flying:

-800 Saronite ore
-50 Titanium ore
-24 Eternal Earth
-23 Eternal Shadow
-6 Eternal Air
-5 Eternal Fire
-6 blue WOTLK gems
-46 green WOTLK gems

Simply simply perfect.

Commento di Tallar

Saronite Ore has a spawn timer of 10 minutes in Wintergrasp. I'm not sure about anywhere else. I was mining in Wintergrasp while waiting for the next battle, and I watched the clock, went all the way around mining there, and mined titanium and saronite from the same spot I started when I finished my route.

Commento di Ental

The best place for farming this, especially on low or medium population servers is Wintergrasp. Right after a battle, starting at the 2 hour mark, I farmed to the 1 hour mark and gathered up:

221 Minerale di Saronite
34 Minerale di Titanio
5 Fuoco Eterno
5 Ombra Eterna
8 Terra Eterna
3 Acqua Eterna
3 Aria Eterna
5 Sanguinite
3 Cristallo d'Ombra
5 Citrino Gigante
2 Calcedonio
3 Cristallo Solare
2 Giada Oscura
1 ea of Rubino Scarlatto, Opale Crepuscolare, Topazio Monarca

Commento di Jeremybell

Prospecting this ore requires 400 jewelcrafting. If you want your gems on lower levels Minerale di Cobalto is the ore you need.

Commento di 1142842

BEST place I have found for Saronite is in Wintergrasp. I will do a round on the wall of Wintergrasp. It takes less than 10 minutes, in that one round I picked up 76 ore. By the time you get back to your starting point it has all respawned. You will also get a handful of gems, and run into a few Titanium Ore. Watch put for those PvPers!

Commento di 1191981

He who smelt it, dealt it!

Commento di Roggy

I started grinding in Icecrown and never had to wait longer than 30 seconds to find a deposit.
The "respawn" rates depend on the specific area you are grinding in. I found that the area above the Argent Vanguard has a fast respawn time.

I used a route that started in that Nerubian infested area then goes to Mord'Rethar and from there it goes to Sindragosa's fall. When you grinded Sindragosa's fall fly back to the Nerubian area above Argent Vanguard and start over again ;). In 10 min you'll have about 3-4 stacks of saronite ore depending on how fast you can fly ofc. I did also find a fair amount of titanium deposits along that route (and a rare).
Wintergrasp might get you more ores/min but it's in a PVP zone and if you don't like PVP/ganking/deposit ninja's/..., Icecrown could be a good alternative.

Anyhow this is the route I use to grind saronite but you can find deposits almost everywhere in Icecrown the only difference is the density of the deposites and "respawn" rates.

Greetz
Røggy.

Commento di Anevara

to be honest, sometimes when farming i wonder if saronite is yogg-saron... err... old-god-poop... ._. (how i even get that idea? azsharite... )

Commento di Barleduq

Not sure what's going on, but I've gone into Wintergrasp two days running. Both times I had Essence of Wintergrasp buff, and the buildings showed blue on the map before I went in, with 1hr45 till the next battle. Flew into Valiance flight point and did a circle of the walls. No nodes up, no mobs visible. Flying at 390%, I thought I might be going too fast, so I started flying low, through the middle, and stopping every couple of seconds to see if the nods spawned. Still nothing, no mobs. I was in the Sunken Ring, and lucky to be flying low, cause suddenly I was dismounted, and it showed as Horde Controlled, wiht 56 minutes till the next battle. I hearthed out, and now the map was showing it horde controlled.

Second time I'd done an hour or so around Sholazar and was bored, so I decided to see if Wintergrasp was up. Blue buildings on the map, 1hr10min till next battle. Fly in from Riverheart, all the npcs at the flight point were there, but again, no nodes up, no mobs at all. Came back to fly out, and there were no npc's at the flight point. I figured I'd gotten disconnected, but I was able to hearth out again.

I'm giving up on Wintergrasp. Sholazar got me over 100 saronite ore, 10 titanium, and a small pile of Crystallized Earth, Shadow, and Fire. I'm farming for the mats for Jeeves for my new-minted boosted-to-90 engineer, and that's what I really need. I'm going to try Storm Peaks, I remember the revenants behind the Giants as dropping earth and fire.

Commento di Suvarius

6.2.2 Best place to farm saronite ore
Sholazar Basin is hands down the current best place to farm Saronite Ore because of the following:

1. The Saronite nodes yield Saronite Ore instead of the usual nuggets you would find in Icecrown and Storm Peaks. This greatly increases the amount of Saronite ore mined as you get 2-5 ores instead of 10-24 nuggets. This does not apply to Rich Saronite Nodes, which still give the nuggets

2. The circular shape of Sholazar makes it so that you can just stick to the wall and grab every Saronite Ore in sight, no significant differences in elevation or crazy caves/turns so you can stick to the golden path of Sholazar at all times.

3. The amount of nodes that spawn (In my opinion) is greater than in Icecrown/TSP

4. There are only Saronite and Rich Saronite nodes, no Titanium (Sorry SIA), so all your mining work will be focussed towards Saronite ore (yay).

Hope this helps people :), also look below if you are interested in also obtaining Titanium Ore

TITANIUM
If you are looking for titanium, head for Icecrown. In my experience there's a Titanium node for every 3-4 Saronite nodes, sometimes even more. Seems as if Titanium wasnt nerfed when Saronite/Cobalt was.

Commento di Kevlan

So much of the information in this post is old and outdated. In BFA (and likely forward) there's really only one place to effective mine Saronite - Wintergrasp. I spent a few hours today looking in other zones. In Sholazar basin, I only picked up ~30 in one long trip around. Icecrown? Practically nothing. Waste of time.

A few tips mining Saronite in Wintergrasp.

You CAN mine while the battle is taking place, but it's far, far better to do it when there is not a battle.
When there IS a battle, flying is oddly inconsistent. You can probably still get some mining done.
You'll pick up some Titanium ore. Smelt this - It doesn't sell as quickly as Saronite on my realm, but it's worth some good cash.
You should be able to get a stack of ~200 Saroite ore within 20-30 minutes, no problem.

The route is very simple - Look at the WG map here Deposito Ricco di Saronite for a map. here are not that many nodes and they are laid out well for a consistent route. By now, I can pretty much do it in my sleep.

Good luck farming!

Commento di Friarruse

As of the current patch, the nodes inside Wintergrasp take any where from 6 - 7 minutes to respawn, not sure if it varies by zone.

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