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Commentaire de Nathaniel

Anyone know the best place to look for these?

Commentaire de Maed

I find that it's quite easy as a mage to get the ones in the Eastern Plaugelands, I've gotten up to three from one node today. :)

Commentaire de 6460

There is discussion about if this item can be mined from small thorium vein under the arcanite item on this site.

https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=12360#c0z

I have never seen it mined from small thorium vein. The other WoW data collection sites show over 200,000 hits for small thorium vein and not one arcane crystal mined.

Has anyone mined an arcane crystal from a small thorium vein?

Commentaire de 6934

Just looted one of these off an Adamantite vein in Zangarmarsh

Commentaire de 7097

Yes, it can be mined from small thorium veins. I did it today in Silithus. I don't know what the odds are for it to occur, but it has to be astronomical.

Commentaire de Deja

Start holding on to your arcane crystals! In TBC they can be turned into an important (and expensive) enchanting material. They are also used for some great blacksmithing recipes in expansion.

Commentaire de 190

Got two of these today in a small thorium vein in silithus, I have no idea if it has something to do with the 2.0 patch, or me just being extremely lucky

Commentaire de SeriusJones

Found one first swing of my first vein. Blizz upped the loot rate in 2.0, I think.

- SJ

Commentaire de Zhanghia

These do, in fact, drop off of Rich Adamantite Veins. Not sure if it drops off of any other but I can verify the RAV.

Commentaire de 35909

Just got one from a Smal Thorium in Hinterlands.

Commentaire de Shivacode

Sadly, these are almost worthless now. Meanwhile, thorium bars are up to ridiculous prices.

Commentaire de cybele7

So far every one has talked about where you can get them but not where to use them.. of the possible uses for the arcane crystal one is to get 3 arcane dust. My question is how exactly does that happen since you can't disenchant them?

Commentaire de 123573

I am stating for the record as of now that Arcane crystals CAN BE FOUND in SMALL THORIUM VEINS!! it's a small chance but I just found one so it can be done.

Commentaire de Krynoraxian

An interesting note: Due to the increased drop rate of arcane crystals in all thorium veins. For a very short time(275-280) Arcanite Keys can be a good substitute for Imperial Plate bracers for getting some skill up.

Transmute Arcanite is:
Thorium Bar x1
Arcane Crystal x1

Arcanite Key x2 is:
Arcanite Bar x1
Dense Grinding Stone x1 (4 Dense Stone)

This compared to...

Imperial Plate bracers:
Thorium Bar x12

It should be noted Arcanite keys are of yellow difficulty when you train them at 275, but for those 5 blacksmithing levels its well worth the risk over the orange skill Imperial Plate bracers to save yourself some money/time.

Commentaire de 163337

Got it from a small thorium vein last night in winterpsring

Commentaire de nassy

These are no longer worth anything as much as they use to be worth. Sometimes these wont even sell at the Auction House.

Commentaire de Carsomyr

Decided to just scour the places I need had Thorium, and it took me 3 1/2 hours to get 6 crystals. First after 1 hour.

Commentaire de Krazycarn

I have probably mined about 25 thorium deposits (total of rich+small) and I have not seen this drop. The sad thing is that now in BC and WotLK the 300-375 recipes still need this for arcanite (espicially engineering) and these crystals are really rare.
EDIT: I have now mined about 45 total deposits and I have seen this drop twice.

Commentaire de 330050

Lol Arcane crystal

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Commentaire de 342455

I've gotten a lot of Arcane Crystals from Small Thorium Nodes. About 4 in the span of a day. It was out in Sithilus .

Commentaire de 80976

On Alliance-side Kirin Tor, these now sell for 1g, or about the same as two bronze bars. Oh, how times have changed!

Commentaire de 617455

If you are farming these for some reason, I would highly advise going to Un'goro Crater. I went here to farm Thorium Ore and in an hour and a half i had about 217 Thorium Ore as well as 6 arcane crystals. Hope you have as much luck as I did =)

Commentaire de Thottbot

These are mostly found in Rich Thorium Mines

Go mining :)

Commentaire de Thottbot

Finding 2 in 1 vein is entirely possible. I've only had this happen to me once, but it did happen.

As for finding them in general, it's not too hard. If I spend about 2 or 3 hours looking in Burning, Winterspring, and even Ungoro, I can usually find at least 2 with some luck.

I've also found a few Azerothian Diamonds and Black Diamonds while mining for Arcane Crystals.

Commentaire de Thottbot

Ok ppl, heres a little tip ive discovered on my own:

Being a paly, I wanted the Energized breastplate until I can get Lawbringer. This means doing DM East runs. DM East takes 20-30 mins to complete if you have a good leader. (run from boss to boss, avoid all patrols)

I went to DM East 10 times in a week with a group of guildies, often being the only miner, as you can only go 5 man. We did each run on 20 mins and went up to 3 times in a row (thats like 1 hour)

Finally got the chestplate but thats beside the point..

The point is that after you have killed Aldzin the Wildshaper you will have acces to a tunnel behind him, leading you to the exit of the instance.

In this tunnel are 2 or 3 rich thorium veins.

To my experience there are 1 Arcane Crystal in every 3rd vein. (frikkin 33% drop rate for me :D)

Doing 10 runs, in a week, getting to mine about 12 veins in those runs, got me 4x Arcane Crystal, 2x Azerothian Diamond, 1x Large Opal.

Do you want Arcanite?

Do DM East.

And while you there... grab a Libram of of Rapidity or Focus, and sell it for 250g, or get your class book and your Royal Seal. :) I *love* DM East :)

(Best thing might be to form a group with 4 ppl from your guild, who you go with reguarly. Ppl are easilly persuaded if you mention that it will be a book farming run)

Good luck all.

Commentaire de Thottbot

The arcane crystals drop from small and rich thorium mines. They're still very much in demand for making arcanite bars. Don't forget arcanite bars (from arcane crystals) are absolutely needed for the arcanite rod for enchanting and for the pally mount quest. I sell arcanite bars for 18-20g each on my server.

Commentaire de Thottbot

And they all mined happily ever after.

Commentaire de Thottbot

Can the Arcane Crystal also be obtained from prospecting because i've never got THIS on ;)

Pre-BC: Very hard to get this crystal and would only drop from a big vein.
BC: Easy to get, it came from small and big veins, sometimes multiples from a single vein.
A BC~patch: Hard to get. When I farm Thorium Ores I see 1 Arcane crystal after about an hour.

Commentaire de Thottbot

It appears you can't get Arcane Crystals from Prospecting.

Just prospected 130 Thorium ore and got:

8x Blue Sapphire
7x Azerothian Diamond
8x Large Opal
4x Huge Emerald
2x Star Ruby

Maybe I was just unlucky, RNG n all that.

Commentaire de Thottbot

ive mined at least 100 thorium and rich thorium nodes, and this only dropped once, in a small one. so yeah it's doable, but a pain in the butt.

Commentaire de Thottbot

well tbh i only mined about 50 nodes and this dropped 6 times so i guess the laws of probability favour me lol

Commentaire de Thottbot

Prior to patch 3.2, Silithis hives used to be the place for me to go farm these crystals. After the patch, I needed more so back to Silithis I went. I cleared all of the hives 4 times and made the rounds topside as well, spending several hours.

Total net was 4 crystals. Two were from the rich thorium nodes in the hives and 2 were from small thorium nodes outside the hives.
Looks like the nerf bat was used big time here, or else I was just unlucky.

Still a good place for thorium ore, dense stone, and skinning silithid chitins, but I will search elswhere for the arcane crystals.

Commentaire de Thottbot

The burning steppes is the best place to find these. In silithus you have a ton of creatures just dying to knock you off your mount so idk about that place and steppes is closer to home, well for allys anyways.

Commentaire de Thottbot

Ungoro Crater on my Server Misha has an incredible spawn rate of Thorium. In 1 hour I got over 800 Thorium, about 17 Arcane cystals, piles of other crystals that come from Thorium veins... and nodes that respawn so quickly its scary! And all I did was run around the outside ring while watching tv. Ive seen nodes on top of nodes in there as well. Its abnormal... the spawn rate on our server is incredible.

As of 2 months ago when I was in Ungoro mining... it was great!
At the end of a week of random running.. I had 8,000 Thorium and about 12,000 Dense Stone some of which i used to make Stone Statues which heals me :) (im a jewel crafter).

Anyways, thats my 2 cents...

Commentaire de Allakhazam

can someone tell me what are they exactly used
for?

Commentaire de Allakhazam

Naxx Quest has made these epic quaility and cost.

Blizzard must fix quickly

Commentaire de Allakhazam

"Silithus
Hive'Ashi Sandstalker (54 - 56)+ 12.50% (1)"

too bad silithus isnt itemized yet :\

Commentaire de Allakhazam

I got one of these and an Azerothian Diamond in one vein at Hearthglen. Rock On!

Commentaire de Allakhazam

It seems that on most servers, the prices for Arcane Crystals at AH have risen substantially since the test server details have been released regarding the Paladin epic mount quest. If you can get crystals for 25g or less, snap them up quickly while you can.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

i must agree with aakjaer i got 2 arcane crystals in same mine in ungoro and the next mine i went to in ungoro had large opal but in epl there is so many botters to so..

Commentaire de Allakhazam

This 12G shows as the median price. One person has 20 of them up for 249G. For those with the trade JC, Alchemy or Enchanting, these items are needed to raise their skill levels long before they can go into the high level areas to mine this. I can't see many people spending this type gold just to raise their skill level one time. Why don't people THINK of who their potential customers might be before slapping these ridiculous prices on items? Really baffling.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

Dropped By:
Ungoro Crater
Frenzied Pterrordax (51 - 54) 0.02% (1)

Found Inside:
Rich Thorium Vein 2.86% (284)
Ooze Covered Rich Thorium Vein 5.26% (1)

Commentaire de Allakhazam

Grrr! I need these to transmute. On my server they go for 38g a piece. It can get frustrating so make good friends with someone who does mining.

Thank god my husband plays and is a miner.

-----------

Xaria ~ lvl 46 Mage

Commentaire de Allakhazam

I had farmed a bunch of rich thorium veins in Burnning steppes Winterspring and Un'Goro (Non Terror Run)....NO DROPS! The first RTV i Found in Terror Run dropped an AC. There is a reason that those elite Stegosaurs are there...to make it harder to mine! Im going to test the theory that Terror Run is more "Rich" than the rest.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

thott says that one of these were found in yellow power crystal in un'goro, i always check yellow power crystals whenever I there, never anything, the only reliable source is farming every rich thorium vein you ever find in hopes of finding one.

I've found 12 crystals, 2 star rubies, 2 large opals, and one azerothian diamond on various rich thorium veins. Personally I've mined at least 100 rich veins total.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

I want 20 of them Dammit!

Commentaire de Allakhazam

I believe those drops are bugs with the wowreader. The crystals are just a random drop off Rich Thorium Veins.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

First one I seen in over 19 hours playtime, from pestilent scar in ep (rich thorium vein)

Commentaire de Allakhazam

I play on Alexstrasza and have noted a marked decrease in the value of these the first time I sold one, it went for 18g (a bit below the usual range to begin with), but nowadays they go for 1-2g apiece. Did they just become useless after a patch and nobody told me, or is this just a server-specific flaccidity? It's really a shame that they're still fairly rare but selling for so little.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

Got 2 from one rich thorium mine in winterspring. In the lake kel'theril area.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

I got one off the mining lump the destroyers drop in aq20-aq40

Commentaire de Allakhazam

the median price is 26g, but in my server the lowest price is 150g... this is truly unfair.

P.S. The server is Detheroc (Horde)

Commentaire de Allakhazam

rich thorium vein in dire maul

Commentaire de Allakhazam

how valuable are these?

Commentaire de Allakhazam

heh got my 1st tonight - 1 arcane cyrstal, 2 huge emeralds, 1 azerothian diamond, and 1 star ruby - off 1 vein :)

Doubt I'll ever get that lucky again

Commentaire de Allakhazam

I can just imagine a GM sitting at his desk and he says o he looks cool lemme give him a arcane crystal.... I was farming with a friend and while in party he got 3 arcane crystals in what seemed like 15 minutes and i got 0 in the whole 3 hours or so of farming. just not fair lol.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

lol he got three of one and i have mined about 100 mines and havent even got 1.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

I have mined maybe 6 or 7 rich thorium veins. 6 had no arcane, just thorium and dense stone. 7th one I get an arcane crystals, blue sapphire, and a huge emerald :) Not as lucky as 2 arcane crystals, but like I said =P Best luck yet. I need 19 of em >:( lol

Commentaire de Allakhazam

Yes its very frustrating.I have noticed the price changes aswell and its sick. from 15-20 to 50g each chrystal. Just cause of naxx attunment and to hand in for their tier 3 parts. Think about thoose who wont be able to to that kind of end game?They have to get their gear on much cheaper and easier ways.So basicly for an ordinry not that good unguilded or guilded person wants to get an Arcanite reaper/Heartseeker etc etc? think he will pay over 2k gold for it?. he rahter die out there and stop playing the game cause he knows already that he dosnt put up for the standards, and thats Sad*Blizz Please do something about this noncence. Thats my opinion.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

oh where oh where can I get these?

Commentaire de Allakhazam

Un'Goro not only has better AC drop rates in my experience, it's a smaller area to cover since they really only consistently appear in Terror Run. It's easier to manage competition like this not to mention that with the exception of King Mosh which actually spawns in the Golakka Hot Springs and NOT in Terror Run, the highest level mob you will be threatened by is a lvl 55 Elder Diemetradon. All the other zones are chock full of 58+ mobs which make aggro a pain in the ass especially if you're under 60

-Nah-

Commentaire de Allakhazam

I got the recipe to transmute them today I just need to get my hands on the recipe for the stones...
so I asked a friend what those crystals go for he said 20G rougly.
checking AH I found one for 2G buyout while everything else was 17,5G buy out...
hoping I will find prices like this once every 2 days :p
but I'm guessing I wont :(

Commentaire de Allakhazam

I farm thorium on a daily basis for about 3-5 hours in EPL and WS and I've had the most luck in WS (9 crystals in about 3 hours once). Usually I end up with 1 crystal every 30 minutes, I'm not counting other gems. Some people have much worse luck with these so it won't always be that easy. Plus you have to work out a timer to steal veins from farmers (who seem to love WS on my server). It helps to have gatherer mod or CT mapmod for the veins until you learn spawn points by heart. The best vein in my experience is the one in the Owlkin Place in southern WS--I got 2 crystals out of one vein, two days in a row. But they all have a decent drop rate.

Commentaire de Imperious0212

I think right now they are very rare to get, even from Rich Thoriums, I think they are nerfed more than ever.

Commentaire de Gamachan

Best place to farm these are Winterspring, in the caves.

Commentaire de ProdromusHarv

Currently on Aragul, Arcane crystals are selling for MORE than Arcanite Bars. How does this possibly make sense when there's literally no other use for them other than Transmute: Arcanite Bar which require additionally 1 thorium bar and a 24 hour cool down?

Commentaire de piorek

I farmed Rich Thorium in EPL for last two days.

During that time, I've got 221 Thorium Ore and:
3 Arcane Crystals (1,36%)
6 Huge Emeralds (2,71%)
5 Blue Sapphires (2,26%)
1 Star Ruby (0,45%)
2 Large Opal (0,90%)
1 Azerothian Diamond (0,45%)

To sum up, gems droprate seems to be around 8,14%. I think 3% droprate for arcane crystal is too high :)

Commentaire de Rothia

HOW TO OBTAIN Lame-tonnerre, épée bénie du Cherchevent

Receive both Liens du Cherchevent (drop rate: 4,08%) from Garr and Liens du Cherchevent (drop rate: 4,28%) from Baron Geddon in Cœur du Magma.
Visit Généralissime Demitrian in Silithus. He will give you Calice de la renaissance to start the quest Examiner le Calice which leads to Tonneraan le Cherchevent.
Kill Ragnaros for Essence du Seigneur du feu (100% drop rate when you have the quest in your log).
Aquire 10x Barre d'élémentium.
Bring your guild and head back to Généralissime Demitrian. Turn in the quest and he will summon Prince Tonneraan which will drop Lame du baiser du vent dormante.
Complete Éveille-toi, Lame-tonnerre ! and you're done!

Mats needed for 10x Fonte de l'élémentium:

100x Barre d'arcanite (100x Barre de thorium + 100x Cristal des arcanes + 100x Transmutation d'arcanite)
10x Minerai d'élémentium (Buy from the Auction House or loot in Repaire de l'Aile noire from Technicien de l'Aile noire)
10x Noyau de feu (Buy from the Auction House or loot in Cœur du Magma from trash mobs)
30x Catalyseur élémentaire

Commentaire de gumby760

I just farmed some of these up today. I haven't seen any new comments on here so lemme give you the deets. I did roughly 3 circuits of Un'goro hitting all the nodes. I got 8 Arcane crystals in that 3 circuits and 2 definitely came from small thorium deposits. Going by my results it shouldn't take more than about 30 minutes to get all 10 you need to make the sword. Your results may vary. Good luck and have fun!

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