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Commento di 15892

Basically to Prospect this ore, you get ~15% chance of getting a blue, and then a 85% chance to get 0, 1, or 2 green gems. Occasionally you will get a blue and green gems, but that's quite rare. The powder should also not be vendored as it is a reagent for making Mercurial Adamantite.

In contrast, fel iron ore gives you the same prospecting rate to get green gems, but less than half the chance to get blue gems. That said, if you can buy fel iron ore for less than half of what adamantite ore cost, then you shoul be ahead gold-wise by prospecting that.

TO APPEND TO MY PREVIOUS POST (Green text above).

Patch 2.1.X changed the drop rates of blue gems, it is now 16.2% (instead of 15%) to get a blue gem. Previously, you would also have a chance to get zero gems in a prospect, that is now not the case, so the "overall" chance to get green gems has increased around 10%, and the chance to get blue gems has increased by 1.2%.

Commento di Wark

(was a comment here before user got dumb... please ignore)

Commento di Grandomega

Can someone explain how Adamantite Ore can be mined from Ogres & Basalisks? You cant even mine the rock elementals.
The drops are wrong too. You cant loot the Withered Corpses in Netherstorm, they turn into the fleshfiends if you get close or attack them.
Hell, I wouldnt mind if you could get the ore from so many things. Means I could use Adamantite Shells more often.

Commento di 44935

what happened to the maps with the vein locations?

Commento di 30211

drop rate is now between 20-25% for blues. i get a blue just about every stack of ada ore now.
i prospected 40 or so stacks today. i got about 38(i think) blue gems.
got unlucky for part and went 6 stacks with no blue gem then immediately after i got 6 in a row. took a SS of it even. its very streaky

Commento di 17911

The actual prospecting rate is more than 18% now.

If you total up all the blue gems, and divide it by the total as of 9/17/07 these are the numbers from Wowhead itself:

Prospecting %
This mineral ore has been prospected 245820 times.

Talasite - 7979
Dawnstone - 7717
Noble Topaz - 7668
Living Ruby - 7490
Star of Elune - 7392
Nightseye - 7376

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Total - 45622

45622 / 245820 = 18.55% chance to get a blue gem.

If the Wowhead data hasn't been reset with the 2.1.x patch then the actual prospecting rate might is even greater than this since it will average with old data that was at 15%.

Commento di Divyraen

You shouldn't sell these. Get a jewelcrafter friend and let him/her prospect them all for you. From my experience, you will always get one rare gem out of a stack of Adamantite Ore... you will also get 4 powders for making Mercurial Adamantite. Let your friend craft that rare gem if he/she is able(which will sell even more), if not, the gem itself will still worth a hell lot. Turn all the powders into Mercurial Adamantite(which also worth alot)... Primal Earth worth almost nothing.(and extremely easy to obtain as a miner... I didn't farm any, yet I have 3 stack of Primal Earth sitting in my bank eating dust)

After doing that, you should be able to turn a stack of Adamantite Ore(20g) into rare gems and Mercurial Adamantite worth at least 50g.(you get loads of small uncommon gems too~)

Note: This method only works on certain servers... such as mine, in which a stack of Adamantite worth only 15g and any rare gem other than Talasite(which worth 30g) will worth over 40g.... crafted ones all worth over 50g. Primal Earth worth 3g and Mercurial Adamantite worth 20g.

Commento di Gary13579

Prospecting is one of the best and easiest ways to make gold, depending on your servers economy.

Simply hit 350 Jewelcrafting, get a few "in demand" gems, and buy up all the Adamantite Ore you can find. Do not buy recipes for gems that aren't good for a class, eg don't buy recipes for gems like + to spirit...
Undercut everyone. Learn what your gem prices are, and what you need to sell at in order to profit.

Here's an average day's (this morning, actually) run from prospecting for me.

Purchased:
35x stacks of (https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=23425), each at 20g, making it a 700g investment.

From prospecting:
7x Talasite (https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=23437)
2x Living Ruby (https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=23436)
4x Noble Topaz (https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=23439)
9x Dawnstone (https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=23440)
12x Nightseye (https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=23441)
5x Star of Elune (https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=23438)

83x miscellaneous green gems.
140x Adamantite Powder.

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Profit!:
7x Talasite, 10g each, 70g
2x Living Ruby, 70g each, 140g
4x Noble Topaz, 40g each, 160g
9x Dawnstone, 30g each, 270g
12x Nightseye, 30g each, 360g
5x Star of Elune, 40g each, 200g

83x uncommon gems, vendor for 25s each: 20.75g
140x Adamantite Powder, vendor 22.5s each: 31.5g

Total time taken: roughly 20 minutes.
Investment: 700g
Profit: 1250g
Total Profits: 550g
Return: ~180%

The lowest return I usually hit is 140%, which is still pretty good profit for how little time this takes. On good days (I've managed to get 4x living rubies from a single stack!), I hit as high as 200%-250%

Commento di 123154

Here's my take on those numbers, regarding probability. I know from personal experience that these are not dependent events or, at least, it's not a rule set in stone that only one blue gem can drop from a single Prospect. I've seen a Talasite and Living Ruby come from a single 5-stack of Adamantite Ore (not mine unfortunately), which leads me to believe that these are independent events.

Using your table above for drop counts of each blue gem from the total prospecting seen, you can work out individual probabilities for each blue gem:

Talasite - 7979/245820 ~= 0.0324587
Dawnstone - 7717/245820 ~= 0.0313928
Noble Topaz - 7668/245820 ~= 0.0311935
Living Ruby - 7490/245820 ~= 0.0304694
Star of Elune - 7392/245820 ~= 0.0300707
Nightseye - 7376/245820 ~= 0.0300056

The chance of any single one of these not dropping is then one minus that respective probability:

Chance of Talasite NOT dropping ~= 1 - 0.0324587 = 0.967541
Chance of Dawnstone NOT dropping ~= 1 - 0.0313928 = 0.968607
Chance of Noble Topaz NOT dropping ~= 1 - 0.0311935 = 0.968806
Chance of Living Ruby NOT dropping ~= 1 - 0.0304694 = 0.969530
Chance of Star of Elune NOT dropping ~= 1 - 0.0300707 = 0.969929
Chance of Nightseye NOT dropping ~= 1 - 0.0300056 = 0.969994

Then the aggregate chance that no blue gems will drop is the product of the above numbers, or approximately 0.828180.

The chance that any blue gems will drop is then one minus the probability that none will drop, or

1 - 0.828180 = 0.171819

This is very close to the 18% you stated but not quite the same thing.

Edit: Also, please note that this number represents the probability that one or more blue gems will be prospected from a given 5-stack of Adamantite Ore. Combined with the average value of uncut blue gems on your server, you can use this to find the expected minimum value of a stack of Adamantite Ore.

For example, with Gary13579's list of prices below, the expected minimum value of a 20 stack of Adamantite Ore would be

4*0.171819*(10+70+40+30+30+40)/6 ~= 25.20g

Commento di Ilovemuffins

Remember that, for Blacksmithers/Engineers/Jewlcrafters buying ore on the auction house, it takes TWO ores to make ONE bar. Make sure the ore you are buying is at least half the price of the bars on the AH (if you do plan using them for your profession), or you're getting ripped-off. Generally you wont find them at half price becuase they can be prospected, but sometimes you can find cheap ore.

Commento di 153465

Where's the best place for this? I have found Zangarmarsh to be pretty good - this mining guide with maps sent me there. Any other places of recommendation?

Commento di 146156

I farm 2 hours every day Adamantite Ore x50 stacks i sell this in ah 28-32g and i take the epic flying mount in 1week

Commento di WebGremlin

A mining skill level of 325 is needed to mine Adamantite veins.

EDIT: And a skill level of 350 for Rich Adamantite veins.

Commento di 129054

The prospecting level at the top of the screen is incorrect. It requires 350 to prospect.

Commento di 96334

It just might be a casuality, but I've noticed that when I mine in Quel'danas and prospect, I rarely get any blue gems(the quality, not the color). However, when I prospect adamantite from other placer (Nagrand above all) I've noticed a much higher droprate for blue gems. Probably It's just bad luck.

Commento di 126032

I know this is going to be marked as a -, but could someone please state the area with the most adamantite nodes? Usually wowhead is all over that. plz and ty

Commento di 204878

Nagrand (125)
Blade's Edge Mountains (118)
Netherstorm (97)
Terokkar Forest (75)
Shadowmoon Valley (73)
Zangarmarsh (47)
Isle of Quel'Danas (6)

Commento di verse

Heres my old mining route I used Pre-LK (With a flying mount ofcourse). You get a fair bit of Fel Iron but if you just skip em its lots of Adamantite to be had.

http://img205.imageshack.us/my.php?image=farmingterokarda2.jpg
http://i39.tinypic.com/jzjjpj.jpg
http://www.imagebam.com/image/c4249422013450

Commento di 148365

The vendor-prospect price of Adamantite Ore is about 23s/ea, comfortably over their vendor price. As I write this, the AH buyout is still about 50s, so selling them on the AH is a better approach - but if you need money fast, prospecting and vendoring the gems is smarter than just vendoring the ore.

Math:
110% chance of a "green drop", giving, on average, 1.5 gems. 41.25s off green gems.
Assuming a 20% chance of a "blue drop", giving one gem. 50s off blue gems.
100% chance of Adamantite Powder, worth 22.5s.

Total of 1g14s per set of 5, or 23s per item.

Commento di 318028

I looked on here hoping to find the best place to mine for adamantite and all i get is a load of posts about prospecting =/
can i pls get some help on the best place to go to mine the ore.Ty.

Commento di 331845

Just fly around the mountain edges of nagrand. Basically all the ogre caves, the deep ravine in the center, and all of the mountain edges.

Also, Blade's Edge is a good second choice, but I've always felt the route to be considerably longer, due to the fact that you need to make a lot of zig-zag passes.

Commento di 86212

When can you start prospecting adamantite ore?

Commento di 434004

Is Adamantite, “Adam Ant ite” an easter egg reference to the 1965 Hanna Barbara Atom Ant cartoon show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIk11Qu_jtk&feature=related or Adam Ant, the 1983 MTV video star http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3g5G0PFuXQ&feature=related or a reference to the word adamant, meaning any impenetrably or unyieldingly hard substance http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/adamant ?

Commento di 230180

Commento di Thottbot

If you get Cartographer Mining and Cartographer Routes, you can make a route that goes to every mining node that you want. Very good IMO.

Commento di Thottbot

I know these posts were a long time ago, but I really have to give Madmilk some credit. That is dedication to the job! Rock on man!

Commento di Thottbot

Isle of Quel' Danas has been great for me. In a half hour i got 80 ores of adamintite. There's really only 6 nodes on the whole island but the place is smalll so once you circut it they all mostly pop back up in time and in the same spots.

Commento di Thottbot

hehe adamantite goes for 175 to 200g for one stack on my server last i checked. now ive got 10 stacks XD
found moast in smv

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