Mining Guide for Season of Discovery (SoD) Phase 8

Phase 8 of Season of Discovery retains the 300 skill cap introduced in Phase 3 for professions, allowing players to max out their crafting and gathering skills in case they haven’t already done so. For the Mining profession, you’ll be able to collect most ores and gems that can be used for multiple professions.

Mining Leveling & Trainers

Check out our Classic Mining Guide for trainer locations, a leveling guide, and more. Everything in that guide should apply to Season of Discovery.

Learning Artisan Mining

From Phase 3 onward, players were able to level their professions all the way to 300 skill, or Artisan level – the maximum skill for Vanilla WoW. Artisan Mining can be learned from any Mining Trainer located in the major cities, meaning you don’t have to hunt for specific NPCs!

Keep in mind that the level restrictions brought by the Season of Discovery still apply! Your character will need to be at least level 41 to be able to learn Artisan Mining and at least level 26 to learn Expert Mining.

Mining Equipment

Besides the 300 Mining skill cap that you can reach, you can additionally use special equipment that increases your overall Mining skill past 300. This is equipment is needed to mine the Obsidian Chunks inside the Ahn’Qiraj raids that were released in Phase 6.

• Enchant Gloves – Mining (+2)
  • Formula: Enchant Gloves – Mining drops from Dark Iron Dwarves in Wetlands
• Enchant Gloves – Advanced Mining (+5)
  • Formula: Enchant Gloves – Advanced Mining drops from Venture Co. Strip Miners in Stranglethorn Vale
• Goblin Mining Helmet (+5)
  • Created by Goblin Engineering – Taught by: Nixx Sprocketspring in Tanaris/Vazario Linkgrease in The Barrens

Phase 8 Ore to Farm

So far, no new ore or gems have been added in Season of Discovery. Mining works the same as it did in Vanilla World of Warcraft, just with lower level caps.

Pretty much any ore above Copper could be worth farming. Blacksmiths and Engineers will be looking for all of it.

Here is everything you can mine in Phase 8 of Season of Discovery. Click on a node in the “Where to Pick“ column to see maps with spawn locations by zone.

And here’s a smelting table for convenience, including one new smelted bar, Obsidian-Infused Thorium Bar, that was added for Phase 6 of Season of Discovery.