Mining Guide for Midnight

Mining allows you to mine ore veins found all across Midnight zones. The normal and rare ores mined in this fashion can then be further processed through Mining's specializations, or directly sold to players with Engineering, Jewelcrafting, or Blacksmithing.

You will also be able to gather rare reagents used by most professions, such as Dazzling Thorium, and the various elemental mote types, such as Mote of Pure Void.

Earthen will be able to gather more ore with their Hyper Productive racial, making them a great option for optimizing time invested mining.

Dracthyr mobility abilities and +2% baseline Perception racial are a decent alternative, allowing you to get more rare reagents when mining.

The final contender are Highmountain Druid, especially when combined with Druid instant cast flying with Travel Form, as their Pride of Ironhorn grants a massive 25% increase in gathering speed and +5 mining skill, which will help you get more valuable Rank 3 ores when gathering!

Mining can make great use of all three stats, but you might want to focus on specific stats for different playstyles. We go into detail with Mining stats and the gear you can use to boost them in the specialized guide below:

You can gather three base ore types: Refulgent Copper Ore, Umbral Tin Ore, and Brilliant Silver Ore, with Finesse procs increasing the amount mined.

Dazzling Thorium and motes such as Mote of Pure Void can also be gathered occasionally from Perception procs and related special nodes.

The base types can be found as special nodes: Seam, Rich, Lightfused, Wild, Primal, and Voidbound. These will grant you extra materials, but also have annoying or dangerous properties.

The Lightfused variant, for example, creates damaging swirlies that you can go into to grab more Mote of Light per node, provided you can survive the damage taken in the process.

You will also be able to learn and use Overload Infused Deposit after mining your first special node, and while its effect differs from node to node, it will give you an extra knowledge point for the first time you do it on a specific deposit type and a larger or more specific resource yield.

Mining is easy to level, as all you need to do is mine from the many deposits found all around the Midnight zones. The most common regular deposits will only give you skill up to 40 or so, but special nodes will continue giving skill ups until later, with Umbral Tin Ore and Brilliant Silver Ore specials going all the way to 100.

As you mine nodes you will also occasionally loot items that can increase your knowledge, up to a weekly maximum tracked on your profession journal.

You will be able to track all weekly and one-time sources of profession knowledge with Myu's Knowledge Points Tracker, which has been converted to an addon in Midnight!

There are also eight treasures around the world that you can loot to gain up to 24 extra knowledge. You can find them all easily in-game with the aforementioned addon.

Mining Specializations dictate what ores you are proficient at mining, and can even let you mine while mounted! In fact, that feature is so strong that we would recommend you to invest 40 points into Meticulous Mining to begin with, before branching out to any of our suggested builds below.

After investing into mounted mining you should have all or almost all of the specializations unlocked as you mined around Midnight zones. Further investment into the Meticulous Mining tree is discouraged as Rich and Seam deposits are not that common or profitable.

Instead, invest into extra skill when mining through the Plentiful Ores tree, which will also contribute towards getting more Dazzling Thorium when mining with each sub-node capstone talent. The basic Refulgent Copper sub-node is likely to be the most valuable after maximizing the first node of the tree, as the uses for this material are immense.

Finally, investing into mining the other base ore deposits is recommended, before finishing with Over-LODED, which grants large bonuses to Overload Infused Deposit and your skill at mining special nodes, but also requires a massive amount of talent point investment.

Mining makes gold by farming ores in Midnight zones, with rarer ores being looted based on your Perception stat.

As ores are a common ingredient for Engineering, Jewelcrafting, and Blacksmithing, try to sell yours in raid days, when crafters are more likely to be looking to create and sell their wares. The Undermine Exchange can also help you understand the price fluctuation for ores in your server, and which ores are best to farm at any given moment.

We have a specialized guide for Midnight goldmaking below, which contains a goldmaking tier list and goes deeper into techniques and habits for successful gold making, as well as websites and addons that can help you on your journey!