评论来自 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%.

评论来自 Wark

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

评论来自 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.

评论来自 44935

what happened to the maps with the vein locations?

评论来自 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

评论来自 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

-----------------------------------
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%.

评论来自 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.

评论来自 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.cuckhead.com/cata/item=23425), each at 20g, making it a 700g investment.

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

83x miscellaneous green gems.
140x Adamantite Powder.

???
?

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%

评论来自 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

评论来自 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.

评论来自 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?

评论来自 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

评论来自 WebGremlin

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

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

评论来自 129054

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

评论来自 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.

评论来自 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

评论来自 204878

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

评论来自 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

评论来自 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.

评论来自 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.

评论来自 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.

评论来自 86212

When can you start prospecting adamantite ore?

评论来自 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 ?

评论来自 230180

especially hard substance

Hurr durr.

评论来自 ezechiel

for some strange reason, in the past week Adamantite Ore sells in AH for 400-500g per stack on my server
i don't know how it used to be, as it never interested me the price for this before i started to level up Enchanting
^^

评论来自 Thaerun

Now that the days of TBC are gone and no one does anything on Quel'Danas any more, it is pretty much the -best- spot for adamantite farming? Why?

Contains only adamantite, rich adamantite, and khorium veins.

I've heard that the way node spawns work is as such (some of it is guesswork, though some of it was imparted by a friend who was a GM for WoW at one point):

Nodes are gathered into clusters. Clusters are basically a set of nodes that are linked together (usually near each other, but not always). When one node in that cluster is mined, another will spawn in a random spawn point from that group. This is why, if you look at gatherer data, even after sitting in one spot for ages and ages, usually no ore will spawn at spawn points near you actively if no one is mining you. Else you could go to somewhere like Silithus and just see Thorium veins out the wazoo.

The reason Quel'Danas is so great is because there are only six clusters in total. What's more is that every cluster only has one spawn point. From timing, I think I have nailed the cluster respawn rate to be 5 minutes. This means, per 5 minute circuit, you will mine 6 nodes. Between normal and rich veins, this will be an average of 20-24 ore at LEAST per circuit. An hour of farming will net you 240 ore, or 12 stacks. Add in the extra gems you get, and this is an incredible spot to farm once you're at 325 JCing and want to boost it up, or just want to make some quick cash. Adamantite goes for 50g/stack on my server. The TBC uncommon gems go for 2-4 each in some cases, so you could easily net 700g here in an hour depending on server type.

When doing this route, a couple things: First, don't feel like you should skip any ore nodes if you want an easier route or if you find one's not spawned yet. If no one else is mining it'll take you less than 5 mins to do the full circuit and grab all the nodes, skipping any will just mean you wait longer.

If one is not there, it means you've got there too fast. Just wait a few seconds, it should respawn shortly unless someone's jacking your ore.

And here is a map of the nodes on QD: (My paint skillz are leet)

http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/xx292/tertialux/QD_Miningjpg.jpg

EDIT:

With the release of Cataclysm it seems that the same 6 "clusters" remain intact, but Blizzard sneakily added a couple more spawn points for each cluster. Kaputtfurleben has kindly created a new map a couple comments down which shows these points.

评论来自 262213

The best place I found to mine adamantite is in terrokar forest and Nagrand.
Although Terrokar has a lot of Fel iron nodes too. I did one lap of terrokar and found about 50% fel iron, 45% adamantite and 5% khorium. Maybe just lucky with the khorium mind.
One lap of nagrand though going into all the caves netted me aaround 110 bars in one lap plus lots of motes of fire and earth!
Hope this helps

评论来自 Monthy

Farming Adamantite, some Khorium and a lot of motes in the superior area for it: Isle of Quel'Danas.

Here are the facts:

There are 18 nodes. Of these 5 to 7 will spawn for each lap you do, and any of them can at any point spawn as a Khorium ore, but two of them seem to do it more often than the others. It´s 2 of the 3 at the top east 61,44 and 60,40.

LOCATIONS:
EAST:
9 along the east coastline all but one along the hillside, not the waterline.
The single one in the water is at 61,44,( one of the top 3 NE spots.) After the top three, it´s all in a straight line from north to south so no point giving coords here, except for the top two =60,40 and 62,40 ( so you know where to start :))

NORTHWEST:
The other 9 is in the NW area between Sunwell Plateau--Dawnstar Village--Sun's Reach Armory.

There is nothing below Sunwell Plateau apart from the two on the horizontal line between 37,51(Just below SP) and 47,50(Sun's Reach Armory), so coming up that coastline on your lap, just go along the waterline up.

Coords for NW nodes:
37,51
36,44
35,35
39,35
43,32
45,37
50,41 = One shelf up NW of " The Dawning Square "
49,46 = One shelf up NW of " The Dawning Square "
47,50 = Sun's Reach Armory. nw spitting distance from arms/weap. vendor.

Well I think that´s all you need to know people.

Good luck with your mining,JC,gathering of wealth or whatever:)
/MonthyPython

评论来自 844001

There is no quick way to farm this but have found Nagrand to have the most. I checked out Isle of Quel'Danas and it does have some but not as many. Oh how I wish I would have leveled my Jewelcrafting as I leveled my toon. Good luck.

P.s. The Adamantite is found all through out Nagrand.. a lot around the other ridges, some in the caves, some on random hills. What a pain.

评论来自 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...

评论来自 Sablerain

BC drop spawn rates are pretty bad. Where I was averaging approximately 100 ore every half hour in Azeroth, I'm averaging 60 adamantite ore every half hour in Outland.

I tried Nagrand first which had a horrible spawn rate for me, only 3 nodes in a 10 minute circuit. Then I tried Shadowmoon Valley which wasn't much better. Surprisingly Terokkar Forest was the best adamantite zone for me. This is where I averaged my 60 ore every half hour.

Mining ore in BC sucks. I can't wait to get the heck out of the horrible 300-375 bracket. :/

评论来自 Samander

Here is a picture of the route I run in Nagrand.

I am not claiming Nagrand is the best zone to farm Addy Ore; however, I have farmed every zone in Outlands for one item or another and I have found Nagrand to be the most efficient for Addy Ore simply because of the route I have highlighted in the picture above. If you follow that route, you will clean the zone up of most ore to the point of other players complaining in general (if they so happen to be farming when you are).

A few things to note:

A) You will not hit every node with this route; but that is not the point. This is a very efficient route in that you are constantly moving/constantly mining. If your goal is to hit all of the nooks and crannies of a zone, your goal isn't to be a proficient farmer.

B) The only time you are remotely retracing your steps during a pass is in the Halaa area. However, there are quite a few spawn points in this area, so don't think it a waste of time. Each pass through the zone is taking you over "new" ground. This maximizes node spawns. Also, this route is a complete circle so you never have to "start over." You just keep flying the route and it'll keep repeating itself.

C) Notice I have you passing over multiple caves: Only go inside a cave if there are multiple nodes inside of the cave; and/or there is a rich addy node; and/or there is a khorium node. Otherwise it is a waste of time. If you fly over the cave, your map will tell you how many nodes are in there. Taking 10 seconds to fly over the cave first will save you 3 minutes of running in for one small node. This is especially true up in the Warmaul Hill area as the one cave is quite large.

评论来自 DisRuptive1

Quel'Denas is probably the best place to farm as long as you're alone. Nodes respawn every 5 minutes but it takes 4 minutes to do a circuit. So do a full circuit then type "/sw 1:00" without quotes. Wait for the stopwatch to count down to 0 and do the whole thing over again.

I was able to get about 40 Adamantite ore and a bunch of other stuff every circuit.

评论来自 Allakhazam

Anyone know a good place to farm for this? I need to get my Blacksmithing up pretty bad, and I'm too cheap to buy it on AH.

评论来自 Allakhazam

So the only way u can get this, without buying from the AH, is being a jewelcrafter and not a miner? Kindof deceiving because its ore :(

评论来自 Allakhazam

Blade's Edge Mountains i find is the best zone in OL ...re-spawns in Trogma's Claim cave in the SE, Death's Door, and all along that stretch of Ogre camps ...alot of Fel Iron and i got 10 Khorium Ore yesterday too =) so BEM imo...

评论来自 Allakhazam

The best place by far is Nagrand that place has an abundance of Adamantite Veins, especially in the caves at Warmaul Hill.

评论来自 Allakhazam

No u mine it the ordinary way

评论来自 Thottbot

well i will say that the best place is shadowmoon valley

评论来自 Thottbot

i cruise around blades edge and netherstorm when farming, the areas that are unreachable in blades without a flying mount are usually good for a rich vein

评论来自 Thottbot

The best place, in my opinion, is Nagrand. Granted, I don't have much experience mining anywhere other than here and hellfire, but I have found that if you determine a route to patrol and just circle that area, you will find about 120 ores an hour (mix of fel iron, adamantite, khorium). Oh, that is with epic mount of course.

评论来自 Thottbot

The best place by far is Nagrand that place has an abundance of Adamantite Veins, especially in the caves at Warmaul Hill.

评论来自 Thottbot

is it just me, or anybody else noticed that rich adamantite mines spawn much much less after 2.1 patch? i went 3-4 full rounds in blade's edge and only found 1(!) rich adamantite deposite.
before patch there were at least 2 in each round

评论来自 Thottbot

I agree... it seems more scarce... I patrol the same areas in Nagrand as I did before the patch and am coming up very short. They must have nerfed the spawns. :(

评论来自 Thottbot

"The location of many of the Outland mineral nodes have been adjusted both to put them in locations that are more traveled and to make them more likely to be near creatures."

From the patch notes.

评论来自 Thottbot

Can you get rare gems from prospecting adamantite?

评论来自 Thottbot

Yesh. You gem in ratio 1blue gem per 25ores

评论来自 Thottbot

i farmed day Adamantite/fel iron ore in BLADE EDGES MOUNTAIN(around 'death's door' ) for my engineer... :

-loads of adamantite ores
-1noble topaz
-1dawnstone
-8green stones ( dunno the names xD )
-8primal earth
-2primal fire

评论来自 Thottbot

Id recommend Blades Edge Mountains and Nagrand. They made me 400g richer in few hours.

评论来自 Thottbot

Bought 40 ores off the AH at 25g a stack, had the prospected and came away with 1 Living Ruby and 2 Nighteyes, not to mention a fistful of Greens i gave to the JC as a thankyou.
My server the price of those gems uncut is 40g each on the AH.
Good profit margin ^^

评论来自 Thottbot

If you prospect, save adamantite powder!

评论来自 Thottbot

Awesome my second set of coords. this time its for netherstorm =). there doesnt seem to be as many in netherstorm though =(

NETHERSTORM
27,55 fel iron
25,79 adamantite
58,83 fel iron
53,68 adamantite
65,60 adamantite
49,55 fel iron
48,49 fel iron
60,49 adamantite
60,47 fel iron
61,45 adamantite
65,30 adamantite
55,19 adamantite
44,38 adamantite
47,11 adamantite
45,13 adamantite
35,29 fel iron
39,21 fel iron
35,29 adamantite
26,36 adamantite ( in cave )
23,34 adamantite
25,43 adamantite

Madmilk
Executus Horde

评论来自 Thottbot

you can prospect fel iron at 275 and adamantitte at 325

评论来自 Thottbot

My Admantite prospecting 485 ore

97x Admantite Powder
22x Deep Peridot
20x Azure moonstone
17x Blood Garnet
14x Flame Spesarite
10x Golden draenite
7x Shadow draenite
3x Talasite
2x Star of Elune
1x Night eye
1x Dawnstone

评论来自 Thottbot

Firstly I concur that Nagrand is the best place to get adamanatite ore as the routing by flying mount is far more convenient than the other zones. Zangarmarsh is also convenient but not as rich. Blades Edge is a pain given the layout and the spiked mountains.

As for the comment about Gatherer. There is a downloadable database you can use with Gatherer posted along with the Gatherer add on.

评论来自 Thottbot

After prospecting over 5000 stacks of Adamantite Ore between Oct 2007 and Mar 2008, I can say with confidence that it produces 1 rare gem for roughly every 4.46 prospects. (22%)

Here are the raw numbers.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=psIASZENHDoAuNVBoXtbcXw

Thank you to all the ore farmers for keeping me supplied. I'm still heavily into prospecting and still accepting CODs every day, but this study has concluded and I've stopped counting.

Vulpestia - Blood Elf Hunter - Medivh

评论来自 Thottbot

This is the best thread on Thottbot.

评论来自 Thottbot

I have also started a spread sheet of what I prospect and the turnout it gives.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pdr-MibcRlh8wIv3SUuWxKw

评论来自 Thottbot

With the release of the new patch, 2.4, Quel'Danas is available for play, and it has become the best place to mine. The respawn times are so quick that they are respawned by the time I circle the map. There have been no fel iron, only adamantite, rich adamantite, and khorium. I've found khorium multiple times. This is THE best place to mine, IMO.

评论来自 Thottbot

total respect for Madmilk. awesome!

评论来自 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.

评论来自 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!

评论来自 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.

评论来自 Thottbot

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