Mining: same amount of ore, my ***!Follow

So, I decide to take advantage of the fact that you get full rep for gray mobs now by grinding ogres at Laughing Skull Ruins to finish off my Kurenei rep so that I can get my 49th and 50th mounts.

No sooner do I land and kill my first ogre when a khorium vein pops up before my eyes. Now, I realize that khorium veins are generally 2 strokes, sometimes 3, very rarely 4. But NEVER in the 2+ years since BC came out have I encountered only 1 stroke/ore from a khorium vein that no one else has touched. If this vein were to give the same amount of ore as before, in a single stroke, I should have gotten at least two ore, possibly three, MAYBE (but not likely) four.

Three motes of earth, five motes of fire, and a garnet gem. That's all fine and dandy, seems to be just about perfect for a khorium vein, right?

And one single solitary ore. Only one.

I have suspected all along that this change to mining would ultimately drop the amount of ore being mined, no matter what Blizzard claimed, and it looks like I was right.

I have not had a chance to get on yet today, I am really hoping the OP just had really bad luck on that vein.

I'm hoping so too. But seriously--I have never encountered a vein of anything that only gave one ore (unless someone else had tapped it, of course.) So the fact that there is even a possibility that we can get a single ore from the "new & improved" mining system means there has, in fact, been a change made to the amount of ore you get. It wasn't possible to get only one ore before, it is now. The fact that a change has been made is thus indisputable, unless it was a bug.

However, maybe it's being balanced out at the high end. To use my original example, maybe khorium veins now also have an increased chance to give 4 ore to balance out the fact that they now have a chance of giving only one. Maybe, but I doubt it.

If that's the case, then the amount of ore available will definitely decrease, because in regular veins it has always been 2-4 ore in each vein, not 1-3, and in rich veins, 5-7 (not sure if I have ever gotten 8, but I think it might be possible.)

Nah. I hit a Saronite deposit about 10 mins ago and it coughed up four pieces of ore. It was a regular one too, not a rich.

I've gotten one ore before on I think it was a mithril one? Maybe cobalt... don't quite remember. It is possible that it was previously tapped before, but I can't say for sure.

Mining nodes have never been 1 tap, it's always been 2-4 for a normal node, then 4-8 for a rich node.

Players were told they would recieve the same amount of ore from this change. Only difference is you collect it all in 1 tap instead of 2-8 taps.



How the OP only got 1 piece of ore from a vein, I have no idea.

I hit some Saronite in Storm Peaks just after my realm came up. Three regular and one rich, and got decent amounts from them all. I was quite pleased and can't wait to get out and hit some more!

I adore the change. Not because of camper problems, but because if I get full, I don't have to drop items to make room for the Stone items just to drop them over and over. Now I can grab just the motes/ore.

Good job Blizz :D I like it!

8 stacks of Saronite, 8 titanium ore, and a large number of eternals over the course of 1 hour today. Slightly less/node or no, that's pretty sweet.

Please don't tell me you're basing your viewpoint on ONE NODE?

Try a few hundred and average them.

The ones I have hit have given at least 2+ I have hit about 3 old world 2 BC and 3 WOTLK.

I get 1 veins every now and then, they're not unheard of. This is more QQ for the sake of more QQ.

I went mining today after maintance for like one hour. It always was 2-4, and in rich veins 4-7 ores from saronite nodes. Titanium nodes gave me 2-4 ores.

Beside, how often you can get 1 ore from 1 node? Honestly I always got at least 2 ores (if no one touched that node before of course).