Re: Getting Mining skill from 115 to 125

"Peter Knutsen" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My 20th level Dwarven Hunter has a Mining skill of 115. Smelting silver is
green, and everything else is grey, and he can't learn how to smelt iron
until he reaches a skill level of 125 (however once he gets there, he has
more than 60 lumps of iron ore to work with).

What to do? How do I bridge the gap? I don't know of any place that is
particularly good for mining (except for copper - I know lots of good
copper places) except for the Ogre Mound in Duskwood and, well, he's level
20. He's not going there any time soon.

I could have higher level characters go mine ore for him. I have a level
34 Paladin who is offically retired from adventuring, but who still
sometimes goes out to grind leather (to sell) and ores (for the Hunter,
who is also an Engineer). But the only thing that's good is silver (more
iron is nice, but not really needed), and that's *rare*.

What to do?

--
Peter Knutsen
sagatafl.org

One other idea is mine the cave in the east part of wetlands (its just nw of
the tunnel up to loch modan).
Theres a quest too for mining that cave, and I think it starts in thelsamar.
He first sends you to some guy in kharanos, then to the cave.

I think the spiders in that cave are low 20's for level, so you probably
want to get a couple more levels before you try. It a great place for
skilling up as there are lots of normal nodes as well as the special ore
that only occurs in that cave.


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