Dense Stone and the Best Routes for Farming Them

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FAQ

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What are your PC specs?

• You can find them on my PC specs page.

What addons are used for farming Dense Stone in WoW?

• The addon Routes.
• The addon FarmHUD.
• The addons Gathermate2 and WoWGatheringNodes.

Is this a Dense Stone Mining route for Classic WoW?

No. I play retail, not Classic World of Warcraft, so these routes might not be the ones for you to go by.

In case they aren’t, you might want to check out Classic Guides, as they might have updated Mining routes for Classic. I don’t think I’ll dive into the Classic era, as the hype seemed to have died down pretty quick.

What professions benefit from Mining?

First off, Mining, because you can’t exactly mine without said profession to begin with. You might also have a chance of getting this stone from treasures as well as mining enemies you kill. Sometimes it’s worth poaching rocks.

Two secondary professions are beneficial in regards to Dense Stone itself.

• Blacksmithing
• Engineering

With Blacksmithing, you can craft useable items in order to sharpen your weapons. So if that’s your class’s kind of style, it’ll be good for you. BS can also craft a reagent that’s used in crafting a lot of BS weaponry and armor.

Engineering will allow you to craft a reagent that’s used to craft a variety of other engineer products. Also, fireworks!

What else can you get from farming Dense Stone?

You have a chance of gathering Arcane Crystal, Azerothian Diamond, Black Vitriol, Blue Sapphire, Huge Emerald, Large Opal, and Star Ruby.

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Maps, Routes, and Data

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Reduced resolution
The routes in this section offer you full view of the maps in question, at a reduced resolution of 1280×720. In order to get the full resolution of 2560×1440, you’ll need to purchase my In-Depth Farming Guide. It offers a variety of routes for each zone, with all the data I’ve accumulated over the years of farming.

• My miner is a Horde druid, thus giving faster in-and-out flight form.
• Dense Stone comes from Thorium Ore nodes, thus the routes section is the same as the Thorium Ore post.
• Overall farming time per zone: 30 minutes.

Eastern Kingdoms

There’s only one zone in the Eastern Kingdoms worth farming for this stone, but it’s not the number one place. In fact, I thought of not putting it on here at all, but I found a way to make it work.

Swamp of Sorrows

You’re going to want to gather every single mining node you find in this zone, in order for the respawn to kick in after a complete look around the route. Which means you’ll be needing to go into the cave and gather all the ore in there, as well as everything on the outside.

Stay alert for the alliance and horde camps this route comes close to.

• Dense Stone – 304

Kalimdor

Here’s the continent with all of the zones that grant the most amount of ore and stone. The positives with the above, is not many people are going to farm a route with bad respawn value, which makes it so the zones below might have more competition.

Silithus

I love farming this location because it nets a ton of Thorium and Dense Stone, however, there are several ore in underground hives that I don’t go into. Despite this, the amount of stone you can get in this zone is great. Also, you don’t get too close to any opposing faction areas.

• Dense Stone – 689

Un’Goro Crater

I’m actually surprised Un’Goro didn’t net as much ore as I’d thought it would. The nodes aren’t as clustered and close together as the ones in Silithus, however it’s a very simplistic route that circles the border of the zone. So much so, that you wouldn’t even need to follow a route.

• Dense Stone – 518

Winterspring

This route in Winterspring isn’t a bad one and can net you a lot of ore. This zone has a lot of trees that could get in the way of your finding one of the ore nodes, but that’s the only annoyance. Initially, I’d had three routes to follow–one for the upper area, one for the lower, and the third that connected both–but to simplify it for you, here’s the one.

The first route I created, which deals with the lower section, can be found on my In-Depth Farming Guide.

• Dense Stone – 490

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Professions

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If you’re curious as to how much gold you can possibly gain from the items listed below, you can always check out The Undermine Journal, choose your region, and then your realm. After that, search for the items below and see what they’ve been selling for lately.

Blacksmithing

Engineering