Rough Stone and the Best Routes for Farming Them

FAQ

What are your PC specs?

• You can find them on my PC specs page.

What addons are used for farming Rough Stone in WoW?

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

Is this a Rough 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 wow-professions, as they might have updated Mining routes for Classic. I don’t foresee myself playing Classic at all in the future.

What professions benefit from Mining?

First off, Mining, because you can’t exactly mine without said profession to begin with. Though you can still possibly acquire ore (and stone) through other means–such as treasures and chests you pick up while fishing. Aside from that, Mining doesn’t benefit this particular stone.

Two secondary professions are best suited for Rough Stone.

• Blacksmithing
• Engineering

For Blacksmithing, they use this stone in order to help raise the attack of their sharp-bladed weapons, or blunt weapons, depending on the class. Spell-casters, of course, won’t be too pleased about the outcome, but…why on earth do they have BS?

Engineering merely makes a reagent that Engineering needs in order to craft a lot of the lower level crafting products.

What Mining routes aren’t mentioned?

There are several zones I had no interest in making a mining route in, some for actual route-making reasons, while others are more because they don’t allow flying. Due to these routes not being fine-tuned for Copper Ore, they also aren’t as well-suited for mining Rough Stone.

Dismissed Zones

• Dun Morogh
  I tried making a route in Dun Morogh, and it sort of worked, because the node respawns were well-balanced and I wasn’t getting a terrible amount of ore, but there are phased areas and alliance patrols. Making it not the most ideal zone for farming in.
• Tirisfal Glades
  In regards to this zone, the nodes were just too few and far between to get a good tally on a 30-minute farming run. The accumulated ore wasn’t worth the effort.

No-Flying Zones

Due to the fact that these are no-flying zones, I didn’t offer any kind of routes on them. This doesn’t mean that they won’t provide you with a decent amount of materials as you level. It’s just…nobody likes traveling a route via ground mount. Unless they play Classic. More power to them.

• The Lost Isles (Horde)
• Eversong Woods (Horde)
• Gilneas (Alliance)
• Azuremyst Isle (Alliance)
• Bloodmyst Isle (Alliance)

What else can you get from farming Rough Stone?

You have a chance of gathering Copper Ore, Malachite, Tigerseye, and Shadowgem.

Maps, Routes, and Data

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.

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

Eastern Kingdoms

Eastern Kingdoms offers one zone that’s best used for farming as part of an alliance faction, though horde can easily farm in the same zone as well. The zone itself is ground-mount friendly–though for that feat, you’re best blending in as part of the alliance.

Just…be careful of Goldshire.

Elwynn Forest

This is an Alliance zone.

Thus, I tried to avoid any contact with guards in this route. You’ll just need to be careful flying over the road leading to Stormwind. Occasionally patrols wander back and forth. This route can be traveled with a ground mount for lower levels–although there may be some locations you won’t be able to get to.

This zone is normally farmed by a few people at once as it’s closer to the major city of Stormwind and a simplistic route to remember.

• Rough Stone – 247

Kalimdor

While Eastern Kingdom features one zone for farming Copper in, Kalimdor offers a lot more variety. The zones below cater to both alliance and horde, but most of these zones belong to the horde faction. Thus, don’t get mad if you end up dying because you’re an alliance player who wanted to infiltrate enemy territory to steal some nodes that never belonged to you in the first place.

For the Horde.

Azshara

This is a Horde zone.

This is not a ground-mount friendly route due to all the cliffs and such, therefore it’s best to wait until you have a flying mount. There’s also a small phased zone you may enter, where you could find a Copper Ore node, but not be able to mine it. In that case, move on.

Or, y’know, actually do the quests in the zone, you slacker.

• Rough Stone – 318

Darkshore

This is an Alliance zone.

This is the best place to farm copper as alliance or horde, in my opinion (especially since there’s typically no competition about). It’s not ground-mount friendly due to all the fissures in the land. Though even if you’re a low level, there’s ore to be had everywhere you go.

• Rough Stone – 452

Durotar

This is a Horde zone.

This route does go over a Horde area, so Alliance players beware of that. Also, while a good portion of this route could be followed by ground-mounts, I wouldn’t worry too much if you’re a lower level, because there’s plenty of this ore damn near everywhere. Because the zone’s farming is simplistic, it will be likely farmed by a few different people.

• Rough Stone – 309

Mulgore

This is a Horde zone.

This is one of the more simple routes when it comes to mining copper in a zone. It’s not so much that you even need a route to look at, you simply have to follow along the mountain-side. But, just in case…here you go.

• Rough Stone – 315

Professions

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

Rough Blasting Powder
Skill: 1 | Crafted material | Learned via Profession Trainer
A reagent item for engineers to craft a couple different explosives.

Requires:

• (1) Rough Stone