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Re: Mining weirdness.

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From: Catriona R
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 22:11
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On Sat, 1 Mar 2014 11:11:15 -0800 (PST), pete...@gmail.com wrote:

>I've been leveling a warlock, as fast as possible.
>
>He specced for mining/engineering, but is moving too fast to
>work at the professions. In mining, he's a little over 100.
>
>Nonetheless, he dinged 85 today, and hit Pandaria.
>
>For some reason, he's able to mine Ghost Iron. 
>
>Is this normal? I was expecting to go back and work
>on tin.

Yep, they put it in as a catchup mechanic, you're probably getting
mainly ghost iron nuggets that can be combined into ore, I'd guess -
general idea is you can mine away and skill up that way, but you don't
get much ore till you reach appropriate skill lvl. Herbalism has the
same deal, not sure if skinning does though.
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