i have made a post about how mining and stuff works from my own testing a recap anyway is you have around 12sec now (this might change again it used to be 20 secs) for others to mine the node before it goes. it can be mined more than once though. so need fast windows changing.

So far i managed to do around 7 so it's unlikely a hard coded or though I can start seeing it becoming a problem and they could add hard code max to it and or make the despawn time faster.


at the start of the xpac it's very much going to be easy money, skill in legion does not make you get more ore you always get 1-3 at 1, 8, 10 or 700. you do quests to get more ore when you become a good mining at x ore. (legion stuff anyway) if you drop it later you can pick it up later and buy the quests back.


if you really want to make easy gold and not care about items etc. then i would go mining and herb and just got all nuts selling it when you can sell them for a LOT of gold.


skills points are only needed for pets/mounts/toys.

hope this has helped