As most of you are aware, Blizzard have enabled flying mounts to be used in Wintergrasp when the battle is not active. I have recently been using this to my advantage by mining all the ores there! Here are some requirements needed:

1. 450 Mining
2. Patience & Time
3. Flying Mount (preferably Epic Flying)

The Wintergrasp territory consists of three different types of rocks or nodes:

1. Saronite Deposit
2. Rich Saronite Deposit
3. Titanium Vein

They are listed in order of least rare to rare.

Saronite Ore is worth about 15g a stack on my server. Titanium Ore, due to the mass need of the new epic gems is worth around 230g a stack on my realm.

Knowing this, this is how I manage to pull in a crap load of gold every hour.

First, I would start at the WG alliance base (when not having control of WG) and fly (Epic Mount) over this nice little route I have made from my experience mining.



Just follow the route above and you should get around 1 Stack of Saronite and maybe 3-10 individual ores of Titanium. I personally just keep going around that path for an hour, or until WG starts, when it starts I get the hell out of there and put my goods on the AH. I usually come away with this:

Around 5 - 10 stacks of saronite (75g-150g)
Around 1 - 2 stacks of Titanium
So it comes to around 400g an hour from selling all these ores.

Note: THIS MAY VARY WITH WHAT TYPE OF MOUNT YOU USE

I don't think this is AH dependent due to all the prices going up on Titanium, either way you're still making a huge profit.

This is my Wintergrasp mining and gas cloud route. It's still good even without engineering, but engineering makes it even more amazing. Wintergrasp is such a fantastic zone because there are so few people that go there due to being wary of PVP. When used at night, I can easily get a stack of Titanium or more, mixed with the Saronite and Eternal Fire which adds up to a lot of gold per hour. (On my server it can be anywhere between 500g and 800g/hour)

I usually start off at the Fortress if my faction controls Wintergrasp and if we don't, then I fly in on my mount to the fire Revenant area. I find it best to follow the path counter clockwise, because some of the nodes are on hills and looping back is a waste of time.


The map is self explanatory except there are a few spots that can be a little tricky. If you look closely at the northwest corner there's a line that goes around, only go that way if there's a node that seems out of reach on your minimap then you jump down onto it. Once you get to the big river/lake in the middle, you can run on either side (or right down the middle with waterwalking).

Once you get to the southeast corner, this is where engineering comes in handy. I marked 4 red dots on the map where clouds usually spawn. NOTE: If your faction controls wintergrasp, I would suggest killing the Flame Revenants as it will give you a decent amount of Crystallized Fire. After the fire area after going north you'll come to a cliff, just jump off the waterfall so you don't die.

There are some notes at the south which I didn't highlight because by the time you get back to where you started on the map, it's respawned already anyway. So going to the south area for me is wasting precious farming time.