Broken Isles Mining Techniques

The fact that blizzard added this achievement without looking into the drop rates of the rank 2/3 recipes is beyond me and deserves all the negative critic it gets. I farmed for HOURS/DAYS now with not even a single progress. It goes so far that it makes you wonder if your character is just bugged. Nothing should have such a low drop rate.

And this is not the first time blizzard simply fails to design fun and engaging achievements. They fail over and over again.

It is getting so frustrating to me that i am thinking about taking a break from the game/quit. I am simply so overly done with stupid achievements like this one only for them to maybe be fixed 9 months later after you already wasted hours over it.

Nothing about this whole achievement is fun. It should not exist. And the persons who are responsible for designing it deserve every bit of negative feedback. And i am willing to die on this hill.

If you ever were looking for a picture book example of "devs not playing theyre own game". This achievement takes the cake.

Don't get discouraged by all the other negative comments. This achievement is not bugged. It will take several days/weeks of grinding, but it is very doable and you will see steady progress. Here's a summary of the most useful tips from other posts and my own experience:

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• Leystone and Felslate Deposits/Seams: these ranks are obtained by mining nodes in non-Argus Legion zones. The best zone seems to be The Broken Shore. You'll earn rank 1 quickly. After rank 1, complete the mining quest chains from the Dalaran mining trainer before proceeding to ranks 2-3, which are much more rare.
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• Infernal Brimstone: earn rank 1 by completing a world quest (for me, it was in Highmountain). Earn ranks 2-3 by completing a quest chain, which is available from the Dalaran mining trainer only after earning Rank 2 in leystone deposits/seams and felslate deposits/seams.
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• Living Leystone and Living Felslate: I recommend waiting until earning all level 3 ranks in leystone deposits/seams and felslate deposits/seams before working on living leystone and living felslate. The reason is because mining any leystone or felslate node has a chance to spawn a basilisk. Mining the basilisk's corpse has a chance to earn the respective living leystone or living felslate ranks. If you still need living leystone/felslate ranks, the best places to farm are: for living leystone ranks 1-2, the basilisks at /way Azsuna 55 34; for living leystone rank 3, the basilisks at /way Stormheim 56 91--be sure to get nodes and basilisks in the 3 caves; for living felslate ranks 1-3, the basilisks at Felsoul Hold (/way Suramar 28 59).
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• Empyrium Deposits/Seams: ranks are obtained only by mining nodes in Argus zones. Because there's no flying in Argus, the best zone is Eredath. Rank 1 will become available only after progressing the main Argus storyline quests until Khamir spawns after Xera is recovered. Because of no flying in Argus, empyrium ranks are the most challenging of the entire achievement.
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Additonal helpful tips:

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• Highmountain Taurens have a racial mining bonus. If possible, use a character with this race.
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• Create (or buy from AH) Enchant Gloves - Legion Mining.
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• Create (or buy from AH) Demonsteel Stirrups.
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• Max mining skill level is not required for any rank. You may actually earn the achievement before reaching max skill level.
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• With the exception of living leystone and living felslate, all ranks are obtained by either looting an item or spawning an NPC while mining nodes. Either way, it will initiate a quest that you turn in to a mining trainer in Suramar, Highmountain or the Argus ship.
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Tbh i think its impossible to do this achievement unless if you maxed your mining during legion.
i farmed every R2-R3 with some try hard for each rank and most of them took me an average of 2 hours.
I'm facing a wall right now for [item=124481] + [item=124477], they just don’t appear.
I farmed 2 weeks about 3/4 hours per day and no npc spawnned when mining felslate.
So there are 2 possibilities; the drop rate is completely &*!ed and im really really really unlucky or quests are bugged and do not drop anymore.

I reached a gm but as always there is no bug from their side and if i think there is a bug i should make a bug report :)

I decided to stop this boring and useless farm untill the launch of 10.1.7 and see if some people are like me and can't drop these 2 quests.
If you are like me, just target this achievement on the ptr and report bug or make a feedback about R3 from legion.

Anyway i can give some tips about mining in legion :

- If you start from scratch use an Highmountain Tauren.
- Buy Enchant Gloves - Legion Mining + Darkmoon Firewater.
- Grab every R1 first and after farm R2 then R3.
- Unlock Argus and grab R1 Empyrium Deposit + Empyrium Seam / Since you can't fly Krokuun is the best area.
- Since mining can't use a mount like herbalism, i suggest to do this achievement during [event=324] and use [item=37011].
- Check wow profession they got some nice routes.
- Broken Shore is the best area for farm Felstate Seam and Leystone Seam.
- Do not focus Living Felslate unless its your last R3 missing and go to Felsoul Hold.
- Same for Living Leystone this spot [npc=91128] got a good respawn but from wowheads comment people dropped their R3 at Hafr Fjall and tbh i farmed here with 3 accounts and the respawn is too bad for a single account, try in azsuna if you got a single account maybe there is a better spot but you need to check by yourself.
- Do not expect Ranks 2+3 to drop easily, you can be lucky and drop one after 2 or 3 tries, be patient because it is probably one of the worst achievement from the 10.1.7 :)