TheWoWDBEvery ore from thorium on down still grants skill-ups when u smelt it within the appropriate level range this was changed in a recent patch to make mining easier to level.
Spell
Smelt Fel Iron
Physical
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Goes from yellow to green at 307, at which point you'll need around 10 smelts to gain a single skill-up (was my impression).
Goes from green to gray at 315.
Hellfire Peninsula is the best place to farm this. worth a ton on my server for a stack. like 100g
Tooltip
Allows the miner to smelt fel iron ore into a fel iron bar. Smelting fel iron requires a forge.
Spell facts
SchoolPhysical
Cast time1.5 sec
EffectCreate Item
RangeSelf Only
Taught byMining (skill 1)
Spell ID29356
Datamined from the current retail build. Numbers that scale with level or stats are shown at their base value.
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