Finding Iron Ore in Vulkhel Guard is a Pain

Iaanik

Can anyone give me a tip besides the obvious response of where to look around. It's quite annoying and how often do you even get armour from drops to take back to the Smith to deconstruct. -_- I do have my skill point updated so the rocks glow too and still no sightings. :[

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redspecter23

I never had great luck farming ore in Auridon. It seems to be spread out too much. Maybe someone else has a good spot for you there. I'd head to Khenarthi's Roost if you want to keep it to AD. Glenumbra, Stormhaven and Rivenspire all seem to have a lot of ore as well.

Iaanik

Thanks Red! I'll go give those locations a good look!

driosketch

I was going to post a pic of my map with add-on, but it's pretty sparse around Auridon. Best places seem to be the areas around Mathiisen and along the west coast of the island. As a general rule, ore likes to hang out on the beach and along mountains and rocky ridges. The southern volcano in Stonefalls, for instance, is encircled by ore nodes.

KATObloodpaw

I always have luck following the bottom of cliff sides. Auridon has tons of cliffs with ore scattered amongst them.

Nestor

Auridon, and a few other AD zones seem to be the least dense with Crafting Nodes. It has improved with One Tamriel, but it's still kind of sparse.

Any EP or DC zone will work better for you.

bryanhaas

Iaanik wrote: »

Can anyone give me a tip besides the obvious response of where to look around. It's quite annoying and how often do you even get armour from drops to take back to the Smith to deconstruct. -_- I do have my skill point updated so the rocks glow too and still no sightings. :[

Get at least 50 iron, do iron crafting writs on as many characters you can per day collect surveys on character that is blacksmithing 1/10 there is your iron ore.

Jerezad

Best bet is to use the wayshrine and return to Kenarthii's Roost. TONS of ore at the starting island and easy to find, whereas finding ore in Auridon IS somewhat sparse.

Saturnana

If you have access to the Thieves Guild DLC you could also go to Hew's Bane. In my limited experience, the landscape around the city has quite a few crafting nodes (though more for woodworking and alchemy) but mainly there's a LOT of crates and boxes to search in Abah's Landing. Especially in the harbour area since that also has warehouses. Some shops in AL have their own warehouses as well. I just got started on ESO, being lvl 16 now, and whenever I need iron ores I just go on a thieving spree in AL to steal as much armour as I can get my hands on, and deconstruct those.

Even better, I think (can't find confirmation) that the nodes in Hew's Bane level with you? For instance, I haven't put any skill points into blacksmithing, yet I just found several High Iron Ore there! Whereas in Vulkhel's Guard I'm still finding Iron Ore.

And when thieving through AL, you find other nice things as well.

ELDARTHVADER

Jerezad wrote: »

Best bet is to use the wayshrine and return to Kenarthii's Roost. TONS of ore at the starting island and easy to find, whereas finding ore in Auridon IS somewhat sparse.

i was going to say Kenarthii's Roost. whole lot of noobs that running around not paying any attention to ore's

Stopnaggin

Iaanik wrote: »

Can anyone give me a tip besides the obvious response of where to look around. It's quite annoying and how often do you even get armour from drops to take back to the Smith to deconstruct. -_- I do have my skill point updated so the rocks glow too and still no sightings. :[

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Best spot with low level toon for right now is Hews Bane, search youtube to find the routes. If you don't have access to dlc Bleakrock is the second best, where the spider caves are.

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The Hews Bane north west of Zhets displeasure wayshrine. Run a circle around the landmark there. Probably on a good run between 5 and 10 nodes, no need to run as by the time you walk the circle they will have respawned

Bouldercleave

The good news is that you won't really NEED that much Iron because you will rocket through the lower levels pretty quickly even if you are trying not to.

Auridon is pretty sparse, but head back to Kenarthii's Roost for a quick farming run. The starter islands are all PACKED with nodes.