Darksteel ore

[Hatomi]

hello

ok so i recently started lvling smithing out of the blue. i just hit 48 smithing.
i started doing darksteel ingots, sells for almost 30k profit stack on Quetz,
but the problem im running into is supply. i have bought 90% of the ores off
bastok sandy jueno AH over the last week, but thats onl 30 or so ores, i tried mining
in differnt zones but only get like 1 DS ore in 5hrs or so.

So my question is where/how can i get a good supply of DS ore, or is there an alt
synth im no aware of to skill on at this lv as i planed on doing DS sheets after ingots.

Much thanx and plz no lowbie crafter bashing, ive done my research and only way to obtain
DS ore is mining(very rare), choco digging(very rare and i've never done so outta the question), and a few NMs in Quicksand caves, and maybe a few BCNMS.


edit: what would be/is best zone for mining DS ore?

[Alathar]

you've answered your own question. There aren't many ways to get ore (you've listed all of the ones I know of). There's many alternate ways to get ingots, but for ore, most of it is going to come from mining.

[Fooobos]

Gusgen mines are where i mined quite a lot of darksteel ores. Mining was best during full moon; i'd get a lot more darksteel ores than usual, and every once in a while some gold ores popped too. Bring several stacks of fire crystals, pickaxes, your mining gear (not sure how efficient/helpful the gear is tbh, anyone got numbers/data on how this gear helps HELM?).
The most abundant thing to mine there is generally iron ore, so craft some iron ingots/steel ingots for some profit.

Oh yea, you will probably encounter some RMT competition.

[Narse]

Low supply is probably the reason the finished product can sell for profit. Can't have your cake and eat it too.

[thorjones]

Do you just want ore for skilling or are you looking for ingots?

If it's just ore then go to Gugsen or Zulkheim mines. It can be mined other places but Zulkheim usually never has any competition. Turn the zinc ore in or just use it and synth brass ingots, synth iron ingots and you should see some darksteel pop up. Darksteel always came up more than silver ore in Zulkheim.

Gugsen is better profit overall because you get more silver, gold and rocks, In Zulkheim its alot of zinc and copper.

[Ghostsix.Midgard]

Gusgen is a ghosttown (See what I did there) On my server. If you going for Ores that's the best drop rate imo.

Also try stalking the people who are selling the ores and asking to make an exclusive deal with them to sell only to you.

[Hubie]

What i did was just search the AH for the names of people that were selling it. Get in touch with them and have them sell direct. Usually i would bring them some picks and buy their ore. Saving them the trouble of warping to AH them. I ended up saving a bunch because it saved them time traveling which was now used to do more mining. Worked out well for all involved.

[Kaludneisucks]

Zeruhn Mines. Know it Love it.

[Hatomi]

thanx for the input guys, i wnet mining in gusgen and yugrot grotto, got 4 ores in 4hrs, so not to bad.
i came hom from work yesterday morning and there was 39 DS ores on ah, so frantically i bought up 37 of them and went to sandy to synth away, had ot log on a mule to buy the 2nd half lol.
low and behold today same thing happend, idk whre a randomy 40ish~ ores came from but im not complaing, i capped on DS ingots and am working on sheets now. and ive made a lil bit of gil along the way, actally have more gil now then when i started to lv smiting 3 weeks ago.

thanx again, Hatomi