Copied from another thread regarding mining hehe:
1) Verite and valortie spots change very quickly, however, agapite spots remain for much much longer. Use a garg pickaxe in conjunction with a prospector's tool to bump it up to valorite
2) Besides getting the gargoyle pickaxes via BOD rewards, they can be farmed off gargoyles. I camp hyloth for daemons and gargoyles to gain fame/karma/arties/gargoyle pickaxes/normal gems/gold. I admit that there are better ways to farm fame/karma/gold, but none will give me gargoyle pickaxes and arties at the same time. Because I am also switching between daemons and gargoyles, I also seem to get arties faster. So I'm killing multiple birds with 1 stone and saving time
3) As Connor says, a mage weapon elemental slayer bow works great. Use a couple of +magery jewels to offset the -magery
4) Like how dex determines a mobs' speed, their int seems to determine their pathfinding ability. Ore elementals aren't very bright and are slow, +1 for using a bow
5) Valorite elementals reflect all melee/bow damage that you do, a miner with low dex and tactics in this case works well because you actually get a chance to heal yourself +2 for using a bow
6) They have problems getting past the steps of player houses, and gets stuck like the animals/npcs that loves to block your recall spot. So just plink away with your mw bow, +3 for using a bow. This is another instance where you can turn something annoying into something you can use beneficially
7) The types of coloured ingots I use most are dull (for filling bods), shadow (for swampy armour), bronze (for tinkering golems), gold (for enhancing luck) and valorite (for enhancing resists). So this is how I upgrade my ore -
Iron gets upgraded to dull via prospector's tool
Dull gets upgraded to shadow via prospector's tool
Shadow I leave alone
Copper gets upgraded to bronze via prospector's tool
Bronze gets upgraded to gold via prospector's tool
Gold I leave alone
Agapite gets upgraded to valorite via prospector's tool and gargoyle pickaxe
Verite gets upgraded to valorite via gargoyle pickaxe
Valorite I leave alone
I save my gargoyle pickaxes to spawn valorite elementals and farm them for an easy 25 valorite ore. I always pick up prospertor's tools that people throw away at the smithy
8) 1 fire beetle plus 2 packies work wonderfully. I have a UO macro to use last item on last target for mining and lumberjacking. And I have a UOA macro to smelt large ore on my beetle. Once my weight turns red (from the UOA indicator) I will hit the UOA smelt macro. This way my last target doesn't get messed up and force me to retarget the mining spot again. Just note that if you are overweight, the ingots that you smelt drops to the ground
9) Sometimes, if you hit the smelt macro at the wrong time or due to lag, the smelting cursor targets your last target (meaning your last mining spot). When this happens, the ore isn't smelted. If you dbl it again, it will say "Someone is already using that". In this situation, it takes about a minute for the server to timeout your pending smelting attempt. To bypass this, dbl click any smaller ore of the same type and click on the large ore. This will combine the ore and make them all smaller pieces, and you can smelt them now.
10) The smaller pieces of ore are actually very useful. They are the lightest, and changing the big ores into small ones makes them lighter overall. Useful if you don't have a firebeetle and are using 5 packies to hold the ore until you reach a public forge.
11) To gain mining quicker, smelt the hardest ores that your skill allows you to, 1 piece at a time. If you are working on gaining mining, remove your mining gloves and Jacob's pickaxe (Haven newbie quest that gives +10 mining, though it doesn't allow you to go above 100 mining unlike the gloves).
