I’m not convinced there’s anything wrong with mithril spawns. I think there might just be more demand for it such that botters/farmers have more interest in it than other spawns. This extra interest has a knock-on effect of those levelling mining spending more time (and thus more circling zones trying to level with mithril) and thus there being an artificially created scarcity. I say this because I listed mithril at the current inflated price and it was selling as I was listing it. Demand is high, even at the current price.
What they could do is raise the minimum spawn quota per zone a bit. That would mean when it’s being farmed hard there would be more availability which would bring the price down to a manageable amount and mean the farmers become less interested in mithril and spread out to farm other things. But when the farming dies down the supply would come back down. Self regulating to an extent.
The other thing I would suggest is to not JUST farm mithril. If you’re able to mine other nodes in the zone, mine them. If people only mine mithril in a zone gradually the amount of mithril will dwindle due to how the node spawning works. Just vendor them at the town each cycle if you don’t want to waste bag space. It won’t magically make mithril appear, but it will improve the chance of finding some.
And to follow on. I actually think there IS something wrong with thorium though. In Un’goro at least I think either the spawn time is ridiculously short, or more likely someone at Blizzard put in what should have been the maximum quota for it in the zone into the minimum field. I was just watching them spawn in my face right after mining the same node point. Plenty of competition and yet never ever a shortage of nodes.
If person A is on a different layer than person B. Person A invite person B and person B gets layered to person A’s layer.
In the past there were cooldowns implemented that prevented extensive layer hopping but i dont know if those are still present.
Thorium rly has bugged spawn. I ran ungoro before several rounds with some fandoms who also tried to get thorium. It was like 12-15 times I ever met thorium in prepatch that it spawns right after player passes by it’s spawn point. It literally spawned behind players backs and while they moved forward on mounts I collected thorium that spawned behind them.