Gold Panning:  Gold panning is a custom harvesting system we added. You can craft a gold pan with tinkering. Please note, you will not use charges off the gold pan if you fail to get any nuggets. Charges are only used off of the tool if you succeed. Gold panning uses fishing skill. You will need a MINIMUM of 70 skill to fish up any nuggets, however the higher the skill the better success you will have. At 70 skill, you likely will hardly be able to fish out any nuggets. You will start also picking up large gems with 100 skill. There is a nugget trader on the docks in Trammel Buc's Den. Drop 5 small nuggets on him to trade for medium, 3 medium for large, 2 large for a gold brick, and 2 bricks give a bank check for 50,000. You can also hold onto large gold nuggets and use them to craft with the new gold smelting system.

 

 

Each resource bank is an 8x8 tile square. Each resource bank holds 5-10 nuggets. Respawn time on resource banks for gold panning is 20-30 minutes. You must be within 2 tiles to pan for gold.
You also get double resources for panning in Felucca and Shadowfell.Gold Smelting:  Uses blacksmithy skill. Gold smelting tongs can be crafted with tinkering [can only use gold ingots to craft these]. Uses Large Gold Nuggets to craft the items on the menu.

Woodcarving:  Uses carpentry skill. Whittling knife can be crafted with tinkering. Driftwood can be fished up with deep water fishing (above 80 skill you will start fishing it up randomly along with deep sea fish).

Wax Sculpting:  Uses alchemy skill. Wax sculpting tool can be crafted with tinkering. Beeswax can be harvested with apiculture (beekeeping).