Tonight, open beta begins for everyone! As many people (pre-orderers at least) know, at the current time nodes are extremely rare and difficult to find.
But for prospectors, I have a little tidbit of information that will definitely help you get leveled faster.
The BEST "trail" for finding tin and copper is from Buckland, the farthest city to the west in Breeland on the trail leading back to The Shire, up to the broken down wall near Adso's Camp. This place is amazing at producing nodes! What I do is start at the west side of the "trail", and follow along the left side waiting for my blue arrow to show up to tell me where a node is. Then when I get to the broken down wall at Adso's Camp I turn around and head down the opposite side, looking for the blue arrows.
This is extremely helpful for vocations such as armourer, explorer, armsman, and tinker.
As soon as I find a good place for nodes such as silver and... the other node that I don't remember, I will add on to this.
thanks for reading and i hope this helps as much as it helped me build up my prospecting skill/armsman vocation.