(people who have been grinding to level 35 now are needing the oscars and koi more than the catfish. this encounter was originally changed in EA to reflect that the level 35 encounter wanted azure catfish)
the level 20 mining encounter now gives 1 iron bar with the chance of silver or mithril
with the encounter now taking 110(?) bars, I think it would be fair to increase the amount of bars received to 2-3 RNG every time (not 1 iron with the chance of receiving a bonus silver or mithril)
with the new EQUAL chance to receive copper, iron, silver or mithril bars (and perhaps very rarely lorium, chaosium, and gold too to further assist the profession)
again - people have been attempting to level up to 35 will be getting plenty of iron and silver as they level up by mining
every other profession now has an XP encounter.. please add ones for fishing & mining too!