Originally posted by Lou Zephyr:

Thanks for the answers, i already found a nice location and i am on my way with all the metals on a ship.
I will take an abandoned structure in the mistlands and build from there.
Hopefully this will be the last mainbase setup... until ashlands... and then until ...

doh, copper & iron are easy in the ML, only a little black metal is needed, unless you plan to make a large home with everything. Most ML are near plains so you can usually just portal a smelter over and get going from that in short order. Smelter lets you drop a stonecutter and fix the place. If its a main base, yea, haul stuff over.
the ruins/towers/etc are not big enough for a full base. You may prefer a clearing.