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Comment by 277735

I've made this guide to help train from 1-300 Jewelcrafting. At 300, you can start doing gem cuts so you'll really base your levelling on which raw gems you can get hold of on your own server.

Please Note:
• This is an efficient training path which isn't necessarily the cheapest. Having said that, I did base this on the cheapest options on my server at the time (I'm not psychic, so change things around as needed to match availability on your own server).
• The guide is designed to give an easy reference of all the materials needed to train.
• Stay near a trainer and make the items in order. If you find you can't make something this guide is suggesting, chances are you have just to learn it from the trainer.
• This guide makes wires, settings and filigrees that you will USE to train. This is why I haven't made as many of the various stone statues (for this reason, don't vendor the filigrees, settings and wires till you are done).

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TOTAL MATS
40 x Copper Bar
80 x Rough Stone
20 x Malachite or Tigerseye (any mix of the two)
140 x Bronze Bar
30 x Silver Bar
20 x Shadowgem
240 x Heavy Stone
1 x Design: Pendant of the Agate Shield - buy from Neal Allen (Alliance) or Jandia (Horde).
20 x Moss Agate
140 x Mithril Bar
10 x Truesilver Bar
20 x Citrine
35 x Aquamarine
40 x Flask of Mojo
60 x Thorium Bar
10 x Star Ruby
20 x Large Opal
10 x Azerothian Diamond
20 x Huge Emerald

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1-50 Skill
20 x Delicate Copper Wire
10 x Rough Stone Statue
20 x Malachite Pendant or Tigerseye Band (or any mix of the two)

Train Journeyman Jewelcrafting

51-130 Skill
20 x Bronze Setting
20 x Solid Bronze Ring
15 x Ring of Silver Might
10 x Ring of Twilight Shadows
30 x Heavy Stone Statue

Train Expert Jewelcrafting

131-210 Skill
20 x Pendant of the Agate Shield
50 x Mithril Filigree
10 x Engraved Truesilver Ring
20 x Citrine Ring of Rapid Healing

Train Artisan Jewelcrafting

211-300 Skill
10 x Aquamarine Signet
5 x Aquamarine Pendant of the Warrior
60 x Thorium Setting
10 x Ruby Pendant of Fire
20 x Simple Opal Ring
10 x Diamond Focus Ring
10 x Emerald Lion Ring

Train Master Jewelcrafting

Comment by hatman555

Cataclysm When, Who, Which for JC Dailies
At skill level 475 players are allowed to start doing the Cataclysm JC dailies.
Horde and Alliance NPC's
Quests:
1.) A Present for Lila -- x3 Nightstone cut into Timeless Nightstone
2.) Nibbler! No! -- x3 Zephyrite cut into Solid Zephyrite
3.) Ogrezonians in the Mood -- x3 Jasper cut into Jagged Jasper
4.) Elemental Goo -- Collect x10 Elemental Goo 100% from the elementals right after taking the portal to hyjal (quick kills fast respawns)
5.) The Latest Fashion! Use Stardust No. 2 on x10 humanoid targets (Nearby NPC's count!)

End game raiding.
Jewelcrafters enjoy being able to use up to 3 Chimera's Eye.
Chimera's Eyes have more itemization points assigned to them, and come in a varried array of single stat type cuts.
The extra itemization give JC's a very practical raiding advantage.

Example: Stamina
Solid Ocean Sapphire= +60 stam
Solid Chimera's Eye = +101 stam

41 Stamina difference. If you use stamina for all 3 eyes then JC will have 123 more stamina than regular players.

Epic gems in 4.3
Unfortunately the Itemization of Chimera's Eye's has not changed with the release of epics gems. This means that at higher level of play, were all the gems will be Epic in best in slot gear. JC falls a bit behind other professions. Here is the stamina example again.

Example: Epic Stamina
Solid Deepholm Iolite= +75 stam
Solid Chimera's Eye = +101 stam

26 Stamina difference. If you use stamina for all 3 eyes then JC will have 78 more stamina than regular players. Unfortunately most profession perks are base around giving 80 stat value points, would would be 120 stamina. Meaning JC is now 21 stat points behind other professions.

Perks while Leveling.
During Leveling, Jewelcrafters can enjoy BOP items such as Stone statues which can really help in a tight spot.

One you reach level 81 and have a JC skill of 475, killing Cataclysm mobs will have a chance of dropping JC only quest statues to lead to a selection of trinkets.. These trinkets will help characters with JC to raise their ilevel early and are also pretty decent until players have farmed our heroic equivalents.

Comment by 303090

Dont forget Blacksmiths get 2 extra sockets one in the Gloves and one on the wrists - with 30 stam gems in both you get an extra 60 stam over everyone else. so only 3 less than JC and 2 less than Leatherworking. To be honest if you have the gold to level it I would say the best combo for a tank would be JC and BS.

Comment by Leduan

Best crafting profession ever.

HAIL TO THE JEWELS

Comment by Azazel

Note that Dragon's Eye jewels have 70% more stats on them than normal ones.
Example: 30 stamina * 1,7 = 51, 20 Strength * 1,7 = 34 Strength

Comment by Compost

Anyone know if Blizz is going to be upgrading the Dragon's eye cuts, after CATA is launched ?
With the new gem cuts that seem to be coming out soon, it looks like the Dragon's eye cuts will be outdated.
I can't find anything about it and it would suck if they don't upgrade the cuts, or add some other gem like the
Dragon's eye . I just wouldn't like all the time and gold I put into JC, just to have my little edge with Gems taken away .

Comment by Daylos

Chimera's Eye is the upgrade to the Dragon's Eye.

Comment by 704703

what happen to the JC trainning from 425 and above?
They where when I was 420 and then gone ay 425 all in the same day.

Comment by t2teddy

Frankly, its pretty unfair to JCs how few trainers there are in the E Kingdoms and Kalimdor. Blizz seems to want to make JCs have to spend tons of travel time to do the same training other crafters can do in dozens of places around those continents.
Exodar, SW, Goldshire for alliance
Silvermoon and Orgrimmar for Horde? Good grief.
If you're a JC in need of training and questing in Silithus, Blasted Lands etc, you've got ages to spend on a flight ...

please note this is in reference to low level JCs, not Northrend ready toons.

Comment by 722446

interesting that this is the only proffession that does not have craftable epics

Comment by Hammatime

God i love jewelcrafting, got 525 Mining and 506 JC as we speak. Mined for 2 hours yesterday in Deepholme and got about 250 Elementium ore's and 250 Obsidium ore's. Then today i prospected them and netted 7500-8500g.

The only thing i dont like about it that acquiring the recipes will take a long time as it only exists one way of getting them and thats through daily's and it only exists 1 jc daily for illustrious. Also that the items we can craft that requires 525 JC costs alot of materials in exchange for what we are getting stat-wise.

Comment by Robyn

Just as a note, there are Cataclysm epic jewelcrafting recipes available from the trainers which are not in the database.

Comment by Fredthepotato

where are the trainers and/or venors to get the rec. for the new blue gems, the greens are anyone, but what about the rest? i know its not the vendor in dal...

Comment by 737837

I stuck at JC lvl 515 how can u lvl up to 525 ?

Comment by 24457

Should be updated to talk about Chimera's Eyes instead of Dragon's Eyes.

Comment by jibtastic123

are they not doing jc trinkets in cata or have the patterns just not been released yet?

Comment by 728939

To bad there is no JC neck for a DK or Warrior at lvl 85 :/ the ring isn't worth the matts at this point either.

Comment by 730042

let me ask you this, can i have another toon farm the mats for me or do i really need to pair JC with Mining? my concern is the ability "prospecting"

Comment by 464464

Why do we not have any good DPS items to make in Cata?

Yeah we can reforge something like Band of Blades or Entwined Elementium Choker and drop the agility for a stat we need more.

But what good is that really?

Comment by ytram

A little gold tip for cataclysm:

Get Jewelcrafting 525. Start doing the dailys from Isabel Jones and get some Illustrious Jewelcrafter's Token.

Buy recipes for Brilliant Inferno Ruby, Reckless Ember Topaz, Veiled Demonseye in that order.

Buy loads of Elementium Ore from AH and prospect all of them (Prospecting).

You will get alot of green uncut gems and some blue uncut gems.

Cut the blues into Brilliant Inferno Ruby, Reckless Ember Topaz, Veiled Demonseye and sell thoose you don`t have a cut for uncut.

For the greens:

Alicite: Make Alicite Pendant. Theese have a chance to proc rare quality (Alicite Pendant). Sell the green ones to vendor and the blue ones on AH.

Carnelian: Find someone with Alchemy or get it yourself. Pref transmute specc. Let the Alchemist transmute your Carnelian into Inferno Ruby (Transmute: Inferno Ruby) and cut theese into Brilliant Inferno Ruby and then sell on AH.

Hessonite: Same as above. Transmute: Ember Topaz and cut into Reckless Ember Topaz.

Jasper: Wait until these are used for the daily JC quest and sell them on AH.

Nightstone: Same as with Carnelian and Hessonite. Transmute: Demonseye and cut into Veiled Demonseye.

Zephyrite: Wait until these are used for the daily JC quest and sell them on AH.

Comment by 769519

I am currently at level 480 JC. I always heard that JC was a nice profession for making money, but I'm really scratching my head at the moment. Where do we gain our profit?

It seems to me the gems are way underpriced, and thta making Fire Prisms may at times be almost as expensive as just buying the gems off the AH. (well, there is a slight difference, but not huge).

Atm I am able to cut gems for my guildies if they like, and I can also later on get the chimera gems, but where am I going to get my money? What other benefits do you get from JC?

Located at EU Aerie Peak.

Comment by Swordy

The best way I've found to make money with JC:

1) Buy Obsidium Ore whenever it drops to 36g/stack.
2) Destroy Ore, collect gems
3) Mass cut gems
4) Sell the perfect cuts on the AH, vendor the non perfects.

Logic: With nearly 150% chance to get a common level gem, which when cut, sells for 9g each, you can never lose money prospecting ore at 36g/stack. There's also a small chance for a rare gem which can be 20-80g.

You don't sell the gems in bulk on the AH because of the huge deposit fee. It costs over 60g to put a stack of green gems on the AH right now. Next patch, they're lowering the cost of uncut gems and thereby lowering the deposit, but until 4.1 hits it's a huge gamble to sell uncut gems on the AH.

Prospects: 351 (1755 ore)
Common Gems: 526 (average of 1.49 per prospect)
Rare Gems: 27

Total cost for ore (36g/stack): 3159g
Vendored cut common gems: 4734g
Total sale for rare gems (assume 20g each): 540
Total profit: 2115g

Time spent prospecting: 12 minutes
Time spent cutting gems: 26 minutes
Time spent buying ore: N/A, AH mod
Time spent collecting ore from mail: N/A, mail mod

This works with Elementium, too.

EDIT: this no longer works since patch 4.1 lowered the vendor price to 90silver. It was good while it lasted.

Comment by 759403

On my current server our Outland gem supply is really just when someone is mining and finds a gem by chance, making it sometimes a steady source of gold, as you can often overprice the gems and then desperate tailors wanting their flying carpet will buy them.

Comment by apegod99

Jewlcrafting FTW!

Comment by Eighjan

Anyone else hoping that the v4.2 PvP crafted gear doesn't stay BoP...?

Seems a bit tight if the main armor pieces (Blacksmithing, etc) are BoE & the 'accessories' are BoP - what's fair about that...?

Comment by 811385

interesting thing i have noticed, well i found out neck and rings from rare yellow and green sell better than cut gems but while looking at it jasper and alicite are used to make a pendant and a ring which vendors for 5g 50s , 1g 05s for frame so when ppl put ali and jasper on ah cheap (seen alot of this) you can buy make ring and vendor it for a profit
better off d/eing it but vendor is still profit but when making those you have a chance to produce rare versions of ring and pendant that sell for well over 50g

Comment by Studhole

Whats cheaper to level, This or Inscription? I had troubles with Enchanting.

Comment by 790706

Hi SirCero, I'm on the same realm as you and admit it's not easy to make a pile of money right now - but don't worry, it's not all bad.

When Cata came out, I made around 30k in a week by mining, prospecting and then cutting (and also by just selling the ore). I couldn't find mats fast enough and prices were very high.

Nowadays, I spend hours mining and some of the gems I prospect are going for the same on the AH that I'd get from a vendor - It can be disheartening at times and I end up just selling some gems for next-to-nothing to get the bag space back.

That said, there is hope. Some gems and cuts are still in good demand and if you're careful and put some effort in, you can make a good profit. As an example, Inferno Ruby cuts are usually pretty good profit. Flashing Inferno Ruby is currently selling for ~300g but is not in huge demand. Delicate Inferno Ruby are ~150g and I seem to sell 10-15 every time I post). From 1 hour mining in Uldum, if I prospect all the ore, I expect to get 3-8 Inferno Rubies (you can also buy rubies for ~100g although in the last 48 hours, that's dropped to ~77g).

Remember that money making comes in waves for JCs - After an expansion has been out for a while (as now), most players have most of the gear they want - At least all the ones who know about gear and are willing to spend money on it. The next time an expansion comes out, every serious player is going to want what you're selling - and these are the guys who have been hoarding cash for months/years. Just pretend you're Apple launching the new iStone - quadruple the price, limit supply, over-hype it in the trade channel and rake in the money - Which leads me on to...

Get in early - Watching patch notes to see when new recipes are going to be added (and ideally find out the cost beforehand so you can start farming rep/currency and gathering mats) - That way, as soon as the new patch lands, you can start producing the high-demand items. If you get in early enough, you can make an absolute fortune when wealthy players want to be the first to have the best.

According to my stats, my JC char has made 138,320g 21s 32c from auctions and I'd guesstimate 85-90% of that is from mining/JC.

For reference, I spend 1-2 hours a day on making money and at that nets me around 2-3k.

I've found that materials tend to be cheaper at the weekend and cut gems/items tend to sell for more during the week (especially early on - presumably raiders unhappy with gear over the weekend).

Hope this helps. If you've got any questions / if I can help, mail me in-game (Basiclife)

Comment by 910270

This is the Funniest Profession to level and can can make a descent profit out of it. I highly recommend to have mining with jc and level them together, so it wont be that expensive to level...

Comment by 911773

Any suggestions on which gems I should get for full tier 12 gear for a DK? please help :)

Comment by 936973

Money money money

Comment by 966952

Jewelcrafting is recommended for bloodelf's specialy for mage's

Comment by xLunacyx

Man 200-225 is incredibly expensive. No good leveling recipe besides the one that requires ~50 elemental waters. Gets better at 225 where you gain a bunch of levels from just mining Thorium.

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