JewelCrafting
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Jewelcrafters learn the art of creating beautiful jewelry and trinkets from metals and rare gems.
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Companion Skills:
Like so many others, this craft relies heavily on Mining. You don't have to be a miner to craft Jewelry, but you will need large amounts of ores, bars, and gems. If you have another toon to provide you with materials, that works fine. If not I highly recommend taking mining as your second tradeskill. Otherwise the cost to you will be extremely high, considering the number of gems and ore required just to hit 300 skill. Also, if you plan to take this craft all the way to 375 I strongly suggest you use a toon that you are going to level to 70. Otherwise you'll miss out on quite a few faction-based recipes that you'll be unable to buy. From 350-375 the only way to get new recipes is from faction vendors in the Outlands or rare/epic drops from the auction house. So be aware that this could be a serious limitation for a level 40 or 50 character.
Starting Out:
The first few recipes you'll get will include one for Copper Wire and this is the first recipe you'll want to start using. Make at least 20 of these, you're going to need them later anyway. If you're using my ingredient list, go ahead and make 30 of these for subsequent recipes. After that you can make Rough Stone Statues until you reach 35-40 skill. FYI - all stone statues are Bind on Pickup. Don't make any more than you need to grind skill points cheaply, you won't be able to sell them.
Prospecting:
You also get Prospecting at 20, so feel free to prospect some copper ore if you are lacking gems. Prospecting does not give skill points at any level, so you can only use it to acquire gems. Prospecting works much like Disenchanting, in that you destroy raw ore to "prospect" the gems from it. Each prospecting action consumes five pieces of ore -- smelted bars cannot be used for this! You should get at least one gem per prospect, but occasionally you can get two or more gems. The chart below has all the various gems that are typically prospected from various types of ore:
| Ore | Resulting Gems |
|---|---|
| Copper | Malachite, Shadowgem, Tigerseye |
| Tin | Shadowgem, Moss Agate, Lesser Moonstone, Jade |
| Iron | Lesser Moonstone, Citrine, Jade, Aquamarine |
| Mithril | Aquamarine, Star Ruby, Citrine |
| Thorium | Star Ruby, Blue Sapphire, Large Opal, Azerothian Diamond, Huge Emerald, Arcane Crystal |
| Fel Iron | Flame Spessarite, Blood Garnet, Deep Peridot, Shadow Draenite, Golden Draenite, Azure Moonstone |
| Rare Gems (found in Fel Iron or Adamantite) |
Living Ruby, Talasite, Star of Elune, Noble Topaz, Dawnstone, Nightseye |
Crafting Order 1-300
| Skill Range | Recipe |
|---|---|
| 1-30 | Copper Wires |
| 31-40 | Rough Stone Statues |
| 41-50 | Malachite Pendant or Tigerseye Band |
| 50-70 | Bronze Setting or Coarse Stone Statue |
| 70-80 | Elegant Silver Ring |
| 80-90 | Simple Pearl Ring |
| 90-100 | Gloom Band |
| 100-110 | Ring of Silver Might |
| 110-120 | Heavy Stone Statue |
| 120-130 | Heavy Jade Ring or Ring of Twilight Shadows |
| 130-140 | Amulet of the Moon or Barbaric Iron Collar |
| 140-150 | Pendant of the Agate Shield or Heavy Iron Knuckles |
| 150-180 | Mithril Filigree or Solid Stone Statue |
| 180-190 | Jade Pendant of Blasting or Engraved Truesilver Ring |
| 190-200 | Engraved Truesilver Ring or Citrine Ring of Rapid Healing |
| 200-210 | Citrine Ring of Rapid Healing |
| 210-220 | Aquamarine Signet |
| 220-225 | Aquamarine Pendant of the Warrior |
| 225-240 | Thorium Setting or Dense Stone Statue |
| 240-250 | Red Ring of Destruction or Ruby Pendant of Fire |
| 250-265 | Truesilver Healing Ring |
| 265-275 | Simple Opal Ring or Diamond Focus Band |
| 275-285 | Sapphire Signet or Diamond Focus Band |
| 285-290 | Onslaught Ring or Glowing Thorium Band |
| 290-300 | Living Emerald Pendant or Emerald Lion Ring |
Crafting 300 - 375
Now it's time for you to head to your next trainer Kalaen inside the inn at Thrallmar. This new trainer is a bit different than typical trainers, because they also sell recipes, so be sure you purchase any new recipes that become available to you. At this stage you will predominantly gain skill points by cutting "green" gems. Most of those gems will be acquired by prospecting fel iron or adamantite. It is possible to raise your skill to 335 or 340 in this manner, so don't be afraid to cut as many gems as you can. Sadly, cutting gems will not take you all the way through 375, so be prepared to buy some actual jewelry recipes as well.
Somewhere around 335-340 your gem cutting recipes will cease to produce skill points. Now you should move on to one of the jewelry recipes you learned from your trainer, the Thick Adamantite Necklace or the Heavy Adamantite Ring. Both of these recipes require Mercurial Adamantite, which is made from the Adamantite Powder that you receive from Prospecting and combined with a Primal Earth. You should have plenty of both if you've been mining and prospecting adamantite ore for green gems. You'll notice that all of the trainer recipes turn yellow before you reach 350. You can either keep making them and hope you continue to get skill points most of the time, or purchase a recipe from the Auction House to fill in the gaps.
Once you reach 350 skill, the blue gem-cutting recipes will be available to you, which is where the true money-making lies for Jewelcrafters. Unfortunately, it's also very much of a "spend money to make money" situation. Depending on your server's economy, these recipes can average 200-500 gold each. My suggestion would be to look for good deals and buy when you see a recipe at the low end of the range. Also, focus on high-demand cuts such as +attack power, +spell damage, etc. With any luck, you've already collected a small stash of blue gems from your previous prospecting efforts, so try to find a recipe to use with the gems you have. It won't take long for you to earn your money back and then some, since each gem can be sold for 30-75 gold apiece. In general, you'll want to keep an eye on prices for uncut and cut gems to see which gems are more valuable and which cuts are more prized by buyers. Each server is different, so become familiar with yours.
You may think you've got it made now, and to a certain extent you do. Jewelcrafters don't have the same leveling problems that most other professions have, it's fairly easy for us to collect the materials for our 350+ recipes, unlike others who are forced to farm 4-5 primals for each item they make. However, the last 10-15 points will not be achieved through cutting recipes unless you've been able to get one of the meta gem cuts. If not, you can either purchase new jewelry recipes on the auction, farm one of the static drop recipes or use a faction-based recipe. Most of the faction recipes and static drop recipes require primals, which are not fun to gather. If you spend the money to buy a recipe from the Auction House, the majority of them have simpler component requirements. So there's a bit of a trade-off between higher recipe cost + lower mats or lower recipe cost + higher mats. The decision is yours...
Needed Material's
| Skill Range | Ingredients Needed | Alternate Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| 1-150 | 70 Copper Bars 30-50 Copper Ore (for Prospecting) |
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| 10 Malachite | 10 Tigerseye | |
| 80 Bronze Bars 10 Small Lustrous Pearls |
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| 20 Shadowgems | 10 Jade + 20 Iron Bars | |
| 20 Lesser Moonstones | 20 Large Fangs + 80 Iron Bars | |
| 10 Moss Agate + 20 Bronze Bars (10x Bronze Settings) | 20 Ogre's Strength Potions + 80 Iron Bars | |
| 150-225 | 60 Mithril Bars 100 Solid Stone |
|
| 10 Jade + 60 Mithril Bars (30 Mithril Filigree) | 10 Truesilver Bars + 20 Gold Bars | |
| 10 Truesilver Bars + 20 Gold Bars | 20 Elemental Water + 20 Mithril Bars + 10 Citrine | |
| 20 Elemental Water + 20 Mithril Bars + 10 Citrine | ||
| 35 Aquamarines 50 Flask of Mojo |
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| 225-300 | 90 Thorium Bars (30 Thorium Settings) | |
| 10 Star Rubies | 10 Star Rubies + 10 Citrine | |
| 30 Truesilver Bars 60 Heart of the Wild |
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| 10 Azerothian Diamonds | 20 Large Opals + 20 Thorium Bars | |
| 40 Blue Sapphires + 20 Truesilver Bars | 10 Azerothian Diamonds | |
| 10 Essence of Earth + 10 Powerful Mojo + 40 Thorium Bars | 10 Azerothian Diamonds + 20 Thorium Bars | |
| 40 Powerful Mojo + 40 Living Essences + 20 Huge Emeralds | 20 Huge Emeralds + 40 Thorium Bars | |
