Comments on: World of Warcraft Jewelcrafting Guide

By: andy

andy — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:53:50 +0000

i used this guide to lvl 225-300, i am dranei so got the +5 skill , i used list as my shopping list farmed the ores and then bought gems / prospect so i had enough materials. after i got to 300 i still had mats left, star ruby and thorium setting mainly, made 300g on what was left

By: Cyn (Cheifgreen - Skywall)

Cyn (Cheifgreen - Skywall) — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:14:34 +0000

Youch!

On my server, Mithril and Thorium are insanely expensive. Thorium goes from about 45-60g a stack, and Mithril goes for about 30g a stack. So, I’d recommend farming this instead of buying it. It’s a bit slower, but if you know the right spots to farm, you can save TONS of gold. I’ve gotten my warrior JC to 285 with spending minimal gold and asking around if people have any spare gems or ore laying around that they would be willing to part with. I’ve spent maybe 100-150g on my warrior’s JC, and its mostly because I HAD to buy Mithril because so many people were farming it. Of course if I would have waited about 2 weeks later Mithril went down to about 10g/stack, and people stopped farming it because it was more efficient to farm adamantite and other ore. Anyway, If you don’t have to have JC in a huge hurry, I’d recommend farming.

By: Galdorringer

Galdorringer — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:39:14 +0000

One of my characters is a Jewelcrafter and (as you have suggested) a miner. Last night while doing the dailies I mined and amassed 60 adamantite and Fel Iron. From that I prospected 7 blue gems. Now in todays market that’s around 300+g, not including the green gems that can give me Brilliant Glass gems. All in all a good nights work. If I cut them then the value can rise to around 500g

Looking at the other posts thought - it appears that I am a slacker. Only 500g! I must improve, I must improve…..

By: ryan

ryan — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:09:32 +0000

umm, first of all i’m a 375 miner/jewelcrafter and prospecting adamantite ore has made me alot of profit, i think yesterday i went from having about 600g worth of gems to 1200 in a hour. I normally don’t like to buy adamantite ore on my server (cheapest stack i’ve seen is 29.99) granted some of these posts were put in before brilliant glass was introduced. The real money is making metas, on the server i’m on mats to make the diamonds roughly 125g, tip i usually toss in 25g and form the diamonds to sell for 210-220g a pop and i only get 10g taken from it so i’m making 60+ gold per meta i sell combine that with dailies and blue cut gems i get i’d say JC is definitely not a trash profession and you CAN make a ton of money from it. The only thing i wouldn’t mind doing when i get an influx of gold is to dump mining and powerlevel alch. so i can make my own diamonds then i could make close to 100g per meta sold

By: RadJim

RadJim — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:05:23 +0000

Ok I’ve saved up 15k gold and the last 10k came pretty much from JCing. Sadly the more gold you have the easiest it is to make more of it

1) Buy about 600g-1ks worth of adamantite ore. I pay upto 28g a stack on my server.
2) Prospect.
3) Cut the rare gems into w/e sells for the most in the AH.If you dont have the designs yourself then find a JC who will do you cheap cuts for bulk.I pay 3g a rare cut.
4) whack the gems in the AH on 12 hour,1 gold cheaper than the others.
5) cut the green quality gems if u can be bothered. I usually just sell em in stacks for bout 20g each

now you will have a lot of Adamantite Powder. Buy/farm primal earths and Eternium bars. Make Mercurial Adamanite and then make lots of Braided Eternium chains.
6) Pay someone to D/E your chains and sell the Large Prismatics for a ‘usual’ price in your server via the AH coz it dont cost anything to put em in it. I usually make about 5g each shard doing this (based on cost of mats needed to make em)

Doing all of this takes about a hour and assuming most of your blue quality gems sell (which they should do if they are cheapest in AH) your looking at something like a 50%-75% profit return on whatever you spent on Adamantite ore!

The bit Vince says about cancelling your auctions if someone is selling cheaper is very true. Solid Elunes for example sell real quick but something like Bold Living Ruby prob only idk 10 or so are sold each day on my server…so if theres lots in the AH already then yours prob wont sell unless they the cheapest, so grab ya gems back and re-auction them.

By: Holyperson

Holyperson — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:31:36 +0000

i’ve never tried this profession before, maybe i could give it a try now, thanks

By: Samurie

Samurie — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:04:45 +0000

this is an awsome guide Gavin but could you do a guide for engineering and leatherworking also?

By: Alduvina

Alduvina — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:08:43 +0000

tis is great info, can ou find otheres sch as leatherworking, blacksmithing, etc. Keep up the good work, I recomend your site to alot of peps. Tks. Aluvina(700 mage)

By: Vince

Vince — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:57:06 +0000

I worked hard with my JC for the past 4 months. Every time I’d have a few hundred gold profit I would buy a recipe off the AH that I did not yet have. Now I can do every rare & meta cut in the game as of the current patch. It’s so nice because I can just keep the most profitable gems up on the AH, no matter what they are. There is a lot of competition on my server, but I don’t think anyone else has all the recipes, so I have the advantage with flexibility. There are enough miners competing on my server that there is always a good stock of underpriced adamantite which I buy up to prospect, sometimes 2k worth at a pop. It’s nice having a bag full of raw gems to cut & sell on the AH from friday to tuesday when demand is highest. Redently i figured out what to do with all that adamantite powder I’ve amassed. Make the cheapest blue jewelry I can that will produce large prismatic shards when DE’d! Most of the uncommon (green quality) gems go into having metas made. I’ve got 5 alchemists that I farm out mats to every week along with a tip for services so I can have a constant stream of metas coming in. Yes, I buy all my primals. But guess what, even if it costs 85g in mats and alchemist tips to have 1 meta gem made, I can still be guaranteed to make a 20g profit minimum on every one I put on the AH. There have been days where I’ve seen 3k gold come through my mailbox. But to get those kind of days it takes a hell of a lot of hard work…. First of all to get there, have the flexibility to sell many many different kind of gems. Then to have the buying power to be able to stock up on mats when the prices are low and sell back your cut gems when demand is high. Then when you have 40 ~ 80 auctions running on peak demand hours, constantly watch the AH for those that would undercut you (cancel & undercut right back until you can’t make a profit… not so painful if you do 12hr auctions and only have 1 or 2 of each gem type up), and keep replacing your auctions as they are sold. THAT my friends, is how you dominate your server with jewelcrafting.

By: kristian

kristian — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:15:28 +0000

i tried the first one erlyer and i only got 29 JC points :/