World of Warcraft Ninja Secrets

MINING/JEWELCRAFTING

Mining/Jewelcrafting is probably one of the most gold making professions in WoW.

We did talk about mining in the Part VII, so we will talk about the basics of Jewelcrafting and making gold off it.

Jewelcrafting is simply about making jewelery such as rings, Necklaces and gems out of mines and uncut gems. So again you will need to grind every mine you encounter and you will also want to keep any kind of gem you find! (Like Malachite, Shadowgem, Tigerseye in low levels, Aquamarine, Jade and Citrine at higher levels and so on)

You will basicly need mines + GEMS to level your Jewelcrafting.

The Bonus of Jewelcrafting is that you can create and use 3 Gems which only Jewelcrafters can use, and which are nearly twice as powerful as regular Epic Gems. So Jewelcrafting can be picked by anyone.

Jewelcrafting can pay off at any level, but of course the higher skill you have, the better profit it gives.

Starting from low levels you can make various Rings, and Necklaces. Dont bother selling the greens on the Auction House since they wont really profit you. But definitely sell the blue rings and necklaces on the AH at low levels. Twink players will definitley like those blue miscellaneous items you sell

Jewelcrafting needs caution when levelling tho. If you try skilling it up by the wrong way it will only cost you more mines and Time. Visit wow-professions.com for an epic JC Levelling guide!

At 450, Jewelcrafting can earn you around 2K gold per 3 hours or so (depending on your luck).

You will first have to start off by getting some useful epic gem recipes. To do that you need 10x Titanium Powder to get 1 Jewelcrafting token from the trainer in Dalaran, and 4  tokens to get 1 epic gem cut recipe.  You can earn 1 token every day by just doing the daily JC Quest. Dont miss that one!

You will have to farm lots and lots of titanium ore as well. Titanium ores can give Titanium Powders when prospected by chance. And with farming titanium + doing the dailies you will earn new recipes everday. Do this untill you have enough recipes to link your Jewelcrafting in Trade to craft gems for a fee (usually 10g per cut but depends on the server)

When you are picking your recipes to learn you must be VERY CAREFUL. If you pick the wrong recipes you will be wasting 100g-175g worth gems!

Here is a list of Gems which sell the most on the auction house: Try getting these recipes first!

Solid Majestic Zircon

Runed Scarlet Ruby

Bright Scarlet Ruby

Bold Scarlet Ruby

Thick King’s Amber

Quick King’s Amber

Mystic King’s Amber

Brilliant King’s Amber

The off-gems (Eye Of Zul, Ametrine and Dreadstone) can also be sold for a good price on the auction house. Especially the ones which give stat + stamina for PVP but the selling of these depends on your servers. So you might want to check the AH prices before getting recipes for these gems.

After having these recipes, you can begin farming titanium ores to prospect them and get some Epic gems out of them, cut them and sell them. You can of course sell gems without cutting them but Cut gems are worth more gold than uncut gems.

Remember to make Icy Prism EVERYDAY! it has a 20hour CD and you basicly can do it everyday. You have a chance to get epic gems out of it and you probably wouldn’t want to miss it!

Coming to the Rare gems: they are also worth some gold on the Auction House. But the value differes a lot. You should be carefull before putting some on the Auction House and check if theyre sold or not.

You will gain approximately 2-4 Rare gems per 1 stack Titanium ore Prospect so you will want to cut and sell these as well even though they arent worth as much as epix. But they sure do sell on the auction house. The most valuable rare gem is Scarlet Ruby. You can either sell it cut or uncut because people will need to buy scarlet ruby moe often than any other rare gem.

You would like AtlasLoot to see what gem recipes you can get from Dungeons&Raids and Faction Reputations before getting started. Rare gem recipes can sometimes be bought from factions with reputation (For example Runed Scarlet Ruby recipe is sold by a Kirin Tor Vendor and needs exalted reputation to buy)

After checking those recipes and getting some usefull rare gem recipes as well, you are ready to grind some insane gold out of Jewelcrafting!