WoW Jewelcrafting Guide

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Jewelcrafting was introduced to the World of Warcraft with the Burning Crusade expansion. It allows players to create necklaces, rings, a few trinkets, and to cut gems. Gems can then be sold or traded to other players for use in sockets. To become a jewelcrafter, you have to own the Burning Crusade expansion, although any player can use the items created by jewelcrafters.

This WoW jewelcrafting guide outlines all of the things jewelcrafters can do and why jewelcrafting may be the best profession for your character.

Companion Professions
Since each character can only have two primary professions, taking jewelcrafting leaves you with only one other. The best option is to take mining. Jewelcrafters are able to prospect ore for gems, plus they need a good amount of metal for most of their recipes. The figurines they can make require stones from mineral deposits as well. If you don’t mine yourself or have another character supplying your jewelcrafter with ore, metal, and stones, you’ll find yourself spending a lot of money on the auction house.

Racial Bonus
Draenei receive a +5 racial bonus to jewelcrafting, a fairly small bonus that may not help that much.

Required Items
To make anything beyond the first few basic designs, you’ll need to have a jeweler’s kit in your inventory. When you hit skill level 300 and can start cutting gemstones, you’ll need to purchase and have a simple grinder in your inventory.

Learning to be a Jewelcrafter – WoW Jewelcrafting Guide
Once you have the Burning Crusade expansion installed, you can learn to be a jewelcrafter by traveling to either the Exodar if you’re Alliance or to Silvermoon City if you’re Horde. When you become an apprentice jewelcrafter, you’ll notice most of your designs are orange. This means you will always earn a skill point when you make that item. Yellow designs will most usually give you a skill point, while green designs generally won’t. Grey designs will never reward a skill point, while red designs are ones you cannot yet learn.

When you have 75 skill points in jewelcrafting, it’s time to go to a trainer and learn journeyman jewelcrafting. Once you do, you’ll be able to advance to skill level 150. You will need to work yourself up the ranks of jewelcrafting (expert, artisan, master, and grand master) to learn all of the designs and cuts. Note that to become a grand master, you have to have the Wrath of the Lich King expansion.

Faction Specific Designs
In order to learn some specific gem cuts, you have to have a certain level of reputation with different factions. Most of these factions are simple enough to please, and you can earn reputation with them by running certain instances or doing specific quests. It is important to note, however, that the Aldor and the Scryer have different designs, as do the Frenzyheart Tribe and the Oracles. Since players can only be on good terms with one or the other of these pairs, they should research which designs they want. Of course, after purchasing those designs, it is possible to switch factions by doing other turn-ins and quests to appease the other side.

Learning to Cut Gems
When you’ve reached skill level 300 in jewelcrafting, you can travel to Outland to learn how to cut gems. Very few cuts can be learned from a trainer; in fact, you have to buy your first ones from the master jewelcrafter. Many of the more advanced cuts are only available as world drops, making them very rare. However, cutting gems allows jewelcrafters to turn basic gems into gems that provide stat boosts. For example, you can cut a golden draenite into several different gems, including the brilliant golden draenite. This cut gem provides +6 intellect when it’s placed in a socket. Selling high-level cut gems can be very profitable for the jewelcrafter.

Figurines
Jewelcrafters can create figurines that only they can use (they are bind on pickup, so they bind as soon as they’re created). These figurines are equipped in one of the two trinket slots. The first, the Golden Hare, is available at skill level 200. When equipped, it provides a slight increase to your character’s running speed. Each trinket has a bonus like this, plus each one can be used. The Golden Hare, when used, increased your speed by 30% for six seconds and prevents you from being snared. While some of these figurines may not be as good as trinkets you receive from quests, some of the higher level figurines like the Twilight Serpent actually have sockets on them.

The Dalaran Daily Quest
If you have the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, are level 80, and have 375 jewelcrafting skill, you can start doing the daily jewelcrafting quest that is available from Timothy Jones in Dalaran. There are six different quests, and each requires you to bring specific items and gems back to Timothy. In return, he will reward you with some gold, some Kirin Tor reputation, and a Dalaran Jewelcrafter’s Token. These tokens are necessary to purchase almost all of the high level designs and to buy Dragon’s Eyes, the gem required for many of these cuts. Designs cost anywhere from two to six tokens, while each Dragon’s Eye costs one. You can also turn in 10 Titanium Powders (received from prospecting titanium ore) for one token. The designs and tokens are bind on pickup, so you can’t trade them or buy them from others.

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