To jewelcraft or not to jewelcraft, that is the question?Follow

Only real profit I've been able to pull out of JC is by flipping meta gems - like the raw skyfire diamonds on my server sell for around 150ish while the different cuts range around 180-220 so I just buy the uncut gem, give it the most expensive cut on the AH and then resell it.

Considering how cheap primals have become (on my server at least) if you've got an xmute spec alchy, you could make some real cash making your own meta gems and then reselling them as cut ones, especially if you get a proc.

Jewelcrafting can make gold with any toon, the issue is how much will you need to invest to make that gold. The rare designs sell on the AH for anywhere from 250ish (I've seen one for 265g - for a rather limp design) to 1,000ish. On my server red gems sell well, and I get a decent mark-up when I cut them. The thing is you will need to find which cuts sell well on your server and then see if the design is available and how much is goes for. Or, you can always grind for it.

The epic designs sell for 40g apiece and there is a vendor in the cubbyhole housing the port to IoQD.



This is a hard one to answer. I surely have not recouped my investment and I powerleveled JC months ago. But, I haven't really worked at trying to recoup it. I think it's possible though. Someone estimated a while back that it cost 3k gold to powerlevel JC. Add to that the cost of the designs and it gets a bit expensive even for someone with gold to burn.



There are JC-specific cuts you learn that let you cut raw gems into unique BoP gems with slightly better stats. There are also JC-only trinkets that you may find helpful, such as the Golden Hare and the Black Pearl Panther.



If you want the rep designs, check them out before you powerlevel as there are a few rep designs out there.

The only real way of making money as JC is to prospect ore, preffearbly adamamantite. For that You will need either farming alt or just get mining as second proffesion. All I do with all ore is prospect it. On my server stack of raw ore goes for 25-30g. Thats not bad, but...

Whenever we prospect we get adamantite powder(used for making mat that sometimes goes for 15g each, and is made of 4 powders and one primal earth), uncommon gem(usually stacked to make rare gem on daily cooldown) and/or rare gem. That's where fun begins. You can sell them raw, and by doing that You don't really have to invest in buying recipies. You can have NONE world drop recipe from ah, and make You're money anyways.

The thing is though, usually cutted gems sell better, sometimes the profit can be as high as 50g over raw one depending on price of raw gem. Let me give You example: i prospected ore and got living ruby(I estimate rare gems drop on around 15-20 %). First I go and check AH. Raw gem is for 35g cause bunch noobs undercutted it by 5-10g. It's not high(the prices I'm giving come from my server, so it can vary). But I am proud owner of Runed Living Ruby recipe. There are couple on AH each for 75g. So of course I craft the gem and undercut by 1g(trust me: market is so high on gems, that you don't really have to undercut by more, it's a waste of money). So I make auction for 74g. It sells in under 24 i make roughly 70g instead of roughly 35g. It's twice as much, and example I gave isn't uncommon.

That's how You make up for the money You spend on recipies. Of course another day the same runed living ruby can go for only 50g because of same reasons, but then Bright version will be for 70 and so on... So statiscally if I got 3 stacks of ore I would probably sell them for around 75-85g. If I get lucky I can get that much from one gem, but i have 12 prospects from 3 stacks... Buying ra gems and resell them as cutted verisons works of course but I don't usually care unless i profit 20-30g...

Even though i bought almost all recipies in the game which costed me PLENTY of money, I was never broke, I flew to Nagrand gathered 4 stacks, and sold gems for 200g, and it's 30 mins of work.


Hehe I think I just revealed my tricks of trade even if that's only common sense things. Hope it helps anyone.

Edited, Oct 24th 2008 8:30am by himdraug