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Jewelcrafting (Primary Profession)
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Jewelcrafting is a profession dedicated to the creation of jewelry and to the cutting of gems for socketing. It was added in the Burning Crusade expansion as one of the highlight features.

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What Jewelcrafting Creates

Up through level 60, jewelcrafting only serves to create rings and necklaces. After entering Outland, however, jewelcrafting has an entirely new sense of purpose, cutting gems to place inside the sockets that are found only on Outland equipment.

List of Jewelcrafting recipes

What Jewelcrafting Requires

Jewelcrafting requires gems. Lots and lots of gems. And gems don't drop very frequently. Fortunately JC'ers also get a skill called Prospecting that allows them to destroy stacks of ore to search them for gems, similiar to how an enchanter disenchants magical items. This means that jewelcrafters need ore -- raw ore, not smelted bars -- and for that they are most frequently also miners.

Jewelcrafters also need two store-bought items to create gems and jewelry, respectively.

Is Jewelcrafting For Me?

Jewelcrafting is a tradeskill of only moderate importance while leveling. It allows players to cover equipment slots that would otherwise be empty for many levels, but it isn't very flashy. At higher levels, there are always players looking for jewelcrafters to prospect their ore for them or to cut a gem. It is very much a support tradeskill like enchanting, and it is perfectly reasonable for anyone to be doing it -- even orc warriors.

In terms of making money, jewelcrafting is very expensive to get started. The amount of dedication required to leveling JC from 200 to 300 is significant. Once past that level, there is always a market for gems, but that market always has the same demand and on some servers is flooded by supply. How profitable one can be with jewelcrafting depends heavily on your server's economy and the rare recipes that you possess.

Being a jewelcrafter provides access to special figurines that go in the Trinket slot. Unlike some professions, these self rewards are available at very low levels and have a superior version in the 60s. There are some noteworthy trinkets available for high end jewelcrafters. One of the examples is [1], which is one if not the best trinkets for rogues in PVP. Jewelcrafters also have access to special self-only gem cuts that are superior to the standard kind they can sell to others.

Common Jewel Cuts and What they Mean

Note that the table below doesn't cover ALL jewelcrafting cuts, but some have similar names and stats no matter what the base gem is. For instance, a "Thick" gem will always be a yellow gem with a +Defense Rating stat on it. The amount of the stat granted depends on the rarity of the cut gem (i.e. a Thick Dawnstone is going to give more of a stat boost than a Thick Golden Draenite). Note that new Wrath of the Lich King stats have been added to some gems. For more information see the section on the new expansion below.

Gem Cut Stats Typical color
Delicate +Agility Red
Teardrop +Healing (WotLK +Spellpower) Red
Bold +Strength Red
Runed +Spell Damage (WotLK +Spellpower) Red
Bright +Attack Power Red
Gleaming +Spell Crit Yellow
Smooth +Critical Strike Yellow
Brilliant +Intellect Yellow
Thick +Defense Rating Yellow
Great +Spell Hit Yellow
Rigid +Hit Rating Yellow
Mystic +Resilience Yellow
Quick +Spell Haste Yellow
Solid +Stamina Blue
Sparkling +Spirit
Lustrous +MP5 Blue
Stormy +Spell Penetration Blue
Inscribed +Strength & +Crit Orange
Glinting +Agility & +Hit Rating Orange
Potent +Spell Damage (WotLK +Spellpower) & +Spell Crit Orange
Wicked +Attack Power & +Crit Orange
Velied +Spell Damage (WotLK +Spellpower) & +Spell Hit Orange
Luminous +Healing (WotLK +Spellpower) & +Intellect Orange
Reckless +Spell Damage (WotLK +Spellpower) & +Spell Haste Orange
Unstable +Spell Dmg (WotLK +Spellpower) & Intellect Orange
Jagged/Barbed +Crit & +Stamina Green
Enduring +Def Rating & +Stamina Green
Dazzling + Intellect & +MP5 Green
Radiant +Spell Crit & +Spell Penetration Green
Steady +Resilience & +Stamina Green
Forceful +Spell Haste & +Stamina Green
Sovereign + Strength & +Stamina Pueple
Shifting +Agility & +Stamina Purple
Glowing +Spell Dmg (WotLK +Spellpower) & +Stamina Purple
Balanced +Attack Power & +Stamina Purple
Royal +Healing (WotLK +Spellpower) & +MP5 Purple
Infused +Attack Power & +MP5 Purple
Purified +Healing & +Spell Damage (WotLK +Spellpower for both) Purple
Regal +Dodge Rating & +Stamina Purple

Specialization

There is no specialization for jewelcrafting.

Jewelcrafting Quests

This is by no means a complete list.

There are no known quests that are specifically for jewelcrafters.

Quests that require products from a jewelcrafter:

  • none known.

New in Wrath of the Lich King

Several new rough gems, gem cuts, meta gems and recipes have been added with the Wrath of the Lich King (WotLK) expansion but some gems have also had their stats changed to accomodate larger changes that have been made.

For example, across the board in WotLK, +healing and +spell damage have been rolled together into a single stat that effects both damage and healing spells. This stat is now called +spell power. Jewelcrafting gems have had their stats adjusted to match. For example, a Luminous Flame Spessarite which has +healing and +spell Dmg on it would have simple +Spellpower on it in WotLK. This could provide quite the boon to Holy Paladins with the Potent/Reckless cuts which previously gave +spell dmg and crit or haste, it can now boost both healing and spell crit/haste.

New Quest/Specialization

There is a new quest offered to high level Jewelcrafters that grants them the Gem Perfection ability. What this does is allows jewlcrafters to sometimes improve the quality of on uncommon gem into a "perfect" gem with slightly better stats. Note that this would only apply to Northrend gems.

New Rough Gems

Uncommon (green - not socket green, item level green):

  • Blue: Chalcedony
  • Green: Dark Jade
  • Orange: Huge Citrine
  • Purple: Shadow Crystal
  • Red: Bloodstone
  • Yellow: Sun Crystal

Rare (blue, again item level, not socket color):

  • Blue: Sky Sapphire
  • Green: Forest Emerald
  • Orange: Monarch Topaz
  • Purple: Twilight Opal
  • Red: Scarlet Ruby
  • Yellow: Autumn's Glow

Meta Rough Gems:

  • Earthsiege Diamond
  • Skyflare Diamond

New Gem Cuts

Most, if not all, of the old cut names are still present and with the exception in +spell dmg and +healing listed above posess the same attributes. Existing attributes (with some WotLK changes in parentheses) are listed above. The below list is not necessarily complete.

Color Family Gem Stats
Orange Accurate Expertise & Hit
Orange Champion Strength & Defense
Orange Deft Agility & Haste
Orange Etched Strength & Hit
Orange Fierce Strength & Haste
Orange Glimmering Parry & Defense
Orange Pristine Attack Power & Hit Rating
Orange Resolute Expertise & Defense Rating
Orange Stalwart Dodge & Defense Rating
Orange Stark Attack Power & Haste
Green Energized Haste & MP5
Green Lambent Hit & MP5
Green Misty Crit & Spirt
Green Shining Hit & Spirit
Green Sundered Crit & MP5
Green Tenuous Agility & MP5
Green Timeless Intellect & Stamina
Purple Guardian Expertise & Stamina
Purple Puissant Ignore Armor & Stamina

Daily Quests

WotLK now offeres 6 daily quests for Jewelcrafters! These can be picked up from Timothy Jones in Dalaran and they all center around shipments and require the gathering of various types of gems.

  • Blood Jade Amulet - Bring a Vrykul Amulet, a Jagged Dark Jade and a Runed Bloodstone to Timothy Jones in Dalaran. You can find a Vrykul Amulet on any Northrend Vrykul.
  • Bright Armor Relic - Bring an Elemental Armor Scrap, a Bright Bloodstone and a Potent Huge Citrine to Timothy Jones in Dalaran.
  • Glowing Ivory Figurine - Bring a Shoveltusk Ivory, a Lustrous Chalcedony and a Glowing Shadow Crystal to Timothy Jones in Dalaran. You can find a Shoveltusk Ivory on any Northrend Shoveltusk.
  • Shipment: Intricate Bone Figurine - Bring Proto Dragon Bone, a Solid Chalcedony and an Intricate Dark Jade to Timothy Jones in Dalaran.
  • Shifting Sun Curio - Bring a Scourge Curio, a Quick Sun Crystal and a Shifting Shadow Crystal to Timothy Jones in Dalaran.
  • Wicked Sun Brooch - Bring an Iron Dwarf Brooch, a Wicked Huge Citrine and a Rigid Sun Crystal to Timothy Jones in Dalaran. You can find an Iron Dwarf Amulet on any Northrend Iron Dwarf.

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