1. Jewelcrafting Designs

a. Where to Learn Them
b. The Designs

2. Grinding to 300
3. What About Prospecting?
4. What About the Jewels?
5. What About Sockets?

1. Jewelcrafting Designs

WHERE TO LEARN THEM

Note that in the BC beta, trainers are able to train everything below their level, so an artisan
trainer could train apprentice and journeyman skills and designs. It’s not yet known if this
will be the case in retail.

The Exodar [in The Crystal Hall]

• Driaan,Journeyman Jewelcrafter – trains Apprentice level and trains
  designs up to 70 skill.
• Padaar,Expert Jewelcrafter – trains up to Journeyman level and trains
  designs up to 135 skill.
• Elaando, Artisan Jewelcrafter – trains up to Expert level and trains designs
  up to 220 skill.
• Farii, Master Jewelcrafter – trains up to Artisan level and trains designs up
  to 290 skill.
• Arred, Jewelcrafting Supplier – sells 4 designs on a limited spawn.

Honor Hold [in the inn]

• Tatiana,Grand Master Jewelcrafter – trains up to Master level (requires level 50 and 275 skill) and trains designs up to 335 skill. Also sells 14
  designs for gemcutting, from 300 to 325 skill.

Shattrath City [in the Aldor Rise]

• Hamanar, Grand Master Jewelcrafter – trains up to Master level (requires
  level 50 and 275 skill) and trains designs up to 335 skill.
• Inessera, Jewelcrafting Supplier – sells jewelcrafting designs,but requires
  Aldor faction to see them.
• Quartermaster Endarin (in the Aldor bank) – sells 3 jewelcrafting designs
  for Aldor faction.

THEDESIGNS

Most of the designs listed in this table are trained directly by the profession trainers. Others
are sold by vendors; these are marked with a number. Note that there are other designs not
included in this list, as I don’t yet have details of them.

D)
Drop
1)
Exodar – Arred, JewelcraftingSupplier – Limited Supplies
2)
Honor Hold– Tatiana, GrandMaster Jewelcrafter
3)
Shattrath –Quartermaster Endarin, Aldor Quartermaster – Faction required
4)
Shattrath –Quartermaster Enuril, Scryers Quartermaster – Faction required
5)
Cenarion Hold–Mishta, General Trade GoodsVendor – Limited Supplies
6)
Everlook –Qia, Trade GoodsSupplier – Limited Supplies
7)
Southshore –MichaYance, Trade Goods– Limited Supplies

Cenarion Refuge – Fedryen Swifspear, Cenarion ExpeditionQuartermaster –Faction required
9)
Ratchet –Ranik – Limited Supplies
10) FreewindPost– Jandia– Limited Supplies

Grinding to 300

There are some worthwhile designs in the 1-300 range, especially if you have low-level alts
that can make use of the early designs. However, many people picking up Jewelcrafting will
be level 60 characters keen to start cutting their own socketable jewels as soon as possible.

You can get to 300 skill using only Azerothian materials; here’s how.

RECOMMENDED PATH

TOTALS

This is the path I’d recommend for grinding to 300 skill. Obviously, this grinding guide
doesn’t take into account availability – if you have masses of Truesilver to hand, for instance,
you would probably want to substitute truesilver recipes in to save on mats you have less of.

Also note that there are many paths to 300, depending on what you have available. Make
your selections based on what you have on hand, how much mats cost on your Live server,
and how much bank/bag space you’ve got. I’ve had a lot of feedback from people who are
choosing different paths to get to 300, and that’s fine. I plan on making a companion
document for ‘alternative grinding paths’; I chose the above path because

a)

it doesn’t rely on getting skillups off yellow recipes, so you can guarantee you have
enough mats to reach 300 (which is important for people without miner characters)

b)

it provides output that can be disenchanted or auctioned to recoup some costs.

Caveat! Before you start blowing hundreds of gold on stockpiling materials in
preparation for The Burning Crusade, remember that this is based on a beta. Things can
anddo change. I can’t make any guarantees that Blizzard won’t turn around tomorrow and
change the mats,skill levels or anything else about a recipe or twenty.

Note:

keep all ‘trade goods’ combines (copper wire, bronze settings etc) as you will need
them in later recipes. You can use, vendor, DE or AH the other combines as you please.

Note:

in many cases, you can still get ‘free’ skillups by making more of a yellow combine if
it’s a required component — eg at 20, Delicate Copper Wire goes yellow, but you still
need to make more wires as components for later combines, so they will provide
quite a lot of skillups if you do them first, allowing you to economise on later
combines. This is particularly true of Delicate Copper Wires and Thorium Settings; the
other Trade Goods combines are less vital. The above mats table does not presume
this effect.

E.g. the Ruby Pendants of Fire, Glowing Thorium Bands and Emerald Lion Rings all
require 1 Thorium Setting per combine, making for 45 in total. You will already have
10 on hand from the 225-235 step; if you make another 10 settings straight away you
may get anywhere from 5-10 skillpoints from them (while the recipe is yellow),
allowing you to do 5-10 less of the uby Pendant combines to cut down on use of
more expensive mats.

What About Prospecting?

Prospecting is a subskill you can train at 20 skill. It acts just like Disenchanting – you Prospect
5 ore; it destroys the ore and you get back a piece of grey vendor trash (Copper Powder, Iron
Powder etc.) and the chance of one or more gems. This chance is variable; I don’t yet know
the average chance of a success, as I haven’t done much prospecting.

The gems are of a type that you would get from mining that ore – e.g. prospecting 5 Tin Ore
can give you Shadowgems or Lesser Moonstones (or both); prospecting 5 Fel Iron Ore can
give you one of the new Outland gems.

Prospecting is orange until 40 skill; it goes grey at 70 skill. You may choose to skill up at low
levels on prospecting; if you have a surplus of copper ore and relatively few gems, it may be
a good idea.

What About the Jewels?

As you can see from the design list, Jewelcrafting is all about rings, trinkets, necklaces etc
until 300 skill. At that point, you can begin learning gemcutting recipes to turn Outland gems
into jewels that can be put into equipment sockets.

There are two categories of gems that can be turned into jewels. There are six Uncommon
(green) gems: Azure Moonstone, Blood Garnet, Deep Peridot, Flame Spessarite, Golden
Draenite and Shadow Draenite. These can be found by mining Fel Iron nodes or by
prospecting Fel Iron Ore. These six gems provide the bulk of jewelcrafting materials.

A few powerful recipes call for Rare gems: Dawnstone, Living Ruby, Nightseye, Noble Topaz,
and Talasite. There are also two transmuted gems: Earthstone Diamond and Skyfire
Diamond, which are made by Alchemists from a lot of expensive and rare materials. These
are used in high-level ‘meta gem’ recipes (see Pern’s FAQ for more information) and are not
really something to skill up with.

What About Sockets?

You may have noticed there’s no mention of a skill to add sockets to an item.
That’s because there isn’t one. Items come with sockets or not at all; you can’t add sockets to
an existing item.

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