WotLK Jewelcrafting Guide: 1 – 450 (WoW Classic Leveling)

Jewelcrafting is the very definition of a hardcore minmaxing profession. If you are in a more serious raiding guild, there’s a high chance of a lot of your guildies being jewelcrafters – and rightfully so. It offers the biggest bonuses of all professions. If you’d like to easily become a jewelcrafter yourself, continue reading our WotLK jewelcrafting guide.

The reason why so many people choose jewelcrafting as one of their professions in WoTLK are the 3 unique Dragon’s Eye gems they can socket in their gear. There are 18 different Dragon’s Eye cuts to choose from. This gives players the flexibility of gemming towards the stat they need the most at a certain point in time (for example, gemming more hit rating so they can reach the cap). 

If you gem something like 3x Bright Dragon’s Eye – you’ll get a total of +84 attack power bonus over gemming normal gems. Compare that to the usual +80 attack power bonus of other professions, and you’ll see why minmaxers chose jewelcrafting over everything else. 

The money-making aspect of jewelcrafting might not be as strong as in TBC, but you can still have a steady income by selling cuts and epic items on the auction house. 

You can farm the mats needed for this guide yourself if you have mining, or you can buy them off the auction house. You can also buy the ores and Prospect them instead of buying gems. Try to follow the prices and calculate what will be the most cost-effect. When it comes to leveling jewelcrafting, there, unfortunately, isn’t a one size fits all solution. 

Total mats needed for 1-450 Jewelcrafting

Jewelcrafting guide WoW Classic

Start by learning jewelcrafting from one of these trainers:

These are the only old world trainers, sadge.

Apprentice jewelcrafting (1 – 75)

• 1 – 35
  55x Delicate Copper Wire – 110x Copper Bar (This recipe goes yellow at 20, but you are going to need around 50-55 of those laters, so might as well get the points now.)
• 35 – 50
  15x Malachite Pendant – 15x Malachite, 15x Delicate Copper Wire
  
  Or
  
  15x Tigerseye Band – 15x Tigerseye, 15x Delicate Copper Wire

Don’t forget to train Journeyman jewelcrafting (75 – 150) once you reach skill level 50.

• 50 – 80
  50x Bronze Setting – 100x Bronze Bar (This recipe goes yellow at 70, but you are going to need around 50 of those laters, so might as well get the points now.)

Journeyman jewelcrafting (75 – 150)

• 80 – 100
  20x Gloom Band – 40x Shadowgem, 20x Bronze Setting, 40x Delicate Copper Wire
  
  Or
  
  20x Ring of Silver Might – 40x Silver Bar
• 100 – 110
  10x Ring of Twilight Shadows – 20x Shadowgem, 20x Bronze Bar
  
  Or
  
  10x Ring of Silver Might – 20x Silver Bar
• 110 – 120
  10x Heavy Stone Statue – 80x Heavy Stone
• 120 – 150
  30x Pendant of the Agate Shield – 30x Moss Agate, 30x Bronze Setting

Design: Pendant of the Agate Shield is a limited supply recipe sold by Neal Allen in Wetlands for Alliance players, and by Jandia in Thousand Needles for Horde players. 

If you don’t want to travel, you can check the Auction House for it. I strongly recommend you get it one way or the other.

Don’t forget to train Expert jewelcrafting (150 – 225) once you reach skill level 125.

Expert jewelcrafting (150 – 225)

• 150 – 180
  45x Mithril Filigree – 90x Mithril Bar (This recipe goes yellow at 170 and green at 180, but you will need around 45 of those for later, so you might as well get the points for creating them.)
• 180 – 185
  8x Solid Stone Statue – 80x Solid Stone (This recipe starts yellow, so you might need to make a bit more than 5. 
• 185 – 200)
  15x Engraved Truesilver Ring – 15x Truesilver Bar, 30x Mithril Filigree
• 200 – 210
  10x Citrine Ring of Rapid Healing – 10x Citrine, 20x Mithril Bar
• 210 – 220
  10x Aquamarine Signet – 30x Aquamarine, 40x Flask of Mojo
• 220 – 225
  5x Aquamarine Pendant of the Warrior – 5x Aquamarine, 15x Mithril Filigree

Don’t forget to train Artisan jewelcrafting (225 – 300) once you reach skill level 200. 

Artisan jewelcrafting (225 – 300)

• 225 – 250
  50x Thorium Setting – 50x Thorium Bar (This recipe goes yellow at 235 and green at 245, but you will need 50 of those for later, so you might as well get the points for creating them.)
• 250 – 260
  10x Ruby Pendant of Fire – 10x Star Ruby, 10x Thorium Setting
• 260 – 280
  20x Simple Opal Ring – 20x Large Opal, 20x Thorium Setting
• 280 – 290
  10x Sapphire Pendant of Winter Night – 10x Blue Sapphire, 10x Essence of Undeath, 10x Thorium Setting
  
  Or
  
  10x Onslaught Ring – 10x Thorium Setting, 10x Powerful Mojo, 10x Essence of Earth
  
  Or
  
  10x Diamond Focus Ring – 10x Azerothian Diamond, 10x Thorium Setting
• 290 – 300
  10x Emerald Lion Ring – 20x Huge Emerald, 10x Thorium Setting

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Master jewelcrafting (300 – 375)

Learn Master jewelcrafting (300 – 375) from one of these trainers:

There are other jewelcrafting trainers in Outland, but these two are the best because they also sell the recipes you need to level up.

• 300 – 320
  Craft any of these recipes until you reach 320:
  Teardrop Blood Garnet – Blood Garnet
  Glowing Shadow Draenite – Shadow Draenite
  Brilliant Golden Draenite – Golden Draenite
  Inscribed Flame Spessarite – Flame Spessarite
  Solid Azure Moonstone – Azure Moonstone
  Radiant Deep Peridot – Deep Peridot

All of these recipes start yellow so you might need to make more than 20 crafts. Also, these crafts are listed in order from the easiest ones to sell to the hardest. So keep that in mind when choosing your craft.

The recipes for these gems are sold by the two aforementioned trainers. 

You can also do Prismatic Black Diamond – Black Diamond. This recipe goes yellow at 310 and green at 315, but the mats for it can be very cheap.

• 320 – 325
  Craft any of these until you reach 325:
  Glinting Flame Spessarite – Flame Spessarite
  Bright Blood Garnet – Blood Garnet
  Sparkling Azure Moonstone – Azure Moonstone
  Jagged Deep Peridot – Deep Peridot

When you start crafting them, all of these recipes will be yellow, so you might need to make a bit more than 5 crafts. 

The recipes for these gems are sold by the two aforementioned trainers. 

• 325 – 335
  13x Mercurial Adamantite – 52x Adamantite Powder, 13x Primal Earth (This recipe starts yellow, so you might need to make a bit more than 10.)

You get Adamantite Powder by prospecting Adamantite Ore.

Also, don’t sell these, you will need them later.  

• 335 – 340
  Craft any of these until you reach 340:
  Sovereign Shadow Draenite – Shadow Draenite
  Smooth Golden Draenite – Golden Draenite (This recipe starts yellow, so you might need to make a bit more than 5.)

The recipes for these gems are sold by the two aforementioned trainers. 

• 340 – 350
  13x Heavy Adamantite Ring – 13x Adamantite Bar, 13x Mercurial Adamantite (This recipe goes yellow at 345, so you might need to make a bit more than 10.)

Jewelcrafting guide WotLK

Grand master jewelcrafting (350 – 450)

Both factions can also learn it from Timothy Jones at Dalaran.

• 350 – 395
  Start cutting:
  Bloodstone 
  Sun Crystal 
  Chalcedony
  Shadow Crystal
  Dark Jade
  Huge Citrine

You will learn a lot of new recipes, so just cut the ones you have the most gems of, the ones that are easiest to sell, or the ones you are going to use. The choice is yours.

These recipes go yellow at 375, so you will need to do about 55 – 60 cuts to reach the 395 skill level.

• 395 – 400
  Make any of these :
  7x Sun Rock Ring – 14x Crystallized Earth, 7x Sun Crystal
  7x Crystal Chalcedony Amulet – 14x Crystallized Earth, 7x Chalcedony
  7x Bloodstone Band – 14x Crystallized Earth, 7x Bloodstone
  7x Crystal Citrine Necklace – 14x Crystallized Earth, 7x Huge Citrine

These recipes will be yellow when you start crafting them, so you might need to make a bit more than 5.

• 400 – 420
  25x Shadowmight Ring – 25x Eternal Earth, 25x Eternal Shadow
  25x Stoneguard Band – 50x Eternal Earth

Both these recipes go yellow at 410, so you might need to make a bit more than 20.

• 420 – 425
  Craft any of these until you reach 425:
  Dazzling Forest Emerald – Forest Emerald
  Pristine Monarch Topaz – Monarch Topaz
  Balanced Twilight Opal – Twilight Opal
  Sparkling Sky Sapphire – Sky Sapphire
  Brilliant Autumn’s Glow – Autumn’s Glow
  Bright Scarlet Ruby – Scarlet Ruby

When you start crafting them all of these recipes will be yellow, so you might need to make a bit more than 5.

Base the choice of which gems you will craft on your server’s economy. Craft the ones you’ll sell the easiest, or you will use yourself. 

• 425 – 440
  Start cutting:
  Earthsiege Diamond
  Skyflare Diamond

You can buy most of the meta gem recipes from Tiffany Cartier in Dalaran. The rest of them drop in dungeons or are pvp rewards. 

Make any meta gem of your choice. 

• 440 – 441
  1x Icy Prism – Frozen Orb, Chalcedony, Shadow Crystal, Dark Jade

You create the first Icy Prism at 440 because that’s when meta gem recipes become yellow. 

If you don’t mind waiting for the 20 hour cooldown, you can continue crafting Icy Prisms till 450. The recipe goes yellow at 445.

• 441 x 450
  Continue cutting
  Earthsiege Diamond
  Skyflare Diamond
  (All meta gems recipes will be yellow, so you might need to make a bit more than 9.)
  
  Or
  
  13x Dream Signet – 13x Titanium Bar, 13x Forest Emerald, 13x Dream Shard (This recipe is yellow at 440, so you might need to make a bit more than 9.)

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Thank you for reading our WotLK jewelcrafting guide! Don’t forget to visit Timothy Jones every day to do your daily quest. All the dailies are very simple and they award Dalaran Jewelcrafter’s Token. You’ll use those tokens as currency to purchase new recipes from Tiffanny Cartier.

My suggestion is to start by purchasing the recipes for Dragon’s Eye cuts you will use, as well as the Dragon’s Eyes themselves. Then buy the recipes for the normal cuts you will use, and the recipes for epic items. When you have everything you need to gear your characters, you can start buying the cuts that you think will make you the most money.Another great source of Dalaran Jewelcrafter’s Token is to find Damaged Necklaces, combine them with Chalcedony and bring them to Timothy Jones. This is a repeatable quest. Necklaces are a random world drop and as such can be found on the auction house.