Guide to Jewelcrafting

Guide to Jewelcrafting

Introduction

Jewelcrafting is a new profession introduced in the World of Warcraft Burning Crusade expansion. It allows you to create jewelry like rings, necklaces and crowns - items that were previously available in the game only as loot drops and quest rewards. Master jewelcrafters can also learn how to cut gems that enhance certain attributes when socketed into slots on new types of armor.

Getting Started

Like any other profession, you must go to a Journeyman trainer to become an Apprentice Jewelcrafter. There are Journeyman trainers in both Draenei and Blood Elf starting areas (see list of trainers and their locations below). There are no race restrictions on learning the craft, but if you¡¯re starting a new human, dwarf or gnome character (for Alliance), the trainer location makes it harder for you to learn Jewelcrafting at an early age. (NOTE: Remove the last sentence if Blizzard adds trainers in all major cities.)

Initially, you will also need to buy a Jeweler¡¯s Kit (for 8 silver) from a Jewelcrafting Supplies vendor, conveniently located near your Journeyman trainer.

JEWELCRAFTING TRAINER LOCATIONS (Alliance)

Name Title Location
Driaan Journeyman Jewelcrafter Crystal Hall, The Exodar
Padaar Expert Jewelcrafter Crystal Hall, The Exodar
Elaando Artisan Jewelcrafter Crystal Hall, The Exodar
Farii Master Jewelcrafter Crystal Hall, The Exodar
Tatiana Grand Master Jewelcrafter Honor Hold Inn, Hellfire Peninsula

JEWELCRAFTING TRAINER LOCATIONS (Horde)

Aleinia Journeyman Jewelcrafter
Ruins of Silvermoon, Eversong Woods
Aleinia Expert Jewelcrafter Ruins of Silvermoon, Eversong Woods
Aleinia Artisan Jewelcrafter Ruins of Silvermoon, Eversong Woods
Aleinia Master Jewelcrafter Ruins of Silvermoon, Eversong Woods
Aleinia Grand Master Jewelcrafter Ruins of Silvermoon, Eversong Woods

Gaining Experience

Once you¡¯ve trained as an Apprentice Jewelcrafter, you will find the Jewelcrafting (Apprentice) icon in your spellbook. Clicking on the icon will bring up your ¡°catalogue¡± showing all the jewelry you can initially make. Making items that appear on your catalogue in orange or yellow text will yield experience and increase your skill in the trade by one point. Making items that appear in green text will also yield experience but at a lower rate, so it might take two or more of the items to achieve a skill point.

The table at the end of this guide shows all the designs you can learn from a trainer, the skill level at which you can learn each design (Min Skill), the level at which the item turns yellow in your catalogue (Med Skill), and the level at which you stop earning experience by making the item (Max Skill). Depending on which materials are available to you, use this table to plan your skilling up path.

A good strategy is to find the item that requires the least amount of easily accessible materials and ¡°grind¡± up on it. Also, once you learn how to make components like Delicate Copper Wires or Bronze Settings, keep making them until they stop giving you skill points, stockpiling them for later use. The same thing applies to Stone Statues.

Jewelcrafting Materials

All jewelry designs require metal bars and gemstones to make, so for obvious reasons, it¡¯s best for a Jewelcrafter to take Mining as a second profession. At level 20, your trainer can teach you Prospecting, a secondary skill that allows you to extract gems from mined ore. This skill gives you an advantage over other miners and increases your chances of finding gems for your jewelry. If you choose not to take up Mining as a profession, you will still be able to prospect ore. Just remember, you will need a Jewelcrafting skill equivalent to the minimum skill level required to mine that ore to be able to prospect it.

Socketable Gems

Beyond skill level 300, you will be able to learn how to cut gems that can be found only in Outland. You will need to buy a Simple Grinder from a Jewelcrafting Supplies vendor (2g50s) before you can start doing this.

As of beta testing time, a large portion of gemcutting designs are available from the Grand Master Jewelcrafters in Thrallmar and Honor Hold, but these will most probably be Outland loot drops when the expansion goes live.

Cut gems enhance certain attributes depending on their color and shape, and can be placed into slots on socketed armor. You don¡¯t have to be a Jewelcrafter to socket the gems.

Socketed armor can be obtained as Outland loot drops. Leatherworkers, tailors and armorsmiths will also be able to craft certain socketed items. These are basically armor that lets you ¡°fill in the blanks¡±. The armor itself may have stats that enhance your character attributes, but in addition to those stats, it will have blank slots into which you can ¡°socket¡± gems to further enhance it. For example, if you find a socketed chest piece that has +20 attack power and one red socket, you can socket a Bright Blood Garnet (+12 Attack Power) to it to increase its attack power enhancement to +32. Or alternatively, you can socket an Inscribed Flame Spessarite gem (+3 Crit Strike Rating and +3 Strength) to enhance attributes other than the original one. In other words, socketed gems work much like enchantments: they enhance your armor piece.

To socket an item, simply shift-right click on it to open up a ¡°socket window¡±. Drag the cut gem to the proper slots, and press the ¡°Socket Gem¡± button. You don¡¯t have to match the gem colors to the slot colors but if you do, the enhancement that appears in gray on the armor will be activated.

Conclusion

Note that all this information was gathered during beta testing and may very well change as it progresses. I will be keeping an eye on changes to the profession, availability of jewelry designs and gem cutting patterns throughout the beta and beyond and will keep this guide updated, so keep checking back for more.