Juwelcrafting Guide

This WoW Jewelcrafting guide will show you the fastest and easiest way how to level your Jewelcrafting skill up from 1 to 525. Updated for WoW patch 4.3

Powerleveling your Jewelcrafting won't be cheap. Make sure you have enough gold, even if you have Mining. The best thing you can do is to try to sell the items you make, just put them on the Auction House. A lot of level 85 players are willing to buy low level items for their alt, if you can't sell something just disenchant it, and sell the shards/dust.

If you are low on gold, I recommend you to try this Gold Making Guide, it can help you to make loads of gold.

If you are still leveling your character or you just started a new alt, I recommend you to use a leveling guide. You can level your character to Level 85 in 5 days with this Guide.

Jewelcrafting is the best combined with Mining or the other option is Enchanting. Check out my Mining Leveling Guide or my Enchanting guide, if you want to level any of those professions. When you choose mining, you can save a lot of gold, because you can gather the materials, but it will take a lot of time. With Enchanting, you can Disenchant the items you make.

Jewelcrafting guide sections:

Apprentice 1 - 50
Journeyman 50 - 150
Expert 150 - 200
Artisan 200 - 300
Master 300 - 350
Grand Master 350 - 425
Illustrious 425 - 525


Related Guides:

WoW Mining Leveling Guide 1-525
Enchanting Leveling Guide 1-525

Approximate Materials Required for 1-525:

The materials are based on a case that you will gain one skill point each craft. This won't happen, so you will have to buy a few extra materials while you are leveling your Jewelcrafting.

IMPORTANT! DO NOT BUY ALL OF THE MATERIALS AT ONCE! Jewelcrafting is really expensive to level, and on most servers AH is screwed up because of the insanely high prices of low level Gems, Orbs and Bars. I usually have a few tips and alternatives so you can save some gold.

100 Copper Bar
20 Tigerseye or 20 Malachite
120 Bronze Bar = 60 Copper Bar, 60 Tin Bar
60 Shadowgem OR 20 Shadowgem and 20 Small Lustrous Pearl
80 Heavy Stone
30 Moss Agate / 60 Lesser Moonstone for Horde
140 Mithril Bar
80 Solid Stone
25 Citrine
15 Truesilver Bar
5 Aquamarine
50 Thorium Bar
10 Star Ruby
20 Large Opal
10 Powerful Mojo or 10 Blue Sapphire
10 Essence of Earth or 10 Essence of Undeath
20 Huge Emerald
55 green gems OR 40 and 15 Black Diamond - You can find a list of green gems here. Don't buy all of them from one kind, because there might be some recipes where you don't have the reputation to buy it, so you will have to choose other green gems. Just buy them when you get to that part of the Jewelcrafting guide.
40 Adamantite Powder (200 Adamantite Ore)
10 Primal Earth
10 Adamantite Bar
Buy around 70 from any of the following gems: Bloodstone, Chalcedony, Dark Jade, Huge Citrine, Shadow Crystal, Sun Crystal. Make sure to buy at least 5 Bloodstone, because you will need the Bloodstones when you reach 395.
46 Eternal Earth OR 23 Eternal Earth and 23 Eternal Shadow
5 Forest Emerald
5 Titanium Bar
5 Dream Shard
Buy 45 from any of the following gems: Carnelian, Alicite, Jasper, Zephyrite. I did not include Hessonite and Nightstone in the list, because you will use them later on.
16 Hessonite
40 Nightstone
Note: 495-525 material list is not included, because you shouldn't buy all of them at once, but you will need around 30 Shadowspirit Diamonds and a lot more Uncommon Gems for the Fire Prism transmutes.


WoW Jewelcrafting Leveling Guide 1 - 525
First, visit a trainer - just ask a guard, and learn Apprentice Jewelcrafting.

1-30
30 x [Delicate Copper Wire] - 60 Copper Bar
Save these, you will need them later.

30-50
20 x [Tigerseye Band] - 20 Tigerseye, 20 Delicate Copper Wire

You can make 20 x [Malachite Pendant] too.



50 - 150
Learn Jewelcrafting Journeyman.

50-80
50 x [Bronze Setting] - 100 Bronze Bar

Save these, you will need them later.

80-100
20 x [Simple Pearl Ring] - 20 Small Lustrous Pearl, 20 Bronze Setting, 40 Copper Bar

or

20 x [Gloom Band] - 20 Bronze Setting, 40 Shadowgem, 40 Delicate Copper Wire

Make [Ring of Silver Might] if Silver Bar is cheap on your server.

100-110
10 x [Ring of Twilight Shadows] - 20 Shadowgem, 20 Bronze Bar
You can also continue to make [Ring of Silver Might]

110-120
10 x [Heavy Stone Statue] - 80 Heavy Stone
If Heavy Stone is cheap (usually it's not) make this one up to 130 if you want to.

120-150
30 x [Pendant of the Agate Shield] - 30 Moss Agate, 30 Bronze Settings
If you prospect your own Ores, usually you will get a lot of [Lesser Moonstone] too, but even if you don't prospect the Ores, sometimes 2 Lesser Moonstone is cheaper than one Moss Agate. So get the recipe [Design: Amulet of the Moon] and use up all your Lesser Moonstone. This recipe turns yellow at 140, you might need to make more than 30 of these.

The design is sold by these NPCs.



150 - 200
Learn Jewelcrafting Expert.

150-180
45 x [Mithril Filigree] - 90 Mithril Bar
Save these, you will need 45 of them later.

180-185
8 x [Solid Stone Statue] - 80 Solid Stone
185-200
15 x [Engraved Truesilver Ring] - 15 Truesilver Bar, 30 Mithril Filigree


200 - 300
Learn Jewelcrafting Artisan.

200-220
If Citrine is expensive, you can continue to make [Engraved Truesilver Ring] up to around 210 or maybe more, you will also need a bit more Mithril Filigree then.
The recipe will go yellow at 210, so you might need to get more Citrine if you are unlucky. If you are lucky you will only need 20.

25 x [Citrine Ring of Rapid Healing] - 25 Citrine, 50 Mithril Bar

220-225
5 x [Aquamarine Pendant of the Warrior] - 5 Aquamarine, 15 Mithril Filigree
225-250
50 x [Thorium Setting] - 50 Thorium Bar
Stop making these at 250 and only make more if you need it.

250-260
10 x [Ruby Pendant of Fire] - 10 Star Ruby, 10 Thorium Setting
260-280
If Large Opal is expensive on your realm, like it cost twice as much as one Star Ruby, then you should continue to make [Ruby Pendant of Fire] up to 275. Or if you Prospected your own Ores, you will have a lot of Star Ruby and Azerothian Diamond left, use all of them.
20 x [Simple Opal Ring] - 20 Large Opal, 20 Thorium Setting

If you reach 265 and you have some Azerothian Diamond, or it's cheap (I doubt that) you can start to craft [Diamond Focus Ring] too.

280-290
10 x [Onslaught Ring] - 10 Powerful Mojo, 10 Essence of Earth, 10 Thorium Setting
or

10 x [Sapphire Pendant of Winter Night] - 10 Blue Sapphire, 10 Essence of Undeath, 10 Thorium Setting

290-300
Make a few [Glowing Thorium Band] if you have some Azerothian Diamonds left.
10 x [Emerald Lion Ring] - 20 Huge Emerald, 10 Thorium Setting



300 - 350
Visit your trainer and learn Jewelcrafting Master.

Now from this part of this Jewelcrafting guide, you will use recipes that are already yellow to you and since whole WoW is pretty random, you might just need 5 gems to reach your desired skill or maybe 10.

300-320
A nice alternative to 300-315 is this pattern:

15 x [Prismatic Black Diamond] - 15 Black Diamond

When you learn these recipes, they are already yellow. I suggest you to cut 30 from any of the following gems, then you should reach 320.

[Brilliant Blood Garnet]
[Solid Azure Moonstone]
[Radiant Deep Peridot]
[Inscribed Flame Spessarite]
[Timeless Shadow Draenite]

320-325
Make 5-7 from any of the following gems.

[Bold Blood Garnet]
[Delicate Blood Garnet]
[Jagged Deep Peridot]
[Reckless Flame Spessarite]
[Purified Shadow Draenite]

325-335
Save these, you will need them later.

10 x [Mercurial Adamantite] - 40 Adamantite Powder, 10 Primal Earth

Make a few from any of the following gems, if you didn't reach 335.

[Regal Deep Peridot]
[Glinting Shadow Draenite]
[Shifting Shadow Draenite]
[Subtle Golden Draenite]
[Purified Jaggal Pearl] - This one turns green at 332.

335-340
Make 5-7 from any of the following gems.

[Smooth Golden Draenite]
[Potent Flame Spessarite]
[Rigid Azure Moonstone]
[Sovereign Shadow Draenite]

340 - 350
You can continue to make the gems above, if you didn't reach 350 by making the rings below.

10 x [Heavy Adamantite Ring] - 10 Adamantite Bar, 10 Mercurial Adamantite



350 - 425
Visit your trainer and learn Jewelcrafting Grand Master.

350 - 395
Buy around 55 from any of the following gems. After 375, the recipes will be yellow so you might need less or more.
[Bloodstone]
[Chalcedony]
[Dark Jade]
[Huge Citrine]
[Shadow Crystal]
[Sun Crystal]

Cut any random gem you want. Seriously there are like 50 new green gem recipes, I won't list all of them. Go to your trainer, learn one and make that recipe around 55 times.

395 - 400
Make 5 from any of the following items:

5 x [Bloodstone Band] - 5 Bloodstone, 10 Crystallized Earth
5 x [Crystal Chalcedony Amulet] - 5 Chalcedony, 10 Crystallized Earth
5 x [Crystal Citrine Necklace] - 5 Huge Citrine, 10 Crystallized Earth
5 x [Sun Rock Ring] - 5 Sun Crystal, 10 Crystallized Earth

400 - 420
23 x [Stoneguard Band] - 46 Eternal Earth
or

23 x [Shadowmight Ring] - 23 Eternal Earth, 23 Eternal Shadow

If you have some [Monarch Topaz], [Twilight Opal], [Autumn's Glow], [Forest Emerald], [Sky Sapphire] or you can buy these for cheaper than the Eternals, go to Wintergrasp and buy the jewelcrafting recipes sold by Stone Guard Mukar (Horde) and Knight Dameron (Alliance). You can only buy these recipes if your faction controls Wintergrasp. One recipe costs 19 honor, which means if you stay here and do a few daily quest while the battle is on, you can buy most of the recipes.

All of these recipes are orange up to 410 and yellow up to 425.

420 - 425
Check the previous part if you don't have Titanium Bar.
5 x [Dream Signet] - 5 Titanium Bar, 5 Dream Shard, 5 Forest Emerald



425 - 525
Visit your trainer and learn Jewelcrafting Illustrious.

425 - 450
Make 25 from any of the new Uncommon Gem Cuts that you get from your trainer. You can also make [Jasper Ring] if you can disenchant it.
450 - 467
Make around 20 uncommon gems, or you can make 17 [Hessonite Band]
467 - 475
8 x [Hessonite Band] - 8 Jeweler's Setting, 16 Hessonite
You can also make [Carnelian Spikes] if 3 Carnelian is cheaper than 2 Hessonite. You can buy the Jeweler's Setting from the vendor.

475 - 495
20 x [Nightstone Choker] - 20 Jeweler's Setting, 40 Nightstone
Make more Hessonite Band if you have some Hessonite left. You can also start doing the Jewelcrafting Daily quests, you can read about this in the next step. If you are not rushing things, you can buy one rare gem cut and make that recipe up to 500.

495 - 520
From this point, most of the recipes will be purchased from vendor. You need to do the Jewelcrafting daily quests if you want to buy any of these recipes. Horde players can find Marith Lazuria at Orgrimmar and Alliance players can find Isabel Jones in Stormwind. These NPCs start the daily quests.
Between 495-500, you could also make a few more Nightstone Choker, then you can make [Fire Prism] at 500. [Fire Prism] has a 20 hour cooldown, but it can contain [Chimera's Eye]. You should make [Fire Prism] every day.

In short, you either make Nightstone Choker between 495-500, or you do the daily quests for 4 days and buy a meta gem recipe then make that one up to 520.

You can also make any of the following items between 510-520.

[Vicious Amberjewel Band]
[Vicious Ruby Signet]
[Vicious Sapphire Ring]
520 - 525
Make any of the following:

[Vicious Sapphire Necklace]
[Vicious Amberjewel Pendant]
[Vicious Ruby Choker]
I hope you liked this World of Warcraft Jewelcrafting guide, GZ to 525!