Jewelcrafting is one of World of Warcraft’s most valuable professions. Since being added in TBC, it has allowed players to put stat boosting gems into their armor, and it has allowed Jewelcrafters to sell these cuts on the Auction House for massive profits. In WotLK, Blizzard made Jewelcrafting even more essential to endgame content. Cut gems like Luminous Ametrine, Regal Dreadstone, or Sundered Eye of Zul are necessities in any raider or endgame PvPers gear. And with the addition of daily tokens, Jewelers can purchase designs like Design: Nightmare Tear, to create the +10 to all stats, any socket gem. The versatility of Nightmare Tear is just one of the numerous advantages the profession offers to all classes.

To find gems, Jewelers must use their most essential skill: Prospecting. This allows players to search raw ore for gems to cut, destroying the minerals in the process. Because of this, Jewelcrafting is usually paired with Mining as a gathering profession. If not, purchasing ore to prospect and gems to cut can become quite costly, and it may take awhile for you to break even.

Table of Contents

• Training Jewelcrafting
• Required Materials
• Leveling Jewelcrafting
• Dailies & Jewelcrafter’s Tokens
• Epic Gems

Training Jewelcrafting Old World Unlike other professions in WotLK, Jewelcrafting must still be learned from specific trainers. While these NPCs will be able to take you from Apprentice through Artisan, they are only available in the capitals added in TBC. This means that the Horde must venture to Silvermoon City and find either Kalinda or Aleinia, and the Alliance need to go to Exodar and speak with Farii. Outland Once you reach Outland, the training process standardizes with other professions, and the Master trainers will be in your faction’s respective starting area. For the Horde, this will be Kalaen in Thrallmar, and the Alliance can learn from Tatiana in Honor Hold. In Shattrath, there are also neutral trainers. Hamanar and Nemiha of the Aldor and Kirembri Silvermane of the Scryers will be able to continue teaching you. Northrend Like Outland, the Grand Master trainers in Northrend will be in your first questing area. The Alliance in Valiance Keep will learn from Alestos, and Geba'li at Warsong Hold will teach the Horde. Timothy Jones in Dalaran is the neutral trainer closest to an Auction House and can teach all preceding trainer’s recipes. If you are power leveling with access to Dalaran, he is your best option. Oluros at the Argent Tournament Grounds in another neutral option.
Required Materials Old World

• 100x Copper Bar
• 20x Tigerseye or Malachite
• 120x Bronze Bar (60x Copper Bar + 60x Tin Bar)
• 60x Shadowgem
• 20x Small Lustrous Pearl (Optional, only requires 20x Shadowgem)
• 80x Heavy Stone
• 30x Moss Agate
• 140x Mithril Bar
• 80x Solid Stone
• 15x Truesilver Bar
• 25x Citrine
• 5x Aquamarine
• 50x Thorium Bar
• 10x Star Ruby
• 20x Large Opal
• 10x Blue Sapphire
• 10x Essence of Undeath
• 20x Huge Emerald

Outland

• 15x Black Diamond
• 55x (Blood Garnet/Shadow Draenite/Golden Draenite/Deep Peridot/Flame Spessarite/Azure Moonstone)
• 40x Adamantite Powder
• 10x Primal Earth
• 10x Adamantite Bar
• 10x Essence of Earth

Northrend

• 70x (Bloodstone/Chalcedony/Dark Jade/Huge Citrine/Shadow Crystal/Sun Crystal)
• 5x Crystallized Earth
• 46x Eternal Earth
• 23x Eternal Shadow (Optional, only requires 23x Eternal Earth)
• 5 – 7x Forest Emerald
• 28x Earthsiege Diamond/Skyflare Diamond
• 1x Frozen Orb

Leveling Jewelcrafting Old World 1 – 30: Delicate Copper Wire

• Convert Copper Bar into Delicate Copper Wire.

30 – 50: Tigerseye Band or Malachite Pendant

• Combine either Tigerseye or Malachite with Delicate Copper Wire to make your first jewelry.

After you make your rings or your neckalces, go train up to Journeyman Jewelcrafting. 50 – 80: Bronze Setting

• Convert Bronze Bar into Bronze Setting.

80 – 100: Simple Pearl Ring or Gloom Band

• Combine Bronze Setting with Small Lustrous Pearl and Copper Bar or with Shadowgem and Delicate Copper Wire to make these rings.

100 – 110: Ring of Twilight Shadows

• Combine Shadowgem and Bronze Bar to make the Ring of Twilight Shadows.

110 – 120: Heavy Stone Statue

• Convert Heavy Stone into Heavy Stone Statues.

After making these statues, Alliance players will need to find Neal Allen at Menethil Harbor in Wetlands, and the Horde will need to talk to Jandia at Freewind Post in Thousand Needles. Each will sell Design: Pendant of the Agate Shield. 120 – 150: Pendant of the Agate Shield

• Combine Moss Agate and Bronze Setting to make Pendant of the Agate Shield.

After finishing these pendants, you should learn Expert Jewelcrafting. 150 – 180: Mithril Filigree

• Convert Mithril Bar into Mithril Filigree.

180 – 185: Solid Stone Statue

• Convert Solid Stone into Solid Stone Statue.

185 – 200: Engraved Truesilver Ring

• Combine Mithril Filigree with Truesilver Bar to make the Engraved Truesilver Ring.

Once you finish these rings, you can go train Artisan Jewelcrafting. 200 – 220: Citrine Ring of Rapid Healing

• Set Citrine in 2x Mithril Bar to make the Citrine Ring of Rapid Healing.

220 – 225: Aquamarine Pendant of the Warrior

• Wire Aquamarine with Mithril Filigree to create the Aquamarine Pendant of the Warrior.

225 – 250: Thorium Setting

• Convert Thorium Bar into Thorium Setting.

250 – 260: Ruby Pendant of Fire

• Set Star Ruby in Thorium Setting to make the Ruby Pendant of Fire.

260 – 280: Simple Opal Ring

• Combine Large Opal and Thorium Setting to get Simple Opal Ring.

280 – 290: Sapphire Pendant of Winter Night

• Combine Blue Sapphire, Essence of Undeath, and Thorium Setting to make the Sapphire Pendant of the Night.

For this step, most power leveling guides recommend creating the Onslaught Ring using Powerful Mojo, but for the purposes of power leveling, Essence of Undeath is much easier to farm and makes for a quicker leveling process. 290 – 300: Emerald Lion Ring

• Set Huge Emerald in Thorium Setting to make the Emerald Lion Ring.

Once you’ve finished the Emerald Rings, you can cross through the Dark Portal and become a Master Jewelcrafter. Burning Crusade TBC is where Jewelcrafting opens up to a number of options. At most of the skill level sets below, there are numerous choices of which patterns to cut. For each level range below, you are free to make any combination of the listed cuts, and the choice of what to craft is yours. 300 – 320: Brilliant Golden Draenite, Glowing Shadow Draenite, Inscribed Flame Spessarite, Radiant Deep Peridot, Solid Azure Moonstone, Teardrop Blood Garnet, or Prismatic Black Diamond TBC also offers a number of Jewelcrafting designs for purchase based on reputation. For your next set of options, it is possible to level entirely using recipes learned from a trainer, but the following designs are also available as rep rewards:

• Design: Gleaming Golden Draenite (Friendly: The Aldor)
• Design: Royal Shadow Draenite (Honored: The Aldor)
• Design: Luminous Flame Spessarite (Friendly: The Consortium)

320 – 325: Bold Blood Garnet, Bright Blood Garnet, Gleaming Golden Draenite, Jagged Deep Peridot, Luminous Flame Spessarite, Royal Shadow Draenite, Sparkling Azure Moonstone 325 – 335: Mercurial Adamantite

• Convert Adamantite Powder and Primal Earth into Mercurial Adamantite.

The next set of cuts also have options which can be purchased as rep rewards. Like before, you can still progress using cuts from a trainer, but the additional rep options are:

• Design: Potent Flame Spessarite (Friendly: Lower City)
• Design: Dazzling Deep Peridot (Honored: The Scryers)
• Design: Delicate Blood Garnet (Honored: The Consortium)

335 – 340: Dazzling Deep Peridot, Delicate Blood Garnet, Potent Flame Spessarite, Rigid Golden Draenite, Sovereign Shadow Draenite, Smooth Golden Draenite 340 – 350: Heavy Adamantite Ring

• Combine Mercurial Adamantite and Adamantite Bar to make Heavy Adamantite Rings.

Once you complete this set of rings, you can take the zeppelin to Northrend and reach the final stage: Grand Master Jewelcrafting. Northrend Like in Outland, WotLK offers long periods of leveling where the choice of cut and gem are individually inconsequential, as long as your skill level goes up. Begin by purchasing between 50 and 60 of the WotLK green gems (listed below), and continue crafting until you reach 395. 350 – 395: Any yellow cut of Bloodstone, Chalcedony, Dark Jade, Huge Citrine, Shadow Crystal, or Sun Crystal 395 – 400: Bloodstone Band, Crystal Chalcedony Amulet, Crystal Citrine Necklace, or Sun Rock Ring

• Combine Crystallized Earth and either Bloodstone, Chalcedony, Huge Citrine, or Sun Crystal to make your first rings in Northrend.

400 – 420: Stoneguard Band or Shadowmight Ring

• Use Eternal Earth or combine it with Eternal Shadow to make the Stoneguard Band or the Shadowmight Ring.

420 – 425: Dazzling Forest Emerald

• Cut Forest Emerald into Dazzling Forest Emerald.

After cutting these Emeralds, the next step is to craft meta gems. While some of these recipes can be learned from trainers, the overwhelming majority are purchased from various vendors with tokens from Dailies or are dropped from mobs throughout Northrend. Read on after the leveling guide to find out more about Dalaran Jewelcrafter's Token and the Jewelcrafting daily quests. The non-trainer meta gem designs are:

• Design: Ember Skyflare Diamond, Design: Chaotic Skyflare Diamond, Design: Effulgent Skyflare Diamond, Design: Revitalizing Skyflare Diamond, Design: Insightful Earthsiege Diamond, Design: Invigorating Earthsiege Diamond, Design: Relentless Earthsiege Diamond, Design: Trenchant Earthsiege Diamond
  • Sold by:
    • Tiffany Cartier in The Underbelly, Dalaran
    • Anuur in Argent Tournament Grounds
• Design: Enigmatic Skyflare Diamond, Design: Forlorn Skyflare Diamond, Design: Impassive Skyflare Diamond
  • Sold in Wintergrasp by:
    • Knight Dameron and Morgan Day (A)
    • Stone Guard Mukar (H)
• Design: Destructive Skyflare Diamond, Design: Thundering Skyflare Diamond, Design: Beaming Earthsiege Diamond,
  • World Drop
• Design: Austere Earthsiege Diamond
  • Dropped from King Ymiron in Utgarde Keep
• Design: Bracing Earthsiege Diamond
  • Drop from The Oculus
• Design: Eternal Earthsiege Diamond
  • Drop from Loken in Halls of Lightning

425 – 440: Austere Earthsiege Diamond, Beaming Earthsiege Diamond, Bracing Earthsiege Diamond, Chaotic Skyflare Diamond, Destructive Skyflare Diamond, Effulgent Skyflare Diamond, Ember Skyflare Diamond, Enigmatic Skyflare Diamond 440 – 441: Icy Prism

• Combine Frozen Orb, Chalcedony, Dark Jade, and Shadow Crystal to make an Icy Prism. Opening this will give you Rare and Epic Northrend gems, so that you can cut high level designs.

441 – 450: Meta gems

• Until you cap, continue making any of the meta gem cuts. It can take anywhere between 13 and 15 gems, so be patient.

Once you’ve finished your final meta cuts, you’ve capped! Congratulations! Keep reading to find out more about Dalaran Jewelcrafter's Token, and how to purchase high level recipes by completing daily quests.
Dailies and Jewelcrafter’s Tokens To purchase meta gem and epic gem designs, all players will need Dalaran Jewelcrafter's Token. Like other professions in WotLK, Blizzard implemented a daily quest and token reward system to purchase new recipes. But, it is especially important for Jewelcrafter, as a large number of endgame recipes come from Tiffany Cartier in Dalaran’s Underbelly. To begin the daily quests, players will need to speak to Timothy Jones and finish the quest Finish the Shipment once they’ve reached skill level 375. This requires you to bring one Chalcedony to Timothy and will open up all other daily quest options. Each daily involves farming a specific item from different mobs in Northrend and then combining them with two WotLK Uncommon gems. *Keep in mind that after completing 1 of the daily quests, all others are closed for the day, so it’s advisable to pick your quests based on which gems you have on hand or have easy access to through the AH, an alt, or your guild.* The complete list of Dailies is:

• Shipment: Shifting Sun Curio
  • Quest Item: Scourge Curio
    • World drop from Undead mobs
  • Shadow Crystal
  • Sun Crystal
• Shipment: Blood Jade Amulet
  • Quest Item: Vrykul Amulet
    • World drop from Viking/Vrykul mobs
  • Bloodstone
  • Dark Jade
• Shipment: Glowing Ivory Figurine
  • Quest Item: Northern Ivory
    • World drop from Mammoth mobs
  • Chalcedony
  • Shadow Crystal
• Shipment: Wicked Sun Brooch
  • Quest Item: Iron Dwarf Brooch
    • World drop from Iron dwarves
  • Sun Crystal
  • Huge Citrine
• Shipment: Intricate Bone Figurine
  • Quest Item: Proto Dragon Bone
    • World drop from Wyrm/Dragon mobs
  • Sun Crystal
  • Dark Jade
• Shipment: Bright Armor Relic
  • Quest Item: Elemental Armor Scrap
    • World drop from Elemental mobs
  • Bloodstone
  • Huge Citrine

Epic Gems Finally, WotLK has 6 different epic gems: Ametrine, Dreadstone, Cardinal Ruby, King's Amber, Eye of Zul, and Majestic Zircon. These can be prospected from Titanium Ore, found in an Icy Prism, or transmuted by an Alchemist from a blue gem and an Eternal element. Each of these gems is rare on their own, but by purchasing recipes using daily tokens, they can be cut into even more precious forms. Like most designs, Epic cuts will cost you 4x Dalaran Jewelcrafter's Token, meaning you must make sure to choose your recipes wisely. One way to figure out which recipes are most worthwhile is to review price trends on the Auction House or check which raw gems are the cheapest. Another important consideration could be what your guild or PvP team will need or what content is coming up and how players will want to gem for it. And that’s it! Good luck cutting your gems!