There are many reasons to take up Jewelcrafting as one of your main professions. If it is for making tons of gold or making prismatic gems for yourself, let me warn you, you are going to be spending gold out of your pocket - LOTS of it. Be prepared to invest anywhere between 1,500 to 3,000 gold at the minimum if you are planning to buy most of the mats required. I wouldn't recommend farming the mats by yourself because making gold is actually quite easy these days - especially with the amount of dailies that are available in Northrend. But I would recommend picking up mining along with this profession since it will indeed help out with the amount of investment needed on the extraneous amounts of ores and gems you will need.
Approximate Materials Required for 1-450:
- 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
- 160 Mithril Bar
- 25 Citrine
- 20 Truesilver Bar
- 5 Aquamarine
- 60 Thorium Bar
- 15 Star Ruby
- 20 Large Opal
- 10 Powerful Mojo or 10 Blue Sapphire
- 10 Essence of Earth or 10 Essence of Undeath
- 20 Huge Emerald
- 60 green gems OR 45 and 15 Black Diamond
- 5 Adamantite Bar
- 5 Mercirual Adamantite
- Buy 60 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 it when you reach 395.
- 46 Eternal Earth OR 23 Eternal Earth and 23 Eternal Shadow
- 7 Forest Emerald - You might only need 5
- 15 Skyflare Diamond OR 15 Earthsiege Diamond
First thing you would do is get yourself trained from one of the Jewelcrafting trainers in the main cities of old Azeroth. Just ask the guards and they will guide you to the exact location in your city.
Apprentice Jewelcrafting
1-30: Make 30 Delicate Copper Wire. Save these, you will need them later.
31-50: Here you have an option of either making 20 Tigerseye Band or 20 Malachite Pendant. The stats on these items are pretty good for low levels probably until 20 after which you might be upgrading these. Alternatively if you are just powerleveling on a higher level character you could check the auction house to see which one sell for more, or if you have an alt enchanter or a friend that is an enchanter you can get them disenchanted for consistent profits. This goes for all of the rings, necklaces etc.. that you are going to be making in your quest to 450.
Journeyman Jewelcrafting
51-80: Now make 50 Bronze Setting. Save these too, you will need them later for other stuff.
81-100: Here again you have 3 options. Choose from one of the following by deciding which would sell for most on the Auction House.
- Simple Pearl Ring
- Gloom Band
- Ring of Silver Might
101-110: Make 20 of these - Ring of Twilight Shadows. The stats on this is pretty good for self-use for its level.
111-120: 10 of Heavy Stone Statue.
121-150: 30 of these - Pendant of the Agate Shield. Moss Agate being used to make this, this could turn out quite a goldsink but you could sell them to some low level warrior, druid tanks to make most of the money back.
This design is sold by these NPC's.