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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 4.3.3
 
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 try to 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 the Mining leveling guide or the Enchanting leveling 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
 
Approximate Materials Required for 1-525
IMPORTANT! Do not buy all of the materials at once! Jewelcrafting is really expensive to level, and on most servers the Auction House is screwed up because of the insanely high prices of low level Gems, Orbs and Bars. I usually have a few tips and alternative recipes 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
  • 7 Azerothian Diamond
  • 3 Blue Sapphire
  • 3 Essence of Undeath
  • 20 Huge Emerald
Burning Crusade
 
 
  • 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 which you don't have the reputation for 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
Wrath of the Lich King
 
 
  • 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.
  • 10 Crystallized Earth
  • 46 Eternal Earth OR 23 Eternal Earth and 23 Eternal Shadow
  • 5 Forest Emerald
  • 5 Titanium Bar
  • 5 Dream Shard
Cataclysm
 
 
  • 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.
 
 
Jewelcrafting Leveling Guide 1 - 50
 
 
 
First, visit a trainer - just ask a guard, and learn Apprentice Jewelcrafting.
 
50 - 150
 
 
Learn Jewelcrafting Journeyman.
  • 50-80
    50 x [Bronze Setting] - 100 Bronze Bar
    Save these, you will need them later.
  • 110-12010 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.
  • 120-15030 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.
  • 150-18045 x [Mithril Filigree] - 90 Mithril Bar
     
    Save these, you will need 45 of them later.
 
200 - 300
 
 
Learn Jewelcrafting Artisan.
  • 200-220If 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
  • 225-25050 x [Thorium Setting] - 50 Thorium Bar
     
    Stop making these at 250 and only make more if you need it, but you will need around 50.
  • 260-280If 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 a lot of Azerothian Diamond or if it's cheap, you can start to craft [Diamond Focus Ring]. Keep in mind that you will need 7 Azerothian Diamond for the next step.
 
300 - 350
 
 
Visit your trainer and learn Jewelcrafting Master.
Check your Calendar in-game to see if the Darkmoon Faire is open, the event starts at 00:01 on the Sunday before the 1st Monday of each month.
You can gain +5 skill points by completing a single quest. Click here to read more about the quests.
If the Darkmoon Faire is open, make only 5 [Mercurial Adamantite] at the next step and then make more gems to reach 340 where you should make only 5 [Heavy Adamantite Ring] and you can complete your quest when you reach 345.
  • 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 - 395Buy around 55 from any of the following gems. At 375, these recipes will turn to yellow so you might to buy more gems.
     
    [Bloodstone], [Chalcedony], [Dark Jade], [Huge Citrine], [Shadow Crystal], [Sun Crystal]
    Cut any 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.
  • 420 - 425Check 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 - 450Make 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.
  • 467 - 4758 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 - 49520 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 - 520From 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.
 
I hope you liked this World of Warcraft Jewelcrafting guide, GZ to 525!
 
 
 
 

Jewelcrafting Leveling Guide 1-525

 

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