This guide will take you through the best steps to get from 1-600. You’ll level up in the fastest and cheapest way possible. Before you get started leveling your Jewelcrafting you should read this guide first so that you can have enough gold to buy all the mats you need to level up and know how to sell your gems for maximum profit.
This Jewelcrafting Leveling Guide is updated for patch 5.0.5 and Mists of Pandaria.
Jewelcrafting is a great profession to combine with Mining due to prospecting if you’re starting a character from level one or very early on. However, we know that this is not always the case since most of the time most people are looking to power level their skill in a certain profession along with making gold for their characters.
This Jewelcrafting leveling guide will give you the knowledge to gain the skill you desire and possibly to make some gold for your character.
If you run into problems with finding gems for this leveling guide you can farm or buy ore and prospect that ore for gems. It is five ore for every attempt.
If you are looking to buy your items from the auction house for this guide you may want to farm some gold, you can check out this guide to make your life easier while leveling up your Jewelcrafting.
What’s in this guide:
Jewelcrafting Leveling Guide 1 – 600
Most people looking at this leveling guide are looking to buy their way through leveling their Jewelcrafting so I haven’t made a list of materials due to all servers having a different amount of items and the costs of those items being different. This leveling guide gives you some alternatives routes at some of the skill levels. There is an estimated amount of materials for the skill ups to help you obtain the skill level to move on to the next recipe in the guide.
Visit any Jewelcrafting Trainer in the main cities to learn Apprentice Jewelcrafting. Also you will need to pick up a Jeweler’s Kit and a Simple Grinder. Also ensure you know what levels you need to head back to a trainer in order train to the next set of skills for leveling in the next part of the guide.
One of the things to be mindful about while leveling with this guide is the cost of leveling Jewelcrafting if you plan to buy your way through it; especially at the lower levels in the current expansion and higher levels it is actually much cheaper to buy the materials. Feel free to check out a guide to farm the items or ways to make gold to make your leveling easier.
Apprentice & Journeyman Jewelcrafting (Levels 1-150)
This is by far the cheapest Jewelcrafting leveling route at this level or you can try to do alternate recipes that you have in your Jewelcrafting interface for leveling to 150.
1-30
Delicate Copper Wire
120 Copper Bar
Will be used in recipes later so hold on to them
30-50
Tigerseye Band
20 Tigerseye, 20 Delicate Copper Wire
30-50
Malachite Pendant
Malachite, 1 Delicate Copper Wire per attempt
In some cases if you are buying the materials you may not be able to get all 20 Tigerseye so you can try leveling off of Malachite Pendant also.
50-80
Bronze Setting
100 Bronze Bar
Will be used in recipes later so hold to them.
80-100
Gloom Band
20 Bronze Setting, 40 Shadowgem, 40 Delicate Copper Wire
80-100
Simple Pearl Ring
20 Small Lustrous Pearl, 20 Bronze Setting, 40 Copper Bar
80-100
Ring of Silver Might
2 Silver Bar
This skill area can be difficult so there are a few combinations to try for farming or buying from the auction house. If you have the mats to take these recipes to skill 110 then you can skip the Ring of Twilight Shadows and go right to Heavy Stone Statue.
100-110
Ring of Twilight Shadows
20 Shadowgem, 20 Bronze Bar
110-125
Heavy Stone Statue
120 Heavy Stone
If Heavy Stone is cheap on your server or you have farmed a good amount utilize this recipe till you are not getting a good rate of skill ups.
125-150
25 Moss Gate, 25 Bronze Settings
Expert Jewelcrafting (Levels 150-225)
As this Jewelcrafting leveling guide moves on it gets a bit more expensive to buy mats so if you need help getting gold look at this gold guide to make your life easier while leveling.
150-190
Mithril Filigree
140 Mithril Bar
Will be used in recipes later so hold on to them also you notice there are 10 extra bars here you will need those later also.
190-215
Engraved Truesilver Ring
25 Truesilver Bar, 50 Mithril Filigree
215-220
Citrine Ring of Rapid Healing
5 Citrine, 10 Mithril Bar
220-225
Aquamarine Pendant of the Warrior
5 Aquamarine, 15 Mithril Filigree
Artisan Jewelcrafting (Levels 225-300)
Gems can be rare at this level to buy off the auction house if that is how you are obtaining items while leveling with this guide. You can either buy/farm more Mithril Ore in order to prospect to get the gems which is what I had to do while leveling up my Jewelcrafting.
225-245
Thorium Setting
65 Thorium Bar
Make 65 of these even if you reach skill of 245 you will use them later.
245-265
Ruby Pendant of Fire
20 Star Ruby, 20 Thorium Setting
265-280
Simple Opal Ring
20 Large Opal, 20 Thorium Setting
280-290
Onslaught Ring
10 Powerful Mojo, 10 Essence of Earth, 10 Thorium Setting
280-290
Sapphire Pendant of Winter Night
10 Blue Sapphire, 10 Essence of Undeath, 10 Thorium Setting
290-300
Emerald Lion Ring
20 Huge Emerald, 10 Thorium Setting
Master Jewelcrafting (Levels 300-350)
For each Jewelcrafting skill area any of the recipes will work so just buy or farm the gems needed for the cuts until you reach the level shown.
300-320
Brilliant Blood Garnet, Solid Azure Moonstone, Radiant Deep Peridot, Inscribed Flame Spessarite, Timeless Shadow Draenite
320-325
Bold Blood Garnet, Delicate Blood Garnet, Jagged Deep Peridot, Reckless Flame Spessarite, Purified Shadow Draenite
325-335
Regal Deep Peridot, Glinting Shadow Draenite, Shifting Shadow Draenite, Subtle Golden Draenite
Regal Deep Peridot is sold by the Quartermasters in Honor Hold and Thrallmar. Shifting Shadow Draenite and Subtle Golden Draenite are sold by the Consortium Quartermasters
Karaaz and
Paulsta’ats.
335-350
Smooth Golden Draenite, Potent Flame Spessarite, Rigid Azure Moonstone, Sovereign Shadow Draenite
Grand Master Jewelcrafting (Levels 350-450)
If you’ve been buying all your mats so far and find yourself out of gold take a look at this guide for extra gold to finish leveling your Jewelcrafting.
350-395
Any single gem recipe learned at 350 or after
Bloodstone, Chalcedony, Dark Jade, Huge Citrine, Shadow Crystal, or Sun Crystal
395-400
Bloodstone Band
5 Bloodstone, 10 Crystallized Earth
395-400
Crystal Chalcedony Amulet
5 Chalcedony, 10 Crystallized Earth
395-400
Crystal Citrine Necklace
5 Huge Citrine, 10 Crystallized Earth
395-400
Sun Rock Ring
5 Sun Crystal, 10 Crystallized Earth
400-420
Stoneguard Band
approx. 46 Eternal Earth 2 per combine
420-425
Dream Signet
5 Titanium Bar, 5 Forest Emerald, 5 Dream Shard
You can also use Northrend blue gems for this skill set to level if you have a pattern
425-450
Make green quality gems: Hessonite, Nightstone, Carnelian, Jasper, Zephyrite, Alicite
Hessonite, Nightstone, Carnelian, Jasper, Zephyrite, or Alicite
You are going to be learning a lot of gem cuts at this level and it’s not worth it for me to tell you what to make out of them when it really doesn’t matter which you use to level off of, so pick what you’d like to use or sell or find most convenient.
Cataclysm Illustrious Jewelcrafting (Levels 425-525)
This is the route you’ll have to follow when leveling up your Illustrious Jewelcrafting skill. Once you reach level 500 you’ll need to buy a meta pattern to level up to 525. You’ll need to do the Jewelcrafting Dailies in order to get a pattern, these are located in Stormwind and Orgrimmar. This section is quite expensive so be sure to check out this guide for the best ways to get gold.
450-467
Make green quality gems: Hessonite, Nightstone, Carnelian, Jasper, Zephyrite, Alicite
Hessonite, Nightstone, Carnelian, Jasper, Zephyrite, or Alicite
You are going to be learning a lot of gem cuts at this level and it’s not worth it for me to tell you what to make out of them when it really doesn’t matter which you use to level off of, so pick what you’d like to use or sell or find most convenient.
467-475
Hessonite Band
8 Jeweler’s Setting, 16 Hessonite
475-495
Nightstone Choker
20 Jeweler’s Setting, 40 Nightstone
You can take this up to 500 if you want.
495-525
Meta Gem
You’ll need to do JC dailies in order to get one of these patterns.
500-525
Fire Prism
3 Carnelian, 3 Alicite, 3 Hessonite, 3 Jasper, 3 Nightstone, 3 Zephyrite per attempt
This is only part of the process to 525 because you can only craft this once every 20 hours.
MOP Zen Master Jewelcrafting (Levels 525-600)
This is the route you’ll have to follow when leveling up your Zen Master Jewelcrafting skill. You’ll need to do the Jewelcrafting Daily reserach in order to get recipes unlike the previous expansions. This section is quite expensive so be sure to check out this guide for the best ways to get gold.
525-551
Ornate Band
1 Lapis Lazuli, Tiger Opal, Sunstone, Jewelers Setting
These items can proc a blue quality item which resell very well while the gems do not so this will help you get your money back.
551-575
Shadowfire Necklace
1 Roguestone, Alexandrite, Pandarian Garnet, Jewelers Setting
These items can proc a blue quality item which resell very well while the gems do not so this will help you get your money back.
575-578
Primordial Ruby Research
3 Primordial Ruby
This should give a new recipe that sells well.
578-600
Research everyday or Make the new recipe you just learned from the previous step
Rare gems
I just prospected Ghost Iron Ore for rare gems and made my way to 600 ASAP.
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