It can be quite costly to level Jewelcrafting; the materials are only provided by chance from Mining and Prospecting Ores. It would be wise to select Mining as a second Primary Profession or have another character gather the materials and send them to the character with Jewelcrafting.
When choosing a race to level Jewelcrafting, remember that Draenei have a passive ability called Gemcutting. This provides them with +5 Jewelcrafting skill enabling all recipes to stay in the guaranteed skill-up bracket for 5 more levels. This is a great way to save gold by crafting earlier recipes with cheaper materials for 5 levels more.
This guide is meant to be a very efficient way to level Jewelcrafting to the skill cap of 450. Keep in mind that sometimes recipes may not increase the skill level (skill-up) if they are yellow or green. For this reason, you’ll see the “approximately” symbol (~) used to convey when there is a possibility of not leveling up with that recipe and its required materials.
Jewelcrafting Trainers
Jewelcrafting Prospecting Macro
Players can use the skill Prospect to consume 5 of the same Ore for a chance to find gems. This can sometimes be a way to make a profit or to save gold from buying gems directly.
If you have large amounts of Ore to Prospect create this macro and place it on your skill bar to quickly prospect any Ore in your inventory:
New Gems and Prospecting Rates In WotLK
Gems acquired from Prospecting have different chances of being obtained via the 3 new ores in WOTLK. The new gems and prospecting chances are:
/cast Prospecting
/use Copper Ore
/use Tin Ore
/use Mithril Ore
/use Thorium Ore
/use Fel Iron Ore
/use Adamantite Ore
/use Cobalt Ore
/use Saronite Ore
1 - 300: Required Materials for Classic
Given that the majority of items in Classic WoW required are obtainable through Mining it’s highly suggested to choose that as your second primary profession or have another character with it. If you have the gold you can also simply purchase these from the Auction House.
Here is a list of all the items you will need in order to level from 1 to 300. We’ve also included a brief description of where to get each item. Keep in mind that depending on your luck with skill-ups you may have a surplus or deficit for some materials listed in the table below.
This table shows the number of Gems needed for this section of leveling. We’ve also included which Ore Node they have a chance to be mined from, as well as the probability of the Ores they can be Prospected from.
1 - 75: Apprentice Jewelcrafting
The basic tool you will need to craft many recipes is a Jeweler’s Kit. These are sold by most Jewelcrafting Trainers, Mining Supplies, and Tradesman NPC’s.
1 - 35
You will need about 55 Delicate Copper Wire for future recipes; stop crafting at 35 and come back to make more if you need to.
At level 20 learn Prospecting.
35 - 50
At level 50 learn Journeyman Jewelcrafting.
50 - 80
You will need 50 Bronze Setting for future recipes.
75 - 150: Journeyman Jewelcrafting
80 - 100
100 - 110
110 - 120
120 - 130
At level 125 learn Expert Jewelcrafting.
125 - 200: Expert Jewelcrafting
130 - 150
150 - 180
You will need about 71 Mithril Filigree for future recipes.
180 - 200
At level 200 learn Artisan Jewelcrafting.
200 - 210
210 - 220
220 - 225
200 - 300: Artisan Jewelcrafting
225 - 245
You will need about 60 Thorium Bar for future recipes, but you can stop at level 245.
245 - 260
260 - 280
Continue making Simple Opal Ring until 290 or craft the 2 recipes below.
At level 275 learn Master Jewelcrafting.
280 - 290
290 - 300
300 - 350: Required Materials for The Burning Crusade
In the table below, we’ve listed all the items from The Burning Crusade expansion that you will need in order to level from 300 to 350. We’ve also included a brief description of where to get each item.
The Burning Crusade Recipes
You will also want to find the following vendors in Outland and purchase the Uncommon Gemcutting recipes used from levels 315 to 340:
Hellfire Peninsula Horde: Kalaen [57,38] Horde: Quartermaster Urgronn [55,38] (requires Thrallmar - Friendly) Alliance: Tatiana [55,64] Alliance: Logistics Officer Ulrike [57,63] (requires Honor Hold - Friendly) Nagrand: Paulsta’ats [31,57] (requires Consortium - Honored) Netherstorm: Karaaz [44,34] (requires Consortium - Honored) Shattrath City: Nakodu [62,69] (requires Lower City - Friendly)
300 - 375: Master Jewelcrafting
300 - 315
315 - 325
325 ~ 335
You will need about 11 Mercurial Adamantite for a future recipe.
~335 - 340
340 - 350
At level 350 learn Grandmaster Jewelcrafting.
350 - 450: Required Materials For WotLK
Going farming or shopping for the best items? Here is an itemized list of all the new Jewelcrafting gems as well as some Eternals that you will need in order to level from 350 to 450. We’ve also included a brief description of where to get each item if you choose to try and acquire them from the new zones in Northrend. As always, your luck with skill-ups may give you a surplus or deficit for some materials listed in the table below.
We’ve chosen not to include the materials required for levels 420-450 as there are multiple straightforward ways about doing so depending on your goals, take a look at that later section for more information.
350 - 450: Grandmaster Jewelcrafting
350 - 395
There are about 62 different recipes using the new uncommon gems in WotLK that you can learn and choose for leveling. These will turn yellow at level 370 and you will need to cut about 55 of any combination of these to get to 395 for the next step.
395 - 400
400 - 420
420 - 450
From 420 to 450, Dream Signet is the cheapest way to get to 450. You can choose to craft it the entire time, however, you could also make gold by crafting Meta Gems and selling them on the Auction House.
These are the rare gems cut from Skyflare Diamond and Earthsiege Diamond. The recipes are either learned by the Jewelcrafting Trainer or sold by Tiffany Cartier, in Dalaran in the Undercity [41,35].
Additionally, at 425 Icy Prism becomes available, but has a 20 Hour cooldown between uses. This however stays Orange for guaranteed skill-ups from levels 425-445.
425 - 450
Conclusion
Thank you for reading our entire Jewelcrafting guide! We hope this information was helpful in leveling to 450 Jewelcrafting in World of Warcraft Classic Wrath of the Lich King. If you are looking to level another profession, be sure to check out all our other Profession guides on the site.
