Gem Perfection for Jewelcrafting in WotLK

I’m not sure how I let this one slip by me, but a new feature for jewelcrafters is going to be added to the profession in WotLK. It’s called, gem perfection, essentially here is how it works.

Gem Perfection Step 1: If you are a jewelcrafter you can complete one the respective gem perfection quests for your faction. You only need to complete one of these quests.

• Alliance: Ounhulo in Valgarde (Howling Fjord) or Alestros in Valiance Keep (Borean Tundra).
• Horde: Carter Tiffens in Vengeance Landing (Howling Fjord) or Geba’li in Warsong Hold (Borean Tundra).

Gem Perfection Step 2: Completing this quest will award you with a new passive jewelcrafting ability, Gem Perfection. This will give chance to cut perfect gems out of your uncommon gem cuts. Perfect gems are essentially the same as a regular uncommon gem cut, just with marginally superior stats. (note: Northrend gems only)

Gem Perfection Step 3: Perfect gem cut examples

• Perfect Accurate Huge Citrine vs. Accurate Huge Citrine
• Perfect Bold Bloodstone vs. Bold Bloodstone
• Perfect Luminous Huge Citrine vs. Luminous Citrine
• More Examples…

WoW Gold Farming Tips #6 - Jewelcrafting, Prospecting, and Auction House

This week’s wow gold farming tip is a continuation of last weeks video tip, in which we discussed just how effective mining can be to dramatically increase your gold. For this week’s tip we’re talking about jewelcrafting. Specifically how we are going to use jewelcrafting, prospecting, the auction house and fundamental principles of economics to get your the gold really flowing.

Check out the video to see how you can start taking advantage of these market niches and making some really easy gold!

One brief side note, even if you aren’t a jewelcrafter yourself chances are you know one. Most of these techniques are straight forward enough that you can simply ask a friend or guild mate jewelcrafter to help you out.

Gold Making Tip #5 - Mining and Jewelcrafting

This weeks gold farming tip is really more of a preview of a major concept I’d like to setup with my next video. Which details how we can use mining and jewelcrafting together to make a lot of gold through the process of auction house speculation, prospecting, crafting and ore farming.

In my opinion mining is the one of the most profitable professions currently out there. Granted, it has to be used and I really think is where most players just miss the boat. There’s a common misconception that to farm crazy gold per hour you just go wave a magic wand and poof…gold. In the immortal words of President George W. Bush…

if there was a magic wand, I’d wave it…(lawl bushisms)

But back to the topic at hand. Mining is pretty crazy as far as gold farming is concerned, in my experience just an hour worth of ore farming per day could yield 300-400g. It’s an excellent source of income I’ve used for years now and I highly recommend it if you’re looking for a pretty easy profession you can use to bring in constitent and repeated profits.

Jewelcrafting 1-375 Leveling Guide

Leveling jewelcrafting 1-375 can be an expensive venture, but true veterans of the profession know how valuable it can be. This jewelcrafting leveling guide will aim to show you the path to 375 the fastest and most effective ways I know possible. Reasons to Level Jewelcrafting?

1. You can make gold cutting gems for other players
2. You can cut the BoP gems, cuts only available to jewelcrafters (these are the base gems in the game)
3. You’ll have access to great trinkets, jewelcrafting trinkets.

Also, if you’re looking for additional guides on leveling your professions you need to check out Penn’s Profession Mastery. The guy is just a titan of professions, his guide details the fastest way to level up all 13 professions as well as details maps on locations of recipes, farming materials, and more. I don’t recommend guides often, because 99% of all WoW guides are 100% garbage…but trust me, this guy knows his stuff.

Jewelcrafting Leveling to 75

Level	Item	Quantity	Materials
1-20	Delicate Copper Wire	20	Copper Bar x 2
20-30	Rogue Statue	10	Rough Stone x 8
30-50	Tigerseye Band	20	Tigerseye x 1, Delicate Copper Wire x 1
50-75	Bronze Setting	30	Bronze Bar x 2

Jewelcrafting Leveling to 150

Level	Item	Quantity	Materials
75-80	Solid Bronze Ring	5	Bronze Bar x 4
80-90	Elegant Silver Ring	10	Silver Bar x 1
90-110	Ring of Silver Might	20	Silver Bar x 2
110-120	Heavy Statue	10	Heavy Stone x 10
120-150	Pendant of the Agate Shield	30	Moss Agate x 1, Bronze Setting x 1

Jewelcrafting Leveling to 225

Level	Item	Quantity	Materials
150-180	Mithril Filigree	40	Mithril Bar x 2
180-200	Engraved Truesilver	20	Truesilver x 1, Mithril Filigree x 2
200-210	Citrine Ring of Rapid Healing	10	Citrine x 1, Elemental Water x 2, Mithril Bar x 2
210-225	Aquamarine Signet	15	Aquamarine x 3, Flask of Mojo x 4

Jewelcrafting Leveling to 300

Level	Item	Quantity	Materials
225-250	Thorium Setting	50	Thorium Bar x 1
250-255	Red Ring of Destruction	5	Star Ruby x 1
255-265	Truesilver Healing Ring	10	Truesilver x 2, Heart of the Wild x 2
265-275	Simple Opal Ring	10	Large Opal x 1, Thorium Setting x 1
275-285	Sapphire Signet	10	Blue Sapphire x 4, Truesilver Bar x 2, Thorium Setting x 1
285-290	Diamond Focus Ring	5	Azerothian Diamond x 1, Thorium Setting x 1
290-300	Emerald Lion Ring	10	Huge Emerald x 2, Thorium Setting x 1

Jewelcrafting Leveling to 375

Level	Item	Quantity	Materials	Note
300-305	Varies (see note)	5	Varies (see note)	You can use any of the equivilent gems for these levels.
305-310	Varies (see note)	5	Varies (see note)
310-315	Fel Blood Ring	5	Fel Iron Bar x 1, Blood Garnet x 2
315-320	Varies (see note)	5	Varies (see note)	You can use any of the equivilent gems for these levels.
325-335	Varies (see note)	10	Varies (see note)
335-350	Heavy Adamantite Ring	15	Adamantite Bar x 1, Mercurial Adamantite x 1
350-355	Vaires (see note)	5	Varies (see note)	You can cut any of the rare pattern gems for these levels.
355-360	Think Felsteel Necklace	5	Felsteel Bars x 2, Mercurial Adamantate x 3
360-365	Ring of Arcane Shielding	5	Eternium Bar x 2, Primal Mana x 8
365-375	Varies (see note)	10	Varies (see note)	Cut skyfire / earthstone diamonds for player’s in trade chat

Jewelcrafting Materials List
Please note, this is only an approximation, and will vary depending on what skills succeed / fail at giving you a skill up. Also note that that much of the 300-375 materials are not listed, as they will vary depending on what uncommon and rare gems are available you. Those that are set in stone are listed though.

20 x Copper Bar
80 x Rough Stone
20 x Tigerseye
50 x Bronze Bar
50 x Silver Bar
80 x Heavy Stone
30 x Moss Agate
100 x Mithril Bar
60 x Truesilver Bar
10 x Citrine
20 x Elemental Water
45 x Aquamarine
60 x Flask of Mojo
50 x Thorium Bar
5 x Star Ruby
20 x Heart of the Wild
10 x Large Opal
40 x Blue Sapphire
5 x Azerothian Diamond
20 x Huge Emerald
5 x Fel Iron Bar
10 x Blood Garnet
15 x Adamantite Bar
30 x Mercurial Adamantite
10 x Felsteel Bar
10 x Eternium Bar
40 x Primal Mana

Aldor Reputation Guide

The aldor is the second of the main factions you’ll encounter in the Burning Crusade. But, as I mentioned in my Scryer reputation guide, you can only choose one of these.

How do I choose Aldor?
To choose the aldor as your faction you’ll have to first complete the Shattrath City introduction quest. Once you’ve had the grand tour of the place simply talk to Khadgar, he will allow you to choose either the scryers or aldor at this point.

Make sure you don’t choose the wrong one because it is incredibly difficult, time consuming, and expensive to change your reputation later.

How do you gain reputation with the Aldor?
Gaining reputation with the aldor is fairly straight forward. You have a few basic avenues to increase your reputation. The first one you’ll encounter is obviously questing.

There are aldor quests located in nearly every zone after you first make it to Shattrath City. I’m not going to list all of them out, but generally speaking keep an eye out for any NPC quest givers that have an “Aldor” tag under their name, or are Draenie.

Farming Mark of Kil’Jaeden
The first place you can farm for your reputation is in Terokkar forest. You’ll be seeking out Mark of Kil’Jaeden. These items drop off nearly all of the Cabal soldiers located in central Terokkar forest.

Farming Mark of Sargeras
This will be one of your primary avenues for gaining reputation. Mark of Sargeras drop off mobs over level 67 and are generally located in Shadowmoon Valley, Netherstorm, and some 5-man instances.

The mobs they drop off of are easy to kill, but you’ll want to be at least level 67 before attempting to venture to the zones where they are located. Generally speaking any mob classified as a “demon” will drop these marks.

Farming Fel Armaments
Finally, the last method of gaining reputation is through fel armaments. Quite honestly, this is your best bet for gaining reputation. Not only do you gain the most reputation (350 per), but you will also receive a holy dust

You can use this dust to purchase the aldor shoulder enchants. Since you’ll probably be changing your shoulder from time to time you’ll always need new enchants. So it’s best if you can purchase or farm enough fel armaments to not only gain reputation, but also to plan for your future shoulders.

To the left you ca see my favorite place to farm for fel armaments
Note: All of the above reputation items are turned in on the Aldor’s tier in Shattrath City

Aldor Shoulder Enchant Rewards
Inscription of Warding - Requires Honored & Holy Dustx2
Inscription of Vengeance - Requires Honored & Holy Dustx2
Inscription of Faith - Requires Honored & Holy Dustx2
Inscription of Discipline - Requires Honored & Holy Dustx2

Greater Inscription of Warding - Requires Exalted & Holy Dustx8
Greater Inscription of Vengeance - Requires Exalted & Holy Dustx8
Greater Inscription of Faith - Requires Exalted & Holy Dustx8
Greater Inscription of Discipline - Requires Exalted & Holy Dustx8

Aldor Item Rewards
Anchorite’s Robes - Requires Honored
Vindicator’s Hauberk - Requires Revered
Lightwarden’s Band - Requires Revered
Auchenai Staff - Requires Revered
Medallion of the Lightbearer - Requires Exalted
Vindicator’s Brand - Requires Exalted
Aldor Tabard - Requires Exalted

Aldor Blacksmithing Plans Rewards
Flamebane Bracers - Requires Friendly
Flamebane Gloves - Requires Honored
Flamebane Breastplate - Requires Revered
Flamebane Helm - Required Exalted

Aldor Jewelcrafting Design Rewards
Gleaming Golden Draenite - Requires Friendly
Royal Shadow Draenite - Requires Honored
Pendant of Shadow’s End - Requires Exalted

Aldor Leatherworking Pattern Reawrds
Blastguard Belt - Requires Honored
Flamescale Belt - Requires Honored
Blastguard Boost - Requires Revered
Flamescale Boots - Requires Revered
Vindicator’s Armor Kit - Requires Revered
Blastguard Pants - Requires Exalted
Flamescale Leggings - Requires Exalted

Aldor Tailoring Pattern Rewards
Flameheart Bracers - Requires Friendly
Flameheart Gloves - Requires Honored
Silver Spellthread - Requires Honored
Flameheart Vest - Requires Exalted
Golden Spellthread - Requires Exalted

Best Professons for Arena

Professions are without a doubt one of the most overlooked aspects of arena and pvp. Too often players are so concerned with gear, enchants, and gems that they completely overlook just how much professions can add.

3. Enchanting
So why enchanting? Simply put, the ring enchants. What we’re looking at here is:

+2 melee damage
+12 spell damage
+20 healing power
+4 all stats

Now, a lot of people just flat out overlook these, or don’t consider them worth dropping one of their current professions for enchanting. For a melee player I can see the argument, +2 melee damage is pretty lackluster and +4 stats isn’t stellar either.

That said, for casters I don’t think there is a better option. +40 healing or +24 damage is just insane.

In addition (though it’s not related to pvp), you have a ton of potential to make some serious gold with the profession. Tuesdays are great for offering your services in Shattrath City, as there are always people needing new enchants for their newest piece of arena gear.

2. Jewelcrafting
With the addition of the badge vendor through Sunwell Island dailies a whole new realm of gem socketing was opened up to the masses.

Beyond the fact that we can all get epic gems cut, any jewelcrafter with a bit of time and gold can have the best gems in the game…

Melee Gems:
+24 Attack Power
+12 Critical Strike Rating

Caster Gems:
+14 Spell Damage
+12 Spell Critical Strike
+26 Healing

Defensive Gems:
+12 Defense Rating
+18 Stamina

Since these gems are BoP you’ll only be able to use a couple of them depending on your spec and class. But even so, this gives you just that extra edge that could be the deciding factor in a game.

In addition, you’ve got various figurine trinkets for each spec and class.

And quite frankly, if spending gold equates additional wins, then I’m more than willing to take on the expenses, and considering how easy it is to farm gold so should you!

1. Engineering
When the burning crusade released I was very disappointed in engineering. They basically destroyed everything that I loved so much about the profession pre-BC.

However, I think we can all say engineering is back and better than ever. While some of the items aren’t really viable for arena, there are a few in particular that really make the profession worth it.

• Rocket Boots Extreme | Rocket Boots Extreme Lite
• T5 / T6 equivalent goggles (depends on accessibility and talent spec)

The two I’ve listed above are just straight up domination for arena, the goggles specifically. With those type of stats and improved stealth detection! That’s just insane.

On top of that you’ve got the Nigh-Invulnerability Belt, sheep trinket, goblin rocket launcher, and a host of grenades and other misc. items.

Scryer Reputation Guide

The scryers are one of two main factions in the Burning Crusade (the other is aldor; aldor reputation guide). Both of these factions provide great rewards, but as they are at war with each other you can only pick one.

As you gain reputation with the scryers your reputation will go down with the aldor, and vice versa.

How do I choose Scryers?
First things first, you must choose between the aldor and scryers. You do this by talking to Khadgar after you’ve done the Shattrath City intro walk through quest. You can find him in the middle of Shattrath city.

How do you gain reputation with the Scryers?
There are several ways. The most straight forward is by simply doing quests for NPC’s of the Scryer’s faction. These are located throughout the world, and generally speaking they all give loads of experience.

Once you’ve chosen the Scryer faction you can get quests from the Scryer’s tier in shattrath city, and at other scryer outposts in Netherstorm and Shadowmoon Valley.

Initially you’ll be turning in firewing signets. These drop from all of the mobs in Firewing point, located along the eastern edge of Terrokar forest.

Once you are honored you can no longer turn in firewing signets, but now you’ll be turning in sunfury signets. Generally speaking, you’ll want to be level 68+ before attempting to farm these. They drop off higher levels monsters in Netherstorm and Shadowmoon valley, so it’s a real pain if you aren’t high enough.

In addition to sunfury signets, you’ll also want to be turning in your arcane tomes

In addition to reputation, you will also get an arcane rune for turning in the tome. This will be used to get the shoulder enchants from the scryers reputation vendor.

Speaking of rewards…let’s move on to the good stuff!

Scryers Item Rewards
Gauntlets of the Chosen - Requires Revered
Seer’s Cane - Requires Revered
Scryer’s Bloodgem - Requires Revered
Seer’s Signet - Requires Exalted
Retainer’s Blade - Requires Exaulted
Scryers Tabard - Requires Exalted

Scryers Shoulder Enchants
One of the main rewards from the scryers faction is the shoulder enchants. There are 2 levels of shoulder enchants, one of honored and one for exalted. In addition to the reputation you must also have arcane runes to purchase the enchants.

Honored & 2x Arcane Rune
Inscription of the Blade
Inscription of the Knight
Inscription of the Oracle
Inscription of the Orb

Exalted & 8x Arcane Rune
Greater Inscription of the Blade
Greater Inscription of the Knight
Greater Inscription of the Oracle
Greater Inscription of the Orb

Scryers Alchemy Recipe Rewards
Recipe: Elixir of Major Firepower - Requires Revered

Scryers Blacksmithing Recipe Rewards
Enchanted Adamantite Belt - Requires Friendly
Enchanted Adamantite Boots - Requires Honored
Enchanted Adamantite Breastplate - Requires Revered
Enchanted Adamantite Leggings - Requires Exalted

Scryers Jewelcrafting Recipe Rewards
Runed Blood Garnet - Requires Friendly
Dazzling Deep Peridot - Requires Honored
Pendant of Withering - Requires Exalted

Scryers Leatherworking Recipe Rewards
Enchanted Clefthoof Boots - Requires Honored
Enchanted Felscale Gloves - Requires Honored
Enchanted Clefthoof Gloves - Requires Revered
Enchanted Felscale Boots - Requires Revered
Magister’s Armor Kit - Required Revered
Enchanted Clefthoof Leggings - Requires Exalted
Enchanted Felscale Leggings - Requires Exalted

Scryers Tailoring Pattern Rewards
Mystical Spellthread - Requires Honored
Runic Spellthread - Requires Exalted

Best Professions for PvP

Professions have always been a very important part of World of Wacraft. Offering a wide range of trinkets, armor, weapons, item buffs, gems, etc. The majority of these additions are readily available, especially for those players who have a good bit of time to farm or players who have large amounts of gold at their disposal.

Enchanting for PvP
It wasn’t until the expansion that blizzard added enchanting bop patterns for rings. They weren’t massive buffs, but certainly enough to entice the most hardcore players to make the gold / time investment to level enchanting and acquire these recipes.

Melee: +2 weapon damage / per ring
Casters: +12 spell damage / per ring
Healers: +20 healing / per ring
Stats: +4 all stats / per ring

I haven’t made the investment yet to level enchanting, though it’s certainly been on my mind. Obviously the biggest factor for me is the sheer gold investment, a friend who leveled enchanting several months ago estimated the cost of leveling the profession at around 2000g, seemed a bit high to me, and I’m sure it’s gone down since he leveled it. In any regard, that amount of gold for +4 weapon damage is somewhat staggering. For casters the +24 damage would have me a bit more intrigued, and I’ve certainly considered level it on my elemental shaman. Every little bit count, especially when it’s just that little extra that ensures you the kill.

Jewelcrafting for PvP
In patch 2.2 (which will hopefully launch sometime within the next 2 weeks) jewelcrafting gets a bit of extra love, BoP gems. So far the only two that I’ve heard of are the 18 stamina bop gem and 12 spirit bop gem. For all intensive purposes I don’t know many people who are stacking spirit for PvP, so we’ll ignore that one, though the 18 stamina gem is certainly a nice bonus for players who already have jewelcrafting.

Is 6 stamina worth leveling jewelcrafting, probably not. Though I fully expect to see more bop gems in the coming patches and expansion, so it’s certainly a profession we’ll want to keep an eye on.

Blacksmithing for PvP
Fairly self-explanatory here, if you are a warrior chances are you are a blacksmith. The weapons are simply overpowered, plain and simple. With great damage, speed, and procs it’s a no brainer for a warrior who has access to the nether vortexes.

Outside of the insane weapons found inside Black Temple, I cannot think of a better weapon than the T3 blacksmithing mace for warriors. The stun proc combined with warrior mace spec is just ridiculous. Even as a rogue with mace spec I understand how powerful that random interrupt is going to be when locking down your focus target. If you’re a warrior taking advantage of these weapons will be key.

Engineering for PvP
Before BC I considered myself to be the life long engineering, I loved all the situational trinkets and grenades, it made for very entertaining battlegrounds and world PvP encounters. Though the fizzle affect, which basically destroyed all my pre-BC trinkets, left me with a bad taste in my mouth. Though it seems engineering is finally making a bit of a comeback.

The biggest advantage for engineering has to be the 4k-invulnerability belt. Though as always with the engineering there is a chance to backfire, IE the reason Nekos (Troll Rogue of Shattered Hand) still has the highest (non-gimmicked) eviscerate record I’ve seen in arena, nearly 6,000 damage. Beyond the belt, which is certainly an enticing advantage to pickup engineering, there isn’t all that much. You can roll the dice on the reflectors and hope they don’t fizzle, and the new rocket boots aren’t bad, though there still are many improvements that could be made to the profession.

I’m looking forward to the alleged engineering revamp coming for the profession sometime around patch 2.3, I’d really love to see it brought back to the level it was prior to BC, though I doubt it’ll ever live up to those expectations.

Best PvP Professions - Conclusions
As with all professions and decisions you make in the game you have to weigh the consequences. The amount of gold to level these, the time investment, the pros and cons from dropping one profession and picking up another are all variables that will determine if a particular profession is right for you.

Of the four professions listed here I’d have to say that enchanting offers the most. The ring enchants will directly increase your killing / survivability power which may translate into more wins. When it comes down to the bottom line if gold = more damage, and more damage = more wins, then it’s an investment I’m willing to make and I’ll likely drop one of my current professions to pick up enchanting. I’m excited to see what’s coming for engineering and the possibility of new BoP gems for JC, though all that will come with time.