Making Huge Profits with Jewelcrafting

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Here is how a good business model looks for a serious Jewelcrafter:

If you are making the meta gems yourself and buying your ore direct, you can cut out 3 separate times where gold is lost to auction house fees. You also cut up the mark-ups of the various groups that interact in the process and can easily net a ton of gold in the process.  

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Transmute Mastery 

You can make this process even more profitable by making sure your Alchemist is transmute-mastery specced. This gives you a random chance to produce 2-4 Shadowspirit Diamonds each time you do the transmute. Every free diamond you get is even more gold! 

Trust me, if you plan on making a lot of Shadowspirit Diamonds (or the next tier when the next expansion comes out), then you can earn plenty of gold via this technique.   

Recipe Requirements 

You need to do a little bit more than just have Alchemy and Jewelcrafting leveled up - you also need recipes, of all types. Let us revisit the initial list given for the most profitable gem stats: 

·         Bold: +Strength (red) 

·         Delicate: +Agility (red) 

·         Brilliant: +Intellect (red) 

·         Smooth: +Crit (yellow) 

·         Fractured: +Mastery (yellow) 

·         Quick: +Haste (yellow) 

·         Stormy: +Spell Pen (blue) 

·         Sparkling: +Spirit (blue) 

·         Rigid: +Hit (blue) 

However, when you prospect for gems, you will get all sorts of gems, not just the ones you want. As a result, you will need profitable recipes (profitable being the key operator here) for EVERY gem type. 

There are many profitable mixed-stat gems (green, orange, purple). Any gem which mixes any of the 9 stats listed above has a chance to be profitable. However, I have found these gems to be more profitable than the rest: 

·         Inscribed: + Agility and Crit Rating (orange) 

·         Potent: + Intellect and Crit Rating (orange) 

·         Deadly: +Agility and Crit Rating (orange) 

·         Piercing: +Hit and Crit Rating (green) 

·         Lightning: +Hit and Haste Rating (green) 

·         Sensei's: +Hit and Mastery Rating (green) 

·         Glinting: +Hit and Agility (purple) 

·         Purified: +Intellect and Spirit (purple) 

·         Veiled: +Intellect and Hit Rating (purple) 

Also, you will need a meta gem recipe (preferably a few), as you will want to cut the meta gems that you transmute. All of these are profitable, but in particular I have found that Chaotic and Revitalizing gems are huge sellers: 

·         Chaotic: +Crit Rating and 3% Crit Damage (most profitable - all DPS get this) 

·         Austere: +Stamina and +AC from Armor (bear tanks get this) 

·         Efflugent: +Stamina and reduced spell damage (some tanks get this) 

·         Eternal: +Stamina and +shield block value (some tanks get this) 

·         Revitalizing: +Spirit and 3% crit heal (all healers get this) 

You will want to get as many of these recipes (both gem and metas) as you can. At a minimum, you should strive for one recipe of each type. You can find info on where to get recipes on WoWHead (www.wowhead.com).  

Gold Requirements 

Also, you do need a bit of gold to get started here. You will want at least 2,000 gold before embarking on this method, as you will need the gold to purchase your initial ores. Just remember you can always get your starting money by doing the lazy approach for a week: buying uncut gems, cutting them for a mark-up, and selling your cut gems for profits. 

Faction Cuts 

As a side note, any gem recipe which requires faction, a monster drop, tokens, or otherwise is not learned by a trainer tends to fetch more gold than recipes which you can simply click "learn". Keep that in mind when looking for recipes to cut. 

These tend to be immune from the saturation that occurs as everyone tries to level up Jewelcrafting, as players will not be crafting these recipes for skill-ups in most situations.  

Cutting Gems The Baron Way (i.e. How to Make a Huge Profits) 

Just to recap, before working on this undertaking, you need the following for the top tier of gems: 

·         Fully Leveled Jewelcrafter and Alchemist (preferably Transmute-specced) 

·         1 Profitable recipe for each of the 6 colored gems and 1 profitable meta gem cut (preferably both Chaotic and Revitalizing types) 

·         2000+ Gold 

Once you have all of these requirements down, it is time to start prospecting ore for gems. Buy dozens (or hundreds) of stacks of the current top tiers of ore and prospect them for gems. 

There is not much science or math needed as this is almost always profitable when you combine Jewelcrafting and Alchemy. Most Jewelcrafters have to worry about finding enough blue gems in order to make a profit, since they are not cashing in on green gems via Alchemy. 

The collective of Jewelcrafters on the server determines gem price, and if gem price ever dips below whatever ore costs, the Jewelcrafters who do not use Alchemy as well (read: nearly all of them) will be out of luck and unable to compete. 

Nearly any type of ore will work for this, as green gems are valuable. Most Jewelcrafters do not like to prospect the lower-level ore (Fel Iron, Cobalt, Obsidium) since it has a higher chance to yield green gems. Since we are converting our greens into metas, it hardly matters for us. 

With that said, here is the simple process for making it all work: 

·         Purchase ore, preferably directly from a miner in trade chat, but the Auction House works too. 

·         Prospect ore into gems. 

·         Check the AH for current prices on valuable cuts. Look up each gem type on the Auction House and note whichever cut is selling for the most total gold. 

·         Cut your blue gems into the cuts currently fetching the highest price and list them on the AH. 

·         Transmute your green gems into Meta gems. 

·         Cut your Metas into Chaotic or Revitalizing Meta gems and list them on the auction house. 

·         Repeat this process as often as you can. 

It works best if you purchase about 100 stacks of ore total before evaluating profitability. If you only buy 10 stacks of ore, you can get 'unlucky' and not get enough greens for a meta or not get any of the valuable blue gem types. 

Having a 2,000+ gold starting base here gives you all the room you need to make this work. Investing into 100 stacks of Elementium Ore is likely to yield: 

~ 500 green gems. Dividing this by 18 yields enough raw materials for 27 Meta gem transmutes. With transmute spec, this is likely to be 30-35, depending on how lucky you get.  

~ 80 blue gems. You can expect to get about 13 of each gem type. 

With 30 Meta gems and 13 of each type of blue gem, it is hard not to make a profit when prospecting, as nearly every other competitor is buying uncut metas on the AH instead of making them directly. 

That is all there is to it really. The more recipes you have, the better. Buy stacks of ore, prospect them, and cut the blues into whatever is the most profitable at the moment. Turn your greens into metas, and cut those as well.  

Do this and your profit potential is unlimited, especially if you have your hands in every type of cut, which is something I want to touch on below:

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