Should i drop mining for jewelcrafting

There are necklaces with high attack power, rings with armor and defense, trinkets with mana regeneration, socketed gems with crit rating. I would strongly recommend picking up Mining if you plan on Jewelcrafting. The reason is threefold. Third, by mining you will find gems naturally on the nodes while mining in ADDITION to the gems you will get when you Prospect all of that ore, not to mention stones for statues.

If not mining, I might recommend Enchanting, as nearly everything you can produce as a Jewelcrafter is of at least Uncommon rarity, and in many cases. So this is an item you can make for cheap skill that you will use to gain more skill, and is one of the only times in Jewelcrafting that Bars will be more important than Ore. Given new recipe information, I would strongly encourage potential jewelcrafters to stockpile both Copper at least and Thorium Ore and Thorium-related gems.

This will get you only to , at you will need Outland materials pretty much in exclusivity. Prospecting is a skill that can be trained at level 20 Jewelcrafting from any Jewelcrafting vendor. It grants the Prospecting ability in your ability book. In game text: Prospecting 2 sec cast Search 5 ore of a base metal for precious gems. This will destroy the ore in the process.

The function is incredibly similar to Disenchant, it kills the ore but has a chance at returning materials used in your profession. In this case, gems. From all testing so far, you can get any gem that is naturally found on the node of that ore type eg Shadowgem from Copper, Citrine from Mithril, Azeorthian Diamond from Thorium, Flame Spessarite from Fel Iron.

Two actually. First of all, as the description states you can only search ore of a base metal. Second, you must have Jewelcrafting skill roughly equivalent to the mining skill required to mine that ore eg for Mithril, for Fel Iron, for Adamantite. Yes, sockets are seperate from enchantments, you can use both on the same piece of gear.

Yes, works just like enchantments. EDIT: Yes. As mentioned in the Jewelcrafting preview, there is more than one way to cut each type of gem.

Every cut requires a different recipe, so you can imagine already how many potential recipes there are! See Gem Attributes below for more information about specific cuts. Equipment with sockets on them are found in Outland and Northrend. Gems are cut by Jewelcrafters can cut raw gems into jewels which can then be placed into the socket, giving the item bonus stats. A socketed gem can be replaced with a different gem, but this will destroy the original gem.

Gems come in eight colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, prismatic, and meta. Excluding meta gems and sockets, any colored gem will fit into any colored socket. However, matching the gem and socket colors allows for the socket bonus to be activated.

Primary-color gems - red, yellow, and blue - will only match sockets for their color. Secondary-color gems - green, orange, and purple - will match either of the two slots that correspond to their color. Finally, tertiary-color gems which include only the Void Sphere and Prismatic Sphere will fit into any color slot excluding meta and still activate the slot bonus. Secondary gems also have combinations of two different bonuses, while primary gems only boost one stat. Meta gems possess their own color requirements to activate, so a player might choose to forfeit an item's socket bonus in favor of a more desirable meta bonus.

The two prismatic gems Void and Prismatic Spheres, which are crafted by enchanters will, since they are a combination of all colors, provide resistance to all forms of magic. There are many gems that can be cut to fit in sockets. For each color, there is an uncommon gem, which can be cut using patterns from vendors and quartermasters that are learnable at jewelcrafting skill to ; and a rare gem, which can be cut according to rare, world drop designs learnable at jewelcrafting skill Meta gems fit into meta sockets, which only appear on high-level head-slot items, and cuts for them are learnable at jewelcrafting skill , although some meta-slot jewels are boss drops and cannot be crafted.

Raw meta gems are produced by alchemists by transmuting a number of raw minerals and primals into special diamonds. There are also epic equivalents of each gem colour, obtained through mining nodes in the Mount Hyjal instance, drops from mobs in the Black Temple or they can also be traded in Shattrath City for Badges of Justice. The designs for their respective cuts are available through reputation with Scale of the Sands or Shattered Sun Offensive. The following designs are dropped and can be sold on the auction house or traded between players.

The following tables lists all Bind on Pickup jewelcrafting products. Note that, although the Dragon's Eyes only require Jewelcrafting, Wrath of the Lich King is required to access Dalaran and purchase the designs, all of which are Bind on Pickup. This will bring up a window with sockets appearing at the bottom for you to drop the gem s into.

After placing your gems into the sockets you want, click the "Socket Gems" button to socket the gems. A socketed gem can be replaced with a different gem, but the original gem will be completely destroyed by this.

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I see, ty. Well if you spend alot of time dungeoning enchanting is a good profession as is jc. Due to the frequency of blue shards from dungeon blues. I like gathering stuff, especially mining. I like crafting. Flipping addy ore into gems to cut can make you bank if you get the good patterns early enough. Keep in mind every man and his dog is going to be leatherworking so there will be a good market for skins, including clefthoof leather.

The really good recipes do come from MH but so do the matts for the gems themselves until SWP is released.