Jewelcrafting is INSANE. Unless you have the patience of a saint, or a mad army trying to powerlevel your skill, it will take a lot of time to level.
I’m at 190 now, and I swear everything needs copper or bronze. I think I will just go mine a bajillion of each. On the bright side, I got away with 100 mithril. But I’ll probably need more of that too. Man, they made it tough to level. Out for now.
Here are some tips for those of you planning on taking Jewelcrafting:
Stockpile about 150 Copper and 150 Bronze (225 Copper and 75 Tin) in bars. You can prospect, but its really not worth the mats. It costs 5 ore to prospect for 1 gem, and often you need the metal and the gem. If you can get about 10 of each gem, you should be good to go. Silver is an absolute must. It makes things so much easier. Expect to use about 40 Silver Bars.
Last tip: If you have one character a miner, and your jewelcrafting character already has enchanting, keep enchanting. You can get a lot of low level enchanting mats to sell on the AH from Jewelcrafting.
I will publish more tips as I level my jewelcrafting (I’m at about 110 now).
A lot of new patterns. Check out these two helmets that you can craft. Pretty nice. I haven’t seen any of the Gnomish stuff, but the Goblin has a rocket launcher, these helms, and a bunch of new explosives. Its pretty sweet.
Here is a level 290 Jewelcrafting item. Notice its only10 healing and 3mana5 off amulet of the shifting sands? Sick.
Here are a couple examples of some higher end blacksmithing weapons. They are prett nice for greens and blues.
