| With the Burning Crusade expansion, World of | | | | jewelry. Prospecting can be taken without having |
| Warcraft players have the ability to use | | | | the Mining skill, but your Jewelcrafting skill must be |
| Jewelcrafting to create rings, necklaces, crowns, | | | | the same as the minimum skill level for mining |
| and other items which were previously only | | | | particular piece of ore in order to prospect it. You |
| available as quest rewards or loot drops. You can | | | | will need 5 of any type of ore in order to use |
| also use item socketing in much the same way as | | | | Prospecting on it. After reaching skill level 300 in |
| it is used in Diablo II to create new armor. | | | | Jewelcrafting, you will be able to cut special gems |
| Members of the Jewelcrafting profession, or | | | | found in the Outland. This requires the use of a |
| Jewelcrafters, carve gems to prepare them for | | | | Simple Grinder, again purchased from the |
| insertion into socketed items. The addition of | | | | Jewelcrafting supplies vendor. The Grinder costs 2 |
| these jewels creates bonus enhancements to | | | | gold and fifty silver. Cutting these gems permits |
| armor, based on the type of jewel used. While | | | | them to be used in socketed armor. Anyone can |
| Jewelcrafters are the primary source of usable | | | | socket already cut gems, so if you don't need |
| jewels in these items, some dangerous monsters | | | | them for your personal gear, you can sell them |
| also drop gems that can be used in this way. | | | | to other players. |
| Socketed items can have gems installed by any | | | | Each type of gem in World of Warcraft is |
| character, but they cannot be altered aside from | | | | categorized by color. Different colors of gem |
| putting the gems into them. Sockets cannot be | | | | provide different abilities when used in socketed |
| added to, changed, or removed from any item. | | | | items. Any colored gem will fit into any colored |
| Once a jewel has been obtained from a | | | | socket, but if you match the colors of the gem |
| Jewelcrafter, it can be socketed by | | | | and socket, a bonus is activated. Primary colored |
| shift-right-clicking the desired item and dropping | | | | gems, such as red, yellow, and blue will only |
| the jewel into the socket in the window that pops | | | | match the socket for their specific color. |
| up. After placing the jewel, simply click the | | | | Secondary colored gems - green, orange, and |
| "Socket Gems" button to create the new item. | | | | purple - will match either of the two colored |
| While you can replace an old jewel with a new | | | | sockets that make up their color. A purple gem |
| one, this destroys the old jewel completely. | | | | would thus be matchable with a red or blue |
| Jewelcrafters should pair their primary profession | | | | colored socket. Meta gems come with an |
| of Jewelcrafting with Mining to enable them to | | | | additional bonus, but have special color |
| acquire raw materials more easily. With these | | | | requirements for activation, so players may |
| materials, such as metal ores, a Jewelcrafter can | | | | choose to forfeit a socket bonus in order to |
| create rings and other jewelry for sale. At low | | | | obtain the meta bonus instead. |
| levels, these are simply Copper Rings, but other | | | | The cut of a gem affects what bonus it gives. |
| items are quickly available. A Jeweler's Kit is also | | | | Cutting a Blood Garnet into a Teardrop Blood |
| required initially, but this can be acquired for 8 | | | | Garnet gives +13 to Healing Spells, whereas |
| silver at the Jewelcrafting supply vendor. Making | | | | creating a Bright Blood Garnet gives +12 to |
| items available to your Jewelcrafting characters | | | | Attack Power. Each color of gem has uncommon |
| will improve their skills by a point per item as well | | | | and rare forms that can be cut according to |
| as earning experience. Items that are displayed in | | | | different patterns learned from vendors. |
| green test in the Jewelcrafting menu are worth | | | | Uncommon patterns can be learned at |
| less experience and you may have to make | | | | Jewelcrafting skill level 300 to 325, and rare |
| several of them to acquire a skill point. Yellow or | | | | patterns are learnable at skill level 350. Cuts for |
| orange text items are more difficult and worth | | | | meta gems are learnable at a higher skill level than |
| correspondingly more in skill development. At a | | | | those for regular gems, around skill level 365. |
| certain level, particular items will stop bringing | | | | They will only fit into meta sockets that are |
| experience when made, and more difficult items | | | | available only on high level items. Some meta |
| will have to be created to produce the same | | | | gems will also be dropped by bosses or created |
| effect. A common strategy is to find an item | | | | by alchemists. Boss drop meta slot jewels can't |
| which uses a small amount of readily available | | | | be crafted. |
| materials and grind up skills by making many of it. | | | | For many Jewelcrafters, the goal is to grind their |
| This way, you can stockpile component items | | | | skill up to 300 as quickly as possible. This is best |
| such as Delicate Copper Wire and Bronze Settings | | | | done by creating many of the items made from |
| for later use while improving your skill. Until the | | | | easy, readily available materials. What path you |
| higher levels, Jewelcrafting is mostly about | | | | use to reach this goal will depend on what |
| creating jewelry and small trinkets. | | | | materials you have on hand, and how much space |
| At skill level 20, you can learn Prospecting from | | | | you have in your inventory. In many cases, |
| the Jewelcrafting trainer. In addition to your Mining | | | | making more of an item with yellow text will |
| skill, this will allow you to extract gems from the | | | | provide "free" skill points since it is a required |
| ore you have mined. This is advantageous, since | | | | component for other items. Doing these early in |
| other Miners don't have this ability. It also | | | | the game allows you to use them later as well as |
| increases the chance of obtaining gems for | | | | to get the skill points for making them. |