Make money VIA overpriced Jewelcrafting materials.

[Seraphant]

UPDATE: as a result of the influx of jewelcrafters descripbed below, the need for materials to level jewelcrafting spiked IMMENSELY. I took the time to farm a few easy things and made a nice juicy profit myself :3

Now, due to this mass influx of Jewelcrafters trying to sell Dragon's eyes, The price of those have plummeted and the demand for leveling mats has nearly disappeared on the servers I tested. My final piece of insight in this thread: If you want to level a Jewelcrafter, whether for the bonuses, or to sell the (reduced price) dragons eyes, or just to have access to free prospecting and convenient gemcutting, do it now. Prices are an absolute joke, aside from ores, which are usually asways expensive.



This is a work in progress, so please bear with me. Ill be getting a list of some prices later when I'm able to head to an AH. For now, things will be a little vague.


INTRODUCTION:
I've been running Auctioneer for a while, like most other people here, or playing WoW in general, and I've gotten enough scans for a good amount of pricing detail.

A very short time ago, myojinyahiko wrote this guide to easy money via jewelcrafting http://www.mmowned.com/forums/wow-gu...tes-daily.html, which I am following right now (thank you). Shortly after, I picked up Mining and Jewelcrafting on my DK and began leveling them up.

As I progressed through Jewelcrafting, I would often check the costs of ores and simple jewels because, quite simply, farming them sucks. That was when I noticed that the prices were incredibly inflated, and buying any of them would cost me an arm and a leg. Since I'm already boned, I thought I would give a heads-up to potential investors.


EXAMINATION:

Firstly, let's take a look at a common internet guide to Jewelcrafting. WoW Jewelcrafting Guide 1-450 | Jewelcrafting Leveling Guide

Approximate Materials Required for 1-450:

The materials are based on a case that you will gain one skill point each craft. This won't happen, so you will have to buy a few extra materials while you are leveling your Jewelcrafting.

    * 100 Copper Bar
    * 20 Tigerseye or 20 Malachite
    * 120 Bronze Bar = 60 Copper Bar, 60 Tin Bar
    * 60 Shadowgem OR 40 Shadowgem and 20 Small Lustrous Pearl
    * 80 Heavy Stone
    * 30 Moss Gate
    * 200 Mithril Bar
    * 15 Citrine
    * 10 Elemental Water
    * 5 Aquamarine
    * 60 Thorium Bar
    * 15 Star Ruby
    * 20 Large Opal
    * 10 Powerful Mojo or 10 Blue Sapphire
    * 10 Essence of Earth or 10 Essence of Undeath
    * 20 Huge Emerald
    * 60 green gems - You can find a list of green gems here. Don't buy all of them from one kind, because there might be some recipes where you don't have the reputation to buy it, so you will have to choose other green gems. Just buy them, when you get that part of the Jewelcrafting guide.
    * 5 Adamantite Bar
    * 5 Mercirual Adamantite
    * Buy 60 from any of the following gems: [Bloodstone], [Chalcedony], [Dark Jade], [Huge Citrine], [Shadow Crystal], [Sun Crystal]. Make sure to buy at least 5 [Bloodstone], because you will need it when you reach 395.
    * 46 Eternal Earth OR 23 Eternal Earth and 23 Eternal Shadow
    * 7 Forest Emerald - You might only need 5.
    * 15 Skyflare Diamond OR 15 Earthsiege Diamond

You may disagree with the guide, I have found that there are some slightly easier patterns to make or that the numbers aren't perfectly accurate. Either way, this just shows an outline of what Jewelcrafters are going to need, and how many they have the misfortune of needing. Don't worry about if you think you've overpriced something, because you have. And it WILL sell regardless.


THE ITEMS:

Firstly, ANY ores, minus Dark Iron will yeild amazing profit if you AH them. Not only can Jewelcrafters prospect them for gems (which is unlikely to give them what they need), but smelting ores is a great way to increase mining skill instead of grinding on nodes right away. Two great moneymakers are Truesilver and Mithril, due to lack of nodes and sheer volume required.

As well, all bars except Dark Iron and Iron also sell well, although cheaper than ores. They can only be used to level blacksmithing, make settings/filigrees for jewelcrafting, or to level engineering. Still good, but much less demand.

The majority of this is junk that you may have on your banks or alts, although some items (Essences mainly) can be farmed at mobs that drop them relatively often.

Tigerseye - ~2% drop from most human mobs in RFC. 50% chance to prospect from Copper ore. Low chance to mine from copper nodes.

Malachite - ~lvl10 world drop. 50% chance to prospect from Copper ore. Low chance to mine from copper nodes.

Shadowgem - ~1.5% drop from most mobs in Deadmines, Wailing Caverns, and Shadowfang Keep. 37% chance to prospect from Tin ore. 10% chance to prospect from Copper ore. Low chance to mine from Silver, copper, tin, and ooze-covered silver nodes.

Small Lustrous Pearl - Found in Small Barnacled Clams Small Barnacled Clam - Item - World of Warcraft. Wowhead isn't showing proper drop percentages, but these aren't worth going out of your way for. (Unless you need clam meat )

Moss Agate - ~1% drop from most mobs in Blackfathom Depths. 39% chance to prospect from Tin Ore. Low chance to mine from Silver, tin, and ooze-covered silver nodes.

Lesser Moonstone - ~0.6% drop from mobs in Blackfathom Depths, Gnomeregan, and Razorfen Kraul. 38% chance to prospect from Tin Ore. 34% chance to prospect from Iron Ore. Low chance to mine from ooze-covered gold, Iron, Silver, tin, Gold, and ooze-covered silver nodes.

Jade - ~0.5% drop from most mobs in Scarlet Monastary (Library, Amory, Cathedral). 34% chance to Prospect from Iron ore. Low chance to prospect from tin ore, mine from ooze-covered Gold, Iron, Gold, and Tin nodes.

Citrine - ~0.4% drop from mobs in Scarlet Monastary, Uldaman, and Razorfen Downs. 34% chance to prospect from Mithril or Iron Ore. Low chance to prospect from Tin Ore, mine fom Iron - ooze-covered Truesilver Nodes.

Aquamarine - ~1% drop from various mobs in Sunken Temple, BRD, Mauradon, etc. 34% chance to prospect from Mithril Ore. Low chance to prospect from Iron and Tin, mine Iron - ooze-cevered Truesilver nodes.

Star Ruby - Low world drop chance(lvl50-60, normal and elite). 34% chance to prospect from Mithril. 24% chance to prospect from Thorium. Low chance to prospect from Iron, mine from Mithril - Thorium Nodes.

Large Opal - Wowhead and I have never seen this drop. 20% chance to prospect from Mithril. Low chance to prospect from Mithril, mine from any Thorium Node.

Blue Sapphire - Wowhead and I have never seen this drop. 20% chance to prospect from Mithril. Low chance to prospect from Mithril, mine from any Thorium Node.

Huge Emerald - 20% chance to prospect from Mithril. Low chance to prospect from Mithril, mine from any Thorium Node or Obsidian Chunk.

BC green and blue gems - Greens are near 100% chance to prospect from Fel Iron Ore and Adamantite Ore. Low chance to mine from any outlands mining node. Blue gems are ~18% chance to prospect from Adamantite. ~6% chance to prospect from Fel Iron. Low chance to mine from any outlands mining node.

Elemental Water - For ~lvl40 characters , you can farm these off the Cresting Exiles in Arathi (Cresting Exile - NPC - World of Warcraft). It's only a 17% drop though, and I wouldnt reccomend it unless you like to grind for exp. There are 12 mobs spawned at any given time, AoE'able in several pulls due to leash distance. In a little over an hour, I was able to farm 14 Elemental Waters, with significant downtime waiting for respawns or killing 1 spawned mob at a time.

Essence of Earth - For 60+ characters, you can farm these off of Desert Rumblers in Silithus (Desert Rumbler - NPC - World of Warcraft). Again, Wouldn't reccomend farming for them. 13% drop, but densely packed with mobs.

Essence of Undeath - 60+, farm the undead around Light's Hope Chapel in Eastern Plaguelands.



PRICES:

Prices taken from 3 selected high population PvP servers from either Alliance or Horde. Scans without any results are ignored. Lowest buyout price recorded for averages.

Tigerseye: 3 results. Average: 2.3142g
Malachite: 3 results. Average: 0.7599667g
Shadowgem: 3 results. Average: 3g
Small Lustrous Pearl: 3 results. Average: 1.498333g
Moss Agate: 3 results. Average: 9.249967g
Lesser Moonstone: 3 results. Average: 5.7300g
Jade: 3 results. Average: 7.674433g
Citrine: 3 results. Average: 1.2783g
Aquamarine: 3 results. Average: 6.383333g
Star Ruby: 3 results. Average: 12g
Large Opal: 3 results. Average: 26.5g
Blue Sapphire: 3 results. Average: 20.31667g
Huge Emerald: 3 results. Average: 25g
BC Gems Green: 3 results. Average: 0.84722g
BC Gems Blue: 3 results. Average: 2.6947g
Elemental Water: 1 result. Average: 35g
Essence of Earth: 1 result. Average: 25g
Essence of Undeath: 1 result. Average: 9.95g


From my first round of scans, I'm a little dissapointed to find the Elemental Water and both Essences unavailable on the other 2 servers. As well, the majority of items on the other servers were also substantially lower than my own. Nonetheless, These are high cost items right now, and potential moneymakers for anyone that can supply them. More calculations to come.



As I stated above, I will be putting some of the prices I've seen on my server, and Ill check out a few others for comparison. In the meantime, these are all items that you may have lying around that can fetch a nice profit for now.

[thatone]

How is this an exploit... or make easier gold?

And chose brighter colors!

[Seraphant]

I find pages of bright colors hard to read :x.

Its an exploit in the sense that you can exploit Jewelcrafters because they need these items, which are retardedly expensive right now. When I can sell a Tigerseye for 7g within a couple hours, i mean damn.

[krazy1killa]

How is this an exploit... or make easier gold?

And chose brighter colors!

This is the guide section not the exploit section.

And yes my eyes are burning. Not too helpful of a guide you are really just listing some of the resources needed to get up jewelcrafting and how to get them. I can just check any old wowhead or thottbot and find out myself what they come from and %'s.

Not trying to flame, just don't find this usefull myself.

[DevilDare]

This is the guide section not the exploit section.

And yes my eyes are burning. Not too helpful of a guide you are really just listing some of the resources needed to get up jewelcrafting and how to get them. I can just check any old wowhead or thottbot and find out myself what they come from and %'s.

Not trying to flame, just don't find this usefull myself.

than he shouldnt put "Exploit"...;.

[Seraphant]

Here, have a definition.

ex·ploit  (ksploit, k-sploit)
n.
An act or deed, especially a brilliant or heroic one. See Synonyms at feat1.
tr.v. (k-sploit, ksploit) ex·ploit·ed, ex·ploit·ing, ex·ploits
1. To employ to the greatest possible advantage: exploit one's talents.
2. To make use of selfishly or unethically: a country that exploited peasant labor. See Synonyms at manipulate.
3. To advertise; promote.

As for pricewise, if you would read, I'm going to come back and finish it later today. I'm busy with my classes until then.

[Dori]

change the colors please, then ill might read it =)

[Seraphant]

Suggestions? Changed to purple and blue to make it a little brighter, but still fairly neutral. Changed title because exploits are not necessarily software bugs.

[Robzz]

Yay, better title. However as a jewelcrafter, I had to buy these overprices mats to lvl (not a miner) so I'm not gonna do this =p
May be a nice gold income though

[Seraphant]

Yay, better title. However as a jewelcrafter, I had to buy these overprices mats to lvl (not a miner) so I'm not gonna do this =p
May be a nice gold income though

Sucks, doesn't it? I'm going through the same thing right now, but I am a miner so it's a little easier.



First price analysis done, ill get a couple other servers recorded and post them when my classes are done. Going to get averages over the next couple days.

[Scammich]

I recently leveled JC and noticed the ridiculous prices as well. Haven't been running auctioneer since Wrath, so appreciate the numbers.

[fabled16]

This is very useful. thanks for it. I am leveling JC right now at star ruby's are going for 35g

[Bunster]

The colours are hurting my eye :O

[Seraphant]

Im colorblind, I swear!

[LevathiaN]

prolly you are pretty new on jc market...if you want to earn gold..1st of all do not load auctioneer! Prices can change every moment. Its about demand and offer. Example; if there is no mat like star rube at ah, why u should follow the actioneer's prices? U can sell it at your price.even 25g. Not 1,5 >.<
And this happen also with blue gems, that u dont have to follow actioneers prices even when there are gems that u also wts. Auction them 15s max cheaper and if someone wtb this kind of gem he will get yours. That way u get max profit plus u keep the prices high. Oh and never auction the same gem more than 2 times at once.

Tip. U can make your prices as high as u like on other mats that most ppl dont think to auction.
Example. Many ppl are lvling eng so there comes a moment to build the flying mach.
To make it u need between others 4elemental seaforium charge. They cost about 10g...how much i sell them? 174g. No lies. Why?cause u must be reverd with consortium to learn the recipe