Jewlcrafting Powerleveling info

[Merusk]

Can you unequip gems and jewels once you put them into stuff?

I'd be so afraid to pop a gem into a weapon only to find a better gem 10 mins later..

You can replace gems, yes.  You lose the one already socketed, however.

[Merusk]

So how goes the auction house killings?  Getting 3-5g/stack of copper bars?

Getting 9-10 per stack of 10 thorium.  Oddly nobody's biting on my 20-stacks at 16g, go go sticker shock. 

I didn't stock copper, because it's low on the mining tree and easy enough to obtian.  Silver, Truesilver, Gold, Mithril and Thorium.  I've only started putting auctions out early this morning, and 3 of my 6 stacks sold while I was at work.  I expect I'll do better this weekend than during the week.

[Paelos]

I'm running instances in Hellfire and getting the jewelcrafting gems out of the chests. I sold a blue quality ruby for 50g at one point. It's pretty solid.

[angry.bob]

I've made 10g a day consistently with my new belf by just running a copper node circuit in the belf newbie zone and then translocating to the undead newbie area. spend about an hour and a half jumping back and forth gets about a hundred ore. Put it up on the AH at 2g/20 ore and it's sold by the next day. I also regularly check and buy out any ore that's cheaper than mine and relist it.

Hmmmm, I wonder if the ore market is the reason gold is starting to show back up for sale...

[Fabricated]

I've got Jewelcrafting up to 275 on my mage alt, and I want to hang myself. What an awful, fucking expensive grind it is. I didn't think about every new gem needing someone to cut it, and if you want even just green gems for socketing you can either get raped at the AH for the mats to grind the skill or the gems themselves. I imagine the skill will grind itself out when I can start cutting gems but man, these last 25 skillups are gonna be awful. I've blown about 100G so far after burning through my main's year+ stockpile of bars and gems.

[Merusk]

Yeah, I'm at 305 only because I had stocked everything the list here had, plus bought enough thorium ore to prospect the last few emeralds/ opals I needed.   I can't imagine trying to skill up without having had the mats ahead of time.  I'm going very slowly now, simply because I refuse to pay 7/8g per gem just to cut them for skillups.

  Easier to get to 70 before the rest of the server then farm high level nodes for fel iron/ adamantite and sell or prospect that than to pay the AH price right now.

[Fabricated]

Yeah, I'm at 305 only because I had stocked everything the list here had, plus bought enough thorium ore to prospect the last few emeralds/ opals I needed.   I can't imagine trying to skill up without having had the mats ahead of time.  I'm going very slowly now, simply because I refuse to pay 7/8g per gem just to cut them for skillups.

  Easier to get to 70 before the rest of the server then farm high level nodes for fel iron/ adamantite and sell or prospect that than to pay the AH price right now.

I've got a shitload of cuttable gems from mining and instance running. About 4-5 of each kind of green gem. A few people in my guild have a handful of the blue quality gems.

[Merusk]

Yeah I'd love to run more instances than I have been.  Done a lot of them, mind you, but it's getting painful now that I'm at the Mana Tombs level.  There's only two warriors we have who are = or higher level than me (66) and one of them thinks 'tanking' means pick 1 mob and beat on it, trying to do dps.   We ran the other one (Spirit Tomb?) the other night and my wife nearly quit the group because she'd died about 8 times just getting 1/2 way through.   :-(

[Fabricated]

It's the exact opposite for our guild...my best friend plays a VERY good Holy-Spec Pally. He's mainhealed everything up to the underbog successfully...but we can't fuck up at all hardly. I'd like to think I'm a pretty good tank, since I can typically hold aggro on 3-5 mobs at once provided we don't have our guild's clueless Arcane/Fire mage who does not understand controlling DPS. We got everything but priests, and we just can't find em to join our guild since we're not zomg h4rdc0r3.

[Paelos]

We did the mana tombs at around 64, and it took a while. Went back at 65-66 and it was much quicker. I like that place for the challenge, but we're into the Hillsbrad part of the Caverns of Time now. It's tough finding groups for that.