Powerleveling Jewelcrafting, Cheap Enchanting as a Byproduct, and Recouping all Expenses

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Powerleveling Jewelcrafting So I finally decided to make the switch to Jewelcrafting and dropped skinning for it. JC being a better min/max profession and not having to physically farm for materials was my motivation for doing it. Skinning was hardly used outside of instances and even then the money wasn’t that good. I just ended up buying most of my materials for Leatherworking on the auction house anyways. Possible profits from JC and gold per hour ratio is significantly better than skinning. From a min/max perspective, I loss [Master of Anatomy] and gained 3x [Delicate Dragon's Eye] , for my rogue. This along with gem flexibility to satisfy my gem bonuses and meta requirements made it an easy choice. I had also used a spreadsheet from ShadowPanther.com to figure out what professions would be the most beneficial to me, note that this has weighted EP values for the rogue class only. There are also plenty of other advantages a crafting profession has over a gathering one, but we won’t go into that. Remember, I am leveling JC without Mining. After hours of running back and forth between the auction house, I finally hit 425 JC, enough to start doing the Jewelcrafting daily quest and to start doing [Icy Prism] transmutes. I had spent 4000g+ partly due the lack of low level gems like [Star Ruby] and [Large Opal] on the auction house. So I had to use [Prospecting] to get these gems from 130g stacks of [Thorium Ore] . Each prospect requires 5 pieces of ore, so it costs 32g just to get 1-2 random gems of this level. I thought about picking up mining first for the materials, then dropping it for JC, but I didn’t want to spend the time farming. From a gold per hour perspective, your better off farming high priced items in Northrend and using that to buy low level ore than actually farming for it. If you plan to powerleveling JC, keep in mind all the rings/neck pieces you craft can be disenchanted to make some of the expenses back. Leveling Enchanting as a Byproduct of Jewelcrafting I then realized that this was a perfect opportunity to powerlevel Enchanting as well, maybe not to max level, but just enough to disenchant Northrend items. I don’t play alts much at all and for a long time, Leatherworking was my main source of income. The ability to create Death Knights that start at level 55 are great to have alt professions on. Almost immediate access to a epic ground mount and just a few levels away from 60 only makes this more appealing. To disenchant Northrend greens, your going to need a skill of 350. The requirement for this is to be level 55 and have Enchanting Master training, which allows you to level up to 375 skill. If you wanted to reach the skill cap of 450, all you would need to do is train Enchanting Grand Master once you reach level 60 65. Consult this Disenchanting guide if you want to figure out when and what you can or can’t DE. From powerleveling JC, I had ended up with tons of low level green items. My first reaction was to have an enchanter DE all of it so I can sell the materials. I then realized that I could just have a brand new DK pick up Enchanting and start leveling and DE’ing all the JC items I made. The rings I had crafted were level 13’s, so this allowed a skill level 1 enchanter to DE them. I did however had to spend some gold on the enchanting rods you need and various materials around 250 enchanting. The JC items did not produce enough mats for me to level it. Some mats were cheap enough that I bought some on the AH, and some were so expensive that I ended up buying greens to DE. This was also nice opportunity to have my own disenchanter, which everyone should be doing with all their greens. Either tip someone to DE your items or have a friend/guildie do it for free. The enchanting mats you get from Northrend greens are still worth a good amount and if anything, you can save some money on your own enchants. I can’t wait till I hit 350 skill so I can DE all the [Stoneguard Band] ’s I crafted while leveling. Recouping all Expenses Even though leveling JC at this time like this is very expensive, I am confident I can make back all the money I lost. I can sell the gems I had cut, enchanting materials obtained for disenchanting JC leveling items, doing [Icy Prism] , and even [Prospecting] cheap Northrend ore. Still trying to figure out if I should start selling my [Dragon's Eye] ’s or save the tokens for recipes. The recipes will allow me to cut blue gems and turn a profit with them I think. With all the down time between raiding, leveling the DK shouldn’t be hard, even if it is just to get a profession out of it. I mean even if you just hit level 70, your able to get an epic flying mount and can pick up a gathering profession if your into farming. I did notice mid level ore and bars sell for more than some of the Northrend ones. I plan to level enchanting past 300 as I level the DK since DE’ing Burning Crusade greens I pick up will be more cost effective than buying them on the auction house. Eventually I will have my own Enchaner to DE and do enchants for my main, this turned out better than I had expect when I decided to level JC without Mining.

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