A beta look at Jewelcrafting
by Mike Schramm 
Oct 27th 2006 at 1:10AM
WoW Vault has a terrific, if a little short, jewelcrafting guide up. From info they've gathered in the open beta, they walk you through training up the profession, learning Prospecting (which allows you to look for gems in Ore gained from Mining), all the way to 300 skill, at which you'll be able to craft gems that you can place in socketed armor. We've heard most of it before, but they've covered the subject pretty well.And then they've got a listing of all the patterns so far available to gemcrafters. There's some neat stuff in there-- a statue that can heal you during downtime, ability and stat rings and necklaces, and even some items with not only cool "equip" abilities, but neat "uses" too: a necklace, for example, that gives a 30 minute party stamina buff when used. Now maybe in the expansion that's commonplace, but right now, that's awesome!
The other thing I noticed is that the Jewelcrafting skill seems to run all the way up to 365, which means it's likely that all skills will be given quite a few extra levels when the expansion shows up (which means you might not need Finkle's Skinner to skin those corehounds anymore). The guide does mention that a few of the recipes available from trainers will likely end up being looted, but either way, it looks like there's a lot of neat stuff in store for future Jewelcrafters.
Filed under: Items, Tips, How-tos, Expansions, Jewelcrafting
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Almus Oct 27th 2006 4:53AM
Just reading through on the way to bed.. but as for the 365 level thing, yes all profs will go up to 375 in BC
Michael Oct 27th 2006 6:36AM
Two thoughts here:
1) Looks good, some nicely useful items here.
2) I hope Bliz is increasing the number of ore gathering places.
With blacksmiths, engineers, and now jewlcrafters needing ore the price is going to scyrocket as supplies are even more taxed. destroying 5 ore to get 1 gem, makes the gems more valuable as well. I believe Blizz is right in the mechanics of how to get your crafting supplies, but with supplies SO limited I think it is going to do two things.
a)Raise the prices of Ore, Bars, Gems, Blacksmith created items, and the few sellable Engineer created items)
b) Lower the prices of Leathercrafter created items, and Alchemy products as more and more people take these professions due to the expected decline in available metal resources.
Blizz This is a great addition....please, at least, watch the effect this has. If I am wrong, well, shame on me for being a doomsayer, and if I am right please do something to at least maintain the current costs of supplies. (increase the number of gathering points, increase the number of items gathered at each point....heck create a dummy account and sell the supplies in the AH at a reasonable price - (that would be one way to artificially regulate the prce)