Thanks for your interest in TGEXP’s In-Depth WoW Jewelcrafting Guide.

This guide is updated for patch 8.3

Q&A

Below are some of the questions you might be asking regarding the Jewelcrafting profession, and the answers that I’ve come up with for them.

What’s in this WoW Jewelcrafting Guide?

It primarily focuses on the amount of gems you can gain from prospecting from specific ore. But not only that, sometimes I’ll farm a certain route until I net a certain amount of said gem.

It’s short and sweet, telling you how much of what gem I’ve gathered in a given area within a set time limit, as well as amount of ore prospected. Most of the gems in question will lead you directly to the material page on my website. This goes the same for the zone names.

Due to this guide getting a refresher for 8.3, there’s not much available.

Where do you get Jewelcrafting?

Before you get started with this profession, you’ll be needing the profession. So here’s a list of the different trainers you can find throughout the world. The links will take you to WoWHead pages.

Continent: Eastern Kingdoms

Continent: Kalimdor

Continent: Northrend

Continent: Outland

Continent: Pandaria

Continent: The Broken Isles

Continent: Kul Tiras

Continent: Zandalar

Continent: Other

How do you find gems?

You can either find gems through mining nodes of ore, in which case they’re a rare drop, or you can prospect ore in stacks of five in order to obtain the gems you need.

What professions benefit Jewelcrafting?

Technically, the more ore you get, the more gems you can have, so Mining is your best bet to go with JC.

What are the best races for Jewelcrafting?

  • Draenei have their JC skill inherently increased.

What addons should I get for Jewelcrafting?

The following addons might help you better prospect ore:

Why are there missing expansions?

I’m currently reworking this entire page for patch 8.3, therefore there’s a lot of chunks missing.

JC Aids

These will come in handy, but they aren’t all specifically needed.

Bags

JC Essentials

The books are for Jewelcrafting in specific continents (primarily Draenor).

JC Recipes

In this section, you’ll find all the different recipes throughout each expansion. Included will be the unobtainable (unless found on AH) and the regular ones you can find wherever. I’m going to dismiss any BoP recipes, so you won’t be finding them in the listings below.

Unavailable

The Burning Crusade

Wrath of the Lich King

Cataclysm

Uncut Gems & Where to Gather

As you read this section, you’ll find the links to various gems you can acquire. The links will take you to the freebie pages that tell you about the mats in question. Aside from that, I’ll list the amount of ore I prospected, and then the amount of said gem I obtained under it. Also, if I farm a specific route in a zone, I’ll mention the time when I stopped farming, along with the amount of mentioned gem I acquired below.

Hopefully that makes sense.

This section is to keep everything in front of you, so you can find what you’re looking for and the information you need. Such as the best place for an item without an overload of information.

Vanilla WoW

Aquamarine

  • Farming Felwood – 27:09
    • 5
  • Prospecting 1000 Mithril Ore
    • 70

Arcane Crystal

Azerothian Diamond

  • Prospecting 1000 Mithril Ore
    • 6
  • Prospecting 1000 Thorium Ore
    • 62

Black Pearl

Blood of the Mountain

Blue Sapphire

  • Prospecting 1000 Mithril Ore
    • 4
  • Prospecting 1000 Thorium Ore
    • 72

Citrine

  • Farming Felwood – 28:39
    • 5
  • Prospecting 1000 Mithril Ore
    • 85

Golden Pearl

Huge Emerald

  • Prospecting 1000 Mithril Ore
    • 4
  • Prospecting 1000 Thorium Ore
    • 67

Iridescent Pearl

Jade

Large Opal

  • Prospecting 1000 Mithril Ore
    • 7
  • Prospecting 1000 Thorium Ore
    • 74

Lesser Moonstone

Malachite

Moss Agate

Shadowgem

Small Lustrous Pearl

Star Ruby

  • Farming Felwood – 20:58
    • 5
  • Prospecting 1000 Mithril Ore
    • 71
  • Prospecting 1000 Thorium Ore
    • 31

Tigerseye

The Burning Crusade

Azure Moonstone

Blood Garnet

Crimson Spinel

Dawnstone

Deep Peridot

Earthstorm Diamond

Empyrean Sapphire

Flame Spessarite

Golden Draenite

Jaggal Pearl

Lionseye

Living Ruby

Nightseye

Noble Topaz

Pyrestone

Seaspray Emerald

Shadow Draenite

Shadow Pearl

Shadowsong Amethyst

Skyfire Diamond

Star of Elune

Talasite

Wrath of the Lich King

Ametrine

Autumn’s Glow

Bloodstone

Cardinal Ruby

Chalcedony

Dark Jade

Dragon’s Eye

Dreadstone

Earthsiege Diamond

Eye of Zul

Forest Emerald

Huge Citrine

King’s Amber

Majestic Zircon

Monarch Topaz

Northsea Pearl

Scarlet Ruby

Shadow Crystal

Sky Sapphire

Skyflare Diamond

Sun Crystal

Twilight Opal

Cataclysm

Alicite

  • Farming Uldum – 2:51:00
    • 5

Amberjewel

  • Farming Uldum – 1:34:46
    • 1

Carnelian

  • Farming Uldum – 2:49:33
    • 5

Deepholm Iolite

Demonseye

  • Farming Uldum – 3:04:59
    • 1

Dream Emerald

  • Farming Uldum – 3:33:20
    • 1

Elven Peridot

Ember Topaz

  • Farming Uldum – 2:27:20
    • 1

Hessonite

  • Farming Uldum – 1:18:51
    • 5

Inferno Ruby

  • Farming Uldum – 1:30:48
    • 1

Jasper

  • Farming Uldum – 3:13:43
    • 5

Lava Coral

Lightstone

Nightstone

  • Farming Uldum – 1:36:51
    • 5

Ocean Sapphire

  • Farming Uldum – 57:43
    • 1

Queen’s Garnet

Shadow Spinel

Zephyrite

  • Farming Uldum – 1:54:07
    • 5
  • Farming Uldum – 3:52:37
    • 10

Mists of Pandaria

Alexandrite

Imperial Amethyst

Lapis Lazuli

Pandarian Garnet

Primal Diamond

Primordial Ruby

River’s Heart

Roguestone

Sun’s Radiance

Sunstone

Tiger Opal

Vermilion Onyx

Wild Jade

Legion

Argulite

Azsunite

Chaotic Spinel

Chemirine

Dawnlight

Deep Amber

Eye of Prophecy

Florid Malachite

Furystone

Hesselian

Labradorite

Lightsphene

Maelstrom Sapphire

Pandemonite

Queen’s Opal

Saber’s Eye

Sangrite

Shadowruby

Skystone

Battle for Azeroth

Amberblaze

Azsharine

Dark Opal

Golden Beryl

Kraken’s Eye

Kubiline

Kyanite

Laribole

Lava Lazuli

Leviathan’s Eye

Owlseye

Royal Quartz

Rubellite

Sage Agate

Sand Spinel

Scarlet Diamond

Sea Currant

Solstone

Tidal Amethyst

Viridium