Warcraft Gold Tips

The DK 10k project is coming along nicely, I hit 450 jewelcrafting a couple days ago in patch 3.3.2. I have found that I could do the Jewelcrafting daily at level 65 and have been able to pick up 4 tokens so far so it’s time to choose my first jewelcrafting recipe!

It is tough to make this decision, if you pick up the most popular gems you have to deal with a ton of competition that is doing the same but if you pick a lower demand gem you may not get that many sales.

Here’s how I went about choosing a JC gem recipe to make the most gold.

Search the WoW Popular Gem List

Your first area of research should be the site www.wowpopular.com, if you go to the gem section you can select gems by epic/rare/meta and  it is automatically sorted from most to least popular.

As I was going through this list and making my popularity ranking for each gem I noticed that a lot of rare gems were beating out epic gems. While I can see why a lot of people still use rare gems (to gem up alts, to gem while leveling or they just hit 80 and are low on funds) the numbers still seemed a bit too high on the amount of rare gems that beat out epic gems.

I’ve come to the conclusion that since wowpopular bases the most popular gems on their scan of every character on the armory, a lot of these characters may not be inactive due to people either quitting the game or putting that level 80 aside and leveling anew. This means that when everyone used only rare gems combined with the people who currently use them now it is adding up to skew the data with the old inactive toons.

Nevertheless rare gems are still popular are Wingman pointed out in his post best selling rare gems.

Do Some Market Research on your Servers Auction House

I cannot tell you which gems are the most profitable to make on your server, there are different mixes on every server to do with competition and gem prices. The popularity of gems however are uniform across all servers since there is a “right” way to gem your characters that most people read up on and socket.

What you can do though is follow the same method I have in choosing my first recipe to profit from and insert your servers data. In the future we will be releasing a way to automatically dump all of your auction house data into a spreadsheet but that is currently still in the works.

Make a spreadsheet and insert your servers jc gem prices

Here’s a screenshot of the spreadsheet I threw together. Rank is based on wowpopular data and the jewelcrafting recipe profit numbers are derived from the current cost of the jc cut – raw gem price. (Click Image to Enlarge)

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As you can see Rare gems and epic gems can both be profitable. I highlighted bold and underline the highest profit gems in each category.

I want to go for the highest profit gems and you can notice that a lot of the epic gems in the lower ranks (they are blank because they are below 40 ranking) have very high profit margins but I’m worried how well these would sell.

Recipes that stand out on this list are Rigid Autumn’s Glow, Smooth Autumn’s Glow, Bold Cardinal Ruby, Reckless Ametrine, Purified Dreadstone and Bright Cardinal Ruby.

And the Winning JC Recipe is…

I decided to pick up Rigid Autumn’s Glow. My DK is very low on funds from just finishing powerleveling jewelcrafting (fully funded on his own starting from scratch within 40 hours time) and I wanted to pick up a gem that would be low cost to make but gives me a decent return while having a high popularity.

It only costs 11g to pick up an Autumn’s Glow and I can craft it into a 50g gem, not too shabby.

I will let you know how my Jewelcrafting sales go and my journey to hit 10k from scratch with the DK.

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