How to Make Gold With Jewelcrafting Part 1

Jewelcrafting is what I use to make a large amount of my gold. What I try to do is keep a very large stock of each gem, that includes Common, Rare and Epic gems. I only use the Chalcedony and Bloodstone gems and cut the strength and spell power gems for red and the stam for blue. Believe it or not, these things sell fast because people leveling new alts don't want to drop the cash on rare gems. Next is the rare blue quality gems. With these you're going to want to first off have a decent amount of cuts for each color, if you don't you have no need to worry, just start doing your Jewelcrafting daily on a more consistent basis to get some new cuts. So, now that you have some decent cuts you're going to want to get your hands on some cheap Scarlet Ruby's and Sky Sapphire's for starters. The reason for starting with these is because they sell the fastest for the most profit. Feel free to cut other colors, but I would suggest starting out with these 2 colors before expanding into anything else. Now you want to cut those into Red: Bold and Runed Blue: Solid and Stormy. From my experiences these cuts sell the best. Epic gems, these are actually turning out to be the least profitable gems to mess with because the demand is so high, along with the fact that you get fiercely undercut by competition. But if you get into these you're going to want to cut them into the same gems as the rare blue quality gems. Unless you can get epic gems through something like Alchemy, you should just buy epic gems when the raw versions are really cheap and the cut versions are at the normal or higher price.

Also a few small tips:

-Do your daily Icy Prism cooldown, it is very cheap and can net you some epic gems along with some dragon's eye

-Mix with other professions for maximum profit

-Make sure you do the quest in Howling Fjord at Vengeance Landing to have the chance to cut perfect versions of the uncommon gems for extra profit

-Shadow Crystal's don't sell very well on the auction house as cut versions, so after you have the perfect cut quest done you should cut all your raw shadow crystal's and vendor them all. The regular cuts sell for .50 silver while the perfect versions sell for 1g per.

~Veld