WoW Confidential

To keep you updated with the project, I just hit 450 Jewelcrafting tonight and now the real gold making can begin!

I will have a much more thorough post about this later in the week in my DK 10K project update but here are some quick notes:

- It took me 40 hours to level from 55-65 and power level jewelcrafting to 450. All of this was done with a fresh DK on a new server without any help. Included in that 40 hours was spent to gather ores/herbs to fund the Jewelcraft powerleveling.

(Screenshot shows 2 days 1 hour but I spent 4 hours making a track herbs and mining macro video using the DK and I also spent another 2 hours experimenting the best place to mine mithril ore, I mailed all items gained from this to my main so it wouldn’t effect the project. The other 3 hours was just wasted time by accident like leaving my character logged in while I watched a video or talked on a forum.)

- I set up an auctioneer snatch list of the items needed to powerlevel jewelcrafting early on and set the snatch at 80%, often times I’d find great deals on materials at around 50% of the actual cost so my powerlevel cost was really reduced.

- Since I am still keeping up on my goal to hit the gold cap on my main doing inscription and have other goals in the game I saved most of my leveling for when I had full rested experience, this really sped up the rate at which I leveled.

- I saved all of the equipment I crafted with jewelcrafting to disenchant when I start leveling enchanting. This will provide me with tons of free mats (Since I would of just vendored the items anyways) to give me a very cheap way to powerlevel enchanting.

As I begin to figure out what the best ways to profit from jewelcrafting are I’ve already discovered that prospecting old world ores can be extremely lucrative. Yesterday I did a quick mining run for thorium ore (to get a little more gold to finish off JCing and get 300 skill so that I could mine the odd fel iron node while leveling) I saw that instead of selling the Thorium ore outright on the AH auctioneer enchantrix was telling me I could get double the amount by prospecting.

I prospected the 2 stacks I mined and bought up another 2 stacks totaling (85 thorium ore. I made 333g from prospecting. If I would of sold the ore outright I would of made only 115g so the profit was 218g for 5 minutes of work!

Future of the Project to hit 10K

I am going to go for level 68 (already halfway to 66) so that I can do the Jewelcrafting dailies to get the JC tokens for new recipes. It costs about 40g per titanium powder on my server and you need 10 of them to get 1 token, so the time invested into doing the JC daily will mean I will compensate 400g for 15 minutes of time.

While I am leveling I will continue to mine whatever ore I see but my days of going out to gather only are over. If I get only 400g/hour from mining that means I get only 1 token an hour and since some recipes take 4 tokens that’d be 4 hours of hard grinding to just get 1 recipe.

I am going to utilize prospecting to make gold while I level to 68 and I should learn my first few cuts tomorrow, I’m currently at 100g so once I can save up 400g I’ll have 2 tokens and my first recipe to start profiting from.

I will use the ore I get while leveling to 68 to build up a fund to buy gems needed to cut for profit and it should build from there, more profit = more cuts I can buy = greater daily income progress.

Thanks for following the journey, I know this could have been done much faster if I just gave my alt 10,000g from my main, since leveling takes 2 hours a level = 20 hours to get to 65, and it took me 3 hours to level from 1-450 in JC with all the mats (total of 23 hours instead of 40 hours). But I wanted this to be a way to show that anyone can start off on a new server bare with just a DK and get a Jewelcrafting business set up right away.