Comments on: Which Jewelcrafting Recipe is the Most Profitable http://www.wowconfidential.com/making-gold/which-jewelcrafting-recipe-is-the-most-profitable/ Analysis and Discussion of Making Gold in World of Warcraft Sun, 28 Aug 2011 23:58:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Kraklin http://www.wowconfidential.com/making-gold/which-jewelcrafting-recipe-is-the-most-profitable/comment-page-1/#comment-13046 Kraklin Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:14:26 +0000 http://www.wowconfidential.com/?p=1076#comment-13046 I'm working on one right now Sky I’m working on one right now Sky

]]> By: Murdoch http://www.wowconfidential.com/making-gold/which-jewelcrafting-recipe-is-the-most-profitable/comment-page-1/#comment-12832 Murdoch Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:21:13 +0000 http://www.wowconfidential.com/?p=1076#comment-12832 Purified Dreadstone is also a very good recipe for starting off. It's highly in demand from both healers, locks and mages. It sells extremely well after raid times (generally I sell around 8-10 per night), it also tends to be alot cheaper to acquire than red, blue or yellow epic gems. It only requires a twilight opal and an eternal shadow to transmute with alchemy - these mats are cheap as chips. It costs 10 badges to buy the uncut gem from heroism badge vendor (easily racked up doing daily HCs). Also not many JCs have the recipe so undercutting is much less aggressive. There isn't much demand for any of the other cut purple epic gems, so the supply of raw Dreadstones is considerably more than the amount of the raw gem being bought which in turn pushes the price down. I typically buy the Dreadstones for 100-120g and sell the cut gem for 180-200g. Purified Dreadstone is also a very good recipe for starting off. It’s highly in demand from both healers, locks and mages. It sells extremely well after raid times (generally I sell around 8-10 per night), it also tends to be alot cheaper to acquire than red, blue or yellow epic gems. It only requires a twilight opal and an eternal shadow to transmute with alchemy – these mats are cheap as chips. It costs 10 badges to buy the uncut gem from heroism badge vendor (easily racked up doing daily HCs). Also not many JCs have the recipe so undercutting is much less aggressive.

There isn’t much demand for any of the other cut purple epic gems, so the supply of raw Dreadstones is considerably more than the amount of the raw gem being bought which in turn pushes the price down. I typically buy the Dreadstones for 100-120g and sell the cut gem for 180-200g.

]]> By: Murdoch http://www.wowconfidential.com/making-gold/which-jewelcrafting-recipe-is-the-most-profitable/comment-page-1/#comment-12831 Murdoch Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:40:48 +0000 http://www.wowconfidential.com/?p=1076#comment-12831 Hmm, the blue quality gems on my server is a completely dead market - they simply do not sell. I personally found that meta gems had the most potential for instant profit. Get the Chaotic Skyflare Diamond recipe first, the trick is to buy the actual mats for these. which are an Eternal Air, a Bloodstone and a Chalcedony, then get either an alchemy alt (transmute master ofc :p) or a friend to craft the uncut Skyflare Diamond. On my server the mats for these sell for about 25-30g and on popular raid nights the "chaotic skyflare diamond" sells for 90-120g they literally sell like hotcakes on raid nights, throw in the extra procs from transmute mastery and it has a huge profit potential. The popular Earthsiege Diamond recipies also work well, namely the top 5 metas listed here: http://www.wowpopular.com/Gems/Meta Be aware demand for these meta gems peaks considerably on the main raid nights. I've made thousands just flipping these 5 meta gems, when people oversupply at offpeak and completely crash the price to 40-50g, I just buy them all out and relist them at peak times for 100-150g. Be aware that the total weekly supply seems to be less than the demand on my server so they're easy to flip..other servers may be the inverse of this. Hmm, the blue quality gems on my server is a completely dead market – they simply do not sell. I personally found that meta gems had the most potential for instant profit. Get the Chaotic Skyflare Diamond recipe first, the trick is to buy the actual mats for these. which are an Eternal Air, a Bloodstone and a Chalcedony, then get either an alchemy alt (transmute master ofc :p) or a friend to craft the uncut Skyflare Diamond. On my server the mats for these sell for about 25-30g and on popular raid nights the “chaotic skyflare diamond” sells for 90-120g they literally sell like hotcakes on raid nights, throw in the extra procs from transmute mastery and it has a huge profit potential. The popular Earthsiege Diamond recipies also work well, namely the top 5 metas listed here: http://www.wowpopular.com/Gems/Meta

Be aware demand for these meta gems peaks considerably on the main raid nights. I’ve made thousands just flipping these 5 meta gems, when people oversupply at offpeak and completely crash the price to 40-50g, I just buy them all out and relist them at peak times for 100-150g. Be aware that the total weekly supply seems to be less than the demand on my server so they’re easy to flip..other servers may be the inverse of this.

]]> By: Baiin http://www.wowconfidential.com/making-gold/which-jewelcrafting-recipe-is-the-most-profitable/comment-page-1/#comment-12803 Baiin Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:51:27 +0000 http://www.wowconfidential.com/?p=1076#comment-12803 wanted to share one more thing you may or may not already be practicing (I didn't remember until I already posted the last post). I get a LOT of uncommon gems from prospecting saronite. At first I was just cutting and selling them to vendors to avoid supplying competitors with mats, while hoarding enough to do my Icy Prism everyday. But I've found "Perfect" uncommon cuts like Bold Bloodstone and Delicate Bloodstone sell for 15-20g each, and are definately worth the 15silver deposit. Granted they don't sell as often as the rares, but I try to keep a stock of 5 each on the AH as much as I can. wanted to share one more thing you may or may not already be practicing (I didn’t remember until I already posted the last post). I get a LOT of uncommon gems from prospecting saronite. At first I was just cutting and selling them to vendors to avoid supplying competitors with mats, while hoarding enough to do my Icy Prism everyday. But I’ve found “Perfect” uncommon cuts like Bold Bloodstone and Delicate Bloodstone sell for 15-20g each, and are definately worth the 15silver deposit. Granted they don’t sell as often as the rares, but I try to keep a stock of 5 each on the AH as much as I can.

]]> By: Baiin http://www.wowconfidential.com/making-gold/which-jewelcrafting-recipe-is-the-most-profitable/comment-page-1/#comment-12801 Baiin Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:37:57 +0000 http://www.wowconfidential.com/?p=1076#comment-12801 On my server as far as rare cuts go, Scarlet Ruby's are bringing me the most profit. A 19sp 16str or 16agi seem to go almost instantly 90% of the time after I post them. And for me it does seem the weekend is the better time to sell (possibly because customers who are looking at rares are more casual and as such are on more on the weekend). This is a double edged knife though because it also means there are more JC's undercutting to compete with which has forced me to practice only posting 3 of any cut at any given time on the AH to limit my deposit losses. All that being said I get anywhere from 65g-110g per gem for each of those cuts, and If I get lucky and there's no 24stam gems on, have sold dozens of those for as much as 90g each. There seems to be a lot of luck involved lol On my server as far as rare cuts go, Scarlet Ruby’s are bringing me the most profit. A 19sp 16str or 16agi seem to go almost instantly 90% of the time after I post them. And for me it does seem the weekend is the better time to sell (possibly because customers who are looking at rares are more casual and as such are on more on the weekend). This is a double edged knife though because it also means there are more JC’s undercutting to compete with which has forced me to practice only posting 3 of any cut at any given time on the AH to limit my deposit losses.

All that being said I get anywhere from 65g-110g per gem for each of those cuts, and If I get lucky and there’s no 24stam gems on, have sold dozens of those for as much as 90g each. There seems to be a lot of luck involved lol

]]> By: Kraklin http://www.wowconfidential.com/making-gold/which-jewelcrafting-recipe-is-the-most-profitable/comment-page-1/#comment-12798 Kraklin Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:58:27 +0000 http://www.wowconfidential.com/?p=1076#comment-12798 Yea I'm already experiencing this right now, actually the whole gem market has tanked in the last 2 days, I'm hoping it is just temporary and picks back up on the weekend. I'm going to try and go for a more popular cut next time as it seems this one cut has been the lowest price for a while and I've only had 2 sales so far in 2 days. Yea I’m already experiencing this right now, actually the whole gem market has tanked in the last 2 days, I’m hoping it is just temporary and picks back up on the weekend.

I’m going to try and go for a more popular cut next time as it seems this one cut has been the lowest price for a while and I’ve only had 2 sales so far in 2 days.

]]> By: skyneon http://www.wowconfidential.com/making-gold/which-jewelcrafting-recipe-is-the-most-profitable/comment-page-1/#comment-12774 skyneon Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:38:16 +0000 http://www.wowconfidential.com/?p=1076#comment-12774 Is there a some kind of excel sheet to calculate prospecting of ores? Is there a some kind of excel sheet to calculate prospecting of ores?

]]> By: Baiin http://www.wowconfidential.com/making-gold/which-jewelcrafting-recipe-is-the-most-profitable/comment-page-1/#comment-12768 Baiin Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:27:05 +0000 http://www.wowconfidential.com/?p=1076#comment-12768 JC who's been following your site for around a month and have applied all your techniques to my JC business. In that time I've made 20k gold. Given the hours I work and time devoted to raiding I could never make the money-per-day or per-hour you do, but be prepared to make a lot of money with this profession. 2 Things: 1) be prepared for MASSIVE price fluctuations. It's amazing how many people will undercut your gems by 20-30g, as if they don't even bother to look or undervalue simple because they'd rather be rid of it. And a gem like Rigid AG can go for 85g when u first post it and within 40 mins drop to 6g40s, its ridiculous at times. 2) don't let anyone tell you the rare gem market is for nubs. way way way more people invest in rares than epics and the price per 20 ore stack prospects on saronite compared to titanium gives higher return ratios imo. this is of course keeping in mind that a small percentage of people are very hardcore raiders and/or arena folk. The rest are people who just wanna put a pretty red gem in a pretty red slot, and aren't looking to spend 220g 4 times in one night to do it. Again this is just from my experience up to this point. Don't ignore the epic gem market by any means, but don't rely on it either. JC who’s been following your site for around a month and have applied all your techniques to my JC business. In that time I’ve made 20k gold. Given the hours I work and time devoted to raiding I could never make the money-per-day or per-hour you do, but be prepared to make a lot of money with this profession.

2 Things:

1) be prepared for MASSIVE price fluctuations. It’s amazing how many people will undercut your gems by 20-30g, as if they don’t even bother to look or undervalue simple because they’d rather be rid of it. And a gem like Rigid AG can go for 85g when u first post it and within 40 mins drop to 6g40s, its ridiculous at times.

2) don’t let anyone tell you the rare gem market is for nubs. way way way more people invest in rares than epics and the price per 20 ore stack prospects on saronite compared to titanium gives higher return ratios imo. this is of course keeping in mind that a small percentage of people are very hardcore raiders and/or arena folk. The rest are people who just wanna put a pretty red gem in a pretty red slot, and aren’t looking to spend 220g 4 times in one night to do it. Again this is just from my experience up to this point.

Don’t ignore the epic gem market by any means, but don’t rely on it either.

]]> By: Royst http://www.wowconfidential.com/making-gold/which-jewelcrafting-recipe-is-the-most-profitable/comment-page-1/#comment-12767 Royst Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:38:58 +0000 http://www.wowconfidential.com/?p=1076#comment-12767 +16 hit is very important ill admit, i stacked it on my dk and was proved good. +16 hit is very important ill admit, i stacked it on my dk and was proved good.

]]> By: Wingman http://www.wowconfidential.com/making-gold/which-jewelcrafting-recipe-is-the-most-profitable/comment-page-1/#comment-12745 Wingman Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:33:25 +0000 http://www.wowconfidential.com/?p=1076#comment-12745 I vote for solid sky sapphire. Profit may be less on each gem, but the volume is out of this world. Most newly dinged 80 druids/warriors/paladins/deathknights will fit their gear out with them until their gear is good enough to warrant epic gems. On the flipside, raregem market is mostly for "nubs" - better players know to use epic gems. This being the case, most "nubs" don't want to gem hit - they want to do more damage! :P Your server may vary, of course :) I vote for solid sky sapphire. Profit may be less on each gem, but the volume is out of this world. Most newly dinged 80 druids/warriors/paladins/deathknights will fit their gear out with them until their gear is good enough to warrant epic gems.

On the flipside, raregem market is mostly for “nubs” – better players know to use epic gems. This being the case, most “nubs” don’t want to gem hit – they want to do more damage! :P

Your server may vary, of course :)

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