It hardly seems worth it to prospect all my ore, cut gems, and try to sell them. I’m on Benediction, what is the best way to make money from JC?
EDIT: It seems like at this stage in the game, its best to get the Dragon’s Eye from the JC Daily and sell on the AH. Thanks everyone.
Sit at the auction house and make gold off of raiders who would rather buy a high in demand gem for 25g loss than buy the raw cut and find someone to cut it.
Any of the good cardinal ruby recipes have a good chance (runed, bold are two big ones, fractured is another), there’s probably a bunch of people doing it though. JC is mainly a raiding profession so there like half of the population are jewelcrafters themselves, its risky
I think you can still sell the ilvl 200 rings for a significant markup on most servers for some reason. Dragon’s Eyes sell for around 100-200g ea, generally, and you can get one a day from JC tokens and potentially more from Icy Prisms.
Don’t prospect ore. Find gems that are worth less than sockets, cut them, then sell them. Can also cut other people’s gems. Either way, you need to get the recipes first.
The market on most servers is saturated.
Unless you’re hardcore, you make money in JC by doing the daily, and indirectly by saving money on not having to tip someone else for your cuts.
And as drain notes, if there are specific cuts you can reliably upsell after buying the base gem (and paying the AH cut), then do that. But with Phase 4 start in the bag I don’t know that market is still reliable either.
It will largely vary based on your server economy.
On top of the other suggestions here I’ll add, sell less saturated gems. Like hybrids.
If you no longer need badges then you can get orange/purple/green gems for only 10 a pop compared to the 20 for red/yellow/blue.
A guardians dread or fierce ametrine in a pair with sell for quite a bit more than one cut Cardinal usually.
Also consider cutting dragon’s eyes into Nightmare Tears. Server dependent but they usually go for more and are easy/cheap to craft.
The daily is like 200g a day and takes 5 mins max.
I use my alchemist toon to turn a Frozen Orb + Scarlet Ruby (100g combined, max), into 1-5 Cardinal Rubies that I then cut into a mix of Fractured/Runed/Bold for 330-400g each.
This is the laziest version. Could get more complicated throwing in other colors and cuts with more Alchemy + JC alts, but this has been enough to buy me enough tokens for the bit of time I’m going to be sticking with the game for.
The Jewelcrafting daily? It gives 20g. Is there another daily I am missing?
Depends on the economy on your server, Dragon’s eyes go for 170+ on pagle so…
No. Think it’s a typo.
Highest payout for dailies are the two H dungeon dailies.
You realize the JC daily gives you an item(well technically a currency that you can buy an item with) you can sell on the AH which depending on the server can be as much as 170+g?
Frost guard ring people want it for cindy
I have a couple alchemists I use for transmutes. Once you have the alchemist in place it’s easy gold, but of course takes a little work to get there.
Transmute master can be a bit nutty sometimes as well. My best was 5 cardinal rubies from one transmute, but most times you just get the one.
So you’re saying, to make money from JC, I just need to level an alchemist? What?
I didn’t say that and I don’t really know where you got that from what I wrote. Alchemy gives easy access to epic gems each day, they go well together I’d say, but you certainly don’t need it.
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