I have a level 15 dwarf with mining and blacksmithing. I'm very happy with the mining part but I can gather armor and weapons better than I can make.
I'm wondering if it would be worth it to drop blacksmithing and learn jewelcrafting since it looks like mining might go well with jewelcrafting.
Has anyone tried these two together and had success? Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks!
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mining goes well with engineering, smithing, and jewelcrafting, or just as a stand-alone money-making profession.
jewelcrafting provides early level jewelry (rings and necklaces) as well as unique trinkets at later levels that provide interesting and powerful bonuses, both passive and active in nature.
blacksmithing will, eventually, allow you to make some VERY good weaponry or armor. this is at 70 however, so its a long term investment for sure. jewelcrafting stuff can be made and used at earlier levels, however smithing does have a few smith-only weapons and armor pieces that can be made starting in the mid 40's (which is about when the JC-only trinkets start showing up).
honestly, as a warrior, id stick with smithing. in the long run youll benefit from it MUCH more.
jewelcrafting provides early level jewelry (rings and necklaces) as well as unique trinkets at later levels that provide interesting and powerful bonuses, both passive and active in nature.
blacksmithing will, eventually, allow you to make some VERY good weaponry or armor. this is at 70 however, so its a long term investment for sure. jewelcrafting stuff can be made and used at earlier levels, however smithing does have a few smith-only weapons and armor pieces that can be made starting in the mid 40's (which is about when the JC-only trinkets start showing up).
honestly, as a warrior, id stick with smithing. in the long run youll benefit from it MUCH more.
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It should probably be said that mining is very nearly essential to use with jewelcrafting. You *can* do JC without mining, but only if you really want to sink tremendous ammounts of extra gold into what can allready be an expensive profession.
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Thanks for the advice. I think I'll stick with Blacksmithing and try out Jewelrymaking later.
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I have a level 15 dwarf with mining and blacksmithing. I'm very happy with the mining part but I can gather armor and weapons better than I can make.
I'm wondering if it would be worth it to drop blacksmithing and learn jewelcrafting since it looks like mining might go well with jewelcrafting.
I'm wondering if it would be worth it to drop blacksmithing and learn jewelcrafting since it looks like mining might go well with jewelcrafting.
Lol at dropping one money sink in order to pick up a different money sink.
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Has anyone tried these two together and had success? Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks!
Define success. If it means making money, then the answer is no. If it means making items for yourself while selling crafted stuff off at the AH for less that what the materials would bring, then the answer is yes.
JC can make money. However, you'll need to find the niche markets that nobody else is selling to. Chances are you'll make more cash from selling the ore and crystals on the AH anyway but I've found recent;y that there's money to be made.
I'm currently making profits on a few rings, notably the aquamarine signet abd the truesilver commander's ring
With either of these skills - JC and BS - it's important to reduce your AH spend as much as possible. Gather the ingredients, avoid buying them as much as possible. Oh and don't flood the market. See this guide for AH tips.
I'm currently making profits on a few rings, notably the aquamarine signet abd the truesilver commander's ring
With either of these skills - JC and BS - it's important to reduce your AH spend as much as possible. Gather the ingredients, avoid buying them as much as possible. Oh and don't flood the market. See this guide for AH tips.
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Interesting points and counter points. Maybe I'll make a new character who is a Gnome Jewelcrafter and Miner. And keep the Warrior Blacksmith and Miner. I've already got 4 characters, why not 5?
Trust me, unless you're a warrior, a rogue or a Feral druid who will be able to use the weapons/armor (namely weapons) that you can make as later on, I would recommend going Jewelcrafting. I'm a Paladin who thought I would be able to put a nice mace to good use, but there is really nothing craftable that gives me any Int, or anything of the sort right off the bat.
I saw a 70 warrior with the Thunder weapon. Considering his base damage and % to crit, it was worth it for him to stick with bsmith all that way.
Mithril spurs and enchanter rods will continue to sell. I see an overabundance of adamantite weapons on AH, so maybe not much profit in those.
Jewelcrafting can benefit all classes, but will you want to use that char to work up the reputation needed for some of the more desireable vendor recipes? I used my warrior for JC but actually I realized later, I prefer my hunter for farming items or doing instances (both for rep). It’s much less stress to just be a dps unit than to be the tank.
Bsmith may require less ore to 300. Now that I’ve mined crazy amounts of ore for JC, I actually think I could do BS on another char without much trouble. I may even be able to use some of the lesser gems I still have plenty of…and I have the capability to get more if needed.
It’s very convenient to have mining and JC on the same char, because there are times you need another bar or two. Rather than buy from AH or wait 1 hour for your miner to send it, you’ll be done there and then.
Whichever way you decide to go, you can make some benefit for you and guild. So good luck and have fun at it.
As a former 300 Blacksmith who dropped it for JC when the expansion came out, I would recommend that no one get into JC unless you have alot of money & or time. The only reason I did it was to have a 375 JC in our guild.
If you were very patient and gathered all your own mats, you'd probly save a ton of money (although selling those mats & just having a JC make you what you want would be far wiser). I blew through all my saved up Thorium (20 stacks) & 1,000g to get from lv 225-300. At 300 it was a piece of cake, as long as you had plenty of ore to prospect for gems. Now granted, the prices have dropped some since then, but not by alot.
Basically, I would not recommend anyone take up JC since anything worthwhile is not pricey at all. Just buy it from the AH and pocket the 1,000g+ that you would've spent just to make it yourself.
EDIT: Thanks to having to constantly acquire world drop rare recipes (the only way to skill up above ~350) for between 300g-1200g each, I still do not even have an epic land mount. I'll be so glad when this money pit is finished with me.
Edited, May 12th 2007 2:52pm by justbrandon
If you were very patient and gathered all your own mats, you'd probly save a ton of money (although selling those mats & just having a JC make you what you want would be far wiser). I blew through all my saved up Thorium (20 stacks) & 1,000g to get from lv 225-300. At 300 it was a piece of cake, as long as you had plenty of ore to prospect for gems. Now granted, the prices have dropped some since then, but not by alot.
Basically, I would not recommend anyone take up JC since anything worthwhile is not pricey at all. Just buy it from the AH and pocket the 1,000g+ that you would've spent just to make it yourself.
EDIT: Thanks to having to constantly acquire world drop rare recipes (the only way to skill up above ~350) for between 300g-1200g each, I still do not even have an epic land mount. I'll be so glad when this money pit is finished with me.
Edited, May 12th 2007 2:52pm by justbrandon
As someone who has been through various tradeskilling I wouldnt recommend any crafting profession before one reaches 70 and has a lot of gold to spend.
I made my way with herbalism/alchemy on my main toon, but I am sorry I didnt take skinning/mining or something like that while leveling.
I dropped herbalism for tailoring recently and raised it in a week (I prefere farming than buying cloth from AH) almost to the same level as my friend who started with it at level 10.
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