Comments on: Wrath: Jewelcrafting Dailies & Epic Gems

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:28:56 +0000

From the patterns I have seen on the WotLK info site, there will be patterns that start below current max level. I have seen a few vendor patterns with I assume easy to get base mats starting at a skill level of 360.

By: Siha

Siha — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:29:47 +0000

Very disappointing, I think. That just creates inconvenience, not a “niche”.

By: Kinesia

Kinesia — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:22:40 +0000

In that webcast/interview he was talking about how discovery was meant to make it so different people had different recipes and people were able to make a bit of money in their own niche, but that didn’t work out well.
This looks to be a friendlier way to do it.
I think the point is that you aren’t _meant_ to be able to get them all, especially anytime soon.

By: Ursuron

Ursuron — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:51:29 +0000

I suspect that some of the reason for making each of those recipes take 8 real-life days to get is that it will limit the “I blew shitloads of gold on the rare cuts and now I can make a killing before everyone else gets the recipes” effect, as well as the “There’s this one character in my guild who does all the jewelcrafting for us, so I don’t need to buy cut gems from the AH” effect.

By: Siha

Siha — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:43:10 +0000

Muiran – I feel stoopid, not noticing they’re BoP! I’ll add a note to the post now.

Itsnoteasy – I imagine Blizzard will shift things around to make it a bit more viable to level; also note that a few recipes are now available via faction purchases – the epic gems from SSO, various of the rare ‘animal’ trinkets from Outland faction quartermasters, and four rare gem cuts from Exalted SSO & Consortium.

By: Itsnoteasy

Itsnoteasy — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:29:58 +0000

What I’m worried about is how we’re going to be able to level to the current BC Jewelcrafting cap. At the moment, my JC has stalled because I can’t afford to blow 600g on a single pattern. I have this horrible sinking feeling that when WotLK comes out, Outland will be deserted save for the legions of Death Knights, and the prices of these levelling recipies will skyrocket.

I really hope Blizzard just adds these BoE world drop recipies to a trainer somewhere, or I might just scrap jewelcrafting altogether.

By: Muiran

Muiran — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:57:20 +0000

It looks like the Dragon’s Eye cuts are JC-only, since the cut gems are BoP. So depending on your class and spec, you may be able to use a variety of cut Dragon’s Eyes in whatever sockets you like.

As far as meta gems, right now the new meta gems don’t have any particular gem requirements, other than they only go in a meta gem socket. Whether this is permanent or just NYI remains to be seen.

Also, the epic gems may not actually be implemented yet, but WoWHead has what seem to be legitimate WotLK epic gems. (http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?items=3&filter=qu=4;cr=131;crs=1;crv=0)