Jewelcrafting Guide 1-525

Before you get started leveling your Jewelcrafting you should read our X-Elerated Gold Making Guide so that you can have enough gold to buy all the mats you need to level up and know how to sell your gems for maximum profit.

This Jewelcrafting Leveling Guide is updated for the most recent patch and Cataclysm.
This Jewelcrafting leveling guide will help you with leveling your Jewelcrafting from 1-525. Jewelcrafting is a great profession to combine with Mining due to prospecting if you're starting a character from level one or very early on. However, we know that this is not always the case since most of the time most people are looking to power level their skill in a certain profession along with making gold for their characters.

This Jewelcrafting leveling guide will give you the knowledge to gain the skill you desire and possibly to make some gold for your character.

If you run into problems with finding gems for this leveling guide you can farm or buy ore and prospect that ore for gems. It is five ore for every attempt.

Jewelcrafting Leveling Guide 1 – 525

Most people looking at this leveling guide are looking to buy their way through leveling their Jewelcrafting so I haven't made a list of materials due to all servers having a different amount of items and the costs of those items being different. This leveling guide gives you some alternatives routes at some of the skill levels. There is an estimated amount of materials for the skill ups to help you obtain the skill level to move on to the next recipe in the guide.
Visit any Jewelcrafting Trainer in the main cities to learn Apprentice Jewelcrafting. Also you will need to pick up a Jeweler's Kit and a Simple Grinder. Also ensure you know what levels you need to head back to a trainer in order train to the next set of skills for leveling in the next part of the guide.

One of the things to be mindful about while leveling with this guide is the cost of leveling Jewelcrafting if you plan to buy your way through it; especially at the lower levels in the current expansion and higher levels it is actually much cheaper to buy the materials. Feel free to check out a guide to farm the items or ways to make gold to make your leveling easier.

Apprentice & Journeyman Jewelcrafting (Levels 1-150)

This is by far the cheapest Jewelcrafting leveling route at this level or you can try to do alternate recipes that you have in your Jewelcrafting interface for leveling to 150.

Expert Jewelcrafting (Levels 150-225)

Artisan Jewelcrafting (Levels 225-300)

Gems can be rare at this level to buy off the auction house if that is how you are obtaining items while leveling with this guide. You can either buy/farm more Mithril Ore in order to prospect to get the gems which is what I had to do while leveling up my Jewelcrafting.

Master Jewelcrafting (Levels 300-350)

For each Jewelcrafting skill area any of the recipes will work so just buy or farm the gems needed for the cuts until you reach the level shown.

Grand Master Jewelcrafting (Levels 350-450)

Cataclysm Illustrious Jewelcrafting (Levels 450-525)

This is the route you'll have to follow when leveling up your Illustrious Jewelcrafting skill. Once you reach level 500 you'll need to buy a meta pattern to level up to 525. You'll need to do the Jewelcrafting Dailies in order to get a pattern, these are located in Stormwind and Orgrimmar.