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Profession levelingHow to level jewelcrafting in TBC
TBC Anniversary has 202 crafting recipes here for jewelcrafting, with a maximum skill of 375. 198 recipes have a matching recipe item. 46 require skill 375 or higher, so they do not help you reach that cap.
59 additional jewelcrafting recipes are left out because their learning requirement or availability is not established for TBC. A missing crafting route does not mean you cannot train further in the game.
The starting route uses Delicate Copper Wire, consuming 2 Copper Bar per craft. The shopping list counts each ingredient consumed. If you already have Copper Bar in your bags, subtract that stock before buying more.
Recipe colors and material costs
Delicate Copper Wire requires skill 1, turns yellow at 20, green at 35 and gray at 50. Orange grants skill every craft, yellow and green grant skill less reliably, and gray grants none. The green boundary is the midpoint between yellow and gray, rounded down to a whole skill point.
| Recipe | Required, yellow, green, gray | Materials per craft |
|---|---|---|
| Delicate Copper Wire | 1, 20, 35, 50 | 2 Copper Bar |
| Solid Azure Moonstone | 300, 300, 320, 340 | 1 Azure Moonstone |
| Teardrop Living Ruby | 350, 350, 365, 380 | 1 Living Ruby |
| Reckless Noble Topaz | 350, 350, 365, 380 | 1 Noble Topaz |
| Destructive Skyfire Diamond | 365, 375, 385, 395 | 1 Skyfire Diamond |
| Stormy Empyrean Sapphire | 375, 375, 387, 400 | 1 Empyrean Sapphire |
A worked jewelcrafting route
Starting at skill 1, the default target is 75. The available route reaches 60 using ~149 (67 to 231) crafts estimated. There is no eligible crafting recipe at 60, so the shopping list stops there.
| Skill | Craft | Craft count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 20 | Delicate Copper Wire | 19 |
| 20 to 21 | Delicate Copper Wire | ~1 (1 to 1) est. |
| 21 to 30 | Braided Copper Ring | 9 |
| 30 to 60 | Braided Copper Ring | ~120 (38 to 202) est. |
For this route, Copper Bar requires ~40 (40 to 40) estimated; Delicate Copper Wire requires ~258 (94 to 421) estimated. Repeated ingredients are combined across steps. Crafted intermediate materials remain separate shopping entries, so subtract any that you make along the way.
Which jewelcrafting recipe uses fewer materials?
At skill 1, Delicate Copper Wire consumes 2 reagent units per craft, compared with 2 for Braided Copper Ring. Each item counts as one unit, regardless of its gold price. The route minimizes expected units over the entire skill range, including extra attempts after recipes turn yellow.
Amulet of the Moon can be learned with Design: Amulet of the Moon. Check recipe access, quests and specializations before shopping. Exclude recipes you cannot learn or whose materials cost too much on your realm. Lock a known recipe to give it priority whenever it can grant skill; overlapping locks use the lower expected reagent total.
How estimated jewelcrafting craft counts work
Delicate Copper Wire has a yellow boundary of 20 and a gray boundary of 50. Its estimated skill gain chance at skill 35 is (50 minus 35) divided by (50 minus 20). Expected crafts equal one divided by that chance. For skill 35 to 36, this gives ~2 (1 to 6) crafts est.
The Delicate Copper Wire range covers at least 80% of outcomes under this estimated chance model, using the variance of independent attempts. It describes crafting luck under that model, rather than a guarantee about your game. For the longer route to 75, the planner recalculates chance after every skill gain. Update your current skill as you craft, and train the next profession rank before your current rank limit.
What differs in other versions?
| Version | Skill cap | Recipes | Recipes absent here |
|---|---|---|---|
| TBC | 375 | 202 | None |
TBC uses build 2.5.6.70577 for jewelcrafting. The other versions do not have a jewelcrafting crafting planner here.