[Saronite Ore]

Today's post will focus on the raw material Saronite Ore. There are many, many things that you can do with Saronite Ore depending on what professions you have. Of course, having multiple professions will work to your advantage. The main rule of thumb for Saronite Ore is to buy ALL stacks that are priced under 12g 50s. Since you can convert a stack of Saronite Ore into ten Saronite Bars. Each Saronite Bar can be sold to the vendor for 1g 25s.

Miner

As mentioned above, if you can find Saronite Ore for less than 12g 50s a stack, buy it out and turn them all into bars and vendor them.

Blacksmith

Craft Eternal Belt Buckles, these will be your best sellers. You can also craft the Savage Saronite Rare PVP Set or the Ornate Saronite Rare PVP Set. In addition, there is [Saronite Bulwark], [Titanium Weapon Chain] and [Titanium Shield Spike]. Also, don't forget about the titansteel epics!

Engineering

The main option here would be [Heartseeker Scope] I believe. I could be wrong so let me know if you find something else worth crafting.

Jewelcrafter

Prospecting ore as a JC can be very profitable. To check if prospecting is worth it, use this formula that I stole from Wowhead's comment section for Saronite Ore.

5 Saronite Ore == 0.24*(MT+SR+SS+FE+AG+TO)/6 + 1.08*(SC+DJ+HC+Ch+SuC+Bl)/6

SR=Scarlet Ruby; MT=Monarch Topaz; AG=Autumn's Glow; FE=Forest Emerald; SS=Sky Sapphire; TO=Twilight Opal; SC=Shadow Crystal; DJ=Dark Jade; HC=Huge Citrine; Ch=Chalcedony; SuC=Sun Crystal; Bl=Bloodstone

If the left side is greater than right side, dont bother prospecting.
If the right side is greater than the left side, prospecting is profitable!

Usually, prospecting is worth it, but just in case your server is a bit different you should put it into the formula to check.

Remember, all blue quality gems are worth a minimum of 4g 50s (vendor value after being cut), and all green quality gems are worth a minimum of 50s (vendor value after being cut).

So what to do with all the blue quality gems? Cut them and sell on AH! To help you get started on which cuts to buy first, you may want to check out my post on Jewelcrafting Cuts found here.

There are more options for what to do with the green quality gems.

0. Create Icy Prisms.

1. Cut and sell them on the AH. I only bother doing this with the Bloodstones though, since the other ones have fairly cheap rare quality versions. I usually get around

2. Cut and Vendor.

3. Craft and AH. You can sell [Bloodstone Band], [Sun Rock Ring], [Crystal Citrine Necklace], [Crystal Chalcedony Amulet], [Dark Jade Focusing Lens], [Shadow Crystal Focusing Lens] and [Shadow Jade Focusing Lens]. I don't sell any of these myself, since the demand is pretty low. However, if you can somehow advertise the focusing lens for social use, it could be a good seller.

4. Craft and Vendor. You can craft [Bloodstone Band], [Sun Rock Ring], [Crystal Citrine Necklace], [Crystal Chalcedony Amulet]. Each of these are worth 3g 14s to a vendor. It takes 5 seconds to craft each, so use this following formula to figure out approximately how much you gain per hour.

Total Profit Per Hour = 3.14 - (Green Gem + (Eternal Earth/5)) * 720

5. Craft and DE. Similar to craft and vendor, except if you have Enchanting you can DE the rings instead. On my server this is actually less profitable than the vendor route.

Total DE Profit = 0.75(2*Infinite Dust) + 0.22(1.5*Lesser Cosmic Essence) + 0.03(Small Dream Shard)

*Note: I'm actually a little unsure of the formula above... but I think it is right*

Alchemist

If you have an Alchemist (or better yet, a Transmutation Master), you can create [Earthsiege Diamonds] and [Skyflare Diamonds]. Since I don't have a X-mute master, what I usually do is I tip a transmutation master according to how many procs he gets.

I think thats pretty much it. Feel free to leave a comment on how your sales go!

-Munie

Jewelcrafting - Cut Recommendations

Been pretty tied up in real life, but all you JCers or soon to become JCers will be glad for this one. It took me a little while to put this together, so I hope this will be of good use to you all.

So what I did was I went to the BeanCounter section of my auctioneer and manually typed up this spreadsheet.



Through this it should give you a good idea of which cuts unload the best, and which cuts to avoid unless you want to collect all the epic cuts.

Looking at my spreadsheet, I would say that these are the best selling cuts

Solid Majestic Zircon
Reckless Ametrine
Balanced Dreadstone
Purified Dreadstone
Bold Cardinal Ruby
Bright Cardinal Ruby
Delicate Cardinal Ruby
Fractured Cardinal Ruby
Runed Cardinal Ruby
Brilliant King's Amber
Quick King's Amber
Rigid King's Amber
Smooth King's Amber

*Note* that best selling does NOT = to most profitable cuts!

Download the spreadsheet: Click Me!

Jewelcrafting - Selling Cuts

Before I start explaining how I work the JC industry, I just wanted to thank all of you readers and subscribers so far... without you guys I'd probably lose interest in blogging very quickly. I don't really know, but there just seems to be something exciting about seeing your reader number climb from 0 to 9 (haha.. I know that's still a low number... so subscribe!). I'd love to hear more from you guys (whether it be complaints, questions, or criticism), so leave me a comment or send me an email!

I'm sure some of you are curious as to how I make money with JC. The answer is - I sell cuts. Which cuts you ask? Almost every single cut.

Epic Quality Gems


I have two characters listing epic gems. Yes, you heard me! I have two characters named ALPHA and BETA. With ALPHA, I list one of every single RED, YELLOW, AND BLUE cut on the AH for 48 Hours and a price of 290G. Normally, cut gems for these colours go anywhere from 180G to 250G. On BETA, I list/undercut one of every single epic gem cut using QuickAuctions3. For BETA, I only use the 12 hour deposit because I KNOW that on my server that I will be undercut before I reach 24 hours, so I never bother with anything over 12 hours. There are several reason why I even bother listing with ALPHA listed below:

1. This helps me set a "threshold" for people to undercut from and helps me keep the market value high.
2. Using a different character will arouse less suspicion. If I listed [Delicate Cardinal Ruby] on BETA for 180G and 290G, people will know that that the 290G is a jacked up price. So, having ALPHA list helps disguise the fact that the item is over priced.
3. It feels hella awesome when the ones I list at a markup actually sell. It feels good when you just sold a gem for 290G when the uncut gem is going for 170G. Easy 120G profit.
4. Believe it or not, but people actually buy the 290G gem even when there are OTHER GEMS on the AH for cheaper. I could never quite understand this, but its not even an addon issue. I'm talking about cases where there are only 3 [Delicate Cardinal Ruby] on the AH, two of them selling for 220G and mine selling for 290G and some guy comes in and buys mine. It always give me a good chuckle while I relist another for 290G.

Epic gems sell well almost all of the time, usually best on Tuesdays-Thursdays. However, I've run into some crazy weekends where I've sold more epic cuts on a Sunday than Tuesday-Thursday combined.

Rare Quality Gems


Many people have forgotten about this market, but it is still a VERY profitable market. I profit around 10G-45G for these cuts. These sell best on Sat/Sun due to people leveling and gear up their alts. For these, I post 1 of each for 24 Hrs.

Meta Gems - This market is avoided by a lot of people. I used to avoid it too... until I found a transmute master to make me a couple stacks of each meta gem. These sold very well at the beginning of the last patch, but now the demand for them have dropped. I list these at 12 Hr intervals.

Green Quality Gems


This market really really surprises me sometimes. Green gems are worth about 1.3G-2G on my server. I sell non-perfect cuts like [Delicate Bloodstone] for 8 G and the perfect cuts [Perfect Delicate Bloodstone] for 15G. I only sell RED, YELLOW, and ORANGE gems for these. The others are rarely used and are not worth my time collecting out of the mail and relisting. For green quality gems, I post them at 48Hrs, since the competition is so low that I can expect not to be undercut for them.

Jewelcrafting Epics


This market is nearly dead, however, I still manage to sell crafted epics for 450G+ above their material price. I list these at 48 Hr intervals since competition is even lower than the green quality gems.

That pretty much wraps it up in terms of what I sell. I will be doing a post soon on my statistics for each cut to help you guys get a good idea of which cuts are worth getting first.

-Munie