TBC Anniversary Jewelcrafting Leveling Guide 1-375: Phase 3.5

Quick summary

• Train 1–300 in Azeroth or Outland, 300–375 in Outland. Farii (The Exodar) and Kalinda (Silvermoon City) cover 1–300. Tatiana (Honor Hold) and Kalaen (Thrallmar) teach Master Jewelcrafting.
• The route most guides agree on: Delicate Copper Wire → Tigerseye Band → Bronze Setting → Gloom Band → Heavy Stone Statue → Pendant of the Agate Shield → Mithril Filigree → Engraved Truesilver Ring → Aquamarine → Thorium Setting → Ruby, Opal, Diamond, Emerald rings → Outland gem cuts → Mercurial Adamantite → Heavy Adamantite Ring → Purified Shadow Pearl → rare or meta cuts.
• Prospecting unlocks at skill 20. It turns 5 ore into gems, which is why Mining is the usual partner.
• Draenei get +5 Jewelcrafting from Gemcutting, so recipes stay orange 5 points longer.
• The last 15–25 points depend on your realm. Rare designs are world drops or reputation rewards, so plan a fallback before you reach 350.
• New since October 22: Magtheridon's Black Sack of Gems and the Jewelcrafter's Brilliant Glass can now contain epic gems (Blizzard).

This TBC Anniversary jewelcrafting leveling guide is current for Phase 3.5, the Zul'Aman update of October 22, 2026. The 1–375 route hasn't changed since launch. What changed is the gem economy around it: epic gems arrived in Phase 3, and Blizzard's Zul'Aman update notes added epic gems to two more sources.

Check what you need before you start

Requirement	Detail
Apprentice (1–75)	Any Jewelcrafting trainer, no level requirement for skill 1
Journeyman (to 150)	Character level 10
Expert (to 225)	Character level 20
Artisan (to 300)	Character level 35
Master (to 375)	Character level 50 and skill 275, Outland trainer
Tools	Jeweler's Kit and Simple Grinder, from Jewelcrafting supplies or trade goods vendors
Extra tool at 325	Mercurial Stone (an Alchemy craft, Jewelcrafters can't make it)

The rank levels follow wow-professions, and Icy Veins' Jewelcrafting guide lists the two tools.

Find your trainer

Skill range	Faction	Trainer	Location
1–300	Alliance	Farii	The Exodar
1–300	Horde	Kalinda	Silvermoon City
300–375	Alliance	Tatiana	Honor Hold, Hellfire Peninsula (about 55, 64)
300–375	Horde	Kalaen	Thrallmar, Hellfire Peninsula (about 57, 37)
300–375	Both factions	Xyrol	Area 52, Netherstorm (about 32, 67)

Trainer names and coordinates are from Icy Veins. Classic capital cities have no Jewelcrafting trainer, so an Alliance character starts in The Exodar and a Horde character in Silvermoon City, or at the Hellfire Peninsula trainers once in Outland.

Choose how you'll source materials

Jewelcrafting eats ore and bars. How you get them changes your plan more than any recipe choice.

Method	How it works	Pros	Cons	Suits
Mining + Jewelcrafting	Mine ore, smelt bars, prospect the spare ore	Lowest gold cost. You produce your own gems	Slowest. You'll farm Copper through Thorium	Fresh characters leveling both together
Buy bars and gems	Buy everything on the shopping list	Fastest. Often done in one sitting	Highest gold cost. Limited-stock items can be scarce	Mains at 70 with gold saved
Buy ore and prospect	Buy ore, smelt what the route needs, prospect the rest	Gems arrive "free" with each bar step	Prospecting results are random	Players with a Mining alt or a friend who mines

wow-professions and Icy Veins both recommend leveling it with Mining. Our Mining leveling guide has the ore routes, and our best professions guide compares Jewelcrafting with the other picks if you haven't decided yet.

Buy the shopping list

This list follows the standard wow-professions route. Buy 5–10% extra of anything that sits at the end of a yellow range.

1–300 (Classic materials)

Material	About	Used for
Copper Bar	110	Delicate Copper Wire
Tigerseye (or Malachite)	15	Tigerseye Band (or Malachite Pendant)
Bronze Bar	120	Bronze Setting, Ring of Twilight Shadows
Shadowgem	60	Gloom Band, Ring of Twilight Shadows
Heavy Stone	80	Heavy Stone Statue
Moss Agate (or Lesser Moonstone)	30 (or 66)	Pendant of the Agate Shield (or Amulet of the Moon)
Mithril Bar	142	Mithril Filigree
Solid Stone	90	Solid Stone Statue
Truesilver Bar	28	Engraved Truesilver Ring
Aquamarine	35	Aquamarine Signet and Pendant
Flask of Mojo	40	Aquamarine Signet
Thorium Bar	56	Thorium Setting
Star Ruby	10	Ruby Pendant of Fire
Large Opal	21	Simple Opal Ring
Azerothian Diamond	20	Diamond Focus Ring
Huge Emerald	10	Emerald Lion Ring

300–375 (Outland materials)

Material	About	Used for
Uncommon Outland gems (any mix of Blood Garnet, Shadow Draenite, Golden Draenite, Deep Peridot, Azure Moonstone, Flame Spessarite)	40	First cuts
Extra Shadow Draenite or Golden Draenite	15	335–340 cuts
Adamantite Powder	48 (prospect about 240 Adamantite Ore)	Mercurial Adamantite
Primal Earth	12	Mercurial Adamantite
Adamantite Bar	12	Heavy Adamantite Ring
Shadow Pearl	15	Purified Shadow Pearl
Purified Draenic Water	15 (sold by Outland innkeepers)	Purified Shadow Pearl
Rare gems or diamonds for your finish	10–20	360–375 (see the finish section)

Both routes work. Pick one list and stick to it, or you'll end up with leftovers.

Follow the full route, 1–375

The "Main craft" column is the standard route most leveling guides use. The "Fallback" column is what to make if a material or design is scarce on your realm.

Skill	Main craft	Per craft	About	Fallback
1–35	Delicate Copper Wire	2 Copper Bar	55	Keep going to the low 40s if Malachite and Tigerseye are short
35–50	Tigerseye Band	1 Tigerseye, 1 Delicate Copper Wire	15	Malachite Pendant
50	Train Journeyman
50–80	Bronze Setting	2 Bronze Bar	50	None needed. Save the settings
80–100	Gloom Band	1 Bronze Setting, 2 Shadowgem, 2 Delicate Copper Wire	20	Simple Pearl Ring or Ring of Silver Might
100–110	Ring of Twilight Shadows	2 Shadowgem, 2 Bronze Bar	10	Ring of Silver Might, or Heavy Jade Ring from 105
110–120	Heavy Stone Statue	8 Heavy Stone	10	Heavy Jade Ring
120–150	Pendant of the Agate Shield	1 Moss Agate, 1 Bronze Setting	30	Amulet of the Moon, or Heavy Jade Ring (120–136) then Golden Dragon Ring (136–150)
150	Train Expert
150–180	Mithril Filigree	2 Mithril Bar	55–71	None needed. Save the filigree
180–185	Solid Stone Statue	10 Solid Stone	9	Blazing Citrine Ring
185–210	Engraved Truesilver Ring	1 Truesilver Bar, 2 Mithril Filigree	28	Citrine Ring of Rapid Healing
210–220	Aquamarine Signet	3 Aquamarine, 4 Flask of Mojo	10	None common
220–225	Aquamarine Pendant of the Warrior	1 Aquamarine, 3 Mithril Filigree	5	More Signets
225	Train Artisan
225–250	Thorium Setting	1 Thorium Bar	56	None needed. Save the settings
250–260	Ruby Pendant of Fire	1 Star Ruby, 1 Thorium Setting	10	Red Ring of Destruction
260–281	Simple Opal Ring	1 Large Opal, 1 Thorium Setting	21	Truesilver Healing Ring
281–295	Diamond Focus Ring	1 Azerothian Diamond, 1 Thorium Setting	20	Onslaught Ring or Sapphire Pendant of Winter Night
295–300	Emerald Lion Ring	2 Huge Emerald, 1 Thorium Setting	5	Onslaught Ring or Sapphire Pendant of Winter Night
300	Train Master in Outland
300–320	Basic Outland cuts (Teardrop Blood Garnet, Inscribed Flame Spessarite, Radiant Deep Peridot, Glowing Shadow Draenite, Brilliant Golden Draenite, Solid Azure Moonstone)	1 uncommon gem	about 30	Any of the six, mixed
320–325	Second set of cuts (Glinting Flame Spessarite, Bright Blood Garnet, Jagged Deep Peridot, Sparkling Azure Moonstone)	1 uncommon gem	5–7	More first-set cuts while they're still yellow
325–335	Mercurial Adamantite	4 Adamantite Powder, 1 Primal Earth	12	Keep cutting gems
335–340	Sovereign Shadow Draenite, Smooth Golden Draenite, or Potent Flame Spessarite	1 uncommon gem	5–10
340–350	Heavy Adamantite Ring	1 Adamantite Bar, 1 Mercurial Adamantite	12	More 335 cuts
350–360	Purified Shadow Pearl	1 Shadow Pearl, 1 Purified Draenic Water	15	Mystic Dawnstone or Steady Talasite (Halaa)
360–365	Unique gem cuts from reputation vendors	1 rare gem	5	Rare world-drop cuts
365–375	Meta gem cuts	1 Earthstorm or Skyfire Diamond	10	Embrace of the Dawn

Learn the Outland cut designs from Tatiana or Kalaen. wow-professions says the Potent Flame Spessarite design comes from Nakodu in Shattrath at Friendly with Lower City. The other 335 designs are trainer recipes.

Example: you're a Horde Blood Elf at level 62 with Mining at 300. Train Jewelcrafting from Kalaen in Thrallmar, buy the Copper through Thorium bars you didn't mine, and run 1–300 in one evening at the Thrallmar forge. Then prospect your Fel Iron for the first Outland cuts and leave 325+ until you reach Adamantite nodes.

Get the limited-supply designs early

Three designs on the route aren't sold by trainers. They're limited stock, so other players camp them on busy realms.

Design	Used for	Vendors
Pendant of the Agate Shield	120–150	Neal Allen, Menethil Harbor, Wetlands (Alliance); Jandia, Freewind Post, Thousand Needles (Horde)
Amulet of the Moon	120–140 (turns yellow at 140)	Several limited-supply vendors, listed in the wow-professions guide
Blazing Citrine Ring	180–195	Micha Yance in Hillsbrad Foothills, Kireena in Desolace

wow-professions says the restock seems to be about 5–10 minutes but that the timer isn't confirmed. If a camper is reselling the design for more than the fallback costs, take the fallback.

Prospect the right ore at the right skill

Prospecting takes 5 ore of one kind. The table below shows the skill needed and the gems each ore gives, based on Icy Veins' prospecting table. Blizzard doesn't publish prospecting odds, so plan with ranges rather than exact counts.

Ore	Skill	Common gems	Rarer gems	Feeds route step
Copper	20	Malachite, Tigerseye	Shadowgem	35–50
Tin	50	Lesser Moonstone, Moss Agate, Shadowgem	Aquamarine, Citrine, Jade	80–150
Iron	125	Lesser Moonstone, Citrine, Jade	Star Ruby, Aquamarine	120–210
Mithril	175	Star Ruby, Aquamarine, Citrine	Blue Sapphire, Large Opal, Azerothian Diamond, Huge Emerald	210–281
Thorium	250	Star Ruby, Huge Emerald, Azerothian Diamond, Blue Sapphire, Large Opal	Outland uncommon gems	250–300
Fel Iron	275	All six Outland uncommon gems	Outland rare gems	300–340
Adamantite	325	All six Outland uncommon gems, plus Adamantite Powder	Outland rare gems	325–375

Tin is the ore to stockpile early. It feeds three route steps at once. Thorium becomes worth prospecting once your Ruby and Opal steps are next.

Finish 350–375 without overspending

The last 25 points are the only part of the route with real choices. All of them use cuts you'd sell or socket anyway.

Option	Skill	What you need	Notes
Purified Shadow Pearl	350–360 (to 365)	Shadow Pearl, Purified Draenic Water	Shadow Pearls come from Jaggal Clams, at a drop rate too low to farm
Mystic Dawnstone	350–360	Dawnstone	Design from the Halaa vendor (limited stock). Your faction must hold Halaa
Steady Talasite	350–360	Talasite	Design for 4 Halaa Research Tokens
Rare world-drop cuts	350–365	A rare Outland gem	Search the Auction House recipe tab for Living Ruby, Nightseye, Noble Topaz, Star of Elune, Talasite and Dawnstone
Kailee's Rose, Blood of Amber	360–365	1 rare gem	Almaador, Shattrath (The Sha'tar Honored and Revered)
Facet of Eternity, Stone of Blades	360–365	Rare gems	Alurmi, Tanaris (Keepers of Time Honored and Revered)
Falling Star	360–365	Rare gem	Nakodu, Shattrath (Lower City Revered)
Crimson Sun, Don Julio's Heart	360–365	Rare gems	Consortium Revered (Paulsta'ats in Nagrand, Karaaz in Netherstorm)
Insightful Earthstorm Diamond	365–375	Earthstorm Diamond	Almaador (Sha'tar Friendly)
Swift Skyfire Diamond	365–375	Skyfire Diamond	Paulsta'ats (Consortium Honored)
Enigmatic Skyfire Diamond	365–375	Skyfire Diamond	Alurmi (Keepers of Time Honored)

Vendors and standings are from wow-professions. Check the reputations you already have before you buy anything. A raiding main usually has several of these at Honored or better from leveling and heroics. Our Keepers of Time reputation guide, Sha'tar guide and Consortium guide cover the fastest route to each standing. Our gems and enchants guide shows which meta and epic cuts each spec wants, so you can level on gems you'll actually use.

Know where epic gems come from in Phase 3.5

Once you're at 375, the money is in epic gem cuts. These are the sources open on Anniversary realms now:

Source	What it gives	When
Indormi, Scale of the Sands quartermaster (Caverns of Time, by the Hyjal entrance)	26 epic gem designs: 13 at Friendly, 9 at Honored and 4 at Revered	Phase 3 onward
Mount Hyjal and Black Temple drops	Uncut epic gems, plus a few epic designs at a very low drop rate	Phase 3 onward
Magtheridon's Black Sack of Gems	Can contain epic gems	Since October 22 (Blizzard)
Jewelcrafter's Brilliant Glass	Can contain epic gems	Since October 22 (Blizzard). Brilliant Glass made before the patch won't

The Indormi design counts come from Warcraft Tavern's Scale of the Sands guide. Sunwell Plateau (Phase 4, no date announced yet) will add the Shattered Sun Offensive designs, new necklace and ring patterns, and Jewelcrafter-only figurine trinkets at Exalted (Icy Veins).

Avoid five common mistakes

1. Selling your settings and filigree. Bronze Settings, Mithril Filigree, and Thorium Settings are reused later. Count what you need before you vendor anything.
2. Forgetting the Mercurial Stone. You can't craft Mercurial Adamantite without it, and Jewelcrafters can't make it. Buy it or ask an Alchemist before 325.
3. Training Master too late. Master needs character level 50, 275 skill and a trip to an Outland trainer. Reaching 300 skill doesn't train it for you.
4. Buying a camped design at a markup. Heavy Jade Ring and Golden Dragon Ring cover 120–150 if Pendant of the Agate Shield is overpriced.
5. Crafting past the yellow range. Green recipes rarely give points. Once a recipe turns green, move to the next step.

Plan for returning, boosted, and alt players

• Returning players: your old 2021 knowledge still applies. The recipes and ranges match. What's changed is the economy: Phase 3.5 realms already have lots of cut gems listed, so leveling on cuts that sell (rather than rings you vendor) matters more.
• Boosted or freshly leveled 70s: buy the whole list and level in one session. Reputations from the Sha'tar, Lower City, Consortium and Keepers of Time open the cheapest finishes, so start heroics early. Heroic keys only need Honored since October 22.
• Alts: if your main mines, mail it the ore and prospect on the alt. A Draenei alt gets the +5 Gemcutting bonus and keeps each recipe orange a little longer.

Review your progress at each trainer visit

At each new rank (50, 150, 225, 300), check three things:

1. Do I still have enough settings or filigree for the next two steps?
2. Is the next design in stock, or do I need the fallback?
3. Which gems have I prospected that a later step can use?

Write it down as: "At ___ I have ___ settings, ___ filigree, and my next step is ___ (fallback ___)." It keeps you from overcrafting.

If you want help with a profession, independent sellers list services on the TBC Anniversary professions page. The TBC Anniversary hub collects the rest of our guides for this version. Blizzard's End User License Agreement restricts account sharing and paid in-game services, and a marketplace listing isn't publisher permission.

FAQ

What is the fastest way to level Jewelcrafting in TBC Anniversary? Buy the full shopping list and follow the route in one session: wire, bronze settings, Gloom Band, statues, Agate Shield pendants, filigree, Truesilver rings, Aquamarine, thorium settings and gem rings to 300, then Outland cuts to 375. Buying instead of mining is faster but costs more gold.

Where is the Jewelcrafting trainer in TBC Anniversary? Farii in The Exodar (Alliance) and Kalinda in Silvermoon City (Horde) teach up to 300. Tatiana at Honor Hold and Kalaen at Thrallmar teach Master Jewelcrafting, and Xyrol at Area 52 in Netherstorm teaches both factions.

What skill do you need to prospect in TBC? Prospecting unlocks at Jewelcrafting skill 20. Each ore has its own requirement, from 20 for Copper Ore to 325 for Adamantite Ore.

What is the best profession to pair with Jewelcrafting? Mining. It supplies ore for bars and for prospecting, which lowers the gold cost a lot. Without it, plan to buy every material.

What is the best race for Jewelcrafting? Draenei. Their Gemcutting racial adds 5 Jewelcrafting skill, so each recipe stays orange a little longer. No other race gets a Jewelcrafting bonus.

Is Jewelcrafting worth it and profitable in TBC Anniversary? For most raiders, yes. Every raider needs cut gems, and the epic gem sources added on October 22 make cutting more active. Profit depends on your realm's gem prices, so compare raw and cut prices before you cut in bulk.

Related guides

• TBC Anniversary Mining leveling guide 1-375
• TBC Anniversary gems and enchants by spec
• TBC Anniversary best professions
• TBC Anniversary professions leveling guide 1-375
• TBC Anniversary Keepers of Time reputation guide
• TBC Anniversary gold farming guide