Jewelcrafting - Which Recipes first?

[Deleted]

So, I came a little late into JC this expansion, therefore only 3 tokens.
I am looking to purchase my first 'design'

What did you buy first? - For what reason?
Get some discussion going with the prioritization :-)

[Róg]

I bought the DPS Meta first, to be the first on the realm with the cut.

First normal gems I got were the Agi/Mastery and Str/Mastery. Everyone else gets the generic red and blue cuts, but those two oranges were rare enough, but still in enough demand to make some good money, especially Agi/Mastery.

There are a lot of people on my realm at least that spam trade crafting for free to get skillups, which is really silly for them, but amazing for my income as I don't need to buy any of the common patterns to get my gems cut, so I can concentrate on the rarer ones.

[Deleted]

Agility /hit will be mine first recipe.Due the fact i need more blues that red for the meta dps socket

[xandamere]

Depends whether you're going for income or usefulness. If you want money, I'd suggest getting a cut for a gem type that doesn't sell very well in the uncut version. For example, inferno rubies sell very well and very fast uncut. Why bother getting a cut for them? If you're mass prospecting, you can sell inferno rubies as-is. But amberjewels, at least on my server, are only like 30g each. So, I got a couple of amberjewel cuts first so I'm not just stuck with a ton of those in my inventory.

Check out the article I wrote on the Elementium Shuffle for a lot more detail on making money with prospecting and jewelcrafting. Good luck!

[Glomp]

Well I chose [Design: Solid Ocean Sapphire] since raw gems were 70g and cut ones were about 300g. Then I got [Design: Bold Chimera's Eye]

Made a loooot of gold. I'll probably buy a meta recipe tomorrow.

[Deleted]

Puissant Dream Emerald, bought raw for 40-50g and sold cutted gems for 350 the first days, now its down to 290.

[Rhigo]

Well, if you want to make gold, id suggest going for a decent Meta,, maybe a caster Meta.. that way you benifit and also put some on AH for teh goldz

[Marahdeka]

first get some cuts you will benefit from. it's quite annoying to run around asking people for the cuts you need when you could do them on the spot :P
My main is prot warr, i picked solid chimaera's eye( 101 stam JC gem), solid ocean( 60 stam) and puissant dream emerald( mastery/stam) first. after that, it depends on what you prefer: help your guildies with particular cuts( ask them what they need) or pick recipes that make money on AH.

[Rah]

Agility /hit will be mine first recipe.Due the fact i need more blues that red for the meta dps socket

I wouldn't bank on this too hard, there was a blue post confirming that they're changing this soon to simply require 2 blue gems.

[xandamere]

+hit gems will be popular for quite a while because getting hit capped is the first thing every dps class wants to do for raiding. The basic blue +hit gem sells very well, but it's also very competitive because a lot of jewelcrafters get it quickly. A hybrid +hit/+someothergoodstat gem that hits other socket bonuses would also be a good choice.