Illustrious Gemdust - New Method for Collecting Cataclysm Jewelcrafting Designs

Illustrious Gemdust - New Method for Collecting Cataclysm Jewelcrafting Designs
New to Dragonflight Patch 10.0.7 is Illustrious Gemdust, a new crafting reagent created by crushing Cataclysm gems. This reagent can then be traded for Illustrious Jewelcrafter's Tokens, which is used to purchase Cataclysm Designs at the local Jewelcrafting NPCs in Orgrimmar and Stormwind.

Players that want to complete their Jewelcrafting Design collection may be interested in this new method, since the alternative way of obtaining enough Illustrious Jewelcrafter's Tokens for all Cataclysm Designs takes 545 days of completing daily quests.



How to Learn Cataclysm Gem Crushing
Cataclysm Crushing can be learned from the Jewelcrafting trainers in Orgrimmar and Stormwind.
/way #85 72.4 34.6 Lugrah
/way #84 63.6 61.6 Theresa Denman



Crushing Cataclysm Gems into Illustrious Gemdust
Crushing gems will award a number of Illustrious Gemdust based on the quality of the gem.



Obtaining Cataclysm Gems
There are several methods for obtaining Cataclysm Gems:

  • Purchase gems from the Auction House
    • It is recommended to purchase thousands of the same uncommon or rare gem, and then /afk crush all of them into Illustrious Gemdust.
    • If you want to speed up the process, you can instead purchase epic gems, although they are currently very expensive and limited on the Auction House.
  • Prospect Cataclysm ores into gems
    • You can mine or purchase Obsidium Ore, Elementium Ore and Pyrite Ore, and prospect them into gems.
    • This is recommended in case the price of uncommon and rare gems is too high, or none are available on the Auction House.
  • Trade your Dragon Soul currency for gems
    • Although not recommended since this method can be slow and inneficient, you can clear Dragon Soul for Motes of Darkness and Essences of Corrupted Deathwing.
    • Dragon Soul can be cleared twice a week, once on LFR and once on Normal or Heroic mode.
    • Alternatively, check all your characters to see if you have any Dragon Soul currency saved up.
    • Speak with Dasnurimi located inside the raid to exchance the currency into Crystalline Geode and Elementium-Coated Geode.



Exchanging Illustrious Gemdust for Illustrious Jewelcrafter's Tokens
To exchange 10 Illustrious Gemdust for 1 Illustrious Jewelcrafter's Token speak with Taryssa Lazuria in Orgrimmar or Farrah Facet in Stormwind.

You can use the following script to quickly exchange 100 Illustrious Gemdust for 10 Illustrious Jewelcrafter's Tokens.
/script local function buy (n,q) for i=1,100 do if n==GetMerchantItemInfo(i) then BuyMerchantItem(i,q) end end end buy ("Illustrious Jewelcrafter's Token", 10)
This article was originally published in forum thread: Illustrious Gemdust - New Method for Collecting Cataclysm Jewelcrafting Designs started by Lumy View original post
Published on 2023-03-30 02:12 AM
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  1. Mendzia's Avatar
    Wait... do they really do this for Cata content?
    LOL
  1. Primohastat's Avatar
    This is part of preparations for Cataclysm Classic. Even Blizz could not predict that they will be polishing Cata content in 2023
  1. Nymrohd's Avatar
    Or it is preparation for the profession overhaul to reach to past expacs.
  1. Lucetia's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Nymrohd View Post
    Or it is preparation for the profession overhaul to reach to past expacs.
    I'd be happy if the Crafting Order system at least extended to it so you could pick up BoP mogs without having to level it (or if you missed out on Classic Recipes)
  1. Nymrohd's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Lucetia View Post
    I'd be happy if the Crafting Order system at least extended to it so you could pick up BoP mogs without having to level it (or if you missed out on Classic Recipes)
    The thing is, the profession overhaul just like the talent one were both touted to be evergreen. But while the talent system can clearly be adapted for several more levels, the same cannot be said for professions; all the systems put in place are very much Dragonflight-centric and it is hard to imagine the system moving to the next expansion without effectively wiping all Knowledge Point progress clean; you'd expect new trees for every future expac essentially. Imo the system as it is now is in no way evergreen and will need to be redesigned.
  1. Lucetia's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Nymrohd View Post
    The thing is, the profession overhaul just like the talent one were both touted to be evergreen. But while the talent system can clearly be adapted for several more levels, the same cannot be said for professions; all the systems put in place are very much Dragonflight-centric and it is hard to imagine the system moving to the next expansion without effectively wiping all Knowledge Point progress clean; you'd expect new trees for every future expac essentially. Imo the system as it is now is in no way evergreen and will need to be redesigned.
    Yeah, but none of that would have any effect of the crafting order system being used for past expansions.
  1. Nymrohd's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Lucetia View Post
    Yeah, but none of that would have any effect of the crafting order system being used for past expansions.
    True, expanding that would be desirabe. Probably a decent amount of work as well.
  1. aeuhe4yxzhds's Avatar
    Did it take this long in cata as well or has it been changed with other expansions?
  1. MarkTheMadMad's Avatar
    So what about the people that have actually spent 545 days to complete the dailies, this is a big screw you to them surely...
  1. RobertMugabe's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Primohastat View Post
    This is part of preparations for Cataclysm Classic. Even Blizz could not predict that they will be polishing Cata content in 2023
    If anything this indicates that there won't be a Cata Classic and that they will instead make better use of Cata content in Retail (like Timewalking)
  1. Pakheth's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Scroolooseuk View Post
    So what about the people that have actually spent 545 days to complete the dailies, this is a big screw you to them surely...
    Oh no, something was improved for new and returning players, let's complain about it.

    Seriously, what is wrong with you and others who have this mindset? If we were to stick to this mindset the living conditions of humans would never have improved to what we have today
  1. tehBob's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Scroolooseuk View Post
    So what about the people that have actually spent 545 days to complete the dailies, this is a big screw you to them surely...
    As someone who has spent 545 days getting all these back in 2010, I don't care. Good for them. They can now craft +2 gems. Whoooooooooooooo.
  1. micwini's Avatar
    All in preparation for the world revamp!
  1. Maell's Avatar
    IIRC Blizz said they would like to extend the crafting system to past expansions. Maybe in 10.2 we will get crafting orders for at least some of the past expansions.
  1. Knight Meta's Avatar
    Given how Cata gems is the best ones to use for most timewalking content - And how rare and overly expensive these gems are (Yes, I got a couple of characters with own dedicated sets for Timewalking which means a lot of socketed SoO and ToT pieces from MoP) - This is an utmost welcome change.
  1. Zeerus's Avatar
    Im one of those morons that did spend 545 days getting them all. Fuck me...
  1. Lucetia's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by aeuhe4yxzhds View Post
    Did it take this long in cata as well or has it been changed with other expansions?
    It always took this long up until this recent patch.

    Quote Originally Posted by Zeerus View Post
    Im one of those morons that did spend 545 days getting them all. Fuck me...
    I did it a lot back then off and on (when I'd remember) and figured I'd finish it once they added a "catch-up" to it. Just didn't think at the time it'd take this long.
  1. Sentynel's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Nymrohd View Post
    The thing is, the profession overhaul just like the talent one were both touted to be evergreen. But while the talent system can clearly be adapted for several more levels, the same cannot be said for professions; all the systems put in place are very much Dragonflight-centric and it is hard to imagine the system moving to the next expansion without effectively wiping all Knowledge Point progress clean; you'd expect new trees for every future expac essentially. Imo the system as it is now is in no way evergreen and will need to be redesigned.
    Dunno, I think they can just CTRL-C CTRL-V the Specializations into future expacs and just rename a few specs where needed.
  1. suavomirro's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Primohastat View Post
    This is part of preparations for Cataclysm Classic. Even Blizz could not predict that they will be polishing Cata content in 2023
    I would be very surprised that anyone plays Cata classic. I remember it as very boring experience.
  1. Ielenia's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Scroolooseuk View Post
    So what about the people that have actually spent 545 days to complete the dailies, this is a big screw you to them surely...
    Well, then it's your fault for doing that content when it was current, instead of waiting 11+ years and then doing it when an alternative, much easier way to get the rewards are implemented.

    Dude, you'd have a point to complain if this change was implemented way back in Cataclysm. But after over ten years? You have no right to complain or be mad that they're doing this. Those gems aren't even useful anymore.

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