Thread: WOTLK green and blue gems

Hello, this probably might sound a bit obvious, but i wanted other opinions other than mine. On my server (i've relocated) there is a pretty steep gap in my servers economy where there is rarely and wotlk green / blue gems that aren't severely overpriced (if there is any at all). I would love to hear some thoughts as of what to do with it seeing as im rejoining the WoW world since... January, and i have seem to have forgot everything /facepalm silly me.

Thanks for dealing with my newly found obscurity to WoW

_Chyp

If saronite prices are good, prospect it, cut the blues, and use the greens to make Icy Prisms (cooldown has been removed) and enchanting mats. Do your Wrath dailies and use the Dragon's Eyes to make Nightmare Tears. Buy epic gems with JP and cut them. If the price of Frozen Orbs is very high, you can also use excess JP for orbs to make Prisms.

Originally Posted by ChypDaRippa

On my server (i've relocated) there is a pretty steep gap in my servers economy where there is rarely and wotlk green / blue gems that aren't severely overpriced (if there is any at all).
_Chyp

I'm not sure what question you are asking?

If it is "I think there is a gap in the market, can i make money by selling WOTLK common gems?"
then i would say almost certainly not. The pattern of demand for your gems is likely to be long periods of inactivty, with big spikes where someone is powerleveling jewellerycrafting. I think in that situation you will find that all your potential profit is eaten up in deposit costs.


If it is "I need a whole load of WOTLK common gems and the prices are far too high, what can i do?"
then i would recommend farming for northrend ore and prospecting them yourself. If you are powerleveling yourself, its a good way of getting your mining skill up as well. Competition for ore in northrend is likely to be very very low, and there is still a market for epic northrend gems, especially with level capped pvp twinks.

thanks for the input, and yea goblyn, it is the first one, im trying to make money, not buy them. Oh, and sorry for my bad english .

I've found a bit of profit in the WOTLK gem market - however my JC knows most of the blue cuts and a few epic ones. My server often has people dumping uncut blues for under the cut vendor price so I usually pick those up, cut them and sell on AH. It's not a fast moving market, and I usually don't bother with it if there's competition due to the deposit costs.