This guide will provide you with the fastest and least expensive way to level your Jewelcrafting skill up from 1 to 600. The guide is up to date for WoW patch 5.0.5
Jewelcrafting is best combined with Mining. This way you can farm all the necessary herbs yourself and save yourself a lot of gold, otherwise you will need either a guide (or friends who are happy to help) or plenty of gold!
As with all production professions, you can make money with the most advanced recipes (so near the 600 skill points). Taking Mining as your second profession will allow you to collect all the necessary items yourself, otherwise, Enchanting can be good because you will be able to disenchant most items you craft.
IMPORTANT! If you are buying all your materials at the Auction House then do not buy them all at once! Jewelcrafting is really expensive to level and the price of low level materials is often very high.
• 100 Copper Bar
• 20 Tigerseye or 20 Malachite
• 120 Bronze Bar = 60 Copper Bar, 60 Tin Bar
• 60 Shadowgem OR 20 Shadowgem and 20 Small Lustrous Pearl
• 80 Heavy Stone
• 30 Moss Agate / 60 Lesser Moonstone for Horde
• 140 Mithril Bar
• 80 Solid Stone
• 25 Citrine
• 15 Truesilver Bar
• 5 Aquamarine
• 50 Thorium Bar
• 10 Star Ruby
• 20 Large Opal
• 7 Azerothian Diamond
• 3 Blue Sapphire
• 3 Essence of Undeath
• 20 Huge Emerald
Burning Crusade
• 55 green gems - Buy different gems because you might not have the pattern to transform some of the stones.
• 40 Adamantite Powder (200 Adamantite Ore)
• 10 Primal Earth
• 10 Adamantite Bar
Wrath of the Lich King
• Buy a total of 70 of any of the following gems: Bloodstone, Chalcedony, Dark Jade, Huge Citrine, Shadow Crystal, Sun Crystal. Make sure to buy at least 5 Bloodstone, because you will need them when you reach 395.
• 10 Crystallized Earth
• 46 Eternal Earth OR 23 Eternal Earth and 23 Eternal Shadow
• 5 Forest Emerald
• 5 Titanium Bar
• 5 Dream Shard
Cataclysm
• Buy 45 of any of the following gems: Carnelian, Alicite, Jasper, Zephyrite.
• 16 Hessonite
• 50 Nightstone
Pandaria
• Buy 60 of any of the following gems: Lapis Lazuli, Tiger Opal, Sunstone, Roguestone, Alexandrite, Pandarian Garnet (try to have at least 5 from each)
• Buy 9 of any of the following rare gems: Wild Jade, Vermilion Onyx, Primordial Ruby, Imperial Amethyst, Sun's Radiance, River's Heart.