Gemming and Item Level?

[jurassicsnark]

I'm hoping someone here can help me. I've been leveling my little prot warrior (level 73, reduced Northrend XP FTW!), and I've taken up Mining and Engineering as professions (and I'm loving it!).

I've skilled up enough to make and wear Armored Titanium Goggles.

The iLevel on these is 200.  The goggles have two gem slots - 1 yellow, and 1 meta.

I'm new

Comments

[artistic_g4m3r]

My warrior is only 72, and is also prot. And I don't quite know stat priorities/gemming priorities, so you may want to take what I say with a grain of salt stat wise.

Autumn's Glow, King's Amber, and Sun Crystal are the yellow gems in that level range. The only stat that I would go with pure yellow is dodge. So anything with Subtle in the name.

Dark Jade, Forest Emerald, and Eye of Zul are the green gems in that level range. Nimble and Forceful look like the only cuts that have any relevent tanking stats (one has dodge and the other stam)

Ametrine, Monarch Topaz, and Huge Citrine are the orange gems in that range. Looks like the best cut for orange is Champions (Str/dodge)

So I'd either go for a yellow gem or an orange gem. The cuts for green are meh.

[jurassicsnark]

This is awesome! I was looking for actual gem names to plug into the AH search field to see what I could find. I did purchase a Puissant Dream Emerald (?) for 5g, hoping to get the +30 STA bonus, but it's now sitting in my bank until a higher-level item comes along. :(

I'm not a jewelcrafter, have no real knowledge of the gems, and just didn't have a clue where to start. This was a huge help. Thank you so much. :)

[artistic_g4m3r]

My preist was a Max JC in wrath, and I've recently picked her up again and started doing the Cata JC dailies. So since you're in NR I knew what gems to look for level wise.

Yeah, that green gem you bought is a cata gem, so you won't be able to use that until 80+. I don't know if the Pussiant cut exists for NR gems since mastery is a stat that got introduced afterwards.

I'm looking at the gems on WoWhead again and either the green quality gems don't have as many cuts or wowhead is wrong. I'm looking at green gems that are blue quality and I'm seeing quite a few more cuts, one being Stam/dodge (Regal) Resolute (expertise/dodge) and Stalwart (parry/dodge) look like decent cuts for blue quality orange gems as well.

[jurassicsnark]

I ended up buying a Perfect Regal Dark Jade (+7 Dodge, +10 Sta) for 9g - well worth the cost to get that Sta boost.

My biggest problem is the sheer amount of information that's there to sift through, especially when I have no clue (My toons are primarily gatherers for the gold, except for my two engineers, so I was totally lost). I knew someone here would be able to help. :)

[chapeauxchick]

Just so you know with meta gems if it requires, for example, one yellow gem and one blue gem a green gem will cover *both* of those requirements for you. Not sure what meta you are using so I don't know what requirements you need to meet, but I figured I'd pass on that info!

[jurassicsnark]

I had no idea you could do this! I've made a note of it for future reference. Thank you! :D

[lizzie_borden]

I had no idea this was possible either-- thanks for mentioning it!

[chilayse]

Not a lot of jewelcrafters sell wrath era gem cuts. If you can't find gems for that time, you can either ignore it, or find a jewelcrafter to cut them for you out of the regular gems. Check in your guild?

Remember that green/orange/purple each count as both the colors that are mixed into making it. This is how I can have a meta gem with a requirement of oh say 2 yellow gems, and not a single gem on my gear that's yellow. I have two orange gems on. I don't even remember wrath cuts but there are gems that have stats like dodge and parry mixed into them somewhere.

[jurassicsnark]

I actually was able to find a really decent selection on my server's AH; either a bunch of people are skilling up, or someone had a bunch of old leftovers that they're trying to get rid of. They were a bit more expensive than the current cuts, but not by much. Maybe I'm just lucky, I don't know.

What I cannot find is 'scroll of enchant' anything. Looks like once the patch dropped, all the existing supply was bought up, and everyone is too busy to make more. *sigh*

There's always something.

[jestana]

What server are you on and are you Allied or Horde? I ask because I have a dranei JC on Mok'Nathal (US) and would be willing to make gems for you if you're on the server. I don't have the epic wrath cuts at the moment, but I have some Dalaran jeweler's tokens that I can use to buy patterns.

[jurassicsnark]

I really appreciate the offer, but I'm Silvermoon, Horde-side. :) It's pretty well populated, so I usually never have trouble finding someone to craft anything for me if need be.

But, thanks for the offer!

[jestana]

Ah well. It was worth offering. I didn't bother with gemming until I got to 85 and knew I was going to be using the gear for awhile.

[drubear]

For talents, glyphs, gems and enchants I head on over to http://www.wowpopular.com/ to see what people are doing.

Gem Helper ( http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7427-GemHelper.html ) and Pawn ( http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7296-Pawn.html#info) have info on helping you pick gems. I can never keep track of what the silly names are and the AH search is little help. It would be nice to look for, e.g., Agility gems that you could equip.

[jurassicsnark]

I did check out wowpopular, which is why I ended up buying the Puissant Dream Emerald. I find that most of the stuff on that site is geared toward level 85 (or whatever the max level is at the time), and I'm only 73 at the moment. I do use it for checking glyphs and builds.

I'll definitely be trying out the two addons, though. Never heard of either of them, but they sound very useful! Thanks for the suggestion! :)

[heinous_bitca]

The new gems will say on them that they require an item level, aka, the item you're putting the gem in has to have that ilevel or higher. They didn't used to say that; it was added in in patch 4.3.