What does it cost to level Jewelcrafting right now?

4.1kg in reagents at today's TW auction prices, over about 134 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 4kg. 75% of the route is priced

Where do these numbers come from?

The skill thresholds are read from the game client data for build 12.1.0.68914. The prices are the region-wide auction house, refreshed every few minutes; these are the snapshot taken at 17:54 UTC.

Why does the route change when I reload?

Because the prices did. The cheapest recipe for a stretch of skill is whichever one's reagents are cheapest at that moment, and that moves through the day.

Profession leveling · Cataclysm Jewelcrafting · TW · prices as of 17:54 UTC

Jewelcrafting leveling 1 → 100 · Cataclysm Jewelcrafting

4.1kg in reagents over about 134 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 4kg. 75% of the route is priced

Start skill

Trainer recipes only

Recipe names carry the colour the profession window gives them: orange is a point every craft, yellow is three in four, green is one in four.

Before the first craft — buy it all at once

One trip to the auction house. Vendor lines are cheaper from the profession vendor than from the board.

ReagentNeedEachTotal

Total4,090

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 35

Yellow→Green

Subtle Alicite

needs the recipe item

About 91 crafts.910

per skill point26

Alicite×91

Step 2 · Skill 35 → 57

Orange→Yellow

Subtle Amberjewel

needs the recipe item

About 25 crafts.1,375

per skill point62

Amberjewel×25

Step 3 · Skill 57 → 75

Orange

Smooth Lightstone

needs the recipe item

About 18 crafts.1,805

per skill point100

Lightstone×18

Skill 75 → 100

Every recipe over this stretch has a reagent nobody is selling right now, so it is left out of the totals.

Skill 100 — done. Now sell what you made.

Crafted itemUnitsEachTotal

Subtle Alicite9182

9175

Subtle Amberjewel2582

2520

Smooth Lightstone1890

1816

Capped at what the market takes in 3 days, so a route never pretends to sell hundreds at once.

Back in your pocket3,978

What's worth crafting with Jewelcrafting right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Jewelcrafting right now?: 4.1kg in reagents at today's TW auction prices, over about 134 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 4kg. 75% of the route is priced
Where do these numbers come from?: The skill thresholds are read from the game client data for build 12.1.0.68914. The prices are the region-wide auction house, refreshed every few minutes; these are the snapshot taken at 17:54 UTC.
Why does the route change when I reload?: Because the prices did. The cheapest recipe for a stretch of skill is whichever one's reagents are cheapest at that moment, and that moves through the day.

A first craft pays Knowledge, not skill, so it is shown as a badge and left out of the craft count. Vendor reagents are priced at the lower of the vendor and the auction house.