What does it cost to level Jewelcrafting right now?

591g in reagents at today's TW auction prices, over about 99 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 548g.

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 · Outland Jewelcrafting · TW · prices as of 17:54 UTC

Jewelcrafting leveling 1 → 75 · Outland Jewelcrafting

591g in reagents over about 99 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 548g.

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

Empyrean Sapphire×522

Total591

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 20

Orange→Green

Prismatic Black Diamond

trainer

About 36 crafts.36

per skill point1

Black Diamond×36

Step 2 · Skill 20 → 25

Orange

Sovereign Shadow Draenite

needs the recipe item

About 5 crafts.30

per skill point6

Shadow Draenite×5

Step 3 · Skill 25 → 35

Yellow

Glinting Shadow Draenite

needs the recipe item

About 14 crafts.84

per skill point8

Shadow Draenite×14

Step 4 · Skill 35 → 40

Yellow

Sovereign Shadow Draenite

needs the recipe item

About 7 crafts.42

per skill point8

Shadow Draenite×7

Step 5 · Skill 40 → 50

Orange

Mystic Dawnstone

needs the recipe item

About 10 crafts.90

per skill point9

Dawnstone×10

Step 6 · Skill 50 → 70

Orange→Yellow

Facet of Eternity

needs the recipe item

About 22 crafts.198

per skill point9

Dawnstone×22

Step 7 · Skill 70 → 75

Orange

Solid Empyrean Sapphire

needs the recipe item

About 5 crafts.111

per skill point22

Empyrean Sapphire×5

Skill 75 — done. Now sell what you made.

Crafted itemUnitsEachTotal

Facet of Eternity2270

2215

Glinting Shadow Draenite1462

148

Sovereign Shadow Draenite1267

128

Mystic Dawnstone1070

107

Solid Empyrean Sapphire570

Prismatic Black Diamond0/360

0/360

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

Back in your pocket548

What's worth crafting with Jewelcrafting right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Jewelcrafting right now?: 591g in reagents at today's TW auction prices, over about 99 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 548g.
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.