What does it cost to level Jewelcrafting right now?

2.9kg in reagents at today's US auction prices, over about 107 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 2.8kg. 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 16:57 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 · US · prices as of 16:57 UTC

Jewelcrafting leveling 1 → 100 · Cataclysm Jewelcrafting

2.9kg in reagents over about 107 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 2.8kg. 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

Demonseye×7418

1,358

×741,358

Deepholm Iolite×10125

Total2,881

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 18

Yellow

Bold Carnelian

trainer

About 23 crafts.263

per skill point15

Carnelian×23

Step 2 · Skill 18 → 65

Orange→Green

Sovereign Demonseye

needs the recipe item

About 74 crafts.1,358

per skill point28

Demonseye×74

Step 3 · Skill 65 → 75

Orange

Rigid Deepholm Iolite

needs the recipe item

About 10 crafts.1,259

per skill point125

Deepholm Iolite×10

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

Sovereign Demonseye7482

7461

Bold Carnelian2382

2318

Rigid Deepholm Iolite1090

109

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

Back in your pocket2,792

What's worth crafting with Jewelcrafting right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Jewelcrafting right now?: 2.9kg in reagents at today's US auction prices, over about 107 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 2.8kg. 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 16:57 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.