Jewelry is one of the best gold makers and it’s pretty easy too. Do the jewelery daily quest every day, this will yield around 100g daily or a new gem recipe once every 3-4 days.
Crafting jewels is just as lovely depending on raids and new gear, so keep these 3 at a time and be more focused during peak times.
The average Cardinal Ruby costs around 100 gold on each server and cuts can go as high as 150g, NEVER post for more than 12 hours (unless told to) due to high auction house deposit.
In this market, you will find people undercutting deeply, sometimes below the reduced price.
Example: Purchase of Cardinal Ruby 100g
Bold Cardinal Ruby 130g player a
Bold Cardinal Ruby 129g player b
Bold Cardinal Ruby 128g player c
Bold Cardinal Ruby 102g player d
When you see a person doing this, it’s best to just buy it and repost it for a quick profit, and save a minute without cutting another.
Gems tend to go for 80-110 gold uncut on servers and 105-150 slicing. This market can be crowded on some servers, but it’s still worth it if you know what you’re doing.
Since uncut gems can be bought with honor and emblems, have a macro that you use whenever you’re in a city, for example.
“Buy all [Cardinal Rubys] 85/90/95 (depending on the server) Each! CoD o/whisper to me”
Also always trade people who sell cardinal rubies in trade, these people just bought them and don’t really care how much they get if it’s average, just by looking at the trade channel I can get 20-30 cardinal rubies daily.
Check with the auction house which gems are currently selling the most, but keep in mind what they typically sell for so you don’t end up with 40 worthless gems because they sold for a high price that day. Of course you can buy yellow/blue/purple gems, but I mostly use the red Cardinal Ruby ones.
Sometimes your competitors will lower your buy price by just a few silver coins and bid by several gold coins, when they post below or close to the Cardinal Ruby price, they simply bid on the gem, like this it will cost more to cancel. and it is not any risk for you because even if you win it (almost never, but it happens) you will get more gems to sell and you won’t have to waste time cutting them.
The rare red gems are also selling well, not for as high of a price, but still a very good percentage of profit. With the Gem Perfection quest completed, you will sometimes get a “perfect gem” that has better stats and will of course sell for more slashes than normal, so if you haven’t done this quest, do so before you start slicing. .
Runed Bloodstone, Bold Bloodstone, Bright Bloodstone, and Delicate Bloodstone should be your best sellers, but check your server’s auction house to be sure.
You can also benefit from prospecting for saronite ore, which is even better if you’re enchanting because you can turn the green gems into rings/necklaces etc. and of.