Midnight Jewelcrafting Specialization Guide & Best Builds

This guide covers the four Jewelcrafting specialization trees in Midnight: Glamorous Gems, Alluring Accessories, Proficient Processor, and Thoughtful Throughput. I made builds for gemcutting, jewelry and profession tools, reagent crafting, and prospecting with gem crushing.

Getting Knowledge Points

This guide is only about builds and where to put your points. If you need help finding knowledge points, check out my main guide:

Timeline & Unlock Pace

You can get around 40-50 knowledge points on your first day from first crafts and one-time treasures, plus a few more if you have enough renown to buy the knowledge book. After that, you get about 15-17 per week from weekly quests, treasure drops, and treatises.

The builds below are based on that first 40-50 point mark, and I added suggestions for what to do as you get more points over time.

Specialization Overview

Best Profession Gear and Stats for Jewelcrafting

Which stat you want depends on what you're crafting. The simple rule: if a craft can Multicraft, use Multicraft. If it can't, use Resourcefulness.

How do you know if it can Multicraft? Check the recipe in your profession window, if you see Multicraft listed on the right side, it can Multicraft. If not, it can't.

• Gems and reagents can Multicraft, so use a Multicraft tool with a Multicraft enchant. (every proc gives you extra items for free)
• Rings, necklaces, and profession tools cannot Multicraft, so use a Resourcefulness tool with a Resourcefulness enchant. (saves materials on expensive crafts)
• Prospecting and Crushing also cannot Multicraft. Use Resourcefulness here too.

If you're doing both gemcutting and jewelry, keep two tools and swap between them.

Builds & Talent Trees

Which Build Should You Choose?

If you're not sure, go Gemcutting. Gems sell well because every socketed piece of gear needs them, and you can sell them on the AH without waiting for crafting orders. Jewelry & Accessories is the pick if you want to craft epic gear.

Reagent Crafter and Prospecting & Crushing are for players who want to mass craft and sell on the AH. Reagent Crafter focuses on crafting materials, while Prospecting & Crushing focuses on turning ore into gems and gems into Glimmering Gemdust.

• Gemcutting: For crafting uncommon and Flawless gems to sell on the Auction House.
• Jewelry & Accessories: For crafting epic rings, necklaces, and profession accessories.
• Reagent Crafter: For selling reagents on the AH.
• Prospecting & Crushing: For processing ores into gems and crushing gems into Glimmering Gemdust.

Gemcutting

Jewelry & Accessories

Reagent Crafter

Prospecting & Crushing

Gemcutting

This build is for crafting gems to sell on the Auction House. Gems sell well because every socketed piece of gear needs them, so there is always demand.

Pick Your First Color

Pick a gem color to specialize in first. You can probably make gold with all of them, if you are not sure what to pick, check class BiS guides to see which stat combos are most popular across specs, then start with the color that covers the most demand.

Phase 1: Multicraft (0-35 Points)

1. 5 points into Thoughtful Throughput. Pick Outrageous Output.
2. 30 points into Outrageous Output for maximum Multicraft.

Phase 2: Choose your Path

Resourcefulness First

You get Resourcefulness early so you save more materials. You won't hit Gold quality right away, but your Silver quality crafts will cost less to make.

Gold Quality First

You rush Skill to reach Gold quality without needing Concentration. You won't have crafting stats early on, but you can craft Gold gems without spending Concentration.

Resourcefulness Gold Quality

Phase 2: Resourcefulness (35-75 Points)

1. 10 points into Thoughtful Throughput.
2. Put 30 points into Skilled Savings.

Phase 2: Get more +Skill (35-105 Points)

1. Put 25 points into your color sub-spec to unlock all three gem recipes.
2. 30 points into Glamorous Gems root.
3. 15 points into your chosen gem.

This is just an example, replicate the steps for your chosen gem.

Phase 3: Finishing your build

Now if you picked Resourcefulness first, you can start putting points into your gem sub-spec to unlock the Flawless recipes and increase your Skill. If you went for Gold quality first, you can start putting points into Thoughtful Throughput for more crafting stats. Basically just complete both builds in the previous phase.

What's next?

Start working on a second gem color to expand your market. All gems work the same way, just replicate the steps you took for your first color in the second one.

Jewelry & Accessories

This build is for crafting epic rings, necklaces, and profession accessories. You can craft these for yourself or fill crafting orders for other players.

Pick Your Focus

You can specialize in rings, necklaces, or profession accessories. (the profession accessories cover JC, Enchanting, and Inscription) Profession tools sell best at launch when every crafter needs them, but demand drops off over time.

If you're not sure, pick rings or necklaces. Every class wears two rings and a necklace, so they are the safer choice.

Phase 1: Getting Skill bonus (0-70 Points)

Pick which category you want to craft first and rush to the recipe unlocks.

1. 30 points into the Root node.
2. Fill your chosen sub-spec to 40.

All three sub-specs work the exact same way, this is an example for Rings, just replicate these steps in the other two specs if you want to go that way.

Phase 2: Second Category or Stats (70+ Points)

Option A: Second Category

Pick another sub-spec and fill it to 40. The root is already maxed, so you only need 40 more points to reach Gold quality on a second category.

Option B: Crafting Stats

Start Thoughtful Throughput and put 30 points into Skilled Savings for Resourcefulness. (Jewelry can't Multicraft, so Resourcefulness is the better stat here)

Reagent Crafter

This build is for crafting reagents to sell on the Auction House. Every JC build needs these reagents, and some of them are used by other professions too.

What You're Crafting

Recipe	Description	Source
Sunglass Vial	Basic Reagent	Trainer (5)
Sin'dorei Lens	Basic Reagent	Trainer (10)
Kaleidoscopic Prism	Basic Reagent	Trainer (40)
Prismatic Focusing Iris	Optional Reagent	Drop: Lothraxion (Nexus-Point Xenas)
Stabilizing Gemstone Bandolier	Optional Reagent	Drop: Heavy Trunk (Delves)

Phase 1: Multicraft (0-35 Points)

1. 5 points into Thoughtful Throughput.
2. 30 points into Outrageous Output for Multicraft.

Phase 2: Choose your Path

Resourcefulness First

You get Resourcefulness first so you save more materials. You won't reach Gold quality right away, but your Silver quality reagents will be cheaper to make.

Gold Quality First

You rush Skill to craft Gold quality reagents without Concentration. You won't have crafting stats early on, but you reach Gold quality faster.

Resourcefulness Gold Quality

Phase 2: Resourcefulness (35-75 Points)

1. 10 points into Thoughtful Throughput.
2. 30 points into Skilled Savings for Resourcefulness.

Phase 2: Skill for Gold Quality (35-125 Points)

1. 15 points into the root node to grab the 30 Multicraft.
2. 30 points into Material Manufacturer.
3. 15 points into the root node to max it out.
4. 30 points into Basic Reagents or Optional reagents and max it out.

I'm picking the Basic Reagents path in this example, pick Optional Reagents if you want to focus on crafting those instead.

35-80 points

Pick your focus (80-125 points)

Phase 3: Finishing your build

If you picked Resourcefulness first, now you can fill the Proficient Processor tree for Gold quality. If you went Gold Quality first, get Resourcefulness from Thoughtful Throughput. Just complete whichever path you didn't pick.

Prospecting & Crushing

This build is all about processing. You prospect ore to get gems and crush gems into Gemdust. Both sell well on the AH since every Jewelcrafter needs them, and later you can expand into gemcutting or reagent crafting if you want to do more with the materials yourself.

Prospecting Build Crushing Build

Phase 1: Prospecting (0-30 Points)

1. 10 points into Proficient Processor.
2. 30 points into Prospecting Pro. The last node is very important to get here for the extra gems.
3. 1 point each into the three ore types. You can probably leave out Thorium for now, it's probably not going to be worth prospecting at the start.

Now this was recently changed in the Beta that these Prospecting sub-specializations only need 1 point each, so I'm not sure if this is a bug or intended.

Phase 2: Resourcefulness and Skill

1. 10 points into Thoughtful Throughput.
2. Put 30 points into Skilled Savings.

Phase 3: Gold Quality

1. 20 points into Proficient Processor.

With this setup you are all set. If you get at least Blue Quality professions tools you can get guaranteed Gold Quality gems from prospecting.

Phase 1: Resourcefulness (0-35 Points)

1. 10 points into Thoughtful Throughput.
2. Put 30 points into Skilled Savings for Resourcefulness.

Phase 2: Crushing (35-105 Points)

Note: If you don't want to get to Gold Quality, there is actually not that much here for Crushing, you will only get an extra 10 Resourcefulness, so you could start going for Prospecting too if you are making good profit with Silver Quality gemdust.

1. 10 points into Proficient Processor.
2. 40 points into Crushing Connoisseur.
3. 20 into Proficient Processor.

From here you can branch into Prospecting Pro if you want to prospect your own ore, or into gemcutting/reagent crafting to do more with the materials.