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World of Warcraft players, with the release of the Burning Crusade expansion now have the World of Warcraft Jewelcrafting to create necklaces, rings, crowns and many other items that were previously only acquired from loot drops and quest rewards.

As in Diablo II you can socket items to enhance your armor. The Jewelcrafting profession is used to carve gems to fit into sockets. You can increase armor enhancements by adding jewels to sockets the enhancement level is based on the type of jewels used. Most usable gems come from jewelcrafting although some dangerous monsters drop usable gems.

Any character can add gems to a socketed item, this the only alteration allowed. You can’t add sockets, change or remove sockets from any item. Once you have your jewel from a jewelcrafter, shift-right-clicking the item you wish to place the jewel in then drop the jewel in the socket of the window that pops up. After you have placed the jewel just click the socket gems button and create the new item. If you are replacing a old jewel with a new jewel the old jewel will be completely destroyed.

To acquire raw materials jewelcrafting should be paired with mining. Rings and other jewelry can be made by jewelcrafters with metal ores to be sold. Copper rings are the first things that a jewelcrafter will make but other items quickly become available. For 8 silver you can get a jewelcrafting kit. Making a item that is easily made from the resources available many times will increase your skill level faster.

At level 20 you may learn prospecting from the jewelcrafting trainer. With this you can extract gems from the ores that you have mined. Learning prospecting will increase the chance of you finding gems for jewelry.

Getting your score up to 300 as quickly as possible should be your goal. The path you take will be determined by what materials are readily available to you and the space you have in your inventory.