Garrisons and Professions: Spotlight on Jewelcrafting & The Gem Boutique

This post in one in a series of posts that will be in regards to garrisons and professions in Warlords of Draenor and how they interact with each other, and on their own.

Unlike previous expansions professions are much more involved this expansion, even if somewhat simplified at the same time.  Being tied to buildings in the garrisons it not only opens up more options but different options to either supplement a profession you already have or fill the role of a profession you do not have.

Note:  As warlords is still in beta, it is possible some of this information might change before the expansion is released.

Spotlight on Jewelcrafting:

List or all materials you will need to make all items in your jewel crafting skill book:

Gems: Taladite Crystal.
Herbs: Fireweed, Frostweed, Gorgrond Flytrap, Nagrand Arrowbloom, Starflower, Talador Orchid.
Ore: True Iron Ore, Blackiron Ore.
Elements: Sorcerous Air, Sorcerous Earth, Sorcerous Fire.
Misc: Savage Blood. (from level 3 garrison barn building)

Gems:
Note:  There are no gem colors in warlords, all gems can go in all slots.

Critical Strike Taladite: +35 Critical Strike
1 - Taladite Crystal, 5 - Fireweed
Haste Taladite: +35 Haste
1 - Taladite Crystal, 5 - Frostweed
Mastery Taladite: +35 Mastery
1 - Taladite Crystal, 5 - Starflower
Multistrike Taladite: +35 Multistrike
1 - Taladite Crystal, 5 - Nagrand Arrowbloom
Stamina Taladite: +35 Stamina
1 - Taladite Crystal,  5 - Talador Orchid
Versatility Taladite: +35 Versatility
1 - Taladite Crystal, 5 - Gorgrond Flytrap
Greater Critical Strike Taladite: +50 Critical Strike
50 - Taladite Crystal, 10 - Sorcerous Air, 5 - Fireweed
Greater Haste Taladite: +50 Haste
50 - Taladite Crystal, 10 - Sorcerous Air, 5 - Frostweed
Greater Mastery Taladite: +50 Mastery
50 - Taladite Crystal, 10 - Sorcerous Air, 5 - Starflower
Greater Multistrike Taladite: +50 Multistrike
50 - Taladite Crystal, 10 - Sorcerous Air, 5 - Nagrand Arrowbloom
Greater Stamina Taladite: +50 Stamina
50 - Taladite Crystal,  10 - Sorcerous Air, 5 - Talador Orchid
Greater Versatility Taladite: +50 Versatility
50 - Taladite Crystal, 10 - Sorcerous Air, 5 - Gorgrond Flytrap

Rings:  (part of the warlords crafted 3)

Glowing Blackrock Band: 585 item level, strength and 2 random enchantments, BoP
5 - Taladite Crystal, 5 - Blackiron Ore
Glowing Iron Band: 540 item level, strength and 2 random enchantments, BoP
5 - Taladite Crystal, 5 - True Iron Ore
Shifting Blackrock Band: 585 item level, agility and 2 random enchantments, BoP
5 - Taladite Crystal, 5 - Blackiron Ore
Shifting Iron Band: 540 item level, agility and 2 random enchantments, BoP
5 - Taladite Crystal, 5 - True Iron Ore
Whispering Backrock Band: 585 item level, intellect and 2 random enchantments, BoP
5 - Taladite Crystal, 5 - Blackiron Ore
Whispering Iron Band: 540 item level, intellect and 2 random enchantments, BoP
5 - Taladite Crystal, 5 - True Iron Ore
Glowing Taladite Ring: 640 item level, strength and 2 random enchantments
100 - Taladite Crystal, 10 - True Iron Ore, 10 - Blackiron Ore
Shifting Taladite Ring: 640 item level, agility and 2 random enchantments
100 - Taladite Crystal, 10 - True Iron Ore, 10 - Blackiron Ore
Whispering Taladite Ring: 640 item level, intellect and 2 random enchantments
100 - Taladite Crystal, 10 True Iron Ore, 10 - Blackiron Ore

Necks: (part of the warlords crafted 3)

Glowing Iron Choker: 550 item level, strength and 2 random enchantments, BoP
5 - Taladite Crystal, 10 - True Iron Ore
Shifting Iron Choker: 550 item level, agility and 2 random enchantments, BoP
5 - Taladite Crystal, 10 - True Iron Ore
Whispering Iron Choker: 550 item level, intellect and 2 random enchantments, BoP
5 - Taladite Crystal, 10 - True Iron Ore
Glowing Taladite Pendant: 640 item level, strength and 2 random enchantments
100 - Taladite Crystal, 10 - True Iron Ore, 10 - Blackiron Ore
Shifting Taladite Pendant: 640 item level, agility and 2 random enchantments
100 - Taladite Crystal, 10 - True Iron Ore, 10 - Blackiron Ore
Whispering Taladite Pendant: 640 item level, intellect and 2 random enchantments
100 - Taladite Crystal, 10 - True Iron Ore, 10 - Blackiron Ore

Upgrades:

Taladite Amplifier: Upgrades a 640 jewel crafting item to 655
150 Taladite Crystal, 30 Sorcerous Earth, 15 - Savage Blood
Greater Taladite Amplifier: Upgrades a 655 jewel crafting item to 665
200 - Taladite Crystal, 40 Sorcerous Air, 15 - Savage Blood

Enhancement:

Taladite Recrystalizer: Reroll the secondary stats on a jewel crafting item 640 or higher
10 - Taladite Crystal, 10 - True Iron Ore
 
Materials:

Secrets of Draenor Jewelcrafting: Currency (cooldown)
5 - Blackrock Ore
Taladite Crystal: Material (currency)
20 - Blackrock Ore, 10 - True Iron Ore

Misc:

Prismatic Focusing Lens:  Project a prismatic beam on your current target.
1 - Sorcerous Earth
Reflecting Prism: Swap appearances with a party member.
1 - Sorcerous Fire

Learning Draenor Jewelcrafting:

You will receive a quest early on from a draenei chest for alliance or a bladespire chest for horde that will start a quest line.  Once you've completed the small quest line you will receive Draenor Jewelcrafting and Garrison Blueprint: Gem Boutique, Level 1.  A member of the horde faction will also get the Blazing Diamond Pendant toy when finishing the quest.  At the moment of this writing there is no way for an alliance only player to get this toy.

Draenor jewel crafting, once clicked on and learned, will boost your maximum jewel crafting skill to 700 and will teach you all of the following skills. Secrets of Draenor Jewelcrafting and Taladite Crystal, which you should start doing immediately as they are cooldown abilities, as well as the patterns for all rare quality rings and necks.  All other jewel crafting patterns listed above but not listed as being learned from the manual will need to be purchased with the currency you create from the daily cooldown for secrets of draenor jewel crafting.

If you have the gem boutique in your garrison there will be Dorogarr (horde) or Costan Highwall (alliance) whom you can purchases the plans from right there in your gem boutique.  If you do not have a gem boutique on your garrison you can travel to your hub near ashran and purchase the plans from the appropriate vendors there.

There are no items that you need both the gem boutique and the jewel crafting ability to make so as a jewel crafter you will be able to make everything with or without the gem boutique when the time comes for you to make that decision.

Once you have learned everything there is to learn, you can continue to make secrets of draenor jewelcrafting to purchase a small pouch of coins.  It remains to be seen if this will be worthwhile come live but it is nice to see that there might still be a reason to keep doing the daily secret cooldown after the 79 days it would take to purchase all the patterns.

Spotlight on The Gem Boutique:

This section will contain two parts.  One if you have jewel crafting as a profession, one if you do not.

If you have Jewelcrafting as a Profession:

Level 1 Gem Boutique:
Once you complete the small quest, mentioned above, that will award you the garrison blueprint for a level 1 gem boutique and you will be able to build your gem boutique.
A level 1 gem boutique will take 1 hour to build and requires 150 gold and 50 garrison resources.
A level 1 gem boutique allows you to produce 7 work orders at a time.

Level 2 Gem Boutique:
A level 2 gem boutique requires you to have a level 2 town hall.
A level 2 gem boutique requires you to have set up your talador outpost or be level 96.
A level 2 gem boutique will take 1 hour to build and requires 300 gold and 100 garrison resources.
A level 2 gem boutique allows you to produce 14 work orders at a time.
A level 2 gem boutique allows you to assign a follower with the jewel crafting trait to work there.

The blueprint for the level 2 gem boutique is available for purchase, after you meet the requirements listed above, from Rezlak (horde) or Sparz Bolttwist (alliance) in your garrison town hall for 750 gold.
Alternatively you can purchase the blueprints with an Outpost Building Assembly Notes item from Torgg Flexington (horde) or Kinkade Jakobs (alliance) at your ashran base.
Two copies of Outpost Building Assembly Notes can be obtained free from questing by completing the outpost quest line, in both Spires of Arak and Gorgrond.  This could effectively save you 1500 gold.

Level 3 Gem Boutique:
A level 3 gem boutique requires you to have a level 3 town hall.
A level 3 gem boutique requires you to have completed the [Working More Orders] achievement and be level 100.
A level 3 gem boutique will take 1 hour to build and requires 500 gold and 300 garrison resources.
A level 3 gem boutique will allow you to produce 21 work orders at a time.

The blueprint for the level 3 gem boutique is available for purchase, after you meet the requirements listed above, from Rezlak (horde) or Sparz Bolttwist (alliance) in your garrison town hall for 1000 gold.

Work Orders:

The gem boutique work orders require 5 blackiron ore to produce and each order takes 4 hours to finish.  It will award you with a taladite crystal and sometimes one or more sorcerous elements needed for jewel crafting.  Having a higher level gem boutique, which allows you to produce more work orders, means you need to log in to check less often.  Orders will stack up if you are not online for a while and you will not miss out on anything. So if you have a 21 order queue you would only need to collect your products and place new orders every 84 hours, which is three and a half days, making this fantastic for those alts you sometimes forget to log into.

Working Follower:

Once your gem boutique reaches level 2 you will be allowed to assign a worker to help there.  The worker must have jewel crafting as a trait as not just any worker can be assigned to any building.  A follower working in any garrison building does not gain experience.  Consider leveling your follower first before placing them as a worker in one of your buildings.  Workers at the gem boutique have a small chance to increase the materials you get when filling work orders, depending on their level, the higher the better of course.  Also, if you have a follower working at your gem boutique you receive a daily quest that when completed can award you a bag which can contain between 150 to 300 gold.

Pros to having the profession:

Increased taladite crystal generation to make gear and gems faster, chance for additional materials from work orders.

If you do not have Jewelcrafting as a Profession:

Most things will remain the same with a few notable exceptions.
You will not be able to build an gem boutique on your garrison until you level your town hall to level 2.
Once you have a level 2 town hall you learn all level 1 profession building blueprints, so do not worry that you were incapable of doing the quest.
You will be able to make the rare rings and necks with a level 1 gem boutique.
You will be able to make all uncommon gems and the taladite recrystalizer with a level 2 gem boutique.
You will be able to make all the epic rings and necks with the level 3 gem boutique.
You will not be able to make any of the items to upgrade armor.
You will not be able to make any of the greater gems.
You will not be able to make the reflecting prism.
You will not be able to make the prismatic focusing lens.

Cons to not having jewelcrafting as a profession:

Slower generation of taladite crystals, the requirement of having to have a certain level building to craft stuff, and not being able to craft your own gear upgrades, vanity items or better gems.  While not horrible by any means, being a jewel crafter offers more options.

Catching up or Switching to Jewelcrafting in Warlords:

Even as a level 1 jewel crafter you can do the quest that will get you the gem boutique blueprints for your garrison along with the draenor jewelcrafting which when learned teaches you some items you can make.  Also, as a side bonus, even if you are a skill level 1, once you use the draenor jewelcrafting item you will attain a max level of 700, meaning no need to ever go back to train up again.

The patterns learned, while being native to draenor, do not need a high profession skill level to create. You can craft them, and all others you learn, at level 1.  Yes, this means you can craft the 640 gear and the items to upgrade it to 655 and then 665 and the +35 and +50 gems even at level 1 skill.  This means you can level up from 1 to catching up, through making patterns with just draenor based materials.

In addition to that there are many items you can find in the world that will help increase your jewel crafting skill and will speed you along up to a skill level of 600, where you will now be working on current content as the only things that will continue to give you skill ups.  All drops that start these skill gaining quests are dropped from random mobs and require a jewelcrafting skill level of 1, so you can start from the bottom up.  All of these are turned in at your garrison.

Cracked Band: 5 skill ups, up to skill level 600
Requires: 2 Blackiron Ore
Crumbling Statue: 5 skill ups, up to skill level 600
Requires: 5 True Iron Ore and 5 Blackiron Ore
Crushed Locket: 5 skill ups, up to skill level 600
Requires: 2 True Iron Ore
Crystal Shards: 5 skill ups, up to skill level 600
Requires: 4 Blackiron Ore
Headless Figurine: 5 skill ups, up to skill level 600
Requires: 6 True Iron Ore

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