How do you prospect ore

All products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company. Some of our stories include affiliate links. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Xbox PC app will soon let you use mods and custom install folders. Iron Ore produces Iron Powder. In addition, you will get gems. It may be possible to get 3, but I haven't seen it happen.

You can get 2 different or 2 of the same gem from one stack of 5 ore. The type of gems you get generally correspond with the level of the ore ie. There is also a chance that you'll recieve a gem from a higher or lower tier of ore. Silver, Gold, Truesilver and Dark Iron cannot be prospected.

Comment by Thottbot Do you level jewelcrafting from prospecting? Can someone post what kind of gems appear from which type of ore? Replies appreciated ;. Comment by Thottbot these are some of the metals, which seem pretty accurate to me, but you can also prospect objects like fel iron ore and junk like that..

Comment by Thottbot Has anyone found that they tend to get more gems from prospecting, or that they tend to get zero a smaller portion of the time with a higher skill level?

It seems when I'm first able to prospect an ore that I get nothing from it a large portion of the time. Comment by Thottbot Can anyone tell me what lvl you can prospect different things?

Comment by Thottbot Basics: At level 5 or higher, with a jewelcrafting of 20 or higher, you can learn prospecting from a jewelcrafting trainer, it's in your general tab in the spellbook. Click on the skill and select a stack of 5 or more standard non-precious ore listed below and you'll attempt to prospect it if your skill is high enough. When you have the prospecting skill, you'll see "Prospecting" on ores, if it's red it means your skill is too low, if it says "Not prospectable" that ore type can't be prospected.

You get gems and 1 "Powder" of the ore type Copper yields copper powder, thorium yields thorium powder, etc. This powder is vendor trash, except for the adamantite powder, which is used in high level jewelcrafting to make mercurial adamantite, a high level jewelcrafting reagent.

The ores: This will be a list of the ore, the skill level required and the gem types you can salvage from it from most to least common. Comment by Thottbot functions just like Disenchanting things Not to mention you have a chance of mining all the gems you prospect when you mine the nodes. All in all I think it has better functionality then disenchanting. Comment by Thottbot Prospecting is, by far, the easiest way to get gemstones. If you're looking to skill up jewelcrafting, it can help immensely, especially in the thorium level where there's 4 fairly rare types of gems you need and you end up with a huge surplus of thorium and not enough gems to use it all.

Earlier on, though, it is much less useful for this. Apathetic, as it were. As for potentially wasting 5 ore which doesn't feel like much to me, but I've got 4 miners : You always get dust, at least, which may be just a few silver, but it isn't a total waste. I'm not really fond of the chance to burn it for dust alone either, but it's for sure a useful ability.

For making money at lower levels? Not really. Higher levels? End game? All in all, I'd much rather have the option to burn ore for gems, even with the possible waste factor, than not have the option at all.

Purely my opinion, of course. Comment by Thottbot Does your level of jewel crafting impact the chance at blue gems? I'm level and prospected 10 stacks of fel iron ore, and got 1 glue gem Comment by Thottbot Prospecting ore is probably the only money making skill for jewelcrafters.

From my experience there is usually 1 blue gem from 1 stack of adamantite ore. I had one stack of adamantite ore prospected yesterday and got 3 blue gems. As for prospecting thorium ore or fel iron ores I do not recommand. If the API does not work, simply type the prices directly into the B colum and the calculations will still work. If you want to level up your gold making come join me on Patreon and get access to awesome rewards like Early Access to all my posts. Seems like the column with gem prices needs to be multiplied by 0.

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Search for:. Prospecting basics Prospecting is the majore way you make a profit with jewelcrafting. Red gems are king In TBC the gem colour determines what type of stats you get. Getting recipes If you want to make gold with jewelcrafting you want to get some of the gem cut recipes. Selling gems Just post one of each cut you have at the time and repost frequently. Profit calculation Prospecting is all about knowing the average yields and buying ore that is cheap enough that you can expect to profit.

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