Snatch Lists: Making gold off the jewelcrafting rush

Today's post is inspired by a recent frustration I've had while leveling up my jewelcrafter and working on her dailies. As I've mentioned before, you always want to start with what you know, or in this case, with what you're spending gold on yourself.

Jewelcrafting Dailies: Not so perfect

For those unfamiliar with the profession, maybe those of you who aren't a JC yourself, cataclysm offers five total daily quests to allow the procurement of tokens to buy recipes. Three of these quests require the creation of three of a particular type of gem:

• A Present for Lila - Timeless Nightstone
• Nibbler! No! - Solid Zephyrite
• Ogrezonians in the Mood - Jagged Jasper

Now, normally this would be a very basic requirement. Buy or acquire 3 of each gem, cut them, and trade to the vendor. The problem here lies with the JC ability to create a "perfect" gem, such as Perfect Jagged Jasper. These, regrettably, do not count towards the 3 gem requirement. This means that for any JC who gets 1 (or more) of these on their daily, they are stuck with two options: (1) Cut another gem and hope (2) Purchase a precut gem off the AH.

There's a couple key factors that come into play here. One - the smart jewelcrafter will understand that a raw jasper has the potential to be worth more than a cut one. Secondly, there's always the chance that that gem will proc a perfect as well, which we really don't want. All things being equal, most JCs will want to buy the pre-cut version if it is at a similar cost. For some, they might even buy it at a premium of 10 or 20g over the uncut version just to ensure they don't waste another uncut gem.

The way to capitalize on this is simple, add these items to your snatch lists now. If you can snag them anywhere near vendor cost, buy them all out. Right now they're already approaching north of 80g each on my server, when they can be found.