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Cataclysm Prospecting Elementium Ore With Video

By on Dec 07, 2010 in Jewelcrafting, Professions, Warcraft Econ

It’s that time again… the time to prospect ore in a new expansion. We went to the auction house today and picked up 32 stacks of  [Elementium Ore] for around ~6700g, which comes out to about 200g per stack. We would think that this is a pretty good price considering it’s only the second day of Cataclysm and before the introduction of Wotlk epic gems, Titanium was going for about this amount. Hopefully we can show you what to expect when prospecting elementium, which is the second tier ore, similar to Saronite Ore. Now the point of this is not to showcase a new Saronite Shuffle gold making method… yet, but mainly a way to obtain gems to level Jewelcrafting to 525. If you are going for realm first, you need to at least level it to 475 skill on the first day to unlock the JC daily at your respective capital cities. We also provided a long video of the entire 32 stack prospect, but still refer to the averages below before you come to any conclusions.

Prospecting Results

640 (32 Stacks @ 210g per) [Elementium Ore]

Requires 475 Jewelcrafting to prospect, [Obsidium Ore] only requires 450 skill.

128 Prospects

141 Uncommon Gems

26 Rare Gems

Total Cost: ~6700g  for 167 gems (40g per gem)

Notes

  • You will receive a minimum of 1 uncommon gem
  • Each prospect can also contain 2x rares or 2x uncommon gems
  • Sometimes you even get 3 gems per prospect, but please see averages below
  • Average 5 gems per stack or 1 gem per prospect
  • According to our sample, we came close to 1 rare per stack
  • According to our sample, we received 4.5 uncommon gems per stack
  • Based on what we paid, it averages to 40g per gem
    • meaning if you have a choice of prospecting or buying raw gems, calculate how much a stack costs then divide by 5 and compare that to the cost of a single gem)

Macros

/cast Prospecting
/use Obsidian Ore
/use Elementium Ore

Other Info

Here are the prospecting percentages based on Wowhead’s data, which is still only a small sample size currently.

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  • Bob

    Excellent work my friend

  • wowcataclysmcomco

    am loving the game ain't you? Have been playing it now for 8 hours straight! Goto love the new Graphics on there! have you seen the video made by the blizzard guys on how they created the scenes from start to finish yet?

    -P
    My recent post World of Warcraft- Cataclysm Zone Creation Video

    • http://www.warcraftecon.net Warcraftecon

      Wow, crazy video.

  • http://www.wowfordummies.org/ wowfordummies

    This is good stuff. I am out farming ores in the game and will be doing so until the prices drop. But it is a jungle out there trying to get these ores and even herbs.

    But I am wondering if it will ever be a good thing to go back to the Basin and collect out there, well players just abandon it leaving it to be to much trouble to get to?
    My recent post Making Gold While Fishing In World Of Warcraft

  • http://www.warcraftecon.net Warcraftecon

    It really depends on your realm's prices of wrath ore and bars. There will be a demand for players who created new toons or are leveling JC/BS from scratch. However in the mean time, stick with Cataclysm materials for now while prices still exceed old world ore by a significant amount.

  • Andy

    What's the name of your unit frames addons, including bars, bags, and minimap? Looks clean, I really want to use it myself.

    • http://www.warcraftecon.net Warcraftecon

      http://www.Tukui.org

      The addon package is not a traditional one. A lot of editing is done outside the game, through LUA code. I am no expert a coding anything, but the author makes it fairly easy to edit things with the help of their forums. Recently they added an in-game interface for editing, but for full customization, you're gonna have to do some digging through the code.

      • Andy

        I was looking for this for like two hours before I saw your post. AAh! Thank you!

  • Andy

    One more question. What's the name of the addon that adds that black bar along the very top of your screen? I'd like to give it a try.
    Thanks,
    Andy

    • http://www.warcraftecon.net Warcraftecon

      It is from an addon called "Skinner". You can create different boxes on your UI. That one is just a wide rectangle with a glossy black texture. The addons that sit on top comes from a separate addon called "Fubar". The bar option was set to 100% transparent so the bar can show up underneath.

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  • Goldby

    oh no, selling green cata gems to the vendor is no longer 9g a pop :( , its 75 SILVER… now you can sell uncut green gems for 5g… but that doesn't offset nerf. what to do what to do?