This trade skill allows a character to make useful jewelry items, but can be expensive to raise unless you know a player knows what he is doing.

Everquest makes many trade skills

available to players. Some of these trade skills are more useful

than others, but one trade skill that can makes items useful to every

player is jewelcrafting. The jewelcrafting skill can be expensive

and difficult to raise, but produces a variety of stat-boosting and

resistance items.An Everquest character who wants to

start a jewelcrafting career needs a jewel kit and a supply of metal

bars. It helps if the character has access to an enchanter who can

produce the enchanted metals necessary to make magical jewelry with

the skill.

Everquest makes many trade skills available to players. Some of these trade skills are more useful than others, but one trade skill that can makes items useful to every player is jewelcrafting. The jewelcrafting skill can be expensive and difficult to raise, but produces a variety of stat-boosting and resistance items.

An Everquest character who wants to start a jewelcrafting career needs a jewel kit and a supply of metal bars. It helps if the character has access to an enchanter who can produce the enchanted metals necessary to make magical jewelry with the skill.

Raising Jewelcrafting in Everquest

Trade skills in Everquest follow the same basic pattern. The ingredients must be combined in a container for the appropriate trade skill. Jewelcrafting makes it easier because the jeweler's kit required can be carried in the player's inventory slots. This feature means that a player does not have to level jewelcrafting in a city.

The pattern is to raise jewelcrafting a jewel + enchanted metal + (optional) other ingredients for higher level recipes. Silver jewelry is the easiest to produce with the jewelcrafting skill and the difficulty for the jewelry increase to electrum, gold, and then platinum. According to Allakhazam's Everquest section, platinum jewelry is never trivial.

Getting to a 170 or Higher Skill in Jewelcrafting

The following list is adapted from the guide on the Allakhazam website. More detailed lists and the materials needed to make jewelry can be found on EQ Traders.

• 0-21: Silver Cat's Eye Agate
• 22-26: Silver Bloodstone
• 26-31: Silver Carnelian
• 31-40: Silver Jade
• 41-48: Silver Emerald
• 49-76: Electrum Lapis Lazuli
• 77-84: Electrum Cat's Eye Agate
• 85-95: Electrum Carnelian
• 96-108: Electrum Pearl
• 109-115: Electrum Peridot
• 116-120: Electrum Opal
• 121-146: Gold Malachite
• 147-156: Gold Cat's Eye Agate
• 157-167: Gold Carnelian
• 168-178: Gold Jade

Making Magical Jewelry with Jewelcrafting

The jewelcrafting items that tend to be in highest demand amongst placers are items that boost resistances, but when trying to raise this skill in Everquest, getting the metals enchanted is usually a wasted effort. Demand for the items that can be produced at the lowest skill levels is low and enchanting does not raise the value of the item when sold back to a vendor. An Everquest character should expect to spend several thousand platinum if he intends to raise this skill to its maximum level.

Resources:

Everquest Blacksmithing Guide

Everquest Tinkering Guide

Allakhazam's Jewelcrafting Guide