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Commentaire de Aqzt

Will this raise the Jewelcrafting skill like DE'ing items?

Commentaire de 10621

Yields a powder (such as Copper Powder, sellable for 50c to a vendor), and sometimes gem(s).

Commentaire de homiebrah

Copper ore will yield: copper dust, malachite, and tigerseye

Commentaire de 14134

In order to Prospect Thorium Ore you need to be Jewelcrafting 250 +

Commentaire de Finko

I came across some type of bug while prospecting Mithril ore. I was able to prospect the ore no matter how large the stack, so long as there were at least 5 for the longest time. Then all of the sudden I couldn't get the prospecting to work with a stack of 12 mithril ore. It wouldn't give me an error or anything. The loot window simply wouldn't come up and the ore was not destroyed. I found that if I broke the larger stack down to stacks of 5, it would work correctly again. Hope this helps anyone that may be stuck.

Commentaire de 9117

Adamantite Ore - 325 Skill
Fel Iron Ore - 275 Skill
Thorium Ore - 250 Skill
Mithril Ore - 175 Skill
Iron Ore - 125 Skill
Tin Ore - 50 Skill
Copper Ore - 1 Skill

Commentaire de 21079

are there any charts or anything as to the chance to get certain gems from prospecting?

Commentaire de 9117

If you want to see what ore you can get a gem from, look at the prospected from tab on the gem you want.

Commentaire de 35082

If anyone can figure out how to autoloot on a prospecting (like shift+right clicking on a vein or corpse to loot everything in it..) please tell me.. i've done it before but can't figure out how.. you can't hold shift while clicking on the ore with prospect so.. yea..

Commentaire de MrAnime86

As per patch 2.1.0, prospecting ore will always yield at least one gem

Commentaire de 38686

whens this patch spose to happen?

Commentaire de 22268

List of prospectable items there: https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/items&filter=cr=89;crs=1;crv=0

Commentaire de 63282

Does anyone prospecting Khorium ore or eternium ore?

Commentaire de 69592

Most obvious use is to use it for Jewelcrafting, but I find propspecting gems to sell is quite lucrative.

Commentaire de 40021

Say if you have 100 adamantite ores,
Will you get more money by selling the adamantite ores?,
prospecting them and selling the blues?,
or smelting them and selling the Adamantite Bars?

Commentaire de Gary13579

Prospecting is one of the best and easiest ways to make gold, depending on your servers economy.

Simply hit 350 Jewelcrafting, get a few "in demand" gems, and buy up all the Adamantite Ore you can find. Do not buy recipes for gems that aren't good for a class, eg don't buy recipes for gems like + to spirit...
Undercut everyone. Learn what your gem prices are, and what you need to sell at in order to profit.

Here's an average day's (this morning, actually) run from prospecting for me.

Purchased:
35x stacks of (https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=23425), each at 20g, making it a 700g investment.

From prospecting:
7x Talasite (https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=23437)
2x Living Ruby (https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=23436)
4x Noble Topaz (https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=23439)
9x Dawnstone (https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=23440)
12x Nightseye (https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=23441)
5x Star of Elune (https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=23438)

83x miscellaneous green gems.
140x Adamantite Powder.

???
?

Profit!:
7x Talasite, 10g each, 70g
2x Living Ruby, 70g each, 140g
4x Noble Topaz, 40g each, 160g
9x Dawnstone, 30g each, 270g
12x Nightseye, 30g each, 360g
5x Star of Elune, 40g each, 200g

83x uncommon gems, vendor for 25s each: 20.75g
140x Adamantite Powder, vendor 22.5s each: 31.5g

Total time taken: roughly 20 minutes.
Investment: 700g
Profit: 1250g
Total Profits: 550g
Return: ~180%

The lowest return I usually hit is 140%, which is still pretty good profit for how little time this takes. On good days (I've managed to get 4x living rubies from a single stack!), I hit as high as 200%-250%

Commentaire de 46602

As for patch 2.4.1 prospecting adamantite ore seems to be totally nerfed.. Superior quality gems are VERY rare now. And getting more than 1 superior gem is good luck.
off top: If u playing a rogue dont forget to pickpocket mobs, droprate of rare gem is more than from prospecting, lol.

Commentaire de 63703

Prices of blue gems have been going down since the epic gem vendor is out on most servers so that might effect if you want to prospect or not.

Commentaire de Renraku

So how does prospecting ore for other people generally work?
Do you just charge a flat fee and give them whatever jewels you get or do you charge per jewel?

Commentaire de 170315

For those of you who get annoyed by having to search your bags for a stack, this macro should help:
Replace "Adamantite Ore" with whatever you're prospecting:

#show Adamantite Ore
/use Adamantite Ore

This will not only help you keep track of how many you have (if you're mining the ore, for example) but it will also let you "prospect the macro" (just be sure to keep (if you have one) the stack which won't divide into 5 in a later bag slot than the other ore or it won't work)

Commentaire de 156157

can you do something with the powder?

Commentaire de 146819

Sometimes a stack of ore won't have any gems in it. If it's a stack of more than 5, just breaking it into stacks of 5 or less will usually let you get gems out of it. Also, you can find a single ore to add to the stack, and you have a chance of the stack having gems in it.

Commentaire de 274087

Strangely enough, the amount of times you prospect an ore comes up as "Materials Produced from Disenchanting" under your Statistics tab.

Commentaire de 40338

can prospecting be done on LK ore (ie Saronite or Cobolt Ore) even though JC is still only in the core or BC levels?

Commentaire de Leonan

I not confirmed this but just prospected few stack of saronite ore and only 1 blue gem droped.
Dont known if they lowered chance for blue gems or im unlucky with drop.

Commentaire de 318326

How do we get prospecting? I trained for jewelcrafting, and then mning.. but didn't get prospecting :(

Commentaire de 228256

I haven't seen anyone yet mention this, but very soon (next patch) you will be able to prospect Titanium Ore and it gives a chance to loot epic quality gems. This is the first time you can propect uncommon (green) ore. I suspect that you will get a greater yield of rare/superior (blue) gems as well. I have noticed the price of titanium ore SKYROCKET on my server to about 20g per ore. When everyone who is selling just the bars realizes what you can do with the ore I am sure the price of bars will go up as well as barely anyone will be making just the bars, with the exception of alchemists who transmute 8 saronite bars >>1 titanium bar.

Commentaire de 172321

Taken from warcraftecon.com:

They prospected 141 stacks of or 564 total prospects and their results were:

* Epic Gems: 130
* Rare Gems: 148
* Uncommon: 846
* Powder: 417

Chance per stack of ore:

* Epic: .92
* Rare: 1.05
* Uncommon: 6.00
* Powder: 2.95

So we can basicly assume that from one stack of Titanium ore you get on average 1 epic gem, 1 rare (blue) gem, 6 uncommon (green) gems and three Titanium Powders which will be used for new 3.2 repeatable quest where for 10 powders you will be rewarded with 1 Dalaran Jewelcrafter's Token and some gold.

Commentaire de mixter

i was the unlucky person who didnt read the patchnotes before i sold my titanium >.<

ah well...you win some, you loose some

Commentaire de 269641

Does anyone know if the drop rate for blue gems has been dropped when prospecting Saronite Ore since we can now prospect Titanium Ore

Commentaire de 390549

Just to offer some numbers and info (to those, who like me, were wondering about saronite)

11 Stacks of Saronite (Skill: 400 Prospecting) yielded...

49 Green Gems in the form of
- 13 Shadow Crystal
- 10 Huge Citrine
- 8 Dark Jade
- 7 Chalcedony
- 6 Sun Crystal
- 5 Bloodstone

10 Blue Gems in the form of
- 3 Sky Sapphire
- 2 Scarlet Ruby
- 2 Monarch Topaz
- 1 Autumn's Glow
- 1 Forest Emerald
- 1 Twilight Opal

There seems to be a trend with 1 Rare per stack and 3-5 uncommons per stack.

Commentaire de 434661

man, I got my jc to 64 and got stuck because I didn't know you could prospect this stuff, forgot you need a stack of 5, which kinda sucks but I'm sure with this info my lvl 22 can sweep up some copper fast and if not I'm buying it

Commentaire de 495068

http://www.wowwiki.com/Prospecting

Commentaire de 146819

Occasionally there's a "glitch" where you prospect a stack of ore and you won't get anything (even though you have at least 5).

If this happens, split the stack and recombine it; that usually "fixes" the stack so you can get your gems.

Commentaire de CoJo

Useful Macro:

#showtooltip Prospecting
/cast Prospecting
/use Copper Ore
/use Tin Ore
/use Mithril Ore
/use Thorium Ore
/use Fel Iron Ore
/use Adamantite Ore
/use Cobalt Ore
/use Saronite Ore

Commentaire de myrmideon

I prospected 30 stacks of saronite, which I had bought for 360g total, for 12g a stack.

With Gorefiend ah prices (rounded down), checked at 2:30 PM/Wed, I received:

7 Twilight opal - 6g each
5 Sky Sapphire - 6g each
5 Forest Emeralds - 4g each
5 Autumn Glow - 8g each
10 Monarch Topaz - 5g each
4 Scarlet Rubies - 45g each

Of Lesser gems I found:

24 Dark Jade - 5g each
23 Chalcdony - 7g each
19 Huge Citrine - 1.5g each
17 Sun Crystal 1.25g each
23 Shadow Crystal 1.25g each
27 Bloodstone - 1.5g each

That all amounts to 372g for blue epic gems, 400g even for green gems, for a
GRAND TOTAL of 772g, retail value.

Prices can and do shift, but this is a good value indicator for the gems on Gorefiend.

So, 12g a stack for saronite is a pretty good deal.

Commentaire de Thottbot

Not so. You can have an alt to mine the stones for you, or just buy the materials yourself. Currently im going with goblin engineering (used to be gnomeish, but i retrained after i got the deathray) and jewlcrafting. Helps loads in pvp

Commentaire de Thottbot

So to prospect we wont need to travel to the location of any of the nodes..? we will just prospect on already mined ore....or even ore we buy off the AH ?

Makes a diff for me.as I h ae one toon that Iplay a lot more than the other... so stay in town toon can do JC.. If I needed to prospect AT the node..I would need to have JC on my more active toon.

BH

Commentaire de Thottbot

Was prospecting a few batches of mithril. I don't know exactly how many I did but probably 12 or more. I had a stack of Mithril ore 10 deep and attempted to prospect. The animation and sound emote happened but no window popped up (not even an empty one)at the end. Several repeated attempts, juggling the ore around, prospecting other types of ore (worked fine), etc...

Anyone know if there is a daily/hourly limit to how many prospects you can conduct on one ore?

I will check again tomorrow. If it changes, i will update this post.

Thanks!

Commentaire de Thottbot

How do you get prospecting? I have a Draenei warrior who knows Jewelcrafting and Mining but doesn't have the prospecting skill. Can anyone tell me how to get it?

Commentaire de Thottbot

When your Jewelcrafting skill is high enough, the word "Prospectable" on a type of ore will go from red to white. When you prospect ore, you will get powder of the corresponding ore type (ie. Iron Ore produces Iron Powder). In addition, you will get 0-2 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. Mithril will get you Citrine, Star Ruby and/or Aquamarine). There is also a chance that you'll recieve a gem from a higher or lower tier of ore. Like a Star Ruby in Thorium or a Large Opal in Mithril. Silver, Gold, Truesilver and Dark Iron cannot be prospected.

Commentaire de Thottbot

Do you level jewelcrafting from prospecting?

Can someone post what kind of gems appear from which type of ore?
(eg malachite,tigerseye from copper ore?)

Replies appreciated ;)

Commentaire de 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..

Commentaire de 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.

Commentaire de Thottbot

Can anyone tell me what lvl you can prospect different things? is it the same as the mining lvl? maining I am wondering when you can prospect Iron, what lvl in jewelcrafting does it take?

Commentaire de 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 0-3 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.

Copper(20): Tigerseye, Malachite, Shadowgem

Tin(50): Shadowgem, Lesser Moonstone, Moss Agate

Iron(125): Citrine, Jade, Lesser Moonstone

Mithril(175): Citrine, Aquamarine, Star Ruby, Huge Emerald, Blue Sapphire, Large Opal, Azerothian Diamond

Thorium(250): Star Ruby, Large Opal, Azerothian Diamond, Huge Emerald, Blue Sapphire, Flame Spessarite, Blood Garnet, Shadow Draenite, Golden Draenite, Azure Moonstone (No instance of Arcane Crystal has been recorded to my knowledge)

Fel Iron(275): (Droprates uncertain) Deep Peridot, Golden Draenite, Flame Spessarite, Azure Moonstone, Blood Garnet, Shadow Draenite, Nightseye

Adamantite(350): (Droprates uncertain) Deep Peridot, Golden Draenite, Flame Spessarite, Azure Moonstone, Blood Garnet, Shadow Draenite, Noble Topaz

Commentaire de Thottbot

functions just like Disenchanting things...your sacraficing another object for another object, only difference is if you need ore you can just go out and get it where with disenchanting you're dependant on uncommon drops to fall into your lap. 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.

Commentaire de 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.

Not skilling up on disenchanting & prospecting is an easily debatable topic, and I'm not really sold on either way. 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? Possibly. End game? Definitely.

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.

Commentaire de Thottbot

Does your level of jewel crafting impact the chance at blue gems? I'm level 361 and prospected 10 stacks of fel iron ore, and got 1 glue gem...

Commentaire de Thottbot

Prospecting ore is probably the only money making skill for jewelcrafters. It is because this that the adamantite ores are worth about 20g+ per stack on my server. From my experience there is usually 1 blue gem from 1 stack of adamantite ore. 1 blue gem sells for about 25 - 40g depending on which one. I had one stack of adamantite ore prospected yesterday and got 3 blue gems. so that's worth about 100g per stack of adamantite ore. There are usually about 3-5 green gems to go with 4 adamantite powder which also worth about 10g+. As for prospecting thorium ore or fel iron ores I do not recommand. Thorium bars sell for about 35g per stack on my server now, and the gems u get are not worth much compared to thorium bar, so u will lose money. Fel iron ores simply does not yield much gems at all. I have not tried eternium ores though.

Commentaire de Thottbot

Hey, with engineering getting the new headpieces, and plus all the other items like scopes, I imagine prices will go up on blue gems, and possibly green ones. That makes prospecting worth even more. And, as an engineer myself, people need to put up some more green gems for all the rare and funny things engineers can make.

Commentaire de Thottbot

I've probably gone through 200 stacks of Mithril Ore, and I've never seen a Huge Emerald from it. Are you sure that provides them? I have received Huge Emeralds from higher level ore.

Commentaire de Thottbot

Any idea what you get out of Gold Ore when you prospect it?

Commentaire de Thottbot

I have a level 6 rogue who is prospecting copper.
You can get it at level 5 with level 20 JC.

Commentaire de Thottbot

anyone know if this gives skill (damm you 800 thottuim ore!)

Commentaire de Thottbot

what skill level do you get this at?

Commentaire de Thottbot

So, should I just sell my ores/bars at AH or make a JC alt to prospect the ores? What's best?

Commentaire de Thottbot

I don't see khorium mentioned anywhere. Is it prospectable?

Commentaire de Thottbot

How do u tell if an ore is prospectable or not when ur nt a JC? well simple any ore that dont have a green name or u dont need for a quest (i.e. dark iron ore) is prospectable. when u prospect u have a ramdom chance gettin a certain type of gem from the ore but only certain types of gem come from certain type of ore.

http://www.wowwiki.com/Prospecting

this link from wowwiki, which has a chart that tells u which gem comes from which ore and what are ur chances of getting which gem. JC is a very simple profession to understand if u just take alittle time and put out the effort u understand. If u dont believe me just ask urself how many professions requires u to get only 1 MAT to make smething? not one other. OOOhhhh i like to say i personal think that JC is the best profession to make gold. since u dont need alot of mats to make an item and everyone wants a gem cut.

Commentaire de Thottbot

Here's a macro I use to mass prospect ore. It selects the first stack of ore in your bag. Make sure auto-loot is turned on.

#showtooltip Saronite Ore
/cast Prospecting
/use Saronite Ore

Commentaire de Thottbot

ok, so ive prospected 2100 Saronite ores, and heres the numbers

2100 Saronite ores (1470g) Also: 420 prospects

green gems)
Sun Crystal : 82
Huge citrine: 80
Chalcedony : 75
Shadow Crystal: 74
Bloodstone : 71
Dark jade : 60

Blue gems
Sky sapphire : 27
Autumn's Glow : 24
Monarch Topaz : 21
Twilight Opal : 19
Forest Emerald : 13
Scarlet Ruby : 11

Total prospected AH-value (my server, avrg.
scanned AH prices)

Green gems 917g
Blue gems 1901g

TOTAL: 2818g!

Theese numbers are kinda nice, accually a profit of almost 100%.

Although the amoutn of gems i produced will affect the market prices and proberly lower the avg. cost. at the same time i can choose to cut some of theese gems ( blue gems ) to different gems that are very highly priced on AH. so im counting with 2400g profit, i cna come back with resaults after selling the gems on AH

Thx for me, Sunfuras EU (H) Dunemal

Commentaire de Doometh

Just putting some data out there about prospecting Saronite Ore in Wrath Classic.

After prospecting 50,000 ore for a total of 10,000 prospects, these were the results:

Green Gems

Dark Jade x 1879
Sun Crystal x 1873
Bloodstone x 1800
Chalcedony x 1784
Huge Citrine x 1832
Shadow Crystal x 1815

Blue Gems

Taking the average of these gives the expected rate of green gems as 18.3% and the expected rate of blue gems as 4.17%. Given the rates listed elsewhere online from back in the days of original Wrath, I think it's safe to say I got slightly lucky and the actual expected rates for green and blue gems are 18% and 4%, respectively.

Just figured I'd share since there's been no confirmation that the rates haven't changed from original Wrath and the sample size of my data is rather large.

Also, in case anyone was doing the Saronite Shuffle, I developed a formula for determining the breakeven price of Saronite Ore at which obtaining ore for any cheaper will result in a profit (assuming you do it the same way that I do it, which I've outlined below):

Green Gems

Sun Crystal >> Craft Sun Rock Ring >> Disenchant
Huge Citrine >> Craft Crystal Citrine Necklace >> Disenchant
Chalcedony >> Craft Crystal Chalcedony Amulet >> Disenchant
Dark Jade >> Craft Enduring Dark Jade >> Vendor them and the resulting Perfect Enduring Dark Jades
Shadow Crystal >> Craft Sovereign Shadow Crystal >> Vendor them and the resulting Perfect Sovereign Shadow Crystals
Bloodstone >> Craft Runed Bloodstone >> Vendor the non-perfect cuts and sell the resulting Perfect Runed Bloodstones on the Auction House

Blue Gems

Scarlet Ruby >> Sell on Auction House
Autumn's Glow >> Sell on Auction House
Monarch Topaz >> Sell on Auction House
Twilight Opal >> Craft Balanced Twilight Opal >> Sell to vendor
Sky Sapphire >> Craft Sparkling Sky Sapphire >> Sell to vendor
Forest Emerald >> Craft Dazzling Forest Emerald >> Sell to vendor

Let "dust" = market value of Infinite Dust
Let "shard" = market value of Dream Shards
Let "essence" = market value of Greater Cosmic Essences

Let "earth" = market value of Crystallized Earth

Let "SR" = market value of Scarlet Ruby
Let "AG" = market value of Autumn's Glow
Let "MT" = market value of Monarch Topaz
Let "RB" = market value of Perfect Runed Bloodstone

Breakeven Price per Ore = 0.3984 + 0.20456*dust + 0.01214*essence + 0.00074*shard + 0.0072*RB + 0.008*(SR + MT + AG) - 0.216*earth

If you have TSM installed, you can also implement this in code as such:

local function GetMarketValue(itemID)
local _,link = GetItemInfo(itemID)
return TSM_API.GetCustomPriceValue("DBMarket", TSM_API.ToItemString(link))
end

local function GetSaroniteOreBreakevenPrice()
local dust = GetMarketValue(34054)
local essence = GetMarketValue(34055)
local shard = GetMarketValue(34052)
local earth = GetMarketValue(37701)
local SR = GetMarketValue(36918)
local AG = GetMarketValue(36921)
local MT = GetMarketValue(36930)
local RB = GetMarketValue(41438)
return 0.3984 + 0.20456*dust + 0.01214*essence + 0.00074*shard + 0.0072*RB + 0.008*(SR + MT + AG) - 0.216*earth
end

Implementing it into a macro is much more difficult due to the 255 character limit, but this should work (note the printed value is in copper, so divide by 100 to express in silver or by 10,000 to express in gold; must be done mentally as this already uses all 255 characters allowed):

/run function MV(id) _,l=GetItemInfo(id) return TSM_API.GetCustomPriceValue("DBMarket",TSM_API.ToItemString(l)) end print(0.3984+0.20456*MV(34054)+0.01214*MV(34055)+0.00074*MV(34052)+0.0072*MV(41438)+0.008*(MV(36918)+MV(36930)+MV(36921))-0.216*MV(37701))

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