Using your D3 jeweler – Covetous Shen – to make money

The crafting system in Diablo 3 is very basic. There are two artisans, or crafters, that work for you. You have the Jeweler, Covetous Shen, who makes gems and removes gems from weapons, armor and items. Then you have the Blacksmith, Haedrig Eamon, for crafting materials. You find the D3blacksmith, Haedrig Eamon, in Act 1, where there is a quest for his wife. That does not end well, but he does agree to helping you out. You find the D3jeweler, Covetous Shen, in Act 2 down in the sewers. Oddly enough he also agrees to help you out!

Leveling Covetous Shen – the D3 jeweler

Both the Diablo 3blacksmith and the Diablo 3jeweler have 10 levels and they are quite costly to raise to max level. To level up your artisans you require a lot of gold. The jeweler takes 10,000 gold to level up each level from level 1-7 and then level 8 costs 20,000 gold, level 9 costs 30,000 and the last level 10 costs 40,000. In total it will cost you 140,000 gold to level up from 1 to 10. In addition to it costing gold, it will also require pages and tomes to level up. It will cost you 20 pages of jewel crafting, 20 tomes of jewel crafting, and finally 40 tomes of secrets to reach level 10. The pages of jewel crafting drop in Nightmare difficulty, the tomes of jewelcrafting drop in Hell difficulty and finally the tomes of secrets drop in Inferno. These can be bought in the AH cheaply right now.

Farm or buy jewelcrafting recipes to make the big piles of Diablo 3 gold

In order to be able to make money, you will need to get some of the higher level recipes in order to be able to combine gems to a level higher. It takes 3 gems of a lower level, to form one of a higher level. Gems also drop as loot when you are out farming for gold and money, but the max level of gems that drop is Flawless Square. Flawless Square gives +19% Gold find, Experience, Magic find or 12% extra life and +34 to stats all depending on the chosen color. Over this level of gems, you need recipes for your jeweler in order for him to be able to make better and better gems. These jeweler/jewelcrafting recipes drop on the higher difficulties or you could just buy them on the AH and farm the gold instead

Make money on your jeweler in Diablo 3

Gems of Flawless Square level and lower drop as loot, and since the gems don’t have durability, they will stay in the economy and slowly flood it. Because it is such a PITA to level your artisans, few people will bother with that. However, people will still want gem upgrades, even if it is only marginal upgrades we are talking about. Therefore, you will make gold and money by giving people what they want and allowing them to be lazy! You will make your money by buying up flawless square gems and combining them to form higher level perfect square gems, radiant square, and star gems. Because flawless square gems are mob drops from farming runs, supply will be high and they will be cheap. Since everything above this is crafted, it will be increasingly more rare and thus fetch a much better price.

Socketing with your D3 jeweler

Right now crafted sockets are not in the game, but Blizzard will most likely put it in the game at some point. By having a max level jeweler, you will be ready to make money by socketing items, socketing weapons and socketing armor once it is implemented. Be sure to check out Diablo 3 farming for crafting and farming tips Check out our friends at Diablo 3 money making for info