the new profession—jewelcrafting
Since Blizzard released World of Warcraft on a gaming world over two years that was apparently got ready for receiving it. While some massively multiplayer games had made great progress before WoW hit store shelves in November of 2004, no one had achieved anything like the unprecedented success of Warcraft. As one of the biggest smash hits in PC gaming history, whether online or off, World of Warcraft has taken on a life of its own, increasing its worldwide subscriber rolls to eight million players in the past two years.
Unfortunately for those of you who got hooked with WoW and managed to run away from the addiction, Blizzard has managed to upgrade another four compact discs full of captivating content in the form of The Burning Crusade, the first full expansion for
wow gold. The list of new additions in the Burning Crusade is a rollcall of the popular features that you might have expected: new races, new zones to quest in, a new profession, a raised level cap, and so on.
This short primer to the Burning Crusade is intended to introduce you to some of the new features of the game. The amount of new content that's been added to the game, especially in the Outlands, will be more than we can possibly cover in a short space, but if you're looking for some of the new surprises in the expansion, then feel free to read on!
The new profession in The Burning Crusade is called jewelcrafting. If you are willing to level it up at fast pace, you'll want to match it with mining, as jewelcrafting uses plenty of ore and stone. If you want to switch a high-level character with mining over to jewelcrafting, then you'll have to take plenty of time to search low-level zones for copper and tin to use to skill yourself up, or buy it on the auction house.
At low levels, jewelcrafting is primarily concerned with the construction of rings and necklaces, which few of the other professions can create. Such items can be created and used by yourself, or traded to your teammates, or sold on the auction house - they aren't soulbound, therefore they don't require the wearer to have any skill points in jewelcrafting to wear them, as many of the engineering items do. Many of them are unique, though, so if you see a specific ring that you like and make yourself two of them, you'll probably only be able to wear one of them at a time.
There are some things you must take more notice of it. One thing you should be aware of if you're thinking about taking on Jewelcrafting as a skill for your new character is that training for this skill in Azeroth is only available in the two new capital cities, Exodar and Silvermoon. Characters that aren't Draenei or Blood Elves can still become jewelcrafters, but will have to deal with a fairly long trip to one of those cities before they can pick it up.
