There’s actually a few socket items as rewards or drops in the upper levels but for the most part it’s safe to say that you won’t be seeing much until level 80. Blizzard has a pretty good reason for this and I agree with them 100%. Sorry Jewelcrafters.
No sockets on low level items
Generally speaking it felt weird to have an item at a leveling up phase that had sockets in it so you’d be trying to get the gems and the cuts you wanted, get them in, then have it replaced one level later. You will start seeing the socketed items the higher level items after reaching level 80 so after getting the gems and cuts you have a better chance at hanging on to the item for awhile so that it means something. (Source)
Terrible argument Blizz. Then why give low-level JC cuts? If nobody is going to need lower level gems (green quality), then why have us cut them?
All Northrend blues should have a slot or two… green gems are not that expensive, so replacing them every level or two really isn’t a big deal.
that’s about the only part that I disagree with. you’re right in that green gems as level-up gem cuts are somewhat passed over. though tbh I use a lot of green gems especially now with the perfect cuts instead of using the blues. simply because the blues are basically more expensive and I can get more bang for my buck with the greens
You get more bang per buck from spending 1c on a wep that does 3dps than paying 20g for a wep that does 100dps.
There no socket gear in tailoring at 450 lv, why