Yep Blessings Deck is great but expensive on TH, so easy to get powered up really quickly with dots

Also really good to see you have picked up on the most important stat for a young raiding Lock, good amount of +hit seeing you have only been 70 for such a short time

My alt is a very very lucky cow.

I got [Deathchargers Reins]

One of the rarest drops in the game, and I got it on my first and only complete run of Stratholme with my alt.

Smithymoo on Aszune

Gem Slots

Red Gem in Red Slot
Blue Gem in Blue Slot

Then you get the set bonus.

But also, some gems will sit in 2 colour slots, and act as either of those colours, so you still get the set bonus.

However, set bonuses are not always good, so gem the item with the stats your need the most, some warrior will throw in stamina, some will throw some other stat and just put 3 of the same gem in and lose the set bonus if they consider it worthless.

Also, to get an idea, Blue Quality Rare Gems are what you should aim for atm. So +12 Stam or +8 Agi/Str etc, like Living Ruby, Dawnstone, Talasite, Nightseye, Noble Topaz, Star of Elune are all Blue Quality Rare Gems.

When you finally get pimped in decent Raid Epic drops you can go for Epic Quality purple gems because obviously they are more expensive.

However if your a guild Prot tank , some guilds will give Epic quality gems to their tanks, because the gems needed to make them can be found in the higher end raid  dungeons.

A simple gauge would be:

Green Quality Gems in Green Gear
Blue Quality Gems in Blue Gear / Epic Gear
Purple Quality (epic) Gems in Epic Gear

But as said Blue gems to Blue Gear or even Pre Kara / Kara Epic Gear (and beyond). then leave Epic Gems for later, like i dunno MH/BT/SP. but i dont tank. Im a mage and i use Blue Gems in all pre MH Epics. But it might change soon, as the epic gems prices are falling i will start using them, but ill most likely save for gear MH and above.

My alt is a very very lucky cow.

I got [Deathchargers Reins]

Nice!  I bet you were popular in your group  Gratz tho!


Egg, yeah you can put any gem you choose in any socket - you just sacrifice bonuses.

Yup - its a while since Ive played but iirc

some early lvl 70 gear will for example have blue red and yellow gem sockets for example but you might be going for max stamina or max damage or something.  In which case you might just ignore the colours and be better to put all red dmg gems in.

Personally Id never bother with vendor bought gems unless you were likely to replace the item in a day or so - theyre useless compared to the blue ones you can have cut by any jewelcrafter and usually worse than the green jewelcrafter ones.  Auction House is your friend


RE your edit: yes.  (Most of) the blue ones listed are the jewelcrefter made ones you want to be using.  They use a blue gem from mining and then the jewelcrafter makes whichever one you want.

Note: you can also use mixed colour gems to get the better benefits and the socket bonuses.  Say youre stacking red gems but have a blue socket on an item.  Use a purple gem.  That counts as both a red and blue socket.

They use a blue gem from mining

Prospecting

Whats a loot card? And whats a flying rocket? lol