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All The Burning Crusade veterans are familiar with the Consortium faction, and more importantly, the monthly quest that requires no effort at all to complete. Yet it gives a loot bag full of precious gems. Most people think TBC gems are useless, but some of them are in so low supply they become more valuable than Cataclysm gems.

Click and loot!
The quest you have to complete is simple. Just talk to Gezhe in Nagrand to grab the reward. He's hanging around in the Consortium camp at 31,57. Keep in mind though that you need to be at least Friendly with the faction to grab the reward.

You get a different loot bag depending on your standing with the faction. The better your reputation with them, the more loot you get. The items in the loot bags are the same always: Gems.

Here's a list of loot bags and the reputation required to obtain them.

Friendly: Gem Stuffed Envelope
Honored: Unmarked Sack of Gems
Revered: Bulging Sack of Gems
Exalted: Bag of Premium Gems

The quest can be completed once in a month and it resets at the first day of a month.

So what makes them valuable?
Funnily enough, most of the blue gems you get out of the bags are often seen in the Auction House for less than 3g. Yet their vendor sell value is 3g. Most of the time there are a few colors that no one is selling, and these are often needed by professions.

Green gems, on the other hand are all valuable because they are needed by every Jewelcrafter who wants to get past 300 skill. They sell for less than some of the blue gems, but a lot faster.

I don't see many people prospecting TBC ores so there's not a lot of competition with certain gems. I usually sell green gems for 20-50g and blue gems 50-200g, depending on how needed they are by professions.

From my experience Golden Draenites sell the best. I've often sold many for even 100g a piece. These are needed for Flying Carpets that tailors can make. Sadly, most players don't realize how much people are willing to pay for these and dump them into the AH for 2-3g each. If there's not a lot of them, they most likely aren't gonna post any more and you can safely buy them and add a zero or two to the price. ^^

If you are not sure how valuable a certain gem is, leave a comment and I'll check it out.

Farming gold in Blasted Lands

You may have noticed that especially rare monsters in Blasted Lands drop unique loot, called Imperfect Draenethyst Fragments and Flawless Draenethyst Spheres. These are turned in to a quest giver who will give you a loot bag in turn. Depending on the quality of the returned item, you will either receive a Emerald Encrusted Chest (For Spheres) or a Kum'isha's Junk (For Fragments).

Junk bags contain only greenies, but Emerald Encrusted Chests will contain a greenie and a blue quality item. Sometimes even epics! They are all BOE so you can make some nice gold if you're lucky and get a rare profession recipe or a cool looking epic.

Most of the greenies disenchant into Illusion Dusts and Greater Eternal Essences which are quite valuable usually. Some of them DE into Dream Dusts instead which are worthless and way too easy to obtain, so it's wiser to AH the items instead. To find out what item DE into what, use an addon like Enchantrix.


I can has my loot bags nao?

Here you can find a map that shows all rare monster locations in Blasted Lands so you can easily pay a visit to them all. Some of them like to patrol around the skull, so circle around a bit if nothing is there. Some of them are found inside caves or flying above you so pay attention!

Once you are familiar with the spawn points, you can get even 14 spheres in less than 10 minutes!

Rares are easy to spot for a few different reasons. They either look different than the other mobs in the area or have a unique name. The silver dragon portrait may also give a hint! 8)

Most rares here have a spawn timer of about 6-12 hours. To make sure you're not wasting time, check these spots early in the morning. It's a lot harder to find rares during peak hours!

Once you have fragments or spheres, you can either sell them in the AH or try your luck and return them to the quest NPC called Kum'isha the Collector (48,31)

I usually sell the Spheres for about 100g, blue items for 100-300g, rare recipes 4000-15000g and greenies for 15g. Some items are worthless though, but there's always a buyer if you reduce the price enough!

ProTip: Do this with a level 55+ toon to make use of the exp rewards rares give. It's like completing a quest!