A lot of people farm Dolmens, like the dreaded Alik'r Desert route. You'll end up with all color of jewels you could sell the green/blue ones to further help pay for your Zircon.
Some people also hunt overland chests.
And as you mentioned Dungeons and/or farming nodes.
You could do a little of all of them.

If you do decide to do this please make sure you have the extraction passives in JC maxed out. I'm sure the Meticulous Disassembly would also benefit this but TM or some other clued on person could answer that.

I wish you luck and good hunting!

Matchimus wrote: »

Which jewel set?

Hollowfang Thirst

I can't say much more than what others have said.

Earn the gold and buy them is probably the quickest overall.

Jewelry farming from Alik'r is probably the fastest to get them yourself.

Daily crafting writs is the most efficient, but you'd have to be setup for that already.

Also, since it's a dungeon set, might even be easier to find a group to do it on vet for actual purple jewelry drops (make sure to have treasure hunter CP passive).

If you play pretty regular everyday and have the time to set it up, daily jewelry crafting writ quests on multiple toons is a great source. The thing is it takes several months of pretty dedicated time to set up. Preferably you need multiple toons leveled to 50. I found the best way to do this is to create 8 toons and do initial quests, etc. to get them to level 6. Then complete all seven crafting quests to open up each craft. That should get you close to level 10. Spend about another hour doing a quest line to level up to 10. It takes a couple hours per toon to get them setup to 10. After that run 1 BG per day on each of them to get the bonus XP which gives you 1 level per day on each of them. It takes about 20 minutes per toon so 8 of them will take you almost 3 hours per day. If you want to spend less time per day then setup fewer toons. At the end of 40 days you'll have a bunch of level 50's. Move all the skill points out of combat skills and into craft skills. At a minimum you will need 14 SPs for Blacksmith/Cloth/Wood and 9 SPs for Jewelry. This gives you the max level plus the max research level in each. As you do daily writs you get inspiration items you can use to level your crafts. Also, it's very important to make sure you put the points in research and that you research items as it greatly impacts drop rates on gold matts and master writs. It takes a good 6 months or longer to set all this up but once set up you will have a consistent source of Zircon/Chromium plating plus other gold matts.

Qbiken wrote: »

A combination of doing daily crafting writs on multiple characters and doing veteran pledges does it for me. Doing a regular daily random normal dungeon through the group finder system also gives an option to receive purple jewellery. I personally don't think dolmens are such a good options since they tend to drop green and blue jewellery much more often.

The dolmens are worth it if you are also needing to level up another toon (or have another 3000 cp to grind now) or if you are trying to level jewellery crafting to 50 on more because you can then make good use of the others. Vet dungeons are not so good IMHO - you tend not to get many rings except in chests or end boss drops, so even if you pick a 4 chest dungeon you don't get that much. In fact I think I get more from doing a load of 3 high/1 low level crystal runs each day dropping endurance/willpower/etc.

I got a fairly good drop rate from the ashlander quests in vvardenfell and they also give a passable suply of ashlander motifs to flog on guild stores. Similar for some of the other ones. I tend to run out of blue ones more than purple to be honest.