QUOTE (TheMorrigan @ Jul 30 2008, 02:51 PM)

And that really sucks if you choose another gather profession because you have to go back to newb areas to get it up you can't just buy the mats off the AH. You may like Engineering more but if you want to eventually earn gold with your prof, I suggest jewel crafting.
I really wouldnt recommend Jewelcrafting unless you are happy to wait a while to make your money.
A lot of the blue gem recipes are world-drops and go for hundreds on the AH. Not quite as bad now with the Shattered Sun patterns, but those cost ~50g each, so at least on my server you need to do 10 cuts of each gem to make the cost of the pattern.
It's also pretty difficult to get raw epic gems to cut unless you grind badges, and you really need to be a miner to make any money at all from blue gems.
My mage is Alchemy/Herbalism and my Shaman is Mining/JC. Don't really find either combination brilliant at the moment, only thing you can make money from on Alchemy is Primals.