Delicate 15, Precise 2, Runed 5, Fractured 1, Bold 16, Bright 5

Etched 7, Champion 3, Respendent 1, Fierce 1, Glinting 2, Lucent 1, Deft 3, Luminous 3, Potent 1, Veiled 7, Durable 6, Empowered 1, Stalwart 4, Glimmering 2, Accurate 1

Solid 37

Brilliant 2, Smooth 12, Rigid 12, Thick 1, Quick 10

Sovereign 5, Shifting 5, Glowing 4, Purified 16, Balanced 1, Regal 3, Defender 1

Enduring 1

That last one is why I don't pay much attention to BeanCounter, since I know I've gone through at least a dozen Zuls recently.

I've also asked them periodically about changes that come in patches so that I could watch for demand changes.

-sherretz

The biggest problem is that these change often.

The obvious cuts often have a lot more competition. While your sales will be slightly higher, I'd rather sacrifice some sales for a way higher margin, which happens when there is no competition.

Then again, I just got all the cuts. Cut and sell anything that makes a profit.

Most Jewelcrafters are finding blue gems way more profitable than the epic gems.

If not, some common ones keep coming up over and over; stam, hit, sp, ArP, str, agi

One thing I found profitable when I started was to get all gems of a certain type. Not certain colour…but say for example, all gems that a caster might want, so my starting goal was

Sp
Hit
sp/hit
sp/haste
sp/spirit
sp/stam

That way if you sell in person to someone, they might want other gems crafted to put straight in to their armour – so if you can do all the gems they might want then it's more profit for you!

The problem with Stam and Spell Power is that they are obvious. They are in high demand, but everyone knows that so it is a very common pattern for people to have. It also means that the raw gems are more expensive because for those cuts. So you end up with a situation where there are a lot of people in the market and high material costs. You can definately make money here, but the margins will be low with frequent undercutting.

I can't remember the exact situation but I remember talking to someone a while back that was making a ton of gold in the gem market, and he focused on only a couple of cuts. The example I remember was he found a green cut that only one spec of one class wanted and produced a lot of them. Because Green gems were so worthless he would buy stacks of them just above the vendor price. The demand for the cut wasn't widely known so there was very little competition on the AH. He would then sell them for 400-500% profit.