If you really want to you could consider getting into engineering and Jewel Crafting until epic gems are out and then you can go into the field of engineering and creating tailoring.
But I'd advise you to just pick up a engineering tiller and not worry about it. That's going to last you the entire expansion. And , as I said earlier, this graph doesn't consider the stacking of CDs that could be buy WoTLK Gold caused by the proc from the Kochen chat.
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