The chances of epic gems coming from pyrite cant be high. One nothing on the PTR supports this, there are no new epic cuts anywhere to be seen also. So with no new epic cuts then what you prospect a cut gem? Doubtfull since that would be the only ore that does that.
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Adding it in 4.3 would keep it on track with when epic cuts were put into Wrath. In BC you also had to have Sands of Time rep from Hyjal to get epic cuts, until they added Quel Damas towards the end of BC. So its seems 3 tiers of raiding into a xpac is they was Blizz likes to do it. True Wrath had the gems you could get from the fishing daily but those were extremely rare.
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Most people don't have 20 sockets. I'm ilvl 359, and I only have 11 sockets aside from my meta. The listing of gems will outstrip the demand.
i wonder if it needs 8 ore per bar and needs to be smelted at a unique forge
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not in one spec but there are plenty of people with 30+ sockets to do average pally->
main spec 10~ ofspec 10~ PVP gear 10~