Originally Posted by
Selestarius
there are two main options if you want to make gold with JC currently.
First: You farm your own ores, this means anything you sell is pure profit, and with prospecting this is likely to be quite a bit of gold, the best selling rares on my server atm tend to be Any cut Inferno Rubies or any cut Demonseye gems, this combined with the random pyrite drops (which provide a nice little gold boost if u sell or prospect them) means that mining and then prospecting your ores is an effective way to make a tidy bit of gold. This way does take a bit of time though, this is mitigated by the lack of risk, no gold sinked into it=no gold lost if nothing sells.
Second: Buy the ores from the AH, this is the method i prefer as it requires little time and effort, a bit of gold is necessary to back it up though. A lot of the time you will find some stacks for relatively cheap on the ah with people undercutting each other like mad e.t.c., then you need to prospect the ores, a bit boring but if you key bind prospect and put some music on ;p
Now, you will get alot of green gems, and a fair amount of rare gems, the rare gems can be sold for a decent amount but, funnily enough this is probably the least profitable of the two. You don't sell the greens, uncut or otherwise on ah, this is a shoot-able offence! What you should do with them is get a friendly transmute master to make Shadowspirit diamonds with your greens!, this is a great way to make gold especially if you have lots of green gems, it might take a while to sell them if your not constantly paying attention to other sellers and undercutting e.t.c. (the blizzard mobile auction house/web browser auction house is a really fast and efficient way to do this) but the amount of gold gained from this is absolutely ridiculous (cutting these into meta's is usually the best way to make gold out of these but both methods are viable)
It is also a good idea to make the Fire Prism each day, this gives you a chance to get 1 or more Chimera's eyes, nice gold earners in their own right, on my server they go for 350g so far
Since Cata release using these methods I have made a silly amount of gold, and have already bought the Sandstone drake, leveled several proffesions to max, bought a couple of epics and some blues, gemmed and enchanted my gear and that of my alts e.t.c
Hope this helps!
/Sele