So, check out the ol' profile in the sig for Swanky.
As you can see, I have 831 +damage with decent gear. We just downed Prince for the first time last night, so hopefully we'll be able to farm him enough to get a Mindblade in my gear list in the next few weeks. Add in a Orb of the Souleater and hopefully (if it'll ever drop again) a Ritsynn's, and I should be pushing 1000 +shadow as we start moving toward Gruul and the 25's.
Here's my dilemma. I'm currently a JC/Miner. I only have one other level 70 toon (the mage) who is tailoring/enchanting. I'd really hate to lose the steady stream of gems and income that Mining can provide, but the Frozen Shadoweave set would bump me another 82 damage (assuming that I upgraded my gems from +7s to +9s in the current pieces, and put in +9s in the FSW set).
So what would you do? Is it really worth however many thousands of gold and primal farming to max tailoring on a second toon just for 82 damage? Or can I upgrade those slots with better gear through other means and mitigate the loss of damage without losing Mining? Am I thinking too short-term, since WotLK may flip the gear balance on it's ear? And, good lord, I really don't want to have to level another flippin' miner... What to do?