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I too changed from tailoring to JC a few weeks ago when seeing tailoring has pretty much nothing to give me. For shadowpriests one spellpower is roughly equal to two haste, two crit, five int or five spirit.

Here are the items I use for comparison:
metagem requires two blue gems
pants: red and blue sockets, +6 crit socket bonus
chest: blue and yellow sockets, +7 spellpower
gloves: yellow socket, +6 crit


At the moment I have JC gems in blue sockets of pants and chest and in yellow gloves socket. In pants I have +19 spellpower, in chest I have +9spp/8crit in yellow socket. Overall I have two blue sockets, one red, two yellows and 12 crit/7 spellpower in socket bonuses.

Gems I use:
3x32 sp
1x19 sp
1x9 sp/8 crit
___
124 sp, 131 with socket bonus
8 crit, 20 with socket bonus

If I wouldn't have JC I would use 2x purified twilight opals (9 sp/8spi) in blue sockets and spellpower/crit gem in gloves. Gems used:

2x 9 sp/8 spi
2x 9 sp/8 crit
1x 19 sp
___
55 sp, 62 with socket bonus
16 crit, 28 with socket bonus
16 spirit

JC vs non-JC:
+69 sp
-8 crit
-16 spi

I think there are not many classes/specs for whom 8 crit/16spi outweight 69 spellpower.


With epic gems and assuming dragonseyes don't get upgraded things change a little bit, of course. Assuming same sockets and bonuses:

Gems:
2x 12 sp/10 spi
2x 12 sp/10 crit
1x 23 sp

71 sp, 78 with socket bonus
20 crit, 32 with socket bonus
20 spi

JC vs normals:
53 sp
-12 crit
-20 spi

Overall still at least as good as most other decent professions but makes it much easier to get socket bonuses and meta requirements. If there will be upgraded dragon's eyes things will get even better but I highly doubt that would happen.

Of course things highly depend on what specific gear pieces you have. If you have lots of blue sockets on gear with decent socket bonuses then JC is really good. If gear has only red with some yellow sockets then JC value diminishes somewhat. Of course you can still get extremely cheap gems for yourself, I bet epic gems won't come flooding in at especially fast pace once they get added to the game.

Another profession worth noting is blacksmithing. With epic gems it becomes one of the best professions, if not the best, for casters.