when there's an readily available calculator that doesn't crash my pc, and that people can feed their wants through so they're not asking for the impossible, I might consider imbuing stuff for people.
My own stuff I just imbue the mods in the order I most want them and if I run out of points that's just too bad for me.
heh, I use a pen and paper when makign suits; the other I have half of it memorized enough to give rough esitimates

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It's time consuming.
There are the people that want everything including the kitchen sink imbued.
regular gem runs
back and forth 3-4 times sometimes from the queens soulforges when you run out of various crap.
hunting, or otherwise aquiring special ingredients.
The massive rip off of smiths and miners has glutted the relic frag market.
If you are a smith or miner then bear in mind you items are beign used to create items that the market was easily holding at 90-100k less than a month ago. Get paid for your effort!
And yes, before anyone asks...a big part of my profit margin came from my stock of relics and when i needed to buy I usually bought from guild mates at 90k-100k per. Rapid devaluing of my stock and smaller profit margin per job played a part in my retirement

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