| gem size/type | Sat Jun 19 05:21:58 2010 MST |
| anyone know if gem size or type has an influence on quality/duration
of power crystals.
things like if i make a crystal out of just onyxes is it better than
a mix gem one. or if i use 1 15k gem is better than 15 1k gems, etc
etc
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| >gem size/type | Sat Jun 19 05:23:29 2010 MST |
| On Sat Jun 19 05:21:58 2010 Chemosh wrote post #18:
> anyone know if gem size or type has an influence on quality/duration
> of power crystals.
> things like if i make a crystal out of just onyxes is it better than
> a mix gem one. or if i use 1 15k gem is better than 15 1k gems, etc
> etc
>
Magenta is the highest, and gives the most blSTS. cOST OF GEM
CONTRIBUTES TO HOW MUCH IT WILL NEED TO MAKE A FULL CRYSTAL.
iF YOU HAd like 10 5k gems opposed to 50-60 1-300 gold gems, there
will be no difference. |
| >>gem size/type | Sat Jun 19 13:30:48 2010 MST |
| On Sat Jun 19 05:23:29 2010 Esoteric wrote post #19:
> On Sat Jun 19 05:21:58 2010 Chemosh wrote post #18:
> > anyone know if gem size or type has an influence on quality/duration
> > of power crystals.
> > things like if i make a crystal out of just onyxes is it better than
> > a mix gem one. or if i use 1 15k gem is better than 15 1k gems, etc
> > etc
> >
> Magenta is the highest, and gives the most blSTS. cOST OF GEM
> CONTRIBUTES TO HOW MUCH IT WILL NEED TO MAKE A FULL CRYSTAL.
> iF YOU HAd like 10 5k gems opposed to 50-60 1-300 gold gems, there
> will be no difference.
My testing has been based on cost and how 'big' the shining purple
power crystals are based on total blasts I've gotten...which I've
simply checked by using the total blasts shown in success_rate
before and after I've charged a totally drained crystal.
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What I saw was about a 15% increase in total blasts for gems made
using the most expensive crystals (15k+ diamonds, etc) vs. the cheap
ones (less than 5k/ea). The key diff was price per shining purple
crystals, as that 15% gain in total blasts/charge cost roughly 300%
more in gold costs to create (60k gold or more per gem vs. about 20k
gold per gem).
Bottom line, I found that you can get more blasts per power crystal
by creating them with high quality (more expensive) gems, but the
amount of blasts you gain by doing so is _hardly_ equal to the
difference in the costs of those gems - in any case, there is
defintely a postitive difference. |
| >>>gem size/type | Sat Jun 19 19:20:04 2010 MST |
| size and value both play a part in crystal creation from what i have
seen. using large gems and expensive gems will indeed potentially
create a crystal that lasts longer. however, all it will add is
duration to the crystal, and the chances are that if you had sold
the gems that you used to make 1 really nice power crystal, you
could probably have made 2 less nice magenta ones that would have
lasted less time individually, but lasted longer in combination.
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| >>>>gem size/type | Sat Jun 19 19:20:52 2010 MST |
| it was my experience that selling more expensive gems and buying
cheaper ones was generally more economical, though it may have meant
that i drained slightly more often than i would have had i used
better quality gems. |
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