When the crafting system came out, i put gems into all my chars (3) and i got in the process about 5 exceptional gems with 55 gems to put in. It took a while, but I surely got an exceptional gem every now and then. And i agree, that is a very good rate

i have replaced gems ever since; not only for me, but for sale too. it must be over 100 gems; i always am upgrading in 5 slots on my warry, that makes about 10 per day.

not a single exceptional one since then.

i asked my guild mates if they experiencing the same, and they all agree that the rate of exceptinal gems is extremely low now. There is hardly a day ever where anyone gets one. In my entire guild (and its fairly large).
at the beginning we had a rate about 1 exceptional per 30/40 upgrades. Now there is none at all, so its even hard just to guess what rate it now is.

Is that normal??? Is that just exceptional bad luck (pun intended)??? Or is there something wrong? Bug?