Originally Posted by
Safiras
There are no more fire/glacial/blood essences in the loot table. It's no longer possible to craft fire/glacial/blood gems now, or loot reinforced gems from Planar Arena. Essentially the gem system is being phased out and the jewel system is meant to replace it.
However because the jewel system essentially requires you to craft higher tiers of jewels by yourself, it's very tedious to do so. Also, only the lowest tier of jewels (cracked) drop in any map... and there are 8 tiers of jewels requiring 2187 of the lowest tier jewels to craft one jewel of the highest tier (yes that is the exact number). Given that it's less time-consuming and more convenient (especially for those gold and plat loaded players) to craft a grand gem than try to farm and craft a high tier jewel, prices of existing gems have skyrocketed and continue to skyrocket as they dwindle in supply.
Eventually I guess the prices will begin to get too high for people to want to buy and try their luck at grand gems and then people will be forced to farm jewels... but I don't see this happening in the near future.
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