Wishlist Alchemy - Converting Gems for Gold needs a better Rate

JimMorrison · #1 June 7th, 2008, 05:05 AM

Okay you're right, sarcasm aside, I didn't put much thought into that.

I don't see any reason to have it equal other than laziness (on my part). It just irks me that you have these gems of pure crystallized magical essence, and there aren't people just crawling out of the woodwork to give you good money for them.

And no, I wasn't evaluating the worth of the gems in other game applications, I was only thinking Astral pearls would be worth better money because the essence is so pure. I see you complain about overvaluing the pearls, but you don't complain that perhaps water gems are undervalued, as I've seen numerous people state that water gems aren't as useful in the late game any others. Besides which, since pearls ARE so useful in the late game, wouldn't it stand to reason that convincing people to alchemize them for gold rather than wishing for Grigori (haha), is a good thing?

MaxWilson · #2 June 7th, 2008, 01:45 PM

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JimMorrison said:
I don't see any reason to have it equal other than laziness (on my part). It just irks me that you have these gems of pure crystallized magical essence, and there aren't people just crawling out of the woodwork to give you good money for them.

Alchemy is not the same as selling on the free market. Apparently the alchemical process demands fire or earth gems and nothing else.

It would be interesting if you could research more efficient alchemical processes. What if there was an F4E4 spell at Conj-9 that cost 20 Fire gems and gave you 5000 gold?

-Max

calmon · #3 July 22nd, 2008, 04:45 PM

A bump for KO and his empty inbox

Darkstone · #4 July 22nd, 2008, 05:00 PM

I hope this manages to be added in the next patch. It likely fulfills the requirements for patching (being in demand & easy to do).

llamabeast · #5 July 23rd, 2008, 04:42 AM

Herode · #6 July 23rd, 2008, 05:11 AM

+50% or +100% when alchemizing the gems seems fair.
A nice idea could be : include this ratio in the game settings, along with the magic site frequency and so on.

krpeters · #7 July 23rd, 2008, 01:23 PM

If alchemy is supposed to be a *process* of some kind... maybe we can make it more interesting by allowing you to use different combinations of gems.

So 10 earth gems gets you 1000 gold, but so does 4E4F, as does 1E1F1A1W1. Depending on which nations we wanted to help (Ulm comes to mind) we would set the combination accordingly.