25 Million gem fragments for a single gem?

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1 million fragments for a Grand

5 million for a Horadric

25 million for a Grand Horadric

So, if a Royal is worth 100,000, I need 250 Royal gems to make a Grand Horadric. At 3 gems per dungeon run, and about 30 seconds per run, I need to make about 100 runs of the exact same dungeon … but since you waste some making the gem type you need, and several types aren’t combinable, to what you need, it’s really more like three times that number.

Or 750 runs for a single “end game” gem. Hours of repetetive slog. So much fun and winning.

Add this to having many 8 loss streaks at 45% chance when upgrading glyphs … lol … no wonder the “designers” at Blizzard are falling back to D3 design criteria for D4 in a lame attempt to keep customers.

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This dungeon isn’t even an intended method of gem farming. Really not sure what Blizzard planned with this one, especially considering all other target-farming methods for gems are dog!@#$

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30 seconds? hot damn. i average like a minute and i dont stop movign and 1 shot everything.. must be a broken barb in which case.. you dont even need gems silly person.

but yes.. this is absurd.

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its not… unintended. its just the most efficient. its not bugged. all dungeons drop 3 gems when you finish them. but i feel like this isn’t what blizzard was intending. either that or their intention was for you to just not get them because they aren’t “necessary”

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Ranged is good… things die before you get there. But you need to make a Grand Horadric to finish Season Act 9. Itself another silly requirement.

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im a spin to win rogue. the only thing that moves faster than me is the barbaran cuz of its shouts.

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Teleport is your friend.

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This is an optional objective.

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If it’s optional, then just give me the reward. lol.

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the grind is NOT optional.. do not get gaslighted.

those gems give you alot of power on an arpg power is not optional.. it’s not a cosmetic, title, pet, mount or a ****ty mount thropy. And I didnt grind for any of the new gems and I dont regret it because it’s not a fun grind..

And yes the grind is AWFUL for the new gems but the gem system itself is pretty bad too

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They need to drop a ‘0’ off the end of gem requirements - it’s banannas.

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Be careful because you’ll miss them, but, royal gems have started dropping regularly elsewhere in open world again btw!!.

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They added in a bunch of overtuned nonsense so they could say we played the season for a long time. “Look how long players played season 13!” The amount of time it takes to create 1 grand horadric gem is the reason. It is not an impressive reason.

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Yeah, that trope again… PLAYER ENGAGEMENT!!! LOOK BOSS!!!> they’re playing a LOT!!!> LOL>

And on a side note, who else just got a survey?? wife did, she laid into them LOL.

I admit, I am a lot masochistic about playing sometimes I think.. I rant at the game A LOT!!>

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WIFE WRATH!!! lol

They should really give us a nice big patch.

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PLOT TWIST

It’s an aspirational item. You’re not meant to get everything in this game. It’s not an MMO.

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That’s literally the ARPG genre my dude. You’re in the wrong game. Go play WoW or something.

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Really? This only became part of the ARPG genre after 13 seasons?

12 seasons of nothing? Are you sure? Are you really sure?

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Just don’t do it then.

Why do you feel the need to have these gems?

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I run echos for the goblin loot bags. fair amount of gem fragments in those. Also got my Mythic seal the Diamond one from loot bags. It’s ok but nothing to write home about.