Seems the glowing mobs that add armor to packs drop the gem fragments so I go out of my way to kill any I come across lol
When i add the 5 rubies and the other gems i crafted to the ones i have in stock they are all around ~200K now.
So, no rouge(4 gems) or barb(6 gems) in your collection. They use a lot of gems for weapons. Donât forget that jewelry uses three gems. It is not like you are using 6 times as many rubies as any other gem. And to add to that the recipe for Chorus of War does not use rubies. So unless you are using an elixir or incense that uses rubies, I do not see the correlation.
I have the same problem. Itâs because Rubies are the most-used gem in peopleâs gear across all classes and builds, and theyâre also a component needed to craft commonly-used incense like Reddamine Buzz. Thematically, I get it â Rubies provide health/life/fire. So, it makes sense that theyâd be used in armor and for health-based incenses. But itâs super irritating that I seem to always have less Ruby fragments than I need to craft one Royal Ruby, but I never have less than tens of thousands of all other gem fragments.
Is it possible that you crafted more life gems than anything else and didnât pay attention until you ran out? BC thatâs what I assume led to my shortage of the ruby mats. I have a 100 barb.
e: I counted my royal gems across stash + 3 lvl 100âs:
purple 1, white 3, green 4, red 9, blue 1, skull 2, yellow 6
which track my numbers above. esp. since I craft more lower lev rubies also.
Maybe try the same thing if you want something a bit more substantive than idle speculation.
Yeah, I see what it is now. My only 100 is a Necro so the balance is completely off. She is the only one that has royals as I havenât even upgraded my rouge to flawless yet. But still, while not the lowest, it would probably be if I wasnât constantly crafting Anti-venom and eating up my Skulls and Emeralds. I counted all my fragments by adding 10k per royal gem to which ever fragments I had and this is what I got.
Amethyst - 61k
Diamonds - 69k
Emeralds - 49k
Rubies - 58k
Sapphires - 63k
Skulls - 49k
Topaz -63k
Once again, the Emeralds and Skulls are used in the quest elixir which is the only crafted item I have made in bulk that uses gem fragments. I have made maybe 10 Chorus of Wars, but they only use 100 fragments so not a significant amount. But it does show that the difference is not as stark as it looks at first glance.
TL:DR - Yeah, not dropping as much but not that far behind.
I agree there is some kind of shinnangans going on with Rubies. I have between 50k and 70k of every gem type except Ruby. I am Level 100 and have managed to make one, just one, royal rubie and the fragments have been stuck at 6600 for almost a week now while I have been able to make at least half a dozen more royal other type gems!!! WTF??? Level 100 and I have managed to make one of the 5 rubies I need? That is some serious bend me over and f me sideways-age!!!
We need to be able to transmute gems or fix the darn ruby drop rate!!!