I mentioned this on their monthly look at us we banned bots post. They need to address the titanium node spawn rate or the yield of the nodes. Most people are raid loggers and the price of gems will stay high for awhile and then spike back in ICC unless more titanium is introduced into the game where the largest number of gems actually come from.
The fact they aren’t addressing this issue just leads to more bots farming ore because it’s insanely profitable vs pre phase 3.
Unless you were dumping all your emblems into conquest orbs you would have hundreds stock piled when ToC hit.
I was able to regem all my gear day one of ToC and cover all my upgrades so far without having to buy a single gem. With plenty of emblems left for the for seeable future.
I’ve gotten far more upgrades from the sounds of it. Probably nearing 30+ so far with many more to go.
Considering that’s probably 1400-1600 badges worth of gems, even if I had been stockpiling on multiple toons my substantial savings would be nearing its end soon.