Just wanted to say that this new racial for earthen is absolutely adorable.
I love it so much.
You sit down and read a book while munching on a gem.
(Side note, it does kinda make buying gems to eat kinda pointless. Not that thats a bad thing at all)
I thought it was a neat solution to the problem everyone was having yeah.
Same. When I RP with friends, it is one of my favorite things to do.
I don’t think the original intention was for players to be constantly eating gems. You eat one gem for the permanent buff and you shouldn’t need to eat another one until you want to change the buff (or improve the buff with higher quality gems). I think they just overlooked the fact that players eat food for more than just the food buff, and this is their answer to that. But definitely not a bad thing at all 
Yeah its only weird because they did add a gem vendor for health and mana gems.
So the new racial makes those gems redundant.
But id much rather have a book to read than gems in my bag haha