Status report: Kranthis kicks butt. I'm still in love with druiding. Keeping on with the Battleground Honor Grind to pick up some Deadly Gladiator's Dragonhide gear. Got the hat last night. So far, I put a shifting twilight opal in it, since I need a red and two blues to activate my metagem, and this will serve both purposes AND get me the socket bonus (6 crit, wheee!).
The question is, should I get a shifting dreadstone? I just recently got Djargenstad up to 450 alchemy, and he's been cranking out a few dreadstones a day (he's transmute spec). So I have the raw gems, and tomorrow Thrinwizzle will once again have 4 JC tokens and could learn the cut.
On the other hand, I could sell those dreadstones for a cool 200g on the AH. That's a LOT of money. And the dreadstone upgrade is 2 agi and 3 stam over the twilight opal (which cost like 10g on the AH as I was too lazy to switch over to Thrinwizzle to cut one for free).
So there's the opportunity cost - I could be richer. If I was richer, I could buy epic flight for Djargenstad (meh, no big deal I suppose) or buy up some really spendy stuff on the AH for some of my characters, or go mount-crazy or something. For now, I'm selling the dreadstones, especially because while the hat is very good, it's nowhere near best-in-slot. I could probably replace it on a ulduar-10 run, if I ever (a) get back into raiding and (b) get to tank ulduar on Kranthis. Between now and then, I've already got the gear to comfortably tank most heroics, and the dreadstone upgrade won't push me over the edge of any thresholds anyway.
Anyone want to buy some dreadstones?
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I have always been of a mind that the point or three you get buying the blue or purple quality gems to be a poor return on investment for me - the 4x cost (or more) difference between the gems is a lot of gold to sink into an item that you could very well replace tomorrow, and for what, a couple of points of AP? I'm not in Nihilim, I'm not pushing the guild's progression anywhere, and even if I was, would those couple of points really matter?
ReplyDeleteNo. Perfect delicate bloodstones are my best friend.
I tend to view all of the enchants/gems like this. Why pay several hundred gold for the +stats to chest, when the one that's just 2 points/stat less powerful is a third of the cost? Why put in the effort and time to get exalted with the Sons of Hodir for a handful of AP and less than a point of critical strike? Is a bump to your overall dps of less than a tenth of a percent worth the effort? Would even a full percentage point be worth the grind, or worth the gold?
True, I have bought some blue-quality gems for my more recent pieces, but this owes more to the new tier of gems making these seem oddly reasonable coupled with my expectation that a lot of what I am wearing now will last me into Cataclysm, given the odds of my ever doing multiple runs through current and future raid content.
Enough is enough. People can down Yogg in blues, for crying out loud, the whole purple thing is just epeen.
Yeah, I pretty much agree, although I find that usually perfect-cut green gems can be almost as expensive as the regular-cut blue gems these days (with the whole blue-quality gem market crashing as the epic gems drive everything down).
ReplyDeleteOkay, you've convinced me. Dreadstones for sale. Or whatever - the materials for the gem transmutes in alchemy are amazingly cheap, and I might just be getting lucky but I usually get 2 epic gems per transmute. I'm relatively surprised about alchemy, it is actually a very profitable enterprise, especially with Kranthis just gathering herbs while he wanders around. I can get more money out of flasks than I can from selling the herbal ingredients, which is not what I expected.
Don't get me started on flasks. I may have come a long way in terms of my use of consumables - the massive nerf to ammo costs helped there, but I am reliably using food buffs now that I can make the stuff myself and even use dps potions and elixers on stuff that's actually a bit on the challenging side - but I still have never purchased or used a flask of endless rage. I just refuse to pay for it. It's like a cover charge for raiding, a tax on progression players. Coughing up an extra 50 or 100 gold a night on top of repairs just doesn't sit well with me.
ReplyDeleteThe thing I like about flasks is they persist through death. That's hot, even in farm-status raids. I've died a few times on Mariwocket (okay, more than a few) because I was kind of blindly AoEing trash and didn't notice that I just peeled three mobs off the tank because the tank was picking up the other patrol or something. And in progression raids, it's pretty sweet.
ReplyDeleteReally, flasks should be cheaper. The materials are really easy to come by, save for frost lotuses. Even those are relatively common for herbalists. They just tend to fluctuate a lot on the AH because people go and buy out huge swathes while stocking up the larder- Obsolition commisioned like 100 Endless Rage flasks from Chase the other evening. Crazy.
But stuff like lichbloom and frostthorn are super-easy to find. 15 minutes farming in storm peaks is all you need for a flask's worth of materials. I've no clue why flasks sell for so much.
Gold persists through death too.
ReplyDeleteI expect that I will use flasks when my herbalist druid gets to the point where she's picking those weeds that are used to make them and my Alchemist friends can just whip the stuff up for me, but until then, I'll make up the dps in skill that I'm losing in buffs.
Or not.
But definitely one of the two.
The alternative is what I do. As I have three Alchemists and two JC's, I use the alchemists to transmute my gems. Bringing the cost of a dreadstone down to 20g makes them much easier to access. That, and once you hit raid gear, the gem changes come at much lower frequency.
ReplyDeleteHowever, have you considered making one of those gems for your meta a Nightmare Tear? 10 to all stats, takes 4 dust and a dragon's eye, both easy to get for a JC.
Hmm, Nightmare tear is an interesting option, especially for activating a blue - would I rather have 10 int/spirit or 9 spellpower/9 spirit or whatever - for a druid, that's an easy call. Hard to say for a caster.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, doing transmutes yourself doesn't mean the "cost" of epic gems is any less - you could be selling your gems for huge profits each day.
On the third hand, the price of epic gems is slowly inching down. People have gone through the mad upgrade spree and are once again only buying new gems for replaced gear, plus there's more people in the market. It's still too good for me to keep for my own use - I could use epic flight at least on two more characters. Maybe when the raw gem drops below 100g. Even then, with a transmute spec, it's a ridiculous amount of gold every 20 hours.