gem drops

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Originally Posted by Nirgon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Must have been nice just handing out all those diamonds and blue diamonds like candy for your Vox raids.

In Gates of Discord or whatever expansion you were on when that was happening.

6k posts and can't read. The SZ release was during Velious. Not Discord or whatever other expansion you want to name drop to make yourself feel old school. Every bit of evidence and personal experience that has been referenced was classic, Kunark, or Velious. The gems had dropped during Hate and Vox raids, and were common enough that a handful of the highest level players on the team at the time were being outfitted from guild bank in order to continue progression.

"Its a random drop of several high level creatures in several zones. Best chances to get one of these are the planes or old sebilis. Good luck."

^ is the highest rated comment on allakhazam under diamond from Oct 2001. Again, I would like to find solid information from 1999 or 2000, but have not.

On this server, gems do not drop from "several high level creatures in several zones." They drop from a very few specific creatures in basically 2 zones. The drops from planes are so rare that it isn't even a factor, and I have yet to see a drop at Chardok bridge, which is probably just rumor anyhow.

Once again, evidence strongly suggests that during the first 3 expansions, on live, gems were far more available as a normal part of progression than they are here. On a server where every other player in unrest is wearing a fungi tunic, it is still 10k for a raw gem. That is pretty much the exact opposite as on live. Gem values here are inflated with only 80 people playing, imagine how much they would have cost on live with 2000 players bidding.

Think about how relatively rarely you see gems for sale on here, then imagine the population increasing 25x. And yet on live you could pick up a resist set in east commons anytime. I still remember PK looting es arms or my first tcrown, because they were "check this shit out moments", but I can't remember ever getting excited over a diamond or jacinth ring.