Jewelcrafting skillcap

[Brain]

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

Right now? 284.
When it is fixed? 200.

So uh, you might want to hold off on that.

Where are you getting this information?

284 is the cap for plat BS neck... Just because it's the most expensive gem doesn't mean it's the most difficult to craft.

Plat diamond AND Blue diamonds are harder to make than BS's...

Plat Blue Diamond Tiara becomes trivial at 295 IIRC - so technically that would put our current cap @ 295, not 284.

I'd like to hear a dev comment on this rather than rumors...

[Omnimorph]

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

Where are you getting this information?

284 is the cap for plat BS neck... Just because it's the most expensive gem doesn't mean it's the most difficult to craft.

Plat diamond AND Blue diamonds are harder to make than BS's...

Plat Blue Diamond Tiara becomes trivial at 295 IIRC - so technically that would put our current cap @ 295, not 284.

I'd like to hear a dev comment on this rather than rumors...

I believe the plat BS tiara was 297 cap. But yes, technically 297 will be the max possible cap till velious comes out. You would only reach it if you were to have alot of blue diamond + platinum combines... and since i remember seeing some calculator thing saying i had a 1.1% chance of a skill up per combine... it'd take alot of combines to get there.

[guineapig]

In any case, they can't change the cap to my knowledge or they would have done so a long time ago.

What they did with other tradeskill recipes is simply remove the non-classic ones out of the game. But they can't do that with the platinum combines because they are indeed classic.

SO basically it's one of those few instances in the game where it can't replicate classic 100% and you just have to deal.

It's not that huge of a deal other than the fact that good resist gear is much more readily available than it was in 1999. But to sort of balance this out resists are nothing like they were on classic either; based on a (guesstimate) 400+ cap instead of 250. So it's hardly game breaking when it comes to raids. Maybe a little bit outside of raid encounters.

[Brain]

*bump*

Any dev's care to comment on this? And I'm assuming nothing in the recent patch (9/12) changed for JC'rs?