<<*The 20% Gem Recipe*>>

I've read some of the other threads that are regarding the discovery/realization of the Level 20+ 1 GCP vendor recipe for a Level 1 20% Gem of the same type.

People are arguing that it's a fair recipe and that it won't effect the economy much, due to the time it takes to hit Level 20 on a gem.

I don't know if this is true, but someone had told me it takes roughly 150 hours if you don't chill or AFK non-stop.

I would like to clearly state before I go any further, that I am not in any way saying getting Level 20 on a gem is easy.

I understand that those who have spent their time on the game to obtain these hard to get levels deserve some sort of reward.

The current recipe is a good idea, but I strongly feel that ONE Level 20 gem + ONE GCP is a bit unfair.

In any case, they should make it 3-5 of the SAME Level 20 gem + 1 GCP.

This encourages people to trade Level 20 gems for other Level 20 gems or currency, since people won't necessarily want the exact same Level 20 gems.

I strongly feel that the current recipe will ruin the economy.

Even though people are stating that it won't affect the economy much, I would like them to extrapolate or just think about what would happen in 1 month or so.

Currently, GGG is literally giving you 19 GCPS per Level 20 gem for playing the game.

If we were to say you hold a gem in every slot piece, which sums up to 30 and get it to Level 20 and use the recipe, you would end up with a 570 GCP profit.

Lets say it takes roughly 150 hours to get a gem to Level 20, GGG is giving you 570 GCPs for playing for that duration.

The problem is, you will almost never ever find 570 GCPs during those 150 hours.

People can get 30 gems to Level 20, and use the gem recipe, and remake the same character and use those 20% gems.

Some people may still think that it's very hard to get to Level 20, but I'm pretty sure that those who are aware of this gem recipe will probably obtain Level 20, use the gem recipe, and continue the cycle.

In the end, I'm pretty sure that at least 50% of the player base will have 20% gems on every slot.

This completely devalues GCP, even though it is supposedly the 5th rarest currency to find.

I would like it if the community could give me some feedback on my thoughts, no hate though please.

EDIT: I'm literally just AFK in A1N just watching people link 5x 20% Gems of Level 1 constantly. This recipe just brought in a whole wave of 20% gems. How is that not ruining the economy.

1. Was it really necessary to make yet ANOTHER thread on this instead of posting in one of the 5+ that are already on the first page?

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This recipe just brought in a whole wave of 20% gems. How is that not ruining the economy.

Because it is precisely that..a large wave of all the level 20 gems that people have had from the last month which a lot of people are probably hoping to rip off the other people who haven't heard of the recipe yet with. The question is how it will affect the economy in the long run AFTER this initial wave is over.

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Hodari escreveu:

1. Was it really necessary to make yet ANOTHER thread on this instead of posting in one of the 5+ that are already on the first page?

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This recipe just brought in a whole wave of 20% gems. How is that not ruining the economy.

Because it is precisely that..a large wave of all the level 20 gems that people have had from the last month which a lot of people are probably hoping to rip off the other people who haven't heard of the recipe yet with. The question is how it will affect the economy in the long run AFTER this initial wave is over.

I made this new thread because the other ones were just complaints made by the thread starter and I have different things to bring up.

Also, I don't know if you read my thread carefully, but I stated that 1 month from now, those people who know about the recipes are probably frequent players and will eventually achieve all Level 20 gems at 20%. Like literally, almost everyone will have a 20% gem. Sure it won't affect people overall in the long term, but it completely devalues GCPs, the 5th rarest currency in the game.

I don't think it's going to "ruin the economy", but I'm sure gcp will fall out hard. People won't be using them to move a 17, 18, 19% or so gem to max because it won't be worth it. Okay, so more gems in circulation. The price of MAX level non-quality gems has and will go up. The price of level 1, 20% quality gems is going down. The price of low quality gems will flatten completely if 20% quality gems are readily available. If low quality gems don't have more value to be sold than comes from vendoring them, then there'll be even more gcp on the market than would normally have been there.

What I'm seeing on trade chat is a lot of people selling gcp into other currencies, and few people buying gcp. I got 5 gcp for 10 regrets tonight.

Anyone have any guesses where Exalted:gcp will end up?

I don't know why people are restating things I already mentioned in my post.

I already said that I understand GGG wants to reward players for spending time on their game, but this defeats the whole purpose of GCPs.

And yes, I'm pretty sure it'll ruin the economy and everyone will have Level 20 20% gems eventually.

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BerMalBerIst1 escreveu:

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LePvPMaster escreveu:

I don't know why people are restating things I already mentioned in my post.

I already said that I understand GGG wants to reward players for spending time on their game, but this defeats the whole purpose of GCPs.

And yes, I'm pretty sure it'll ruin the economy and everyone will have Level 20 20% gems eventually.

You cannot "ruin" an economy made up of "virtual" items.

Its efficacy is judged by the sum of its users.

I have no idea what you're talking about, but I'm just going to stick to my original statement that it'll ruin the economy.

The economy will adapt and survive just fine, ruin is such a subjective thing anyway.

I'd just like to point out that I've sunk something like 50 hours into my main, an LA ranger, and I still don't have a single level 20 gem. I think most of them are actually level 17 or 18. This on a character who has hit 77 (with quite a few deaths, mind you). Even the Reduced Mana I swap between various chars is only level 19. This recipe shouldn't have too much of an effect, because level 20 gems are really hard to come by.

ppl overrate gcps the gcp orb has the least inpact compared to other orbs on your gameplay


lets take crit chance support a 20% gives you 20% increase crit for most spells this is under 1% for the basecrit

all those 20% penetration gems give 10% increase fire/cold/lightnning dmg uhhhh big deal

gcps and %20 gems are overrated in most cases(fastcast,enfeeble and many more are really powerful)

i couldnt care less if the drop hard in value or not they were never intent to be so valueble at all

I don't spend many hours each day playing PoE, and since open beta, my gem has yet to hit level 19. While hardcore players may find it easy to level a gem up to 20, reset it, and re-level, such option is not always viable for everyone. Some of us will still op to get some decent quality gem and use them, later increasing its quality with GCP.