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Buying Black Temple Gems

by Gamer at March 4th, 2008 in General | No Comments »

The simple answer to whether or not you should buy Black Temple gems is if you can afford to or not. If you have the money to buy the Pyrestones, Lionseye, Seaspray, Crimson Spinel, etc., which all vary in price depending on which server you are on, then you should do so. If PvP is what you care about most then why not buy the Black Temple gems? With Battleground dailies and other dailies, you can easily rack up 50 gold a day and afford a new gem every week for your gear. Naysayers might say that when you compare, for example, a Teardrop Living Ruby (+18 healing) and a Black Temple epic Teardrop Crimson Spinel (+22 healing) you only gain +4 healing, but when you add everything up across all available gem slots, you’ll end up gaining a significant amount.

One thing you should keep in mind when buying Black Temple gems is that some are more expensive than others. For example, Lionseye, Pyrestone, and Seaspray are significantly less expensive than Crimson Spinel, Empyrean Sapphire, and Shadowsong Amethyst. On my realm, Stormscale (Horde), the first three sell for between 200 and 250 gold and the later three start anywhere around 400 and can go upwards of 800. The general rule of pricing goes that the more Black Temple clearing guilds there are on your server, the less expensive the gems are. And as for buying Black Temple gems, the Auction House isn’t always the best place to look. Try contacting the Guild Masters of the top Black Temple guilds and you can more than likely receive a better deal.

Furthermore, you should feel safe in putting gems in your Season 3 gear as it is certain to last for at least 6 months as Season 1 and Season 2 did and may be the last season before the World of Warcraft expansion Wrath of the Lich King. And, if that’s the case, you’ll be leveling to 80 at the WoLK release and we can assume that new and better gems will be available at 80. Therefore, put your money into Season 3 gear now and don’t just save your money for Season 4 assuming you’ll be putting Black Temple gems in that gear as there may be even better gems at that point.


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