Excelsior

Well im glad I bought Gems before the change and now they are worthless to me..5 mil plus down the drain..shouldnt there be a way to make the "Pre Patch" Gems still work for players so there hard earned money is not wasted. kinda sucks...guess i can use em for Deco Items *tworls finger*

maybe they can put an exchange stone up, but here's the catch. you can only use it once, so if you "forgot" a gem at your house well your out of luck on that gem.

Server version 37.13 - 10-04-30
CHANGE Mage Inquisition quest changes: The items you need to collect and the item collectors are now bound to the account. The gems of completions are still tradeable, though the items required and the item collectors aren't. There is a 3 day cooldown when you complete one item collector, before you can add items to another (this will probably be changed to 2 days). The artifacts obtained from the Gems of Completion can no longer be equipped on biopets. This is because some people were able to obtain the gem of completion very frequently, while for some it was still a very challenging quest, so reducing the drop rate wasn't an option.

Note the date on the change was 4-30-10. I can see Coli maybe allowing a possibility of a Gem trade in if it was a new change, but come on. This has been in place for over a month now.

a month isnt that long of a time..and it just started being advertised on the town courier..id be willing to bet alotta people didnt even know about it until now..why should I be punished for something I bought along time ago(few months lol) that worked just fine when I bought it and now it is completely useless?..just think some things should be thought over before millions and millions of player gold is wasted..also gems should be non tradeable or buyable from vendors

and I do like the idea of the stone..one use per account would pretty much solve the problem..

Old gems werent account bound and can still be used. The problem is that although I put restrictions in to disable trade of the "soul bound" items, and not able to put them on vendors, there are still ways to trade them, so that the buyer doesnt know he/she is actually buying soulbound items.

I will edit some code and hopefully that will fix it. If you have bought a gem which won't go into your collector, contact the seller and ask that the trade be reversed - and they should agree.

I have literally thrown away more money than is being talked about being lost in this thread.

really Mad, you should take a deep breath and just relax.

Maybe if it were FIFTY million gold you lost, but five million?

I am not trying to attack you, though my tone may say that, that is not the case, take a step back and realize whats going on, you know? Its just a game, so you lose a bit of stuff in a game, from what I understand, you don't even play that much any more any ways.

Right?

So is it really worth getting worked up over?

come on, relax


hows the song go?

Don't worry, Be Happy? =)

A change I would rather see to the Gem Collectors is a timer to let you know how much longer you have to go until you can turn another one in. Even something as simple as what the BoD timer is would be great. I swear sometimes it seems like it is over 3 days before it allows me to turn the next one in.

yeah i agree with calan cause it has been 3 days since i made a gem and its saying its not time to create another gem yet

I dont really see anywhere that I am getting upset about anything I am simpley stating the facts of the change and I dont see what my game play style(hardcore or not) has anything to do with this? I have gems that I bought before the change and they will not go into a collectors bag. This Topic is something that should be talked about. It was a pretty big change for lots of people and there are still unanswered questions that people might not understand. Also suggestions that might make the change better like Cals suggestion. O and 5 Million of my gold plus if it happened to lets say half the active people on this server that had pre patch gems that dont work anymore so thats like 75x5 million = 375 Mil just to put it into perspective.

Don't Worry...Enless Its Worth It...Dooo doo do doooo

i'd also have to agree with Calan on this ... i made a gem on thursday night .. and on thuesday ... i still cant make another one .. i was thinking of paging but eared of that post so taugh i would drop in my latest observation

woot i made a blight gem, but still can't add anything to the gem collector. is it 3 days for everything? lesser gems and greater? i threw out everything i had and i'm starting over. maybe some item was messing up my character. who knows.

Calan Caitin wrote:A change I would rather see to the Gem Collectors is a timer to let you know how much longer you have to go until you can turn another one in. Even something as simple as what the BoD timer is would be great. I swear sometimes it seems like it is over 3 days before it allows me to turn the next one in.

calan using the body/crystal parts collectors (in parox/prism) resets or used to reset (no idea if it has been fixed already) the GoC timer, i was told by Colibri and Hina after paging Gms for some help (i was trying to fill a new box after a week).

Colibri, is the timer going down to 2 days? If i recall after the fix notes i read a post of yours where you said you would have considered such fix..
i may be totally wrong and recalling another post, in that case its a suggestion

That does make sense Krumhur. I did in fact do Paroxysmus Monday evening. I should have been able to turn my gem in last night, but it said I can not after so soon blah blah. So it will be interesting to see if it makes me wait until Thursday to turn the next gem in.