Selling and buying question (and gems)

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MonstaMunch wrote:

No. It's like irl, if you buy a car from a used car dealer one day for $10k, then the next day take it to sell to another dealer, he will offer you $5k for it. However, if you go and sell it privately and cut out the middleman, you'll be able to get a more reasonable price.

No, you see, for 3 Wisdom scroll, I should be offered 1 portal, that's the accepted exchange rate.

What I mean is, going through the sellers inventory, and PURCHASING items using my items nets me a much, MUCH greater reward then simply dropping my gear and selling it for whatever.

THAT'S the bit I don't understand...

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xenogias wrote:

I mean I have spent a ton of time in the game and only ONCE have I had a non quest gem drop for me, that being elemental hit. Thats it. Hell I havent even had something more popular like clarity or devotion drop. So I honestly do think a random gem recipe or even increasing the drop rates alittle is a good idea.

Thats really bad luck! On my side, its of course not a constant flow (especially in races I somewhat lack gem drops) but often when gems start dropping in a session, there are more to come later...

There are (since the changes some patches ago) not that many gems that are no quest offers (of course again, across all classes). These ones are meaned to be rare to some degree (at least, the higher baselevel ones), and thats they are. I, in 14 month of participation, never found an 'Added Chaos Damage' gem (maybe the only one from the higher, older gems) - as opposite, I think I found 3 town portal gems (I Know I have at least two in legacy) - and HOW rare are these?

Clarity is relatively easy to get from a quick Witch2Brutus run ^^