The future of gemming, today

According to the latest announcement from Blizz, epic gems will finally be making their debut in the next content patch. The raw gems themselves will be purchasable with heroic badges, honor, or prospectable from titanium ore (start hoarding now!) and the cuts will be purchasable from the designs vendor in Dalaran.

I don’t know about you but I’m about to put every self-respecting pack rat to shame with the ore, badge, and daily token hoarding I’m about to begin. My goal on patch day will be to fully deck myself out in epic gems, which means around 6 Solids, 3 new DEs (due to the JCing nerf that will kick in), and a couple of Regals/Endurings to nab bonuses.

Anyway, here are the gems we’ll be getting very familiar with in this new patch:

  • Solid Majestic Zircon
  • Regal Dreadstone
  • Enduring Eye of Zul
  • Thick King’s Amber

Ignoring the unknown buff that Dragon’s Eyes are getting, if I converted all my rare-quality gems to epic-quality today I would gain 39 stamina and 2 defense rating. A pretty nice health buff!

7 Comments to “The future of gemming, today”

  1. HP
    @iamapaladin
     17 June 2009 at 5:00 pm #

    Epic gems, yummy!

  2. Molsan 18 June 2009 at 3:06 am #

    Nice tip about the Titanium ore. It makes sense to hold on to the daily tokens as well until we know what’s going to happen.

  3. Cassini 18 June 2009 at 6:40 am #

    Hmm, I must have missed something I guess, but what’s the incoming JC nerf? *curses lack of internet sites available at work*

  4. Rhidach
    @Rhidach
     18 June 2009 at 8:06 am #

    @Cassini: The nerf is they’re changing Dragon’s Eyes to have colors so you can no longer dump them in any socket and still get the socket bonus. Huge pain.

  5. Cassini 18 June 2009 at 10:18 am #

    Ah right, thanks! :)

  6. Ohmymoogle 21 June 2009 at 8:15 pm #

    Pri, what do you mean ?

    Dragon’s Eye are prismatic color so if you put in for example a blue socket, that means that the blue socket will proc, and this counts toward the meta gem does it ?

    For dragon’s eye do you put that in colored socket or in prismatic socket ?

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