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Fyois wrote on 2011-02-11 02:35
I've been doing a lot of metallurgy and I keep getting gems that are in the 1-2cm range. Is that the biggest they come naturally? Or do I just need to raise my rank to get bigger ones?
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Wing wrote on 2011-02-11 02:37
Higher!!!!
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User495 wrote on 2011-02-11 02:37
to add to your question (cause I'm not sure myself if it's random or rank dependent)
how are people getting the 10 cm gems ? o_O
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Wing wrote on 2011-02-11 02:38
Quote from Sevian;330027:
to add to your question (cause I'm not sure myself if it's random or rank dependent)
how are people getting the 10 cm gems ? o_O
mystery box.
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Chromatic wrote on 2011-02-11 02:39
pfft, my alt is r1 and it barely gets any 4cm+ gems
sometimes some 5cm+ appear like once i got one jasper with 7.5cm and one ~8cm aquamarine, but its really, really rare. everything below 4cm is pretty common
Just for you to see, took me 6 hours to get one 4cm jasper
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Wing wrote on 2011-02-11 02:40
Quote from Chromatic;330032:
pfft, my alt is r1 and it barely gets any 4cm+ gems
sometimes some 5cm+ appear like once i got one jasper with 7.5cm and one ~8cm aquamarine, but its really, really rare. everything below 4cm is pretty common
badluck!!!
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Chromatic wrote on 2011-02-11 02:41
Quote from Drawinq;330035:
badluck!!!
you got ninja'd
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Fyois wrote on 2011-02-11 02:48
Soooo, rank it and I'll get bigger gems? I mean with the number I'm turning up, larger ones would be a plus but not necessary. Anyway, ranking makes them bigger?
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Omarukun wrote on 2011-02-11 03:14
I think its random, since I got a 8cm Aquamarine and I have rank C Metallurgy
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Sunureu13 wrote on 2011-02-11 03:21
Your metallurgy success rate goes up as you rank. Therefore you're more likely to not fail, and because of that, you're more likely to get a gem drop. So far no evidence has been discovered that rank affects gem size. But lower sizes are more common. The 10cm gems come from the Mystery box.
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Chihaya wrote on 2011-02-11 03:25
It's random. You're just lucky if you find big ones all the time and you're unlucky if you find small ones all the time.
However, you can increase the CHANCE of getting bigger gems by increasing the chance of getting gems, which can be increased by raising the success rate of metallurgy, which is increased by ranking the skill.
tl;dr, rank metallurgy if you want bigger gems, or continuously perform metallurgy with a lower chance for the "big gem"
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chaolin wrote on 2011-02-11 15:51
I have rank 1 metallurgy and I've noticed 5 -7 cm Star Sapphires and Jaspers becoming a little more common. Granted though, this is probably because I accumulate such a shear volume of gems and I'd say the percent of getting a "bigger" gem is 1/20 gems I find.