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Patch 3.2 Preparation: Epic Gems & Dragon’s Eye Stats

Posted by Warcraftecon | June 25, 2009 .

Epic Gem Recipes

The 3.2 PTR recently went live and the epic gems we spoke of last week were indeed the ones that were introduced. As we mentioned before, these were in the game files since Wotlk Beta. There are a total of 72 different cuts:

Each of these 72 recipes can be bought from the Jewelcrafting trainer in Dalaran for 4 tokens each. So if you wanted every single new recipes, it will cost 288 tokens. However, to speed up the process of obtaining tokens, a new quest is available from the vendor. The repeatable quest, Titanium Powder, requires you to turn in 10 [Titanium Powder] and rewards a [Dalaran Jewelcrafter's Token]. The powder is a byproduct of prospecting [Titanium Ore]. During the first weeks of 3.2, we recommend that you spend your tokens on some of the less obvious cuts instead of the pure Spell Power, Agility, and Stamina ones since a lot of players will be focused on these recipes and flood the auction house with these gems.

Epic Gems - Honor

The raw epic gems can be bought with 10,000 honor each

Epic Gem - Emblem

as well as 15 [Emblem of Heroism], which in 3.2, will have to be obtained by trading down from higher tiers of badges.

[Icy Prism] will now have a chance to contain epic gems.

The 3.2 [Dragon's Eye] have been upgraded to the following stats and are no longer prismatic:

 

Majestic Zircon Transmute

There will be 6 new Alchemy transmutes which some will be using epic gems and others use the old rare gems as materials. They cost 12g each to train in Dalaran and to learn [Transmute: Cardinal Ruby], you will need to obtain the quest from the Alchemy trainer in Dalaran. The quest has you do 5 other epic gem transmutes (thanks to our reader Ewber for the information). It looks like they realized that certain colors tend to be worth less than other gems, so it is nice to see that blue quality gems will be used in these transmutes. Will the current rare gems be worth more now or after 3.2? It is hard to tell, but note that rare gems will also be produced from prospecting [Titanium Ore] as well as [Icy Prism]. We may even see players prospecting [Saronite Ore] then go right into transmutes if there is not a cooldown in place.

Update: The materials have been changed as well as the addition of a 20 hour shared cooldown on all transmutes.

Image originally appeared on MMO-Champion.com forums.

Image originally appeared on MMO-Champion.com forums.

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  1. Ewber June 25, 2009 1:45 PM

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    I know I’m buying up cheap saronite ore, blue gems, and even titanium @~100g a stack.

    Demand for these (as well as the cuts) will be high, its just going to depend on how many JC’s on your server try to go all out and flood the market on 3.2 launch or if there are a few gem cuts that you can gain a monopoly of sorts on for a couple of days.

    Not all blue-rarity gems will go up in price (red, yellow, and orange will definitely, without a doubt, drop in price) but the ones that sell for terrible amounts and make prospecting saronite ore not worth it half of the time will go up in price (and saronite ore will follow suit.)

  2. daguy July 4, 2009 11:44 AM

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    yo, why u buyin dem saronite ores i thought only prospecting da titanium’ll hav a chance 4 dem epic gems?

  3. bigboy32 July 7, 2009 5:48 AM

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    hey guys the info about matz for transmute is wrong the matz r now

    Alchemy
    Epic Gems transmutations now have a 20 hours cooldown.
    Transmute: Ametrine now requires 1 x Monarch Topaz and 1 x Eternal Shadow
    Transmute: Cardinal Ruby now requires 1 x Scarlet Ruby and 1 x Eternal Fire
    Transmute: Dreadstone now requires 1 x Twilight Opal and 1 x Eternal Shadow
    Transmute: Eye of Zul now requires 3 x Eternal Life
    Transmute: King’s Amber now requires 1 x Autumn’s Glow and 1 x Eternal Life
    Transmute: Majestic Zircon now requires 1 x Sky Sapphire and 1 x Eternal Ai

  4. LEH July 7, 2009 6:49 AM

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    Prospect saronite for:
    a) blues > have an alchemist transmute them to epics
    b) greens > use JC to create Icy Prisms > creates 3 blues + chance of dragons eye > repeat (a) above

  5. Warcraftecon July 7, 2009 3:44 PM

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    @ bigboy32 – Thanks for the update! The materials have changed again for Eye of Zul; it requires 3x Forest Emeralds instead of Eternal Life.