Farming gems?

[Jackofall]

I had a go in Old Seb with my enchanter Dire Charming and trying to Power Leveling my 54 shaman. I hung on to all Fire and Star gems to use with enchanted gold bars. Needless to say I did not hit any skill ups. I am at 190+ and held a geerlok.

I remember that people farmed gems on the Ykesha ships. Do any of you guys farm gems for JC or do you just chuck in PP in the vendors?

[Ozadar]

In general, I just buy my gems and metals, and then enchant the metals before I do the combine. If I succede, costs less than a plat. If I fail, well, costs you the whole combine. The key is enchanting the metal. Thus, it is probably better for you to just xp and get some plat, and that should cover you until you get to where you use plat bars. Then it gets expensive when you fail, especially when you start using diamonds.

Ozadar of the 70th Corpse
Erudite Tradeskiller of Zek

Baking - 200
Tailoring - 195
Pottery - 219
Smithing - 227
Brewing - 248
Research - 200
Fishing - 200
Jewelry - 238
Fletching - 200

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