Hello,
I have searched and can find nothing on this subject to help me out. Please forward me to the subject if it has already been discussed and I apologize if it has and \ or if im in the wrong forum subject.
I received a socketed chest piece from a boss drop. I want to look and see what kind of gems are available for the socketts so i can get an idea of cost and just the possibilities of what I can do with this item.
My dilemma is that I can find no way to search the AH for available jems \ items for these sockets. From looking on tghis site there all named differentlly with no specific naming convention for searchability on AH. And I believe there a general trade class item so there all mixed with thousand's of other item classes.
Is this just the way it is and its going to be impossible to see what jems are available on the AH or am I missing something?
Thanks in advance for any help in understanding this.
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I think they are in the auction house under "trade goods" or something like that. You should be able to find a gem pick tab in there. (I would tell you exactly, but can't access WoW at the moment. Just keep looking. (I already bought three gems for my hunter's leggings)
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Do you mean the sub tabs like when u select the Weapons tab, it opens up all the weapon groups tabs for example? If so, I dont get any sub tabs for anything when I select trade goods or miscelaneous. Arrgh!
What you should do is look here first:
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/skill.html?line=755
Find yourself a gem that you like, and then search AH for it.
By the way, my AH window has now subcategories, like 'gems' under general goods. I am not sure where this comes from, hehe, if it is not Blizzard original UI, then it could be Auctioneer or CTmod.
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/skill.html?line=755
Find yourself a gem that you like, and then search AH for it.
By the way, my AH window has now subcategories, like 'gems' under general goods. I am not sure where this comes from, hehe, if it is not Blizzard original UI, then it could be Auctioneer or CTmod.
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By the way, my AH window has now subcategories, like 'gems' under general goods. I am not sure where this comes from, hehe, if it is not Blizzard original UI, then it could be Auctioneer or CTmod.
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Confirming that is a mod and not original UI. Gems do not show, unless by update after this post.
there's a vendor in Honor Hold (alliance) that sells gems. he also does armore repair... wierd, but okay.
i bought my first gems by browsing the trade goods on the AH. there were a lot of plain stones mixed with them (very annoying). they were also expensive (3-5g each). i don't plan on adding 9-15g to every item i pickup.
i bought my first gems by browsing the trade goods on the AH. there were a lot of plain stones mixed with them (very annoying). they were also expensive (3-5g each). i don't plan on adding 9-15g to every item i pickup.
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you can buy gems in Thrallmar for like 2g. there are gem vendors in the Inn and outside of the Inn
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confiming its the auctioneer addon that gives undertabs:)
The HH and thrallmar vendors' gems blow, what you should do is make your way to shattrath, and see if anybody has one of those obnoxious "!gem" mods. Basically they have an ad that tells you to "/t !gem <flag>" where <flag> is replaced by any of a number of modifiers, including gem color or stats that you intend to improve. After looking at a bunch of these, you should have a decent compilation of possible gem cuts for various stats.
Vendor cut gems are 2g each without any rep discount, and the last set of gems I bought were 3/4 of a stack of blood garnets for 1.3g each. These are decent when cut, and are meant to be placeholders until I manage to scrape together a ton of living rubies, and the endgame epics I intend to sink them into.
Basically, there are stones, and there are cuts. Each stone can have different cuts applied to it, and these cuts are what gives the stone it's stats.
Blood Garnet
Flame Spessarite
Golden Draenite
Deep Peridot
Azure Moonstone
Shadow Draenite
Look up each of these gems here at alla, you should find all the various cuts that can be applied to them. The same cuts can be applied to rare gems to produce higher levels of the same stat(s). Socket bonuses on an item are active when you fill the sockets with gems of the appropriate color. Note that this means that you can fill sockets with gems of the wrong color, if you so choose. I'd recommend considering improving stats that are more important to you rather than take the color guides on the item itself to provide a useless socket bonus. If the socket bonus is something you would use, consider putting a multi-color gem in to slightly increase a stat you want, and activate the bonus at the same time. If a socket will give me +4 spell damage if I use a yellow gem, I would rather use a Potent Flame Spessarite than a Runed Blood garnet (a red gem with the stat I like), to give me +8 spell damage (including socket bonus) and +3 spell crit rating, than just +7 spell damage.
Vendor cut gems are 2g each without any rep discount, and the last set of gems I bought were 3/4 of a stack of blood garnets for 1.3g each. These are decent when cut, and are meant to be placeholders until I manage to scrape together a ton of living rubies, and the endgame epics I intend to sink them into.
Basically, there are stones, and there are cuts. Each stone can have different cuts applied to it, and these cuts are what gives the stone it's stats.
Blood Garnet
Flame Spessarite
Golden Draenite
Deep Peridot
Azure Moonstone
Shadow Draenite
Look up each of these gems here at alla, you should find all the various cuts that can be applied to them. The same cuts can be applied to rare gems to produce higher levels of the same stat(s). Socket bonuses on an item are active when you fill the sockets with gems of the appropriate color. Note that this means that you can fill sockets with gems of the wrong color, if you so choose. I'd recommend considering improving stats that are more important to you rather than take the color guides on the item itself to provide a useless socket bonus. If the socket bonus is something you would use, consider putting a multi-color gem in to slightly increase a stat you want, and activate the bonus at the same time. If a socket will give me +4 spell damage if I use a yellow gem, I would rather use a Potent Flame Spessarite than a Runed Blood garnet (a red gem with the stat I like), to give me +8 spell damage (including socket bonus) and +3 spell crit rating, than just +7 spell damage.
Limeblue thank you for posting your response. That is the post I've been looking for. Simple, straightforward and informative.
Takes the mystery out of whether or not to concern myself with socket bonuses.
Takes the mystery out of whether or not to concern myself with socket bonuses.
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You should undoubtedly concern yourself with socketing. Gems can make ordinary blues xtraordinary and quest greens become blue quality with the right gems. When you get to endgame instances you will at some point come across meta gem slots which can be filled by cuts involving gems such as Skyfire Diamond for bonus's that include run speed increase or much enhanced dodge rating. These gems are exceptional and require different perameters to be applied (IE Must have 5 or more blue gems to socket) You'll drop some money on these gems but it's well worth it.
I like this guide a lot. You can use the little table at the bottom to decide on what you want. It uses the "green" gems instead of the "blue" ones as a guide, but the stats are fairly similar, just increased for the blue ones.
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