Rubies

That is until everyone and their mother knows where to farm them and the price plummets. Then they become worthless like just about every item in GW.

I'm a firm believer in keeping things to yourself. I've had many money spots overan because it was put on a forum by other people.

come on now, prices for rubies and sapphires were gonna drop eventually. all this thread is doin is speedin up that process.

When you have a farmable area that anyone with NF can access the supply will meet that demand with less and less people buying armor. That's going to drive the price down very fast. The only reason ecto retains its price is because not eveyone can access UW any time they'd like.

Better sell all of em off because the price probly isn't going to go any higher.

Typical, coming from you. I will do my best to make sure EVERYONE knows that the listed items in this thread turn into rubbies/sapphires.

Anyway, thanks for the info, the only one I didn't know about was geode, I guess I'll have to salvage those now too.

boyo i cant wait till people figure out how to farm that secret town i forget what its called, im to lazy to open the game and find it. It has all the Djinns and ether things, that will be a jewel mine!

ADDED: That means you Rachtoh need to get to work :P

He after my rubie i got from that dagger i salvaged at least 25 more ruby daggers (with exp salvage kit yes) and didn't get any.
My point is: sure they can be salvaged but i think the change that theire being salvaged is so low that it will barely affect ruby prices.

and yes i'm talking about rubys since i have not seen actual proof of saphires being salvaged

I got a Ruby from an elemental outside old Ascalon.

Well if there was a NF strategy guide it would have had a chart in it for those and their salvaging options...

As for daggers, I think I everyone knew about those, specially when measure for measure came out. Hard part is finding daggers that take an inscription.

But ether hearts, one more thing to salvage, good thing I got alot of rewards for salvage kits.

I hope you realize the same logic applies to the fact that if other people stop enjoying the game, they stop playing it. The more people that stop playing GW, the less fun there is for the people who are left. Selfishness ftl.

Jeweled daggers salvage to sapphires. I have done it twice with the measure inscription on them. Anyone thinking the price of ruby and saphs would hold is clueless to begin with. Look at amber and jade 2 months into factions.

The difference is that you had to get 10 Amber/Jade worth of Faction just to progress the plot!.

You obviously aren't forced to get Rubies or Sapphires?

Zinger, the games been out for like two weeks. You can't make an accurate estimate on what the price will settle to. The price of these will most definitley drop once people realize there are many ways to get them besides paying for them at the rare material trader.

Just a bit of extra to add to this, I have salvaged both rubies and sapphires from jeweled daggers.

yay, i can farm some lightbringer points at the same time!

True as that may be, the price will still drop over time. As more people progress through Nightfall, there will be more people getting rubies/saphs/etc as drops, from Trade Contracts, and salvages.

ive got stacks of each ive been setting on for a LONG time now. finally gonna sell them while they are hovering around 7k each

I wasn't saying that. I was saying that it wasn't going to drop dramatically, since Rubies/Sapphires aren't as accessable as Rubies/Sapphires.

Gem drops are still incredibly rare. Gem salvages are just as rare. You can only trade enough Trade Contracts for 3 gems or so. (out of the 24 needed for the armor).

Demand is outstripping supply.

I've salvaged probably about 20 or so things that salvage into jewels, including with the salvage inscription on them and got dust each and every time, so it's still rare regardless and shouldn't affect price that much.

There's several differences between Ectos and the Rubies/Sapphires. First of all, you're all but guranteed 1-3 Ectos in the UW each trip (granted a full team of 8 and all cleared), whereas Rubies/Sapphires have no specific place they drop, and with a much, much lower droprate. Secondly, people simply don't sell Ectos to the trader. It's used as currency between players, which keeps the price at the trader up.

That said, Rubies and Sapphires are just simply rare, and they always will be. There just hasn't been anything to use them for, until now. So now that there actually is a demand, and the droprate is still incredibly rare, there has to be other ways to acquire the precious gems besides just buying them from the trader.

I think they will eventually even out to about where Obsidian Shards are at. I could see the rarity of both (and the usefullness - expensive armor) being about the same, but people will still use Ectos for currency. This means that if people aren't going to actually use the Rubies/Sapphires(/Shards), they will likely be sold to the trader, lowering the price inevitably.

So yeah, compare the gems to Shards, not Ectos. Makes more sense, and you'll see the [likely] long-term value of them.

i have quick question:

In the Vabian area I open vabbi chests and often get Gemstone axes. Has anyone tried salvaging gemsotne axes and gotten rubies/sapphires?