08-12-2003, 12:45 PM
Quote:so usually you should try and get your gems upgraded as often as possible
Decent advice, but don't apply it to chipped gems, these are far more valuable unupgraded, and since you'd need 81 to make a perfect...
oh, and with the new rune upgrade recipes, you may have to keep some in other qualities
Chips have 3 uses now:
1) the sword recipe (3 chips + magic sword = rerolled mods on the sword and 3 sockets)
2) rune upgrading (sometimes the new recipes require chips)
3) trading, lots of people will accept chips for trade on low-ish level stuff (when you're most likely to find chips), it's value to them is usually for the sword recipe (almost all my trading has been done with chips)
-Bob