How many Gemcutter's Prism do you have? Is it supposed to be so super-rare?

How many Gemcutter's prisms did you get per character level?

For example, I got 7 characters above lvl 40, so a total of about 300 character levels.

For all my "trouble", I got 5 Gemcutter prisms. The only item I have less of is the Exalted Orb.

Is this normal? Is the gemcutter prism only dropping after lvl 50 for example? Because at least so far, I think this drop is too low.

Hell, I can even get Skill Gems with +2 - +10% quality more often than a single damn gemcutter prism!

So either the prism should drop more often, either the Skill Gems with +x% quality should never drop or something ::- D.

Yes they are very rare.


But you can trade your quality gems for gcps. If other players want them.

Or else you can even sell gems with a combined quality of 40% for a prism at the vendors.

40% for 1 prism. That's a ratio of 40:1. That's more expensive than a hand-built Ferrari ::- D.

I think in this area, the game would need a bit more... understanding ::- D.

Rare items are rare and that's what make them valuable.

There is a difference between "rare" and "5 in 300 character levels". It's called: "too rare". I would expect this from super-powerful unique items. But for almost 200 hours of play, to get 5 of an item which isn't really that fantastic, is exaggerated.

This may be a "grinding gear" game, but come on. Such exaggerated rarity encourages farming / black market. And I think nobody wants that.

Your post makes little sense to me. Why are you arbitrarily complaining about gcps being super rare when exalted and divine are even more rare and arguably, gcps are most useful. The entire point of having currency in the form of orbs is that some are incredibly rare (yes, 5 in 300 character levels rare) so you have to trade for them. If you're trying to "grind" gcps by farming mobs, you're doing it wrong. You also completely missed the boat if you think games like this don't want to encourage farming since that's PRECISELY what keeps 99% of people playing ARPGs.

If anything, you should be complaining about the drop rate on uniques, which (save for a few) are FAR from super powerful, only useful at low to mid levels or very specific builds, and significantly more rare than gcp.

I've made around 10 or so characters while trying out different builds since I started playing a few weeks ago. I've gotten each one to around lvl 30 before deleting and re-rolling, so that's also around 300 character levels.

I've found 14 gcp, 8 regal and only 3 exalted orbs. But at the same time I've also made an additional 18 gcp from selling quality skills to players and selling 40% qual worth of un-wanted skills to vendors.

Get into trading and using the valuable vendor system that PoE has to offer. Your life will be a lot easier.

Also farm fellshrine and such at lower difficulty's with pure +quan gear one :)

mikehava: how much have you actually played POE?

Wuzlo: thanks for the advice ::- ). Ok, I'm gonna try that.

Obviously this is not my beta account, i just happened to be logged into it. I have a level 70 and three level 40s but honestly, how much i've played doesn't change the validity of anything i said. I have 4 Exalted, 25 GCP and 2 Divine, of which about 80% was traded for. That's exactly how a good economy should work.

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Kyliathy wrote:

So either the prism should drop more often, either the Skill Gems with +x% quality should never drop or something ::- D.

I'll agree to that. I think we shouldn't see so many quality gems.