I can skip this one because there is nothing I want that I want to spend excessive amounts of gems to get. Interesting that this comes right after a Fraternity event where most have already purchased gem packs. Have fun for those that are going for the rewards.

Yuk, I already have Passion so will skip this one. You know, if SP released a new monster (surely this King of Gems is a better idea than the 72hr Challenge, for example) for this event, then it would encourage everyone to buy it...

True but they will probably get more people trying in a challenge than buying gems. After all this idea would knock out all the f2p players. But it would be a good idea as a second chance to get the monster.

Funny how you have to buy 11K gems for a single X rune, when those gems would buy you 2 or 3.

@Bruce-Hamilton Its 11000 gems will give you all previous nodes too, so you could say its 3000 gems still very expensive if you only buy them on sale though ;)

@Bruce-Hamilton said in King of Gems is Back:

Funny how you have to buy 11K gems for a single X rune, when those gems would buy you 2 or 3.

Well yes, but in this case you can keep the gems. It is just a bonus, and a very bad one considering the number of purchases you need to make to get something decent. And if you can spend enough to get something decent, you probably don't need it.

Would have been nice if they had started this at the beginning of the weekend when some of us dropped a load of cash for the race. But oh well guess that was the whole point.

@Suzznee You should only be spending gems if you know you will come in 1st place.

Otherwise you are spending 1000s of gems on Rabies or Erebus. LOL

@Clackers said in King of Gems is Back:

@Suzznee You should only be spending gems if you know you will come in 1st place.

Otherwise you are spending 1000s of gems on Rabies or Erebus. LOL

@Clackers we are coming in first, otherwise I would not have spent money on gems.

@Suzznee same here, we now have a 10 lap gap and #2 has stopped moving. @Clackers don't know if it is 1000s but for each to get a 3rd rank monster, the cost is worth it.

@Nynaevelan said in King of Gems is Back:

...for each to get a 3rd rank monster, the cost is worth it.

Debatable. You know it's going to be in an offer eventually for 299, plus offers for 2 and 3 ranks. The average 3 rank offer is around 1.5K, is it worth spending more to have it a couple months earlier than the GP?

@Bruce-Hamilton I dont think @Nynaevelan meant 1500 gems ind, at least i hope not i never spent more then 350 gems in a race maybe I would do 500 if needed but It was never needed if you work together as a team and do lots of communication no need to spent that much as individual

@Bruce-Hamilton said in King of Gems is Back:

@Nynaevelan said in King of Gems is Back:

...for each to get a 3rd rank monster, the cost is worth it.

Debatable. You know it's going to be in an offer eventually for 299, plus offers for 2 and 3 ranks. The average 3 rank offer is around 1.5K, is it worth spending more to have it a couple months earlier than the GP?

Not if each player only spends @500 for it, which is what we do. So you are getting it for a third of the price. When i was comparing Clackers statement it was with the thought of what we all paid, not one or more of us paying 1000s.

Btw this will be our third win of all the races, so you can see we often don't go all out on them.

@Nynaevelan This is our first win so we have gone a bit overboard but...