jorb wrote:Whenever we do make things truly rare, we get complaints about accessibility, and how noobs can't get XYZ. Was definitely the case for gemstones, for example.
i'd like to say that jotun brilliant diamonds are rare enough. And i think it should stay that way.
even finding a jotun rough diamond is really rare, and then successfully cutting it 5 times at a chance of 75%.. leaves about 24% of jotun diamonds found into something useful, because all other versions of diamonds have no UA.
Our gemcutter has a softcap of 850 on gemcutting, but we haven't gotten a single jotun brilliant diamond since the day they were added (when they were buggedly common). And we actually mine a lot.
I think though that we should have ways to get better than 75% chance to successfully cut gems because it's really heartbreaking to destroy more than 75% of your jotun roughs.