The attribute gems currently available as drops in the Divine Realm were all only second-tier.
Third-tier gems would only start dropping in large-scale dungeons after level 30 at the earliest.
As for having an alchemist synthesize third-tier gems, the success rate was only 20%, which was no small cost. A single second-tier gem on the market went for one gold coin. Not counting the synthesis fees, under average luck, you would need at least 20 second-tier gems just to have a shot at synthesizing one third-tier gem.
The cost alone came to 20 gold coins. For the main raid teams of the major guilds, equipping themselves head-to-toe in third-tier gems was simply unrealistic.
But third-tier gems offered significantly higher attributes than their second-tier counterparts.
A first-tier gem could add 3 points to a single attribute.
A second-tier gem could add 6 points to a single attribute.
A third-tier gem, however, added 12 points to a single attribute. If a player filled every slot with third-tier gems all boosting Strength, their Strength would double compared to a full set of second-tier gems. If the attributes were spread out, it was comparable to gaining an extra piece of top-tier equipment—an enormous boost for any player.
For the main raid teams of the major guilds, the room for attribute improvement was extremely limited, since their equipment had already reached a certain ceiling.
An ordinary player in a full set of Bronze
"The success rate for synthesizing third-tier gems is 80%?" Shi Feng glanced at the information prompt displayed by the Philosopher's Stone and couldn't help but smirk.
He had originally thought 60% would be generous. After all, the jump from second-tier to third-tier gems was a major leap, providing a huge boost to a player's attributes. Even NPC alchemists only had a 20% success rate.
With an 80% success rate, and given that Shi Feng's Luck stat was far from low, the actual cost would be even lower.
Four hours later, Shi Feng had obtained a total of 1,674 third-tier gems—174 more than the projected 1,500.
"If I sold all these third-tier gems, I wonder how many more plots of land I could buy for the Candlefire Trading Company." Shi Feng gazed at the table overflowing with third-tier gems and sighed inwardly.
The Philosopher's Stone truly lived up to its reputation as a treasure that could spark wars between kingdoms and empires.
And this was still an incomplete version. Shi Feng could hardly imagine what a complete Philosopher's Stone would be capable of.
In the early days of the Divine Realm in his previous life, a single third-tier gem had sold for 25 gold coins—more than ten times the price of a second-tier gem. Even at that price, supply couldn't meet demand. Selling 1,674 third-tier gems would net over 40,000 gold coins, more than enough to purchase three or four prime plots in major cities, while the cost of the first-tier gems had been a mere 900 gold coins.
But Shi Feng had no intention of selling the third-tier gems.
Right now,
Just as Shi Feng excitedly contacted Shuise Qiangwei to replace every main raid team member's second-tier gems with third-tier ones, the Divine Demon Arena in
The rising-star Heaven's Burial Guild had seen another wave of experts break through the fourth floor of the
"Zero Wing did gain 3 more people who cleared the fourth floor earlier. But Heaven's Burial is just too strong—22 more people all at once. Who knows how the Heaven's Burial Guild trains so many experts?"