Hello there, I’m planning to insert a level 4 gem into my armour for PVE purpose.
I wonder which one is better, yellow gem for physical defense or red gem for HP?
2 lvl 4 red gem will give about 1k extra HP while 2 lvl 4 yellow gem will give 80 extra physical defense.
I don’t understand how the formula works. But I think HP will be better in the long run. What do you think?
I like defense more, but it can be obtained by upgrading your gear, if you’re using low level gems only anyway go with yellow, red won’t make a major difference if it’s low level
meanwhile having high def turns most attacks to “1”.
But on later maps (post 280) level 6+ red gems are always much more favorable.
exceptions are damage mitigation when you already have high con, let’s say you already have 50k-60k hp, better boost that def instead for more survivability.
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I see.
I won’t change my cafrisun gear until 220 (lvl 90 at the moment and I’m a QS3 which benefit a lot from additional attack) and until then I’m going to use lvl 4 gem since it’s easier to obtain. They say that once we’re 220 we can do daily quest for gem abrasive right? That means I can afford to get level 6 gem for HP.
So it can be said that for low level gem, +80 physical defense is better than +1040 HP?
since you are using cafrisun, it has little to no def at all.
having two yellow gems would give you 101 def total using cafrisun. 150+ with aspersion
I think that’s good enough for an archer since I don’t recall any mage monsters that are a threat on that level except on dungeons.
After alemeth(or evac) is where you will have problems against mages, so I think you’re good with def than HP
you will end up with even better def if you are using ledas. I did that with my rodelero, full cafrisun + ledas + aspersion, no gems, used until 170
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