Last night I got my first piece of socketed (is that even a word?) gear- Expedition Forager Leggings. After a brief run down on Gems for Dummies, I was off to the Auction House.
Let's see here Red Gems....+8 Agility, awesome.
Yellow Gems....+8 Critical Strike, I like what I'm seeing.
Blue Gems....Hmm, well these are kind of disappointing. I'm sure I'd be much happier with the Blue Gem selection if I were a caster, but since I'm not the pickin's seem slim.
Now at this point I hadn't bought anything yet. I really wanted to make sure that I was making the best choices, even though this will probably be upgraded within the next 2 weeks. Back to the Yellow gems to look through what was in there again. Wow, here is one with +Hit Rating on it, that's pretty sweet too. OK Time to start buying!
/Buyout +Hit Rating
/Buyout +Agility
/Buyout +Critical Strike Rating
I get them from the mailbox and I can't help but feel like Ralphie from A Christmas Story when he get's his Little Orphan Annie decoder ring in the mail. OK, how does this work. Right click the gem? Nope. Drag and drop the gem? 'You cannot equip that item'. Hmm, AHA! Right there under the stats of the pants:
Well damn, I guess reading would've helped. But here we go! Dropping the gems in and, um....what the heck is giong on here? This last one won't go in. Why does my Blue Gem look Yellow? Oh no.
I bought TWO Yellow Gems! :(
I sat quietly for a moment. I'm not sure what I was more disappointed about, wasting the Gold or knowing now I had to get rid of the +Hit Rating. After coming to terms with my faux pas I shipped the extra Yellow Gem off to my trader toon and picked up a +9 Stamina Blue Gem.
All in all, they are a pretty nice set of pants, even if they don't have +Hit Rating on them :)
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