Simple Gem farming strategy

[iwassnow]

So I spent the better part of the day trying to figure out an easy way to farm gems for all the duplicating and rebuilding I do. Finally figured out a relatively simple way to turn a few cheap materials into a large gem profit. This is definitely near endgame strategy as it requires the Super steel gear recipe. So here's the process:

First you want to stack quality+ 30, Quality 15, and Best Quality on a Zettel which you have given the +1 synth Quantity effect. The higher base quality the better. I'm using about 400 quality which costs me about 1k gems to duplicate. You will want a handful of these to start. I'm using like 7 per craft, and you want to keep at least 1 to dupe.

Second you want to make a super cheap staltium, the less it costs you to duplicate the better. I made a super quick one that cost me about 1400 to duplicate.

Lastly you want a small stockpile of jade water and any blue element ore. You will use 1 each craft.

So you put 1 jade water, 1 zettel, 1 staltium, 1 ore into the recipie for Super Steel Gear. Then, with whatever you have left, dump in more zettels right on top of the first one. Select the three quality traits from the zettel for the final product and you should have like 7 or 8 gears.

Now use gem reduction on the gears. Mine are currently getting me about 5k each, so that's about 40k per craft that cost me about 10k in duplicated materials. In other words this turns 1 jade water and one blue ore into 30k gems. All you have to do is go back to the multi cauldron when you're low on Zettel and Staltium.

This sounds like a no-brainer, but don't use your last zettel or staltium in the recipies as you need them for duping!

[LUKE]

On the same note, if your endgame, you can make +2 synths red stones and then dupe as much as you can to make philosopher stones. At lvl 99 alchemy I put in 12 red stones and make 25 philosopher stones. Pretty much printing out gems. Can cap 1mil gems in under an hour easily.

[Illya]

w/o synth type gem farming
req:
wind shoes /w flying element
bombhammer /w gather L trait

go to central lime plains go to the east side part smash all those rocks/crystals in the isolated place, sell all those rocks you got from smashing you can get 20k+ gems.