The Frost and Fairies Star Path

[Mrs. Claus]

Is anyone got this issue finding 2 Shiny Topaz? I'm already using miracle potion to mining it and still did not got any Shiny one. I already got a lot of normal Topaz.

[ThanatosX]

Fishing for specific types of shiny always sucks, all luck. There are a few topaz spots on Eternity Isle if you aren't already checking there.

[Mrs. Claus]

I already got 1 Shinny Topaz. Thanks

[GrailQuest]

As far as I know, potions were changed to no longer guarantee gems, just more drops.
And even before that change, any gems you got from the potion did not count toward the Star Path.
The only thing that helps is a "critical" where a bunch of drops burst out and are glowing red on the ground and you have limited time to pick them up before they disappear.

[wesnef]

Best chance to get shinies is to mine nodes that are showing the gems already before you mine them. Of course, that's up to RNG whether there are any of the right color each time you enter the game.

[ThanatosX]

Pretty sure it keeps the gem type in the node once it's spawned. So if you want to min max the potions you can go around breaking the wrong colours in the areas you want specific drops before you quaff the potion. There should be at least one gem node in each area, on each cooldown, the gem spots take longer to come back than a regular respawn.

The potions were at least useful for the mine 30 of X type requests.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Not intuitive, but taking an extended break from the game can often put you in a better postion for those specific collecting quests. I pretty much do that all the time now. Play about once every two weeks. That is probably not your MO, but with the holidays...might be a good strategy to take a short break...it couldn't hurt.

[Manda Rin]

Ooof, I had this. I finally got it. Took dayyyyys! I then had an issue with fishing for crabs, and that was a pain in the butt. The 15 for any toy story character is pretty annoying though.