Upgrading gear not posible..... wtf?

[ZtriDer]

To be able to upgrade my gear I need Jungle Emerald, Ocean Sapphire or Desert Ruby, or sometimes even all 3 of them.
According to wiki it can drop from Sun Crystal (witch are BS as I have "harvested" at least a few 100 of them and gotten zero from them, and you have the challenge arena. I have gone trough the whole shimmering frontair and found about 3 of each collor (3 in each crystal biom).... and gotten 1 upgrade item from one, 2 from on an other etc.I have use hours to zig zag the damne circle, and I have only been able to upgrade 3 gear items beyond lvl 16..... When you have 3 sets of armour, and multible weapons and items to upgrade, why is it so damne difficault to get hold of this items. Maybe even imposible?

[Ishimuro]

yeah drop chances are...low, best guess after you explored everything is either one of the 3 hydras, the commander or you build a enemy spawn farm for mimites :)

[ZtriDer]

Originally posted by Ishimuro:

yeah drop chances are...low, best guess after you explored everything is either one of the 3 hydras, the commander or you build a enemy spawn farm for mimites :)

I can do that, but that is redicilous... 1 monster can spawn if I have 6 crystal cryst tiles linked together, and that is only a % chance to spawn pr 15 minut, not a 100% chance, to get 1 monster. And only 1 monster pr monster cell (whitch are a larege area) with only a 1% drop chance.... that is just ....It will take me days just AFK'ing to get a few upgarde materials. Getting stuck in the game because you cant upgrade your gear dou to lack of materials is not a good solution. Im getting more frusterated with this game because of this stupid solution. Running around for hours tryng to find upgarde materials and it is not posible.

[Ishimuro]

upgrading gear into the lvl that need gems is endgame, it is something to do while waiting for new content, this is something you do while farming the latest boss enemys (or doing a new map and search for it)

[Nerevar]

you arent "getting stuck in the game" due to this. the upgrades are rather small scale effect wise overall when you look at the stats.

these gems can also often spawn in stack of 2-4 inside the new hydra chests in the passage.

and not all gear needs all 3. the endgame gears are often level 17+ already so they only need 1 ruby.

the droprate of the gems from mirmites could indeed use a small buff tough. 1% is a bit silly.

[ZtriDer]

Originally posted by Ishimuro:

upgrading gear into the lvl that need gems is endgame, it is something to do while waiting for new content, this is something you do while farming the latest boss enemys (or doing a new map and search for it)

Crafting Wind Organs to be able to do the end game bosses. I can not do them because I do not have materials to build them so I can not craft them. Using the same upgrade materials to craft end game summone items is not a good idea. I ran the crystal area for 2 horus today.. 2 hours and I got 1, ONE jungle emerald, I usually need 2 or 3 tries before I have a boss fight figured out. Do I have to use a whole day to farm just to be able to fight a boss 1 time?
I do not have that many hours to play games so I have time only for 1 game at a time. I am better of quitting this game and find a new one as I can't progress dout lack of upgrade items.
For the farm idea to work I have to stay within 200 tiles of the farm, afk…. I can’t even play the game. If I go to far away the tiles does not activate.
Or I can run for hours and hours and hours in the crystal area killing spawns hoping for a drop. So I can spawn the boss, 1 time. That is not much end game.
Sorry to vent the frustration on you, but after a 100 hours in the game, and I can't progress any more dou to some stupid "balance" desition that was made. Just the idea of using the same items to build the Wind Organs should have given a red warning flag.
Well, Im off I guess. Starcom: unknown space just released. I guess that is a better choce now as I am stuck.

[ZtriDer]

Originally posted by Nerevar:

you arent "getting stuck in the game" due to this. the upgrades are rather small scale effect wise overall when you look at the stats.

these gems can also often spawn in stack of 2-4 inside the new hydra chests in the passage.

and not all gear needs all 3. the endgame gears are often level 17+ already so they only need 1 ruby.

the droprate of the gems from mirmites could indeed use a small buff tough. 1% is a bit silly.

I can't make Wind Organs dou to no upgrade items. I upgrade my gear before I looked at that crafting bench. Now Im stuck. Stupid idea to use the same items.

[Kyoshiro]

If you menage to kill hydras and take there souls, just farm Core Commander for this gems. Core Commander drops a lot of it and is fairly easy to beat even with lower gear. From my experience after 4/6 runs i got like 10-15 of each type.