Gem mine ?

[Unleashed]

i'm a little confused here, upgrading Hall of Knights improves the quality of the gems.. okay.. as an their stats right ? (higher knights = higher numbers) why it couldn't just say that instead of a vague word like "quality".

now as of upgrading the gem mine itself, what does that do? is it worth it? what does it mean by better gems? at what level do you get the black gems? at what level do you start getting shadow world keys and what is the chance and prearrange for that ? i notice that i started getting black gems when i upgraded gem mine to level 8, and then i just started to get spammed by black gems. but before that i never get them. does the RNG gets a huge boost only at level 8+ ?

and a bit of-topic(but related to gem mine)
and whats up with the need for level 10 gem mine to get Underworld? that is obviosly meant for high levels, but why would high levels need a "gold pit"? because high levels get gold like crazy from quests anyway, and why does each upgrade cost a really tiny amount of gold like 1000 gold to upgrade heart of darkness? isn't that toooooo easy for a high level? it just makes NO SENSE.

[Krpa]

The Hall of Knight upgrades the stats of your gems. The higher the number, the better gems can drop. It's still possible to get a low stat gem.
If you're in a guild, then everyones Hall of Knights level gets added, and everyone gets better gems. As soon as 1 guild member reaches Hall of Knight lvl 15, everyone in that guild can find Black Gems.

Upgrading the gem mine is not advised, since the difference in stats are minimal, but the costs are much higher. Keep it low until you want to get the underworld, or achivements.

Shadow World opens once you're at least lvl 125, with the tower unlocked. Once you beat 5 enemies in 1 shadow dungeon, you can get the next key in the gem mine.

I don't really know why we need lvl 10 for the underworld, to be honest. I guess they didn't want us to get it on low levels so that we can focus on other stuff. The gold pit is more like a filler, since people asked for it since forever.
Underworld makes little sense anyways. ^^

[Unleashed]

Originally posted by Keba:

The Hall of Knight upgrades the stats of your gems. The higher the number, the better gems can drop. It's still possible to get a low stat gem.
If you're in a guild, then everyones Hall of Knights level gets added, and everyone gets better gems. As soon as 1 guild member reaches Hall of Knight lvl 15, everyone in that guild can find Black Gems.

Upgrading the gem mine is not advised, since the difference in stats are minimal, but the costs are much higher. Keep it low until you want to get the underworld, or achivements.

Shadow World opens once you're at least lvl 125, with the tower unlocked. Once you beat 5 enemies in 1 shadow dungeon, you can get the next key in the gem mine.

I don't really know why we need lvl 10 for the underworld, to be honest. I guess they didn't want us to get it on low levels so that we can focus on other stuff. The gold pit is more like a filler, since people asked for it since forever.
Underworld makes little sense anyways. ^^

well that makes sense now. wish i didnt upgrade the gem mine as a low level, the only real useful thing in the underworld is the boost to crit damage which i believe can be up to 100%. but that would take serios grinding and by that time you will be a high level anyway

[Krpa]

The soul cost becomes much bigger after a few upgrades, which slow down the progress after 10 extremely.

[Eldric Liaz, Use ⇌]

Level 10 mine isn't to terrible with a maxed laborers house. 4 hours per gem still yields a lot of gems a day.

[Krpa]

Originally posted by Eldric Liaz, Use ⇌:

Level 10 mine isn't to terrible with a maxed laborers house. 4 hours per gem still yields a lot of gems a day.

True, but with a lvl 1 mine, you get a gem every 15 minutes, and only spend 150g, 2 wood and 1 stone.

With a lvl 10 gem mine, you wait 4 hours, while paying 1500g, 9240 wood and 3000 stone.
The stat difference is minimal, which is pretty weird.