That would be nice, especially if you could keep doing the swapping. It's great getting your kill creatures task if it's for the type you want, but not if it isn't. Same with getting a gem task for that one gem you don 't have. As an idea, what about if it worked similar to now but if you could specify a type in using the boost? BOOST BOUNTY GEMS for instance, to only get gem bounties?

Or if you could use multiple of the exemption boosts to avoid all but one task.

As I understand it, you need to be hunting a creature that can drop that kind of gem. So they may be of the right level for you, but they drop GemTypeQ and you need one that is in GemTypeX, you ain't never gonna find it.

Now, while hunting those creatures, if they are called upon to drop a gem, your likelihood of it being ThatOneYouNeed, go up.

"Adventurers are more likely to find the gem that they are tasked to retrieve until they have received enough to complete the bounty. The multiplier only works on creatures that the hunter can learn from and that already drop that gem, and only if they were going to drop a gem of that value; shells will not drop in Icemule just because the multiplier is active, and zircons will not turn into diamonds." -- second half of the first paragraph of 'Gem Collecting" on the GSWiki; emphasis Mine
https://gswiki.play.net/Adventurer%27s_Guild#Gem_Collecting

+1. Functionally 720 attempts at a bounty will always get us the one we want, save us the hassle!

>Well, I only hunt things I learn from. But I have no way of knowing if said creature can drop said gem.

Gems come in tiers. If a critter drops a gem in the right tier, it can drop the one you want. e.g. if it drops an uncut diamond, it can drop an uncut emerald. If you see gems that are in tiers on both sides, its a virtual certainty the one in the middle is available too. If you've got a large selection, and they are all too valuable, hunt something cheaper or get a new task. If they are all too cheap, hunt something richer, or use loot boosts, or take a partner with you to make it richer.

I don't know if Lich took over the tool for it, but there was a third party tool that you could use to check what a promising critter might be when the AG was first released and storage wasn't common.

Hunting pressure also plays a role, though indirectly. If you have a task for uncut diamonds, you'll be a lot less likely to find them in places that see a lot of action.... but the opposite is also true, if you go somewhere that's rarely hunted looking for clear zircons they won't drop either (even if the respective gems CAN drop in those grounds).

If you have a task for a gem on the extreme high or low end of value, it's worth paying attention to how many people are hunting where you are and maybe passing on the task if there are too many or few folk in that area. In a couple towns, I wouldn't accept a gem task for the extreme low end unless I'd recently seen a LOT of people in the places I can learn from (it took me a week to find 6 star diopsides in SolHaven once... I know I could have popped over to the Landing, but I had another reason to be hunting there that week).

Starchitin

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> If they are all too cheap, hunt something richer,

Honest, there's only one place to hunt...

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Hmmm ... seems to me a dwarven ranger once told me they could tell what areas certain gems were most likely to be found, and that they could sense tunnels in caves. The same way natively topside rangers can sense flora/fauna and hidden paths.

Is this no longer true?

(I've never played a dwarven ranger)


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