The Spirit Realm

Thanks for the heads up - I was hoping someone would do that!

Nothing about the TS armor/bazu/LB change. Wonder if it was a ninja change or just didn't go in.

I dont think they've made up thier minds on cultural yet.

Cool, I hear they are also going to change some of the cultural jewelery stuff as well. Something about the current +100hp/mana/end gems getting a boost and the +375 ones getting a slight downgrade. No idea if true.

Yeah the +100 type 10 jewels are getting bumped to 150 while the 375 type 11s are getting dropped to 350.

Also, the recommended levels are moving to the settings, rather than the gems.

For Trio Settings.

Dwerium: 100% Rec: 70
Paladium: 80% Rec: 60
Velium: 60% Rec: 50
Platinum: 40% Rec: 35
Gold: 30% Rec: 20
Electrum: 20% Rec: 1
Silver: 10% Rec: 1

So if you are level 60 and are using Crimson Nihilite (350hp) with a emeral (150m) and opal (150hp) it'd be best to use a paladium setting and the result would be:

350 + 150 = 500 x 80% = 400 hp
150 x 80% = 120 mana

If you used the Dwerium setting, an oddly drawn scaling factor would be applied (more steep than normal rec. level curves) and you would get less stats.

Hope that helps clear up the jewelry changes.

EDIT - I think Ngreth said that the midpoint between settings would basically be a wash - ie at level 65 using paladium (80% and no adjustment) would be maybe just 1% or so better than dwerium (100% gem stats but scaled down due to rec level on setting).