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Why spend AP on soul gems.....

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....when you can buy them for gold?
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  • Dracane
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    Because AP is the least valueable currency in the game and the easiest to gain in sufficient quantity.
    After so many years of playing, I have almost 8000 soul gems in my bank.

    If I had none and wanted easy ones, I would steal them at the mystic in Belkarth, go indoors, return and repeat and then I would charge them.
    Auri-El is my lord,
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  • CeeJonesy
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    Because it's the easiest way to get cheap soul gems...
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  • DeadlyRecluse
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    Why buy them for gold when they drop like candy from overworld bosses?

    Why farm them from overworld bosses when you get plenty of empty ones from enchanting writs?

    Why bother with enchanting writs when you can buy them with AP?
    Thrice Empress, Forever Scrub
  • Alamakot
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    why spend any currency to buy soul gems at all? plenty of them can be found everywhere. dolmens, delve/dungeon/world bosses, chests...
  • Judas Helviaryn
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    Isn't the AP/Gold conversion rate roughly 3:1 on PC NA? Seems a little expensive for a soul gem in the alliance war vendor to me.
  • zaria
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    Alamakot wrote: »
    why spend any currency to buy soul gems at all? plenty of them can be found everywhere. dolmens, delve/dungeon/world bosses, chests...
    However for players who mostly PvP its few sources and they use way more of them than in pve.
    Think 4-5 AP is 1 gold based on prices on gold jewelry.
    Grinding just make you go in circles.
    Asking ZoS for nerfs is as stupid as asking for close air support from the death star.
  • lygerseye
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    I’ve never had to pay for soul gems, and I have at least a stack of 200 on each character. You can’t walk across Tamriel and not trip over a soul gem. Yes, I PVP and res people all the time.
  • Odnoc
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    Why pay anything for them? I vendor them in stacks I have so many, easy $6K
  • Alamakot
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    zaria wrote: »
    Alamakot wrote: »
    why spend any currency to buy soul gems at all? plenty of them can be found everywhere. dolmens, delve/dungeon/world bosses, chests...
    However for players who mostly PvP its few sources and they use way more of them than in pve.
    Think 4-5 AP is 1 gold based on prices on gold jewelry.
    about 2/3 of my playtime is pvp (often as templar healer wearing Kagrenac). for last 3 years never bought single soul gem, rather give some to others when needed ;)
  • max_only
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    I’ll do you one better, why spend money on soul gems from the crown store? Everytime I get one as a “prize” I feel like I’m on the Office.
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  • TheShadowScout
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    Everyone decides what they want to buy for what.

    Personally I have never ever bought a soul gem yet, only made do with what I found in chests... but then, I also don't PvP much where I guess you may spend more of them rezzing people, so...

    But in the end, it depends what currency one has to spare. If you are saving your gold for something, you may buy them for AP. If you are saving up AP for something, you may prefer to spend gold. If you PvE a lot, you may just farm bosses, if you explore a lot, you may just spend time to seek chests, etc.
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