If you make it to the leaderboard when vDSA is weekly. But gold jewelry gives only a minute improvement over purple. I've compared a purple version of IA vs. a gold one, and the stats difference was only about 30 per piece. You can compare here moving the slider. http://esoitem.uesp.net/itemLink.php?link=|H0:item:87308:363:50:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:7:0:0:0:0:0|h|h
JerzeeDevil wrote: »If you make it to the leaderboard when vDSA is weekly. But gold jewelry gives only a minute improvement over purple. I've compared a purple version of IA vs. a gold one, and the stats difference was only about 30 per piece. You can compare here moving the slider. http://esoitem.uesp.net/itemLink.php?link=|H0:item:87308:363:50:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:7:0:0:0:0:0|h|h
Slightly more recovery w/ 12 points per piece (Which you can do yourself with a Kuta), and 30 points more per piece in max health/magicka/stamina. 1-2 % overall, I believe.
They should exist. I got gold Footman jewelry from this past weekly, so I expect gold Destruction Mastery jewelry to drop too from the leaderboards. They should be BoE. But I also imagine that they are pretty rare (out of my last 8 vDSA weekly reward mails, only one mail contained jewelry--the aforementioned Footman ring), there are a limited number of people on the boards, vDSA is the weekly only once in a while (it's been well over a month since the last time vDSA was the weekly on PC/NA), and the people who do happen to receive gold DM jewelry might not even be thinking about selling them.
Just run purple. The difference is negligible.