Even faced with Reality and Facts, there are those who are convinced that Gold Jewelry is Required for any Build. And one can not be Successful on any level with Crap Purple, or even worse, Blue Jewelry.

What gold jewely offers is a little forgiveness if you aren’t pulling off a flawless rotation when using BT jewely to give you that little bit of extra weapon/spell damage to cover a few misses. I hit roughly the same top end numbers in purple and gold jewely on my Mag and stam toons however in my experience upgrading from purple to gold helps me hit within 1-2K of that top end number virtually every single time. Mind you I am in the 100K+ category on all and don’t see the point in dummy humping once I’ve hit 105K because that’s unnecessary for any content.

There is also more nuance to this gold vs non gold jewel debate and that’s how it relates directly to content. I’m a console player so there are no real performance metrics to speak of however two classes stuck out in particular here where gold jewelry really counts and that is magblade and magplar when they get into their execute rotations. The ramp up from 90% to 25% doesn’t make nearly as much as from 25 to 1 where those two classes shine. I would say classes running a true execute would have a stronger benefit from gold jewely versus say a Magcro or MagDK which have a slower ramp up but overall steady amount of damage through the entire fight. That’s a test that may be worth a look.

Any additional thoughts about he Gold to Purple differential?

Leave it as is as gold makes people think they are special (fyi, I am one of them and spend way too much time farming), as per @Plectro gives and example.

Or a bump - you get a gold item, if it gives more of a bump? (ie, more damage, or ability)

Or it gives an additional bump (ie. x% extra to Stam, Magicka, Health along with the current increase)?

Thots?

Z