Go get your free gems for September
by Alex Ziebart 
Sep 1st 2008 at 10:30AM
It's that time of the month again ladies and gentlemen. It's September 1st, so the Consortium are offering up free gems once more. Most of us probably know how this works by now, but if you don't, we're here to help. If you have any reputation above Neutral with the Consortium and aren't Level Worthless (a joke, I promise), Gezhe at Aeris Landing in southwest Nagrand has free gems for you. You can find him just north of that freaky diamond mountain Oshu'gun. Your freebies depend on how high your reputation is with the Consortium.- Friendly gives you a Gem-Stuffed Envelope. The fact that the gems are tucked in an envelope says, "You are worth so little to us that we threw your gems into the nearest, cheapest container without concern for whether or not your gems would come back out intact."
- Honored gives you an Unmarked Bag of Gems. This says, "We like you enough to give your gems a little more protection, but not enough to let others see that we speak to urchins such as you."
- Revered gives you a Bulging Sack of Gems. The Consortium knows quite well that most denizens of Azeroth and beyond subscribe to the bigger is better mantra. This enormous, bulging sack is most likely full of the worst possible gems you could ever dream of, but at least there's a lot of them!
- Exalted will net you a Bag of Premium Gems. Unfortunately, the Ethereals have only just started learning Common, so occasionally they get their word order confused. It should actually be a 'Premium Bag of Gems.' It's a very nice bag. The gems? Not always so great.
Filed under: Odds and ends
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
recrudesce Sep 1st 2008 11:54AM
Brilliant Glass ftw !
Peter Ellis Sep 1st 2008 12:49PM
"Bag of premium gems" is the correct word order. It implies thet you have a bag of high quality gems, as compared to the bag of lower quality gems you got at Revered. "Premium bag of gems" implies that the bag itself is of high quality. Not something I'm exactly interested in, no matter how good the stitching.
Balius Sep 1st 2008 1:17PM
You get more gems as your reputation increases, not better quality. Each of those gems is just as likely to be blue when you're honored as when you're exalted, you just have more chances with more gems in the bag.
So what changes is that the bag is bigger, not what's inside.
Malkeior Sep 1st 2008 1:18PM
Welcome to the joke, nothing like getting a Bag of Premium gems and getting nothing but Talasites.
Graham Sep 1st 2008 1:54PM
That was the whole joke. He said it was a nice bag, not something he was interested in.
xmanii Sep 2nd 2008 5:22AM
Ugh, I hate it when I forget to do this quest.
Eagan Sep 2nd 2008 12:22PM
You know, I just opened my bag from last month a few days ago. Three Talasite :D
dphyled Sep 2nd 2008 3:59PM
Is it determined by your rep at the beginning of the month, or at the time you go to pick up the gems? Like, if you hit exalted in the first week of the month, then went to get your gems after that, would you get the bag of premium gems?
SeanOr101 Sep 5th 2008 9:08PM
Arrg, I got ripped off the last two months. Revered and only green gems again!
Ohs wells, dem the breaks.