2009-07-01, 04:46 PM
Why not both? You can get refined plates and jewels from ore counterparts (with one exception, but it won't matter).
It takes 10 ores and a handful of mesos (usually less than 4k) to get plates/jewels from NPCs such as Mr. Thunder (Perion), Vogen (El Nath), or Pi (Ludibrium Village).
It takes 10 ores and a handful of mesos (usually less than 4k) to get plates/jewels from NPCs such as Mr. Thunder (Perion), Vogen (El Nath), or Pi (Ludibrium Village).

