Guild Wars 2

All the recipes at 375 skill for Jeweler(Embelished Brilliant -) require Globs of Ectoplasms to craft. For other crafts, these recipes require 15 of the appropriate fine material instead of the 8 for the 350skill recipes, but for Jeweler the recipes require both 5 jewels instead of 1 AND 1 glob of ectoplasm. You also need 3 of these crafts for a discovery, leading to a jump from 1 to 15 jewels and 3 globs of ectoplasms. This means you have to use 3globs of ectoplasms, exotic materials, to craft rare pieces of jewelry until you get to 400, which is weird.

I’m wondering the same too. Is it intentional to require Ectos to get from 375 to 400 (well, efficiently anyway as opposed to crafting lesser quality gems). It seemed kind of awkward, especially since the tooltip doesn’t it would be used for the Jeweler trade.