Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24490968-20140419233201/@comment-24424436-20140425230336

I would assume that he only used gems to speed up the crafting time. It takes 2d 16h and it costs 1 gem for every 30min and he had to craft 2 armors, 1 regular and 1 plus.

[2 (armors) x 2 (Days) x 24 (Hours in a day) + 16 (hours)] / 30 (min for 1 gem) = 256 gems