To everyone attacking the idea and looking down on the players for it, let me ask you something: How, in any way, does increasing the availability of Flame Geodes negatively impact you in anyway? Suddenly fire path weapons get a little bit easier to get, and gold smithers' supply is increased. That won't suddenly make the gems any less difficult to craft, and won't cause any major (read: permanent) fluctuations in price, unless every goldsmith on your server has the business sense of a 5 year old. Sure, you might be able to make fistfuls of gil just by sneezing, but not everyone has the time/skills/resources to do the same.

Also, everyone needs to stop saying "If you don't want to pay, you can farm your geodes and get them for free" because that's a load of shit. TINSTAAFL. Opportunity Cost. To farm geodes, you have to go out of your way to grind against a terrible drop system. Geodes can only drop once per party/alliance every 5 minutes, so if you're going to farm them with friends, don't party up. 5 minutes between drops means an absolute max of 20 geodes per firesday, assuming you're lucky and get no weather, and we all know that doesn't happen to anyone without the same level of luck as going 1/1 on multiple logwatch drops.

In the time you spend grinding geodes, you could very easily make far more money doing something more productive. Enough to buy the geodes you would have gotten? That depends on the individual's crafting/resource pool. Regardless, time is money, and saying "you can go slam your face into a wall to get these geodes to drop and it won't cost you anything" is rather stupid.

That said, again, how would flame geodes suddenly being a little more reasonable to get negatively impact any of you? The only ones who have any argument to make are the high level goldsmiths, which I sincerely doubt most of you guys bashing this idea are. I'm sorry, but "I want to be better than other players, so keep it hard for them to not suck" is not a valid reason. Nor is "It was easy when I did it" because that just means the random number generator loves you.