lvl 21 gem recipy

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ACGIFT a écrit :

To be honest, I don't think we need any more deterministic method to acquire level 21 gems. And this is coming from someone who has yet to actually succeed at producing one of these; RNG has not been kind to me there. (I'm the one on the other side of the equation that balances out the OP's experience suggesting it's BETTER than it is)

Overall, when compiled together, what is TECHNICALLY a form of nested RNG are rolls that are pretty generous, to where it's just a 12.5% chance. And if you go serious in a league, and remember to keep leveling 6 gems in your alternate slots at all times. (even easier what with the brightbeak+shield charge nerf; you're no longer using 3 sockets for that!)

Truth be told, I probably would've had at least a 21 or two had I just Vaal'd ALL of my 20/20 gems. Mostly, it was that I was saving them for the Lapidary Lens, as a mere 21/20 wasn't worth as much on Incursion due to the prospect for 21/23s and 21/20 Vaal gems.

This shouldn't even be an issue for SSF players, given they can corrupt this stuff themselves. For trading-league players... A handful of exalts will buy you pretty much any gem available.

Adding a recipe would just be needless complication. It violates the basic rules of balance. (of which Rory ham-fistedly explained half of)

Yes, making it expensive would make sure there's the "Why not" answer (aka "flaw" according to Rory) but would leave the "Why should you do this?" question without a satisfactory answer.

In short, it'd just create a noob trap. There's no good reason to add it to the game.

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Emperor_home a écrit :

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DivineChampion a écrit :

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Emperor_home a écrit :

Or add some kind of way to invest currency (100-200 or even 500 vaal) to get a guarantee lvl 21 gem.

Later in league 500 vaals > 500 chaos and roughly > 5 ex. With 5 ex you can purchase any lvl 21 gem.

Hello! have u read??? on hc and ssf there is not much lvl 21 gems on sale

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Emperor_home a écrit :

hi, have u read? i lvl 26 gems hit 98 and only 1 proc at very end 1 of 26 gems

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Fruz a écrit :

- The game isn't balanced around SSF, and it should never be ( and will never be hopefully )

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ACGIFT a écrit :

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Fruz a écrit :

- The game isn't balanced around SSF, and it should never be ( and will never be hopefully )

I'd qualify this. ITEM DROPS shouldn't be balanced around GUARANTEEING easy access to everything for SSF.

Something like a league's challenge list should most certainly be balanced around SSF players, and avoid calling for stuff that mandates trading for them. (e.g, 100 Abyssal Depths)

Simply put, if it's something that's ALSO horrendously painful for trading-league players to handle, it'd be even worse for SSF, and should be balanced out. It's also why we have stuff like buying skill gems from vendors since 2.0.0, and a decent selection of critical threshold jewels available as quest rewards.