But it wouldn’t be a painful and very grindy way to level gems as it is now.

The gems wouldn’t go from rank 0 to 125 as soon as you clear the first GR. I know Diablo games have a lot of rng, but in D3 it has way too much rng.Īlso it would mean that the gems would level way faster due to you doing higher GRs for paragons. It removes some of the rng that is a pain in the butt as well.

It covers all of the bases, it encourages doing higher level GRs due to how slow and inefficient it would be to level a gem from 1-125 doing nothing but GR45s or less. If you don’t want to change which gem (s) will level along with your legendary gems in your jewelry then you just close the GR. Urshi is chosen to have you choose which gem (s) that you will want to also gain experience outside of your legendary gems that are in your jewelry. The higher difficulty you are playing will net you more experience as well as doing higher level GRs will grant more experience for you legendary gems. The gems in your gear would get experience as you gain paragon experience. The compromise that might be harder is to overhaul the leveling of gems for augments. While it would be easier to strip the soul shards of their power and just have them as augment shards that drop with either ranked at rank 3 or have another consumable similar to the embers to rank them. Don't be shy on the first two or three ancient you augment.

I agree as well as the rest, but there is a compromise that I would accept that would probably be harder to do. It's just a waste of 50 gem level up, but no one can get a level 150 gem without augmenting ancients, so you can assume the first few items you augment will requiers a second augment later anyway, once you can clean highter GR.

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