State of the Beta - Post #3

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Uvne wrote:

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dankmemes420 wrote:

...I don't know — that's how things are done around here" Does it sound familiar?...

This is just an incredibly roundabout, snarky way of accusing me of an appeal to tradition. Which, if you actually read the post rather than the last sentence, is clear isn't what I'm saying. Free gem XP is a bad idea, not because it's never been done like that before, but because it fails to punish bad planning and reward good planning. Switching out gems should come at some cost, even during the early phases of character growth, just like switching out passive points does. Nothing in your post makes any sort of argument as to why this assumption about skill opportunity cost is wrong.

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Uvne wrote:

I don't think the gems should come with experience. I had always assumed that the XP system for gems was, in part, to generate opportunity cost for planning in the same way that other ARPGs might, but adjusting for the fact that PoE's skills are itemized rather than something you dump points into on your character sheet. Right now, as long as you're getting XP, you're "putting points" into the abilities you're using, and if you want to make a significant switch, you may, but you begin from nothing in much the same way as in any other RPG.

Under this new system, anyone with a higher level character or friend in the same league will have immediate access to a gem as if they had been leveling it all along, because from the way it's phrased here, it uses the level of the purchaser. It's only a minor bit of cheese, since it only gets you to around level 14, which doesn't take long on a character powerleveling gems in endgame maps anyway. But it's still something I think the game would be better off without if possible. We've been starting our multistrikes and echoes from level 1 while in the 50s for a long time now, and it hasn't been a problem.

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Uvne wrote:

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dankmemes420 wrote:

...I don't know — that's how things are done around here" Does it sound familiar?...

This is just an incredibly roundabout, snarky way of accusing me of an appeal to tradition. Which, if you actually read the post rather than the last sentence, is clear isn't what I'm saying. Free gem XP is a bad idea, not because it's never been done like that before, but because it fails to punish bad planning and reward good planning. Switching out gems should come at some cost, even during the early phases of character growth, just like switching out passive points does. Nothing in your post makes any sort of argument as to why this assumption about skill opportunity cost is wrong.