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supported active skills gain 10% more exp at level 3?

are you kidding? that is absolutely worthless.

i'd consider using it if it was 15/30% for all gems, not just active, but 5/10 for active only is a complete waste of a slot, especially given how it already takes eons to level the damn thing in the first place.

if you're gonna implement major end-game gems you might want to make them remotely useful, don't care bout the freemason visual but some people might find it tacky or ignorant. i'm more concerned about the gameplay than the art, and this one looks like a proper stinker.

EDIT: in addition, the gloves are worthless for the curse yourself aspect, but useful for the temporary status effect immunity. if you want immunity to curses in pvp, use a flask, pvp doesn't last more than 20-30 seconds anyway, and players could easily bypass it by using a doedres and adding their curse to yours.

can't think of any builds off the top of my head that would benefit from actually being cursed. it could've gone with the cactuar build using vuln for even more stunning but that was nerfed into non-viability a while ago (and rightfully so). outside of using punishment to intentionally damage yourself to repeatedly and consistently trigger CWDT there doesn't seem to be any actual use for this effect.

so how about those new gloves + soul mantel = idgaf about curses anymore? All hail tri totem soul mantel builds!

Chris, I'd really like to see more balance and content updates instead of mostly some new MTX and a few Uniques that I'll probably never get.

The last patch had some substantial buffs to 3 fire skills and I really liked that! More updates like that would be nice.

Are there similar or major changes coming in the next few patches or will the main patch with such changes be the one that introduces the next Leagues?

If they had to put major updates every 3 weeks there wouldn't be time to test it to an acceptable degree. I rather have some smaller updates now and then and get enough testing on teh bigger stuff.

Empower: powerful
Enhance: situational
Enlighten: wtf is this trash?

At least can't say power creep is rampant.

1.44 billion XP to get meagre 10% boost on active gems XP gain... <insert hysterical laugh here>

Another empower/enhance gem. SUCH IMAGINATION GUYS, WELL DONE 10/10. Stop taking your player base for fucking idiots and do something worthwhile with these patches. And Chris your PR is ridiculous, do you really think an exp boost to gems is a 'substantial' effect? Have more respect for us, every time you explain something you lie. It's a complete farce that you don't even listen to the feedback and just continue to release trivial bullshit to the game when more important things need to be addressed. It's fine though, mindless fanboys want a green snake hat so your wallet will get bigger.

Time to Punish myself.

I've been a dirty boy.

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Peenk wrote:

Another empower/enhance gem. SUCH IMAGINATION GUYS, WELL DONE 10/10. Stop taking your player base for fucking idiots and do something worthwhile with these patches. And Chris your PR is ridiculous, do you really think an exp boost to gems is a 'substantial' effect? Have more respect for us, every time you explain something you lie. It's a complete farce that you don't even listen to the feedback and just continue to release trivial bullshit to the game when more important things need to be addressed. It's fine though, mindless fanboys want a green snake hat so your wallet will get bigger.

To elaborate what he says, in best case you get a maxed Enlighten in a 6L with +1 to all gems. It means 15% extra experience for gems linked (the fact it doesn't work with support is awful but I'll let this out of the equation). 5 gems gaining 15% increased xp is a measly 75% extra xp, not even a full gem, but the support takes the place of a full gem. Means effective xp loss equipping this support is 25% xp of a leveling gem in the best possible case.

tldr: Equipping a maxed Enlighten in a 6L with +1 to all gems is actually still worse than not using it at all!