New Gem "Conjunction"

Hi,

I got an idea in my mind since a few weeks. This idea is called Conjunction, it should be a new gem.
What will you expect from it?
The gem is something that benefits Exiles from Wraeclast with something special.

Lets first talk about something, that is typically in this game. You have a lot of options in this game, you can do a lot of different builds, with any class, you can use like every Skill for a specific build with every existing class.

This is appreciated very much by GGG's (PoEs) Community. It seems the game never gets boring while it especially contains these mechanics. Not that it is the only exciting thing about PoE, no. We all know that GGG so far done a very nice job while developing this particular game.

But where the sun shines, you'll always find the shadow part too. To me, one big part of the shadow in PoE is, that you most likely use one Skill. You use it over and over again, and yes in time it gets boring. As mentioned before, you still got a lot of options, there are many Skill gems and they implement new ones now and then.

But the thing about you guys (and me too of course) is, that you most likely use one skill you attack with, in most of the time. It's a bit hard to make a build and a set up for Skills which you would use to attack, so good so that you could use different Attack Skills at the same time - especially for Endgame.

Sure you could take like a 6L 2handed Weapon + any 6L Chest, so you'd most likely have two different Skills with each 5 Support Skills, or probably 3 or 4 different Skills with less Support Skills. Or you could of course use like 3 different traps for example (to me that looks like you're still using one Skill -> a trap, even if the effects vary)

Now my idea is something that fits PoE for its mechanics, but it is some kind of a revolution aswell. Conjunction is a Skill Gem which would allow you to use several skills at the same time, all with the same benefits.

The idea is - especially when you're playing Endgame, considered the level of your character, you will be high enough, to actually use several Skills at the same time which (depending on their individual mechanics of course) are all that strong so you could use them all together as you would now just benefit from one (or in a few cases maybe 2 or 3..Idk but this is not the same, by far not).

So what is my idea about the mechanics/properties of Conjunction?

1) The gem should be white coloured, cause you will want to put it inside every piece of socket item you have.

2) The gem should allow you to use several Skills at the same time with the same benefits (so its not like you can use 2 or 3 different Skills, but only one of them is strong enough for Endgame, no - they all are strong enough for Endgame! which makes it more exciting - more fun!)

3) The amount of Support Skills must be limited! Like now the max amount of Support Skills is limited to 6!(As far as I know.. like when you use Bringer of Rain or 6L Soul Mantle for Example - if that's not exactly the case, so the limit is a bit higher, it's probably cause the item(s) are really weak compared to the ones I just listed as an example)

Anyways my personal idea about the limit of Support Skills for the Skills you are using - must be 6! And that includes for example the benefits (3 Support Skills) you get from Bringer of Rain, so you won't be able to have a limit of 9 Support Skills, the limit is set to max 6 Support Skills!

4) Amount of total sockets you can have is: Helm 4, Boots 4, Gloves 4, Chest 6, either 2h Weapon or 1h Weapon+Shield or 2x 1h Weapon 6, so that's 24 total sockets you can have

5) If you want the benefits from Conjunction, you will need to put one Conjunction Gem in every piece of item you want to have your Skills/Support Skills linked. So that means, if you want to get Conjunctions benefit for the Skills/Support Skills in your Helm, you must link a Conjunction Gem to the Skills/Support Skills you wish to use in your helm. Same for every other item (Chest,Gloves,Boots,Weapon,Shield). So you will be able to use up to a total of 6 Conjunction Gem's at the same time (depends on what you're using - 2h or 2x 1h/1h+Shield).

So that's 24-6 = 18 sockets left. If you don't get Support Skills from any item, and you use the max amount of 6 Support Skills through linking in your gear, so that's 18-6 = 12 sockets left. In this case 12 Sockets allow you to link different types of Skills, which when you have linked a Conjunction in every item - are supported by a limit of 6 Support Skills. Somehow you still will be able to use gems like Cast When Damage Taken or Curses which obviously don't get benefits from most Support Skills.

Conjunction will bring new joy to this game, especially to Endgame, when you play the game a lot and you like to play the same build for a long time, you still will be able to use several Skills at the same time, without the need of switching gems all the time, without the need of changing colours all the time so your other Skill you want to use is really ready to use. It will bring back fun to players who might lost theirs, cause they got bored to permanently just use a single Skill.

In my opinion its not something that will be overpowered, since the Skills are (more or less) equal, cause each of them will get the same benefits through Conjunction, so it doesn't really matter if you use Skill A or Skill B - and even if it turns out to be overpowered, GGG still will be able to balance some Skills/Support Skills through nerfing them.

But it will definitely bring PoE to a new level of fun and I hope so much that you guys support this, cause I got bored a few times already from using the same damn Skill for hours..and hours...and hours.... and days etc etc... And you guys probably felt the same way already/or will feel the same way in time. (It's always a difference between players who don't play the game much and those who really play the game much..that's absolutely clear)

But I am really confident that this Skill Gem - Conjunction will probably make a large amount of players of this community happier :) So come and Support the idea!!! Thanks

wow, tl/dr, so basically what your suggesting is 7/8 socket items or more?



i didnt actually read through your enttire GREAT WALL of text, but what i got from your suggestion is that its a supp gem that allows multiple gems to be used with the same supports??

this is exactly the same as adding more sockets to items, very much doubt it will happen


maybe ring gem slots? idk

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ImRight wrote:

wow, tl/dr, so basically what your suggesting is 7/8 socket items or more?



i didnt actually read through your enttire GREAT WALL of text, but what i got from your suggestion is that its a supp gem that allows multiple gems to be used with the same supports??

this is exactly the same as adding more sockets to items, very much doubt it will happen


maybe ring gem slots? idk

I don't actually understand why you post if you don't take your time to read the entire 1st post of mine in this suggestion thread?! I know I wrote much, I took my time. People should take their time too so..

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More skills should be used but this is not the path to take.
GGG needs a way to bring more utility into the game and to actually make it viable/useful to weave in the use of utility skills between your main attacks.

This is where Diablo 3 did a better job. You had to use some of your defensive spells from time to time and the dichotomy between resource generators and resource consuming skills made skill usage in that game a lot less boring.

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Wow, what a confusing explanation you gave!

I still can't understand what this gem should be doing... add the support gems in other gear to the linked skills?
Let you cast all the active skills connected to the gem?
And what would be the mana cost of such a powerful gem? 200% per gem?
What the drawbacks? 50% damage?

Either way it would be far too powerful and inclined to abuse. I don't think this is a viable idea.

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