Skill gem max experience level

Is the max experience level of a skill gem an indicator of how useful that skill is later in the game?

I'm not entirely certain if this is what you mean, but the max level for all skill gems is 20 (which is very hard to reach right now). While I won't go so far as to claim that every skill is currently useful later in the game, a lot of them are at least handy to have if your build works well with them.

I think he might be talking about the experience required to level a gem. Like some start out with 900 exp to level, while some start off at 10,000+ to level the first time.

Still not really sure how to answer your question though, I think the ones with more required experience to level are higher level gems or rarer gems, whether or not they are useful is really up to you to decide. I would keep most of them, at least one of each just in case another character might need it.

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Seraphyx wrote:

I think he might be talking about the experience required to level a gem. Like some start out with 900 exp to level, while some start off at 10,000+ to level the first time.

Still not really sure how to answer your question though, I think the ones with more required experience to level are higher level gems or rarer gems, whether or not they are useful is really up to you to decide. I would keep most of them, at least one of each just in case another character might need it.

Yes, that is what I mean.

I'm wondering if a gem that requires a lot of xp to level will be more powerful once it is leveled and one that requires less xp to level might not be as effective later in the game.

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0sync0 wrote:

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Seraphyx wrote:

I think he might be talking about the experience required to level a gem. Like some start out with 900 exp to level, while some start off at 10,000+ to level the first time.

Still not really sure how to answer your question though, I think the ones with more required experience to level are higher level gems or rarer gems, whether or not they are useful is really up to you to decide. I would keep most of them, at least one of each just in case another character might need it.

Yes, that is what I mean.

I'm wondering if a gem that requires a lot of xp to level will be more powerful once it is leveled and one that requires less xp to level might not be as effective later in the game.

No. Not sure why you would think that.
Some gems require a higher level.That's all there is to it.

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DamageIncorporated wrote:

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0sync0 wrote:

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Seraphyx wrote:

I think he might be talking about the experience required to level a gem. Like some start out with 900 exp to level, while some start off at 10,000+ to level the first time.

Still not really sure how to answer your question though, I think the ones with more required experience to level are higher level gems or rarer gems, whether or not they are useful is really up to you to decide. I would keep most of them, at least one of each just in case another character might need it.

Yes, that is what I mean.

I'm wondering if a gem that requires a lot of xp to level will be more powerful once it is leveled and one that requires less xp to level might not be as effective later in the game.

No. Not sure why you would think that.
Some gems require a higher level.That's all there is to it.

It makes perfect sense to me why that would be the initial assumption. Gems that require more initial experience should take longer to reach max level. If they were weaker at lower levels then easier to level gems then they would never be used over the easy to level gems until near the end of the game.

Having said that so far I haven't noticed this issue happening in reality, but I don't have level 20 gems yet so I can't be 100% certain. Even starting Maelstrom of Chaos yesterday most of my gems are around 14-15 at highest. At least for my build I find that most of my damage spells came from gems that could be equipped in the first 10 levels. My higher experience requiring gems tend to either be support oriented, or provide a buff or debuff in some way. There haven't been any really high level gems, that I've seen, that would be competing directly with the low level gems.

From my experience, some of the earliest gems available work quite well as primary skills into late game, especially when they are well supported and your passives are built around that skill. Some of the 10 and 20+ level requirement skill gems are quite nice as well though, given the same conditions.