Sharing Skill Gems with other characters

For convience sake I was thinking it would be nice if you could equip a skill gem regardless of its current level, just that based on your stats the that gem requires it would then scaled down to the level your stats match.

This would make it nice to share skill gems with your other characters that might not have the stat requirement to use them.

While a gem is "de-leveled" it wouldn't earn any exp, to prevent low level characters leveling gems up to high levels.

Just a thought I had... as I was playing with a bunch of characters and pilling up gems in my stash.

That's a really interesting idea. I like it.

The only question is how do you deal with gems requiring stat baselines?

Like, you have a gem requiring 180 Int and level 50.

If you give it to a level 20, okay, make the gem scale back until it is level 20 or below, as well.

What if you are level 50 but don't have the required Int, though? Does it scale back until the minimum int is reached?

This could get very weird behaviour, particularly with gear and talents that granted +stats.

I'm not sure how you could solve this. I'd almost rather see a recipe available that takes any skill gem and warps it back to level 1, period. Maybe the recipe could give the gem +1% quality per level it had gained, but that would have to be expensive compared to using the gemcutter or whatever orbs.

If you use an orb of scouring on a levelled gem, it will lose a level.

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Garr0t wrote:

If you use an orb of scouring on a levelled gem, it will lose a level.

That's only one level though.