Scour orb for gems

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unsane wrote:

Or, once again they could just make gems scale down to the level of the character, regardless of the gem's level. Solves other problems at the same time.

As you'll see with our 0.9.4 changes, we've taken a route that differs from this.

Indeed - this came up in discussion in the office today. It's very likely that there will be a recipe that lets you downlevel a gem by one level for some currency items. At the moment we have it implemented as gem + Orb of Scouring, but who knows what it'll end up as when 0.9.5 is done.