Gem Fusion

Sounds exaggerated at first, but hear me out.
Instead of having to come up with a new skill gem every 2 months or so, why not be able to make our own gems? it would be tedious to implement at first, but once we have a working craft system, the players would have an almost infinite skill combination.

Limited to only two gems, you could combine a melee gem with a ranged one, a support with and aura, a curse with a attack one etc. Of course you could say that you can already do that by linking gems on your equipment, but I am talking about something else entirely.


###(the COMBINED physical damage / cast and attack / mana multiplier of both gems are halved, but gain any fork/curse/trigger modifier they have) ###


* Barrage + Arc -> lightning damage, projectiles naturally fork up to 5 times

* Ice Shot + Molten Strike -> gains cold damage, projectiles are turned to ice boulders

* Kinetic Blast + Static Strike -> explosions are replaced by the static blast from the melee gem, the blast radius is the same as the kinetic skill

* Bladefall + Cold Snap -> falling blades have a blue aura, very small AoE effect similar to cold snap, freezes targets

* Cleave + Lesser Multiple Projectiles -> 3 extra cleave waves in a fan shaped attack, does not count as a projectile while linking with other projectile support gems [for balance]

* Heavy Strike + Cyclone -> while spinning, attacks knock enemy's back and stuns them

* Fireball + Any non damaging aura -> gains movement/energy/life boost depending on what aura it had , but its total percentage is halved, when hit counterattack with a fireball [like having a defensive and offensive aura in ONE]

* Split Arrow + Spark -> projectiles behave similar to spark, flying unpredictably, added lightning damage

* Viper Strike + Tempest Shield -> counterattack skill is replaced by viper strike, poison duration is halved

* Melee Splash + Rain of Arrows -> AoE attacks have arrows protruding from the ground, similar to Brutus traps

* Sweep + Raise Zombie -> minion gains sweeps skill and AoE, its radius/damage is halved

* Tornado Shot + Summon Raging Spirit -> arrows are replaced by skulls that continuously damage the enemy's it hits, the minion gem's duration is halved


And so on. Not every gem can be combined, but it would allow players to make their own skills based on preference. The interface for the gem fusion should be like that of the talisman. To successfully fuse two gems, 3 or 4 Unique items are needed, thus giving everyone a reason to keep some of the lower or weaker uniques for crafting. Fused gems should be level 60-70ish, and their level requirement should stay the same, but can still level up, with a gem level cap of 20. Mana consumption should be much higher than normal, preventing OP builds.

As a man that loves magicka ...

Sounds great until you stop for a minute and realize that each and evey skill has to have its own animation and then there are 7 classes that need for the skill animation to work and look good. An open ended skill combination that you suggest could almost never be animated properly within the scope of any time frame with that many combinations available, It would also mean that any future new skill would have to have many hundreds of animations programmed and tested. Clearly an impossible task for a small indie game company.

if they can make item/skill variants every two weeks for us to buy, they can make this too ^.^

No, no and no.
I don't even feel like explaining it,it would just raise my blood pressure to... to... something that's not good for me.

if you're not going to explain your displeasure with he suggestion, why even bother replying in the first place?

To tell you that it's a shitty idea... and I hoped you would add some thought yourself why it won't happen.

Its called a idea, not a ORDER. GGG can either implement it or not, their decision.
That's why this subforum is called SUGGESTIONS. And yes, I would rather you tell me that it is a shity idea, than behaving like child. ,Oh I don't like it, my head hurts!'

Grow the fuck up.

I have allready suggested this a while back :)

I think that gem fusion has always been a decent idea.

Requiring split arrow as a link to get LMP/GMP for example is pretty sweet.