Zero New Skill Gems in 2.6

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Erasculio wrote:

Threshold jewels are the worst of both words. They keep the original skills weak, and require them to continue that way (otherwise the combination of skill gem + threshold jewel would be overpowered), while they are too rare to allow a build to be designed around them. GGG is basically breaking the system they fixed by allowing vendors to sell skill gems.

unless they also add the threshold jewels to the vendors right?

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Rory_Rackham wrote:

Though many new Threshold Jewels will be released in 2.6.0 with mostly common drop chances, we're going to be trying out having them as an Act 6 or above quest reward and vendor item during the beta, making them very accessible! If this achieves our goals for easily enabling new builds, this will carry over to the full release of the game.

its a placeholder league, its gonna run for about a month or so then the beta will land.

We get serviced well over here, that we would even expect as much content as often as we usually get it is a testament to how spoiled and lucky we have been for the last 4 years. No one else out there is keeping up the volume and frequency of content like GGG.

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Mischief67 wrote:

And no meta shake because they're shitting their pants cause of scrub-standard players.

Are you saying they're not nerfing certain skills because most standard players are using them? or something? I don't get it. I play standard and like not having to recreate a new char every 3 months.

A while back GGG said they did not want to nerf or change shit skills like cleave because some poor soul out there may actually use it currently which I found absurd but that's another story.

The threshold revamp will make it so these players' experiences are not hampered.

The threshold jewel should be meaningfully power and ideally also give base stats like damage or defenses.

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Crimsonyd wrote:

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yiloon1987 wrote:

Ek + new ek jewel + Fp + 6L Sire of shard?

maybe they can make elemental hit and phase run better.

Why would you go sos with ek jewel?

EK new threshold jewel (Ring of Blades, when 40 dex in radius, ek fires 10 more projectiles + ek fires projectiles in a nova) u may find it at the link below:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1834597

I think this is what he means, EK + New Ek Jewel + 6L SoS, blade nova?

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GM_Xi_Lanjiao wrote:

I think this is what he means, EK + New Ek Jewel + 6L SoS, blade nova?

I mean why would you go SoS for nova proj if new jewel gives it to EK already?

So you would rather have new shit compared to fixing things first then get new stuff? That makes you a maniac. Also they said in 3.0 new skills are coming so keep your pants on til' then if you can since that seems to be something you just can't wait for

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Snorkle_uk wrote:

its a placeholder league, its gonna run for about a month or so then the beta will land.

I heard that both beta and legacy league will be in the same time, so legacy league will be normal 3 month league (not sure tho)

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Aynix wrote:

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Snorkle_uk wrote:

its a placeholder league, its gonna run for about a month or so then the beta will land.

I heard that both beta and legacy league will be in the same time, so legacy league will be normal 3 month league (not sure tho)

ya, legacy starts firs though, itll run for a bit then the beta will drop and anyone who wants new stuffs is gonna ditch legacy and run the beta till 3.0. No one whos looking for new content is gonna pass up the beta for a flashback league, GGG know that.

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Aynix wrote:

Maybe they finally stopped listening to people like you aka "more is better" and realized that they have like 20+ useless skill gems in the game and it's time to rework/buff them instead of making new ones?