Please do not change existing alternate gems in Standard

Collecting alt gems was one of my favorite activity. I even bought a second gem tab to stash them. I'm very disapointed with this change...

They also went out of their way to specifically remove ice nova cast on frostbolt. It was not a quality modifier, they just want to nerf it. Took them long enough lol.

Can I get a refund on MTX for skills they bricked?

Agreed.

I don't even play standard, but seriously, wtf ?!

This is worse then ex to div change. Just straight up destroying something people spend a lot of time or currency on, shows how much ggg cares for std.
Also, it shouldn't be that hard to keep them around, since there is already a precedent for this in the iiq gem.

Really hope ggg reconsiders this...

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Echothesis wrote:

Can I get a refund on MTX for skills they bricked?

Very much would like a refund after they ran with that unified endgame thing for so long.

The rate they are going i wouldn't count on anything being sacred even your currency tabs at this point.

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swarls68 wrote:

This is worse then ex to div change. Just straight up destroying something people spend a lot of time or currency on, shows how much ggg cares for std.
Also, it shouldn't be that hard to keep them around, since there is already a precedent for this in the iiq gem.

Really hope ggg reconsiders this...

They wont. Changes are done and all we can do is just deal with massive nerf.

Really shit deccision is removing existing alt quality gems. This decision is just unfair and feels like watching GGG shows us middle finger. At least they should give us those transfigured gems in a compensation of destroying thos alt quality we have.

Im disappointed.

Pretty sure I need 200 labs to get the alt version back, if they are still exist. Pretty much doomed.

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swarls68 wrote:

This is worse then ex to div change. Just straight up destroying something people spend a lot of time or currency on, shows how much ggg cares for std.
Also, it shouldn't be that hard to keep them around, since there is already a precedent for this in the iiq gem.

Really hope ggg reconsiders this...

I remembered I lost all my saving (950ish exalted orb for years of saving) when they make that change, barely make it back after all these time, it is a shame :(

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UndeadKT wrote:

Pretty sure I need 200 labs to get the alt version back, if they are still exist. Pretty much doomed.

Pretty much. To summarize, idea of new expansion is: run a piece of content with hardcore mechanics an unspecified amount of times (even if you wanted nothing to do with hardcore mode), get 0 loot from it (lab always had no loot to speak of), just to get back what you already had, and in some cases worked hard to get, like 21/20 alternate gem. Really stellar decision.