Please do not change existing alternate gems in Standard

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azurstreams wrote:

Don't play standard, its just a graveyard.

hoho so true, just a mere storage mode ever since the full release of the game.

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azurstreams wrote:

Don't play standard, its just a graveyard.

Leagues are just beta tests ;)

As much as I don't care about standard league (it's basically a landfill for your league characters and nothing more, just accept it) this change wipes out many character builds. One of the most "meta" builds in this league was poison spark - very versatile character, could be employed as a mapper, bosser or even magic find.

I wouldn't care about something like divergent inspiration going away. If I can run a map that has -96% less effect of my auras then I can handle having one aura less. It's not make or break. But divergent spark leaving the game completely makes this character unplayable, flat out.

At least give some collateral for players that have a lot of alternative quality gems. Give them free uses of divine font for each gem converted.

Any alt quality gem - 1 free use
20/20 alt quality gem - 3 free uses
21/20 alt quality gem - 10 free uses

They add up for each gem converted and stack up to 999.

So they run one lab and can have hundreds of crafting "charges" available to get their transfigured gems without running the lab 100 times.

One person's dump is another person's treasury.

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Sabranic_SilverDeth wrote:

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azurstreams wrote:

Don't play standard, its just a graveyard.

Leagues are just beta tests ;)

Beta tests? Then go play ToTa on standard when this league will be finished. Oh wait. lmao. Standard players are really something else xD
This game is obviously being made and balanced around majority of players (NEW LEAGUES) and people are always surprised when they change things to make graveyard worse lol

Super bummed about this... I don't see why they can't just make the alt gems go legacy in standard since they don't care about standard... why even remove them? The reality must be they DO care about standards economy, and would rather X hrs of grinding be negated than inflate the economy + allow existing builds to work and allow alt quality gems to be legacy.

Feels pretty predatory to wipe out the gems in standard as well.
Its not like maxed/corrupted alt quality gems were cheap in the economy.

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Maude034 wrote:

That is not true though, because a lot of alternate-quality gem mechanics are being added to normal-quality gem mechanics, and the stuff removed, like Anomalous Kinetic Bolt mentioned above, is not engine-limiting as there are similar effects you can get elsewhere already with the same wording and in the same fashion.

There are also legacy gems like Item Quantity Support.

I hope they at the very least follow what you are saying with the new transfigured gems.

IIQ gem was never replaced functionally, they merely made it unable to drop anymore, so nothing contradicts what I've said.

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NasusPodInta wrote:

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Sabranic_SilverDeth wrote:

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azurstreams wrote:

Don't play standard, its just a graveyard.

Leagues are just beta tests ;)

Beta tests? Then go play ToTa on standard when this league will be finished. Oh wait. lmao. Standard players are really something else xD
This game is obviously being made and balanced around majority of players (NEW LEAGUES) and people are always surprised when they change things to make graveyard worse lol

Difference is, Standard players do not deny league players their right to exist, while you keep going on and on with "graveyard" "no one should ever care", etc. Fascinating how moderators here never delete such posts, lol

If you like engineered hamster wheel of time waste, I am glad for you. And I think no standard player ever called for changes that would exclusively detract from temp leagues for the sake of standard. Yet the opposite is happening regularly, and on increasing scale.