Transfigured Gems - Why only one source to get them - not very SSF friendly, eternal lab not popular

@ TemjinGold: I only play SSFHC since delve league. I am a casual player, and I do think Act 1 to Act 10 should be more interessting.

Locking hundreds of gems behind the eternal lab is bad idea. It does not fit the enchantment replacment idea/theory, as stated from GGG.

If you state/announce something publicly, then be conclusive. If there is a severe item bottleneck, which wasnt there before, it is not comparable.

If you only play SSFHC AND you are a casual, you're asking for it. I'm not here to judge what you should enjoy but doing that and also begging for the game to be easier for you sounds asinine.

I'm still curious why you keep insisting those gems are locked behind the eternal lab. As I've said, you can run the normal lab for it.

Just read the patch notes:

"The Divine Font at the end of the Eternal Labyrinth is now a gem crafting device that can modify your skill and support gems by turning them into Transfigured Gems, add Quality or Experience to Gems, or sacrifice a Gem for one or more Treasure Keys to open Izaro's Chests."


I personally find the game boring, if I dont play HCSSF. I dont judge anyone how the should play and enyoy it. If it is fun and entertaining for them, thats perfect and superfine for me in every mode.

But dont create bottleknecks and tell something different.


May be, just may be those gems could be found in blight chests or from Thujen.. Thats what I am hoping for. Lets see, but my hopes are not high at the moment. This would be a very diffcult way of doing things from GGG, compared to the last years.

regards

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I personally find the game boring

Skip the clown comments.

Lab is some boring, outdated level 75 content that doesn't hold up, and now they're forcing it on us. It has nothing to do with difficulty for casuals, and everything to do with boredom:
* Fixed layouts in a fucking ARPG?
* Lots of backtracking?
* Copies the literal worst quest in the game and uses it for a repeating puzzle?
* Bugged voice lines that have been overlapping for more than a year.
* The list goes on.

Let's keep bumping this, fellow SSF players.

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ArkonHC wrote:

Just read the patch notes:

"The Divine Font at the end of the Eternal Labyrinth is now a gem crafting device that can modify your skill and support gems by turning them into Transfigured Gems, add Quality or Experience to Gems, or sacrifice a Gem for one or more Treasure Keys to open Izaro's Chests."


I personally find the game boring, if I dont play HCSSF. I dont judge anyone how the should play and enyoy it. If it is fun and entertaining for them, thats perfect and superfine for me in every mode.

But dont create bottleknecks and tell something different.


May be, just may be those gems could be found in blight chests or from Thujen.. Thats what I am hoping for. Lets see, but my hopes are not high at the moment. This would be a very diffcult way of doing things from GGG, compared to the last years.

regards

Okay I see now. I didn't read that part too closely because I listened to the Q&A. Perhaps this will put you more at ease then:

Mark at around an hour and 5 mins or so in this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfNrSM9J7HQ&t=1743s

specifically says he wanted this new system to allow players to get a crack at these at around level 30, when it is typical to do normal lab. The "change a gem into a random transfigured gem" option is ALWAYS there (the better crafts, which I imagine include changing a support to a random exceptional gem are locked behind the higher labs). This is not exclusive to uber lab and he specifically says if you only care about getting a crack at the transfigured gem you want, a strat as a high level player is to repeatedly run normal lab as that is the shortest and easiest. What Uber lab gives you is 2 base uses of the font instead of 1.

Thank you, this sounds much better, then my interpretation/assumption. I do hope,
that I am very wrong! *Lets hope so*

kind regards

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ArkonHC wrote:

exactly what I am saying:

3. So, if the game is balanced around trading, why is GGG offering so much
different versions of SSSF ? Much more then trade league ? Any good ans-
wer to that ? + They stated, that they will support/stimulate more SSF.
If true, they should support it, and not dry it out.

regards

Because people who didn't like trading whined to GGG to give their items an exclusive ssf-found badge and GGG caved in. They will not balance around SSF, the same as they do not balance around hardcore or ruthless. These are extra challenges you choose yourself. So deal with the consequences.

how do you know lab has not been changed? i would assume that it will.

It's not that big of a deal if you can grind normal Lab for any gem. But if this is restricted to Uber Lab, or even just some of them, I will be very disappointed in GGG.

But it is an inconvenience... And I don't even really understand the insistence on RNG with the gems anyway. They could easily make it so that whatever gem you put in gives you relevant transfigured gems to choose from, meaning if you put in Firestorm, you get the two transfigured versions plus one random gem to choose from, and if there is no transfigured version of the gem you put in, you just get three random choices.

The gems are really ssf friendly cause you only have to run lab. Something that you do 4 times anyways and something that you can spam easily all day unlike Heist which was heavily gated behind the lack of bp's and coins in ssf.Even then you had to spam this stuff in order to maybe see your desired alt quality gem after days of grinding. Now you get to 100% select the gem you want to have as alt gem and just brute force your desired gem within less than an hour or even less. Even the removal of enchantments is really ssf friendly