Weapon swap and gem slots?

I'm not sure if this question has been asked before but I cant seem to find anything on it. I know when you swap your weapon it changes some of your passive tree points. My question is:
If you weapon swap does it change your gem slots so that you can use the same support gems that you already used on your main weapon on a different weapon?

What???
gem slots are no longer tied to items.
Or did I misunderstand what you are asking???

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Ashgan9#6435 wrote:

What???
gem slots are no longer tied to items.
Or did I misunderstand what you are asking???

I understand slots are no longer tied to your weapon. The reason why I'm asking is because you can only use the same passive gem 1 time so if I weapon swap I'm not sure if I would be able to use the same passive skill gem on another weapons tree/skill gem link.

I'm fairly sure weapon swapping does not swap gems around.
Although now that I think on it I think there was a restriction on number of a color of support based on the corresponding stat, so if you weapon swap and your stats change either due to the weapon or the weapon skill points in the tree changing???

You can't re-use support gems unless you choose that one Gemling Legionaire ascendancy node.

Hopefully you won't be manually weapon swapping, as GGG has made it so that you can tie certain skills to a certain weapon set, and when you use that from your skill bar the swap happens automatically.

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Versatyle#2250 wrote:

You can't re-use support gems unless you choose that one Gemling Legionaire ascendancy node.

Hopefully you won't be manually weapon swapping, as GGG has made it so that you can tie certain skills to a certain weapon set, and when you use that from your skill bar the swap happens automatically.

Ah that's unfortunate. Yeah I wouldn't be manually swapping but I thought it would swap your skills to a different set as well as your tree. Thanks Versatyle I appreciate you.

You only get one "Set" of skill gems, they do not change when you switch weapons... they are no longer tied to your gear at all. (other than requirements to use)

As mentioned here, there is support for auto-swapping weapons when you use a skill. Some (all?) skills require a certain weapon, so presumably that will auto swap for you. not sure if there are other cases.

You can also manually swap, if you have two of the same weapon for example....

You can have a separate spirit allocations (minions, auras, whatever) for each weapon. The current UI for this is a little "hidden", where if you switch weapons and change your spirit reservations, it automatically "decouples them", so they become separate configs. They have a new UI for this which is coming which makes it more clear, but didn't make the EA release.

i was under the impression that:
-skill gems have to be socketet into gear unless they are innate skills from class or weapons
-every item had up to 1 socket(armour and 2hand has 2)
-corrupting any gear can add 1 socket

if those are true you could corrupt some random white 1 handed items to get 4 skill slots put them in your swapped out set and use 4 more skills with your main weapon.

but maybe the extra slot from corruption can only be used for runes
and maybe the swapped out skill set will be unavailable.