Feedback regarding locking you to 1 support gem of a certain type.

I don't know if its just me, but locking your character to be able to use a certain support gem only once seems to be detrimental to build diversity. Like currently im trying to build a witch around essence drain and contagion and also having minions summoned by unearth be able to apply contagion to enemies. And most of my skills would benefit greatly from increased duration support gem, but im only able to apply it to one of my skills and having nothing interesting and really beneficial to slot in my other skills because of it.

You can get multiple support gems of the same type. Many skills share the same supports so you can get them again

Can you explain this better? Because it seems you can have only 1 skill with for example "faster cast speed" on. If you try to use a second faster cast speed gem on another skill it tells you you can only have 1.

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GeorgeP#7456 wrote:

I don't know if its just me, but locking your character to be able to use a certain support gem only once seems to be detrimental to build diversity. Like currently im trying to build a witch around essence drain and contagion and also having minions summoned by unearth be able to apply contagion to enemies. And most of my skills would benefit greatly from increased duration support gem, but im only able to apply it to one of my skills and having nothing interesting and really beneficial to slot in my other skills because of it.

yes it sucks

It feels this way because there is not enough support gems to choose from.

They're burning themselves on this one, because to achieve the same level of freedom of choice AND to limit one support gem only, they'd need way more support gems in the end.

I doubt it. They realized having multiple damage skills with copies of the same support gem would be just OP so this is a way of reining in player power. Which is understandable but they should have retained the lesser/greater variants from 1 to give some flexibility.

It would be easier for one's self to stop thinking about POE 2 is anyway related to POE 1. There are combo skills that are more than enough to make your run easier if you don't want to do some early crafting.

In my opinion, the more accurate way of describing it is, the required level or the area where you get tier 2 uncut support gem and higher tier uncut skill gems are stretched out/ moved to a higher level/area. I can see this as one of the contributing factor why other people are having problems since even players who have moderate experience with POE 1 wouldn't think of crafting early.