Gem leveling... why is it so slow?

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Vipermagi wrote:

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MrDDT wrote:

You have it the wrong way around. If you are leveling up in areas where you getting 100% exp. Your gems will lag behind, if you are leveling up in areas where you are getting less than 100% exp (like much to high, or much to low) your gems will level up faster than you.

I don't go to areas "to level up", but rather play through the game and kill whatever happens to be in the way; this puts me at 1 level above or below the area for the largest part of the game. I invariably end up with overleveled gems if I die once. *shrug*

Yeah deaths will cause your gems to out pace you. I play HC so, pretty much dont know how much they out pace me =P, good news is that you can swap out gems for quality gems and level them up faster then.

I believe there's also a factor where level 15 is where the devs currently consider "endgame" for gems, and anything beyond that is supposed to take longer (in the same way that leveling characters beyond 70 or so is supposed to take longer).

On a related note, how much "gem downtime" is there usually between picking up a lvl 1 gem and when it catches up to player level? Does this "downtime" increase or decrease as the gap between the player level and level req of the lvl 1 gem increases?

Edited wording to improve clarity

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VoxelSquid wrote:

On a related note, how much "gem downtime" is there usually between picking up a lvl 1 gem and when it catches up to player level? Does this "downtime" increase or decrease as the gap between the player level and level req of the lvl 1 gem increases?

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Putting a lvl1 gem in character running maps gets the gem to level 15-16 within 7-8 hours worth of playtime. Numbers may vary a bit, but are close enough to give you an idea.

So it is fair to say that having gems with a level 57 requirement at level 70 is perfectly normal?

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BRavich wrote:

So it is fair to say that having gems with a level 57 requirement at level 70 is perfectly normal?

Of course, the highest level requirement for a gem is 60 when it is at max level 20.
When you reach that point or near it start thinking about maxing the quality on your gems with the good ol' gcp.

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drakar8888 wrote:

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BRavich wrote:

So it is fair to say that having gems with a level 57 requirement at level 70 is perfectly normal?

Of course, the highest level requirement for a gem is 60 when it is at max level 20.
When you reach that point or near it start thinking about maxing the quality on your gems with the good ol' gcp.

What do you mean of course? It's not exactly a logical conclusion given that gems stay even with character level for most of their development.

If they wanted it to be that difficult to level gems up at the later levels, why not make the gems require higher levels to use? It just doesnt add up. I feel like there's something I'm missing.

If your gems stayed in lockstep with your level at the top, you'd never be able switch gems mid/lategame because they'd never catch up. As it stands you can get a gem to a reasonably high level in a day; allowing you to try new abilities without having to build a new char from scratch and can swap your initial 0 quality gem for a quality one in without much trouble instead of having to burn a full 20 GCP to max it out.

Also realize, we will likely see an expansion or revisit on the gem system as the level ranges are expanded. I don't believe it's likely that the devs will let lvl 60 gems be the "end game" for level 100 characters.