Why remove half of the jewel sockets?

All you’ve done is destroy a swath of unique build potential and just once again leave everyone with even less diversity and options.

You guys started off so well but are now reverse engineering into Diablo 4.

Like it’s starting to get pathetic.

There was no reason to cut jewel slots by 50%.

All you’ve done with this reset is piss off a ton of people.

I’m sure some are excited for it but honestly all GGG is doing is copy pasta Diablo 4 approach. They are not dedicated to increasing diversity of builds. They are dedicated to forcing everyone through the same funnel of success.

What an epic bait and switch this game was. I never imagined I’d look at Diablo 4 favorably but these GGG developers are literally murdering their own game.

You guys realize at this rate when the game goes live the skill tree will only have 4 jewel slots total right?

I mean if every time you add a new class you cut the jewel slots by 50% so you can add more class nodes we end up at 1-4 jewel slots total.

You guys need to get your shit together because this “new fixed game” is worse than the old variant by miles.

I don’t even have to play it to see that you guys are quite literally trying what a paste eater suggests.

I mean you’ve literally murdered any desire for anyone who enjoyed the Jewel segment of building to continue playing your game.

Jewels were the MOST INTERESTING part of building because they bring in stats that you can make tons of unique variants of builds with.

Now you’ve trivialized them. Congrats.

Can't say if im in favour of this change yet. But I thought from the begining basic jewels were way too powerful. And with poor crafting options the potential power gained from those nodes ranged from barely noticable to 3x a notable node.

Having less options for controlled metamorphosis / time-lost jewels is concerning to me though. I felt like their locations already heavily benefited some builds over others and now those benefits could be even more niche.

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Direfell#7544 wrote:

Can't say if im in favour of this change yet. But I thought from the begining basic jewels were way too powerful. And with poor crafting options the potential power gained from those nodes ranged from barely noticable to 3x a notable node.

Having less options for controlled metamorphosis / time-lost jewels is concerning to me though. I felt like their locations already heavily benefited some builds over others and now those benefits could be even more niche.

Oh you mean if you spent time grinding 20+ near perfect jewels you could get insane damage gains? All they’ve done is nerf megalomaniac while simultaneously nerfing all builds that used rare jewels.

The problem was megalomaniacs and corrupted jewels which sold for 600-1000 div each. not rare jewels. But both got equally nerfed.

That’s mentally deficient logic. But I guess I can’t expect big brain moves from GgG

GGG clearly has no idea what they are doing.

They using the dart board method 100%.

write stuff on the wall throw a dart and that’s what they choose to do.

No calculations went into “let’s cut the most interesting part of making a build in this game by 50%”

Quite literally you have to try to be that stupid. That degree of moronic is intentional.

Imagine being so stupid you’d take the most interesting and diversity in build creation part of your game and cut it by 50% and expect applause.

All that tells me is that GgG is managed by morons.

Also before a mod comes in with the “we removed your comment for not being nice” BS, if all you clowns will listen to is kind feedback you are gonna end up with one of the worst games.

Nobody improves from being coddled.

That's a lot of ad hominem for very little point there.

I only have 1 basic jewel in my best build, who needs 20?

are you implying 20+ jewels and spending hundreds to thousands of divines is required?

I'm sorry my experience doesn't match yours.

Power creep this early in game development cannot be allow to remain. Otherwise, they will be going the route of D4.

the tree already had way more jewel slots than poe1, and its jewels are WAY stronger.

so when you look at the tree, my guess is that all of the interior jewel sockets are just gone. those total 12. so you'll only have jewel sockets around the outer ring.

i think thats a fair change. you can still travel and get tons of jewels, and again the jewels are WAY stronger than we're used to anyway


the unique jewel changes are massive nerfs tho. timeless jewels and against the darkness. probably won't even use those anymore

Brother they could have just made harder end game content.

It was stupid to give us all that power for the last 6 months then take it away.

I won’t ever touch this game again because it’s not possible for it to ever feel as good.

They’ve literally taken a sword and plunged it through their own chest and expected it to work out just fine.

I could have handled losing 6 jewel slots. But 50% of them was a mentally challenged move. If you needed to rework the game that hard there is no reason why early access should be available rn.

If you needed to rework this hard the game should still be in closed beta.

You don’t have to believe what I’m saying, time is going to prove me right.

I can’t even imagine the sewer water IQ that went into this decision making.

Most the people playing poe2 rn aren’t poe1 players. You’ve just made them think twice about dedicating their time to your game.

If by the time this game goes f2p they’ve killed off 75% of the player base it’ll be a long road to recovery if ever for the entire studio.

And all my friends are pissed about this update. Not because of just jewels of course but when I ask what pissed them off the most it’s the fact jewels were the most exciting build feature and now have become trivial must takes.

Now the jewel slots are more mandatory than before.

Before you could just path off 3 points to get a jewel slot. Now you gotta path what 10 between each jewel slot on the tree? Retarded decision.

All they’ve done is take the most meaningful items to build diversity and make them 50% less useful.

Amazing job.

To nerf the adorned. They didn't directly nerf it, which makes it the only widely used end game "chase" item that didn't get nerfed. Now you can't stack 20 magic jewels with a god-tier adorned.

Yep and now the only viable jewel method is the magic corrupted jewels.

All rare jewels just became worthless

Great build diversity!

Literally the only way they could have done this worse is to hard nerf rare jewels

The decision making on this was so poor that the literal only worse scenario was to do something that would require negative brain cells to accomplish.

These are not ad hominem attacks. They are factual statements which is why my comments haven’t been moderated id assume.

It must be hard for the moderators of these forums seeing the poor decision making coming from people who earn 10x the moderators pay.

I mean imagine if all you needed to succeed was common sense but the guys calling shots have negative sense, that’s what we are dealing with.

Feel however you’d like about this, time will prove me right.

Path of exile 2 designed the perfect skill tree then deleted it during early access. Just ironic enough to be real life.

The only thing that could keep them successful is the fact a majority of the f2p players will never know how diverse and open the original skill tree was. What a hill to stand on. I can only hope GGG gets buried on the same hill.

What you all fail to realize is GGG just showed you their plans for the next 5-10 years. The management style at GGG couldn’t be worse.

I stopped playing Diablo 4 for this game and I never thought for one second that I would ever regret it but man these GGG decision makers sure found a way.

Imagine if you will, a world where the dumbest decision is the one people are most likely to make. “We could cut jewel slots by 25% that way we leave some of the meat and potatoes for people who like to experiment” “nah f that we can cut it by 50% and they’ll cheer because who wants diverse playability, everyone just wants follow the streamer builds”

You people are the dumbest people alive. Let’s take a game where the main complaint is that everything is pigeon holed into the same builds, let’s cut 50% of the jewel slots, make 100 new skill gems that everyone knows 90-95% are gonna suck outside super niche interactions, and call it a day.

The new skill gems will make up for cutting the ACTUAL BUILD DIVERSITY ITEM IN HALF

This shit is so stupid that you can’t script it. You literally have to go out of your way to hire the dumbest most negative IQ individual to end up with a shot call like this.

At this point I have to believe a Path of Exile 2 competitor payed off the Path of Exile 2 shot caller so that the shot caller would only make decisions that would cripple the game. It’s sad but that is the most likely scenario we are dealing with. Because it’s highly unlikely anyone that stupid even exists in the real world.

Therefore the only motivating factor to destroy the game would be greed.

No one from GGG is gonna read this, I don’t care anymore. I’ve learned that the entire gaming industry needs a reset.

It’s a sad day when Diablo 2 is out performing path of exile 2. Buckle up GGG, at the rate you are going Diablo 2 will be out performing you for eternity by leaps and bounds.

Path of exile 2 is literally one bad patch away from being inferior to Diablo 4. You will never recover from that if it gets that bad.

Sure you can stay profitable, but if that’s all you are concerned about you shouldn’t be making video games. You should be making my burger at McDonald’s.

Maybe no one’s ever told the guy making 6-7 figures at GGG as the shot caller this but, if you focus on quality and let profit be a biproduct of the quality you produce as long as you produce great quality you will make great profit.

Costs 0.00 to learn that. But it might end up costing whoever is in charge at GGG everything :,).

It’s so ironic it has willed itself into existence.

Let’s not even discuss how GGG is mentally deficient enough to leave the old Ingenuities in the game so they don’t piss off the players that had them.

300-500 div for a great ingenuity maybe 700 on a bad day.

1 single corrupted magic jewel with max stats and max corruption roll = 600-1200 div.

Woah great job prioritizing who will get pissed about what.

Quite literally all they’ve done is made jewel slots twice as mandatory and twice as hard to acquire. So smart, so innovative.

This game should still be in closed alpha testing. It’s a joke that they would make this dramatic of a change.

Game lost 50% of its soul to this patch.

All they had to do to make this right was announce they were cutting jewel slots by 50% a month ago.

The fact they waited till 2 days before patch to let everyone know is a disgrace. The transparency and ethics show you everything you need to know about this company.

They’ll leave legacy Ingenuity belts with 98% rolls in game when the belt is getting nerfed to 50% max roll. But god forbid they only cut jewel slots by 25%.

The reason they cut jewel slots by 50% is that stupid new ascendancy that gives you 15 skill points per whatever. Obviously that SINGLE Ascendancy would have been way too powerful, not like you could have just capped that ascendancy at like 15 jewels.

These people are morons. They cut jewels by 50% due to one ascendancy being able to get every jewel on the tree.

With management like that why don’t you just make it so the max item drop is magic items that only drop with rolls you don’t need? We don’t need rare and unique items, we can play the game with white items and magic items! Cut the equipment by 50% too! Sounds like equivalent logic.

Y’all at GgG can complain that you don’t get the feedback you’d like, but this is feedback. You’ll regret having cut the jewel slots by 50% because I know a bunch of people who won’t be touching the game again because of it.

I was gonna be a 5-10 year guy.