Why gate the new gems behind lab?

Because, theses days, getting every gem is silly easy. Your league starter completes act 10 and can give each and every character that follows any skill gem they need.

With this lab 'gate' players will need to farm for them and it's never a guarantee... but getting gems to feed the font will be cheap enough.

Assume that the *GOOD* ones will be gated behind Uber lab, of course. And the EXP conversion which will go for *FAT* stacks of divines and now allow players to sacrifice a tier 3 enhance gem (empower/enhance, ect) to jump a character from Twilight Strand almost to endgame... except for the idiotic storyline, yet again.

I do not get your point, OP. Previously, special quality gems were gated behind heist. If anything, running heist blueprints is even less accessible to most, than running labs, so I believe that this is an overall net positive change.

I think most people disliked running labs because of its overall boring, repetitive nature and the fact that you got very little out of it, unless you ran the special offerings. Sure, it had enchants and these were good for minmaxing your build, but that's about it.

This way, labs will be much more meaningful in my opinion.

As it has always been the case, If you want some piece of gear tied to some content, you just have to suck it up and learn to love said content, or play a trade league and just buy the gear from someone who does.

I am not good at grinding, do not have the patience for it, but I still find these gems be part of lab is a lot better and easier to access than them being in heist, and I do love and do lots of heist myself. (for a filthy casual scrub, that is :P)

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hmcg020 wrote:

Omg...if you're going to regurgitate an insult you heard on the internet, at least use it properly. You trying to paraphrase it here to pretend you came up with it epitomizes a lack of self-awareness. You could say it even makes it look like you have room-temperature IQ, which is bad REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT'S IN °F or °C JESUS MARY.

I haven't heard this Celsius vs Fahrenheit insult yet. Find it cute. The room temperature "burn" is decent as well. However, if anyone comes at you with temperature based insults, you can probably shut them up by telling them "Nah, way below room temperature, at about -75°C." Should give them something to think about.

Hint: -75°C is 198°K, which is the only real temperature scale you would really want to use anyway :P

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Pashid wrote:

To make lab more interesting and rewarding again outside of Lab services.
Honestly a good change and swap instead of having gems locked behind just Heist (also a mechanic that's not really liked by a lot of players)

Not to mention it's a good ssf friendly change since a long while as well.

Yeah I mean, at this point they're both gated behind something not everyone might enjoy.

The great thing tho, is that helm enchant are gone, so lab service is kind of a thing of the past. (unless somehow the gem you want is sold by 0 players).

But it's still overall an improvement.
Taking Heatshiver as an example, how many build did need that with the right enchant? such a pain.

Now you just get the damn gem and you're done.

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Lyutsifer665 wrote:

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Blurredout wrote:

Labs better than Heist, at least to me. Good layouts are super quick to run.

i knew you had a mageblood even before i checked your profile. try running lab without one and report back how fast uber lab is

Damn so now we need Mageblood to finish uber lab.
Player skill is getting worse and worse each league.

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Aynix wrote:

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Lyutsifer665 wrote:

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Blurredout wrote:

Labs better than Heist, at least to me. Good layouts are super quick to run.

i knew you had a mageblood even before i checked your profile. try running lab without one and report back how fast uber lab is

Damn so now we need Mageblood to finish uber lab.
Player skill is getting worse and worse each league.

no you dont need it but he was saying how super quick lab runs are. they are not unless you build your char for it or have a mageblood

Uber Lab even on random character is still faster than any Grand Heist. Do you remember where "new gems" were gated before?

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Aynix wrote:

Uber Lab even on random character is still faster than any Grand Heist. Do you remember where "new gems" were gated before?

i never do heist so dunno how long they took. last time i did heist was years ago

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Lyutsifer665 wrote:

yeah i only do lab once just for points. lab is widely disliked, not sure why the gems are gated behind it

"Friction".

Because having fun is bad, mkay?

Imagine if you had to run to the end of Uber Lab, get your gem, and then fight your way back out.