Skill Gems are becoming "Currency" it seems..

In POE1, skill gems are without a doubt part of the economy; although you yourself can bring up its power simply by leveling the gems and getting lucky with corruptions, but the gems themselves you can raise its power simply with time and grind. Currently, level 20 gems are rarer than div/perfect jewellers orbs, esp the spirit gems. I know this seems to be an unintended consequence for the current skill design, however, I think they went for a worse one than the previous system; although a whole lot simpler. There needs to be a mediation between the current and old, because this can't continue, otherwise people feel the need to sell the skill gems instead of using them due to their value.

Also in POE1, if you grind out the skills you can achieve power during the campaign. Currently, if you are unlucky with your drops, you can't get skill levels and the area determines the level of gems, so you can't grind out for power. This leaves people to rely more on trading, atleast earlier than POE1. I myself didn't trade till when I got to maps, when my gear was simply too outdated cause crafting is way more gambling now, hope the crafting bench makes a comeback cause the economy is fukd.

Also with the lack of movement, game is harder, balanced more on one shots for difficulty. This leaves grinding t16 with irradiated/coalenscence maps dangerous getting one shot by an offscreen corpse explosion, grinding for that 1% lv20 gem to drop. Also, why does everything need an after death effect? kinda cheesy, and why does too many mobs with corpse explosion? I'm all for difficult challenge but those are just cheezy punishments..

350h 96lvl rn and i drop one time 20lvl gem... Like wtf... On poe 1 on that lvl i will make alot gems 20lvl sell them and make milon new one... But hey its poe 2 right... Meaby they will fix that idk..

Damn, and we gotta set up maps just for a chance for it to drop. Most people when they get one, esp a spirit gem; they'll just sell cause its better to gear chars instead of one power level, crazy how this is set up, its not good for the health of the game!