​[Suggestion] Reforging Bench: Recycle Unused Support Gems in Your Stash

For Patch 0.5.0, I would like to suggest the ability to recycle unused Support Gems at the Reforging Bench. Players would be able to reforge Support Gems back into an Uncut Support Gem. It gives players a deterministic path to get the gem they need by recycling old gems sitting in their stash.

Reforging Bench
* Input: Place 3 Support Gems of the same tier.
* Result: Get 1 Uncut Support Gem of that same tier.
* Cost: Pay a modest Gold fee.

The Reforging Bench already uses a 3-to-1 system for Runes, Essences, etc.; applying this to Support Gems fits the game's existing logic.

I'd suggest to upgrade the tiers, i.e. 3 level 19's to a 20 to make it easier to find.

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CharlesJT#7681 wrote:

For Content Patch 0.5.0, I would like to suggest the ability to recycle unwanted Support Gems at Reforging Bench. Players would be able to reforge Support Gems back into an Uncut Support Gem. It gives players a deterministic path to get the gem they need by recycling old gems sitting in their stash.

Reforging Bench
* Mechanic: Place 3 Support Gems of same tier.
* Result: Get 1 Uncut Support Gem of same tier.
* Cost: Pay a modest Gold cost.

Something like this. My personal problem with support gems used to be that I had the same support gem more than one time in the stash, and nowhere to bother throwing them. I think it was in 0.3 GGG changed it so that the same support gem can be socketed to different skills, so having the same support gem 1-5 times wasn't an issue anymore. The exception is of course the Lineage support gems. Now I have the same problem I used to have with support gems, but this time with Lineage support gems. They are slowly filling my stash. I think I'll also mention that I have the same problem with my failed skill gem corruptions: they are also filling my gem stash.

Related to OP's suggestion, I don't know if this actually is a problem to fix though. Even though I personally just don't bother throwing gems on the ground and they start accumulating in the stash, uncut gems are not that rare to even bother micromanaging stash space for with the reforging bench. But I'm up for any interesting solution for the extra unused gems from failed skill gem corruptions and lineage and non-lineage support gems.

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Celd#2630 wrote:

But I'm up for any interesting solution for the extra unused gems from failed skill gem corruptions and lineage and non-lineage support gems.

Another thing to point out is recycling allows players to "pivot" their build by recycling old supports for new supports and encourages more build experimentation.

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CharlesJT#7681 wrote:

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Celd#2630 wrote:

But I'm up for any interesting solution for the extra unused gems from failed skill gem corruptions and lineage and non-lineage support gems.

Another thing to point out is recycling allows players to "pivot" their build by recycling old supports for new supports and encourages more build experimentation.

This works during the campaign, I'll give you that. Supports are kinda rare until maps. Would support the implementation.

A kinda related thing I want to mention is that support gems do not have a hard-to-reach power ceiling in the end game, and it bothers me a little. They do not have exp, no corruption outcomes, or any randomized modifiers. The closest is Lineage supports, but they are in a separate category to regular support gems.

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Celd#2630 wrote:

This works during the campaign, I'll give you that. Supports are kinda rare until maps. Would support the implementation.

Agreed, I know many people that mostly play campaign and only dabble in maps. I think this would be a nice feature for the campaign and help address the scarcity of support gems.

Hope GGG considers this change for 0.5.0.