Transfigured gems have near zero usability versus alternate gems from Heist

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Hixxie написал:

I really wonder if this change was because they wouldn't be able to keep up with the balance changes for all gems in the game, and instead focus on active skillgems.

I have zero reason to use any transfigured gem, whereas Alternate quality gems had more use cases.

Can you name some of these use cases? I can't fathom how anyone thinks this. And yet people keep posting it. I don't think I've ever been more confused by a thread in the entire time I've been on the forum.

Plenty of transfigured gems are way more interesting, even essential, for different use by different builds. I think this change was just a "re-design" like explained above by others players.

Effectiveness/cooldown/secondary effect/aoe/speed...

The two gems (bossing/aoe clearing) i am using for my build (mines) are transfigured, plenty others skills are also available and almost all them (let's the 10 best skills) except 1 are transfigured versions.

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alhazred70 написал:

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Hixxie написал:

I really wonder if this change was because they wouldn't be able to keep up with the balance changes for all gems in the game, and instead focus on active skillgems.

I have zero reason to use any transfigured gem, whereas Alternate quality gems had more use cases.

Can you name some of these use cases? I can't fathom how anyone thinks this. And yet people keep posting it. I don't think I've ever been more confused by a thread in the entire time I've been on the forum.

Any Kopogero or Saddropuser thread raises more questions with me, to be frank. Still, I think this opinion is most seen from people who play PoE casually or only play it on and off. I have yet to see a single experienced player say this, and the statistics from websites like poe.ninja back this up

Honestly... just revert two leagues back tbh because it bricked a lot of builds and made meta builds even more meta.

i am only useing one transfigured gem. frost bomb of forthcoming.
it causes more damage with my build than regular frost bomb.

that is all.

I use 6 skillgems. only one is transfigured.

I used to have half of my gems that were alternate gems.
they might have been overpowered, but they were not ill conceived.
a more subtle hand might have fixed things.

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AgnosiousD написал:

I use 6 skillgems. only one is transfigured.

I used to have half of my gems that were alternate gems.

Okay, but it's a bit like saying I have 110 passive skills allocated and only one of them is a keystone. That's the design - they're supposed to be substantial changes in the small niche they occupy; it's normal to not use many at once.

To me this is the bit that transfigured gems get right. I don't think it's about the old alternate gems being "overpowered", as such, I think it's about making the differences "chunky" enough to warrant existing at all. The game doesn't need another layer of small incremental bonuses.