Skill Gems as currency is really bad

Whats the point of locking skills behind a currency exchange?
As a new player i want to use a skill but i cant because it wont drop and it costs 400 Exalted Orbs to buy a lvl 8 uncut spirit gem. Well, i guess i just cant afford to use skills in this game.
The venders should sell gems for gold and skills should not be currency.

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Level 8 Spirit is the rarest gem in the game. Honest. mid tier spirit needs a better drop rate.

the whole uncut system is terrible. Having rng dictate when you can level a gem
is beyond stupid and feels silly. Let them level like every other game ever does as that provides progress passively in the background always and not ‘gee i hope the next level drops at some point’

Completely agree, the leveling procedure is better in PoE1, but I think a hybrid of the two systems would be good:

Skill and spirit Gems should simply drop or be purchasable in 4 different tiers, each with 2, 3, 4 support gem sockets (no need to have jeweller's orbs anymore) and a basic level that matches the current gem levels 1, 5, 10 and 15.
When using the skill or killing mobs in general, the gems gradually improve so there are no levels, they just get better with each use/kill. Of course this will have an upper limit and the improvement will slow down the better they get.

I have a similar feeling about ascendancy trials and perfect jeweler orbs not dropping until way into endgame. Thankfully those are cheaper and I can buy them as soon as I hit maps. But thats kinda silly. They lock fundamental progression behind rng and trade when we shouldnt have to rely on it.

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Zaethiel#9561 เขียน:

Whats the point of locking skills behind a currency exchange?
As a new player i want to use a skill but i cant because it wont drop and it costs 400 Exalted Orbs to buy a lvl 8 uncut spirit gem. Well, i guess i just cant afford to use skills in this game.
The venders should sell gems for gold and skills should not be currency.

Just skip lvl 8 spirit. Lvl 10 cost 1 ex.