Diablo 3's gem upgrade is the same as Diablo II. Three gems of the same grade can be merged into the next grade. Players need a jeweler to upgrade their gems, unlike Chladik's box.
In addition, compared with Diablo 2, a big improvement is that you can stack the same type and grade of gems, with a maximum of 10 in each group, which greatly saves the backpack space. Players no longer need to use a lot of backpacks to store gems.
Gems of 1-5 grade can be played out, and the highest grade is 14 grade, so upgrading gems is a long-term and arduous project. If the upgrade ratio of 3= 1 has not changed, then you may need 1, 594,3231gem to upgrade to 14 (3 (14- 1)). You can imagine how long it will take. If you click to upgrade a gem every second, it will take ***664 hours to complete even if you keep clicking the mouse. Blizzard seems to have noticed one thing. At the beginning of 20 1 1, there is a blue sticker indicating that players can directly obtain gems above level 5 through missions or other means.
Unsettled gem
A key feature of diablo 3 is that gems (and other inlaid items) can be taken out of their slots by jewelers without worrying about the damage of the items or gems. You can't do this in Diablo 2 (although the cost of taking out high-grade gems may be higher and higher). Runes, gems and jewels are all set at once. This changes the basic operation of the upgrade process. Unless you pile up all your gems and upgrade them to the highest level for reuse (just like Diablo 2), Diablo 3' s characters will always use the highest level gems and get good effect rewards from them.
If the player's goal is to use 14 gem as a shield, he will gradually upgrade from 9, 10, 1 1 and then slowly reach 14. This will make the upgrade process look less long, especially for high-grade gems, which may take weeks or even months to complete.
Production and consumption of precious stones
From the explanation, it seems that craftsmen can make gems, which is a description from the common questions and answers of caravans: jewelers make gems, necklaces and rings. Jewelers can also take out gems from inlays and combine them to improve their quality.
It is not clear what the meaning of "making gems" means here, but if new gems can be made of materials, it is likely to completely change the time required to make a top gem.
Bashiok mentioned other functions of gems in Battle.net Forum in August, 20 10: "They have other uses besides inlaying, and gems are absorbed into the economic system. Could be manufacturing. We hope this is a place where you can visit craftsmen and use them to synthesize things. We don't want everyone to spend too much time. We don't want19,000 gems to be upgraded to 14 at one time. "