Gemstone buff nerfed?

[red dirge]

Did the values for gemstone combo buffs (Commander, Paladin, etc.) get stealth nerfed for balance??

[lone raft]

It wasn’t in the patch notes, but Lemming was openly talking about it during maintenance. All combo bonuses did get brought back in line with bonuses that only boosted 1 thing, and the floor of all bonuses was raised to help compensate. Overall, it’s a net buff, but you will have trouble replacing those combo bonuses for now

[iron ore]

Gem bonuses got reworked to better balance the differences between the bonuses. This makes it so many of the combo bonuses will now be scaled to be closer to an equivalent All Damage bonus, and then all bonuses got scaled up in power a bit. Overall, this will mean that gemstones will be stronger on average, but if you previously had a "perfect gemstone", then it may be weaker in the short term until you raise your level a bit more.

[austere crown]

@iron ore accidentally accepted a new gemstone that was giving +45 Titan slayer damage to one that gives +24 Titan slayer damage (with the gem being a higher level). And now I’m hard locked from reaching my prestiging stage. Was this maybe an error?

[lone raft]

Nope. No error. This was part of the gem rebalance. Old gems and their bonuses maintained the old balance, but any new gems will have bonuses with the new balance, and this includes heavy nerfs to the overpowered combo bonuses like Titan Slayer. This is an intended change, you just made an unfortunately poor decision in swapping this bonus

[austere crown]

Thanks, that’s really unfortunate. I really wanted to go for more prestige’s, but now I’m stuck to only inactive to get back to 95% for the prestiging bonuses.