I'm new to these forums, so my apologies if I've missed recent threads on this on this topic.
Has there been any news in the past few months regarding their finalized plans with gems and socketing? The last I heard of gems they were still discussing the various types/tiers. And as far as socketing in general goes, has there been any discussion of mechanics similar to runewords from D2? Now that runes are equipped to skills, does that leaves gems as the only socketable item for equipment?
Thanks for catching me up on what I've probably just missed in trying to keep up news.
I was hoping for some gem/socketing info from the press event but no go, only change that has happened with gems that I'm aware of is that Bashiok stated that gems a couple of levels beyond level 5 will drop.
Yes gems are the only thing that can be socketed into weapons, and as far as I know the only recent update was an offhand one about elemental damage on items. Which is that it doesn't come from gems it can only appear natively on the item. This was in the original Aug. 1st posting: http://www.diablofans.com/topic/26249-diablo-3-press-event-visit/
I'm new to these forums, so my apologies if I've missed recent threads on this on this topic.
Has there been any news in the past few months regarding their finalized plans with gems and socketing? The last I heard of gems they were still discussing the various types/tiers. And as far as socketing in general goes, has there been any discussion of mechanics similar to runewords from D2? Now that runes are equipped to skills, does that leaves gems as the only socketable item for equipment?
Thanks for catching me up on what I've probably just missed in trying to keep up news.
I was hoping for some gem/socketing info from the press event but no go, only change that has happened with gems that I'm aware of is that Bashiok stated that gems a couple of levels beyond level 5 will drop.
http://www.diablofans.com/topic/26249-diablo-3-press-event-visit/
All known gem info can be found in this concise article:
http://www.diablowiki.com/Gems