Massive Gem Changes Coming to Diablo 4 Patch 2.0 - New Gem Tier, No More Max Life

Diablo IV Posted 2024/08/30 at 2:22 PM by Tharid

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Gem Changes

The drop quantity of Gem Fragments now increases as you ascend Difficulties.
New Gem Tier: Grand
- Requires 100,000 gem fragments to craft.
- Grand provides a 50% increase in power from the previous tier, Royal.
Some Gem effects have been reworked
- Ruby armor effect changed from % Max Life to + Strength.
- Amethyst armor effect changed from +Strength to +% Barrier Generation.
- Diamond armor effect changed from +% Barrier Generation to + All Stats.
Many Gem stat bonuses have been adjusted to better reflect Patch 2.0 numbers.
Gem stat updates, starting with Chipped, ending with Grand:
- Ruby (+ Strength), Emerald (+ Dexterity), Topaz (+ Intelligence), Sapphire (+ Willpower): +25/50/75/100/150.
- Amethyst (+% Barrier Generation): +2/4/6/8/12.
- Diamond (+ All Stats): +8/16/24/32/50.
- Skull (+% Healing Received): +4/6/8/10/15.

Comment by NotATrollGreat, so instead of slightly boosting our survivability (which is one of the most lacking points of most builds) we can now gain slightly more damage (which we already have enough that uber bosses are oneshot by day3 of the seasons)

Great change, yayComment by Aqium8the real question is will there be a gem section in bagsComment by thetsoniMore gem tiers is always good, and we already have the icons since Beta (up to Tier 8), so they could easily add 2 more Gem Tiers so we have more things to chase.Comment by JesusFreakTWthe real question is will there be a gem section in bagsComment by HranthaerGreat, so instead of slightly boosting our survivability (which is one of the most lacking points of most builds) we can now gain slightly more damage (which we already have enough that uber bosses are oneshot by day3 of the seasons)

Great change, yayComment by ShiedaI fear that the removal of max HP is going to both nerf all builds scaling with health AND create a weird hyper focus on infinite barrier builds. I always wanted to try a barrier build, but not at the cost of max HP.Comment by SleutelAaaand no change to the one ACTUAL gem problem, which is that every single thing you can gem in jewelry is something not only with a hard cap, but with a hard cap that you will already likely have hit without trying by the time you're doing endgame content.