Suggestions about skill/spirit gems

Currently you get uncut skill/spirit gems according to certain breakpoints of the area you are in.

In my opinion this brings some problems with them.
In PoE 1 you where able to scale skill gems down if you accidentality overleveled them and are now lacking the stats to equip them


PoE2 solved a part of that issue with passive points having 3 different stat types to choose from. This is a good solution, but there is another problem, which lends to a rather unfun situation.


Let's say you got a spirit gem lvl 4, which is the minimum.

Now you level that spirit further up, but then you are above area lvl 15 and are no longer able to drop a low lvl 4 spirit gem.
So if you change gear and are already point starved, you end up not being able to use that gem because of stat requirements.

This is an issue which can lend to have to grind low level campaign areas for a spirit gem that you then can equip again. (or buy them from other players who sell them at stupid prices because of said breakpoint drops)


My suggestion would be to give us a vendor like in PoE 1 where we can buy the uncut gems at their lowest level. Spirit gems level 4 and skill gems from level 1.

I dont see the need to sell much higher level gems, since, atleast skill gems, drop enough later one and you have a surplus of them.

But for experimenting it is really punishing to rerun certain areas, just to get a gem to try something else.

Ive started alt characters just to get another level 4 uncut spirit gem.

Imo, it makes sense that we could downgrade our skills. RPG wise melee can swing with less effort, casters restrict mana used for spells, ranged draw back less on the bowstring... crossbows don't got an excuse for it though, they fire with the force they were built to fire.