Once or twice a year I’ll jump back into diablo 3 for 1 or 2 seasons. I usually get a gut wrenching feeling after a few days of playing because the process of leveling gems is disgusting. I’m posting in hopes of a change (obviously not going to happen because the game is 8 years old). It would be absolutely fantastic to see some kind of experienced based leveling system for gems.
Eg: You do a grift 80 with a lvl 1 gem and it’s lvl 40 after the grift is complete (If completed in time). Same level 80 grift with a lvl 70-80 gem would level much slower.
If the gem leveling system was more tolerable, people like me (I would guess there’s a lot) would stay in the season for longer. After a few dozen grifts it starts to feel disgusting at the thought of doing a few hundred more just for augments.
I also think it would lessen the chance of people resorting to botting. It’s very appealing to have a bot spam mundane content for hours on end. Its a terrible system when leveling a gem from 1-5 is the same as leveling it from 95-100 (if your grift clears are fast). A change would be a huuuuge QoL improvement.