are they keeping the gem system for skills?

[RobeRonin]

any one know if all the skills are still done through gems?i kinda hated the system in pow 1!

[KoV]

Yes but they overhauled it
Gemslotting is easier and better
But no duplicate support gems allowed

Sockets in gear are now for Runes

[FloRyu]

The gem system is reworked , different window,no longer tided to gear like in poe 1 , they added some sockets to gear but it's like runes from D2
I highly recommend watching some of this https://youtu.be/ZpIbaTXJD4g?t=591

[RobeRonin]

aw thanks that's a shame!

[Illumina]

Gems don't go in your armor anymore, they go straight into your character.

[feNo]

Best change imo. Crafting sockets, links and colours was a chore. Making 6link and then dropping better armor to doing sockets and links all over again was a pain in the a**

[DeadlyKitten]

Originally posted by RobeRonin:

aw thanks that's a shame!

Its thankfully not.
They added a rune system now.
Where it's easy to make slots in the gear if you scrap an item you dont want that has sockets.
In turn you get the orb that creates sockets on an item.
And you can have up to 3 implicits [Sockets] on an armor piece.
This is basically what the Searing and Eldritch orbs did.
But now i'm a bit concerned they removed them and there's no more over the top and crazy monster density.
I loved having hundreds of enemies on screen and exploding them XD.

[RobeRonin]

Originally posted by DeadlyKitten:

Originally posted by RobeRonin:

aw thanks that's a shame!

Its thankfully not.
They added a rune system now.
Where it's easy to make slots in the gear if you scrap an item you dont want that has sockets.
In turn you get the orb that creates sockets on an item.
And you can have up to 3 implicits [Sockets] on an armor piece.
This is basically what the Searing and Eldritch orbs did.
But now i'm a bit concerned they removed them and there's no more over the top and crazy monster density.
I loved having hundreds of enemies on screen and exploding them XD.

i cant stand exploding pointless mobs on a screen i only paid attention because i heard they where trying to make interesting world building and encounters and game play this time rather then a mindless spam clicker !

[DeadlyKitten]

Originally posted by RobeRonin:

Originally posted by DeadlyKitten:

Its thankfully not.
They added a rune system now.
Where it's easy to make slots in the gear if you scrap an item you dont want that has sockets.
In turn you get the orb that creates sockets on an item.
And you can have up to 3 implicits [Sockets] on an armor piece.
This is basically what the Searing and Eldritch orbs did.
But now i'm a bit concerned they removed them and there's no more over the top and crazy monster density.
I loved having hundreds of enemies on screen and exploding them XD.

i cant stand exploding pointless mobs on a screen i only paid attention because i heard they where trying to make interesting world building and encounters and game play this time rather then a mindless spam clicker !

Have you seen the gameplay in the showcase?
People can definitely make crazy builds like in POE1.
Just a matter of figuring things out and we're back to 1 skill spamming.
But now it's way easier to get 6 link skills, so there's a possibility of getting up to 3 overpowered skills in one build, just have to sort out the support gems since you can only have one of each in the socket tab.