Why pay to shuffle cards with Nocturn

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Aside from the fun element of trying out a random build. Why do you have to pay 10 gems to do it? It doesn't appear as though you get any actual benefit from it, it's essentially paying for a handicap.

Is there some benefit that I don't know about here?

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There is some potential benefit in that it allows you to replace your signature with ANY standard arcana, thus sometimes enabling very powerful combos... but obviously, you don't choose what arcanas you get, so that usually defeats the point (since it's unlikely you'll get better synergy than with non-randomized builds), and in addition it also comes with the drawback of not being able to use your signature charge to cast arcanas (although some relics cancel that drawback by giving some other use to signature charge or by giving a powerful effect in exchange for the here redundant drawback of not being able to use it).

The reason why it costs gems, therefore, is not that it has the potential for a benefit. You are absolutely right that this is a handicap unless you're incredibly lucky. There actually isn't any good reason to make this cost gems.

However I'd say that there also isn't any reason not to, because gems become useless very quickly. It's not very hard to buy EVERY robe, relic and arcana in the game - it should take about 10 hours of gameplay. Once you've done it, gems lose most of their usefulness, especially since it's impossible to hold more than 999 at a time. So, the fact that you have to pay to get a random selection of arcanas isn't really a problem in the current version of the game. Once you've unlocked everything, you'll lose any gem you don't spend anyway, because you can't get over 999.

So, in the end, maybe one could say that this cost has a light use in that it encourages new players in NOT playing with random arcanas (since only new players can find gems to be precious). That's not a good enough reason though, because even if it was free, new players would still want to AVOID getting a randomized build, so that they have higher chances of actually progress in the game and gain gems. But even though there's no real reason for this matter of fact, for now I don't think it's too much of a problem.

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Ah I see. It makes sense to me, it just felt weird that I had to use gems to do it. I don't have much unlocked yet so I don't really want to use them on random builds just yet