However, enemy health and damage also skyrockets, so the deeper you go, the longer it takes to clear. The chance for a successful upgrade of your gem increases the deeper you go into GRs. The way Legendary gem upgrades work on the PTR right now, you don't spawn the upgrade vendor until you fail to complete a Greater Rift before the timer runs out. Or: I am just doing it completly wrong and in a very inefficient way. I'm not even thinking about casuals trying to achieve that with a seasonal character. I understand that upgrading Legendary Gems should be endgame and challenging, but it just seems not really motivating for casual players. Lets say (as I am casual) I can get 5 hours a week playtime, that means 10 weeks (over 2 month) to get a gem upgraded to Rank 50 Since D3 Vanilla release I may have 500 hours in total play time. To get to level 50, that means 50 hours of playtime.

1 hour of gameplay time for 1 level upgrade for 1 gem. Step 2: Trial Rift (5 minutes), 3 Rift Runs (20 minutes) + 1 failure (15 minutes) = 40 minutesĪll in all: approx. Step 1: From loggin into a game until boss is killed: 5-7 minutes (times 3 = 15 - 21 minutes) Step 3: NPC spawns (does he always spawn) and get 1 Level (!!!) upgrade on 1 Gem. Step 2: Upgrade GR Key to a level where I can still beat the boss after failing. Step 1: Do 'normal' rift on highest possible difficulty (T5) to obtain a GR Key -> I did three rifts on T5 solo and did not receive a GR Key. Please note that I tried to do solo (non seasonal char) as I dont have to much time available and searching and finding a decent group on PTR seems to be too timeconsuming: So I hope you guys can help me out and improve my way of doing it. I spent some time on PTR again as I wanted to get used to the current system of 'upgrading gems'.Įither I am not too experienced or just doing it wrong, but it seems to be a very timeconsuming/frustrating thing. Last updated at 14:00:17 UTC Weekly Help Desk RAGE Loot Thread Trade Thread

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