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Finally! Sucks the new ones are BoE World drops gonna be expensive for a while.

As long as this isn't "Exactly" three red gems equipped, we're talking awesomeness.

I was saving a Chaotic for this change, now I will just use the Reverberating instead, better sell the Chaotic before it becomes useless.

It would certainly be more powerful with the requirement being "minimum of three", but "exactly 3" would certainly make the gemming metagame much more interesting - you'd have to choose between the best metagem + socket bonuses vs. a decent metagem + all primary stat gems. And the balance might change as you get new gear, forcing you to balance costs vs. benefits of upgrading, including the risk of having to change back...

Anything that would liven gemming up is good, in my mind - it's oversimplified for so many classes with Intellect being red and gemming for primary stats so overpowered.

It seems to me they're walking a fine line.

On one hand I'm sympathetic to the argument that having a complicated spreadsheet just to gem is making the game unfriendly to casuals. On the other hand they have definitely pushed some of these decisions fairly far into the 'no-brainer' category. When you're left with a situation where you'll gem intellect unless you have a large intellect socket bonus, it kind of makes you wonder why have gems at all? The only thing that is coming to me at the moment would be having slots for something like a resilience gem in a PvP set.

Then again, since you can't change any primary stat, reforging seems to be where the interesting decisions are being made these days. You could argue the easy way to 'fix' gemming at this point would be to remove primary stat gems; but then that'd make it a little redundant.

TL:DR = Gemming is starting to feel like the unwanted older step-brother of reforging at the moment.