I mean keep in mind none of this has been proven through actual testing but the current design is that yeah, it's going to take a lot of lower level gems to reach the very highest high end. However, Bashiok came to the rescue, once more stating how impermanent systems are at the moment, how large the online player base will be (not to account for single player, though), and so forth:

Combining gems of different levels could result in a higher-grade gem.Īnd, of course, there's always the boring way it was done in Diablo II: combining three of the same grade of gem for a higher-grade gem of the same type.

Allow higher-end items to be salvaged for these higher-end gem grades.

Simply increasing the grade drop by one tier (from five to six) would decrease the number of required gems by more than half (19,683 to 6,561).

He came up with a few answers to why we may not have to worry, or solutions to what may be a daunting system (paraphrased: The concern that follows is not without merit, I'd say.

that comes to 19,683 level 5 gems of the same type to make just one level 14 Gem, assuming you get all gems of the same type.

Quote from Qayin »it takes 3 gems of each level to create one gem of the next level.

Torchlight 2 combine gems