Update 241 - Gem sockets for weapons!

Hi all,

Weapons can finally get a Status Effect bonus by adding gems to them.

• Weapons have the same nuber of Gem sockets as Marble sockets.
• You need Survivor Level 2 or higher to access the gem enhancement screen. It's opened via a button on the marble enhancement screen.
• Every weapon will have a single gem type that is used for upgrades. This is automatically shown when you open the gem enhancement screen. E.g. the Dragon Staff requires rubies.
• Gems have to be crafted via Gem Cutting (Mobrik in the Workshop). The chance for marbles and gems have been increased and the chance for dust lowered.
• Every gem type has 5 variations: dull, flawed, normal, flawless and perfect. They all have the same chance of appearing during Gem Cutting.
• Workshop recipes require perfect gems. The amount has been divided by 5, e.g. a recipe that required 10 of the old gems now requires only 2 perfect gems.
• Outside of the Stash, the gem enhancement total is not visible on the weapon's icon. We will make it more visible in future updates.
• Gems in your Stash will be migrated to the new gem types. Since there are 5 variations per gem type, all gems will be divided by 5 and equally distributed across the variations. E.g. if you have 8 sapphires, it will be rounded up to 10 and turned into 2 dull, 2 flawed, 2 normal, 2 flawless and 2 perfect sapphires.
• In the Stash we added a filter button to show the gems. You can sell them and the prices vary from 10 for a dull gem, to 200 for a perfect gem.
• The boss in the Boot Camp mission sometimes did not spawn. This was due to the maximum number of enemies being active, which has been fixed.

Tips:

• Generally, Status Effect damage is much lower than Magical/Physical damage. So marbles remain the most important way of upgrading your weapons.
• Status effects do damage over time and some effects can cancel out others, e.g. oil fire cancels fire.
• Gems are harder to come by and rubies are only craftable from Survivor Level 5.

Have fun enhancing your weapons with status effects!

Till later,

André