Please make uncut skill & spirit gems downward compatible like support gems

I can use a lvl 3 uncut support gem to create a lvl 1 or 2 support gem but I can't use a lvl 15 uncut skill gem to make a lvl 1 skill.

Given there is no way to de-level gems either, the alternative is to go farm low level areas which is very boring (and at low levels uncut gem drops are not that common).

Solution - a lvl X uncut gem should allow us to engrave a skill/buff all the way from 1 to X.

p.s: I find it funny that this is not possible, but you can use a T3 support on a level 1 character because those gems have no level reqirement.

What is the use case for creating a low-level skill? The gem system was reworked the way it was kinda specifically because the use cases for keeping skills low level in PoE1 are unintuitive and bad. So far as I am aware, mana cost does not increase with skill level, and that's the only thing I can think of where a lower-level gem might be beneficial.

If mana cost does go up and you are attempting to create a low-level skill to act as a trigger/carrier for a much higher-level ability via some manner of Cast on [X] set-up, I would be very cautious. That playstyle has already received a powerful nerf just very recently, and it is unlikely to be un-nerfed.

I think this was intended. You only need lower level stuff if you are making a new character but you'll get them as you level, can farm bosses to get more.

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1453R#7804 schrieb:

What is the use case for creating a low-level skill?

Re-using a buff/skill on an alt.
Using the skill at lower mana cost.
Using the skill at lower attribute requirements.

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MidnightDuske#8067 schrieb:

I think this was intended. You only need lower level stuff if you are making a new character but you'll get them as you level, can farm bosses to get more.

For a game focused around content after the story line, and story line being just a segue into endgame, this is just bad design.
You want to make the story line after the first character as smooth as possible. On that smoothness depends whether the player will replay the game on more characters.

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1453R#7804 schrieb:

What is the use case for creating a low-level skill?

to prevent form bricking a skill gem when your stats change you you no longer can afford your 6L 20quant main skill ? and how you don't know that mana goes through the roof here is weird

If you're a str char ie like a warrior and finish azak bog get your second spirit hit and want to add a second herald you dont have the int or dex for ice or thunder so you need a lower level gem - ie like the rarest of the rare, a level 4 gem from the end of freythorn.

I think its valid, you should be able to click on a level 9 and select level 8, 7, 6, etc being able to do this is not going to change ANYONES gameplay. It's not like he's asking GGG to create armor that's going to teleport you round the map so fast you can clear it in 6 seconds... OH WAIT THAT ALREADY EXISTS so why the beef when he's just asking for a small gem alt?