Why gate the new gems behind lab?

You can easily negate traps by putting a bit of life regen. For example, use vitality, stone golem, immortal flesh (unique belt with about 100-300 regen) and even a couple of items with 50+ life regen would add up.

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DarkenX wrote:

I've always gone with this mindset, and the Lab always ruins the fun for an entire day of play. It's antiquated and unfun, promoting a "get enough health and defenses to ignore traps or die" playstyle.

In the end, always better to just ignore Lab until you can pay someone to run you through them all back to back, just to get it over with.

I'm sorry that they put these alternate gems in lab. I'm aware that people hate running lab and now they have to do it even more...

It seems they decided "let's just remove lab enchantments lol" but didn't want to leave the divine font unused so this is their not-exactly-perfect solution.

i disliked lab even on my RF jugg that can AFK on the traps..its just so slow and unfun to do.

I guess I will wait and see how hard it is to get the trans gems before I complain.

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Orbitalx wrote:

I guess I will wait and see how hard it is to get the trans gems before I complain.

To me its not about how hard it is to get them, just how freaking annoying it is to get them (so to do labyrinth runs)

Theres no worse game mechanic in the entire path of exile game than labyrinth, they should just delete it and let us have some other way to get ascendancy points and now the new gems

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Lyutsifer665 wrote:

i disliked lab even on my RF jugg that can AFK on the traps..its just so slow and unfun to do.

it's slow because you're rf jugg... lab takes like 3 mins on my toxic rain pf, and the build isn't even optimized for lab at all

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auspexa wrote:

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Lyutsifer665 wrote:

i disliked lab even on my RF jugg that can AFK on the traps..its just so slow and unfun to do.

it's slow because you're rf jugg... lab takes like 3 mins on my toxic rain pf, and the build isn't even optimized for lab at all

no it was slow on all my builds but i dont play ranger class so maybe thats why. i know ranger is faster

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anti4z500 wrote:

but to get a gem you want its not hard or that bad. every labs gets a random chance and 4 lab got guarantee to transform a gem you want

You suggest to interact with the lab mechanics. He suggests NOT to interract with lab mechanics, just buy the neccessary gem on the market, because "everyone"(c) hate the lab and when you play on trade league you don't need to worry about the traps and beating Izaro. Ez game.

There are quite a few mechanics in the game that I dislike and choose to buy the mechanic specific things rather than do the mechanic. Blight, Expedition and non-Elder Ubers being the primary things where I buy rather than torture myself with a mechanic I don't like.

For some, that mechanic is lab. The market is there to augment areas that you don't feel like or want to do. And it's also part of the gameplay.

So, the point about buying it if you don't like the lab is quite relevant, and not unique to the lab. I have no issues with the lab and intend to run it to get what I want from it.

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Lyutsifer665 wrote:

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auspexa wrote:

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Lyutsifer665 wrote:

i disliked lab even on my RF jugg that can AFK on the traps..its just so slow and unfun to do.

it's slow because you're rf jugg... lab takes like 3 mins on my toxic rain pf, and the build isn't even optimized for lab at all

no it was slow on all my builds but i dont play ranger class so maybe thats why. i know ranger is faster

I can't see your builds but other classes can also be fast with shield charge if you have some attack speed from like onslaught and haste. My elementalist and necro were also pretty fast in lab

why gate the gems behind grand heist