If you want threshold jewels to help these skills get to actual endgame, then they might need to be worth 5 points to be considered worth it).

So, what is 4 points? 20% life? 50-60% damage? That's a lot of stats that a new jewel has to give (and this is for a 3mod jewel only. Threshold Jewels would then need to be good enough to spend at least 4 points on (because you'll probably need at least 1 extra point for meeting the attribute threshold). That means a jewel is equal to about 3 nodes. A decent end game jewel gives about 5%hp, and roughly 25% damage (or att/cast speed). or you could add another effect that can help make up for the lost jewel socket. This could be achieved by simply increasing their base effects (like, +20% projectile speed instead of 10%, +20% phys damage instead of 12%, etc). There is no point in making the skills work better for leveling/end game if you can't even get them while you're trying to level a new character.Īlso, just to reiterate, the jewels need to be strong(er). Basically, I think that it would be a good idea to modify the base effect of the skills (which is probably happening already, and we just haven't been explicitly told yet), and also keep the threshold jewels in game as long as they are easily attainable (Act 1 quest reward, easy vendor recipe (skill gem + any jewel), etc).

I agree with a lot of what has been said, but also disagree with some.

Path of exile wiki threshold jewels