I think the rune furmulals look great.

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I thought a formula to downgrade Runes and Gems would be a good idea. Too bad that it is probably too late for it to be added, if they didn't put it in.

The way I see it working, would be to cube a socketed item with an Exploding potion. The components of the socketed item are broken out, with any excess landing on the ground, i.e. doing this with a 2x4 item with 6 sockets occupied.

This would be great for recycling items that you socketed with lower level stuff, or socketed by accident.

At least one, and up to all, of the Runes and Gems that are released this way would be reduced a grade. In other words, a Perfect Gem would become Flawless, and an Eld Rune would become an El. A Chipped Gem or El Rune, if affected, would be destroyed.

The downgrade could be controlled, by only having one Rune or Gem in the socketed item.

Besides the practical use of this recipe, I like that it makes some kind of sense within the game physics. The other "logical" way to unsocket something would be to use a dagger-class weapon to "pry out" the Gem or Rune.

Finally, as far as Jewels are concerned, I suppose that it would be best if they were simply unaffected by the process.

-rcv-