I apologize if this was mentioned, I did a search and looked on the wiki but couldn't find anything. Are gems like runestones where they can be plucked out of gear to be placed somewhere else and if you do replace it with something does it get destroyed, like the Wow gems?
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I apologize if this was mentioned, I did a search and looked on the wiki but couldn't find anything. Are gems like runestones where they can be plucked out of gear to be placed somewhere else and if you do replace it with something does it get destroyed, like the Wow gems?
you can now take gems out. You may need the jewler to do so (i think)
Unsocketing Gem
One key fact to consider is that in Diablo III, gems (and other socketables) can be removed from sockets, by the Jeweler, without losing the gem or the item. (Though this may grow quite expensive[6] with higher level gems.) This was not the case in Diablo II, where runes, gems, and jewels were in an item forever, or were destroyed by the unsocket recipe. This change fundamentally alters the upgrading project, since instead of gems sitting useless in your stash until they are all the way to the top level (as they did in Diablo 2), characters in Diablo III will be using their highest level gems all the time, and gaining considerable benefits from the gem.
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