Can we get a confirmation on if malachite and jasper count as empower?
From the testing me and others have done, it seems like only malachite and jasper are treated like empower. These gems are useless for some builds, as those already are at empower cap.
Here is a video detailing these findings: Does Weapon Gems Count Toward Empower Cap In New World - YouTube
Question is why others do not count?
why it should be? what is the sense of these gems then?
I’m not saying they should be. I want jasper and malachite to be treated like the other gems.
Couse reason to have cap is to controll builds max potential. If you keep adding new sources exdenting max dmg that have no cap, you controll nothing and game becomes more and more unballanced.
Well, at this moment most muskets and bows and othes use elemental gems, which convert 100% of dmg into 50%/50% for example, so if you make all gems works like that (specially opal) you just gonna punish close melee fighters, not current meta anyway… so ??
I dont care who will be punished. If you dont cap most sources - all outside weapon skill tree - you lose control. Look musket as example.
You’re wrong.
Maybe im wrong. But my solution allows to add new sources od dmg or dmg scalling to the game and be sure we wont break balance once we get it perfect.
Solution NW now has require constant adjustment and sm1 has to rememer all weapons and all sources of dmg increase to adjust them when others are added/remoed/adjusted. Its a mess and cant be done. By chosing it you chose to have unbalanced comabt system all the time except times just after “balance patches”. Think about NW balance issues and patches and when they got bigger and when smaller and you will see im right.
malachite isn’t empower.
but jasper is
bc jasper has the effect, that your character receives a buff (also shown on the buffbar) for 15% increased dmg. so when your character receives a buff, that is shown on the buffbar, it’s ALWAYS empower.
that’s why Jasper is Empower and other Gems aren’t.
in the video, the root must have expired before the light attack hit, bc i know for a fact, that malachite isn’t empower.
Fusion Thunder had many, almost in every video, bad testing and flawed results, so i don’t recommend the channel, when you’re looking for precise results.
That’s why i never cklick on his videos, at least good to see that nothing has changed, so i can keep avoiding them 
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