Considering Monster gems being so much rarer to regular gems they really should be able to level up at least once even if it gave no stats so you can remove them and put them in other pieces of equipment. at its current state you lose the gem if you remove it which I feel limits their usability. and even when you got your earth tower gear and such. when more content is released your end up having to destroy it or sell it when it comes to stronger equipment being released
First of all, why would you put a monster gem in a low level item ?? If don’t, then you don’t have to remove it.
Second, do you want the gem to give more than +1 level to a skill, do you know how powerfull some skills are with only 1 level more ?
Able to remove them from eq without loose the gem, maybe. Level up them, just no…
Level up to 2 with no stat improvements, so you can extract it from equip and just lose a lvl instead of losing the gem.
This seems to be OPs idea.
I think they prevented that so it wont be tradable
I think they should just make it so you can use TP or a lot of silver (like 500k for example) to buy an item to remove monster gem safely from equipment
Then make it so when an equipment has a monster gem equipped, it becomes untradable
I apologize I think I made the title a bit misleading . they should not be able to get any stats boosts when levelled up just so you can remove them. even if it had a much higher amount of exp needed to get it to such a point I just feel they should be reusable much like other gems .
if not something like yaladilae’s idea would work too just some sort of reusable use for them