Can we all agree on that the Daemonic Portal gem is the most useless, annoying, unnecessary special gem in the game so far?
Like really who thought this was a good idea to have even more luck based stuff in the game that makes fights even longer then needed? All that while a summoning glitch is still not fixed either. So the timing couldn’t be worse either.
Anyway if more see this as the most stupid special gem or got another contender feel free to reply with your thoughts.
I also want to throw in Mana Potions which extend a battle to an eternity, unless you have access to Freeze.
Entangle Gems would like a word. Used against a full team with no immunities, they do functionally nothing 75% of the time!
If there was not the bug that spawning will buff the AI than it wouldn’t even be close to the most annoying Mana Potions.
Since the cheating AI always try to kill you with skull matches raining in from outside the board on its turns Entangle gems are much more useful than other AI friendly gems.
Entangle gems may be useless but at least it doesn’t make battles way longer then needed or can turn the tide in favor of opponent. It’s not as annoying as the Daemonic Portal gems. They can even be matched for mana and to get rid of them.
Freeze doesn’t help that much since they also prolong the turns of the player way to much. Even after the enemy is already fully dead they go on forever.
most useless: Ghost Gems. as useless as Booty Gems, but supported with terrible troops with low % chance to even make one with traits. Bomb Gems are probably second, but more likely to be less useless at lower level ranges with gambling destroy spell effects…
most annoying: Mana Potions. strong effect, but needs a fast forward button.
most unnecessary: Lycanthropy Gems. Does nothing to improve the game quality of Gems of War, but makes it more annoying to play regardless of which team/troop gets transformed. Daemonic Portal Gems are a close second, only saved by not always being activated every match…
Imagine if Daemonic Portal gems could be matched with red gems…
I think that would get closer to beating lycanthropy gems. The horrors of the wolf campaign with the moon flask till haunt me to this day. It actually surprised me that they didn’t throw those gems in the game for the week of Halloween.
I’m glad they didn’t.
I don’t mind the Portal gems outside of PvP.
They’re annoying in Frenzy because of the bug that gives enemies giant stat buffs when they summon, but that’s a different issue.
Outside of PvP, they help the player more than the AI, since they summon level 1 troops. The player gets a lot of stats from kingdom and renown bonuses. The AI troops come in with such low stats that a light breeze can kill them.
The only one that I really loathe is the Lycanthropy Gems.
A special gem that summons level 1 troop can be of great use in PvE environment, especially in modes where you don’t have access to other summon spells/effects, such as pure faction delve.
For example, before arrival of daemon portal gem, I could not pass Hell Gate’s pure faction delve at level 350 (with hoard level 100 and kingdom level 17) for almost a year. Dozens of failed runs had convinced me pure Hell Gate delve was impossible (with hoard level 100, at least). Now, just one week after portal gem’s introduction, I’ve already passed pf run at level 450 and will start attempt level 500 tomorrow.
Played arena today (cus it’s arena weekend and one round through gets a free key, plus I need pets and arena offers sometimes include them), and was surprised to see summon gems appear. Annoyingly, so did doomskulls, making them a big danger, due to all troops being weak anyway. Meant I had to play a little smarter, but I did lose a troop and use them to summon a new one. Wasn’t needed, but it did make me realise that modes like arena actually make a lot of the useless hero gems a lot more useful or interesting. That level 1 summon can be a lot more impactful when you’re playing with low level troops yourself.
Beyond that, many of the gems are a waste of time, or actively annoying to see in battles.
I played arena this weekend for giggles, and the enemy summoned Wrath. Needless to say, a level 1 legendary troop can have quite an impact, and I barely survived.
It’s probably a glitch that troops higher than epic can be summoned in arena, but I will wait for a developer to confirm it.
How long will you wait? 
Maybe I will wait for a response in 2030, when this game is only being played by people paid by the developers, AI, and other botting software…
LOOK AT ALL OF THESE NUMBERS! THIS GAME IS SO SUCCESSFUL!
Why is there no one in the forums?