-Activate Gem?-

Does anyone know what this does?
(Its the little button between the scroll bars in the World Editor)

It's just for fun. Delete a unit and watch it die. Click too much on a unit and get an annoyed response.

Then what dose it do in diablo 2?

In D2, I've hard rumors that there is a gem shrine in the game, I don't believe it. I think it is useless on d2.

If you click on the 'Gem Shrine' (D2) and carry a gem with you (Ruby, saphire etc.) it will upgrade itself in a higher form. (Like putting 3 gems in the cube)

for thpse who dont know: ith in the bottem right corner of the world editor, when u click on it (its green) and when it is active, when u delete a unit, it plays the death animation.

Hah, oh! Cool... Gotta use that (Umm, gotta use that A LOT!).

When you place a unit while the gem is active it plays its ready sound. For example if you place a footman it says: "Ready for action!"
Sometimes (!) when you select a unit while the gem is on it plays its 'what' sound.

lol it can be a pain: if you move you vew away fro ma unit whule it is playing its death animation, the unti will stay alive till you finish watching the animation.

Yeah so? Everyone pretty much knows that, that has nothing to do with the Gem Shrine. Anyways, back on topic to WAR3. Earth-Fury is right.

We tested it in D2 and it does create a gem shrine. If you click on it enough time its will say something other than gem active (quality gem active if we remember correctly). If you host a game while its activated like that a gem shrine will apear somewhere in that game. If u want to try it go ahead but be warned...it may take a long time for it to activate. Sometimes over 1/2 hour or more. Its not realy worth the effort in our oppinion but it will work. Never seen it upgrade a gem b4.

Clicking the gem in diablo 2 does Nothing. Nothing.
After clicking it a few hundred times, you will see a
'Perfect Gem Activated' message.
This does Nothing. Nothing.
Click it a few hundred more times, and you'll get
'Mooooo!' or somesuch. This too does Nothing.

Gem Shrines are randomly generated in-game just like all other shrines, even if they are a bit more rare than most. Clicking the gem does Nothing to improve the chances.

Well it wasnt a conclusive test however in three times we got a perfect gem to show up we also found a gem shrine in each of those games. With the expantion gems are dime a dozen anyway so true or not its still not worth the time

From what I remember there is always 1 gem shrine in each act, just in a random spot. I don't know if it's true or not, but it makes sence, since each act is huge.