Come on, now what?

PTR is back up and running. Can no longer put legendary gems into armor - but can’t put Flawless Royal gems, either…

I think I’ll just go do laundry and mow the yard instead.

I’m able to socket Flawless Royal Gems without an issue.

Perhaps it was bugged but now fixed.

Were these gems from the PTR caches?

Were these gems that you upgraded, i.e. not from PTR caches?

They were from the caches, but it is working atm. I’m gonna take a shot in the dark and guess that:

A) OOOPS, they never intended for the legendary gems in the caches to be inserted in sockets, but they were.

B) OOOPS, when they fixed that issue, so the legendary gems couldn’t be inserted in sockets, that fix ‘flagged’ the Flawless Royal gems from the caches as well.

C) They caught their overfix and rectified the issue.

The legendary gems in the cache were probably flagged as special, that is why duplicate legendary gems were dropping in GR’s. Be that as it may, seems to be fixed.

They were from the PTR caches. (I haven’t collected enough the natural way to combine them all the way up to Flawless Royal.)