Apologies if this has been said before!
I would very much like a change to where gemstones are stored in your materials page like everything else AND players had the ability to pull any materials to their inventory for trade if desired.
This ties into the topic of ‘it takes a lot of gold to upgrade your stuff’. What I ended up doing was to clear out my inventory of gemstones and stop picking them up because they would take up about a quarter of my inventory and are worth so little. This allowed for more loot to be held and less frequent or only one trip to town per dungeon plow.
I had plenty enough gems for all intended socketing jobs anyway. I would have made higher quality ones, but it seems crude to chipped is all we were allowed to do in the beta.