This occult gem said "While you have three or more Growth and Decay Witch power equipped; you gain x8% primary core stat, 10% maximum Life, and Unhindered.
The bug is, this gem actually requires 4 Growth and Decay.
I wore 3 Growth and Decay witch power; Aura of Siphoning, Soul Harvest, Hex of Whispers - this gem didn’t work.
Then I add The Circle, now it works. So, it requires 4 Growth and Decays, not THREE OR MORE.
Edit: Now I know what’s the problem! Aura of Siphoning doesn’t count as Growth and Decay even it has this tag.
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My heart sank when I made this as my first gem and didn’t see the effect, but then I remembered not all effects will show while in town. Can you see if it activates for you with only 3 powers while out side of town? It looks like it turns on after I step outside. HOWEVER what you said is also true its weird, while in town, equipping 4 powers will activate it while still inside town lol
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I did some testing on this.
While in town I unequipped all witch powers and then slotted in a variety of combinations of GND powers. Friend of the Bog went active only with toad, whispers, and harvest.
I stepped out of town and then redid the test. The above stayed true and in addition the other 3 GND normal powers (augmentation, grow, siphoning) all activated the power
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Thanks everyone. I understand now. Aura works only out side of the town.
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The fact theres so many bugs around the witch powers is absolutely ridiculous. How you gonna drop time gated content and 90% of it has issues and think your player base isnt gonna be furious. Maybe hire new devs and fire some incompetent ones? Just a thought.
For reference on what im speaking about friend of bog doesnt work with voice of the stars even tho it absolutely should since your ultimate skill should get the growth and decay tag.
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But even with that gem, your Ultimate is not a power per se, so it doesn’t count as a power. It only counts as an Witchcraft effect when it’s used, and triggers some Witch powers that way through the tags it obtains.
Otherwise, it would become the ultimate gem as it would pretty much make it possible to easily use two other stronger gems that require 3 powers each.
Edit : I agree though that there’s a lot of confusing tooltips and lots of bugs. Should have been tested, but it’s Blizzard. We’re the testers.
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Yah the other ones i tried didnt show any noticeable difference either. Like purging touch i was doing the same dps even tho it was maxed and should make the ult hit harder but didnt so i figured oh it gets the tag so you can strategies on 2 then have your ult as the last tag but nope didnt work either. But i mean what did i expect when theyve already had to disable like 4 powers to fix em. Oh well waste of mats guess ill just use something else and hope that actually functions like it should lol.
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Yeah, it’s ridiculous. You work your way towards a power, or group of powers, and a particular supporting legendary gem, and then it gets deactivated once you do, leaving you with pretty much nothing, or it doesn’t work as you thought it would as the tooltips aren’t that great.
They really should hire more QA testers. They have more people in their art department pumping new cosmetics for the BP than they have testers and coders doing gameplay related tasks.
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100% agree with everything you said. Part that annoys me is its gonna take like 10 hours to get all those gem fragments back. I wasted like 300k total just making the stupid gem. 
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I mean, the gem is pretty neat if you use your ultimate on a 100% uptime and need some Witchcraft specific effects, or if you use one of the high damage ultimate (in which case the 10% [ x ] damage increase is nice).
If you only needed it to trigger two other gems power (or wasted ressources to make those two legendary/rare gems), yeah, it’s kind of lost. I don’t think we can get the components back if we destroy the occult gems through the jewelers. Not sure I want to try. We may get the gems fragment back, but lose the heads. Who knows.
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Lol yah figured id just hold on to em just in case for another character or a different build dont wanna chance that either. Really sucks tho cuz it was my first gem combo attempt so im stuck with em till i can make new ones. Not like i need em tho im clearing t4 no problem and already beat the uber bosses like 100 times. Also the mythic drop rate suuuuucks lmfao 
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Still broken on console as well (ps5).
Ugh and they just came out with an update too, but there’s no mention of this problem in the patch notes…
still a issue BUMP
should reduce to 3 !!
i have the cycle, aura of siphon, hex of whisp, aura spec, soul harvest, hex special… the gem is not active with 4 “growth and decay”
does cornucopia work also ? dont have the heads to craft and test
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