Are Clams worth empowering for?

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Meglobob said:

I believe clams etc were already nerfed from Dom2 to Dom3, by increasing the gem cost.

They have infact already been nerfed so far they are hardly recognizable, originally they took 2w and 10 gems, now it's 20 gems and 3w1n. The only times I have ever forge clams in dom3 is in the few cases where I have mage with the combo, and need astral so badly that I would otherwise end up alchimizing for it.

It's probably possible to eventually get a decent clam income going, but any game that is not perpetuality style is quite unlikely to still be in doubt past turn 100. And further, if I was going to be worried about a hoarding item, the blood stone is far deadlier as things stand.

So, I think the current nerf was probably a good thing, but people are paraniod to still be seriously afaid of clamming in 99% of cases, considering even at the crazy dom2 settings it was hardly unbeatable.