Gem

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Gems are a type of item that either grants a skill (skill gem) or modifies a skill (support gem) when placed into a gem socket.

There are currently 50 different skill gems and 198 support gems in the game, for a total of 248.

Skill gems

Skill gems can be socketed in the skill panel to gain an active skill which can be assigned on the player's keybinds. Up to 9 skill gems can be bound simultaneously by default; items or passive skills may also grant additional skills.

Characters need to meet the skill gem's level and attribute requirements to be able to use it. Level and attribute requirements increase as a skill gem is leveled up.

When creating a skill gem using an uncut gem, it will be engraved at a gem level matching that of the uncut gem. Skill gems can be levelled up further using an Uncut Skill GemUncut Skill GemCreates a Skill Gem or Level an existing gem to Level #Right Click to engrave a Skill Gem. up to its maximum level, typically Level 20.

Spirit gems

Spirit gems can be socketed to gain access to skills that grant buffs, trigger other skills in some way or to summon permanent minions. These gems have a spirit cost which need to be reserved to gain their effect.

Spirit gems can be supported by support gems but this will cause the reservation cost to go up proportional to the support gems cost multiplier.

Similar to skill gems Characters need to meet the spirit gem's level and attribute requirements and sometimes weapon requirement to be able to use them.

Skills granted by spirit gems can be activated in the skill panel by right clicking the desired spirit gem.

Meta gems

Meta gems are skill or spirit gems with the meta tag which often have a support component and require other skill gems to be linked to it to function. These will often trigger other gems.
You can use multiple of them if you have enough spirit to satisfy their reservation costs.

Energy cost is another consideration for using multiple of these gems with multiple skills. Current Energy and Maximum Energy are separate for each Meta Gem [1], with each Cast On or Invocation Meta Gem having their own separate energy.

Cast On Meta Gems, like Cast On Shock, will trigger all socketed spells once maximum energy is reached, with the maximum energy determined by the base cast rate of all socketed spells.

Invocation Meta Gems, like Elemental Invocation, store energy to cast socketed spells multiple times based on the total energy stored. The amount of energy required to cast a spell once is based on the base cast rate of the socketed spell.

Support gems

Support gems can be socketed into individual skills; these modify the effects of the supported skill. Each gem is limited to two support slots at start, with up to three additional supports available via the use of Jeweller's Orbs.

The total number of support gems of each color are limited by the corresponding stat totals of the character, with 5 points of the stat allowing one support of that color.

  • Strength - Red
  • Dexterity - Green
  • Intelligence - Blue

For example, a character with 20 Strength, 40 Dexterity and 30 Intelligence would be able to use a total of 4 red, 8 green and 6 blue support gems.

Gemcutting

Main page: Gemcutting

Version history

Version Changes
0.1.0
  • Introduced to the game.