Gear Improvement : Gems

 Once you have fortified your gear enough to open up gem sockets, you may want to put some gems in to increase your stats even more. 

Getting gems

There are a variety of ways to get free gems in the game:

• Glistening Lowlands (GL)
• Prayer
• Guild base quests - your first envelope each day will give you a gem box
• Check-in quest
• Attendance box
• Guild chest
• God's trial mini-bosses (random showing)
• Dedication rewards in Shylia Market
• Glory rewards in Shylia Market
• Achievement rewards via Masha
• Eyrda Rewards (Forsaken World webpage under Community tab)
• Token Shop (Forsaken World webpage under Community tab)
• Trading with players
• Turn in Jade Gold to Lawrence (each guild base quest envelope gives you a number of jade gold based on your gem collection level and you get jade gold from GL - you do need to have learned gem collection from Lawrence to get the jade gold. You need to have 300 fealty to get your level 1 skill and you level up the skill by collecting more fealty)

Choosing Gems

Each piece of gear can be fortified to open a total of four gem sockets.
Each socket will take any level gem.
Each socket in a piece of gear must contain a different type of gem. 

Because you will have a limited number of sockets and some gems can only go into specific pieces, you will need to choose carefully what gems you will use where.
Another thing to keep in mind is that some of these stats can be picked up through the vice/virtue tree, so if you only need a little, you might just want to pick it up there and save the socket for something more useful.

Solarflare I

Embeddable into all gear
Embedding Effect: +10 Defense

Azurecloud I

Embeddable into all gear
Embedding Effect: +150 Mana

Bloodstone I

Embeddable into all gear
Embedding Effect: +150 Health

Ragefire I

Embeddable into all gear
Embedding Effect: +30 Attack

 

Eagle-Eye I

Embeddable into: Weapon, Hands, Shoulders, Head
Embedding Effect: +6 Accuracy

Shattershard I

Embeddable into: Weapon, Hands, Shoulders, Head
Embedding Effect: +5% Crit Damage

Mistshroud I

Embeddable into: Chest, Waist, Legs, Feet
Embedding Effect: +3 Evasion

Crystalline I

Embeddable into: Chest, Waist, Legs, Feet
Embedding Effect: +5% Crit Defense

Twilight I

Embeddable into: Chest, Feet
Embedding Effect: +1% Crit Dodge

Goldspark I

Embeddable into: Weapon, Head
Embedding Effect: +1% Crit Chance

The most exclusive and elusive gems are goldspark and twilight. Pretty much everyone could use goldspark, so plan to have a socket in your weapon and head reserved for this gem.

A good way to plan for gems is to take the following diagram that shows all the potential gems for each piece of gear:

 ...cross off the ones that you know you will NOT want and circle the ones you DO want...

 ...and then choose from the remaining gems for each piece.

As you can see, this makes it obvious for certain pieces what you want to choose - the chest and waist are left with only 4 gems after crossing off the ones that I don't want, so I know that these will be the four that will eventually be in these pieces for me. If I know that I will only want 2 solarflare altogether, then I can cross the remaining solarflare off the other pieces of gear, making my choices for these pieces even easier.

Combining Gems

 Chroma

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