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  • Every Blazon Of Gemstone In New Globe And What They're Good For

You will commencement thinking about attaching gems to your armor and weapons when you hit level 20 and beyond, and kickoff picking upwards Tier 3 gear. These will likely have gem slots available. Gems are essential if you lot want to refine your build, and yous will need this mostly for endgame PvP and PvE.

New World has a robust crafting and harvesting system that means getting your hands on good gems volition require skills in other areas. This guide covers every jewel in New Globe, how to go them, and how to brand the most of them on your weapons and armor.

Updated December 31, 2021: If y'all're withal desperately searching for all the best gems you tin can acquire in New World, nosotros've got you lot covered. This article has been updated with a handy video guide to further illustrate how gems work and where you tin become them.

How To Find Gems In New Earth

New World Iron Ore

Gems are plant in a few different ways. There are two key methods to getting lots of gems early on: increment your mining skill (and meliorate your mining luck) and subcontract the first expedition, the Amrine Temple.

  • Gems have a chance to drop when yous mine any ore, that is, Iron, Argent, Gold, Platinum, Starmetal, and Orichalcum.
  • Farming the Amrine Temple Expedition is a great way to get lots of gems from around level 23 onwards. It's worth running through the dungeon at least a couple of times. This is a good method even if you're a high level. It's easy to run and new players will e'er receive ii keys past playing the game - but wait for that LFG to announced in the conversation.

You lot tin can improve your mining luck by equipping a Miner'south Charm, crafting a pickaxe with an increased luck chance, or consuming luck meals. Some early game mining luck food includes:

  • Roasted Potatoes - 1 ten Peppercorn, 1 x Butter, 1 x Potato.
  • Herb-Roasted Potatoes - 1 x Cinnamon, 1 x Butter, ane ten Dear, 1 ten White potato.

These provide mining luck buffs between 24-30 minutes. Caput out on your Fe ore mining route, or your Silver ore mining route, and become hunting for gems.

Refining Your Gemstones

new world stonecutting

Earlier they tin can be attached to your gear, you need to refine the gems at the Stonecutting tabular array. Thankfully, y'all tin do this from level 0 in Stonecutting, although you will need a higher level to access higher-tier gems.

  • To craft a Cut gemstone you volition demand a unmarried Raw Gemstone and a corresponding essence mote. This could be world, fire, air, etc.
  • Motes are nerveless via certain plants available at level l harvesting, or via ore veins that require level l in mining. You might also stumble across a few rare creature spawns (like the Life Moth) or observe motes within Alchemy chests.

In that location are four tiers of Gemstones in New World: Flawed Cut Gemstone (nil skill requirements), Cutting Gemstone (50 skill), Cut Vivid Gemstone (100 skill), and Cut Pristine Gemstone (150 skill.)

You can discover out more in our consummate Jewelcrafting guide.

How To Attach Gemstones In New Globe

Attaching Gemstones to your items is super piece of cake. You simply need to drag a Cutting Gemstone onto the slot in your gear via your grapheme inventory page.

Even so, there are some rules that apply to weapon gems. If you lot can't adhere a gem to a weapon, hither'due south why.

  • If your weapon has a Void Concatenation attack, for example, you demand to friction match it with the advisable gem.
  • You cannot attach a Gem that does not encounter the damage type currently on the weapon.
  • Keep this in mind when purchasing weapons and gems.
Jewel Weapon Trait Pairing
Amber If your weapon has a Nature trait, you tin just attach an Amber gem. Scales with FOCUS.
Amethyst If your weapon has a Void trait, y'all tin can but adhere an Amethyst precious stone. Scales with INTELLIGENCE.
Aquamarine If your weapon has an Water ice trait, you can only attach an Aquamarine. Scales with INTELLIGENCE.
Blood-red If your weapon has a Burn down trait, you tin can merely adhere a Blood-red. Scales with INTELLIGENCE.
Sapphire If your weapon has an Arcane trait, yous can only attach a Saphhire. Scales with INTELLIGENCE.
Topaz If your weapon has a Lightning trait, you can only adhere a Topaz. Scales with INTELLIGENCE.

Annotation: Gemstones volition exist destroyed if y'all try and supervene upon them with another rock. Yous cannot take a gemstone off an detail when yous have attached it.

Every Blazon Of Gemstone In New World And What They're Good For

At that place are a variety of different Gemstones in New World and they all have different uses. This could be changing weapon damage to a different type, adding actress perks, or providing a taunt. We have added the corresponding weapon scaling impairment to each of these gems. Gems employ a different effect on armor and weapons, so brand sure y'all're reading the tooltip correctly to get the best use out of the gem. Nosotros've included the unlike traits of the gems below.

  • Carnelian Gems - These tin either be Taunt gems or Calm gems. Taunt is ideal for tanks as it volition apply to certain skills with the Cracking Axe and Sword. You will need these gems if you desire to be a successful tank. Applied to armor will crusade "Calm", which is useful for Supports.
  • Amber - Changes some of your weapon damage to the Nature variant. Alternatively, can be used to reduce incoming Nature damage on your armor. Scales with FOCUS.
  • Amethyst - Changes some of your weapon damage to Void, or provides damage resistance against Void damage on your armor. Scales with INTELLIGENCE.
  • Aquamarine - Adds Ice damage to your weapon or Ice harm resistance to armor. INTELLIGENCE.
  • Diamond - When placed on a weapon, it increases your damage and healing while at total health. On armor, it provides physical damage absorption and Elemental damage resistance.
  • Emerald - Increased damage against opponents with low health (less than 30 percent), or provides Thrust impairment resistance on armor.
  • Jasper - Increased impairment after yous receive 3 hits in a row, or when placed on armor, increased Strike damage resistance.
  • Malachite - Improves your damage against enemies impacted by CC (this is great on the State of war Hammer, past the way), and on armor, reduces incoming Elemental damage and increases physical resistance.
  • Moonstone - Increases damage when you are below thirty percent health, or reduces incoming Slash harm.
  • Onyx - Increases damage against enemies at full health, or increases physical impairment resistance.
  • Opal - Increases harm when you take a low stamina bar, or increases Elemental harm absorption.
  • Ruby - Some of your weapon impairment is converted to Fire or increases Burn down harm absorption when used on armor. INTELLIGENCE.
  • Sapphire - Some of your weapon damage is converted to Cabalistic, or provides increased resistance confronting incoming Cabalistic damage. INTELLIGENCE.
  • Topaz - Converts some of your weapon harm to Lighting, or increases damage resistance against Lightning impairment. INTELLIGENCE.

You will need these gems to refine your builds.

Here'south a look at a few of our build guides in New World:

  • New World: Best Tank Builds
  • New World: Best PVP Builds
  • New World: Best Support Healer Builds

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