How socketing works — every gem family grants a primary stat, gem quality and size scale how much, and rings, necklaces and earrings hold the sockets that turn raw gems into power.
What Are Gems & Jewelry?
Jewelry — rings, necklaces and earrings — are the equipment slots built around sockets. Gems are the cut stones you slot into them, and each gem grants a primary stat to your character. Craft or loot a jewelry piece, socket the gems whose stat you want, and the gem's quality and size plus the jewelry's item level decide how much stat you get. It is the most direct way to steer a build's stats toward exactly what you need.
Gems grant stats
Each cut gem belongs to a family tied to one primary stat — socket it and that stat is added to your character.
Jewelry holds sockets
Rings, necklaces and earrings are the socketed slots. The more sockets a piece has, the more gems — and stats — it carries.
Quality scales the roll
A gem's quality tier and size, plus the jewelry's item level, multiply how much of its stat the socketed gem actually grants.
This is the human guide. For the raw catalog of every jewelry piece and accessory — stats, rarity tiers and where each one drops — use the Item Codex linked at the bottom of this page.
Gem Families & Stats
Six gem families each grant one primary stat. Pick the family for the stat your build wants, then socket it into a jewelry piece.
Gem
Grants
What the stat does
Ruby
STR — Strength
Physical damage and carry weight — the melee-bruiser gem for STR builds.
Turquoise
AGI — Agility
Dodge, crit chance and initiative — the duelist gem for AGI builds (rogues and fast fighters).
Amethyst
INT — Intuition
Perception and trap detection (INT, not INTE) — awareness and scouting utility.
Emerald
END — Endurance
HP, armor and physical resist — the survivability gem for tanks and front-liners.
Topaz
INTE — Intellect
Mana pool and spell damage (INTE, not INT) — the caster gem for mages and clerics.
Sapphire
WIS — Wisdom
Mana regen and spell effectiveness — sustain and scaling for any spellcaster.
Watch the abbreviations: INT and INTE are DIFFERENT stats. INT = Intuition (Amethyst) governs perception and trap detection; INTE = Intellect (Topaz) governs your mana pool and spell damage. Socketing the wrong one is a common mistake — check the family before you slot.
All six primary stats have a dedicated gem — AGI (Agility) is covered by Turquoise (dodge, crit and initiative). Match the gem family to the stat your build needs.
Every gem rolls a quality tier. Quality is a ladder from low to high, and the higher the tier, the stronger the stat the gem grants.
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Chipped
The lowest tier — the smallest stat roll. Cheap, common, fine for early jewelry and filling empty sockets.
2
Normal
A clean, unremarkable gem. A solid step up from Chipped and the everyday quality you'll socket most.
3
Fine
A well-cut stone with a noticeably stronger roll — worth slotting once your jewelry is worth keeping.
4
Flawless
Near-perfect clarity and a high stat multiplier. Reserve these for the jewelry you intend to main.
5
Perfect
The top tier — the largest roll multiplier and the most stat per socket. Endgame fuel for maxed-out builds.
Quality applies a roll multiplier to the stat: the same family and size at a higher quality grants more stat. A Perfect gem of a family is the strongest version of that gem's stat you can socket — chase quality when you want to max a slot.
Size & Cut
Beyond quality, every gem has a size and a cut. Size weighs its material cost and stat contribution; cut is its identity and changes crafting cost.
Gem Size
Five sizes from small to large, each carrying more material weight and a larger stat contribution. Bigger gems cost more to craft but grant more of their stat.
1Tiny2Small3Medium4Large5Huge
The crafting MVP uses Small, Medium and Large; the full catalog also includes the smallest (Tiny) and largest (Huge) stones.
Gem Cut
Seven cuts give a gem its look and identity, and they vary the crafting cost between them. Cut is cosmetic-plus — it shapes the stone, not the stat it grants.
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Jewelry Slots & Sockets
How many gems a jewelry piece holds depends on its slot. More sockets mean more gems — and more stacked stats — on a single piece.
Rings
1–2
Gems
Single- and double-gem rings. You wear several rings at once, so even one or two sockets each adds up across the build.
Necklaces
1–2
Gems
Single- and double-gem necklaces. One amulet slot, but double-gem versions let it pull double weight on the stat you need.
Earrings
2–4
Gems
Two- to four-gem earrings — the densest socket count in the game. Four-gem earrings stack the most stat of any single piece.
Rule of thumb: more sockets, more stats. Multi-socket earrings can stack the most stat of any single jewelry slot, so they're prime real estate for your most valuable gems.
How Socketing Works
Gems plug into the broader crafting and gear chain. From a blank jewelry piece to a stat-loaded accessory, here is the path.
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1. Craft or obtain a jewelry piece
Start with a ring, necklace or earring — crafted at the workshop from materials, looted, or bought. The piece's slot sets how many sockets it has, and its item level scales the stats its gems will grant.
Decide which primary stat the build needs and pick that gem family — Ruby for STR, Amethyst for INT, Emerald for END, Topaz for INTE, Sapphire for WIS. Then chase the highest quality and largest size you can afford.
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3. Socket the gems
Slot the gems into the jewelry's open sockets. Each socketed gem adds its stat to the piece; a double- or four-gem piece stacks multiple gems at once for that much more stat.
The granted stat is set by the gem's quality and size and the jewelry's item level. More and better gems mean more stats — which raises the item's Gear Score and your character's power in the bracket.
Gem dust — produced by grinding gems down or disenchanting them — can also be used to coat crafted gear toward a stat through the enchanting system, a separate route to the same goal of steering your stats.
Gems grant stats
Jewelry holds sockets
Quality scales the roll
Gem Cut
Necklaces
Earrings