Legendary Gems Guide
Comprehensive guide to legendary gems, including gem selection, upgrades, and auxiliary options
Legendary Gem Selection
Selecting the right legendary gems for your build is crucial for maximizing your character's power. Different classes and playstyles benefit from different gem combinations.
Top 5-Star gems
Core
- Blood-Soaked Jade (Damage, Damage Redcution, Movement speed)
- Bottled Hope (Damage, Cooldown Reduction, Movement speed)
- Roiling Consequence (Burn, Crit Chance)
- Colosus Engine (skill damage, size -> movement, skill range, and knockback immunity)
- Starfire Shard (Damage, Kockback, Burn)
Secondary Considerations
- Blessing of the Worthy (Damage, Damage Reduction, Automatic retaliation)
- Gloom Cask (Damage, Primary Damage scaling debuff)
Top 2-Star Gems
- Pain Clasp (Huge damage scale for just having an applied damage over time effect)
- Mother's Lament (Huge crit chance)
- Viper's Bite (Easy consistent damage over time which can pair well with pain Clasp)
- Mourneskull (Damage scale)
- Bloody Reach (Damage scale but harder to leverage)
- Kir Sling (Retaliation based crowd control useful in pvp)
Top 1-Star Gems
- Berserker's Eye (Damage scale)
- Everlasting Torment (easy damage over time if you scale crit chance)
- The Black Rose (Delayed retaliation based pvp gem useful in pvp)
Auxiliary Gem Options
Auxiliary gems can help you replace the effect of a gem for certain content where you want to keep your stats, but a different effect could be significant boost.
Top Considerations
- Echoing Shade: Good for swapping a pvp gem effect for a clone that can deal some damage in a raid
- Frozen Herat: Swap a pve gem for a realiation based chill and a small shield
- Spiteful Blood: Swap a pve gem for small damage buff and immunity to primary attacks for a short duration
- Maw of the Deep: Swap a pve gem for a pull and then knockup
- Stormvault: Makes a large aoe that chases. Good for appling damage over time for certain builds.
Gem Upgrade Tables
The following tables provide detailed information about upgrading 1-star, 2-star, and 5-star legendary gems, including gem power requirements and duplicate needs.
1-Star Gem Upgrade Costs
| Rank | Gem Power | Duplicate Rank 1 | Duplicate Rank 3 | Duplicate Rank 5 | Cumulative Total Gem Power (Dupes) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 3 | 5 | 6 | |||
| 4 | 10 | 16 | |||
| 5 | 15 | 31 | |||
| 6 | 20 | 1 | 51 (1) | ||
| 7 | 25 | 1 | 76 (2) | ||
| 8 | 30 | 1 | 106 (3) | ||
| 9 | 40 | 1 | 146 (4) | ||
| 10 | 50 | 1 | 196 (5) |
2-Star Gem Upgrade Costs
| Rank | Gem Power | Duplicate Rank 1 | Duplicate Rank 3 | Duplicate Rank 5 | Cumulative Total Gem Power (Dupes) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 5 | 5 | |||
| 3 | 15 | 20 | |||
| 4 | 25 | 1 | 45 (1) | ||
| 5 | 1 | 1 | 65 (3) | ||
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 150 (8) | ||
| 7 | 1 | 1 | 235 (13) | ||
| 8 | 2 | 1 | 340 (19) | ||
| 9 | 1 | 2 | 490 (28) | ||
| 10 | 5 | 815 (48) |
5-Star Gem Upgrade Costs
| Rank | Gem Power | Duplicate Rank 1 | Duplicate Rank 3 | Duplicate Rank 5 | Cumulative Total Gem Power (Dupes) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 50 | 50 | |||
| 3 | 75 | 1 | 125 (1) | ||
| 4 | 100 | 1 | 225 (2) | ||
| 5 | 1 | 2 | 475 (7) | ||
| 6 | 3 | 850 (13) | |||
| 7 | 2 | 1 | 1575 (25) | ||
| 8 | 2 | 1 | 2300 (37) | ||
| 9 | 1 | 2 | 3375 (55) | ||
| 10 | 1 | 2 | 4450 (73) |
Understanding Gem Power Calculations
- Gem Power: The amount of gem power needed for each rank upgrade
- Duplicate Requirements: Some ranks require specific gem duplicates of particular ranks
- Cumulative Total: The total amount of gem power needed from rank 1 to the specified rank (Does not include the original rank 1 copy)
- Dupes: The number in parentheses indicates the total number of duplicates needed at that point