Gemstones

Overview

Gemstones are powerful character-boosting artifacts that creatures in Ascension hunting areas can drop upon being looted by characters who have defeated the wyrm and completed the ensuing quest. Gemstones can be equipped through the GEM interface, starting with one equipment slot upon completing the quest and upgrading to as many as five slots.

Gemstone Slot Unlocks
Slot	AEXP	Silver
Slot 1	Quest	Quest
Slot 2	1,000,000	5,000,000
Slot 3	2,500,000	10,000,000
Slot 4	4,500,000	25,000,000
Slot 5	7,500,000	50,000,000

• Total of 90,000,000 silver to unlock all five slots.

A Gemstone generates with up to three properties, each categorized as common, regional, rare, or legendary.

Properties	Qualities
First Property	Common or Regional
Second Property	Common, Regional or Rare
Third Property	Legendary

The first property can only be common or regional. If it generates with a second property, that property can be common, regional, or rare. The third property can only be legendary and only has a chance to generate on the Gemstone if that Gemstone's second property is rare.

• Players may only equip one Gemstone with a legendary property at a time.

Ultimately, characters maximizing all five slots of the Gemstone system may have a maximum of 11 equipped properties: one Gemstone will have a common/regional property, a common/regional/rare property, and a legendary property while the other four Gemstones will have a common/regional and a common/regional/rare property. The following table illustrates:

Properties	Qualities
1st Gemstone	Common/Regional plus Common/Regional/Rare plus Legendary
2nd Gemstone	Common/Regional plus Common/Regional/Rare
3rd Gemstone	Common/Regional plus Common/Regional/Rare
4th Gemstone	Common/Regional plus Common/Regional/Rare
5th Gemstone	Common/Regional plus Common/Regional/Rare

Drop Rates

• You can obtain a maximum of 1 Gemstone per week and 3 per month.
• The chance for a Gemstone to drop is reset on Sunday. (TBD)
• There is no limit on the amount of dust you can find, but the chance of finding it goes down as you find more. This chance resets each week.

FAQ:

Q. Can you equip and unequip Gemstones at will?

A. Yes.

Q. How much does it cost to unbind a gemstone?

A. It costs 1-4m to permanently remove the lesser binding. [Gemstones]

Q. Can you Shatter a Gemstone without unbinding it?

A. Yes, if the gemstone is lesser bound to you. No, if the gemstone is lesser bound to someone else.

Q. How much does it cost to Shatter a Gemstone?

A. Shattering a Gemstone is free, but it must be unbound.

Q. If you unbind a lesser bind, and you pass it to someone, can they use it, and give it back, or does it lesser bind every time it's equipped?

A. Unbinding a Gemstone is permanent. It will only rebind if you amplify or reshape, which is permanent.

Gemstone Modifications:

Costs

NOTE: Prices are currently based on information provided during testing and may be inaccurate for the release.

Reshape

Reshaping a Gemstone will cause all properties of said Gemstone to reroll into new properties of the same rarity.
Reshape costs double for every additional reroll. The scaling cost resets weekly.
Premium Accounts get a 25% discount.

Rarity	Dust	Regular Cost	Premium Cost
Common/Regional	10	250,000	-
2 Common/Regional	20	500,000	-
Common/Regional + Rare	40	750,000	562,500
Common/Regional + Rare + Legendary	90	1,750,000

Amplify

The amplify option will upgrade a Gemstone. This will permanently bind the Gemstone to that character.

Tier	Dust	Silvers
2/5	15	1,000,000
3/5	30	1,500,000
4/5	45	2,000,000
5/5	?	?
2/3	?	?
3/3	?	?

Unbind

The Unbind cost of a Gemstone is the total of each rarity cost on that Gemstone.
A Gemstone that is lesser bound to someone else must be unbound before shattering.
A Gemstone that is lesser bound to yourself can be shattered for free.
Unbinding a lesser bind is permanent unless you amplify or reshape the Gemstone, which will greater bind it.

Rarity	Silvers
Common/Regional	1,000,000
2 Common/Regional	2,000,000
Common plus Rare	3,000,000
Common/Regional + Rare + Legendary	7,000,000

Shatter

Shattering a Gemstone turns it into dust. There is no cost for this service.

Rarity	Dust
Common/Regional	10
2 Common/Regional	20
Common/Regional + Rare	?
Common/Regional + Rare + Legendary	90

Dust

Your first dust purchased from the artificer costs 500k. Every additional dust costs 2.5x the previous one. The scaling cost resets weekly. Dust found by looting creatures has no impact on these costs.

Count	Silvers
1	500,000
2	1,250,000
3	3,125,000
4	7,812,500
5	19,531,250