Gemstones

Overview

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

A Gemstone can have up to three properties, each categorized as common, regional, rare, or legendary. Common and regional properties may be among the first two. Rare properties only appear as a Gemstone's second. Legendary properties only appear as a Gemstone's third. Ultimately, characters maximizing the Gemstone system may have a maximum of 11 equipped properties: one Gemstone will have a common/regional, a common/regional/rare, and a legendary property while the other four Gemstones will have a common/regional and a common/regional/rare property.

Gemstone details on this page are a work in progress and provided as players discover them on the test server.

According to GM Nyxus, there are 32 common properties, 12 regional properties, 28 rare properties, and 6 legendary properties available on the test server at the time of this writing, where variants (the "Infusion of" set of properties, "Limit Break" set of properties, and "Thorns of" properties) only count as 1 in these totals. As such, players have currently documented 24/32 common properties, 11/12 regional properties, 11/28 rare properties, and 5/6 legendary properties.

Common Gemstone Properties

Property	Tiered	Type	Description
Blood Prism	Yes	Passive	Your passive health regeneration is increased by 5/10/15/20/25%.
Bold Brawler	Yes	Passive	Your unarmed combat attacks have an additional 1/2/3/4/5% chance to tier up.
Burning Blood	No	Passive	When you are dealt a rank 2+ critical strike, your blood combusts in the air. Up to 3 nearby enemies must make an SMR test. On a failure, they suffer a Heat flare.
Cannoneer's Savvy	Yes	Passive	You have a 5/10/15/20/25% chance to incur no roundtime when loading the cannons of an OSA ship.
Companion's Might	Yes	Passive	When you have an active combat companion, it gains +5/10/15/20/25 Attack Strength.
Companion's Swiftness	Yes	Passive	When you have an active combat companion, it has a 5/10/15% chance to attack twice when attacking.
Dispulsion Ward	No	Passive	When an enemy targets you with a dispel, there is a 33% chance that the enemy will be subject to an SMR test. On a failure, the dispel has no effect on you.
Flare Resonance	Yes	Passive	Your attacks have a 4/8/12/16/20% chance to gain flare affinity.
Force of Will	Yes	Activated	You shake off all of the following debilitating effects: calmed, confused, demoralized, horrified, immobile, rooted, slowed, stunned, sympathetic, terrified, webbed. Cooldown: 24/18/12/6/1 hour(s).
Geomancer's Spite	No	Activated	You twist the ground to entrap your foes. Nearby enemies must make an SMR test. On a failure, your opponents take grapple damage and are immobilized. Cooldown: 3 mins.
Green Thumb	No	Passive	When you fail a foraging roll, you receive a stacking bonus to subsequent foraging attempts until your next success.
High Tolerance	Yes	Triggered	You do not become intoxicated from drinking alcoholic beverages. Instead, an alcoholic beverage increases your Strength and Influence by 10 and reduces all other stats by 5. This effect lasts 20 minutes, after which your stats remain reduced for an additional 10 minutes. Cooldown: 1 hour.
Immobility Veil	Yes	Passive	Immobile effects applied to you have a reduced 1/2/3/4/5 second duration, to a minimum of 1 second. This benefit does not apply to immobilization due to Sheer Fear.
Journeyman Tactician	Yes	Passive	You gain 1/2/3/4/5 AS and 1/1/1/2/3 SMR Offense with Combat Maneuvers.
Limit Break: Edged Weapons	Yes	Passive	Your enhancive limit on One-Handed Edged Weapons is raised by 2/4/6/8/10 points.
Limit Break: Polearm Weapons	Yes	Passive	Your enhancive limit on Polearm Weapons is raised by 2/4/6/8/10 points.
Limit Break: Two-Handed Weapons	Yes	Passive	Your enhancive limit on Two-Handed Weapons is raised by 2/4/6/8/10 points.
Limit Break: Wisdom	Yes	Passive	Your enhancive limit on Wisdom is raised by 2/4/6/8/10 points.
Mystic Magnification	No	Passive	Your self-cast buff spells cast a second time at no mana cost. This effect only applies to buff spells that can be multi-cast.
Opportunistic Sadism	Yes	Passive	You gain 2/4/6/8/10% damage factor against poisoned targets. When your warding spells are successful, the endroll is increased by 2/4/6/8/10 if the target is poisoned.
Slayer's Fortitude	Yes	Passive	You gain 1/2/3/4/5 effective Sheer Fear levels.
Spirit Prism	Yes	Passive	You have a 5/10/15/20/25% to passively regenerate an extra point of spirit.
Stamina Prism	Yes	Passive	Your passive stamina regeneration is increased by 5/10/15/20/25%.
Storm of Rage	Yes	Passive	You gain 1/2/3/4/5% damage factor for each kill. Stacks up to 3 times. This effect falls off after 30 seconds without making a kill. This applies to all DFs, including bolts.
Subtle Ward	Yes	Passive	When you are subject to a dispel effect, less desirable spells will always be targeted before more desirable spells.
Twist the Knife	Yes	Passive	You gain 2/4/6/8/10% damage factor against targets afflicted with major bleed. When your warding spells are successful, the endroll is increased by 2/4/6/8/10 if the target is afflicted with major bleed.
Web Veil	Yes	Passive	Web effects applied to you have a reduced 1/2/3/4/5 second duration, to a minimum of 1 second.

Regional Gemstone Properties

Property	Tiered	Type	Description
Grimswarm: Shroud Soother	Yes	Passive	Your AOE spells have a 10/20/30/40/50% reduced chance to trigger the Shroud in Grimswarm camps. At maximum tier, you can trigger the Shroud with no negative effect once every 15 minutes.
Hinterwilds: Light of the Disir	Yes	Passive	You gain 1/2/3/4/5 effective Sheer Fear levels while in the Hinterwilds.
Hinterwilds: Warden of the Damned	Yes	Passive	Your attacks have a 4/8/12/16/20% chance to Terrify undead creatures from the Hinterwilds.
Moonsedge: Gift of Enlightement	Yes	Passive	You earn 20/40/60/80/100% more LTE while hunting in Moonsedge, up to your daily cap.
Moonsedge: Organ Enthusiast	Yes	Passive	You gain 3/6/9/12/15 additional AS and 2/4/6/8/10 additional CS while the Sword Hymn is active in Moonsedge.
Temple Nelemar: Perfect Conduction	No	Passive	While in Temple Nelemar, you are immune to lightning damage caused by conduction in watery rooms
The Hinterwilds: Gift of Enlightement	Yes	Passive	You earn 20/40/60/80/100% more LTE while hunting in the Hinterwilds, up to your daily cap.
The Hive: Gift of Enlightement	Yes	Passive	You earn 20/40/60/80/100% more LTE while hunting in the Hive, up to your daily cap.
The Hive: Arrhythmic Gait	No	Passive	Kresh ravagers no longer explode from beneath you when burrowed. Enemy creatures nearby when a kresh ravager surfaces must make an SMR test. On a failure, they take Impact damage.
The Hive: Astral Spark	Yes	Passive	Traps dealing lightning damage in the Hive deal no damage to you, and instead grant you 4/8/12/16/20 to all Attack Strength for 60 seconds. This bonus can refresh, but not stack.
The Rift: Gift of the God-King	No	Passive	You do not suffer from spirit drain while entering the Rift.

Rare Gemstones

Property	Tiered	Type	Description
Adaptive Resistance	Yes	Passive	Upon taking damage, you have a 5/10/15/20/25% chance to gain 20/25/30/35/40 damage resistance to that damage type until this ability activates on a different damage type. This damage resistance does not stack with other forms of damage resistance.
Advanced Spell Shielding	Yes	Passive	You resist dispel effects. This effect cannot occur more often than every 60/30/10 minutes.
Bandit Bait	Yes	Passive	Up to 1/2/3 additional bandits will spawn in each group when you are on a bandit task for the Adventurers' Guild.
Blood Siphon	Yes	Activated	A vampiric aura surrounds you, siphoning blood from nearby enemy creatures with blood for 60 seconds. Every 10 seconds, up to 5 nearby enemy creatures are subject to an SMR test. On a failure, they take 10-20 hit point damage. 5/10/15/20/25% of the damage dealt is restored to you as health. Cooldown: 15 minutes.
Channeler's Epiphany	Yes	Passive	When your warding spells are successful, the endroll is increased by 2/4/6/8/10. Your warding spells have a standard flare chance to double this bonus.
Evanescent Possession	Yes	Activated	You invoke a friendly spirit to possess a foe. An enemy creature must make an SSR test. On a failure, it becomes afflicted with Sympathy for you. When the effect ends, the creature takes a standard disruption flare as it rejects the spirit. Cooldown: 5 mins.
Relentless Warder	Yes	Passive	When a warding attack of yours would otherwise miss, it has a 5/10/15/20/25% chance to be recast.
Ripe Melon	Yes	Passive	Your aimed attacks with melee weapons have a 1/2/3/4/5% added chance to strike an enemy's eyes or head if it possesses eyes or a head.
Serendipitous Hex	Yes	Passive	Your offensive spells have a standard flare rate chance to cast an additional disabler spell, including Bind, Blind, Cold Snap, Confusion, Limb Disruption, Mystic Impedance, Power Sink, Sleep, Sounds, or Vertigo. This chance is reduced for each tier below 3.
Spirit Wellspring	Yes	Activated	You instantly regain all of your spirit. Cooldown: 60/40/20 mins.
Sureshot	Yes	Passive	Your aimed attacks with ranged weapons have a 1/2/3/4/5% added chance to strike an enemy's eyes or head if it possesses eyes or a head.

Legendary Gemstones

Property	Tiered	Type	Description
Imaera's Balm	Yes	Activated	Your wounds and scars heal instantly. Cooldown: 1x/day.
Mana Shield	No	Activated	You gain 2d20 damage padding for 60 seconds. For every point of damage absorbed by the shield, 1 point of mana is drained. Cooldown: 5 mins.
Pixie's Mischief	Yes	Passive	Your debuff spells cost 1/2/3 less mana to cast, to a minimum of 1 mana, and your cast roundtime for debuff spells is reduced by 0/0/1 second, to a minimum of 1 second.
Thorns of Flame	No	Passive	You gain a standard chance to flare with Heat when an enemy targets you with an attack, whether or not the attack hits.
Thorns of Frost	No	Passive	You gain a standard chance to flare with Cold when an enemy targets you with an attack, whether or not the attack hits.
Thorns of Lightning	No	Passive	You gain a standard chance to flare with Electricity when an enemy targets you with an attack, whether or not the attack hits.
Trueshot	Yes	Passive	Your attacks with ranged weapons have a standard flare chance to gain true strike, reducing the attack's d100 by 20/30/40/50/60 while adding the same amount to the endroll, and reducing the target's ability to evade, block, and parry by 10/20/30/40/50%.