Wiki / Socketed Gems
Cut Gems — a permanent bonus socketed into your gear.
Jewelcrafting turns a bar and a raw gem into a Cut Gem. Socket a Cut Gem into an eligible weapon, shield, helmet, chest, gloves, legs, or boots piece for a permanent bonus — one socket per item. Sockets only exist on the main craftable gear sets (Copper through Primordite and everything between) — unique drops, world boss rewards, and profession-bonus gear (like the crafting-station gloves) don't have sockets.
Removing a gem to free up the socket destroys it — there is currently no way to recover a socketed gem once it's been placed, so choose carefully.
All 34 Cut Gems
Each gem's effect is matched to its name or color where one makes sense (Topaz → Gold Find, Glacial Diamond → Frost Resist, Pyrope → Fire Resist — the name literally means "fire-eyed" in Greek) — ATK and DEF fill in the rest. Magnitude only depends on tier, so a higher-tier gem is always at least as strong as a lower-tier one, regardless of which stat it landed on.
| Tier | Cut Gem | Socket Effect |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cut Ruby | +2 ATK |
| 2 | Cut Garnet | +2 Fire Resist |
| 3 | Cut Amethyst | +2 XP/task |
| 4 | Cut Topaz | +2% Gold Find |
| 5 | Cut Peridot | +2% Item Find |
| 6 | Cut Aquamarine | +2 Frost Resist |
| 7 | Cut Onyx | +4% Item Find |
| 8 | Cut Jade | +8% 2x Gather Chance |
| 9 | Cut Sapphire | +4 Lightning Resist |
| 10 | Cut Opal | +4 XP/task |
| 11 | Cut Alexandrite | +4 ATK |
| 12 | Cut Citrine | +4% Gold Find |
| 13 | Cut Spinel | +6 Fire Resist |
| 14 | Cut Moonstone | +6 Frost Resist |
| 15 | Cut Sunstone | +6% Item Find |
| 16 | Cut Tanzanite | +6 Lightning Resist |
| 17 | Cut Tourmaline | +6% Gold Find |
| 18 | Cut Zircon | +6 XP/task |
| 19 | Cut Lapis | +8% Item Find |
| 20 | Cut Labradorite | +8 Lightning Resist |
| 21 | Cut Malachite | +16% 2x Gather Chance |
| 22 | Cut Howlite | +10 XP/task |
| 23 | Cut Shadow Pearl | +10% Gold Find |
| 24 | Cut Celestite | +10 Frost Resist |
| 25 | Cut Azurite | +13 Lightning Resist |
| 26 | Cut Cinnabar | +13% Item Find |
| 27 | Cut Phantom Quartz | +13 ATK |
| 28 | Cut Sphene | +13 Fire Resist |
| 29 | Cut Heliodor | +13% Gold Find |
| 30 | Cut Void Crystal | +13 Frost Resist |
| 31 | Cut Abyssal Pearl | +16% Gold Find |
| 32 | Cut Pyrope | +16 Fire Resist |
| 33 | Cut Glacial Diamond | +16 Frost Resist |
| 34 | Cut Primordial Gem | +16 ATK |
How socketing works
Craft a Cut Gem via Jewelcrafting (1 bar + 1 raw gem of that tier, same duration as any other basic craft).
Use the Socket action on a Cut Gem in your inventory to pick an eligible item to place it in.
Each item has exactly 1 socket. Once filled, you must destroy the gem to free the socket for a different one.
Upgrading a socketed item with an Upgrade Orb keeps the gem on a success; a failed upgrade destroys the item and the gem together, same as it would with an enchant.
A Cut Gem's tier is independent of the item it's socketed into — a low-tier gem can go in high-tier gear and vice versa.
The 8 stat families
Every family's value steps up by tier alone (+1 step every 6 tiers, doubled for 2x-Gather Chance), regardless of which stat a given gem happens to carry — but since gems are hand-matched to a fitting stat rather than evenly cycled, each family's actual ceiling depends on which tier its highest gem landed on. No gem grants DEF — it's not worth much for most players, so it's not in the rotation.
Highest value per family in the table above: ATK +16, Fire Resist +16, Gold Find +16%, Frost Resist +16, 2x Gather Chance +16%, Item Find +13%, Lightning Resist +13, XP/task +10.