Jewel Crafting - Intermediate Guide

A few empty buff slots filled but not enough! And, how does this all really work?!

Now that there are a few recipes in your book you'll notice, at this time, there isn't much direction on what materials to use to create your Power Gems.

Craft Item Types - Let's take a closer look at the materials you've been collecting up until now.

Note that the item type is "Craft Item" and it's craft type is "Jewelry (sub-type)".

You'll want to keep an eye out, and continue stashing, any items that can be used in crafting recipes. For Jewel Crafting it's "Jewelry - Justice/Soul/Knowledge" but Cooking, Alchemy and Smithing all have Craft Items as well. Combining materials into crafted items is always the more lucrative option!

When creating a Power Gem you'll need to use a material from the appropriate sub-type in order to even start the crafting. The materials you have in your inventory will tell you whether or not they can be used. The ones that will work will show as "".

If a material appears in the Jewel Craft window, and says that it *is* effective, but you are unable to craft, you may need more of them to create a single gem. This is where you'll need to start paying attention to "Potency" and the style of gem you're creating (Attack, Defense, etc.). We'll go into Potency *a* *bit* below but figuring out which sub-type of material goes with which style of gem is something you'll pick up rather quickly as you unlock new recipes.

**What is Potency?:** ***Disclaimer: This is unofficial information, based on limited experience is not first-hand knowledge from the developer. Subject to change.***

* 1 - The amount of material that particular item contributes to the overall cost of crafting the item.

For example, Magical Attack + requires 8 Goblin Blood, each has a potency of 11.1%, a total of 88.8%. Which allows you to craft 1 Gem that provides +50-75 Magic Damage.

Now, there are other Jewelry (Justice) materials in the game, some *much* better than Goblin Blood. For this purpose we'll use a particular Scale you eventually may come across that has a Jewelry (Justice) potency of 250.69%.

When we go to craft the same Magical Attack + Gem with this 250% material, we're able to create 3 Gems! Which tells us that the threshold for Magical Attack + gems, at that Jeweler level, is 250.69/3 or less. Which is ~83.5% total potency needed to craft 1 Magical Attack + Gem.

This methodology carries over to other recipes as well.

* 2 - It also determines how potent the end result of the Power Gem will be.

In the above example, using Goblin Blood, 1 Gem was created that added 50-75 Magic Damage. Using the much higher potency material resulted in crafting 3 Power Gems, but each of those gems adds 100's of Magic Damage. Using more potent materials creates much stronger Power Gems.

Although it can be a bit frustrating to try and find the threshold that will allow you to craft a single Gem, your perseverance will pay off. Creating powerful gems to augment your gear is a *massive* boost to your character that cannot be understated.

Powerful Gems take time to make but are totally worth it. Stick with it and good luck!

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