Guide to Increasing Jewel Crafting in Diablo 4

Jewels and gems are critical for empowering your character's gear in Diablo 4. By increasing your jewel crafting level, you can create more powerful gems to slot into weapons and armor. This guide covers how jewel crafting works and provides tips on quickly gaining crafting levels.

Overview of Jewel Crafting

Jewel crafting allows you to transform basic gems found while exploring into enhanced versions. Higher jewel crafting levels unlock the recipes to create stronger gems.

You start collecting gems early on, but can't craft them until unlocking the jeweler at level 20. The jeweler can spend your gold and materials to evolve chipped gems into crude, standard, flawless, and eventually royal gems.

There are seven types of gems, each granting different bonuses. Higher tiers provide larger boosts, encouraging you to raise your crafting level.

How to Gain Jewel Crafting Levels

Your jewel crafting level increases automatically whenever you reach a new character level threshold:

Level 20 unlocks chipped gems
Level 40 unlocks standard gems
Level 50 unlocks flawless gems
Level 60 unlocks royal gems

Gaining personal character levels boosts the jewel crafting level for your whole account. You can then craft at the new tier with any character.

Finding Gems to Craft

The best sources for gems are dungeon caches, interactable objects, and side quest rewards. Defeated enemies will also randomly drop Diablo 4 gems, with higher tiers appearing more frequently at higher character levels.

Save any chipped, crude, or standard gems you find while leveling up. Having a stockpile will allow immediately crafting new recipes when you unlock a new jewel tier.

Jewel Crafting Recipes

Here are the recipes for each gem type and tier:

Amethyst

Chipped: 3 Crude, 4500 gold
Standard: 3 Chipped, 13500 gold
Flawless: 3 Standard, 18000 gold
Royal: 3 Flawless, 50000 gold

Emerald

Chipped: 3 Crude, 4500 gold
Standard: 3 Chipped, 13500 gold
Flawless: 3 Standard, 18000 gold
Royal: 3 Flawless, 50000 gold

Ruby

Chipped: 3 Crude, 4500 gold
Standard: 3 Chipped, 13500 gold
Flawless: 3 Standard, 18000 gold
Royal: 3 Flawless, 50000 gold

Sapphire

Chipped: 3 Crude, 4500 gold
Standard: 3 Chipped, 13500 gold
Flawless: 3 Standard, 18000 gold
Royal: 3 Flawless, 50000 gold

Topaz

Chipped: 3 Crude, 4500 gold
Standard: 3 Chipped, 13500 gold
Flawless: 3 Standard, 18000 gold
Royal: 3 Flawless, 50000 gold

Diamond

Chipped: 3 Crude, 4500 gold
Standard: 3 Chipped, 13500 gold
Flawless: 3 Standard, 18000 gold
Royal: 3 Flawless, 50000 gold

Skull

Chipped: 3 Crude, 4500 gold
Standard: 3 Chipped, 13500 gold
Flawless: 3 Standard, 18000 gold
Royal: 3 Flawless, 50000 gold

Adding Gem Slots to Gear

The jeweler can add gem slots to gear for a fee. However, it requires having rare Scattered Prism crafting materials.

Prisms arechance drops from killing elite enemies and bosses. Check the jeweler periodically to see if any gear can be enhanced with new sockets for your best Diablo 4 gems.

Gem Effects by Tier

Higher gem tiers provide stronger effects. Here are the bonuses per tier:

Amethyst

Chipped: +5% damage over time, +8% reduced damage over time taken, +14% shadow resistance
Standard: +6% damage over time, +10% reduced damage over time taken, +17% shadow resistance
Flawless: +7% damage over time, +11% reduced damage over time taken, +20% shadow resistance
Royal: +8% damage over time, +13% reduced damage over time taken, +22% shadow resistance

Emerald

Chipped: +8% crit damage to vulnerable, +0.075 thorns, +14% poison resist
Standard: +9% crit damage to vulnerable, +0.09 thorns, +17% poison resist
Flawless: +11% crit damage to vulnerable, +0.105 thorns, +20% poison resist
Royal: +12% crit damage to vulnerable, +0.120 thorns, +22% poison resist

Ruby

Chipped: +15% overpower damage, +6% life, +14% fire resist
Standard: +18% overpower damage, +6% life, +17% fire resist
Flawless: +21% overpower damage, +7% life, +20% fire resist
Royal: +24% overpower damage, +8% life, +22% fire resist

Sapphire

Chipped: +8% crit damage to CC'd, +5% damage reduction fortified, +14% cold resist
Standard: +9% crit damage to CC'd, +6% damage reduction fortified, +17% cold resist
Flawless: +11% crit damage to CC'd, +7% damage reduction fortified, +20% cold resist
Royal: +12% crit damage to CC'd, +8% damage reduction fortified, +22% cold resist