Gems | Diablo 2 Wiki | Complete List, Stats & Magic Properties

Gems in Diablo 2 are precious Gem embody innate magical abilities. When set into a Socketed Item these Gems can add powerful magic effects. Higher grades of Gems have stronger effects. There are five grades of Gems: chipped, flawed, standard, flawless, and perfect. Once inserted, Gems cannot be removed from a socket. Touching a gem shrine either produces a gem or upgrades one gem (randomly chosen from your character's inventory) to the next higher grade. The skulls of some demonic creatures, inscribed with eldritch symbols, are said to work much like gems.

Gem effects Stackable

If you place 3 Gems of the same type in a Socketed Sword, you will receive the bonus of all three.

The first Gem that is placed will determine the color of the weapon. If there are several different types of Gems in a sword, it will randomly display an attack based on those types of Gems in the sword. So one swing will show cold damage, while the next shows poison attack but all of them are working at the same time.

The real damage of poison internally is held as damage per frame and duration in frames, in many cases (including gems, skills, items and so on), the true poison damage is actually a non integer number and the shown value is truncated, meaning you can, if the fractions add up, see some "bonus" effects which is in fact not a bonus, just fractions adding up and being shown when the game truncates the poison damage. Once the final damage has been calculated by adding the Emeralds, it does X damage total, over its Y duration.

Upgrading Gems

You can upgrade Gems by using a Gem Shrine or by using the Horadric Cube. You can use the Horadric Cube to convert gems into higher quality gems. Place 3 Gems of one type into the Horadric Cube and hit the Transmute button.

All Socketed Items in Diablo 2

Runes

Jewels

Gems

Types of Gems

Sapphires

The Freeze Durations are cumulative.
Weapons: Adds Cold Damage
Shields: Adds Resistance to Cold
Helms and Armor: Adds Maximum Mana

Skulls

Weapons: Adds Mana and Life Steal to attack
Shields: Adds attacker takes damage
Helms and Armor: Adds Mana and Life regeneration

Diamond

Weapons: Adds to Damage vs. Undead
Shields: Adds to all Resistances
Helms and Armor: Adds to Attack Rating

Topaz

Weapons: Adds Lightning Damage
Shields: Adds to Resistance to Lightning
Helms and Armor: Adds Chance to find Magic Items

Gems Gallery

Gems Table

Gems Gallery

Gems Table in Diablo 2

Name	Type	Req Level	Weapons	Shields	Helms and Armor
Chipped Skull	Skull	1	Steals 2% Life, 1% Mana	Attacker Takes Damage of 4	Replenish Life +2, Regenerate Mana 8%
Flawed Skull	Skull	5	Steals 2% Life, 2% Mana	Attacker Takes Damage of 8	Replenish Life +3, Regenerate Mana 8%
Skull	Skull	12	Steals 3% Life, 2% Mana	Attacker Takes Damage of 12	Replenish Life +3, Regenerate Mana 12%
Flawless Skull	Skull	15	Steals 3% Life, 3% Mana	Attacker Takes Damage of 16	Replenish Life +4, Regenerate Mana 12%
Perfect Skull	Skull	18	Steals 4% Life, 3% Mana	Attacker Takes Damage of 20	Replenish Life +5, Regenerate Mana 19%
Chipped Amethyst	Amethyst	1	+40 to Attack Rating	+8 Defense	+3 to Strength
Flawed Amethyst	Amethyst	5	+60 to Attack Rating	+12 Defense	+4 to Strength
Amethyst	Amethyst	12	+80 to Attack Rating	+18 Defense	+6 to Strength
Flawless Amethyst	Amethyst	15	+100 to Attack Rating	+24 Defense	+8 to Strength
Perfect Amethyst	Amethyst	18	+150 to Attack Rating	+30 Defense	+10 to Strength
Chipped Sapphire	Sapphire	1	1-3 Cold Damage - 1.0 sec Duration	12% Resist Cold	+10 Max Mana
Flawed Sapphire	Sapphire	5	3-5 Cold Damage - 1.4 sec Duration	16% Resist Cold	+17 Max Mana
Sapphire	Sapphire	12	4-7 Cold Damage - 2.0 sec Duration	22% Resist Cold	+24 Max Mana
Flawless Sapphire	Sapphire	15	6-10 Cold Damage - 2.4 sec Duration	28% Resist Cold	+31 Max Mana
Perfect Sapphire	Sapphire	18	10-14 Cold Damage - 3.0 sec Duration	40% Resist Cold	+38 Max Mana
Chipped Emerald	Emerald	1	+10 Poison Damage over 3 Seconds	12% Resist Poison	+3 to Dexterity
Flawed Emerald	Emerald	5	+20 Poison Damage over 4 Seconds	16% Resist Poison	+4 to Dexterity
Emerald	Emerald	12	+40 Poison Damage over 5 Seconds	22% Resist Poison	+6 to Dexterity
Flawless Emerald	Emerald	15	+60 Poison Damage over 6 Seconds	28% Resist Poison	+8 to Dexterity
Perfect Emerald	Emerald	18	+100 Poison Damage over 7 Seconds	40% Resist Poison	+10 to Dexterity
Chipped Ruby	Ruby	1	3-4 Fire Damage	12% Resist Fire	+10 to Life
Flawed Ruby	Ruby	5	5-8 Fire Damage	16% Resist Fire	+17 to Life
Ruby	Ruby	12	8-12 Fire Damage	22% Resist Fire	+24 to Life
Flawless Ruby	Ruby	15	10-16 Fire Damage	28% Resist Fire	+31 to Life
Perfect Ruby	Ruby	18	15-20 Fire Damage	40% Resist Fire	+38 to Life
Chipped Diamond	Diamond	1	+28% Damage vs. Undead	All Resistances +6%	+20 to Attack Rating
Flawed Diamond	Diamond	5	+34% Damage vs. Undead	All Resistances +8%	+40 to Attack Rating
Diamond	Diamond	12	+44% Damage vs. Undead	All Resistances	+11% +60 to Attack Rating
Flawless Diamond	Diamond	15	+54% Damage vs. Undead	All Resistances +14%	+80 to Attack Rating
Perfect Diamond	Diamond	18	+68% Damage vs. Undead	All Resistances +19%	+100 to Attack Rating
Chipped Topaz	Topaz	1	1-8 Lightning Damage	12% Resist Lightning	+9% Chance to Find Magic Items
Flawed Topaz	Topaz	5	1-14 Lightning Damage	16% Resist Lightning	+13% Chance to Find Magic Items
Topaz	Topaz	12	1-22 Lightning Damage	22% Resist Lightning	+16% Chance to Find Magic Items
Flawless Topaz	Topaz	15	1-30 Lightning Damage	28% Resist Lightning	+20% Chance to Find Magic Items
Perfect Topaz	Topaz	18	1-40 Lightning Damage	40% Resist Lightning	+24% Chance to Find Magic Items

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Gem effects Stackable

Upgrading Gems

All Socketed Items in Diablo 2

Types of Gems

Sapphires

Skulls

Amethyst

Emerald

Ruby

Diamond

Topaz

Gems Gallery

Skulls

Amethysts

Sapphires

Emeralds

Topazes

Rubies

Diamonds

Gems Table in Diablo 2

Name

Type

Req Level

Weapons

Shields

Helms and Armor