New World | Gems | How To Get an Item With Gem Socket?

New World has a lot of things to offer to the players such as factions, quests, builds, treasure loots, etc. The max level in the game is 60 and players will have to collect ascension materials to level up their characters. Aside from the ascension materials, players can find gems that will help to enhance the damage and defenses of their characters even more in the game. In this guide, we will tell you where to find the gems, how to use them, and all of their perks in the New World.

How To Get The Gem Sockets in New World?

Finding Gems in New World is very rare, you will have to do some mining to get Gems in the game. You can get them from mining high-level sources such as Iron, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Starmetal, and Orichalcum. You will then have to refine the Gem through crafting and you will need special essences, or motes to refine them.

How To Use The Gems?

The space where you can put gems in an item is known as the Gem Sockets. These gems are added to an item to get different benefits to your attributes. These Gems are ranked from 1 to 5, and the boost you get depends on the ranks of the gems you used.

Here’s how to use the gems in New World:

  • You can add a gem to your item by dragging it into your item slot from your inventory.
  • Once the gem has been attached to the item, the item will have all the gem buffs.

All of your items will not have gem sockets so you will have to craft an item with the gem sockets. Here’s how you can craft an item with gem sockets:

  • Go to the Crafting station after you acquire appropriate resources and high trade levels to craft an item with gem sockets.
  • It’s not necessary that you will get an item with Gem Sockets through crafting. But the chances of crafting an item with gem sockets will increase if you add a special item or Azoth.

Here are some other ways to get items with Gem Sockets:

  • Items with Gem Sockets can be bought through Trading Posts.
  • Items with Gem Sockets will be dropped sometimes by the high-level enemies.

That’s everything there is to know about how to use gems in New World.