However, they can be replaced by placing new gems in the same socket. Gems cannot be removed from sockets once finally placed. A dialogue window will open which allows the gems to be placed in the sockets. To begin socketing an item, hold down shift and right-click the item. Gem bonuses are activated when they are placed in equipment sockets and the equipment is worn. Sha-Touched gems fit into Sha-Touched sockets, which are only found on weapons from Grand Empress Shek'zeer in Heart of Fear and Sha of Fear in Terrace of Endless Spring. Tinker's Gear gems are the Mists of Pandaria upgrade to Cogwheels and are no longer engineer-only as non-engineers can now equip some items that have cogwheel sockets. It allows the goggles to be used by any class without the need for a large number of goggle schematics. This allows the engineer to customize the goggles for any class specialization. When first manufactured, these goggles have very poor stats, but the cogwheel gems are quite powerful in order to compensate. A prismatic gem counts as one gem of each of the three colors.Ĭogwheel gems fit into cogwheel sockets, which are found on the Bio-Optic Killshades epic engineering-crafted goggles. For purposes of activating a meta gem's bonus, a hybrid colored gem counts as one gem of each of the two colors. Meta gems may require some colored gems to be equipped in order to be activated for example, a meta gem may require you to equip items that have two blue and one red colored gems socketed.Ī gem does not have to match its socket color to count toward a meta gem's bonus. Meta sockets are found only on powerful headgear, and there is only one socket per piece. Meta gems are more powerful gems that can only go in a meta socket. The Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King expansions introduced prismatic gems, but there are not as yet any prismatic gems associated with Cataclysm. There are two varieties of these gems: one variety that improves all resistances, and one that improves all five attributes. They will match any color socket for the purpose of activating an item's socket bonus, and will count as all three colors for activating a meta gem. Prismatic gems act as colored gems, and count as all three colors. The hybrid gems also count for each parent color when activating a meta gem. A green gem will match a blue or yellow socket, a purple gem will match a blue or red socket, and an orange gem will match a red or yellow socket. The hybrid of these two is the purple, with +30 stamina and +20 parry.Įach hybrid gem can match a socket of either parent color for the purpose of activating an item's socket bonus. For example, the, a blue gem, provides +60 stamina, and the, an red gem, provides +40 parry. A hybrid gem's two bonuses will each be half what the primary gem would have provided. All of the colored gems of a particular tier have the same benefit weighting. For example, a purple gem may provide bonuses to expertise (a "red" stat) and hit rating (a "blue" stat). Each of these gems offers a combination of two stats according to the parent colors. The green, purple, and orange gems are considered hybrids. Each color is associated with a specific set of stats, as in the following table: The primary colored gems are red, yellow, and blue. A certain number of certain colored gems may be required in order to activate meta gem. They will activate an item's socket bonus if the correct color gems are matched up with the socket colors. They can be placed in any colored socket, or a prismatic socket. They come in the colors red, blue, yellow, green, purple, and orange. Colored gems are the most common type of socketable gem.
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