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First, I will start off; this isn't my guide, it is a guide that was posted in on our guild forums, but it was heavily edited and modified by me.

Credit:

• Kir for the Crafting Information
  
  Rossm for the Gem colours and stats
  
  Lethal for edits and formatting
  
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Gemcutting guide for non-Gemcutters

Crafted gear at it's upper levels will grant you three slots to customize to your hearts content. On cruising the gem
database it's easy for the non-Gemcutter and even other Gemcutter's to get confused with what works, what doesn't,
and where to exactly put what gem.

I'm going to break it down into easy steps:

• 1. Get cash, and get a lot of it; those in your 20's-30's there is currently a good market for rough leather, which drops
  off of leathery type mob's your level. Currently it is going for about 1.5s a pop. 40-50's silk is your best friend; the
  market is at almost 5s a shot. After 60's it is difficult, but the AVG mob's drop isn't too bad, you're on your own from
  here.
  
  2. After getting cash, pick out your weakest crap pieces of armor and check it out what the cost is to replace them
  with crafted gear is. Leveling in AoC comes pretty fast, so I wouldn't sink 20g into making a good lvl 50 set, but a few
  pieces can be fun if you want to dip your feet in. After you've decided which piece or pieces you want to have
  crafted, and then talk to a crafter in your guild or someone you know.
  
  3. You now got your crafted piece and those empty holes are staring at you. What gem to put...

LOOK AT THE PREFIXES!

• Cabochon or Oblique = These are the good ones, they will fit in any armor, ring, cloak, necklace slot; of
  course they are the most pricey.
  
  Trillion or Rhombic = These go in ONE handed slots on weapons. They have their use but it's limited.
  
  Teardrop or Oval = These go in TWO handed slots on weapons. They have nice big numbers, but remember
  there isn't a lot craftable two handed stuff out there.

This stuff is subject to change of course - currently a guy can "twink" a low set of armor with high end gems - Funcom
tried to stop this and it turned out they buggered up more than they can handle and promptly reversed it. It's on
their radar though.

A good challenge for us as a guild would be to twink a tank with crazy resists. There's around 36 slots to play with
and some of the immune gems at 1.2% can generate over 40% resists in either physical or magical. That's a lot.

Gem Types:

• Class 1 Gems (Black):
  
  Provides bonuses to: Unholy and Poison Damage, Hiding, and Holy Immunity.
  
  Tier 1 - Obsidian
  Tier 2 - Onyx
  Tier 3 - Jet
  Tier 4 - Black Jasper
  Tier 5 - Nightstar
  Tier 6 - Black Diamond
  
  Class 2 Gems (Blue):
  
  Provides bonuses to: Cold Damage, Mana Modifiers, Intelligence, Wisdom, Attribute Taps from spells, Fire Immunity,
  and Magic Evasion.
  
  Tier 1 - Azurite
  Tier 2 - Lapis Lazuli
  Tier 3 - Turquoise
  Tier 4 - Aquamarine
  Tier 5 - Sapphire
  Tier 6 - Star Sapphire
  
  Class 3 Gems (Green):
  
  Provides bonuses to: Ranged Weapon, General Physical, and Dagger Damage, Dexterity, Fatality Chance, Off-Hand
  Chance, Stamina Modifiers, and Evasion.
  
  Tier 1 - Chrysoprase
  Tier 2 - Malachite
  Tier 3 - Peridot
  Tier 4 - Sphene
  Tier 5 - Jade
  Tier 6 - Emerald
  
  Class 4 Gems (Orange):
  
  Provides bonuses to: Fire Damage, and Cold Immunity.
  
  Tier 1 - Carnelian
  Tier 2 - Tiger Eye
  Tier 3 - Chalcedony
  Tier 4 - Sunstone
  Tier 5 - Fire Agate
  Tier 6 - Padpaasahsa
  
  Class 5 Gems (Violet):
  
  Provides bonuses to: Hate Generation, and Magic Invulnerabilities.
  
  Tier 1 - Rose Quartz
  Tier 2 - Iolite
  Tier 3 - Amethyst
  Tier 4 - Duskstone
  Tier 5 - Royal Azel
  Tier 6 - Tyrian Sapphire
  
  Class 6 Gems (Red):
  
  Provides Bonuses to: Melee Weapon Damage, Health Modifiers, Strength, and Melee Invulnerabilities.
  
  Tier 1 - Spinel
  Tier 2 - Jasper
  Tier 3 - Garnet
  Tier 4 - Blood Opal
  Tier 5 - Ruby
  Tier 6 - Star Ruby
  
  Class 7 Gems (White):
  
  Provides bonuses to: Electrical Damage, Perception, and Electrical Invulnerability.
  
  Tier 1 - Quartz
  Tier 2 - Zircon
  Tier 3 - Moonstone
  Tier 4 - Achronite
  Tier 5 - White Opal
  Tier 6 - Diamond
  
  Class 8 Gems (Yellow):
  
  Provides Bonuses to: Holy and General Spell Damage, Casting Concentration, Unholy and Poison Invulnerability,
  and Hate Reduction.
  
  Tier 1 - Citrine
  Tier 2 - Chrysoberyl
  Tier 3 - Sagenite
  Tier 4 - Topaz
  Tier 5 - Heliodor
  Tier 6 - Golden Beryl
  
  Gemcutting Kit required:
  
  Tier 1 (40) - Novice's
  Tier 2 (50) - Apprentice's
  Tier 3 (60) - Adept's
  Tier 4 (70) - Artisan's
  Tier 5 (75) - Expert's
  Tier 6 (75/75+/80) - Master's

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I would suggest adding that the melee invulnerability gems (inviolate) and the magic elemental invulnerability gems (immutable) only come from flawless gems, and that overall flawless gems can create much higher stats for the same benefit types. As an example, the uncut green gems can result in a 1.0% evasion bonus while the flawless give 1.4%. When you add that up it makes a huge difference. Flawless gems are also alot harder to come by. After picking up close to 1000 gems, I'd say the drop rate is about 5%.

Awesome lethal. Moved to confirmed guides.

Ah sweet! i have never bin a gem cutter and i have never understod what the gem cutters in my guild have bin talking about ^^

Thanks for posting this. yay!