Evony Age 2 Guide

Using Gems is a new feature of Evony Age II and you use these gems to improve the attributes the gear and items give to your heroes. The gear itself you make in your workshop, while you use the forge to place gems on the gear you have already made, this is called Advanced Blacksmithing. Then you use the feasting hall to equip heroes with gear. Gems are not the same as stratagems or gemstones. Gems in Evony Age II come in 3 types, Rubies, Sapphires and Topazes and each of these come from level 1 to level 10 I believe, even though I’ve only seen level 1 to level 9 so far.

You can buy these gems in the Evony store, and you can also get them from attacks. You can also melt two gems together to make a higher level gem using Advanced Gems Smelting. If you want to buy the gems from the store you buy them in chests. There are 3 types of chests, the Wooden Chest, the Bronze Chest and the Royal Chest. Each chest offers you 1 or 2 gems of level 1-3 for a Wooden Chest, 4-6 for a Bronze Chest and 7-9 for a Royal Chest. 

The Sapphire Gem gives you a bonus to your hero’s Intelligence attribute, the Ruby Gem offers you a bonus to the Attack of your hero while the Topaz Gem offers your hero a bonus to the Politics attribute. They give the attribute bonus according to this table which follows this rule: Bonus Attribute = (Gem Level * 2) – 1

You can only use a  gem on the same level gear that the gem is. It also seems like you can use the same gem many times on multiple items, so it is not used up or actually placed in the gear.