Diablo Immortal Legendary Gems: The best Legendary Gems and how to get them

Discover the best Legendary Gems in Diablo Immortal and learn how to get them

Updated on Aug. 2, 2022

Want to know how to get Legendary Gems in Diablo Immortal? In Diablo Immortal, each piece of gear has a gem slot. Standard Diablo Immortal gems can slot into your gear set items, such as rings and belts. Legendary Gems can slot into your Legendary Gear and offer much greater bonuses. Legendary Gems offer boosts to your Resonance and Combat Rating, while also providing new abilities and effects. you want to climb the leaderboards, you'll need to know the Legendary Gems that will synergise well with your skills. However, obtaining Legendary Gems in Diablo Immortal isn't easy, as they're incredibly rare.

In this guide, we'll explain how to get Legendary Gems in Diablo Immortal and help you understand the complex and technical gem jargon. We'll also break down how to craft, upgrade, buy, and sell Legendary Gems, along with a list of the best Legendary Gems in Diablo Immortal. At the bottom of this page, you'll also find a full list of every Legendary Gem in Diablo Immortal.

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What are Legendary Gems in Diablo Immortal?

As explained above, Diablo Immortal gems offer bonuses when slotted into your gear. Legendary Gems offer the greatest bonuses, but they can only slot into your Legendary Gear. Legendary Gems offer a boost to your Combat Rating and Resonance, along with powerful unique effects.

Star ratings denote the rarity and relative power of Legendary Gems. There are three tiers of Legendary Gems: 1, 2, and 5-star. 5-star gems are the rarest and most powerful, while 1-star gems are the weakest and most common.

However, 5-star gems can drop without all 5 stars filled, creating another layer of rarity and power. For example, 5-star gems with only 2 out of 5 stars are weaker than full 5-star gems, but also far more common.

How to get Legendary Gems in Diablo Immortal

Elder Rifts are the main way to get Legendary Gems in Diablo Immortal. However, you won't simply get Legendary Gems from running countless Elder Rifts. To get Legendary Gems from an Elder Rift, you will need to apply one or more Rare or Legendary Crests.

Rare Crests add a small chance for a 1-star Legendary Gem, and a guarantee for Runes, which you can use to craft Legendary Gems. Legendary Crests add a guarantee for a Legendary Gem, heavily weighted towards 1-star gems, as well as the same Runes as Rare Crests. All crests increase the number of Fading Embers you receive. You can then use Fading Embers to craft a small pool of Runes.

You can get one Rare Crest for free per day at the Elder Rift portal in Westmarch, and buy up to two more per day from the Hilts Trader. Legendary Crests are far more limited; you can only buy one per month from the Hilts Trader and will need to spend real money to get more.

Those playing consistently can also obtain Legendary Gems from the battle pass. The Diablo Immortal battle pass has three rewards tracks. One of them is free, and usually only offers a couple of Legendary Gems. The paid tracks offer far more Legendary Gems, but you'll need to spend some real money to access these rewards.

The Legendary Gems available in the Season 2 battle pass are Seled's Weakening and Fervent Fang. Season 2 is set to end on August 4th, so those itching to complete a full pass might want to wait until Season 3 starts soon.

Best Legendary Gems in Diablo Immortal

Below are some of the best Legendary Gems in Diablo Immortal. Start your build with some of the best 1-star Legendary Gems then work your way up in rarity as you acquire better gems.

Best 1-star Legendary Gems

Everlasting Torment
Freedom and Devotion
Lo’s Focused Gaze
Respite Stone
Trickshot Gem
Zod Stone

Best 2-star Legendary Gems

Battleguard
Cutthroat’s Grin
Fervant Fang
Unity Crystal

Best 5-star Legendary Gems

Blessing of the Worthy
Blood-Soaked Jade
Chip of Stone Flesh
Echoing Shade
Seeping Bile

If you want to know the best gems for each class specifically, we've included our picks in each build guide:

How to craft Legendary Gems using Runes

You can use any Runes you get to craft Legendary Gems at any Apprentice Jeweler. 1 and 2-star Legendary Gems are directly craftable and require specific combinations of Runes to make.

5-star gems cannot be crafted directly. For a chance at a 5-star Legendary Gem, you will need to spend Fa Runes or Ati Runes. You can spend 22 Fa Runes to craft a random Legendary Gem, which could include a potential 5-star gem. To get Fa Runes, you must purchase them from the Fading Ember trader. Ati Runes allow you to buy specific Legendery Gems, but you'll only find them rarely while exploring Elder Rifts.

How to upgrade Legendary Gems

There are two components required to upgrade Legendary Gems. The first is Gem Power, which you get by dismantling spare Legendary Gems at the Apprentice Jeweler. The second is duplicate Legendary Gems of the same type. Duplicates are not required for all upgrade levels, but higher levels and higher rarity gems require more duplicates to upgrade. This makes upgrading 5-star gems particularly time-consuming.

How to buy and sell Legendary Gems on the player Market

You can buy and sell Legendary Gems to and from other players at the Market in Westmarch. This is the hub of Diablo Immortal’s player trade economy. The Market uses its own unique currency called Platinum. You can acquire Platinum by selling items on the Market or buy it with real money from the cash shop.

You can list Legendary Gems, regular gems, and Skill Stones on the Market using the Sell tab. If you wish to sell items in your stash, you will need to pull them out to your main inventory first. You can browse listings of gems in the buy tab if you wish to make a purchase.

Can you get all 5-Star Legendary Gems?

It's going to prove very difficult to get every Legendary Gem with all 5 stars filled. We’ve done the math on how much it costs to play Diablo Immortal, and acquiring one copy of all 5-Star Legendary Gems, agnostic of their individual stars counts, will require hundreds of combined Legendary Crests and random gem crafts. Acquiring all 5-Star Legendary Gems with all 5 stars filled is improbable to the point of being functionally impossible.

With the extremely generous assumption that all 5-star gems carry the same value on the Market, functionally protecting you from duplicates by allowing you to exchange them one-for-one for a gem you don’t have, it would still take over 23,000 combined Legendary Crests and random gem crafts to acquire all ten fully-filled 5-star Legendary Gems, on average. Of course, you can sell lower-tier gems on the Market to earn platinum and speed things along. However, their value is a fraction of a full 5-star. You will also need to dismantle a lot of gems for Gem Power to upgrade the Legendary Gems you are currently using. Plus, you're going to need copies of your 5-star gems to fully upgrade them, adding another few thousands crests and crafts to the equation.

So, players should plan to use mostly 2-star Legendary Gems with one or two 5-star Legendary gems without all stars, and our future build guides will refelct that. The “perfect” full 5-star build is certainly enticing, but no amount of time or money will realistically get you there.

Full list of Diablo Immortal Legendary Gems

Here's a full list of every Legendary Gem in Diablo Immortal:

Legendary Gem	Star Tier	Abilities and Effects
Berserker's Eye	Tier 1	Increases your damage by 5-16%, but also increases the damage you take by 6%.
Ca'arsen's Invigoration	Tier 1	Increases the speed of your primary attacks by 5-16%.
Chained Death	Tier 1	Increases damage dealt by your attacks by 1.5% per target hit, up to a max of 4.5%.
Defiant Soul	Tier 1	Each time you block an attack you deal 50-192% base damage + 750-800 to all nearby enemies. Cannot occur more often than once every 20 seconds.
Everlasting Torment	Tier 1	Your critical hits inflict agony, dealing 10-30% base damage + 122 every second for 6 seconds. Each enemy cannot be affected by this more often than once every 20 seconds.
Freedom and Devotion	Tier 1	Increases the duration of your summons by 1-8%.
Mocking Laughter	Tier 1	Your primary attack forces non-elite monsters it hits to attack you for 2-6 seconds.
Nightmare Wreath	Tier 1	You have a 10% chance when you defeat an enemy to cause other nearby enemies to flee in fear for 0.8-2.4 seconds. Cannot occur more often than once every 20 seconds.
Pain of Subjugation	Tier 1	You deal 5.5-16% increased damage to enemies suffering loss of control.
Respite Stone	Tier 1	Decreases all damage you take by 0.5-1.5% for every 10% your life is below maximum, up to a max decrease of 5-16%.
Seled's Weakening	Tier 1	Gain 6% increased damage for 60 seconds after killing an elite monster.
Trickshot Gem	Tier 1	Your channeled skills consume energy 8-24% slower.
Zod Stone	Tier 1	Increases the duration of your ultimate by 16-48%.
Battleguard	Tier 2	Decreases all melee damage you take by 8-24% from enemies within 3 yards.
Bloody Reach	Tier 2	Increases all damage you deal by 2-6% for every 2 yards between you and the enemy hit. Maximum increase of 8-24% at 8 yards.
Cutthroat's Grin	Tier 2	Gain 8-24% increased critical hit chance when attacking from behind.
Fervent Fang	Tier 2	Each time you damage an enemy, the damage you deal increases by 0.8-2.4%, up to a maximum of 8-24% at 10 stacks.
Follower's Burden	Tier 2	Increases the damage you deal by 1-3% for each summon you control, up to a max increaes of 6-18%.
Lightning Core	Tier 2	Your primary attacks and movement slowly charge you with electricity. When fully-charged, your primary attacks will release chain lightning, dealing 90-280% base damage + 1100 to nearby enemies. Cannot occur more often than once every 20 seconds.
Power and Command	Tier 2	Power and Command alternates states every 9 seconds. Power increases your primary attack damage by 8-24%. Command increases all other skill damage by 8-24%.
The Hunger	Tier 2	Heal 40-140% base damage + 567 life each time you defeat an enemy. Can only occur once every 20 seconds.
Unity Crystal	Tier 2	You and all party members take 0.5-1.5% reduced damage per additional party member within 6 yards.
Blessing of the Worthy	Tier 5	When you take damage, you have a 20% chance to unleash retribution on all nearby enemies, dealing damage equal to 12-28% of your current life. Cannot occur more often than once every 20 seconds.
Blood-Soaked Jade	Tier 5	Increases all damage you deal by 8-24% and your movement speed by 10%, with less damage bonus the lower your life, to a minimum of 4-12%.
Bottled Hope	Tier 5	When you use a skill to grant a buff, increase the damage and movement speed of the target by 8-24% for 6 seconds and decrease their skill cooldowns by 6%. Cannot occur more than once every 20 seconds per target.
Chip of Stoned Flesh	Tier 5	When you cause an enemy loss of control, you also inflict an explosive curse. When the curse expires, enemies will explode for damage taken during its duration, up to a maximum of 150-450% base damage. Cannot occur more than once every 20 seconds per target.
Echoing Shade	Tier 5	Your attacks have a 15% chance to summon a shadow clone that lasts 8-20 seconds and gains some of your attributes.
Howler's Call	Tier 5	Your primary attacks had a 10% chance to summon a charging spirit wolf that inflicts 150-360% base damage + 1458 to all enemies in its path. Cannot occur more than once every 20 seconds.
Phoenix Ashes	Tier 5	Prevents fatal damage, and then grants a shield for 6 seconds that absorbs damage equal to 450-1050% of your base damage. Cannot occur more than once every 180 seconds.
Seeping Bile	Tier 5	Your attacks have a 4% chance to poison enemies, inflicting 25-65% base damage + 263 every second over 6 seconds. This poison spreads to nearby enemies if the victim dies. Cannot affect the same target more than once every 20 seconds.
Zwenson's Haunting	Tier 5	When you defeat an enemy, summon a dark beast to attack nearby enemies, dealing 50-120% base damage + 486 damage to all nearby enemies. Cannot occure more than once every six seconds.

That wraps up our guide on Diablo Immortal Legendary Gems. If you're just jumping into Diablo Immortal, make sure you check out Diablo Immortal class tier list. If you want to play on higher difficulties, take a look at our guide on how to level up quickly so that you can compete with the most ferocious demons around.