You can only slot a single gem of each color into each item, which ensures that you’ll have a variety of improved stats The color of a gem dictates the types of stats that it can provide, while the quality will dictate the amount of the stat.

If a weapon allows for it, additional gem slots can be added through use of a Gem Hammer, and gems can even be removed for a small fee. This doesn’t though apply to account bound gems, which can still be mailed between your own characters. If you socket a tradeable gem into your weapon, the gem will no longer be able to be traded. Weapons of higher quality will contain gem slots, and by inserting a gem of a different color (Ruby, Citrine, Sapphire, Emerald, Amethyst, Peridot, Diamond), as well as increasing levels of quality (triangular, square, pentagonal, hexagonal), you can further customize your combat ability. By upgrading a weapon, or finding new accessories or Soul Shield pieces, you can continually increase your power in addition, stat bonuses can be added through the use of gems. While a martial artist’s clothing doesn’t provide bonuses or benefits to combat, their weapons, accessories, and Soul Shield certainly does. Increasing your combat power through gems and crafting in Blade and Soul.

Blade and soul gem farming