List of drop-only gems

There are several methods of obtaining skills gems:

• As a reward for completing a quest (see Quest Reward Gems).
• Purchased from town vendors once a certain quest is complete.
• As the result of a vendor recipe (see Vendor recipe system#Skill Gems).
• Random drop from monster, chest or strongbox.

Since the latter two options are random, some gems are more difficult to obtain and potentially more valuable.

Drop-only gems

The following gems are considered drop-only gems:

• all Awakened Support Gems

Vendor recipe only gems

These gems are not offered by vendors or quest rewards, however they can be obtained through a recipe.

Vaal skill gems

All Vaal Gems cannot be purchased. There are several ways to obtain them:

• from a vaal side area
• by using a on an existing skill gem
• from a strongbox with a suffix
• Some divination card
• some (former) league mechanics also drop vaal gem
  • is from Breach monster or vaaling gem inside a crafted Zana Breach mod map.
  • beastcrafting recipe
  • ...

Version history

Version	Changes
3.6.0	and are now available for purchase from vendors and are no longer drop-only gems
Unknown	Introduced to the game