Vespera Gear and Gems Checklist

This is the packing list for Vespera items after 1.0. It is not a hidden loot table. The game already shows drop sources. Use this page so you do not socket the wrong sapphire, salvage a Soulbound dagger, or think eight copies of one gem multiply Attunement. Pair it with the tools hub planner, the elements guide, and your class page.

Sockets and element trees

Crafting has its own skill list: Smithing, Lumbering, Leather, Jewelry, Alchemy, Cooking, then Gem Crafting, Gems, Reforge, Fusion, and Skill Engravings. Gem Crafting turns Vesper Dust and Vesper Shards into Unnamed Ink, Blank Gem Settings, and chipped gem consumables (ruby, diamond, amethyst, garnet, topaz, emerald). Wishlist recipes you are missing instead of staring at a red MISSING tag. Gear can take those sockets. Enemies and bosses drop crystals that grow six element trees. You do not need all six on day one. You need to stop vendoring crystals. Pick the elements that match the class:

• Barbarian — physical / bleed-adjacent trees first.
• Arcanist — spell, burn, freeze.
• Warden — dexterity, poison, trap.
• Nightblade — crit, poison, haste.

If a tooltip disagrees with that sentence, trust the tooltip. Element names in the client win.

Attunement versus Crown Imprints

Special Gem Attunement is once per character from one selected equipped gem. Extra gems and higher tiers do not multiply that bonus. Crown Imprints improve the gem’s own stats separately. Players who socket five “attunement” copies are paying inventory tax. Pick one, imprint it if you can, and use the other sockets for raw stats.

Tower Gems are a set of eight special gems with unlock requirements and forge paths. The collection UI shows how many you own in inventory, bank, and equipped slots. Eclipsed Emerald and Crown Emerald were renamed Eclipsed Sapphire and Crown Sapphire; existing items kept their stats. If a guide still says emerald, it is stale.

Soulbound and Soulwake

Tower drops Soulbound gear. Soulwake grows that gear while it is equipped. Parking it in the bank to “keep it safe” pauses the point of the item. Equip it, idle on it, and only swap when the new piece is clearly better on the in-game math page.

Divine salvage

Divine equipment can be salvaged for:

• 1 Aberration Shard
• 100 Aether
• 1 Divine Honing Stone per two Honing ranks, rounded down

Salvage previews show localized names. Do not salvage the Soulbound slot you are waking. Do not salvage the only piece that holds your Attunement gem. Aether also appears in Spire settlement; you will want it for deep runs.

Skill Engravings

Hunt engravings that name your actual skills. After 0.15.x they apply offline to damage, crit chance, crit damage, cooldown reduction, lifesteal, and bleed damage on supported routes. An engraving that only looks pretty is a vendor item. Dungeons are the usual farm; loot tables tell you which pack to repeat.

Honing and leather

Honing ranks feed those Divine stones when you eventually salvage. Leather recipes for Nullhide, Ghosthide, and Everhide each take two hides and no extra shard. Craft path is on gathering and crafting. Food and potions are still gear in the sense that they keep the character alive; empty flasks make every socket look worse.

Tower modules are not gems, but they belong here

Ascension Modules at Tower 30 / 40 / 50:

• Crown Assault — +4% Damage
• Bastion Lattice — 4% less damage taken
• Quickstep Circuit — +8% Haste

Each once. They save and apply in combat, including offline. Treat them as permanent jewelry.

Session order

1. Collect offline loot.
2. Socket crystals you planned.
3. Salvage extra Divine.
4. Vendor the rest.
5. Confirm the Soulbound piece is still equipped.
6. Start the next dungeon or Tower job from the planner.

If a Steam comment says gathering and Frontier “do not matter,” that person already finished this checklist. You probably have not. Finish it, then argue.